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Time: 05:54 CDT 80:10:54 GMT

2/3/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours

54 minutes Greenwich mean time on mission day 80. Wakeup
call is planned at Canary Island station. We'll stand by
for that.
CC (Music: "Walk Through the Black Forest"
by Tijuanna Brass)
CC Good morning, Skylab.
CDR Good morning, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. Honeysuckle'll be coming up in 30 minutes at 41.
CDR Roger, Hank.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension has
loss of signal. Next acquisition is through Carnarvon,
Australia in 26 minutes. Today is EVA day for the crew,
fourth and final extravehicular activity of this mission.
They're scheduled to begin preparations for the extravehi-
cular activity at 7:20 a.m. central daylight time, with the
EVA itself scheduled to begin at 10:05 a.m. central daylight
time. At ii hours 13 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2801/I
Time: 06:40 CDT 80:11:40 GMT
2/3/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours

40 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acqui-
sition through Honeysuckle and Carnarvon. The elevation at
Carnarvon's too low for acquisition. We'll have about a
7-1/2-minute pass through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC Would you like to hear a little news this
morning?
SPT Sure would, Hank. Go ahead.
CC Okayb President Nixon has rejected the
idea of taxing American workers an additional $3.8 billion
to help finance his new national health insurance plan,
according to two key White House aides. The plan being pre-
pared for submission to Congress this week will instead rely
upon growth of the economy and a heavier cash flow into the
Treasury to cover the added cost of $5.8 billion in federal
funds_ they said. Reports of temporary layoffs increased
Saturday night as a shutdown by independent truckers spread
over more than 20 states, prompting federal officials to ask
the na - nation's 50 governors to restore peace and commerce
to the highways. Reports of scattered violence increased
Saturday night_ and scores of truck stops reportedly closed
in the shutdown that will have idled more than i0,000 workers
by Monday. Food became a major worry as shippers of produce
reported sharp drops in truck movements_ and at least a dozen
meat packing plants and slaughterhouses reported they had
closed or curtailed operations. While the dimensions of the
energy crisis grew in 197 - 1973, so did U.S. oil exports,
according to a preliminary study by the General Accounting
Office. The study_ ordered by Representative Lester L. Wolff
of New York, also shows that during the same period U.S. oil
companies reduced production. Senator Henry M. Jackson has
questioned the legality of the Nixon administration's refusal
to place a ceiling on soaring domestic oil prices. The
Washington Democrat told a hearing of his Senate Interior
Committee that the administration's price ceiling exemption
on so-called new oil "may well be unlawful" and asked for a
full report from energy chief William E. Simon. The Federal
Power Commission says it has authorized the Southern Natural
Gas Company, a major gas supplier in the Southeast, to purchase
national - natural gas at the highest price on record. The
commission said Friday it authorized Southern, based in
Birmingham, Alabama, to purchase the gas at a price equivalent
to slightly more than 55 cents per thousand cubic feet. The
previous high price had been 45 cents per thousand cubic feet.
A commission spokesman said Southern Natural would have to
apply to the FPC if it wanted to pass the higher gas cost
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along to its customers. The spokesman could not say what

effect the price of the Southern Natural purchase would
have on future prices, but said it did not necessarily mean
that future prices would be as high. President Nixon ten-
tatively plans to visit the Soviet Union around June, it
was learned Saturday. In saying farewell last July to
Soviet Communist Leader Leonid Brezhnev at San Clemente,
California, Nixon announced he would make his second pres-
idential visit to the Soviet Union sometime in 1974. He
was last there in May '72. June is the approximate current
target date for such a Nixon trip, it was learned. The
President has expressed hope he would be able to visit a
number of other cities besides Moscow. In 1972 he went to
Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev. Officials laying out a tentative
timetable for the foreign trips Nixon plans to make during
the year also have fixed on April as the likely time for a
trip to several European capitals. There has been no indi-
cation when Nixon might go to Japan, though he has said he
would like to visit Tokyo sometime during the year. "Iris
unquestioned that we're going to have some kind of flooding
this year," says the Mississippi River Commission. "We are
getting ready for a major one. We can't gamhle that it
won't happen." Some flooding began in late January in
Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee. Swollen by
rain, the Mississippi River and several tributaries: the
Yazoo, Big Sunflower, the Red, the Ouachita and the Big
Black, overflowed into nearby fields and woodlands. The
Mississippi was higher in many areas on January 31 than it
was a year ago. That was two months before the historic
floods that left a dozen dead and a billion dollars in damage
from Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico. The water didn't recede
until May. The Mississippi River Commission, a federal
agen - agency run by the Corps of Engineers, has declared a
Phase i alert - alert in the South. Patrols make deady -
daily inspections of every levee along the lower Mississippi.
Heavy snow warnings were issued Saturday for the southern
parts of New York State and New England, and four inches piled
up in Boston as bad weather hit much of the nation on Ground-
hog Day. Snow, sleet and freezing rain amid - made travel
hazardous from New York City to northern Ohio. Snow also
fell on the upper Greak Lakes region, the upper Mississippi
valley and the northern plains. One foot of snow was on the
ground at Minneapolis-St. Paul. Rain doused an area from
the central Gulf Coast through the Tennessee Valley to the
Mason-Dixon Line. Up to 2 inches of rain hit Baton Rouge,
Louisiana; Greenwood, Mississippi; and Knoxville, Tennessee
in 6 hours. Light rain dampened the northern Pacific coast,
and clouds covered the middle Mississippi valley. The
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groundhog saw his shadow over most of the U.S. If he sees

his shadow there is supposed to be 6 more weeks of winter.
It was clear, however, from the central and southern plains
to the Pacific coast. Afternoon temperatures ranged from
3 below at Sault St. Marie to 84 at Fort Myers, Florida.
The acronyms that airlines proudly use to identify
themselves, TWA, MEA, BOAC and so on, have been trans-
mitted into uncomplimentary phrases by young Egyp Egyptians.
Making up words to fit the initials is almost a national
pastime comparable with limericks of shaggy dog stories in
the U.S. For instance, the Belgian airline Sabena, "such a
bloody experience never again"; or TWA's, "try walking across";
the Pakistani airline, PIA, "please inform Allah"; and Air
India, "Allah informed." BOAC, "better on a camel"; Air
Italia, "always late in takeoff, always late in arrival." And
finally the Middle East Airline, "miserable, excruciating air-
line." And let's see what we got in sports here. The New
England Whalers knocked off the Houston Aeros 5 to 2 last
night. That's their third loss in a row. The Rockets didn't
do much better. They were downed by the Hawks, i17 to 107.
In the Hawaii Open Jack Nicklaus is burning up the course.
He's six strokes ahead after three rounds. Aand in college
basketall, UCLA 65, USC 54, and we're 1 minute from LOS.
Hawaii'll be coming up at 01, 13 minutes from now. We plan
to dump the recorder there.
PLT Okay, Hank.
CDR Sounds like USC played their stalling game
against UCLA again.
CC Yes, I think they did. It didn't work this
time, though. They had some hopes of knocking them off like
they have in a few years past, but it didn't work out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has
moved out of range of Honeysuckle. Next station is Hawaii
in 12 minutes. Commander Jerry Carr particularly interested
in the basketball score from USC and UCLA. He's a graduate
of the University of Southern California. At ii hours 49
minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2802/I
Time: 07:00 CDT 80:12:00 GMT
02/03/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours

Greenwich mean time. Skylab about 50 seconds away from
acquisition at Hawaii.
PLT Houston, Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead.
PLT Roger, Hank. I just want to clarify a
point. It's involving T025, we will apparently use
the cue card and do the exposures - all the exposures on
the cue card. Is that correct?
CC I'ii check it.
CC Yeah, that's correct, Bill. Use the cue
card.
PLT Okay.
CC And, Skylab, we need the recorder for a
dump.
PLT Okay, youVve got it, Hank.
CC CDR, Houston. How you coming with the
CSM powerup?
CDR Say again, Hank.
CC Okay, we see it on telemetry now. We
were just going to remind you that the star window was going
to close at 12:19, and was wondering how you were coming along,
but we see it in telemetry now.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The CAP COMM is
Hank Hartsfield, Flight Director is Gene Kranz.
CDR Hank, you got PO0 and ACCEPT if you
have any uplinks.
CC Okay, we don't have anything for you
this morning, Jer.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute to LOS,
we'll see you in 4 minutes at Goldstone.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Hawaii has loss
of signal. Goldstone will acquire Skylab in about 2 minutes.
We'll keep the line up and monitor through this upcoming
pass over the United States.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for
6 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. You need to sync your
clock there before you make your alignment. If - if you give
us PO0 and ACCEPT here, we can do it for you.
CDR Okay, you got it.
CC CDR, Houston. Could you give us PO0?
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go, Hank.
CC Hey, Bill, it appears to us that there's
a good possibility that we're going to run out of film for
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the MlSl in the post for Jerry and Ed, and it - what we'd
like to do is give you the get out transporter 07 and tape it
up - near the F-9 location. Correction on that, Bill, it's
transporter 08 and it's stored in Alfa 4 and tape it up there
near the F-9 location so that if transporter 07 does run out
of film in the post that Jerry can go up and change that out
after he docks his helmet and gloves and get the MI51 that's
required for those post photos.
PLT Okay, Hank.
CDR All through, Hank?
CC Stand by i.
CC Okay, the computer is yours. We can and
you look clear for alignment.
CDR Okay, thanks.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 40 seconds
from LOS. Bermuda is next at 23.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab's out
of range of the Goldstone station. Bermuda will pick up
acquisition in 2-1/2 minutes. Here in the Mission Control
Center, flight controller change of shift is underway.
Flight Director Milton Windier and his team of flight controllers
preparing to relieve Gene Kranz, who has been filling in
for Flight Director Chuck Lewis. Lewis is still hospitalized
recuperating from surgery. Kranz, who is now Deputy Director
of Flight Operations here at the Johnson Space Center, has been
heading up Lewis's team of flight controllers. CAP COMM on
Windler's shift will be Dr. Story Musgrave, and handover
will be accomplished within the next 30 minutes or so.
Skylab about a minute away from Bermuda now. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for
10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. What about a nuZ for
NOUN 78? Or can you just give me an R-3 value?
CC Jerry, we think you're okay there.
CDR Okay, thank you.

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TIME: 07:23 CDT, 80:12:23 GMT
2/3/74

CC Jerry, we think you're okay there.

CDR Okay, thank you.
CC CDR, Houston. Do you have a moment?
CDR Roger. Go ahead.
CC Jet, I don't know whether you copied what
I was talking to Bill about, but we think you're going to
run out of DAC film there during the post-EVA. And Bill's
going to take transporter 08 and tape it up by the F-9 location.
So after your EVA, when you get back in, we'd like to get you
to change that out. After you dock your helmet and gloves
just go up to F-9 and put transporter 08 on; and then thattll
he plenty of film for you for your MI51 and 516 ops.
CDR Okay, Hank, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston; for info. We're going to
go ahead and turn on the second pump in the primary coolant
loop, and when we do that you'll get a CAUTION and WARNING.
Our configuration will he for the PRIMARY loop INVERTOR
2 PUMPS Bravo and Charlie. At the completion of the EVA,
we'll go hack to normal configuration of INVERTOR 2 and pumps
PUMP Bravo.
CDR Roger, Hank.
MCC 1 minute to - -
CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from LOS.
Ascension is coming up at 40, 7 minutes from now.
CDR So long, Hank.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The space station
is out of range of Bermuda now. Next acquisition is through
Ascension Island in 5-1/2 minutes. Crew has started preparations
for the extravehicular activity today. That EVA is scheduled
to begin at 10:05 a.m. central daylight time. At 12 hours
34 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours
39 minutes Greenwich mean time. Ascension Island will acquire
Skylab in about 30 seconds. We'll stand by for that pass,
about a 10-1/2 minute pass at Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for
I0 minutes.
CC Skylah, Houston; we're i minute from
LOS; Carnarvon's coming up in 23 minutes at 13:13, and we'll
hand over to the maroon team now.
SPT So long, Hank, have a good day.
CC Thank you, see you tomorrow.
CDR See you, Hank.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension has
loss of signal. Next acquisition through Carnarvon in
22 minutes. And the handover of flight controller teams here
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in the Mission Control Center has been completed. At 12

hours 51 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2804/I
Time: 08:11 CDT 80:13:11 GMT
2/3/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 12

minutes. Skylab coming up on acquisition at Carnarvon in
about 50 seconds.
CC Good morning, Skylab. Got you through
Carnarvon for i0 minutes.
SPT Good morning, Story.
CC Hi, Ed.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about
4 minutes to Guam.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon has
loss of signal with Skylab. The station at Guam will acquire
in about 2-1/2 minutes. We'll keep the line up for that
pass.
CC And we're back with you through Guam for
9 minutes.
CC Skylab, back with you through Guam for
8 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, about
17 minutes to stateside at 13:52.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of the Guam station. Next acquisition through
Goldstone in 15 minutes. At 13 hours 37 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 51
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching acquisition
through the Goldstone station.
CC Skylab, we got you stateside for 19 min-
utes. And Ed or Jer, sometime in the next 19 minutes, like
to know where you are.
SPT Jerry's zipped up in his suit and I'm
just getting there, Story.
CC Super. Thanks. And for your information
on the water cooling, if we have a SUS i failure today you've
got a capability of going to SUS 2, and of course, if we
have a SUS 2 failure then we've also got high flow EVA in our
gas cooling.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Skylab, we show your voice recording
here and we'll need to take it in the next 2 or 3 minutes.
We do need a dump here.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Understand we're clear to dump, Bill?
PLT That's affirmative. I just turned it on
per checklist, and it was a bit early.
CC Okay. We'll be dumping here.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. The next
station'll be Carnarvon in about 40 minutes at 14:50. We'll
be planning to dump the data/voice there.
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CDR Okay, Story. PCU activation's complete.

CC Okay; thanks, Jer.
PAO This is Skylab Control, Skylab out of
range of Bermuda. Next acquisition through Carnarvon in
38 minutes. The best assessment preparations for the
extravehicular activity at this time would indicate that
the crew is essentially on time for an EVA start at 10:05
a.m. central daylight time. We'll get a better estimate on
that at Carnarvon. At 14 hours 13 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2805/I
Time: 09:49 CDT 80:14:49 GMT
02/03/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours

49 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about a minute away
from acquisition through Carnarvon. After we acquire there
we'll get a better estimate on how the crew preparations
for extravehicular activity are going.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
CC And Skylab we're going to be dumping the
data/voice here and your bioinstrumentation data looks
beautiful.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The workshop
attitude will be controlled by the thruster attitude control
system or TACS during the hatch opening because of venting
at that time it was decided to switch to the TACS control
system rather than the control moment gyros. During the
daylight portions of the orbit, during EVA, the CMGs, the
gyros will be used - -
CC We're seeing your suits pressurized
down here and we expected to be hearing you on V0X at this
point.
PAO - - CMG control we used during the
PLT (Garble) read.
CC Loud and clear, Bill.
PLT Okay, I'm going to go recheck the command
module configuration (garble) I'm hearing you on a speaker box
and we're not hearing you out of our in our head sets.
CC Okay, Bill.
PAO CMG control will be used during daylight
portions of the orbit to provide a more stable platform for
the S020 and the T025 experiments, that's solar photography
and sampling of the atmosphere around the spacecraft. On
the nightside of the orbits during EVA however, control will
go back to thruster attitude control system.
CC Bill, Houston, we got a suggestion for
you.
PLT Houston, Skylab. How do you read?
CC Reading you loud and clear, Bill.
CC And we got -
PLT Okay, I've gone up in the command module
gone through every switch and I got it configured just as
the checklist says and I'm sort of at a loss right now.
CC Okay, we're working a summary out here
for you. Check on panel 200, the audio CCU-A, check that
that circuit breaker is closed. It's the second row from
the bottom. Second row from the top. That's panel 200,
audio CCU-A, check that that's closed.
PLT That's affirmative, Story, it was closed.
CC Okay, and I guess, with your command
module work we got to verify that panel 6 is in mode VOX and
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the VOX sensitivity's on 9.

PLT That's affirm.
CC Okay, we're about 30 seconds to LOS here,
we'll see you over Guam in 5 minutes.
PLT Okay.
CC And how you talking to us right now, Bill?
PLT Through SIA-131.
CC On channel B?
PLT That's affirm.
CC Okay, thanks.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon has
loss of signal. Guam will pick up in 3-1/2 minutes. Bill
Pogue continuing to search for the cause of the communications
problem. We should be hearing the crew on VOX or voice
operated microphone, as they talk back and forth. With the
exception of straightening out this communications problem
Jerry Carr and Ed Gibson appear to be very near to being
ready to start this EVA.

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SL-IV MC2806/I
TIME: i0:01 CDT, 80:15:01 GMT
2_3_74

PAO Skylab now about 2-1/2 minutes away from

Guam. We'll stand by for acquisition there.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through Guam
for 8 minutes.
CC And, Bill, we'd like you to try communicating
with us on SIAs 102 or 116 and keen (?) channel A.
PLT Say again, Story, I didn't hear you.
CC Are you on channel B right now 1130 SA,
131, Bill?
PLT Negative. I'm 102 right now.
CC Okay, try talking to us on channel A
on SIA 102.
CC And, we're not reading you down here
now,
PLT That didn't help any, Story.
CC Continue -
PLT (Garble) Seems like we don't have A and
B connected together.
CC Understand you can't read us on A.
PLT Way, way down in the mud.
CC Bill, Houston.
CC Bill, like you to go to panel 6 in the
command module and turn the S-band VOLUME up. And also
check on panel 6 that your S-band T/R switch is in T/R.
PLT Okay, now we're on BACKUP.
CDR Okay.
CC Reading you loud and clear down here.
CDR Hey, yeah, we got you too. How do you
read us?
CC Loud and clear, Jer.
SPT Okay, how do you read me, Story?
CC Loud and clear.
SPT Okay, Story, I guess Bill took panel 6
and put the AUDIO CONTROL to BACKUP.
PLT It's nice to know somebody else doesn't
understand the (garble).
PLT Okay, let's see, where were we? We were
getting ready to depress. Okay, I have inhibited CMG control
and dope a nominal H-cage, I think. I'm going to do
it again.
CC Negative on the cage, Bill, You're looking
good right now.
PLT Okay.
PLT All right. And let me - I got to find
my place again after all that folderol.
PLT And we're doing so well, too.
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CDR Yes, we lost 20 minutes on that one.

CC Skylab, we don't understand your previous
communication problems, but you're cleared to go ahead with
the configuration you got. And you're GO for DEPRESS. All
your systems are looking good.
CDR Okay, Story.
PLT How are you reading him, Jerry?
CDR Oh, a little bit weak but nice and
clear.
PLT A little bit weak, yes.
CDR Yes, there's a wave up in the volume.
PLT Yes, I should have done it while I
was in there. As soon as we get everything squared away here
I'ii go in and turn up the volume again.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, airlock module depress warning
EV-I and -2.1f cuff gage drops below 3.6 psid during depress,
LOCK COMPARTMENT DEPRESS VALVE CLOSED and EV-3 forward hatch
pressure equalization valve to open. Okay.
PLT All right, 311 FORWARD HATCH PRESSURE
EQUALIZATION VALVE to CLOSE (garble) work.
PLT Okay, it's CLOSE. EV-I and -2, note; if
low vent flow light comes on before DEPRESS complete, (garble)
EVA normal. During depress cuff gage may be 4.1 back(?) to
delta-T mode. Warning: EV-3, if beta prime(?) indicator ex-
ceedes I00 feet per minute, or if caution and warning (garble)
(garble) to low or (garble) pressure, tell EV-I to CLOSE
COMPARTMENT DEPRESS VALVE.
PLT EV-I panel 318 LOCK COMPARTMENT DEPRESS -
DEPRESS VALVE to OPEN.
SPT Okay, good; going OPEN now.
CC 30 seconds to LOS. See you over Goldstone
at 15:28, about 16 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. EV-3 panel 225 MONITOR PRESSURE
to FORWARD using the same 04852.
SPT Okay, our PRESSURE's down to 4-1/2, 4-1/2
cuff gage. Yes.
CDR See how my cuff gage is hanging in there.
SPT Yeah, we'll be picking up a little bit
of ice there, I see it coming in now.
PLT I'ii tell you what, while you're doing that
I'm going to to up there and turn that volume up.
SPT Good idea.
PLT And I can piggy(?) back if any problem
comes up.
CC Going over the hill, Skylab. Everything
looks good.
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CDR Okay, Story; thanks.

SPT Down to 3-1/2 cuff gage, holding at 3.75.
Mine's looking good, 385.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss
of signal. Depressurization started just prior to LOS at
Guam. The airlock was down to 3-1/2 pounds per square inch
at LOS, and was being held at that pressure for a check before
starting on down. Skylab 14-1/2 minutes away from acquisition
through Goldstone. For today's planned 4-1/2 hour space
walk, the Pilot Bill Pogue will be controlling the space
station's attitude, using both the thruster attitude control
system to maintain orientation in darkness, and the more stable
control gyroscopes for photographing the Sun and the Earth's
atmosphere during the daylight portion of each orbit. Mission
Control's guidance officer says the prediction for nitrogen
gas usage by the TACs is about 1500 pound seconds. He adds,
however, that the changes from gyroscope to gas control will
be made as necessary by the crew, and because this can vary
substantially, no computer simulations were tempted. As a
result, that 1500 pound second estimate may not be a dependable
figure. At present the space station has 13,692 pound seconds
of momentum control gas left. About 2000 pound seconds per
day would permit attitude control with no gyroscopes; that
is, in the event of a failure of either of the two remaining
control moment gyroscopes. We'll have to await acquisition
through Goldstone to determine whether the crew has opened
the hatch and started this EVA. The EVA clock here in the
control center has not yet been started. Skylab about 12
minutes away now from Goldstone. At 15 hours 16 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2807/I
Time: 10:27 CDT 80:15:27 GMT
2_3_74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours 26

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about 2 minutes away
from Goldstone acquisition. Unofficial hatch open time and
start time for this extravehicular activity is 15 hours
21 minutes no seconds. The EVA clock was started at that
time, based on the progress the crew had made by LOS at
Guam, 15 hours 21 minutes Greenwich mean time, about 6-1/2
minutes ago. In all likelihood we'll - we'll start getting
voice communications a little bit earlier than acquisition
time since the crew is on the VOX mode. We'll stand by for
Goldstone.
CDR - (Garble) the foot restraints and hold
you. Okay. Because this is a real arm wrestling match here.
SPT Okay. Just relax a minute and (garble).
CDR Because as I recall, last time also we
were reading the exposures from the top, and this would be
from the bottom.
PLT Yes, you should be able to adjust that
shutter speed knob fairly comfortably from the foot restraint
out there.
SPT Yes. Okay; I see the way the finger
is working.
CDR Okay. Im going to use the foot restraints,
Ed.
SPT Yes; okay. There we go.
CC Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear,
stateside 15 minutes.
CDR Thank you, Story.
SPT Hello, Story. Okay; I think that's the
proper position. I'm not sure what those words said, Bill,
but they didn't tell the story.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC If you run into any comm problems, on page
1.2-15 is a - a cutout that we sent up to you and on panel i0
there. All - all the panels 6, 9, and i0 should be that same
configuration. That's a little summary for you.
PLT Okay.
SPT (Garble) What are you doing there?
CDR What am I doing?
SPT Yes.
CDR I'm standing in your foot restraints
holding you.
SPT Oh, okay, I didn't - Okay. Just let -
let me get up there.
PLT Okay, Story, those are all (garble)
that way.
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SPT (garble) my head gets up there.

SPT Because I got to see what I'm doing.
CDR All right.
CDR How's that?
SPT (Garble)
CC Okay, Bill. No changes needed. That's
just a summary for you in case you run into any problems.
PLT Okay
SPT Okay. Let go a (garble), Jer, and I'll
get positioned and then you can just hold me, there.
SPT Oh, it's my umbilical. That's what's
holding me up. Would you unloosen that fella?
CDR That still I think is in that restraint.
SPT Yes.
CDR There you go.
SPT There we go. Okay.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC While you're playing with the T025 one
unknown to us down here is how you plan to use Nikon 02.
Do you plan to transfer that - that eye relief or not?
CDR Yes, we'll try it. We did it in the glove
yesterday and it was easier than we thought it would be,
so we'll go on Rusty's advice and give it a whirl.
CC Okay; thanks.
PLT And, Story; for your information, 15:19
was hatch opening time.
CC Thank you, Bill. 15:19.
SPT Okay. I can take this tether off now,
it'll make it a lot easier to work. Be another day of fin-
ger exercises.
CDR Yep.
SPT Okay. Now just lean me forward again
there.
CDR (Garble) I just got finished clamping
your tether.
CDR Okay. There we go.
SPT Okay; how about the good words on those
knobs, Bill?
PLT Okay. Let me read the begin here. It's
a position clamp on strut halfway or beyond the first section
of D-I handrail. Secure clamp by turning top knob clockwise
until tight. Then turn lower knob counterclockwise until tight.
SPT Okay. It's in work. Okay; that's com-
plete.
PLT Okay. EV-2 pass filter (garble) to EV-I.
SPT Okay. That's already done and it's in
place.
PLT All right. Restrain TO20, okay. I'm
going to read this anyway just in case there's information
that you might need. Restrain T025 filter case
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and temporary stowage hook, install filter A to the A-l,

Alfa i, position, and align experiment by turning X and Y knobs
until Sun image is located in the center of the occulting disk.
Image will appear orange in center.
CDR Hey, Ed; look. There's the hole of San
Joaquin Valley over there, See it?
SPT Hold on.
CDR There's the Sierras, the San Joaquin Valley,
and the Salton Sea.
SPT Yes.
CDR Beautiful.
SPT Oh yes.
CDR So we're out over Arizona probably;
Flagstaff.
PLT I can see the Grand Canyon from in here.
CDR Yes. There it is.
PLT Lake Powell.
SPT Let's take a look at that Skarlock(?) fault.
(garble) Las Vegas.
CDR That's a little bit too far out to the
west of us.
SPT Yes, you can't get good definition, can
you?
CDR Uh uh; not from here.
CDR Beautiful.
CDR We sure got a pretty country, Houston.
SPT That it is.
CDR Okay. Back to the salt mines.
SPT Okay; now.
PLT We're just about over Salt Lake City right
now.

PLT Okay.
SPT Hold on, Bill. I'm trying to get this
thing lined up again. (garble)get the Sun.
CC Skylab, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Jer, we don't want you to get too far
downstream on T025. You got at least another 50 minutes
until sunset, and we're thinking that may be in the way of run-
ning the clothesline up and down to the center work station.
CDR Okay. Do you want us Do you want us to
put T025 in and do the clothesline work first? I was under
the impression we wanted to get T025 out of the way first of
all.
SPT Yes; that's the way the checklist is written,
isn't it Bill? Doesn't it have that in there?
PLT (Garble) the checklist. I was reading
and hadn't gotten that far. I was just deploying the clothes-
line.
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CDR Well, of the very first comment on the

very first page for egress says to do T025.
PLT That's right. 25 minutes prior to first
ESS. That's correct. It said stop normal EVA ops and start
T025 ops at 25 minutes prior to first ESS.
CDR Okay. So -
PLT We - we have 47 minutes to go.
CDR They're planning on T025 on the second day
pass then, I guess.
PLT Well, apparently they think they can get
it all in in 25 minutes.
CDR Well_ let's leave it right here and see
if the clothesline can be deployed now.
PLT Okay, I'm going to drop back and regroup
here. Ed, it would be nice if you could get it aligned so
you didn't ha - waste any time doing that_ you know.
SPT That's what I'm doing right now. -
CDR Okay.
PLT All right.
CC Skylab, we think you'll do a little
better to get the S020 started in here and then you'll
have time to get the T025 prior to sunset.
SPT (Garble)
PLT You just get a hint of red on the edges,
if I remember.

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CDR They're planning on T025 on the second

day pass then, I guess.
PLT Well, apparently they think they can get
it all in in 25 minutes.
CDR Well, let's leave it right here and see
if the clothesline can be deployed now.
PLT Okay, I'm going to drop back and regroup
here Ed, it would be nice if you could get it aligned, so
you didn't have to waste any time doing that, you know.
SPT That's what I'm doing right now.
CDR Okay.
PLT All right.
CC Skylab, we think you'll do a little
better to get the S020 - -
SPT/CDR (Garb le)
CC - - started in here and then you'll have
time to get the T025 prior to sunset.
PLT You just get a hint of red on the edges if
I remember correctly. I was really torn with doubt there whether
or not I was doing it right.
SPT Wait a minute, now we're coming in.
There we go. There we go.
CDR That's a lot of red land down there under-
neath us.
SPT Let's hear the words on the alignment
for this thing, Bill.
PLT Okay. Align experiments by turning X
and Y knobs until Sun image is located in the center of oc-
culting disk.
CC Bill, Houston.
CREW Go ahead.
PLT (Garble) orange in center and red on edges.
PLT Go, Story.
CC We'd like you to get going on S020, right
now, and then you'll have plenty of time, we think, to get
going on SO - T025, prior to sunset.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay.
CREW Okay.
PLT Well now that says to me, if I interpret
what he says correctly, that we go right straight to the
unstow S020.
SPT Yep.
PLT Okay, unstow - I'm going to page 2.4-2
where it says unstow S020. Unstow S020, verify mounting
bracket is fully open. I'm sorry there is a write-in step
here. Unstow thermometer.
SPT We'll get the thermometer after we get (garble)
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PLT Okay, I'm with you.

PLT From the airlock module pouch next to
panel 36(garble) well - Okay, unstow S020, we're sort of
ad hocking this.
CREW Okay.
CDR I thought I understood what we were going
to be doing today, but I guess I didn't.
PLT I'm very confused myself. Unstow
S020, veryify mounting bracket is fully open, place vacuum valve,
shutter control to vent allow 15 seconds to vent.
CDR Hello, Houston. Hi gang.
CC Hi.
PLT Sure a pretty pass here this time.
SPT Sure is.
SPT Looks like they got a good day down there.
SPT Wide open.
CDR Here you are Ed.
CC EVA days are always good.
PLT Boy, that is beautiful.
SPT Come here, Jer, and let me get a wrist
tether on that fellow before we do anything.
PLT Man, the entire central plains is wide
open.
CDR Okay, I got it.
SPT Okay, this thing goes -
SPT Oh, boy. Does it go up on top.
CDR Yes, it does.
SPT Yeah, maybe we can fit it inside there.
CDH It goes between.
SPT Yeah.
PLT San Antonio, Austin. Man ...
SPT Okay, Jet I may need a little (garble)
PLT Right over the top of -
PLT Houston ship channel.
PLT Shows up quite well.
CDH Okay, I'll get the thermometer ready.
SPT All right.
SPT Let's just put that on the temporary stowage
hook, Jer.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay,
SPT Hold on, just clamping this thing
down here now.
PLT All right.
PLT Tell me when you want some more words.
SPT I've got it on the truss(?) now, Bill. I
just got to
PLT Okay.
SPT I wait - hold on. What I'm doing is
tightening it up before I take off my wrist tether.
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PLT Yeah, just to be on the safe side, I will

briefly reread the words so you make doubly certain you got
everything right.
SPT Okay.
SPT Oh, boy. Just beautiful.
SPT I'm going to have to slide T025 down a
little bit Jer.
CDR Okay.
CDR You need to have me hold anything?
SPT Naw, I just got to get two hands on this.
SPT Up a little bit.
SPT Man, (Garble) putting that thing on there.
PLT Its a Doggone shame you've got to move it.
PLT You know S020 does go on the far side of
the truss.
PLT Or the top, I guess, since you're looking at
it.
SPT All right. Yeah, if you could hold my feet,
Jer.
CDR Okay.
SPT Yeah. I need to be moving this thing down.
The only way I'm going to do it is work it - walk it on down
then.
CDR All right, let me get -
CDR Get this thing tethered.
CREW There we go.
SPT Probably got it about as far as it will go.
CDR Okay.
SPT Let me tighten it up again now. (Garble)
alignment work done on it.
CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half to LOS.
Vanguard will be coming up in 12 minutes at 15:54, and Bill,
Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Prior to starting your alignment on S020
or T025, go ahead and enable CMG control.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay, got S020 set?
SPT No I don't, I'm right now, Jet, I'm putting
T025 back on. I'm putting the second clamp - the second knob
rotating.
CDR Okay.
SPT Lock that one then I'll I got S020 on,
but I got to move it over a little bit, because these knobs
are interferring with D-7.
CDR Okay, I got you now.
SPT See, hat's why I had to move the whole
shebang down.
CDR Yep.
SPT Okay. That should do it, now let me just
tighten that up.
CC And as we leave you here Skylab, your
APCS and all the other systems are looking good.
PLT Thank you, Story.
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SPT So long, Story.

PLT Ed, now before you start the S020 alignment
and TOL25 alignment again I got to do a CMG enable.
SPT Okay, -
PLT So just let me know when you're
SPT Go ahead, I'm done.
PLT Okay.
SPT I'm ready.
SPT Now, if you'll allow me to turn to my
right side here. I got to get under here where I can see the -
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, CMG control is enabled and press
on with the alignment.
SPT Okay. In work.
CDR Be careful with your helment. You're
banging T025 camera.
SPT Yeah.
SPT Unfortunately, Jer, the only way you can get
the (garble)
CC And we're showing the CMGs are going to
have to pull the vehicle in about 2 degrees here.
PLT Okay, Story, I'm watching the rates.
SPT (Garble) along the top here first.
PLT Outer gimbals look very good shape.

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SPT What's the attitude error there, Bill?

PLT Okay. Stand by for attitude error. I
was looking at rate. I should're been looking at attitude
error here, right. Okay. We got 0.i degrees.
SPT Okay. That (garble) it in pretty fast.
PLT So you should -
SPT Yeah. I - I'm just getting the - -
PLT The alignment should be good. Okay. We're
reading 000 and now I'm going to look at your rates. Rates are
very low. That and the noise on (garble).
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Merritt Island,
Florida station has loss of signal. Next acquisition through
the tracking ship Vanguard in 8 minutes. Bill Pogue reported
that hatch opening was at 15 hours 19 minutes Greenwich mean
time. So this EVA has been underway about 27-1/2 minutes.
Two instruments: S020, the X-ray ultraviolet solar photography
camera; and T025, the eoronagraph contamination measurement
instrument; both of those were designed for use through
Skylab's solar pointing scientific airlock, and both
have been taken outside for today's extravehicular activity.
This is the fourth EVA by this Skylab crew and the ninth of
the Skylab program. A tenth extravehicular activity was the
stand up work performed by astronaut Paul Weitz from the
command module at the beginning of the first manned Skylab
flight. This Skylab crew holds the records for the two longest
space walks ever performed, a 7-hour 1 minute excursion to
photograph the comet Kohoutek on Christmas day and a 6-hour-
33-minute EVA to repair a malfunctioning Earth resources
instrument antenna early in their flight last November, Novem-
ber 22nd. The - that first EVA is believed to have brought
on the failure of Skylab's number 1 gyroscope. Today's at-
titude control configuration should hold stress to a minimum
on the remining two gyroscopes. These gyroscopes will, however,
be used during the sunlight portions of each orbit as soon as
the instruments for solar and atmospheric studies are ready
to begin photography. The coronagraph contamination instrument,
T025, will take 39 photographs to measure the atmosphere sur-
rounding the Skylab solar instruments. Although the space
station is in a near perfect vacuum, some particles remain in
the vicinity of the space station as a result of nitrogen gas
firings, engines used to bring the command module into orbit,
and the venting of internal atmosphere and small amounts of
other material into space around Skylab. By photographing
the thin atmosphere left around the space station, scientists
will be able to evaluate the light scattering produced when
photographs of the Sun are taken, using the telescopes and the
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large telescope mount. Although T025 was designed for use

through the small airlock that faces the Sun, a loss of Sky-
lab's meteoroid shield required astronauts to erect a sun
shade through that airlock. The parasol remains in the Sun
side scientific airlock, preventing its use from (sic) experi-
ments. The instrument was used on the first space walk by this
crew but jammed after five frames were exposed. The failure
was believed due to an improperly seated viewfinder extender
for the camera. T025 was used also for photographing the comet
Kohoutek on December 25 and 29. Skylab's 4 minutes away
from the tracking ship Vanguard. We'll stand by for that
pass.
SPT Okay. EV-I looking at 3.62 and no lights.
PLT Okay, Jer(sic).
CDR Okay. EV-2 is 3.7 and no lights.
PLT All right. Polled(?) - move hooks toward
hatch, parenthesis, if required, close parenthesis. Okay.
SPT We're good. Trust me.
CDR Okay. EV-2, unstow. VS tree and pass to
EV-I.
SPT Okay. That's in work.
PLT Okay.
SPT VS trees.
CDR Okay.
PLT That's right.
SPT Thank you, Jerry.
PLT (Garble)
SPT Coming up.
PLT And EV-l,stow VS tree in VS recepacle, F-15
in lock.
SPT Okay.
CDR Tell me when that's complete.
SPT Okay. It's in work.
CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear through
the Vanguard for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger Story.
CC And Bill, I got about four things for you
here.
PLT Okay. Press.
CC On that CMG control, of course, get that
prior to starting the experiments on S020 and the T025. As
a general summary, you'll be in CMG control during the daytime,
and after you get through taking your T025 data, you can go
back to TACS during the nighttime. And then reenable the CMGs
prior to sunrise and starting your T025 or S020.
PLT Okay, Story. Thanks. I have the procedure
out here. We got sort of bent out of shape during all that
COMM problem. That's why I did not enable to see CMGs for
that first alignment again.
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SPT Okay. We got

PLT Okay.
SPT We got S020 going there, Story.
PLT Unstow VC (garble)
CDR Got a 30-minute going on that one.
SPT Okay. I've got the VS tree (garble).
CC Okay. We - we think you ought to be running
the 60-minute one on that S020 first, Ed.
CDR Okay. That'll be fine. We could - we can
(garble)
SPT Okay. That's right.
CDR That's right.
CC And when you get to night, all you got to
do is go to storage in that position, and when you get back into
daylight, just go back to the number that you were taking.
CDR Okay. The way we're set up, we'll get
30 minutes out of this pass and 30 on the next pass.
SPT Okay. Hold on
CC Okay. That sounds fine and when you're
ready for the next exposure, all you have to do is move it up
to the next number.
CDR Okay.
SPT Roger, Story.
CDR Okay. Let me have -
CDR Let me have - that aAgain?
CDR Had to move that (garble) out of the
(garble)
CDR Okay. I got it.
SPT You got it.
PLT And the VS tree in the receptacle.
SPT It's on its way.
CDR Okay.
SPT Just handed it out the hatch(?).
PLT And the VC-3 will be next.
SPT Okay. I'ii get it. I never realized what
a tight fit that was.
CDR And Story
SPT Okay.
CDR this first exposure was started at
15:48:30.
CC Thank you.
CDR 48:35. Got it?
SPT I've got it. Thank you.
SPT Okay. The VS and the VC-3 are in position.
PLT Okay. Now it says let's do S020 we've all
ready done that. However, there are two steps in here which I
would like to read just to make sure we're in the right configu-
ration. EV-2, unstow the thermometer from airlock module pouch,
panel 316, pass
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to EV-I. And EV-I, stow the thermometer on the temporary

stowage hook.
CDR That's done.
SPT Okay. We've got that. What I'd like you
to do, Bill, is to give me a 10-minute hack before sunset.
PLT Okay.
SPT And I'Ii start working that thermometer.
PLT All right.
CDR Okay. Ed, I'm uneasy about that T025
filter setup, so what do you say we take this tether and tether
it to the spacecraft, 'cause we might loose that off the stowage
hook while we're reaching for the
SPT Okay.
CDR thermometer.
SPT Okay. If you've got any extra - Gee, I'ii
tell you what - Why don't we get that extra wrist tether out there?
Now l've -
CDR l've got a waist tether here
SPT I might disturb aLignment. You're right. Okay.
Let's - We'll do with this one. Put the waist tether on the
handrail, and I'ii put this other hook on the eye. I tell you
what. Let's put the letVs put it right up here where I can
work it, then. In other words, I can just tether it right there
and I won't have to take it off the tether anymore in order to
(garble).
PLT Okay. And next step - whenever you're
ready
CDR Hold on now. We're working something here.
There we go. Are we on or off the storage hook?
SPT Well, let's see now. Wait a minute. Is that
the way? You'll be working those filters so is there where you
want it, or do you want it on here? What I'm thinking is I can
move that thermometer over there on this long tether, then I'ii
never have to let go of it.
CDR All right. Very good.
SPT And then just leave those T025s right on
the storage hook.
SPT Very good. Now if you just put that one
on the other end there, on this end -
CDR All right.

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SPT Very good. Now, if you just put that

on the other end there. On this end.
CDR All right.
SPT That that little loop there, that'll do it.
SPT Okay.
CDR And it's locked.
CREW Very good, now let me find a convenient
location up here.
SPT Oh, I know how to do it. And we'll just
put the thermometer cable right in the temporary - in this
restraining hook for the
Sun-end clothesline.
CDR Okay.
SPT That way she'll be all set to go and remain
in the shade here.
CDR Okay, what's the next step, Bill?
PLT The next step EV-2. unstow DAC and pass to
EV-I.
CREW All right.
PLT EV-I stow DAC on foxtrot 5 aft of temp
stow hook below clothesline and lock.
CDR Below clothesline?
PLT Well, stow DAC on F-5 aft of temporary
stowage hook. I think that should probably tell you where to
put it. Then if there's any clothesline interference put it
below the clothesline and lock it.
SPT Yeah, all right.
PLT I'm having trouble visulizing it myself.
SPT Yeah, but the problem is we don't have the
clothesline out or hooked up down to the -
PLT (Garble) put your tether on there?
SPT Yeah, I sure better.
PLT Just to make sure I didn't miss anything.
SPT Jer's up here, so there's no way.
PLT That just left them there.
VREW (Garble) Thank you.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go, Story,
CC I'm probably saying too much here, but
you do have the windows for the data-take times on T025
right there with your cue card don't you?
PLT Windows, T025? I don't (garble)
CC Yeah, the start/stop time to sunset and
sunrise.
CDR That's that permanent general message, Bill.
CDR Permanent general message 48 (garble)
PLT Oh yeah, right here. Here we go.
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CC The one that says start at 16:20 and 09

seconds.
PLT Okay. Let me find it.
CC If you don't have them, I can read them
to you very nicely.
SPT Now, it's on there and locked, but boy,
I don't trust it.
CDR I got to get out through there.
PLT I have the permanent general message
but I don't see those times on it.
SPT I know.
CDR Okay, we'll see what happens there - -
PLT I'll go ahead and take them down, Story.
SPT I'll tell you what, let's - -
CC It's inside the asterisks, Bill.
PLT Say again.
CC They're inside the asterisks.
CDR There's two little boxes down at the
bottom of it, Bill.
CC Or if you're ready to copy I can read
them to you and we'll have about an hour LOS here.
PLT Go ahead and give them to me_ Story.
CC Okay, the sunset one starts at 16:20:09,
and stop at 16:25:19.
CDR Good, Ed.
SPT Then I'Ii have to move it forward again.
CC And the sunrise times are between 16:57 and
04 seconds, and stop at 17:02 and 17 seconds.
PLT That was 17:02 and 17?
CC Yes, sir. And try to take about 20
exposures on the first window, and about 20 exposures in
the second window.
PLT Okay, we're all ready into our T025 times.
SPT Okay, well, that's the that's the point.
Now, do we want to get going on the clothesline or we want
to go T025?
CC You've got about another 17 minutes until
the window opens for T025, so you can time it accordingly.
We feel you're pretty well set up all ready.
CREW Okay.
CDR We got it all just about aligned.
CC Okay, your window doesn't start for about
another 16 minutes here; 16:20:09 seconds.
SPT Thank you, Story.
CC And, we're going LOS; we'll see you over
Goldstone in about an hour and 3 minutes at 17:05.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Vanguard has
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loss of signal. Long LOS now clear around to Goldstone,

California. Acquisition there in 1 hour 2 minutes. SO20,
the solar camera, is operating. TO25, the coronagraph, has
been set up and the crew will start operating that in about
18, 19 minutes. The flight surgeon reports that both outside
crewmen are operating at Btu levels below predictions. Had
been predicted that the level would be i000 to ii00. However,
the Science Pilot, Ed Gibson's Btu level is 964; Commander Gerald
Carr's is 770. We don't have heart rate information yet,
we'll get that to you as soon as we have it. At 16 hours
5 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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PAO This is Skylab Control _t 17 hours 4

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up con acquisi-
tion through the Goldstone, _ California tracking station.
1 hour 45 minutes of this EVA has been expended so far. We'll
stand by for acquisition at Goldstone.
SPT - start back down that trail, and I'ii
try to set up the DAC and get you a front end -
CDR All right. You need to put the clothes-
line on my right wrist.
SPT Yes.
PLT Okay. I'm going to read - -
SPT Watch yourself now. Take care and keep
a low profile.
CDR Right.
PLT Want me to read the settings to you, Ed?
SPT Just a second, till - till we get set
here, because I will have only to have you read them again.
PLT Okay.
SPT Okay. Just keep your - keep your head
(garble) close. There you go. Watch, your left foot has
caught the clothesline.
CDR Yes.
SPT Okay. Okay. You want to move
CDR You need to put a clothesline on my
wrist.
SPT Okay. Take a look at your umbilical.
CDR It's still in the proper side, I believe.
SPT Yes. Okay.
CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear_ state-
side for 12 minutes, dumping the data/voice here.
CREW Roger, Story.
PLT Roger, Story. And during those two
data take periods on T025 our two men got 31 sterling exposures
there, did very good work, and I'd llke the next opportunity,
please, the next window.
CC Let me know when you're ready to copy.
PLT Ready to copy.
CC Okay. The sunset starts 17:53 in 23
seconds, to a stop at 17:58 in 33 seconds.
PLT Copy.
CDR Okay.
CC And the sunrise is 18:30 in 18 seconds,
to 18:35 in 31 seconds.
PLT Okay. Thank you; copied that. I hope
we don't need that one_
SPT All right. Let's keep me clear of - well,
you're not - you're not (garble) Jet, move inf Now hold
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on before we yes, do you want to move out a little bit

(garble) -
CDR (Garble) I want to be clear of
the clipboard and all that stuff before we do anything more.
SPT Okay.
PLT Also, Story; S020's cooking. Started
at 17:04:04.
SPT Okay. What we've done there is release
the
CDR Oh, yeah. One side of it got released
up there.
SPT Yes. Now hold on there, hold on, hold
on, Jer. Hold on.
CDR Just a minute. I got to anchor myself.
SPT All right. You're going to have to come
back, too. You've got to put the clothesline around the other
side.
CDR I - i'll do it down there.
SPT All right.
CDR Oh, wait a minute. I guess I can. There.
SPT You got it?
CDR Now where's that clipboard?
SPT That's about 3 feet to your left.
CDR Okay. All right. Now I'ii just hang
here till you're ready.
SPT All right. I've got to move the clothesline
back under the restraining hook, here.
CDR Okay. Let's hear a good word from the
the friendly DAC there, Bill.
PLT Okay. T-8, or F-8.
SPT Well, hold on. We got to move the
friendly DAC up to it's location.
PLT EV-I, remove DAC and attach to VS clothes-
line hooks and lock. That what you wanted?
SPT AttaCh the DAC to the clothesline?
PLT That's what it says. Keep that (garble)
on the DAC. I didn't know quite what all you wanted. I
figured you just wanted the settings (Laughter) but it also
has that in there, too.
SPT Yes. Hold on here.
CDR That's a handheld.
SPT It's a handheld. You know that, didn't
you? It's handheld photos.
CDR Okay. In other words, they had us hook
it up here in this location as a temporary (garble) - -
SPT Yes, (garble).
CDR All right. Press on with the words.
PLT Okay. The words are, EV-I remove DAC
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and attach to VS clothesline hooks and lock, and EV-2

transfer DAC to VT and move DAC from VS clothesline, and
verify settings, which I'ii give you again later. -
SPT 0 - Okay. Let's get Jet down there
first and -
PLT Yes.
SPT - - get his umbilical straightened
out.
CDR Did you want to take photos as I go out?
SPT That is what I thought they were after, but -
CDR That's what - apparently not.
SPT Well, you could - we could do that.
There's no reason why we can't. I (garble) - -
CDR Yes. I didn't get them last time because
the darn the DAC failed.
SPT All right; let's do it. Now hold on. Let
me get the umbilical squared away here.
SPT I'ii just stay here till you're ready.
I'm out of harm's way here now.
SPT I'm afraid our umbilical situation is -
requires a little work. Oh boy.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Yes.
CC You don't need any DAC photos until Jerry
sets into the transfer work station.
CDR You don't want any photos of me moving
out there?
CC No, sir.
CDR Okay.
SPT Hey, just a minute, Jer?
SPT No way you could - you probably can't turn
back here, but I am trying to figure where the umbilical is
(garble) - -
CDR Yours has got a loop in it and mine
just goes around behind the loop.
CDR Ah - those extra (garble) and made up
here.
SPT That did it.
CDR I'm right under your backside right now.
SPT Just slip it over the top of you like a
jumprope going backwards. That-a-way.
CDR Now I should be down and right side of
you. Can I just come out of my foot restraints?
SPT No, you don't have to.
SPT Yes, you should be, but that's what I
was trying to pull out before. There you go. Apparently that
was a - got in a knot before.
CDR No, you had a loop. Yours goes out into
a loop, and then mine goes back behind the loop, that's all.
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SPT Okay.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go.
CC Bill, you're getting none of the normal
DAC, none of the normal DAC ops or transfer and all that.
All the DAC ops are on 2.4-14.
PLT That's what I'm looking at right now.
CC Okay.
CDR Well, we just looked down California.
(garble) can see the Salton Sea and Lake Mead.
SPT Oh yes. Yes, we're just coming up
over Southern Cal now. - -
CDR Hey, ther's Baja.
SPT You can see the awful block of fog,
just big as life down there.
CDR Does it extend all the way over the to
Gulf?
SPT I can't tell.
CDR I thought you'd be able to make that -
SPT Oh, yeah.
CDR - observation on a moment's notice.
SPT Sorry about that, Lee.
CDR Man that's pretty.
PLT Sure is.
CDR I can see those volcanics south of San
Quintin (?)
SPT Beautiful country. Glad to be coming back
to it.
CDR Say that again.

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CDR I can see those volcanics south of

San Quinton.
SPT Beautiful country, glad to be coming
back to it.
CDR You can say that again.
CDR Now, Let's see I have to go over the top
of the sail don't I, Ed.
SPT That's affirm.
SPT All right. And you're doing great.
SPT Okay, Story, we've got the film from
the center workstation all transferred back and in here in the
RAS. Hold on Jer.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, thanks, Ed.
SPT And, we worked the clothesline, Story.
It worked out pretty swift. No real hangups with it at all.
CDR Got loose now?
SPT Yeah, you're okay.
CDR Okay.
SPT What I had to do was give you a little
more play on the clothesline itself.
CDR Yeah, I thought it was kind of (garble)
SPT (Garble)
CDR Boy, l'm glad we didn't have to change
any of these EPEA things out here. That would have been
a workout.
CDR Doing great.
CDR Okay, l'm in the VT workstation.
CDR Read on Bill.
PLT Okay. Find my place where I wrote to start
here. And I got l'm running out of fingers to put my place -
m_rk my place here.
PLT Okay.
PLT Let me reread some of this because - so
it'll pick up there in continuity. Transfer VS clothesline
to VT, connect VS just (garble) making sense.
SPT No, we know what you're saying, so just
press on in a hurry, Bill.
PLT Connect VS clothesline hook to right
glove, release hooks from VS clothesline connect VC clothesline
hooks together, restow VC clothesline bracket, straighten VS
clothesline. That's all for EV-2.
CDR Right, press on.
PLT Okay, at this EV-I assist and (garble)
come to clip these - EVI, clip VC clothesline under clip
on F-5.
CDR Okay.
SPT All right.
CDR That's been done.
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PLT EV-2 unclamp (garble) LSU (garble) VC and

translate to VT going over top of (garble) pole.
CDR Okay, I've done that°
PLT EV-I manage EV2 LSU clothesline.
CDR That's done.
PLT (Garble) EV-2 rotate at ingress
VT foot restraints using solar shield handrail to aid his
ingress.
CDR Complete.
PLT EMU status checks both.
SPT EV-I's looking at 3.62, no lights.
CDR EV-2's looking at 3.7, no lights.
PLT Okay, EV-2, pull hip pin, one of them.
CDR This is the one that always gave me fits
in the water. Let's see if we can do it here.
PLT To release VS clothesline attach bracket.
CDR (garble) Same problem.
CDR I got a safety diver to do it.
PLT Yeah.
PLT Ah, it'll be okay at zero g.
SPT It won't happen in flight.
CDR There we go.
CC Sounds like we had a good sim down here.
MS Right.
PLT Okay, you got (garble) installed.
CDR Right.
PLT Rotate end link approximately 220 degrees
to lock in place.
CDR It's locked.
PLT Attach clothesline hook to bracket and
lock hook.
CDR Okay. (Laughter) Boy, that thing is strong.
If we could fit the workshop over parrallel to the ATM
with that thing.
SPT Uh-oh_ watch - watch out here, Jer.
(Garble) we're getting that around the oculting disk.
CDR Okay.
SPT Keep it loose here for a second and I'ii
try and try and -
CDR It's nice and loose.
SPT Yeah_ okay s we got another one to come
off here. Oh, boy. I got to come out of my shoes to get this
one. It's made itself a lasting type (garble)
PLT (Garble) see you all, but I can't see
a thing.
CDR Okay, I've got the - the hook on and locked
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and when you get that clear we can

CDR Well, you know I think I might do a
little flip it off.
SPT You start up there. You've got to get that
around
CDR There we go.
SPT Okay, there we go.
CDR Okay, Bill, keep on reading.
PLT Okay, I'm going to reread that, rotate
end link approximately 220 degrees to lock in place and
CDR That's done.
PLT - - clothesline hook to bracket, lock
hook.
CDR Done.
PLT Straighten clothesline.
CDR Done.
PLT Rotate base link until lock.
CDR Okay, that's in work.
SPT You know, Jer, it's locked.
CDR Hurrah, it's locked.
PLT Good.
CDR Okay.
SPT I hate to tell you this, but the clothesline
from point to point describe a perfect straight line through
T025.
CDR Right. We're gonna really have to be careful
with that.
SPT YeP"
PLT Okay, now I'm going to read the DAC
procedures here that Story said applied to our case.
CDR/SPT Okay.
PLT EV-I - -
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS here,
12 minutes to Vanguard, 17:30.
SPT Roger, Story.
PLT 17:30. Okay, that's ii minutes.
PLT Okay, EV-I remove DAC and attach the VS
clothesline hooks and lock.
SPT I think I'm goint to tie clothesline
hook first. I'm gonna leave this wrist tether on it, Jer,
you may need it.
CDR Okay, good.
PLT And then transfer the DAC to the VT.
SPT I'll tell you what else let's do, let's
hook the two clotheslines hooks together or we're going to
be hurting for slack to work around here.
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CDR Yes.
CC Skylab, we show you having plenty of
time to realign T025 through the next window, if you need to.
CDR Okay, Roger, Story.
CDR If we're careful, we won't need to.
CC You'll have the time and going over the
hill here, all your systems looking good.
PLT Thank you, Story.
CDR Thank you, Story, lock the gate.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the Texas station. And about i0 minutes away from
acquisition through the tracking ship Vanguard. This extra-
vehicular activity appears to be going well. The film from
the cameras in the center work station has been retrieved,
the S052, S054, S056 and the H-ALPHA. The crew is now making
preparatiions, hooking up the transportation device, the
clothesline, making preparations to go up and retrieve the
S082A and S0823 film. The S020, solar cameras continuing to
operate and they'll take some more exposures sunset and
sunrise with T025. The DAC, that was referred to numberous
times during this pass, is the data acquisition camera.
That's being used from time to time for documentary film
EVA documentary film. The crew also has a 35 millimeter camera
with them outside that they'll use from time to time as they pass
over interesting areas of the Earth. Heart rates so far have
been moderate. With Jerry Carr reaching a maximum of 116
and Gibson peaking at 112. The average heart rates seen so
far in the low 90's. Early in this space walk, the Btu
measurements, which records energy expended in in doing work
outside -

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PAO - - and Gibson peaking at 112. The average

heart rate seemed so far in the low 90's. Early in this
space walk the Btu measurement which records energy expended
in doing work outside was running about 5 percent below
pledlctions for the Science Pilot Ed Gibson, and was 10 percent
below during the Vanguard pass about 45 minutes after hatch
opening. The Btu measurements for Jerry Cart were about
30 percent below expected levels early in the EVA, but they've
increased slightly. They're still about i0 Percent below the
predictions made by the flight surgeon based on the activities
which were planned for today and the work levels seen on
previous space walks. Surgeon adds, however, that the lower
work rates seen so far probably reflect the conservatism of
the estimates which tend to be on the high side. Jerry Cart
will take several photographs of radiation produced by the
Sun using SO20, the X-ray ultraviolet spectrograph. He is
making very long exposures up to 1 hour for a single picture
to record invisible wavelengths produced by highly ionized
atoms. Such wavelengths from i0 to 200 angstroms are much
too short to successfully penetrate Earth's atmosphere_ are
relatively weak even in space. With the highly sensitive SO20,
and the lengthy exposures additional information on solar
physics will be gathered for Dr. Richard Tousey of the Naval
Research Laboratory. Dr. Tousey is also the principal investi-
gator for SO82, the extreme ultraviolet spectrograph -
spectroheliograph, one of the large solar telescopes for
which Carr will retrieve film shortly. The SO20 photographs
do not require constant observation by the crew. The crew
merely starts and stops the exposures at specified times.
Skylab now about 5-1/2 minutes away from acquisition through
Vanguard. So far during this extravehicular activity
75 minimum impulse burns have been produced by the thruster
attitude control system. That's 375 pound-seconds of
nitrogen gas expended from the TACS. We're about 4-1/2
minutes away from Vanguard. We'll keep the line up for an
early LO early AOS since the crew is on VOX communications.
SPT I'm not in the position to do that right
now .

CDR Okay. There's 80 - about 78 percent of

the film left.

SPT Oh, that's good.

CDR Tell me when you're ready, Ed.
SPT Yeah, wait a minute.
CDR Okay.
SPT Got to get my own umbilical squared
away here.
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CC Skylab, we're back with you through the

Vanguard for Ii minutes.
SPT/CDR Rog, Story.
SPT Okay, I got your umbilical, Jerry, you're
clear; go ahead.
PLT Okay. And, Ed, just for planning, don't
we need to terminate SO20 in about 3 minutes.
SPT All right, we'll just switch on to the
next one.
PLT The 30 minute - the next priority is
the 30-minute exposure, so we'll have to back-to-back it
also.
SPT Story, would they like to pick up the
next exposure which is shorter than a 30-minute and have it
all in one sequence, or press on with the 30 which is going
to have us break that one up, too?
CC Like you to press on with the 30 on -
even though you may not have time to finish it. Just go
right down that checklist there.
SPT Okay, will do.
CC And on those you can initiate them right
at sunrise and terminate at sunset. And don't worry about
going through the atmosphere.
SPT Okay, I thought - thought we had to; the
cue cards specified it.
CC No, it'll get you a little more time.
SPT Very good. Thank you, Story.
SPT How you doing, Jer?
CDR Well, I don't have anything to hold on
to is my problem. I've got a beautiful view of the command
module.
SPT You got no way of photographing it.
CDR Yeah, I got two hands holding on and
nothing to hold the camera with.
SPT _ Can you get yourself all the way to the
other edge so you can put your foot in - on the backside
of one of those solar shields there.
CDR That's what I'm looking to see, what -
what there is over here to put my feet on. There isn't
anything down there. I think I got a hunch here. I'm
going to waste a little film but I'm going to have to punch
the camera with one hand and then flip it.
CDR Cecil B. de Mille would turn over in his
grave.
SPT Now, let's see, this is all still 12
tapes per second.
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CDR Yeah. I believe you're

PLT That's affirm.
CDR I want 20 seconds, Bill?
PLT That's affirm.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, about 1 minute for changing the
S020.
CDR I'll wait until you do that, Ed.
SPT That's all right, there's no big deal
there; ali I got to do is flip it, and I can do that in nothing
flat. Umbilical's looking good.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go, Story.
CC Sounds like you guys are doing it already,
but we suggest finishing_up the DAC and the Nikon work here.
When you get done with that it looks like you'll come to
a convenient time to run your T025. That window starts at
17:53, and - 17:53 to 17:58 - and finish up the T025 ops during
that window; take all the frames there.
PLT Yeah, I think that's right, Story. That
ought to work out just like that.
SPT Okay, how about S020 here?
PLT Okay, i0 seconds.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. You can go to frame number 2.
SPT Frame number 2 (garble).
PLT Okay.
SPT Sounds like an event timer.
PLT Yep.
SPT The alignment - Okay, the alignment is
still good, but it's - Let me give it to you again and check
what it is.
CDR Bill, I'm running.
PLT Okay.
CDR Give me i0 seconds - -
PLT Okay.
CDR I've only been running about i0.
PLT Okay -
PLT MARK.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, that finishes that up.
SPT Okay, we're still looking now at about
1 unit to the left and 1 unit up on the alignment.
PLT Okay.
CDR Man, that was wormy.
CDR I'm coming back over the edge now.
SPT Okay, just a second. I had to get back in
my shoes here, Jet, so I could manage your umbilical.
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CDR All right.

SPT Come ahead if you want, though, it looks
good.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC We'd like that first frame of T025 to
be filter A-I at i/i000.
PLT When will we resume operation?
CC Yes, sir, that'll be at 17:53, that
window there.
PLT Okay, we'll do it.
SPT All right -
PLT Pick up with Alfa 2 at 4 seconds et cetera.

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CC - We'd like that first frame of T025 to

be filter AI, at i/i000.
CDR When we reseum operation?
CC Yes sir. That'll be at 17:53 that win-
dow there.
CDR Okay. We'll do it.
SPT Oh, I see - -
PLT Then we pickup with Alfa 2 at 4 seconds
et cetera.
CC And we only want the sunset part there.
After the Sun goes down about 17:58 terminate T025, you can
get it out of the way so it won't interfere with your Sun
end ops.
PLT Okay.
CDR Aah. Done.
PLT Okay.
CDR I think I got some real good pictures of
the command module with a lot of Earth going by underneath.
SPT Very good. Is there any way of checking
to see if that thing advanced film?
CDR Oh, yeah°
SPT On the readout there?
CDR Oh sure.
SPT Like to take a
CDR It's got about 65 percent left on it. I can
feel it running.
SPT Do we plan to use that?
CDR Oh yeah. We'll use as much of it as we can.
SPT Okay.
PLT All right. Let's see now. Let me get back
on my
SPT Probably be sending the DAC back in, huh?
CDR I think that's our next step. We'll wait and
see.
PLT Yeah, just a second here. Transfer DAC to the
VF.
CDR Okay.
SPT Okay. Come on friendly DAC.
PLT Attach DAC to clothesline and log. Transfer
DAC to VF, remove DAC and attach (garble) 5 handrail.
CC And Jer, after you've gotten all the required
DAC there go ahead and shoot it up. Take anything you'd like.
CDR Oh, beautiful. Okay. I thought maybe
you had some other plans later.
CC No, we thought you'd like that.
CDR That's neat.
SPT Tell you what, Jer. Why don't you save a little
for coming from this angle and we can get you working the Sun end
trees?
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CDR I think that's a good idea.

CC And in terms of what you're going to do with
that DAC, we show you've got about 19 minutes of day left.
CDR Okay.
PLT That's affirm.
PLT Okay. Tell me when you got the DAC stowed
there, Ed.
CDR No, we're going to shoot some more DAC film,
Bill.
PLT You're going to go ahead and shoot it now.
CDR Yeah, I'll leave some so that Ed can shoot
some from the FAS. But how about you? If you've got a chance,
come and stick your nose in the window right there by the FAS,
see if we can get your shinning face.
PLT (Yawn).
SPT Push your shrubbery against the glass.
CDR Oh that's it, Bill.
PLT Boy, this Sun is in my eyes is the only thing.
SPT Put on your dark glasses and look casual.
PLT Okay. Can you see me now. I have my
eyes closed.
CDR Yeah. You're beautiful.
PLT I'll look down this way.
CDR Okay. Let me get it turned on. Okay.
There you go. Wave your fingers a little bit. Beautiful.
Stick your head in a little further. Oh, Cecil B. DeMille.
That's great. Got your choppers and everything.
PLT That's right.
CDR All right. I'm going to come on over here
and pan down the busted side of the workshop. Now I'll show
them a solar panel.
SPT You got to show them the solar panel; it really
looks neat. That's a nice piece of gear.
PLT Just for planning purposes, the next
data take on T025 is about 14 minutes away.
CDR Okay.
SPT Hey, Jer, save a little. This is still
a beautiful view down here.
CDR Yeah, I will. I've got about 20 percent
left. I'll take about five more from halfway down the EVA trail
here and leave the rest for you to shoot up down there.
SPT Okay. I'll tell you this is a beautiful
view. Looking down the axis of the vehicle with the solar panel
and the Earth in the background. Hey, there's our ice island.
Hey, look at this blooming. Hey, you know that blooming leads
right over the ice islands.
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CDR Yeah, do you see South George Island around

in there anywhere?
SPT Yeah, I think I see it under clouds.
PLT Hey, you ought to get the Moon coming up, Jer,
if you can.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Yeah. Go ahead, Story.
CC Bill, we showed less TACS usage for your last
nominal H-cage than we expected. Be sure to inhibit CMG control
before doing a nominal H-cage.
PLT Let me look at my procedure here.
CC You've got message 7940 Alfa in front of you,
don't you?
CDR Okay, Ed. Wave your hand or something.
PLT That's affirmative. That's the one I've been
using. I
CDR Good
PLT - I thought I'd done it that way. I was a
little late getting it, Story. After the last T025, about 5
minutes late I think.
CDR Oh, there's 40 percent left here.
CC Okay. It's probably fine. We're just being
sure and we we used less TACS than we expected. And we're 30
seconds to LOS here. See over Tananarive in about 15 minutes at
17:56.
CDR Okay.
CDR Well, I can't think of any more good angles.
SPT Okay. There's some good one from up here.
CDR All right. So I'll send it down to you.
SPT All right, I'm going to have to get back way
down there in the bowels of this thing again. Hold on. There's
about about 30 percent of film left now.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range of the antennas aboard the tracking ship Vanguard.
Next acquisition at Tananarive in 15 minutes. Heart rates
and workloads remain very low. Ed Gibson's average heart
rate in the low 90's, with,Jerry Cart's running in the 80's
during the pass along California about 20 minutes ago, about
2 hours into the EVA. We have a correction from an earlier
announcement. The peak heart rate for Jerry Carr so far is
112 and for ED Gibson 116. These numbers were reversed
earlier. Carr and Gibson taking photographs using both the
16-millimeter data acquisition camera, a motion picture camera,
and a 35-millimeter still camera. Some of the desired
items for photography with the 35-millimeter camera include
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documenting the discoloration or shading effects on the

workshop, the twin-pole sunshade installation, the solar
panels on the workshop, D024, the clipboard with $228 and
sail material, command and service module, and other targets
of opportunity. Several of those desired photographs were
accomplished during the Vanguard pass. This EVA now 2 hours
25 minutes old, and the Skylab crew, which is now less then
5 days from splashdown, has begun the their final series
of groundtracks. Space station covers 71 separate paths
across the Earth and repeats each track. As they worked
outside the space station on this fourth and final spacewalk,
the astronauts passed along the coast of California on the
same groundtrack, number 35, that will bring them back to
Earth next Friday. Splashdown scheduled for 10:17 a.m.
central daylight time on February 8. Skylab's 11-1/2 minutes
away from acquisition at Tananarive. At 17 hours 45 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours

54 minutes Greenwich mean time. Tananarive will acquire
Skylab in about a minute and 45 seconds. We'll stand by
there.
PLT Okay and that was a 1/250th on Bravo 3
was it?
CDR Right.
PLT Okay, Bravo 4, 1/250.
SPT Do we have to change filters again?
PLT No. Bravo 4, 1/250.
SPT Okay, here it goes. OPEN, CLOSED.
PLT Bravo 4, one quarter of a second. That's
the last one.
SPT Okay, and then I'll give you an S020
temperature measurement.
PLT Okay.
SPT There's 4, okay, OPEN, CLOSED.
PLT Terminate T025.
CDR All right.
SPT Okay. Let me get a temperature measurement
here real quick.
CDR All right, I'll hold you.
SPT Thank you.
CC Okay, Skylab, we hear you completing
T025. We got you through Tananarive for 7 minutes.
CDR 99.5.
PLT Rog, 99.5.
SPT Well, that's up there.
PLT Sure is, that's higher than it was at the
end of the last orbit.
SPT Yeah, why don't you -
PLT That completes data take.
SPT Tell you what, why don't you - when you
get a chance give Story those measurements - those temperature
measurements.
PLT Okay, I got to configure for end of data
take here.
SPT Okay. That's surprising, we were we're sitting
here in the low - in the mid 80's there.
CC What temp did you have last orbit?
CDR About 84 to 85, Story.
CC Okay.
CDR Now this time, at the end of this orbit,
it's about 99.
CC Got it.
SPT We'll get one at the dayside, too, to
see whether it's just - when we're coming into day. See what -
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CDR Okay, you want to put that filter away.

SPT Okay.
PLT Okay. Story, I got some temperatures for you.
CC Go.
PLT 84.5 degree, that's 16:15.
CDR Oh, boy.
CC Okay.
PLT 85.7 at 16:25.
PLT 80.3 degrees
CDR Aaaah.
PLT - - at 17:04.
CC Okay.
PLT 99.5 degrees at 17:57.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, (garble)
SPT Want to get those things inside, before we
knock one of them?
CDR I think that's a good idea. Get T025 inside
too.
SPT Yeah.
CDR sO when we get out of the shoes and get in.
SPT Okay.
PLT And, Story, we got 22 minutes and 46
seconds on the 30 minute exposure on S020 on that pass.
CC Thanks, Bill.
PLT Okay, let me regroup here and see where
I am.
SPT Okay. Tell you where we're heading, Bill.
Just to getthe T025 completely inside.
PLT Beautiful. That's a good deal.
SPT Tell me when you are red eye (sic) sir.
CDR Okay. Story, that was a - -
SPT I don't have a wrist tether here.
CDR - - total of 40 (garble)
SPT (Garble)
CDR I'll tell you what, let's have - Why don't
you swing it around and let me get ahold of it.
SPT And then I'll unloosen it. Yes.
CDR Yes.
PLT On TO25.
SPT You got it.
CDR Nope.
CDR Now I got it.
SPT Now I'll let - here, let me pull the (garble)
right back over on this side of the latch a little bit. Okay, got
her.
CDR Sure do.
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8PT Okay. Now yourn (sic).

CC Bill, we're not getting any data of course,
through Tananarive, and you've probably already done it, but if
you haven't it might be a convenient time to INHIBIT CMG control
and get a nominal H-cage here.
PLT Already done it (garble) at this time, Story
CC Okay, Bill.
PLT I was about 5 minutes late on the last
orbit after the data take period. So I think that probably
accounts for the low TACS usage on the last nightside pass.
SPT Story, it sounds like you guys have got
that TACS figured right down to the last percent.
CC We always try.
SPT You always do it.
CDR Okay, Ed, I'm ready for 025.
SPT Okay.
CDR Don't know just exactly what I'm going
to do with it, but I'm ready.
SPT Tell you what I'll - let me just take
the wrist tether that we have on S020 off so I can tether
the 25.
CC And, once you get T025 secure in the
airlock, that might be a good time to take the long eye
relief piece off.
CDR Okay.
SPT Good idea. Let's do that, give them
the airlock there, Jer, so in case it does bound out of your
hands, you got a chance of not losing it.
CDR Yeah. Yon can kind of be like a goalie out
there, in front of the hatch.
CDR/SPT (Laughter)
CDR If it comes your way, bat it back.
SPT Okay.
PLT You're dressed like one anyway.
SPT Yeah. (Laughter)
CDR That's for sure.
SPT Okay, old friend. Hey, who put this on here
so tight?
CDR Watch your right elbow, you're leaning on the -
SPT Yes, the camera.
CDR Yeah.
SPT Boy, that guy was strong, whoever he
was.
CDR Super, Ed.
SPT There we go. There we go now.
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SPT Following 2,65

CC Skylab, we're a couple of minutes from
LOS here, the next station will be Hawaii, about 37 minutes
at 18:40.
PLT Rog, at 18:40.
SPT So long, Story.
CC So long, Ed.
SPT Story, I wish you were here, I really do.
CC So do I.
SPT It'll happen.
CC Yes sir.
SPT (Laughter) Oh, boy.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Tananarive has
loss of signal. Hawaii will acquire Skylab in 36 minutes.
EVA still going smoothly. T025 experiment has been completed
and that camera is back in the airlock. 40 frames film
shot with the T025, S020 still set up and still being operated
during the daylight side of the orbit. Jerry Carr should
shortly be going out to the Sun end of the Apollo telescope
mount to retrieve the S082 film. They are now 2 hours and
46 minutes into this EVA, which is expected to last about
4-1/2 hours. At 18 hours 5 minutes Greenwich mean time this
is Skylab Control.

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PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours

38 minutes Greenwich mean time. Hawaii is about to acquire
Skylah. We're 3 hours 19-1/2 minutes into the extravehicular
activity.
CDR Hello, Houston; CDR.
PLT 2 minutes and 20 seconds to go on 8020,
Ed.
SPT All right.
PLT How's it looking, Jet.
CDR We're getting there.
CDR (Garble) is good.
PLT (Garble) (static) except (garble) when you
can see what you're doing, that's better.
PLT Okay, EV-2 gather and remove screwdriver
from VS tray.
CDR That's done.
PLT Take four of six screws from (garble) cover
located between the SO55A aperture door, the SO82B-I apert%re
door, and the SO82B film replacement door handle. I hope that
makes sense to you.
CDR Yeah.
PLT You will be discarding the screws so don't
worry about them.
CDR Okay.
PLT You -
CDR I can get to a couple of the screws but
I need to do a little something else here. Houston, CDR.
CC Go, Jer. We got you through Hawaii for
6 minutes.
CDR Okay, Ed's got a water leak in his
system just about like the one I had. We've got all the
Sun end film taken out, and it's in the tree, and I'm
about ready to start the zero-g cover, hut we have one problem
is that the SO82 Bravo 2 door is open and that's over that
cover. I guess I'll have to unpin the door and close it
in order to get to the cover.
PLT 35 seconds, Ed.
SPT Oh, all right, hold on. I'm up - up here
working on something else.
CDR How's your water.
SPT Well, it's still spewing out occasionally,
but I've cut the flow down as far as I can and it seems to
have slowed down the leak anyway.
PLT Okay, you can turn it put it to stowage
or to number 3 anytime you want to, Ed, just give me a mark
when you do it.
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SPT Okay.
CDR Story, do I have a go do I have a
go to unpin this 082 - -
SPT MARK.
CDR - - Bravo 2 door?
CC We're working it right now, Jer.
CDR Okay.
PLT Did you give your mark, Ed?
SPT Yes, I did.
PLT Okay.
PLT Going to give me a temperature right here, Ed?
SPT No, not right now.
PLT Okay, fine.
SPT I think the beginnings on the ends are
good.
PLT Okay.
SPT I'm working the - working that other
sample.
CC Jerry, you got a go to unpin that door.
CDR Okay, I got one screw about out now. There's
a couple I'd like to get to with the door where it is.
SPT Hey, Story, the water leak I got is from
the front of my PCU. We got - When I turn the flow up we
can see water coming out and it's about a 8 - 8 or sixteenth of
an inch diameter squirt occasionally and freezes instantaneously_
and it's sporadic. Apparently the amount has cut way down
since I've gone to minimum cooling and it started about,
oh, 20 to 25 minutes ago which I noticed it. Cooling was
adequate up there at - I was at position 3. I suspect we're
losing some from the system. And I'd like to know what you
folks think about going back up to above vent cooling?
SPT Story, did you copy that?
CC Yes, sir, and from your report probably
ought to stay in min to keep the leak down low. And if you
need more cooling, although you're looking good from down
here, go to EVA high flow. And Bill might also check the
reservoir up there.
PLT Yeah, I'ii get that in just a minute. Story,
we're on exposure number 3 on S020 at 7-1/2 minutes overdue.
CC Okay, and after 3 - after you get 3, skip
4 and go to 5 on the exposures.
PLT Okay, let me take a look at that and see
what that is.
CC Yeah, 4 is the 30 minute one. Skip that
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and go to 5 which is a 4 minute one. The experiment is

heating up and we're probably going to terminate early on
it.
PLT Okay. Will do.
CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS; Vanguard in
23 minutes at 19:08. Okay now, Story, I got capability for
taking a lot more. You see I've got over 40 minutes of
daylight remaining. You want me to terminate with the number
5 exposure on SO20?
CC What's the last temperature you got?
PLT Well, let's see, my last one here was
90.5 at 18:32. It cooled off after that night side pass,
you see.
CC Okay.
PLT I see that we got nothing to lose if we go
ahead and take it on short-term exposures.
SPT It's not lengthening the EVA at all.
I'm right here.
CC No, but staying out in the Sun it could
damage the film that's all ready in there.
PLT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Hawaii has loss
of signal. Next acquisition at the Vanguard in 21 minutes.
Science Pilot Ed Gibson has a leak in the water system that
provides cooling to him during this EVA. He has gone
to minimum on that system to hold down the leak and he
was advised that - to stay in that position and that if he
starts getting too warm he can go to HIGH FLOW RATE on oxygen
which will also provide cooling for him inside the suit.
Jerry Carr recieved permission to unpin the door of S082 so
he can move that door and get to a plate that he will take
off and bring back. Amoung materials to be brought in during
todays space walk are a number of samples set outside as
part of experiments. That two pieces of material will be
brought in as extras today and both are part of the space
station itself. One of those is the plate that Jerry Carr
is now using a screwdriver to remove. That plate has been
used to block a hole in the hardware that holds the solar
telescopes. During ground testing of the telescope mount
that hole which is one of four was used to simulate the
condition of weightlessness found in space. Four rods were
incerted in the telescope mount openings during the ground
tests. That cover plate being removed by Jerry Carr is
one of the four used to block - -

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PAO These four rods were inserted in the

telescope mount openings during the ground test. The cover
plate being removed by Jerry Carr is one of the four used
to block those holes before Skylab was launched. The plate
was picked because it is assessible and it's attached by
6 crews - 6 screws. It's 5 inches in diameter and it will
be brought back for engineering studies. The plate is painted
with a protective white paint the same paint that covers the
twin pole sail material, now shielding the laboratory from
the Sun. That paint will be studied and evaluated by
engineers so improvements can be made in future space vehicles.
Also to be removed from the space station is a piece of rubberized
fabric that protects the inside of the fixed airlock shroud.
The airlock module material which shields hardware from tiny
micrometeoroids and from the Sun's rays will be cut off with
scissors by Ed Gibson. He will snip the fabric to include
material that has been in the shade as well as that exposed
to the Sun. In addition to the samples removed from the
space station itself, the crew will bring in some samples of
material that composes the solar shade over the laboratory
and several other items designed for tests of the space
environment and its effect on various items. One set of
sample plates for S149, the particle collection experiment
will be left in space until a future space crew perhaps can
retrieve them. S149 cassettes will reveal the size, shape,
and makeup of micrometeorites in the Skylab orbit, which
is about 270 miles above Earth. The extra set of cassettes
were left over from the second manned Skylab flight. They
were to have been extended on a long pole from the small
airlock on the shaded side of the laboratory, but another
piece of equipment became jammed at the end of the boom and as
a result the second Skyl'ab crew had to jettison the boom,
leaving the extra sample plates for S149. TACS gas usage
to date is 600 pound-seconds, equivalent to 120 mibs. Skylab
16 minutes away from acquisition at Tananarive, and the
EVA has been underway for 3 hours and 33 minutes. At 18 hours
52 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 19 hours
6 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about to be acquired
at the tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear through
the Vanguard for i0 minutes.
PLT Okay.
CDR Rog, Story.
SPT Okay, Story, we got the YS tree back here.
We're just getting S149 out. We've retrieved the sample
around the airlock. And moving ahead here.
CC Okay, Ed, and with respect to your leak
we recommend MIN FLOW on EVA HIGH flow. If you need
more coolant than that, go intermittently to MAX on your
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water diverter valve.

SPT Okay. I think I will up the airflow
a little bit. Stand by.
CC And Bill, did you get a reservoir reading
yet?
PLT Story, I can't tell. I was just - I went
up and looked at it, it - we definitely have used the water
and a considerable amount. I can't give you an accurate
reading, but I'd say like a - probably 20 percent full right
now. That's a guess.
CC Okay, we estimate that Jer ran, with the
leak he had, when he had the leak, about 4 hours, so it may
go a long time.
PLT Okay. I serviced it the other evening
and I knew where the bladder was and it's hard to read that
thing you know with a flashlight back in there, because the
bladder gets in the way after it expands so far. But anyway,
I know we've used water.
PLT Okay, Ed, tell me when you want me to
start reading again.
SPT Okay, I'm - I think we're squared away
I'm just hooking up 149 to the
PLT Clothesline?
PLT Clothesline. Right.
PLT Okay.
SPT Tell you Story, there's a - these
clotheslines are very simple and are easy to use, there's
no problem with the transfer but working up here in this
workstation doing a host of different things which I have
been, it sure complicates the problem. Very easy to get
tangled up.
CC Did you notice any abnormal dynamics
in the clotheslines, Ed?
SPT No, the only difference between the
water and here of course is that they oscillate a lot
higher magnitude and higher frequency but no abnormal dynamics
you can just like whipping a rope around down on the ground,
pretty much the same. Just got another dimension.
CC Okay.
CC And Jer, did you happen to repin open that
door that you had to close on to get the zero-g fixture?
CDR Yes I did, Story. It's open and latched.
CC Beautiful. Thanks a lot, Jer.
SPT Okay, Jer. Want to hook up around -
hooked up on i - one latch here and it's locked, so coming
out your way.
CDR Okay.
CC And Skylab, for your Nikon photos out
toward the Sun end, you may want to get those before putting
the S149 out.
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SPT Tell you what, you want me to send the

Nikon out along with this, Jer?
CDR Okay.
SPT Okay, let me just back her up a little
bit here. I'ii get the Nikon on here too. Good call, Story.
CDR How much daylight left us, Bill?
PLT 17 minutes.
CDR Okay, open her up to Nikon ops again
and read me what they want.
PLT Okay.
PLT (Garble) VF foot restraints. Attach Nikon
to VS clothesline and transfer camera to VT. Tether Nikon and
remove clothesline, take photos from all work stations. Use
following setting for Earth scenes or objects - 1/250, objects
in shade 1/125 document discoloration shadowing, effects,
twin poles Sun shade installation, OWS DAS, D024 clipboard
with $228 and sail material_ $230 CSM, and other targets of
opportunity.
CDR Okay.
PLT Take photos from FAS as desired. That's
it. Returning the Nikon.

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PLT - Tether Nikon and remove the clothes-

line. Take photos from all workstations. Use following
settings for Earth scenes or objects in the Sun: 1/250;
objects in the shade, 1/125; document discolarations,
shadowing effects, twin poles, Sun shade installation, OWS,
SAS_ D024 clipboard with $228, sail material, $230, CSM, and
other targets of opportunity.
CDR Okay.
PLT Take photos from FAS as desired after re-
turning the Nikon.
SPT Okay. Coming at you, Jer.
CDR All right.
SPT Nikon first.
CDR Take it nice and slow, Jer. Don't want
to get things wound around. If you'll keep it separated - -.
CDR Okay.
SPT - - I'ii do a little pulling. Story, that
sample we got for the materials people is a good one. Right
underneath F90 you got the effect of no sunlight, Very
pronounded shadowing.
CC Okay, Ed.
SPT S020 is inside, Story. We got that stowed.
LT Also, Story, the temperature of S020 at
(garble) 58 was 106.7 degrees.
SPT And that's the time at which we broght
it in.
CC Okay; that's good. 105 was the limit
that we wanted to go to in terms of damaging the film.
SPT Well, we got it just just right after that.
CC Okay. Again, another thanks.
SPT (Garble) film.
SPT What a photographer. Ralph Morris has nothing
on you.
CDR That's right, Ralph. Watch out for your
job when I get back.
CDR Ed, can you pull 149 back down out of
the way?
SPT Sure can. Hold on.
CDR That's good enough right there.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. Tanana-
rive in 15 minutes at 19:32.
CDR Okay, Story.
SPT So long, Story.
CC So long, Ed.
CDR Bill, did you load the film in this
camera this morning?
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PLT Negative.
CDR Doesn't look like it's advancing. Did
you set the counter at 65 or something?
PLT I didn't change it. You know you said
that you may use it last night and - but I haven't touched
that camera since we fixed it up yesterday afternoon.
CDR Okay.
PLT Can you see the counter on the back?
CDR Yes. It says 53. I thought it read 44
when we started out here.
CC Bill, Houston.
CDR I did too. (Garble). Need a little
(garble) to boot.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has
loss of signal. The Tananarive station will pick up Sky-
lab in 13-1/2 minutes. During the Hawaii pass the doctors
here in the Mission Control center noticed an increase in
energy output by Science Pilot Ed Gibson. Gibson's water
system is leaking slightly and he's turned it down to mini-
mum flow. Since the water flow is reduced the BTU calcu-
lations are being estimated from Gibson's heart rate. Pres-
ent his average heart rate is about 110, compared with 96
for Jerry Carr. New peaks still rather low have been reached
by both crewmen. Carr has now had a maximum of 116 and Gib-
son reach 118. The level for concern is far higher than
that. It's up about 180 beats per minute. The estimated
BTU output by Gibson was about 1560 at Hawaii, nearly 50
percent above the expected level. If the 1500 level is ex-
ceeded regularly he will be asked to slow down some. Carr's
BTU rate was about i000 BTUs an hour, about i0 percent be-
low the expected ii00 for the removal of the zero-g cover
plate. Gibson and Carr have now been into this EVA 4 hours
i/2 minutes. At 19 hours 20 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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PAO 19 hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Space station now nearing acquisition through voice relay
station on Tananarive. We'll hold the line up.
PLT I don't know about you guys but I'm
working up a big appetite standing here.
CC So are we and got you through Tananarive
for 6 minutes.
PLT Hi, Story.
CC Hi, Bill and I got something for you.
PLT Go.
CC Okay, we'd like to bring up SUS loop 2
in case you need some coolant and you find it in 1.2-10.
PLT Okay.
CC And I got three calls there with respect
to that procedure when you get there.
PLT Okay, Story, I'm looking at it.
CC Okay, change 317 to 217, 217.
PLT That's in column 2.
CC That's in the right-hand column, yeah.
PLT Okay, got it.
CC And change SUS 1 pump to SUS 2 pump.
PLT Okay.
CC And then all down that column change
primary to secondary.
PLT Let's see, oh - okay.
CC And verify that you got the jumper across
SUS 2.
PLT Yes, that's correct; we do.
CDR Bill, when you get - get a chance, tell
me which way to turn the crank.
PLT Okay. Something I'm going to have to
look it up some place, because it's not in that little
abbreviated procedure. S149.
CDR I think it's counterclockwise.
PLT Okay. That's the only way it works.
CC That's counterclockwise.
PLT Thank you, Story.
CC And Bill, have Ed stay in MIN FLOW to
minimize that leak.
SPT I am in MIN FLOW, Story.
PLT He is -
CC Okay and Bill if you sense that you've lost
all your cooling and you need cooling you can get just change
your connectors over to SUS 2 and have the two EVA crewmen
cool on HIGH FLOW EVA.
PLT Okay, and I don't think - I think we're
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fairly close, it's just going to be like, oh, maybe 45 minutes

to an hour, probably - to completion. That's just a rough
guess. I'm comfortable now and I haven't heard any complaints
from Jerry or Ed.
CDR No, I'm reasonably comfortable, I'm fine.
CC Okay, we just wanted to bring up SUS 2,
Bill so that - since you're on water cooling only.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay, the doors are opening up now. Little
lightning on the horizon.
CC Jerry, Houston.
CDR Go.
CC Was the counter on the motor drive unit
on Nikon 02 reset? And when you're taking pictures can
you see the mirror move up in front of you when you - when
you click the camera?
CDR Yeah. Yeah, I can see it, I don't know
how the counter got where it is. It must have got moved there
while we were handling and putting the tape on it because
we - there were 44 exposures left and it was looking at -
when I finally looked down at it, it 53. So - so we must
have moved the counter when we were handling it. But I can
see the thing actually taking pictures. I can feel it,
transporting film and I could see the mirror flop when it
exposed. So it's working.
CC Okay, beautiful. Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Got a couple of things here for you to
add at the very end of the EVA, and maybe you'd like to put
it on page 2.4-26.
PLT Okay, just a second I was in this SUS
loop 2 activation. Okay, say it again Story, I'm sorry I
was diverted there.
CC It's yeah, hate to bug you right now
too but I'm going to be running out of passes here, it's on
page 2.4-26.
PLT Okay, stand by i. I got it, go ahead.
CC Okay, we're interested in that the
boom when it's exposed to the Sun for a long period of time,
if we see in the thermal bending or distortions, so we're going
to run it out and after you separate in your fly around, you'll
take some photos of it. So just just prior to coming on in,
and take the center work station, that's the VC boom and run it
out to the normal operational length to the crewmen when he's
at the center work station. And when you run it out, put
the hook straight out when you run it out.
PLT Got that Story.
CC And one more thing, Jet was interested in
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bringing in a loss of comm cue cards, he said it had some

discoloration on it. If he brings that in you can stow it
in CSM R-3.
PLT CSM R-3, got it.
CDR Okay, Bill, 149's complete. It says
all the

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CC - a loss of time cue card, he said it

had some discoloration on it. If he brings that in you can
stow it in CSM R-3.
PLT CSM R-3 got it.
CDR Okay Bill, 149 is complete. It's at all of
the expanded.
PLT Okay, let me go back here and find my
place. All right, that completes that activity there now.
So, (garble) test (garble) rotate S19 (garble).
CC And we're about 30 seconds to LOS here,
see you over Hawaii in about 37 minutes at 20:15.
CDR Roger.
PLT Fasten restraints to handle. Does that
make sense to you?
SPT Yeah.
CDR Yeah, go ahead.
PLT Okay, egress VT foot restraints and
translate to $230 area.
CDR Okay, it's in work.
PLT Okay, let's see. Go back to my (garble)
(garble).
CC Bill, going over the hill. I got one
more thing for you.
PLT Roger.
CC If you get any evidence of pump cavitation
on primary SUS loop, turn that pump off.
PLT Okay, will do.
CC That's panel 202, SUS 1 LCG pump primary
to open.
PLT Okay, that's the circuit breaker you
want me to pull, all right.
CC Yeah, panel 202 SUS 1 LCG pump primary
to open.
PLT Got it. SUS 1 LC -
CC Yeah, you only want to get that if there's
any evidence of cavitation or loss of flow.
PLT Understand, and thank you very much.
That's a good call.
PAO Space station now over the hill from
Tananarive.
PLT Primary, okay now I go up and I can give
it a 30 second shot. Okay Jer, I'm sorry I left you there
for a minute. Let's see here
CDR No problem. I'm on my way back now to
get the D230.
PLT Okay.
CDR Or $230.
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PLT Okay it's 25 seconds. 30 seconds. Okay

off for another minute there.
SPT There's the old Jer.
CDR Yes, indeed. I'm right here.
PAO Space station now definitely over the hill
from Tananarive. Working less hard this pass than they did
previous during the day. Ed Gibson putting out 912 BTUs,
Commander Carr iii0, their heart rate is now down in the
90 again. Indicated that had installed the S149 particle
collector that leave about four items left for them to do
on this EVA. So far we've used 156 minimum impluse burns
or 780 pounds seconds of nitrogen gas, the estimate was
1500. So they seem to be running nominally on the TACs
only mode. Next acquisition will be 32 minutes from now,
that'll be through Hawaii. 4 hours 24 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2821/I
Time: 15:13 CDT 80:20: 13 GMT
2_3_74

PAO 20 hours 13 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Space station now nearing acquisition through Hawaii. Over
Tananarive, preceding pass the crew was told to bring up
the secondary pump on the suit umbilical system in case
water starts to run out in the suit that Ed Gibson is
wearing in his system, they can switch over to the secondary
and he won't lose coolant. We'll hold the line up for
Spacecraft Communicator Story Musgrave.
CDR Well, I'ii just leave the rest for you
Ed.
SPT Okay, just come on up in this direction
and I'ii hand it up.
CDR It's setting on 17 right now.
SPT Okay, well I'ii run her on down, it may -
it may well be exhausted but we'll take what we can.
CC Skylab, reading you loud and clear
through Hawaii for i0 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
SPT Okay, Story, I got all the samples taken
in. We're just finishing up the Nikon work and we'll be
all set to start packing it all back into the airlock.
PLT Okay, you did get a picture of the Moon,
right.
CC Beautiful Ed.
CDR Yeah, I got a picture of the Moon.
PLT Good.
CC Understand you got the boom out already.
CDR Yeah.
SPT Affirm.
PLT Roger.
CDR You better start pulling in my umbilical
Ed. Uh oh.
SPT Well, I better get down there where I
can do it. Get my young, tender, pink little bod down
in there. You know we've got a few pieces of gear hanging
around here.
CDR We sure do.
SPT Along with ropes, tethers. Hey this
SOP was not moid - made to avoid hangups. Can you see
me Jer?
CDR Yeah.
SPT Okay, what - what am I hanging up on
this hook?
CDR The clothesline.
SPT And what part of me is hanging up?
CDR Your whole backside. Now try slipping
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down. Wait a minute - wait a minute - wait a minute, you're

on the wrong side of it any way, you need to have it in
front of you when you go down.
SPT Well, heck. The darn thing wanted to cross
under my feet.
CDR Yeah. Because your umbilical is on this
side of it.
SPT Okay.
CDR If you go down that side of it you just made
a problem. Little bit further. Another - there you go -
on your left - now you're free.
SPT Okay, hey I'm with it and I see it. Now
straight forward. If someone ever told me we'd be working in
this environment 2 or 3 years ago I would have said they were
crazy, no way.
PLT Okay Ed, where are you right now?
SPT With my umbilical tangled around my feet.
(laughter)
CDR Oh dear.
(laughter)
SPT Just a minute I need a
CDR No, you're going the wrong
SPT No I need a counter whifferdill.
CDR Yeah, but that's the wrong way if you're
going to go that way. There's the right way.
PLT I lost control Story.
CC We copy, and we know what that feels like.
(laughter)
CC Both the whifferdills and the control.
(laughter)
CDR Okay, put my umbilical in monsieur and I
shall enter.
SPT Okay.
PLT Okay.
CDR Put it.
PLT I'm going to start reading, you can pay
attention if you want or not.
(laughter)
PLT Whatever turns you on. Verify clotheslines
are stowed properly and EVA area secure. So make sure you
didn't leave anything out there.
SPT Yes, we got a little bit of doing there.
CDR We got a big white blooming out here he's
trying to get in right now.
PLT Okay.
SPT Okay. Come on over, whoops. Your maybe
you should be on the other side of it. You're getting it lined
up. Okay, as you go in grab that last little fist full of
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umbilical. Wait, hold on here Jer, your SOP is getting tangled

in the clothesline.
CDR Oh, it sure is.
SPT Back out a little bit.
CDR Okay.
SPT Boy, you know, that's a trap that we've both
fallen into more than once today.
CDR Yeah, that - there's the disadvantage
right there.
SPT That's just made for it, so you're going
to have to go out further, Jer. Yeah, okay now pull yourself
over this way okay, there you go just a minute - let's see
if you can get my umbilical - Okay, go ahead. There you go -
why don't you exchange that and put your hand on your wrist
right here.
CDR All right.
SPT And I'll take a little jaunt over to the
edge there and pick up what we can and then we'll clean
this think up.
CDR Got it?
SPT I have it, thank you.
CDR Okay.

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TIME: 15:20 CDT, 80:20:20 GMT
2/3/74

SPT I have it. Thank you.

CDR Okay.
SPT Apparently, we've still got water, Story,
because I'm still putting on ice.
CDR No, I'm checking it about every 2 minutes,
Ed, by I'm putting mine to max.
CDR I'm still feeling the coolness so we're
in good shape.
SPT As long as the CDR's cool, we're in good
shape.
CDR Right.
PLT So in case you're wondering, Story, I
have not pulled that circuit breaker yet.
CC Okay, Bill and your SUS 2 is looking good.
PLT Yeah, I went ahead and put - went through
that entire procedure.
SPT This is not the easiest job, is it Jerry.
CDR No it isn't.
PLT I think you've done a phenominal amount of
work in a short period of time.
CDR I'm beginning to feel the effects too.
SPT Little hungry.
CDR Tired and hungry.
SPT Got to earn your pay, Jer.
PLT Don't have to worry about that around here.
CDR Ed, if you rotate to your left now you
won't get hung up in that clothesline.
SPT Okay, I will when I start to get ingress.
I just got to move up a little bit here just a second.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS about
23 minutes to the Vanguard at 20:47 and Ed when you get inside
could you leave your PCU and LSU connected for any malf that
we come up with to take a look at that.
SPT Okay, I certainly will, Story.
CC They're going to be minor if anything.
SPT Understand. Okay.
CDR Now, make sure you're not - you're coming in
on the wrong side of that clothesline, Ed.
SPT Yeah, I got to go back up to where I was.
CDR Okay, give it a chance - there you go.
SPT There it go, yeah I was waiting for those
dynamics.
CDR That-a-way.
SPT Yeah.
CDR Now, rotate to your left or you're going
to get your SOP caught in it.
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SPT Yeah, I just want to get that camera down

there beneath me.
CDR Further to your left. There you go, I think
that might do it.
SPT Yeah, I think so.
CDR You did it, very good.
SPT Okay, now let me get back down this way-
CDR Boy that boom sure is in the way.
SPT Yeah, it sure is, well at least the boom
you could retract or jettison. Those clotheslines sure a
disadvantage in them. Even though they are simple to work.
CDR Yeah, (garble) good contingency mode.
SPT Make this plan right.
PAO Twenty hours, 26 minutes, space station
now out of range of Hawaii. Ed Gibson and Jerry Carr
experiencing some kind of tangle up as they retrieve themselves
and their umbilical cords, trying to get back inside the
airlock module, Indicated that they had retrieved all the
samples that they were supposed to as 230magnetospheric
particle composition sample. D024 sample, principle investgator
for that sample is Carl P. Bubble, the U.S. Air Forces Material
Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. Twin pole sale samples which they
also retrieved and a meteorite cover sample. We should know
by Vanguard whether or not they're inside the airlock and the
hatch is closed. Next acquisition will be 19 minutes over
the Vanguard. 20 hours 27 minutes, Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2823/I
Time: 15:45 CDT 80:20:45 GMT
2/3/74

PAO 20 hours 45 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Space station now nearing acquisition over the Vanguard.
We expect indications that the crew will be inside, the
hatch closed, and the airlock module repressurized. They
had no problems with their umbilicals or clotheslines. They
should have been in by now. Hold the line up for CAP COMM's
call, finding out whether or not they actually are inside.
CDR Okay, I'm opening the hatch.
SPT Hold on, Jerry, we'll see how you're
doing on this umbilical-wise.
CDR Okay.
SPT Look good, go ahead.
CC Skylab, we're seeing you repress and got
you through the Vanguard for 9 minutes.
CDR/PLT Roger, Story.
CC Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC And got a little change for you here
on 3.1-3.
PLT Stand by. Go ahead.
CC Okay, in the right-hand column down there
under EV-3, panel 317, that should be SUS 1 LSU power
rather than 2 - SUS i.
PLT Okay.
CC And it's opposite to 123 there. That also
shoul be SUS i.
PLT Okay.
CC And then below there, panel 217, SUS 2
PUMP switch OFF.

PLT Okay, put that in, yeah, because I turned

that on. Okay.
CC And before you tear the comm down, I've
got one more thing for you here.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC Now, we're not going to go through any
extensive malf on the comm. We'd like to verify once more
that with the nominal configuration, we're not getting any
comm on channel A. So if ynu go back to page 1.2-15, I've
got something for you.
PLT Stand hy i.
PLT 1.2-15?
CC Yes, sir.
PLT Okay, and ready to go.
CC Okay, down here on that cutout, I
incorporated mine in my checklist in the wron B place too.
I put mine under master as desired, as opposed to putting
that cutout under master volume as desired. We're wondering
if you did the same thing and covered up something?
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PLT Okay, let me tell you how mine is con-

figured. I have intercom T/R in the middle of page master
as desired, the S-BAND TR. And then my cutout starts.
CC Okay, yeah, we made the same mistake
down here, and so could you verify that on panel 6, that the
INTERCOM is to T/R and the S-BAND is to T/R?
PLT That's affirmative. I can tell you that,
I've checked it about three times.
CC Stand by i.
SPT Where the heck did the CDR go? Oh,
there he is.
PLT That's panel 6 you're talking about.
CC That's affirm.
PLT Okay, I tell you what_ it's not going
to take you but 30 seconds, but I'm going to go up there
again.
CC Okay, and an easy way to do it is to
bring that cutout with you and see that all three panels,
6, 9, and i0 are as on your cutout there, or as panel 10
is there. Just take a look at what we've got on the cutout
for panel i0. All three panels should be the same.
PLT Okay, just stand by. I'm going to give
you a reading on it. (Garble) this thing here; it must be
done gone wrong. Okay, I'm giving you the panel 6 configura-
tion. MODE is to VOX, PAD COMM is to OFF, S-BAND is to OFF.
SPT Did you turn on the camera?
CDR No did you?
PLT There we go.
SPT I saw you up there by it and I thought
that's maybe what you were doing.
CDR I was loading it.
SPT Oh, you've changed the mag out?
CDR Yes.
SPT Oh, okay.
PLT POWER is to AUDIO.
SPT Are they 124?
PLT INTERCOM to T/R.
CDR Not that I know of. It's working.
PLT Okay, Story, the S-BAND on panel 6 was
not to T/R because - well, it's not called foron my 6 - panel
6 cutout. Now that that possibly is the problem right there.
CC Yeah, we should have been more explicit
on telling you where to paste that in. Why don't you go
S-BAND to T/R there and-go to AUDIO on back up to NORMAL
and see if we got good comm?
PLT Okay, and we're doing that. Wow_ - Okay,
how do you read now, Story.
CC Reading you loud and clear.
PLT Okay, that was the problem.
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CC Okay, that takes care of the comm, thank

you.
PLT All right. (Squeal) Oh, boy - -

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TIME: 15:52 CDT, 80:20:52 GMT
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PLT How do you read now, Story?

CC Reading you loud and clear.
PLT Okay, that was the problem.
CC Okay, that takes care of the comm, thank
you.
PLT All righty. (Squeal) Oh boy. Okay, Jerry
how do you read?
CDR Loud and clear.
PLT Okay, I'm trying to adjust this VOX so
we don't get the ice pick (?) in the air.
CDR Okay.
PLT No.
CDR Which panel was not in the S-band T/R?
PLT Panel 6.
CDR I though all three of them were.
CC And if you got any problems with the
comm you can simply go to audio backup, we'll be back where
we started.
PLT Okay. I'm going to backup now.
PLT Okay. (garble).
SPT What place took you into your (garble)?
PLT How do you read now, Jerry.
CDR Loud and clear.
PLT Okay, I read myself very, very weak.
SPT Coming in loud and clear, Bill.
PLT Okay, I have a proble m there apparently,
Jer.
CC It's probably the S-band voLume's too high,
Bill.
PLT And I just cut it down. Okay, how do you
read now, Jer.
CDR Loud and clear.
PLT (Garble)
CC Bill, you could go to panel 6, back where
we were, S-band T/R off and audio backup and we'll be back where
we were.
PLT Well - I just did that, got everything
fouled up there trying to adjust that volume.
CDR I'll tell you what why don't you just -

PLT I can't kill Vox until y'all are unsuited.

CDR Well we're out of our helmets and gloves
PLT Okay, I'm going to kill VOX, then.
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CDR Good show.

PLT What a mess. Lousy comm. (Squeal) (garble)
Oh, blast.
CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds to LOS
here, about an hour to Hawaii at 21:56. And could you give us
the time of end of EVA?
PLT Yeah, stand by Story.
CDR 20:38.
CC Say again.
PLT Do you read, Story?
CC Yeah, say again the time.
PLT 20:38.
CC Thanks.
PLT Five plus 19 total.
PAO Space station now out of range of the
Vanguard tracking antenna. The hatch is closed, the airlock
module repressurized and we've just had about 5 minutes of
audio mixup. Skylab astronauts having now concluded their
fourth spacewalk had already spent more time outside of the
space station than the other two Skylab crews combined. During
5 spacewalks and a standup workout from the command module,
the firt two crews accumulated 19-1/2 hours outside their
orbiting laboratory. The third Skylab crew having previously
spent 17 hours and 2 minutes outside their spacecraft. By the
time they closed the hatch today they had more than 22 hours
on EVA. Total EVA time today was 5 hours and 19 minutes.
Hatch closeout time was 20:38 Greenwich mean time. For
comparison, the Apollo 17 crew had a total of 23 hours and
ii minutes on EVA including 22 hours and 5 minutes on the
lunar surface. TodayVs spacewalk will bring the total time
outside the protection of the spacecraft to nearly 150 hours
for American astronauts. During Gemini 12 hours and 46 minutes
were spent on spacewalks during Apollo, 3 hours and 46 minutes
were spent on inflight EVAs and an additional 19 hours and
i0 minutes were spent on the lunar surface. All together,
American crews had 143 hours and 9 minutes of EVA up to the
beginning of this 10th EVA of Skylab's flight. Total time now
for American astronauts outside the space station or a space
station is 148 hours and 28 minutes, total EVA time for
American astronauts. Today's spacewalk should be a cause
for nostalgia. This is expected to be the last U.S. space-
walk for a long time. Probably through the 1980's. No EVA
is planned on the Apollo/Soyuz flight in 1975. Next acquisition
will be 57 minutes from now, that will be through Hawaii.
20 hours and 58 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-IV MC2825/I
Time: 16:03 CDT 80:21:03 GMT
2/3/74

PAO This is Skylab Control. Flight Director

Milt Windler has indicated that he will be ready for a
change-of-shift press briefing in 20 minutes at the Building
1 briefing room. Be approximately 4:30. Again, Flight
Director Milt Windler, in the process of handing over to
Don Puddy, has indicated that he'll be ready for a change-of-
shift press briefing approximately 20 minutes from now in
the briefing room in Building i.

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2/3/74

PAO 21 hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Flight Director Milt Windler is on his way over to the briefing
room in Building 1 right now. This afternoon's press conference
will be about i0 minutes early. Repeating, Flight Director
Milt Windler is on his way to the briefing room in Building
1 for the change-of-shift press briefing. Next acquisition
of Skylab will be 41 minutes from now through Hawaii. 21
hours 15 minutes Greenwich, we'll bring the line down, bring
you the press conference, and replay any recorded air-to-
ground after the press conference.

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SL-IV MC2827/I
TIME: 16:54 CDT, 80:21:54 GMT
2/3/74

PAO Twenty-one hours 54 minutes Greenwich

mean time. Space station now nearing acquisition through
Hawaii. The crew should be in the process of stowing their
EVA suits and umbilical right now. Hold the line up for
Spacecraft Communicator Bob Crippin. The changeover is
complete here in Mission Control with Flight Director
Don Puddy.
CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We're AOS
Hawaii, have you for about 4 minutes.
PLT Roger, Crip.
SPT Good afternoon_ Crip how are you.
CC Afternoon, you guys put in a hard day's
work today.
SPT We enjoyed it.
CC That's good_ sounded like fun, I was
over here listening to the la£ter portion of it. Couple
of items since this is a kind of a short pass and I'm not
really sure where you're getting things all squared away.
I believe Bill is going to be doing the securing of the ATM-
C&D and I've got a couple of items l'd like to note for him if
he's got the - got that checklist handy. That's in the ATM
Experiment checklist and data book.
PLT I'm in the wardroom but go ahead and give
me the -
CC Okay, I - I can tell them to you, you
don't need it handy. All it is that we - the roll that we
want to go to for final closeout is 10,800, okay.
PLT Roger.
CC Okay, and the other item is when you get down
working with the X-ray spec, it has you go the filter i and
we would like you to go ahead and take the tape off of that
filter select switch and try it just to find out whether we
had a mechanical problem or an electronic problem strictly
from an engineering standpoint.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay, and that's the only two items I have.
And I copy Jerry has already got the command module all
secured. You guys have been hussling since the last pass.
CDR Yeah, we're trying to get things picked
up around here.
CC Very good.
CDR Hey Crip, we got a change on the EVA
cue cards that indicates that the SPT ought to be taking the
EVA bracket off the S020, we're not bringing that thing back
are we?
CC Don't believe so, let me verify that.
CDR Okay, I don't see any sense in taking the
bracket off then.
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CC Yeah, we'll check into it and get right

back with you.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, Skylab, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS, next station contact is through the Vanguard in
26 minutes, that's 22:25, 22:25 we'll be doing a data/voice
recorder dump and that was a good call, there's no need to
take the bracket off, Jer.
CDR Okay, thanks.
PAO Skylab over the hill from Hawaii.
Twenty-two hours i minute Greenwich mean time. The crew is
moving right along with the post EVA. They've got most of
the systems hooked back up to normal configuration. Ventilation
system is all squared away. After they get through with
the post EVA, they'll be eating dinner, all three of them
together. And then there'll be another hour of post EVA
work, where'll they'll be putting cameras - stowing cameras.
Next acquisition will be 22 minutes from now. That'll be
through the Vanguard. 22 hours i minutes, Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2828/I
Time: 17:23 CDT 80:22:23 GMT
2/3/74

PAO 22 hours 23 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Space station now nearing acquisition over the Vanguard
tracking ship. Very shortly, less than 5 minutes from now
Pilot Bill Pogue should be through with his post EVA work
and has two hour for physical training and personal hygiene.
Science Pilot Ed Gibson is due to stow the S020 and T025
instruments after their use, the final use of the instruments.
And Commander Carr is set to regroup, a term which allows him
to set back and reconfigure and find out what they can do in
the amount of time they've got available. Acquisition now
about i0 seconds away, we'll await the call up.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through the
Vanguard for I0 minutes and we'll be doing the data/voice
recorder dump here.
SPT Hello Crip.
CC Howdy. For your information we're going
to be taking PCG-6 off the - off the line at this time to
see if we can get it back in syne with the (garble) intergrater.
Also the pump Charlie is going to be turned off in the
primary loop - primary coolant loop.
SPT Roger.
CDR Hey Crip, what do you folks got in mine
for troubleshooting on this PCU?
CC I'm being handed a mission note right now
regarding it.
CDR Okay, I'm all ready to put it away so let
us know what you you want to do.
CC Okay, we still want to leave the LSU
connected connected to PCU-10. What we'd like you to do is
to go ahead and restow the LSU and the sphere and temporarily
secure the PCU in the airlock module lock there.
CDR Okay.
CC That'll give us time to - to look at it
over night if it won't be in your road there, and consider
what we want to do about it.
CDR Good enough.
CC Jer, while l've got you here, we're showing
that logic BUS i up in the command module is still powered,
we can't see 2 and 3. Do you have time to go up there now
and check some switches for us sir?
CDR Sure.
CC Okay, if you'd do that, when you get up
there I can tell you which ones we want to check.
CDR Okay Crip, those - those breakers were
not pulled.
CC Okay, that looks good. While - while
we've got you there could I get you over on on panel 3
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to verify for us that the S band antenna switch is in

remote.
CDR That was in Delta, itts in remote now.
CC Okay, that's fine. And also I'm assuming
that Bill reconfigured over on panel 6 and he's got his audio
control back in normal now instead of backup.
CDR Okay, it's in normal.
CC Okay, that - that's all the chasing we
had to do. Thank you very much.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CDR Crip, what's the next Charlie X-ray
magazine for the Nikon that's available?
CC Let me check that for you.
CDR Okay, Bill went ahead and loaded 56
Crip, is that okay?
CC 56 is fine.
CDR Okay, and if one of our other cameras
like Nikon 04 or so is available we'd like to load it up
with Charlie X-ray too. So we'll need a number for that.
CC Okay, you can use CX54 for that one.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC And Jer, just so we'll feel confortable
here on the ground can you verify for us when you went and
opened those breakers that the - you did have the 6 logic
BUS 2 and 3 circuit breakers closed. Sorry to ask you
about it after you left. 2/3, pardon me.
CDR 6 logic breakers 2 - those two breakers
closed?
CC No, it's - it's one breaker, it's the
SCS logic BUS 2/3 should be closed.
CDR Yeah, I just pulled the first three
and the fourth one was left closed.
CC That's where we wanted to make sure we
were. Thank you very much.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, we're about i minute from LOS,
Next station contact in 4 minutes through Ascension at
22:39, 22:39. And we're assuming that Bill has not gotten
around to the condensate system yet, we haven't seen that.
PLT Crip, the condensate hose has been
reconnected, however l'm just pressing on to the checklist,
I'm not sure if thatls what you meant.
CC Okay, copy that. I don't believe that's
got it all yet, but believe you'll pick it up later. We'll
check with you next station.
PLT Okay.
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PAO Skylab less than 3 minutes away from

reacquisition through Ascension. The crew is pressing on
with reconfiguring the space station for it's normal
operation. Vent system has been reconnected, the condensate -
condensate system has not been fully normal however. We'll
hold the line up as acquisition is now about 2-1/2 minutes
away.

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SL-IV MC2829/I
TIME: 17:36 CDT, 80:22:36 GMT
2/3/74

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC You were too fast for me Jer, we're
with you for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, another one - The piece of meteorite
blanket we brought in today is too big to go into the
contingency fecal bag, what do you say we just roll it up
with the exposed part on the inside and tape it.
CC Let me get that one checked for you.
Jer, while I'm trying to get that question answered, I've
got a couple of EVA types hanging around in here today that
would like to get some other questions answered, if you've
got a moment to do it.
CDR Okay.
CC This one's not really an EVA, but it
was something we were doing yesterday when we were running
out and checking out the command module. You remember we told
you that we had an indication of a thrust on light down
here we had one that we had not expected and I guess Dick
talked to you about it last night and I know some of these
questions that I'm going to ask you are redundant to what we've
already gone over, but would like to just cover them in order
here so that we make sure that we've covered all items.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, number one, were there any
irregularities experienced with setting the Delta-V counter
or with the EMS function switch at the time that you were
doing the Delta - Delta-V test.
CDR Negative, Crip, none at all.
CC Okay. Were the EMS breakers possibly
cycled?
CDR Negative, I didn't cycle them.
CC Okay. And prior to performing the Delta-V
set could you have selected Delta-V test momentarily, which
was one detent away.
CDR I think I did, I think I remember doing
that.
CC That could answer it for us. That makes
a lot of guys feel
CDR Yeah.
CC That makes a lot of more guys feel comfortable
down here.
CDR Yeah, that's it, I remember doing it.
CC Okay, real fine. Appreciate that set
of answers. By the way, is it - Bill told me awhile ago that
he had - had hooked it up that condensate hose and I was
mistaken. That really should have been the end of what he had
to do with that system. Is anybody could get a Delta P reading
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for us on panel 216?

CDR Okay, Bill's on his way up. I don't
know if you guys were up on the loop when I was having
trouble with the S082B door but we almost didn't get that
rascal opened today.
CC Yeah, we heard about that problem, and
glad glad you managed to get out of the road. We - there
was a little bit of confusion about that down here, we
copied that that should have been the XUV or the 82B XUV
MON door that was really causing you the problem. Which
are both located out - right in the same proximity.
CDR No this was the big XUV or the S082B
door that the film was under and I couldn't get the door
open.
CC Ah-ha. The 82B door would not open so
that you couldn't open the door to get access to the film,
is that right.
CDR That's right and this was during that
night pass and I tugged and struggled with it and couldn't
get it and was feeling pretty bad and we decided to wait
until sunrise and see if it would warp the door a little bit
and that must have helped some and then we also had Bill
roll the door around so that it was right in front of me.
And I could get a better purchase on and we managed to get
it open. I'd stick my hand down through the aperture and
grab hold of the inside of the door and pull it out.
CC Okay, but that was a different problem
than where you had to - didn't you have to unpin one of the
doors today to get that ramp off?
CDR Yeah, that's right I had to pin that little
door.
CC Okay that was the module
CDR (garble) 2 door.
CC Okay, that - that was two things we
understand. Okay, I'm with you back - now. One - on your
question regarding meteoroid blanket, we are GO for you to
go ahead and roll it up and tape it, that sounds like a
good procedure.
CDR Okay, and that's the other one will be
done the same way. The one we got last EVA.
CC Okay, fine.
PLT Hey, Crip, would you say again that
panel number - was that 216?
CC Yes sir.
PLT Okay, what was the selection that you
wanted.
CC Just wanted to get what the Delta-P was
on the condensate - on the condensate reading?
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PLT Delta-P is reading zero and again I'm

not quite sure what is relevant to the question you asked
previously about the condensate system but I did not turn
on
CC Yeah.
PLT The - you will notice that on page 3.1-6,
you have a qualifying note regarding the MOL SIEVE heat ex-
changer out temp - it is not - if it is less than 46 you de-
lay the next two steps and it is less than 46 so that 203 CIRC
FANS and the heat exchanger FANS are not on.
CC Okay, copy that.
PLT And l'm going to go back and check OWS FANS
again.
CC Okay, our problem on the condensate system
is I guess is different from those two points, Bill. It
looks like we might have got gas in the system because we had
thought we would reestablish Delta-P when you connected
those lines up. Which means we may have to dump it.
PLT Okay, I think I understand what you're
saying now.

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Time: 17:44 CDT 80:22:44 GMT
2/3/74

CC Is the SPT handy to talk a little about

that leak that he was running into today? On his PCU?
SPT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay, we'd just like to make sure that we
understand what the situation was. Can you tell us where
the leak was located on the composit connector? That is,
was it top, bottom, left, or right? Could you identify that?
SPT Crip, it was either the front or the top.
I saw a - evidence of it in the top. What I essentially
saw was periodically, something about the size of spaghetti, l
guess, is the best in - the best way to describe it, would come
off in three or four different directions, mostly going away
from the PCU in the front. And break into small chips
and small chips would also be coming off at the same time.
Apparently, the ice was just breaking loose, and I'm not
sure what pressure was causing it to break loose. I did
not - I saw some ice around the top, which was at the hinge of
the connector lock, that is you put the PCU (garble) connector
on, and swing the hinge over, and then locked it. The hinge
itself at the base. Then I was able to see at that hinge
hase the a fair amount of ice buildup which was a greenich
water like greenish ice. So all l was able to see is it
come out the front. I, of course, was in the suit and was not
able to lean forward and see where it was coming from, but
I just saw the ice on the top and saw it come out the front.
CC Okay, fine, I - I guess we can assume
that the LSU restrain hooks was mated to the PCU?
SPT That's affirm.
CC Okay, a couple other questions. Was the
leak related to a change in the in the water diverter valve
position. That is, was the - was the valve position changed
just prior to noting the leak?
SPT Let me tell you one thing, Crip, before
we go on to that question. When l was struggling around there,
in the FAS area, that lock did get pushed opened as my PCU
brushed across one of the clotheslines. Something that really
concerned me at the time. Now the - as far as I know, the PCU
connector did not move out at all, and the lever did not
swing over. In other words, the arm - the only thing that
came off was the lock and not the arm itself, which allows
you to pull the connector out. Whether there's enough pressure
there with that lock off to to open it partially in order
to get a leak, I'm not sure. That might be a possibility.
CC Okay, we'll - we'll think about that one.
Do you have any thoughts about the leak possibly being re-
lated to a the change in your diverter valve?
SPT Diverter valve? Do you mean on the suit,
the diverter valve was always vertical. Do you mean the
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CC I mean the water. When you were selecting

the different position on the cooling. I tell you, I'm going -
SPT Cooling select.
CC Yeah, why don't you check -
SPT Say again.
CC I'm just about going LOS. Why don't you
think about that one for a while, and you can give if you
have any comments on it, you can give it to us later. We're
going to have you at Guam at 23:24, about 37 minutes away.
SPT Okay, in 15 seconds, Crip, I did go
to MAX cooling once after I was working real hard. And
sometime after that, the leak showed up. Now I was at MAX
cooling for a very short period of time though.
CC Okay, prec - appreciate those comments.
CC A - for Bill, we do indicate that the
MOL SIEVE heat exchanger out temperature is greater than
46 degrees, and you've got to turn on those fans -circ
fans and heat exchanger fans.
PLT Thanks a lot, Crip.
PAO Space station now out of range of
Ascension. Next acquisition will be through Guam, that'll
be 35 minutes from now. Lot of conversation between Bob
Crippen and Ed Gibson on the pressure connecting unit of
the space suit that he was wearing. We're going to try and
cut that off of the umbilical and bring it back to see what
it was which caused the leak. Ed Gibson indicating that
during one of the movements up there, he brushed against his
clothesline and the lock assembly unlocked, but the PCU
did not disconnect from the suit itself. He says he was
quite worried about that. 22 hours 49 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-IV MC2831/I
TIME: 18:23 CDT, 80:23:23 GMT
2/3/74

PAO Twenty-three hours 23 minutes Greenwich

mean time. Space station Skylab now approaching acquisition
through tracking antenna on Guam. We'll hold the line up
for Spacecraft Communicator Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Guam, 6-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Crip.
CC Say Bill, we're fairly confident that we
have lost the Delta-P on the condensate system. You can
verify it for sure by using the CAUTION and WARNING condensate
Delta-P switch enabling it to see if you do get a C&W which
is another transducer. And if that does verify it, I guess
we'd like you to - somebody to do us a housekeeping 60 Bravo
sometime tonight at your convenience.
PLT Roger, Housekeeping 60 Bravo.
CC Roger.
PLT And you're probably right, I'ii check
that out in a few minutes.
CC CDR, Houston, Jerry if you got a chance
we would appreciate getting an update where you are in your
post-EVA. Scott really wants to go home.
CDR Okay, Bill's pretty much done, Ed's about
what, halfway through putting away the samples and things. And
I've got LSUs put away and the one PCU is still atsAched onto
the LSU and I've started zipping up the suits for drying. And
we've knocked off now and are having our dinner.
CC Okay, fine. I imagine that a little bit
of food would probably taste good after all that hard work.
CDR It's been a long time.
CC Yeah, uses up a lot of energy there.
CDR I think things are pretty well under
control here if those folks want to knock off I don't see any
reason why they shouldn't.
CC Oh, I was just joshing with you.
CC Skylab, Houston we are i minute from LOS,
next station contact in 32 minutes through Vanguard at 00:01.
PLT Roger, Crip.
PAO Twenty-three hours 32 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Loss of signal through Guam. We have some
additional data on the leaking spacesuit of Science Pilot
Ed Gibson. The life support umbilical as it leaves the
air!oek module ends in what's called a composite disconnect
vice. This is a four way unit which provides oxygen input,
water input, water output, plugs and an electrical connector.
This mates to the front of the presuure control unit which is
around the midsection of the astronaut. And from there the
oxygen is metered and in the event the oxygen supply would
be cut off from the life support umbilical, the pressure
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2/3/74

control unit would automatically switch over to the

secondary oxygen pack which would provide up to 30 minutes
of oxygen for the astronaut. During Ed Gibson's EVA, he
mentioned that he had noticed that the lock on the composite
disconnect unit had come undone. It takes 30 pounds of
pressure to pull the composite disconnect off the pressure
control unit. It's held in place with a cam operated lock
which itself is locked. And apparently the lock on the lock had
come undone_ leaving Ed Gibson 30 pounds away from being
disconnected from his umbilical cord. The leak was according
to Ed Gibson off the top of the composite disconnect that's
the water return line and according to indications here in
Mission Control it might be an O-ring seal that was flexed
as no longer maintaining a continuous seal between the
input and the pressure control unit. We're going to take
the composite disconnect device and cut it from the umbilical
about 2 inches into the umbilical cord and bring the device
back so that they can examine the water return line to see
if it was in fact an O-ring seal. Next acquisition will
be 27 minutes from now, that'll be through the Vanguard
tracking ship. 23 hours 34 minutes, this is Skylab Control

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SL-IV MC2832/I
TIME: 19:00 CDT, 81:00:00 GMT
2/3/74

PAO Greenwich mean time. Space station Skylab

now almost acquired by the Vanguard tracking ship less than
a minute away. Ed Gibson should be returning to stowage.
He was breaking to eat dinner with the other two crewmen
earlier and Bill Pogue was in the process of putting the
suits up and attaching the blowers so they can dry themselves
out, he should be on his way now to finishing that. He's
scheduled at this time to be taking pictures of the comet.
Apparently they were behind the time in getting everything
stowed away. We'll hold the line up now for CAP COMM Bob
Crippen, call up to the crew over the Vanguard.
CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for
about ii minutes.
PLT Roger, Crip and I ENABLED the CONDENSATE
DELTA-P CAUTION and WARNING and you were right it did trigger.
CC Okay, fine and think yon can squeeze in
that housekeeping 60 Bravo sometime for us tonight?
PLT Roger, it's in work now, Jerry's doing it.
CC Okay, fine incidentally your phone call
is going to be coming up here at Canary at about 00:24 and
that's about 21 minutes away and it'll be ANTENNA RIGHT.
PLT Roger, and I'm just getting ready to do
a 233 and I either misled - mislaid the pad or didn't get one,
can you give me the times that are relevant to the $233.
CC Rog, the sunset time is 00:i0, start time
is 00:ii, want two frames both 120 seconds. One at infinity,
the first one is infinity the next one at 15 feet.
PLT Roger_ thank you.
SPT Hello Crip, I got a question for you on
the sail sample.
CC Shoot, Ed.
SPT We don't have fegal bags large enough to
fit the sail sample in, what I'm propose to do is to use
the cardboard we have here and tape up all sides of it to
bring it back. And I'm wondering what the folks down there
think. Also enclose the EVA comm loss card as well as the
twinpole sample.
CC Okay, stand by on that let me make sure
that's okay.
SPT Thank you. Crip, another question, I
was always under the impression we were going to bring DO24
back in the container which we brought it in from the outside
but it says to put that also in contingency fecal bags. Do
they really want that done or do they want it left in the
container it's in?
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TIME: 19:00 CDT, 81:00:00 GMT
2/3/74

CC 1'11 check that one for you, Ed.

CDR Crip, we just started the holding tank
dump.
CC Okay, Jerry thank you. SPT, Houston
Ed in regard to your first question, actually about your
second one there, you are correct about D024, that is
suppose to remain in the container that you bought it in
from outside in; I - it's a little bit bad wording there the
way they put it in your checklist change. It is not suppose
to be placed in the contingency fecal bag.
SPT Thank you, Crip that's what I thought
but the words led me otherwise.
CC Roger.
SPT How about the other samples?
CC We're still checking that one.
SPT Okay, I think I can tape them up so it's
pretty much almost water tight.
CC Skylab, Houston looks like we're going
to lose comma little bit earlier here. Ascension at 00:15
and that's about 7 minutes away and try to have your answers
there, Ed.
CDR Say, Crip, I could use a couple of (garble)
JOP Summary Sheets and make this thing completely water tight
- air tight?
CC Air tight?
SPT Close to air tight.
CC That's like pretty good.
SPT (garble) under the fecal bag.
CC Roger. You got a GO, Ed. Use your good
judgment.
SPT For the fecal bag?
CC Wrap it however you think best.
SPT (Chuckle) thank you Crip.
PAO Loss of signal through Vanguard. Two
minutes away from reacquisition through Ascension, we'll
hold the line up. 13 minutes Greenwich mean time.

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SL-IV MC2833/I
Time: 19:13 CDT, 81:00:13 GMT
2/3/74

CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Ascension.

We have you for 7-1/2 minutes.
SPT Crip, one more question.
CC Go.
SPT It also says to stow the clipboard, which
we used to hold the 228 and other sample. That clipboard
has got all kinds of de - deposits on it. Some of it's been
shielded by the samples and some of it hasn't. I'm wondering
whether the people back there would like to see that also.
Itts flat and we can put it right in A5, right along with
everything else.
CC I'll tell you what. In bringing back
any new items that we currently don't have down, we've got
to run that through the CCB back here, Ed_ so could you stick
it someplace and take us take it in - under consideration.
SPT Okay, will do. One interesting thing is
that there's a - a couple of drill holes or I should say
just the very start of drill holes, part where the material's
been polished. And no buildup collected there whereas it did
everywhere else where the surface was a little rougher.
That was kind of interesting, I don't know whether that's
obvious to the people back there or not.
CC Ed, could you give us a couple of more
words on what kind of deposits you're talking about on it.
Like a powder or something?
SPT No, it's just a standard dark brown
buildup which accumulates. We see it all over the vehicle.
The - For example, the plug which we brought in is now -
which was originally white is now a brown. We see a little
buildup of this stuff on the command module windows; we've
seen it all over.
CC Okay, fine; thank you.
SPT From the pictures you'll see when we bring
them back, there's just - no part of the vehicle really es-
capes. At the MDA which use to be whight as - now various
shades of brown all over.
CC Roger.
SPT And also it's on the window so it's not
strictly a sunlight effect but where the sunlight does not
hit it, it tends to be a lighter brown, and that's where
it's shaded and that'll be evident by some of the materials
we bring back which have been shaded and other parts which
have not.
CC Okay. Skylab, Houston we're 1 minute
from LOS, going to drop out here for a couple of minutes
and we'll have you again through Canary in about 2 minutes.
We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there, that's
also set up for Bill's phone call, the ANTENNA RIGHT.
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CC Okay, we're back with you once more

through Canary and we got you for 9-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through Canary
for 8-1/2 minutes and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump here.
PLT Roger, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston. Wetre about 20 seconds
from LOS. Next station contact is through Guam in 26 minutes,
that's 00 - might as well, at 01:00 and we have that set
up for the medical conference. I understand Bill has been
having some problems on his private phone call so we'll
reset that up again and reschedule it for about 02:00,
when we come around through Canary again if thatts satisfactory.
SPT Okay, Crip, I'ii tell him. Thank you.
PAO Thirty-six minutes Greenwich mean time.
Space station now out of range of the tracking antenna at
Madrid. Next acquisition will be 23 minutes from now,
that'll be through Guam and that'll be the evening medical
conference. Thirty-six minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2834/I
TIME: 20:03 CDT, 81:01:03 GMT
2/3/74

CC One hour 3 minutes Greenwich mean time,

space station is now 1/3 of the way through its pass over
Guam. This is the evening medical conference. We'll bring
the line up now as we expect some communication from CAP COMM
Bob Crippen.
SPT Hello, Crip.
CC Hello, hello, we still got you for about
3 minutes.
SPT Can't find $230 container and what does
it look like?
CC Okay, we'll check that for you. Incidentally
if you guys have a chance to take a look at your teleprinter
messages to sort of review them and make sure they were
coming up okay, we would appreciate it. We had a little
RFI problem earlier and may have caused some lines to drop
out or something.
SPT Real quick look, Crip says they all look
pretty good.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Okay, Ed it should be a bag about i0 inches
by 2 feet and it should be either in 416 or 591, correction
551.
SPT 551's the freezer and I've looked at 416
and it's not there, I also looked in the freezer, can't find
it either place.
CC Okay, we'll try to run it down for you.
SPT Could be a bag that's folded up very
tightly, if so it may be in 416, I'ii have to dig everything
out of there.
CC Yeah, it would probably be rolled up
pretty tightly.
SPT All right, let me just tear into that
locker.
CC Okay, we're i minute from LOS, next
station contact is through the Vanguard in 31 minutes at
01:40 and we'll try to get an answer to the bag question
there.
PAO One hour, i0 minutes Skylab Control.
Space station now over the hill from Guam. We'll bring you
Flight Surgeon Chucl_ Ross's medical report when we get it.
Next acquisition will be 29 minutes from now and that'll
be through the Vanguard. One hour i0 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2836/I
TIME: 20:45 CDT, 81:01:45 GMT
2/3/74

CDR - - T, socks, shirts and shorts; PLT, none.

Food log: CDR, 3.5 salt, minus two coffee with sugar, plus
2.0 water; SPT,I.5 salt, plus a lemonade, plus lemon pudding,
plus strawberries, zero rehydration water; PLT, zero salt,
plus one crispy bar, zero rehydration water. Flight Plan
deviation: none. Shopping list accomplishment: none.
Inoperable equipment: Mark I return spring broke again.
Looks like wetre going to have to give up on that one.
Unscheduled stowage: none.
CC Okay, we copy that, Jer and the bag you
found was the correct one. How we got 63, we don't know but
you're go to go ahead and stow 230 in that.
CDR Hey, beautiful, thank you.
CC Okay. One little item for Bill, I see
he did it so good the first time that we got him scheduled
to do light flashes again. And on his details the time that
we specified was the time that the thing is suppose to
actual begin so you might want to take in - put a little
mark down there that - that hetll need to start prepping for
it a few minutes early.
CDR Hey, the other two guys on this crew
protest.
CC Oh no, he's done - demonstrated proficency
at it.
CDR Yeah, how come he gets all the good deals
though.
CC Well, if you get one you get them all
I guess. (Laughter) He's the only one trained, that's what I
hear.
CDR Oh, I see, okay.
PLT Jerry keeps hitting me on the head, that's
how come I see all the flashes.
CC CDR, Houston regarding extra film for the
DAC, we don't have any available right now and there may be
some after you do 479 and we'll let you know about that then.
One other little item here, it'll make the EGIL feel good if
we can get somebody to check on panel 200 for circuit breaker
for 02 N2 gas fill primary and second, both of them closed.
That - That's just to verify.
PLT We'll check, Crip, I'm almost positive I
closed them though.
CC Rog. We thought so, it's just - we need
those close in case we needed to do any commanding tonight.
CC We're about 20 seconds from LOS and you
guys, we're going to have you again at Canary at about 02:00
but I won't call you there unless you want us with a i0000 enter,
i0000 do not enter. And one item you can go ahead and terminate
that Delta-F dump if you want to go ahead and secure for the
evening; that's good enough.
SL-IV MC-2835/2
Time: 20:39 CDT 81:01:39 GMT
2/3/74

Charlie X-ray 48, empty; Nikon: Nikon 01, Charlie X-ray

57, count is 66; Nikon 02, Bravo, Echo 16, count is 03;
Nikon 03, Charlie India 116, count is 32; Nikon 04, Charlie
X-ray 54, count is 01; Nikon 05, Bravo Hotel 06, count is
50; Hasselblad, Charlie X-ray 45, count is 22; and the ETC
EREP, no change; drawer A configuration, Alfa i, 2 and 3
no change; Alfa 4, transporter 07. Supplies been stowed,
takeup is now Charlie India 129. BACK, transporter 08,
Charlie India 65, 61 percent, Charlie India 81.
CC Okay, we copy.
CDR And Crip I got a question. And that is
since Charlie India 129 has now been used up and a little
bit of it was used for 151, is there any other DAC film
available for documentary photos if we cook any more up?
CC We'll check that one out for you Jet.
CDR Okay, you might just have them put it
on the film thread pad. Indicate what DAC - what film
would be available for any more documentary work. Okay,
evening status. Sleep: CDR, 6.5, 6.0 heavy, 0.5 light;
SPT, 7,0, 5.0 heavy, 2.0 light; PLT, 6.0, 4.0 heavy, 2.0
light. Volumes: N/A. Water gun: 8983; 5036; 2139.
Body mass: 6.314, 6.312, 6.310; 6.387, 6.394, 6.390;
6.265, 6.264, 6.268. Exercise: none for anyone.
Medications: CDR, 2 Sudafed as directed; SPT, Afrin 1
time; PLT, 1 Actifed as directed. Clothing: CDR, none;
SPT, socks, shirts and shorts; PLT, none. Food log: CDR,
3.5 salt, minus 2 coffee with sugar, plus 2.0 water; SPT,
1.5 salt, -

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SL-IV MC-2835/I
Time: 20:39 CDT 81:01:39 GMT
213174

PAO 1 hour and 39 minutes Greenwich mean

time. This is Skylab Control. Crew is in their presleep
period now and we're approaching acquisition through the
Vanguard tracking ship. This will be the evening status
report and it'll also be the good night call up to the
crew. Hold the line up now for CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through the
Vanguard for 8 minutes.
SPT Hello Crip.
CC Hello.
SPT No joy on $230 container.
CC Okay, I was afraid of that. What - what
it was, we had two of the 230 return bags stowed in the lid
of 416, they were kind of wrapped up. AnH one of them was
used last mission to bring back a set of samples and there
should have been another one stowed in there. And we have
been unable to find out where they might have moved that
particular bag. Can you - can you temporarily stow the
thing tonight to see if we can come up with something?
SPT Yeah, we sure can. Do they want it in
the freezer?
CC That's affirm. We'd appreciate it if
you could stick it in there for us.
CDR Hey Crip.
CC Yes sir.
CDR We found a in the S063 locker we found
a pouch assembly part number SEC39108467-301 and itts about
10 by 20. You might ask if that's the one.
CC Okay, were those initial letters SEC -
Sierra, Easy, Charlie?
CDR Right, and the serial number of the
pouch is I001.
CC Okay, we'll run that one down for you
also Jer.
CDR But, this is around i0 by 20, this might
be it, but it doesn't say anything about 230 on it.
CC Okay, fine. Also Jer for you. I don't
know whether you got it worked up or not but if you have
the evening stat here and want to go ahead and get it out
of the road we'd be glad to take it.
CDR Okay fine. Bill's got the photo long
ready to go.
PLT Okay Crip. 16-millimeter, Ml51/Delta
Papa 24, and that subject of both of those are the EVA
prep, transporter 07. Supply, Charlie India 129, none
remaining, Charlie India 78. MI51 EVA post, Charlie India
65, 61 percent, Charlie India 81. EVA documentary photos,
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CDR Okay, Crip, I still say the flight planner's

a fink.
CC Roger, FAOs are like that.
PAO One hour 48 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Space station now over the hill from Vanguard. Next acquisition
will be i0 minutes from now, that'll be Canary but the crew
if they want anything from the ground will call down, we
won't call up. I have the medical report from Dr. Charles Ross
now which I'ii read. "The commander and science pilot of
Skylab III performed a highly successful EVA today. Both
crew members felt tired and also had sore stiff fingers from
their gloves. The problem of nasal congestion noted in the
commander has almost completely resolved. The skin problem
observed earlier by the science pilot is no longer present.
All three crewmen are in excellent spirits." Greenwich mean
time i hour 49 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2837/I
Time: 20:59 CDT 81:01:59 GMT
2/3/74

PAO I hours 59 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Space station Skylab now nearing acquisition through Canary
Island, for a pass over Canary Island and Madrid. We'll
leave the line up through Madrid in the event that the crew
has anything to say to CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
SPT Hello, Crip.
CC Oh, Edward, I wasn't going to call you.
SPT Well, I thought l'd give you a call
because I can't find the S052 return container.
CC Okay, we need to keep stowage busy to-
night anyhow.
SPT None 157 and we've looked other
lockers around the MDA and I can't find it. I don't recall
seeing a - a second one around here, we used the first one
after the fa - first film retrieval.
CC Rog. See if I can get you a quick
answer for that.
CC Okay, Ed, did you try M157?
SPT Oh, yeah, sure did_ Crip, that's the
first thing that was called out.
CC Yeah, that's what I thought, okay.
SPT Hey, Crip, are they set up? Is Bill
set up for a call here?
CC Okay, there was some confusion about
really whether you wanted to do the call or not. Would you
like to have the phone call? I'm afraid it may not be set
up at your home right now. Tell you what, why don't we
try to get two of them in tomorrow night. Maybe I can find
another spot for you.
SPT Okay, Crip, let's do it that way.
CC Okay.
SPT Crip, if we can't find that bag, why
don't I just go ahead and treat the 52 in the same way as we're
doing 56 and H-alpha. That's a strip of the 2 inch tape
over it, and then we!ll s_ow it in an appropriate location
in the command module.
CC Okay, wetll buy that for now. We're
still looking. We've got about 9 more minutes here, we'll
try to come up with something.
CC Skylab, sorry we've been totally un-
successful in trying to - to help you out. If - if it's
not apparently stowed where we think it is, and I guess the
best you can do is go ahead and - with your suggestion, Ed
and we - if we get any better ideas, we'll - we'll tell
you about them tomorrow. Next station contact, if you need
us, ig soing to be Honeysuckle at 02:47, and that's about
24 minutes away.
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CDR Okay, Crip, we'll conduct a pretty

thorough search. If we don't find it, we'll tell you we'll
just leave it taped and pack it that way.
CC Okay. And we assume you guys are secur-
ring the CONDENSATE system on a dump.
SPT Yeah, I'ii do that before I go to bed.
CC Okay.
PAO 2 hours 14 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Space station now out of range of Madrid tracking antenna.
Crew had a very busy day today, they were almost completely
on schedule for their EVA, 5 hours 19 minutes long. They
were almost ahead of themselves in packing and stowing, too.
Spending most of their time looking for pouches in which to
place the material samples that they retrieved. On tab for
tomorrow is the final flammability or the only flammability
test - the final materials test with the materials up and on
board Skylab. Experiments are scheduled for to three differ-
ent times, and the rest of the day is taken up with medical
regroupings and physical training. This flammability ex-
periment tomorrow will consist of placing samples of material
inside the furnace and igniting them to see how they burn
in zero gravity. The materials to be used will be aluminized
Mylar film, a nylon sheet, a neoprene-coated nylon fabric,
polyeraehane foam, piece of bleached cellulose paper, and a
piece of Teflon fabric.

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TIME: 21:16 CDT, 81:02:16 GMT
2/3/74

PAO - - polyurethane foam, piece of bleached

cellulose paper and a piece of Teflon fabric. After the -
after each one of these pieces of material was ignited_ it'll
be vented to space. That's the primary reason for holding
this experiment to the last since the material that was vented
would contaminate the optics of the various experiments.
Next acquisition in 31 minutes from now, that'll be almost
i0 minutes before the crew goes to bed. We'll bring the
line down now for this evening. We'll be back with you
tomorrow at 6 a.m. Jack Riley will be back. At 2 hours and
16 minutes this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2839/I
Time: 21:57 CDT 81:02:57 GMT
2/3/74

PAO 2 hours and 57 minutes Greenwich mean

time. We were in error earlier we assumed that the crew
would not have a call to the ground during the last 13
minutes of their presleep period_ we were wrong. During
this preceding pass over Honeysuckle there was some
conversation concerning itself with as it has almost all
evening long the proper stowage bags for all the material
they're bring back with them. We have 4 minutes and 40
seconds of recorded air-to-ground which just took place
about a minute ago which we'll play back for you now.
CC Skylab, Houston. You know how we lie.
We're AOS with you now through Honeysuckle for 7 minutes.
And looks like you're still awake and working because we
see the condensate system still in dump. And I think live
got an answer to Ed's 52 stowage question I'd like to try to
run it across to you.
PLT Okay Crip.
SPT Well Crip, try it on me.
CC Okay, Edward. Piecing the story together
down here apparently what we were trying to do was on the
last time you brought in 52 we had a cover that we were going
to put on that film container, we were going to put it into
the disposal bag and stow it down in one of the freezers
there. And this time we had a bag we were just going to
stick it in without the cover. We suspicion that maybe
last time we had put it in a cover and put it in the bag
both and put it down in 552. If that's the case you can
go ahead and take the take it out of the bag, assuming
the other one's still got the cover on it, and put this
container in the bag. And if you got a disposal bag
available you can put the other one in the disposal bag.
That should that should - -
SPT Okay, Crip. I got to go get educated
here on the difference between a bag and a cover. Let me
got look in the freezer.
CC Okay. Should be in 552, and if itWs not
in there, it might be in 551.
SPT Okay, Crip. I've got a - a black cold
bag which has got a SO52 with a cover on it inside and
apparently you would like me to take a S052 with the cover
on it and put it in a disposal bag and put the other S052
in the black cold bag and put them both into the command
module. Is that affirm?
CC Now, we all of that's correct except we'd
like to put them back into the freezer. And I believe on
day 82 transfers is where you take it up to the command
module.
SPT Okay, one of them told me to put in the
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command module, at least this last checklist did. But if you

like I'll put them both in the freezer. I just hope that the
Deactivation Checklist has it that way.
CC Stand by and let me make sure that I
got it right. Okay, Ed, the answer is that your EVA
Checklist had you move the one that you just got out, I
guess, up in the command module now and day 82 had you
pick up the other. You got a GO to take both of them if
you want or do it as you see fit.
SPT Are they both going to end up in - what
A-5 or A-8, I'm not sure of the number, I'll have to look at
it again.
CC We copy one should go in A-4 and one should
go in A-8.
SPT Okay, Crip, that's where they're going
now.
CC Okay, and the only way I could figure
out that you could know that is just to know it.
SPT Well I know it now, so I'm in.
CC We all are. And Ed, if you still copying,
for your information we're not going to change the day 82
transfers, we're assuming that you know you've just done one
step a day ahead of time or couple of days ahead of time.
PLT Crip, could you get the film people
down there to identify the next IR reel, 35-millimeter magazine.
CC We'll do it for you.
CC IR-13.
PLT Thank you.
CC That is a reload for you Bill, that was
downloaded earlier.
PLT Okay.
CC PLT, Houston, I'd like to correct my
last, Bill. The IR-12 is your is your load, and that
is - that is a reload.
PLT Okay, IR-12. Thank you.
CC Okay, we're about to go LOS. And this
time l'm not going to call you any more. Bermuda wontt be
until 03:32. Hope you guys are all tucked away by that time.
PLT Okay, Crip.
CC Night.
PLT Night.
PAO 3 hours 3 minutes. That was the final
conversation for the night. Crew should now be in bed as
it's 3 minutes after their bedtime. We will bring the
line down, tomorrow morning we'll bring it back up at
6:00 a.m. with Jack Riley. 3 hours and 3 minutes Greenwich
mean time. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2840/I
Time: 05:56 CDT 81:10:56 GMT
2/4/74

PAO Good morning, this is Skylab Control at

i0 hours 56 minutes on mission day 81. Skylab is less than
a minute away from the tracking station at Honeysuckle. We
do not plan to put in a call to the crew at this station.
However, if the crew has set the alarm clock aboard Skylab
they may call us through Honeysuckle, so we'll stand by through
this pass. If we do not get a call from the crew here, we
plan to put in our first call of the day from the ground
at Bermuda, in about 43 minutes from now. This is Skylab
Control. The biomedical officer reports to Flight Director
Gene Kranz their data shows that the science pilot is still
asleep. Science Pilot Ed Gibson is wearing the sleep monitoring
cap.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
a loss of signal. There were no communications during this
pass. The crew apparently still sleeping. The only data we
have here on the ground is from the Science Pilot Ed Gibson,
who is wearing the sleep monitoring cap. Biomedical officer
reports that data shows that Gibson was asleep throughout the
Honeysuckle pass. We'll put in a call to the crew at the Bermuda
station 32 minutes from now. We'll come back up just prior
to Bermuda or earlier if the crew calls Mission Control. At
Ii hours 7 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab control.

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SL-IV MC-2841/I
Time: 06:39 CDT 81:11:39 GMT
2/4/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 39

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is coming up on acquisition
through Bermuda. Wakeup call will go to the crew at Bermuda.
We'll stand by for that.
CC (Music: "If" by Bread).
CC Skylab, Houston, good morning to you. You
probably noticed we let you catch a few extra winks since you
got to bed late iast night. And we have modified your Flight
Plan to cover this. You should have a new Flight Plan and
details on board. And you'll also note that there are two
film thread pads, the last one is the one you want to use.
CDR Good morning, Hank. Thank you.
CC (Music: "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves"
by Cher Bono).
CC (Music: "Sensuous Woman" by Mystic Moods)
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 45 seconds
from LOS. Ascension is next at 57, and we plan to dump the
voice recorder there.
CDR Roger, Hank.
CC (Music)
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. Next acquisition will be through the Canary Island
station in 6 minutes. The wakeup music this morning was "If"
by Bread, followed by "Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves" by Cher
Bono, and "Sensuous Woman" by Mystic Moods. At ii hours 51
minutes Greenwich mean time, this Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2842/I
Time: 06:55 CDT 81:11:55 GMT
02/04/74

PAO This is Skylab Control ii hours 55 minutes.

Skylab coming up on acquisition, it'll just brush the acquisi-
tion range of Canaries and then will be acquired by Ascension
Island. About 30 seconds away from acquisition to Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for
10-1/2 minutes and if you give us the voice recorder I think
we can give you 5-minute cleaning service this morning.
CDR Okay, Hank, no problem on the voice
recorder. I got a question for you. M487-5 is only scheduled
one time in your new Flight Plan. I wonder - Aren't we
suppose to do that in the morning and in the evening?
CC It was desired to do it that way, Jer,
and we didn't know whether you'd have time or not so we
didn't put it in in the morning. If you can work it in,
I'm sure they would be very delighted to get that data.
CDR Okay, we'll give it a try.
CC And, PLT, Houston. You'll probably
notice when you get all the stuff out of the teleprinter
there, there's a message for you on the condensate mal
number 8137 Alfa, and we'd like you to run that if you would
this morning during the block of time that's labeled M479
assist CDR as required.
CDR Okay, Hank. I'ii see that he does it.
CC Would you like to hear a little news,
while you're stirring around there this morning?
SPT That sounds good, Hank, sure would like
it.
CC Okay, in Washington, the Bureau of
Printing and Engraving is moving into full production of
gasoline rationing coupons. Working on a month's supply in
case rationing is ordered. The bureau which normally is
kept busy around the clock printing money and stamps has
put aside currency on a short-term basis to concentrate
on the rationing coupons. Meanwhile the truckers' strike
worsens and is spreading through several states. There has
been violence reported in Tennessee, Mississippi, Oklahoma
and other states. Rock throwing and gunfire is damaging
trucks which continue to run and truck stops in many areas
of the nation are crowded with drivers who are either irate
about fuel prices or afraid to drive because of violence.
They drink coffee, play cards, sleep and call home to tell
their families that they will be home sometime. From Ohio,
Attorney General William B. Saxbe urged the nation's governors
on Sunday to use the force at their command to curb illegal
acts growing out of the nationwide truckers' protest. "This
handful of truckers is not going to bring this country to
its knees", Saxbe said. From Massachusetts: Calling it "the
best meditation we ever had, two yoga practitioners won a dance
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marathon here this weekend by staggering around a dance floor

for a little over 64 hours. Dee Lopez said she "tried to tap
the inner source" as she danced and her partner Skip Ciccarelli
said, "There are a hell of a lot of good vibes in this room."
The couple from Cambridge won a 10-day trip to the Virgin
Islands, new wardrobes and cash. The world dance marathon
record without benefit of yoga was established in nearby
Summerville between December the 28th, 1932 and June 3rd,
1933, by Callum L. De Villier and Bonnie Vonnie Kuchinski, they
danced 3,780 hours for a prize of $i,000, that figures out to 26-1/2
cents an hour. From Illinois: Electricity may one day be used to
treat or prevent the bone brittleness which comes to everyone
in old age aUniversity of Illinois physicist says on the
basis of experiments with rabbits. Research by univerisity
physicists in cooperation with zoologists, veterinary scientists
and others has shown that electrical stimulation promotes
bone growth. These scientists must now try to determine the
best amount and frequency of electrical stimulation to
produce mature bone. Williams said he is confident
this can be determined. He plans to extend his studies to
dogs, and perhaps larger animals. Camp David: President
Nixon spent a wintry Sunday at his mountaintop retreat
preparing for talks with a high level Soviet envoy aides
reported. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gramyko is scheduled
to meet with Nixon on Monday. Gromyko has been in Havana
where he had joined Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid
I. Brezhnev in talks with Cuba's Fidel Castro. Gromyko
incidentally arrived in Washington from Cuba Sunday, for talks
with the President and Secretary of State, Henry A. Kissinger.
Alighting from his twin-engine jetliner at Andrews Air Force
Base, Gromyko walked through hail and freezing rain to a
bank Ameri - of microphones where his first comment to
reporters was, "Am I in Anartiea?" Also Washington: If
Pentagon plans work out, even the lowest ranked privates will
be able to take their wives with them at Government expense
when they are sent overseas. It's the latest move by the
military to keep the troops happy. At present men in the
bottom three ranks have the choice of serving lonely unaccompanied
tours abroad or paying out of their own resources to bring wives and
children over and support them there. Don't have any sports
news this morning.
CDR Thanks a lot, Hank.
SPT Thank you, Hank.
CC Okay, just got the word, that Jack
Nicklaus won the Hawaiian Open, he had a four-round score
of 271, which tied the course record and he was three shots
out in front at the finish.
PLT Was that on that (garble) course?
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CC I'm not sure which one it was.

PLT Thank you, Hank.
CC Hope you didn't have any trouble sorting
out those Flight Plans this morning, we just figured that
you'd like to get the extra winks.
CDR No problem at all, Hank. Hey are we
just going over Ascension Island now?
CC That's affirmative.
CC SPT, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, for Ed, one little quickie and this
will wind it up. He's got a regroup time scheduled at - when
he finished ED76, up there at about 13:30. And, somewhere in
that time we'd like to get him to run the ATM C&D panel
configuration to storage and that's found on page 5-5 of the
ATM experiments checklist and data book. And in that we'd
also like for him to remove the tape from the S054 filter
wheel and go ahead and cycle it, like it calls for there in
the checklist. We'd be interested in seeing if the thing
does move, we - whether it's electrical or mechanical failure
we had. And on 5-10 where it calls out for us to give him
a roll angle, I know the yesterday we told him we wanted
10,800 but we've got a lot of data at that setting i0 hours
worth and we'd like to have a final roll of plus 5400.
SPT Okay, Hank. I got that.
CC Thank you, Ed.
CDR Okay, we finally got a picture of Ascension
Island, Hank.
CC Outstanding.

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Time: 07:06 CDT 81:12:06 GMT
214174

CDR Okay. We finally got a picture of

Ascension Island, Hank.
CC Outstanding. That's playing that one
right down to the wire.
CDR Yes. This is the first time we've
we've been over here without having it clouded over.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Carnarvon is next at 30, 23 minutes from now.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range now of the antennas at Ascension Island. Next acqui-
sition Carnarvon in 21-1/2 minutes. At 12 hours 8 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 29
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank. Hey, I think I gave you
bum dope on Ascension Island, too. We think maybe that
will save you a lot of -
CC Okay; we copy, Jer.
CDR We got to looking at the time a little
closer and we a little bit further south than we thought,
and it looks like Ascension was under its usual bank of clouds.
CC Okay. When you called, though, according to
our i0 by 20 down here, it looks like you might have been a
little bit past, but we thought maybe you were looking retrograde
there.
CDR No such luck.
CC CDR, Houston. The other day you reported
the ammonia odor in the waste management compartment there, and
we were wondering if the odor was bad enough that you wanted us
to work up any sort of a troubleshoot procedure or some way
to try to reduce the odor.
CDR Negative, Hank. My main concern was
whether or not that was going to impact deactivation.
CC Okay; we copy. We won't try to work up
anything on it then.
CDR Okay. Sure wakes you up in the morning.
SPT It's a real sinus clearer.
CC Must be pretty bad.
CDR It's not too bad but it's pretty sharp.
CC PLT, Houston. If it's convenient, we got
one little thing we'd like to add to that troubleshooting
message you have on the condensate leak (?).
PLT Stand by i, Hank. Okay; I have it out.
Go.
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CC Okay. Before doing step 1 we left out

something there we think we ought to cover, and that is on
panel 217 we'd you to mate and demate the LCG there several
times and leave it mated. We have had a leak there before
and we think if we cycle through that that might make this
procedure complete.
PLT Mate and demate what again? I didn't
quite hear that.
CC The LCG that's normally hooked into
panel 217.
PLT Okay. Mate and demate several times and
leave mated. Thank you. Got me just as I was going up there.
CC Okay. That's a SUS water gas separator
we're talking about there. Not the LCG.
PLT Okay. (Garble) Hank, that isn't normally left -
oh, yes. (Garble) demate it. Okay.
CC Okay. That's right, Bill. We want to
cycle it a few times and leave it mated.
PLT Okay. Leave mated.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from
LOS. Guam is next at 45. That's 6 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab's out of
rang of Carnarvon. Guam will pick up the space station in
4-1/2 minutes. The The network controller here has checked
with the station at Ascension; verifies that Ascension Island
is clouded over so the photographs that Jerry Carr took were
probably St. Helena Island and were not of Ascension. The
crew has a fairly busy day today. Two runs of the M479 ex-
periment, zero gravity flammability. This experiment's de-
signed to study flame propagation, flashover and flame spread
rates of various nonmetallic materials under zero-g condi-
tions. Several medical studies today. The M092, lower body
negative pressure, with Bill Pogue as the subject, MI31
human vestibular function with Ed Gibson as the subject,
and some limb blood volume studies later just prior to going
to bed this evening. All the crewmen will spend a couple
of hours today on entry checklist reviews.

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SL-IV MC2844/I
Time: 07:42 CDT, 81:12:42 GMT
2/4/74

PAO just prior to going to bed this evening.

All the crewmen will spend a couple of hours today on entry
checklist reviews, brushing up on procedures that will be
required for space station closeout and their return to
Earth next Friday. Bill Pogue will try to get one last
photograph of comet Kohoutek at about 10:30 a.m. central
daylight time today. This will be the last attempt at comet
photography. And Pogue's also scheduled to do the flashing
light phenomena observation starting about 9:30 this morning
while Skylab is passing through the South Atlantic anomaly.
We're preparing for a change of shift here in the Mission
Control Center. Flight Director Milton Windler will relieve
Gene Kranz and the CAP COMM relieving astronaut Hank Harts-
field will be astronaut Story Musgrave. Skylab about a minute
away now from Guam. We'll stand by for that pass.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam, 7-1/2 minutes.
PLT Hank, Skylab. PLT.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Just for information, when I open the 217
panel, I got about - oh, a cup and a half - two cups of water
in there I mopped up with a towel and I just thought it may
be of interest to the people who are working this problem that
there was quite a bit of water behind the door on 217 when
I opened it.
CC Roger. We copy Bill.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
Goldstone is next at 09, 17-1/2 minutes from now and we'll
handing over to the maroon team. Have a good day. We'll
see you tomorrow.
PLT Have a good day, Hank.
CDR So long, Hank.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss
of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Goldstone
station in 15-1/2 minutes. At 12 hours 53 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 7 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about to start a pass over
the United States, beginning at the Goldstone station, going
through Bermuda.
CC Morning, Skylab. Got you stateside for
18 minutes.
SPT Morning, Story. How yon doing today?
CC I'm doing swell. How about you, Ed?
SPT Oh, we're charging through the day.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Good morning and we're not showing the video
switch in the portable TV position, Jer.
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CDR Okay. We haven't gotten that far yet.

CC Okay. Is Bill working the condensate tank
procedure?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay.
CC And we'll be dropping out for about 20
seconds for a handover.
CC Skylab, we're back with you for ii minutes.
And Bill, could you let us know where you are in the conden-
sate tank procedure?
PLT Rog, Story. I'm on page 9-3 and I'm just
getting ready to connect the condensate holding tank dump
hose to the holding tank condensate outlet and port tank/
WFCH (garble) connector in floor of forward compartment step.
CC Okay. Thanks.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR On the 18-millimeter mirror lens setup
for this M479, the checklist on page 3-1, calls out for
setting the focal length at 1.5 feet. Looks to me like
this - this lens has got a fixed focal length of about 1.25
feet or 1.2, something like that.
CC Okay. We'll get with you.
CC You got it right, Jet. Use it just the
way it is.
CDR Okay.
SPT Hey Story, in the ATM reconfiguration for
stowage, I'm coming across the (garble) number of discre-
pancies between the actual panel and what's in the checklist.
I'm not reporting those, and I'll just press on. If you want
to hear about them all, I can give them to you.
CC Okay Ed.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed, press on the way you are. Just follow
the checklist there. You do have change 8 to the ATM Experi-
ment Checklist and Data Book. That's message 7939. You put
those changes in, didn't you?
SPT Yeah, that's affirm Story. There's
a few things over and above that though.
CC Okay, fine. Press.
SPT Story, I assume I ought to leave the scan
spec in its current configuration so it can run on unattended?
CC That's affirm, Ed.
SPT Thank you.

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Time: 08:24 CDT 81:13:24 GMT
2/4/74

SPT Okay, Story. Are you ready for me to

slug filter 1 on 54?
CC Yes; that'll be fine, Ed, right now.
SPT Showing a barberpole up here. Now you
got a gray.
CC Okay. We show i, 2, 4, 5 and 6, and itts
sitting in 1 now.
SPT What's that say about the failure?
CC I guess youtd have to conclude it was some
kind of mechanical hangup as opposed to an electrical problem.
SPT Thank you. Is there anything else you'd
like me to do? Do you want me to cycle them through a few
more?
CC Not right now, Ed.
CC Skylab, wetre a minute from LOS and 8
minutes to Ascension, 13:36.
PLT Roger, Story. How do you read?
CC Loud and clear, Bill.
PLT Okay. At 25 pad I started the WATER
DUMP valve OPEN, and on the continuous procedure I thought
you might want to take a look at the exhaust pressure there
just to see what you have on telemetry.
CC Thanks, Bill.
SPT Would you like 54 filter to storage as the
checklist calls up, Story?
CC That's affirm, Ed.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylabts out of
range of Bermuda. The Ascension Island station will pick up
the space station in 8 minutes. At 13 hours 28 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 35
minutes Greenwich mean time. The Ascension Island station
will acquire Skylab in about a minute. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, back with you through Ascension
for 4 minutes.
SPT Hello, Story.
CC Hi, Ed. Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Down here we're not showing any dump in
progress. Youtre transducer on board's not that reliable,
and the only thing we can suggest right now is to check the PRESS
valve on the big tank and the condensate outlet valve on the
big tank and your WATER DUMP valve on panel 831 and the dump
HEATERS. That's the only suggestion we've got right now.
PLT Okay. Stand by.
PLT Okay. Story, I just verified all the
configurations and did a check with the little measuring de-
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device_ and it has moved about an inch and a half since I

activated it, and there'a also a bub big bubble of water
on the condensate outlet QD at the tank on the dump hose.
CC Okay, Bill.
PLT Which I think has nothing to do with
the problem necessarily, but it is apparently dumping but
very slowly.
CC Okay. Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS,
about 25 minutes to Carnarvon at 14:07. Planning on dumping
the data/voice there, and for Bill, we've got no other sug-
gestions. We'll take a look at the platter later on.
PLT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension has
loss of signal. Next station is Carnarvon in 23 minutes.
At 13 hours 43 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-IV MC-2846/I
Time: 09:06 CDT 81:14:06 GMT
2/4/74

PAO - 14 hours 6 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Tracking station at Carnarvon will acquire the space station
in about 45 seconds. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, AOS through Carnarvon for 9 min-
utes; be dumping the data/voice here.
PLT Roger, Story. I think Jer's recording
right now.
CC We show someone on the VTR but not on
the data/voice recorder.
PLT Gee, I just noticed a green light blinking
down here on my SIA. I'm getting it in the wardroom. Also
Story, it looks like some logjam broke or something.
The little fishtail measuring device I've been using, the
billows in the condensate holding tank, it moved about
i foot in about the last i0 minutes.
CC Okay. We see it down here, too. That is
if the flow is increased.
CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half to
LOS, about 5 minutes to Guam. Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Jet, it's not in the checklist but it is
on your photo pad and just a reminder, you'll need to switch
to transporter 05 for M479 specimens 7 through 12.
CDR Roger, Story. I just finished the burn
on specimen number 2 and I dontt think the ignition wire
was hot long enough, and I think it'd be a good idea to go
ahead and ignite it again if the folks down there concur.
CC Roger, Jer. We confer (sic) with that, and did
you happen to get the stowage checklist changes done yes-
terday that were scheduled around, oh, late last evening?
CDR Negative.
CC Okay. You'll be doing all that tomorrow,
the day 82 transfer, so we'll need to get that done today
and as you pass through some regroups later on today we'll
see if we need to get you some time. Let us know how it's
going.
CDR Okay. I sure will, Story, and this nylon
sample glowed for about 3 seconds and looked like it was
going to get started and then the - apparently the igniter wire
cooled off or quit at that time and the whole thing just
stopped. So I'm going to repeat the sequence and have a
sequence time of 15 seconds.
CC Okay; sounds fine. See you over Guam in
about 3 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of Carnarvon. Guam will acquire in 2-1/2 minutes.
We'll continue to stand by for the Guam pass, about a 9-1/2-
minute pass at Guam.
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CC Skylab, back with you through Guam for

i0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. Tried it again on the
nylon sample and it just - it seems to extinguish itself.
CC Copy, Jer.
CDR It will burn only as long as the igniter
wire is glowing and then it'd immediately extinguish it.
CC 0 - Okay, Jer. We consider that a data
point, and just press on with the rest of the samples. Jer,
Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Understand you're using a a 15-second burn
time, Jer?
CDR The test time I'm using was 30 seconds
the first time, and the igniter only stays on for about 3
seconds. So I was just wasting film on a 30-second test
time so I reduced it down to 15 on the second test, and that
was no good. I tried a third test with i0 seconds and again
the igniter only stays hot for about 3 seconds and then the
camera runs for the rest of the time.
CC Understand. Bill, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Could you check the bellows on the big
condensate tank here, and if it's halfway or more press on
with the procedure. If it's not halfway or more just leave
it as is and we'll catch it later.
PLT Okay. It's almost to the other end of
the tank I just checked about 2 minutes ago and it's about
an 8 inches shy of the other end of the tank, so I'll press on.
CC Fine. Press on, Bill.
PLT And I've got to start another experiment
here right now.
CC Okay. Skylab, we're a minute to LOS,
about 15 minutes to Goldstone at 14:45, and Jer, Houston.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Jer, a 3-second ignition time. That's
normal on the experiment. We'd like you to try each of those
three times, and it's okay to stop the DAC if you're not
getting ignition, and after three times no ignition press on
to the next sample.
CDR Okay; will do, Story.
PLT Story, PLT.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has lost
signal with the space station. Next acquisition will be
through Goldstone in 14-1/2 minutes. Beginning in about
3 minutes at 14 hours 34 minutes Greenwich mean time Skylab
Pilot Bill Pogue will be sent to bed for an hour as part of
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a study of the so-called light flash phenomenon. Principal

Investigator for the experiment is Dr. Rudolph Hoffman of
the Johnson Space Center, and Pogue performed this same
experi - experiment just a few days ago. During the hour-
long test period Pogue will float into his sleep compartment,
strap himself so that he faces the outside wall of the space
station

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SL-IV MC-2847/I
Time: 09:32 CDT 81:14:32 GMT
02/04/74

PAO Pogue will be sent to bed for an hour,

as part of a study of the so-called light flash phenomenon
Principal investigator for the experiment is Dr. Rudolph
Hoffman of the Johnson Space Center and Pogue performed this
same experi - experiment Just a few days ago. During the
hour-long test period Pogue will float into his sleep compart-
ment, strap himself so that he faces the outside wall of the
space station, with his head held 30 degrees down and
i0 degrees to the right. The retina of his eye will be
oriented perpendicular to the force field lines in the
South Atlantic anomaly. The anomaly is an area where Earth
shielding magnetic field is warped, bringing the field
closer to the Earth's surface. As a result radiation from
the Sun and other stars can penetrate to a point much nearer
the Earth's surface than in other areas around the Globe.
The South Atlantic anomaly stretches from the center of Brazil
along the Chili-Argentina border to South Georgia Island
in the Atlantic and across the ocean to include part of the
Union of South Africa. The eg_-shaped anom;=ly has often
_iven the astronauts a surprise during solar observations,
the sensitive flare alert has been set off several times
by solar radiation levels increasing in the low protection
area. This morning's light flash study will seek to determine
the kinds of high velocity cosmic rays that are penetrating
the space station. The atomic particles excite the sensitive
nerve endings of the eye and appear as flashes in a darkened
environment. Pogue will have plenty of time to adapt to the
darkness as the experiment begins over the North Pacific,
just about a minute from now, and the South Atlantic anomaly
won't be entered until about a half hour later. During the
previous run a significant increase in flashes was observed
in the magnetic anomaly. At 14 hours 33 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control. 14 hours 44 minutes,
Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about to begin the pass over the
United States, beginning at the Goldstone station going through
Texas and ending at the Merritt Island, Florida station.
CC Skylab, AOS Stateside, 17 minutes.
CC Skylab, we'd like to dump the VTR here
if you have no need for it.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay, we'll do it.
CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half to LOS,
about 12 minutes to the Vanguard at 15:12, the VTR is yours.
CDR Roger, Thank you, Story.
CC Okay.
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Time" 09:32 CDT 81:14:32 GMT
02/04/74

PAO This is Skylab Control. Merritt Island

has loss of signal. The next station is the tracking ship
Vanguard in 8-1/2 minutes. The zero _ravity flammability
testing that's underway now, the M479 experiment, it - the
equipment for this test consists of 37 flammability specimen
assemblies stowed in the flammability specimen container.
Each assembly consists of a specimen and a connector, which
is installed in - and ignited in the work chamber. The
specimens are numbered i through 37. This morning, Jerry
Carr is igniting speciments i through 12 and 13 through 18,
this testing will be continued this afternoon after lunch
in two separate runs. First run will ignite specimens 25
through 37, and then the last run specimens 19 through 24.
Numbers i, 7, 13, 19 and 25 are aluminized Mylar film,
2-1/2 by 4 inches in size. Numbers 2, 8, 14, 20 and 26
consist of a nylon sheet, i inch square. Numbers 3, 9, 15,
21, and 27, neoprene-coated nylon fabric, 2-1/2 by 4 inches.
Numbers 4, i0, 16, 22 and 28, polyurethane foam, .025 of
an inch by 2 inches. Numbers 5, ii, 17, 23, and 29, bleached
cellulose paper, 2-1/2 by 4 inches. Numbers 6, 12, 18, 24 and
30, teflon fabric, 2-1/2 by 4 inches. Number 31 consists
of two specimens of bleached cellulose paper mounted face to
face with a i/8-inch gap between, the size of those specimens,
2-1/2 by 4 inches. Numbers 32, 34 and 36, each contain
two specimens of bleached cellulose paper mounted face to face.

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SL-IV MC2848/I
Time: 10:06 CDT, 81:15:06 GMT
2/4/74

PAO - - four inches. Numbers 32, 34, and 36

each contain two specimens of bleach cellulose paper, mounted
face-to-face with a quarter inch gap between. Those are
2-1/2 by 4 inches and numbers 33, 35, and 37 each contain (sic)
two specimens of the bleach cellulose paper mounted face-to-
face with a half-inch gap between. They are the same size,
2-1/2 by 4 inches. Numbers 1 through 12 and 25 through 37
will be burned to extinction. Numbers 13 through 18 will be
vacuum extinguished and numbers 19 through 19 through 24 will
be water extinguished. Skylab about 4-1/2 minutes away from
acquisition at Vanguard. At 15 hours 7 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, we're with you through the Vanguard
for 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, we're a minute and a half from
LOS. The next station_ it's a long LOS_ will be Goldstone
at 16:22. It's about an hour and 5 minutes. Intending to
dump the data/voice there. Jet, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Jerry, you can pass on to Bill that when
he gets done with the light flashes in $233, and it is non-time
critical. He can get it even later on today. He can press
on with the condensate tank procedure. And for you, we don't
want M479 to interfere with your getting your stowage check-
list update and other checklist updates. So maybe after
dinner, we suggest you get that stowage checklist update done
and then press on with M479.
CDR Okay. I now I just finished sample
number 5. Beginning to pick up a little steam now as I get
the routine a little better now.
CC Okay, fine.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab passed
out of range of the tracking ship Vanguard. Now we'll be in
a long LOS period. The next station to acquire will be
Goldstone in i hour and 2 minutes. At 15 hours 20 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2849/I
Time: 11:21 CDT 81:16:21 GMT
2/4/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours 21

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about to begin a pass
through the Goldstone and Texas stations.
CC Skylab, AOS stateside for 12 minutes. Be
dumping the data/voice here.
CC Jer, Houston.
SPT Go ahead. He's listening.
CC Ed, you all up there in the command
module?
SPT We just moved out and we're going to be
going back in about another i0, 15 minutes.
CDR We're taking a meritorious i0 minutes
for the California pass, Story.
CC Okay, beautiful, Jer. We're sending up
a message. It'll be coming up in the teleprinter about 1
minute from now. It's a way of restoring that circuit
breaker bat bus A of bat A, and if you're going back up
there anyway maybe on the way up there you could pick the
message up on the way into the command module, and we would
like this done over a station if possible. It's about a
5-minute procedure and we've got 9 minutes more of AOS here.
CDR How about over Vanguard? How much time
we got there?
CC Yeah, Vanguard or really anytime would
be fine. If it doesn't get done today, we'll simply put it
on the Flight Plan for tomorrow. The last part of it, that's
the bat charging procedure, and we don't want that done to-
day anyway, we'll schedule that starting early in the morning
tomorrow.
CDR Good enough, Story.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed, we sent up an ATM message to you.
We see that TV BUS 1 is still on on the ATM. Assume you
want - you're going to want to do some observations; that's
why it was left on. It'll need to be on anyway for this
procedure we sent up. Kitt Peak has got a new magnetogram
and at your convenience without interfering with any of your
deactivation and coming home activities, possibly you could
get some VTR on the XUV and some Polaroid pictures. You'll see
the message. It's in the teleprinter now.
SPT Okay, Story.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Got one more thing. On the way to the
command module, panel 206 REG 6 FINE ADJUST, mark the setting,
mark it where it is now, then rotate all the way counter-
clockwise.
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SPT Okay, Story.

CC Okay.
SPT Let me ask you again.
SPT Hello, Story. Can I have the words on
the reg again, please?
CC Sure, Ed. On panel 206 REG 6 FINE ADJUST,
mark where it is now then go fully counterclockwise.
SPT Okay.
CC And since you're going to that location
I got one other thing to check and that's the PRIMARY N2
supply valve. We're showing that's off and we'd like it in
COMMAND. That's the upper left-hand corner of panel 225.
And we're 30 seconds to LOS, see you over the Vanguard in
about 12 minutes at 16:46.
SPT Every switch on 225 that can be in COM-
MAND is in COMMAND, Story.
CC Okay_ thanks.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Texas has loss
of signal. Skylab will be within range of the tracking ship
Vanguard in 10-1/2 minutes. At 16 hours 36 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2850/I
Time: 11:45 CDT 81:16:45 GMT
02/04/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours

45 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on
acquisition through the tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for
i0 minutes.
CDR Story, how much time do we have?
CC Another 8-1/2 minutes, Jer.
CDR Okay, I'm ready to pick up with the
first steps of this battery procedure.
CC Okay, go, Jer.
CDR Roger.
CDR Okay, Story, I closed the BAT BUS A
PYRO BAT A breaker and the dc indicator does not indicate
BAT BUS A greater than 35.
CC Stand by i, Jer.
CDR I'm reading 29 volts.
CDR The the BAT BUS A MAIN A breaker is
closed.
CC Okay, that explains it, word GO.
CDR Okay, do you want me to open the BAT BUS A
MAIN A or leave it closed?
CC Stand by i, Jer.
CDR Okay, I see you've got it closed a little
bit further down. So, we're in good shape.
CC You can press on, Jet.
CDR Okay, I'm showing 14 amps on PYRO
BUS A.
CC That's good.
CDR Correction, PYRO BAT A.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, with BAT BUS A PYRO BAT A
breaker pulled, I'm getting 27.9 volts.
CC That's good, Jer.
CDR Okay, Story, when I push in on the BAT
BUS A BAT A circuit breaker, I get 15 amps on BAT A - or BAT
BUS A and about 29 volts.
CC Okay, that's verified down here.
CC Now if you can press on and cycle it.
CDR Okay, will do it.
CDR Okay, Story, looks like that whipped it.
I pressed it in and held it tightly ten times, I held it for
about - oh, 3 to 5 seconds each time and the amperage moved
from 15 on up to about 20 amps and on the llth time, I just
closed the breaker in the normal manner without forcing it
in hard and it's all the way up and holding real well.
CC Understand you're not holding it now, Jer?
CDR That's affirmative, Story. It's there all
by itself.
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CC Looks good. Let's open it and that'll

do it.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, Jer. That's good news, we're
30 seconds to LOS here, see you over the - Tananarive in
about 17 minutes at 17:14 and the BAT charger procedure
we'll put on the Flight Plan for tomorrow.
CDR Okay, Story, so long.
CC Thank you.
CC And going over the hill, the condensate
DELTA-P is holding good.
PLT And the dump - the procedure is complete.
CC Thanks, Bill.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has
loss of signal. Station at Tananarive will pick up Skylab
in 15-1/2 minutes. And the information received during the
Vanguard pass would indicate that the leak in the condensate
tank has been corrected, there is a good delta pressure in
that tank now, it's operating. And also, the the sick
circuit breaker that cropped up day before yesterday during
command module entry checks seems to have been cured with
the troubleshooting procedure just performed by Skylab
Commander Jerry Carr the battery bus A circuit breaker.
The thought was that a a film may have built up on that
circuit breaker during the long period that the command
module's been setting there, would make contact if Carr kept
his thumb on the circuit breaker but the current would drop
off to zero when he released the pressure. However, he reports
now that after recycling it a number of times with a little stronger
current across the circuit breaker than had existed, a couple
of days ago that the current is now holdin_ after he
releases the pressure from the circuit breaker. So that appears
to be in good shape now. 13-1/2 minutes away from Tananarive
at 17 hours Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2851/I
Time: 12:14 CDT, 81:17:14 GMT
2/4/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours 13

minutes Greenwich mean time. Tananarive will acquire
Skylab about 50 seconds for a 6-1/2-minute pass.
CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for 6
minutes. The next station if we loose you here is Hawaii,
about 42 minutes at 17:57.
CDR Roger Story.
CC Skylab, we're a couple minutes from LOS.
About 40 minutes to Hawaii, 17:57. Jet, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Ed ask Jer how many samples he got
done on M479 and how are they going?
SPT He's got nine done and he's learning
fast. In fact, we're picking up speed.
CC Okay, thanks.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of Tananarive. Next station is Hawaii in 36 minutes.
At 17 hours 21 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-IV MC-2852/I
Time: 12:56 CDT 81:17:56 GMT
2/4/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours 56

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching acquisition
through Hawaii.
CC Skylab, got you for a short pass through
Hawaii for 2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story, and today we're having our
special menu that they worked up for us and one thing they
forgot to mention is how much salt each of us is allowed
today. Would you ask the food people to - what the word is
on that?
CC Okay. While I got you, Jer, I've got a
priority of items on your M479.
CDR Okay. I'm ready to copy.
CC Okay. Press on as you are for samples
i through 18. After that, if you get a chance, go on to 19
to 24. It's very unlikely that you'll get to the 25 through
37's but if you do press on. So it's finish up the ones you're
on, 1 through 18, and then to go to 19 through 24 if you get
a chance.
CDR Okay. And Jerry, you got a phone call
tonight through Honeysuckle at 02:04 and it's a right.
PLT Roger. He's copied.
CC And Bill, you got a phone call Guam at
00:16, and that's a left to right.
PLT 00:16, left to right.
CC And for Jer, possibly we'll get a message
up here, a change to the general message, that updates the
stowage checklist. In fact it's - it's up right now. So
before he gets into the stowage checklist change he'll want
to look at that.
PLT Okay.
CC And we're about 20 seconds from LOS here,
the Vanguard next in about 25 minutes at 18:24; be dumping
the data/voice there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The space station
has completed a short pass at the Hawaii station. Next
acquisition through the tracking ship Vanguard in 23 minutes.
At 18 hours i minute Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-IV MC-2853/I
Time: 13:23 CDT 81:18:23 GMT
2/4/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 23

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
through the tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for
I0 minutes; be dumping the data/voice here.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Jer, we're using the DAS. We're out
again. We'll back up.
CC Skylab, the DAS is yours. We're a minute
to LOS. Tananarive in 14 minutes at 18:48. And tomorrow's
Flight Plans are on board.
CDR Roger, Story.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Vanguard
has loss of signal. Skylab will next he acquired through
Tananarive in 13 minutes. Crew finished lunch a short time
ago. Jerry Carr made reference a little while ago to their
special menu for today. This was one of the days when the
crew was to have eaten the high-density food bars; however,
at crew requ - request for a substitution for today they
were allowed to change the menu. The high-density food bars
planned for use today will be eaten by the crew on mission
day 84, this coming Thursday. The - the luncheon menu for
today for the commander consisted of tuna, bread, pork and
potatoes, potato salad, butterscotch pudding, and orange
drink; science pilot had pork and potatoes, macaroni, pine-
apple and grapefuit drink; and the pilot had spaghetti,
pork and potatoes, green beans, tomatoes, butter scotch pudding
and lemonade. Jerry Carr is now in the second series of the
M479 experiment, flammability experiment. All in all today,
he will perform more than three dozen tests on a variety of
materials to learn about fire resistence, flame characteris-
tics in a gravity-free environment. The fire tests are all
conducted in a sealed container under controlled conditions.
Among materials to be tested in the oxygen-rich atmosphere
are pieces of aluminized Mzlar the material used in the
sunshade that protects the orbiting laboratory. Cart will
also attempt to set fire to nylon, polyurethane foam, Teflon,
fabric and paper. In some tests the samples will be allowed
to burn out and in others he will put out the small fires with
water or by cutting off the oxygen supply. Skylab i0 minutes
away from Tananarive. At 18 hours 38 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2854/I
Time: 13:47 CDT, 81:18:47 GMT
2/4/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 47

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about to be acquired
through the Tananarive station.
CC Skylab, AOS through Tananarive for 7
minutes.
CDR Roger Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. 37 min-
utes to Hawaii at 19:32. Jer, today's a "no salt" day for
everybody.
CDR Okay Story. Thanks.
CC Best we can do.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Tananarive has
loss of signal. The next station is Hawaii in 34 minutes.
At 18 hours 59 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-IV MC-2855/I
Time: 14:31 CDT 81:19:31 GMT
2/4/74

PAO - 19 hours 31 minutes Greenwich mean

time. Space station now nearing acquisition through Hawaii
tracking site. Commander Carr's still involved in flammability
tests and Science Pilot Ed Gibson and Pilot Bill Pogue doing
medical tests at this time. Hold the line up for Spacecraft
Communicator Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS through Hawaii for 8-1/2
minutes.
CC Jer, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC Jet, I've got a four-step procedure here
which will get that PCU and LSU out of the airlock for you.
CDR Okay.
CC Disconnect PCU on number i0 from LSU
number 7. Inspect both halves of the top composite disconnect.
Voice record any abnormalities that you see. If there's
anything you see you can catch with a 35-millimeter camera,
take a photo. And then restow LSU in the sphere, and the
PCU on the forward floor grid. And you can give that to any-
one. Maybe Ed'd will be a good one to do that. I can't get to
him now. He's still in the MI31.
CDR Okay, Story. We'll ge it done. Thank you.
CC And I got one other thing for Bill but
I can't get to him now. We are losing Delta P in the big
condensate tank, and like you to put some universal sealant
either you or maybe Bill between his MI31 and M092 runs. That's
located in E620 E; it's universal sealant or gunk. And put
it on the 217 QD, Just wrap it around the QD and the 393 QD.
CDR Okay, universal sealant, 393 and 217 QDs
and that was 624 for the drawer?
CC That's E620 E.
CDR Okay, E620-Echo.
CC Thanks a lot and how're you doing on
the M479 while I've got you?

CDR Okay, right after lunch I got the voice-

lift change all done and I'm just starting now, I just
finished sample number i0.
CC Okay, fine.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, it's
about 22 minutes to the Vanguard at 20:03, be dumping the
data/voice there.
PAO Space station now out of range of Hawaii.
The next acquisition will be 20 minutes from now, that'll
be through the Vanguard. 19 hours 42 minutes, this is
Skylab ControI.

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SL-IV MC2856/I
Time: 15:02 CDT 81:20:02 GMT
2/4/74

PAO Twenty hours 2 minutes Greenwich mean

time space station now less than a minute away from acquisi-
tion through the Vanguard tracking ship. Pilot Bill Pogue
should be the subject now in lower body negative pressure
device medical experiments, with Science Pilot Ed Gibson
the observer. Commarder Carr is still playing with fire.
This time he's going to extinquish the samples with water
by using aluminized milar film, nylon sheet, neoprene
coated nylon fabric, polyurethane foam, a piece of bleached
cellulose paper and Teflon fabric. Hold the line up now
for Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, we're with you through the
Vanguard for 9 minutes, and be dumping the data/voice here.
CC And Ed, I'd like to bug you just once
in the next 7 minutes.
SPT Go ahead Story.
CC Ed, have you filled that Apollo drink
bag for the heat sync yet?
SPT Yes, I have, it's the same dimension as
the other.
CC Okay, good. And did you fill that from
the wardroom pedestal?
SPT Affirm.
CC Okay; excellent. We're going to use that
for dual purpose and we'll also use it as a water sample from
the pedestal. Thank you.
SPT Didn't know I was thinking ahead of you
did you Story?
CC We're real happy you're taking care of us,
Ed.
SPT I didn't either.
CC Jet, Houston.
CDR Go ahead Story.
CC Jet, there's no hurry on it but just so we
can interpret the data we're seeing down here, did anyone
get to wrap that sealant around those two OD's?
CDR Right now - I'm doing it right now.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead Jer, you've got a minute.
CDR Yeah Story, would you confirm that you
want the gas connector mated to panel 217.
CC Stand by one.
CDR That's off nominal from our normal config-
uration and that's what you folks wanted this morning. But
we're still wondering if that's really what you want.
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CC Yeah, we want that connected, Jer, and

just wrap the sealant around it.
CDR Okay.
CC And we're going LOS here. It will be
a long one; about an hour to Hawaii at 21:10.
PAO Twenty hours 13 minutes Greenwich mean
time. Space station now out of range of the tracking ship
Vanguard. Next acquisition will be 56 minutes from now;
that will be through Hawaii. We have indications that
Flight Director Nilt Windier will have change-of-shift
press briefing from the console here at 3:30. We'll get
back to you if that time changes, right now it's set for
3"30. Twenty hours and 14 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2857/I
Time: 16:09 CDT 81:21:09 GMT
2/4/74

PAO Twenty-one hours 9 minutes Greenwich

mean time, space station now near Hawaii. This time Pilot
Bill Pogue should be getting ready for physical training.
And Commander Carr is still with the flammability experiment.
Science Pilot Ed Gibson has an interesting experiment
scheduled for him at this time. He'll be gathering samples
for biomedical studies after the crew returns. Gibson will
use swabs to sample more than a dozen places around the
space station. By rubbing the swabs on walls and various
pieces of hardware in Skylab, he'll collect any bacteria or
other material that may be found in the laboratory or living
areas. The samples will be placed in vials and returned as
part of the inflight medical support systems kit, IMSS.
Gibson will also use a vacuum hose to suck air samples into
samplin_ container. The container will also be brought back
Friday by the crew. Earlier tests of the Skylab atmosphere
using an aerosol analyser, the T003, jave indicated that the
space station is as clean as a good hospital operating room.
The sampling today will permit medical personnel to study
any microorganisms that may live aboard the space station
with the Skylab astronauts. Science Pilot Gibson will be
doing the IMSS experiments for 3 hours starting now. We'll
hold the line up now for CAP COMM, Bob Crippen and Don Puddy's
team has taken over here in Mission Control.
(Music)
CC Good afternoon Skylab. We're AOS through
Hawaii for 6 minutes.
(Music)
CC Skylab, Houston we're i minute from LOS.
Next station contact is through the Vanguard in 25 minutes
at 21:42. And we'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump
there.
CDR Roger Crip. I've got the television
camera looking over my shoulder at some of these Earth samples.
And the polyurethane (garble) are pretty spectacular. It'd
be interesting to see (garble) mission comes out (garble)
the television camera to stay at the right f-stop. But I'm
going to do l've done the polyurethane I'm going to do the
paper, and I'd be interested to hear once you've dumped it
what it looks like down there.
CC Okay, sounds interestin_ we'll get back
to you as soon as we see it.
CDR Okay.
PAO Rachmaninoff Concerto number 3 by Van
Cliburn. Twenty-one hours 19 minutes now Greenwich mean time.
Classical space station Skylab over the hill from Hawaii.
Commander Carr indicated during this pass, you probably didn't
hear it, that he was putting television of the M479 flammability
test on the video recorder onboard Skylab. That video won't
be down here until 06:00 Greenwich mean time however. He
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indicated that the polyurethane foam when it ignites is rather

spectacular. The purpose of the M479 flammability test is
to test the suitability of these various materials for future
space flights which will probably use a normal atmosphere
consisting of twenty

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SL-IV MC2858/I
Time: 16:20 CDT 81:21:20 GMT
2/4/74

PAO The purpose of the M479 flammability test

is to test the suitability of these various materials for
future space flights which will probably use a normal atmos-
phere consisting of 21 percent oxygen at 14.7 pounds per
square inch or one atmosphere of pressure. The aluminized
mylar film is an exterior insulator, and according to princi-
pal investigator J. Howard Kimsey - K-I-M-S-E-Y, of the
Johnson Space Center, the aluminized mylar film burns extremely
fast, there's very little aluminum in it. It's a very thin
composition normally called scrim. And in layers, the scrim
would probably profligate itself if it were on fire, The nylon
sheet they'll be burning is very thick, one inch by one inch
piece of nylon. And they had several - they had problems try-
ing to ignite this. These earlier, Commander Carr tried three
times and couldn't ignite it, burns very slowly when it catches
on fire. The neoprene-coated nylon fabric that they're using
is normally used in life boats, life vests, and is used aboard
Skylab in the extra vehicular suit bladder. That also burns,
but not as fast as the polyurethane foam. Polyurethane foam
is used onhoard the space station and is cushioning in their
headsets - is very flammable material. And as Commander Carr
indicated it's spectacular when it catches fire. The bleached
collulose paper that they're using is normal writing paper.
The corollary officer indicates that there's 80 to 100 pounds
of this paper aboard Skylab. And the Teflon fabric that they'll
be testing again, and have already tested three times is
hard to burn. That material is used in the space suits. One
of the experiments for the flammability experiment this after-
noon is to test and see how these materials burn when they're
not attached. In the three flammability tests so far, the
fabric has been held in place by a little clamp. If they
get to the rest of the M479 experiments today, or possibly
tomorrow, they'll attach the piece of the material very ioosly
to the clamp and then as it burns, it will propel itself
around to new areas of oxygen. The corollary officer feels
that that's a more realistic experiment as something that
would be burning in a space station wouldn't necessarily be
tied down, and if it was burning, it would propel itself seeking
a new oxygen atmosphere as it burns. Next acquisition will
be 18 minutes from now, that'll be through the Vanguard. 21
hours 23 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2859/I
TIME: 16:40 CDT, 81:21:40 GMT
2/4/74

PAO Twenty-one hours 40 minutes Greenwich

mean time. Space station now nearing acquisition through
the Vanguard tracking ship. At this time Science Pilot
Ed Gibson should be swabbing the walls of the workshop
with a swab trying to collect bacteria samples that he'll
return with him next Friday. Scientist here are interested
in finding out what micro-organisms are growing in space,
sharing the environment with the crew. Pilot Bill Pogue
doing PT according to the schedule. And Commander Carr is
still working on the flamability test. We'll hold the line
up now for CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston we are AOS through the
Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes.
CC For the CDR, no need to acknowledge now,
Jet, but if you get a chance this pass we would appreciate
a kind of update on how goes it today.
CC Skylab, Houston, we will be doing a
data/voice recorder dump this site.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, Jerry.
CDR Okay, Crip. Ed's pretty much on schedule
with his work. And Bill is finishing up his exercise. I
have finished up sample number 18 on 479 and I'm rigging
the water quench system now to start on sample number 19.
And as I told you before, I got a little TV for you to look
at. I don't know if it's going to be any good or not because
of the dynamic changes in the light level as the flames were
going on but I thought it was worth at least a try. And as
soon as I get the water quench system set up, I'm going to
go on down and exercise because Ed's going to need the vaccumn
cleaner for some of his work. And 1'11 try to pick up some
more of this 479 later on.
CC Okay, fine; appreciate that, and unfortunate
it's going to be awhile like tomorrow, before we can give
you any feedback on the TV. So it's not going to mean much
for what you're doing right now. We won't be able to get
it down till late tonight, and get it back here in the
morning. One item if you have an opportunity you might kind
of look at today and tomorrow, we definitely our intend is to
make sure that you have an opportunity to get through the transfers
and if anything needs to come out of there, we're setting
here prepared to take it out.
CDR Okay, I really haven't even had a chance to
sit down and look through the transfer list. But if it's
anything like activation it's going to be murder.
CC Yeah, I - I think after we got a couple of
questions from Ed last night trying to find things, we're
- we're anticipating the worse here so we really make - need to
make sure that we get through those and anything else can fall
out.
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CDR Roger, I think about all we can do on

the transfers is to just dig in and start plowing and hope
we get done.
CC Okay, fine. If you get a chance there,
the Flight Plan of course is in - in the teleprinter if you
haven't pulled it off yet, so you might want to take a look
at that.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. I know you're busy
working there so you don't have to answer me immediately
but we would like to also find out if you put that universal
sealant on the QD's because we are still seein_ a decrease
in the Delta P on the condensate tank.
CDR That's affirmative; I did, Crip.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, we are i minute from
LOS. Next station contact in 6 minutes through Ascension at
21:57, 21:57.
PAO Loss of signal through the Vanguard
tracking ship. Twenty-one hours 52 minutes Greenwich mean
time. We'll keep the line up as we're now about 4 minutes
away from reacquisition through Ascension.

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SL-IV MC-2860/I
Time: 16:52 CDT 81:21:52 GMT
2/4/74

CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you

through Ascension for 7 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip. I got a question for you
this afternoon.
CC Ed, I hope you got easier questions
than you had last night, but, shoot.
SPT Air sampler media which we used as the
IMSS-2, there are only four cans up here or four little
plastic containers. I believe the checklist calls for five.
The one that's missing is the 1-minute experiment station.
CC Okay, let's see what they want to do
about it.
SPT These were packed and sealed in a
plastic bag, Crip, and have not been opened until just now,
so it was in the initial packin_ which it was not
included either intentionally or unintentionally.
CC Roger, copy.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, I think I can answer
your question. Apparently they only want four samples and
I guess step 23 looks a little bit confusing saying running
amp time is 5 minutes and 1 minute, respectively. They only
want one sample on step 23 of 5 minutes. We are currently
1 minute from LOS, next contact is at Guam at 22:41; that's
about 38 minutes away. And Ed, once more, you should have
a 10-minute sample you take on step 13; a 5-minute sample
you take on step 23; when you get down to step 30 it asks
you to repeat step 13 and 22 once more which would give you
another i0 and a 5-minute sample.
SPT Okay, Crip, I got that. That's the way
I guess I marked them; that's the way I'm going. Thank
yOU.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab now over the horizon from the
tracking antenna at Ascension. Science Pilot Ed Gibson
apparently having some trouble reading the checklist for
the IMSS experiment. This part involves vacuuming air into
bags to get air samples. He thought there were five air
samples required, there are only four air samples required.
Commander Carr now doing exercise for the day indicated
earlier that he was going to begin that early, so he's
probably half way through his exercise period right now.
And Ed Gibson is about halfway through his IMSS experiment.
Pilot Bill Pogue is scheduled shortly to regroup. That'll
give him opportunity to finish anything that he didn't have
time for earlier in the day. Next acquisition will be 34
minutes from now and that will be through Guam. 22 hours
and 6 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2g61/I
Time: 17:39 CDT 81:22:39 GMT
2/4/74

PAO 22 hours 39 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Space station Skylab less than 1 minute away from acquisition
through Guam. We'll hold the line up for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through
Guam for 6 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are about 30 seconds
from LOS. Next station contact in 33 minutes through the
Vanguard at 23:18, 23:18.
CDR Roger, Crip.
PAO Skylab now out of range of the tracking
antenna at Guam. Next acquisition will be 30 minutes from
now, that'll be through the Vanguard. 22 hours 48 minutes,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2862/I
TIME: 18:17 CDT, 81:23:17 GMT
214174

PAO Twenty-three hours 17 minutes Greenwich

mean time. Space station now nearing acquisition over
the Vanguard. We'll hold the line up for Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston we are AOS through the
Vanguard for ii minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CC Roger, and I'm looking for a man to do
a task, I see the PLT might have a little time. Is he
available?
PLT All depends on what you have in mind, Crip.
CC Aah this is an easy one. We're still
trying to save this condensate system from getting down to
where we have to dump it again. And we got one more item
we'd like to try. That gunk that Jerry smeared on the QD's
awhile ago apparently didn't work. We'd like to go up to
behind panel 217 on the one that we did gunk earlier but
we understand that that should be able to wipe off, it
doesn't hurt to go ahead and do what I'm going to ask you
to with it on there. And use that QD and find some condensate
QD caps which we have about 3 of them in little bag stowed
in MI41. Go ahead and disconnect that SUS water gas separator
gas QD and try putting the cap on it.
PLT It's in work.
CC Okay, while you're up there could we
also get you on the ATM C&D to put the MONITOR ACS SELECT -
SELECTOR switch to the DAS position so that we could do a
little test from the ground here, please.
PLT Okay.
CC And Bill, in case I didn't make that clear
that connector should go on the line and not the water gas
separator.
PLT Roger, copy.
PLT Okay, have DAS selected.
CC Thank you.
PLT On all three.
CC No, that was - I'm sorry; it was the wrong
one, we wanted the - the one up there on the top right under
the word MONITOR, associated with the gage the meter, not
the counter.
PLT Okay, I've got that one.
CC Thank you.
SPT Hey, Crip, while hers working that, I have
a question for you.
CC Go sir.
SPT IMSS 4 do they want the (garble) completely
cleaned out as specified in the procedures?
CC Check it for you.
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SPT Thank you.

PLT Okay, Crip, the gas line off the liquid
gas separator 217 is capped. And I have a question, I was
using the O-ring lubricant on the one back in the aft airlock
compartment, I was just wondering if they considered using it
on this cap here.
CC Okay, I don't know whether they did or
not let me let me see if I can find out an answer to that.
You're talking about that Krytox that you put on last - yester-
day evening or this morning rather?
PLT Well, I don't know if it's Krytox or not,
it was called O-ring lubricant now the rest of our general
purpose lubricant is Krytox; I know that.
CC Okay, okay.
PLT Anyway that (garble) is now capped.
CC Let's just leave it capped like that
right now, Bill. We were - just wanted to stop it, so we can
forget about it, and we we think this might do it.
PLT Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. Ed, good call, you can
forget about cleaning out that slide (garble)
SPT Thank you, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston we are 1 minute from LOS.
Next station contact is through Ascension in 3 minutes and
that is going to be the med conference; Dr. Ross will
be waiting to talk with you.
CDR Okay, Crip.
PAO Loss of signal from the Vanguard now.
Less than 2 minutes away from reacquisition through Ascension.
This will be the medical conference. We'll hold the line
up as we go directly through Canary Island and Madrid following
the medical conference.

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Time: 18:30 CDT 81:23:30 GMT
2/4/74

CC Skylab, Houston. We still got you for

about 4 more minutes through Canary and Madrid. Sorry, it's
going to be about 8 minutes though.
PLT Roger, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. Next station contact is through Guam in 26 minutes at
00:16. And we have a redundant phone call setup for the
PLT at that station, be ANTENNA LEFT going to RIGHT.
CDR Okay, Crip. See you.
CC Okeydoke.
PAO 23 hours 51 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Space station now out of range of Madrid trackin_ antenna.
Crew is about i0 minutes away from eating their evening meal.
They were scheduled today for the high density food bars,
they expressed a preference not to eat those today. They've
been rescheduled for mission day 84, instead the crew was told
that could have the following meal which was put together
from the overage items. Commander Cart will be eating
shrimp, spaghetti, chicken gravy, mashed potatoes, rice
crispys, ice cream and orange drink for dinner. Ed Gibson
will be eating spaghetti, eggs and shrimp, mashed potatoes,
green beans, vanilla wafers, ice cream and lemonade and/or
grape drink. And Bill Pogue will also be eating shrimp with
veal, chicken gravy, macaroni, mashed potatoes, ice cream,
lemonade and/or orange drink. Crew was told they could have
strawberries on their ice cream but if they do they have to
put that notation down on the data/voice recorder. 23
minutes away from acquisition, that'll be through Guam. 23
hours 53 minutes, this is Skylab Control,

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SL-IV MC2864/I
Time: 19:15 CDT 83:00:15 GMT
2/4/74

PAO Fifteen minutes Greenwich mean time,

space station Skylab now nearing acquisition through the
tracking antenna on Guam. All three crewmembers are scheduled
to be eating at this point, having previously indicated this
morning that they didn't want the high density bars they're
eating regular food this evening. Hold the line up now for
CAP COMM, Bob Crippen.
CC Skylah, Houston, we are ADS through Guam
for i0 minutes. We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump
there.
SPT Hello, Crip.
CC Go.
SPT Page 2-19 in the Deactivation Checklist,
says that in D440 there ought to be some entry rope, not a
shred of it up there.
CC We're going to do that tonight, too, huh?
We'll check it out for you.
CDR I've been saving them all day long, Crip.
CC I figured that, Ed.
CC Skylab, Houston, we are 30 seconds from
LOS. Next station contact is through the Vanguard in
31 minutes at 00:56. And Ed in answer to your question,
if you can't find any of the entry rope in 440, we do have
some PBI rope which is the same stuff in 424 you might take
a look in there.
SPT Thank you, Crip, appreciate it.
CC You might also look behind the film
vault. There was some of the stuff from Pete's EVA that we
understood got stowed back there, and he used quite a bit
of that rope.
CC Ed, you might also look behind the film
vault, there may be some left from Pete_s EVA behind there.
SPT What was behind the film vault?
CC The rope. We're going over the hill, I'ii
talk to you at Vanguard.
PAO Loss of signal through Guam. Ed Gibson
had a comment on some rope he was hunting. Ed Gibson and
Bill Pogue should be comin_ up on limb volumn measurements
and photography later on this evening, about 30 minutes from
now. Also about 30 minutes from now Commander Carr is
scheduled to take the last picture of the Comet Kohoutek,
that's the $233 experiment. The crew has reported over the
past couple of days that they haven't been able to see the
comet. However, the film is sufficiently sensitive that if
the comet does reflect any of the Sun's light that the film
would pick it up. They usually take three pictures, a
defocused picture of the star fields with the lens of the
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Nikon camera set at 15 feet. Then an infocused picture

with the lens set at infinity. Then another defocused
picture with the lens set again at 15 feet. With the lens
defocused, the light from the stars and of the comet are more
defused, and the film will be able to pick it up better.
These exposures have been running a 120 seconds lon_ each.
The comet is now about i00 million miles from Earth, and
just about that far from the Sun. There is very little light
it could reflect. Next acquisition will be 27 minutes from
now that will be over the Vanguard trackin_ ship. Twenty-
eight minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2865/I
TIME: 19:55 CDT, 81:00:55 GMT
2/4/74

PAO Fifty-five minutes Greenwich mean time.

Space station Skylab now nearin_ acquisition through the
tracking ship Vanguard. We have Dr. Charles Ross's evening
medical report which I'll read to you now. "The crew of
Skylab III are at this time all in excellent health and in
jovial spirits. They are still performing their daily
exercise in order to maintain a satisfactory muscle tonous
and cardiovascular status for one g readaptation." Commander
Carr will be taking his last and the Skylab's last picture
of the Comet Kohoutek shortly using the Nikon camera with
the normal lens on it. Black and white film will be used
for this regualr visible light black and white film.
Three exposures planned 120 seconds each. One of them in
focus and two of them out of focus. Hold the line up now
for Bob Crippen, CAP COMM.
CC Skylab, Houston, we are AOS through the
Vanguard for 9 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip. I managed to get my (garble)
rope out of the JSC sail and the clippers which Paul was
trying to use on SL-II.
CC Okay, we figured that probably - quite
a bid of it still tucked away back there.
SPT For a while there I thought you had guy
in stowage who didn't know the ropes.
CC Oh - oh.
MCC That hurts.
CC Dr. Dell'osso knows the ropes.
CDR Go to your room, Ed.
CC Don't tell him to do that there's too
much work left tonight. Hey you guys might be interested to
know that that last little ditty that we did with the
condensate system by capping that thing on 217, looks like
she cured the problem and she's been holdin_ steady; even gain
a little bit on Delta-P.
PLT Well, that's good news.
CC Yeah, that would really be a pain to
have to be dumping that thing every night.
CC Skylab, Houston we are i minute from LOS,
next station contact in 12 minutes through Canary at 01:16
and we'll be standing by for the evening status report if
it's convenient there. Also for your information, we are
seeing the ATM C&D coolant loop doing a couple of blips.
And we had been wanting to go back and turn old old pump A
which is the one of the first ones that went out on us. And
we'll probalby be asking you to do that through Canary/Madrid
pass if it's convenient.
SPT Okay, Crip and just a general question on
light flashes. Can you tell us what the folks down there
are thinking now after Bill going through two sessions,
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whether they're still convinced it's the cosmic rays or

whether they_r_ willin_ to admit that it may be the
South Atlantic anomaly and the particles have something to do
with it.
CC I'll see if I can get an answer for you
are you wanting to do one yourself, is that what you're
asking for Ed?
SPT Yeah, I think I need a little session
studying the backside of my eyelids.
CC Thatts - thatts what I was doing here
between Guam and the Vanguard.
PLT Also Crip_ would you get a reading on
the quality of the data from this morning's run.
CC We'll do that for you, FLIGHT tells me
for Ed, we got one scheduled between 03:00 and 04:00 for
him.
SPT I_Ii set the alarm.
PAO One hour 6 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Ed Gibson asking, this pass, whether the experiment this
morning during which time Bill Pogue had his eyes shut and
his head immobile for an hour trying to catch cosmic rays
or high-energy particles trapped in the South Atlantic
anomaly was any good. The biomedical officer here say
the data indicates that the results were good but they can't
figure out yet whether it was high-energy particles or
cosmic rays. Ed Gibson wanted to do the experiment himself,
Bob Crippen indicated that they had a time period set aside
between 3 o_clock and 4 o'clock Greenwich mean time or
his first hour of sleep if he wanted to do it, facetious
call-up actually. Next acquisition is 8 minutes from now,
thattll be through Canary for combined Canary Island/Madrid
pass. One hour 7 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2866/I
Time: 20:15 CDT 82:01:15 GMT
2/4/74

PAO 1 hour 15 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Space station now nearing acquisition through Canary for a
pass that will take it over Madrid, also, Science Pilot Ed
Gibson was told earlier in the day that if he had any free
time which did not interfer with any other scheduled activity
that he could go to the ATM panel and fire up the EXTREME
ULTRAVIOLET MONITOR again, XUV monitor, and record some
video off that so that the Kitt Peak Observatory could
corroborate data which they're getting from a new high
sensitivity magnitograph which will show coronal holes,
bright spots, filament channels and, in general, most of what
the Skylab astronauts have been locking at at the Sun. They
want this data for comparison so that they can align their
new magnitrophaph. Hold the line up now for this Canary
Island and Madrid pass with CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through
Canary for 14 minutes.
PLT Got you, Crip. And I have got the photo
log when you are ready to copy.
SPT Hey, Crip, would you like pump (garble)
right now?
CC That's affirmative. We also need to
get the circuit breaker for that and I'm trying to see
where abouts on the panel it is. It's on panel 202, needs
to be closed, it's in the left hand portion of it, down at
the bottom. And we are ready for the - we're ready for the
photo log. And in addition, if Ed is goin_ to get that pump
for us, on that XUV monitor message that we sent you up earlier
today, we would you to go ahead and go through the power down
and that was on the message 8138.
SPT Okay, Crip. I thought over the next few
days I would be sending this stuff down and was hoping to
leave a good part of that powered up so I didn't have to go
through that power up each time.
CC Okay, that's that's fine, you can leave
it then, Ed.
SPT Thank you.
CC Send us the photo log, Bill.
PLT Roger. 16-millimeter: M516 (S054), Charlie
India 65, 37 percent_ Charlie India 81; M479, India Romeo 06,
48 percent_ Charlie India 867 M479, Charlie India 98, 00,
Charlie India 94. Nikon status: Nikon 01, India Romeo 12,
25; Nikon 02_ Bravo Victor 41, 47; Nikon 03, Charlie India 116,
38_ Nikon 04, Charlie X-ray 61, 01; Nikon 05, Bravo Hotel 06,
count is 53. 70_milllimeter, Charlie X-ray 45, count is 040.
Okay, and the Nikon 05 anticipated two $233 exposures on per -
as per pad thought. Also, Charlie X-ray 54 and 53 have been
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exposed and have been stowed. Drawer A configuration: Alfa

i, transporter 02, India Romeo 06, 48 pecent, Charlie India,
86; Alfa 2, transporter 05, take up is Charlie India 98;
BACK, transporter 08, Charlie India 65, 37 percent, Charlie
India 81; Alfa 3, Alfa 4, no change.
CC Okay, real fine, Bill. And if - if it's
convenient wetll take the rest of the evenin_ status report.
PLT Stand by.
CDR Okay, Crip, - stand by until I get this
squeal.
CC Okay.

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CDR Okay, the sleep: CDR, 6.0, 5 heavy

i light; SPT, 7.0, 5 heavy, 2 light; PLT, 5.5 all heavy.
Volumes: 275" 200; 225. Water gun: 9000; 5122; 2148.
Body mass: 6.310, 6.308, 6.308; 6.393; 6.391, 6.394;
6.273, 6.272, 6.279. Exercise: CDR, standard minus method
Bravo; SPT, no change used Mark III in lue of Mark I; PLT,
minus method Bravo. Medications: CDR, one Sudafed as
directed; SPT and PLT, none. Clothing: CDR, socks, shorts,
and shirt_ SPT, socks and T-shirt; PLT, socks, shorts, T-
shirt, shirt, and trousers. Food log: CDR, 3.0 salt, plus
one coffee with sugar, minus one pineapple, the can of
pineapple was leaking it spoiled, rehydration water zero;
SPT, zero salt, plus one tuna, plus strawberries. Getting
back to the CDR, add strawberries to the CDR's list. PLT,
3.0 salt, plus one crispy bar, plus strawberries, zero
rehydration water. Flight Plan devs, none. Shopping list,
none. Inoperable equipment: WMC SMMD curtain is separated
from the frame. We're having to use the one in the ward-
room for fecal weighing. Unscheduled stowage: none.
CC Okay, think we've got all that.
CC In answer to Ed and Bill's question
regarding the light flashes. We do see latitude dependents
as was probably obvious to Bill there. The surprising thing
is the great frequency of flashes which we are seeing in
the South Atlantic anomaly. We did see a decrease in
frequency and then a large increase in frequency. And from
Bill_s description we think that the particles are most likely
not protons but some heavier particles. And this is the first
evidence of that type of particles and the Pl's very excited
about it. And seeing the data that you sent down earlier
today, Bill, is excellent.
PLT Okay, thank you. My wife was ribbing me
a few minutes ago about the saying that - that some kind of
report that I didn't see anything and turned over and went
to sleep for another 3 hours or something to that effect.
CC Yes, yes and you we're really working. I
couldn't see how you could stay still that lon_.
PLT No effort at all. PI did a real good job
of orienting me, by the way Crip. That was the first time I've
ever been able to get that much uniformity in the configuration
of the flashes.
CC Very good.
CC For the CDR, Jer when you were readin_
the report we didn't copy regarding no water deviations on
the SPT. Was that was that the case?
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CC Regarding - -
CDR That's right Crip.
CC Okay, can you give us a a status on
479 for today?
CDR Okay, I'm up trying to do it right now.
I've done samples 19 and 20. And the water quench system is
not working properly and - but it didn't make any difference
on 19 and 20. The were both bummers anyway and quit burning
beore we could get the water quench system on.
CC Hey, it doesn't sound like much of that
stuff is burning at all.
CDR The polyurethane foam is really spectac-
ular, in that the paper just kind of glows and it does pretty
well. The aluminized Mylar, the first three times burned
beautifully, but this last time didntt do to well. The
polyurethane-covered nylon burns real nicely with a nice
blue flame. And the teflon, once it gets away from the
ignition wire, it quits burning.
CC Okay, thank you very much for that run-
down.
CC Jer, would you care to say a few more
words about the problem with the water quench system?
CDR Well, the lower nozzle appears to be
completely plugged. And I just don't have time to mess with
it to try to unplug it. The upper nozzle just sends out
a dribble rather than a nice spray. So what I've done is
I've gone back and completely reserviced the system again,
and we'll try it over again.
CC Okay, fine, And we concur with not
spending a lot of time on it tonight Jet.
CDR Okayp I'm just going to go as far as I
can before bedtime and that will have to be the end of it.
CC Okay, that will be fine. Incidentally
next station contact is going to be your phone call_ set
up at 02:05 and it'll be ANTENNA, RIGHT.
CDR Okay, thank you Crip.

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CC - - next is gonna be your phone call set

up at 02:05 and on the ANTENNA, RIGHT.
CDR Okay, thank you, Crip.
CC For the SPT, Ed, regarding that that
coolant loop is right now pump alpha is lookin_ good but
since we_ve had the problem with it previously, we dontt
want to run with it all night. So what we_d like you to
do is, before you get ready to retire, to go ahead and switch
us back to pump Alfa - correction pump Bravo and if in the
mean time you should see a low Delta P light and any noise
is heard on this praticular pump Alfa we would appreciate
getting put down on a voice record - any comments about it,
and if you do run into a problem with it, go ahead and
switch back to pump Bravo at that time.
SPT Roger, Crip_ will do.
SPT Hey, Crip, one other thing, if a (garble)
sending down TV, if there was anyone from 52 wanted me to
go Sun center and send them down some TV of that, I'll
be glad to do it but it would interfer with the 55 operation.
But from the standpoint from up here as long as I'm up there
(garble) I can do so if the like it I can do it.
CC See if I can get a quick answer for you.
Okay, also we have not found the center-of-mass data that you
took for us on mission day 76, that's about 6 days ago. If you
still have it available, we would appreciate it if you could put
it on the dump voice recorder for us tonight. Or tomorrow
will be fine. We're about 30 seconds from LOS and next
station contact is again through Honeysuckle at 02:05 and
I'm not planning on talking to you there unless you need me.
PLT Okay, Crip.
CC Also, Jerry asked about film for documentary
photos. If, when you get through with 479, you can use any
of the CI film remaining for documentary photos including
CI95 and CI96. You can put those on transporter 05. That's
CI95 and 96, transporter 05, they're in J5 and J6.
PLT Okay, thank you, Crip.
CC Night guys.
CDR Good night.
SPT Night, Crip.
CC Take care. Think of some good stowage
questions for me tomorrow night.
PLT I'll have three.
PAO Skylab now out of range of the tracking
antenna at Madrid. Ed Gibson seems to be itching to get
back to the ATM C&D panel. Also Bill Pogue, some comments
up to Bill Pogue about his earlier experiments with the
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South Atlantic anomaly. Biomedical officer here at

Mission Control indicates that the experiment went very
well today and he did in fact see quite a number of light
flashes. And the indication is that these are heavy particles -
alpha particles or particles of ionized helium not just protons
as was previously thought to be the case. And Commander Cart
indicating that the third stage of the N479 experiment which
is the water-quench system to see how fast the 6 samples can
be put out once they're ignited. Indicated that that system
wasn't working very well at all. There are two water spray
jets, lower and upper, the lower one, according to Carr, doesn't
work at all and the upper one dribbles instead of sprays so
it's of no use. He keeps referring to the polyurethane
foam as being quite spectular. He took television of that
earlier which will be dumped around midnight tonight. Also
indicated that the Teflon which they used the EVA suits,
doesn't burn at all and the alumunized Mylar which had
burned quite readily in experiments this morning didn't
burn this time. Crew is now entering their pre-sleep period.
There won't be any further call up to the crew from Bob
Crippen tonight. The crew can still call down until 3 'o clock
Greenwich mean time which is their bedtime. We'll keep the
line up however, just in case the crew does have some
additional questions. One hour and 33 mintues, Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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PAO 2 hours 50 minutes Greenwich mean time.

This is Skylab Control. We don't expect any further
communication between the ground and the crew for today.
Today's crew experiments went exceedingly well according to
all indications here in mission control. Commander Carr's
M479 flammability test, complete success except for one small
aspect, the water-quenching section of the experiment wasn't
working properly, but nevertheless didn't degrade the
quality of the experiment. Science Ed Gibson's collection
of bacterial matter on the wardroom wall and collection of
air samples from the space station. We won't know what
kind of micro-organisms are growing in space until they
bring that back with them next Friday. Science Pilot Ed or
rather Pilot Bill Pogue's South Atlantic Anomaly experiment
this morning, a success. For tomorrow the crew will spending
almost all day with day-82 transfers during which time
they'll be bring back all of the film which they have used
in the solar experiments, that's film from all - that they've
retrieved from all four EVAs, film that they've taken with
the Nikon and Hasselblad cameras inside and various other
cameras used with the comet Kohoutek experiments and other
steller experiments, materials samples that theytve retrieved
today and various other items. They'll be transfering all but
experimental data which requires refrigeration tomorrow, that
medical data and penicillin samples has to be refrigerated
just prior to hatch closeout. They'll be bringing that stuff
back with them or transfering it rather Friday. We're going
to bring the line down now for the evening and we'll bring
it back up tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. The crew gets up at 6:00
a.m. tomorrow, regular normal wakeup time. 2 hours and 52
minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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2/5/74

PAO Good morning, this is Skylab Control at

l0 hours 55 minutes Greenwich mean time on mission day 82.
Skylab approaching acquisition through the Bermuda tracking
station. CAP COMM Hank Hartsfield plans to put in a wakeup
call during the Bermuda pass. Flight Director is Gene Kranz.
We'll stand by for the wakeup.
CC (Music: "Out in the Country" by Three
Dog Night.)
CC (Music: "I feel the Earth Move" by Carol
King. )
CC Skylab, Houston, a warm good morning to you.
We're about a minute from LOS, see in you again at Canaries
in 2 minutes.
CC (Music)
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. Canaries will acquire in about a half a minute.
Wakeup music this morning was "Out in the Country" by Three
Dog Night, and "I Feel the Earth Move" by Carol King. We'll
stand by for acquisition at Canary, with overlapping coverage
through the Ascension Island station.

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215174

CC Skylab, Houston, we're back with you through

Canaries and Ascension for 16 minutes. And we'll be planning
to dump the recorder here at Ascnesion in about 7 minutes from
now.
CC Skylab, Houston, when you get all squared
away there this morning, I've got a little news for you and
also got a couple of comments on today's Flight Plan.
CDR Okay, Hank, go ahead.
CC Well, I'ii give you a little news here
first. From Washington we hear that the federal and state
negotiators and the independent truckers appear near a compromise
that could end the truck drivers' strike - spike - say that
again, strike. Most states are feeling the effects of the
shutdown of the truckers. Scattered violence was reported in
19 states. The National Guard was on duty in three states
and on standby alert in three others. Food shortages and
layoffs have increased. The effects of the shutdown of the
independent truckers today will cause thousands to lose their
jobs temporarily in affected industries. Here's one from
Massachusetts. You can imagine this. Can you imagine a
9_foot long aluminum finger. Says here_ the rhymathmic
yanks of a 9-foot long aluminum finger jerked the world's
longest yo-yo up and down the side of a 21-story building Monday
at Massachusetts Instutute of Technology. Ten students engineered
the huge toy atop MIT's tallest building as a mid-semester
project "just because it was there," said a professor. ItVs
too bad you don't have a yo-yo with you, it says, because you lay
claim to the highest yo-yo on, or off the Earth. From Cyprus:
An hour of sunshine gibes Cypriots a hot bath. The Greeks and
Turks on this sun-blessed island of Aphrodite harnessed the Sun
for their domestic energy needs long before the oil crisis and
Arab embargoes. Nearly every villa and house here has a solar
water heater on its roof. Engineers in Mediterranean countries
have estimated that sufficient sunshine hits the roof of an
average home to supply more than i0 times its daily power needs.
About half that is needed to heat water. From Belgium: A
Belgian worker won a $i0 bet by riding a bicycle naked through
the streets of Ghent to buy a bag of potato chips, authorities
reported. He ended up a net loser however, because he was fined
$130 and jailed for a month on a charge of offending public
morals. I wonder if you got a picture of that on any of the
EREP passes? Pasadena: Scientists expressed confidence Monday
that Mariner 10's encounter with Venus will be successful
Tuesday although there is a chance problems could develop.
The ll08-pound spacecraft is scheduled to pass within 3600
miles of Venus at 17:01 GMT today providing seientists with
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the first close-up pictues of the planet as Mariner continues

on toward its primary destination of Mercury. The problem
that could come up in the fly-by involves the gyroscopes which
are used to keep Mariner in the proper position so that
the antenna faces the Earth, the cameras and equipment face
Venus and the solar panels face the Sun. Something went wrong
in the gyro system last week and 20 percent of the nitrogen gas
needed to operate it escaped. And in sports, the Houston
Aeros beat Jersey 7 to i to get back on the winning
trail again. They are now called the "Fighting Areos".
Seems they've wound up with fisticuffs in the last two games. The
Aeros and Jersey go at it again in Houston tonight.
CDR Hey Hank, I think I can find i0 dollars,
can you get a bicycle?
CC Oh, I think we'd be able to round up a few
bikes. You've got one up there you might try pedaling around
the world.
CDR Heck, we pedal around the world every day.
CC How are you attired?
CDR Well, I'Ii have to admit, we usually do
wear something.
CC We're ready to dump that recorder now if
you're not using it.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC And for info, if you see something funny
with the lights on the CBRMs when you go pass the STS there,
we're running battery capacity tests on CBRM 4 now.
CC Ed, Houston.
CDR Hey Hank, Ed's using the recorder right
now, if you could hold off on that dump and then he'll be
right with you.
CDR Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, we were - we're dumping there, Jerry
and we're through with it now. So I don't know how much of
that he might have missed.
CDR Okay, he got a green light, so I guess you
were through before he started.
CC Okay, good show.
CC And Jerry, while I've got you, the PLT is
deactivating the T003 this morning, and we've had in his details
to go ahead and transfer it to A-5. And that comes early on
the list of your transfers, so I just want to make you aware
of it. We thought there was no sense in him stowing the thing
and then you unstowing it and taking it up into A-5.
CDR We'll buy that. Thatls good thinking.
CC And there is one other transfer item and
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you will probably notice it when you look at the remarks in

the film thread pad. Since you've loaded up CX61 and used
some of that, we'll have to add that to the transfer list.
And it's in the remarks there of your film thread pad.
CDR Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston for info we have redeslgnated
your recorder so that you will have a good light, one that won't
blink at you. And so next time somebody's up in the STS, if
you'll give me a call, I'ii tell you what our configuration is
so you can bring your panel 204 up with the current configuration.
CDR Okay, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about i minute from
LOS. Carnarvon is coming up next at 47, that's 24 minutes from
now. And at Carnarvon right at sunset, which is about 2 minutes
near that pass, we would like to get one of you to do a
fine adjust on PCG number 6. We're going to do a bat capacity
test on that particular PCG.
SPT Okay, about how far away is that?
CC Okay, it's 24 minutes from now then at
the next pass at Carnarvon. And the pass is about 8 minutes
long and about 2 minutes from the end of it is when we'll want
you to do it right at sunset. We'll give you a call there.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The space station
has moved out of the Ascension Island range now. Next acquisition
through Carnarvon in 22 minutes. At ii hours 25 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 06:46 CDT, 82:11:46 GMT
2/5/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours

46 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisi_
tion through Carnarvon, with a brief overlapping coverage
through the Honeysuckle station.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Carnarvon
for 8-1/2 minutes. And we_ll have a short keyhole about
i minute from now.
PLT Okay, Hank. And before the keyholep
I can't find the stowage bag for T003. Is there anything
in the stowage bag for T003 that I need for return? Other-
wise, I'm just going to make do here. I don't want to waste
any more time looking for the bag.
CC Okay. We'll check it out.
PLT Okay, Hank. You can disregard, I was looking
in the wrong bag by the PSS and found the T003 return container.
CC Okay, Bill. You saved us a lot of trouble
here. We were scratching our heads here about to try to
find it.
PLT I was looking in the wrong reference
bag. There were two bags by the PSS and I looked in the
wrong one.
SPT Morning Hank. IVm wondering if you - When
you're setting up the phone call for this evening, if you
could do it so it'd be before 12:00.
SPT That's 24:00.
CC Okay. That sounds a little better.
You had me puzzled there for a minute.
CC Matter of fact, we -
SPT (Garble) - -
SPT Only had a year in the Air Force.
CC (Laughter) Okay. Matter of fact, we do
have it set up for 23:32 at Guam, left to right.
SPT You guys are always way ahead of me. Thank you.
CC And, Ed, while we_ve got you here, we
been - the biomed's been poring over the dump tapes here
and we can't find the MO92 voice data from the PLT yesterday.
And whenever you get a chance, we'd sure appreciate it if
you could rerecord it. And also, the same remarks apply to
the post-M131 run comments if you had any. We don't know
whether you did or not, but we couldn't find any if you did
put some on there.
SPT Okay, Hank. I'ii do those over again.
l'm not sure what the heck happened to both of them.
PLT Hey, Hank. The two leg-band measurements
were 13 inches even and the leg bands were Charlie Juliett
and Alfa Quebec.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from sunset. So if - if whoever_s free could start moseying
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on up or th$nk ahout getting on up to the STS, we'll be ready

to make that reg- FINE REG ADJUST right at sunset.
PLT Okay, Hank. Jar's on his way.
CDR Okay, Hank. Go.
CC Okay, Jer. We've already commanded
PCG-6 rag on and sunset is about i0 seconds from now according
to our clock. And at sunset we'll want you to, on the REG
CONTROL PCG-6 FINE ADJUST we want you to go clockwise until you
have a discharge of 15 amps.
CDR Okay. It's in work.
CC And for info, we anticipate that this
bat capacity check will be completed at Goldstone about 2 hours
from now. And we'll give you a call there and we'll want
you to put that FINE ADJUST pot to the little mark
you made yesterday.
CC And, Jar, while you're up there, if you
want to go ahead and set up the panel 204 recorders to our
current configuration, I can give you that.
CC Skylabp Houston. We're 30 seconds
from LOS. Guam is the next site at 02. And that's 6_i/2 minutes
from now.
CDR Okay, Hank. Give me that recorder con_
figuration, and I'ii do it.
CC Okay. Number I is EXPERIMENT i in VOICE
Number 2 is DATA in VOICE. And number 3 is EXPERIMENT 2.
There shouldn't be any change on that one.
CDR Okay. l've got it. Thanks.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. Guam will pick up Skylab in 4 minutes.
The T003 experiment, that Bill Pogue is in the process of
deactivating is inflight aerosol analysis experiment. This
is the experiment that measures aerosol particle composition,
concentration and size distribution inside of the space station
to assess potential health hazards, the sources of the
particles and the adequacy of air distribution, circulation
and filtration in Skylab. Skylab about 3_i/2 minutes away
from Guam. We'll stand by for a 6-minute pass there.

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Time: 06:58 CDT, 82:11:58 GMT
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CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 4-1/2

minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
Goldstone is next at 25, that's 18-1/2 minutes from now.
SPT So long, Hank.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab's passed
out of range of the antennas at Guam. Next acquisition at
Goldstone in 16 minutes. At 12 hours 9 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 24
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about to begin a pass
over the United States. Acquisition at Goldstone in about
45 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for
5-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. i minute to LOS. Texas
in 2 minutes at 32.
CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda and MILA
for 12-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
Ascension is next in i0 minutes at 53.
CDR Houston, CDR with a question.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay. For the neutron density can, is
that can the same size as a boric acid can? We could not
find a neutron detector (?) can in S-920. It's apparently been
misplaced. But I do have a can the size of a boric acid can
that might work.
CC We're checking it, Jer.
CDR Say again, Hank.
CC Okay. We're checking on that.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Bermuda has loss
of signal. Ascension will acquire Skylab in 7-1/2 minutes.
At 12 hours 45 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 52
minutes Greenwich mean time. Acquisition of Skylab through
Ascension Island in about 45 seconds. Here in the Control
Center, a change of shift is taking place. Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson relieving Gene Kranz. A new CAP COMM will
be astronaut Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for
5-1/2 minutes.
CC And CDR, the can you're referring to is
about the same size as a boric acid can and is that the second
decant from the IMSS? We need two boric acid cans and one decant
for the ED31 transfer later this evening.
SPT I've all ready got that squared away, Hank.
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CC Okay. Thank you.

SPT So - so he's - he's got another can which
he's free to use and same size.
CDR Okay Hank. The thing here is you got
four little bitty packets in that big can. That's a big
waste of volume to pack away. We can get along without it.
I'd propose we wrapped those - we taped those four together
and put them in that way.
CC Okay. We'll check that one out, Jer.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. Wetd like you to go ahead
and put them in the can as it's called out there.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from
LOS. Carnarvon is coming up next in about 25-1/2 minutes, at
24 and we plan to dump the recorder there. We'll be handing
over the silver team. This is the last shift for the bronze
and white teams. It's been a good mission. We enjoyed working
with you. We wish you a safe return and look forward to seeing
you back in Houston.
PLT Thanks a lot, Hank. We'll look forward
to seeing you all.
SPT Thanks very much for your good help and good
work, bronze team. We sure appreciate it. We'll see you back
in Houston.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Ascension has
loss of signal. The next station is Carnarvon in 24 minutes.
Deactivation and transfer of items from the space station to
the command module, taking up almost all of today's Flight
Plan. Skylab Commander Jerry Carr will spend about i0 hours
today transferring items into the command module and stowing
them. He'll be assisted from time to time by the other two
crewmen. However, this afternoon the Science Pilot Ed Gibson
will be the subject of lower body negative pressure and meta-
bolic activity experiments. The observer for that will be
Bill Pogue. Pogue and Gibson will also spend a good part
of the day in deactivation procedures in the workshop. At
13 hours 1 minute Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2874/I
Time: 08:22 CDT 82:13:22 GMT
02/05/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours

22 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching acquisition
through Carnarvon. A briefing on Skylab corollary experiments
is scheduled for i0:00 a.m. central daylight time today in
the Building i briefing room at the Johnson Space Center,
the News Center Briefing Room. That briefing will include
the flammability experiment which concluded yesterday.
Briefing on corolary experiments at i0:00 a.m. central day-
light time at the JSC News Center Briefing Room, Building i.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 10-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump and
the silver team's our name and deactivation's our game. Over.
CDR It ain't no game, Bruce.
CC Sorry about that, but (garble) (laughter)
CDR Hey, Bruce, got a question for you here.
Or I just want to let you know what I'm doing and that is
M479 flammability. They want to bring back specimen 2 and
8. I intend to bring back 26 as well, because 26 is a much
more interesting specimen than 2 and 8. And the question I
have is do you want to leave 2 or 8 behind? Or shall I just
bring all three of them? They're all pretty small.
CC I assume from that you're saying you
think you have room. Let us check it out. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC And at some convenient time would one of
you cycle by the ATM C&D and put the EVA AUTO DOOR switch
into the STORAGE position, please? We show it in INHIBIT,
right now, since the EVA.
CDR Okay, it's in STORAGE.
CC Thank you a bunch.
CC Okay, Jer, the real time SMT CCB is met
here. Bring it back.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
CC That's 2, 8 and 26 now.
CDR Right, and the reason for bringing 26 will
be obvious when they read my tape on those the experiment
last night.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 3_i/2 minutes through Guam at
13:37. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range at Carnarvon. Guam will pick up the space station
in 2 minutes. We'll stand by for a l0 minute pass at Guam.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for
i0 minutes. Out.
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Time: 08:22 CDT 82:13:22 GMT
02/05/74

CC SPT, this is Houston.

SPT Go.
CC Roger, Ed. We'd just like to clear up
a point here if we can. Our understanding from the
transcripts is that when you all made up the heat sink for
the IMSS return container, you used an Apollo type juice
bag and could you confirm that and that you still have
available a return water sample bag for use in connection
with the water sampling and the 8-ounce sample that needs to be
returned. Over.
SPT Okay, I have never rounded up that
sample bag, Bruce. I was told yesterday that since we had
gotten the water out of the pedestal in the wardroom that
the juice bag would be sufficient for the water sample.
CC Negative. That's incorrect. We want
to go ahead and do the sampling per the procedure called
out in the deact checklist using the return water sample
bag for that purpose. Over.
SPT Roger.
CC The word that we're getting down here is
that that's a specially prepared bag which is been prepared
in such a way as to minimize contamination of the sample that
you're bringing back.
SPT Roger.
CC And for your information, that return
water sample bag should be in W-769, W-769.
SPT Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 16 minutes through Goldstone
at 14:03. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss
of signal. Next acquisition through Goldstone in 14-1/2 minutes.
Reminder that at i0:00 a.m. central daylight time in the
News Center Briefing Room, a briefing on Skylab corollary
experiments. At 13 hours 48 minutes Greenwich mean time
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2875/I
Time: 09:01 CDT, 82:14:01 GMT
2/5/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours

i minute Greenwich mean time. Skylab will be acquired at
the Goldstone station in about 45 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone,
Corpus Christi and Merritt Island for 17 minutes. Out.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR Bruce_ I haven't seen any stowage config_
uration yet for the last EREP tape that we took_ Tango 7.
Do you have any idea what they plan to do with that?
CC We'll find out. And in the meantimep
we need to get the PCG number 6_ fine adjust potentiometer
returned to its marked setting. Over.
CDR Okay. I'ii do that. And another question.
In Alfa 8 we've got five EREP tapes in the picture stowed in the
front of Alfa 8. And I don_'t know how we did it_ but it
doesn't fit up here. Can!t close the cover on them.
CC Okay. Let us take a look at that.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Roger s Bruce.
CC Okay. Working your tape problem, the
first thing that comes to our mind is that we have experienced
similar difficulty in stowage down here. If the tape which
is closest to A-5 locker, it is stowed with it's PBI strap
either straight up or straight down, it interferes with
the waffle pattern. And if that's the case, you should
rotate it about 30 degrees and see if the lid will close then.
Over.
CDR I tried that and I can't come within
3/4 of an inch of closing the lid.
CC Okay. You don't have any sort of a
launch restraint clipper bracket left in the bottom of the
locker, do you?
CDR I'ii go recheck. I looked under there
and didn't see anything. And I'm wondering_ does the A-8
locker, is it supposed to have a cutout in the waffle pattern?
I remember, one of the lockers has a cutout.
CC I'ii check on that.
CC I don't see it in the photos in my
copy of the book. But we will check it.
CDR Okay.
PLT Bruce, when I took T-7 tape up there,
it said stow it in the upper equipment bay: I was not quite
sure where specifically that meant. So, I just hung it
up there in the command module and that's one of the tapes
that's going to bug Jer in just a minute.
CC Okay. He's already asked about that.
And we're working that one.
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Time: 09:01 CDT, 82:14:01 GMT
2/5/74

CC It goes in the window shade bag,

CDR You say it goes in t_e window shade hag?
CC Roger.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Rouston. i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 1171/2 minutes through the
Vanguard at 14:30. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Merritt Island_
Florida station has loss of signal. Tracking ship Vanguard
will acquire for a short pass in 9 minutes. A first of the
end of mission weather forecasts has been received. The
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the
National Weather Service Spaceflight Meteorology Group said
this morning that satisfactory weather conditions are
expected for the landing and recovery of Skylab IV on Friday
morning, February 8. The landing zone that is located approximately
150 nautical miles southwest of San Diego is expected to
have partly cloudy skies, northerly surface winds about
15 knots, seas near 5 feet, and temperatures about 60 degrees.
At 14 hours 22 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-IV MC2876/I
Time: 09:29 CDT, 82:14:29 GMT
2/5/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 29

minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by for a short low-
elevation pass at the Vanguard tracking ship.
CC Skylah, this is Houston through the
Vanguard at sea for 4_i/2 minutes. Out.
CDR Roger Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in i hour and 5 minutes tkrough Goldstone
at 15:39 and we're conintuing to work the saga of tke five
tapes in A-8 for you.
CDR I think I got it whipped, Bruce. It fits
if you force it and I had to do some real shoving but I got
it to fit.
CC Okay. That's good news.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has
loss of signal, will not be reacqulred by another tracking
station until it reaches the Goldstone station in California,
I hour 3 minutes from now. Another reminder that at i0 a.m.
central daylight time, about 23 minutes from now, a briefing
on corollary experiments performed on Skylab will be conducted
in the News Center briefing room, Building i. i0 a.m. briefing
on corollary experiments. At 14 hours 37 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2877/2
Time: 11:18 CDT, 82:16:18 GMT
2/5/74

CC Coming up on data/voice tape recorder

dump, here through Corpus Christi.
CC Okay. And Jerry, go ahead and utilize
the UCTAs the way they are. No tracer required. We figure
they can measure the volume down here on the ground after
you get back.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. For your
information, we're taking PCG number 2 off the REG BUS at
this time, in order to allow its integrator to catch up, so
that we'll have a good reading on that when we run the battery
capacity test on mission day 85, after you all leave. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 10-1/2 minutes through the
Vanguard at sea at 16:03. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the
Vanguard for 10-1/2 minutes. We've got the deact checklist
change coming up here in about 30 seconds.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC And, while we've got you here, I wonder
if you could give us a status report or progress report on
how you're coming in going through today's activities. Over.
CDR Okay. Be with you in a few minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jerry.
CDR Okay. Everybody's pretty much up to speed
so far. I am on page 3-15 of the stowage transfer procedures.
And I'm in the process of gathering up the Rochelle salts and things
like that to stow in the command module.
CC Okay. Beautiful.
CC Hey, you should have three copies of this
latest change to the deact checklist on board. And how about
Ed and Bill. Whereabouts are they in today's procedures?
CC Okay. You can delete that one.
CDR I was wondering how I was going to answer
it.
CDR Could I say they're well into regroup?
CC Yes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 18 minutes through Tananarive at 16:32.
Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That completes
the tape. Skylab 6 minutes away from Tananarive now. At
16 hours 25 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2877/I
Time: 11:18 CDT, 82:16:18 GMT
2/5/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours

18 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is 13 minutes away
from acquisition at Tananarive. We have 6-1/2 minutes in
tape from the stateside and from the Vanguard pass. We'll
play that for you now.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
and Corpus Christi for 14-1/2 minutes. We'll have a data/
voice tape recorder dump and hand over to Corpus Christi.
And if the CDR's listening, I've got a couple of quick ones
for him.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay. Tomorrow, we're scheduling a
trim burn at 20:48 Zulu. It'll be in your Flight Plan, of
course, and detail pads and all that stuff. It's a 180-second
four-jet RCS burn. And its purpose is to increase the lifetime
of the workshop. The 180 seconds works out to a delta-V of
12 feet per second, which is worth about 1 to 2 years of
lifetime on the workshop, giving it about a 5- to 8-year
total lifetime depending on the attitude. It finally winds
in. Following the trim burn, we will leave G&N up, thus eliminating
these activities from the deact timeline and giving us a little
better plan - a little better drift check on the IMU and the early
opportunity for uplinks. We're also going to have you leave
the up-telemetry switch to ACCEPT following the trim burn. The check-
list modifications to do this are already on board, except
for the ones that change the deact checklist following, with
respect to CMC powerup or down. And we're going to have
a mod to the deact checklist, hopefully the final mod, coming
up to you over Vanguard, this rev in about a half an hour.
It_ll be fairly short, but, it does have some items in it
that affect you in the near future, especially the SPT in
his after-lunch activities. So you might take a good close
look at it when it comes up. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce. Bruce, I've got one for
you.
CC All right. I guess that's fair enough.
CDR Okay. The stowage checklist here calls
for three UCTAs with tracer. And, I looked in locker D-426, I
believe it is. The one that's got the mags in it. And there
are none up there with tracer. There is one bag of three in a
white bag that says W/0 tracer. And I don't know if some-
body made a nomenclature mistake, or what. If there is no
tracer in those we have lithium chloride here and I can
put tracer in them if they want it.
CC Okay. Stand by for a minute. We'll
get you an answer on that.
CDR Okay.
SL-IV MC-2878/I
Time: ii_30 CDT 82116:30 GMT
02/05/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours

30 minutes Greenwich mean time. Tananarive will acquire
Skylab _n about a minute. We'll stand by for that pass.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive
for 4-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 44 minutes throuEh Goldstone
at 17:19. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Tananarive has
loss of signal. Next acquisition at Goldstone in 41-1/2
minutes. At 16 hours 37 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skyiab Control at 17 hours
18 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about a minute away
from acquisition at Goldstone for a 4-minute pass. Goldstone
is the only stateside acquisition for Skylab on this orbit.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
for 4 minutes. Out.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Let me lay a few on you here now, Bruce.
On the change number - I guess it's number 3 in the stowage
llst, the one we got just recently. It indicates they want
a urine separator motor, that it's stowed in W-721, and that
I should pick one of three with serial numbers i0, ii, and
12. Well, there's only one in W-721 and the serial number
next to that part number is number 5, and I'm wondering will
number 5 do?
CC Stand by a second.
CDR Okay, the next questions have to do with
the Decadron, the epinephrine, the Xyloeane and the items that're
supposed to he stowed at W-732. W-732 is the locker which
contains all of the ED experiments, and I wonder if they
would check and clarify that a little bit for us. Are these
the drugs that we threw away and then recovered out of the
plenum bag early in the mission? Or are these drugs that
are up in our drug area right now?
CC They're the drugs that you brought up at the
beginning of your mission, Jerry. And we'll get you a stowage
location, if you need it.
CDR Okay, that locker number 732 is all wrong
there. I - I imagine the locker they're talkln E about is
probebly either 700 or 706.
CC Jerry, we'll work on it.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 30 seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 18 minutes through Vanguard
at 17:40 along with a data/voice tape recorder dump at AOS, and
we'll have the answer on the separator motors and stowage
for you there.
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Time: 11:30 CDT 82:16:30 GMT
02/05/74

CDR Roger, Bruce.

PAO This is Skylab Control. Space station
is out of range at Goldstone now. Next station is the
tracking ship Vanguard in 16-1/2 minutes. The crew is
essentially on schedule today in the transfer operation.
By the end of their work day approximately 90 percent of the
items that must be transferred to the command module will
have _one into that vehicle. Today's Flight Plan calling
for about that percentage, 90 percent of the transfers to
be accomplished today. At 17 hours 25 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2879/I
Time: 12:40 CDT 82:17:40 GMT
02/05/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours

40 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on
acquisition through the tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the
Vanguard for 10--1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder
dump and some words for the CDR.
PLT He's listening.
CC Okay, Jerry. In freezer number 2, up
there in the upper compartment, F-552, you will find one
urine separator less motor and in W-721 you will find - (garble)
just bring those two back. Disirregardless of the serial
numbers on them. Over.
CDR I was hoping you'd say that Bruce.
CC Okay, regarding the injectables. The
Decadron and the epinephrine should be found in W-700 and the
Xyloeaine and pentobarbital in W-709. Over.
PLT Copy.
CC Okay, another little item for Ed, since
we were talking to him about it this morning, but actually Bill
does the work. If you can't find the water sample bag that's
required on page 1-49 for the closeout - -
PL'_" I've already found it, Bruce.
CC Say again.
PLT I've already found it.
CC Beautiful. Delete the rest of what I
was going to say. And, now we move on to another one. Did
you ever locate the CCU head that was requir_d on page 2-64.
Over.
PLT Stand by.
CC It's a Command Module CCU head.
PLT What motivated the question, Bruce?
CC Okay, it's not needed for a day or so,
but we're just trying to make sure that there aren't any
show-stoppers when we get down to our entry day.
CDR Bruce, is this the head that we took
off in order to put the anti-squeal device on?
CC Yes, it is and we sent you a message
about 2 days ago to sort of eyeball it and try and make
sure you knew where the thing was.
CDR Yeah, that's in U-2 along with the T-bar
that goes with it.
CC Mighty find. Thank you.
CC And, another item for the CDR regarding
the battery charging that's scheduled to take place at 19:00 Z.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, at 19:00 Z you're supposed to switch
from BAT Bravo charge to BAT Charlie charging per our _ene_al
message 8233. And we've been watching BAT B charge down here
SL-IV MC-2879/2
Time: 12:40 CDT 82:17:40 GMT
02/05/74

on the ground and we've seen what - a few things that are
technically described as "funnies" on BAT B charge and it's
nothing really serious but we'd like to monitor the charging
of BAT Charlie and the way that we need to do this is to
hook up BAT Charlie to BAT BUS B so that we can read out
BAT BUS B voltage on telemetry with BAT B OFF. So, to do
this, prior to initiating BAT C charge, we'd like you to
on panel 5, pull the BAT RELAY BUS BAT B CIRCUIT BREAKER
and on panel 275, CLOSE the BAT BUS B BAT Charlie CIRCUIT
BREAKER. Over.
CDR Stand by a minute, Bruce, until I get
out the message and I can insert it right in there.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, now say it again, please, and a
little slower.
CC Okay, I was trying to give you an overview
Prior to initiating BAT C charge, panel 5 CB bat relay bus
bat B OPEN. And that takes BAT B off with BAT RELAY B_S and
panel 275 BAT BUS B to BAT Charlie CLOSED.
CDR Okay, Prior to the BAT Charlie charge
we're going to go BAT RELAY BUS BAT B OPENED and BAT BUS B
BAT C CLOSED.
CC Yes sir.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 14 minutes through Tananarive
at 18:05. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Vanguard has
loss of signal. The next station is Tananarive in 12-1/2 minutes
At 17 hours 52 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-IV MC2880/I
Time: 13:04 CDT, 82:18:04 GMT
2/5/74

PAO This is Skylab Control. Space station

is about to be acquired by the Tananarive station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarive
for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce. One of the things that we're
supposed to do is transfer transporters 2 and 7 to the command
module. I presume that means you leave the film on them and
(garble)
CC You dropped down in the mud there for
a second. Say again all after to presume you leave the
film on them?
CDR Roger. The transporters have film on them.
One of them has passed (garble) has - Yes. I think they both
have film on them. One's got Charlie India, one's got India
Romeo film.
CC CDR, this is Houston. On the film thread
pad for today, we give you instructions for removing them:
Cut film as required. Remove and transfer (garble), that
includes transporter 2 and transporter 7. Over.
CDR Houston, Skylab. You're in the mud and
unreadable.
CC Roger. Refer to your film thread pad
for today for instructions for cutting and removing the
film. Over.
CC CDR, this is Houston. If you look at
the film thread pad for today, it tells you to cut the film
as required and remove the cassettes and configure the stuff
for return. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Thank you.
CC And we - as a seperate item, we then
want to return the transporter mechanisms themselves, but
the stowage will be such that the film that comes back is
not physically on the transporters as they are stowed to
come back.
CDR Roger. I understand.
PLT Bruce. A quick question on revisit
bag contents.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Okay. About two-thirds of the way down on
a general message number 045 and list them. Film they want
put in there and one of them is a Charlie X-ray 63 magazine
out of the J bag. And I'd already loaded that into a
camera and had some exposed frames on it. I have tried
X-ray 62 in my hand. I need a download to the 63 or
substitute Charlie X-ray 62 or do whatever else you sug-
gest.
CC Okay. Hold on a second.
CC Okay, Bill. Use Charlie X-ray 62 in the
revisit bag. Over.
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Time: 13:04 CDT, 82:18:04 GMT
2/5/74

PLT Roger. I'm changing Charlie X-ray 62.

Thank you.
CC Say again, you're changing?
PLT Roger. I will comply. Use Charlie
X-ray 62.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 2-1/2 minutes
to LOS, but we may loose you early. Next station contact in
37-1/2 minutes through Hawaii at 18:50 with a data/voice
tape recorder dump at AOS. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is out
of range of the Tananarive station. Next acquisition through
Hawaii in 33-1/2 minutes. At 18 hours 16 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2881/I
Time: 13:48 CDT, 82:18:48 GMT
215174

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 48 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. Hawaii is about to acquire the
space station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Hawaii
for 8-1/2 minutes, with a data/voice tape recorder dump here
at AOS. Over.
PLT Roger, Bruce.
CC Okay, Bill. Just a quick q_,6stions that
you asked, are up here, which Nikon did you load Charlie
X-ray 63 into? Over.
PLT NiKon 4.
CC O_ay. uo we assume from that that ycu
used up all of Charlie X-ray 617
PLT That's affirmative. And it's stowed.
CC Okay. Bill, we're going to modify your
checklist and stuff to provide stowage for Charlie X-ray
63. I wonder if you could just tell us what your plans for
further utilization are on it, or are you just doing target of
opportunity type stuff. Over.
PLT Yes. Of course, this is to support
the visual ops that we got a briefing about 3 or 4 days ago.
We had several areas that - that still could have - we
could get coverage on if we had the opportunity. I've
gone through the film that identified the remaining exterior
cassett and I - One color interior cassette has not been
used. And if there's no violent objection, we will manage
that and see that it gets back in the proper place. But we
have about 3 or 4 rolls of color exterior other than SO -
other than the C163, which we hope to use prior to leaving
the workshop.
CC Okay. Go ahead, Bill. Any data that
we can get like that is great. I guess, if you could, though
keep us posted on what you've used and are bringing it back and
we can take either of two tacks. One is, we can try to formally
define some stowage or you can just bring it back in a PGA
pocket and we'll take it from there. Over.
PLT The PGA pocket sounds like the best idea.
And we are documenting it both in a record record here on
our little film logs and also we're putting it on tape.
CC Okay. Thank you. Very good.
PLT And we - just a case in point there.
We had an excellent opportunity on the Sierra Madre
CC oxidental which required coverage because
of incomplete previous EREP coverage. We've had 2 days of
opportunity on that. And today, I've got about 25 stereo
pairs going down that. So we are doing good with the film.
CC Beautiful. Thank you.
PLT And the visit bag is tied into position
on the ATM grid and has been photographed.
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Time: 13:48 CDT, 82:18:48 GMT
2/5/74

CC Okay. Thank you.

CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to
LOS, next station contact in 22 minutes through the Vanguard
at 19:20. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Hawaii has loss
of signal. Next acquisition is through the tracking ship
Vanguard in 20 minutes. At 18 hours 59 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2882/I
Time: 14:19 CDT, 82:19:19 GMT
2_5_74

PAO 19 hours 18 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Space station now nearing acquisition through the tracking
ship Vanguard. Hold the line up now for
PAO - - for spacecraft communicator Bruce
McCandless.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through the
Vanguard for 9 minutes. And not that any of you will be on
the DAS, but we're going to go ahead and send up the nuZ update.
CDR Roger, Bruce. And BAT B charge is terminated
and I've got the BAT C charging now.
CC Okay. And one thing that I neglected to
tell you earlier. Those 2 steps that I gave you to change
the message, when you terminate BAT C charge, go ahead and
reverse those 2 circuit breakers again. Over.
CDR Will do.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay. In our continuing saga of power
management to maximize the condition of the batteries
for post flight, post with respect for you all, testing.
We're going to shut down the airlock module primary coolant
loop to reduce the load and get the batteries off to full-
charge. Over.
CDR Roger_ Bruce. Go ahead.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 58 minutes through Hawaii at
20:26. Out.
CDR Hey, Bruce, if we've got time, a quick
question: Why do we have the BAT BUS B, BAT C circuit breaker in
during this charging?
CC So we can monitor the terminal voltage
on BAT C as it's charging. BAT BUS A and BAT BUS B voltage
are on telemetry. But, BAT C voltage, by itself, is not.
CDR I see. Okay. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out.
CC And your Flight Plans for tomorrow are
on board whenever you want to take a look at them.
CDR Roger.
CC By the way, that's the last Flight Plan
in Skylab.
PAO 19 hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Space station now out of range of the Vanguard. During this
pass, the airlock module primary coolant loop pump was turned
off. That will enable batteries to charge faster and will save
i00 watts of energy on the space station. And the trickle charge
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will allow the batteries to charge faster. We're told that the
amp hour meters, which indicate when the batteries are charging
lie at first, and by turning the coolant loop pump off, will
give the meters better opportunity to reflect the true amp
hour reading of the batteries. This morning, power conditioning
group number 6 was tested. The batteries in that group had
015 amp-hours more energy that they were rated when they
were brand new. They were expected to read 26 amp-hours and
they actually read 35.5 amp-hours. The name plate on the
battery indicates that when brand new it has a rating of
33 amp-hours. So power conditioning group number 6 is better
than perfect. Excuse me_ 33.5 amp-hours for power-conditioning
group number 6. Next acquisition will be 55 minutes from now.
That'll be through Hawaii. 19 hours 31 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2883/I
TIME: 15:25 CDT, 82:20:25 GMT
2/5/74

PAO Twenty hours 25 minutes Greenwich mean

time. Space station now nearing acquisition through Hawaii.
We'll hold the line up for this pass over the island.
CC Skylab_ this is Houston through Hawaii
for 7-1/2 minutes. And got a couple of quick items for you
here.
CDR Roger, go ahead.
CC Okay, special message from Dr. D. Lind.
If any pieces of the shredded $230 foll are found on the
air filters or elsewhere, they should be returned if you can
manage it. It's quite possible to obtain useful data from
even very small pieces. If any of them are found, they should
be placed in the $230 experiment return bag in H2 in the CSM.
Put them in the bag but outside of the folded collectors where
they can not touch the foil surfaces of the all ready folded
collectors. However, we don't want you to spend any time
specifically searching for the pieces, this is Just if you
happen to run across some of them, over.
CC Over.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Okay, did you _et my last -
CC Negative, you must have been cutting out,
we didn't hear a thing from you.
CDR Okay, we've already _athered up most of
the pieces off of the filters in the MDA, off the screens.
That's all pretty well taken care of.
CC Okay. Then why donut you stow it in J2
but oulside of the folded collectors where the pieces
can not touch the foil surfaces of the virgin collectors.
CDR Okay.
CC And with respect to M479 water spray,
we think we now understand why it did not work as intended,
According to our records down here, the pressurization valve
on water tank number 9 is closed and has been closed since
SL-II. Our procedure's in error by not calling this ont.
When you were troubleshooting, did you by any chance attempt
to verify the position of this valve. And if not, would you?
CDR Negative. I did not verify it. I can
check it. However, I did get spray by pulling up on the knob
and forcing it.
CC That's to be expected, I understand down
here. Okay, we don't need - we don't want you to open this
valve because I understand we finished all the water-quench
samples now but Just sometime in the next day or so for a
matter of record keeping if you'd check it, we would appreciate
it.
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CDR I'ii try to remember to do it but I'ii

give you a dollar to donuts I forget it.
CC That's a bet I won't take. Either way.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i min1_te to LOS.
Next station contact in 24 minutes through the Vanguard at
sea with a data/voice tape recorder dump at AOS of 20:58.
PAO Twenty hours 36 minutes Greenwich mean
time. Space station now out of range of Hawaii. Apparently,
durin_ yesterday's M479 flamability test, the appropriate
water supply valve was not turned on. And the water-quench
portion of the test therefore did not worli. Commander Carr
reported yesterday that the bottom spray jet wasn't working
at all and the top one just let loose a couple of drops rather
than a fine mist as it was supposed to. With no water, those
jets wouldn't work. Next acquisition will be just over
20 minutes from now through the Vanguard. Twenty hours,
37 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL IV MC-2884/I
Time: 15o57 CDT 82:20:57 GMT
2/5/74

PAO 20 hours 57 minutes Greenwich mean time.

The space station now nearing acquisition through Vanguard.
Flight Director Neil Hutchinson has indicated that he'll be
ready for a change-of-shift press briefing in the briefing
room in Building 1 in 17 minutes at 4:15 p.m. central daylight
time.
CC Good afternoon Skylab. We are AOS through
the Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes. Doing a data/voice recording
dump. How's packing day?
CDR It's wild and wooly, Crip.
CC Oh, I bet you Fuys are tucking it away
nice and neat.
CDR Sure we are. Hey, Crip, the stowage of
locker A-5 calls for the TV cushions. Calls them out in M521,
and they're not there, and I've looked in all the obvious
places and can't really locate them.
CC We'll chase it for you.
CDR Right now, I'm ready to pack A-5 and just
put the darn TVs on folded towels.
CC Well, we'll see if we can get an answer to
you before we get out of contact here.
CC CDR, Houston. The best suggestion that we
can come up with is that perhaps that it might have got moved
to one of the adjacent lockers to 521, so you might take a
look in 520 or 522. And if no joy there, well you can go
ahead and do what you think best with the towel method.
CDR Okay. I already looked in those lockers.
I guess we'll just have to use towels. They're probably down
in a plenum bag somewhere in the bilges.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are 30 seconds from
LOS. Next station contact is through Ascension at 21:13.
That's about 6 minutes away. And Jet, I assume that you had
a chance to take a look at what this cushion looked like.
There's a picture of it on page 3-24 of your stowage book.
It's a fairly large item in a bag, and it's big enough to
accept both cameras. And another item - panel - locker 526
was another suggestion, which is in the same area, and there's
some TV stuff there. We are looking at how much towels are -
for thickness as far as padding is concerned, to recommend
to you.
PAO Reacquisition less than 5 minutes
now through Ascension. We'll hold the line up for that short
pass coming up.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through
Ascension for 6 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip. No luck at all. I can't
find anything in any of the lockers in that bank. I had
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already checked them. Now, I've got some quilted bags here.
One bag is a TV bag. It's all quilted. And I've _ot a TO25
bag that's quilted, which might be pretty good padding.
CC Okay. Our recommendation is probably
about a quarter of an inch of padding. You can do it with
that or a couple of towels.
CC CDR, Houston. Do you have a moment, Jer?
CDR I'm listening, _o.
CC Okay. We have Just uplinked a message to
you regarding a battery C check that we'd like to do this
this evening at the same time that your details call for you
to terminate the BAT C charge at about 00:30. We want to do
that over the _round. And really, what we're trying to do is
to make sure that we haven't _ot a - any reoccurance of that
circuit breaker problem that we - the one we ran into. And
we've _ot a couple of others that we're going to have you
close.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from
LOS. Next station contact in 39 minutes through Guam at
21:58. 21.58.
PAO 21 hours 29 minutes Greenwich mean time.
The space station now out of range of the Ascension tracking
antenna. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson is still here in
Mission Control. However, he will be on his way to the
briefing room in Building 1 very shortly. New time for the
press briefing this evening is 4:30, Next acquisition is
B6 minutes from now. That'll be through Guam. At 21 hours
21 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL IV MC-2885/I
Time: 17:06 CDT 82:22:06 GMT
2/5/74

PA0 22 hours 6 minutes Greenwich mean time.

The space station is now in the mid-Paciflc Ocean, having
just completed a pass over Guam. We have 2 minutes 25 seconds
worth of recorded air-to-ground, which took place over Guam,
which we'll play back for you now.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam, 3-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello Crip. l'd like you to be thinking
about something for me if you would, please.
CC Be glad to, Ed.
SPT Okay. I've been sizing up the -
CC Okay. Let me make sure (garble) will not
fit. Is that correct?
SPT What I've done, Crip, is to try to fit
four of them just top end, just the top end, and I can just
about make it, but I can see I'm going to have a real - a
real struggle to force them all the way in there. And some
of the tops might give in the process, because the dividers
act just like guillotines. The Each container has a
few of them which are sticking up a little bit above the
container level, and as you know, there's not much leeway in
that container with the partition.
CC Yeah. Okay. Let us ponder here for you
and see if we got an alternative to that. Does it look like
you can get a portion of them stowed in there. Is that correct?
SPT Well, by portion, I can - I fit two
of them all the way in there, but I was bowing out the
partitions, and I could fit the other two just top-way in
without really pushing. I'm afraid that if I try to push
them in now, we might never get them back out again until
they melt, so I really didn't want to give it an all out
effort now. I'm just running a fit check on it.
CC Okay.
CC Okay. We're i minute from LOS. Next
station contact in 34 minutes through the Vanguard at 22:35.
SPT Bye, Crip.
CC Bye. Glad to see you - Ed, you look like
you're way ahead of us there. It's a good idea,
SPT The only way you can even is to try to
stay ahead.
CC Rog.
PAO That concludes the recorded air-to-ground.
The crew has been asked to stow a number of items for possible
revisit. These items will be places inside a Beta cloth
coated with florel, which is a florine material bag, and
then stowed in the multiple docking adaptor for a possible
revisit. Flight Director Hutchinson was talking about the
advantages of examining this material, having been in space
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for that much longer than the Skylab crew. The items to be
stowed are varied. There are twelve of them, The first
several are food items. The crew is to stow any of the
following rehydratable food items. They have a choice of
mashed potatoes, peach ambrosia, or shrimp cocktail. Which-
ever they don't want, they can stow. A thermo-stabilized
food item, peaches, pears or tuna sandwich spread, one con-
tainer of bread, one container of pudding, one container of
beverage. They have their choice, but the most likely cand-
idate is lemonade. There's a lot of that left on board and
the crew hasn't been drinking it. They're also to stow a
material sample of PBI material. That's a fireproof material.
They can stow any of the clothing items that they have. A
sample of durette material, this is another fireproof material,
and that's found in wrist or waste tether straps. They're
to stow a surgical glove, one workshop heat exchanger fan,
the one which is taped with red tape, a fire sensor control
panel, one of the unused units, and three cartridges of film.
Kodak SO168 film, which was in magazine Clll8, it was unused,
Kodak S0368 film that's in magazine CX62, and Kodak 3400
black and white film, and they're to stow a roll of teleprinter
paper. Excuse me, SI90A filters, and there's a stacking order
for those filters. Nine of those filters will be stacked. A
crewman communieation's umbilical control head. That's
1-1/2 feet of cable with a control attachment to it. And
then data file samples: a book cover, a checklist type page,
a flight plan type page, and one star chart, and then two
samples of electrical cable. They're to turn the circuit
breaker off before they cut the cable. They'll be taking
one foot of co-axial cable used in the solar radio noise
burst monitor and one foot of cable from the S009 power
connector. And those will be stowed in a Beta cloth bag in
the multilple dockin B area, which will be tied to the floor
of the multiple docking area. Next acquisition 23 minutes
from now. That'll be through the Vanguard. 22 hours 12
minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2886/I
TIME: 17:34 CDT, 82:22:34 GMT
2/5/74

PAO Twenty-two hours 34 minutes Greenwich

mean time. Space station now nearing acquisition over the
Vanguard. We have a preliminary time line for the return of
the crew. On Sunday, February the 10th, crew is scheduled
for dockside ceremony at San Diego at 20:00 hours Greenwich
mean time. At 21:00 hours Greenwich mean time they prepare
to depart North Island, and at 23:30 Greenwich mean time, they
are scheduled to arrive at Ellington. And the equipment is
scheduled to arrive at Ellington, Monday the llth, at 5:30
Greenwich mean time. We'll hold the line up now for
CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through the
Vanguard for 10-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Crip.
CC Hello, Ed. A - we were looking at a picture
of the URC here and we showed that it had some fiberboard,
cardboard in it for, you know, making sure that everything was
nice and tight. Does your's have that in it?
SPT It did, but that's taken out.
CC I figured you had already done that. And
of course, the clearance problem is with the cardboard out.
SPT Yeah, that's affirm, Crip°
CC Okay, we'll - we'll probably not be getting
back to you on this one tonight. We'll ponder it over and
maybe talk to you about it tomorrow.
SPT Okay, what's the nominal condition on the
urine when it gets onto the ship, is it still frozen or is it
pretty much melted by then?
CC No, it's usually still frozen.
SPT Well then, in case a bag gets ruptured or
even part sliced off as it's going in, then it's not a total
loss?
CC That's affirm.
SPT That's _ood.
CC Did you feel that you could have gone ahead
and forced it and got it all in there with the possibility of
just ripping some bags?
SPT I'm sure that a bag when I - got torn or
at least decapitated a little bit in order to a - you know, I
would have had to do it or it would have happened if I had
forced it in there. Whether I could _et all four of them in
there by just forcing without doing a little shaving, Itm not
sure.
CC Okay, copy, thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are I minute from LOS.
Next station contact is through Ascension in 3 minutes at
22_48.
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2/5/7_

PAO Loss of signal through the Vanguard. Less

than 1-1/2 minutes away from reacquisition through Ascension.
We'll hold the line up.
CC Skylab, Houston. Back with you once more
through Ascension for i0 minutes.
CDR Hello, Crip, I got a comment on the HRC
situation.
CC Comment.
CDR Okay, in looking at the way it's specified
to put the drawers in, they show 7 and i0 with bottoms outboard.
It turns out they're in little bit of a ridge on the outside
so that it has a wedge effect. So that if I did it the other
way with the bottoms inboard, the tops which could get
guillotined might stand a better chance of getting in there
without getting cut off. I wonder if there's a special reason
for having the bottoms outboard?
CC Doesn't appear there is, and FLIGHT had
come up with that same solution down here.
SPT FLIGHT is a pretty smart guy.
CC Yeah, that's what he keeps telling us.
We're still going to study the problem here and that appears
to be one feasible solution at least for - for a couple of
the trays there. We're still not sure exactly what's _oing
to happen with the other ones, but we'll get back tomorrow
with that one, Ed.
SPT Okay, without hearing anything further
what I do is what the two which are highest which have the
most protrusions on the outside when I wedge them in like
that and put the other two on the inside.
CC Roger, do you - do you think that would
work? Having - having had a first - first hand experience
looking at it.
SPT I think getting all four of them in there
and - is going to be difficult and somewhat greater than
typical. I got them all about - I got two of them all the
way in and two more about 1/3 of the way in and I started to
meet some resistance. I had to turn that - if I'm really
mean now a guy could get them in there perhaps, but some of
the - some of the ice would have to give. And Itm not sure I
could have gotten them out, that's why I didn't go ahead.
CC Okeydoke. The impossible only takes a
little bit longer, right?

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Time: 17:53 CDT 82:22:53 GMT
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SPT What I need is a big hydraulic press,

CC Don't have Jack Lousma there for that,
uh?
SPT Hey, I got another Marine though, they
can do anything.
CC Marines can do that. Say Ed, I - I don_t
think I got back with you on this one but you mentioned the
clip board that was holding the the sail samples when you
were EVA and whether we wanted it back or not. And I guess
we have polled everybody and we can't find the real reason,
we think, for returning it.
SPT Okay, it'll stay up here in the archives.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from
LOS, next station contact is Guam in 34 minutes at 23:33.
We'll be doing a data/voice recorder dump there. And for
the SPT that's where you're phone call is setup, the ANTENNA,
LEFT going to RIGHT.
SPT 23:33, LEFT to RIGHT, thank you Crip,
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab now out of range of Ascension.
Next acquisition will be 32 minutes from now_ that'll be
through Guam. 22 hours 59 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2888/I
TIME: 18:31 CDT, 82:23:31 GMT
2/5/74

PAO Twenty-three hours 31 minutes Greenwich

mean time. Space station is now nearing acquisition through
Guam. Day 82 transfers are moving along on schedule. Some
problem earlier with stowage in the command module, however,
that's probably resolved itself hy now. We'll hold the line
up now for CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston we are AOS through Guam
for 9-1/2 minutes and we'll be doing a data/voice recorder
dump here.
CDR Roger, Crip. Crip, we're eating dinner
right now and in about the next pass or so, I'ii have a status
report for you on where we stand on the transfers.
CC Okay, real fine, appreciate it, Jerry.
CDR, Houston, the other night on the second of this month.
the annual meeting of the Order of the Caribou, which is a
military organization that meets in Washington and has kind of a
little gala affair every year did a little dedication to Skylab.
And if you got time here, I'd like to - to play it, a little
tape they sent to us.
PLT Press on, Crip.
CC Okeydoke.
SPEAKER Now soaring in space, ready to come home
next week, the crew of Skylab-lll, Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Carr,
Leiutenant Colonel William Pogue and Dr. Edward Gibson. The
court bequest the top sargent to express to all astronauts,
the Caribou's admiration and appreciation.
MUSIC
CC I thought that was some good dinner music
for you guys.
CDR Yes, indeed, Crip. Thanks a lot, we appreciate
that.
CC Okay, some day we're going to let the
world know that Bill is really a colonel, not a leiutenant
colonel.
PLT Okay, as long as finance knows it.
CC That's the important people.
CC Okay, we're 1 minute from LOS. Next
station contact is through the Vanguard in 30 minutes, that's
00:13, 00:13.
PLT Roger, Crip.
PAO Skylab now over the hill from Guam. What
you heard over this pass was "A Tribute to Skylab_lll" from
the Caribou show held in Washington on February the second.
This show is put on each year by the Military Order of the
Caribou. It's something of the military version of the
gridiron show. Over 800 people attended, including the
Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chief of Staff, Admiral Moore
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and members of the House and Senate Armed Forces committee, NASA o
officials and a host of Washington dignitaries. The voice that
you heard was that of Samauel Pierce, Jr._ a colonel in the United
States' Army retired and the band was the United States Marine band,
under the direction of Lieutenant Colonel Dell Hawthon, In
cas you couldn't catch the words, we_ll read them to you,
to the tune of "Tie a Yellow Ribbon". Pin another ribbon on
the Skylab-lll, they are bound to help shape our destiny.
Their meticulous testing will pay off youtll see. Pogue,
Gibson and Carr are soaring afar, serving you and me. The
end will be a research milestone in our history. Pin another
ribbon on the Skylab-lll, they are studyin_ solar energy.
Their reports on the comet aid astromony, their mission in
space is closing a pace at itts apogee. The end will be a
research milestone in our history. Now the whole wide world
is cheering_ and I'm sure we all agree to pin another ribbon
on the Skylab_lll. Next acquisition will be 27 minutes
from now_ that'll be through the Vanguard. 23 hours 45 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control,

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SL IV MC-2889/I
Time: 19:11 CDT 82:00:11 GMT
2/5/74

PAO ii minutes Greenwich mean time. Space

station is now nearing acquisition through the Vanguard for
a I0 minutes pass. This will take it up through Ascension.
Hold the line up now for CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
(Music)
CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through
the Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger, Crip.
CDR Okay. I got a status for you on the
transfers.
CC Why don't you tell us about it?
CDR Okay. Bill and I have finished clearing
the film vault pretty much, anyway. And here's some of the
things we found. On page 3-18 of the stowage checklist, we're
going to stow Charlie X-ray 61 in eight-hole with Bravo Whiskey
07. Charlie X-ray 61 is one of the extra rolls of color
exterior that we had exposed that was not accounted for in
stowage. And that's going in that eight-hole with Bravo Whiskey
07, so that fills that bag. On page 3-20, the stereo photo
string is _oing to be stowed in the eight-hole that contains
Bravo Victor 48, and it's in the hole with Bravo Victor 48.
Okay, and here's the way - way we see it as far as film
being left behind, and it appears to all be unexposed.
16-millimeter in film vault drawer F, we got Charlie India
66, 67, and 75, and 35-millimeter Bravo 41, 51, and 52. In
drawer Golf, we have 35-millimeter Bravo Echo 14, 15, 13, and
12, and Bravo Whiskey 04. In drawer India. we have 16-milli-
meter 400-footers, Charlie India 23 and 121, and 140-footer,
Charlie X-ray 15, which I'm going to load into DAC 02 tonight
and use. It'll be installed in the command module. Okay,
In drawer J, 16-_illimeter, Charlie India 97 looks like the
only one there. Now in the 35-millimeter catagory, we have
a whole bunch - well I shouldn't say a whole bunch, we have
four, Bravo Hotel 03, 04, 05, and 06. They're all exposed
and they have not been called out in the transfer checklist
to be moved to the command module. So we need a stowage
location in the command module for that. Now the work that's
left to be done on the stowage for tonight or the 82 day
stowage is for Bill and I to Fo up and start packing lockers.
So far Alfa 5 and Alfa 6 are complete, and we've got all the
rest to do.
CC Okay. That's a good rundown, 3e_, And
we'll try to get back with you on those four 35-millimeters
that we didn't have a location for.
CDR Okay. Don't feel too rushed on that. We've
got lots of other things to do. And I hope we can get this
done tonight, so that it doesn't impact tomorrow's schedule.
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CC Okay. Do you feel that you can do that

tonight without staying up too late?
CDR Well, we've just flat got to and we'll
try not to stay up too late to do it.
CC Copy.
CDR And also tonight, we won't give you a
photo status report, because things are too fluid right now.
And we'll give you a real good status report tomorrow on
where everything stands.
CC Okay. That's fine.
CDR And so all you'll _et tonight will be a
evening status from Ed.
CC Okay. That'll be good.
CC CDR, Houston+ Jet, do you happen to have
your stowage book handy?
CDR It hasn't been more than a foot away from
me all day.
CC Okay. If you'll look on page 3-20, about
in the middle of the page where all those - the lines are
together, the second bag, right in about the middle of that
paragraph calls out for your - those four maBs that we - you
just spoke of Bravo Hotel, 03, 04, and 05, and 06.
CDR Very good. Thank you.

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SL-IV MC-2890/I
Time: 19"18 CDT 83:00:18 GMT
2/5/74

CC - middle of the page where all the

the lines are together. The seconds, bag right in about the
middle of that paragraph calls out for your - those four mags
that are just spoke of, Bravo Hotel 3, 4 and 5 and 6.
CDR Very good, thank you.
CC Okeydoke.
(music)
CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from
LOS, next station contact in ii minutes through Canary at
00:33. And for the CDR, Jer, we'll just about the time
you get the securing charges on battery Charlie we would
like to conduct that little BAT C check that we had talked
about earlier. Also (garble).
CDR Okay, Crip. What time will that be?
CC About 00:33.
CDR Okay, it'll be ready.
CC Thank you, sir.
PAO Once again we've brought you Rachmaninoff
Concerto No. 3, Selected Bars. The crew has about an hours
worth of stowage ahead of them tonight, theyTre determined
to get that done before they go to bed however. Next
acquisition 8 minutes from now, that'll be through Canary.
23 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL IV MC-2891/I
Time: 19:32 CDT 83:00:32 GMT
215174

PAO 32 minutes Greenwich mean time. Space

station now nearing acquisition through Canary for a pass
over Canary and then over Spain for acquisition through the
Madrid tracking station. About 30 seconds away from live
air-to-ground now, we'll hold the line up.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through
Canary for 14 minutes. We are ready for the evening status
report whenever it's convenient.
SPT Okay Crip. Coming at you. Sleep: CDR,
7.0, 6.5 heavy, 0.5 light; SPT, 7.2, 5.0 heavy, 2.2 light;
PLT, 7.0, 7.0 heavy. Volumes: 215,180,200. Water: 9014,
5185, 2168. Body mass: CDR, 6.307, 6.307, 6.309; SPT, 6.393,
6.396, 6.397_ PLT, 6.2 - 6.272, 6.278, 6.274. Exercise: CDR,
none_ SPT, standard, Bravo double_ and Mark III; PLT, standard,
minus Bravo. Medication: CDR, none; SPT, Pro/eph, PLT, one
Actifed. Clothing: CDR, socks and shorts; SPT, socks and
shorts; and PLT, none. No shopping list accomplishments or
inoperable equipment. No unscheduled stowage. Menu: CDR,
deviations, first of all, salt packs used, zero, deviations, minus
one coffee with sugar; SPT, salt packs, 11.5, deviations,
plus lemon pudding, and rehydrated water deviations, plus 22.0.
Going back to the CDR; his water deviation was plus 1.0. PLT,
salt packs, 7.0, deviation, plus crispy bar, plus green beans,
plus mashed sweet patatoes, no water deviations.
CC Okay, Ed, I believe we got all of that.
One item I guess I'd like to insure today, when we finish
the venous compliance test earlier, we did get the blood
pressure cuff stowed up in the command module, did we not?
SPT Hold on Crip, let me check. I was assuming
we were going to have that thing done tomorrow. Let me take
a look.
CDR l've got it on my list to do, Crip. It
hasn't been done yet.
CC Okay, fine. We just wanted to make sure
that we didn't forget it. And Jer_ are you up in the command
module and ready to do that test.
CDR Just arriving.
CC Okay. You can go ahead and terminate
battery C charging.
CC For the SPT. Ed, one item on that - did
you say that your water deviation was 22?
SPT 22.0.
CC Copy. Thank you.
CDR Okay Crip. You want to terminate BAT C
charge first and then go into the special procedure. Right?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Okay, It's in work.
CC CDR, Houston. Jet, also today earlier
they asked you to configure a couple of breakers so they could
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watch the charging on battery Charlie, and l've got the recon-
figuration on those in my hand here if you don't them handy.
CDR I've got them. Thanks.
CC Okay.
CDR Crip, I've got 36 amps for BAT C.
CC Okay. We're looking at 33 right now here.
That's fine, yon can press on.
CDR Okay. It fell back to 30. Got 28 amps
this time on BAT C.
CC Okay. That looks good here.

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Time: 19:40 CDT 83:00:40 GMT
2/5/74

CDR That completes it, Crip.

CC Okay, real fine. One other item while
you're up there, Jet. We've been showing out at some of the
sites that we're getting some voice downlink on the DSE
and wanted to check our configuration on panels 9 and 6 to
insure that the TR switch is OFF - the INTERCOM T/R switch.
CDR Okay.
CDR That's affirmative, it's OFF on both and
9 and 6.
CC CDR, Houston. If you're still there in
the command mudule, there's one switch still. Could you check
the AUDIO CONTROL is in NORMAL not in BACKUP on panel 6?
CC Skylab, Houston. Sorry, forgot to tell
you here but we are going to be doing a data/voice recorder
dump through - through Madrid here.
CDR Roger.
CC Jerry, did you copy my last one other item
on that might be getting voice in the DSE, if the AUDIO
CONTROL on panel 6 is in BACKUP instead of NORMAL; it's
supposed to be in NORMAL?
CDR That's affirmative, I reported it in
NORMAL.
CC Okay, sorry, I didn't copy.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are 30 seconds from
LOS, next station contact is through Guam at 01:13, that's
about 26 minutes away. And for CDR, Jer, we have _ I guess
that veice on the DSE has been intermittent and about the
only thing we can come up with is maybe check your configur-
ation using the Command Module Systems Checklist, page 3-3
for panels 9, I0 and 6. For your information, we will also
not be dumping the DSE during the med conference so there
won't - won't be any problem there.
CDR Okay, Crip, thank you. We'll try it.
PAO Loss of signal from Madrid. Next
acquisition will be 25 minutes from now, that'll be through
Guam. 47 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2893/I
TIME: 20:12 CDT, 83:01:12 GMT
2/5/74

PAO One hour 12 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Space station now nearing acquisition through Guam. This
acquisition will be just under 4 minutes. The Honeysuckle
pass coming up will he the evening medical conference. Now
about 30 seconds away from acquisistion, we_ll hold the line
up for CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through Guam
for about 4 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. D you got some time to pull
a couple of switches for me this evening?
CC SPT, Houston. Do you have some time to
throw some switches for me this pass, Ed?
CC Skylab, Houston. We are i minute from LOS
if you're reading me and next station contact is through
Honeysuckle in about 6 minutes, that's at 01:22 and that's
set up for you medical conference.
PLT Roger, Crip.
PAO Loss of signal through Guam. We'll hold
the line up for this pass over Honeysuckle, even though itts
the evening medical conference just in case the conference
ends early and Bob Crippen or the crew has something to say
to each other.
PAO No communication over Honeysuckle. We'll
have the evening medical report from Dr. Paul Buchanan later
on when he finishes writing it. He_s indicated that it_ll
be a lengthy one tonight. Next acquisition will be 40 minutes
from now and that'll be through Canary. One hour 30 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2895/I
Time: 21:30 CDT 83:02:30 GMT
2/5/74

PAO 2 hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time.

Public Affairs Officer, namely me, has a correction to make.
I had the crew getting up 2 hours earlier tomorrow when
in fact that tomorrow evening they get up at 9:00 Greenwich
mean time or Thursday morning, not Wednesday morning. Crew
will be getting up at the regular time tomorrow at ii:00
Greenwich mean time or 6:00 a.m. Houston time, and will be
going to bed 2 hours early and getting up at 4:00 a.m.
Thursday morning not as - tomorrow as I indicated earlier,
My apologies to all our listeners. Crew wakeup time once
again tomorrow ii:00 Greenwich mean time. Another normal
wakeup day for the crew of Skylab III has they continue to
deactivate getting very close to coming home. The NOAA
national weather service report that we have for the landing
area of Skyiab IV indicates that the area is very nice
right now. Surface winds are about 15 knots, seas are
near 5 feet, and temperature is about 60 degrees with partly
cloudy skies. That hold for Friday or through Friday, it
should be a nice recovery. Once again we'll bring the line
down for the evening and we'll be back with you tomorrow
morning at the regular time. 2 hours 32 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2894/1
TIME: 21:10 CDT, 83:02:10 GMT
2/5/74

PAO Two hours i0 minutes Greenwich mean time.

We're not all together sure whether or not CAP CO_M Bob Crippen
is going to call the crew up at this point. But we do have the
evening medical report for you in any event. I'll quote from
Paul Buchanan. "The crew of Skylab IV eontinutes to give us
every indication of satisfactory health and spirits. Their
attitude towards the heavy deactivation stowage workload
shows the expected great attention to detail and of course,
eagerness to get home. The SPT, Dr. Ed Gibson completed his
last in-flight runs with the M092 and MI71 today without notice-
able difficulty." That's the lower body negative pressure
device and the bicycle ergometer.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS through
Canary for 12-1/2 minutes. And for the CDR or the PLT,
could you possibly do a little job for us, please?
PLT Yeah, Crip, _o.
CC Okay, we show the PPO2 is getting down
a little bit low. We would like for you to do a M509_ F5-Alfa
for one hour max or if you go to bed you can terminate it
earlier with an F 5-Bravo.
PLT Okay, it's in work.
CC Okay, one other item, we would like to do
a little test on the ATM thermal loop tonight and ITd like you
to secure three switches on the C&W if you would for me.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay, down there at the bottom about the
middle on panel 207 ATM CANISTER PUMP DELTA-P COOLANT TEMP
and HEATER TE_P. If you would put those to INHIBIT we'd
appreciate it.
PLT They're there.
CC Okay, I'm - I'm _oing to leave you alone.
I copy that Ed's either sleep or trying to sleep. Good night,
guys.
CDR Good night, Crip.
PAO Two hours, 25 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Loss of signal through Madrid. That's the last call to the
crew tonight. They're 35 minutes away from bedtime and we're
26 minutes away from our next acquisition. Tomorrow
Commander Carr's last M092/ MI71 run and the same for
Pilot Bill Pogue. Ed Gibson completed his last lower body
negative pressure and cardiovascular check today and his
crew members _et their opportunity tomorrow. Most of tomorrow
will be spent deactivating the remaining instruments aboard
Skylab. With the medical and the deactivation, that just about
takes up the whole day. There will be an orbit trim burn
tomorrow at 20_48 Greenwich mean time. That'll establish
a new orbit for Skylab 246 by 235 nautical miles. The burn
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will use four reaction control systems jets and will be a

180 second burn at 12 feet per second velocity. We'll
bring the line down now. We'll be back with you tomorrow
morning. We'll be back with you tomorrow morning at 4 a.m.
The crew gets up two hours early, part of their new circadian
rhythm cycle. Greenwich mean time 2 hours 27 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2896/I
Time: 06:03 CDT 83:11:03 GMT
2/6/74

PAO Good morning, this is Skylab Control at

Ii hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean time on mission day 83.
Skylab is coming within range of Carnarvon. CAP COMM Story
Musgrave will put in a wakeup call at that station with over-
lapping coverage through Honeysuckle on this pass. Flight
Director on this shift is Milton Windier. We'll stand by
for the wakeup call at Carnarvon.
CC Good morning, Skylab, got you through
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.
CDR Morning, Story.
CC Morning, Jer. Now that l've got you up,
maybe you can get me up.
CDR It'll be the blind leading the blind.
CC Afraid so.
MCC Jerry, you can say that again.
MCC Story just barely made it.
CDR You guys just coming on, or going off?
CC I don't know what to say to that. I really
don't know. I think we've been here a while though.
MCC We've got documentary proof of Story checking
for light flashes down here.
CDR Did you see any, Story?
CC Had them all night.
PLT You'll have to consult with our resident
night flasher up here, compare notes.
CC They say I got more sleep here than Ed did.
CDR Are you telling me Ed's going to be crabby
all day?
CC We're a minute from LOS, about 16 minutes
to Hawaii at 11:29.
CDR Roger. See you then.
CC We'll be here.
CC Okay, the latest news is you won't have
Hawaii this pass, it's Goldstone at 11:41.
SPT Morning, Story.
CC Say Ed, we see you finally got unplugged.
SPT I saw my own shadow, Story, I'm going back
to bed.
CC Same here.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Honeysuckle has
loss of signal. Next acquisition will be Goldstone in 26
minutes. At ii hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC2897/I
TIME: 06:40 CDT, 83:11:40 GMT
2/6/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours

40 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about to begin a
pass over the United States. Goldstone acquisition in about
45 seconds.
CC Skylab, back with you through Goldstone
for 5 minutes.
PLT Rog, Story.
CC Morning, Bill.
PLT Story, you awake enough to read the
news paper there?
CC Yeah, I am. Unfortunately I don't have
a lot to read, but here - here we go.
CC Representatives of striking independent
truck drivers reject President Nixon's effort to end trucking
tieup by freezing diesel fuel prices. A truck driver was
shot to death in Delaware, and more layoffs and food shortages
mark the growing strike by independent truck drivers. West
Virginia Governor Arch A. Moore ordered armed National Guard
troops to ride in each truck in five West Virginia counties
hardest hit by the shutdown. He said anyone picketing fuel
terminals, truck stops or other areas in the five-county region
will be arrested for trespassing. Guardsmen also stood guard
on Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania highways. Scientists
have more than I_000 new close-up photos of the planet Venus
in hand, and more are expected from Mariner i0 as the space-
craft speeds on toward Mercury. Scientists at the JPL
here plan to advance some tentative conclusions about
the Venusian data for newsmen Thursday, but they say
final judgements might be months away. Mariner will
continue beaming back photos of the cloud-shrouded planet
through February 22. The Houston Aeros defeated the Jersey
Knights 4 to nothing last night on the hockey ice here. And
lastly Pistol Pete Maravich of the Atlanta Hawks has been
suspended indefinitely by his coach as a result of a hassle
with officials here in Houston on Sunday. Pistol Pete has
an average of slightly over 28 points per game. And that's
it for this morning.
PLT Not much going on up here either.
CC We'll be dropping out here for about 30
seconds at the handover at Texas.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Corpus Christi
for about 9-i/2 minutes. Out.
CC And a late news flash from last night,
still opening our eyes through this morning. The Los Angeles
Lakers beat the Houston Rockets 116 to 112 in overtime last
night; was tied up i06_ all at the end of the regular game. Out.
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CC Correction on my last. The Rockets

beat the Lakers.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 9-1/2 minutes through Ascension at
12:10. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Bermuda has loss
of signal. Next acquisition through the Ascension Islands
station in 8 minutes. At 12 hours 2 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-IV MC-2898/I
Time: 07:09 CDT 83:12:09 GMT
02/06/74

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours

8 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching the
7-1/2 minute pass at the Ascension station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension
for 7 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 23 minutes through Carnarvon
at 12:40 with a data/voice tape recorder dump at AOS. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is
out of range of the Ascension station. Next acquisition
through Carnarvon in 22 minutes. At 12 hours 18 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours
39 minutes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon is about to
acquire the space station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
for 10-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And probably is not a great deal of
concern to you, since you're up in the command module right
now, but we're going to dump the data/voice tape recorder
in the workshop.
CREW Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Guam at
12:53. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Carnarvon has
loss of signal. Skylab will be within range of the Guam
station in about 2 minutes. We'll continue to monitor for
the Guam pass, about a 10-minute pass at Guam.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam
for 9_i/2 minutes and if you break off from your command
module activities here, when you have a minute, maybe Bill
or Jerry could bring us up to date here on your progress
towards along and through the stowage and deactivation pro-
cedures. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Just a second.
CDR Okay_ Bruce. All the stowage work is
essentially completed. There's a few odds and ends that
need to be done and I've got them noted. I'll get them done
as I go. It mainly concerns things like the last bits of
film and things like that.
CC Okay, if you have any show-stoppers or
anything like that, why_ be sure and let us know. We'll
help you track them. Over.
CDR Okay, we have none of those yet. We
got over those that we had yesterday by just jumping around
them. Things like TV camera pads and stuff like that.
CC Okay, how about the closeout photo prep
per page i_17 of the deact checklist? Is that complete?
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CDR When was it scheduled?

CC Entry minus 3.
CDR Oh, that's the Marshall photos, right?
CC Oh, that's the prep of the camera and
everything and the Marshall photos.
CDR Okay. Yeah, Bill's pretty well got that
whipped.
PLT That's all complete, Bruce.
CC Okay. Beautiful. How about the IMSS
preparations per page 2-17 of deact?
CDR Those are complete.
CC Okay. Mighty fine. That about wraps
up the questions that we've got.
PLT Bruce, you might tell Marshall people
that in calling for the work configuration of particular areas
they can expect to see a few closeout stowage items in
position also. Because at that time there was a bit of
juggling of hardware.
CC Okay, that's fine by us. You have any
significant things we can either catch them in the postflight
debriefing or you can put them on tape as you go by.

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SL-IV MC-2899/I i
i
Time: 07:57 CDT, 83:12:57 GMT
2/6/74

CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1-1/2 minutes

to LOS. Next station contact in 16-1/2 minutes through
Goldstone at 13:19. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab has
moved out of range of the Guam station. The next station is
Goldstone in 14-1/2 minutes. At 13 hours 4 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 18 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition through
Goldstone.
CC Skylah, this is Houston through Goldstone,
Corpus Christi, and Merritt Island for 16-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 44 minutes through Carnarvon
at 14:20. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Merritt Island
has loss of signal. The next acquisition is through the
station at Carnarvon, Australia in 42 minutes. The crew is
extremely quiet today, as Jerry Carr, Ed Gibson and Bill
Pogue go busily about the task of deactivation. Very shortly,
Jerry Cart will be the subject of the next to last medical
run of this mission, the lower body negative pressure and
metabolic activity studies. The final medical experiment
scheduled this afternoon at the same two experiments with
Pilot Bill Pogue as the subject. Also, scheduled this after-
noon is the trim burn to raise the apogee a few miles,
increase the lifetime of the workshop by 1 to 2 years. Ignition
time for that maneuver is at 20 hours 48 minutes, 180-second
burn with the four reaction control system jets of the service
module, posigrade maneuver, delta-V, change in velocity 12 feet
per second. Expect a new orbit of 246 by 235 nautical miles
in that maneuver. Other than that, this is a day of getting
ready to come home, deactivating workshop and finishing up
the stowage in the command module. At 13 hours 39 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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