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 INTRODUCTION

This document is the transcription of the technical air-to-ground

(TAG) voice communications of the Skylab 1/2 mission. The transcript.is
divided iuto three columns -- time, speaker, and text. The tlmeeo_,mn
consists of three two-digit pairs for hours, minutes, and seconds (e.g.,
22 45 12). All times are expressed in Greenwich mean time (GMT) for the
Julian dates shown as the first three numbers of the TAG tape identifi-
cation. The speaker column indicates the source of a transmission; the
text column contains the verbatim transcript of the communications.

A series of three dots (...) is used to designate those portions of ,.

the text that could not be transcribed because of garbling. One dash (-) !
is used to indicate a speaker's pause or a self-interruption and subse-
quent completion of a thought. Two dashes (- -) are used to indicate an
interruption by another speaker or the point at which a recording was
abruptly terminated. Words given unusual emphasis by the speaker are
underlined.

The Skylab 1 mission began with lift-off of the orbital workshop at

17:30:00 GMT (12:30:00 c.d.t.) o_ May 14. Because of damage to the solar
array system of the workshop during max q-alpha, the lift-off of Skylab 2
was delayed until 13:00:00 GMT (08:00:00 c.d.t.) on May 25. The Skylab 2
crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 13:_9:48 GMT (08:49:_8 c.d.t.)
on June 29, 1973.

Speakers in the transcript may be identified as follows.

Spacecraft:

4 CDR Commander Charles (Pete) Conrad, Jr.

PLT Pilot Paul J. Waltz

SPT Scientist pilot Joseph P. (J.P.) Kerwin

CREW Unidentified crewmember

MS Multiple
speakers _

Mission Control Centers:

CC Capsule communicator (CAP COMM)

MCC Unidentified speaker, other than

CC, in the Mission Operations
Control Room o_ a Staff Support
Room
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Ol O0 O0 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, 10-1/2 minutes.

CDR ... the OWS window. Would you 1_elieve that? All of
them. And it looked to us like they are - pretty,
pretty close to being ... do with them.

O1 O0 20 CC Roger, we concur. We're showing them all 300 percent,

and we're starting to co_nand you back to solar
inertial at this time.

CDR Super-duper, man. We've charged up all our batteries

and batteries, and all that sort of stuff, huh?

PLT You.there, Houston?

CC Roger, we're dropping in and out of comm now.

PLT Okay, let me know when it' s' going to be good for
a while.

CC Okay, I think we got good comm now.

PLT Okay, Hank. 0n SO09, I did not get a good initiate

on it, because that stinking thing is running wrong
again. And I should have remembered, but I didn't.
I went to RESET, left the power ON. As !'m sitting
there, seconds before I'm ready to do my big thing
with it, it started opening, with it in RESET. So
I got a data point, and if you want to send up
another reset a reinitiate, I'ii do it for you. It
went fully open, did not fully open at - let me see
when I'm supposed to do it. I was supposed to start
it as 23:06. It got fully open at 23:12.

CC Roger. Copy.

PLT That's 00:23:12.

01 02 i0 CC Okay, what we'd like for you to do is CLOSE the

package, Paul, and try a RESET at 01:56:16.

CDR Okay, would you say again? That's the - the time of
RESET, please, Hank?
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CC Roger; 01:56:16. And that's the initiate time.

CC And we'd like, of course, to get the package CLOSED

at this time. And also, if I can get somebody up
in the STS, we've got a few switches we'd like to
get reconfigured. I think the easiest way is for
me to Just read them off, and have you do them.

CDR Okay, wegot somebody headed up that way right now.

CDR Hank, if you've got a moment.

CC Go ahead.

CDR Why don't I give you all of the Evening Status Report
except for meals because we haven't yet, and we're
going to in a minute. We didn't eat until about 20:30,
so nobody is quite hungry yet. Well, let me give you
the photo stuff for today.

CC Go ahead.

01 03 40 CDR It's very little. We had no 16-millimeter. And,

35-millimeter, CI26; frame cbunt 3i. CI34, frame
count 20. ZX06 on the 70-millimeter frame count is
40. Let me give you the drawer status. A-I is
transporter 02, with Charlie India, 05, 60 percent.
Charlie India 01 is 2 take up. A-2 is - 03 is the
transporter. _harlie India 06, 99 percent ; Charlie
India 03 is the take up. A-3 is Oh, Cbarlie India 04
has 25 percent remaining on it. Mike Tango 01 is
the take 111). That reel is J,mmed and we[re got no
instructions on it. We'd like to clear it. A-h
has 05, PI 25; i00 percent, FTll on it. And that's i
the film for today. You know what the Flight Plan I
was. We're working 009. The stowage is per the _i
checklist as far as we have gotten. We're still I
holding on completely reconfiguring. We're also hold- I
ing on powering up suit drying. Which we need to !
get an input on, and we'd like to get that on tonight i
if the bat situation looks good enough. And stowage
is pretty much as it should be. I can't think of
anything right now that we haven't either notified i
you about on B channel or that is out of configuration, i

SPT And the SPT's ready for switches.

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Ol 05 22 CC Roger. Copy. The first one's on panel 216, Joe.

We'd like to get the VE_T valve, OFF; _'A' ;n_._A.a_S,
OFF; sad the CONDENSATE TANK PRESSURE valve, CLOSED.
That's on your condensate tank there.

SPT In work.

SPT Okay.

CC Okay, on panel 203,'under MOLECULAR SIEVE, we'd like

to get the SIEVE B FAN to SECONDARY.

SPT In work.

SPT That's complete, sad Henry, I should point out that

the tank condensate switches were all in the called
for position alres_7.

CC Okay, thank you. These are Just to verify us, to

know we're in the right mode. Okay, also on panel 203,
unde9 PRIMARY - we want to get the PRIMARY and SECOND-
ARY COOLANT LOOP INVERT_:HS, OFF - those two INVER'A','_(
switches OFF momentarily, and then CO_ND.

SPT OFF and then CO_a_ND, on both of them.

CC And you'li probably get a C&W when you do that. Well,

I guess maybe not, until we con_mand - command them on.

SPT That 's complete.

CC Okay, on panel 200, Joe, the RAD FLOW PRIMARY circuit

breaker, we want CLOSED.

SPT RAD FLOW, FLOW PRIMARY.

CC And when you get that, back on panel 203, we'd like
to get the RAD FLOW PRIMARY switch to CO_M_ND.

SPT Circuit breaker is CLOSED. RAD FLOW - RAD FLOW PRIMARY

is to CO_94AND.

CC Okay, that does it. Thank you very much, Joe.

SPT And for your information, the RAD FLOW secondary

breaker is OPEN with the switch in NORMAL.
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CC Roger. Copy.

CC And for CDR, your film thread pad for tomorrow is

going to have your information on the JAw,,ed
transporter.

CDR Okay, very good. No sweat. And, we are on our way

back to solar inertial. Is that what you're telling
me?

CC That is affirmative, and we plan to crank up the

suit dry as soon as we're back in solar inertial,
and we'll tell you about that at Ascension.

CDR Okay. And I also asst_me that sometime tonight we -

you're going to command all the AM stuff here on the
bat and so forth? Hey, we'll _ we'll be around for
a while. We'll be glad to do that Just so we kind
of keep up with what's going on.

CC Okays we got them all on except PCGs 1 and 2, and

we're - we're going to have an update for you on the
power system here before you go to bed.

CDR Okay. And you got bat A over on KEG BUS l, huh?

CC That is affirmative.

CDR Okay. I'll be interested to see hew everything

charges when we whip back into SI this pass.

CC Yes, so will we.

CDR Okay. New, theoretically, with half to solar cells,

will that handle the full workshop load or not?

CC I guess at this point we're not exactly sure hew

we're going to even out. In other words, whether
we're going to be even-steven with the ATM, or I
think possibly we may still be transferring a little
power from the ATM side.

CDR Oh, really? You mean even if we fully powered up?

CC That's right. And we're about LOS now. We should

be getting Ascension here in a few minutes at 13.
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01 lO 36 CDR Okay, see you then. Bye bye.

01 12 54 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension, lO-1/2 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're looking at the Y-2 gyro

failure and our ... is taking care of it. We're
still maneuvering back to SI. Shouldn't take any
action on your part:

O1 15 50 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?

PLT Not too bad.

CC Okay, I think we had a little comm problem there for

a minute. Did you copy my messag e on the Y-2 gyro?

PLT Yes, sir.

CC Okay.

CC CDR, Houston. When do you think you all are going

to get around to eatiug dinner?

CDR We're starting right now.

CC Okay.

CDR Tell the Surgeon not to worry. We won't get off

our circadian rhythm.

CC (Laughter) Roger. Copy.

01 20 55 CC CDR, Houston. How do you feel about running that last

ATM pass tonight? The synoptic -

PLT Yes, affirmative. 0kay. Good. Go ahead.

PLT Hey, Henry, you still there?

CC Roger.

PLT We were instructed by the - you're aware of the ATM

panel configuration, right? We have not done any-
thing to it since the EVA.

CC That's affirmative, and we're - we're looking at

that. We're going to power it up according to that
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message you have there, 13:17 Alfa - with a couple

of little changes since we ran - turned the X-ray spec
down during the EVA. And I guess we're looking at
the power'situation and we think we can hack it.

PLT Okay. I don't know what 13:17 Alfa was, but I guess
that was the one that said, "Put on page C-12?" Now,
what did it say to do with the change - with the
message? It said to'put it somewhere, right?

SC (Laughter)

CC Well, it's got the - it's got the panel reconfiguration

for unattended ops after EVA. Really brings it all
back up.

PLT Yes, but I meant if Changed to the book. Date's on

that message, I think. Where's the message tell me
to do with that - with those changes?

CC Says put them as page Charlie 12 of your ATM Experi-

ment Checklist and Data Book.

PLT That's what I wanted to know. That's where it is

then. 0kay, th_n_ you.

CC And the only addition to that, Paul, is to bring the

X-ray spec power _up. And, in addition to the switches
it calls for in the checklist, you got to turn your
photomultiplier ENABLE, and ENABLE to image dissector.

PLT Okay.

CC And we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We did not get

the ATM therm-1 loop on, but you're clear to run
this pass without the thermal loop. And - and we're
all squared away in solar inertial. We should fix
ourselves up when we get the Sun again, And GnAm will
be coming up at 57.

SPT Okay, what time did that pass start, Henry?

CC Okay, it starts about 8 minutes and h5 seconds from

now.

SPT Okay. -_
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Ol 23 hi CC And as a reminder, we commanded 82A OFF from the

ground.

PLT Okay, what Joe meant was, when did the ATM pass start?

CC It starts at 01:39.

01 23 59 PLT Okay.

01 56 59 PLT Houston, Skylab. Are you there?

CC Roger. Go ahead.

FLT Okay. I'm at the ATM panel trying to run J0P 2 and
power on JoP 6, and power up all at the same time.
Your checklist didn't get me there, but I think I'm
almost there. There's two anomalies: the XUV SPEC
door talkback is white, and rem-ins so, whether I
hit the POWER DOOR switch to OPEN or to SHUT. And
the S054 door talkback is white, and I have no READY
or OPERATE lights on the experiment. And I kind of
thought I'd be able to - to get normal operating
lights on the experiment now tha_ we've pinned the
door open. I'd like you to enlighten me on both those.

CC Roger.

CC Okay, let me geZ with you guys then on a problem

we've been watching here, which is the secondary
coolant loop. The thing got very cool during your
operations, and we can't seem to get the devil warmed
back up. And if it doesn't get back up over the
switchover limit, we may be in a little trouble.
What we're trying to do now is to - What we're going
to do is turn the loop completely off and let the
cold flex absorb a little heat. Try a thermal shock,
see if we Can get the temperature up above the switch-
over limit. As you know, the primary loops we can't
use because of the stuck valve that we told you about
earlier. What we're looking into now is what critical
• it_ that are on the loop that maybe we can turn off
tonight so that we don't have to be waking you up, and
then we can handle the situation by commands.

PLT Okay, understand.

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CC And, if for some reason or other we lose our co-_nd

capability and don't get it turned back on at Canaries
or somewhere, we're going to turn it off now. We'd
like for you to go back up and turn on the inverter 3,
secondary loop. And that would - -

FLT I didn't understand that last one, Hank. You want

us to do that in any case, or Just yet.

CC Okay, if we do not tell you prior to LOS here at

Gn,_ that we have turned the loop back on, we would
like you to do it at LOS, on inverter 3.

PLT 3 Charlie. 3 Charlie, right?

CC That's affirmative.

Ol 59 31 PLT Okay.

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02 01 20 CC Skylab, for info, we're reconfiguring the gyros

now for sleep.

PLT Roger.

CDR Key, how does CBRM-5 look to you, Hank?

CC Okay, I know it does look a little low to us, but we

think it's still okay. We Just got back in solar
inertial.

CDR Okay, I got a BAT charge indication on that one.

CC Say wain.

CDR I got a barber pole BAT charge on that one.

CC EGIL says it ought to go away here pretty soon.

CDR Okay, I'ii watch it.

02 05 03 CC PLT or CDR, either one of you available to conference

on same star tracker information?

PLT You bet, llke to.

CC Okay. If we got the bird locked on the Sun here,

we got to bring the star tracker up and the gimbal
angles are outer 1600, inner 0068. Now, if - when
you bring that up, if - if you don't acquire the
star, we're going to have to do a little search here.
And we keep the inner gi_al constant at plus 0068,
and swing the outer gimbal in steps of 200 arc minutes
from 16:00 through 26:00.

PLT Okay, B,m_, we've been doing that for two weeks.

CC Okay. You know how to do it then, and starrise is

at 148 and starset's at 252.

PLT And that's - I assune that's Achernar and the gimb_l

angles you gave me were plus. Is that right?

CC That is affirmative.
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SPT Have you guys looked at the 82A doors, or - do both

of them indicate OPEN?

CC Okay, on the 82A, we commanded that OFF today, Joe.

And; so what's going to have to happen there, you're
going to have to take the power OFF, and then back ON
again to cycle the pulser.

SPT Well, gol dang; I wish you people would tell me

what configuration we're in. How about 54?

CC We lost our comand capability, Joe. We're going to

have to have somebody bring that coolant loop up.

SPT You got a preferred time?

CC Inverter 3, p_mp Charlie; and we're about 15 seconds

from LOS. We'll he coming up on Vanguard at 37.

SPT What time do you want it on? Right now?

CC That's affirmative,

SPT Okay.

02 37 20 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard - i0 minutes.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go ahead.

SPT Roger. I put a number of comments on Channel B about

this ATM pass. One I'd like to reiterate to you - to
pass on - is that we need up here, as soon as possible
on the teleprinter, new pads, or rather new cue card
formats for powerdown for unattended dark side prep,
Sun side prep, powerdown operate next pass, for new
configuration; and we really don't knew where we are.

CC Roger. Copy.

SPT Thank you.

CC And, for info; we're going to be co-_anding the AM EPS

side of the house, to configure that.

SPT Roger.
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CC Okay, and also, on this thermal problem, we - little

thermal shotgame we played a while ago didn't work,
and the actions we're going to take, is we're going
to turn off all this redundant gear that we had in
trying to warm up the loop. We're going to run with
a single loop tonight, with no switchover enabled.
We've taken the critical - we will take the critical
equipment off the line; we'll be safe if we do have
a loop failure. T_e ground will pick it up and
command a new inverter, and pump on the line.

SPT Okay.

CDR We need to go back to C0_ND. Right, Hank?

CC That should already, be accomplished, Pete.

CDR By whom?

CC 0kay, I guess when you put that inverter on while

ago, maybe you ought to verify that you did go back
to COMMAND after you did it.

02 39 34 CDR No, we didn't. You didn't tell us to. We'll go back

to it now.

CC Okay, thank you. Sorry about that. In regard to

your evening status report, why don't you go ahead
and put the rest of it on channel B then, the food
part ?

CDR Okay, the CDR ate everything, and he's probably going
to get into the butter cookies in a minute, so put
me down for two butter cookies. And the rest of the
guys get - put it on ch=_-el B, because we don't have
it now.

CC Okay, and for info; we're dumping the tape recorder

at this site, so you ought to hold up on that until
we LOS.

02 40 22 CDR Okay, I put you back in CO_4AND on SECONDARY. And

you're in C0_L_ND on PRIMARY.

CC Thauk you, sir.

CDR I said you are in CO_]AND on both PRIMARY and SECONDARY

now.
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CDR Roger. Copy. ThAn_ you.

CC And we'll be commanding up the secondary loop here,

and you may get a caution and warning.

CDR Okay. Once you get the AM BUSES configured, why did
you put the gear on the line?Seems to me we've
Just gotten extremely cold in the MDA. It's got
to be about 55 de_rees up there.

CC Okay, we'll take a look at it.

02 44 OO CC Skylab, for info; we'd like to fly tonight with the

TACS ENABTXn until we get this momentum squared away.
It looks like we - Every t_m_ we take this thing and
hold it out attitude for awhile, out of solar inertial,
we have a problem getting squared away.

PLT It is FABLED, isn't it, Hank?

CC Roger, this is Just info. We want - we wanted to

tell you that we did want to fly that way tonight.

PLT Okay. Good Show.

CC Skylab, Houston. Do we have somebody up in the MDA

now?

SPT PLT will be there shortly for you.

CC All righty.

PLT Go ahead.

02 45 30 CC Okay, Paul. ON _ on the panel 205, I believe it is

there, the HEG ADJUST? We'd like to get the REG AD-
JUST BUS i, clockwise, until PCGTOTAL I equals TOTAL 2,
and that will complete our reconfiguration. We got
PCGs 1 through 4 on REG BUS i, and 5 through 8 on
REG_JS 2.

CDR Hey, that sounds great!

PLT Holy mackerel, you got a nominal four except for that
discharge limit. Why you leaving the discharge limit
INHIBITED? Just in case you really need them tonight
yet?
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CC No, we're Just waiting until we get everything fully

back up. And we need about three things over on
the ATM panel to finish the closeout of that for
unattended.

PLT Go ahead.

CC Okay, S054; we need to get the EXPOSURE RANGE to 256.

FLT C_ay.

CC S056 main power [sic] ON?

PLT What do you want? Oh, you want the X-REAPOWEH OFF?

CC S056 main power [sic] ON. And we need the H-Alpha

AUTO switch to OFF, and that does it for that, and
we're Almost LOS. And we'llbe coming up on Canary
at 57.

CDR I dc_'t understand SO 56 main power. You mean the

HIGH VOLTAGE POWER on the S0567

02 47 28 CC Negative.

02 57 B3 CC Skylab, Houston through Canary and Madrid_ 14 minutes.

SPT Fourteen minutes! Wowl

CC And I got to apoligize to you, Paul. I allowed myself

to pass you some bad switch nomenclature awhile ago.
On S056, it was the CAMERA POWER we wanted ON. And
on H-alpha l, we wanted H-alpha 1 AUTO switch to OFF.

SPT C_ay, we finally figured it had to be the CAMERA

POWER switch. You should see that ON. And the
H-alpha i- EXPOSURE switch, or whatever you want to
call it, the AUTO switch is now OFF.

CC Roger. Copy. Thank you.

SPT Henry, why do we need to put the AUTOswitch OFF,

now that we're back in EVA Ab_O DOOR, ENABLE?

CC The NIGHT INTERLOCK is still in OVERRIDE.

SPT Well, let's take it out.

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CC If you want to do that, Joe.

BPT That's what I mean by needing a new checklist.

CC Roger. We concur and we're going to have to build

you something.

CDR Yes, but Hank, do me a favor. Have those guys do it

and work on it, and practice with it in the simulator
and work on it. And don't send us one until it's the
right one!

CC Roger that.

CDR All we got is 8million yards of bits and pieces of

ATM stuff written all over everything, including the
wall!

03 l0 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS. The

ATM DC is taking care of the -_ut,-,. There's a
very remote possibility that we might get a nominal
H-cage on the next dump. However, if that doesn't
occur you ought to be good for the night. And how
would you like to wake up in the morning?

CDR Okay. What's - the station time.

CC We have Bermuda at ll:00.

CDR Let's hear from you then. ThAnk you very much.
We'll see you in the morning, HA_k.

CC Okay, you want a call at Bermuda?

CDR Yes, please.

CC Okay, will do. You guys get a good night's rest.

You've earned it.

CDR Thank you.

SPT Good night, Houston.

CC And EGIL thanks you for the power.

CDR You're welcome, you're welcome.

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CDR Oh, hey, Hank. Are you there?

CC Roger.

CDR Okay. I_m sorry. I had corn scheduled in my menu

today, and I made the scheduled substitution, which
was German potato salad.

CC Roger. Copy.

03 12 00 CDR Thank you.

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03 _7 42 CC SPT, Houston.

CC Skylah, Houston

CDR Go ahead, Houston

CC Hey, sorry to bother you guys, but this coolant

loop is getting away from us, and we're going to
have to do something with it. It's down to 2 -
2 degree s below freezing now. And we're going to
have to get you up and work it until we can get
the thing warmed up. What it looks like it may do
is freeze up in the condensing heat exchanger and
that's an intolerable situation. We'd llke for you
get _he AM CIRC FANS on, and bring up the ATM C&D
coolant loop. And our plan is, which we're - hoped
to have for you by Canaries is, we're going to hook
up an LSU to one of the SUS outlets to PCU. Then
use that LCG adal_cer we hav_ and hook up an LCG
and get it down in the hot part of the workshop
there, somewhere, maybe near one of the water tanks,
and see if we can't start warming up this coolant
loop.

CDR Okay. We're with you. We'll work it right now.

SPT Okay, AM coolant loop, AM circ fans, andthe ATM

coolant loop.

CC That's affirmative. Sorry to do this to you guys.

We're going to let you sleep late in the morning.

03 49 22 CDR No, we want to keep the show running, pal. Don't

worry about that.

CC Skylab, Houston. We want you to use SUS 2 on this

• L$U hookup. We'd like for you to get the whole thing
connected up, and if possible, delay to Canaries to
turn it on. You'll have to •use that special adapter
to hook up the LCG to the PCU, and we want the diverter
valve set to position 5. We haven't found the stowage
location yet for those adapters.
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CDR We're working it.

03 51 39 CC Okay, I have - FA0 says they're in 920, the center

sleep compartment, and we want you to hook up two
of them, if possible - two LCGs and we're about LOS
now and we'll be coming up on Canaries at 36.

0h 36 oh PLT Hello, Houston. You there7

CC Roger. We're with you for about 12-1/2 minutes now.

PLT Okay. We're all wondering why, if we're in a sweat

on the coolant loop, why don't we start adding some
heat to the vehicle, especially for the MDA?

CC Okay, we've got all the heaters on now. The biggest

problem is to get some heat into the coolant loop,
and the only way we can do that is through the
electronics that's attached to it. And also the
problem is our thermal capacitor has gotten down so
cold that it's really zapping us. And the stuff that
we're putting on is downstream of the heat exchanger,
and the heat exchanger is our big problem; we can't
afford to let it freeze up on us.

PLT Well, I'll buy that. You got all the MDA heaters on?

CC Okay, all of them except the primary set,

PLT I'm talking about the radiant heaters and the wall
heaters and that.

CC Those are all on, and we'd like to verify how far
you've gotten this lash up. I guess we want to get
those LC - LSUs hooked into 323 and 317 on the se-
condary side, and when you get the whole thing lashed
up with those adapters, we wanted to get the two LCGs
put somewhere near water tank 1. That seems to be the
warmest tank, according to our telemetry. Perhaps in
around it. Later on -

CDR Hank, we've got it done. We:ve got it done. And it's
there, where you want it.

CC Okay - -
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CDR You turned them on?

CC Okay, let's verify a couple of things then before

we do that. You do have the diverter valves in
position 5. Is that correct_

CDR Both valves are in position 5.

CC Okay, then back on the - We need somebody in the STS

to verify a few things for us.

PLT Go ahead; we're all here.

CC Okay. Panel 200, we want to get the circuit breaker

BAD FLOW, SECONDARY, CLOSED.

04 38 23 PLT It's CLOSED.

CC Okay. And on panel 203, RAD FLOW, SECONDARY to CO_M_ND.

PLT That" s complete.

CC Okay, now panel 217, we want to verify that the HEAT

EXCHANGER COOLANT FLOW, for _che SECONDARY system, is
in BYPASS. We want to leave it there.

04 38 44 PLT It is.

CC Okay, want to verify that the Jumper is removed.

PLT It's off now.

CC Okay, we're ready to turn the pumps on, then. Want

to run down and get those on the panel 323 or right
there, either one. We want to go to SUS 2 PUMP to
PRIMARY.

PLT In work.

04 39 14 PLT Okay, it's on.

CC Okay, and the last thing, I guess, we want to do is

if - somehow or another, we'd like to get a portable
fan rigged up to blow air across those LCGs into the
vicinity of that water tank. And you think you can
rig that up? We thought maybe you could use the
outlet at 521.
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PLT I suppose we could; we've got it taped to the hot

wall in there. I was actually covering the darn
things to try and insulate them from cold air so they
picked up max heat from the wall. And reject it only
to the water.

SPT Look, if you blow on them, you might have them reject-
ing heat to the 0WS air.

CC Okay, let's get a -'let us get a - work that one a

minute.

SC Okay. You want us to power up any EREP to get some

heat into that ATM EREp coolant loop?

CC Stand by 1.

04 40 B3 CDR Also, we could power up some more ATM gear, like TV

monitor i; we got MODE 2 on.

CC Okay - -

PLT Doesn't look like we're using an awful lot of power

right now.

CC Okay, we're pulling h600 watts right now. It looks

like we're already starting to see some results on
this thing. I guess we'd like to hold off for Just
a minute or two on the EREP or anything else.

PLT Okay, fine. We're just trying to be helpful. Inci-

dentally, Houston; what's your next pass and your
A0S time?

Oh hl 21 CC Okay, the next one, after we get through Madrid here,

will be Carnarvon at 16.

SC Thank you.

CC And we still have about 7 minutes on this pass.

PLT Okay, we think some rather - looks to me - are dra-

matic results on the mol sieve, out temperature's
come up 3 degrees since we turned on that S - SUS
pump.
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04 42 25 cC Roger. We're seeing the sA_ thing down here; it's

fantastic. This one temperature that was below freez-
ing going into the heat exchanger is now up almost to
41 degrees.

PLT What's that stuff freeze at? That essentially 32?

CC What we were worried about was the water in the

condensing heat exchanger itself. The coolant itself
is no problem; it won't freeze up on us. But the
water down there in those plates - if they froze up,
we'd be in trouble.

CDR Yes, I understand that. Henry, can you give me some

idea how this happened? Have we Just been cooling
down and cooling down, and the extra power down today
for EVA drive you over the brink? I don't understand
this.

CC What happened there, I think, was that the - we had

that failure, you know, in the TCV valve in the primary
loop where it went - full cold on us, and it drug the
whole system down. It drugged the secondary down with
it and then pulled the thermal capacitors down. Then
that combined with our EVA today, where we powered
everything down, Just drove us right into the mud.

04 43 45 CDR Okay, you got any - I don't want to bother you, but
you got any plans for working the primary loop valve
and getting it unstuck?

CC There's some people looking at some things, Pete. I

don't know what they're looking at right now, but
there are some plans in the work.

CC In fact, they're - they were working some things

they wanted to try tomorrow.

CDR And I show 43 degrees out on the heat exchanger ...

valve. So, that's up from 35 when I first
looked at it.

04 46 50 CDR Hey, Han_, you still there?

CC Roger.

CDR Ask EGIL what he things about BAT 4 on the PCG. How
come that is low, the ... is low?
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i08_ Day159

CC Okay, I'll get an answer. What we'd like to do here,

Pete, is to look at this thing at Carnarvon, which
is the next station which is coming up at 16. During
- in the meant_, we're going to be deciding how we
want to configure for the night. But in any event, I
think at Carnarvon we'll have a decision for you
and let you guys get to bed. In fact, a couple of
you could go now, if you like. And we'll try to
determine whether it's going to be a permanent
situation or whether it's temporary. In any event,
we're out of the woods right now on the immediate
problem.

Oh h7 43 CDR Okay, we'll see you at Carnarvon.

CC PCG 4 looks okay to us, Pete.

04 48 39 CDR Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

05 14 57 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for about lh minutes.

CDR Hi, there. How are you?

CC Okay. I guecs we made a decision here. What we're

going to do is leave this thing lashed up like it is.
I think we're out of the woods right now on it, for
the time being, anyhow. And we're going to work on
a plan to get ourselves squared away for the rest of
the mission. Before you guys go to bed, however,
we'd like to know how we're going to'handle tomorrow.
Our plan is now tentatively, with your concurrence, is
to get you up about 13:00 - about 2 hours late. And
we'd like to know how much cleanup time you want in
the plan tomorrow and where you want it. And that
cleanup will probably include tearing down this thing
we Just built up here with the LCGs.

CDR Well, Hank, I tell you, how about - spread it out,

but an hour with one guy, we'd like to do ... exper-
iment ... iBut you could spread everybody together,
we could work ...

CC Okay. Had an awful lot of feedback there, Pete. I

understand you want about a couple of hours a guy.
Is that correct?

CDR Wait until we get" the squeal out of it, Hank.

CC Okay, that sounded pretty good then.

05 16 33 CDR Okay. Couple hours would be fine or, if you can't

_nke it that way, you know, spread a little in
tomorrow and a little the next day. And we'd llke to
keep as much or, the experiments as possible. It won't
take us more than 20 minutes to cleanup what we did.
We put it together in an awful hurry.
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CC Roger. Understand. And one other little item for

you here is one of our computer predictions says
we may get a nominal H-cage on the next dump. One
of them says we're not.

CDR Well, seeing's the TACS is right down by our heads,

I 'm sure we'll find out one way or another whether
we got it or not. I'm kind of sitting here sightseeing
right at the momen_t. We've had a beautiful swing down
over Snmatra and Borneo, and good sunlight. And, we're
Just approaching the Australian coastline, ready for
the pass over Australia. You read, Houston?

CC Roger. We copy. And I guess if - We're satisfied

with the likes of it right now, and if you are, we'll
let you go to bed. Do you want a call in the morning?
We've got a pass at Ascension at 13:0O.

05 18 02 CDR Yes, why don't you do that. I suspect we'll wake up

before that, Hank. We usually do, and we'll give you
a holler. And if you haven't heard frQm us by 13:00
why Just go ahead and give us a holler. And all
old buddies down there in the Carnarvon tracking
station, when they get off duty tonight I'd like them
to all go and have a Swan Lager been for me.

CC Roger. Copy. I appreciate you guys taking care of

this superfast. And sorry we had to do that to you.
Ya'll get a good night's rest, and we'll talk to
you tomorrOW.

05 18 3_ CDR Okay. Nighty night.

END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

12 56 02 PLT Good morning, Houston.

CC Morning, Skylab. How are y'all doing this morning?

PLT Fine.

12 56 17 CC And, Skylab; Houston. We're in the middle of an

Ascension pass; we still have about 9 minutes re-
maining in this pass. We've hustled all evening
to get out a bunch of pads, which are in the tele-
printer, which you may alreadyhave found. The only
note I'll have right now on those pads is that there
is a new _,-_ary Flight Plan for today that asstmes
a 13:00 wake up that you'll find there. During the
eCening, the coolant loop's status has re-_ned
stable, and we do not want you to change the config-
uration that you guys put it in last evening. One
other short note - We are up-linking s_me ATMDC
memory load in preparation for switchover to the
secondary computer. We're going to be doing - It's
now scheduled for tomorrow, and there's a message
on the teleprinter concerning this upTlink we're
doing now.

PLT Yes, we saw it, Dick. Thank you.

CC Okay.

PLT And we're Just now getting up and about.

CC Very good.

12 57 hl CDR Dick, hew long do you think you're going to have to

leave the BUS pump up and the coolant loop the way
it is?

CC Pete, I wish we right now could give you a real

smart answer on that, but we Just honestly don't
know. With the - the EGIL and his people have
been studying the problem all night, and we've got
the situation stable right now. And we'd like to
Just leave it that way until we really understand
•what we're doing there.
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CDH Okay.

12 58 28 PLT Hey, Dick, do y'all want that housekeeping 70, the

morning powerdown, still performed?

CC Negative. We do not. That's one of the messages

that we have prepared. I'm not sure right now whether
it's on board or not, but we donot want it performed.
As a matter of fact, now - -

PLT ...

CC - - matter of fact, now that I think about it, it's

in the odds and ends message, and we have not up-
linked that one yet. So - But do not do those steps.

PLT Okay, we'll throw it away, huh?

CC (Laughter) Okay.

13 04 13 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 45 seconds from LOS

here at Ascension. We're going to see you at
Carnarvon at 13:30.

PLT Okay.

CC And incident,11y, we have -we have put in the first

patch in the ATMDC, as I advised you while ago. And
everything is going real good there.

PLT Take care, you guys.

13 05 22 PLT Hello, Dick. You still there?

CC Yes, sir, I am.

PLT Probably don't have time now; I didn't voice record

yesterday's food. Remind me, and I'll give it to
you at Carmarvon. Will you, please?

CC Okay, sure will.

13 29 i0 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over Carnarvon for the

next 6 minutes.

PLT Good morning, Crip. How are you today?

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CC Fairly fine. And you guys sound rather cheerful

after having to get up in the middle of the night.

PLT Well, glad to do it to save our happy hc_e.

CC Very good. Maybe it's getting a little bit happier.

PLT Yes, let me give you quickly my menu for yesterday,

Bob. It didn't get recorded last night.

CC Okay.

13 29 h5 PLT Okay, ate everything except delete macaroni, item 7h;

bread, item 75; one coffee, ntmber 62; optional
salt, 9.0. And I put on the tape recorder last
night, - While we were ricocheting around lashing up
LCGs, I couldn't resist one can of butter cookies.

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SKY AIR- T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

13 30 18 CC Was that butter cookies you ate or did y - not eat?

PLT No. That's an extra one I snuck in that I ate.

CC Okay; one can of butter cookies.

CDR Label that a midnight snack.

CC Sounds good. I can think of better things. And CDR;

Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

13 30 hh CC We have you scheduled, as you might have noticed on

your_llght Plan today, for a t_pe recorder checking
and ahangeout. Apparently, that thing failed on us,
and we asked you to check a light on it. We need to
coordinate that over a ground station when you do,
because we have to send a command for reconfiguration.
So, when that comes up, would you Just not do it un-
till we do have a ground pass?

13 31 08 CDE Okay; understand. And what is that, tape recorder

number i?

CC That's affirm.

CDR Okay. Very good. Then I'll wait for you to tell me
what to do.

CC Okay. We've got that - details on an odds and ends

message which we're going to be sending up for you
very shortly.

CDR Okay, very good. Oh, and, Bob, while you're think-
ing about it, the grouud may want to take into con-
sideration how we do this on the next EVA, but we
used up the three UCTA's that were spelled out for
our day 26 EVA, that we took out of the dome locker.
So, however they would like to Juggle UTCA's for the
_ next EVA, why don't you have the stowage people think
Page 1092 DaY 159

about that because we're going to - Somebody's going

to have to replace the ones that we _e the next
time. So_ebody's going to have to bring some more
up.

CC Okay, appreciate that reminder. We'll have our stow-

age people work on it.

13 33 23 CDR Got any news for us this morning?

CC I 're got the morning news here, per your request. If

you'd like, I can give you a few blurbs.

CDR Yes, please.

CC Okay. By the way, this is kind Qf somewhat old news

down here. I wasn't working when it oceured. Did
you hear about the TU-Ih4, the Russian supersonic
tree,sport that crashed last Strode%y?

CDR No.

CC Okay. It was during the Paris Air Show. I guess the

aircraft made a couple of passes over the field, and
it pulled up for a turn to come in for a landing, and
apparently, - Well, the description of it in the news-
paper was that it fell and then ended up exploding.
And lost the crew and some town people in the village
Surrounding the airport.

CDR Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

CC That's pretty bad. For some - what is called late

news, you guys were headlines today on m_naging to
get that solar panel out. And all of us are rather
happy about that. The - Some news slm-,aries l've got
- The people passed on to me hers; I can go over a
couple of them for you. Said two California astron-
omers reported the discovery of a quasar believed to
be the most distant recorded object in the universe.
And that was Dr. Joseph Wempler of UC, Santa Cruz,
and Dr. Margaret Burbid@e I believe -I guess,
San Diego teemed in identifying the quasar with the
vast equipment linked with the Link Observatory, as
Day 159 Page 1093

that quasar's believed to be about i0 billion light

years from Earth. Mr. Clarence M. Kelly, the Kansas
City Police Chief, has been nominated by President
Nixon to serve as director of the FBI. The 61-year
old law enforcement officer served as an FBI agent
for 21 years before he Joined the Kansas City police
Department 12 years ago. Also, today, West German
Chancellor Willy - Willy Brandt is on an official
visit in Israel where he was praised by Mrs. Golda
Meir for his stating upon his arrival that, '_Fne stun of
the suffering and the horror cannot be removed from the
consciences of our people." I guess - The hea_1_nes
in the Houston Post this morning read, "SPACEMEN FREE
SOLAR PANEL. Skylab's energy crisis seemed solved
Thursday night after a twice around-the-world repair
Job by two of the coolest cats ever to labor in space
suits." And if I got anybody interested in astrology
up there, I can give you your so-called predictions
for the day. Pete, yours is: "Endless rounds of dis-
cussion get nowhere, but serve to slow down your prog-
ress." Says "to concentrate on your own affairs and
select simple goals." P. J., yours says, "Yesterday's
challenges continue to esculate. If you must make
changes, put your attention to being thorough and
complete." And, for Dr. Joe, "Discretion carries your
day. Be explicit. Volunteer no side issues which
might confuse matters. Family and associates are
restless. "

13 36 35 SPT I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm going back to bed.

CC (Laughter). Okay.

CDR Say, you still there, CripY

CC That's affirm. We've got about another couple of

minutes.

13 36 27 CDR Okay. For planning purposes, unless somebody has

some strenuous objections on the ground, we'd like
to share the wealth a little bit up here. And having
a discussion amongst Joe and myself, we elected to let
P. J. do EV-I on day 26, and I'ii do EV-2, if
Page 1094 Day 159

everybody doesn't have any objections to that. We're

a11 trained in the different Jobs, and we thought
we'd like to let P. J. get outside.

CC Okay. We'll run that one around the flag pole.

CDR _an1_ yOU.

13 37 42 CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute until LOS. We'll

see you again at G,,-_ at 13:45. And I've just been
informed that we also need a food report from Joe.
So maybe if he could have that for me at the next
pass, I'd appreciate it, sir.

SPT The menu report for yesterday: Ate everything except

one tea with lemon and sugar, no salt, no DELTA H20 ,
no nothing else.

13 38 09 CC Okay. Understand. The only thing different was one

tea with sugar not eaten. That's nice and quick.

13 44 30 CC Skylab, Hodston; we're AOS over G1,,m for about a

3-minute pass. And, P. J. for you, your mineral
supplements for today are three calcium tablets. And
no one else has to take any.

13 44 48 PLT Crazy. ThAnk yOU.

CC I thought you'd like that.

PLT Oh, I don't mind.

13 46 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute until LOS, and we'll

see you again at G_,_m at 13:55, 13:55.

13 h7 05 CC Skylab, Houston. In case I messed up on that call,

the next pass is at Hawaii, at Hawaii.

PLT See you at Hawaii. The calcium's down.

13 47 17 CC Good for the calcium.

13 56 39 CC Skylab, Houston; we're A0S over Hawaii for about 2 Q

minutes.

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PLT Ok ay.

13 58 04 CC SEylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS. We'll see

you again over Goldst_e at lh:O7, lh:07.

14 05 51 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over Goldstone for about

- oh, about 6 minutes. And we'll have a couple of
dropouts swinging across the top.

CDR All righty.

CDR Are you gone, Crip?

CC Say again, please?

i_ 06 36 CDR I was wondering if you were st_ll with us. S_, while
we've got a minute, and now that we've got s_me power
back, we were discussing the possibility of how we'd
do our meals differentl_, if we could use the heaters.
And it turns out, we probably wouldn't do it much dif-
ferent than we're doing right now. Because - and I
bet you this a long time ago but it may have gone down
the crack - we've got "a lot of _ .in this water.
When you fill a rehydratable food package with either
hot or cold water, the package swells ,Imost to its
total voltametric capacity with gases. And there really
isn't any way that you can put that kind of food cold
in the food tray, and put the lid on it," and heat it.
The only thing you can do with those rehydratables
that are supposed to be hot is use the hot water.
Now that works fine on AlI of them ex - except about
two, which really take a long time to reconstitute;
that's the macaroni and the spaghetti. But that's a
problem you might Pass on to the follow-on crews be-
cause it's not going to m-ke any difference how much
power We've got up here. I don't think they're going
to do the meals any differently then we've been doing
them, but since you do most of your meal preparing
right before the meal you eat -

CC Ok%y. Copy. .And we'll pass that on. I know AI's

going to be disappointed if you can't prepare - pre-
pare spaghetti right. You Can't even let the air
out by depressing on the valve, is that correct?
Page1096 Day159

CDR Well, if you do, you get - you get - semi-fluids come
out of it.. So you've got to Judge - you can use a
drink valve and slop cold whatever-it-is into your
mouth while you're letting the air out into your
mouth, which is about the best place because it - it
- it - Just goes all over the place.

CC Oh, okay. We'll pass that on to the food people and

the crews.

CDR And it's not - it's not something that you can't cope
with, and there really ... that I don't think is any
•.. But it is different than originally the way we
planned it .... heaters.

CC Okay.

14 08 56 CDR I might say that the hot water is - is very hot, and
- and it does a good Job. You can leave food recon-
stituted for 3 or h minutes before you start eating
it, and it's still very warm when you start to eat
it.

CC Very good; that's good to hear.

lh ll 05 CDR Say, Crip, you still with us?

CC That's affirm.

CDR Well, I know EGIL's got a lot of problems, but how

about asking him to consider when we turn on the hot
water heater in the waste management compartment to-
day, that we Just leave it on.

CC That's affirm. You've got a GO to turn it on and

leave it on.

I_ Yea!

CC Aren't we nice to you guys? We figured you'd like

those hot showers.

CDR Well, we Just wanted some of the, you know, for our
sponge baths and everything. It's - it's been a little
chilly doing that, especially since the vehicle cooled
down.
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lh ii 48 CC Roger. We may get a couple of minutes dropout on

voice her. If we do, I'll - I'll have you again over
at Goldstone at 14:13. Correction, at Texas.

CDR Okay.

14 13 24 CC Skylab, we're A0S once more over Texas at time. We

should have about a 13-minute pass, 13 minutes.

CDR Okay.

CC Okay. I 'm ass_ing you guys are still down in the

- the wardroom having chow. We would like to go
back to our original configuration regarding TACS
inhibited and inhibiting C_G auto reset. Would
it be possible within the next few minutes to have
somebody do that? If not we'll have to hold up on
that DAS command because of - of some loading that
we're doing in the computer.

CDR Yes. We're - we're on our way up there tc do it

right now.

CC Okay, that's to turn off the six TACS switches. You're

to turn them to INHIBIT, and to put CMG, AUTO, reset
inhibited at 52010 code and a 5 triple balls 2 code.
And while I'm still talking to you here, I can tell you
the status of your rate gyros this morning and the
never-ending saga of the GNS. X is in 1 and 2 with
3 as backup; Y is in 1 and 2 with 3 as backup; and
Z is in 2 and 3 on two rate gyro redundancy manage-
ment. And we have 1 off.

14 lh 48 SPT Copy. And your request is accomplished.

CC Thank you very much, sir. You're speedy.

14 15 12 CC Okay, Skylab. Also a message regarding your flight

plan for today. There's been a decision made to
scrub the SO19 stowage and the S07B operations for
today.

14 17 12 CC Skylab _,Houston; we're working on your computer once

more, so please do not do - be doing any DAS
operations.

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PLT Okay.

CC And I don't know if you copied _ earlier statement.

There's been a decision made this morning: From
your current flight plan, we would like to eliminate
the S019 stowage. P. J., you had that scheduled about
16:00, I believe. Also, we would like to eliminate
all S073 operations. In other words we're going to
leave 19 in the SAL.

PLT What are you going to do with it?

CC We'll be pulling it out probably tomorrow morning to

put the ETC in.

PLT I've got a confession to make. I got s.head this morn-

ing and all ready took it out.

CC Had you put anything in yet?

PLT Negative.

CC Well, just leave it like that. That makes it nice

for tomorrow.

PLT (Laughter) Okay. I'm glad I don't have to put it

back.

14 18 09 CC (Laughter) Okay. On those S073 periods, you can Just

use yo - those for general cleanup that we'd taken
away from you earlier.

CDR Okay, but don't do that anymore. Y'all are going to

figure out how we operate up here (laughter).

CC Trying to get ahead of us, huh?

PLT When I woke up - -

CDR Well, I'm afraid to get too far ahead.

PLT I woke up early this morning. Had the prowls.

CDR Say, Crip, are you still with us?

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CC Affi rm.

CDR Do you need me to determine which tape recorder you

want, or you want to run that tape recorder stuff
and tell me which one to than@e?

CC Okay, it's I that's bad. But we've got - we want to

do a checkout on it and let me -stand by 1. Let me
check on the status of this message.

CDR Well, it may be up there; I haven't looked. But

I 'm available anytime. If you want to plan it for
the next station, I'ii be there.

CC Okay, Pete. I think that soundS pretty good to us.

Let me verify what's the status of this message.

CDR Okay, and what's the next station?

14 20 41 CC Ascension. And it's Ascension and it's at ih:34.

14 20 49 CDR Roger. Ascensio_ at 14:34. We're directly overhead

Bermuda now, and it looks like everybody in the
tracking station in Bermuda has got a nice day. I
wish I was at the beach down there.

CC I think it's a pretty nice day all over the U.S.

We've got the odds and endS message up there in your
teleprinter right now, and the first line on it, I
think, explains what we want to do with the tele-
printer. And you might take a look at that before
we get to that - that pans. And we'll be doing one
command over Ascension, and then check a light. And
if it doesn't work out, we'll be asking you to change
it out for us.

CDR You didn't mean teleprinter; you mean tape recorder,

right?

CC I - I'm sorry, yes.

CDR Okay, see you at 34. Bye.

CC And we still have about 4 minutes to go here in case

anybody's got any traffic.

CDR Yes, the P. J.'s got the prowls and I got the
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whistles, so we're whistling around and working.

CC Okay.

PLT Still there, Houston?

lh 23 31 CC That's affirmative.

PLT Crip, how about asking somebody to look into something

for us, will you? There's a greasy film on these -
all these windows, and when you try to clean it with
plain water, it doesn't do a very good Job. Now
we've got these zephiran wipes in there, but I wanted
somebody to experiment on the ground before we tried
it up here. See if anybody can come up with anything
to help clean the windows, will you, please?

CC Okay. You got any idea what the film is?

PLT It's- it's ... greasy kind of stuff - it's Just what
comes out of the air. No, I don't.

CC Okay.

SPT Wait a minute. A guy on a white horse Just appeared

in the wardroom.

CC Well, despite your guy on the white horse, we'll go

ahead and look into it for you.

PLT Okay.

14 25 25 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

And we'll have you again at Ascension, as I said, at
14:34. And the DAS is yours again.

PLT Okay, thank you, Bob.

14 34 55 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over Ascension at this

time. And we've Just sent up a co_nand designating
tape recorder 1 as our data recorder. We would like
you to check panel 20h TAPE RECORDER, rotary - by the
rotary switch to verify whether the STOP light on 1 -
TAPE RECORDER 1 is ON or OFF.

SPT Okay, the CDR is enroute.

CC Thank you, sir.

 Day 159 Page ii01

14 35 33 CDR Okay, Crip, the TAPE RECORDER i light is on.

CC Roger. Copy. It's on. Roger, Pete. That means

that it's kaput, and we need you to change it out as
we've mentioned in that mee_a@e that is in your
SWS systems Checklist, 4-26,

CDR Okay, Crip, l'll have it done here in a little while.

CC Okay.

14 36 50 CDR SaM, also, Crip, we've had a bat charge light on

forever - since sometime yesterday. Could you give
me a reason for that? Did we go ... that forever
now, or what? It's on the ATM.

CC Stand by on that.

PLT Speaking of bat charge, Crip; how about - you want us

to enable the caution/warning for the airloek module
batteries?

CC Let me check on that one also, Pete - Paul.

14 37 36 CC Okay. P. J., you can go ahead and enable that

caution/warning for the airlock module batteries,
and We'll get a procedure to get that light out for
you on the bat charge.

PLT Thank you.

CC Okay. And also, CDR, we've had a question come up

here that we'd like you to ponder for s_nhile, please.
And that is, if it is decided to deploy the MSFC sail,
do you think that should be done with the normal EVA,
or should we do it in two EVA's? I guess the prime
question is, how crowded is it going to be in the
airlock whenyou're going out? The concensus here
seems to be that it would probably be better to do
it in one, but we would like your recommendation.

14 38 25 CDR Well, I'll tell you. I've already pondered that one,
and I've got an answer for you. The way that we
agreed to do it on the ground; if we were going to do
it in that manner, was that we would suit up and do
one EVA, whichever one it wan, in whichever order you
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Page 1102 Day 159

wanted it done; and that wan do the ATM. And then

we would pop back inside, repress the airlock,
take off our helmets • eat lunch and not get out of
our suits, get back into suits, do a little suit
integrity check, and pop back outside and do the next
one. Now that's a very easy thing to do. If you
decided to do that, we would use the SPT on the
sail deploy and then sw_ out, because he's already
suited anyhow; the PLT on the film deploy.

14 39 24 CC Okay, Pete. We copied that. We'll pass it on.

CDR Yes, here's ,_ feeling, Crip. I would do it in the

following order, also: I would do the film deploy
right _ay at the first EVA. I believe that we could
get that done in the shortest amount of time. l've
also rigged most of the station out there. If you
didn't catch it yesterday, I did configure both trees
with the hooks while I was sitting there doing
nothing, and so the station is ready to go. And I
think we can do a very fast Sob on our film trans-
fer, and pop back in, close the hatche and relax,
and reconfigure the airloek with the sail, _nd then
pop back out and do the sail.

14 _0 20 CC Okay, I cOpied that. We're about to go AOS. See you

again at CRO at 15:04.

CDR Now if anybody has any big serious reasons for not
doing it that way, which is the way we talked about
it on the ground before we left, why, I'll be more
than happy to entertain those.

i_ 40 39 CC Oks_. Thank you, sir.

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159:15:00 to
159:15:59
Day 159 Page 1103

SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

15 04 45 CC Skylah, Houston. We're AOS over Carnarvon for the

next i0 minutes, for the next I0 minutes.

CDR Okay. Your handy-fix-it crowd has changed out the

tape recorder. You want to check it out?

CC Okay. We'll see if INCO wants to take a look at it.

CDR Okay. And, I replaced it with side nmmber 22.

CC Roger. Number 22.

CDR And also, Crip, for your information_ on trans-

porter Oh, the failure mode was on the take-up side,
drive sprocket. In the transporter the film, don't
ask me how it did this, wrapped itself 360 degrees
around the transporter drive or idler gear about
four times. I don't know how it could do that. We're
trying to unravel it now.

CC Okay. We copy that.

15 06 15 CC And, Pete, for your information, per your request.

We're trying to get you up a new ATM cue card, which
reflects all the changes that we've made. It's sit-
ting out here at Carnarvon, now. And I don't know
whether we're going to m-_e it up at this pass or not,
but it'll be up shortly. It is intended only to be
used for the day, though, because it was put together
last night in a rather hurried fashion. And we've
checked it several times. We think it's carrect, but
tammorrow we're going to give you one that is good
and that we've run in the simulator and we know it's
good.

CDR •Okay. Thank you, sir.

CC And, CDR; for your information, that recorder checks

out good. You guys do mean it when.you say you fix
anything, don't you?

CDR We try.
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CC They'll put you in the CBs if you don't watch out.

15 07 33 CDR Now, Crip. We have cleared transporter Oh. And I

don't know what the crowd would like to do down there.
l'm not sure that there's anything wrong with it. It
seems to be all right. What would you like us to do
with transporter Oh? Red label it and put it away,
or try her again? Because I think it was Just a - a
chance, which could •have been caused by the takeup
spool being - having a little loop in it, being
almost full and not accepting any more film, That,
to me, more likely failure than the transporter
because there was very little film r_maining on the
supply reel. We Just stripped it out to throw it
away. And there was very little film remaining on
the supply reel. So I kind of think that might
have been the problem. And it's a good transporter.
We'd Just as soon go ahead and use it, if
the camera people concur on the ground.

CC Okay. Let me get - a ree_endation from our expert.

CDR Hey, Crip. You there?

CC Affirmative.

15 09 59 CDR Okay. We've never done day ii transfer, which are

EREP tapes. I assume that we'll do that _,whenever
you - we flnally get enough EREP tapes to do that.
Is that correct?

CC We'll check on that and on the status of your trans-

porter. What we'd like you to do is Just go ahead
and put it back in the drawer and we'll schedule it
for a tnkeup of transporter when it's required.

CDR Okay. It looks good to me. It runs free and - stud

it looked to me like the film Just Jammed up at the
exit end there and tried to go into the tnkeup reel.

CC Okay.

15 l0 hh CDR Okay. Now back to day 14, cryo, fan 02 valve, and
all that baloney. We're not going to do that because
we're still running the fuel cells, right?
 Day 159 Pqe 1103

CC I'm sorry, Pete. I didn't copy your last statement.

CDR I'm in the stowage book. And I'm reading the stow-
age that has not been done - day ii, da_ 13 we can
take care of ourselves, and day i_ stowage has not
been done either. And I gather we're not going to
do that until we run the fuel cells dry.

CC I think you're correct on that. But we're verifying

it here.

CDR Okay. Page 15, we'll take care of.

15 12 42 CC Skylah, Houston. We Just sent you a teleprinter

message on the ATM cue cards to be used for today,
and also the test messages up anf hopefully that'll
do it, for a while On teleprinter messages. And we're
still researching your transfer question, Pete.

CDR Okay

15 14 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute until LOS. We'll

see you again at O,_ at 15:18 andhope that we'll
have the answers to your stowage questions at that
time.

CDR Okay. Next question, Crip. Suit drying - suit

drying - They wouldn't let us turn it on last night.
Can we start the suit drying?

CC We're checking.

CDR Thank you.

15 20 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam for the next

8 minutes. And, CDR, per your question, the day ii
transfers will be schedulecl on day 161, prior to the
EREP, that's day after tomorrow. And - -

CDR Very good.

CC - - Roger. I said the day ii transfers will be done

on day 161 prior to the EREP, at least that's our
intent, currently.

CDR Very good.

7--
Page 1106 Day 159

CC Regarding the day lh transfers, you were correct.

We'll be saving that for fuel cell shutdown which is
estimated at day 166.

CDR Okay. Got another question for you.

CC Okay, let me give you this other one, regarding your

suit drying. You're okay to turn on the blowers and
you're okay to turn on the heaters to dry the
desiccant.

CDR Very good, and then my next question is, it's getting
pretty raunchy down there in the command module, we'd
like permission to bring up the command module fan
again.

CC To bring up the co-,,,-d modul_ what, please? Fan?

CDR Yes. You know - -

CC Roger.

CDR The airlock module fans in the comm-nd module, blow

air into the co-_-_d module.

15 22 13 CC Okay. That sounds like a good idea from here, you can
go ahead - you've got a GO for that.

CDR Okay. YOU want us to run it on low or high?

CC On high.

15 h3 hl CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the States for next -

nice long pass there. Should be about 15 minutes.

CDR Okay. Houston, you've got H-alpha i on the PC. l'm

working two monitors ; so when you want to look at
H-alpha 2, give me a holler, and I'Ii switch.

CC Okay; understand. We've got i on now. And, Pete,

we're going to be doing a computer load implementation
at this pass. We'd like you to stay off the DA_
for a little while, please.

CDR DAS power is OFF.

_ Day 159 P_e nOV

CC And if the PLT is available, you'll never believe it,

but I got a message modification for him.

PLT I hope it's got nothing to do with the 192 alignment

that I Just finished the visible part of.

CC Would you believe it did? Question is, did you get

the READY light when it was called for?

15 24 44 PLT I put all that stuf_ on B channel. Let me - if you

can get any other traffic?

CC Negative.

PLT Okay, here it is in s1_mAry. Negative. I have

discovered apparently that the only time I get an
ALIGN READY light on the 192 gear is when I have a
READY light on the C&D panel.

CC Okay. But you did not get a READY light on the C&D
either. Is that correct?

PLT Negative, sir. Negative. I got a READY light on the

C&I_ every time I expected it. The only conditions
under which I could get an ALIGN READY light was to
have a C&D READY light.

CC Okay, that Jives with what the people down here

think that you should have.

PLT It doesn't Jive with what I thought we should have

before launch - -

CC Okay, I guess my - -

PLT -- ... information.

15 25 44 CC Okay, I guess my real question, P. J., is that in the

procedure, on the first page, on panel llO, where you
got to where you had - supposed to have the S192
mode with a ready light. Did you get that READY light?
And then I understood that's affirmative.

PLT That's right. Also, you lost the star tracker pad.
Just give us the gimbsl angles, if you!ve got
them happy - handy, will you, please?
Page1.108 D_ 159

CC Wilco. Stand by i on that.

PLT And while you're doing that, let me m-_e some more
comments about the 192. May I?

CC Roger. If you can - let me go ahead and give you

those gimbal angles, I've got them available here.

PLT All right, do.

15 46 59 CC Okay. The inner gimbal is plus 0081 and the outer

gimbal is plus 1628.

PLT ... How about the times on that, please?

CC Roger. It's day 159, valid from 13:00 to 23:00.

PLT No, the orbital times- when it's available.

CC Oh, I'm sorry. It's available day 4030 to night 1530.

PLT Got it. Tb-n_ you.

PLT Okay, can I Jaw some more about EREP?

CC Let me have it.

15 47 52 PLT Okay, I Just finished the visible alignment. The

values I got are the left meter reads 85, the right
meter reads 54. The focus ring, looking down into
the open top of the can, the visible focus ring is
right up against the full counterclockwise stop.

CC Okay.

15 48 15 PLT I also have a distinct impression that the Y-axis

adjustments arm is getting very close to, if you look
into the mechanism, its clockwise limit. It's
starting to get kind of stiff.

CC Roger.

15 48 33 PLT That's about it, except for an interesting fact that

I wasn't aware of; maybe all the guys in the back
room knew it, but I didn't, is that when you open
the S192 door, the thermal reading on this meter goes
Day 159 Page 1109

up about 50 percent. In other words, it's reading

45 right now, and if I open the door it goes up to
a little over 60. Did they know that?

CC Okay, apparently the boys in the back room agree that

that 's normal.

15 49 ll CDR Hey Crip, there's some big ... on the monitor.

CC Roger. Thank you.

FLT Hey, Crip, you faded. Did I understand you to say

that yes, the systems 192 experts expected that when
the door was open?

CC The EREP people tell me that they did expect that

increase when the door was opened.

PLT Okay. You mean you're not going to let me align it

with the door open, until I get these high readings
now?

CC We'll check on that.

FLT I'm only Joking.

CC I thought you'd like to align it again.

PLT No, thanks. I'm very nervous about this thing.

CC That's why I left it for Hank, last night, to tell

you you were going to get to do it again.

CC And, CDR; if you've got a chance, I guess we're sit-

ting here loading this beauty for you this morning
and modifying your program slightly, and we don't
know if you've ever been briefed on what it is we're
doing to it. Have you?

CDR Nope.

CC Okay, let me see if I can't get together a little

story for you. It's really no impact on crew oper-
ations, I don't believe, but there are some mods
there that you probably should be aware of.

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Pageiii0 D_V159

15 50 _9 CDR Okay, stud in the meantime, here comes the white light
coronagraph at you.

CC Roger, the WLC.

15 51 03 PLT Okay, Crip, 192 seems to have stabilized. In the

thermal channel, as soon as I move that focus ring away
from stop, which is the await [?] stop right now as
described on the p&d, I lose it completely. It drops
right off the bottom and goes pulling down to 12 and
sits there, and I get it back by bringing the focus
ring back to the stop, and that's where I'm going to
leave it.

CC Okay; copy. I guess - do youfeel like if you had

more movement on your focus that it would come in
better?

PLT When it gets to the focus stop, it has not started

dowh yet, so the answer is yes, I think I could.

CC Okay.

15 51 51 CDR Ed, are you ready for XUV MON?

CC Stand by one on that.

CDR Man, I'm like a kid with a new toy. I got two
monitors super.

CC I was usable to copy your last, Pete, I guess we're

not getting your TV real time, unfortunately, so it's
okay to go ahead and switch to XUV MON now.

15 52 33 CDR You don't mean you want me to record it on the VTR.

Are you getting it someplace down-link?

CC It's our understanding they're supposed to be recording

it now on the ground and they'll be shipping it into
us later. It's not for you to be putting on the VTR.
on the VTR.

CDR Okay.

15 53 35 PLT Are you there, Crip?

CC Affirmative.
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15 53 B9 PLT Okay, thermal ch_=nnel reading is maximized at

h3 percent. I'ii give you the new settings, they're
not much different, but let me give them to you any-
way on the mike. Okay, Houston, the micrometer
setting's on thermal adjustment; Z is 0.518, X is
0.528 'and they're both, Just as I said, fullout.

CC Roger, I understood Y was 0.518, X 0.528 and you're

fullout at this time, is that correct?

PLT That 's right, exc'ept, that was Zebra not Yolk.

CC l'm sorry.. Zebra, right.

CC And, P. J. ; our _EP people tell us that 43 percent,

looks good.

CC P.J., our EREP people tellus the h3 percent looks

good.

CC And, P. J. ; I don't know if you copied my last

trausmission, but 43 percent does look good.

PLT Okay, thank you, Bob.

15 55 h8 PLT Okay, in our present condition, Bob, on S054 - the

door t_Ikback indicates white, which I guess is
suspected. We do not have a READY light. Pete
Just started a sequence that appears $o be t_ng
photos at the proper intervals. The frame count is
decrementing; we do not have a OPERATE light
either. Is that the way we're going to live with
this thing from now on?

CC Okay, our ATM people tell me affirmative, and I

understood the door talkback is white and no
READY or OPERATE light.

PLT That's right, but the frame counter does decrement.

CC Frame count decrements. That's affirmative. That

will be normal operation from now on.

PLT Yippee.
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15 56 32 CC Goody, goody. Sort of a quick s1_-,-aryof what we're

doing to the computer. We've already input new
inertias to account for your condition of your solar
panel w_ng. That is one off and one out. We've
done on the -updated your TACS thrust, in pulse
width to be used in case of a switchover, and also
we've changed the logic slightly, such that the backup
strapdown does use the Sun sensors. Joe might be
interested in putting that on his little card. Also
we have - because of ali the rate gyro problems
we've been having, we've modified it such that if we
do get a switchover, the computer retains the gyro
drift compensations that we've made on the other
Computer. And that is different than the way we
previously had it.

CDR All right, Crip, that means that the gyro drift ...

CC I'm sorry Pete, I was unable to copy your last.

CDR I said that means we don't have to keep this fancy

switchover gyro drift update compensation procedure,
huh?

CC You're supposed to hold on to that right now. I'll

try to get a clarification of that Pete.

CDR You mean you don't trust your new program yet?

CC Yes. We haven't completed all of this loading.

15 58 12 SPT Hey, Crip; SPT. You're putting all this in the pri-
mary computer, right?

CC That's affirm. We're putting it in the primary

computer today. We're going to take a look at it
and make sure that it all looks good, and tomorrow
we'll switch over to the secondary and do the same
to it.

SPT Okay. Do you expect any problems or unusual

indications tomorrow when we switch to the secondary,
due to the fact that it's got an old program in it?
Day159 Page1113

CC I think the only thing is that they will have to be

rather swift on getting some loads in, to make sure
we don't run into a gyro problem. But they're all
set up and prepared to do that.

SPT Okay. I wouldn't mind a short message on what the

procedure is going to be, what the ground is going
to do, and what you want us to watch for tomorrow.

CC Okay, we'll try to put that together for you.

SPT Thank you, sir.

15 58 59 CDR Plus we'll go ahead and fold everything down up here,

just in case.

CC I think that might he a wise idea.

15 59 12 PLT Okay, Crip, two more items. One, another little

piece of the ... tape for the EREP people. When I
went to put the lid back on the cooler door the ...
that place there put the lid hack on the cooler door,
ALIGN READY light is ON now, and I do not have a 192
READY light. So they got the ball to figure that out;
I can't. I would also like clearance to go ahead
and check out the condensate dump primary heater, and
I would also like clearance to go ahead and check
out mol sieve A primary timer.

END OF TAPE
 TAG Tape 159-08
159:15:59 to
159:17:30
Day 159 page 11 ] 5

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

15 59 51 CC We've only got about a minute here, and I don't know

whether I'm going to be able to get a GO for all of
those on you, but I'ii m_e a try at it, Paul.

PLT There's no rush. Just give me a call when ever you

can. I don_t need any procedures; I'ii go ahead and
do it myself.

CC Understand.

CC P.J. you're GO to check out the condensate heater - -

PLT 0kay.

CC - - or to turn it off.

PLT Yes, we will.

CC Okay, We're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll see you

agai n at Carnarvon at 16:4h, 1644.

16 O0 48 PLT Roger. About _0 minutes from now, okay?

CC About hO minutes; that's affirm.

CC And, P. J., you can go ahead and put the cover back
on 192.

PLT Yes, I'm going to start powering it down.

CC Okay.

16 43 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Carnarvon for the

next 6 minutes.

PLT ...

CC Roger. Unable to copy you there due to the feedback.

I'd like to go ahead and give Paul a GO on his checking
ing out the PRIMARY TIMER on M0L SIEVE A.

PLT Roger, Bob. Okay. And a few words on the secondary

condensate dump vent heater, if you're ready.

CC Roger. Go ahead.
Pa_e ]]16 Day 159

PLT Okay. When I went to turn it on, the temperature

indicator was reading about I0, i0 degrees. I turned
the SECONDARY VENT HEATER ON, and it went away for
a while, cam_ back in 3 or _ minutes. And I forget
what it was reading, nOW, but I think it was on the
order 40 to 50. And I thought, ho, ho, everything's
working all right. But I set my timer for about 8 to
l0 more minutes, came back at the end of that time,
and the thing was off-scale low_ lower ]_m_t. And
the way it sits right now, or when I last tried it
15 or 20 minutes ago, if I select the PRIMARY HEATER,
it Jumpes up to what is apparently the proper reading
of about 20 degrees. As soon as I select SECONDARY
HEATM_, it drops down to lower limit.

16 45 28 CC Okay. Understand you're getting about 20 degrees

out of the PRIMARY HEATER. And SECONDARY HEATER
goes to lower l_mit.

FLT Yes. That's when I Just cycle it - either PRIMARY

or SECONDARY to check the temperature readings.

CC Okay. That's Just on a cycle of the switch, even

when you don't wait for it, is that correct?

PLT That's right. I'm Just saying that when you go to

PRIMARY, it reads something; if you go to OFF, that
something stays there. When I go to SECONDARY, it
reads lower limits. If you go to OFF, the lower
limit stays .... the last reading stays there.

CC Okay. We copied that. And, Paul. On this PRIMARY

TIMER checkout on M0L SIEVE A, Just to save you a
little time, the recommendation would be to set both
beds to dump [sic] on panel 228 manually prior to
selecting primary timer. Correction, DESORB - -

PLT Okay, I'll Italythat.

CC Correction on my last; that's the DESORB.

PLT Well, I was going to set them both to STORAGE.

STORAGE won't hurt them for 15 minutes, will it?

CC That 's fine.

16 h6 3h PLT Okay. And also, one more data point. We put them
both to DESORB yesterday, when we were messing with
Ds_7 159 Page ii17

the secondary coolant loop, or with the coolant loops.

(Music) And one more time, on the secoDd_ry timer,
with both of them in DESORB, and what I had done
manually was turn bed A to - from ADSORB to DESORB.
When I turned on the secondary timer, it gave it a
shot and drove bed A to ADSORB and kept B in DESORB.

CC Paul, I'd appreciate it if you'd run back over that

for me again.

PLT Well, for the - for the EGILs, what it is is that it

runs the way we didn't think it was supposed to any-
more, I still m_intain - tool sieve A secondary timer.
As soon as you activate that timer, it drives bed A
to ADSORB and bed B to DESORB - or bed 1 to ADSORB
and bed 2 to DESORB.

CC Okay. That's as soon as you activate it, I understand.

Okay.

PLT Right.

CC Okay -

CDR Hey, Crip.

CC Go ahead.

16 47 44 CDR It's my BAT 3 CBP_4 that leaves that BAT CHARGE light
ON. Can I - What's the proper configuration for that
thing?

CC We're going to try to fix that for you at - our pass

over Guam at about 17:00, if you can stand by on it,
please, Pete.

CDR Okay. You're going to handle it from the ground, right?

CC Affirmative.

CDR Super. You've got it.

CC Okay. I'd like to clarify - clarify one thing I told

you awhile ago. I was about a day out of date, appam-
ently. On this load that we did for you on the com-
puter, we did not put in a capability to hold the rate
gyro drifts on a switchover. They thought that over
Page 1118 Dsy 159

and thought better of putting it in. So that is not

going into the computers. And, for that reason, that
little procedure that you're holding on board is still
applicable. I - And I gues if there's - if there's
a problem with the way we're handling that, we'd
could clarify it for you, but you're still going to
have to perform that switchover - or that update,
if you ever get a switchover. We are about to go
LOS here in less thsm a minute. And we'll see you
again at GUAM at 16:59, 1659.

PLT Okay, Crip.

16 49 05 CDR Okay, Crip. Now that message got pretty well

badgered, how about retransmitting that one. We
have the latest gyro count. But retransmit the
message that says how to put it in, in case of
switchover.

CC Okay.- We'll do that, and we're also working up a

message according to Joe's request of what we're
going to be doing tomorrow and things that he might
expect on the switchover to the secondary.

16 49 29 CDR Very Good.

16 58 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam for 3 minutes.

And we'll be doing some co_m_anding to try to reset
that battery charge light on the ATM panel and also
turning off rate gyro Z-l, Zebra i. So, if you'd stay
off the DAS for us for a little while, we'd appreciate
it.

16 59 i_ CDR Roger, Houston.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute until LOS. We'll

see you again over Goldstone at 17:20 - 17:20. And
we believe we have reset your BAT CHARGE ALERT light
on the ATM panel.

17 O1 51 CDR Okay. Thank you.

17 20 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the States for about

the next 15 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

Day 159 Page 1119

CDR At last count, you had one in the library, one in

the shower, and one in the command module..

CC Hard to keep track of.

CDR Hey, Crip. For the CM people - they may he interested

in knowing that the only two places that we've collect-
ed water in the command module is on the window at
number 5 cover, Just a very little bit behind the
condensate blanket_ The other place is down at the
base by panel 377 where the glycol comes in. You
might expect that, except now, instead of being water,
it's turned to ice. But I think now that we have the
blower running again, it'll probably go back to
Water.

CC Okay, we copied that, And, Pete, if you're still in

there, any chance you could give us the SECONDARY
EVAPORATOR OUT temperature?

CDR SECONDARY EVAPORATOR OUT temp is 30 degrees.

CC Roger; copy. Thirty degrees.

CDR And command module housekeeping number 7 is in prog-

ress, and the - loops have been running - Let me look
at my clock here - Oh, only about l0 minutes.
I got another 50 minutes to run.

CC Okay.

CDR And for FAO, Crip, I'm doing the day 22 command
module reJuggling right now, and I'll give them a
time line on that when I get done. I think it's
going to take longer than they think it was going to
take.

CC Okay.

17 27 58 CC Skylab, Houston. The next time somebody's going by

the AT_ panel, we would appreciate it if they would
check the S052 WLC THERMAL switch, ON. We have
commanded it ON here. Our indication was that it was
OFF, and we Just want to m_e sure that the switch is
in the right configuration.
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SPT Okay.

SPT The THERMAL switch is ON, Crip.

17 28 4_ CC Roger.

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17 34 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Our next

station is at Vangtlard at 17:45, 17:45, and we will
be doing a recorder dump at that station.

17 45 40 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard for

the next l0 minutes, and we will be doing a recorder
dump this pass.

CDR Roger.

17 45 5h CC And, Pete, for your info, the word I get back on

the UCTAs is that they'll be flying three more up
on Skylab 3 to replace the ones that you used. And
for your EV - next EVA, you can Just go ahead and
Just take three more out of the dome locker.

CDR Okay.

CC Understand no problem on the cuff sizes; all of them

are the same.

CDR Okay.

17 5h 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. And you

don't have to listen to me again until 19:00, 19:00.
And Paul, we copy that you're doing that mol sieve A
checkout at this time.

18 5930 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S over Goldstone for the next

5 minutes.

PLT You're breaking up, Crip. Where are we?

CC Roger. You're over Goldstone now for about the next

5 minutes. Actually, you're Just coming down off the
Pacific Coast.

19 00 07 PLT How do you read, Houston?

PLT How do you read, Houston?

CC Loud and clear now, Paul. How me?

PLT We read you loud and clear.

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19 O0 30 CC Okay. We're at Goldstone now. Got about 5 minutes.

Actually, we're Just going down the Pacific Coast.

19 00 35 CDR Okay, Crip. Let me --_ you a question. Have you

got any - couple - like Couple these contamination
DPOs or something? There's - probably get a few of
those today if you want to send some times up-on ...
valve, whenever they want them on the windows.

CC Okay; we'll take a look at it. If - see if we can

get some in.

CDB Crip, we're also looking at getting out maybe a

couple or three Mh873 Bravos.

CC M4873 Bravo?

CDR Yes, that's in the shopping list between days ii and

17; so I think maybe we'll pick off - each one of us
can pick off one of those - one each guy.

CC Okay, very good. Pete, I got somebody researching

it, but there was a question last night about these
ATM cue cards." And it kind of looks like, right now,
that basically the ones that we orginally planned to
have on board - the ones that weren't for the power-
down situation, will be good with perhaps one sm,ll
modification. You gays still have those available
to you?

CDR Yes.

CC Okay. We're still looking at it right now, and I'd

like to talk about it down here a little bit more.
But basically, it sounds like if you eliminate the
the bit about inhibiting the CMG AUTO RESET, and
• then reenabling it on the evening and in the morning;
that those cue cards are still good. And you might
ponder whether you'd like to Just basically use those.

CDR ... I been talking to the SPT. Gee, I'm not sure
we launched with those.
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CC l'm not sure y_ did either - but, l'm not sure you
did either, and I got a checklist looking into it.

CDR Yes, I thought - I thought you meant the ones that

we started scratching on after we got up here. And
I gather you ... the weight situation.

CC Yes, I meant the original ones. I got m_ checklist

people looking into - to find out whether you really
had them on board.

PLT Hey, Crip. Can I use the DAS yet?

CC Say again, Paul.

PLT Can I use the DAS on the ATM _-

19 03 14 CC The - you're GO on the DAS. It's still yours.

PLT Okay, I Just got ... light which I think is star

tracker and this is why I Just wanted to look at it.

CC Thatts affirmative. That's exactly what you've got.

PLT How far up to get rid of the light, anyway? Why,

you guys can get rid of the light for me.

CC Do you want us to do It, or do you want to do it?

PLT No, I'll do it.

CDR Also, Crip, on the shopping list items, 124872 Bravo,

we can do that around the dinner table tonight prob-
ably. And what we get done, we'll call into you
this evening.

CC Okay. Real fine. Just give us that in the Evening

Status Report - Be fine, I believe.

CDR Okay, and I gather you ought to be able to ship up

tomorrow's flight plan fairly early.

CC We would - We'll do our best.

CDR That was a cagey answer. Might give you a good dot
for that one. A

o
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19 04 21 CC Roger. We're i minute to LOS now; we'll see you

again over Vanguard at 19:22 - 19:22. And we'll be
doing a recorder dump ov@r Vanguard.

PLT Hey, Crip, I got a word on S009.

CC Go.

19 04 49 PLT It showed up here i_ the Star List at the it started.

Advertised time of OI06A at about 59. And Just
about 59 the thing had Just gone CLOSED, which seems
like a short time before going OPEN again. For what
that 's worth.

CC Paul, we copied that it had closed at 000 - Correc-

tion, 0059. l

PLT That's right.

19 05 39 cc Okay..

19 22 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We' re AOS over the Vanguard for

the next I0 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip. Say, I need you to do a favor for me.

CC Will try.

CDR Okay, how about- It's my class at Princetonls 20th

reunion this weekend, I think - if I'm not mistaken.
I'd like to send a telegram to the: President of the
Class of 1953, Princeton University, 1953 Reunion
Headquarters. Tell him "I'm sorry I can't matte it;
I'm out of town on business." Sign it "Pete Conrad."
I'll pay you when I get down.

CC Okay. I'll try to get that out. And I've got a

small chore for somebody, if he's available, to -
we want to take up a little bit more of the load
with the PCGs; so I need somebody to go up to
panel 206 to do a little procedure for me.

CDR Okay, check, Bob. I'm on my way up there right now.

19 24 58 PLT Hey, Bob, on the primary primer on the mole sieve A?

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CC Roger.

PLT Okay, I turned it on, _ud it didn't do anything for

7 minutes. At the end of 7 minutes, it went A to
DESORB, B to ABSORB and has been cycling ever since,
and is still on the line.

CC Okay, we copy, and we can go ahead and leave that

one on the llne.

CDR Okay, Crip, go ahead.

19 24 26 CC Okay, Pete. On panel 206, we'd like you to take the

KEG ADJUSTMENT knobs, turn them clockwise, and
monitor under BUS AMPS ATM. And what we want to
do is move the reading approximately lO amps on
both buses, toward the ATM.

CDR Okay. Now BUS 2 on the ATM is delivering zero, and

BUS i. on the ATM is delivering about 7 amps to the
workshop; so I'll go ahead and keep them respectively
together. And move 1 to where it feeds ahout 23 to
the ATM, and then on BUS 2 to the ATM. Is that right?

CC That's affirmative.

19 25 52 CDR Okay, Crip, there is - ATM BUS 1 is reading - is

getting 2 amps from the workshop ; BUS 2 is getting
dead amps from the workshop. PCG 1 Total is running
h3 amps, and 2 is running 22 amps. That looks very
good.

CC Okay. It's kind of nice to see the PCGs carrying

their share of the load.

CDR Yes. I_ that it?

CC That sho__Id do it. Thank you very much, Pete.

CDR (_ay.

19 28 22 CC S_ylah, Houston. Per your request regarding cleaning

windows, if that's still applicable, our recommenda-
tion is to use one of your utensil - or use as many
as required of your utensil wet wipes.
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SPT Aye-aye, will report hack.

CC Okay, if that doesn't work, our next suggested solu-

tion is that you use your lens cleaning kit and
F524, that's Foxtrot 524, and per the procedures in
that:

SPT Okay, that's good for noseprints, huh?

SPT Hey, Houston, have you decided yet whether we can

turn the wardroom window heater on to get rid of
the dewy ice crystals?

CC Stand by on that one, Joe.

SPT Sure.

CDR Hey, if you give us an okay to use the heater, tell

us what you want us to do with the wardroom window
vent _alve.

CC Okay.

19 30 31 CC Okay, Skylab, you're GO on turning on the wardroom

window heater; we would like you to leave the valve
CLOSED.

SPT Vent CLOSED, heater ON. Roger.

CC Okay dokey."

19 31 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute until LOS. Next

pass is at H_aii at 20:31 - 20:31.

CDR Roger. See you then.

20 30 16 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over Hawaii for about the

next 8 minutes. And, Skylab, we show that you're
not using your recorders at this time, and we would
llke to go ahead and dump. We've got that in pro-
gress, so we'll be using experiment recorder.

CDR Okay. They're inbetween 91 - 92 and 171, if you

want to go ahead and dump it.
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CC Okay, we're in the process of doing that, Pete. And

that's about where we figured it'd be. While I've
got you here, "could I ask you a question, please, sir?

CDR Sure.

20 31 07 CC Okay, we would like to take you up on your offer of

picking up a few items t6day to do some dewpoint
only measurements with the C02 dewpoint monitor at
the locations stated on page 2-112 of your SWS Systems
Checklist.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GRDURD VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

20 31 18 CDR 2-112 dewpolnt measurements, okay.

CC Yes, that gives the location; 2-110 and 111 sort

of go over the item itself. But what we want is
dewpolnt only.

CDR I understand. Hey, what we're going to do, Crip,

is pick up - Just a second. We'll pick up Mh873B
for the CDR, SPT, and PLT, and we'll also pick up
Mh872 Bravo, for every bit ... conservation, okay?
That will take care of those midday 487 Jobherdos.

CC Roger. Wecopy that.

20 32 40 CDR Okay. Yes, and also, the PLT would like to know how
the OWS hatch leakage was during the EVA yesterday?

CC We had no leak. Either you guys fixed it or it

fixed itself.

CDR No, he- he put things onthe malf.

CC He had this little flapper working for us, huh?

CDH ... that thing made that good a deal ', so it may
have fixed itself.

20 3h 29 CC Skylab, Houston; we finished dumping the recorder,

and it' s yours again.

PLT Okay, Houston.

20 38 35 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 30 seconds from LOS. We'll

see you again over the Vanguard at 21:00, 21:00.
And we will be doing a recorder dump at that point,
also.

20 38 4h CDR Okay.

21 01 27 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over the Vanguard for

the next 9 minutes, for the next 9 minutes. And
wewill be doing a data voice recorder dum_.

21 01 36 CDR Okay, Houston; and on this CO 2 dewpoint temperature

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monitor, it's belly up in all modes. It reads 72

wherever you go on the temp gage no matter how long
you pump it. And it reads 74 on the dewpoint no
matter where you go and how long you pump it.

CC Roger. Copy, Pete.

CDR Sorry about that..

21 02 23 CC CDR, Houston. We were discussing the ATM cue cards

earlier. According to the information we have,
those - the ones for nominal power operation should
have been stowed in your Flight Data File bag in
the command module when you launched, as well as
the one for reduce power.

CDR ...

CC I'm afraid I didn't copy any of that. I was getting

a lot of feedback or noise in the Background.

CDR That was the PLT's bicycle-riding music in the

background. Well, I've got the transfer check right
here; Just let me look at it.

CC Okeydoke.

21 0_ 08 CDR Okay, Crip. I don't find anything like that in the

transfer bag. I presume that's the bag it was in.
It was in the command module, and if we transferred
over it had all the - the cue cards for air to -
but they called CSM transfer.

CC That's where it should have been, Pete. Understand

you don't have it. Okay. We'll look into it.

CDR All right. Let me look through the comm-ud module

- I mean up to the ATM and look at the cards up
there.

CC Okay, there's really no big rush on it. I guess you

might Just help us solve this cue card problem, if
we can find out about it.

21 05 ii CDR Now I've got a card here that's normal - dated

5/21/73, which is a normal Sunside prep powerdown
for operation next pass, the flare cue card. And
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on the back is the ATM operate EREP, and it's

written in in red ink, reduced power card with a
darkside prep post EREP. Doesn't really look too
much'dlfferent than what we had.

CC Okay. The one that is m_Pked in red was the reduce

power card.

21 06 01 CDR Okay, ated 5/21. Maybe the other ones are laying
around here somewhere? ... And we got another unat-
tended OPS with red scratched in there; reduced
power cards - 523.

CC What we have basically done was, supposedly, we

launched two sets of cards. The ones for the
reduce power, we had written in - in red ink,
"reduced power cards." And - -

PLT Those have red ink, too.

CC -- Okay, and we had identified the nomlnal power

cards, if there was any doubt, with red ink that
said "nominal power card."

CD_ Okay, let me look for them.

CC 0kay; I wouldn't take up too much time, Pete, if

it looks like it's a problem. We can Just tele_
printer it up to you.

21 07 i0 CDR I found them. Hold it.

CC And, CDR -

CDR I got them. I got them.

CC You got them. Great. Okay, we're going to - It

looks like with a couple of minor moda to that thing
- to those cards, we can go ahead and use that.
And it looks like it might be a lot easier to use
than a cue card or rather than a teleprinter message
that we had sent up. I'll tell you what. Let us
take a look at it, and we'll talk to you about it
later to make - to show you what the ch=nges would
be.

21 07 56 CDR Okay, let me - I do see ATM nominal operation 33073

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with a red nominal power card. Then I have an

unattended ops card, which has quite a few little
scratches and goodies, and it finally winds up;
5/1/73 is the date of that one.

CC That's it. That's the one. While I've got you

here, we need to change that PCG output on panel
206 once more. We want to reduce by 5 amps the
output from the P.CGs.

CDR To the ATM?

21 08 32 CC No, we want to go back toward the transfer bus.

Five amps on bus 1 and 2.

CDR Wait a minute. What do you want me to do; feed more

to the ATM or take more from the ATM?

CC Take more from the ATM.

21 09 18 CDR Okay. Okay, that looks like BUS 1 ATM and CB2
transfer 2 amps at BUS 2, and taking from transfer
about 2 _mps. That looks like about zero across the
board total.

21 09 38 CC Okay. We copy. We're about to go LOS here in

about 30 seconds. We'll see you again at Hawaii at
22:07, 22:07.

21 09 51 CDR Okay.

21 09 55 MCC I'm watching. Here we go.

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22 08 02 CC Sky - Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over Hawaii for

the nex_c 9 minutes :

PLT Roger.

CC Okay. Got a few items I'd like to discuss.

First is the star tracker is unlocked due to a large
stt_p [?] angle we did about Z. And I've got some
new gimbal angles I'd llke to give you, and when you
get a chance, you can to see if you can get a lockon.

SPT I 'm on.

SPT Go ahead, Houston.

22 08 48 CC Roger. Inner gimbal is plus 0088. Outer gimbal is

plus lh66.

SPT Okay.

CC And, Joe, we would like to see if it womld he possible

during that ATM daylight cycle 225 you got coming up
this evening, if you could put that TV on the VTR.
We'll dump it from the ground.

SPT Roger that.

CC 0key doke. And I would elso like to tR]_ about this

ATM cue card situation with somebody, if - if we
got time.

SPT Okay. Stand by 1.

SPT, Go ahead, Crip.

CC Okay, Joe. Do you have the cue cards that Pete found
awhile ago, the nominal power cue cards?

SPT No, I expect they're up at the ATM. Want me to go

get them?

CC Okay. It might make it easier if you - Do you also -

If you had available your Activation Checklist, and
where it t_]_ed about ATM C_D activation.

SPT Okay. Stand by.

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CDR He's on his way up, Crip.

CC Okay, thank you, Pete.

CC By the way, CDR, we're l_lann_ng on tomorrow - it'll

probably be tomorrow afternoon, sending you a mes-
sage on exactly what the status is with the airlock
module coolant loops and what we plan on doing about
it. I can give you as much as we know right now, if
you'd like, or you can wait until then.

22 i0 52 CDR No, give me a little stm_ary.

22 i0 54 CC Okay. I think I told you yesterday evening that

the PRIMARY COOLANT loop, that - that PCV Bravo
valve was hung up in the FGLL-COLD position. And
that's really what caused SUS i to freeze up on us,
and why - why we couldn't use it yesterday. Was
that .all clear to you guys?

CDR Yes.

22 ii 18 CC Okay. And it would appear that on the secondary loop

that that same - s_e valve, or the corresponding valve
TCV-B is also diverted toward the COLD position, but
not as much as it is in the primary loop. But with
the load we've got on the secondary loopright now,
we appear to be holding our own. And the question
is, what do we do about it, and how we go back and
troubleshoot pri-_y. And those are the things the
guys are working over right now.

22 ii 49 CDR Okay.

CC Okay. And that is really about as much information

as I can give you on it currently. And we'll be
able to talk a little bit more about it tomorrow.

CDR What kind of valves are those? Are those those

old Gemini valves that run on beeswax or are they
mechanical electrical valves?

CC They're vernatherm or beeswax valves.

CDR Vernatherm valves, heavens to Betsy. We onght to

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be able to dig up a vernathermity expert or two

around there some place. We can always send a
flight of bees up with the next flight.

CC I 'm sure" that Alan would llke to be able to do that.

SPT Surely we can fix it with an EVA.

CC You guys getting where" you like those things.

CC Did you find the cards there, Joe?

CC Somebody from the back room tell_ me they were even

thinking about that. Jestingly, I think.

SPT Okay. I've got a ATM operate nominal pad, and

an EREP, which is the powerdown for EREP and the
dark-side prep post EREP. I also have the flare prep
from unattended, and the unattended 0PS dark-side
prep.. These two cards are dated 3-30 and 5-1,
respectively.

CC Okay - -

SPT When I get the activation Checklist, you can tell me

what page.

CC Okay. Why don't you go to page 2-39. And while

you're doing that, I'll - I'll give you a brief
s1_,,,,_y. Really, all we're going to tell you to do
is to go back to a nominal power situation on your
ATM C&D. And that is, you can go back to operating
on your ILCA bus i. And you can use variable lighting
and so forth. And these - this is Just the switch
configuration for it in your Activation Checklist.

SPT Okay. So, can I perform page 2-39?

22 l_ 03 CC That's - that's affirm. Well, now we - I - I don't

think we're ready to t-_ about the - Nobody's t-1_ed
about the radio noise voice monitor, Just yet. So
what we're t-lking about is the ATM C&D console power
activation portion down through - well, really ali
you have to do is take it until you get I_'f_VAL
switch to VARIABLE. And, that is, ignore the - the
inked-in part.
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22 14 34 SPT Yes. Okay. I copy that.

22 14 38 CC Okay, Joe. Now, on your cue card, the only adjust-

ment that we have to make is on the unattended 0PS.
You got that one handy? Where we have 82A, under the
power-down, where we have 82A, we want to leave that
one in MODE TIME VICE AUTO 2.

SPT Okay.

22 15 14 CC Okay. And we want to eliminate the reference at

the top of the same to inhibiting the CMG AUTO RESET,
and then at the bottom where we enable it again.
We're still going to leave that thing basically inhib-
ited all the time.

SPT Okay.

CC Okay. And Just to be doubly sure, you're - To

the left, on the unattended OPS side of - of the
card, to the left of it about in the middle, it
should have written in in ink, '_gominal Power Card."
That's the one you have. Is that correct?

SPT In red ink, it has that written on it.

CC Okay, that's - that's the one we're talking about.

Okay, you can take those two cards and, I guess, you
can hide the others, I wouldn't advise throwing them
away, but I'd hide them some place, and use those.
Now, if that still appears to be too messed up, we
can always send you a teleprinter message if you
so desire. But one other item is that you have a
star acquisition and an EREP maneuver cue card that
was down in the workshop in one of the 700 lockers,
and it is for a nominal power situation. And you
can use it instead of that star acquisition reduce
power card.

SPT Okay. I didn't even bring it down because we don't

use it much.

CC Okay, I really - -

SPT We winged that.

CC I--

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SPT But we do have it.

22 16 56 CC Okay. I didn't - didn't think you really required

it. We Just sent you a tele - your Flight Plan
and the evening questions. And we're going to
go LOS. And we'll see you at Vanguard at 22:_0, 22:_0.

SPT All right.

22 39 _3 CC Skylab, Houston; w_'re AOS over Vanguard for about

the next 7 minutes.

CDR Okay, Crip. And l've got the EVA questions i Alfa
Hravo on B channel for you right now, and the SPT
will put his comments about i Alfa on there in a
few minutes. We ought to have them both down tonight.

CC Okay. Appreciate that, Pete. ThAnk you.

CDR Mostly the story of Wifferdills.

CC We had sort of gathered that frc_ sume of the previous

statements that you made.

CDR Don't knock success, though.

CC Affirm.

CDR As far as the quads went, I - I put it on B channel.

I couldn't see any difference in either quad A or B;
they looked both the same to me.

CC Okay. Copy.

CDR We put some more description on there about what they

physically looked like, and stuff like that. That's
about it.

CDR I gather that they are giving consideration to the

other sail deployment. Do you have any - any you
can give me as to when you think they might reach a
decision on that?

CC I was told it would be about a week.

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CDR Okay. Well, we reconfigured the poles today back

into the proper locations in the packages. And the
Marshall sail equipment is - is ready to go if it
is needed.

CC Okay. We copy. And, Pete, you had mentioned those

contsmination things earlier. We finally got some
computed but they're kind of late. I can give them
to you, I guess, if you - if you want them, and you
can make your choice on whether you do them or not.

CDR Why couldn't you send them up on the pads or sc_ething?

CC I think we ought to be able to do that.

CDR Why don't you do that. I'm about to get in the shower.
Paul Just got out, and Joe's playing with his medical
stuff, and we might be able to catch up tonight if
there's sunrise and sunset times, right? For the
different windows?

22 42 37 CC It's basically two times. And I guess the Flight

tells me that we'd be unable to get them in on a -
on the teleprinter.

CDR Okay. Well, we did - we're going to have all

those _87 stuff for you; so _hen they were supposed
to be scheduled in the next couple of days, you can
throw the cont_,_nation in and we'll be picking that
stuff up.

CC Okay. _Joy your shower.

CDR Okay.

CDR We appreciate today. We - we got some things - Vehi-

cle pretty well cleaned up again. And we're back in -
I like tomorrow's Flight Plan; it's a good busy day.
And we're lonkinE forward to it.

CC Okay. Hope P.J. doesn't mind getting up a little bit

early for us.

CDR No, you know he's hung on that EREP.

CC I got the impression he got up and prowled around

early, anyhow, r
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CDR Yes, he told me today, he said, "Gee, there's

nothing I like better than doing all those alignments."
(Laughter )

CC I 'ii bet.

CDR Well, I guess we're on the backside of the curve.

Have we passed the halfway mark Officially on the
clock yet?

CC I was asking that myself earlier. I think we should

have, but let me see if I can get somebody to
officially say that's true.

CC I got a Mr. Shaffer over here that assures me that

we're past the halfway mark. The only question is,
nobody will tell me how long the mission's going
to be.

CDR Okay_ You mean they want us to stay longer?

CC NO, I don't - That's - that's not true.

CDR We don't mind.

CC You really like it there?

CDR Yes, it's pretty nice now that we've got all the
Juice back; it's even better. You know, we've got
hot water in the head now, and things are looking up.

CC Roger.

CC I don't know if you've noticed, but we've been a

little- little slow about turning on sc_e of the
electrical stuff here, and I guess it's - We're Just
sort of like to - like to take it easy on the PCG -
on the batteries, as we bring things up to make sure
that we don't hit it too hard.

22 45 15 CDR Oh, I figured that. No - no problem, and we're

watching them here, and it won't put a strain on any-
thing because we know how things go and how much ...
back up and VCGCs will look real good.

CC 0key doke.
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i]_0 Day159

CDR You - you have, in fact, - This - this does lighten

the load, right, on the - on the ATM considerably.
C_n you see any improvements in temperatures, charge
rates and so forth on the CBRMs - CBRMs?

22 45 55 CC I'll have EGIL have a story for you on - on the

Ascension pass on that. We really haven't seen it
doing much different than it has. We weren't really
over tasking it since we were cautioned not to take
it down below the depth of discharge on the batteries
anyhow. The next pass is at Ascension at 22:55, 22:55.

CDR 22 :55 •

22 46 19 CC Roger. And we're about less than 30 seconds until

LOS.

CDR ...

22 5h 33 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over Ascension for about

the next, oh, h or 5 minutes.

PLT Hello.

CC Hello!

22 59 14 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We won't see you again until Vanguard again at 00:16,
00:16.

CDR Heavens to Betsy' Okay. See you, 00:16. Bye, bye.

CC Bye, bye.

CC And, Skylab, that will be the Evening Status pass.

I believe we only got one questions really pending
o_ that one.

CDR Roger. The Evening Status Report. Okay, we'll have

it for you. That 'll be three showers plus whatever
else we got.

22 59 59 CC Okay doke.

END OF TAPE
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TAG Tape 159-13

159:23:30 to
160:01:00
Day 160 Pa_e ii_i

SKYLAB AIR-TOGROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

00 16 35 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard 10-1/2 minutes.

CDR Hello there, Hank, babe. How are you tonight?

CC Oh, pretty good. How'd your day go?

CDR Man, you're talking to three clean, sweet and smelly

good guys. We've all showered and shaved, and every-
body's in good shape. The doctor's been digging in
his medical kit and working with it. And I think
that he Just looked at his own blood.

CC Roger. (Laughter)

00 17 08 CDR We've got the good ship all cleaned; she's all stowed.
We like tomorrow's Flight Plan, and we're ready to go.

CC Good show. And we're standing by for the Evening

Status Report anytime you're ready.

CDR Okay, we're a little late eating, so we haven't eaten

yet. But let me give you the rest of it,

00 17 32 CC And, .., we'll be clearing the alert you got on the

rate 8_'ro - the star tracker. And we'll have a star
tracker pad for you by Vanguard next time around.

SPT Okay.

O0 18 03 SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go ahead.

SPT Earlier it was mentioned that we could put tonight's

ATM television on the down-link. But I think we got
the time wrong. Is it at 00:55 for that pass? I
think that's the only pass we've got, right?

CC That's affirmative, Joe.

SPT Okay.
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00 19 20 CDR Okay, Hank. The CDR is going to eat everything tonight,

and he may even add some butter cookies, but I'll let
you know later. The SPT was a good boy and ate every-
thing today, too. And the PLT says he'll put his on
B channel later. The photo report for day 159 was an
M092/171-M151. Charlie India is 07, 35 percent,
Charlie India 04. That's it for the 16-millimeter.
35-millimeter: CI26, frame count is 34; Cl3h, the
frame count is 22. 70-millimeter: CX06, the frame
count is 07_. And be advised that we had another
frame counter failure on the Hasselblad. It stopped
at 70, so we are manually counting. The configuration
of drawer A is AI, X-porter 02, Charlie India 05,
60 percent, Charlie India 01. A2 is 0B, Charlie.
India 06, 99 percent, Charlie India 03. A3 is
transporter 06, Charlie India 07, 35 percent,
Charlie India 0h. Ah is X-porter 05, Charlie
India 25, lO0 percent, Mike Tango ll. The - Just
1 second. Okay, the additions to the Flight Plan
today were M4873 Bravo by the CDR, M4873 Bravo by
the SPT, and Mh873 Bravo by the PLT; they are all on
B channel. We will also give you, sometime tonight on
B channel, an Mh872 Bravo. That'_ the additions to
the Flight Plan. The stowage for today was the
co,and module 2R-day transfers were also completed
today. You can tell FAO the time to do that took
approximately i hour. The co_m_and module systems
housekeeping7-day checks were completed at the same
time today. Stowage changes - I can't think of any
- but there was a couple. Oh. Yes, by the way, on
the EVA yesterday, according to the instructions, the
pitch bar, from the MDA tool kit, was afastened to the
BET up at the bridle end. And it so there remains
to this day permanently afastened to the BET outside
the vehicle, so I think you can scratch that from the
list.

00 22 54 CC Roger. Copy.

CDR Okay, that's about it, Hank. Have you got any questions?

CC No questions. That was a good report, Pete.

CDR Okay, as I said earlier, we're happy with tomorrow's

Flight Plan, and we're ready to go.
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00 23 27 CC Okay. l've got one other thing I want to throw out

at you here, and let you be thinking about it. Since
we launched 4 hours early SL-2 in the morning, the
landing is going to be a lot earlier. In fact, it's
going to dome about l0 minutes after, sunrise. And
this obviously results in a larger than normal cir-
cadian shift; in fact, approximately l0 hours. And
it is going to probably require two steps to get your
workday in step with entry day. And we don't like
this, steps back to Back. So what we're thinking about
doing is doing about 4 hours of it on day 166, that's
splash minus T, and pick up the remainder in accordance
with the Flight Plan. And the sequence for the undock
and entry is going to be normal, and a flyaround is
planned. Now the sequence relative to the day/night
is no problem since there is no night. We're in a
Beta of 70 degrees at that time.

CDR Right, we know that. Okay, that sounds, you know,

that's that. That doesn't pulse me too badly.

CC Okay, we'll tell them to plan it that way, and you be

thinking about it. And if you got any changes you
want to recommend, we've got open ears.

00 2h 54 CDR Okay. I think about Monday we're going to want to

talk to you about a couple of things. We're going
to look at - think about a few things through Monday.
And then I think "we may want to talk to y;all about a
couple of things. And we'll think about re-entry.
Right now I don't see any big problem with that.

CC Okay.

00 30 36 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for l0 minutes, and

we'll be dumping the recorder here.

PLT Roger. Permission granted.

00 31 09 CC Skylab, Houston. I've got some - I got a star tracker

pad for you.

PLT Go ahead.

00 31 20 CC Okay, it's Achernar; 52012, 50000. It's available

day, 40 minutes remaining; to night, 16 remaining.
Inner gimbal, 0090, that's plus. Outer, plus 1683.
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PLT Okay, is there any rush on that? How about - You want
me to get it Just after we eat?

CC No rush. In fact, it won't be available until

40 minutes after day. And the next pass is your
med conference, and we need it before the following
pass.

PLT Okay.

O0 38 52 CC CDR, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.

CC Okay, we're planning on troubleshooting the primary

coolant loop - AM coolant loop here tonight about a
rev from now, and we hope to have some procedures for
you at Vanguard. And it would be helpful, at Vanguard,
if you could give us the switch configuration of the
primary coolant loop. We'd like to know such things
as the circuit breaker positions on the coolant loops
and radiators in the panel 200, the switches on 203,
and the configuration of panel 217. And it's not
going to be extensive, there's Just a few things we're
going - going to want to try after the next Vanguard
pass, probably over Canary.

00 39 hl PLT Okay, when do you want that dope. Now?

00 39 h3 CC Negative. Just have - Sometime between now and the

next Vanguard pass about an hour from now. Your
next contact's about - it comes at 13:14 past the
hour at Guam, and that's your medical conference,
and then the Vanguard after that is at 154. And
we're about l0 s_eonds from LOS now.

O0 40 06 PLT Okay.

END OF TAPE
 TAG Tape 160-01
160:01:00 to
160:02:30
Day 160 Page ii_5

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

01 53 43 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard 10-1/2 minutes.

PLT Okay, Henry, let _e go up to STS. You can rid -

read over the switch if you want.

CC Okay. And for info, we're going be commanding on

the E/P spectrometer.

PLT Kind of - m-kes your throat catch a little, doesn't

it?

PLT Okay, Hank, go ahead.

CC Okay, Paul, I guesswe're Just on panel 200. We'll

start there, if you want. On the bottom left row,
I guess, we'd llke to check the positions of all our
pump controls and inverters. Are they all closed?

O1 5h h4 PLT Yes, all 12 of them are CLOSED.

01 5h h7 CC Okay. And, how about on the second row, RAD flow?

01 54 54 PLT Okay. PRT and SEC are both CLOSED.

CC Okay.

01 55 08 CC Okay. While you're there, take a look at 203. And

I guess we want to verify that both coolant loops
are in COMMAND.

PLT That's verified.

CC Okay. And on panel 217, could you give us a verify

on the switches over there?

01 55 41 PLT Okay. Both pumps are OFF and both loops are in
BYPASS.

CC Roger. Copy. And let me run over our plan here.

Wha t we're going to be doing at Canary is bring up
the pr_m,_y coolant loop. And we're going to monitor
the TCV Bravo outlet temp. If any of these temper-
atures drop below 35 degrees, we're going to co-,,and the
primary loop down. If we're unable to comm-nd it
Page i146 Day 160

down, then we're going to have to ask you to do

that. And you'll do that by turning the primary
coolant loop inverter off on panel 203. And we'll
give you the cue to do this. You've got to verify
that the proper CB and switch configuration is - is
there; and we've all ready done that, so we don't
have to worry about that.

PLT Okay.

CC The reasonwe're doing this is we're trying to get

squared away for the next 12 hours so we don't run
into another thing like we did last night. And
there is no more action required on your part unless
we have to have you to set the loops down. And we'll
be planning on doing that at Canary.

01 56 54 PLT Okay. What time's that?

CC Okay. Canary is coming up after this pass, and it'll

be at l_.

PLT All righty.

CDR Okay, Henry, we broke out 64 BTU's, 8 LSUs, and we're

ready to go with six portable fans and anything else
you guys come up with.

CC I hope that it's not necessary.

CC Paul, did you get your question answered on the IMSS

one?

PLT No.

CC That's the environmental sampling, and it's on

page 32-15 of the IMSS Checklist.

PLT Oh. Thank you.

Ol 58 09 CC This data we're going to get on the coolant loop is

sort of giving us a headstart on tomorrow. We'll -
What ever we find out here, we'll factor into
our plan tonight for really doing some serious
troubleshooting tomorrow.

PLT Okay. When are you going to turn it on?

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Day 160 Page 1147

CC Okay. It won't be until Canaries, as I say, and that's

still awhile away at 14.

PLT All right.

CC Have you got a minute to chat with us now?

PLT Yes, go ahead.

CC Okay. I guess it would be better for the CDR, SPT.

We been reading over this dump tape on the SAS
deployment, and I guess so_e of us were - had the
question as to what really happened there when
you - when you finally cut through that bolt. That
sort of looks like the pole and everybody kind of
went - went for a good ride. I guess we'd like to
get a little more elaboration on what sort of dynamics
you went through there, with the t_nbilicals and all.

CDR Well, I couldntt really see my tm_bilical, H-n_.

What I d/d, when the p,,11ing on the BET, when the -
when the tape broke, I took off upward, but I was
tethered to the BET, and I had both hands on it;
and of course, it went slack. And so, all I started
doing was hauling myself toward the A-frame. And
Joe was hanging on to the BET, too. And I - I don't
know where he went. (.Laughter)

SPT Let me tell you first about Pete's umbilical. It

really was no problem because his - his umbilical
_as stiff enough - stiff enough, intending to
take a set up there, and all the time he was working
out on the beam it was trailing to his left and
behind him in a big arc around the corner and away
from the SAS beam. So, it - it never gave me a
moment's trouble. When he bounced up, it Just
bounced up along with him. I was under the - m_der
the - the BET further back, in fact, right at the
corner of the FAS, heaving like a mule, and when it
went slack, I Just went up in the air a few feet
and did a right roll of 360 degrees, and finally
scrambled down onto the - the truss work there -
slowly.
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1148 Dayl60

CC Sounds like a fun ride. How about when you cut the
bolt? I think Pete was out part way on the pole
when that thing finally came through it. Last night
you sai@ something about there you went through a
little gyration, too.

02 0O 58 CDR Well, what happened was - is I went back behind the

hinge line where I was supposed to be, and I was
going to have one h_nd on the BET, the other hand
on the pole to steady it, and I was safe in minus-X
looking - looking at the cutter. And I said, "Okay,
Joe, pull on the cutter." And Joe gave two - three
mighty heaves, and I said, "Is that it?" because
nothing happened. And he said, '_es, that's - "
He says, "I got it as tight as I can." And I wasn't
that far away from it, and it looked to me like the
Jaws had closed completely. But I thought what
happened was that the Jaws had closed co_01etely and
they had ridden. You know how you can do that with
a tin snips or something, where the snips will actually
spread, not cut the metal, but close all the way,
the metal squeezed between them. I thought that's
what had happened, and that - that I was going to
have to go out there and re-remove the - the cutter.
So I said to Joe, I said, "I'm going to go on out
there and - and take a look and see what's going
on." Well, I - at that time I got Just about out
to where the scissors mechanism is on -'on the cutters,
which isn't too far away from the strap, the thing
let go by itself, or Joe gave one more heave - I don't
know which happened - but, anyhow, it - it - it let
go and it was Just like the guys figured. The
strap was - was in tension, and it was holding the
SAS beam, and the SAS beam popped up about 2 feet,
I guess, and - and of course, I let go of the pole.
And I don't know where the pole went, but I did the
same thing again. I grabbed ahold of the BET, which
was now getting slack, and I started pulling for the
- the secure end at the A-frame, pulling myself
back, and, of course, I did a couple of three
whifferdills around the line doing something, you
know, Just getting back there, but nothing too bad.

MCC Pete, when you went - when the strap let loose, did
the meteoroid shield move, slide underneath the
beam at that same time, or did it sort of stay therre?
Day 160 Page 1149

CDR No, no, I'm sure I didn't see it, Rusty, because the
beam popped up right away. And - and I'm sure that
the met.eoroid shield snapped under - Let me tell you
what I did. When I was out there before, hooking up
the BET the first day pass, I crawled around to where
I could look down around the meteoroid shield, and -
and the - Wait a minute, I got to get it from Paul.
What's the name o$ the hinge?

MCC That' s butterfly.

PLT ... Usually call it butterfly.

CDR The butterfly hinge - the butterfly hinge was com-

pletely attached and partially deployed. And all
the way along the whole beam, and I could see that,
because there was light coming through it. And l'm
sure that the whole meteoroid shield now is sitting
there 6 inches away, where it should be, what's left
of it, except for the parts that are curled up, Jagged
edEewise and so forth, because the two - as you know,
I'm sure, the two rods - torsion rods, and the links
were still on there, so I ... in them, and they ought
to show the right position. What do they show on
telemetry?

02 O_ 21 MCC We'll check on it.

02 04 2_ CC Hey, we're about LOS now, Pete. That was a good de-
scription. And were coming up on Ascension at 12.

02 ii 28 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for 1-1/2 minutee.

PLT Okay.

PLT Hey, we're all at the - down in the wardroom putting

this _87 thing on tape, so if you need me Just
holler and I'll ziggy on up.

CC Say again.

PLT We're all in the wardroom. If you need me in the ST$

for that coolant loop stuff Just holler and I'll go
on up.

CC Okay.
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02 12 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS at

Ascension. We may drop out; we may not. In any event,
Canaries will be coming up at lh and we're going to
dump the recorder.

PLT Okay.

02 lh 43 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and Madrid for

13 minutes. And we're going to start commanding
the coolant loops.

PLT Okay. We're all sitting here holding our breath.

02 18 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We brought the PRIMARY LOOP up.

The - all indications were the temperature on the
TVC - TCV Bravo out went right on down to 35. So,
we're pretty sure that valve is stuck and not modu-
lating. And we've co_Inanded that loop OFF again.

CDR Okay , Hank. What - What does that mean? Is there

- has that valve gotten so cold that it can't modu-
late any more? Is that the problem?

CC Well, we're not quite sure on that. What we - what

we were hoping for is it may have been some water or
scmeth'ing in there that had frozen up. And that -
and that our temperature indications showed that the
temperature is up around 52 - 53. And perhaps all
this had melted, and we were kind of hoping it would
work. But apparently that's not the case, and we're
not sure why it's stuck where it is.

CDR Okay. Well, I guess you've got to think about it for

a little longer, huh?

CC Roger. We've got this data point now. We don't have

to consider that water thing any more. And so, to-
night we're going to smoke it over, and see if we
can't come up with some sort of a plan for tomorrow
to do a little more troubleshooting.

CDR Okay, very good. The primary loop is secured now.

Is that correct?

CC That is affirmative.
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1151

CDR Okay. Now you want us to keep running the secondary

loop at SUS 2. Is that right?

CC That's affirmative.

CDR Now, do you think SUS 1 is still frozen?

CC We - We don't thi_k it's frozen, Pete, but we can't

tell for sure.

CDR Well, howabout letting us give it a quick check,

and see if we get an EVA warning light? We didn't
get any before when it was frozen. Let's see if
it'll flow. Okay?

CC Stand by 1.

CC Okay. You got a GO on that, Pete.

CDR Okay, because we can hear the ptunps running; it just

wasn't going anywhere. So we'll give her a t_j right
now.

CC 0kayj we'll be watching.

02 21 BB CDR Hey, Hank, it didn't work. We can hear both pt_nps

run, but we don't get any EVA WARNING'light. It's
obviously not flowing.

CC Well, we were showing flow down here, Pete.

02 21 51 CDR Well, I don't understand, Hank, because the other

day when I ran the housekeeping test on it, every
time you turn the pump on you activate the DELTA-P
switch. And I'd get the - and I'd get the EV-1
WARNING light until it came up the pressure. Now,
we don't get it; we haven't gotten since it wouldn't
- we got no flow the other day when we were trying
an EVA, and - and the crewmen had no flow, and we've
never gotten a WARNING light since then.

02 22 21 CC Copy. According to what we saw in the flow then,

you - it looked you may have tried both pumps. Is
that correct?

CDR Yes, we tried PRIMARY, and - andwe got no WARNING

light; and then I went to SECONDARY, and I got no
WARNING light.
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CC Well, our indications down here did show flow, although

I'm not so sure they got up to full Spec value.

CDR Well, here, we'll go turn One of them on right now

and you look at it for a minute. Let's let it run
for a second.

CC Okay.

02 23 00 CDR Okay. That's the SUS 1 PRIMARY PUMP.

02 23 1)4 CC Okay. We're showing about 250 pounds an hour flow.

CDR okay. Well, let me Just - let me - Can I turn off

SUS 2 for a second end then turn it back on again?

CC Hold up on that.

CC I - I _aess we want to leave SUS 2 alone since it's

running okay.

CDR Oh - well, all right.

CDR Hey, I Just - I don't understand if - if SUS i is

FLOW why we didn't get the - the momentary trip on
the flow sensor on the EV-1 loop warning - caution
and warning.

CC Okay. I see you've shut it down, is that correct?

CDR Say again.

CC You've already shut system 1 down, is that right?

CDR Yes, but like I said, I don't understand. The other

day w_en I did the checkouts on it, the caution end
warning was working fine. Now, the output's LSU on
there or I wouldn't know whether we were really
getting flow through the whole loop or not.

CC Okay. Let - we'll - let us think about that one

_whi le.

CDR Okay. It could be it's - I mean that's a double

SUS you know, the thing folds up the other day, and
the caution and warning went out. Now maybe - maybe
if it really did freeze up, it did something to that
Day160 Page1153

transducer, for all I know. And I don't remember

last night when we turned on SUS 2 whether we got
the low flow warning indication as it came up to
speed or not. I don't remember.

02 25 i0 CC Hey, while you're up that way I wonder if we could get

you to hit a couple of switches on the ATM.

CDR Have at it.

02 25 20 CC We need the 52 MAIN POWER to STANDBY, and we'd like

to the MONITOR - the TV MONITOR-1 ON.

02 25 32 CDR Okay, TV MON-I power is 0N, and 52 is in STANDBY.

Anything else?

CC That ought to do it. That cleans up for Unattended.

PLT Hank, shall we change our Unattended OPS Checklist

to reflect this?

CC I think it does read that way now. We're - this is

the - the original normal power cue card that you
flew up with.

PLT I'll check it again. I went through it today and

wound up with those - I ignored the cross-throughs
and write-ins on it, which did say to leave one monitor
powered up. I - I didn't have any idea we'd gotten
back to that mode of operation. I - I didn't think
you'd want to leave a monitor up all night.

CC We - we - we wanted it to run Just like that card,

Joe, with the mark-ups on it that went up when you
flew - you know, when you took it with you.

PLT Are you guys going to take XUV MON television during
the night?

CC We probably will.

PLT God loves you.

CDR Okay, Hank, I'm glad you said that because I Just put
the 132 panel switch to ATM MON-1 ... TV.

CC Roger. That's - that's correct.

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02 27 O0 CC And we would like you to, if it's convenient, to get

the star tracker up so we can look at it at Guam.
And we're about 20 seconds from LOS. And Guam will
be coming up at 5B.

02 27 35 CC Okay. The star won't be up until about _0 minutes

of day.

END OF" TAPE

 TAG Tape 160-02
160:02:30 to
160:I0:30
Day 160 Page 1155

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

02 52 39 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 6-1/2 minutes.

PLT Roger.

CC We're real slow down here, but it's finally dawned

on us the reason that caution/warning wasn't working
is that the caution/warning isn't activated through
panel 217. It's only from the panels and the lock.

PLT Yes, but we started it from the lock panel, also.

CC Oh, and it still didn't do it?

PLT Ri_t.

CC Back to the drawing board.

PLT Yes, it sounded good for awhile.

02 53 20 SPY Well, you gave me one. I didn't know that panel 217
didn't activate the caution & warning.

02 53 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We got a few little news items here

we could read up to you if you want to listen to them.

CDR Yes, go ahead. First, I put on B channel that the CDE

couldn't stand it, and he ate two cans of butter cookies
with his vanilla ice cream. You'll have to add that.

CC Roger. Copy.

CDR We're listening. •

CC Okay. Chris sends his regards.

CDR Very good.

02 5h 17 CC First item: Texas wheat crop is expected to be the

third largest in history, but it's in danger because
of our fUel crisis. It's predicted to reach 83 million
bushels, and the crop is dependent on power combines
and trucks that need _ael and diesel oil to operate.
On the brighter side, _mericans may he cooking with
Russian gas in about 6 years if an agreement between
Page 1156 Day 160

U.S. - two U.S. firms and the Soviet government over-

come several obstacles, econcmic and political, that
are still pending. Thetwo firms signed a letter of
intent with the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Trade to
import about lO billion dollars of natural gas over
a 25-year period. President Nixon believes that the
American genius can solve the country's problems at
home and in the world, if people can concentrate on
what's right, rather than what'S wrong, with the
country. The presldent spoke at commencement exer-
cises at Florida Tech down in Orlando. And he said,
"I say Americans, when they have a problem, will
solve it because we have a genius to solve it; the
same genius that built America and made us what we
are today."

MCC Okay, and the senate has approved a bill that will
maintain high farm income without harming consumers.
Included in the bill was a provision to limit sub-
sidies to large-scale farmers. Senator Sam Ervin,
chairman of the Senate Select Watergate Committee,
has drafted a resolution that will expand the scope
of the panel's mandates. The proposed resolution
asks for an investigation of activities concerning
the 1971 burglary of Daniel Ellsburg's psychiatrist's
office. The South Vietoam_se government has indicated
that it is ready to sign a Joint appeal calling for
an end to hostilities in Vietnam.

CC General Francisco Franco, ruler of Spain for the past

35 years, will turn over part of his duties to a fast
rising admiral in the Spanish Navy. Franco, now 80,
has not completely retired, only slowing down. A
new kind of garden is beginning to appear in Berkeley,
California. It's called guerilla gardening, and
consists of growing vegetable crops in front yards
to try and combat the high cost of supermar - super-
m_ket produce. The military government of Greece
has announced that a presidential plebiscite will be
held at the end of July. President Premier George
Papadopoulos will be the only candidate.

MCC The second round of the $150,000 Philadelphia golf

classic was led by Jim Barber, who is sponsored by his
grandmother. Barber led a large field with a two-
round 65, 7 under par. Secretariat, winner of two-
thirds of the racing world's triple crown, is pitted
,r

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against a small field in tomorrow's Belmont Stakes.

The record smashing thoroughbred is favored to win
the hard-to-win race.

CC Okay, the latest score on Houston is Astros ahead

h to 3 in the ninth, and it's not over yet. Yester-
day's scores, let's see - I believe we had a Dodger
fan and a Cub fan and - onboard here, and they
played each other. And the Dodgers came out on
top, h to nothing.

PLT You don't have to give those scores.

CDR What place the Astros in_

CC Okay, Astros are 6-1/2 out now. And Chris Just

tells me that the Cubs won tonight 6 to 5-

02 57 49 PLT How are the Cubs doing in the NL East?

CC Okay, they're 5-1/2 out in front of Pittsburg.

PLT Oh, isn't that nice?

MCC And for the CDR's information, we - I want to relay

greetings and so on. And I think that's all the
news for tonight. See you around, Henry.

CC Good bye, Rusty.

02 58 16 CDR Say, Rusty, did you get my last comment about the
damping in the water tank? That would be the biggest
thing that I could see is the difference out there.

MCC Yes. Okay, I got that, Pete. Thanks.

CDR Okay, the other thing is - is that EVA station - the

FAS station - is super. It's so much - it's so easy
to work in there, it's unbelievable. You guys did
great work designing it.

MCC You mean even for a little guy, you can reach all
those things, huh?

CDR Even for a little guy; I didn't complain about you

one time.
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SPT Hey, I second that for that whole ATM run. Running
up to the front end was like scampering up the stairs
after being out there with that 25-foot pole in my
hand. It was like coming home. It was easy as pie.

02 59 12 MCC Okay, and for the Job you did yesterday, everybody
down here has been saying nothing but "super" all the
time.

PLT Hey, there is somebody else who should be given a little

accolade, and I don't usually give manufacturers com-
mercials, but I think that the International Latex
Corporation, who built the suit; and the Garrett
people, who built the PCU, we owe them a big vote
of thanks for a super piece of hardware.

MCC I think it was very notable, yesterday that we never

even thought twice about that. It all was Just like
normal °

PLT That's right.

02 59 51 CC Okay, we're about to LOS now. We'll say good night

to you. Get a good night's rest, and we'll see you
tomorrow.

02 59 56 CDR Okay, looks like a good day tomorrow. Nighty night.

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ii 14 14 CC Good morning, SlqIlab; Houston. We got you at Honey-

suckle for 7 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. We're all up.

CC Very good. Be advised we're - the only thing we've

got scheduled for this pass is some updates to the
rate gyros.

ll lh 36 CDR Okay.

ll 20 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're h5 seconds from LOS. We're

going to see you at Hawaii at 11:32.

ll 31 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii for 9 minutes.

ii 31 43 CDR Roger, Houston. Say, I've got something for the

stowage people, which came up yesterday in doing the
K-22 transfers. In A 6 there were six UCTAs. Now as
I remember it, originally there were supposed to be
three. And we stowed some more for this contingency
business on activation. And I guess we didn't use the
extra three. So I have three that can be used for the
EVA plus the normR_ three. And for their info_unation,
they are temporarily stowed in my TSB in my bedroom
until I hear from them, where they'd like thela to
go. Or they can stay there until EVA and deactivation.

CC Okay. I got that. And I'll get them to think about

that and get you word back, Pete.

SC Yes, I don't think we have to break into anybody

else's. And I don't think anybody'else has to carry
any others up there.

CC Okay.

ll 35 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got about 6-1/2 minutes

left in this pass. I've got a couple of very minor
changes to read up to you. One is on the Flight Plan
for the friendly PL - in the friendly PLT's col_mn.
And the other one is on the ATM schedule pad. And
any time that y'all have the pads out, and can let me
read them to you, I'd _ more than happy to.
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CDR Okay, Just a second.

CC No hurry.

CDR Go ahead with the ATM one first, please.

CC Okay. On the ATM schedule pad, at time 21:10, the

change is - is the building block should be 4, rather
than 4 Alfa.

CDR Okay, we got that, and go ahead with the PLT's Flight
Plan.

ll 36 03 CC Okay, on the PLT's Flight - on his column down at

around 19:40, or - actually his details show it at
19:_7, it presently says, "S009 INIT, initiate." It
should say, "S009 SET." We're going to start doing
the S009 SET Procedure, which is a different page in
the checklist. And there's another general message,
which you probably already found, that has some changes
to that particular page, but that's the only change in
the Flight Plan.

CDR No, all I have is about the general message that has
a change to S009. I don't think we got one for the
TV procedures, but that's it - Can you give me a
number?

CC Yes, I will, Pete. I think the reason you haven't

found it was we up-linked it at Honeysuckle, after
y'all had already waked up, and it's probably in the
teleprinter now. But the - but the message number,
for your information, is 1623 Bravo.

ll 38 52 CDR 1623 Bravo. Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston.. Couple of other things here. One is

on update to your solar activity, Just very minor.
Active region 27 did produce a subnormal flare about
03:10 Zulu. Also the - the Y-2, Yankee 2, rate gyro
scale factor hasn't been as consistent as 1 and 3;
and therefore we plan to select configuration Y-I/3
for control for today's activities. So next time one
of you guys is up there, we'd appreciate you selecting
3/1 on the Y RATE-GYRO MONITOR switch. Also, another
thing that occurred to us over the evening is over
the many days we've been on orbit, we've sent you guys
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a heck of a lot of general messages. And with the

amount of paper work that we've been going through
to straighten out which ones are still applicable or
not, we were considering when we had a chance, pro-
bably tonight, we'd go through the whole pile of
general messages we had sent and see which ones still
apply. And then send you alist of those and make
sure you still had them available to yoU. And if
you didn't, we'd b_ more than happy to up-llnk them
8_ain.

CDR Why don't you Just go through the list and up-link
them - period?

CC Okay, we'll sure do that.

CDR We - we've been clamping them down and clipping them,

to one thing or another they get pretty ratty _how,
Dick. So it'd bca good idea if we know we got a new
pile to start with. We could Just go around and
replace the ones that are still applicable, and the
rest throw away, and I think that'd help us keep a
little cleaner, too.

ll 40 43 CC Okay. It'll probably get US to make sure we have

them all squared away; so we'll do that. I am going
to assume on the - on the checklist changes, and odds
and ends, and evening questions, and that kind of
thing - we probably won't go through them. But the
systems kind of things we will go through, and we'll
get them up to you.

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from LOS.

We're going to see you at Goldstone at 11:43.

ll 43 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Goldstons for 7 minutes.

PLT Roger, ...

ll 46 06 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we're going to command

the change that I told you about the Y - Y-rate gyros.
We're selecting 1/3 for control.

PLT Okay., wait a minute. We're hanging on.

CC Okay.
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PLT Go ahead.

CC So are we.

ll 49 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS. We're

going to have a short break, and see you again at
Bermuda.

ll 57 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S atBermuda. We've got

you for the next 6 minutes. And if you guys are in
a position to listen, I'll give you a little bit of
rundown on the - weather you might be expecting on
your EREP pass this morning.

PLT Okay, go.

CC Okay. The pass starts up in the northwest United

States and the clouds are probably going to be
clobbere_ up there in the far northwest. You should
be breaking out somewhere overhead of - around Billings,
Montana. There'll be a short period there - where
there will he kind of a broken condition and then you
should have clear skies across the United States, down
to somewhere in the area of St. Louis. Then probably,
down in the southeast United States it also will be
pretty had weather for visual observations. Then as
you come down across the - the water, heading towards
South America; it's going to be alternating clear and
in some places, overcast when you'll be doing the
nadir align and looking at the ocean surface. Then
as you cross the South American continent, the first
portion of that will be varying between broken clouds
and overcast in some spots. Then about half way down
there, particularly when you get over Brazil, from
there until the end of the data take and down in that
part of the continent, you should have clear skies.

PLT Okay, thank you, Richard. We Just noticed (Clears

throat. )

CC Roger.

PLT (Clears throat) Excuse me. What do you mean "Roger?"

I didn't say anything worth rogering there. The Great
Lakes, and you can really see - the midwest is sure
clear wide open todsy. You say it's kind of cloudy
around Houston?
Day 160 Page i163

CC It's been so long since I've been outside, I don't

know.

PLT During the day anyway_ huh?

CC Crip - Crip says it's cloudy.

ll 59 19 CDR Got so bad yesterday up where our friendly sunspot is,

that shines in Z - I mean, shines solar inertial there
that we have marked up on the side of the b01t. Then
I went up there and stuck my belly up to the window
Just to feel some warm Sun.

ii 59 36 CC (Laughter) Roger.

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12 03 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about _5 seconds from LOS.

Be advised our next pass is going to be at Ascension
at 12:13, and we're .going to dump the data tape
recorder there.

12 13 35 CC Skylab, Houston; we're A0S at Ascension for the next

8 minutes.

PLT Okay, Dick. Hey, since we got power back up, the -
the - we had MDA wall heaters on?

CC Stand by.

PLT I tell you, that's - that's not the real question.

I'm Just wondering because, and I'm sure the EREP
guys are listening. That turn on - the S191 record
tape temperature was already reading 29 percent.

CC Copy.

CC Skylab, Houston; the _)A wall heaters are on, but

we have not con_nanded anything during the night.
They were also on when you went to bed.

PLT Yes, my real question is there must be - there's a

wall heater near the 191 cooler that's causing the
tape temperature to be higher this morning than it's
been.

CC Underst and.

PLT It's a "gee whiz1" question.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. Either here at Ascension, or more

likely at Honeysuckle, we'll be up-linking a small
change to one of the building blocks for our good ATM
people. But it doesn't take effect on your Flight
Plan until tomorrow, so it doesn't take long. Bat
don't feel like you have to take any imediate action
on it.

PLT I understand this is an improvement rather than a

change. Is that right _
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CC That 's affirmative.

PLT Right.

cc Right.

CDR Sounds like the Flight Director cut you off before
you got it out.

CC (Laughter) That's right; right in the middle.

12 20 12 CC Skylab, we're i minute from LOS; we're going to see

you at Carnarvon at 12:47.

PLT Roger.

12 47 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Carnsrvon for about

the next i0 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

12 52 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We Just up-linked you a couple more

teleprinter messages and those should be the last for
the day. Or the last for this morning, anyhow.

CC Skylab, Houston. We had a - -

12 54 27 CC Skylab, Houston, We had a little dropout between

Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. We've still got a couple
of minutes to go on this pass. We've Just up-llnked
our last two teleprinter messages for this morning.

PLT Okay.

CDR Say, Crip. I Just moved some EREP tape around that
I remembered down in the locker DhI2. EREP tape T-7 -
has red tape on it. And it was put on there by one of
your very, very early messages, when we were still
fairly hot down here in the workshop. And I opened the
can and inspected the tape, mud the tape looks fine to
me. And perhsps there's some other reason that the
EREP people decided not to use T-7. But, we had a few
minutes, so I inspected the tape. It looks perfectly
good to me. If they want to use it, it has not been
affected by the he_t anyhow, that I can see. And they
may want to reconsider using that tape. I have it red
flagged right now.
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CC Okay. Fine. We'll put that into the mill and give
them that option. ThA_ you.

12 55 53 CC And Skylab. We've got about 30 seconds to go on this

pass. We'll see you again at Hawaii at 13:10 - 13:10.

CDR 13:10. Bye, bye.

IB ii 22 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over Hawaii for about

the next 5 minutes.

CDR Okay, Houston. You guys get rid of our BAT CHARGE
light for us on the ATM panel?

CC Verify that you have a BAT CHARGE light on your ATM

panel? We'll look at it.

CDR Okay, I got it, it's BAT 3; CBRM 3. Y'all going to

take care of it?

CC Roger, Pete. You're too low right now. I really

can't read you. Could you speak up, or get a little
closer to the mike?

CDR Roger. We have a BAT CHARGE light CBRM 3; and I

think it's because you guys have been playing with
CBRM 3. Will you take care of it?

CC Roger.

PLT Hey, Crip, this is another curious question. Ask

the EEEP people why we're using a different magazine
on the _TS DAC today, will you please?

CC Okay.

CC Paul, the story we get here is that because DEHO1

has been reading 50 percent for two days in a row.
They think maybe it's stuck and that's why they
asked you to switch.

PLT Well, I thought it might be that. And if you get

them, they know what it looks like. But that's a
•pretty gross reading. In the last two passes, all
l've done it take about - on those Houston passes
all I took was the few seconds it takes to go fr_
about .20 percent forward to half the nadir, and I
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PLT think those are reasonable readings. It's within the

noise level of how close you can read that, assuning
you're al.eady running the camera 20 seconds for each
of the last two passes.

CC Okay, we copied that, and will take it into advisement.

Thank you, Paul.

PLT Okay. Also, for the Flight Plan' I think we ean wipe
about 30 minutes off of the required ERE?PREP.

CC Understand it requires about 30 minutes less than what

we've got scheduled.

PLT That's right.

CC What are you trying to do, sleep late?

PLT No, no. w_ Just want to get more done during the day.
And it turns out that we may get b
aead on the EREP
prep.

CC Okay, Paul, Just Joshing you.

PLT Yes, I should of known that. Okay.

PLT Hey, also, ask hard support guys back there, George
Laski and his people, if in the ERE? checklist, if
it's okay yet to dei te all the pink write-ins. They'll
know what I mean_

CC Okay, yes they will. We'll check it.

13 16 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you again over Goldstone at 13:23. 13:23.

PLT Okay.

13 22 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Goldstone for about

6 minutes.

13 27 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got a couple of minutes drop-

out here, over the top of the States. And we'll see
you again at 13:31 - 13:31.

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13 31 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS once more, over

Bermuda for about the next ii minutes, for about
the next Ii minutes.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. If we've got somebody

available, we need to make a small adjustment in
our power situation prior to this EREP.

13 32 27 PLT We're look - we're looking and taking pictures

right now, Crip. How about next AOS?

CC That'll be fine, Pete, thank you-Paul.

PLT Tell us briefly what you want; maybe we'll do it

when we get back up there.

13 32 43 CC Okay. All we're going to do is take and move the

REG ADJUS T pots on BUS 1 and 2 counterclockwise about 30
degrees, to move about l0 amps down toward the
transfer BUS, on both Buses.

PLT Okay. You want to shift l0 amps more from the ATM
to the transfer buses; that's l0 amps per bus.

CC That's affirmative.

13 33 05 PLT Okay. We'll take care of that for you.

13 41 48 CC Skylab] Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. We'll

see you again over Ascension at 49, 13:49.

13 49 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Ascension for the

next l0 minutes, for the next l0 minutes.

PLT Okay. (Music)

CC That's lovely harmony.

PLT The machine quit Just as I started it.

CC Blew - -
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PLT Was going to play my alma mater in honor of their

reunion.

CC - - BleV the whole thing.

PLT Right.

CC Speaking of reunions, I did get Pete's request off

yesterday.

PLT Good for yot_.

13 50 20 CC And also, regarding that CBRM-3 BAT CHARGE light:

we've had a heater off on that particular CBRM,
which we've Just turned back on, and it will
probably be a rev or two before We'll he able to
reset that light for you.

PLT Okay, Cri_ • Thank you.

PLT How's that time set-up look now, Crip?

CC Okay, that looks good now, Paul.

PLT All right.

PLT (Music) There.

13 52 03 CC How sweet it is. I'm sure all of your alumni will

have appreciated that.

13 55 h2 PLT Houston, you there?

CC That's affirmative; go ahead.

PLT How long we got?

13 55 h7 CC About 3 minutes.

PLT Okay, Pete and I are looking at the S190 glass.

And for the _EP people, if you look in the front of
the - of a camera station, you can see, not counting
the filter rings, there are two slotted rings I
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think probably holds lens elements in there. The

second one in from the front, which apparently
holds a piece of lens, or a lens in there - it
looks to us that it's got a - if you shine a flash-
light in it, it's got a lot of little tiny specks,
either in it or on it. Now we don't remember it
having been so noticeable before. I don't know
what to do. There's nothing we can do about it.
We can't get to it. As I say, it's an inner element.
Looking into the top, with the shutter open, it
makes the whole thing look very dusty. I'm
apprising you of it for whatever it's worth.

13 57 00 CC Okay, P. J. , I think we copied _all of that. Let

me make sure that our EREP people got it.

CC P.J., would you say again which camera that's on,

please.

13 57 30 PLT It's on all the stations of the 8190 camera.

CC Oh, its on all of them. Okay.

CDR Yes, that's the thing that makes me suspicious; it's

fairly uniform through all of them. I tell you
what it _Imost looks like is a fine coating of
dust. If it's something on it, or it could - you
know, which I doubt in there in that glass. It
looks like a whole bunch of little tiny bubbles all
through the glass.

CC Okay, looks like dust or tiny bubbles. Okay?

13 58 04 PLT Yes, maybe the - Well, let us know. We can try

to get some pictures of it later for you, if you
want.

13 58 ii CC Okay. And we're about 1 minute until LOS, and we'll

see you again at Carnarvon at ih:22.

CC And wish somebody can take a look at the ATM C&D;

we need to verify that H-alpha is still in AUTO.
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13 58 h4 CDR Okay.

CC Okay.

CDR It 's in AUTO.

CC Tban_ you.

13 59 28 PLT Hey, Crip, I had it in NORMAL and AUTO, but I get

lh 21 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Carnarvon for about

Ii minutes ; for about ii minutes.

CDR Roger.

14 21 51 CC And I know you guys are beginning to love this, but

I need to get that REG ADJUST pot tweaked again on
206.

CDR Go ahead; what do you want?

14 22 01 CC Okay, we want REG BUS 2 turned counterclockwise -

correction, clockwise, to balance the amp outputs
on 1 and 2.

CDR (Music) Amp outputs on what, the ATM transfers?

CC On PCG total 1 and 2 is what we want to balance up.

14 22 21 CDR You want to balance up PCG total 1 and 2 with trans-

fer bus 2 [?] Right?

CC CDR, you were basically unreadable that time. I -

Again, we wanted to turn REG ADJUST pot clockwise
to balance the loads on - correction, REG ADJUST
BUS 2 to balance the loads on PCG total - on 1 and
2.

CDH Okay.

14 23 36 CDR Okay, Crip, both PCG 1 and 2 are putting out 38 amps
each.
Day 160 Page 1173

CC Roger. 38 amps. And that looks good from here.

CDR Besides, you people are competing with the N_shville

Brass duming our rest period here.

CC Roger.

CC Sounds pretty loud in the background. By the way,

as we went over the .hill last time, Joe was trying
to tell me something about H-alpha, and all I under-
stood that - was he was in NORMAL and AUTO, and some-
thing happened. And that was all I got.

CDR But he brought the system up, Crip. He brought it

up after sunup, and we didn't get an AUTO START.

CC Okay.

14 24 27 CDR Everything's okay.

CC Roger; we copy.

14 24 46 CDR And the S191 guys ought to be real happy now that
we've got some heat in the MDA. It started out with
a warm - cooler to start with. We now have a 3
S191 READY light. And Charlie 7 is reading 53 per-
cent, and Baker 7 is all the way down at 30 percent.

CC Roger, Pete. You got so much background noise, most

of that was unreadable.

SC I - I don't know what you're picking up; you must be

picking up the cooler noise. I don't have any music
going. How do you read now?

CC It's Still there. Would you give me those numbers

again on 191, please?

CDR Okay, let me go to another V0X.

14 25 36 PLT That's the cooler noise, Pete. He can hardly hear

you for all that noise from the 191 cooler.
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CC Yes. P. J., you're coming through loud and clear.

PLT Yes, I know.

14 25 47 CDR How do you read on this VOX?

CC That 's beautiful.

CDR Okay, that must be the cooler noise that you're

picking up. That - SIA 102 is right on top of the
cooler. Baker 7 is reading 30 percent; Charlle 7
is reading 53 percent. And I have a READY light.
And it only took about 15 minutes to get the READY
light from the time we brought the cooler on now.

CC Okay, we copy that. That's good.

lh 26 20 CDR I think that probably your next EREP, you could go

back to the normal warmup time line.

CC Okay, we'll put that in the mill.

14 27 09 CC And Skylab; Houston. I don't need any feedback on

it right now, but in reviewing s_ne of your voice
transcripts, I noticed that other night Joe was
having snme problems with the H-alpha 1 TV, and it
was right after we came out of that pitched-up
attitude. It apparently appeared to be out of focus
somewhat. Apparently, in our opinion, that - it was
a therm,1 problem, because we hadn't had - didn't
have all the thermal systems back on and have
temperature up to spec. And we expect that it
should be looking good now, and sometime we'd like
to get he feedback on that.

14 27 41 CDR H-alpha l's beautiful now.

CC Very good. Thank you.

14 31 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. We'll

have you again at Gn_m at 14:34, and we will be
doing a data voice recorder dump at that point.
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14 35 08 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over at Guam for the next

lO minutes, for the next lO minutes. And P. J.,
if you get a chance, I need to talk to your about
your VTS pad.

SPT He's coming.

CC Okay.

_JT Okay, Crip. Go ahead.

l)_36 36 CC Roger. You Were - if you got your VTS pad handy,
you were given a special 06, which dealt with the
frontal system?

SC Yes.

CC Okay, that frontal system has dissipated. And what

- we wou_ appreciate it, if you could do, is that
the time 08:23, could Just go ahead and track nadir
for a couple of minutes. And then we want you to
lock on - after a couple of minutes of that, we'd
llke you to lock on the biggest thunder bumper you
can find and track it until ll:3h.

PLT All righty, that's most uncooperative of that stink-

ing front, wasn't it?

CC Yes, afraid so.

lh 37 17 CC And Skylab, Houston. Just as a reminder, the - we

show your TACS are still INHIBITEU, and we may need
them a little bit on this Z-LV maneuver.

PLT Okay, Crip. We may have boxed ourselves there when

we switched cue cards.

CC Yes, afraid of that.

CC We'll - we'll take a look at that TACS INHIBIT

ENABLE for maneuvers to make sure we're squared
away.

PLT Thank you. The checklist changes are all made, but
we'll Just have to change that cue card.
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CC Okay.

14 44 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 mlnute until LOS. We'll

see you again at Goldstone at 15:00. Happy EREP.

14 44 24 SPT Thank you.

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lh 59 57 PLT Mark the time to uniform crop line areas.

CDR Okay.

15 00 01 CDR MARK 1 minute to EREP START.

PLT They ought to be big in Nebraska this year.

PLT See, what we do is, we apply this in a practical

manner. We see how the corn crop's going to go, and
from that you find how the pleasant crop is going to
be.

CDR Right.

CC We got you in voice contact, guys, throughout the

pass.

PLT Oh, okay.

15 O0 31 CDR 30 seconds to EREP START.

PLT We over Washington_ Joe? It looks like - I can see

Puget Sound through the clouds.

SPT We're about to he, yes, I guess. Yes, I guess. Yes,

I'm looking ahead.

PLT It looks clear south, but it's pretty clobbered

where we're ...

15 Ol 01 CDR ,.. _EP START. Got a TAPE MOTION light. 9h MODE

MANUAL.

CDR Standing by to start $192.

PLT Okay, for information, for the follow-on crew. when

I slew the VTS h, which is 23 degrees, I could see
the radio docking tunnel. How about that?

15 02 01 CDR Okay; Joe, you have 30 seconds to ETC.

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SPT Okay.

15 02 25 CDR MARK S192. I got a HEADY light.

PLT We Just came out from over; how about that?

15 02 32 CDR AUTO sequence START on 90, and ETC, Joe.

SPT Okay. The ETC is on.

15 02 h0 CDR Thirty-eight. The REV's on. VTS AUTO CAL, please.

SPT Okay, right now?

CDR Now. Yes.

SPT There. It went out.

PLT Okay, Houston, for information, nadir is crossing

over sc_e c_uds, starDing now.

15 03 13 CDR RAD to STANDBY. Right to minus 30 roll. 2h, SCAT

to STANDBY at 2h. SCAT to STANDBY, 30-ALTIMs"f_:_ ON,
ALTIM_/I'SRis ON.

15 Oh 3B CDR Okay, I got a good board, green on the tape - the

tape motion, and made a nice smooth shift when
92 came on. I got a green on S190. I got a green
on S193 ALTIMET_ and a green on Slgh .... should be
green. No MALF light ; tape looks good. Waiting for
191 to come on.

15 05 12 PLT It's reading okay, now.

CDR Yes.

SPT Where'd you have it, in T?

CDR Yes.

15 05 25 CDR Got a READY light on the S191. Bravo 7 is 30, 30.

CDR Got a good cornfield?

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SPT (Laughter) Yes, I'm trying to find a uniform crop

line here. You can really see the circular areas
where they irrigated that w_Ik-around stuff, you know.
There's one there, and I'll try to - Okay, tracking
it good, the Holt County, Nebraska, field there. The
field is slightly larger than the reticle in the
crosshairs.

SPT Can you give me a quick answer, Houston, on if you'd

like the same field the whole way, or would you llke
to switch to another one?

CC We'll check that for you. Same field all the way.

SPT Okay.

15 07 15 CDR MARK ALTIMETER to STANDBY, 92 to CHECK. RAD, ON;

SCAT ON. Got a good green board. A little RAD/SCAT
gimba_ ... every once in awhile, but that's normal.

PLT Hello, Houston. If the sun is behind us, it got quite

hard to see. Itlooked like it got hazier and hazier
as I went through nadir. The Sun is behind us, and
maybe it's because we're looking up-Sun?

CC Copy.

PLT 23.

15 08 I0 PLT Okay, I'm tracking nadir now. I'll give them the
data push button when I get my CB, if I ever pick it
up, Crip.

15 08 29 CDH SCAT to STANDBY. RAD to STANDBY.

15 08 49 CDR RAD ON. SCAT ON.

PLT And I'll tell you that clock's going.

CDR Polarization to _; Bravo 7 still hanging in there

at B0, 30.

SPT Haven't found a thunderstorm yet, Crip. I'm on a

building cu[mulus] right now_ I'll geta few shots in
and then try to switch to something else.
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CC Okay.

15 ll 01 CDR SCAT to STANDBY; RAD tc STANDBY mode ... cross-track

contiguous; and 193 to NADIR ALIGN.

SPT No real CBs in the area, Houston. I got a couple of

towering cu's - the best I could do for you.

CC Okay.

PLT There are higher ... on the southwest tip of Florida,

but I - I imagine they're out of your range.

SI°T Yes.

15 ii 43 CDR l've got a READY OUT on S190 on time. MODE to STANDBY,

ETC STANDBY, Joe. S190 intervalometer.

PLT Crip, are you picking up that cooler noise through

thes e mikes, also?

15 12 23 CDR ETC AUTO.

SPT Right. We went STANDBY, we changed the frames, and

we're back to AUTO.

CC I 'm picking up a hissing noise. Yes, Paul.

PLT I think that's the VOX.

15 12 56 PLT There it is $009 Just starting to open.

CDR And that's really doing a good nadir align this time.

SPT Is it?

CDR Yes, sir. It's really hunting for it.

PLT Well, it's open end on it now, yes. Yes, it looks

like a good nadir align, Houston.

CC Great.

CDR I don't know what I was doing the last time out.
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PLT Look at the range they're on.

CDR Huh ?

PLT Maybe it - you didn't have the right range.

CDR Yes, well they changed it from 78 to 76.

CDR ... is really finding it.

PLT It's moving Much slower than the simulator does,

isn't it?

CDR Yes.

CDR Okay, that 's a good one.

PLT Yes.

PLT The feet are moving much slower than the simulator
used to.

CDR It ... Alfa 1 is 41, and Bravo 1 is about 51, and

Charlie 1 is about 86 .... is still looking.

PLT Well, it winds up in a little square ; it never does

stop.

CDR Yes.

CDR NOW it's out again.

PLT Now, there's where it stayed.

CDR Yes.

SPT Final angle.

CDR Yes.

15 15 06 CDR 15:09 to STANDBY. STANDBY MODE. READY ON ..., 2.

93A to MODE 5. 15:24, 93A ON.

15 15 25 CDR MARK ON.

15 15 28 CDR READY OUT at 1849. Okay?

15 15 34 CDR For 1910, 93A to STANDBY. 92 to MODE CHECK. Okay.

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SPT Hey, Hous_._n, this nadir swath over the water for 191
is mostly_ open water and occasionally across, as you
may guess, some fair weather cumulus.

CC Copy.

15 16 29 CC One minute to LOS. Carnarvon 16:00.

CDR Okay, see you at Csrnarvon.

PLT You going to get another AUTO CAL?

CDR Yes.

PLT Where?

CDR Right thero.

PLT Okay _ it 's 2020.

15 59 36 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over Carnarvon for about

6 minutes.

CDR ...

CDR Hello, Houston. How's that?

CC Much better.

SPT Okay, I'd like to relay on behalf of the PLT that

it's - it's really not very convenient for the flight
planners to schedule PT during an M092/171 run. It
gets kind of crowded there around the experiment
equipment.

CC Okay, I was wondering about that. How about the other

day in the showers? We also had scheduled it the
same time there. Was that too crowded?

SPT Well, we had to do a little dance around it. In fact,

we - we slipped one or two of the showers until after.
You can't ride the bike and take a shower at the same
time.

CC Okay, I was worried about that. We'll so note.

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SPT It worked out okay, but we had one shower, and we

secured °t - bolted it down to the experiment and
then resurrected it again.

CC Roger.

SPT And another little flight planning note. I missed a

filter change on TODB this morning because it was on
my detail pad which I got after I did T003. You
might want to send that down the night before, if it's
a morning change.

CC I noted that it should have been sent up last night.

SPT I didn't - I didn't get it. It _as in the - it was

in the - the load of teleprinter paper that the PLT
goes up and gets while I'm doing T00B.

CC Yes,. I - Well, I suspect what happened was that, it

was after - You were never told that it was up there.

SPT Well, I - we normally get our details in the morning.

CC Roger. We are sending thos e up in the evening, though.

SPT Oh.

16 01 5B CDR Hey, Crip, what time you sending them up in the

evening?

CC We're trying to send them up before 23:00Z.

CDR Oh, I don't think we had any before 2B:00Z yesterday.

CC You're probably right, Pete. We been trying bud we

been - been running late due to a lot of late Flight
Plan changes down here, but that's what it - that's our
goal, anyhow.

16 05 14 CC SPT, for your info, you are correct that that was
called out in your - in your detail pad. And we did
get it up, but - apparently a little bit later than
when you were expecting it. We also put that T00B in
the remark section of the s_mary Flight Plan, too,
Just to cover the case where it is coming up late.
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SPT Okay, fine. I don't remember looking at the summary

last night, but I'ii be sure and ...

CC Roger. Those remarks are kind of easy to miss,

sometimes.

16 05 51 CC And Skylab, we're 1 minute until LOS. We'll have you

again at - at G,,-m at 6 - 16:14, 16:14.

CDR Okay.

16 14 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over @1,m for the next

6minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. Our congratulations on that EREP

pass that you Just went through. It looked real good
and sounded good from this end, and we're assuming
that the ls _+ portion of it went as well as the first.

CC And a little r_,luder: upon - the next station pass

is going to be at Goldetone at around 16:37, and it
is at that point that we're going to be doing the
computer switchover. So we'll, of course, want you
to not be using the DAS operations, and we assume it
shouldn't ring any bells for you.

CDR Okay, Houston.

16 19 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. We'll hs:_e

you again at Guam at 16:37, at which point we'll be
doing a data voice recorder dump and - correction, at
Goldstone. And we'll also be doing the recorder
switchover - correction, cemputer switchover.

PLT Okay.

PLT You still there, Crip?

CC Affirmative.

PLT We have two questions for the EREP people. One is,
that vent plug on the 190 window projector, do they
want it left where it is? And second, the desiccants
on the 190 are getting almost white again. I want
them to consider whether I ought to not change them,
and maybe try to make ...
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CC Okay. We'll ask, and try to get an answer for you

over the tape.

PLT Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. If you still read, when you com-

plete your TV recording, we would like you to start
a rewind on the VTR_

16 20 53 FLT Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

16 37 00 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over the States for a

nice long pass, abou% 12 minutes, and we will be
doing a data voice recorder dump plus a computer
swltch-over.

16 40 55 CC Skylab, Houston. For your information, we have

switched computers, and everything looks good right
now. And regarding P. J.'s questions earlier, we
do want to leave the vent plug in the 190A. And we
noted the color of the desiccants and we will be
thinking about changing them at some later time.

PLT Okay, Houston.

16 41 21 CC We're also getting to watch a TV play-back of the

LBNPD operation. I think Story's rather envious at
how easy you get around and climb in that thing.

16 43 32 SPT What's this malf all about, Houston?

CC Say again.

SPT We Just got an ACS MALF caution.

CC Roger; understand an ACS MALF caution. We've lost

data here right now, so it could be associated with
this computer switchover thing. We better -

SPT Good, it's the RATE GYR0.

CC Okay, that's probably it, because we didn't get our -

drift loaded in the thing.

16 h3 59 SC Roger, it's a Z; we're on gyro 2 only in Z.

CC Copy.

16 44 hh CC And, Skylab; Houston. Paul, was that you I was talking

to on - regarding the malf condition?

SPT No, it's Joe.

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CC Okay, Joe, I guess we can,t get data. What we'd

like you to do is to load the rate gyro drift that
we had sent up on the last message - message num-
ber 1624. We would- after you load the drift we
would like you to select gyros 2 and 3 in the Z-axis.

CC You copy that, Joe?

16 45 27 SC Houston, should I load only the Z drift, or all of

it?

CC We'd like you to load them all; Z is the most signifi-

cant one.

SPT Okay, soon as I get Pete out of the LBNP, I'll go up.

CC Okay.

16 46 04 CC And, Joe, I guess we'd like to do one more thing up

there. We'd like you to use your switch to select
computer timing.

SPT Roger.

16 47 57 SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go ahead.

SPT What Z configuration did you want me to select after

I get the drift in?

CC Roger. We want you in Z 2 and 3, redundancy manage-

ment enabled.

SPT Copy.

16 49 55 CC And, Joe, we see that you're doing the loads right

now. I've got the codes out for that Z-axis recon-
figuration, after your drift loads. If you want it,
you can holler.

SPT Okay. Cc_e with it, Crip.

CC Okay. It's 52015 with data word of 50034.

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SPT We're looking at it. Okay. It 's all in. We 'll

see how t_at holds it.

CC Appreciate it. I knew we were going to ring a few

bells for you.

16 51 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute until LOS, and

we'll see you again'at 17:02 over Vanguard.

SPT Okay.

16 52 16 CC And, Skylab, we're looking at the data now on that

computer switchover, and everything looks fairly
nominal now. Hope it remains that way until Vanguard.

SPT It will.

17 03 06 CC Skylab, H_ 5ton. We're AOS over the Vanguard for

9 minut es.

PLT Roger.

17 03 19 CC And, P. J., if you've got a minute, I'd like to tell

you about - about the cow,handing - Paul, if you've
got a minute, I'd like to tell you about some com_nd-
ing we'd like to do over the next Goldstone pass.
Can you read me?

SC No. You dropped out shortly after you said you _anted
to talk for a minute.

CC Okay. Let's try it again. I'd like to tell you

about some commanding, we're - we'd like to do over
the next Goldstone pass, which is going to be coming
up, I guess, at about 18:14.

PLT Go ahead.

17 03 58 CC Okay. We want to do a little bit more troubleshooting

on the primary coolant loop. And what we plan to do
is to turn two pumps, A and B, on in the primary
coolant loop to see if we can get more pressure on
that vernatherm valve. And perhaps maybe that might
fix the problem, or at least let us know a little
bit more about it. If we lose command capability
anywhere in there, we will need you to turn the pumps
off. Also, we don't know whether you've still got
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that PRI COOL FLOW CAUTION & WARNING ENABLED. If

you do, you will get a CAUTION & WARNING when we
turn the thing on.

PLT Yes. We've got it enable again, because the param-

eter was gone this morning. So we've got it enabled.

17 Oh 41 CC Okay. Well, if you have no objections we will be

doing that commanding at about 18:15, and you will
get a CAUTION & WARNING at that time.

PLT Yes, understand. And I understand also, if you want

me to power down, you - it will be on voice cue from
you, right?

CC That 's affirmative.

PLT What's the next station and its AOS, please, Bob?

17 05 16 CC Goldstone is our next station at about 16:15.

PLT Oh. Okay. 18:15 -

17 05 31 CC I'm sorry. 18:h - about 18:15, yes.

PLT Okay.

17 ii 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. See you

again at Goldstone at 18:15, 18:15.

17 ii ll PLT Roger.

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18 14 h8 CC Skylab, Houston. We're ADS over Goldstone for the

next ll minutes, and we will be doing the commanding
we referred to earlier on the primary coolant loop,
as well as some loading into the computer; so we'll
need you to stay off the DAS.

PLT Okay.

18 15 36 CC Skylab, Houston. You calling?

CC Skylab, Houston. I hear. you're keying, but all I'm

getting is feedback.

18 16 42 PLT Hallelujah! I finally found it. How about that?

CC Hey, that was the one.

PLT Okay, I'm ready for that refrigeration pump switching.

Are you?

CC Okay. They - they're doing it now. Oh, okay. I'm

sorry. Yes, yes, we're ready for that f And we are
working on your primary coolant loop.

PLT Yes, okay. The refrigeration system - which pump

you got on now? Which one you want me to turn off,
Crip?

18 17 16 CC Okay, we want you to put pump 1 to OFF, and then

pump for 5 seconds, and then pump 1 back to AUTO.

PLT Okay, that's PRIMARY 1. Okay.

18 17 43 CC And, Paul, while you're there, I wanted to tell you -

I can't remember whether I passed it up to you
earlier - but regarding your question on the 190A win-
dow vent plug - we do want to leave it in, and we're
considering doing a desiccant changeout later on.

PLT Yes_ you've sent those up already, Crip.

CC Okay, thank you.

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PLT Okay, is that it on that pump switching?

18 18 06 CC That's affirmative, and we have pump 2 ON now.

PLT Okay. We've been running on pump 1 the whole time?

It's not important. I Just thought if anybody knew,
I was Just curious.

CC That's affirmative. We had been on pump 1 all this

time.

18 20 57 CC And, Skylab; Houston. For your information, it looks

like turning on both pumps on primary - on primary
coolant loop might have worked. We drove that TCV
to the hot position right now. We will be turning
them both off again before we go over the hill and
think about exactly what we want to do, though.

PLT Okay, sounds good.

18 23 00 CC And, Skylab; Houston_ For your information, we've

finished our activities with the §econdary computer,
and everything looks good. And you're sitting in
solar inertial now.

PLT Okay.

18 41 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard for the

next 8 minutes. And also, Skylab, we had so much
success with that primary coolant loop a while ago,
we want to try it this time with one pump. We're
going to be doing that now. And if you do have your
C&W for the PRI COOL FLOW on, you will get a C&W
from it.

18 hl _7 PLT Okay, we've got something else for you to think over,
about a process of testing the fire sensors. On 5 -
panel 529, the n,,mher 2 sensor, 529-2. When you go
to test, the little red light on the test panel lights,
but it does not trigger a caution and warning.

CC Okay, we copy. You get the test light, but you

don't get the C&W.

PLT That's right, and that's the one that was triggered
during the EVA, also. We got a question if you could
zap them with too much sunlight, or something like
that ?
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CC Okay, we're looking at it for you, Paul.

PLT I'm sorry. I said 529, Pete tells me. I meant 392,
392.

CC Okay, 392.

PLT Yes.

18 47 28 CC Skylab, Houston. Before we go over the hill here at

Vanguard, I want to say once more, for - I guess for
the CDR, we are in solar inertial mode now. So
when he goes to do his ATM pass, he will want to se-
lect experiment pointing prior to sunrise to get
everything to turn on like it's supposed to normally.
And also, we have turned the primary loop off again
with that one pump, and it was looking good with the
one pump.

18 48 24 CC Okay, Skylab. We're about i minute until LOS, and

we'll see you again over Hawaii at 19:49, 19:49.
You got a nice, long silence.

18 48 38 PLT Yes.

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19 47 44 CC Skylab, this is Houston; standing by for the next

7 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, CDR.

CDR Got a question this morning on the valve position in

the command module on the suit loop, and I verified
that all those valve positions were the way they were
supposed to be, and that's the answer to the question.
The F were all the way they were supposed to be, and
I couldn't find anything open; so I don't know where
they got their 0.2 psi gain. You'll have to think
about it.

CC Okay, Pete. We copy.

CC CDR, Houston. Do you have time to listen to a news

note on a subflare?

CDR Yes, go ahead.

CC Right. In active region 31. We had a C 6 flare. It

was subflare optically. Began at 18:ll Zulu and ended
at 18:30 Zulu. It was accompanied by a radial burst
at 6 centimeters with 12 flux units. This is basic
information. If we have another one like that or a
little bit stronger, it Just could trigger your flare
alarm.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CC Skylab, Houston. We have 20 seconds to LOS. We'll

see you over Hawaii at 19:48. In the meantime, we'd
like to have TACS INHIBIT, please.

CDR That's done.

CC Roger.
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20 17 09 CC Skylab, this is Houstonstandingby for 9 minutes

over Vangaard.

CC Skylab, Houston is with you for 9 minutes over

Vanguard.

PLT We're here, Houston.

CC Pete, this is Houston. We've got a comment on the

update of the general message status, if you have a
minute to listen.

CREW ...

CC Say again, Skylab.

CDR Say it, Houston.

CC Pete, we've been going through the general messages,

seeing which are still valid down here. And if it's
okay with you, we'd llke to send up a list of the
valid ones and let you tell us which ones you need a
fresh copy of.

CDR I was afrald you were going to say that. Okay. Go

ahead.

CC They'll be up very shortly, probably with the evening

questions or a little bit before.

CDR Okay. We're going to have to work out, for later

flights, some better way of doing this, because the
trouble is, we spread the messages far in too many
categories. First for the individual guys and then
for a eertain piece of equipment, and I'm not sure
we've handled them quite right. And we'll talk about
it up here in Just a second, maybe at the next station
for the follow-on crew. Go ahead and send your
valid ones, and we'll see what we can chase down.

CC Okay, Pete.

20 23 35 CDR Hey, Houston; CDR.

CC Go ahead, CDR.

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CDR Give us a reading on when we can tally this LCG and

LSU down and put them away.

CC Negative, Pete. We'll think about that a little bit

later.

CDR I didn't say can we. I said would you give us a time
estimate as to when you think we're going to do it.

CC The answer we have is, in the next day or two.

CDR You guys work slower that we did.

CC Pete, the message we get is, we'd like to get more

confidence in the primary loop, and then we'll start
working on the secondary loop.

CDR Okay.

20 25 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We have LOS in i minute. We'll see

you over Hawaii at 21:23, We wil be dumping recorders
over Hawaii.

20 25 52 CDR Roger. Roger. See you then.

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21 24 ii CC Skylab, this is Houston standing by for 9 minutes over

Hawaii. We will be dumping recorders.

CDR Roger, Houston.

21 33 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We have i minute to LOS.

See you over Vanguard at 55.

CDR Roger, Houston.

21 55 49 CC Skylab, Houston. Standing by over Vanguard for the

next 7 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CDR Hey, Houston, how about taking care of this BAT

CHARGE light again for us?

CC Roger, Pete. Stand by.

CC Pete, this is Houston. So far as the CBRMs are

concerned, we thought we had them fixed up this
morning the way they should be, and you shouldn't
be seeing any lights. If you see a light, could
you please tell us specifically which one?

CDR It's that BAT charge light.

CC Pete, this is Houston. We assume that that's the

BAT CHARGE light on CBRM 3, and, if so, we fixed
it as well as we can at the moment.

CDR Okay.

CDR Just put it out.

22 02 42 CC Skylab, we have LOS in about 50 seconds. And we'll see

you again over Vanguard at 23:23

22 02 53 CDR 23:23.
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23 33 32 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS i0 minutes.

PLT Hello, Houston. Where are we?

CC Oh, you're coming up on Vanguard.

PLT Ah ha.

CC And be advised, we'll be dumping the _ape recorder

over Ascension. And I have a message - Go, Skylab?

PLT Go ahead.

CC I have a message here for all three crew members when

they're available.

PLT Go ahead, Houston.

CC "Congratulations to Conrad, Kerwin, and Weitz. There

are no embassies in space, but you are our best
ambassadors," Signed: Kenneth Rush, Acting Secretary
of State.

CDR Thank you. You've got the night shift now, huh, Bill?

CC Yes, we did a flip-flop here for awhile. We change

off every now and then.

CC Hear you people did all kind of good things.

SPT Yes, we even recalibrated the SMMD today, and Commander

Weitz had the honor.

CC Very good.

SPT It doesn't work when somebody's riding the bicycle.

CC (Laughter) Hey, that was - I watched you on TV. That

was beautiful shots outside there.

"- SPT Of the EVA?

CC That's right. Couldn't stay away.

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SPT Oh, I didn't know yoU got anything good from the
TV. That's nice.

CC Yes, there was some real beauties.

CC You were flailing your feet around a bit, Joe.

SPT That was my big problem. Weitz was afraid l'd destroy
the MDA before we got the SAS up.

CC (Laughter)

23 36 47 CC Now that we've passed on all the good word from

Washington, a couple of words from Houston. How
would you feel about changing out the desiccants on
the S190 package tonight?

23 37 02 CC That's Just to please - -

CDH Yes, we can do that,

23 37 Oh CC Okay, than_ you much.

23 37 27 CDR Say, Bill, I asked a little while ago, as we passed

through zero-Beta angle, what was going to happen as
it started going up. And they said, "Well, the vehicle
is going to start getting colder." Well, the vehicle
is starting to get hotter. The workshop is back up
to about 75, and I wondered if they had any words of
explanation. Is it our additional power output heating
the vehicle?

CC Pete, I'll pass that on, and if nothing else, it will

be a good data point.

CDR Okay. I'll do it.

CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. And the ground

feels that changing out this desiccant in the S190
will clear up all the moisture by morning without
any other actio_being required.

SPT Roger,

CC We'll see you at Ascension at 23:_6. -"

23 h3 19 SPY Roger.
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23 46 lh CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for i0 minutes.

SPT Hello, Houston. We're eating dinner.

CC We copy.

SPT What's the doings this evening?

CC Yes, we're supposed to get the latest in by about

8 o'clock this evening. We'll get it on up to you.

SPT Super.

CC That's a l-V, of course.

CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 1 minute; Guam A0S at 00:30.

23 56 ll SPT Roger, Bill.

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00 30 53 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S i0 minutes; G,,Am.

CDE Howdy, Houston.

00 31 32 CC Skylab, we're going to sleep • configuration on the

Y-gyros - Y, i/2, active; with Y, 3, as backup.

PLT Roger.

CDR Okay.

00 34 48 CC CDE, Houston.

CDE Go ab_ad.

00 35 08 CC Answer to your questions about the temperature decrease

[sic]. The concensus here is that this increase is
ccming from the power up of the equipment, which they
estimate will smount to about h degrees. Since you
started off at about - at 75, you should end up at
79, possibly 80 degrees, and there may be a little
effect from Earth albedo, but that's still being
kicked around.

00 35 38 CDE Okay, can I give you the Evening Status Report?

CC Yes, go ahead. We're standing by.

O0 35 h6 CDR Okay, the CDR ate everything plus two butter cookies -
two cans of butter cookies.

CC That's two cans, Pete, or two cookies?

CDR Two cans.

CC You getting hungry?

CDR Plus the CDR had i0 optional salts.

CC Copy.
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CDR And the _ ate everything with no salt. The PLT

ate everything except item 65, corn; item 75, bread;
and item 62, coffee with sugar, out of the meal -
dinner meal and snack. He had a DELTA-H20 of plus l,
and two optional salt.

CC Copy.

00 37 08 CDR Okay, the film status, day 160, 16 millimeter - it's

a long one. M151/Slg0B prep: C - Charlie India 06,
65, Charlie India 03; _REPwas BE02, 85; MO92/M171
M151: CI07, 35, CI0h. Belay that last one; that was
yesterday's.

CC Copy.

O0 38 59 CDR Okay, M487-4 Easy: CI - Charlie India 05, 52, Charlie

India'01; M516 housekeeping 60 Echo: Charlie India 05,
55, Charlie India 01; M516 housekeeping 60 Echo:
Charlie India 06, 62, Charlie India 03; Ml31: Charlie
India 07, the roll was empty, Charlie India 04.
35 millimeter: Charlie India 34, 60. We changed that
out. Charlie India 35, 50; Charlie India 26, 42.
70 millimeter: CX06, 87. The _C was 265. The
EREP S190, set Oboe: 1 was 6817, 2 was 6153, 3 was
7028, 4 was 7024, 5 was 0565, 6 was 7884. The
drawer configuration is A-l: X-PO_z_ 02, Charlie
India 05, 52, Charlie India 01; A-2 is X-POR'±'_ 03,
Charlie India 06, 62, Charlie India 03; A-3 is 06,
Charlie India 07, 0 percent, Charlie India 04; A-4
is 05, Charlie India 25, i00 percent, MTll. Over.

O0 39 46 CC We copy, Pete. We'll be L0S in 40 seconds. We'll

have you at Vanguard at Ol:10.

CDR Okay, there were no changes in the Flight Plan. The

Flight Plan was executed as written.

CC We copy.

01 lO 16 CC Skylab, Houston; ADS lO minutes at Vanguard.

PLT Roger, Houston. We're busy here at our exper_mm_tal

space laboratory. The darts didn't work worth a darn,
but the paper airplanes are rather promising.
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CC Hey, how's the slinky?

01 ll Oh CC And if it won't interfere with your dart game, I'll

give you some of the hottest news items today.

PLT Stand by l, Bill.

CC Okay.

PLT Okay, go ahead.

O1 ll 48 CC Okay, on the diplomatic front, Nixon and Breshnev are

going to have a s,_m_t meeting, June 18th to June 26th,
at Camp David and San Clemente. Henry Kissinger's on
his way back to Washington without concluding an
agreement to stop violation on the Viet Nam cease-
fire. And West Germany's Willie Brandt went fishing
on the Sea of Galilee today during his visit to Israel.
Brandt caught one 7-inch carp. On the sports front,
Secretariat literally ran off with the race today.
He was the first horse in 25 years to win all three.
He was 31 lengths ahead of four other horses, also
set a new record for time. Did the mile and a half
in 2 minutes and 24 seconds.

PLT Fantastic.

CC And there's some trades in the pro-football quarterback

ranks. Johnny Unitas has gone with San Diego Chargers,
Roman Gabriel has gone to the Philadelphia Eagles, and
nearer home, Buddy Baker won the pole position at
Brian SpeedwayS, qualifying speed was 169-1/4 miles an
hour. Here's one that should set a goal for you
astronomers there. A graduate student at the
California Institute of Technology sighted a previously
unknown comet. His name was John Hookra, and it's been
named for him. There's one for you to shoot for.

SPT Well, we haven't discovered any comets, but we have

made the observation that the S_m is indeed the color
of dirty beach sand.

CC All right, we will obviously call that the Kerwin

effect.
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01 I_ 21 CC And Houston, looks like, is running about n_nber 4,

now. They did win on Friday, 4 over Pittsburg 3.

CC Chicago Cubs won 5 over Cleveland 2. And Joe might

be interested in that the Cubs are looking - looking
up quite a bit the last day or 2.

SPT It's going to be Wrigley Field and Cominsky Park this

year.

01 14 54 CC Copy. And it was a pretty nice summer day in Houston

today. Some lines of small thunder b_npers cleaned
things out, and it's warming up.

SPT Glad to hear it. Thanks a lot.

CC Is P. J. any better on that dart board at zero g than

he is at one g?

PLT No, the problem with the darts at zero g - the air
pressure is so low here, that they're unstable.
r

CC I forget what his excuse was under one g. Pete, you

may have started a new mode of contemplation here
once they see that TV shot of you in the lower body
negative pressure with that folding of the arms you
do there.

01 16 21 SPT Wait until they see the - the picture of me I had

taken for Rusty with my head in my water dish, contem-
plating. Hey, during the flare alarm go-off a minute
ago, on the dark side, reminded me to ask you guys a
question about leaving that flare alarm enabled when
we're not at the console. Now that we have some
active regions on the disk, we'd like very much to
leave it enabled. The problem is that we go through
the - either the South Atlantic anomaly or one of the
horns almost every pass. And right now, we don't
know what those times are, unless they occur when
someone is at the console and we have a pad for it.
I wonder if it might be advisable to have you send
us up every day a pad containing the South Atlantic
anomal_ times in GMT, so that we can then leave tone
light enabled, then if it went off we could immediately
check the pad and know whether to respond or not.
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CC We copy that, Joe. We'll do that, as a matter of

fact, Joe.

SPT Okay, thank you.

Ol 17 hl CC Bruce McCandless was wondering how the fla - the -

flash was working there.

CDR What - what did you _ay, Bill? We were yakking

at each other over the intercom.

CC Yes, you've reported taking a number of pictures

inside, aud Bruce was curious as to how the flash was
workl ng.

SPT Very well indeed, Bruce. No problems at all with it.

01 19 59 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 1 minute. Ascension at

01:27, and at Canary, we'll have the usual conference
at 01" 31.

CDR Roger, Houston. And thank you for the news. Also
tell Bruce he did do a good Job, that all ... is
working real well.

01 20 28 CC Copy.

01 27 40 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S for approximately 17 minutes.

PLT Roger, Houston.

01 28 17 CC And we're loading the Y 3-scale factor into the

computer now. We're also going to do a small memory
dump.

01 29 28 CDR Okay, Houston ; CDR. Be advised I'm in the process of

changing out the desiccants right now, and it'll be
done in about l0 minutes.

CC We copy.

01 29 43 CDR And also, command module systems housekeeping ... has

been completed.

01 29 h8 CC We copy also, Pete.

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01 38 43 CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.

CC ATM has Just seen a massive surge at coordi-

nates 290/1.0.' It's designated at T-79. They want
you to finish your synoptic observation as scheduled.
However, after you have completed the synoptics, they
want you to look at this area in the white light
coronagraph, and if in your Jud_ent it warrants it,
they would like for you to do building block 16.
This is in JOP 8.

PLT Okay, we're familiar with 16 and we'll do that.

Thank you.

CC Okay, that's section 3.

PLT Roger.

CC Step 3, that is.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go, CDR.

CDR I've been changing these desiccants, and I'll tell

you - it might be my eyes or the flashlight, but
I'm high strapped to see much difference between
what i,m putting in except for one, and I have one
that's really super blue. But the other five that
I've taken out of the case and opened up fresh are
not too blue. Now, I've changed them out and I
really wasn't aware of that until I got to the super,
super blue one, which happened to be - as usual, ...-
So I think what I really ought to do is go ahead
with this the way ±t is, but I'll take six of these
old ones down and stick them in one of the ovens
along with the suit desiccants that were dry and see
if I can't cook me up six really good dry ones.

CC Okay, we copy that, Pete.

CC And everybody concurs with that, Pete. Trying the

dry one.
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01 42 33 CC We're going LOS. We'll see you again at Guam at

02:08, and they'll be dumping the tape recorder there.

02 08 59 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Guam for 7 minutes.

PLT Roger, Houston.

CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Yes.

CC We've got the packs [?] loaded and checked and are
ready to load it into the computer if you're not
on the DAS, for about a minute.

PLT Okay, go ahead.

CC Wilco. Also, on - if you should go to building

block 16, the coronal transient guidelines that
were up-linked today are appropriate.

PLT Okay, understand. I intend to run building block 16

when I get in before sunset.

PLT It's a very narrow, well - defined streamer that

extends off the unarmed field of view on the corona-
graph.

CC Copy.

CDR Say, Bill, are you still there?

CC Still here, Pete. Go ahead.

CDR After going through the whole pile of desiccants,

there is only two good ones. I put them in the
camera. And I bet I got some desiccants for the
suit. The last suit is drying in the oven right
now, and as soon as that's free tomorrow, I'll
cook ... up and put them in.

CC We copy, and th_nk you, Pete.

CDR How about giving us a - you guys got any ideas about
how long they need to be cooked?

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1213

CC I'ii check it.

CDR Thank you.

CC It's going to take a minute to get an answer on that

one, Pete.

CDR All right.

02 22 hi CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 3 minutes.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Yes. Go ahead, Bill

CC On the desiccants. They can be left in for 2_ to

72 hours, and we'll send you up a note on a pad to
telS_ you when to take them out. We understand that
you've already placed them in the oven now.

CDR No, that's not correct. I have suit - suit desiccants

in that oven - in the two ovens right now. We have
one suit drying still and they'll be out tomorrow.

CC We copy that. In that case the - you can stow the

desiccants in the 190-A stowage. It's felt to be
the best spot.

CDR Yes. I got - I got your easy questions here and we'll
put them on B channel.

CC Thank you.

CDR Okay.

02 25 02 CC And, Skylab; we're going LOS here and we'll see you
tomorrow morning I guess.

CDR Okay, night, night.

PLT Good night.

CC What's this about P. J. sleeping in a separate spot?

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CDR Every night at 03:00 he disappears through the hatch

and we don't see him again until ll:00 the next
morning_

CC The spooks may say something very bad or very good

about that.

CDR That's up to the spooks not us.

CC (Laughter)

02 25 54 PLT He goes to an empty house in Areom, Massachusetts.

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03 08 5h CDE Hello, Houston. Are you there?

CC Go ahead, Pete.

CC Go ahead, Pete. We're standing by.

CDR I was Just giving a tremendous d/ssertation about an

engineering change on B channel when you came along
and dumped the tape recorder on me and busted ,_"
continuity. Shame on you.

CC We're sorry, Pete.

CDR (Lau@ht er) It's okay.

cC We thought you w_re in bed.

CDR Well, we were Just putting in that lovely list of

changes that you sent to us. And answering that
lovely list of questions that you sent to us. And
we are Just finishing up putting it on B channel.

CC Yes, I sympathize with you. I'm having trouble

enough Just writing changes in the checklist down here.

CDR Yes, but there is 5 or 600 of you guys versus three

of us, and you win every time.

CC That's what I was sympathizing with you about, Pete.

CC Pete, we'll wait until about 3 o'clock in the morning

in the future to dump it or some other such thing.

CDR No. That's ok.aM. I happened to be giving a

particular good one on an engineering change we've
Just made up here in the spacecraft. And I was doing
it in a rather impatient manner when the tape recorder
was abruptly taken away from me.

CC (Laughter) Pete, I'm sure you'll have time to polish

it up into even finer form before you get a chance
to go at it again.
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CDR Okay.

CC Pete, you're going to get the recorder back in about

3 minutes. Seriously, as a matter of practice here,
should we stay off the tape recorder for a while
after we norma] ly go LOS here at night?

03 ll 34 CDR No. I'ii tell you what, though, why don't you - When
you give us our last call of the evening, tell us
the next station because we probably won't be up
more than one station, you know, and we'll know you're
going to dump and we won't be using it at that time, if
we're Just polishing off the •evening.

03 ll 52 CC Wilco.

CDR Thank you, sir.

03 ll 56 CC Thank you, sir.

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i0 29 15 CC Skylab, Houston. An early good morning to you,

and we're standing by at Honeysuckle for the
next 9 minutes.

SPT Roger, Houston. The SPT is up, but I'm going to

get the other two up when I'm ready.

I0 29 h3 CC Okay, no problem.

ii 00 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone for the

next 7 minutes.

SPT You there, Houston?

CC Yes, sir. Standing by.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone for

6 minutes.

ii 02 h2 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS at Goldstone for 5 minutes.

ii 03 56 CC Skylab, Houston; Goldstone for h minutes.

SPT Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston; Goldstone for 2 minutes.

SPT Hello, Houston. Everybody's up, and the sampling

is complete.

CC Okay, Joe. We've been trying to get configured here

for a couple of minutes here at Goldstone. And the
only immediate note that I have for you this morning,
if you've - when you get to going through your pads,
you'll notice, Joe, for you there're two E'fC pads
on board. The correct one is number 1729, which is
the shorter of the two. And some time this morning,
prior to EREP, I've got some deletions to the - to
Pete's EREP operate pad that also have to do with
that ETC pad we sent up.
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SPT Okay. He'll catch them when he can.

CC Okay, there's no hurry at all. And be advised

that we'ze about 1 minute from LOS. We're going
to see you at Canary at ll:20. Stand by 1.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to see you at Ascension

at 11:29. Be advised this morning for the next
three revs or so, we're going to lose some station
passes that we normally would have, in order to support
a scientific - unmanned scientific payload that we're
launching from the Cape this morning that's going to
- into lunar orbit; and it's a radio astronomy payload.

ll 07 29 SPT Okay, very good.

ll 07 29 CC Roger.

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11 30 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension for

7 minutes.

SPT Hi there, Dicky.

CC Hi there.

CDR Say, Dick, on your odds-and-ends message this

morning, 191 17:19. Easy.

CC Roger.

CDR Okay. On question number 4, statement _1-,her _,

request verification that panel 207 AM AFTFIRE 1
and 2 sensors are not inhibited. That's correct;
they're not inhibited. But sensor number 2 is the
one that that is exposed in the aft heat exchanger
compartment, and that's the one that went off when
we went EVA, and it's now burned out. And we sent
you a query smd said, "Do you want us to chauge it
out?" And we haven't gotten a reply to that. It's
busted, but it's not inhibited.

CC Roger, Pete. And those two - That question was re-

lated to that one. The understanding, Just so we
have it straight, the understanding we had was that
when you tested it you got a red light on the sensor,
but you did not get a caution and warning trip, and
- and we Just wanted to m-_e sure before we started
further troubleshooting that, you know, we had verified
all the circuitry and so forth.

CDR We'll doublecheck it again; but of course, we picked

it up during the fire sensor checkout. And we'll
check the INHIBIT switches, but I believe that they're
both on. I know what you're talking about.
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CC Okay.

CDR Okay. Now on number 7, briefly it says, rephrasing

now, "we've observed three premature cutoffs in
S056 ACTIVE 1 mode. Have you observed any S056
anomaly in the ACTIVE mode?" And the answer to that
is yes. ACTIVE 1 LONG is stopped at FILTER position
3. And that again was put on B channel throughout
yesterday; at least I put it on a couple of times,
I think. And we have noticed ACTIVE 1 LONG; it hangs
in FILTER position 3 and stops taking pictures.

CC Okay. We have ... copies, and I guess we're just a

little bit behind in getting to channel B.

CDR Okay.

ll 32 38 PLT One other thing, Dick. I was r1_n_ing that JOP on

that - that coronal JOP last night. It did the same
thing; it hung up in ACTIVE 1 LONG. I terminated
and went on to, I thlnk the next sequence in.build-
ing block 16 is an ACTIVE 1 NORMAL. And I watched
it do about four cycles, All of which are okay.
And I was satisfied, then I looked bank at it, and
and it apparently hung up on FILT_ 1 in ACTIVE i
NORMAL. 80 I don't know what it's doing. It looks
like D!nny things, all of which so far have apparently
been in ACTIVE.
b

ii 33 ii CC Okay. Copy.

CDR Okay, Dick. I Just verified 207 and the inhibit

switches are active. So the problem, I do believe,
is back in the sensor. In fact, maybe what we ought
to do is Just put another sensor in there and see if
_t tests or not.

CC Okay, Pete. We'll be getting back to you on that one.

ii 33 5_ CDR ...
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3_1 36 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute frc_ LOS.

We're going to see you at Honeysuckle at 12:06. And
CDR the - We'd rec_mnend the CAUTION & WARNING system
MALF number _, which will probably lead you quickly
to a sensor changeout. And we were going to schedule
that on the Flight Plan for tomorrow, but if you have
time today to get it accomplished, _ Just let us know
that you did and we'll see the results.

CDR Okay, Dick; very good.

CC Roger.

PLT Are you still there, Dick?

CC Affirmative.

PLT Also, pass to the EKE_ people, will you, please; I

tested DAC magazine B in Bravo Hotel 01, and it's
working okay.

li 36 05 CC Okay, got that.

12 06 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle for 7 minutes.

PLT Roger. Hi, Houston. Do you have any photo people

listening down there?

CC Yes, sir. We're listening. Go ahead.

PLT Okay. For shooting the 35-millimeter, as you're

aware, we're out of exterior film. Out of the win-
dow, we've been shooting the interior film. I want
to verify that the proper thing to do is shoot that
interior film on the Nikon in an ASA setting for a
light meter of 160.

CC 0kay, Paul. We'll get you an answer.

PLT That's not right. We want the right setting.

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CC Roger. Understand.

CC Skylab, Houston. For your information, this pass

we're selecting gyros Yankee i and 3 for control
again this mornin 8 since they have better scale fact-
ors. And for proper talkback indication, you need
to -_e sure the Y RATE GYRO MONITOR switch is set
to 3/1.

PLT Now, we're in for it again, huh?

CC Affirm.

CDR What would you guys have to do down there if you

didn't have those rate gyros to play with all night?

CC FLIGHT says we have plenty of things to do, (laughter)

but l'm not sure I agree.

CC CDR, Houston. FLIGHT says that we have plenty of

things to do on this shift correcting teleprinter
pads. And along that line, sumetime before EREP, I
need to m=_e sure your _ operate pad is right.
l've got a couple of deletions for you.

CDR Okay, Dick, Just a second. Let me get it out of my

book.

CC No hurry.

CDR Go ahead.

12 l0 46 CC Okay. At a time of 31:30, - This is going to be

some deletions on ETC; 31:30, delete that llne for
ETC to AUTO. At, I think it's 35 minutes, my copy
is kind of had, the next ETC llne item is to delete
that going to STANDBY. Then down there at 38 minutes,
delete "ETC to AUTO." And finally, at - under 39,
about three lines below the 39:00 entry, delete "ETC
to STANDBY." That takes care of the ETCs, and it
makes your pad agree with Joe's pad, his correct
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1223

ETC pad, which I told y'all a while a_o is number

1729. The other one you have on board for this morning
should be thrown away. I have one more deletion on
your _ operate pad, and that's at a t4me of 35
plus 31. S192 MODE to STAleD - excuse me, "MODE to
READY." I want to delete that line. And reason for
that deletion is that it prevents ,mnecessary
usage of the EREP tape. Ineident_1!y, the reason for
the change in the EfC pad this morning was is after
a little hit of second though on the film that's in
that camera, we need to save the remain - a good bit
of that film for the calibration run we're going to
do on the Moon later. And it was Just a mistake on
our part.

12 12 26 CDR Okay. l've got a question for you. Would you pass
on or have FLIGHT pass on -Give us a Just - couple
of set s,m,_ary of what kind of operations you have
planned for US after the fuel cells give out.

CC Okay. I 'ii make sure they get their heads together

and let you know, Pete.

CDE Just a general idea of what - what - what we're going

to operate and so forth.

CC Understand. Incidentally, while l've got you on the

phone, in thinking back over some of the comments
y'all made on EVA, we remember one of you guys saying
that the co_m,nd module spotlight was on. And l'm
assmning that that was the docking spotlight, and
we're assuming now that it's been turned off. Is
that correct?

CDR Okay. Let me tell you. That was me. And there are
two gold blivets that I have never seen before on the
command module. I suspect they must be some experiment
radiation sensors or something or others; - I'ii have
to figure out what they are when I get hack. But
they're two hemispheres, but the Sun was shining. It
looked exactly like a light bulb inside a glass housing.
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It was on, and it was not. It was there two gold

hemispheres, whatever they are. They're located
near the co-.,and module RCS roll thrusters, as I
remember it. And so maybe somebody can identify what
they were. From here, I - I'd never seen them before
on the command module. That doesn't mean they hadn't
been there forever. But I had never noticed them
before.

CC Okay, tbank you. That clears that up. And we're

Just about to go LOS, and I'm going to see you at
Hawaii at 12 :26.

12 14 20 CDR Okay.

12 26 h8 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for the next 8

minutes.

PLT Roger, Dick.

CC Roger.

PLT Hey, you might pass to the EREP people that Pete tried
to get you last time, but we were already LOS. On
that EREP pass yesterday, we got a END-OF-TAPE light
on the TAPE RECORDER about 2 seconds after the pass,
after the data tape was completed.

CC Understand.

PLT Yes, that - that means that we did, in fact, come to

the end of tape, also. Besides getting the light, we
were, in fact, ... the tape was gone.

CC Roger; understand.

CC And, CDR; Houston. We think possibly what you might

have seen when your EVA on the co,,-_d module was the
two overboard dump nozzles for - one for water, one
for urine, I'm told they do have a sort of blunt
appearing gold cover. And if you're - That might be
a - a thought. If you are familiar with the way they
look, and that wasn't it, maybe we'll think some more.
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CDR Yes, that's probably what it was.

CC Roger.

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. For the photography question, I'm

told that the - For out-the-window photography with
the color interior .film, you should set a ASA to 500,
500 vice 160.

CDR Oh, hoo That's backwards frc_what we had. Glad we

asked the question, though. We've been shooting it
at 16 - 160 ASA, and the film is labeled ASA 500.

CC Well, why don't we recheck our amswer?

CDR Why don't you do that because the twist came up - the
second twist that came up - And we got on that because
we were reviewing your what-was-in-effect-messages
message last night. Audmy rememberauce of that
because we've lost that ..., that's why we brought
the subject up, was to take color interior, which is
labeled ASA 500, aud shoot it out the window at 160th.
But if you use it inside, also, the same roll of film,
continue to shoot it at 160 and then they'll process
it that way, and it'll be okay inside and outside.
So let's doublecheck the answer, please.

CC We certainly will do that.

12 31 0_ CDR ThAnk you, sir.

12 31 48 CDR ..., Houston. For your information, we were discussing

tomorrow is the first day that we get to wherewe get
to break out the last thing.

CC N-m-.m.

SPT Exactly. That's what I thought. And I think I know

what he's talking about.

CC (Laughter) Well, I won't say Roger.

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CDR I'll rephrase it. It's the first time we do something

for the last t_me.

CC Hey, okay.

CDR Hey, Dick, I guess the other thing on this fire sensor,
if in fact that the fire sensor assembly, and we're
reading the Malf Procedure, is what is no good anymore,
And it got bogged by the Sun; is it possible that even
- that it could get bog [?] power off or does it have
to have electrical power on it? In other words, when we
do our next EVA, do we need to cover that thing or
do we Just need to turn it off?

CC That's a good question, and EGIL is thinking about it,

Pete. We're i minute from LOS. We're going to see you
at Goldstone at 12:38.

12 34 29 CDR Okay.

12 38 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for 6 minutes.

SPT Roger.

12 42 35 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we've - we're doing un-

attended ops, and we've had another high voltage
tripoff on S055, and we're going to co---and it back
on.

SPT Okay.

12 _ 06 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we're about 20 seconds

from LOS. We're going to see you at Mila at 12:50,
and we're going to he dumping the data tape recorder
at Mila.

SPT Okay.

12 50 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Mila for _ minutes.

SPT Roger, Houston. We're getting a lot of good pictures

in the Great Lakes region and in New England, this
morning.
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CC Incidentally, I did check again in the backroom, and

you were right and we were wrong. The A - ASA settings
for out-the-window photography should he 160, and
that does coincide with the previous message you had
on board_

SPT Glad to hear it, because that's what we're using right
now.

CC Right - you're doing the right thing.

12 53 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOS. We're

going to see you at Ascension at 13:05. And I made
a mistake a while ago, the Ascension pass is where
we're going to be dumping the data recorder.

12 53 26 PLT Oh, okay.

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13 05 08 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS over Ascension for

the next ll minutes; ll minutes.

SPT Hello, again.

CC Hello, hello.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. Be advised we're in the process

of doing a Nav update for you, so youmight stop that,
if you have any need for it.

SPT Okay, we will. And I see the SCAN SPECT light has
gone out, so you must have fixed your high voltage
detectors.

CC Yes, those things have been tripping on and off for

several times here.

PLT Hey, trip. I got an update on our fire detectors

•.. situation for you.

CC Go ahead.

13 06 13 PLT We changed out the fire sensor assembly, or whatever

you call it; the detector itself. No change in the
status. We then went ahead and changed out the fire
sensor control panel, and that took care of it. So
what we've got in dome 432 locker now is a fire sensor
detector that's got some time on it, but it's apparently
okay. And we've got a control panel in there on which
sensor 2 side is no good, but sensor 1 side is. So
that's still available as a spare for those two places
where we only run one sensor off the control panel,
anyway.

CC Okay. And say again where you stowed that in, please.

PLT Back where it came from.

CC Okay. Very good.

PLT 432, 432.

CC That's fine. All right. Thank you.

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13 i0 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We've completed our nav update.

The DAS .is yours again. And we will need a momentum
INHIBITs, please - dump INHIBITED.

SPT Okay, momentum is INHIBITED, Houston. What's the

reason for that?

CC We had one scheduled here - let's see - it was supposed

to be done at - Roger. The maneuver is supposed to
start - your Z-LV maneuver is supposed to start when
you would nor_-1 ly be dumping.

SPT Roger.

13 15 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from LOS. We'll see

you again at Guam at 13:52, 13:52.

SPT Okay.

13 52 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam for 6 minutes.

13 52 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam for 9 minutes.

13 52 45 CC And, Skylab, we're going to be turning on the primary

coolant loop once more, which means you're going to
get a PRI COOL FLOW C&W.

13 53 09 CC And, Paul, if you read, for the EREP maneuver we will

need you to enable the TACS.

CDR Say again, Crip.

CC Roger. We show that the TACS are inhibited at this

time, and we will need them enabled for the maneuver.

13 5h 59 CC Skylab, did you copy my call regarding turning on the

PHI COOL - PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP, and you should be
getting a PRI COOL FLOW C&W.

CDR ...

lh 00 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. We'll

have you again at G11am at 13:52 - correction, at
Goldstone at lh:17, 14:17, and we have the PRIMARY
COOLANT LOOP, ON; it looks good to us. We're going
to leave it on. If any problems should occur while
we're LOS, you can go ahead and secure it.
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PLT Okay.

PLT Could you hear me over the coolant noise, Bob?

CC Affirmative.

14 01 l0 PLT Okay. I got my mouth right against the mike.

lh 16 2h SPT 0.5, coverage, the m_ says.

CDR I have Goldstone in about 1 minute.

CC We got you now, guys.

CDR Hi, there ; how do you read VOX?

CC Loud and clear.

CDR Okay.

14 16 43 CDR I Just gave it to this friendly tape recorder, but

I'll give it to you. 92's in CHECK, the DOOR's 0PEN;
91's ON, the DOOR's OPEN; 90's ON STANDBY, the DOOR's
OPEN. 93 RAD's in STANDBY; 93 SCAT's in STANDBY; 93
ALTIMETEr's OFF; 94's ON. I've verified green light,
all DOORS are OPEN, TAPE RECORDER POWER is ON.

PLT Yes!

CDR And while we're sitting here waiting to start, the

secret to success on that S191 cooler is the C-7
start temperature. We were starting with start tem-
perature of about 35 percent, now, and it figures
right on up. As soon as you bring on 191 power to
about 45, then as soon as you turn the cooler on,
it takes about 4 minutes for it to come glb - scale
high and then it starts at 100 percent and it Just
races right on down to 30. And, for your information,
we do not get the S191 READY light until it's dropped
to 43 percent.

PLT Which is about were it stays, huh? No.

CDR No, it goes to 30; it drops to 30.

PLT Yes ; ...

PLT Oh, man. Are the Cascades ever pretty this morning.
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CDR Stand by for an 18:2h EREP start coming up.

PLT Man, oh man.

SPT I got a picture of that for you, Paul.

PLT Okay, good.

14 18 2h CDE MARK. EREP START.

CDR Got a TAPE MOTION light.

CDR 92 to MODE READY.

CDR 9h, MANUAL. I want an AUTO CAL-2, i -? Do it.

PLT Done.

CDR S190 's MODE AUTO ; ETC, AUT0.

CDR SCAT's ON; RAD's ON.

CDR A blinking PAD/SCAT GIMBAL light, but that's normal.

Okay, I got a green on the tape recorder, green TAPE
MOTION; a 192, green; a 190, green; and a 93 RAD/SCAT,
green; and a 94, green.

PLT Man, I hope this solid cloud deck isn't the 0.5 coverage
you guys forecast.

CDR They wouldn't do anything like that.

SPT There's some holes out front.

PLT Yes, and I'm looking 45 degrees ahead.

14 21 07 PLT Okay, Houston; for information, at 45 degrees forward,

the only thing I can see through the haze is the Sun
shining off some lakes.

CDR 19, 20, 21 Okay, stand by; 47 on the FRAME COUNT; 21:40,
ALTIMETER to STANDBY; I got a S191 READY light on time.

14 21 41 CDR Altimeter to STANDBY; 44, MODE AUTO; MODE AUTO on

90. 23:21 I'm standing by for. I'm not going to do
that. I'm going to do that on S193 POLARIZATION to 4,
okay?
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PLT Okay, Houston. I got the reservoir on this site, but

the desired site is under s_ne clouds. We'll give
her a try.

CDR Okay.

14 23 21 CDR MARK. 23:21 POLARIZATION 4, going SHU_YER SPEED,

MEDIUM, at 30 on S190. Here we go to MED. 27, we
got to put 92 to CHECK. That's a long time frum now.
What are you running over there, PLT?

PLT Ground.

PLT Okay. I 'm giving you a short shot of that first

special there, Houston. I got A-field. l'm not
going to carry the i_i11 time on it. I got to get
out to the next one.

PLT 25, 1.3. 2458.

PLT How about that?

CDR l've got so much - -

PLT Okay, tracking the reservoir, Houston, on the next

site.

PLT Doesn't draw very good.

CDR What doesn't?

PLT Clouds - through this thing.

CDR With the yellow filter?

PLT Yes.

CDR No, once you get them identified, you can pick out
details better, but I Just prefer the light filter.

CDR Oops! You're going to blow my big deal here. S192

to CHECK at 27.

14 27 01 CDR 192 to CHECK. 27:42. Do a little SCAT/RAD to STANDBY,

here.
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PLT Well, if you wanted clouds over land on this nadir

swath, Houston, you're getting you some good ones.
I gave you a few flicks of DAC. You didn't ask for
it, but you're getting it.

CC Thank you.

PLT 28:13. Oh' Zero, zero--

14 27 48 CDR SCAT to STANDBY. RAD to STANDBY.

CDR And -

lh 28 00 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER is ON. RAD's going off at 28:10.

RAD's OFF. 93 has gone CROSS-TRACK CONTIGUOUS.
Cross-track contiguous pitch angle is 30. S190's
READY out at 28:59. That's funny. I don't have a
READY light.

PLT It's already timed out.

PLT At least it quit running.

CDR It sure did.

lh 28 h8 CDR Yes, when I looked down, the S190 READY light is out
and going to STANDBY. ETC to STANDBY. Select fast
frame 12. It's still running down there. I can
hear that.

SPT Okay. ETC is STANDBY, and it's frame count is 373.

CDR Okay.

PLT Hey, you got almost 2 minutes, huh?

CDR Houston, you there? Must have been looking out over
the water, huh?

PLT Yes.

CDR (Singing)

CDR My ears are quiting. You timed out at 41. You got
to get it all back on again by 53. That's ass,lmlng
- assuming out - assn_ng you started on time. Yes,
that's where you get in a box, man. You miss one of
the babies, you're screwed.
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CDR (Singing)

lh 30 52 CC While you've a blank spot here, we'd like you to leave

the TACS enabled for this dump coming up after the
mR_euver.

PLT Okay.

CDR We suspect that would be a good idea. It banged

away pretty good going in.

CC Roger. We had a maneuver time problem.

CDR What happened?

CC It was supposed to have been 25 minutes. You maneuvered

at 13.

CDR Ho, ho. You mean we entered it wrong?

CC We're not sure. We'll talk about it later.

CDR Okay.

PLT Hey, Crip. On those VTS sites, on the first one, for
the EREP guys, I'm not sure at.all I got the right
field. The one I was on was probably north of the
one they wanted.

CC Copy.

PLT The second, the special 14, I picked a field and got
a few seconds of tracking on it, and 520 though, we
got good.

14 33 07 CC One minute until LOS. Guam at 15:30 for a data recorder

dump also.

CDR Okay.

CDR We get 92 back on again?

CDR Hey, Crip. Are you with me?

CC Affirmative.
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CDR 35:31. RAD's out, S192 ...

lh 34 37 CC Affirmative. Checks out.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

15 30 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam for about

6 minutes, and we'll be doing a data recorder dump.

CC Skylab, Houston. If anybody's got am opportunity,

we'd like to talk about that maneuver time problem
we had for the EREP pass.

CDE Go ahead.

CC Yes. Apparently, we maneuvered with a 13-minute

m-neuver time, which was what was originally in the
computer, and it wasn't updated with the 25-minute
maneuver. Can you verify it for us that the
25-mlnute was put in?

CDR Best of my knowledge, it was.

CC Okay. It was changed properly. The l0 minutes that

you put in for a maneuvering out worked out right
and that's what you - what you went by. But apparently
it didn't get updated on the initial part.

CDR Well, it's possible that - We were in a hurry putting

it in. And it's possible that the EBT_ didn't get
in it, or something. But I'm trying to remember,
if it didn't, why we would have gotten hung up some-
where along in putting the pad in, wouldn't we?

CC Yes, you should have.

CDR Well, Paul put it in, and to the best of his

knowledge, he put it in correctly. It doesn't mean
that we didn't make a mistake. But I say, if he
didn't get an ES'I'_:H
in or missed a number, you know,
I think we would have - you'd get a computer reject,
or something would happen that we couldn't have kept
on going with pad.

15 32 07 CC That should have been the case. This is the first

time we tried that with the secondary computer, and
we are wondering whether we had a problem with it.
I guess we'll keep lookingat it and see what the
story is. Thank you.
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SPT Okay. I don't - I give it 50-50. I think we

probably might have screwed it up - or the
computer could have missed it, one of the two. We
were a little late, and he was putting it in pretty
fast. But I still think we should have gotten a
reject or something.

CC Copy.

CDR Okay. I got a couple of questions for you.

CC Go ahead.

15 32 40 CDR Okay. On the day 16 in the stowage beok, day 16

transfers - it indicates that we change out our sleep
restraint top blanket and head rest cover. And I
can't find that spelled out ar4v_here in a system's
housekeeping or - nor have I seen it come up in our
- our pads. So - I - I was wondering about that one.
That's question one. Question two is, we don't know
what you intend to do with 509. But we would
like to know whether you want us to take the launch
locks off it or not, which we were going to do anyhow
for SL-3, so that they didn't have to train for that.
We're more than happy to remove the launch locks or
leave them the way it is. We'd like and answer on
that one.

CC Okay. Copy. We'll get people to research them for

you.

SPT And, Houston; SPT.

CC Go, SPT.

SPT Just a comment that occurred to me on this maneuvering

time business. For future reference, it's a shame that
we don't have feedbacks in this computer as we do in
the command module computer being able to see what it
is you've loaded before you proceed with it. We load
something here kind of in the blind, and we press on
without ever really knowing whether it was correct
or not.

CC We had the same comment down here.

SPT Okay.
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CDR Okay, Houston. My next question is seeing the

primary loop is running, I would like to check BUS 1
again. And also would like to know when we can
clean up the LCGs and turn off SUS 2.

CC Okay. We're still looking at it right now, but

we'll take your desires under advisement.

15 3_ 28 CDR Okay. Well, I'm going to go up and turn on SUS i at

the 317 panel, or whatever it is, Just to check that
caution and warning thing.

CC EGIL - we'd prefer if you did not do that right now,

Pete.

CDR Okay.

CDH Now, let me know when I can check it.

CC Wilco.

15 35 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again at Goldstone at 15:34; i, 5, 5, h. And,
Skylab, we've Just up-linked a - an addition to your
solar activity. And there's a prominence coming over
the east limb that we'd like to modify Paul's run
at around 17:00, and that gives you the "details of
what we'd like you to do.

SPT Okay, Houston.

CC And, Joe, you might want to take a look at it, - when

you're - in your next run.

SPT You bet.

15 53 _5 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Goldstone for about

15 minutes, and we didn't get all our data recorder
dump last time. So we're going to have to do this
pass - if there's no problem with that.

SPT No problem.

CC And, CDR, Houston; I have answers to a couple of those

questions, if you can hear me.

CDR Go ahead.
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15 54 17 CC Okay. Regarding your sleep restraint top cover

changeout and headrest: We've got that scheduled
currently for tomorrow; and it's in housekeeping
l_ Echo.

CDR Okay.

CC And we're currently. - We agree with you about removing

the launch locks on M509 and we're currently looking
at putting that in the schedule some place.

CDR Okay. Are you contemplating flying 509 on this flight

or not ?

CC I don't really believe they're thinking too seriously

about that right now.

CDR Okay.

15 5_ 50 CC Okay. And regarding the coolant loop, and checking

out SUB i: We currently have a test going on in
St. Louis trying to duplicate what happened to it
and we're - So, really what we're interested in is
Just finding out why we have the problem. And they
suspect there's a possibility that there might have
been some contsmination in the EVA portion of the
loop. That's one of the reasons they're a little
bit reluctant to turn SUS 1 on and get that all set
up right now.

CDR Okay.

CC For you information, when we did check it out, that

SUS l, as far as this flow the other day, it did flow
with no problem. So that portion of it does work.

CDR Okay.

CC And we are probably - if - We definitely will be

checking out SUS I before the EVA. And we 'ii probably
be doing that within the next couple of days.

CDR Okay.

SPT Fine.

SPT Very good.

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CDR How about shutting SUS 2 down?

CC They don't - they don't - There is also a - that

PCVB is still hung toward the cold side a little bit,
and I think they're pondering trying to do something
similar that they did to the pr_m_y coolant loop. And
they want to do that and get it all checked before they
take that SUS 2 off..

CDR Okay.

SPT Thank you.

CDR Thank you.

16 02 16 CC Joe, when you get a chance, we'd like to have you

cycle your STAR TRACE_R ACQUISITION switch to AUTO
and to reenable the TACS.

CC Correction, to disable the TACS.

SPT Yes.

16 02 33 SPT Say, Crip, for information, after the EREP pass -

sometime, I went to AUTO on the star tracker Just for
grins, and when I checked it a few minutes later, it
was still in AUTO with the sht_tter cock. thing showing
OPEN. And it was several minutes after I started.
I don't quite understand; I didn't have time to look
at it any further; those are Just the indications.

CC Okay. Copy that.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

16 20 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over the Vanguard for the

next 8 minutes, and we will be doing a data recorder
dump at this time. Sorry I missed your last LOS call.

16 25 57 CC For the SPT, I know you're busy with your ... coalign,
but you can Just copy this later. Currently, on
housekeeping 28 L.ma that you're scheduled to do, it
calls out urine bags, and it was supposed to have
been urine disposal bags on it for inventory.

16 27 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. We'll

have you again at Goldstone at 17:31; 1731.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

17 31 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Goldstone for the

next 13 minutes.

PLT Howdy, Houston.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go, CDR.

CDR On the housekeeping 7 Kilo-i, have you got any par-

ticular place you'd like that tsken? It's a CO s _.-
pie.

CC Stand by I.

CC CDR, Houston. On that housekeeping 7 Kilo-l, you can

take that CO e_y place in the 0WS.

CDR Okay.

CC And, if the SPT is available, I was wondering if -

whether he copied my change tO his housekeeping 28
Lima message.

SPT No, sir.

CC Okay. Currently in your remarks on your detail pad,

it calls out urine bags as part of that inventory.
That was supposed to be urine disposal bags.

SPT Okay. I interpreted it ,a such, and it's on channel B.

CC Very good. Th_ you.

CC And, PLT. If you're not using the DAS currently, we

would like to try to put a mA-euver time into the
computer to see whether it takes or not.

PLT 0kay.

CC Okay. We're so doing.

PLT How about a bike ride sc_etime, too?

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CC Stand by i, Paul.

17 36 55 CC Paul, do you still have that pad with the numbers on

it for the 25 minutes?

PLT Yes.

CC Okay. You've got a GO to go ahead and try it.

PLT Okay. Here it goes.

PLT Okay. That's it I guess.

CC Paul, we're going to display a single memory location,

so if you'll give us the DAS for a minute there,
we'll m_e sure whether it got down or not.

PLT All right.

CDR You still there, Houston?

CC Affirmative.

CDR Okay. I've run this CO test and it appears, taking

into account the original color of the tube to start
with, and the CO is somewherebetween zero and less
than 25 parts per million. But it essehtially didn't
change the tube at all.

CC Okay. I understand it didn't really change the color

and between zero to 25 parts per million. And, Paul,
the DAS is yours again.

PLT Okay. I'll take it.

CC Roger. And, for you guys' information, on page 4-11

of your ATM Systems Checklist ; it gives the memory
location of the co-,,-nded m-neuver time. You might -
you could look at it if you wanted to verify it getting
in.

PLT Okay.

17 56 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard for

about 8 minutes. Sorry I missed that LOS call again.
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CDR Say, Crip, for some reason I misplaced the message

that told me what to do with the six UCTAs I came
up with in the co,and module. I remembered that it
said don't use them for the EVA, because they all
fixed that tracer in them. Would you tell me where
it is they wanted us to stow those six UCTAs?

CC Roger. Stand by i.

CDR Thank you.

CC Pete, regarding your UCTAs, the message stated that

they should be stored in D-Dog h26, and marked UCd UCTA
with tracers.

CDH Okay. Very good.

CC Roger. And - -

CDH Thauk you.

CC P.J., we copy that you're operating H-alpha in

OVERRIDE right now. Just want to make sure that you
get it back to NORMAL so that you won't be taking
pictures on the dark side.

PLT Thank you.

CC Skylab, Houston. That load of maneuver time that we

did awhile ago worked okay. You've got 25 minutes
sitting in there. It's a maneuver time, for informa-
tion.

PLT Okay. Thank you, Bob.

18 03 58 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

have you again at Hawaii at 19:05; 19:05. And we'll
be doing a data recorder d_np at that station.

END OF TAPE

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, SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

19 05 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii for about

6minutes, and we will be doing a data recorder dump.

SPT Roger, Houston.

CC Skylab, Houston. According to our review of channel

B, you should be down to about two urine bags in the
waste management compartment and tomorrow you're sched-
uled to resupply it. For tomorrow morningyoumight
want to pull out a urine bag out of the dome locker
for use tomorrow morning. That's in _10.

SPT Okay. You're right. Thank you.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. In our reviewing of the data,

it apparently - On that maneuvertime problem we got
into this morning for the _ pass, the function
code that was loaded in was mistakenly put in as a
52003 and which is the display code, of course, and
well, that was the reason we didn't get the correct
time.

19 lO 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. We'll

see you again over the Vanguard at 19:33; 1933.

19 34 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard for

about 8mlnutes.

PLT Roger.

CC Roger. And, CDR, do you have a mument to talk to us,

please?

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. We'd like to find out about the desiccants in -

the caes that you changed previously on 190. Did you
-When you looked at them this morning, could you tell
any color change, and if so, what color were they?

CDR No, I couldn't see any color change, and what we ob-
served ca the lenses was still there. There - Just
a minute. Now, yes, Paul's right. The two good ones
do look a little paler, as if they have started to take
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the moisture out. But we still couldn't tell any

difference on the lenses, l'm not sure what we seeing
on the lenses is moisture anyhow. I wanted to ask
you what you would like us to do with the suit desic-
cants in that, we have six suit desiccants out now,
out of twelve because we put four each suit in instead
of two each suit originally. Andnow we're down to
two because we can cook those out. And I have six
out. Should we cook those out before we put them
away, or just put them away as is? And when we get
the answer to that question, then I was going to
start making out S190 desiccants in the desiccant
oven.

CC Okay. I think we copied all of that. And also, Pete,

because the command module cryo 02 pressures are
increasing due to being at minimum ... We would like
in that housekeeping period you got about, oh, just
before 23:00 for you to do the cryo 02 vent procedure
that's in your system checklist - CSM Systems Checklist,
page $4-7.

CDR Just a second. $4-7. Okay.

CC Appreciate it. Thank you.

PLT Hey, Crip.

CC Go ahead.

19 39 57 PLT Okay. I've been working on S009 for about 15 minutes.

There's something wrongwith it. It's sick. Now,
on the CLOSED cycle, motor cuts out. It only does
it on the CLOSED; I don't know why. I went to set it
last time, and the package was part way open. I sus-
pect, now, part way closed, and stuck there. And
even with no load on it, when you go to CLOSE, the
thing Just stalls out and spits and sputters and
makes it - And, well, you've got about a 50-50 chance
of a close of the package.

CC Okay. We copy it.

PLT Okay. So until we hear from you, I'm going to stow

the package in the thing, CLOSED.

CC Roger.
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CC P.J., could you tell us whether you think it might -

it might have been binding, or do you think it was
in the motor itself.

PLT No, I don't think it's binding, Crip. Because, as I

say, I took the package clean out. And it won't even
close by itself without the package in there. And it
only does it on the CLOSED cycle. It's not - used to
be, anyway, I'm pretty sure there is still same slip
rings inside this gear wheel drive and that's not
slipping because I can see the end of the axles on
the gear. The axes are now going together when they
go. So it sounds like to me like it's the motor,
when it goes in the CLOSED position for some reason -
in the CLOSED direction.

CC Okay. Very good report. Thank you, Paul.

CC And Just a little bit of info. For your information,

we are - we have completed that ATMDC switchover
that we've talked about, of course, and we're operating
in secondary. We got part of the memory reloaded with
the Y rate scale factor error - update rather. And
we're going to be completing the loads tomorrow
morning.

CDR Okay.

19 &3 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about to go LOS in about

l0 seconds. We'll see you again over Hawaii at 20:_0,
and we will be doing a data recorder dump at Hawaii.

19 &3 23 PLT Bye.

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20 40 h7 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii for about

l0 minutes, for about l0 minutes. We will be doing a
data recorder dump..

PLT Roger.

CC And, CDR, if you've got a moment, I need to talk to

you, please sir.

PLT He's making a pitch on B channel right now. I'll

give him a holler as soon as he's through.

SPT He's busy right now, Crip. He'll be with you in a

couple of minutes.

CC Thank you.

CDR Go ahead, Houston.

CC Okay, Pete. On the previous ATM rev you did for us,
we copied that 82A was in SHORT instead of being in
LONG. Can you confirm for us'one way or the other
what the wavelength was?

CDR The wavelength was LONG.

CC Okay. You say you ran it in LONG. Is that correct?

CDR That is correct.

CC Okay.

CDR It's in LONG right now.

CC Roger. And the pass before this it was in LONG

also?

CDR That's right and what site do you want on the poly-
choke? I got it running on 3 right now.

CC We'd like that on l, Pete.

CDR Okay. I'll go to 1.

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CDR You talking about the 5-minute exposure lens size, or

the 1 minute and 40 second exposure lens size? Both
... are in lock.

CC Okay.

CDR You might look at 56 right now - No, I take it back.

By golly, it did not stick in ACTIVE 1 LONG; it went
on through. I'll have to eat my words.

20 47 25 CDR Okay, Houston. The polychoke is in i, and it's all

rigged up.

CC Roger. Copy.

20 50 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you again over Vanguard at 21:12, 21:12.

CDR Roger.

21 ii 50 CC L_-ylab, Houston. We're AOS over Vanguard for about

8 minutes.

21 19 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll have you again at Hawaii at 22:23; 2223.

21 19 56 CDR 22:23. Bye-bye.

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22 50 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Vanguard for the

next l0 minutes.

PLT Okay.

CC Sorry about that Hawaii site. They - we learned after

we'd called it out to you that they weren't going to
have it.

PLT All right.

CC And if CDR's available I have an answer to his ques-

tion regarding the suit drying desiccant.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. You're not to dry the six additional ones.

Just go ahead and stow them back in 424.

CDR Okay. Thank you. Listen, we have a bit of a problem

with S052. It's on B channel, but I'll give it to
you on real time now. I went to - I've met all the
pre-requisites with the READY light, and went to
OPERATE in STANDARD and it will not go to OPERATE.
Now, we've gone through the malf procedure and we
have wound up down to where the problem is turned
over to you because it says in t_e mall procedure we
either have a camera failure or a primary programer
failure. Okay?

CC Okay. Let me see if our ATe4 people got any questions

on that.

"_ CC And, Pete, about all the information we can give you
, _:_ right now is we have noticed an increase in camera
temperature and we'll take a look at it.

CDR Okay. It - it still works fine and looks good and

everything. It - as I said, malf procedure left it
there, so it's over to you.

CC Roger.
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22 59 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. We'll

have you again over Ascension at 23:03.

CDR Roger.

23 03 45 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS l0 minutes.

PLT Roger. How are yo_ this evening, Bill?

CC Very well. Another nice s_rmmer day down here.

CDR Hey, Houston. You still with us?

CC We're still here. Go ahead.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're standing by.

CDR Roger. Are you going to have a CALROC tomorrow?

CC Stand by half, Pete. Don't believe such.

CDR Also, Houston; when are you going to ship up the -

do you know when you are going to ship up the prelim-
inary plan for tomorrow?

CC They should be in the teleprinter now, Pete.

CDR Okay. We 'll go look.

CC The NEL CALROC is scheduled on day 164, Pete. And - -

CDR On 164. Thank you.

23 12 45 CC And we'll be LOS in 1 minute. Guam at 23:49.

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23 49 44 CC Skylah, Houston. AOS for 7 minutes.

PLT Roger.

CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.

CC You're scheduled to monitor - do TV monitoring on the

XUV. After you've completed that, could you get
some white light coronagraph data on the VTR recorder?
You have up to - They don't want it exceeded - up to
7 minutes on the VTR.

SPT Will do.

CC SPT, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC We're going to be up-lln_ng some loads for the

computer here, so if you would stay off the DAS until
we give you a call, please.

CDR Okay. And while you're there, Bill, let me give you
the day 160 Evening Status Report, which you
apparently didn't get.

CC Go ahead, Pete. We're standing by.

CDR Okay_ Alfa; CDR 158, SPT 150, PLT 250; Bravo: CDR
4042, SPT 7218_ PLT 3759; Charlie: CDR 6.084, 6.081,
6.083; SPT 6.678, 6.677, 6.681; PLT 6.800, 6.811, 6.813.
DELTA: CDR 2/12/1255, 1/05/0250_ SPT none; PLT 2/15/2300.
Echo: none; none_ none.

CC We copy, Pete.

CDR And the evening questions. Number I: the PLT did go

over on SUS 2, and I don't think any of us noticed
any difference during the EVA. Question number 2
doesn't make sense. I don't understand it, so it has
to be retrausmitted. It says, "For the CDR and the
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SPT. Were you already hooked up to LPG, PGU, LSU;

preparing the EVA prep 1.2-97" And I guess I've got
to look in the book or something. And, you've got
the day 160 medical data. And the answer to question
number h: "Would you consider adding M551-2 and 3 to
your shopping list after we ... verification on M551-1."
And I guess that's okay with us.

CDR Copy that, Houston?

CC We copy, Pete.

CDR Okay.

23 56 33 CC Skylab, we're going LOS. We'll have you at Vanguard

at 00:26.

PLT Roger.

00 27 09 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for ll minutes at Vanguard.

CDR Roger, Houston. Are you ready for the Evening Status
Report ?

CC That 's affirm, Pete.

CDR Okay. The CDR ate everything plus he's going to

eat two cans of butter cookies, and he had two
optional salts. SPT ate everything plus 1 extra
ouDce of water, and that was it for him. PLT - wait
1. PLT ate everything plus one H20 Delta and 5.5
optional salts.

CC Copy.

CDR Excuse me, correct that. He says zero Delta on the

water.

CC Copy.

CDR Okay. The photos for 161: 16-millimeter is EREP

BH02 65 M_87 Delta. Charlie India 05 h7, Charlie
India 01 M_87, I think it's Fox. Charlie India
05,04 percent Charlie India 01; 35-millimeter
CI26, 60 frames is complete. C128 0h, C134 all
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complete, 60 frames. C127 58, CX06 089. The ETC

373, EREP set Oboe w_s depleted today. We loaded S190
set P into drawer L. The drawer A configuration is
as follows: A-I 02, Charlie India 05 h0, Charlie
India 01; A-2 was 03, Charlie India 06 62, Charlie
India 03; A-3 06, Charlie India 07 00, Cos/lie India
Oh; A-h is 05, Charlie India 25, i00 percent, Mike
Tango ii. Okay. There were no Flight PLan deviations
today; no changes in stowage, inoperable equipment
S052 you know abo_t, and we haye one c:-,_ent on
tomorrow's Flight Plan. Joe said he very carefully
debriefed the length of time to an M172 cal. If you
want it done per checklist - old checklist, it'll
get done in an hour. If you want it done right, it's
going to take him 2 to 2-1/2 hours to do, and y'all
can advise us later on what you'd like to do on that.

CDR And that 's it.

CC Okay, Pete. We're - listen, we're workin_ a very

much abbreviated procedure on that 172. We'll get that
up to you and if you get an opportunity to comment on
what you think it'll take on time we would appreciate
that. We've tried to reduce it by two-thirds.

00 30 _l CDR Oh, this is a new procedure you're sending up, huh?

CC A one time only. That's affirmative.

CDR Oh, okay. Very good, understand. We'll go for that one.

CDR You guys got any news for us tonight?

CC We're still having trouble digging that up early, Pete.

We should h_ve that again about the same time as last
night

CDR Oh, okay. Very good.

CC Things are pretty quiet here on Earth.

CDR Well, it's pretty quiet up here. We had a good work day
and it sort of sounded like you guys were _inning on
a very light operation down there today.
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CC Hey, Pete, you three up there can keep this 300 busy
and turning all day long down here. You'd be
surprised.

CDR (Laughter)

CC And they haven't even gotten the data yet.

CDR Yes, a good offen-- defense as a good offense. You

guys can keep us pretty busy, too.

CC We copy.

CDR How about asking the CSM fellows - I see that cryo
press is down to 850 and I would ass_e that it'll
hold at 850 with the ploy-choke where it is, huh?

CC Okay. I'll ask somebody.

CC And, Just for info, Pete, on that 172 procedure.

We'll try never to - subject you to the sort of thing
that he went through on that last CAL on that.

CDR Okay, fine.

00 37 02 CC Skylab, LOS in i minute. Ascension at 00:40; and, Pete,

we're trying to get you clarification on question 2.
Also - -

CDR Okay. I haven't looked at the EVA Checklist. Maybe

it'll make it self-explanatory when I go up there and
look ....

CC I don't - don't think that'll help you, Pete.

CC Also, it appears that the S052 camera is J_mmed, and

we would like for you to attempt to operate that
norm-1 ly on the next schedule.

CDR Okay.

CDR Then you don't want us to do an EVA tonight to change

it, huh?

CC That's affirm.

CDR Okay.
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00 38 03 CC Pete, no telling what you might run into wandering

around in the dark out there.

CREW (Laughter)

00 41 22 CC Skylah, Houston. AOS for 8 minutes.

SPT Roger.

SC (Music)

CC What do we have going there, a evening song?

SPT Your message to Lee this week will be: "I'm listening
to the Creed in Latin," and she'll know how happy
I _m.

CC Copy.

CC And, be advised that we're configuring the gyros for

sleep Y 1 and 2 ON, and 3 is backup.

SPT Roger.

CC And, we've Just got a few little news - a few little

news items here, if it won't interrupt anyone.

SPT Yea!

CC It says that Skylab isn't the only space news today.

Explorer 49, a radio astronomy satellite was lauched
this morning from Kennedy. It'll orbit the Moon to
record deep space radio signals. It may give
scientists clues on the early history of the universe.
You might watch for it going by.

CC And on the political scene, it says that Egyptian

President Sadt is in Libya today to discuss the plan-
ned merger of Egypt and Libya. Also, the - President
Nixon is proposing a new cabinet level department to
be called the Department of Energy and Natural Resources.
Don't know whether you're aware of it, but they're
limiting gas to - at a lot of places down here to
l0 gallons per fiR-up and that sort of thing. And
Houston lost yesterday, Pittsburg 4 to 1. Also, today
Richard Petty won the Alamos 500 with a Dodge Charger;
Baker was second. Here's a late one that says the
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Astros won over the Pirates today. The Cubs won over
Cinci, 8 to 7.

CDR They're going to do it, I tell you.

00 48 24 CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS here. And we've got the

conference coming Up.

CDR Thank you, Houston.

00 55 52 CC And, Skylab. We're AOS again for approximately

3 minutes.

CDR Roger.

00 59 15 CC Skylab, we're going LOS. We'll have you again Guam,

at 01 :2_.

00 59 22 CDR Roger.

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01 25 14 CC Skylab, Houston. ADS for 1O minutes.

SPT Roger.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Pete, avoid a caution and warning on the cry - tank

tonight. We recn_,,end that you remove the polychoke.
You leave the high pressure vent hose connected since
it has only - and this will give you a rise of only
1 pound per hour. And we confirm that you have
860 pounds pressure in that.

CDR Okay. We'll secure the polychoke. Now you want to

take the polychoke off, not shut off the supply,
right?

CC Stand by a second on that one, CDR.

CC Pete, if we understood your last transmission, that's

simply remove the polyehoke but do not - repeat:
Do not turn off the supply.

CDR Okay. I understand. T_ank you.

01 27 43 CC Also, CDR, we have the teleprinter message coming up

for the 172 procedure which is not really a cal pro-
cedure, and it's coming up on this pass for your
review.

CDR Roger, Bill.

01 28 49 CDR Okay, Bill, the choke is off; the EVA 02 supply valve
is on, and the vent is hooked up. And that ought to
take care of it for tonight.

CC We concur with that, Pete.

CC SPT, Houston.
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SPT Go ahead.

CC We confirm on S052 that you have a camera failure -

the programer is all right. We want you to terminate
the mode with a STOP and put MANUAL POWER switch to
STANDBY, that's MAIN POWER switch - MAIN POWER switch
to STANDBY.

CC Also, do not proceed with the tape - with the video

recording of the white light coronagraph.

SPT Roger that, Bill.

01 33 22 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. Vanguard at 02:05.

SPT Roger, Houston.

SPT Houston, SPT. On the, H-alpha up here - this is

Just for information - it looks as though there's
a subflare in active region 27, I believe it is, at
o70.6.

CC Copied that, SPT.

SPT I'm not going after it.

02 25 04 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 15 minutes.

PLT Roger, Houston.

CC And Vanguard lost its antenna, which accounts for us

not calling you on the last pass.

02 25 30 PLT That's okay.

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02 37 53 CC Skylab A-LOS in i minute. It's the last pass of the

evening unless the CDR works late tonight. The tape
recorder will be dumped at Honeysuckle at 03:12.

CDB Okay. Good night. The CDR is already in his sack.

CC We copy.

CDR I'm not very dependable, am I?

CC Copy.

PLT Good night.

CC Good night.

CDR Have you two guys met?

PLT Ha ha!

CDR Well, Bill. As a matter of fact, this is the first

time I've settled down into my sack tonight reading
a book.

CC Hey, Pete. That probably is some sort of a record for

you, isn't it?

CDR Yes, we ran out of things to do. (Laughter) We

activated 509 this evening and then didn't have
anything to do.

CC We copy.

CC You better be careful with that sort of transmission,

Pete. I saw three guys reach for _82's down here to
start scheduling.

CDR Yes, Paul already hit me over the head.

CC (Laughter) We copy.

02 39 32 CDR On his way to -

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ii 22 _5 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.

Good morning.

CDR Go ahead, Houston.

CC Roger. Good morning. We're with you for about 8 min-

utes or 7-1/2 minutes now, through Honeysuckle.

CDR Okay, we're hustling around doing PSA.

CC Skylab, Houston. Sometime at your earliest con-

venience, we need somebody to change out the tele-
printer paper. We're about to run out, and we'd
also llke to verify that you did get the last one we
sent, which was odds and ends message number 1830.

CDR Unless you say "please," we won't do it, but other-

wise, we got the last message.

CC Roger. Please, would you change the paper? We might

have some more things we want to send you.

CDR Okay. It 's ca - we 're on our way.

ll 26 06 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead.

CDR You're going to have to. send me the EREP operate pad
again. It got al] garbled about halfway through.

CC Okay, we'll do her. Is there - is the paper reloaded?

Have we got enough paper to send it now?

CDR No. Wait, but he's up there loading it right this

instant. Let me see.

CC Okay. We're planning on shooting that up to you at

Hawaii then, Pete, if you got time enough to get it
changed up by then. Hawaii is still about 15 minutes
away.
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CDR He's changing it right now. You can do it at Hawaii.

CC Okay, good show. And the only other open item I got
for you this morning is a SAP update, and we can ge t
that any time it's convenient.

CDR What do you have for me?

cc Roger. Solar activity update.

CDR Okay. Well, yes. Go ahead. The SPT's copying.

CC Oh, okay. Active region 37 has rotated onto the

disk at 28/0.9 as a large spot group. And we had a
subnorma_ flare, which began at -in AR-37 at 08:35,
and filament 79 remains moderately active.

SPT Copy.

ii 30 O0 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute until LOS; Hawaii at h3.

PLT Okay, Hank. You got your teleprinter paper _n.

CC Roger. Thank you, Paul.

ll h2 25 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii; 9 minutes.

PLT Roger.

CC PLT, Houston, The weather has socked in your VfS

sites for today, and we got an update for that pad.
And I'll be standing by for a call whenever it's
convenient for you to - We're replacing it with an
area site.

SPT Okay. He'll he with you in a little bit.

CC Okay. Whenever he's free, I'll be standing by for a

call.

ll h8 21 CC Skylab, Houston. Second GO at your EREP operate pad

should be on board now.

PLT Okay.

ll 51 06 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute until LOS. Goldstone at 55.

PLT Roger.
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ii 55 03 CC Skylah, Houston though Goldstone; 6 minutes.

PLT Hello.

PLT Henry, on this EREP stuff, can I change the existing

CC I think there's room on that. Just - all I got to do is
give you a couple of times and angles for a new area.

PLT Okay. Go ahead.

CC Okay. On - we want to substitute for your three sites

there, 350, 351, and 353, a special 04. It's an area,
and the time is 17:27, 5 degrees.

PLT Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

PLT Okay. Give me that time again, Hank; 17:277

CC That's right; 17:27, 45 degrees; 20:26, 0 degrees.

And remarks: that's a special oh and that's thunder-
storm data. And it's in your site book there, anvil
tops, towers, and clear area. And we would like you
to use a DAC.

PLT Okay, got it. Where are those sites? Is that the
group around Oklahoma City?

CC That's affirmative.

PLT Now, I assume that if I can see one of those lakes or

reservoirs through the clouds, no one will object to
m_ zinging over and get l0 seconds or so on one of
the sites. Is that right_

CC Stand by. Let me see what they say.

PLT Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we're going to be executing

one of the Patches in the ATMDC, the first of three,
and we'd like you to stay free for the DAS.

PLT Okay, Hank. I'm free and I've got the other two
strapped down.
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CC (Laughter) Roger. And Paul is - You got a GO on

tracking the - any of those sites if you can see them.

PLT Okay.

12 O0 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute until LOS.

Bermuda at 05.

12 05 21 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda; l0 minutes,

PLT Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we're continuing our ATMDC

work.

PLT Roger, Henry.

CC Skylab, Houston; for the PLT. Just to fill you in

a little bit about that VTS thing. The original
sites were in the 0kie City and the groundcheek is a
good bit south, as you'll notice in the pad. The
thunderstorm area we gave you - the target's in the
Dallas area.

PLT Oh, okay. Th_n_ you, Henry. I'm glad to know that.

12 14 37 CC Skylab, Houston; about 40 seconds frcm I/)S. Ascension

at 22.

PLT Roger, Hank.

12 2-1 33 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension; 10-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CDR Hey, Houston. I Just checked the teleprinter.

Nothing printed on this - Let me doublecheck and make
sure the paper is in right.

CC Okay.

CDR Hank, the paper's not in right. Just a minute and -

I'll get it in and we ean- You can start sending the
new updates.

CC Okay. Understand the paper is not in right. Boy that's

a relief.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We Just fired that load out to

Ascension and standing by. As soon as you tell us
you got the teleprinter squared away, we'll retransmit.

CDR Okay.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. For info, when you bring up the

star tracker this morning, you'll have to enable star
tracker control and alter the plane update. And I got
the DAS entries if you need them.

PLT We got them.

CDR Go ahead and send it, Henry.

CC Okay. We'll fire it up again.

CDR Hold it 1 minute. Hold it Just a second.

CC Okay; will do.

CDR Okay, Henry. Send away.

CC Okay.

CDR Comm_ug in Just fine;

12 27 37 CC Roger. Copy.

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12 31 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

Carnarvon will be up at 55 and we - Your _ pad
should be there.

CDR Okay. Thank you.

12 55 08 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're A0S over Carnarvon for

about the next 9 minutes. And we'll be using the
DAS to implement the last program load in the ATM DC.

CDR Okay.

13 00 50 CC Skylab, Houston. MY last call was a mistake; and

we're not working on your computer right now. We're
going to save that for stateside, and the DAS is
yours, if you need it.

CDR Roger.

CC And, for the CDR, I don't know if you were told about
it last night, but Richard Petty won the Alamo 500
yesterday.

CDR Yes, I heard that. Buddy Baker was second. That's -

that's great.

CC Roger. Also, this morning the guys are rolling out

SL-3 down at - down at the Cape.

CDR Very good. They still GO for what, July 27th?

CC Affirmative.

CDR Gives us Just enough time to clean our gear out of

the trailers and turn it over to them.

CC Roger.

CDR Captain Bean busy?

CC Oh, naturally, naturally.

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CDR Hey, when they decide to cook up whatever the extra

power is, how about letting us know what their - their
scheme is.

CC Pete, I - I didn't copy all that you said. What

about the extra pOWer?

CDR Yes, I gathered they were working on some scheme to

get more Juice in here, and I was curious when they
settle on one, what it is.

CC Roger. I don't know. I think you - Probably guys

probably solved most of that for them.

CDR Oh, okay. Well, Rusty was talking about looking at

that umbilical pole on the side to see if it was okay.
And I thought they were still thinking about bringing
up something else with Juice in it.

CC I - I think they're still looking at that. But I

don't believe any firm decision has been made on it
yet. And, if P. J.'s listening, I think he's
probably familiar with this solenoid vent thing that
we're going to be doing a little bit later over
the States. But it's - it's in the SWS Systems on
page 4.4. He might look at it and refresh his
memory on it before we start doing it.

PLT Okay. Thank you.

1B 04 O_ CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in 1 minute; have you again at

Guam at 1B: lO.

CDR Okay.

1B l0 1B CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over G11_m for 7 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CDR And, Houston. We coming up over the States next?

We're all rigged to do that SUS 1 checkout for you.

CC Okay. That 's affirmative. States next ; Goldstone 's

about IB :B4.

CDR Okay. We could probably give you the checkout then.

It's all rigged and ready to go. And l'd like to
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get - a DAC back out there again. I didn't want to

pull all the umbilical out of the sphere, and it's
running through the MDA forward hatch. I don't want
to leave it there for a long time.

CC Roger. Copy.

CDR Also, while I'm pushing you guys again, I'd like to
clean up the ... stuff. We've got those hoses running
through the ... been there for 3 days.

CC Okay. Having a little problem trying to copy there,

Pete. Understand you'd like to get all those hoses
cleaned up. And that's our intent here to - as soon
as we get the status of these primary - primary loop
checked out.

CDR Okay. Very good.

13 16 47 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS. Goldstone

13:3h, 13:34.

CDR 13:3h. Roger. Bye.

PLT Hay Crip, what section of the book did you say they
talked about that solenoid vent port?

r CC It was SWS Systems Schematics on 4.4. That's Just

a - Just a drawing of it. I - I Just wanted to make
sure you were familiar with the - there're four
valves, two series parallel.

PLT Okay. Which ones can you say show 1 and 3 open,
huh?

CC That's affirmative.

PLT Are they the same leg or different legs?

CC They're parallel. I - if you look at the thing on

h.4, it'll be obvious.

PLT Okay.

CDR Hey, Cap Crip, you still there?

CC Affirmative.
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CDR To do this cross - pointer stuff on the white light

coronagraph. It does need to ... as it can, right?

CC I'ii check that. We're probably going to go LOS

before I can do it, but l'm pretty sure you're
correct, Pete.

CDR Okay.

13 34 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over the States for a

good long pass for about - about 15 minutes.

CDR Okay, Houston. Your TC down-link is coming to you

and it's got H-alpha 2. The SPT is tanding by for
the SUS pump. And the PLT is at your service ...

CC Roger, Pete. l'm still having problems trying to

read you. I understand everybody is standing by.
And for your information we are executing that load
in the ATM DC, so if you'd stay off the DAS for us,
we'd appreciate it. And we'll see if we can go into
these other procedures.

CDR Okay. How do you read me now?

CC That's much better, much better.

CDR There's H-alpha i coming to you, Houston. I hope you

read all right.

CC That's great, Pete. Okay, very good. If we could

get Paul to verify for us that he's removed the cap
and he's ensured that the circuit breakers are
CLOSED on 202 for that SOLENOID VENT valve, we'd
appreciate it.

CDR He's on his way.

PLT That's verified, Houston.

CC Okay. We got you. We're reading you very good right

now.

CREW Okay, babe.

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CC Okay. And for Joe, we're standing by. You can go

ahead and initiate your coolant loop procedure. And
we're Just going to monitor you on that.

SPT It works now, baby.

CC Thank you.

CDR There's your white light coronagraph.

CC That's fantastic. Can even see that streamer coming

over the east limb.

CDR And I have a IN and OUT on the flare there,

Houston ; 650.

CC Roger. Understand. And for P. J., we're opening up

all four valves, l, 2, 3, and 4 at this time.

13 36 _7 CDR Want us to go after the flare, Houston? It's 690, 700.

CC I'll - Roger. Copy_ 700. We'll see if we can get

at them to say something.

CDR Holy Christmas l Look at you TV. You guys opened a

valve and look at all this Junk that's flying by the
TV!

SPT Yes. The valve 's flowing, Crip.

CC We - we copied, and we understand the valve it flowing.

CDR Yes, it sucked my paper right out of my hand!

CC (Laughter) Okay. It flows very good then, huh?

CDR Looks like the 4th of July on the white light

coronagraph.

13 37 21 CC Okay. We'll be comm_uding i and 3 CLOSED at this

time.

CC Okay. They - they should be closed up now.

PLT Okay. All flow has stopped.

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CC Roger. Understand all flow has stopped. We'd like

to - We suspect there maybe a small leak, so if
you'd examine that real carefully for us, we'd
appreciate it.

PLT Okay.

CC Okay. P. J., we got a - a CLOSED indication this time,

so it looks good from here.

CC Okay. Paul, if you can reverify that there is no

flow, we'll go ahead and press on and shut the others.

PLT Okay. On the other side of the dome - the speaker

boxes, - -

CDR Yes.

PLT - - I get no indication of flow holding a piece of

paper on there for 20 seconds.

CC Okay. We copy, and it looks good to us. We'll go

ahead and close the other valve - break. Pete, you're
up in the northern horn right now, and that's the
reason you're getting the flare indication. So, we
do not want you to press with _ flare JOP.

CDR I 'm not.

CDR There's your XUV MON.

PLT Okay. Houston, you want me to cap that vent port, or

leave it open now?

CDR Here comes your integration.

CC Paul, we'd like to go ahead and leave that cap off

now. We've got positive indication all - all valves
are closed.

PLT Well, you got another data point that you weren't
aware of. When I cleaned the solenoid vent port
screen, I didn't put the cap back on. So, it's been
off for about a week. And if you haven't had any
leak in that time, I guess it's not leaking.

13 39 35 CC Okay. Very good.

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SPT We got something else for the thermal guys to look

at, Bob.

CC What 's that?

PLT In cleaning up, we'd kind of like to get rid of this

portable fan if w_ can. And someone Jostled it
sometime yesterday or last night. So all night long
the portable fan was not blowing on the heat
exchangers screen. If it didn't m_1_e any difference,
how about if we get rid of that portable fan, too?
Think about that for a while, please.

CC Okay. EGIL's thinking about it. Ths_t's sneaky.

CDR Yes, we'd really like to clean this place up. We got
hoses running through hatches and lines, and it's
very bad. I don't like it. So, anything you can do
along that line, we' d appreciate.

CC Okay. We appreciate that, Pete. I guess that fan

and your SUS 2 running down to the water tank would
be main - main problems right now. Is that correct?

CC I'm informed that fan was for your crew comfort, and
if you want to take it off, that's - youmay so do.

PLT Roger.

13 _0 57 CC And, Skylab, we're coming up over Mila pass there,

and we should be doing a data recorder dump.

PLT Hey, Houston, I think your - you guys have got to put
those horns in the anomaly passes, all of them, on our
pads. If that ever happens out of station contact,
we're going to come over the hill minus about
300 frames of film.

CC Okay. We copy that.

13 43 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We need to do another adjust on

our REG ADJUST POT. If anybody's available for that,
I'd appreciate it.

PLT Go ahead.
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13 43 26 CC Okay. What we want to do is take BUS 1 and BUS 2 on

the REGADJUST and go 5 amps toward the ATM on both.
And after we do that, we want to adjust REGADJUST 2
to equalize PCG total.

PLT Okay.

CC We do copy that they're pretty close to being equal

right now, though.

PLT How does that look, Houston?

CC Standby l, Paul.

CC EGIL says they look beautiful.

13 44 44 SPT Okay. And, Houston, the SUS pump is on PRIMARY for

its 15-minute ride now.

CC Okay; we copy.

CC Okay. And, Joe, for your information, the primary

loop is modulating properly, and it looks real good
right now. We do want to go ahead and leave it on
for 15 minutes, as called for.

SPT Okay. Sounds good.

13 51 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

And, Joe, what we'd like to do is Just to go ahead and
leave - leave that pump on until Ascension, which is
at 14:02. I'll give you a call there when to shut it
down. And, if for same reason we don't pick you up
on voice, you can go ahead an shut it down on your
own. Also, we'll be doing a data recorder dump at
Ascension.

SPT Roger. Crip, I didn't get all your transmission, but

I understand you're up - you're going to dump the
data recorder at Ascension.

CC That's affirmative. And we also wanted Joe to go

ahead and leave that pump on, and - so we can watch him
when he turns it off; so we'll like him to leave it on
until our voice-call at Ascension. If, for some
reason, we didn't get you at voice there, you can
shut it down on your own.
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PLT Okay. He's putting it on channel B; ATM guys maybe

look at it. We had a - Pete was rolling the canister
and we got a big glish [slcS in - in pointing. You might
listen to B when you get it from this period and
see what he's got to say.

CC Okay.

PLT Also, M509 activation is complete. We did not take

any movies of it, Houston.

13 53 16 CC Okay. Thank you very much. I'm sure SL-3 would

appreciate it.

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14 02 1O CC Skylab, Houston. we're A0S over Ascension for about

5 minutes. And wewill be doing a data recorder dump.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CC And, Joe, you can go ahead and turn off SUS i and
take the fittings off.

SPT Okay.

PLT Hey, Houston.

CC Go ahead.

PLT You were in LOS, I guess, before you copied my last

on M509. I was saying, "We did not activate 509 Just
out of the kindness of our hearts for Captain Bean
and his motley bunch. We are not adverse to taking her
for a little sping from ... , and you may see your
way free to slip in there." (Laughter)

CC Okay. We so note. Paul, while I got you here,

could I tell you something about your S009 operation
a little bit later on?

PLT Sure.

CC What we'd llke to do at that time that you're scheduled

to go set it, was Just open the detector package up,
set the Beta angle in that we've given you, and turn
the power switch off so that we'll Just leave it open.

PLT Okay. So, despite all our preflight planning about

taping it to the wall before i0 days, and stowing it
in the vault after i0 days, we'll Just leave it in
it's frame open for the rest of the flight at the
appropriate Beta angle, I guess.

CC That's what it looks llke they're thinking about

doing now. You'd be surprised how things can
change in real time.

PLT Oh, yes. I'm glad to see all is flexible. Okay.

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lh 03 51 CDR Okay, Houston; SUS i iJ turned OFF and reconf'gured

to its normal configuration.

CC Okay, Pete. Think you.

CC And, Skylab, for your information on that primary

coolant loop, everthing looks real good to us right
now. And I guess the current thinking is that we
definitely want to avoid the EVA mode. So, I guess
right now we are trying to pursue getting the second-
ary coolant loop checked out. Also, we have completed
that data recorder dump.

CDR Okay.

CC Also, Skylab, we are changing our mode of operation

on the recorders slightly. We're not going to be
continuously recording. So anytime you want to put
a voice record on, you will have to initiate it -
A systems anoma_ on.

14 06 37 CDR You're not ... with the cassettes. You're not going
to run the data recorder continuously ...

l_ 06 h5 CC Okay, Pete, basically - you - you're - you're sort of

unreadable there right now. I'll tell you - we're
going LOS here in about 15 seconds. We'll see you
at Carnarvon at 14:32.

CDR Bye.

CC Bye.

14 33 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Carnarvon for 9 minutes.

CC Skylab, if you're interested, I could give you a

rundown on what the cloud coverage is going to be on
your _REP pass coming up.

PLT Go ahead.

CC Roger. Unfortunately we got a - or fortunately,

depending on what kind of data you're after, we're
got pretty cloud_ day out all across your pass.
Coming up at Washington to Idaho, it's going to be
scattered to broken, and from Idaho to Colorado i_,'s
broken to overcast. And it starts clearing up some-
what there and breaks out fairly clear over the
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OklahnmA panhandle. Then, it starts to sock back in,

and by the time you get to Texas, we're basically
overcast here. And that's going to be the same condition
clean all across the Gulf, Caribbean, and northern
South America. Central South America is fairly clear,
though.

14 35 33 PLT Okay, thank you.

CC Also, I wasn't mak4ug myself very clear awhile ago

on talking about the recorders. We are not contin-
uously running the data recorders, so if you do see
some system ancmaly that you th_nk we ought to get
data on, would you go ahead and initiate the recorders
for us, please?

SPT Roger. Understand. What I didn't understand though,

Crip, was what you said before that about the -
the BUS pumps. You said you didn't want to get into
an EVA mode, so you weren't going to do what?

CC No, all I was saying there was that we did not want,
apparently, to get back to that EVA mode on the
primary coolant loop because we believe that is what
caused our initial problem with it. And that will
not be coming up, of course, until we do get down to
the EVA, and we'll figure out exactly what we want
to do there.

SPT But you probably don't want to use SUS 1 during the
EVA. Is that right?

CC No, that is not necessarily true.

SPT Okay. Well, you can let us know.

CC Okay. We would probably be operating in the bypass

mode rather than EVA.

CDR Crip, CDR.

CC Go, CDR.

l_ 37 53 CDR Okay. I've done the sensitometry advance, besides

the 40 frames and about seven more on there. I had
about three MALF lights: 3, 5, and 6. - I had
3, _, 5, and 6. Four went out; 3, 5, and 6 stayed on.
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I have marked the film, checked it, and it is, in

fact, moving. I've done a11 those good things, and
in the process, shot up three single frames and then
after ascertaining that everything's moving, I have
sequenced four more through, so I've actually used
47 frames on the sixth magazine, and I still have
MALF lights 5 and 6. And I suspect it's the same
as last time, and they'll eventually disappear.

CC Okay. We - We agree with that, Pete, and we consider

it's good. Go ahead and press as is.

14 41 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll see

you again at G11,_ at 14:46, 14:46.

PLT Okay. We already ordered the maneuver sites. Can

you take a quick look at it and verify it?

CC We have verified it. It's good.

PLT Okay.

14 46 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S once more over Guam at

- for 9 minutes.

14 49 49 CC PLT, Houston. Do you have a mc_ent to talk about

your VTS stuff?

PLT Talk about what?

CC About your VTS targets. That weather that they had

and that they removed your initial site to - moved
south, and they would like you to go back to you
original pad.

PLT Okay. I'ii cross out the erosaouts, huh?

CC Cross out the crossouts. That's affirmative.

PLT We're getting used to that. All right. We can hack

it.

14 54 SO CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

have you again at Goldstone at 15:ll, 15:ll. And
we copy you are in - on route to ZOV.

PLT Yes, it looks like it here anyway.

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15 i0 09 SPT ... land although much of it is south of here.

CC We've got you in voice contact, guys.

PLT Okay.

CDR Hoo haw. How're you reading the CDR VOX?

CC Loud and clear.

CDR Okay. PREOPERATE configuration has been verified

and we're ready to go.

CC Copy.

PLT I got a note for the EREP training people, and the
follow-on crews, is that the gimbal drift in the VTS
sphere is such that it tends to drift up and to the
left.

PLT How's that Houston weather, Crip?

CC Not too hot. A little bit rainy this morning.

PLT Oh.

CDR It's not suppose to do that in the s1_ertime.

CC Right.

SPT It looks like quite a bit open along your track,

though, Paul.

PLT Okay.

CDR What's the temp? Is it hot?

CC Oh, about 80 degrees.

PLT Coast in a minute.

15 ll 45 CDR Okay, 15 seconds to the EREP start.

CDR 5, 4, 3, 2, -

15 12 00 CDR MARK. EREP START. 94 _K)DE, MANUAL.

15 12 21 CDR SCAT's 0N; RAD's 0N.

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15 12 26 CDR MARK. ETC to AUTO.

15 12 33 CDR MARK. S190 to AUTO.

PLT Oh, here' s a nice mountain.

15 13 00 CDR 92 to M0D READY.

PLT That looks like Mount Hood. Maybe not.

15 13 22 CDR SCAT, STANDBY; RAD, STANDBY; MOD, IN-TRACK CONTIGUOUS;

PITCH is 0.

15 13 43 PLT Man, is it clear around those mountains today. Hoo

haw.

CDR And 92, MODE C_/CK. RAD's ON; SCAT's ON. And I
need an AUTO CAL on my mark, please.

PLT Okay.

15 15 00 CDR MARK, AVf0 CAL.

PLT ALTIME'I'_I_to STANDBY. POLARITY to 2 at 15:05.

CDR Okay.

PLT For simulator people information, it takes 3-1/2 sec-

onds for the READY light to go out on S191 when you
hit AUTO CAL.

15 14 38 CDR And, also, I have on S190, the 5 and 6 MALF lights,

but I believe everything's running all right.

15 15 06 CDR POLARIZATION is 2.

PLT Hey, Crip, I had to do a 192 alignment tweak before

the run mainly because I did one after the run yester-
day. The details are on B chan_el from yesterday and

CC Copy.

15 15 45 CDR MARK I_T_VALOMs_A'_ to A. ETC to STANDBY. STANDBY,

ETC to go back to AUTO.

15 15 55 CDR ETC, AUTO.

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PLT Also, for information, it's hard looking out at

h5 degrees forward. You look through a lot of atmos-
phere. It's hard to see detail.

15 16 35 CDR POLARIZATION, 4. I got a READY light on 191; Bravo 7

is 31 percent.

15 17 00 CDR Seventeen, shutter speed to MEDIUM.

15 17 30 CDR 92 to READY.

15 17h2 PLT And I got Fort Cobb.

15 17 50 CDR MARK. 17:50, POLARIZATION to 3.

15 19 19 CDR SCAT, STANDBY_ RAD, STANDBYi 92, CHECK.

15 19 33 CDR ALTIMETER is ON.

15 19 h0 CDR IN-TRACK NONCONTIGUOUS; POLARIZATION 5.

15 19 48 PLT Okay, Houston. Got the following site back there:

I got Fort Cobb. Reservoir, 350; I got 351; I got 352;
I got 353; and I got 356.

CC Copy.

15 20 00 CDR S190 READY light is out.

15 20 08 CDR ALTIMETER to STANDBY.

15 20 15 CDR SCAT's ON; RAD's ON.

PLT Okay, For special 01, all you're getting is clouds,

so far, instead of the Gulf.

15 21 03 CDR ... the ALTIMETER. STANDBY on 190.

15 21 26 CDR My INTERVALOMETER is 18 and, check, the frames are 81.

15 21 59 PLT What night do we maneuver out?

CDR Huh?

PLT 15 :hO.

15 22 58 CDR ... 190 power off and back on again to get rid of
those - ...
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PLT Did it?

CDR Well, I - I haven't started to run it yet. It

starts to run at 23:56 here .... wound enough film on
there.

PLT You still there, Houston?

CC Affirmative ...

PLT For whatever reason, we seem to have a - consistently

in the past, on these VTS sites, we've been getting
to them 2 to 3 seconds before the pad says we will.

15 23 45 CC Okay. We've still got about 4 more minutes.

15 23 57 CDR 90 is in MODE AUTO. ETC is STANDBY, Joe.

SPT Okay.

15 24 06 CDR Okay. And the SCAT's in STANDBY, RAD to STANDBY;

93A is ON; MODE ... TRACK, CONTIGUOUS; PITCH, 30;
POLARIZATION, 4. Okay, after I got a little film
wound on those cameras, I don't have any MALF lights
now, Houston. I think it Just must float in there
when they're Just - first wound on.

CC Copy.

15 26 20 CDR MARK. INT.'RVAL0_-z'_ to 8. 92 going to MODE READY,

on my mark.

15 26 30 CDR MARK. 92 to MODE READY. ETC to AUTO, Joe.

15 26 43 CC One minute until LOS. Vanguard at 37. Copy. Your

maneuver time looks good for going out.

CDE Okay.

CDR What you got down there? Looking at down there?

15 28 01 CDR MODE CHECK on 92.

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15 37 27 CC SkYlab , Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard for the

next 7 minutes,

CDR Roger, Houston.

_ 15 38 03 CDR MARK. 38:02; POLARIZATION, 1. MODE READY on 192.

MODE, AUTO on 190; ETC to AUTO, Joe.

CDR Okay, would you check the master alarm?

PLT ...

CDR Okay, it's probably starting.

PLT CMG SAT.

CDR CMG SAT, okay. The thruster's INHIBITED, or

_ABLED? Are ENABLED. Okay.

15 38 53 CDR Fifty-three the SCAT to STANDBY. Fifty-five the RAD

to STANDBY; 39:01 and S192 to STANDBY; 39:07, READY
out, and it's out; 39:13.

15 39 14 CDR MARK. ETC, STANDBY; VTS, AUTO CAL; and 39:25 in a

MODE, _LANUAL on 194; MODE, MANUAL, 31; the SCAT's
OFF; RAD's OFF; standing by for 15:40 there, my boy,
for the start of the SI maneuver.

CREW . .. seconds.

CDR Okay, you got it. Saturated in Y, thatwas it, uh huh?

Very good. And we commenced SI maneuver on time;
40:25, 94 is OFF.

15 41 00 CDR MARK. 41, 90 to STANDBY. Stand by for 41:53 for a

READY on, c_ S191.

CDR Yes. Got a READY on - on a 91 and -

15 42 Ol CDR MARK; EREP, STOP and we got - there's a perfect pass

for you. How about that? Okay, Houston, you still
with us?

CC That's affirmative. That was a very nice EREP pass.

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CDR Okay, we're going off VOX and going off A RECORD, back
to B RECORD.

CC Pete, did you give us B77

CDR Okay, Crip. That's 30. Right on the money.

CC Copy.

CC For your info, over the States on the next pass, we're
going to be troubleshooting the secondary coolant loop.
We'll give you the details on it there.

15 h3 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll see

you again at Goldstone at 16:48, 16:h8. We will be
doing a data recorder dump at that point. And re-
garding that troubleshooting procedure for the sec-
ondary coolant loop, that's primarily a ground initiated
procedure. We'll need you for a couple of steps and
we'll tell you about it.

16 47 hl CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Goldstone for about

the next 13 minutes. 13 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CC Roger. And we're going into this troubleshooting pro-

cedure on the secondary coolant loop, and the first
step that we're going to be doing involves Just turning
on the secondary plJmp and watching it for a while.

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, after about 5 minutes, after we've turned this

pump on, I 'ii probably be requiring somebody to go up
into the airlock module to turn off SUS 2 and to insure
that one of the caution and warning parameters is indi-
cated. Looking at the schedule, Joe's probably the
most likely guy, if he can get away, I'll call then.

PLT Roger.

16 49 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We are doing a scheduled data recorder

dump at this site.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're not sure whether you have

your secgndary cool temp low - enabled at this time,
on your caution and warning. If you do, it may go
off. Be no problem, we'll try to warn you before it
does.

PLT Roger.

16 56 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We have got the secondary coolant

loop secured at this time, and we would like for you
to turn off SUS 2. We're not sure whether you got
that ON, on panel 217 or 323. Would you turn the
pump off?

CC And for your information, that little procedure we

went through Just - did not cause the valve to mod-
ulate. So we still want to leave the SUS 2 hoses
connected because we're still troubleshooting it.

CDR Okay, but the SU$ 2 pump is off now, Houston.

CC That's affirm. Thank you very much. We copy it's

off here.

16 59 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll see

you again over the Vanguard at l7:14, l_:lh. We will
be doing a data recorder dump at that site. Plus we
copied that the TACS is still enabled; at your con-
venience you may inhibit it.

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17 13 53 CC Skylab, Houston. ye're AOS over Vanguard for about

the next l0 minutes. And, Skylab, we will be doing
a data recorder dump at this pass.

CDR Say, Houston. I want you to verify samething for me,

please?

CC Go ahead, Pete.

CDR Would you verify" that the flight T027/S073 - the

S073 big package and flight tripod were - fit checked
in the flight article in the - antisolar airlock.
Okay?

CC Okay. We'll check it.

CDR The reason I asked you is because we have the flight

tripod in the solar airlock supporting the parasol
T027 can, and the tripod that we brought up, which we
put alongside the other one and is identical to it,
as best we can tell, does not check on $073 nor does
it check on ... places for it, and we're having to
do a little Juggling. And right now, we're going
to finish prep and trade tripods, but I'm not con-
vinced that the other tripod's going to fit either.
So before we go to that trouble on - if you can verify
it - verify the paperwork, we'll know that, by
swapping tripods, at least we're starting in the
right d/rection. We may have to Jury-rig the other
tripod under the parasol then_

17 15 31 CC Okay, Pete. I'm pretty sure I did that one myself,

but we'll - we'll get it checked.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. We are going to be sending

some commands to computer update our timers, so
you can stay off the DAS for us, please?

CC And, CDR; Houston. You got a mn_ent to tA1_ about

the S052 - the cam - the fact that the camera doesn't
work and our ATMpeople would like to know if you'd
do them a favor in giving a little bit of extra TV
today?
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CDR Okay.

PLT Sure. What do you want?

17 17 17 CC Okay. On your next pass coming up, they would like

to give - in building block 2 - about 15 seconds of
S052 TV on the VTR.

CDR Okay. TV 2, 15 seconds of TV on the VTR.

CC Okay. They've also would - requesting that same

thing two other times today, and one is at the 21:18
pass where you got another building block 2, where
they'd like the same thing there_

CDR Tell you what. How - I'm about cleaning up from PT.
How about passing the rest of that to me when I get
up to the console about ...

CC Be gladto do that. Thankyou. _-

CC Skylab, Houston. We have checked and it is affirma-

tive that - that the tripod was checked with the
flight T027 unit in both SALs at the Cape.

CDR Okay. Well, we'll try the flight one in the flight
S073 and see what happens. Maybe the other one's
wrong. But it's not obvious to us that it's not
identical to that other tripod.

17 19 02 CC Okay. And we're going LOS here. We'll see you again
at Hawaii at 18:22.

18 22 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii for about

3 minutes.

PLT Okay, Crip. I got a question on my T027 pad.

CC Go.

18 22 _6 PLT For this 0A program l've got a - the program start is

18:52/19:06. Does that mean you want to start it
once and then stop it and start it over again, or
does that mean I can start it anytime in that interval?

CC Anytime in that interval.

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PLT Hey, you guys are easy.

CC Yes, tell us the - tell us the story on the big

tripod mystery.

PLT Well, I tell you. The one out of the trainer, which
we brought up to use with the parasol, doesn't - the
head is on the legs - base. On the top of the legs
goes the base, then on the base goes the head with
the adjustable screws. You with me?

CC Yes.

18 23 34 PLT Well, that head is bolted to the base differently.

It's about 4 inches further to the right than is the
flight one. And it must have something to do with
that 6 degrees or so misclocking of the floor grid
in the trainer. So what we've done is we've only
taken the spacecraft _part a little bit to find
bolts with nuts on them. And it is now bolted to
the floor. We may never get it up, but it's there
to stay - it's there now.

CC Okay, I guess I'm still not sure exactly what config-

uration when you say it's bolted to the floor. You
have the trainer one under the parasol. Is that
correct?

PLT Negative.

CC You got - -

PLT We've got the trainer one under T027. We didn't trade
them out because it becmme obvious that we were only
swapping our troubles from oae airlock to the other.

18 24 27 CC Okay. And the problem apparently is in the way the

thing is - is bolted, but it - it's - The way you
have it now, you feel it has - offers adequate sup-
port for T027, right?

PLT Oh, yes. It may tear up the grid floor but it - it

won't let T027 move.

CC Okay, and what you had to do was Just shift it off

of the normal holes to get it in the right position.
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PLT Yes, but that's not a "Just," because we had to get

some of the "lock nut" - type nuts and bolts.

CC Okay.

PLT We had all the activation gear. We got a lot of

bolts, but no nuts. So we had to take some out of
the grid.

18 25 03 CC Okay, I wasn't implying - to demean the amount of

work that you did. You didn't take it apart too much,
did you? Hey, we're going to go LOS here in about
15 seconds. And we'll see you again over the Vanguard
at 18:50, and we will be doing a data recorder dump at
that pass.

18 25 20 PLT Okay.

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18 50 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over the Vanguard for

l0 minutes.

CDR And if you're trying to call, Houston, you're

unreadable.

CC Roger. We're having a little site problem right now,

Pete.

18 52 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll try once morehere. We're

got LOS - correc.tion A0S - for about the next 7 minutes.

CDR Okay. Now we got you.

CC Okay. And CDR, do you have a moment to talk a little

bit about your next ATM rev?

CDR Yes, go ahead.

CC Okay. I don't know whether you caught it or not, but

we've got an audit step scheduled for 82B, and that
normally is called for AUTO SEQUENCE switch to HOLD
that end of the pass; and since we aren't repeating
that one, what we'll need you to do there is Just to
stop it.

CDR Yes, where are you?

CC I'm sorry. It's on your next rev.

CC The next -

CDR Building block 23?

CC That's affirm. Building block 23 -

CDR Okay. Don't call it to HOLD, Just terminate?

CC That's affirm.

CDR Okay. Now, tell me when you want the white light
f coronagraph on TV. I've already given you at this
pass.

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CC Okay. The next one we want is actually on, I believe,

on Joe's rev, if you could put it down on the schedule,
I'd appreciate it. It's for the rev around 01:55, in
building block l, we want - want him to give us the
same thing again, 15 seconds of white light corona-
graph TV on the VTR.

CDH Okay.

CC And if Paul's still listening, that tripod you guys

took up in the co,,,and module was supposed to be a
backup unit from Huntington Beach. And we're trying
to check into it to find out why it - why it was offset.

CDR Yes, the top is offset from the base.

CC CDR, while I've got you here, I guess there's a ques-

tion that we're pondering down here, that we'd like
to get your opinion on. We have discovered on S056,
that we really don't need to turn off the aluminum
and beryllium high voltage every SAA, nor at night
when you leave the thing for unattended. We're
considering sending you up a teleprinter pad which
basically e1_m_nates that procedure, primarily for
your convenience. And like to know your opinion on
it.

18 55 43 CDR Hooray!

CC Okay. We'll zap it up to you.

18 59 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you again at 19:58. And Paul, if you have
an opportunity, we'd appreciate it if you could tell
us what the SHAFT and TRUNNION angles are on 27 right
now?

PLT They appear to not have moved. The SHAFT is 16,

the TRUNNION is zero.

CC Roger. And copy. SHAFT, 16; TRUNNION, zero.

19 56 51 PLT Okay. You there, Houston?

19 57 05 CC Skylab, Houston. That's affirmative; we're here for

about 8 minutes.
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PLT Okay. I knew you had a reason other than passing

interest for asking me about that S073 SHAFT and
TRUNNION angle.

CC Roger.

SPT I figured it was early in the program, Crip, so right

after you called me, I went up and checked paul's by
mistake; and corrected it on the spot. So that the
majority of the exposures in that sequence are per
the book ...

CC Very good. We appreciate it.

SPT Okay.

CC CDR, Houston. We indicate that your H-alpha is in

2 frames per minute. It should be 1 at this time, sir.

CDR Okay. I thought so at the last pass.

20 01 31 CC Roger.

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20 06 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you again over the Vanguard at 20:29, and
we will he doing a" data recorder dump at that pass.

CDR Roger.

20 28 20 CC Skylah, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard for the

9 minutes.

CDR Roger _ Houston.

CC Roger. And, if possible, we'd like to get somebody

to secure the experiment 1 and 2 tape recorders until
we"re -they're required for 92, to solve a little
dump problem for us.

CDR Okay.

CC We note that they're secured. Thank you.

CC Skylab, Houston. We are doing a data recorder dump

this pass.

CDR Okay.

20 36 26 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute until LOS. We'll have

a nice long silence. See you again at Hawaii at 21:36,
21:36.

CDR Bye.

20 36 36 CC Bye.

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21 35 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Hawaii for about

the next 7 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CDR Hey, when you dump the M092/171 TV, there's - right
on the end of it - we shot a white light eoronagraph
with XUV for them.

CC We copy.

CC ... call back.

CDR Hey, Houston, this 56 hung up again in ACTIVE i, LONG

of the last go-round on FIL','_ i.

CC Understand it hung up in FIL'A'_ l?

CDR Yes, for some reason it does it every once in awhile,

and then it will go along for a long time and not do
it.

CC Copy.

CC Skylab, for your information, on our next pass at the

Vanguard, we are going to be turning on the secondary
coolant loop again. And, if you've got your caution
and warning enabled, you'll probably get one.

CDR Okay. (Music) This is what is known as music to do

JOPS by.

CC Yes.

21 h2 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you again over the Vanguard at 22:07, 22:07.
And, right now, I guess we're thin_4ug that that 56
problem may be associated with when you start 55.

CDR Fifty-six has something to do with 55?

CC It seems like that that filter thing is hanging up

Just about the time that you're starting 55.
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CDR Fifty-five was _mning this last time.

CC Oh-huh. •Okay.

22 06 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard for the

next I0 minutes.

CDR Hi, there. Say, 56 h,mg up agaiu. Middle of the

pass, ACTIVE i, LONG, FILT_ 3. And S055 was _,nning
at the time.

CC Roger. It would appear that maybe it isn't necessarily

55, but they think it's being caused from some strey
input coming in. It hung up on FILT_ 3 that time?
That' s affirmative?

CDR Yes. Second pass through. That seems to be its

favorite one. In ACTIVE I, LONG, the second pass
through, it han_ up in FIL'.'_ 3.

CC Roger. And, Sk_lab, we are going to be activating the

secondary coolant loop this pass.

CDR Okay.

22 08 53 CDR Okay, Houston. We got the _1_.CCOOLANT T_MP LOW light.

CC We copy, and we're shutting down the loop.

CDR Okay.
22 lO 50 CC CDR, Houston. You got a chance to tA]_ to me about a
S073 problem we got?

CDR Yes, go ahead.

CC Okay. Apparently we're getting seme stray light into

the instrument for some reason, and there are a couple
of things we'd llke to try. Unfortunately, they're
using the recorders right now down on 171, so we
really can't, apparently, mR_e a run on it right now.
Our first option would be to start it on our next
Vanguard pass, hut that's going to drag you guys
out of some of your presleep activities. Do you -
would you go along with that? --

CDR Yes, go ahead. We'll see.

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22 ii 41 CC Okay. At your first opportunity, we would like you

to cycle the PMT CAP switch to OPEN and then back
to CLOSED. That's this - this rev.

CC Okay. On the next rev, I'ii give you a call on it

at our next Vanguard pass, and we want you to run a
short mode zero alfa. It's short in that we're only
going to take 12 raps [?].

CDR Okay, PMT CAP switch OPEN and then CLOSE right now.
And you want to run a short mode zero alfa?

CC That's affirmative. And, if I've still got you there,

I might as well tell you about - on _gur S073 pad for
this evening - the way it was braadcast up to you, it
may look like iO belongs to the PLT, but the last half
of it does belong to you. Do you happen to have that
handy?

CDR Yes, I do. And I was going to ask you. The shaft
and t_m-ion are different that the book, but you
want to go with _the pad, right?

22 12 38 CC That is correct, and we'd also like to change that

program start time. It's currently 01:14; we'd like
to change that to 01:16.

CDR Okay. You had it 01:09 to 01:14, and you want to

go exactly at 01:16, right?

CC Stand by l, Pete.

CC Okay. Slight rood to that. The Ol:09 should be a

01:l_, and the 01:14 should be a 01:16.

CDR Okay.

CC Okay, Pete. Appreciate it.

22 15 22 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll see

you over Ascension at 22:22. We'll be doing a data
recorder dump at that station.

PLT Okay.
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22 15 45 CDR Okay, Crip. I cycled the PMT CAP OPEN and then
CLOSED again.

CC Tb--_ you very much.

22 15 54 CDR You're welcome.

22 22 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Ascension for about

7 minutes, and we will be doing a data recorder dump.

PLT Roger.

CC And, Skylab, as you might have gathered on that last

secondary coolant loop, we didn't have any Joy in
getting the valve to cycle. So, we'r e going to let
it sit with it turned off, probably overnight.

CDR Roger.

CC And, CDR; Houston. For your information, in case it

wasn't clear a while ago, the reason we're asking for
one more cycle - or one mere rev before we do this
S073 operation is that we need it on the dark side
to really he able to determine if we've got a light
leak.

CDR Okay, we've had the wardroom window closed all the
time, and l'm really not sure any place else ...
cnm_ ng in.

CC Pete, I was really unable to copy there, due to

feedback. Understand that yon had the wardroom win-
dow closed.

CDR Okay. The wardroom window was closed_ that's - that's

right. And I can't think of any other place that it
could be coming in.

CC Okay.

22 28 30 CC Skylah, Houston; we're I minute from LOS. See you

again at G13,_ at 23:06, 23:06.
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23 05 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A08 over Guam for about 7 min-

11tes.

CDR He ii o.

CC Hello.

23 09 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're up-lJnk4ug to you via the

teleprinter the s,w_=-y Flight Plan and the evening
questions. _..

SPT PLT says we got _he teleprinter turned off,

CC I figured you guys were about ready for that.

SPT No, we're not rea_ for that yet.

CC We are down her_.

CDR (Laughter)

SPT See you at the Nassau Bay for a cold one.

CC In about 30 minutes for me.

SPT Well, ...

23 i0 36 CC And, Skylab; before I leave you here, I guess we

went hack and reviewed s --_ pictures regarding the
backup tripod that was loaded; and, sure enough, we
got a plate that the hole pattern was - looks like
it was drilled in with a mitt.or image.

CDR There - there you go.

CC And they asked why we do C squared S squared.

CDR That's right.

23 Ii 20 CC Skylab, we're i minute fr_ LOS. We'll see you again

at 23:_, 23:_ over Vanguard.

CDR Okay, and I gathered you wanted 12 rews on that OA.

Itts all set up, rea_ to go.
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CC (_ay, that is affirmative, 12.

CDR Okay, and you're going to c_11 at start time. Right?

CC That's affirmative. We'll give you a c,11 when to

initiate it.

CDR Okay.

23 ii 44 CC Okay, we didn't get that Flight Plan completely up.

Had a lot of dropouts; we'll try it again over Vanguard.

CDR Dropsey, dropsey.

23 48 48 CC Skylab, Houston_ AOS ii minutes.

PLT Hello, Houston. Where are we?

CC You're over Van_-,-_d.

23 44 08 PLT Okay. We're standing by to run S073 for you.

CC We'll give you the GO on it.

CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.

23 45 09 CC You're GO for the experiment now. Be advised that

we're having some MOC problems here, and we may not
be getting TM, and we'll be dependent upon data re-
cording. And we request that you verify that it is
set up for data recording.

PLT It's all set. It's all set up, and we'll do it.

CC Copy.

23 45 44 PLT Okay, it's running.

CC Copy.

23 48 30 CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.
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23 48 43 CC Our MOC was working and, via TM, it appears that the
S073 shutter is operating normally.

PLT Okay. Thank you, Bill. Two and three quarters [?]
to rev, or you want us to secure?

CC TM will turn off automatically, so Just let it run.

23 51 31 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC GO, CDR.

CDR Roger. I noticed this II_TENSITY is pegged high. They

want me to go to LOW GAIN?

CC Stand by half.

23 52 01 CC CDR, Houston; we want you to go FOV i.

23 52 07 CDR FOV i. Me go FOV I.

CC Copy.

23 53 40 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in i minute. Ascension at

23 :57. And you should have Flight Plan onboard for
a review.

PLT Roger, Houston. Bye.

CC We'll see you.

23 59 03 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 15 minutes.

PLT Roger.

00 02 _8 CC And, Skylab, if it won't interfere with your activities,

we have some news items a bit earlier this evening.

PLT Go ahead, Houston.

CC First one is the President met with top economic advi-

sors today, and a new economic progrem is expected to
result from the meetings, perhaps by the middle of
the week. Just as background, you ms_ have been fol-
lowing the increase in gold prices and that sort of
thing. Also, Henry Kissinger met with the President
today to try to find new ways to enforce the cease-
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fire in Viet Nam. And the Senate had a hearing on

the oil and gasoline shortage, and they heard wit-
nesses say that this s_---.ergas shortage may be
followed by a winter heating shortage, and that the
oil companies want to relax air pollution standards.
Herets n piece - I guess that it can happen to any-
body - an airliner, it doesn't say what size, mistook
Opa Locka today for Miami International and landed
there. The only other thing - we mentioned last
night that Petty wo_ the Alamo 500, and his average
was 145.1.

00 04 37 CDR Say, Bill, last Sunday, did they have a USAC race of
championship cars at Milwaukee, and if so, who won
that, or is it this weekend?

CC We'll try to get it for you, Pete.

CDR Thank you.

CC Also, if there's anything else you people might want,

like stocks or such as that, why, let me know, and
we'll try to add it to the list.

PLT Terrific. You're doing great.

CC And by the way, we had sc_e big thunder-btmapers that

opened up and pretty well flooded some areas of
Houston today.

PLT Still a wet year, huh?

CC Affirmative.

00 06 03 CC Pete, the best infromation we can dig up out of the

group around here is that Bobby Unser won that race
yesterday. We don't have any details. We'll try to
get some more for you.

CDR Okay. Th_n_ you.

O0 06 49 CC We also have a letter here that we were asked to

pass along to you. It's addressed to Dr. Fletcher.
It says, "Your astronauts have done it again. The
magnificence of this accomplishment and the signi-
ficance of the achievements - -
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00 07 58 CC And, Skylab, continuing before we were so rudely

interrupted there. "ghe magnificence of this
accu_plishment andthe sigoificance of the achieve-
ment is nearly impossible to put in perspective. I
know I speak for all my colleagues in the Congress
when I send this message of congratulations to you,
with the request that you cn-_unicate our great
appreciation to the astronaut testa of Conrad, Kerwin,
and Weitz. You are truly a can-do team. We salute
you all." Signed: Frank Moss, Chairm=n_ C_ttee
on Aeronautical and Space Sciences, United States
Senate.

CDR That was very nice. We haven't done anything yet.

We got to get - we've got to get through 28 days.

CC You're doing pretty well, so far.

CDR I noticed by tomorrow's schedule you're picking up

the pace a little,though. We're going for the
home stretch.

CC And it always gets easier going downhill.

00 09 15 CDR We had - we had meal 6 tonight. That's every_@4y's

- well, that's Paul and my favorite meal. Not Joe's;
I don't know what night his is, but we chowed down
pretty good tonight. That - that's our big Sunday
night dinner.

CC We copy that.

CC Do you count your days by the meal cycles there?

CDR No, various schemes. How many more times we have to

do 171, or how many more times we have to ehan_e this
bag or that thing.

CC Copy.

CC 172 wasn't too bad today, was it, Pete?

00 i0 01 CDR I didn't do that; Joe did that. He's - he's working

on my throat culture or something. He's got his
instr_nents out and he's working s_ay merrily in there.
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CC CoPy•

SPT I have my hobby up here. I have my do-it-yourself

real doctor kit. Right now, I'm staining slides.

CC Very good. Msybe you'll grow a new variation up there,

Joe.

00 i0 26 SPT I can't even tell you what it looks like. The M172
went - went rather smoothly today, Bill, and the
numbers looked pretty good.

CC Okay, thank you again.

CC And -

SPT Okay. Now we did not do the procedure in the morning

weighing, because I thought the pad was a calibration
pad, and I didn't even look at it until breakfast,
but we'll do that tomorrow morning.

CC Okay ....

00 l0 54 CDR ... The orbits have been changing, Bill; we've been
doing - coming up on our sleep time over Australia.
And it - good high noon conditions and the weather's
been good, and we've gotten some pretty good looks at
all of Australia and New Zealand, which, _ in all my
previous flights, it was always night time in
Australia, or Just barely, barely daylight in Western
Australia.

00 ll 23 CC Yes, we copy that. And be advised that S073 is

completed.

CDR Okay, i'll get the recorders off.

00 13 21 CC SPY, Houston. Belay that, beiay that. PLT, Houston.

PLT Go.

00 13 36 CC We'd like for you to lock up the STAR TRACKER now.

The inner gimbal is plus 0177; outer gimbal, plus 1981.

PLT Okay, wait until I get a piece of paper. You'll have

to read them over, Bill.
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CC Wilco.

PLT Okay, say again the angles.

CC Inner gimbal, plus 0177; outer gimbal, plus 1981.

00 14 27 PLT You say you wanted that now, or when it's available?

CC When it's available.

PLT Okay, some of it's not available right now.

CC That's affirmative.

00 14 57 CC And, Skylab, we'll be LOS in i minute. Gus_ AOS,

00:41; and we will be dumping the recorder over Guam.

00 15 46 CC And, Pete, a little more information on that Rex Mays

Memorial in Milwaukee. And he finished i0 seconds
f in front of Roger McCluskey. Gary Bettenhausen was
third, and his speed was 108 miles an hour. And
there was no accidents.

00 16 07 CDR Good show. Thank you.

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O0 41 05 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS G,,_ for i0 minutes.

SPT Roger, Houston.

CDR I'ii have the Evening Status Report for you in Just
a minute, Houston.

CC We're standing by, Pete.

00 44 33 CDR Okay, Houston. The CDR ate everything plus i0 optional

salts, plus two butter cookies - two cans of butter
cookies, that is. The SPT had everything except one
coffee with sugar, no optional salt, no DELTA-H_0.
And he's going to have two cans of butter cookies.
And PLT: ate everything except one coffee with sugar,
and he had no DELTA-H20, and seven optional salts.

PLT Negative.

CDR And that's it for the food. If you're ready for the
Photo Report - day 161.

CC We're ready, Pete. Go ahead.

00 45 30 CDR Okay, 16-millimeter EREP, BH, Bravo Hotel 02. I'm

- I'm sorry, it's day 162. I was reading you the
wrong button. Bravo Hotel 02: 80 percent remaining
and yesterday on 16, day 161, we reported 65 percent
remaining and I think he misread. That - that's an
85 for 161 and 80 for today. And we did verify that
the film is running. M516-2, CI05, 40, C101.
M151/S073 PR and extend, CI08; 18, CI07. 35-millimeter:
CI27 is complete; CI29, 32 - Well, I have to look at
this a minute. CI28 is 12. CX06 is 91. The ETC, 135.
set, popup; i, 7145; 2 was 6481; 3 was 7357;
4 was 7352; 5 was 0896; and 6 was 8212. Drawer A
configuration is as follows: Alfa i is 02, Charlie
India 05, 40, Charlie India 01. Alfa 2 was 03,
Charlie India 06, 62, Charlie India 03. A-3 is 06,
Charlie India 08, 18, Charlie India 07. 0-4 is 05 -
A-4 is 05, Charlie India 25, i00 percent, MTII. Okay,
the Flight Plan was accomplished as written. I don't
know of shy deviations, any anom-lies you're aware of,
no stowage changes, and no inoperable equipment that
you're aware of. The Flight Plan for tomorrow looks
busy, but good.
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CC Copy.

00 51 09 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in SO seconds. We're coming

up on Vanguard at Ol:21. And, Pete, we've got some
clarification on that incc_plete second question last
night. What they're reRlly after is, when you turned
on the loop - the LCG loop in relation to suiting up.
And you have a medical conference scheduled for the
next pass. That should have been the SUS loop instead
of the LCG loop.

00 51 51 CDR We're going to have to reset that one. I don't really

remember it.

Ol 28 34 CDR Houston, Skylab.

CC Go, Skylab.

CDR Okay. On the - the Flight Plan for tomorrow for the
CDR from 20:00 on to 23:00, that S073 stuff looks all
goofed up to me. You got me running two progrs_s that
retract sgain on MISI, then l_,nn_ng another progr_,
then retracting it again. And I don't think that's
right. Can you see if you c_n get that straightened
out between now and the next station passage and let
me know whether it's goofed up or not. For I Just
don't understand it.

CC Wilco, CDR.

CDR Also, it says to extend it first thing in the morning

on this Flight Plan. And we have nothing up here
tonight that says to retract it. I need that straight-
ened out, also.

CDR Did you get that.

CDR Goodhy.

01 30 08 CC CDR, we'll be LOS here in approximately 15 seconds.

We're going - Canary at 01:41. And the details that
are coming up shortly should explain the Flight Plan.
The retraction is seven to two rods ; that also is on
the Detail Plan.

CDR Okay. Why ... all right. (Laughter) ... Never

mind.
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01 40 45 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S approximately 14 minutes.

Ol 4i 44 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS approximately 14 minutes.

SPT Hi there, Houston.

CC And someone was talking when we went over the hill

before, and we didn't get the last comments.

CDR That was me saying that I wasn't really sure I be-

lieved you that when I got the details tomorrow it
would all be be plain to me what out Plight Plan
was, but I'll give it a try.

CC Copy, Pete.

CDR I - I do have some reservations. You got enough photo

TV stuff tied in with the rest of the stuff that it
looks to me like I'm going to run behind in the after-
noon. That's Just my offhand guess right now. I'Ii
f scurry and do the best I can.

CC Copy. And those pads should be coming up on this pass.

Also we're configuring the gyros for the sleep and
that's why I want 2 on the llne and i and 3 as
backup.

CDR What would you and Deke do down there if the gyros
worked the way they were supposed to work?

CDR We're working on a new game up here, Houston. It's

called "Get The Rubber Ball Back To You." Try it
off the water ring lockers first.

CC Which ball you using, Pete?

CDR The blue rubber one, but it - it gives up ener_

awful fast, though. It kind of poops out after four
or five bounces.

CC Copy.

CDR What we really need is one of those super balls.

CC Yes, it must be some sort of ESP going along. That

c_mment Just creme from two people down here, as well.
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CC You could always piJ11 down a couple of those big

lockers and drop half of them around like medical
balls, I guess.

CDR Yes, we did that with 183 and S073, that heavy @ear.
We throw that around for exercise.

CC You're coming too close tonight, Pete.

01 45 08 CC Pete, how m_ch nois6 and vibration do you have in that

thing up there? Sounded pretty quiet from your read-
downs the other day.

CDR Yes, it's very quiet in here. If the DAL meter was
right, the noisiest part is up in the MDA. It's about
64 db, and down here in the workshop, the wardroom and
the bedrooms runs about 55.

CC How about vibration? Can you feel much in the frame-

work and such?

CDR There's no vibration at all. We can hear - you can't

hardly hear the fans i_m_ug. What we can really hear
running are the refrigeration p_ps, - -

SPT Wowl What's that?

CDR - - And there's no vibration. We got a friendly

hunk of meteoroid shield or something outside, though,
that crackles i0 minutes after we go into dark. Very
loud and plain. One big crunch. And it does it every
night when we go into dark. And that's about it.

CC Yes, we heard about that one the other night.

CDR We were glad to see the other experiments come up,

because we've been running about 3 - 3 days now, on
essentially the same routines for everybody. And we
were Just remarking we needed a little change of pace,
and tomorrow looks like it will do it.

CC Yes, there's usually scQething, though, to turn

things around after a period down here.

Ol _6 53 CC There is a certain amount of casual requests for

crew time going on down here, as you might imagine.
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CDR Uh-huh. Don't worry, we find plenty of to keep

ourselves busy with.

CC What I meant was, one investigator might be cas11,11y

requesting another investigator to give up a bit of
time, this sort of thing.

CDR I see. Well, you know, it's sort of like Joe and Paul
were good boys tonight, so I let Joe have the command
module, and Paul has 509.

CC Copy.

CDR The PLT spends his spare time lookin_ for new places
to sleep.

CC Have you tried letting him sleep strapped in the 509

yet?

F CDR Yes, Hank, we're ready to charge the batteries and the
bottles on 509. We got it all activated last night.

CC Your translation modes up there are pretty interesting.

I had predicted legs weren't always going to be too
useful there. And I noticed that Joe seems to keep
his pretty well tucked up under him.

CDR Everybody sort of has their own way of going, and it -

it depends on what you're doing. Now, Joe likes -
when he's working and he's got to be held down, Joe
uses the lollipop. I've stuck strictly with the
triangle shoes, depending on the task, or I wear
m_ slippers - shoes. It's dependent on what I'm
going to do. I run the ATM, I don't need the
triangle shoes. So, We - we've got all kinds of
different ways of trying to do it - doing his own
thing. But, essentially, I think the most important
thing is - is that all of us can do _11 the tasks, and
we really don't have too _eh trouble doing them. As
I said earlier and it still applies, if it's got a lot
of little pieces that you've got to hold on or keep
track of a lot of things, it - it slows you up a little
bit. But that's - that's the only difference up here
than down there. We've adapted very well. Everybody
- well if you're Just resting, we Just free float and
wind up wherever we wind up, in the ceiling, on the
floor, over in the corner, ricocheting off the walls,
and it doesn't seem to bother us.
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O0 We - -
i
CDR We've also gotten to where we can turn the vehicle i
right side up or upside down, depending on how we
want to do it. If you want to stand on the ceiling
for a while, after a while everything looks perfectly
natural that way.

01 49 49 CC Copy that. And we "gathered that you had some pretty

efficient ways of hanging on, some of which left us
mystified down here as how you seemed to be stabi-
lizing with feet, with a no apparent way of doing it.
You didn't appear to be in triangle shoes or anything,
yet you seemed to be hanging on sc_e way.

SPT Don't tell, don't tell.

CDR No, I won't. Well, it's like I'm talking to you right
now. I mean you asked, you know, how we adapt. I 'm
in the wardroom and my feet are up in the ceiling, and
my head is over the SIA with my back to the window.
And - and l'm Just resting over here, with, you know,
Just free floating up in the air with my feet in the
ceiling.

CDR Oh, one thing - Are you still there, Houston?

CC Say again, Pete?

CDR We did rig the fireman's pole. You know we've been
using the strap, and we rigged the fireman's pole the
other day. And the only thing about it is as I went
up and did a couple of little wingdings around it, and
I discovered even moreso than you've seen on some of
the other things, that you've got to watch the old
conservation of momentmm, because I started circling
it, stretched f_illy out at arm's length end went end
pulled myself into the pole. And I really got wrapped
up. And I - That's the - that's the one device I think
that you can get yourself going on where you can get
flung off and get hurt if you weren't careful.

CC We copy that. B-11erinas probably could have made

some comment on that one.

01 51 47 CC And, Pete, those details are on board for your Flight

Plan.
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¢DR Okay, we Just had a - a first here. Paul fired one

fram the experiments compartment down off the top of
the trash airlock and it returned all the way to where,
Paul, the commsnd module? Made it _11 the way to the
co_mand module.

CC Is that that miserable little sponge ball that has

very little elasticity at -1!?

CDR Oh, no, no, this is a blue rubber ha]l, regular

rubber ball.

CC Copy.

CC One last question, Pete. When you apply force to a

body - your body. Do you get into much trouble with
rolls and that sort of thing? Or do you pretty well
sense where the center of gravity is?

i CDR No, you sense real easy where it is. I - I me_ we're
not perfect because - m,_uly because of the kind of
things that you're taking off from. But you - you
have a pretty good idea how you want to take off. So
you may not be able to push off the particular object
Just in the right manner, but we - we've gotten pretty
good. I think the MISI movies and stuff will show you
a lot more than the television did about how well we get
around. But we've - we've re_11y adapted. I - I'm
really convinced that the first day back we're going
to leap out of bed and land right on our heads.

CC Yes, we've got a football helmet set aside for you

on that one, Pete.

CDR ... Be helpful.

CDR Are you still there, Bill?

CC Yes, we're still here_ we've got about a minute and

a half.

CDR One of the other things that I've noticed is - is that

in holding ourselves while we're out here and doing
our tasks, we really use our stomach muscles. It's -
it's really interesting. I - I - The first 3 or h days
that we were up here, we kept finding ourselves Just
really holding our - our stomachs to hold the right
position. And you use your stomach muscles more than
anything else, I think, in - in holding wherever you
are, and working on it, whatever it is that you're
working on.
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Ol 54 39 CC Yes, there's some pretty good physiological reasons

for that, because nor_-11y all of the vertebral
muscles are on the back side to take care of center
gravity on Earth. And you really don't have much
required on Earth. But, we're going IOS here in
about 45 seconds, _nd at Honeysuckle we'll be AOS
at i - at 02:29.

01 55 05 CDR Okay.

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02 30 13 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for 7 minutes at Honeysuckle.

PLT Roger.

02 30 25 CC CDR, Houston.

PLT Say again?

CC Is the CDR available?

FLT He' s listening.

02 33 41 CC Will you have a opportnn4ty to answer the evening

questions this pass, since this is the last one before
going to sleep?

PLT Okay, wait a minute. Let me go get him.

02 34 30 CDR The answer to question number 1 is on B channel. I

Just put it on there, about the locker door.

CC Copy.

02 3h 41 PLT I got a question. I have an evening question for the

_REP people, Houston.

CC Go.

PLT Does the TV camera - I guess it doesn't, does it?

The TV c_mera, when instA11ed on the VTS, does not
look through the yellow filter, does it? I think?
Question.

CC That one's being worked.

SPT And, Houston; SPT. The answer to question 2 is I

woke up.

CC (Laughter) Copy, Joe.

PLT And he blew all his Tuses. Okay, are you ready for
question 3?
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CC Okay.

02 35 36 PLT Three: Alfa, no. Bravo, no. Charlie, no. Delta,

yes. An#time it got ready to stop. Echo, no.
Foxtrot, yes.

CC ThAn_ you very much.

CDR Did that new Beta angle that we got now from ...
you can get a look going forward in orbit. I see
my old buddy, the moon, out there in front of us
coming up. It looks pretty nice.

CC We copy.

02 36 30 CDR We're Just cc_ing up on New Zealand. I think I'ii

get some pretty good pictures this pass.

CC You're sure that's not Puerto Rico.

CDR You said Honeysnrkle before I said New Zealand.

CC Copy.

02 37 14 CC PLT, the TV does not look through the yellow filter.

We're going LOS here in a few seconds, and we'll see
you tomorrow.

02 37 30 PLT Good night.

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ii O0 02 CC Skkylab, Houston. Good morning.

PLT Good morning. We'v.e been up for a half hoUr. You

still working? You been on all night?

CC Paul, it seems like it. We got about 8-1/2 minutes

left here at Hawaii.

PLT Oh, okay, H_nk. You sounded like Bill when you first
c_e on.

PLT Hey, Henry?

CC Go ahead.

II 01 38 PLT Got a question for the TV and ... people. It doesn't

have to answered now. The next pass or so. For the
TV this morning, you know, we've been doing every-
thing on channel A. Nhat we're prol_osing is to operate
as we normally do, that is go VOX on channel A and
voice record A. And this morning what we're proposing
to do is plug in the connector to the VTR into channel A
to voice record that chA_nel instead of B. I Just
want to verify if that's okay.

CC Okay, I'ii get an _n_wer.

11 08 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS; Goldstone

will be coming up at 11.

PLT Roger.

ii ii 20 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 6-1/2 minutes.

PLT Roger •

CC And, Paul, to anwer yoUr question_ we concUr. We

think putting the voice on the VTR is a good idea.

PLT Okay. We were going to do that, anyway. I Just

wanted to m,_e - confirm that Just pushing the
channel A doesn't glitch anything.
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CC Roger.

PLT Hello, Houston. You there?

CC Roger. WE got about i minute left.

PLT Okay. Scmething for the S073 guys to think about.

According to our calculations, S073 is not going to
finish the program it's in right now before it has
to be secured to - to put the other rods on.

CC Okay. We'll take a look at that.

PLT Okay do you want us to do it? I tell you what - Pete

said he ran it out at 01 something. According to our
onboard procedures book, that takes i0 revs to complete
that, and so that's not going to be done for another -
It's only been i0 hours now; it's only two-thirds of
the way through, I guess, - something - r

ii 17 38 CC Okay, we'll work that. And we're about i0 seconds

from LOS. Bermuda will be coming up at 22.

PIT See you.

ll 21 59 CC 8kylab, Houston through Bermuda for 9-1/2 minutes.

CC And, Skylab_ Houston. In answer to the question on

the S073, we plan to terminate that program early.
And it's in the remarks section of message 1923. It
talks how to terminate it by cycling the power off.

SPT Roger.

CDR Thanks, Hank. We Just hadn't quite made it all the

way through the 22-footer you sent us last night.

CC (Laughter) Roger.

CDR That's the only trouble with that. I wish there was
some way you could get those early morning remarks,
like "inhibit momentum dump" - any of that stuff
that's in PSA. And we really hussle it to find it
in the morning, you know? And I don't know what you
cam do to work on that, but the flight planners might
think about it. I'd sure appreciate the details on
the - in the - things that you want during the PSA the
night before, if possible. Because it catches us with
our pants down every time.
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CC Roger. We were Just tA1_4ng about that. We - we see

that as a weAWness in the way we're operating. We
don't kn_w yet what we can do about it.

CDR Well, maybe you can't fix it for our flight, but it's
something to think about for the future. Because
it - it ... rate. And it's real easy for sc_ething
here to crack.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. If it's convenient, we'd sure like

to know the position of the filter wheel auto switch
on the S073 ....

PLT It's in the center A and B position.

CC Roger. Center A and B.

PLT That's right, isn't it?

CC That 's affirmative.

ii 30 33 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Canary coming up

at 33.

ii 33 20 CC Skylab, Houston through Cana_ and Ascension for

15-1/2 minutes.

ii 33 57 CC Skylab, Houston. For info only, we're reconfiguring

the rate gyros for daytime 0PS.

ii 46 5_ CC Skylab, Houston. Telemetry is showing that experi-

ment 1 and 2 recorders are - are not x-tuning. Could
you chec k that out and perhaps find out, if you can,
why they stopped and get them going again?

PLT Well, we stopped running them because the experiment

stopped. We didn't know you wanted them to keep
Inmning.

CC Oh, the experiment stopped?

PLT We terminated S073. He's extending it to 7 rods,

right now.
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CC Roger; copy.

PLT You want them on now, HAnk?

CC Negative. We got a little mixed up down here.

ll 48 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 12. I'd like to
rem_nd you you have an inhibit momentum dump at -
scheduled at ii:55."

ll 48 25 PLT Okay, than_s for the reminder, Hank.

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12 12 09 CC Good morning, Skylab; Houston. We're A0S over Carnarvon

for 9 minutes.

PLT ...

12 16 53 CC Skylab, Houston. If somebody gets an opportunity,

we would appreciate it if you'd turn SUS pump
PRIMARY for - in preparation for some troubleshooting.
We're going to do a try on that secondary coolant loop
later on today.

SPT Would you repeat the step, please, Crip?

CC Roger. On panel 217, would you turn SUS 2 pump

PRIMARY. That's if you - -

SPT SUS 2 pump to PRIM.

CC Roger; at your convenience.

12 17 49 CDR Okay, Crip, SUS 2 217 to PRIMARY.

CC Roger. Th_n_ you, Pete.

12 20 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds from LOS.

See you again over Guam at 12:27.

12 26 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over @i,_ for about

6minutes.

SPT Roger, Houston.

CC Roger. And for your information, we were a little

bit late getting the ATM completely closed out from
unattended operations. And there are a few items we
still need to do, but we'll catch those after your
Z-LV pass, and it shouldn't - shouldn't be any effect
on you.

SPT Okay, we'll catch them now, if you llke.

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CC No, that's okay. I think it would be easier Just to

catch them later. And for your info, the weather looks
real good, especially down around the Chesapeake area
today. _t's mostly clear, which is more than we can
say for Houston.

12 27 48 SPT Houston, SPT. What ster are we tracking during Z-LV?

Is that Jupiter?

CC That's affirmative. That message may have been a

little bit confusing, but that's affirmative. We are
locked onto Jupiter.

SPT Okay.

CC And for your information, as we did yesterday without

a warning, you might expect a CMG saturation during
your Z-LV m-neuver today. So you might want to inhibit
that C&W.

SPT Okay.

12 32 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

have you again over Goldstone for the pass at 50 and
we're looking forward to Joining Paul on the VTS.

PLT Yes.

SPT ... release from higher authority.

12 49 35 CC AOS 20 minutes.

SPT Oh, you're still there.

CC Just got here.

SPT Oh. Oh, LOS 20 minutes.

12 49 46 CDR A standing by for 12:50 with the ALTIMETEH to STANDBY

and the SCAT's to STANDBY.

PLT Okay. The VTR is running. Crip, we don't have much

on TV yet, except for very low Sun angle clouds.
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12 50 03 CDR SCAT, ALTIMETER to STANDBY. _EP system, start at 53.

I'll be looking for an AUTO CAL from you at 53:10.

PLT Sing it out.

CDR Okay.

PLT Otherwise, you may hot get it. All right. How do
you read, Crip?

CC Loud and clear.

PLT 2 by 2.

CC Good TV.

12 50 31 PLT It's like a scene from Biblical movie Just before the
heavens opened up.

CDR Right. Still over water?

PLT No - well, I don't know. All I can see is clouds.

CC Should be Just coming up on Puget Sound.

PLT Beautiful Puget Sound. Tell Den Lind that he was

right. You cannot tell the difference between the
no filter and the light yellow filter in this VTS,
Crip.

CC Okay.

/2 51 38 CDE Okay, you max ZOOM?

PLT OUT, IN. Yes, OUT. How's your resolution down there
on the TV, Bob? It sure isn't any too hot on our
monitor.

CC It's hard to tell with clouds.

PLT Yes, I know. Now we got a bunch of black specks all

over the monitor. Are you getting them also?

CC Affirmative.

PLT Wonder what they're on?

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CDR That's interesting.

PLT Let me - let's ...

12 52 lh CDR Well, they're obviously not on the lens because we

don't have the lens on, and those spots were on there
the other day.

PLT Well, hut there's glass in between there.

CDR Yes, it's the color wheel.

PLT No, I'm talking about that whole gray thing.

CDR Yes, but that's not what those spots are on.

PLT How do you know what the spots are on?

CDR Because the s_ots were there the other day when we
were operating out the wlndowwith the TV lens. Okay?

PLT Something internal to the system.

PLT Were you getting those spots on the indoor shots also,
Houston?

12 52 h5 CC I'Ii check on that. I haven't seen _hem before.

CDR Some on the - out the window that we did for you.

CDR 5 seconds, the EREP SYSTEM STARTS.

I2 53 01 PLT MARK.

CDR I need an AUTO CAL on m_mark.

PLT Okay.

CDR 4, 3, 2, i -

12 53 i0 CDR MARK it. 94 MARK. MODE, MANUAL.

PLT - something, hut it's not very good, whatever it is

on it.
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CC Looks like a lake or a river going hy.

CDR Yes.

PLT It's pretty hazy, Bob, and you can't see much. Low
Sun angle, alot of haze. It's pretty far out. Let's
Just track this through nadir once and see how it looks.

CC It looks pretty fair.

12 54 B7 PLT You want me to try to wipe those spots off from that?
Let's not do it now. I'Ii check it after the pass.

CDR No, there's no way you're going to ge% those spots

off.

PLT Well, how do you know? It could be on the glass right

here on the view port.

CDR It's not. I tell you it was on the out - the - window
view the other day. I was - remember playing with it
to look at the ice crystals.

12 54 53 PLT Then why don't they show up on the indoor ones?

CDR Because I think they're Just getting on the indoor

ones.

CC They're not bothering us.

PLT They're bothering me.

CDR Well, you ain't going to get them off. The color
wheel -

PLT Okay, it's i0 degrees forward there. And it's a

lousy picture on the monitor. How's yours?

CC It's kind of faded. Looks like not much light.

PLT Well, you're right; there's no color. Okay, that's

through nadir right now.

CC Smooth tracking.

PLT That's all IMC.

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CDR Standing by for a 191 READY light in 5 seconds.

12 55 50 SC I have it at 49. 92 is going to MODE, READY on my

mark_

12 55 58 CDR MARK. In recorder, S190 to MODE, AUTO at 03. 92 going

to MODE, CHECK at 14_ CHECK, 14. 20, the ALT!ME_£_'_
is ON. 8 for 32, Sl90 I_'I'_VAL0_f_ 8.

PLT 0oh, there's a town. See how this town looks, Bob.

CDR 8. 208:30 is next.

PLT There's an airport. You see it?

CDR Oh, yes, I can see it in monitor.

PLT Crip?

CC TV's cutting out on us.

CC We lost on the handover.

12 57 41 PLT You there, Houston?

CC Affirmative.

PLT Okay.

CC We had your airfield briefly. J

PLT Okay, I didn't know if you got it or not, there.

We're going over - it's an overcast cloud level -
layer now. Jet-stream cirrus clouds. I can't really
tell. That could very well be what we have here.
I got essentially no - nothing to look at.

SPT You do, and it's going to break up in a minute over

Lake Michigan.

PLT Okay. Lake Michigan. Lake Michigan is clear.

SPT Look at her.

PLT Well, I m_y track Lake Michigan for a few seconds,

Crip. How does that sound to those guys, quickly.

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CC Clouds -

]2 58 31 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY.

PLT Say again.

CC Clouds look good from here.

CDR RAD's ON; SCAT's ON.

PLT You mean we're doing a good Job on the clouds, huh?

CC Affirmative. Can't foul that up.

PLT Oh, we'll find a way.

12 58 55 CDR MARK. MEDIUM on S190.

PLT Okay, now we want frontal clouds. Whoever is calling

these clouds is doing a pretty good _ob of it, Houston.

CC Roger.

CDR MODE, READY. ALTIMET_went to MODE 5.

PLT Oh, that's - -

CDR - - 22, MODE, READY.

PLT - - There's some pollution in the lower right corner

of your screen there, coming into a lake.

SPT Detroit's loud and clear.

PLT Yes. This must be - this must be Cleveland. That

was the west end of Lake Erie.

SPT There's clouds right at the west end. Detroit and

Cleveland are - look both clear, aud the center of
the lake is loud and clear.

13 00 01 CDR SCAT, STANDBY; RAD, STANDBY. RAD's ON; SCAT's on.

PLT Awful hazy in the Washington area, Houston.

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CDR Too early in the morning_

13 00 54 CDR A, SHU_"I'_ SPEED SLOW on 190, i minute. SCAT, STANDBY.

RAD, STANDBY.

PLT You can't m-_e out enough detail.

13 01 25 CDR 92 to CHECK. 3A is" ON. Be out over the Atlantic

now, huh?

PLT Yes.

CDR S190 INTERVALOM_"IaL_ to 18. - for an S190 READY out

at 04:36.

CDR Ah, it's nice and clear out there as the Sun comes
up, isn't it?

PLT I couldn't find Washington; it was right under the

edge of a cloud layer.

CC Roger. And it was supposed to have been clear.

PLT Yes. Very frus - frustrating. I could see the river

on that, but I couldn't quite find Washington. I
think it was a high cirrus form stuff combined with
haze, Crip. I Just couldn't make out features on
the ground up the river.

CC Roger.

13 03 50 SPT Yes, it was haze. I took some wide angle shots of

the whole area but I - the city's not going to be
very clear.

CC Impressed at how steady you can hold the thing.

SPT Oh, yes. It's easy to track. Now I'ii track this
little cloud coming up here. Well, wait. Yes,
we got to wait.

CC Beautiful. I don't think you can do that good in the

trainer.
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PLT It's Just about the same, as a matter of fact.

CDR ALTIMETER to STANDBY, MODE 2. Somebody look at the

S190 calculations again. The READY light went out
a long time ago.

CC Roger.

13 05 12 CDR The ALTIMETER is ON.

PLT Ah. Dear me.

CDR This is my second coffee.

CC You know you guys could do EREP in your sleep there.

PLT Oh, yes.

CDR I'll tell you, that's the only way to do it, though,
is to work this console every day.

CC Right.

CDR The pads are good though; I got plenty of time.

CC I'm sure planning guys will like that.

13 06 28 PLT Okay, here are trade wind cumuli coming up here now.

CDR Tell you what tickles me, is to see all this gear
run - now that we got power in here and some heat
in here, to see all this gear come on Just like it's
supposed to.

PLT Yes, everything is working - -

CDR Yes, it 's really working good.

PLT - - the stations are all good now.

CC Tremendous.

CDR At least from our point of view up here, it looks

like you're going to have good data on that tape.
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CDR Nc_inally we wouldn't have had a seven-rod extension

there; so 73 on the m_-us-Z SAL ..., and we got that
even with two rods ; you can see it out the wardroom
window.

CC Ah, so.

PLT We'll take sc_e suitable pictures of it for the PI.

13 07 39 CDR And speaking of that, the seven-rod extension went

very easy. You'd be interested in noting that the
wire bundle had memory in it going out until I got
about half the rods out, but then it had memory
wanting to come back in.

CC Roger.

13 08 25 CDR Stand by for 08:39.

PLT Not so many ct_uli in the trade winds today.

CC Roger. We've lost the TV now.

PLT Yes.

13 08 _0 CDR Stand by MODE 3, and bang her back C_ at 5h for 93.

PLT Today for TV correlation, we're coming u!_ on 9 minutes

and 0 seconds.

SC 911 - S190 MODE, AUTO - -

13 09 01 PLT MARK. 9 minutes.

13 09 08 CC Okay, 1 minute to LOS; Ascension at 13:18.

PLT 0kay.

13 09 12 CDR MARK. S190 MODE, AUTO.

13 i0 57 PLT Okay, stand by, TV, for another mark in I0 minutes,

mark in 19 minutes.

13 18 23 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Ascension, 6 minutes.

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CDR Roger, Houston.

13 19 00 CDR MARK. 93A STANDBY.

13 19 06 CDR MARK. 94 MODE, MANUAL. Forty-five seconds until

the maneuver.

CDR 91 READY is on; i0 seconds until maneuver; 5 -

13 20 01 CDR MARK it. EREP systems STOP.

CDR A tape recorder, Alfa 5 is reading 70 - is reading

67 percent, 67 percent; 6 is reading O. Bravo 2
is reading 52. Bravo 3 is reading 76. Bravo 6 is
reading 55. Charlie 5 - Charlie 5 is reading 83.
Charlie 6 is reading 47. Delta 4 is reading 71.
And Delta 5 is reading 14.

13 23 ll CC Skylab, Houston. Big John and all the EREP people

would like to express their appreciation for the fine
Job you guys have been doing and giving them readouts.
And all the EREP passes have been looking real good.
We're going to be going LOS here in about 1 minute,
and we'll see you again at Carnarvon at 49, I guess,
13:49.

SPT Roger, Houston. Do you want to do the condensate

malf at that time?

CC That's affirmative.

SPT Okay.

SC Friendly tape recorder, Charlie ...

13 24 12 CC Skylab, if you were calling, that was unreadable.

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13 48 h4 CC Skylah, Houston. We're AO8 over Carnarvon for about

the next Ii minutes.

CDR Houston - Wait i.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go, CDR.

CDR You know how I hate to be idle. You got us stymied

here. After rocketing around, we're in a 2-hour hold
for for LBNP venting. So I'm going to do M551, at
least up until TV24, and I want to kn6w when you're
going to be finished with the VTR so that I can go
get MS51-1 out of the ws_.

CC Checking.

- SPT And, Houston, the SPT is ready'for condensate m,lf,

if you are.

CC Roger, Joe. You can go ahead and press with your

first step there.

13 49 44 SPT Okay, I'll go to panel 216, and I'm going to go to PRI.

CC Okay.

SPT And I'm in PRI, standing by.

CDR The Captain Video doesn't have those dump numbers

right at his bloody fingertips?

CC We've got them right there, and the VTR is yours now.

CDR Oh, I love you.

CDH The other thing for the FAOs is, if we want to do

M553 on our own time, is that permissible?

13 50 31 CC Checking and - Joe, we're going to have to cycle

back to OFF and then to PRIMARY, please.

13 50 39 SPT Okay. You're in OFF; give me the word.

13 50 51 CC Okay, now to PRI, Joe.

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13 50 55 SPT Now you're in PRI.

CDR Crip, while you're working at it, you got a minute?

CC Yes, go ahead.

CDR I'ii tell you what the discussion has been here, and
how about having FLIGHT work up a couple of sentences
for you to tell us basically what happens after fuel
cell shutdown on 165. I think that we are willing
to try between now and then when we get the constrained
with power, to knock out on our own as many things as
you guys care to add to that shopping list. We'll give
them a - a go, as best we can. And I'd like a few
words about the general flight planning after day 165
up to day 26 where it's obvious.

13 51 48 CC Roger. What are you looking for on that message about

after fuel cell shutdown? Procedural kind of things
we're going to be doing, or what kind of power con-
servation we're going to be going after, or what?
p

CDR Yes, Just a couple of words on that. We - In other

words, is _ history after that? So forth and so
on. You know, a few general things like that.

13 52 06 CC Okay. Okay; and, Joe, if you would go to OFF and then

to SECONDARY for us, please.

13 52 15 SPT Okay, I'm in OFF. Standing by.

13 52 20 CC Now go to SECONDARY, please.

SPT You ready for SECONDARY now?

CC Affirmative.

13 52 26 SPT Okay, you're there.

13 52 49 CC Joe, if you would go to OFF for us for a little

while again, please.

13 52 55 SPT You are in OFF.

13 53 02 CC And back to SECONDARY, please.

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13 53 06 SPT You're in SEC.

CC Okay, Joe, if you could go On down to panel 393, and

we can proceed with the disconnecting the condensate
hose. And be advised, we may lose our condensate -
condensate tank DELTA-P at that point, so you could
get a C & W.

SPT Okay.

13 54 05 SPT Okay, Crip, the condensate hose is disconnected at 393.

CC Okay, thank you.

CC And, Pete, after you do 551 you - it's okay to go ahead

and do 553. No sweat on it. Corollary guy Just wants
to make sure you don't forget his S073 down there,
though.

PLT We're standing around counting the minutes until we

can start S073.

CC You guys sound like you got time on your hands.

PLT No, we Just work fast.

13 55 16 CDR Fif - And 73's off and running on time_ EXPERIMENT 1

and 2 RECORDERS, ON.

CC 0key doke.

PLT Besides, I want to see if sphere forming really works.

CC You know it really works.

13 55 _7 CC Ed Mitchell says it does.

CDR Hey, we want to do both of those, 552 and 553. We'll

do those on our own time if it's all right with you
guys.

CO Fine and dandy.

13 57 11 CC Okay, Joe. We'd like you to go back to panel 216 now,

and turn the CONDENSATE SYST]_4S VENT HEATER switch to
0FF. But, before you do that, we'd like to know what's
the STATUS light's reading on it.

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SPT Okay.

13 57 32 SPT Well the SEC status light is ON and the T_4PERATURE

is 75. It's come up.

CC Okay, very good. It looks like it's working. I think

we Just probably had a telemetry problem here.

SPT Okay. Want it off now?

CC That 's affirmative.

13 57 52 SPT It's OFF.

13 57 57 CC Joe, if you don't - if you don't mind, we're going to

be coming up on Guam in about 14:02. And what we'd
like to do is leave that condensate hose disconnected
until that point. And let us give you a call to check
it.

SPT You bet.

CC Okay, fine.

13 58 16 CC And we are i minute from LOS; Guam at 14:02.

14 02 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over GI,_ now for about

i0 minutes.

SPT Hold on, Houston.

CC And, Joe, at your convenience, you got a GO to go back

to panel 393 and reconnect the condensate hose to the
dump forward. It looks like we've got a slow leak
through that qd.

SPT Okay; that 's in work.

14 05 03 SPT Okay, Crip. That's complete. The DELTA-P on 216 had

dropped to about 3.7, and it's up to 4.0 again.

CC Roger; 3.7 back to 4.0.

SPT Houston _ SPT.

CC Go ahead, SPT.
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SPT Have you ever had any word about the radio noise
burst monitor? I wonder if it'd be okay to power
that up for a couple of days?

CC Joe, I'm informed that, on your ATM schedule pad,

that they did schedule that for today.

SPT Oh, is that right? •

CC Roger. They going happy?

SPT Okay.

CC Joe, l've got a - a small update for your solar

activity pad. Would you like to get that now, or
you want to get it later when you're on - on the
console?

SPT I'm getting ready to go on console right now, so let's

have it.

CC Okay. Active region 27 produced a subflare at 02:07

Zulu, and that region apparently is growing rapidly.
We had - a very unusual bright surge occurred on the
left limb at 01/i, at 07:50 Zulu.

i_ 08 h6 SPT Okay; copy that. Man, that's up near the pole some.

CC That's - that's what it looks like to me. I don't

know why they call that west limb.

SPT Well, we've got nothing out there in the way of an

active region either.

CC Let me check that data on that.

SPT Okay.

lh i0 49 CC SPT, Houston. Those coordinates I gave you were

correct; and, apparently, it's unrelated to any-
thing that we're seeing right now on the disk.

SPT That's why it's so unus,,-!. Incidentally, I put on

B chanlael the other night that I thought I observed
a subflare in active region 27. That was night be-
fore last. I wonder if we had any confirmation or
denial on that.
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14 ll 14 CC Okay, I'ii get them to check that out for you. We're
about 1 minute from LOS, and Goldstone at 14:28, 28.

14 27 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We,re AOS over Goldstone for 17min-

utes, 17 minutes.

PLT Roger.

CC And be advised, we're getting ready to turn the sec-

ondary coolant loop on once more, and you'll get a
SEC COOL LOOP FLOW light if that's _ABLE.

PLT Okay.

14 28 12 SPT Houston, SPT. Are you ready for a white light corona-
graph TV down-link?

CC Joe, I'm sorry. You were breaklng up, say again,

please.

SPT Are you ready for a white light coronagraph TV down-

link now or you want to wait?

CC We need to wait for about 6 minutes on that apparently,

Joe.

SPT Okay. Meanwhile, the CDR is setting up "for TV on -

on M551, if you want that.

CC Okay, I - problem, I guess, is on the ground station

to pick it up. We're waiting - we've got Mill
configured.

SPT 0kay.

14 29 28 PLT Hey, Houston?

CC Go.

PLT Fiddling with the focus ring on the TV optical adaptor

on the VTS, I couldn't see any difference in the mon-
itor. I guess if we run that again I would like to,
on cue from you, go ahead and run that focus ring from
one extreme to the other to see if you guys can see
any difference in the picture on the ground.
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CC Okay, we'll take that under advisement in case we get

to run it again.

PLT Allright.

14 30 25 CC And, Skylab, we're being held up slightly on turning

that secondary coolant loop on because of a data
problem.

SPT Roger.

SC (Music: Call to Quarters)

14 34 i0 CC Are we going back to bed?

PLT We're supposed to, but the skipper won't let us.

14 36 01 CC Skylab, Houston. You may be aware we have turned on

your secondary coolant loop now, and we're standing
by for the TV down-link, which "I believe you got white
light coronagraph scheduled for now.

SPT Okay, it'll be a couple of minutes, Houston. I went

ahead and started JOP 6, and we're in the wrong mode.

CC Okay; that's okay. We've got Pete on right now with

512.

14 36 56 SPT Houston, Pete says he's got about 4 or 5 minutes set

up to do here. You want it live, or do you want him
to hold?

CC Stand by 1.

CC Roger, Joe. As soon as you get a chance, we'd like

to get the white light coronagraph live, or all the TV.

SPT You were cut out, Houston.

CC Roger, Joe. We're standing by for your ATM TV down-

link. We'd like it live.

SPT Okay.

14 37 59 CC Okay. We've got 52 now.

14 38 03 SPT Okay, that's in roll minus fif - minus 10,800. I'll

be rolling to 5400 in a minute.
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14 38 48 CC Skylab, Houston. If anybody has an opportunity we'd

appreciate it if they could turn off SUS 2 on panel 217.

SPT In a minute, Houston.

CC Okay. No rush on it.

14 39 17 SPT It's off, Houston.

CC Joe, I might have been confusing you awhile ago on

that TV. We'd like you to go ahead and cycle through
it, like you nor_-!ly do.

SPT Everybody wants to see, huh?

SPT I want to give you the coronagraph in the right roll.

CC Okay.

14 40 22 CC Skylab, Houston. Right now the secondary coolant loop

is looking good. We'd like to ensure that the SECONDARY
COOLANT TEMP LOW CAUTION and WARNING is ENABLED, and
we're going to let you go ahead and have it and leave
it ON after we go LOS. And if you get that CAUTION
and WARNING, we'll want you to turn the SECONDARY
COOLANT LOOP OFF.

SPY Copy.

14 _i 39 CC It's really wild when you've got it in integration.

SPT It's really ... us ... there's H-alpha 2.

14 41 51 SPT And, for the - 52 people's information, the pointing

numbers at which that display was optimized was RIGHT 25
andUP 5.

CC HIGHT 2 - 5 and UP 5. Thank you.

SPT Okay.

SPT Actually on the fine scale, that looks like right 32

or So.

CC Okay.
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14 42 24 SPT And active region 27 is the brightest thing on the

Sun in H-Alpha this morning. And it looks much more
complex 'and has several spots visible on the ..., to
be exact, on the XUV monitor white light display.
Active region 31 looks pretty diffuse, not nearly
as bright, not as interesting. And 37 is coming
around the horn with two big spots, a couple of
dark filaments, and some bright red and compact
plage, and it looks good, too.

CC Roger, and we've got it in sight down here to concur

with your description. And tb,n_ you very much for a
very good description.

SPT Okay.

i_ 43 24 SPY And, Houston, Pete says he's going to put his show on
the VTR now, if that's okay.

CC Roger. And we did command that VTR OFF from here, so

you or Pete's going to have to reenable it - or some-
body up there.

SPT Okay.

14 43 53 CC Skylab, we are i minute from LOS. See you again over

the Vanguard at 14:55, 55.

i_ 44 03 SPT Roger.

14 54 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Vanguard for 6 minutes.

PLT Roger.

14 58 18 CC SPT, Houston. There is a possibility we might need a

couple of TACS ... for this upcoming dump operation.
We'd like you to turn the TACS back to ENABLE for this
one dump only.

SPT Okay.

CC And, Skylab, for your information, we have turned OFF

PUMP Charlie on the SECONDARY LOOP. We have been
hitting it with both Bravo and Charlie. And it is
still looking reel good to us.
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SPT Very good.

lh 58 55 CC Also, Skylab, we show that EXPERIMENT i and 2 TAPE

RECORDERS are still operating after the S073. To
save us a little bit of dump problems, we would
appreciate it if you would secure them until they're
required for M092.

14 59 lh SPT Okay, Houston.

CC Thank you.

14 59 B0 CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll see

you again over Goldstone at 16:0_, 16:04.

SPT Au revoir.

SPT And, Houston, if you read, Pete says he's not getting
any reading on the filament chamber pressure meter.
Would you look at that or think about it for the
next pass.

CC Roger; understand you're not getting a reading on the

filament chamber pressure on 512.

SPT That 's right.

15 00 19 SPT It shows zero work chamber pressure.

15 00 22 CC Roger.

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16 i0 21 CC Joe, we need to tweak up the C3 biases a little bit,

and if you would stay off the DAS for about a mlnute,
we would appreciate it.

SPT Okay.

16 13 32 CC Joe, the DAS is yours again.

SPT ...

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go ahead, SPT.

SPT I was wondering if you guys have a testament for me

of the current solar ambiant radio noise.

CC We'll check it.

16 16 13 CC SPT, on your solar activity pad, they put down a

number of 130, aud we believe that's still good.

SPT Okay.

16 17 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over the Vanguard at 16:29, and we
will be doing a data recorder dump over Vanguard.

PLT Roger.

16 29 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Vanguard for I0

minutes.

16 29 25 CDR Roger.

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16 37 h7 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll '_ni"

you again at Goldstone at 17:44, 17:44 and we will be
doing a data recorder dump over Goldstone.

SPT Okay, Houston.

17 44 25 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS over Goldstone for about

3-1/2 minutes.

SPT That's a quickie.

CC Roger. And if the CDR's available, we'd like to ask

regarding that M512 facility, if he ever looked at
that filament chamber pressure again.

SPT It was Just very slow coming on line, but it did come
and he's welding right now.

CC Understand it's welding now?

SPT That's affirmative. He had an outgas for 2 hours he

says.

CC Okay.

CC And Joe, we copy that you're in one frame per minute

on H-alpha; should he in 2.

SPT Okay.

17 _7 22 CC _Kylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

See you again over Vanguard at 18:06, 18:06.

CDR Okay, Houston, CDR. We got a good weld on. It locks

very good from outside the chamber.

CC Roger.

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18 06 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard for

l0 minutes, l0 minutes.

CC Joe, we show that you're in mechanical reference still,

from the previous rev, and we should have it in optical.

SPT ... I'm doing a grating scan right now, Crip - -

CC Yes, yes.

SPT - - so it really doesn't matter and I'm still working

near the limb. And I'll switch back this night side.
Okay?

CC That's fine. And before you leave the panel on this

pass, if possible, I'd like to give you some ATM
schedules - pad mods for Paul coming up.

SPT Go ahead.

18 07 17 CC Okay, if you can get h s 19:01 pass at hl for the

bright spot. He needs a pointing update, and I've
got it here.

SPT I'm with it.

18 07 29 CC Okay. It's roll, minus 9300; RIGHT, plus 500; UP,

plus 225.

SPT Roll, minus 9300. RIGHT, plus 500; and UP, plus 225.
And I did read that right, because it's - it's on the
pad in the opposite sequence.

CC Okay, sorry about that. Yes, you did read it back

correctly.

SPT Okay.

CC And, if you've still got time, I need to give you

some info on building block 15 scheduled at the 20036.
That's 20036 pass and the 2207 pass.
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SPT Go ahead.

18 08 28 CC Okay. 82B is worried about getting a camera Jam if

the - if it's terminated by the door shutting, so
about 15 seconds prior to terminate, we would like
you to stop 82B.

SPT I'ii do my best.

CC Okay, is that clear that it's suppos - supposed to

be on both of them?

SPT Yes.

18 09 00 CC And the CDR would probably be pleased to know that

we've got a GO for him - for him to remove the LCGs and
the LSUs he's got strung out there. We're in good
shape now.

CDR Hooray! Listen ... 24 Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie is

on the VTR and you've already dumped it, and you
won't get 2h Delta until sometime between 20:00 and
21:00. Okay?

CC Roger, 24 Delta between 20:00 and 21:00.

CDR That's right. That's the removal of the metals, and

it comes 2-1/2 hours after the weld.

CC Okay. And I guess we understand it takes about 2 hours

to vent that thing down. Is that correct?

CDR Oh, it took about 2-1/2 hours to outgas it.

CC Okay.

CDR I'll have to see what happens the next time. It may -
like the motor and a few things like that, which may
not pick up so much when - now.

18 l0 07 CC Okay. And while I'm talking to you here, Joe had

asked earlier to get a GO to modify the PLTs M092 run.
And we're got a concurrence here that 30/h0/40
is okay.
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CDR Okay. Crip, the - the pressure that I finally

achieved was Just about 0.i. It - it never got down
to 0.01. We did all our welding right around 0.1.
It took 2-1/2 hours getting there. Now, I don't know
whether that's the gauge or what. I find it awful
hard to believe that a 4-1nch opening to a vacuum like
that, that we weren't right down there right away,
but - but it could be outgassing, but, gosh, that's
a big opening.

CC Okay. Was it - did it go up significantly while you

were welding?

CDR Yes, it crawled up around 0.2, something like that,

then it crawled back down to 0.1 again. The gauge is
operating. There's no doubt about that, but I don't
think we got any leak in the - into the chamber from -
from the spacecraft, not that I can tell. I - I made
sure the hatch was bolted down real good. That's
about as best as I can do.

CC Okay.

CC Roger, Pete. And for your information, that gauge is

inside of a three-quarter inch opening, so it takes
a little bit longer to go down.

CDR Okay. That was slot of outgassing though I still

say 2 - 2 hours for it to come down to 0.1.

CC Roger. Concur. That sounds excessive.

18 12 08 CDR That - that says our vacuum facility in Houston is

better than what we got up here, and that I doubt
very seriously.

CC Roger.

18 15 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll see

you again over Hawaii at 19:15, 19:15, that is if
we don't wash away first.

CDR You say it's raining there a little bit?

CC That's an understatement.
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CDR Rained yesterday, too, huh?

CC Affirmative.

SPT Pete wants to know if there's water on the third

floor up there yet.

CC We're on the second. It's been coming up this high,

I think.

SPT Okay, we'll fix it.

CC (Laughter) I know you guys fix anything, but I don't

think you can work it from that long a range.

SPT Listen to this: "Rain, Rain go away, come again

another day." Now see if it don't sunshine tomorrow.

CC Okay.

18 16 h5 PLT Yes,seeif it don't.

19 lh 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii for about

9 minutes.

SPT Roger, Houston. Hey, Crip, a little quick confirmation,

if you could please, on this JOP 1 Delta. I went to
the coordinates you gave me and it's nothing. I mean
there's nothing in H, Alpha there's nothing in the
XUV. I Just wanted to verify, first the coordinates,
if those are correct. Then I want to verify if they
really want me to run this building block there. I'm
using a ROLL of minus 9300; UP, plus 225; RIGHT,
plus 500.

CC Those were coordinates that I read up to you. Let

me veri - reverify them with Adam.

PLT Okay, I got to start soon.

CDR And while you're doing that, Crip, I got something

for you.

CC Go ahead.
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19 15 09 CDR Do the M151 for the S073 retract at stowage? The

retraction part is assumed that the S073 is in the
plus-Z SAL, and of course it's not; it's in the
minus-Z SAL. Do you want me to change those camera
angles a little bit to get the retraction and then
move them back to the original one to get to stowage?

CC Stand by 1.

CDR Thank you.

CC Paul, coordinates are correct, and we do want you to

go ahead and run it. We claim we can see something
here in XUV from the ground.

PLT Okay, we can't see it onboard. I'm off.

CC Okeydoke.

CC And we need H-Alpha in 1 frame per minute, I believe

it is in h now, please.

19 21 44 CC CDR, Houston. Regarding the M151 settings, if you're

using the 5-millimeter lens and the f/10 setting and
you don't think that 'll work, make whatever adjustments
you think are neccesary.

CDR Okay, thank you.

19 23 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you again over the Vanguard at 19:h5, and
we will be doing a data recorder dump at Vanguard.

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]9 44 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard for

9 minutes and we'll be doing a data recorder dump.

CC CDR, llouston. You got a moment to talk about S073

operations?

CDR ...

CC Roger. We were - apparently didn't get a calibration

on the last program that you ran for us. And we wanted
to verify for this one coming up on the program 1 Dog
that you were going through steps 5 through 7 on
page 8-13.

CC And those should be -

CDR ...

CC Unable to read you due to feedback.

CDR That's 8-13, right?

CC Roger.

CDR Steps 1 of?

CC Steps 5 through 7. Well, actually, 5 through 8,

I guess would be more complete.

19 _6 54 PLT Hey, Crip, I was going to use the VTR in about 2

more minutes, is that alright?

CDR Okay, Crip. I didn't catch that the last time.

CC Roger. You understand it there, Pete?

19 h7 16 CC P.J., you got a GO on the VTR.

PLT Okay.

19 53 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See you

again in Hawaii at 20:52, 20:52.
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PLT Bye.

CC Bye.

20 51 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii for 8 minutes.

PLT Roger.

CC And, Skylab, we need to update your X-3 rate gyro.

So if you'd stay off the DAS for us a minute, we'd
appreciate it.

PLT Okay.

PLT Crip, another hangup on S056 in ACTIVE l, LONG. The

details are on channel B.

CC Roger. Was that a filter hang?

PLT Well, I guess. It - it quit counting, showed an

OPERATE light, and was Just staying in Filter 1.

CC Thank you.

CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours once more.

PLT Th-n_ you.

PLT ... to XUV is on that tape and a little coronagraph

also.

CC Roger.

20 58 13 CC Paul, Just a little reminder on that building block 15

you got coming up at the end of this pass. We did
want to shut down 82]3, 15 seconds prior to sunset.
And we're going LOS in about I minute. See you again
over Vanguard at 21:53, 21:5 - correction 21:32,
21:23.

20 58 36 PLT Okay; thank you.

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21 23 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard for

9 minutes.

SPT Roger.

21 31 52 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. See you again at

Ascension at 21:38, and we'll be doing a data recorder
dump at Ascension.

21 38 28 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Ascension, 7 minutes.

SPT Roger.

CDR Hey, Crip, CDH.

CC Go, CDB.

CDR On S073, when I put those rods in, they were extremely
cold and as you would expect, they collected a good
deal of moisture on them and I wiped them down with
a - with Just a - wipe. Is there anything down there
special that those guys want done to thos@ rods before
I stow the thing later on?

CC We'll get corollary to check that, Pete. While I'm

talking to you, on your M512 facility, since that
filament chamber was closed and set off separately,
it should be basically maintained at vacuum, so we
don't anticipate any problem when you go back up to
run your next procedure.

CDR Surprise! I think there's a leak in it.

CC Oh, oh.

CDR Because it was at atmospheric when I started a_ain.

That's probably our problem.

CC Okay.

21 39 47 CDH Now, let me tell you something else that I didn't

have a chance to tell you today. I can't account for
this, because I know that it was fit about lO times,
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but the mirror over the electron gun would not fit
today because the electron gun must have shifted
during launch. That's the only thing I could think
of. Now is there amy way that thing can move around
in there, or move on it's adjustments. Because the
mirror - I got the mirror on and you can see through
it okay by Just using one screw. But it lacks fitting
by a good eighth of an inch to the other screw because
it interferes with the electron gun. And the only
thing I can conclude "is that the gun shifted during
launch. However, the pointing was relatively good,
which leads me to conclude that it was there in the
first place, but I know it was fit checked.

CC That's affirmative. It was fit checked and you're

saying that it looks like the electron beam gun has
shifted? You can only get the mirror on with one
screw? And I take it from what you said, you think
you can operate it like that.

CDR Oh, I've welded a plate okay. It's all right. But
I think the gun moved. That's the only thing I can
account for it by. We took photographs of it.

CC Copy.

21 _2 57 CC CDR, Houston. I'd like to clarify one thing. It

was the filament chamber. You're saying it leaked
back up and not the work chamber.

CDR Right, the filament chamber. When I - when I opened

the valve it was at - after I pulled the -work - I
got the second specimen in there now. And as you
surmised, I figured, well, when I open up the filament
chamber I'll be in business. Then I can go right at
it. And io and behold when I opened it up, chamber
being at zero - work chamber being at zero, according
to the work chamber gage, the filament showed atmo-
spheric again. And it is slowly bleeding down. It's
down to about 2 right now.

CDR O.2.

CC Roger. l'm sure we'd be interested in hearing about

how long you think it has taken it to leak down.

CDR Well, let me go look at it. I opened it about

15 minutes ago. Let me show you where it is.
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CC Okay. I don't think it's worth a special trip. But

get all that information for time line purposes.

CDR Well, we like zinging up and down in the spacecraft.

21 43 55 CDR Say, Crip. It's 0.5 right now. It's been about
20 minutes. And I might be a little suspicious of
the gage.

21 44 06 CC Okay; 0.5 after about 20 minutes. And for your

information, wiping down and stowing of the rods is
okay. We're 1 minute from LOS, and we'll have you
again at Gaum at 22:23; 2223.

CDR They weren't kidding about that stuff getting cold,

I'll tell you. I had my gloves on when I started
to bring them in and I thought that's kind of foolish,
so I got them out a second time and, man, they were
really cold the further I went.

CC Roger. Understand the gloves are recommended?

CDR Yes, sir. They are a necessity, and I had them on

to start with. It wasn't bad until I got about two
rods in and how cold it was going to get because the
near rods weren't so cold, but the far rods were
extremely cold.

CC Roger. Thank you.

CC Skylah, we have sent the Flight Plan up. We had

some problems with transmission. Like you to check
and see if it looks okay, and tell us on the next
pass whether we need to send it again.

21 45 15 CDR Okay.

22 23 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Guam for 3 minutes.

PLT Roger.

22 24 36 CDR Hey, Crip. We Just finished welding the second wheel

on M5517
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CC Roger. Second wheel on 551. Did it take you very

much longer to get down to 0.i?

CDR I would have got there a lot faster if the time ....
There must be a leak in the filament chamber.

CDR I'll check it again very care_111y this time. I was

looking at the checklist to m-_e sure that I had
pressurized it with the cham_er open, and I did. I
went by the cher_1_t.

CC Roger. There is some speculation here that even when

your chamber reads zero that, you know, there is
still a little bit of pressure there, and if you open
it up real soon, you may still be pressurizing the
ch-m_er slightly, the filament chamber rather.

CDR Okay. Well, next time I'll let it sit - I'll let the
work chamber sit in a vacuum for a while before I
do the other thing. Then I'll - I open it up and
verify it.

CC Sounds good.

CDR But I don't get much of a vacuum. I'm lucky to get

tmder 0.1; 0.i is about it no matter how long you let
it sit.

CC Roger.

CDR It's really mA_ ng me old quick.

CC Roger.

22 26 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i mlnute from LOS. See you

again over the Vanguard at 23:00; 2300.

SPT Okay.

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23 00 27 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS i0 minutes.

PLT Roger, Hill.

CC Skylah. LOS in i minute. Ascension 23:13.

Also - also we replaced the Flight Plan, and it
should be in the teleprinter at this time.

PLT Okay.

PLT Hello. Houston, are you still there?

CC Go, Skylah.

PL PLT There ain't no Flight Plan hrre, Bill. All we

got's general evening questions.

CC Copy.

23 13 37 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS ii minutes.

SPT Roger, Houston. Were you sending up another Flight

Plan because the plan has changed or because you
thought the first one was garbled?

CC We thought the first one was garbled.

SPT No, it was okay.

CC Copy.

23 20 19 SPT Hey, Houston; Skylab. Are you there?

CC Go, Skylab.

SPT I can give you some evening questions, if you're

ready.

CC We're standing by.

23 20 30 SPT Okay. Question l: no comment. It's just true.

That's all. Question number 2: we don't think so.
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The method being used for ergometer restraint now

is nothing. That is, no external devices at all -
Just the handlebars and the center strap, and, again,
you put your head on the ceiling. Everybody uses
the same handlebar setting, which is 5; and the-_
seat setting, we're using 77. It really isn't very
important, because you don't use the seat. Ideally,
you can design some handlebars that would allow
you to take the stress in the comfortable position
where it didn't exert a pitch torque on your body.
But that's dressing, and I don't think that they
need anything new. What they need to do is train
a little bit on a horizontal bike.

CC Joe, do you think it's worth the effort of a

simple extension of the handlebars?

SPT That'd be nice.

CC Copy.

23 21 35 SPT Question nnmher 3: the SPT's opinions; I'ii have

the CDR and PLT look these over, and if they differ
from me, they can put it on channel B. A - I'm
sketching the corona; the other two aren't, and it's
been only moderately helpful so far because the -
there's not a lot of detail on it, and we can tell
that the corona's chamging by going back and re-
viewing our sketches, but the information isn't
terribly useful to us. I don't understand part B:
rolling of white light coronagraph to identify
faint figures. No, we haven't found that helpful.
Haven't tried it. H-alpha image does appear to
move. It moves quite a bit as sUnset approaches,
and it lasts a good i0 to 15 seconds. And I expect
that your rationale for that is correct.

SPT Okay. Is there any difference between the two

H-alphas? I think that H-alpha 2 appears to have
finer resolution, hut that may be Just because you
can't get as much _mage magnification with it.
There are no major differences. We've seen no
pointing Jitter other than the electronic jitter th
that we described. That's attributal to crew
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activities. The ATM appears to be pretty stable.

Haven't seen any associated with door opening and
closing either. That was Echo. Foxtrot: not off
hand; we'll think about it. The JOP snmmary sheet
for building blocks, going pretty well. Can 55
detector 1 and 3 be maximized on network battery?
Of course, it maximizes beautifully in plage. On
network battery, you might get a factor of 2 out
of it, if you're lucky. It's a little sloppy and a
little hard to do. Hotel: the X-ray image is not
performing as hoped. It's been completely worth-
less up to now. We've never seen anything in it.
Hopefully, if we get a good big X-ray flare, we
will see something in it. Then we can make a
meaningful comment.

23 23 57 2C Okay, and we're going LOS here in approximately

20 seconds. Guam at 23:57.

SPT Okay, and the last part of that question: keeping

track of S054 frames does require an extra 30 sec-
onds to a minute, but it's okay. It can be done.
And we'll answer question h another time.

CC Thank you, Joe.

23 57 45 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS ii minutes. And, Skylab,

we're sending a pointing load up on t_is pass at
Guam. And it's on unattended ops.

PLT I didn't copy that, Bill. Houston, are you ready

for the Evening Status Report?

CC That's affirm. Go ahead.

23 58 40 PLT The CDR had a standard day of everything on the

menu, plus two cans of fattening butter cookies.
The SPT, normal all the way. The PLT ate every-
thing except for lunch - for dinner, item 75,
bread. DELTA water is minus l, optional salt, a
whopping 1.5. Photo log as follows: 16-millimeter,
S073 retract, M151: Charlie India 25, 70, Mike
Tango ll. S073 stow, M151: the same draft order;
the film's all the same. M551: Charlie Iniia 05,
18, Charlie India O1.

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23 59 50 PLT 35 millimeter: Charlie India 28 is 15, Charlie India

29 is 53; the Hasselblad, Charlie X-ray 06, bY our
count has 97 frames exposed. Are you still there,
Houston?

CC We're still copying, Joe.

PLT Okay. I didn't want to say all that stuff for nothing;
that's all. Under EREP 190 Alfa. The ... nnmher 1
is 7226, number 2 is 6563, number 3 is 7438, number
h is 7433, number 5 is 0977, number 6 is 8293°

CC Copy.

PLT We got a footnote here on that S073 stuff which is

out of supply Charlie India 25. We got an END OF
FILM light on a ...; however, it's still pulling film.
We don't quite know what's going on. We marked the
film and the mark's gone and plus it indicates that
it is still moving. Are you ready for the drawer A
configuration?

00 01 31 CC That's affirmative.

PLT Okay. A-1 is 02, Charlie India 05 18, Charlie India 01;
Alfa 2 is 03; Charlie India 06 62; Charlie India 03;
Alfa 3, 06; Charlie India 08 18; Charlie India 07;
Alfa h, 05; Charlie-India 25 50; Mike Tango ll.

CC We copy.

PLT Okay. No Flight Plan deviations, any stowage items

changes have been put on tape; and no inoperable
equipment that you don't already know about.

CC We copy that.

00 03 46 CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.

CC Apparently we've lost the star on the tracker and the

new acquisition angles all are - -
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PLT Hold it, hold it. I've got to get something to write
it on.

CC Copy.

PLT Okay. Go ahead.

CC Inner gimbal, plus" 0198; outer gimbal, plus 1950.

00 0_ 2_ PLT Got it. Thank you.

00 07 06 CC Skylab, LOS in i minute. Vanguard at 00:37, and we

Will be dumping the tape recorder at that point.

PLT Roger.

O0 38 05 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, i0, minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. Say, I had a little problem with

M551 I'd like to discuss with you.

CC We're standing by.

CDR Okay. On welding on the third plate, when I got to

the cross and I was welding - was doing the pooling,
at the end of the amount of time after the beam elec-
tronic beam got to be ON, I hit the RE_Y/RESET switch
to turn it off and it would not turn off. So I reached
up and turned off the FILAMENT BEAM power. And that
shut it off, but I can hear something clicking away
back by the battery, and the 5VA was still on for some
reason. And the only way I could get it to shut off
was to pull the MAIN BAT circuit breaker. Then I
went through the mA1f procedures and there's absolutely
zero in there. So I went back to my own imagination
and plugged the BAT circuit breaker back in, and sure
enough the 5VA was still on. So I turned on the fila-
ment power and that turned it off. But along about
that time the electro_ beam gun went off again all by
itself, so I decided relays were hung up or something.
So I pulled the FILAMENT BAT circuit breaker this time,
and reset it, and that reset - whatever it was that
was wrong in there, and that's where we stand right
now. I finished the third specimen, but I thought l'd
pass that along. We might like to hear some words
about it. We were still considering trying to do the
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M552 and that requires the gun. And I don't know

whether I got everything reset or not. But at least
it's in a condition where we can give it a try again.

00 40 19 CC We copy that, Pete, and we'll get back to you before

552.

CDR Thank you. Well, that's something that they said

they weren't going to schedule. If we could do it
on our own, we would. We were planning on giving it
a whirl tonight, maybe.

CC Okay. Well, that's what I -

00 41 25 MCC Hello, Skylab; SPT, Houston. If you're near a squawk

box, Joe, could you give us a call, please?

SPT Go ahead.

MCC Is - Joe?

SPT Yes.

MCC I Just wanted to follow up on a couple of those ques-

tions you answered last time for us, Joe. You men-
tioned that the H-alpha image appears to move as you
approached sunset approximately l0 or 15 seconds early.
That's a good number for us. We would like a little
precision on it, if it's possible. The next couple of
times you're on the panel, if it's convenient for you
to remember and Just note as accurately as you can,
when the image first begins to move, it would help us
in our planning, because apparently we will want to make
sure we do cutoff all observations before that does
begin to happen. And on question B, which was a little
puzzling, we tried to abbreviate too much, apparently.
We had noticed that faint features in the corona, like
a very faint streamer, or something embedded in the
coronal brightness could be seen more clearly when we
rolled the TV, and we were finding that very helpful
here on the ground, and were wondering if you also
found it useful in identifying these streamers in the
spacecraft. Over.

SPT Hi, Owen. I didn't recognize you at first.

MCC Glad to talk to you, Joe.

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SPT Hey, in doing this work with the corona, are you using
stuff we've sent down or the training films?

00 _2 57 MCC Oh, no. We're using all the stuff you've sent down,
and it looks very interesting, indeed. All the Pls
back there are very enthusiastic and pleased with the
way it looks.

SPT Okay. I'ii have to look at it - we - I have not

specifically noticed anything being enhanced by rolling,
but it maybe something we Just missed. Yes, we'll
start timing that for you on the H-alpha. I suspect
it's fewer than 15 seconds and we'll try and get you an
ace %Lrat e _her.

MCC Okay. Thanks a lot, Joe. And they are all very en-
thusiastic about the pictues, and the white light,
and the XUV, as well. Even th_1zb the XUV may be a
little faint, it's very helpful down here with those
integrated pictures , because we can pull it out frame
by frame and look at it.

CDR ...

PLT Yes. It's a little harder but we are getting used to

it. Yes, the X-ray _age is really the disappointment,
I guess, of the displays. And as far as the JOPS and
building blocks go, Owen, I think the format is fine.
I know you'll want to m_ke detail changes, but I think
all the people that put those together deserve a lot of
credit.

CC Thanks, Joe. And also, your answer on the X-ray image

was exactly what we were looking for. We're aware that
at the moment you probably can see very little with the
solar activity as low as it is. However, we do still
feel, based upon its performance and the performance
of the PMEC, that it's doing Just about what it should
do. And whenever the activity does increase, or a
flare, or plage brightens up, you should then be able
to see it on that X-ray image. So you shouldn't get
too discouraged Just because you don,t see it now.
When the activity picks up, we think you should.

SPY We're waiting and waiting for that flare.

MCC Roger.
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PLT Hey, Owen?

MCC Go.

PLT 0wen, baby!

MCC Hello, Paul.

PLT You there?

MCC Go ahead.

PLT Hey, I noticed something I put on tape today, some

TV of the coronagraph, and I think that maybe what
you're seeing in there, you know, our occulting disk
is a little offset. And I noticed that you can cause
some features in the corona to be enhanced as you
offset the disk such that you get the best picture
of the first - a little closer to the edge of the
disk. And you'll see things that you didn't see other-
wise. It's kind of like taking the H-alpha picture
off the edge. So that automatic gain allows you to
see the streamers in that. And - the big changes in
the roll - Maybe that's what you're seeing instead
of actually being able to see them better when they're
moving. Maybe it's because different features are
moving closer to the edge of the disk there.

00 45 31 MCC Well, it is true that near that 7 to 8 o'clock position,

where the picture is brighter, you will be able to see
things a little closer to the limb of the Sun, sort
of like you used to do with T025 when you had it out
the plus-Z airlock. You know you can rotate that
occulting disk near the limb and see a little bit more
stuff near by. But that would be about the only thing
I could think of that would produce the thing you're
talking about, Paul.

CDR Hey, Owen. This is Pete.

CC Go ahead, Pete.

CDR I got one suggestion for the JOPS S11mmary Sheet,

especially S056 and 54. I put in there on each mode
now the number of frays that are going to be taken,
because with the 56 acting up and 54 with no READY
OPERATE light, you do have to count the frames. It's
not too bad counting frames, but there's enough pro-
grams in there that - well, we've written on the
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instrument panel there, but that's a little sloppy.

You might put the number of frames that are going to
be taken in each set in there, Just so it's handy
for you.

MCC Okay, Pete. Thank you, I think if you'll look on the

building block in the upper left-hand corner, I be-
lieve, that fr-_ number is in there, isn't it?

O0 46 47 CDR No, I don't think it is on - like the active i long,

15 pictures, I don't remember that being in there.

MCC Okay. I'ii check them all. We should have them in

the upper left-hand corner of each block, and appre-
ciate the suggestion, Pete.

00 47 02 CC And, Skylab; we're going LOS in 45 seconds. We'll

have you at Canary at 58.

00 58 I0 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS, i0 minutes.

SPT Hello, Houston.

CC We're standing by.

Ol 00 4h CC Skylab, we have c_e or two news items h_re, if it won't

interfere with your activities.

SPT Good. Go ahead.

CC The first thing is another satellite has been launched,

the Titan III-C rocket by the Air Force at 2:15 this
morning. Thought to be a missile early warning
device Power shortage is to continue. A growing num-
ber of service stations are shortening their opera-
tion as sn-,_er travel increases. Power is being -
this is electric power is bing curtailed, especially
along the east coast, which apparently has a heat
wave. It's causing a drain from air conditioning op-
eration. All federal offices in Washington D.C. began
a partial brownout today, to help fight the power
shortage.

SPT Hope they don't brown you guys out.

CC Oh, we've always got a plant out back we can fire up.
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SPT Okay. You can always get onto your ergometer, Bill.

CC Thank you.

CC And it says that the devaluation of the U.S. dollar

is causing increases in the price of foreign-made
imports. Everything from food stuff to automobiles.

SPT Did we devalue again? How much?

CC No, we haven't officially devalued. But apparently

the price on the money markets is going down.

SPT Okay.

01 02 39 CC And, on sports, most of the major leagues had a day

off. The San Francisco Giants won 2 to 1 over the
Mets; increased their lead over Los Angeles to
l-l/2 games. Los Angeles in second place and Houston
is in third with five games behind. Astros are play-
ing the Cubs tonight in the dome, but no score yet.

CDB Oh, boy.

CC Jack Wicklaus leads PGA golfers in earnings this year

with $181,000. The really big news, which Crip may
have apprised you of is the rain in Houston today.
Earlier today they had up to 7 inches in lots of
spots and all the low places were under water.

SPT Golly, how are the Bay Area suburbs doing?

CC I was afraid you would ask that.

CC I'll - Stand by and I'll find out.

PLT Well, you don't have to go to the trouble. There is

nothing we can do about it anyway.

01 04 04 PLT Next program, we will start changing the weather; this

one we're Just observing it.

CC We copy.

CC As for the local area flooding, that's been restricted

Just to streets. No houses have been involved, and
such.
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PLT Okay. That 's good.

CC Yes, that's not quite true in Friendswood. Lousma's

beem blocked about a mile from his house, which has
been overrun. And there are quite a few others up
that way. We've - The creek that went past our back
increased from abOut i0 feet and went to about 300 yards,
as a matter of fact. We're still fortunately dry.

PLT That's good. We are, too.

01 05 50 CC The Director is spending the evening in Nassau Bay

Motel. He lives in Friendswood.

PLT (Laughter) Oh, dear.

CC And we're going to sleep configuration with the gyros;

Y-l, -2 is On; 3 is backup.

PLT Roger.

CC There's also a message here that the S073 PI would

like to convey his thanks for the outstanding Job the
crew did on S073 today. The data tapes looked excel-
lent, and these were correlated with scans from
Pioneer 2, and scans from Maul in Hawaii.

PLT CDR says he enjoyed it.

CC Copy.

Ol 08 32 CDR Say, Bill you still there?

CC We're still here Pete. Go.

Tell the M551 guys or the M512, however you want to

look at it. We've determined that what's happened is
- it appears that the filament beam gun has moved
forward. Not left or right, but it moved forward.
Plus X, for some reason, Just a little bit, like maybe
an eighth of an inch. It must be held in there by a
ring or something like that.

CC We copy that, Pete.

01 l0 33 CC PLT, Houston.
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PLT Go ahead.

CC Film transporter 6 has about 18 percent film left and

they'd like for you to shoot this up at - on any sub-
Ject, any speed, and tomorrow's film logwill reflect
this being used. And we'll be LOS in approximately
1 minute here.

PLT Okay; real fine.

01 ll lh CC And be advised we won't be making Guam this time. The

Honeysuckle is the next one at 01:h7. There will be
a medical conference there. All the EVA teleprinter
pad should be on board at this time.

01 ll 33 PLT Okay.

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O1 53 54 CC Skylab, if you read, we'll be at Canary at 02:36.

PLT Okay.

02 36 54 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, 13 minutes.

SPT Roger, Houston. We're pretty busy right now. The

CDR is trying to break the PLT's world record of 13
bounces around the ring lockers.

PLT With the blue ball.

CC Be sure it's only the world's record that you break.

PLT Don't ask for the rules. It's extremely complicated,

involves orbital mechanics and everything.

CC How m,ny g's do you figure you work up running

around those things?

SPT Oh, not more than - -

CDR (Yelling)

SPT - - ... from the outside.

02 h2 52 CC And Just for the record, the - tonight's ball scores

came in_ the Astros nothing, the Chicago Cubs 3.

CDR One, one, quickl

SPT Houston? Houston? Where are you?

CC We're standing by.

SPT We didn't hear the scores. You cut out.

CC Oh, the Astros nothing; Chicago Cubs 3. That's a

final in the dome tonight.

SPT Well, I'll bet old Butch Jenkins did it again.

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CC Stand by a half and I'll find out who it was.

SPT I always hate it when those two te-m_ played because

I'm for them both.

02 43 57 CC Hey, we've been watchlng s_e beautiful TV, that's

been coming down recently from you people.

SPT I'm glad it came out good.

CC It' s very good.

SPT What is it of?

CC Oh, }4171, MO - 90 - M092; that sort of thing. I'll

tell you, sc_e of those pictures are worth a thou-
sand words.

SPT Great. Well our - our really favorite one of all is

the XUV monitor though.

CC There are also people that appreciate that.

SPT 0h, yes.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Yes, go ahead.

02 46 22 CC Question here on the 551. After you cycled the

FILAMENT BA'A'I'_.'_(Y
circuit breaker, did you go to
READY/RESET to get the 5KVA to turn off?

CDR No, sir. The cycle and the breaker did it by itself.

CC We copy.

CDR Say, Bill, on that EVA plan, are you still there?

CC Yes, we're here.

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CDR I'd like a little more time tonight before - we -

we use some of the equipment and I would like, you
know on the first EVA, like the tethers, the long
tethers that we used to hold the pole, and so forth.
I would like maybe another hour to iron that gear
out and make sure it's all in good order.

CC Copy that.

02 47 h6 CDR Otherwise it looks okay. I don't think we'll doff

our suits in between EVA neither. That's a waste
of time.

CC Okay.

CDR Make it almost all the way to the wardroom with your
PCU and umbilical on anyhow, as a fact, ... can
make it all the way. Yes, time is no constraint at
that point. As a matter of fact, we're almost in
daylight the full time, I would imagine. That's
number 1 and number 2. That's all well lit out there
anyhow -

CREW (Yelling)

CDR - - ... daylight except for sail deployment itself.

02 48 35 CC Hey, Rusty wants to know if you have an answer to the

first question on the EVA?

CDR Oh, about the SUS pumps?

CC That's affirm.

CDR I'm going to have to look that up and get it to you

in the morning. I'll have to go look at the check-
list. I can't - none of us can remember.

CC Okay.

SPT What I'm pretty sure happened, Pete, is that the -

the LqUs were attached to the PCUs, but the PCUs weren't
attached to us yet.

CC Copy.
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CDR That's right, I - Joe's right. And - and as I re-

member, we put them on and then I was tal_ug about
how cold I was - nice the flow was. And Joe said,
"well l'm not getting any."

02 49 18 CC Okay. We copy. And we' re going LOS here for the

night in about 20 seconds. And we'll see you to-
morrow.

CDR Okay. I - it may have been the other ws_v around.

I forget who wasn't flowing, but when we put them on
it was that way.

CC We copy.

CDR We're Just going into daylight and the Moon is Just
setting. That's quite a pretty sight.

02 h9 49 CC You're right. We can only dream about it down here.

END OF TAPE
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16h:i0:30 to
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

ll 00 14 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.

SPT Hello.

CC How's it going this morning? We've got about 5 min-

utes left here to Ascension.

SPT Okay, we're on our way.

ll 04 32 CC Skylab, Houston; about 30 seconds from LOS; Carnarvon

at 31.

ii 30 03 CC Skylab, Houston; through Carnarvon for 5-1/2 minutes.

CDR Hi, there, Houston.

CC Good morning.

CDR Good morning.

ll 37 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS,

Honeysuckle. Hawaii will be cnm_ng up at 55. And
we've got all the pads up except the odds and ends and
the general message on the WLC-TV.

PLT Roger.

CDR What did your pad senders do, take the night off
last night?

CC Well we had a little trouble getting them all together

last night, Pete.

PLT He's Just being smart.

ll 55 24 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 2-1/2minutes.

CREW ...

ll 50 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS;

Goldstone at 07.

CDR Roger, babe.

END OF TAPE
 TAG Tape 164-04
16h: 12:00 to
164:13:30
Day 164 Page 1391

12 07 03 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone; 5 minutes.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go ahead.

SPT I'd like the photo people to recommend DAC settings

for me to shoot up transporter 06 out the window
during the EREP pass. Over.

CC Roger. We'll work on it.

12 09 03 CDR Hey, Hank, for the M551 people, I let that tank sit
on vent all night; and that's the first time the
readings have really been good. It turns out that
that Just must have - I don't know what it was -
the motors or something must have been getting through
one heck of a lot of outgasslng all day yesterday.
I've got a good hard vacuum in there this morning,
0.01.

CC Roger. Sounds good.

CDR Yes, well all the welding was done between 0.1 -
right around 0.1. But this morning, for the first
time, I got a 0.01, out of it.

CC And, Pete, while we're t-lking about it, we're -

we've got a troubleshooting procedure in - we're
working up on this EV gun, and we're going to get
that up to you sometime this morning, and we'll
do that in place of your 551 terminate.

CDR Good. Well, I'll tell you what we've done. We've
got a 552 whmel in there righ_ now, and if the trouble-
shooting procedure is successful, we'll go ahead and
do the wheel, make the ball bearings.

12 12 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about l0 seconds from LOS.

We'll be coming up on MILA at 15.

12 l_ 32 CC Skylab, Houston. Through MILA 7 minutes.

PLT Roger.
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CC And, CDH; Houston. We'd Just like to verify. You

did say you had the ... wheel installed, didn't you?

CDR Yes, sir. And it's in a hard vacuum, 0.01.

CC Okay. Tbat'll fit- in with our troubleshooting all

right.

CDR Let's see you get that up to us.

CDR Tell me what it is now, H,nk. We've got a few

minutes.

CC I haven't seen it myself, yet. All I know is, it

Just got in from Marshall, and the guys are looking
over it. And we hope to have it up to you by 14:00.

CDR Yes. That 's working fine.

12 24 50 CC Skylab, Houston; i minutes to LOS. Ascension at 35.

12 35 37 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for 5 more

minutes. And for info, we're configuring your rate
gyros for the daytime configu_vation. And, SPT, I
got your photo settings for you.

SPT Go ahead.

12 35 54 CC Okay, if you plan to shoot that thing out the

window totally, in other words, no inside shots,
use f/5.6 at 1/250. If you're going to mix up
outside and inside, use f/ll at 1/500.

SPT Okay, Hank. This one will have to be a mix. I'd

like to have a - a - pure hO0 footer dedicated
to EREP pass tomorrow, if they can see fit to do it.
I think it'd be good photography.

12 36 33 CC Okay. So then per you mix setting, you want to use

f/ll at 1/500.

SPT I got you.

CC You are using transporter 07. Is that correct?

On DAC 6?
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SPT No, sir. This is transporter 06 which we're to

shoot up. In fact, that's Just the one we were to
shoot up last night.

CC Okay, let us take a look at that.

CC SPT, Houston. I think we finally understand what's

happened here now. You -you - you haven't rethreaded;
so the f/ll, 1/500 is a - is a good setting to run
that out, and then you'll rethread for later in
the day. Is that correct?

SPT That's right.

12 39 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds from LOS.

Carnarvonwill be coming up at 06.

13 05 41 CC Skylab, Houston; Carnarvon for i0 minutes.

13 07 43 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we see a small problem

in the Nu z in the star tracker. We're going to be -
ASCO is going to be commanding star tracker out of
gimbal backup this pass.

SPT Roger.

PLT Where've you been? How was leave?

CC It was great. It's also great to finally get on the

day shift and talk to you guys at a normal hour.

SPT Yes. I was wondering about that.

CC It's been tough.

13 l0 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We've finished our commanding to

STAR TRACKER, and it looks like we're in good shape
now.

PLT That's your story, huh?

CC Roger.

CDR Don't tell me you've been on vacation. Tell me

you've been running launch shifts with Captain
Bean.
P_el_4 D_ _

CC Not true.

SPT Houston, SPT.

cc Go ahead, SPT.

13 ll 00 SPT Couple things on the Earth terrain camera. Number

one, I had a peculiar funny, which I'll Just repeat
for information. Maybe it's explainable. When I
first attempted to turn power on the camera, I did
not get full operation. I got the green light but
no noise and no ability to move frames through. And
I still don't know what the matter was. But I
finally fixed it by opening and then closing
again all three circuit breakers on the inverter, at
which time I heard the inverter come on. And it
was not ON previously. But it's okay, now. The other
thing on the ETC is that there is still a loud hiss
when I hooked the vacuum hose up to this particular
film - film cartridge. And I 'm going to make the
run without the vacuum hose. Over.

CC Roger, Joe. Copy.

SPT (Chuckle) Okay.

13 ll 56 SPT Also, I think transporter 05 was JAmmed _ - really,

really ; because I ran the ETC prep with that trans-
porter with the END-OF-FILM light ON and all that
stuff, and when I got done, the frames - the per-
centage used was the same as it has been when I
started. We'll tear it down later.

CC Okay, Joe. Just let us know when you do.

13 12 21 SPT Okay.

13 15 01 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute from LOS at

Carnarvon. We're going to have a short break and
see you at G,I-_ at 13:19. We're going to be dumping
the data tape recorder at G,,_. And be advised after -
you - after the EREP pass and you get back to solar
inertial, there is about ll minutes from the time
you're in solar inertial and sunset. And we'd like
to make sure you try to reacquire the star with the
star trackerduringthat period.

CDR We'll give her a bloody go.

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13 15 32 CC All righty. See you at G,,-m,

13 18 51 CC Skylab, Houston; Guam for i0 minutes.

CDR Hello.

PLT Roger, Dick. We don't have TV through Guam today,

do we?

CC Standby.

PLT I've got the Moon on the V_S. That's why I was
wondering if you had TV - I'd give you a shot at it.
Otherwise, I'll put them on 2 minutes on the VTR.

CC Answer is negative, Paul. No TV until Goldstone.

PLT Okay, we've got about 2 minutes of the Moon on the

VTR.

13 19 32 CC Okay.

13 20 38 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised wetre powering do_-n

the MDA wall heaters and CBRMs 3 and 15 in preparation
for the _EP pass. No action required.

SPT Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

We're going to see you at Goldstone at 13:hh.

PLT See you.

13 28 lO CC Okay.

END OF TAPE
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16_:13:30 to
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

CDR Forty-four minutes.

13 44 02 CDR MARK. Standing by for 45.

13 44 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Goldstone. We've got

television. No response required. Looking good.

CDR Roger. How do you read, Houston?

CC Loud and clear.

CDR Okay.

PLT You want to command the tape recorder on when you need
it, Dick, or do you want us to turn it on first?

CC Skylab, Houston; we'll take care of it from the ground.

PLT Okay.

13 44 47 PLT Captain Video strikes again.

CDR 8, 9-

13 45 Ol CDR MARK. POLARIZATION 4. Standing by for a 191 READY

light. 4, 3, 1.

13 45 ll CDR READY light. Bravo 7 reads 30.

PLT For information, Houston, that _S is looking out ahead

MAX angle which is 54 degrees ahead.

CC Thank you.

CDR l, 2, 3, _, 5, 6. ALTIMETER to STANDBY.

13 46 27 CDR MARK 46:26; POLARIZATION 1.

PLT Dick, I couldn't find Jupiter, and I don't have time

to look anymore.
Page1398 Day164

CC Roger; copy.

CDR Okay. _ have a SCATTEROM_£,:s X-MITTER light.

CDR 4.

13 47 44 CDR MARK. S190 MDDE AUTO. Joe, stand by for 48 ETC,

AUTO.

SPT Okay.

13 48 01 CDR MARK ETC AUTO. 48:10 MODE READY on 92 and I have TAPE
MOTION light.

PLT You 're wonderful.

PLT Houston, you got any late reports on the weather in

the Bayonett, Kansas area. Is it any better than the
0.8 that came up on the pad?

CC Stand by Just a second. I'll get the latest update.

PLT Okay. There's no rush, Dick. No sweat. It's either

good or it's not. I'm Just curious.

CC Skylab, Houston; no change in the weather. It still

looks about 0.8 cloud covering.

PLT (Groan ).

13 49 17 CDR MARK 49:16. The ALTIMETER is ON. I have no ready

light on the altimeter.

13 50 05 CDR ALTIM_A',R to STANDBY. MODE CHECK on 92.

13 50 19 CDR SCAT ON - BAD ON.

PLT Okay, that's where it's supposed to be, Houston. It

doesn't look too good, does it?

CC It sure doesn't.

PLT Well, gee, let's go look at a couple of holes in the

clouds, huh? (Laughter) What holes? Oh my.
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1339

13 51 19 CDR Okay, SCAT ON to STANDBY and RAD to STANDBY. S193

to O.

PLT That 's pretty solid 0.8, Dick.

13 51 30 CDR SCAT's ON, PAD's ON.

PLT Well. Better than that, does it.

PLT Hey, when you want a thunderstorm you can never find
one •

CC Sorry about that.

13 52 22 CDR MARK. SCAT, STANDBY, RAD, STANDBY. ALTIMETER is ON.

I have a HEADY light. And I can reconstruct. I made
a mistake back there, and I can tell you what happened.

PLT I'm going after that one there, that towering cu[mulus],
Dick.

CC Understand.

13 52 57 PLT There were no good anvils in the area. No good ...

CC Roger, PLT. - -

13 53 03 CDR Okay. S190 to FAST.

PLT The air's a little clearer.

CDR Looks like the whole U.S. is clobbered today.

13 53 30 CDR Okay, 92 to MODE READY. Tape looks good.

CDR Okay. For the EREP folks. Back there where I was
supposed to original ly put the ALTI_TER to STANDBY,
I think I put the SCAT to STANDBY, and that goofed up
the cycle there. Goofed up the warmup time on the
altimeter, too. It's Just that one part in there.
Also caused the SCAT TRAHSMI'I'I'_.'R
light.

CC Roger, CDR.

13 5h 20 PLT I'm not sure where we are here, Dick.

/ CC Stand by; I'll tell you.

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CC Skylab, Houston. It looks like you're probably over-

head Alab-_ now and coming up toward the Florida
panhandl e.

PLT Okay. Can't see much through these clouds. Boy,

there's some insurance now. It's the beach. That's
why it stands out §o good. There's the Cape under
the clouds there!

CDR Stand by - -

PLT See the Cape.

13 5h 58 CDR SCAT's ON; RAD's ON.

PLT There's the Titan complex, I think, Dick.

CC Roger, Paul. We see it.

PLT VAB is under the clouds, I guess.

CDR Hey! There it is. I recognize it.

PLT I'd rather get back to the business at hand.

PLT Okay. Coming up on some shallow water." Ought to be

coming into top of the screen pretty soon.

PLT Do those reefs show up? Can you see them all right?

13 55 45 CDR MARK, POLARIZATION _.

13 55 57 CDR SCAT, STANDBY; RAD, STANDBY. ALTIMETER's ON. MODE

c_CK on 92 . SPEED, MEDIUM. ETC to STANDBY at 56:58,
Joe. You've got about 30 secbnds.

SPT Roger.

PLT It's cloudy here, too.

PLT Okay. There's Andrews. That ought to be Nassau about

there, Richard. I can hardly see it through the
clouds, though.

CC Roger.

13 56 h7 PLT Well, here's something. I'ii get a - find a clear

area about there. You see the difference it ma_es
Day 16h Page lh01

when you look through leez and less haze? It really

makes a difference _hen you're trying to look out
there 4_ _egrees, Houston.

13 56 59 CDR ETC to STANDBY.

CC Roger; understand.

13 5T 07 CDR S190 light's out. "MDDE's STANDBY. FRAMES 6oin6 to 6.

PLT Okay. I'ii give it a few shots there.

CDR ...

PLT Quick answers from the EREP gang. Do they want another
site in the city or stay on the sa,_ one?

CC Say again the question, PLT. And be advised, we've

secured the TV.

PLT Okay. Never mind now, Dick.

PLT There's the tongue of the ocean, Houston, if you've

got the recorder running, which you don't.

CDR Here you go; the recorder's on.

CC Roger.

CDR Standing by for 58:24, and the ALTIMETER will be

going to STARD_Y.

13 55 24 CDR STANDBY. _DDE i. 58:45, looking for the ALTY__T_H

ON again.

PLT Okay. We can turn that off now.

13 58 46 CDR 58:45. The ALTIMETER is ON. Joe, standing by for

59:40, the ETC to AUTO.

SPT All right.

CC Skylab, Houston. The television and the VTR are yours

for the TV-29 cleanup. Also, if you have any problems
locking on the star tracker, we'd reco_nd to bracket
it to the larger n_mhers on the outer gimbal angle.
We're _bout a minute and a half from LOS. We're
going to see you at Ca_narvon at 14:_6.
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13 59 hl CDR Bye. 59:40, ETC AUTO.

SPY I got it_

I
CDR Where are we?

PLT Just passing the Dominican Republic, I think, or

Hispaniola.

CDR What are we coming up on now?

PLT Clouds.

CDR Oh, cloud photography - 23; MODE AUTO; 30; S192 to

READY.

14 00 30 CDR MARK. READY. Tape looks good. At 55, the ALTIMETER

to STANDBY.

14 O0 56 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. Standing by for the

191 POWER, OFF at 01:05. 2, 3, h.

14 Ol 06 CDR MARK. POWER, OFF. 0 - 7, 8, 9, I0, ii, 12, 13, 14, 15.
The POWER is back ON. 21, MODE, CHECK for 92.

14 01 22 CDR MARK. 21 MODE, CHECK, 92. 01.40, ALTIMETER to come

ON. 6, 7, 8, 9, i. READY. The ALTIM_'fEH is ON.
Standing by for a k_ADY out on S190 in 2 minutes.
6, 7, 8, 9, 2 minutes - READY out. MODE, STANDBY ...

14 45 41 CC Skylab, Houston; Carnarvon for 5 minutes.

SPT Roger, babe.

CC I've got a few little notes here to tell you guys

that I've saved up so I wouldn't bug you through the
EREP pass. And so, if you're in a listening mood,
I'll pass them up to you during - here at Carnarvon.

PLT Okay. We're standing by. And, Dick, the star tracker -
I zinged it to AUTO and then had to go to my little
VTS, and it did lock on something. I put the channel -
the details o_ B channel.

CC Okay. I had a note here. One of the notes that 2

had here was that during the EREP pass, the star
tracker, after you left it, did get a lockon, and
the gimbal angle trace indicates it probably was
Jupiter. So we think we made out okay on that one.
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PLT Okay.

CC The next thing I h_re is the update on the solar

activity. We had -During the evening, we had three
X-ray events last evening, and they generally were
associated with the grad1,A1 rise of ... and X-ray
background, but no optical flares were seen. And
we think the probable source of this activit_ was
active region 37, which has been a big X-ray producer
in past rotations sLnd is still #ery complex at this
time.

PLT Yes, we'll drink to that.

CC I'm snowed in a flurry of paper here to find my notes.

The next one I have is that later on today, we're
going to be sending you a short general message on
some procedures we'd like to accomplish in the command
module. Essentially, we've been running for several
days wi[±_ the primary coolant loop going. We've
got a lot of thermal data. And prior to doing the
power transfer, we'd like to switch to configuration
where both CSM coolant loops are operating. To get
some more thermal data, we're going to probably ask
you to do this - oh, in a couple or 3 hours. It'll
be about 5 or 10-minute task, and then we'll make
a decision, based on the data today, as to whether
or not we'll go back to this configuration prior to
going to sleep tonight or in the morning.

PLT Okay.

14 48 15 CC Next note I have was, during the evening, we've been

seeing some kind of steady degradation in the
operation of airlock module transmitter Alfa - the
10-watt transmitter. It's been giving kind of ratty
data, particularly at low elevation angles. However,
at this moment, we are still able to - with other
transmitters and by managing them correctly, we're
still able to get all our data. So I'll Just let
you know we're working that problem.

14 48 46 PLT Keep up the good work.

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CC We also had a - during the evening, we had a glitch

on the S055 door during ,,--_nued operation. And we
lost a couple of ATM passes with that experiment.
However, we've troubleshot it. It's apparently
working okay now, and we don't think you'll have any
problem today. But if you do have any kind of a
problem, you might .let us know On that. And I have
one more note that I'd like to ready to you real quickly.
Incidentally, we're about a minute from LOS. We're
going to see you at Guam at about 15:00. And this
is what we found on the tape recorder about the
hemispherical darkening of the H-Alpha screen. We
think that at one time the H-Alpha telescope was
pointed off Sun center prior to being zoomed in. And
a slight burn-in occurred while it was off center, and
it probably remained visible; we think that's what
you saw. This is norm-1. And we expect that minor
burns wil_ occur from time to time, and they will
wash off. And since your channel B information is
about 3 days old now, it may very well have washed
off. But at any rate, we think if it hasn't already
gone away, it will.

PLT What hemispherical darkening?

PLT How can you expect us to remember 3 days ago? You're

right; it did wash off.

CC Hey, okay. We're about to go LOS, and we'll see

you at Gnam.

lh 50 22 PLT Roger.

END OF TAPE
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16h:15:00 to
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

lh 59 59 CC Skylab, Houston; we're at @,,m for 3 minutes.

CDR Hi there!

CC Hi there.

CC Incidentally, Skylab, I see you've still got about

8 more minutes of nighttime; so I imagine you could
- might could listen a little bit. The only other
note that I had, which you've already probably no-
ticed in - was a mistake in a message we sent you
this morning, which was the general message telling
you about what the future flight plans were going to
he for the follow-on days. The mistake is that the
mission days 2h, 25, 26, and et cetera, are correct.
However, starting with day 25, the day of the year is
incorrect; it ought to be upped by i. And if you take
a close look at the message, I think you can figure
out where the mistake is yourself. And we'll Just leave
it at that.

CDR Okay, you got the date from 168 in there.-

CC Roger. That's right. Day 25 should be 168 and right

on down the line.

CDR Understand.

15 02 ii CDR Say, Dick, pass onto the M552 - M551 Pls that - Some-
thing internally must have happened in that - in that
gun, because we started running it again when we had
0.01 vacuum - a good hard vacuum in there. And after
we ran the electronics for a while, we quit outrunning
the gun, and we had a great deal of difficulty in -
aligning the gun on the ball bearing target. Because
there's no doubt about it, it got shifted somewhere
during the launch phase of the flight. There must - I
don't know whether there's any electronics inside the
vacuum chamber itself on the gun, but there must be.
Because after it runs for a while, it Just starts
outgassing again, and we have a terrible time keeping
a vacuum in there. And something must he broken loose
or cracked open in there - outgas after the electronics
are heated up for a while.
Page lh06 Day 16h

CC Roger, Pete. And they were listening there.

CDR Well, that's the om/_ thin@ I can think of because,

sure enough, the gage is - is right after - having
let it sit ,II night. It reads 0.01 when you get
good vacuum in there. But then we let it sit all
night with no Juice on whatsoever. We left the thing
in the vent mode and-left the filament chamber open,
and it took all night. And after we ran for a while
this morning aligning the gun up on the target, why
it Just started outgassimg again. And we're letting
it suck itself back down to a good hard vacuum.

15 03 56 CC Roger. Understand. We're about to go LOS. We're

going to see you at Goldstone at 15:21, and we are
• reviewing now a general message that was sent up to
you on a malfunction procedure for - on M512. We'll
see you at Goldstone.

CDR Okay.

15 22 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at stateside for the next

13 minutes. And be advised we Just got a report of a
new flare in active region 37.

CDR Roger, Houston. Are you ready for TV?

CC CDR, Houston. We have TV. We are going to take it

away for Just a couple of minutes so we can dump the
VTR, and then we'll come back to it. But we - _ do
have good TV.

CDR Okay.

PLT Hey, Dick, is - We put in an early film status report

today since it's s little bit J_zzed up due to some
transporter JA_. And I'm on ch_n_el B now, if those
photo people want to try to get it early.

CC Okay. Thane you.

15 23 01 PLT Okay, apparently what the problem is, is we're having

a - a farily high incidence of Jams. I think this is
our third or fourth one. We consider it high, anyway.
And after you clear it, and you run mere film through,
the transporter appears to function normally. Now,
we've conjectured that maybe that emulsion - that
Day 164 Page 1407

something - the heat did something to it, because it

does seem a little difficult to pull film off the
supply cassettes. So it may be a fault of the film
rather than the transporters.

CC Roger. I understand.

MCC FAO, did you -

15 23 55 SPT Houston, SPT. Have any of these flares been class M

or better?

CC Stand by.

CC Skylab, Houston. On these flares - we have one in

progress in 37, I Just told you about; one also in
active region 27. And the one in 27 is faint and we
also don't think the one in 37 is going to get up to
class M.

SPT Roger; okay. We've had the alarm enabled all morning
and the console is m-nned now, of course. Our PMEC
count is not high. It's running around 300.

CC Okay. Tb-nk you.

CDR How did you get it yesterday? ... hand signals - -

(Music)
CC Skylab, Houston; be advised that we get the word from
NOAA that the activity that we reported in active
region 37 on that small flare is finished.

CDR All right.

SPT That transmission coincided with our flare alarm for

some reason.

CC Roger.

15 28 43 SPT The SPT and PLT are about to play "Face the Music."

CC I heard you were about to play, but I didn't hear what.

SPT "Face the Music." We're doing M131 at our new rotation
level.
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CC Roger.

PLT I Just boise my pants legs stay where they are - not
whipped off by the wind blast at this speed.

CC Hang on.

CDR You guys getting TV, "now?

CC Affirmative ....

CDR You got enough H-Alpha 2?

CC Sorry, Pete, I didn't understand you.

CDR I said, "You got enough H-Alpha 2?

CC That's affirmative. We'd llke to go to WLC now.

CDR Okay. Holler when you want me to rotate.

CC All righty.

15 30 23 CC CDR, Houston. You can go ahead and proceed with the

rotation at your convenience now.

CDR Okay. Would you like it at slow rate times i, or

slow rate times 2, or fast rate times l, or fast
rate times 2?

CC Slow rate times i, Pete.

CDR Roger.

15 31 38 CC Skylab, Houston. For your information, we are uplinking

a message to you that is a malfunction procedure to
M512 - for M551. However, based on your previous
report, Pete, we're reconsidering now whether or not
to actual ly go through this m,lf procedure or not. And
we'll tal_ to you about that at Vanguard. There is one
point in the malfunction procedure also that asks you
to look at the filament glow; and we're now real sure
you could see that with the beam on. But in order to
be able to cover all bets, we're going to go ahead and
give you the message now, and we'll t_l_ to you a little
bit later as to whether we'd like for you to perform
it. You may have already done most everything in the
message for us.
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CDR Okay, we'3! thunk [sic _ it'over and see what _-e've got.

CC Okay, that - that'll probably help. Probably if you

Just had time to take a look at it, you could probably
answer better than wm could as to maybe where we ought
to go next.

CDR Yes, okay.

CC Roger.

CC CDR, Houston. We've seen what we want now at this

slow rate. We're willing now to go high rate times
lO and - so we can, you know, get the rest of our
downlink TV.

15 34 51 CDR Okay, that'_ it for ... and that XUV mort.

CC Roger. We'll take XUV monitor now. Be advised we're

about 45 seconds from LOS. We're going to see you at
Vanguard at 15:46, and we're going to dump the data
tape recorder there.

CDR Okay, and here's the last shot H-Alpha i.

CC Sorry, Pete. We didn't copy that one. But we do -

we do have good tele_ision.

15 47 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Vanguard for

8-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CC CDR, Houston. Realize you're in the middle of a

daytime pass. I have a couple of questions that -
for the M550 series people that I'll Just go ahead
and read to you. And when you get a chance, if you
do, during this pass, you might give us a quick
answer. One was : This morning did you use the nom-
inal electron-beam gun procedures when you did the
little runthrough that you described while ago? And
secondly, was the plus 5 kv voltmeter reading less
than 4? Over.

CDR The answer to the second question is it's reading more

than 4. And the answer to the first question - Yes
we used the nominal pro _e_ures.
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CC Okay. Good. We' 11 take, those answers, and before

you go LOS, we' 11 let you know whether we want you
to do a terminate or M553.

15 50 3_ CDR I checked the A-.wer to that troubleshooting procedure.

It says : Other than not opening the cb POW_ CONTROL
BAT, but opening cb POWER FI_T BAT. - SOLAR BAT.
We rechecked that problem last night, and everything
else goes Just the way this procedure should go to
allow us to use the gun. Okay?

CC Okay, Pete. Stand by Just a second.

CC Skylah, Houston. Be advised we've reconfigured after

the EREP pass, and we've got the CBRM heaters and MDA.
wall heaters bank on.

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute - 30 seconds

from LOS. We're going to see you at Goldstone at
17:01. And Pete, we'd like you to do a M553, in
place of the M551 determinate on your flight plan.

CDR Will do.

15 55 42 CC Very good.

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17 01 03 CC Hello, again, Skylab. We've got you at Goldstone for

the next 5 minutes.

PLT Goldstone! How about that. Okay.

CC Yes, sir. We - couple of items. We notice the star

tracker is about locked up, and Nu z appears to be bad.
We think your pad onboard is good. You might attempt
to get a - acquire again. Also, on the CALROC, we're
- they're having trouble in the countdown with the
main video. The're checking it out. The last I heard
we were 25 minutes and counting down. And if they
don't h_ _- - have i_ solved at about 6 minutes, we'll
hold there, and I'll get back to you on that.

PLT Okay.

PLT There is, what will be to the medical people, some

interesting information on channel B regarding the
SPT's M131 run.

CC Okay, biomed ops are copied, and he'll be looking for

that.

17 02 02 SPT And here's the SPT himself saying that the wardroom
window, Dick, is really bad. It's - What used to be
our friendly ice crystal is now a friendly waterdrop
surrounded by 3 inches of fog. And it seriously inter-
feres with photography through that window. I wonder
if the ground couldn't help us by either reco_ending
that we vent the window or that we turn the heater off
to let it refreeze.

CC Joe, we copied that, and EGIL will be thinking about

that one.

SPT Thank you.

CC Also, from Pete, we'd be interested, if he's this

far along, in how he made out with 533. And also,
we're very interested in the color of the parasol.
One more thing - I'm not sure when you'll have copy -
time to copy, but I've _ot a pointing update for
Pete for a JOP 12 Bravo this _fternoon.
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17 03 O0 CDR Okay, while I'm getting my notebook out, all I can teli
you is that I got the first two balls melted, and the
first one ran down and made a perfect sphere on the
stinger. It's one of the ones that's not supposed to
come off. And then as it started to harden, it sort
of got the shape of an old balloon. The second one
formed a pretty good sphere. The third one came off
the string. About that time - I think - I think we got
some problem with electronics heating up. At that
time. I got to the fourth one, which is retractable,
Dick. And the gun lit, and stopped firing about 1
second after it lit. And my vacuum's degenerating
again and was up to plate i; so I Just - let everything
cool down and let it out gas some more. I don't know
where this outgassing is coming from, but that's ob-
viously what it is. There must be something back
there in that electron gun that's outgassing. And
I'm going t_ .ait until I've got a good hard vacuum
again, and let the electronics cool down, and go back
and do it some more.

CC Okay; copy.

CDH And I'm ready to copy the pointing.

17 04 18 CC Okay. This is for JOP 12 Bravo, step i, Building

Block 22, as scheduled, I think, at 18:21. It's RL,
minus 7500; U, plus 550; H, plus 600. And this is -
the reason for this, Pete, is to clear - We've had
some dispersion due to change in this filament 79,
and this should give us some better data.

CDR Okay.

PLT Hey, Houston.

CC Go ahead.

PLT We Just got around to putting those S190 desiccants

in the fecal oven today. How _bout reminding me -
how about giving me that 190 desiccant thing again,
about day after tomorrow, will you, please?

CC Roger; copy.

17 05 21 CC And, Skylab; Houston. We copy star tracker is locke6

on and looking good. We're about 30 seconds from
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LOS. Going to see you at Vanguard at 17:23, and

we're going to dump _he data tape recorder there.

17 05 33 SPT Okay, Dick, thls is the SPT. During the EVA, the
parasol looked orange to me. If I hadn't known there
was a controversy, I wouldn't have thought it was
faded. It may have been faded a little.

CC What does it look - i guess what We're interested in

is have you looked at it this morning and does it
still look orange?

CDR We're getting that right now.

17 05 52 CC Okay, fine. We'll see you at Vanguard , Pete.

17 23 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Vanguard. We've got

a 10-minute pass here. Be advised we've got a sub-
flare in p_ogress in active regoin 37. We are in the
count on the CALROC, with about 3 minutes and 30 seconds
to lift-off. It's GO.

CDR Hey, keep us posted.

CC Yes, sir. It'll - It'll lift off - It should lift

off during this AOS, and I'll let you know.

CDR Okay.

17 25 ii CC Skylah, Houston; CALROC still in the count. Lezs

than 2 minutes left to go to launch. And Pete, if
you get a chance this time, you might let us know on
what you found when you looked at the parasol.

CDH Still looks the same to me, Dick. Orange, but a

little faded.

17 25 27 CC But it still has a definite orange color, huh? I

talked to the guys on the phone while ago, and that's
what they were really interested in. It turns out
that if it still has an orange color, then it's de-
grading slower than we originally had planned. Or
at least slower than our test indicated that it
• might.

CDR Okay. I'm having my other expert to confirm my look.

He's going to look right now.
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CC (Laughter). Roger. No - no problem.

17 25 56 CDR On that subflare I can see 18,000 on detector 3, and

about 5 to 6 thousand on detector i.

CC Roger.

17 26 23 CDR And I'd say it's - I would say it's pretty much open
now, the best I can tell, Except one's about 3500;
I think that checks out.

SPT Dick, SPT.

CC Roger. Go ahead.

17 26 22 SPT Okay, I'm in the e,._.Andmodule looking out the

window. And that corner of the parasol-that we can
see, which is looking at the Sun, is white-orange.
It's - it's the color of a Florida orange. Okay?

SPT The kind you eat.

CC Roger. Understand. Thank youmuch, Joe.

SPT Roger.

17 27 51 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised, on the CALROC we've re-

cycled the counts hack to about 5 minutes. We're
now at about - at less than 2 minutes is counting.
The recycle was due to winds. Also, the flare in
active region 37 appears to be declining. We also
see two more subflares in active regions 31 and 27.

SPT Okay Dick, SPT. I looked at those along with Pete, and
was disappointed in that I could not identify the flare
in either XUVmointor or in the X-ray.

CC Roger. Understand.

17 29 i_ CC CDR, Houston. For your information, we're getting a

cOW,hand module coolant loop message up to you. We're
going to try to get it up here at Vanguard. If not,
we'll get it at Hawaii. We'd like to get it scheduled
in your flight plan, in use housekeeping time at 19:20.
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164 Page
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If that's not convenient, you can Just let us know as

soon as it's practical to ,do that. And there's one
part of what message I might make a comment on, and
that is, part of it is to withdraw about fi_e clicks
of comm_ud module water. And we suggested using a
contingency fecal bag. However, if that doesn't seem
feasible to you, we'll just leave it up to your own
Judgement. You might use a shower bag or whatever you
think best.

CC No res -

CDR Okay.

CC Roger.

CDR What do you want the water for?

17 30 07 CC It's - Wo've been - we've been taking a lot of thermal

data, and it turns out thatthe water lines come out
of - right beside the glycol lines as they come into
the command module. And we'd Just like to get a hack
on the way our thermal model has been doing. In other
words, when you first try that, it's a line - If you're
able to draw any water at all, it means that it's
not frozen and that gives us some idea of how good our
analysis has been. We expect it may be frozen, in
which case, when you - At the tail end of this proce-
dure you'll get to try it again after we've warmed it
up some.

CDR Okay. Well, of course I had ice down there for a

while. Then once we put the fans back on again it
started getting - it de-iced again.

CC Okay.

CDR I take that back. I got both ice and water down there
now°

CC Okay. Understand.

CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised the CALROC has had a prob-

lem at about 8 seconds. They've recycled to 5m_utes,
and are going to pick up the count as soon as posszDle.
As far as flight p]_aning today, we're going to assume
the CALROC is GO. We're about 45 seconds from LO_,
here. And we're going to see you at Hawaii at 18:32.
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CDR 18:32. Bye.

17 32 49 CC Bye bye.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

18 33 ii CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii for 7 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. Be advised on active I, long; I is

BB 22. Then it got through two complete and hung
up on filter 3, the third pass; I got 12 pictures.
Now I'm in process of running again, and I'll keep
an eye on it.

CC Roger. Adam copied that. Be advised, incidentally,

that the CALROC was a resounding Success, and there
is no pointing update required.

18 33 51 CDR Okay. I'm halfway through BB 22.

CC Roger that. And also, Skylab; one - one note for the
"We-fix-anything-SP_." We'd Just as soon he keep his
hands off our weather because it's still raining like
the dickens.

CDR Okay.

SPT In medical school they said, "it wasn't your success

rate, hut whether you cared."

CC (Laughter) Roger.

CC Skylab Houston. For your information, the block data

pad and the CSM coolant loop procedures for the CDR are
on board.

18 35 05 CDR Okay. I Just got a star tracker update, finally, and

that left me about 184 out in roll-plus, from 7500.
I'm actually at 7685.

CC Roger.

CDR Well, I elected not to move. I presume that's what

they want me to do.

CC Say that last again, Pete.

SC I elected not to roll to 75 - I started out at 7_. I

didn't have a star tracker lock-on. When I locked on
I w_s actually at 7685, and I elected to stary there.
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CC Roger. Standby i.

CC Skylab, Houston. Affirmative. We'd like to stay

locked on at that humor of 7685.

CDR Okay.

CDR Look at active i long again on 56. It looks to me like

it's hung up.

CC Roger.

18 37 48 CC CDR, Houston. We confirm on _4that S056 is hmlg up

at that position, and there's not'anything we can do
at the moment. We'll Just lose a little bit of data,
SO press on,

18 38 13 CDR Okay, going to PATROL, LONG.

CC Roger.

CDR It took eight pictures that time.

CC Roger.

18 38 18 CC Skylab, Houston; we're LOS in 30 seconds. We're goin6

to see you st Vanguard at 19:02, and we're going to
be dt_ping the data tape recorder at Van&n_ard.

CDR Okay.

18 hO 13 CDR Roger. It's running around 300, but it's popping up

to 450 - 500 every once in awhile.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

19 01 27 CC Skylab, Houston. •We're A0S at Vanguard for 9• minutes.

PLT Yes. /

19 06 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We Just can't stand but ask you, we

noticed that MI31 shutdown and TV - VTR looks like
you're completed. We Just wanted to make sure that
you are.

SPT That's affirmative. And P. J. went 150 head movements

at 25, and we're recommending that we both go 30 the
last time we try it.

CDR I'll be the only one left up here. (Laughter).

CC Yes, everybody is standing around with sort of an

astounded look on their face, and we copied your
request.

CDR Hey, ask the ATM guys, Dick, if they had a Sun flare
in 37 during the last half an hour or sa. First time
I've seen anything on X-REA.

CC Roger, standby.

CC CDR, Houston. Negative we have not seen any flares of

any kind in active region 37 in the half hour_

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS. We're

going to see you at Hawaii at about 20:08, which is
about an hour from now.

19 l0 02 CDR Roger. We got a look about 20 miles short of Cape

Horn. Actually, it's the first time the weather and
the lighting has been such that we could even sse down
that way. We got a good look at it almost all the way
to Cape Horn, but the last 20miles was under overcast.

CC Roger, understand. I bet it was pretty.

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CDR It's all full of snow.

19 i0 _6 CDR I'ii have that loop up for you when you come up the
next time.

CC Okay, EGIL copies.

20 08 01 CC Skylab, HouBton. Hawaii for i0 minutes.

CDR Hi there.

CC Hi there.

CDR Dick, I was able to draw water from the drain, and
the secondary loop is running.

CC Okay, thank you much.

CC Skylab, Houston. We notice that you've been using

the recorder, and we're a little - We need to do a
DATA recorder dump. Would that be okay with you?

20 13 ii CDR I Just finished 92. Go ahead and dump it.

CC Roger, we got it. Thank you much.

20 17 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through dumping the experiment

on the recorders. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.
We're going to see you at Vanguard at 20:_0.

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20 39 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard for 7 minutes.

PLT Roger

CC And we do have a data recorder dump planned for this

pass. And if anybody's got time to look out a window,
you're getting ready to get another pass over Cape Horn.

PLT Okay, thank you. Hey, Dick, for ATM people's inform-
ation: In the performance of building block 13, when
the 82A finished, that gave us a ready light. I
hadn't seen it before. Pete s%ys it doesn't do that
on occasion.

CC Roger. Copy.

CDR Unfortunate_Richard, it's a - darkness has moved

over, a_ I can Just barely make out the land. Some
of it is still overcast.

CC Roger. Sorry about that.

CDR Let me ask - Watch the doctor On the bicycle. Make

sure he doesn't fall off.

CC Didn't quite copy that one. We can hear the bicycle

riding in the background though, and Stony and I are
sitting here looking at it on the data.

20 46 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. We're

going to see you as Ascension at 20:56. And one
note for the PLT. If you have a chance during this
night period between _TM runs, you might whiz over
to the S009, and change a Beta angle for us on it to
plus 5.

PLT Yes sir, that's done, Richard.

CC Roger.

20 55 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension for 4-1/2

minutes.
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CI)R Roger.

20 59 36 CC Skylab, 'Houston. We're about 45 seconds frc_ LOS.

We're going to see you a long time fro_ now at
Vanguard at 22:17, and we plan to dump the data
recorder there.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

22 17 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard for i0 minutes.

(Squeaking)

PLT That was my equivalent of a Roger.

CC Roger.

CC That was my equivalent of a squeak.

PLT Okay.

PLT You may be on days, but I see you don't get off at
all now. Is that it?

CC That's right.

22 19 35 CC Skylab, Houston. I have one note for the CDE this

pass. In this evening's Flight Plan we'd like to
delete housekeeping CM-4. There are no more dt_ps
required. In the command module, though, we would
like, at your convenience, togo up there and check
HYDROGEN t_ks i and 2, FANS and HEAT_ ,II to
AUTO.

SPT Okay. H2 1 and 2, still take i and 2, FAN and HEATERS

to AUTO and we'll skip command module 4.

CC That's right. That ought to be probably three switch

throwings and one verify; but at any rate, they all
end up in AUTO.

SPT Okay. If you' re wondering why I answered instead of

Pete, we had a mutiny this afternoon and I've taken
over.

CC Roger. (Laughter)

SPT I've declared Skylab a U. S. Naval Hospital.

CC Okay. Just keep us informed, Captain.

f

SPT Roger. Or squeal.

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22 26 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're .a minute and 15 seconds form

LOS. We're going to see you at Ascension at 22:30
Your s,wm=_y Flight Plan for tomorrow is on board in
the teleprinter. And the detailed flight plans are
going to be up-linked at Ascension.

SPT _csS-. Thank you.

CC Roger.

22 30 35 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS; Ascension for i0 minutes.

22 36 59 SPT Houston, I see that tomorrow night is our go to be

early night.

CC That's affirm. We're going to start to get you going

to bed tomorraw evening, then wake you up early the
next morning and then about another day and we'll
be all set for the rest of the mission, as far as
good night and hello times.

SPY Yes, we may get up a little early tomorrow morning;

otherwise, we won't he sleepy when Houston says be
sleepy. But other then that, it looks like a neat
Flight Plan. I may show it to the ex-c_ptain to see
if he approves of it. (Laughter)

CC Okay. You might also note - -

SPT ... execute shift so far.

CC You might also notice that tOmorrow night you only

get 7 hours sleep.

SPT That's s])out all we've been t_king.

CC Underst_d.

CDR Yes, these guys keep coming back late with the comms_d
module.

SPT Well, the first thing I was going to do was get some
good Navy nurses up here, but - -

22 39 50 CC Sk¥1ab, Houston. We're a minute from L06. We're

going to see you at G,-_ at 23:14. We got the CDR
details on board. We'll get the other two up at Gn,m.
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SPT The PLT ssys to hustle.

23 14 35 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S i0 minutes, @1,m.

SPT Hello, Houston.

PLT Houston, PLT.

CC Go, PLT.

PLT Okay. For ECS people, about an hour ago we had a

MOL SIEVE PPCO 2 OUT HIGH caution. It happens to be
on sieve B which is not active. It's reading - when
I looked at it then it was reading about three parts
IN and about four parts OUT.

CC We copy that.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go, SPT.

23 15 30 SPT It says on _ ATM schedule, TV down-link's about now.

Does that really mean VfR or do you want it real time?

CC Stand by a half, Joe.

CC SPT, that is real time. The transmitter is st_ll

warming up, and we'll give you a GO on it.

SPT 0keydoke.

CC And, SPT, be advised we're GO on that now.

SPY Okay.

CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.

23 19 51 CC Paul, if you haven't already done it, on panel 2C7

you can inhibit the M0L SIEVE B, PPCO 2.

f
PLT Yes, we already did that, Bill.

CC Copy.
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CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.

23 21 i0 CC On the coronagraph you should be able to see Saturn

at four solar radii, solltheast, and it's moving west.

SPT Okay. Four radii southeast, thank you. We'll look

next time we get Sun center.

SPT Houston, SPT. I think we had Mercury in the corona-

graph, I mentioned a few days a_o. Would you verify
that? I saw sumething, I thought it was Mercury.

CC 0kay.

CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. Vanguard A0S at 23:54.

And we will be dumping the tape recorder at that
time. Also, Joe, if it's convenient, there's no
rush on this one. On panel 200, circuit breaker
_A/O_ HEA','_HSCOI_I_OL 2; should close that at
your convenience.

SPT ...

SPT Houston, the HEATERS C0RTHOL Breaker I is already

closed; wetre closing 2.

23 24 _2 CC Copy that.

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23 55 21 CDR Houston, are you there?

CC Go, Skylab.

CDR Yes. Hey, Bill, I tried to run M553, and the first
thing was that it didn't go the wsy it was supposed
to go in that the stingers would retract from the
bolt metal, and the bolt metal would stay right there.
It wouldn't go anywhere. And we shut the gun down.
That went on for about five of them. Then I ran into
a problem again with the 5KVA. The thing stuck on,
and right now nothing will turn it off except pulling
the MAIN B_T breaker. And that's where we stand. So,
if they want to think about it, I think I got two of
them scheduled for tomorrow. If they want to think
about it some more, and give me some stuff to do with
it tomorrow, fine. If not, I'll bring back what we've
_ot; that's probably it.

CC We copy that, Pete.

PLT Houston, PLT. You got a couple of minutes?

CC Go ahead, PLT.

23 56 32 PLT Okay. We're all of the opinion that we're not getting the
flow out of the hot water heater in the waste manage-
ment compartment that we did at first. Now I've check-
ed the system. We've got 35 com/ng out of the REG;
I checked that with a potable water bottle. And we
got good flow out of the - thetanks feeding the potable
water in the wardroom. And this last time, when we had
a shower day, which was about _ days ago I guess, we
filled the shower water bottle, and all we could get
in it then was 22psi in the shower water bottle. Now
the malfunction procedures don't really leave us any
place, except changing that outlet fitting, which _-e
haven't done yet. That's about where it stands. It's
plenty satisfactory for us. What we didn't want was
the next crew to get stuck with a system that didn't
work and not the right parts on board. So you think
of something you want us to look at, and let us knew
in the next couple days, please.
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CC We copy that, Paul.

PLT Okay.

CC And, Skylab, if it _on'tinterfere with anything,

there are a couple of news notes here.

SPT No, we're Just sitting downto "dln-din." Go ahead

with the news.

23 58 21 CC Okay. The President's going to speak this evening

and outline new economic controls. There's an
indication that the policy will include strong
action but not a total freeze on wa6e and prices.
Power cuts are continuing in Chicago and New York
as a heat wave pushes temperatures to record highs.
And the rains came - came again today in Houston.
It's not raining at the moment, but we still have
a severe thunderstorm watch. We've had i0 inches
since Monday, and tcesorrow's forecast is 40 percent.
And we have checked, and you people have no problems
with your houses and such. Joe won't need to add any
water to his swimm_ug pool for a day, maybe. And_
the prices - -

SPT Okay. ThAnE, for checking.

CC - - prices were down on the stock exchange today.

Dow Jones, 11-1/2 points down with an average
share value down of 19 cents. There was an amended
cease-fire agreement signed today in Paris; and
Kissinger's hoping that this agreement will finally
bring about a true peace. The 1973 U.S. Open starts
tnm_rrow in Oak_mont, P_nnsylvaniawith Jack Nicklaus
the favorite. Arnie P-1_er, and Snead also added.

SPT Okay. T_an_ you very much.

00 02 _5 CC SPT, the astroncm_ experts here have checked, and

you shouldn't have been able to see Mercury a few
d_ys ago. You might follow that one up, Joe, and
get a planet named after you.

SPT Yes, It must have been ...

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SPT In fact, it was probs_ly my home planet I tripped on.

(Laughter!.

CC Copy.

PLT That's the Planet of theApes.

CC LOS in 1 minute; Ascension at 00:12. And as we

mentioned, the Flight Plan'S on board. The details
should be on board, and the evening questions
should be on board by this time.

CC And - correct that. The next AOS will be at Canary

at 00:I_.

00 04 23 SPT Okay. And as soon as supper's over, we'll start

our homework.

00 15 57 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for l0 minutes, Canary.

PLT Roger, Houston.

CC And, PLT; Houston.

PLT Yes.

00 16 07 CC We'll be doing some unattended ATM experiment ops.

That'll be S055 at 02:00 GMT. This is before the
crew rest period, and they are not on the pad.
That's for information only.

PLT All righty. Than_ you.

SPT Captain requests that you not break anything.

CC Copy. And will comply.

O0 27 17 CC Skylab, LOS l minute; _!_, 00:53.

CDR You guys Just picked out ... passes for us today.
We've been over these lousy stations all day today.
Will you guys change your orbit tomorrow?

CC We'll work on that, Fete.

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CC A lot of Houstonians have 1_een over water all

today.

00 27 43 CDR (Laughter) It sure sounds like it.

00 53 5_ CC Skylab, Houston; _S 6 minutes, GI_Am.

PLT Roger, "Houston.

PLT Ready for the TV down-link on the corons6raph, Houston.

CC That 's affirm.

PLT Well, you should have it ....

• CDR Houston, are you ready for the Evening Report?

CC That's affirm, Pete. We're standing by.

00 54 09 CDR Okay. The CDR ate everything plus two butter

cookies. The SPT ate everything and a half a
salt and, excuse me, the CDR also had his 1-1/2 salt.
And the PLT ate everythin_ but his bread. He had
nine salts. And the photo log for today 16_;
16-millimeter first line, ETC prep, with the r_,A_k
X-porter 03 Jammed, probably not film. Charlie
India 25, 67, M_e Tango ii; EREP, West U.'S. CI08, 0O,
el07.

CC We copy, Pete.

00 55 20 CDR Okay. The next one is EREP, South U.S., South

America; Charlie India 25, 00, Mike Tango 05. And,
mark on Mike Tango 05 that that film is to be
developed for exterior. MISI-I: Charlie India i0,
75, Charlie India 08. M092/171_ SPT, MISI: Charlie
India i0, 33 Charlie India 08. M553-1: Charlie India 05,
60, Char!ie India 08. In the 35-mi]1Imeter world - and
these are the correct numbers. I think I gave you so_e
bad ones last night. Charlie India 28, frame count
is 22, Charlie India 29 is complete.
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Charlie India 30, i0 frames. 70-millimeter: Charlie

X-Ray 06, 099. ETC: 378, depleted, BW01, and it's stowed
in F27. EREP set Papa is depleted. Drawer A configu-
ration; X-porter 0 . Charlie India 05, 16, Charlie
India 01. A-2 is X-porter 03, Charlie India 06, 62,
Charlie India 03. A-3 is X-porter 06, Charlie India I0,
33, Charlie India 08. A-_ is X-porter 04-05. There is
no transport on it - no film, and Charlie India 25
for takeup. Floating: X-porter 07, Charlie India 09,
i00 percent, Mike Tango 03. There were no Flight Plan
deviations. You're aware of the M553 problem. No
stowage changes, and that's it.

CC We copy, Pete.

CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go.

00 57 52 CC We're seeing a flare in X-_ now. This is Just

for info. We want you to continue as scheduled.

PLT Okay.

CC And, CDR; Houston.

CC Go ahead, Bill.

CC We sent up some questions in the general messa@e

EVA data on pad 2024 today. If these were put on
ch-nnel B, could you give us an estlmate about
the time of day?

CUR No, I haven't got any questions yet. So Let me get

them, and we can probably answer them for you in
real time, if you need them.

CC Okay, and that was yesterday's pad that they came

up on.

CDR NO. Okay, wait a minute. I'Ii have to look for

this.

CDR I don't know - you got the questions there? Ask

me the questions.

CC Sorry, Pete; say again.

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CDR Have you got the questions there? Ask me the

questions. I got that thing filed someplace.

CC Yes, I've got them, Pete. You want me to read

them to you?

CDR Yes, read me the first one.

00 59 29 CC Okay, a clarification of previous question. Were

EV-1 and 2 already in their suits when EV-3 activated
the SUS loops on page 1.2-9 of the EVA checklist?

00 59 46 CDR Yes. We answered that last night. The way we

remember it is, Joe and I were suited, but we did
not have the PCUs on. And EV-3 activated the loops,
which were attached to the PCUs, and they were flowing
when we put them on.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

01 00 03 CC Okay, Pete, I'm sorry; you answered that one last night
and that's the remaining five that we're after.

CDB Go ahead with the next one.

CC We are presently assl,m_ug that lunch will be eaten

with suits off in the 0WS between EVAs, and you also
confirmed that yesterday.

CDR I confirmed that we probably would not take the suits

off. It's too much trouble.

CC We're going LOS here. We'll have you again at Honey-

suckle at 01:Oh.

CDR Okay.

01 Oh 37 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 4 minutes.

CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go.

CC We need a STOP on S052 and STANDBY. POWER.

CC Skylab, LOS in h5 seconds. We'll be AOS - A0S Canary

01:52 in med conference.

O1 58 35 SPT Was that LOS, Houston?

CC Negative, Skylab. We still have about eight minutes

here.

SPT Okay, our poor surgeon got cut off prematurely there.

CC Want us to try to get him back on for you, Joe?

SPT Yes, would you please, Bill?

CC Wilco.
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CC They say it's going to take a - it's in work. It's

going to take a second to do it.

SPT Okay.

02 02 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you for about 3 more minutes

here. Be advised that we're configuring rate gyros
for sleep; one and two on line; B's backup.

SPT Roger, that. The CDR informs me he has answered the

evening questions on B channel.

CC Copy.

CC And offer my _pologies to the CDR for bringing up last

evening's questions again. That one slipped by.

SPT Did he give the same answers that he did last night?

CC He was doing pretty well as far as we went.

SPT Okay.

CDR It wasn't answering the questions twice, Bill. It

was you interrupted me eating my butter cookies, which
is fatal to anybody up here in the spacecraft. Nobody's
bothered me while I'm eating my butter cookies.

CC Yes, those things save your life once in awhile.

CC We're about ready to - someone bestowed the title of

the '_utter Cookie Monster" on me in SMEAT. We're
about ready to give you that title now, Pete.

02 04 04 CDR Yes, I'm afraid I've taken it over.

SPT Skylab has replaced Grand Rapids as the '_utter Cookie

Capital of the World."

CC Copy that.

CDR Well, I'm the guy that kept telling everybody I didn't
think anybody was going to eat anything up here, and
I've been eating the whole spacecraft. Man, I can't
get enough.
Day 165 Page i_35

CC Very good.

CDR But, I think you have - a lot of that is due to the

fact that we do a reasonable amount of physical work
every day.

CC That's the most interesting of all. CDR, on this 553

problem, when you went to READY/RESET, did the READY
light come on?

02 04 55 CDR Yes, it does.

CC Copy, and one more. When you went to READY/RESET, do

you remember whether the cameras stopped _mn_ng?

CDR I can't answer that question, but it has been pulling"

film.

CC Copy.

CDR If you remember - well, you may not. But way, way,
back at the beginning, we gave a little briefing for
the other crews that the cameras are extremely quiet
up here in comparison to on the ground. They don't
clatter or rattle anywheres near like they do down
on the ground. And it's very difficult to tell when
they' re running.

CC We copy that. And we'll be LOS here in about a min-

ute. We will have you again; Carnarvon at 02:32. Hey,
Pete, we'd be interested in any further comnents on
the relative amount of work you might be doing up
there and what parts of the body are getting it?

02 05 56 CDR Well, that's difficult to say, Bill. I - I think that

the fact that you're- like changing the tape recorder
or something, you still have to brace yourself, but
we do not have, like triangles, up there that you
can relax in. So, you're eontin1,-11y bracing your
legs or your arms or your body in sc_e manner or
another to do a task. Now, we're obviously not - still
not coming anywheres near as close to a one-g output
for a total day, by any moans. But I - I think every-
body also agrees up here, we look forward to getting
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on the bike and - and exercising because it really

does make you feel good - Makes you - mA_es the old
blood pump. And I don't think anybody's missed a day
on the bike. And as I say this other ... work, we
continually move around the spacecraft at a high rate
of speed.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

02 34 06 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for approximately 15 minutes.

02 34 41 CDR Roger, Bill.

02 34 43 CC And Pete, we need someone to go up to the CSM to

turn off the ECS RADHEATER SECONDARY switch on
panel 2. We're showing increased CSM current that
would correspond tothis.

CDR Okay, you want to turn off the heat - the SECONDART
RADIATOR HEATEP_, right?

CC On the ECS, that's right. It's on panel 2.

02 35 26 CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Yes, sir.

CC You reported that an SO82A OPERATE light was working

nominally this morning. Has it continued to do that?

PLT Negative.

CC Copy.

02 35 59 CDR Okay, Bill_ the ECS RADIATOR HEA_'_ SECONDARY is, in

fact, OFF.

CC We were afraid thatmight be the case.

02 36 II CDR The PRIMARY HEATER'S OFF too.

CC We copy.

CDR Okay, what else you got that pulls that kind of
current?

CC That's what we're looking at, Pete. Standby for a

second.

02 36 28 CDR Oks_. I'm the only guy that was inhere tod_y. And
I powered up the secondary loop in accordance with
your instructions, and I don't believe I hit any
other switches.

r--
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CC Copy.

02 37 23 CDR Houston, are you 8ware that the PLT turned the
hydrogen heaters to AUTO today?

CC That's affirmative.

CDR And the fans ?

02 37 40 CC We copy.

02 38 51 CC We're still looking here, Pete.

CDR Okay.

CDR How much X-ray s_perage are you seeing, Houston?

CC 17, Pete.

CDR Seventeen s_ps?

CC And Pete, that's varying. That's not steady. It's

a cyclic increase apparently.

CDR How long you been seeing it?

CDR Hey, Houston; CDR.

CC GO, CDR.

02 41 42 CDR The only thing I know that we activated was the H2

heaters and the H 2 fans. How about if I cut them

off one at a time? Maybe you got a short in something?

CC Standby, Pete; We' re -

02 42 19 CC Pete, would you turn those off, and let us watch

down here, please?

02 42 23 CDR Okay. H2 HEATER i, AUTO going off.

CC Copy.

CDR Hey, did you see anything with i off?

02 42 59 CC Pete, you can turn the fans off now.

 Day 165 Page 1439

CC Pete, we didn't see any abnormal changes on that.

Could you bring them back to the original configuration?

02 44 01 CDR Okay. They're all ON. H2 HEATERS to AUTO, and

H2 fans to AUTO.

CC Copy.

PLT Hey, Bill; the onboard current indications out of the

fuel cell are not out of llne with what they've been
for the past 2 weeks on board.

CC We copy.

PLT Where there was 18 stops per fuel cell, with those
hydrogen heaters and fans off, and when he turned
them on, it c-m_ up to about 20 -_s per fuel cell.

CC We copy.

02 4h 37 CDR You're also aware that we got the SECONDARY COOLANT

LOOP ON - OFF?

CC We copy.

22 47 Ol CC Pete, we're seeing 17 amps we can't explain. We'd

like for you to back out of the secondary loop, and i
that's 2031 Bravo message that's on board. And we're
going LOS here in 30 seconds. We'll - For the bedtime.

CDR Okay. You want us to back out of the secondary loop

deal. Right?
l
J CC That is affirmative.

CDR Okay. It's in work.

02 47 27 PLT And again, for more information, Houston. There's

no onboard indication of anything being different.
The current indications are _hP same, and the C11YO
flows to the fuel cells are the s,m_ as they've been.

CC We copy. And we're seeing the same thing down here.

02 48 06 CC We're seeing an intermittent 17--_p increase that

we can't explain here, is the reason for it.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

ll,ll 03 CDE Hi, Houston; you there?

CC Good morning. How _re you this morning?

CDR Early to bed, early to rise. You know all that good
Jazz, and besides that, we'd never believed it, this
circadian rhythm is better - Never follow their own
plans, but we thought we'd get up early this morning
so we'd be in better shape to go to bed early tonight.

CC I thought maybe that might be what you were doing.

We noticed somebody waB up and stirring around here
about _5 minutes ago.

CDR Yes, but we ,11 got up about i0:00. Hank, the E%EP
VTS pad for that - not _S, excuse me, ETC pad for
the norm_1 _REP pass, not the CAL, got all garbled;
so did the shopping list message. This is the first
time we've really gotten a garbled one. Both these
messages, plus the last part of the EREP pad -
second EREP pad that was sent -.was also garbled. It's
not that lines are transposed, this is Just flat
screwed up. And also, you refer to a general message 2120.
Has that ever been transmitted?

CC It should be. Stand by and we'll check it. Let me

m,1_e sure I got the correct - now - which ones are
garbled. You ssy the ETC pad and the shopping list -
two pads are garbled. Is that correct?

CDR That's correct. And the last part of the second

pad you sent. Now l've got a complete set of EREP
pads, but you retransmitted the last one the second
time for some reason. You got about halfway throu_
that, and it's all garbled, too. I don't think I
need that one. It had the s_ne message header on it
as the first one did. I've got an _%EP pad with a
message header "2113BI" on it, and that's okay.
Now you had sent that one again, for some reason,
and it was all garbled at the end.
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14h2 Day165

CC Okay. Well, we - we suspected something like this

might happen, Pete. We had a glitch at one of the
sites when we were up-linking; so we kept all these
things in the M0C here Just in case. So those pads
around the time we had the glitch, we're going to
retransmit them.

CDR Yes, message 2120 refers to the QUIESCENT switch

configuration, something or other, something or other
and I don't think we ever got any 2120 complete.
Unless it was sent yesterday or something, and I
don't remember it.

ll 13 46 CC Okay, 2120 should have been the last message up, Pete.

CDR Okay. Well, that didn't come through; unless you

transmitted something in the last 45 minutes. You
better look.

CC Yes, Roger. We have.

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to send to you then the

ETC p_d, the shopping list, and the EREP operate pad.
Does that agree with your list?

PLT Yes. Go ahead.

CC Okay. It maybe stateside before we can get those up.

PLT That's all right. What's the status of our CSM unknown
17 aft current grade, HR_?

ll 15 ii CC Okay, we've got a message up concerning that. I guess

what it amounts to is we think that the switch there
has got a short in it or either the secondary coolant
circuit has. We've looked at all telemetry and pretty
well tracked it down, that it is the heaters coming
on in the secondary coolant loop. And that goes
back and correlates with the glitch we had a lot
earlier in the mission. Remember when we had the - the
current spike. So we're pretty sure now that the
switch is shorted on. In other words, the system's
on - the heaters are on even though the switch is off.
So - when we turn the loop off, which we did last night
Day 165 Page lhh3

to keep it from getting a MAIN BUS A undervolt • the

loop warms up because it's Stagnant, and that gets
it below the - or above the trip point for the heaters,
and so we don't have the current spike.

PLT Okay.

CC We're about 1 minute from LOS. We'll be coming up

on Goldstone at 23.

ll 16 25 PLT Okay.

ll 22 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone; 5-1/2 minutes.

PLT Roger.

ii 2_ 29 CDR Hello, Houston; CDR.

CC Go ahead.

CDR I was going to _nswer the question i, fire sensor

CP392 and fire sensor 392-2 were changed out on
day 161. Not only do you think, but we think the
fire sensor 392-2 is good, and therefore, we never
did mark it with red tape. And we have written on
the control panel that one side of it is _ in fact,
good. So we have taken care of that one.

CC Out st anding.

CDR We were also glad on the odds and ends message,

question number 2 to see that y'all finally recognized
that the thing goes pretty wild when you roll in
roll in high ...

CDR And with respect to question 3, the early starters

have been so chastised.

CC Roger.

PLT All three of us.

II 26 _l CC Skylab, Houston. Yesterday you reported that the

flow in the wardroom hot water was going down, and
I guess the only thing that comes to our mind• right
off the top, is to check that the PRESSURIZATION valve
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165

on water tank 7 is OPEN. You've probably already

done that. That's the only thing we could come up
with immediately.

PLT Yes, and I asst_e you got that input because the
last time we took a shower, all the pressure we could
get in the shower bottle was 22 psi. What should
the pressure be coming out of that water heater?
Does anybody know?

CC Standby, and let's see if I can get an answer on that.

PLT Okay. No rush, Henry. If that's supposed to be up

around - Your system pressure in it is 35; so whatever
losses we have in there - But it seems to me we ought
to have pretty - close to 35 all the way through it.
I guess we coul_ take the water bottle and stick it
on the outlet side of the water tank itself and see
what the pressure is, coming out of the tank.

CC Okay. Let us smoke that one over a little bit.

PLT Okay.

ll 28 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about LOS. We'll be coming

up on Bermuda at 32.

PLT Roger.

ll 32 25 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda; 10-1/2 minutes.

PLT Roger.

ll 33 59 CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, I got some comments

on M553 whenever it's convenient.

CDR Go ahead.

ll 34 09 CC Okay. What we'd like to do this morning, Pete, when

you get to the 553, is run the remaining samples on
wheel 1. And if the beam sticks on like it did, we
want you to step on through each sample as quickly
as possible, being sure not to exceed 2 minutes
continuous beam operation. And, if you hear that
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clicking noise that you reported, we'd like for you

to terminate and wait for the chamber to vent down.
Most likely the clicking is the high voltage over-current
relay attempting to remove the power because of the
pressure rise.

CDR Well, that was not indicated by the pressure gage

yesterday, but I think maybe that ... is malfunctioning;
I agree _ith that.

CDR Okay, I'ii give her a whirl, I left it on stand all

night last night ; so I should have a super good hard
vacuum in there.

cc o_.

CDR Did A. G. get my message about the fact that the

fingers are retracted but the balls aren't departed,
didn't they?

ll 35 35 CC Roger. We did.

ii 39 05 CC CDR, Houston. Whenever it's convenient, I have an

update for your lunar CAL operate pad.

CDR Okay, Just a second.

CDR Fire away.

CC Okay, Pete. Where it says 36 minutes S193 BAD to

STANDBY, right above that is S192 MODE to STANDBY,
and we omitted the time there. It should be 35:50.

CDR Got it. Is that it?

CC That's all there was to it. And did - We've retransmitted

those three messages. They should be on board now.

CDR Th--_ you, sir.

SPT Hey, Henry, scmething for FA0 to think about. We

Just finished up, and don't need any more of the
half urine - of the urine sample half bags or half urine
sample bags, whatever you want to call it. We'll be
more than glad to resupply that for Captain Bean,
if you want us to. You've got to tell us where to get
the replacements, though.
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CC 0kay, we copy.

ll 42 l0 CC And, Skylab; Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS;

Ascension at 50.

ll 49 45 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for 9-1/2 minutes.

ll 51 05 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension, 8-1/2 minutes.

SPT Roger, Houston.

CC And, in answer to the question about the half-sample

urine bags, the next supply is stored in Dog 426.

SPT Dog 426.

ii 51 40 CC And, also got an answer on checking the pressure.

You can use the portable water tank to check the
pressure at water tRn_ 7 outlet. And if you get
good pressure, at that point, then we suggest you
take the water tA_k and the WMC-1 hose down to the
WMC and measure the pressure at the water heater
dump port.

ii 52 03 SPT Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

12 22 02 CC Skylab, Houston tl_rough Carnarvon for 10-1/2 minutes.

SPT Hello - Hello, Houston; this is the SPT. And I have

a question about DAC exposures for out-the-window
photography. Yesterday I wrote down that you g_ve me
f/5.6 at 1/250 if the whole roll was to he used exte-
rior. And today's pad says f/ll ou_ of 1/500, I'd
like to verify that.

CC Okay. Stand by.

12 27 20 CC SPT, Houston. There's s_._ confusion on this thing.

We're convinced that the f/ll, 1/500 is the correct
setting.

SPT That 's what we ,used.

CC And I have a SAP update, whenever you want to listen

to it.

SPT Come ahead.

12 27 50 CC • Okay. We're - little flare update - active region 27

had a sub - subbright flare, n Charlie _ X-ray at
03:35 Zulu. And there was also a Charlie 2 X-ray
event at 05:20 Zulu with no associated optical flare.
Active region 37 is still complex and it's a probable
X-ray source. There's a new region, active region
I hi: 290.8, egmrged Just e_t of active region 37 as
a small rapidly growing Bipolar spot group.

SPT Roger, _=_k. We reported see_ that one last night,

and it looks very interesting. We're rooting for it.

CC Roger.

12 32 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

C_I,_ at 35.

12 32 52 PLT Still there, Houston?

CC Roger.

12 32 58 PLT Quick question, H,n_. We Just put the shower bottle

on the outlet of tank 7 and the gage went to 22 psi.
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16_

To verify the gage on the shower water bottle, we

would like to pressurize it to line pressure out of
the 35 psi into REG. Is that okay?

CC Okay. We'll have an answer ST - AT Guam for you.

PLT Okay.

12 36 15 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9 minutes.

12 36 35 CDR Roger, Hank. And we verified through the potable

water bottle that we do, in fact, have 35 psi nitro-
gen. And I 'm suspicious of the gage on the shower
tank.

12 36 53 CC Roger. And we think it's a good idea to - what Paul

suggested - is take shower bottle and taking it, and
verify the gage with a 35 psi source. We should
have thought of that.

CDR Okay. Good.

12 37 _2 CC Skylab, Houston for info, we are reconfiguring your

gyros for daytime configurations.

12 39 16 PLT You there, Houston?

CC Roger, for about 6 more minutes.

12 39 21 PLT Okay, this gage reads all right. We Just put it

on the servicing into - into servicing fitting and it
went right up to 35. SO, I guess the answer you owe
us now is why is the pressure out of t_n_ y, 22 psi? I

CC ... the first - -

PLT When you figure - When you figure that out you get a
gold star.

12 39 46 CC Okay, now the pressure you just checked was the outlet
of the water tan_ 77 YOu checked the - you checked
the gage and it's okay. Have you checked the outlet
at water tank 7?

12 39 57 PLT Yes. That's why we decided to check the gage. I don't

see any way how we could have 35 psi going to the
water ring manifold and have 22 psi out of the tank.
But that's what it is.
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12 hO lh PLT And at 22 psi, Hank, I _hooked the new WMC hose from
the water tank 7 outlet, and hooked the water - the
shower water bottle into, it, and we only got up to 22
psi, which is what we get out of the WMC water heater.

CC I think we're discoverlng some new physical principle

here. Everybody's scratching %heir heads. We'll see
what we can come up with.

PLT Why do you think we finally came to you guys? We

wanted you to be astounded as well as us at this new
zero g principle, whatever it may be.

CC Roger.

PLT Another question, Houston.

CC Go ahead.

12 42 27 PLT Okay. Now we've got this shower water bottle full
of cold water. Is the flow rate too much to go
ahead and dump through the waste water dump line?

12 42 45 CC That's okay. Go ahead.

PLT All right.

12 44 27 CDR Houston, are you there?

CC Go ahead.

CDR Say, that waste water - yes, waste water - all the
water tanks - Those are metal bellows in there. Do
you suppOse that there's any way that they could have
gotten distorted eno,,gh to be dragging down the side
i of the wall before they get extended and - and that
we're losing l0 to - so psi across the bellows by
Just dragging down the side of a tA, k?

CC We 're - we 're thinking that. We thought of that, too.

We're not right sure, yet.

CDR " Great minds think alike.

12 45 h8 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about LOS now. We'll be

coming up on Goldstone at 01.

CDR Okay.
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13 O0 49 CC Skylab, Houston; statesside for 17 minutes.

PLT 0 - Okay, Henry. In the big water tank m_stery, I have

another data point for you if you're ready.

CC Okay.

13 01 02 PLT Guess what the pressure out of water tank 1 is? Well,
I won't m_ke you guess. It's 24 psi out of water
tank 1.

CC What did you measure that withy

13 01 17 PLT Oh, of course, our faithful little water bottle we've

been carrying all around measuring everything with.
How the fact that we said it was 2h out of tank l,
and 22 out of tank 7, I think it's noise level. With
the same gage we have measured water pressure out
of tank 1 at 24; out t_n_ 7 at 22; and nitrogen pres-
sure out of panel 500 at the potable water bottle
servicing port of 35.

CC Copy.

13 O1 59 PLT So, what we've come up with then, is there's basically

a - a built-in force in the bellow to return to the
full position. That's the only thing we can think of.

CC Roger. And you use the shower water bottle for that?

PLT Yes.

CC Is that bottle full, or do you know?

13 02 24 PLT Well, I started with i- psi of nitrogen in it, and i

we got a total of 24 psi in there now, the rest of
the pressure having been made up with water. So, you
guys tell me how f%_ll it is.

CC Okay, copy.

PLT Also, for correlation, do you want - let me give you

some nl_mbers on how the bellows have moved in
fs_r
those two tanks when you're ready to copy.

CC Go ahead.
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13 02 48 PLT In water tank i, it is 32-1/4 inches from the end.

And, of course, those are measured from their
pressurization valves into the tank.

CC Roger, copy.

CC Well, I guess we'll have to track this down later in

the day here, maybe during one of the housekeeping
periods here. We'll - we'll smoke it over until then.

PLT Okay.

13 04 06 CC And, Skylab; Houston. And we recom-_nd that we don't

check any more water t-n_ with the shower bottle
since we've used it on the WMC system there.

13 04 21 PLT Okay.

CC Your - your mike's keyed OPEN.

13 04 49 PLT Crew 2, commence shift work. Sweepers, man your

brooms, sweep down fore and aft, carry all trash to
the airlock.

CC That whistle is kind of weak at 5 psi,

CDH So is the bosun that blew it.

CDR Hey, Hank, you still there?

CC Roger. We got about 9-1/2 minUtes.

13 08 23 CDR Okay. On that 553, I got it to run again, but by

hook and by crook. And, I diddled around with the
focus again to male sure I got it on the end of the
ball _ and all that good stuff like we were told to
do, and the camera will tell how well I did. BUt it
doesn't melt those balls right. You get about half
a ball melted on the top and Just as it starts to
melt on the bottom the ... draws and shuts the beam
off. And I 'm Just not meeting with very good success
at m-king ball bearing - type looking devices, and
there are all kinds of l_nny looking things. Some
stay on and some come off, so - But the single retract
- and there is a couple of them where it barely heated
the cylinder and all, and this thing retracted and
cut it off.
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CC Roger, copy.

13 09 19 CDR But, anyhow I got all the - the wheel 1 done, and
I'll - I'm letting it cool down now and I'll collect
what's in there and put wheel 2 in there, and see
what I can do %rith it

CC Okay.

13 12 26 MCC The worst that could happen if you did that is that -

PLT Hi. Rusty.

CC Wrong button.

13 12 54 PLT Houston, the flight surgeon has Just conducted his

daily sanitary inspection, and the food and water
systems are both acceptable and fit for h,-,-n con-
sumpt ion.

CC Roger; copy.

13 15 16 CC Skylab, Houston; for the CDR. In regard to the M553

there, I guess the only thing we could suggest is
perpahs on wheel 2 to try to have the beam strike
the sample up a little closer to the tip. Maybe we
could avoid melting that thing off of there before
it 's ready.

SPT Copy. He thinks he's got it pretty well there.

CC Okay.

13 16 h8 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to get a couple of questions

answered on this shower bottle. You dumped it there
between readings. I guess we'd like to know where
you dumped it, which connection you went into.

PLT We haven't finished dumping it yet, Hank.

CC ... had a ... - -

13 17 13 PLT I 'm dump - I 'm dumping it through the waste compart-

ment - the waste management compartment dump line.
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CC Okay. Was that above or below the sink there -

the squeezer?

13 17 30 PLT It's in the inlet to the dump line which is normally

hooked up to the squeezer dumpcord. It is the one
up at the top of _he water heater.

CC Roger. Copy.

PLT Is that all right?

CC We'll - we'll let you know. We know where you dumped

it now.

13 18 07 PLT I didn't dump it all at once. That pressure in the

tank got up to about 08; so I stopped to let it come
down a little bit before I dumped some more.

CC Roger.

CC And you did dump prior to checking water tank l?

PLT Negative.

CC Say again.

13 18 32 PLT Negative. I did not. We checked water tank ...

Then we checked the nitrogen side. Then we checked
water tank ...

END OF TAPE
 TAG Tape 165-Q5
165:13:.30 to
165:15:00
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROU_ VOICE TRANSCP/I_ION

14 00 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Csa_aarvon. We've got

you for 6-1/2 minutes, and I've got scue things I
need to talk over with the SPT.

SPT Hello, Houston. I 'm the very man.

CC Hello there.

PLT 0k%7, Richard. First, I've got two questions for yo u

on the _ stuff this morning. Want you to verify
which magazine you want on the DAC. You gave me one
magazine but the location for the other one. And
also I went to verify - Do you want to shoot the
first site, site 320? You want to do that one over
again?

CC Okay. We' ii be getting those answers for you.

PLT Okay. Go with your questions.

CC Okay. We've been looking ahead to the t_pooming cal

maneuver, and I've got some pad changes to read up.
And most of them - one of them is on the EREP operate
pad. All the rest are Joe's. One's on the cal msn-
euver pad, and also a count on the EfC pad. So I
thought if Joe could collect those pieces of paper,
and then when he's ready to ts/k to me a little bit
about them, we might have a little conversation about
those.

SPT Okay. Give me a minute.

CC 0kay.

SPT Go ahead, Richard.

14 02 51 CC Okay. First thing, let's take a look at the cal

_neuver pad, Joe. We've - we're now in the situation
where whe've done our last dump prior to the m--euvere.
And we've taken a look at new Z and it's - and
your pad for cal - for the maneuver pad for cal, which
the number of the pad is 212h Alfa.

SPT I got it.

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CC Okay. I've got a change about i0 lines down under the

fine maneuver for Z. It now reads "50050 and h degrees."
l'd like to ch-_e that number; it should read "5006h
and - to plus 05.2degrees." And the reason for that
change is our better knowledge of new Z.

Sl_f I copy. The fine maneuver Z is changed from "50050"

to "5006h. "

14 04 07 CC Okay, Joe. I also have a change to the star tracker

pad, if you have that one, Just the outer Eimbal,
for the same reason.

SPT Come ahead.

CC Outer gimbal - the correct outer gimbal on the star

tracker pad - au_ the pad nmnber is ?-129. Outer gim-
bal is plus 2053.

SPT Okay. Plus 2053.

CC Okay, Joe. Let's look at the ETC pad next.

SPT The one for cal?

CC Negative. It's the one prior to the cal. It's a

- it's a message number 2115.

SPT I'ii be with you in a second. I left that one down

on the camera.

14 Oh 58 CC Okay. I'll tell you, Joe. I think this one is real

simple. I can tell you; you m_ght not want to go get
it. What I - I ham two things to tal_ to you about
on ETC pad. One is, is the filter on this pad says
"none." It should read "5," which is - will get the
two pads in sync. Both of the filters read - should
read 5, and there's no filter change required between
maneuvers. And the second thing is, as we - for today,
when you connect the vacut_mto the Earth terrain cam-
era, we want to make sure you leave the vacuam connected,
whether or not you hear a hissing sound. Over.

SPT Okay. Leave the vacuum connected, regardless. And I

don't think I'll have a problem, because this canister
was okay the last two times we used it.
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CC Roger. We concur. Okay. I have one more pad change,

and then one final thing to talk to you about. The
last pad change I have is on the _ operate pad.
And that's normally - it's going to be Pete's, but
if you could get it for me, I'd appreciate it. The
pad number is 2113 _ravo. Bravo 1 is the actual - the
upper left-hand corner nmmber.

SPT Okay. Is this the - the EREP ops for cal or the -
for the pass?

CC Negative, Joe. It 's EREP-11 operate pad.

SPT Okay. We've got you, go ahead.

CC Okay. On this one, it was Just a goof on our part.

We need an extra entry at time 15:04:00.

SPT Go ahead.

CC S193 Alfa, range 81.

SPT S193 Alfa, r,nge Bl, and 15:04:00.

14 06 51 CC That's affirmative. And that will - That will set

that instrument up for the proper elipticity of our
orbit. Okay. I only have one more thing to mention
to you, Joe. And that is, we want to make sure that
we get same more Y-axis scale factor data, if we can,
during your EREP cal sequence. IncidentAlly, I Just
noticed we're Just c_ng up to LOS here at Carnarvon,
about l0 seconds to go. We're going to have G_,=_
coming up at time 14:15. So why don't I get this
last note up to you right there? And I'll have your
other answers at Guam at AOS.

SPT See you at Guam.

CC Okay.

14 14 28 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS at Guam. We've got you for

the next 6 minutes. The answers to the PLT's questions
are that we do want to repeat site 320. The correct
DAC magazine is Bravo Hotel 02, and the proper location
for that, we think was Juliett 4, J-4. And I need to
talk again to SPT. And Joe, it might help if you had
the E_ checklist to the E_EP calibration timeline
on page 13-12. Over.
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SPT Okay. Just a minute. Caught me in that forward area,

again.

CC Roger. We realize we've been taking up a lot of your

time here.

SPT Go ahead, Houston..

CC Okay, Joe. You looking at the - I assize you're looking

at page 13-12.

SPT I was looking at 13-3. Wait a minute.

14 15 51 CC Okay. l'm looking at the EREP calibration timeline,

the overview page that shows the sequence of maneuvers.

SPT • Okay.

CC Okay. Essentially, where we'd - we'd like to - in

addition to what's on this, We'd like you to throw
one switch for us on the star tracker at a particular
point, in order for us to get sr_ more Y-axis scale
factor data during the cal sequence. Going from left
to right on your col,-,- down there, and having put
together the times off of your various pads, the start
of the solar inertial -_-euver is at - that's in the
left hand corner. It's at 15:08. It's a 12-minute
maneuver, and it'll end at 15:20. And we'll alRo have
Vanguard acquisition at the start of that maneuver,
but then you'll go LOS after that. Then between 15:20
and 15:23 - 15:23 is the place where the little dark
triangle is. And that's where you go to ATT HOLD CMG.
During that period, you'll get - the star tracker will
lock on to that gimbal -ngle that I gave you while
ago, plus 2053. And at that .point, right after going
to ATT HOLD CMG, we'd like you to cycle the STAR TRACKER
switch to MANUAL and then to Ab"ID. That's the only
addition to this sequence. And then 15:2_ is the
final enter on cal maneuver n_er i. Over.

SPT Okay. I've gut it. STARTRACE_R, MANUAL, and then

AUTO, _-,,ediate!y after going ATT HOLD CMG.

CC Okay. And incidentally, if you don't get a star - if

you - don't waste your time hunting for a star, because
we'll take what we get on that.
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SPT Roger.

1M 17 41 CC Okay. Now that we've used up a bunch of your time,

Joe, and you were supposed to have been doing this
h malf for us on secondary coolant loop. Why don't you
let us know where you are in that, if you've started
it at all. We'd like to also tell you that the - we
recognize that there is a filter change in Order to
start this first ETC pass, coming up here at the States.
And if we have to, we're willing to postpone tbls
malfunction gothrongh and - depending on where you are.

SPT The filter change is com_lete. And the procedure is

complete up through connection of the PCU, LBU and
verification that we're in position i. And l'm
ready for - to get on up there and start to pt_p
on your ma'd_.

14 18 28 CC Okay. We've got 2 minutes left on this pass, why

don't you head up that direction while we p,11 our-
selves together.

SPT And l'm waiting for you, Houston.

CC Okay. We're GO, looking at our data. We've still got

a minute and 15 seconds here; so why don't you press
right on?

14 19 22 SPT Okay. We're at PRIMARY.

CC Okay.

14 19 41 SPT Now we're OFF.

CC SPT, Houston. Be advised we _ay go - We've got the

recorders running. We may go LOS during this test.
We want you to continue right on and finish it, but
we do want to do this on SUS 2, SUS 2.

SPT Roger. Sorry, and I'll start over again. You want
me to keep right on going through PRI for 15 minutes,
huh?

14 20 26 CC That's affirmative. We're recording it. We'll watch

it as long as we can see you. We're going to see you
at Goldstone at 14:38.
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SPT Okay.

14 37 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S stateside for the next

16 minutes. Standing by.

CI_ Roger. How do you read the CDR VOX?

CC Loud and clear, Pete.

CDR Okay. Hey, while I've got a minute here, Houston, you
want to do that H2 vent before we shut the fuel cells
down. Is that correct?

CC That's affirmative. We want to mAKe sure that it's

working properly.

CDR Okay.

14 39 00 CDR MARK. 39 minutes.

CC Skylah, Houston. No response required, but Just for

your information, Rusty and the guys went over to run
the simulator and ran this set of pads and _%EP - for
the EREP cal -_neuver yesterday, and it turned out pretty
good.

CDR 0kay.

14 39 41 CDR 91 READY light on time.

14 39 55 CDR And the ALTII_-fK_ is ON. Show an ALTI/_'I'_ UNLOCK

light. Okay, 92 MODE, READY. Bravo 7 is 30.

lh 40 20 CDR On ALTIM_.'I'_.'R
UNLOCK light, the mode is i; the range
_s 76. That's blinking a little. It may be coming in.

14 hl 13 (DR 90 to MODE, AUTO at 41:13. Joe, you're going to have

an ETC, AUTO at 42:12.

SPT Okay.

PLT Once again, Houston, where do you want - -

CDR 54 -

i_ _i 5_ CDR MARK. ALTIME-I._ to STANDBY.

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PLT I had to Just fling my STAR TRACKER to AUTO and leave.

I don't know if we're going to get a star lock-on or
not.

CC Roger; understand. It's oks_v.

14 42 12 CDR 42:12, ETC to AUTO.

SPT Got it.

14 43 16 CDR MARK. ETC, STANDBY.

SPT Got it.

14 43 25 CDR And S193A is MODE 2.

14 43 45 CDR MARK. 43:45 SCAT to STANDBY, RAD to STAR-_Y.

14 43 53 CDR At 47:53, the ALTI_4_-_EA_

is ON.

14 h6 23 CC Skylab, Houston. No response required. We're going

to handover from Goldstone directly to Mila here in a
few seconds. We'll probably drop out about 30 seconds
and be back with you.

14 47 49 CC S_ylab, Houston. We're AOS at Mila again. We got you

for the next 6 minutes. Standing by.

CC And, CDR; Houston. Be advised we're not reading you

if you're transmitting on VOX anymore.

14 48 21 CDR Apparently not.

SPT Houston, you read the SPT?

CC SPY, Houston. I read you loud and clear, y,A11 did

! drop out for a few minutes there. I stopped reading
the CDR on VOX.

PLT But I can hear it ... Confirm again.

PLT Hello, Houston. How do you read the PLT?

CC Loud and clear, PLT. How me?

PLT Loud and clear.

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PLT Did you get that no Joy on VTS site 385, Dick?

CC Negative. I did not copy that. Say it again, please.

PLT No Joy on VTS site 385. All the clouds are in the
wrong places.

CC Copy.

CDR How do you read the CDR?

CC Loud and clear, Pete.

CDR Okay.

14 49 00 CDR MAl_K49 ...

PLT Hello, Houston. On the next site, 566, - -

1449i4 CDR MARK.

PLT If I get a chance, or if 66 is clabbered. Can I pick

up 65 and/or 64 also?

CC That's affirmative, PLT. Press right on.

PLT Okay.

14 _9 29 CDR SCAT to STANDBY; PAD to STANDBY; 91, POWER OFF.

PLT LOckS pretty hazy down around the Corpus area, also,
Dick. .That haze will really do you in in this VTS.
You might pass that on to Jack Lousma.

CC Roger, Paul. Copy.

14 50 02 CDR 50:02, the ALTIM_A_R is ON.

14 50 45 CDR Intervalometer to 8. 51, CROSS-TRACK CONTIGUOUS;

POLARIZATION is 4.

CC Skylab, Houston. See you got a little hole here in

this thing. We've terminated ... for recording; so
we'd to - we'd like to get the SUB pump off while
you're still AOS. It's panel 217, SUS 2 pump to OFF,
if possible. We still got 2 minutes to go prior to LOS.
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SPT I'Ii do it.

14 51 28 CC Okay.

14 52 16 CDR Ssy, Houston, can you Just reset the frames on S190
in the middle of a run?

CC Stand by.

CC CDR, if you switch in the middle, it'll reset when

you go to STANDBY; so it's ok%v.

CDR All right.

CDH You guys keep coming up with these trickles I never

seen before.

CC Roger that. We're 45 seconds from LOS. We're going

to see you at Vanguard at 15:03. We're going to dt_p
the data tape recorder there, and we sure appreciate
y'all working in that malfunction procedure for us.

PLT That's one you owe us.

PLT You still there, Houston?

CC Yes, sir.

PLT Okay, I got 566 on that, but not the other two. And
566 is a little shaky, also. Hard to tell one knob
from another in there.

CC Okay.

14 53 28 CDR ALTIM_'I'_:Hto STANDBY, ... 53:38. Intervalmmeter going

to 18.

14 53 38 CDR MARK. Intervalc_eter to 18. 53:54. We're standing

by for the altimeter to come on ... on - -

END OF TAPE
 TAG Tape 165-06
165:15:00 to
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SKYLAB AIR-_-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

15 03 41 CDR READY MODE, READY. And for 15:0h, we'll put the
range to 81 on S193..

15 03 55 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS at Vanguard for 8-1/2 minutes.

CDR 8100 on the altimeter. Roger, Houston.

CC Roger. Read you loud and clear. Sta_.ding by.

CDR 04 :20 -

15 04 20 CDR MARK. 92 to CHECK.

CC SPT, Houston. While you've got _ little block in

between callouts there. On the RTC lunar cal pad,
there is another mistake we found. The DBEC, data
block exposure control, for the cal pass - ought to
be 4, Just like it is for EREP ii pass. There's no
change required to that.

SPT Okay, copy that.

15 05 01 CC Thank you, Joe.

15 05 14 CDR 05:12, S190 to MODE STANDBY; the BEADY light was out
on time.

CDR 05 :38.

15 05 38 CDR MARK ALTIMETER to STANDBY.

15 05 _.h CDR MARK. 05:_4, MODE 5.

15 05 53 CDR MARK. 05:53, the ALTIM_£_:H is ON.

CDR Six minutes, 94 MODE MANUAL.

CDR . Getting occasional ALTIMETER UNLOCK lights.

CDR Still getting ALTIMETER on UNLOCK lights.

15 07 00 CDR MARK. Seven minutes.

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15 o7 _8 CDR MARK. 07:_8.

15 07 49 CDR MARK. ALTIMETER STANDBY. 07:54 MARK EREP STOP.

Standing by for 15:08:08, start SI maneuver.

15 07 54 CDR Standing by for 15:12 for LC set up.

15 08 02 CDR Okay.

15 ll 54 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 40 seconds from LOS.

We've got a long LOS. We're going to see you at
Goldstone at 16:15, and you can tell us what the
Moon looks like.

PLT Okay. We'll see you.

15 12 07 CC Okay. See you later.

16 18 38 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Goldstone for 7-1/2 minutes.

16 19 00 CDR Okay, Houston. You can mevk the H2 vent - the H2

pressure at this time. I Just opened the H2 vent

before you came up.

CC Roger, CDR. We don't have data right atthe moment.

We're working a little ground problem, but appreciate
you telling us.

CDR Okay. Well, I Just opened them and I have a hack on

them and I'll try to watch and look at them in
90 minutes.

CC CDR, Houston; Roger. And be advised, we also been

talking about the H2 vent. We do want to make sure
it works. We got a Vanguard pass coming up here, and
we'll - When we get data back, we'll take a look here
at Goldstone and also at Vanguard. And if we can
confirm that it's working right, we'll probably let
you secure it.

CCDR Okay.
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16 19 58 CC And one more thing, Pete. A piece of information

I'm not sure you have on board, but if the - if the
tanks drop 20 psi, that's enough, and we'd like to
secure the vent.

CDR Okay, and I have it on board.

CC Roger.

CC And Skylab, Houston. If you have time sometime this

pass - still got 6 minutes - we'd be interested to
know how the calibration against the Moon went.

16 20 29 CDR Okay, the calibration went fine except for one loose
nut on the stick. The CDR left the FSC in on the
first set of pictures, but we had enot_h time to take
the second set of pictures with the FSC out and then
return and get the first set of pictures with the
original filters correctly; so we got it all.

CC Very good.

16 20 54 PLT Also, for information for the pointing guys, Dick:

The VTS gimbal angles, once we got the attitude, were
left shout a half, as near as I could interpolate,
and up about 7-1/2, which is pretty good; we were
shooting for a nominal zero and 8. And - and that's
as close as I can read them, anyway.

16 21 12 CC Roger. Thank you.

16 21 27 CDR There's a couple of stowage notes on B channel along

with that _EP d_ta about EREP for the follow-on
crew, Captain Bean's crew.

CC Okay. Good. Thank you for letting us know. And

we'll let the stowage folks know.

16 22 _3 CC Skylab, Houston. We see the star tracker N new Z is

messed up. We'd sure appreciate it if somebody could
help us get a reacquisition because we need that
prior to doing a good dt_mp m-ueuver.

CDH Okay. I'ii get it.

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CC Thank you.

CC AudjPete, a finalnote on H2 vent. When you do verify

that the - you've aropped 20 psi, we'd kind of like
to know about how long that took. And also, when you
get to that point_ request fans and heaters on both
H2 tanks to AUTO. And that'll keep us in good shape.

CDR Okay.

16 25 ii CC Skylab, Houston. We see you fixed the star tracker

up for us. We sure appreciate that. We're about
a minute from LOS. We're going to see you at Vanguard
at 16:hl. And we're going to dump the data tape
recorders at Vanguard.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

16 39 51 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S at Vanguard for 9 minutes.

SPT Roger.

16 47 19 SPT Houston, SPT. You there?

CC Skylab, Houston. If you called, say again, please.

CC Skylab, Houston. We lost you for a little bit there.

If you said something, say again, please.

16 48 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. I thought I heard you try to call,

and we dropped S-band there for Just a second. If
I did, I didn't - If you did, I didn't copy. You
might say again. Incidentally, we predict that the
H 2 vent will be complete at approximately 17:15,
which is about 30 minutes from now.

SPT Okay, th-_ you. And, Hank, I was calling you to

ask about ED31, which I see is on the shopping llst.
And I'm concerned about returning it, because we do
not have the IMSS resupply container on board. It
will be unalbe to chill the plates. I want to verify
that that's okey, and get that the PI on that would
prefer not to wait until the next flight.

CC Roger. Stand by, Joe,

SPT Another question, Dick. What, if any, are the con-

straints on starting the power transfer to house-
keeping 60 Alfa?

16 h9 31 CC SPT, Houston. We plan on bringing EDBI back possibly

in the food overcan. That's already been discussed;
so it's okay to go ahead and do that if you have
the time in your shopping list. And we don't have
an _-_ediate answer on the questions about the HK60
Alfa, but we will at the next AOS, which is Hawaii
at 17:49. And we're about 20 seconds from LOS here.

SPT Roger. And when do you want the H2 vent terminated?

16 50 05 CC The time on - The time we predict, from looking at

the data on H - on the H 2 vent, is about 17:15.
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SPT Thank you.

16 50 20 CC Skylab, Houston. Word from the EGIL - You - you can

proceed with HK60 any time you get to it in the Flight
Plan.

17 47 53 CC Skylab, Houston, we're A0S at Hawaii for the next

6 minutes.

CDR Roger.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead.

17 48 13 CDR Okay, we transferred power; the fuel cells are shut

down; the H2 vent is still open. The only question
that I have is, what would you like me to do with
that cryo 02 venting? It is rigged but the polychoke
is not on.

CC Roger. Stand by and we' ii get you word on that.

CDR Thank you.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. Last pass, I guess you guys

were looking at our - the message we sent up on the
shopping list and you mentioned ED31. Probably, we
would like to make some changes in the protocol,
particularly along with the number of frames of
photography and so forht, due to some of the film
on board that may have been degraded due to the earlier
high temperatures. So we would be interested to
know if you do plan on doing ED31, and we'll be sure
and get the right pads up to you.

17 49 22 SPT Yes, Houston, I'll try to do ED31. I - There are

a number of things I need. One is a photo pad with
your recommendation as to the film and the camera
to use. I suspect I have a choice of cameras. And
I also need a recommendation as to the approximate
length of time between the different photographic
episodes. That's not in the checklist. And I need
your reec_mmendations as to stowage for return.
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CC Okay, Joe, we will work up all those things for you.

And if you could give us an _idea as to when you think
you might have t_me to go ahead and set it up, it
might help us - it might m_e us change our mind On
a couple of item; the detail items.

SPT l'd like to get to it tonight after supper.

CC Okay, we got the people working on it right now.

We'll try to have a pad up to you today.

SPT Ok _'doke.

17 50 26 CDR Yes, Dick, I can put 73 back in operation here, and

we'll do that starting right now. Be advised that
I am doing M553-2, but it is a long, slow, and
painful process that will probably take me the rest
of the day.

CC Roger, Pete, on 553, and Flight Just wanted me to

let you know that M092 and 171 comes - outranks it.

17 51 13 CDR Oh, no - no problem there. It's just that I - you

Just can't run it off in rapid-flre succession. It's
got to cool after every one and be shut down for a
while. But we're clicking them off when'we have time.
You got us restricted to when we can start 92, and
I have some time right now, so I will put 73 in
comm_ _sion PR-2.

CC Roger ; understand. 'l"h,_n_

you much.

PLT Hello, Houston.

CC Go ahead.

17 51 h8 PLT I Just checked the S190 desiccants that were ba_ug

out. They are a beautiful deep blue color and appar-
ently are now usable. Now all" it said was to put them
in fecal bags and - and put them back in M130. I think
it would be a very good idea to change out the existing
desiccants that are in the camera now. I propose to
put six of these in the camera now, bake out the six
I put out, and change them again Just before we left.
Think about that.
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CC Okay. We'll do that very thing.

PLT And I will be waiting, Just hanging on the speaker

waiting for your word.

CC Okay.

17 53 40 CC SPT, Houston. We believe on the building block you're

on, on H-Alfa, we should be clicking off four frames
per minute vice 1. And for the CDR, as far as command
module configuration goes now, Pete, we'd like to
leave the cryo 02 - in the present configuration.

We We would like, for both H2 tanks, HEATERS and FANS

to OFF.

17 5_ 06 CDR They are, in fact, OFF, and the H2 vent is OPEN.

CC Thank you.

17 55 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We're

going to see you at Vanguard at 18:17. And in
answer to the PLT's question, we think that's a
super good idea. Change out the desiccants in the
camera, take the ones that are in there and go ahead
and start baking them out, and we'll probably schedule
another changeout for you later.

17 55 33 PLT Okay.

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18 18 22 CC Bkylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. S073 prep 2 is complete, and I'm

Just getting ready to extend it. We'll be on 92/171
on time.

CC Very good.

CDR Just to keep Flight happy.

CC He's grinning from ear to ear.

CDR I find that hard to believe.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. Be advised we're reconfiguring

the CBRM and wall heaters post-normal - post-EREP
commands. And also i have some information on
FINE EEG ADJUST that we'd appreciate y'all doing
when you can, which is necessary after we've done the
coE_and module power transfer.

CDR Okay. I'ii get _ fine reg adjuster out" of the head
and send him on his way.

CC Okay. We got 8 more minutes left in this pass; so

when he's ready to listen to what we want, I'll be
glad to read it up.

PLT He's on his way faster than a speeding bullet.

PLT You're ...

CC Did I copy you're ready to listen?

PLT Affirmative.

CC Okay, Paul. On REG BUS i ADJUST. we want that

counterclockwise, approximately 30 degrees, which
ought to result in about a 7-_p decrease in PCG
total 1 current. And on REG BUS 2 ADJUST, we want
that one also counterclockwise, about i0 degrees,
and that ought to result in about a 2-amp decrease
in PCG total 2 e_rrent.
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PLT Okay. I'm writing about 48 and 60 on board now. Is

that about where you want it?

CC Stand by.

18 21 h8 CC PLT, Houston. We're very happy with the adjustment

that you made, and we're satisfied with this
configuration.

PLT Okay.

CC SPT, Houston. On the ATM console our spies on the

ground are watching you doing your sunside work, and
are a little bit confused as to exactly where you
are in the - in this particular pass. And if you get
a chance this time, you might let us know how things
are going.

SPT " I'm not sure I don't want to keep them in the dark.
They can usually tell by looking at H-alpha. I 'm
in the JOP 6. I'm in the second part of the JOP 6.
The X-ray tele is finishing up its active long.
We're not going to finish everything up. You see,
we're getting too close to ESS, but that's where
we are.

CC Okay, Joe. Thank you much.

18 26 33 CC SPT, Houston. The question that we Just asked you

about where you are on ATM makes us think we possibly
might have a teleprinter problem in numbers. We
thought you ought to be doing a building block 2
vice a building block i. Incidentally, we're about
30 seconds from LOS. We're getting ready to have a
long LOS period. We're going to see you at Hawaii
at 19:2h. We've got about 30 seconds left.

SPT Okay. And while you're LOS, you can ponder the fact
that the teleprinter is okay, but think of all the
extra data you got.

18 27 07 CO Roger that, Joe.

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19 24 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii for the next

lO minutes, and we're going to be dt_ping the data
tape recorder this pass.

SPT Okay.

CDR Houston, CDI_. How about working up a pad time for

program 0A on 73 that doesntt interfere with recorders
for me sometime?

CC Well, as a matter of fact, Pete, I have here a mission

note for you that has some information on S073, mode OA,
and I was - and I was Just trying to figure out exactly
when to call you, because I wasn't sure how busy you
all were and if you could listen.

CDR Go ahead.

19 25 01 CC (_ay. On the Program start, we want to use the ATM

DC clock. Start the program at 7 minutes prior to
sunset on any rev after M092. The REP should be 36
- 36, and the rest of the setup is per the checklist.

CDR Seven minutes prior to sunset on the ATM DC, REP 36,
rest the same. I got it.

19 25 34 CC Roger. I wasn't sure I copied how you read that back.

But that was T minutes prior to sunset. And, I also
have another note here for you on the polychcke setting.
If you have time, we'd like to get it set to orifice
number 2, which corresponds to 13 pounds per d_y, and
ensure, of course, that the vent valves and hose have
been hooked up to the side hatch prior to doing this.
And, if you do this, this will ,11ow us to look at the
data this afternoon prior to you _s going to bed.

19 26 01 CDR Yes, I'll get it on right away. And the vent hose is
rigged, the orifice is OFF. And I'll put it on, and
turn it OFF.

CC Okay. Good show. Incidentally, we haven't forgotten

your guys' request on doing something about the ward-
room window. And, we do have some people looking at
two or three ways. We might could get that moisture
out from between the panes, and we'll be getting back
to you on that.
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CDR Okay. Thank you.

19 27 50 CC SPT, Houston. When you get a chance, the star tracker

appears to us to be locked on something moving. You
might try reacquiring your star tracker pad; on board
is okay.

SPT Okay, Houston. What do you think? Seems to be par-

ticles floating across its path. We have to ex-m_ue
it every now and then.

CC Roger, Joe. We believe that's what's happening, and,

unfortunately, it seems to be happening quite often
today, and I'm bugging you guys about it. But we
think it probably is little ice particles or something.

SPT- Okay.

CDR Probably the venting hydrogen.

CC Roger.

19 33 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS; we're

going to see you at Vanguard at 19:56. And, incidentally,
Pete, either here or at Vanguard, we'd appreciate yo u
letting us know how much of the S073 you did get done
today, because it will affect what we're going to
schedule for you tomorrow. And, in the event you did
take the option of going ahead and photographing your
prep for S073, and you haven't done that yet - I under-
stand you asked the question earlier, but the information
for that M151 setup is on the SAL checklist, page 8-1.
And no response required now, if you're busy.

19 34 20 CDH No, I got it all done. I di@ an M151 with it per

checklist. It's two rod extension right now. I
will get progrsm 0A run tonight. The polychoke is ON
and running on orifice position 2.

19 34 38 CC Outstanding. ThAnk you much.

19 56 12 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS at Vanguard for 8 minutes.

CR_ Roger.

19 57 25 CC SPT, Houston. Be advised since the way the star tracker's --

been acting up today, we don't want to let it keep up-
dating new Z with bad data. So, what we intend to do
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is issue a commaud to the star tracker to inb_bit it

from chsmgimg the value of new Z and _TM DC. And -
So if you'll give us the DAS, we'll go ahead and issue
that command.

SPT You got it.

CC Okay.

20 00 ll CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised of the result of our

troubleshooting early today and you gL_s running through
that malfunction procedure. We think we've determined
in the airlock module secondary coolant loop that that
thermal control valve is still possibly hung up. How-
ever, this time it appears to be hung up closer to the -
its normal temperature control point. But we're not
real sure and we're continuing to look at the data
and we'll keep you informed.

- SPT Okay.

20 01 31 CC Skylab, Houston. If you did extend the S073 s_ahile ago

when we were t_l_ing, and we're a little confused about
whether you did or not, we probably ought to get pOWer
on it so we don't have any freezing prob_ma. We've
still got about 2 minutes left in this AOS here at
Vanguard. Following this one, we're going to have a
whole rev and see you again at Vanguard, if there's
anything you need to tal_ about then ....

CC And SPT, Houston. The DAS is yours. We're through

with our cc_,,and.

20 02 14 SPT Roger that. And the CDR says he will put power in
73.

20 02 18 CC Okay. Than_ you much.

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21 33 35 CC SEylah, Houston; A0S for i0 minutes.

CDR Hi there, Bill. How are you tonight?

CC 0h, pretty good.

CDR ...

CC You broke up on that one. Say again.

21 34 01 CDR S073 is off and r,n_ing on time.

CC We copy.

21 h3 12 CC Skylab, LOS, 1 minute. A0S Ascension, 21:h7, and we

will be dumping the tape recorder at that point.

SPT Roger, Houston.

21 hT 17 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S l0 minutes.

PLT Roger, Houston.

CC And, Skylab, be advised that we're going to be running

the MDA heaters such that they're about 60 degrees, and
this may cool the 0WS over the next few days. If you
find this objectionable, let us know.

PLT Okay. We don't think so. We've - You can notice a

couple of degree change in here, Bill. We're quite
sensitive to - to increase in temperatures in the
workshop, especially on the ergometer.

CC We copy that.

21 56 39 CC Skylab, LOS 1 minute; Guam, 22:31. And we show the

TACS not inhibited. We would like to have the TACS
inhibited.

21 56 53 PLT Roger.

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22 31 47 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS, 9 minutes.

SPT Roge r.

CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.

CC The VTR is now empty. We would like you to get XUV

data. You have 27 minutes available on the recorder.

SPT I don't think you want that much XUV.

CC Just voice sequences.

CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.

22 33 33 CC Paul, would you consider setting up a S073, mode 4A

prior to going to sleep tonight? It'll run A11 night
for i0 revs, it should take about 5 to i0 minutes to
set up. And slthough a mode hA was run several days
ago, only able to get six of i0 filters. And if we
get this, we'll essentially complete the hA scan tonight.

PLT Okay, letIs have it.

CC We'll send the pad up for that then.

PLT All righty. Good enough.

CC Skylab, have one or two news items if it won't interrupt

anythi ng.

PLT Nothing, go ahead.

CC In case you haven't heard, the President's speech last

night - he is going to invoke a 60-day price freeze
that's based on the first 8 days of Jume. Wages and
on-the-farm prices will be excluded from this. They
are considering looking at some profits, a possible
rollback on that. At the end of the 60-day period,
he is going to come up with a phase h program, again
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attempting to control prlees. The money dealers said

that this was too little and too late today. The price
of the dollar slumped in European money markets, while
gold Jumped. It closed Wednesday at ll5.75- Als0 rose
in price in Paris, closing at $116 an ounce, also.

PLT I think we'll stay up here, Houston.

CC We copy that.

22 36 Ol CC Kissenger briefed members of Congress today on the

new Indo-China cease-fire agreement. But offered
little prospect of any letups in the U.S. bombing
of Cambodia. In other words, "It's still a camp-
ground, it's still a battleground," Kissenger was
quoted es saying. In Albuquerque, 41 people were
left up in the sir, not quite as high as you are,
but they were stranded in two cable cars on the
west face of the Sandia Mountains. They supposedly
spent a safe and comfortable night before rescuers
began. They are going to try to lift the cars back
onto the cables by crane or helicopter and carry back
the passengers, down this 10,000-foot mountain. The
cars were stalled Wednesday night when a - an extr_ne
gust of wind caught them as they were being stopped.
In case you are going to South Padre Island, Texas,
which is the newest town in Texas, they have just
elected a new sheriff who's a 27-year-old, redheaded
mother of two. She says, "I'm a mean redhead, and if
they ever call me 'pig' , they had better be careful;
I might take it the wrong way." And in case there
are may boat fans aboard, there is a new world speed-
boat record for ocean racing. It was set by Dr. Benomi
of Rome in an offshore race. The boat's 36 feet, has
two Kiekhaefer 468-cubic-inch, 600-horse engines.
Record time of 83.2, as compared to the old record
of 73.1. And the Sun is out today, and everybody's
sweeping the remnants of the water out of their
houses in Friendswood. And we'll probably have a
dry spell for awhile. Come to think of it, maybe
you people are well off where you are.

22 39 4h CC We will be LOS in i minute. Vanguard A0S at 23:i0.

You should have on board a - one copy of the Flight
Plan, evening questions, and CDR details.

SPT Roger, Houston. (Music)

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23 i0 48 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS, 10minutes.

CDR Hi there, Houston, I was about to say Skylah. I don't

know where I am. Houston, are you ready for the Eve-
ning Status Report?

CC We're stmlding by 'for the status report.

CDH Okay, the CDH had his particularly difficult struggle

today because this fieldday is mM first fieldday.
There's a couple of it_ns on there that are bad enough
to gag a m_ggot. However, under the direct strain,
I managed to get it all down, plus two butter cookies.

CC We copy that.

CDR And three optional salts. The SPT suffered the same
hardship, managed to get everything down today also.

CC Copy.

23 12 05 CDR However, the PLT did not eat his corn for lunch, nor
his coffee with sugar for a snack, and he had plus 1.5
Delta Hf0 , and zero optional salt.

CC Is he alright today, not eating salt?

CDR He's not allowed any.

PLT I'm allowed half a pack. Yippee!

CDR Okay, for the photo status report, 16-millimeter. We

start with an EREP pass, _ CIII, 00, CI25. Then we
got an MISI flash, EPC stow, Charlie India 06, 40,
Charlle India 03. We got an EREP ii, with a Baker
Hotel 0255. We got a M553-I, .Charlie India 05, 00,
Charlie India 01. We got a M553-2, Charlie India
06, 35, Charlie India 03. We got an M151-1, Charlie
India 10, 00, Charlie India 08. We got a S073
prep 2. Two rod extensions M151, Charlie India 09,
66, Mike Tango 03. For 35-millimeter, we have
Charlie India 30 with a 36 frame count; Charlie
India 28 with a 28 frame count. For 70-millimeter:
Charlie X-Hay 06, 103. The ETC, we had 389 on one
run, _10 on the other. Cal aequence done twice, both
_TC mags unloaded. Film in E-19, box 27. The EREP,
set 2 Quebec was depleted. And the drawer A
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configuration, AI is 02, Charlie India 05, 00, Charlie

India 01; A2: 03, Charlie India 06, 35, Charlie India
03; A3 is 06, Charlie India i0, 00, Charlie India 08;
Ah is 05, Charlie India ii, 00, Charlie India 25; and
floating is 07, Charlie India 09, 66, Hike Tango 03.
Changes to the Flight Plan, you've got. We added
the S073. No changes in stowage or anything else,
and SPT's got the answers to some of your questions.
MY question on how long did it take to vent 20 psi -
l'm going to say about h5 minutes because I quit
timing it after you guys gave me the time to shut
it off, and I did glance at it. Looked to me like
about h5 minutes for that 20 psi.

23 15 13 CC We copy, Pete.

CC Someone asked if you ever heard of Speedy Rigs?

CDR Speedy Rigs, no. Who's he?

CC I'ii tell you one d_y.

CDR He's the fast talker who asked m_ wife about telling
"Goldilocks" and '_2he Three Bears" in exactly 60 seconds.

CC We copy, Pete. (Laughter)

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC GO, SPT.

SPT Okay, evening questions. _ber I. They were painted

green and they are in the two holes provided for them
on the experiment. Shame on you.

CC We copy.

23 16 03 SPT Okay. The M092 cell settings were all changed by us

on either the first or second run, we really don't
remember, and subsequently, about two runs after that
for each of us. The current readings being used are
CDR 6, - -

CDR No....
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SPT - - SPT 9, PLT 8. Correction on that, the CDR says

he did not go to 6 mad that he stayed at 7 after his
initial change. Ergoliad [?] Our crests are all on
a line with the restraint system, so we're okay. We're
not cheating, in other words. But you do tend to ride
lower in that thing in zero-g.

CC Copy.

SPT Okay, as far as the history plotter, it's working

fine. There are no technical probl-ma with it. Un-
fortunately, there hasn't been any significant acti-
vity for it to catch. So I can't tell how useful a
tool it's going to be.

CC We copy.

SPT And on M172. I haven't thought up any specifics on

changes. I think for the m,n restraint system, it's
going to hack it, I think. I think it's alright.
I would rather have a more positive lock device on
the shoulder straps, but it's too late for that.
We're - we're making do fine with what we've got.
As far as ca/, Bill, the tray lids rattle and if
you're happy with gray tape, okay. And some new
drastic needs - needs to - needs to be come up with
if you want to use M509 batteries and stuff like that
because there's really no hope for them in - in the
present scheme. Over.

CC Copy, Joe. And did I copy that the red - that the
lids rattle on the traysl And the trays themselves,
are they firmly attached to the adapter?

23 18 ii SPT They appear to be. The numbers have looked pretty good
since I started gray-taping the lids onto the trays.
That's what it was, you could hear them go click-clack,
cllck-clack, every time the chair moved.

CC Okay. Would it be practical to tape the 509 batteries

in and not attempt to hold them with the straps?

SPT I don't think so, because they're too heavy. The lids
aren't so heavy. The other thing, even on the empty
chair care, you've got to be careful how you secure
the - the shoulder straps because if they're floating
around, it makes a difference. You can see it in the

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data. I've got a question for you, Houston. I asked

about ED31 this afternoon, and if I'm to do it, to
start it this evening, I need a photo pad.

CC Stand by b=If.

SPT You got one for me?

CC Stand by Just a second, Joe.

SPT Okay.

23 19 ii CC Joe, while we're waiting for that, what about C-clamps

or something else like that on those 509 batteries?

SPT It's possible, Bill. I - I haven't worked with them;

I think that's something you can determine in the
trainer.

CC Okay.

CC That _)31 pad should be up at Ascension.

SPT Which pass - it's getting late.

CC We copy.

23 20 23 CC Joe, one last question on that 172 cal. That

2-1/2 hours you think is a realistic figure for -
if you m-_ntain the procedure you - that we've been
using?

SPT Yes, well that was with the - a real Jury rig for the
batteries and so on, which I don't think was vet7 good
anyway. You can - you can cut it down to an hour and
a half, if you've got some quick and easy way of secur-
ing them on because taping the lids doesn't take very
long.

CC Copy.

23 21 03 CC We're going LOS here in approximately i minute. There

will be A0S at Ascension at 23:27. And the reed confer-
ence, at 23:32. Madrid will be out of action on this
pass at 23:36.
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SPT Roger that, Houston. And I assume that if we do get

the ED31 pad, we will be okay to use the _ to
televise that.

CC That's affirmative.

CC Skylab, Houston; AOS, 4minutes.

23 29 59 CC SPT, Houston.

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23 31 09 CC Skylab, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.

CC We were unable to get the ED31 message up because

of a checkpoint. However, there are only two very
simple essential changes, if you can copy.

SPT Come ahead.

CC The first is simply to save the overcan for return

stowage. And the second one is, that no photos are
needed for the preparation. It otherwise is per check-
list. We will be sending this pad up later, but
you c_n proceed at this time.

SPT Okay, I will. And I will count on you tonight, some

time, to send up appropriate photo pads for examin-
ation and time schedules for that. Right?

CC That's affirmative. We're going to medical

conference here in approximately 15 seconds.

SPT Okay.

23 h0 38 CC And, Skylab, we'll be L05 here in about 30 seconds.

We'll have you over Guam _ 00:08.

SPT Hey, Bill, I didn't hear the teleprinter on that pass.

Did you get that S073 pad up yet?

CC It should be up - Paul.

23 41 03 SPT Okay.

00 09 33 CC Skylab, A0S Guam, 6 minutes.

PLT Roger, Houston.

00 15 35 CC Skylab, L0S in 1 minute. Honeysuckle at 00:22.

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SPT Roger. Did you get the TV okay?

CC That's affirmative.

SPT All righty.

CDR Do they Just leave "this out here, or do we continue

all by ourselves?

CC Don't let them leave you there.

CDR Lots of luck.

OO 22 52 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for B minutes.

SPT Roger.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Speak, Sweet Lips.

CC l've been called a lot of things. Did you finish

]4553, wheel 2, todmy?

CDR This is avery, very slow process. Let me tell you

where I am, and what the problems are. This - There's
something in there that really outgases, Bill, I
can make about one bloody ball, and then I got to shut
the whole operation down for about 2 hours. So, I'ii
tell you where I em on wheel 2. l've made the three
balls that are on the hard sting. But, fortunately, I
think the electron beam gun is pooping out. I - I
can't even get anything to melt without showing 80-
millivolts. And - and what's happening is - is that
this material is fairly, hard I gathered, from the
stuff that we melted yesterday, and - and it does
essentially the s_ thing. It melts and it's Just
about ready to go into a sphere, and I got it pointed
exactly right, I'm convinced, right on the top thud,
and it's Just about to go in the sphere when this
thing retracts and shuts the gun off. And I wind up
with -with a part of a half-melted cylinder and a half
sphere down at the base. And - but, I'm - I'm my
way through it, slowly.
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CC Okay. There was another question on it. Did the

5kVA high voltage go off nominally, or did you
have to pull main battery circuit breaker this time?

CDR Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. And

then it is the function of the vacuum in there, I'm
sure. And what I've done now, is I Just - I do one
or two and I see the vacuum crawling up, and once it
gets to 0.1 or above, why, there's Just no sense
messing with it. And - and if I shut it off at that
point and then leave it alone, it outgases. It'll
build up even higher, and it outgases for a while,
then after a while it pulls the hard vacuum again.
That's why I say it's about a 2-hour cycle. And,
so, it's in there and I'll go make a ball every time
I pass by. I check - check the vacuum and see
how it's doing; and if I can me_e one, I make one,
and if I can't, why, you know, I go do something else.
So, it's still in there, and I've gotten through about
200 things and the three hard ones are made, and that's
where I am.

O0 26 25 CC Okay, Pete. Thank you very much, and we'll be going

LOS here momentarily, and have you again at Vanguard
at 00:50.

00 26 35 CDR Okay.

O0 50 h3 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for approximately 3 minutes.

PLT Roger. S073 is running.

CC Copy.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go, SPT.

SPT You can tell Mr. Stanley that his experiment came
through in good shape and is off and running also.

CC I'm sure he'll appreciate it. We'll pass it on.

CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go, CDR.
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CDR We've been having a very serious discussion. We

want to m_ke sure, make very sure, that the
Ticonderoga has a large enough supply of butter
cookies" on board to handle us.

CC Hey, Pete, I tried to eat them out of those things,

and never could. So, I'm very sure they'll have
enough for you.

CDR Thank you.

CC And, Pete, I didn't realize you were a classics'

scholar also. I take it that was Chaucer you were
quoting to me the last time.

CDR I don't reR11y know.

00 53 17 CC Tomorrow we are sending you up a new set of datail

pads. And 8073 2C is what we'll be running. We're
about to go LOS here, and so, good night to you all.

O0 53 34 CDR Night.

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CC Skylab, Houston. Through Honeysuckle. Good

morning.

PLT Morning, Hank.

08 29 h2 CC We've got you for about 9 more minutes this morning,

then we're going to be dumping your recorder here
first thing.

08 30 5h CC Skylab, Houston. For info, the friendly PI on the

BMMD has got a little request for you. He wants
to get some repeatability data. And he would like
for you to, when you finish your first run - run on
the B_4D to get out of it and then climb right back
in and do another run and voice record this additional
data. He's trying to see if the results are repeatable.

CDR Hey, Hank, we'll have to catch it tomorrow morning.

We've already weighted, and we're well off doing other
things.

CC That's Just fine. And while T got you_ Pete, I've

got a couple of questions on the EB gun if you can
answer.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay, we'd like to know if the shutdown was nominal,

or did you have to pull the main bat circuit breaker
after your last shot on the 553?

CDR I had to _,11 the breaker.

08 31 59 CC Okay, I guess then in that case, what we would

like for you to do is, at your convenience, continue
553 until you can get a nominal shutdown, if possible.
And when you do, we want to terminate M553. And the
first time you get a nominal shutdown, we want to
terminate it. And then we want to put - well, M552
is a data shopping list item if you want do that
sometime. In regard to the sample wheel, though,
we would like for you not cut any of those samples
Page lh96 Day 166

off of the wheel. We're trying to look into the

stowage situation. There's a possibility that we
may want bring those - that wheel back, and look at
those samples. You know, look at why they didn't
come off of there.

CDR Well, I can tell you that they _ill fall off, based
on m_ experience with the other wheel. The thing is
retracted but they are still flat on the bottom, and
they Just sort of tend to have a little stickness to
the ceramics. I get nominal shutdowns, it Just
happened that the last one wasn't a nominal one. One
other factor is that the whole thing turns blue in
there when things are going bad. If that has any
significance, it lights up blue,

08 33 31 CC l've seen that in the test runs and, in my estimation,

what's happening there is you're getting enough
outgasing there that you're sort of getting some
kind of a discharge inside the chamber.

CDR Yes, I agree with that. And I have not started any
runs over hl. But something will happen in there,
and I've see_ it get as high as 0.5 during a run.

CC Roger that. That compares wish what - the testing

that I did down at the Cape. I'm a little surprised
that the vacuum you're getting up there doesn't do a
better Job.

CDR Well, that's what's got me mystified. But you take

a h-inch hole out there and do it, but it sure as
heck does it.

CDR Say, Hank, they don't have to look too far for
stowage. We're short two EREP tapes, and out
going A-9 pretty easily.

CC Roger. Copy.

08 35 17 CDR I've had it sitting on VET all night. Now, I ought

to get a least one or two good from it. If you want
me to shut down after a nominal run, why I ought to
get one good run this morning.

CC Okay, that would be good, Pete. When do get a

nominal shutdown, that's when we want you to quit.
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CDR Okay.

CC And Skylab, Houston. All your pads are up there now.

And we're going to need a paper change, here. We're
down to the last few feet.

SPT Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. Like to verify this wardroom window

got fogged up. The fogging is between the panes,
isn't it?

SPT It's the inside of the outer pane.

CC Roger. And the next time one of you is in the

wardroom there, if you're not there, we'd like for
you to open the VENT valve, panel 704.

SPT Okay.

08 37 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute until LOS.

Hawaii will be coming up at 49. And I 're only got
one more item for you, which we have if we can get
up there, is a few Flight Plan changes.

08 38 lO SPT ...

08 49 18 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9 minutes.

PLT Hello, Houston.

CC Skylab, Houston. I got those Flight Plans handy.

Just give me a buzz whenever your ready.

CDR Roger, Houston. In answer to message 2229 Alfa, the

answer to the question is 6_.384 percent.

CC That's pretty accurate.

CDR Well, that was arrived at by accepted engineering

standards.

08 51 24 SPT Hello, Houston. You there?

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CC Roger. We got some blockage there on the command

module; we're back with you now.

SPT Okay, go ahead with the Flight Plan changes, Henry.

CC Okay. For the CDR, at 14:50 on the Flight Plan,

we'd like to change the S07 - You guys did such a
good Job yesterday on S073 we got to redo it here.
Change the 2 Alfa to a 1 Delta. And for the PLT,
at 19:10, you've already got an S073 2 charter
scheduled and your pads on board. But we would like
to add at 21:00, for the PLT, and S073, _ Alfa instead
of 5 Alfa. Delete the 5 Alfa a_d make it a 4 Alfa.
And then you'd have to make the appropriate changes
in your detail pads. The CDR details at 14:50,
the S073 1 Delta, and the pad's on board. And the
PLT at 21:00, details, to _ Alfa, and the pad's
on board.

SPT Roger.

08 53 03 CC And so you can be t_-_ing about it, there is some

consideration here by management of adding another
EREP pass on day 169. We're a long ways from a
decision yet, but I Just wanted to let you know in
case you were starting to close out some of the EREP.

08 53 29 SPT Roger.

08 58 09 CC Skylab, Houston; about 30 seconds from LOS.

Goldstone will be coming up at 01.

09 12 25 CC Skylab, Houston throl,gh Bermuda 7-1/2 minutes.

09 18 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

be coming up on Canaries at'21.

09 21 33 CC Skylab, Houston thro,,o_ Canaries and Ascension for

15-1/2 minutes.

SPT Fifteen and half. Wow!

CC That's a biggie. And for information, since we're

not doing maneuvers today, we're going to leave your
gyros in the configurationwe put them in last night,
and your panel will be okay except that the Y con-
figuration is 1/2.
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CDR Roger.

CC And, Skylab, Houston. I have your SAP update.

CDR ... ?

CC Roger. I have the solar activity update.

CDR Oh, it l

SPT Go ahead.

09 23 B1 CC Okay. Active region 27 is still popping. We got a

couple of subnormal flares out of that last night,
22:19 and Ol:B6. We got a subnormal Charlie 2 in
X-rays at O0:B1 in active region B7. Active region
41 fired off a subnormal flare about 04:25 this
morning. And we've got a new active region 4B, that's
popped up at 180.3 and there's a little flare out of
that, but we already expect much activity in that area.

SPT Okay, we copy. We'd like some supernorm_1 flares,

please.

CC So would we.

09 24 40 CDR The PLT has made a momentous decision, Houston. He's

about to let the CDR trim his hair.

CC Careful.

SPT Say, Hank, I ass_me that before 21:00, you guys are
going to send me a S073 pad for that 4-Alfa
program. Is that right?

CC It should be up there now. We indicate that a11 the

pads are up now. That would have been the last one
up.

SPT Was that after 08:10, it was sent up?

CC That's affirmative. It went up at 08:22 or

roughly, or 08:25.

SPT Oh, okay.

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09 26 16 CC Make that about 08:30. It was over Honeysuckle, I

think, we got it up.

09 32 18 CDR Still there, Houston?

CC Roger. We've gotabout 5more m_nutes.

09 32 24 CDR We were Just passing over AbiJan. I've got some

friends down there; made that in 1969, after 12.

09 36 20 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. We'll be coming

up on Carnarvon at 05.

09 36 23 CDR Roger.

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lO 05 17 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS at Carnarvon for the next

9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. CMC-dump check coming up.

CC Okay.

lO 08 41 CDR Hey, Houston, are you ready for the E-memory dump?

CC Stand by, Pete.

PLT Well, hi there, Richard. You Just thought you were

going to have the daylight shift, huh?

CC They keep fooling me, Paul.

PLT I know what you mean. (Laughter)

CC And, CDR; Houston. Affirmative. We're standing by

for E-memory dump now.

lO 09 27 CDH Coming at you.

CC Roger.

lO ll O1 CDR And, Houston, I'm ready for your D27 anytime you're
ready to ship it.

CC Roger, CDR. We'll up-link that toyou at Hawaii.

CDR Understand that's Hawaii?

CC Roger. And you're in the middle of the Honeysuckle

pass now. The Hawaii pass is going to start at 10:27.

CDR All right. I have the time. How about the logic
sequencer check? At Hawaii also?

CC Let's see, Pete. Let me check that one.

lO ll 47 CDR Some strange vehicle I'm in. I haven't been in here

long enough from on the left side to remember what
it's all about.
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CC Well, the 4-foot trench is watching yoU today. And

the logic sequence check is scheduled for a Bermuda
pass, and.that's coming up--

CDR I got it.

CC - - at i0:_8.

CDR Okay. D27 at Hawaii and logic sequence check at BDA.

We'll be standing by.

CC Okay.

i0 12 52 CDR Dick, let me ask you. Is this real-world times for

re-entry day, also? Or pretty close to the stations?

CC Let me think about that one and get back to you, Pete,
I'm not sure.

CDR Or do we see that tomorrow? Tc_orrow, I guess.

i0 13 22 CC CDR, Houston. Negative. The times today are not too

close to the entry. The actual entry-day times - We
have another message that's in preparation that will
describe the pass times for both the entry SIM tomorrow
and also the entry on entry day, and they' ii be
coming up to you when we get them ready.

CDR Okay. S_netime before re-entry, please.

i0 13 55 CDR What of the VHF check? You want that at Bermuda also,
or smother one down the road?

CC That's in Bermuda, also, Pete. And we're 25 seconds

fr_n LOS here at Honeysuckle. We're going to see you
at Hawaii at i0 :27, and we alsa are going to dump the
data tape recorder at Hawaii.

CDR See you Hawaii.

i0 14 16 CC Roger.

i0 27 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Hawaii for the next

9 minutes. We'd like ACCEPT; and we're ready to up-
link D27.

CDR You got it.

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CC And also, Pete, any time during this pass, I've got
a P30 T. time and a couple of other times for you.
And the19irst one's on page 1-9 of the Entry Checklist.

l0 27 32 CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. On 1-9, there at step 12, you want to complete

the P51 prior to 11:37. And the aext one's on 1-11.

CDR Go ahead.

l0 28 05 CC Okay. On - Roger. On the pen and ink note, Pete,

in step 18, that time is 13:10. 1310. And also on
that page, down there below step 19, ti_e - Wait Just
a second. Yes, the P30 T. time is 12 plus 29 plus 00.
Ig

CDR 12:29:00; I got it.

CC Roger. CDH, Houston. On that entry on 1-11, there

is a correction to that pen and ink. The time that
I gave you of 13 plus lO, we want to complete the
P50 before that time of 13 plus l0.

CDR Okay.

l0 32 12 CC CDR, Houston. One more suggestion we might make on

your time line today. The P52 option 3 on page 117
- If you'd go ahead and attempt it right after the
P50 while you're still in daylight, that'll be closer
to your - the alignment problem on entry day. If you
don't get a good al_gnment in daylight - or unable to,
we'll Just go ahead and waiG and do it after sunset.
And that'll be at - -

CDR Okay. P52, option 2, item n,,*,her39; and do that

right after the PS0, which has .to be done before
13:10. Right?

CC That's right. So we figure you'll be doing the P52

sometime around 13:00 or so. And that is, in that
- that's about - oh, 12, IB minutes prior to sunset.

CDR Okay. Will PICAPAR work? Or are you going to have

to give us a couple of stars for the daylight?

CC We do have - -
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CDR ..... have to think about that one.

CC Well, PICAPAR I'm told, should work, although we do

have some" stars in our hip pocket that we're going
to have available for you.

CDR
i0 34 09 CC Skylab, Houston. Th_ up-link's complete; you can go
back to BLOCK. ThAn_ you much.

CDR Okay. Ready for the logic sequencers?

CC Negative. We're goin@ to he ready for them at the

Bermuda pass - at the Guaymas pass, Pete. Incidentally,
we're about a - -

MCC (At Bermuda - not Goldstone - Bermuda)

i0 34 hO CC Sk_lab, Houston. We're about a minute and 20 seconds

from LOS. We're going to see you at Goldstone at
10:40. And incidentally , on this stateside pass, you 7
- probably - if anybody has time to look out the window,
it's going to be prior to sunrise across most of the
States. You're going to cross the west coast Just to
the north of Seattle and then come sk_w,,_ug across
the Cauadian border. Then Just above the Great Lakes
and then finally leave the East coast Just north of
Boston. And all that is after a lesson in how to use
the Earth slider map from the backup CDR.

i0 35 20 PLT Yea for the backup CDR! We already looked at that,

snd we've only got 3 minutes till States pass sunrise.
And I Just looked out the window, and I think, unfor-
tunately, we're not going to be able to see much on
the ground, because it's getting pretty bright in the
east already.

CC Roger.

PLT Tomorrow we're going to get up early and look out the
window, right?

CC Right I

MS Right !
 Day166 Page1505

CDR But with this full Moon it's awful bright outside,
anyhow. Yes, and the super passed out in the bed
last night, looking at it in the moonlight. And he
could see the land and the ocean real good .... ,
Africa still looks grand in the full Moon.

l0 36 l0 CC Roger.

l0 39 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for 5 minutes.

And we'll get right hack to you when we got data,
so we can watch the logic sequence check.

CDR Okay.

CC As a matter of fact, I'm told that we're ready to -

for it any time.

CDR It's coming at you, and I'll give you a holler when
I'm at your point.

CC Okay.

CDR Okay, I'm ready to give you the SEQ logic.

CC Okay. Go ahead.

lO 40 39 CDR LOGICs 1 and in AUTO.

CC CDR, Houston. The logic sequence check is good. You're

GO for POWER ALARM. Be advised we're going to do the
VHF check. We've got the STDN configured at the Mila
pass, which is coming up in Just a few minutes. And
when we get there, we'll gc over there and do VHF check.

CDR Okay. I'll go ahead and de-arm the logic.

CC Roger.

I0 41 36 CDR Step 8 is complete, and logic sequence check a_Id all

breakers are back open again. And I'm standing by
for you_ VHF.

i0 41 46 CC Roger that.

i0 44 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from LOS at

• Goldstone. We're going to have Bermuda on S-band AOS
prior to Mila; so I'll contact you in this comm config-
uration on S-band at Bermuda. Then when we get Mila
acquisition, we'll go over and do the VHF.
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lO 45 06 CDR Roger.

i0 _9 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Bermuda and Mila for

i0 minutes. We do not have Mila acquisition yet,
and I'll let you know when we're ready for VHF.

SPT Houston, SPT. Are we still in the horn of the anomaly,

please?

CC Stand by i.

SPT Roger. What's happening is that we have a very high

PMEC count. And the times given on the pad - well,
it's dropping now. The times given on the pad indi-
cated we were out of the horns and we gee nothing
particularly outstanding on our ATM displays ; and
that puts us in a heck of a dilemua.

lO 49 45 CC Stand by Just l, Joe. I'll get back to you.

lO 50 12 CC 8PT, Houston. We believe you are still in the horn,

and we're going to go back and check the times that
we gave you for your exit - entry and exit times for
the an_n,ly.

SPT Okay. Those times are important, Houston, because

99 percent of the high PMEC we s@e is due-to the
belt. And it's very hard to discriminate from that
other 1 percent.

CC Understand.

lO 50 51 CC CDR, Houston. We're configured for VHF, and you can

go ahead and configure per page 1-8 and give us a
call. I 'm standing by.

CDR Okay.

l0 52 O0 CDR Skylab's backup, S-band.

CC Me, too, Skylab; loud and clear. We've still got

7-1/2 minutes left in this pass.

i0 52 ll CDR Roger. Let's strike step ii.

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ll 05 40 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Ascension for ll minutes.

PLT Roger, Crip.

SC (Music: Tumbling Tumbleweed)

ll 09 i2 CDR Still there, Houston?

CC Affirmative, CDR. Go ahead.

CDR I'm looking at the DSKY. There's a P52 daylight star

align.

CC Roger.

CDR AAll balls, and there's the torquing angles. And that
came from a - 51 with the star tracker and S1m sensor.

CC Roger. Thank you.

ll 1B 46 CC CDR, Houston. When you get a chance, we'd be kind

of interested to know how the FDAI error-needles
check went on 1-97

CDR Super.

CC Okay.

CDR Just getting into the GDC align now.

CC Roger.

PLT Hello, Houston; Skylab. I got a few words for the

ATM people, if they're listening.

CC Roger. They're listening.

PLT Okay. Observing, Just during that daylight pass, that

filament on the north side of active region 37 has
undergone significant changes. On the west end of
it, where it was - if they gnt any photos frc_ this
morning - it was fairly flared out and kind of
fan shaped. It's now narrowed down, become more
distinct, and it has moved into an east-west running
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filament channel, which wasn't really Joined up

with it this morning - to the north of it. And Just
in the last 30 minutes, as I say, it's changed shape
and appearance that -,,ch, which is kind of surprising I
to me.

CC Roger, Paul. Thank you much. And they got the word.

ll 15 47 CC Skylab, Houuston. We're 1 minut@ until LOS; Carnarvon

at ll: Bg.

11 38 58 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS at Carnarvon for l0 minutes.

CDR Hiya, Houston; let me give you sc_e n,-,bers.

CC Roger. Go ahead.

CDR The FDAI _e - error needles test went okay. The star
tracker SS PSI went all right. If you'd like, the
numbers was 204 and 146, outer gimbal was plus 02039;
the inner gimbal was plus 00279; the NOUN 05 was
000.04. I have the suspicion that I either copied
the number wrong or it was read to me wrong. I think
the outer gimhal angle was more like 2029, but I'ii
get to that later.

CC Roger, Pete. Copy. •

SPT (Spacecraft noise) Houston, SPT.

CC Come in, squesk.

SPT Hey, while he's finding his ... - -

CDR ..... the sextant P52 was done in dmylight with the
stars 41 an d 44. You got five balls and you copied
the torquing angles. BMAG 2 d_ift check started at
11:32. The ESS entry check went all right. Go
ahead, SP_.

ll 41 17 SPT SPT would like permission to use the mR for TV-18.

CC Roger. You've got it, Joe. Go ahead.

SPT Okay.
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CDR The _MS DELTA-V test and nn11 bias check was all
right. I had plus nlne-tenths of a foot per second
for 1 minute and h0 seconds.

CC Copy.

CDR The SS/ST-P50 CSM to OAwas done in this dmylight

pass. The star eode was 0_; the outer gimbalwas
plus 02029; the inner gimbalwas plus 00279. The
NOUN 23 was 146.57, 180.15, 000.20.

CC Roger. Copied them all.

CDR Okay. The P30 external DELTA-V was loaded. HA and

HP were plus 889.4, plus 235.1. We are now at step
25; all Complete down to (5) and holdinE.

CC Roger. Understand.

CDR Okay. I guess we hold there until 12:29 or shortly

before, right?

CC Let me check.

CDR We'll be on the line at about 12:19, I guess, starting

the P40 stuff.

CC That's affirm, CDR. We concur on the times, and

we're standing by.

CDR Okay. So am I. See you then. Bye. Bye.

ii 4B 42 CC Bye.

ll 46 02 CC Skylab, Houston. There are a couple of things; one

for the SPT. On the VTR, for you information, it is
okay, and I guess you already are possibly using the
_TR. But there's - Be advised, there's 22minutes
of tape available for your l_se there. And you're
welcome to use it to the end, but the - there was
about 8 minutes of tape that we hadn't d_mped yet
at the start of that tape. The second thing was -
is we still need s_mebody, when you can, to chanEe
teleprinter paper for us.
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CDR Okay. I 'ii go do that right now. The other thing

is, will we have a fI711 BO minutes of tape tonight?
We were going to try and get to one of those TV tours.

CC That's affirm. We plan to have it all d_n_pedby then.

CDR You mean with the busy schedule on these entry checks,
Captain Video can get us the VTR, also? My, _!

CC (Chuckle)

CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about a minute to LOS;

Guam at ll: 52.

ll h8 45 CDR Roger.

ll 54 06 CC _%"gylab,Houston. We're AOS Guam for 8 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CC And, Pete, if you're not in the comand module, next

time you whiz up that direction, one thing that _COM
would like to check is to verify that fuel cell 1
pumps are off on panel 5.

CDR Fuel cell 1 pumps off on panel 5- Roger. I'll

check that. I'm still loading the teleprinter.

CC Okay. No hurry.

ll 57 41 CDR There you go, Houston .... yourself a teleprinter

message for test any time you want.

CC Roger; understaud. The paper is all changed. Thank

you much.

ll 58 08 CDR FUEL CELL 1 PUMP switch is OFF _and was OFF.

CC Roger, Pete. Thank you very much. We - The reason

we asked, we did see a very small Delta temperature
for the two fuel cells, and we Just wanted to confirm
that. Thank you much.

CDR Okay.

Q
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CDR What temperature are you looking at?

CC Stand by i.

CDR My fuel temps are almost identical, if not identical.

CC CDR, the temps were read in/read out temperatures

and the difference in FUEL CELL i and 2, but - it
made us think that possibly that switch was on. But
they were not fuel cell temps, as I told you before.

CDR Okay.

12 00 B6 CC Skylab, Houston. Couple of notes for the SPT. One

is when you're - Joe, when you're finished with the VTR,
if you could - if you could go ahead and rewind it
so we could get ahead right at the AOS at Goldstone
in getting it dumped, we'd appreciate it. Also,
on your ATM pass that's going to be beginning at 12:17
on - several days ago, we noticed once that 82 Bravo
was Allowed to be shut down by the door closing, and
we don't want to do that because there is a chance
that we might hang up the camera - that you'd have
to fix EVA. It should be shut down per the J - excuse
me, per the JOP 7 stop time of 20 seconds. It's on
your pad for this upc_ - this upcnm_ng pans. And
we are going to put this on a little general message
Just to - so all the guys will get to read the
rationale.

SPT The TV is yours.

12 01 32 CC Roger. Thank you. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We're going to see you at Goldstone at 12:18.

12 20 15 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S stateside for 16 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. We Just went to P40.

CC Roger.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go.
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SPT I didn't quite understandwhat you said about 82]3 in

the last _onversatio_. It's not - They don't mind
having the - having darkness cut - close the door,
do they? Because that's our routine way of operating.

CC Stand by.

12 21 27 CC SPT, Houston. Let me see if I can clarify this for

you. What we'd like to avoid is to have one of the
82 Bravo modes he terminated hy door closure. So,
in this case, what we want to do is to stop taking
photography and close the door about 20 seconds prior
to sunset, l'm sorry, stop - stop the mode 20 seconds
prior to sunset.

SPT We don't have to close the door manually, though,

right?

CC That 's affirmative, Joe.

SPT Okay, because it clearly stated in the Mission Rules

that the crew was infaqlible, and I wanted to verify
that.

CC Roger. We're checking ourselves.

SPT (Laughter)

PLT Hey, Houston, also for information, our onboard readout

on array 4 - amps - it's current out of array is
reading about 8 _nps below all the rest of them.

CC Roger. Copy.

CC PLT, Houston. For you information, our ZM also shows

about the - and concurs with yours on EEG _; however,
we think it's a transducer problem.

PLT Yes. I buy that.

12 23 53 CDR Hay, Houston. I'm not using these g_m_al _-_les you
got in here. I'm using the ones that you had me put
in before. Okay?,

CC Roger. That's okay with us.

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12 25 55 CDR It does all kinds of good things for the rates, Houston.

CC Sorry, Pete. Didn't copy that. Say again.

PLT He says our gimbal test, - you can really feel it in

here and hear it sloshing things around, plus it shows
up on the rate needle.

CC Roger. Hang on.

PLT We did.

12 28 02 CDR Okay, Houston, the _4S is NORMAL; verify that the

THC POWER is in fact OFF.

12 28 i0 CC Very good. Thank you.

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12 31 46 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, CDR.

CDR I'm going to press right onto step 33. You want to
watch, right?

CC Stand by Just a second, Pete.

12 32 03 CC Affirmative, Pete. Press on; we're wa%ching.

CDR Okay. I got all the right responses here. I Just

read backwards.

CC Roger, CDR.

12 32 59 CDR Okay, step 32 complete.

CC Roger; concur. We watched it, also.

12 33 19 CC CDR, Houston. We see you're about i0 minutes from

the end of the BMAG 2 drift check. A couple of other
little notes, now that you're through some of this
busy part here for this pass. We've got an entry
SIM and checklist changes for entry to be - that'll
be up-linked for you today. Also, this evening we're
going to up-link a full set of maneuver pads for the
entry SIM tomorrow. In fact, a slightly different
subject with reguards to the TV tour today. It turns
out we looked at the schedule, and if we did TV-21
as scheduled in the Flight Pls_n today, that would
prevent you from doing the TV tour. However, if you're
amenable to getting the tour out of the way, we think
that's more important, and we'd like to do that today.
So, we'd suggest scratching TV-21 from your Flight
Plan today. That'll give you plenty of tape on the
VTR, and you can do the tour at your convenience this
evening.

12 3h 20 CDR Okay. I have an hour - more than an hour on the

BMAOs, and I'll give you the check in Just a second.

CC Roger.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS. We're

going to see you at - at Carnarvon at 13:17.

12 36 12 CDR Okay.

13 16 27 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Carnarvon for 9 minutes.

PLT Copy.

CDR Roger, Houston. Would you like the P527 I couldn't

get it to daylight. There's too much Earth in the
way.

CC Okay; affirmative. I would.

13 16 h8 CDR Okay. I got star 37 and star h0. Five balls, NOUN 93
plus 00.076 minus 00.174 and minus 00.08h; the
time 13:15:h5:00. And I'm going to go ahead and
power down the G&N.

CC Stand - Stand by on that, please, Pete. Just a second.

13 17 31 CC Skylab - CDR, Houston. We got to do some up-links,

and also get an EMOD. If you'll give us ACCEPT as
soon as the 52 is over, we can get started on that
and then we can power down the G&N after that.

13 17 4h CDR Got ACCEPT and P00.

CC Roger. Thank you.

CC And, CDR; do you have any information on us on the

drift check?

CDR Oh, let me give you both of them.

CC Okay. Go ahead.

13 18 32 CDR BMAG 2 drift check: FDAI-1, NOUN 16 - I mean NOUN 20;

261.61, 007.8h, 355.05; the GDC ATT Was 259.0, 011.0,
356.3; the total time, 1 hour, h minutes.

CC Roger; copy.

13 19 07 CDR BMAG number l: NOUN 20; 261.62, 007.62, 355.21;

C-DC ATT, 260.8, 007.8, 356.5; the time, 30 minutes.

CC Roger,Pete. I got both of those.

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13 19 36 CDR And do you want your EMOD at 13:37 or can you take
it here?

CC Stand by.

13 19 55 CC Skylab, Houston. The load is in; you can go back to

BLOCK. And, we are standing by for the EMOD. We
got h minutes left in this pass.

CDR It's coming at you right now.

CC Okay.

PLT Hey, Dick, when you get a minute or two, the PLT's
got a couple of items for you.

CC Very good, PLT. Because I have an item for you, and

I was trying to figure Out where you were. Go ahead.

1B 20 27 PLT First item is, is there any way we can tell if our
wardroom heater is still functioning? Has that gone
up good - you can tell if we turn it off and on.
Because our water has frozen again, and where the
window protector was formerly warm to the touch
when busily washing the windows, it no longer is.

CC Roger. We copy.

12 30 50 PLT Second item - and the second item is, just so I don't
forget, how about on the day before the EVA, Just
schedule me to put the S190 desiccant in the oven,
please. And, then on either day 27 or 28, another
reminder to put the new ones in the c_-_ra.

CC Roger. We'll sure put that on your Flight Plan,

Paul, and if that's all you got, I got one item on
the ATM I'd like to mention to you.

PLT Okay.

13 21 20 CC Okay, ta1_ing about S082A. I guess we've had occa-

sions where the OPERATE light has remained on after
MODE TERMINATION. And, in this next daylight cycle,
after you get through with the - the completion of
the time mode in building block 3, there's an oppor-
tunity where this might happen. And if it does, if
the OPERATE light does stay on there, we'd like you
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to do a real quick little test for us; and that is

throw the 82A FLARE switch to I}_HIBIT, and then note
the status of both the READY light and the OPERATE
light. And, Just tell us what the status of those
two lights are next time we have AOS, and that will
help us try to psych out exactly what the problem is.

13 22 03 PLT Okay, we'll try it, Now Joe Just came down and -
He was m,nning in the time mode. It's been operating
almost continuously, once you start it - when the
door first opens it comes up READY. Once you start
a mode, most of which is in time, it usually sta_s
OPERATE. Now Joe Just finished that building block
that he had, and it came up READY at the end of each
sequence this time. But I'll check {t next time.

CC Okay, good. Thank you.

13 22 59 CC CDR, Houston. We've got the EMOD, and we're GO to

go ahead and power it down.

CC We 're about -

CDE Okay. Roger.

CC - - We're about a minute from LOS. We'll see you

at Gnam at 13:31.

13 23 13 CDR 13:31. Bye.

13 30 41 CDR Houston, CDR.

CDH Hello, Houston; CDR.

CDR Hi, Houston; CDR.

CC CDR, Houston. Go ahead; we've got you for 5 minutes.

13 32 08 CDR Okay. I wasn't sure whether you wanted me to power

down the computer or not. I powered down the IMU.
Am I cleared to power down the computer and the
STS and go back to sleep?

CC Stand by just 1 on that, please.

13 32 23 CC CDR, Houston; affirmative. You're clear to power

downthecomputer. F
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CDR 0kay.

iB 32 32 CC And incidentall_, back to the subject of the wardroom

window heater. We don't have any direct telemetry
that tells us whether or not that heater's ON. And
the current draw is so low that we have a hard time
seeing it. About the only thing we can suggest is
verify the two circuit breakers on panel 614, And,
if you haven't already tried it, you can try the
heater on the opposite BUS from the one you have
tried, and let it sit there for a while and see if
it warms up. And one thing that we'd like to know is,
what's the size of the ice spot that's on there now as
compared to what it was the other day before it thawed?

13 33 i0 SPT Unfortunately, this whole area is bigger. The ice spot

- the ice cube is smaller; it's about three-quarters the
size of a dime. However, where we formerly had a little
steamy vapor on the window, it's now aJ] crysta1_ zed
into a nice frosty spot, _pproximately 2 to 2-1/2 inches
in diameter.

13 33 35 SPT C_ay, those breakers were CLOSED, Dick. I'm going to

go to the other BUS for awhile; we'll see what happens.

CC Okay. I assume you've been on BUS 1. Is that right?

13 33 44 SPT ... I notice I've been on BUS 2.

CC Okay, fine. Thank you.

CC Yes.

13 36 17 CDR Say, Houston; CDE.

CC Go ahead.

CDR On the command module housekeeping 7 tonight - running

that loop for an hour - any chance of cutting that
heater back in? Is it something we need to worry about?

CC Stand by.

CDR You don't have to answer it right now. I Just thought

I'd pass it along.
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13 37 03 CC CDR, Houston. In answer to your question, we're not

concerned about the heater operation during the check;
however, we do want to m_e sure - I think the last
step_ which I think is a pen and ink in your checklist
for that CM-7, is to make sure the circuit breaker on
that heater is put to OPEN; but no proble_ duringthe
check.

CDR That secondary heater has a fuse back in the service

module; it doesn't have any circuit breaker.

CDR We talking about the same heater?

CC Maybe not; I'll get the answer. We're going LOS, CDR.
We're going to see you at Goldstone at 13:55. Be ad-
vised, our initial look at the comm,nd module is look_
ing real good. The team is going to go off and get
together and look at some of the backroom data. And,
later on this afternoon, we'll give you a good briefing
as far as the syst_ma status that we saw on the ground
here today.
r

CDR Okay, where's your meeting?

CC Clancy's office. Can you --_e it?

CDR No, I thought it might be some place else. Bye.

CC (Laughter)

13 38 39 CC Circuit breakers, SECONDARY COOLANT heater, CONTROM.A_R

MAIN A to OPES.

13 38 h9 CDR Got you.

13 54 h0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S stateside for the next

15 minutes.

13 54 h_ PLT Okay, Richard. 82A Just climbed out of a time mode

in its JOP. The OPERATE light stayed ON. I turned the
flare to II_lBIT, and blink, on came the READY light
and out went the OPERATE light.

CC Thank you very much, Paul.

13 55 0B PLT I'm back to FLARE ERABLEnow. And the READY light

stayed ON. Next time I run it, I'm going to try -
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turn the FLARE switch to INHIBIT while I'm running,

and see if it goes from OPERATE to READY like it's
supposed to. Is that all right?

CC Roger. That's affirmative.

PLT Thank you.

13 56 04 CC And, Skylab, Houston. Back to _he question that we

were talking about, about the heater up in the co_mnd
module. It turns out that the fuse that you referred
to is in the heater portion of the circuit. And it is
in the service module. The problem, we think, is in
the control loop probably, or possibly a shorted switch.
And the circuit breaker that I was referring to is on
panel 5. It's ECS, SECONDARY COOLANT LOOP heater con-
trol MAIN A circuit breaker, and it is listed in your
Systems Checklist. Aud, you'll get to that on the
housekeeping check tonight and the last step - or one
of the steps in there is to - when you leave the command
module it'll be OPEN.

CDR Right ... I'ii remember that. Ckay. Fine. Thank you.

CC Roger.

CC And, _q_ylab, Houston. For your information, this

stateside pass, you're passing over the west coast
up around Salem, Oregon. You're going to pass over
Just to the south of the Great Salt Lake. You're
going to go over a portion of the Grand Canyon, and
going to hit the Gulf of Mexico coming away from the
United States between Houston and Victoria.

13 57 31 PLT Roger. Thank you.

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14 08 hl CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS. Vanguard

is coming up at 14:20, and we plan to dump the data
tape recorder there.

CC Skylah, Houston. Be advised we understand in active

region 31 there is a subnormal flare that is now in
progress, and two of the instruments are recording
information from it.

14 09 30 PLT Good.

14 20 5_ CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS; Vanguard for 8 minutes.

SPT Houston, Skylab. I'd like to - you to he the first

to know that the PLT is the proud father of a
_enuine flare.

- CC Verygood.

14 21 08 SPT Just about the time you called, he got a high PMEC
count. And this time it was confirmed by image
intensity count being over BOO by a bright spot
appearing on the X-ray image in both the 1 and the
positions. It was confirmed - the M16, it was con-
firmed by a very bright spot on the XUV monitor. He
decided to slew the H-alpha. We found a flare in
active region 31, factor of l0 brighter than any
other plage that we've seen. In other words, it
was unmistakable once it happened. We were on the
flare; he got probably a minute and half or 2 minutes
of flare rise. We're at flare fall now. And if ATM
would like us to do post flare on the next rev, the
PLT is willing to cancel his housekeeping 7 Juliett.
Over.

PLT Not cancel; Just delay.

PLT The maximum PMEC was 8hO, Houston. We are in the

high mode.
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CC Roger that. And if you would be willin6to del_7

your housekeeping 7-J, which I know is very
important, we sure would appreciate it. Because we've
been looking forward to catching one of these.

PLT So have we; we're all Just as proud as new daddys.

CC Good show.

CDR Like I told them hefore we went, he had six hands

up there as soon as he announced it.

14 23 03 SPT Houston, SPT. We've got a bit of a problem here

determining the end of flare fall and could use
sc_e friendly advice from the ground because we're
now entering the South Atlantic anom-lv, and our
PMEC is not very useful to us anymore. As a matter
of film remaining, I'd like to know whether the PIs
would like us to continue f'le_e fail for this
whole pass or to go into postflare?

CC Roger. Stand by.

SPT We still have very definite indications on the

visual displays. I vote for - for continuing
flare fall.

CC Roger. Standby, please.

CC SPT, Houston. We agree with you; we'd like to continue

flare fall. We believe that you can use the X-REA
to monitor the flare during this period, possibly.
And also, we think that S056 is maybe hmug up. We'd
like you to go STOP/START on that for us, please.

SPT Okay.

CC Roger.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Say 8gain, please.

14 26 39 SPT This is SFT. The S055 has kicked the detectors off
a couple more times during this MIRROR LINE SCAN. And
we're running now with detector 5 off; that's for their
information.
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CC Copy, Joe.

SPT And can _hey verify whether S054 is complete yet?

CC SPT, Houston. Affirmative; 54 is complete. We'd

like you to go the flare fall portion, and it appears
that 56 is hung up again. If you'll help us out
again, we'd appreciate it.

SPT Okay. Thank you.

14 27 48 CC Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS. We're going to

have a long L_ period. See you at Goldstone at 15:32.
So have fun.

14 27 58 co_ Bye.

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15 33 h6 CC Skylab, Houston, A0S at Goldstone, ii minutes.

SPT Roger, Houston.

CC Skylab, Houston. Getting back tO a question that you

guys asked awhile ago. On the times we've been giving
you for the horns and also for the South Atlantic
anomaly, it turns out that our information about the
radiation shows, naturally, that the radiation belts
drift around, and the numbers we've been sending up
to you are - are our best information at the time.
Now, we've got a couple of choices. One is, is we
can take a look at some recent data, something that
we could look up here in real time and try to pad it
a little bit in e - either direction, or Just advise
you of this fact and continue to send up the times
under the same ground rule. But we do not have any
p better data that's available to us in a short period
of time. And probably the best data is coming from
your work and it's going to take quite a bit of time
to analyze that. That looks like a kind of next-
mission task. Out.

SPT Okay, Houston. The situation has modified itself

somewhat since we related that to you this morning.
Based on our - our knowledge now, that with a real
honest-to-gosh flare, the energy intensity count, the
X-ray image, XUV MON, and a number of other things
tend to confirm what's going on. That being the case,
our only problem is reacting to off-console, and -
and whether to set the TONE light switch to ENABLE or
not when you're off the console. And I suggest that
we live with the estimates as you've been giving them
to us. And, in addition, you might, perhaps, consider
setting up a committee to try to make the belts stop
moving.

CC I think that's a good suggestion, Joe, and maybe that

committee can do its work, and do a little bit better
Job for the next crew.

SPT (Laughter) ...

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PLT Okay, Houston; 56 keeps banging up. I've been watching

it, stopping it, and starting it. l'm on my - I'm
restarting it for the fifth time on this pass.

CC Roger. Adam copies.

PLT Houston, the CDR says that he's tearing up the nasty
letter he had_ritten to Dr. Van Allen.

CC Roger.

CDR Furthermore, I suggest he chair the eo,.,_ttee that

Dr. Kerwin suggested.

CC (Laughter.)

15 38 53 PLT Dick, I've been logging the frame counter reading

and the filter indication at which 56 has been stop-
ping - hanging up. Is that - Does anybody care about
that, do they want it, or canwe forget that?

CC Stand by. Yes, sir, we sure would like that. Go ahead;

I'm copying.

15 39 18 PLT Okay. The frame counter at the start of this pass

was 2777. It hung up with a count of 62 on filter 3.
Next time, it hung up with a count of 38 on filter 3.
Next time, with a count of, and I can't figure this
one out, a count of 37, indicating filter 5. And then,
the last time was a frame count of 22 on filter 3.

CC Roger, Paul_ copy.

15 39 56 PLT And I've also apparently found the secret for the
READY light for 82A. It doesn't go out as long as
you've got the flare ENABLWO. I mean the READY light
does not come on, at least the few times I've tried
it here. But if I INHIBIT the flare it terminates
the exposure, the READY light comes on each time,
so far.

CC Roger. Copy, Paul.

15 40 51 PLT And on the data point at S056, the first half was 07
on filter 3.
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CC Copy.

CC And, PLT; Houston. I'm not sure what you have in

mind abQut your schedule for the rest of the day to
get in your _-7 Juliett, but if you need to - to not
do the next ATM pass that you're scheduled for, in
order to accomplish that, that's fine. It's your
choice. Or, if you want to fit it in as you guys best
see fit, press on.

SPT ... me.

PLT We'll work something out.

CC Roger.

15 42 20 PLT ... 56 hung up again on screwy indication. It set

one frame to 2T06 and indicates filter 5-

CC Roger.

CC Skylab_ Houston. Initial thoughts on the 56 hangup

are - is it's probably a mechanical misalignment that
somehow has taken place in the camera. We got no
way to - in the magazine. We got no way to help you
out on it now, except to continue - continue to restart
it. However, it sh - we think it should be corrected
when you replace the 56 camera on the EVA.

PLT Okay.

15 43 50 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 45 seconds from LOS. We're

going to see you at Vanguard at 15:58. We're going
to dump the data recorder at Vanguard, and we're
cleaning up the last of the VTR down-link here at
Goldstone. So, any time at your convenience after this,
the VTR -R is yours with 30 minutes' available tape
on it.

PLT Okay. We gave you come of the notes from the flare
of ... interest to Owen and those guys. We gave you
both H-alpha and XUVMON.

CC Paul, that was a little broken up. I think I copied

that you put some of the flare information on H-alpha
and XUV MON VTR. Is that Charlie?
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PLT That's right.

CC Very good. We'll look at it.

15 58 38 CC Skylab, Houston; Vanguard, 7 minutes.

PLT (Music). Roger.

16 00 2h CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised that NOAA has reported

that the flare that you have taken data on has been
classified as i bright, and it's an M-h.

SPT Okay, thank you.

CC Roger. T_nk you.

SPT Houston, does that mean we can keep it, or do we have

to throw, it back?

CC It's your choice. I - -

SPT All right.

CC I think we've already got it anyway.

PLT It doesn't matter. Somebody stepped on it while we

were gone at night.

CC Sorry, we broke lock for a second. I didn't copy that

one •

PLT It wasn't worth repeating. Never mind.

CC Roger. Never minding.

PLT I believe that's properly "nevering mind."

CC PLT, Houston. Due to the film remainin6 in 5h, we

request that after you complete the sequence you're
in, discontinue post-flare fall operations with
S05h. And also, I have a change in the flare guide-
lines that ccm_es up to you on the solar activity pad
for 5h. The - To be used for ds_ - for the next
2 days. Any fllture flares, the flare mode should be
M3IPI6, M3IPI6.
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SPT Okay. You want this change made on this one now, and
it'll be reflected on the (whistle) solar activity pad
from now on, right?

16 05 17 CC Roger. We want to discontinue 54 operations now, for -

on this one, and use those flares in the future. We're
going LOS here at Vanguard. We're going to see you
at Hawaii at 17:06..

16 05 38 PLT All right.

17 04 46 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS at Hawaii for the next

6 minutes. And be advised, this pass we're up to our
old tricks. We're updating some rate gyro drift
compensations. And we'll probably be doing this both
at Hawaii and Vanguard. And then we'll update your
onboard message telling you what they are.

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17 09 20 CC Skylah, we've completed our up-links on the rate gyro

update so we won't have to do any at Vanguard. No
response required.

17 ii 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Vanguard at 17:3h.

SPT 0kay.

17 12 i0 SPT Okay, B channel, }4171 postrun. Oxygen is 72.h0.

Water is 4.51; C02 is 2.03. They're a11 changing
slowly.

17 12 26 CC Hey, Joe. Make sure you're on B channel.

17 35 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS; Vanguard for 8 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we're going to - that

ASC0's going to CO_&AND a NAV update this pass.

SPT ...

SPT Houston, say again, please.

CC Roger. We need to have the DAS, we're going to

COMMAND the NAV update.

SPT Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're through with the NAV update,

and the DAS is yours again.

CDR Roger, Houston. Thank you.

CC Roger.

17 _3 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOS, Hawaii

at 18:41.

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18 40 45 SPT Skylab.

18 h0 49 CC Skylab, Houston at Hawaii for l0 minutes.

SPT Roger. This is the SPT. Do you want real time

television this time, Dick?

CC Stand by.

SPT Okay. I put some on the tape. That's good enough

or I'll standby.

18 41 i4 CC Negative. I get the word that we do desire real-time

TV on this pass, Joe. And I have one note here to
read to you guys.

18 h2 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We show indications that the

startracker is unlocked. We'd like you to attempt
to reacquire for us. And I have some information
I'd like to pass up to somebody that's going to be
free. We have a photographic target of opportunity
coming up between this LOS and the Vanguar d AOS, that
I'd like to read to you.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger, Pete. We've had reports that there's a

large tanker that's burning very close to the - or
off the west coast of Chile. The coordinates are
h4 degrees south and 75 degrees west, and your
time of closest approach is, ~ on this rev is going
to be at 19:13:55. And_if possible_and one of you is
free, we'd like either Hasselblad or Nikon photography,
whichever you think best, handheld out the window. We
think the tanker probably will be about 150 miles
north of your groundtrack.

CDR I see. North of our ground track. I would love to

catch that from up in the STS. I believe our wardroom
window is looking further and further south. Okay?

CC Roger.

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18 46 28 CC Skylab, Houston. Back to the subject of startracker

- GNS says you guys have had a star presence indication.
We think ft is locked on a particle, and I've got an
outer gimbal m,-,_er here that I'd like to read to you.

SPT Okay. Ccme ahead, Houston.

CC Stand by Just a second. I got it. Skylab, Houston.

The inner gimbal is plus 0284; outer g_m_al, plus
2o2_.

18 47 22 $PT Okay. I copy that, Houston. Just a few minutes ago,

when I was looking at the coronagraph, there was a
veritable storm of particles. I don't know how large
they were, but they were bright en0,,_b to cause the
vidicon to cycle up and down dramatically. I don't
know whattheywere due to, either.

18 47 46 CC Roger. Understand.

18 48 39 CC Skylab, Houston. On the venting, we are continuously

venting sc_e hydrogen out of the command module that
we've been aware of. It is possible that we may h_ve
vented some 02, but we're not aware of that or any
other vent.

SPT Okay. Pass on that the command module's oxygen was 870.

CC Roger. Copy.

18 50 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Vanguard

at 19:12, and we're going to d_ the data recorder
then.

18 50 16 SPT 0kay.

19 12 35 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S 9 minutes.

SPT (Music) Roger, Houston. We're looking for the tan_er,

but it's very cloudy - I don't think we're going to be
able to pick it up.

CC Copy.

19 17 43 CC SPT, Houston.
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19 17 46 SPT Go ahead.

CC We see S073 2 Charlie on, but we don't see the

experiment recorders on.

SPT Roger.

CDR It's my fault. Paul's in the shower. I threw the

switch for him and didn't turn the recorders on.
Sorry.

19 18 08 CC We copy, Skylab.

19 19 55 CC Skylab, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.

CC We want you to close the vent on the wardroom window

until further notice may be some - -

SPT I've already closed it.

CC Copy_ closed.

1 CC And we're working on procedures to improve it, and

we'd like for you to report any conditions, such as -
Is is warm to touch now? Does it have ice on it?
And it may be caused by thermal cycling and breathing
| throughthe venttube.

b 19 20 32 SPT Okay. It's not particularly warm to the touch, and

it has ice on it. It's pretty much the way the PLT
described it to you several hours ago.

CC We copy. And we're going LOS here. We will have

you again Hawaii at 20:23.

19 20 52 SPT Okay.

19 21 01 CC S073 GAIN switch to LOW, Skylab.

19 21 06 PLT Roger.

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20 23 h3 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 1 minute.

SPT Roger.

CC Got a couple of questions here and a bit of information.

They have apparently decided that the Marshall shield
will not be deployed on Skylab 2.

SPT Aw, we Just got it out and dusted it off.

CC Copy.

CC And when do you plan the TV tour - at what station

passage for our planning purposes?

SPT Oh, we were going to put it on tape.

CC Ah, copy. And could you give us an approximate time

of that?

20 24 32 SPT Well, we're trying to work it out - I've got another

ATM pass after dinner and Paul's at the console now.
It'll probably be a good hour - hour and a half.

CC Maybe you can kind of tie a string to one of those

guys and carry him around for me, Joe.

SPT (Laughter) Okay. Can't get into your other thing

because it's sealed.

CC Copy. On the secondary coolant loop in the CSM. We

want the secondary coolant heater control, MAIN A -
circuit breaker, panel 5, pulled s_netime this
evening.

SPT Okay.

CDR That's its normal configuration,

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CC Stand by 1.

CC Go ahead, Pete.

CDR I said, I Just finished systems housekeeping 7. That

circuit is open as it is supposed to be - it's normally
open.

20 25 52 CC Okay, Pete. I guess that left us a little breathless

here for a second. And we're going to be coming up
on the Vanguard at 20:50.

CDR I can leave you breathless. It's been open for 22 days
except for the 7 day check.

20 26 15 CC We'll dig same more, Pete.

20 50 20 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S for i0 minutes.

20 52 00 CC S_lab, Houston; AOS for 9 minutes.

SPT Roger, Houston.

20 59 38 CC We'll be LOS in i minute; Ascension at 21:04.

SPT Okay.

21 0h 30 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS 9 minutes.

21 13 05 CC Skylab, LOS in i minute. You will have the medical

conference at Gn,m at 21:50.

PLT Roger.

CDR Bill, CDR.

CC GO, C'DR.

CDR Did you receive the status report?

CC Pete, I'm afraid we've lost you.

21 lh 36 CDR Okay ....

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21 53 33 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 3 minutes.

SPT Hi there.

SPT Got any news tonight?

21 53 56 CC Yes. I'll give you some in Just a second. On the

ATM, we've sent a pad up, should be in the teleprinter
now, on unattended ops on H-alpha l; and if you could,
implement that as soon as possible, please.

21 54 17 CC That's - that's - I'm sorry. Belay that. That's

after the last pass. That's to be implemented after
the last pass.

SPT Okay.

CC Not a whole lot in the news tonight. It says the

President has named General Weyand as new Chief of -
Vice Chief of Staff to succeed General Haig, who is
retiring to become White House Chief of Staff. Some -
There's sc_ething a bit different in New York this
evening, apparently. Purse snatchers Jumped a 19-year-
old girl, grabbed her purse and ran for a taxi, and
lO0 people surrounded the taxi and wouldn't let it
move until the cops came.

SPT (Laughter)

CC Afraid the price of dollars keeps dropping and gold

keeps going up, in case anybody has any gold.

SPT Got some stowage -

21 55 52 CC Pete might be interested in this one. Apparently,

they had a small earthquake in Massachusetts, 4 or 5
on the Richter scale, and it didn't do any real damage.

SPT Goodness! That must be the first in quite a while up

there.
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CC Yes, I thought things were super stable up there.

Poor American tourists are paying 19 percent more than
they expected. That is, they're getting 19 percent
less for their dollars.

21 56 36 CC East and West Germany have applied for membership in

the United Nations. We're going LOS here in approx-
imately 30 seconds. We'll have you over Vanguard at
22:27.

21 56 53 SPT Roger, Houston. ThAnK you.

22 27 33 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS ll minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. Let me give you the Evening Status

Report.

CC We're standing by, Pete, go ahead.

22 27 _6 CDR Okay, the CR ate everything plus two butter cookies.

SPT Caught me.

CDR The SPT ate everything except one coffee. PLT ate
everything except corn and bread with dinner; coffee
and his snack, he didn't have. He had a Delta H20
of plus 1.0, and an optional salt of 2.5." And I'm
sorry, the CDR had his optional salt, 10.0.

CC We copy that, Pete.

CDR Okay. Photo log, day 166: 16-millimeter, none;

35-millimetar: C130, frame count _4; C128, frame
count 50; 70-millimeter: CX06, 103. No EREP.
Drawer A: Al is 02, Charlie India 12, 100 percent,
Charlie India 05; A2 is 03, Chalrlie India 06, 35,
Charlie India 013; 100 percent, Charlie India l0 ; is
05, no supply, no film, Charlie India ll to takeup.
Floating: 07, Charlie India 09, 66, Mike Tango 03.
The Flight Plan was completed as scheduled today. In
addition, we did 552-1 We have three remaining to
gc. We'll get them tomorrow. Can't think of anything
else. As soon as Joe gets done his ATM pass, we're
going to do the TV tour, one of them, and go to bed.
So it'll be on the tape in about an hour - an hour
and a half.
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CC Copy that, Pete.

22 30 l0 CC Pete, the crow questions should be coming up in a mo-

ment. If you don't have time to get to them this
evening, we' ii catch them tomorrow.

CDR Okay.

PLT Bill, I want to verify the position of a couple of

circuit breakers down here in the workshop. The
THERMAL CONTROL SYSTEM LOGIC breakers are still OPEN.
Is that what you - Is that where you all thought they
were? Is that you where you want them?

CC Stand by a half on that one, Paul.

PLT Okay.

22 30 46 CC That is affirmative, Paul. We want those out.

22 30 51 PLT Okay. The thing that surprised me after we came back

in from EVA, and I wasn't aware of it, I could not
turn the fans ON from the workshop until I closed
those breakers. Then once I got the fans going, open-
ing the breakers had no effect, but apparently that
controls power to them to turn them on when they're
in the OWS position in the airlock. I say that, Bill,
because it was a surprise to me. You may pass it on
to Jack Lousma. I don't know if he knows it or not.

CC Okay. And we're looking at it to confirm that it's

the way it's supposed to go down here.

PLT Okay, why don't you confirm your drawing to reflect

the way it works.

CC Okay.

22 31 h0 CC Did you have another one, Paul?

PLT Negative. That's all, Bill.

22 31 h8 CC Okay, and be advised that no further consideration is

• being given to additional EREP passes.
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22 32 02 PLT Okay, tb_-k yOu.

22 37 50 CC LOS in I _mute. We'll have you at Ascension 22:41.

And, SPT; Houston.

22 38 ii CC And it is, SPT, that you may he throu_ at the Console,

the 5_ FILTa_ goes t_ i and STORAGE. And H-alpha
should be placed in u_atten_ed ops per the pad that
went up earlier.

SPT Bill, we did not - I didn't find any pad in there.

You Better tell us what you want.

22 38 3h CC Okay, we'll catch you on this next pass coming up.

22 41 22 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS in 7 minutes.

22 41 28 CDR Roger, Houston.

CC And we will send you another copy of that pad up dur-

ing this pass. That's for the H-alpha i Unattended
ops.

22 41 43 CDR Can you tell me what it is?

CC Do you want me to read it, Pete?

CDR Yes, l'm standing right here. Might as well do it

now.

CDR Go ahead.

CC To allow H-alpha i picture taking during unattended

observations after powerdown, configure ATM as fol-
lows: H-alpha i, _ POWER switch, ON; H-alpha i,
DOOR switch OPEN; H-alpha i, FRAMES P_ MINUTE switch
l, verify; B-alpha l, NIGHT IBNERLOCK switch, OVERRIDE;
H-alpha i, AUTO switch, AUTO. To return to normR1
H-alpha i ops - We'll send you this pad up tonight,
and this r_m-inder will me on it.

22 43 32 CDR Okay.
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22 58 43 CC Skylab, i minute to LOS for bedtime, and we will be

dumping the tape recorder at @,Am at 23:25. From
the quiet sounds of things down here, you must have
had a very busy day up there.

22 59 01 CDR We're doing that tour right now, Bill. And we'll see
you in the morning. Thank you.

22 59 07 CC Good night.

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07 01 ii CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.

SPT Boy, you're Johnny-on-the-spot, aren't you?

CC Well, we Just happened to have a site here with about

9 minutes to go at Madrid.

SPT I expected so.

CDR ... get in there so I can coincide with 7.

CDE Hey, Hank, you got somebody sitting down there that
doesn't have anything to do for a minute?

CC What you got in mind?

CDR How many revs have we gone and how many miles?

07 03 h7 CC Skylab, Houston; all your pads are onboard now and

we're working on - we don't have a FIDO here. I
guess we're trying to figure out how many revs it is.
Workshop is on rev hT1, but y'all haven't done that
many.

CDR Yes, Paul says he can sure tell who's important. I

think we're on about 320 something or 330.

CC That's the ball park figure.

CDR I keep losing track, counting during the night time.

CC You haven't been putting ticks on the wall, counting

•them?

CDR Yes, but we've run out of wall space in my bedroom.

07 06 58 CDR Hey, Hank, while I got you real quick, we never did
put the evening questions on B channel.

CC Oh, you didn't do that? Okay.

CC Are you going to get to that sometime today?

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CDR Yes, well, let me answer a couple of them.

CDR Question num_er 2 about EHEP swabs. We got EREP swabs

coming out our tape recorder. Swabs cc_ing out our
ears.

07 07 24 CC You've got a big squeal there. What did you Say?

CDR I say, question number 2| which was how about an

inventory EREP tape recording cleaning swabs. We 'v_
got those things coming out our ears. Those guys
don't need to bring any up on SL-3.

CC Okay, copy.

CDR And question number 3, the SPT does have all that
data in his log book, and he will return it.

CC Copy.

CDR Number 4, and should the redesign of the waste

management compartment foot restraint include
acceptance of triangles, mushrooms and bare feet. If
they Just used a different cloth on the existing ones
right now they will accept all of thos anyhow. And
it's Just that the cloth - it's that cloth that
they're using - it's plastic and it Just_doesn't
allow you to open it up or close it down, depending
on what you're wearing on your feet at the time.
They ought to be softer and longer.

07 09 Ol CC Roger.

CDR We do recommend you look for some restraint for the

rctating litter chair. What we're using is Just a
plain old strap up here and it does the Job but it's
not too suitable. And on S082A, did the flare execute
flag indicate flare 082 is operated in the FLARE MODE.
To the best of the PLT's knowledge, it did. Got
number 7 - well question _l-,her 7, I'll have to put
on tape. And CDR, 8, what is the status of 553.
Wheel i is completely done on 553. Wheel 2 has the
three bells that are not - that do not come off -
done, and two that do come off - done. And I'm ready
to return that for them to examine the whole wheel.

CC Roger.
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07 l0 ll CDR Nine. I can't answer the question. Don't forget the

workshop was in a screwy attitude when we rendezvoued
with it, it was an EGIL special or something and I
don't think it's a - I think you can use the ATM as
a means to range on, but I can't say what they look
like, because it wasn't in the same attitude it's
going to be in for SL-3.

CC Roger, and we're Just about to LOS now,Pete.

Honeysuckle at 46.

07 l0 51 CDR Okay.

07 46 32 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle, 6 minutes.

SPT Good morning, again. Would you care to join us in

a cup of coffee?

CC Well, I wish I could. I'm sipping on a Pepsi Cola

right now. Hey, you know the other day, I guess it
was several days ago, you reported on - I think it
was on channel B, that when you were rolling the
canister, your pointing went off about a half of a
solar radius and so you had to enable the MPC and
drive the wedges back. We've been looking into that
and we think we've got the answer here. The fine
Sun sensor wedges, when they're under the ATM DC
control are rate limited, and we think if you had
waited, they would have eventually have caught up
with you.

07 47 30 SPT Well, Hank, it was a very abrupt thing. It's only

happened a couple of times. It darn near Jumps off
a radius.

CDR That's right.

SPT The other guys are saying that's right, indicating

it happened to them also.

CC Well, it may have been a little - maybe we misunder-

stood the problem. It sounds like it's a little
different than we thought.
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SPT I think so.

SPT Also, Henry, for status. We've put us up a portable

fan again yesterday to try to keep ahead of the game
a little bit. That thing does more good than I gave
it credit for. We've act,,ally come down a degree
according to our onboard indications since
yesterday morning.

CC Okay, have you got that in the dome hatch again?

BPT That's right. In the dome hatch, blowing workshop

air on the heat exchange inlets.

CC Roger.

07 50 56 CC While you're sipping your coffee there, I guess I

could give you the SAP update. We had several flares,
all small, over the last several hours. In active
region 27, there was a subfaint; no X-rays. And in
sntive region 31, we've had no activity since
yesterday's bright M4 flare. Acitve region 41 has
had two subnormA1s without X-rays. So all in all,
I guess it's all pretty quiet.

SPT Okay, we're waiting.

07 51 37 SPT They're reported on B channel. Saw one at 35 last

night.

CC At what time?

SPT If I recall, it was about 22:03. Was a small one,

there was a little X-ray, a little BMEC increase
associated with it, but it did not trigger the
flare alarm.

07 52 04 CC Roger, copy. And we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Hawaii will be coming up at 08 with a recorder dump.

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08 08 13 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii, 7 minutes.

SPT Roger.

CC Hey, Joe. We looked at our data here, and Hawaii

picked up a subnormal flare in active region 43 last
night at 22:02. It peaked at 22:05, and they didn't
get any X-rays.

SPT I'ii check my coordinates, Hank.

08 lh 30 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 30 Seconds from LOS.

Goldstone at 18.

08 17 01 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone, 7 minutes.

08 24 09 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. Bermuda at 29.

SPT Roger, Houston. I called that flare in active

region 35 because it was an unfamiliar area and it
looked to have about the right coordinates. Forty-
three wasn't even on the pad at the time. Nor is it
on this morning. I think I remember hearing about
it, but I don't know it's coordinates. So, it could
have been h3 if it's down in that region.

CC Okay.

08 29 ii CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda, 6-1/2 minutes.

08 53 _9 CC SPT, Houston. We Just checked up on that active

region h3. It's real close to 35. It's about, best
we can guess, about 150 at 0.3 and 35 is 120 at 0.5.

SPT Okay. I'm sure that was it then, Hank. Thank you.

08 35 02 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. Canaries at 38.

08 38 01 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries, 9-1/2 minutes.

SPT Roger.
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08 48 45 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about LOS. Honeysuckle at 23.

09 23 26 CC Skylab, Houston. ADS at Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.

09 23 32 SPT Roger.

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09 43 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're ADS, Hawaii for the next

9 minutes.

09 52 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 Seconds from LOS.

We're going to see you at Goldstone at 09:56. And
be advised that this stateside pass wetll be cr-nking
up the entry sim. I will have some final pad updates
for you. There'll be a - And per the entry message,
I guess you're going to copy them on sheets that you've
taken out of the _ Updates Book. Theretllbe two
P30 pads and an entry pad.

CDR You mean the pads you're going to send us or the ones
that I already have?

CC These are updates to the pads you already have, Pete.

09 55 _3 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Goldstone for 6 minutes.

PLT Say, Dick, I got an observation for you. I'm not

sure who's interested in it, but if you can't find
anybody else, at least pass it to 0wen Garriott for
him to pass on to Paul ... Will you, please?

CC Go ahead.

PLT I was looking around to see if I could see Seattle.

The sun - we got sunrise before we came up on it.
I was watching sunrise, and in the airglow, at the
top of the airglow at sunrise, I saw this what they
call an anomalous or what I understand to be an
anomalous occasional white line in the layers, in the
different color layers. And ri'ght at the very top
of the airglow, l've seen the white line before;
however, this time it had form to it. Just like
you're looking at clouds, like the Sun was shining on
cl6uds. It was very strange, l've never seen it
before. It's always been a line before. And this
time as I say, it had form; like there were clouds in
there. And that's much too high for there to really
be clouds, I think.

CC Roger, Paul. Thank you mach, and I'ii pass it on.

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PLT Thank you.

09 57 23 CC And, Sky lab; Houston. I do have updates for the

pads that we sent you _ the teleprinter. The
updates I have are for the shape burn and the
retrofire burn, which are P30 pads. And also a
final update to the entry pad that you got upon the
teleprinter. I'd like to read them up when you can
copy.

09 57 45 CDR Wait 1.

CC Roger.

CDR Ok_7. I'm ready for the P30s.

09 58 24 CC Roger. This is the shape burn. NOUN 33: 016: 55:

57.50; minus 261.0, plus 000.0, plus 065.5; 359, 193,
000; 254.3, 00:ll, 208.0. It's a 14 second,
four quads; the NOUN 47 weight: 28238; pitch trim,
plus 0.57; yaw trim, minus 0.11. Go ahead.

CDR Okay. That was the P30 shaping. NOUN 33:016:55:57.50;

minus 261.0, plus 000.0, plus 065.5; 359, 193, 000;
254.3, 00:ii, 308.0; 14 seconds, four quads; 2823;
pitch, plus 0.57; yaw, minus 0.ii.

CC That's affirmative. Now, I've got one update for the

retrofire burn.

CDR Go ahead.

l0 00 lO CC NOUN 33: 020:00:01:70; minus 184.8, plus 000.0,

plus 045.3; 000, 180, 000; 175.0, 00:07, 039.0.
This is i_ seconds, four quads; also Weight: 27491;
the trims: plus 0.58, minus 0.23. And stand by 1 on
the readback.

l0 01 12 CC Pete, we're about 30 seconds from LOS here at

Goldstone. We're going to have a short break, and
we're going to see you at Bermuda. And in about
2 or 3 minutes, I'll pick you up and get the readback
then. There's one remark on that second pad; and
that is: The comand module RCS capture is a perigee
altitude of 45 nautical miles. I'll see you at
Bermuda. And we'll have state vectors ready to
up-link at Bermuda.
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i0 06 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Bermuda for the next

i0 minutes. And I'm standing by for the readback,
Pete.

CDR Roger.

CDR ... 8, plus all zips, plus 045.3, 000, 180, 000,
minus 175.0, 00:07, 939.0; 14 seconds, four quads;
27491, plus 0.58, minus 0.23; perigee capture,
45 nauticals.

CC Roger. And when you started reading back the first

four lines aown through NOUN 81, DELTA-VX; you dropped
out. Would you read me those four lines again, please.

CDR 020:00:01.70; minus 184.8, plus all zips, plus 045.3.

CC Roger. I got all that, and I've got an entry pad

update for you.

CDR Go 8head.

l0 07 23 CC Roger. Starting with area: 476-5 doff; 039;

plus 22.62, minus 129.77; 1152.4, 25979; 26:10; 26:43,
minus 0297.4; right 55/5.5, 31:16; 26:21, 30:06, 34:13.
Go ahead.

CDR Okay. On the entry update here you have 476-5 doff;
039; plus 22.62, minus 129.77; 1152.4, 25979; 26:10;
26 plus 43, minus 0297.4; right 55/5.5, 31 plus 16;
26 plus 21; 30 plus 06, 34 plus 13. Go ahead.

CC Roger. I've got three remarks to this pad. The targets

north of the ground track, lift vector is up. And
the pitch for rolling entry is 58 degrees ; and that
pitch for roll and entry is on page E/5-12. And
while I'm on that, there was a _typo mistake on the pad
last night, and it said page E5-2; the correct one is
5-12.

CDR Okay.

CC CDR, Houston. I've got a couple or three more notes

for you. The first one is after 18:00 P_'f. Your
P52 stare will he 37 and 45. And I have some comments
to pass up to you about the flyaround.
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CDR Go ahead. Go ahead.

I0 i0 30 CC CDR, Houston. I have some comments here on the fly-

around. And be advised, before I read them, these
are also accurate for entry day. First of all, the
major change in the flyaround is that the SWS will
be in solar inertial rather than rolled out of the
plane in order to save TACS propellant. So you'll
fly around the SWS in the SWS XZ plane. And there
are two cautions to he aware of during this flyaround.
One is that since Beta is about very close to
70 degrees - 68 to 70 degrees, you will come fairly
close to gimbal lock, and you -.,at be aware of that
as you do your flyaround, as I'm sure you will be.
And Rusty makes a suggestion that since you will be
rolled over, you might want to consider setting up
the - the GDC ball so that you can fly around in the
belly bend. That's something you might consider
thinking about. The second caution note is - is that
the television can't stand to be turned on when within
22 degrees of the Stm. We don't think that'll be a
particular problem because the flyaround is going to
be fairly nominal, and we're going to have early
TV over the States. So probably when you get trader-
neath the - the Skylab and looking back toward the
San, that problem will have gone away and the TV will
be off. You have about 90 pounds of RCS propellant
available; and the flyaround certainly shouldn't take
that much. And sometime we'd like to know if you'd
like your flyaround chart on page 2-14, the angle's
all updated for you. We'll be glad to do that, if
you like. We plan to have television over ... from
Goldstone to Mila during the flyaround. The camera
configuration is unchanged from your previous infor-
mation about it. And the targets are tmchanged. We
are particularly interested in any vent flumes debris,
particle clouds, or any discoloration on the Skylab
that you see during the flyarouad. Over.

i0 12 38 CDR Okay. The distance still 300 feet?

CC That's affirmative. We're going to go back out to

300 feet and go around Just for nominal.

CDR Okay. Go ahead and send me the new chart for page 14.
And I think the other thing, while we're discussing it
right now, I think we're goingto see about taking the
TV out on the EVA. So y'all can see the parasol.
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CC Roger, Pete. And I'm not sure I copied. You said

you do want us to update that chart. Is that correct?

CDR I do want you to update the chart. That's correct.

CC Okay, real good. Stand by l, please.

l0 13 56 CC CDR, Houston. Also at this site, this is the place

we'd have done someup-links for you. We were pre-
pared to do those. We got them but to the site, so the
computer's yours again. And we got about 2 minutes to
LOS. I have one question from the SWS Flight about
the operation this morning. We had a little message
tucked into the bottom of the S11-_aryFlight Plan that
may have been overlooked; and that was: We were
requested a TV-5 for your _ measurements this
morning. We noticed the VTR is at the beginning of
the tape. And we're wondering if we missed that one,
or whether or not you got it and rewound the tape so
we can make our plans for the rest of the day.

lO 14 40 CDR No, we sure didn't see it. Who said - who's flight
plan did you bury it in?

CC I think we stuck it on the bottom of the S_-,_ry Flight

Plan, and we'll take that one. It was - it was easy
to miss. No problem.

PLT Hey, Houston; you got a minute, Dick?

CC That's affirm, Paul. We got 1 minute to LOS and then

we're going to see you guys at Ascension at - 10:22.
So go ahead; you got about 45 seconds.

PLT We got these EPS/ECS parameters, which the message

says, "Read down real fine." But you want values?
You Just want to know if they're in limits? I'll do
it any way you want. And I'm sure you're aware of
page 3-2 in the Systems Checklist, 3-22.

PLT You there, Houston?

CC Roger. Stand by, please.

l0 15 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to want the actual values.

And we're very short on time here, so we're going to
have to see you at Ascension.
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PLT Whoo! Okay. See you then .... many passes. I'm
reading down EPS/ECS parameters.

CC Roger. And we're going to be comparing them realtime.

CDR If you guys want things like that on post sleep, it's
got to come up the night before. Was it on the night
before? Ss_ it this morning.

l0 16 20 CC Have to check, Pete_ We'll get back to you.

i0 22 59 PLT Are you there, Houston?

CC PLT, Houston; affirmative. Stand by, please, just a

second.

CC PLT, Houston. Go ahead.

PLT Okay. I understand you want to compare these para-

meters real time. So do you want me to read them
real time now, or do you want me to give you the values
I logged a half hour ago?

CC Roger, Paul. We're having a discussion about it now.

We're having an antenna problem at the site, and we're
considering doing this not during the real-time
stations. And we're ta1_ing about it now, and I'll get
right back to you as soon as I have an answer.

PLT Okay.

lO 2h 13 CDR While you're down there, Houston, could you tell me

what message 2130 is?

CC CDR, Houston. Say again, please.

CDR What message is 21307

CC Stand by.

CC PLT, Houston. If you're listening, we've - I've got an

alternate proposal for how to do these cheeks that
think will be a little bit easier on you and also on
the air-to-ground.

PLT Go ahead.
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CC Okay. We're recording the proper subframe on board.

I'd suggest that you do these checks by recording them
on channel B. You can do it at any time that you have
a chance, starting now. And the only thing we would
appreciate it is, if you'd give us a time hack, par-
ticularly if you take a break in the - or a gap in
the time that you put the channel - the data on
channel B. Then we'll dump the voice data and the
subframe, and we'll put it together on the ground.

PLT Okay.

CDR Okay. Houston, your 2324 A_lfa, day 25 transfers are

complete.

CC Okay. Thank you very much.

lO 26 41 CDR And further on that 2324, I'd like the reason for the
• .. gallery shots, and whose requirement?

l0 27 03 CC CDR, Houston. I didn't copy your second comment on

232h Alfa. Would you say again, please?

CDR 232h Alfa, the next to the last sets, I'd like the
reason and the requirements for the photos.

CDR In other words, who wants them?

CC Okay. I'll get the answer for you.

CDR And why?

CC Roger•

PLT And for the flares, Dick, on the same message, I'll
get those housekeepings all done today.

CC Okay. Very good.

l0 29 15 CC CDR, Houston. In answer to your two questions,

message 2130 was the day 25 transfers, which I asseme
you've figured out from your report. And the second
one, I don't - I do not have an imediate answer on
that second one, but we're sure going to get you one,
and we'll get back to you when we can.

CDR Okay. There are co_,nents on the 2130 on B channel.

That's why I get very frustrated because I don't think
anybody gets B channel for a week.
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CC Roger, Pete.

CC PLT, Houston. Back to the subject of this check.

We've still got about 2 minutes and 25 seconds left
here at Ascension. One thing we would like in real
time is that on panel 225, are both the 150 psi REGs
OPEN? And we'd like a read-out of the N2 pressure
On panel 225.

l0 31 08 PLT Well, I was wondering the same thing. Yes, both the
REGs are OPEN; and on board, they read 140.

CC Okay. Thank you m_ch. We've reading 142, so that

checks good.

l0 31 23 PLT Yes, and as soon as you figure it out, I'd like an

explanation.

CDR Houston, you there?

CC Affirmative. Go ahead.

CDR You're 2319 Alfa 2. I would like you to up-link the

checklist changes to SP (?) 20. And let me see if I can
find anything else on there that needed an answer.

CC Roger.

CDR Oh, yes. You sent us the procedure for dsmping the
Quad A propellant to PSM. I still don't understand
the high temperatures. Y'all figured the thermal
wrong or you really believe that high temp?

i0 32 4_ CC CDR, Houston. We copied your question. We're about

25 seconds from LOS here at Ascenstion. We'll have
you at Carnarvon at 10:55 Zulu, and I'll have you an
answer there.

CDR Roger.

I0 57 39 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S at Carnarvon for 8 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. And on the Deactivation Checklist,

I presume s]] those times are correct. You guys know?

CC Roger, Pete. My initial assumption is that's correct,

and we're checking on that now.
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CDR Drag on.

CC Definitely, the PET times that are in there are correct.

CDE Okay.

l0 58 26 CC Also, Pete, I've got some answers here on quad Alfa

that might help you tmderstand what our thinking is
here. It turns out that the temps on the propellant
and helium tanks, both in quad Alf_, are about
20 degrees higher than our preflight thermal predictions.
And we sort of suspected a degradation of the thermal
control coating around quad Alfa, and we had you check
that on EVA day, the other day. And you checked that
and didn't see much of anything. We're not partic-
ularly concerned about these slightly elevated tem-
peratures, but we would like to relieve the pressures
in the tanks before they reach 210 psi, if they do.
We plan to relieve the pressure first by using
quad A for the day 168 trim burn. We really don't
feel that the quad A to PSM propellant is going to he
necessary; hut Just in case it is, we are going to send
you that procedure.

CDR Okay.

i0 59 27 CC Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

ii 00 05 CC Skylab, Houston. Two items, one for the PLT. Paul,

whenever you do get finished doing the recording you
do today for us on those EPS and ECS checks, if you'll
let us know, we may want to reconfigure the way we're
running the recording on board. So Just let us know.
Also, the second thing for Pete - It turns out, Pete,
if we align the GDC prior to undocking to 33,5 degrees,
lO degrees, and zero degrees roll, pitch, yaw, (33.5,
10, and 0, prior to undocking), then that flyaround
chart that's already listed in the book is good, if
you'd use that on the GDC. And assuming that - And
no update to that chart would be required. And assum-
ing that you think this is the way you might do it,
Rusty's planning on flying this in the simulator
sometime in the next day or so. And we'll get back
to you and - Just to make sure there's no hookers in
there.

CDR Yes, let's do it that way. And if that's right, send

me those gimbal angles on it and that's what we'll
put in the checklist.

CC Roger. I sure will do that. And - and Just so you -

you understand that we'll - you will be flying around
then on the bellyband.

CDR I understand.

CC Roger.

ii O1 2h PLT Okay. Right there at the day part of the EPS checks,
the ECS reading are already on tape. And right now,
even this very instant, I'm going to put the night
readings on the tape.

CC Very good. Just let us know when you're through.

PLT Wilco.

ll 02 53 CDR Are you there, Dick?

CC Roger. We're here. Still got 2-1/2 minutes left at

Carnarvon.

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CDR Okay. I show in this Flight Plan that 10:30 _MT con-
verts to 13:27 PET on day 29. Is that still the way
we're going to - Is that correct?

CC l'm checking.

ii 04 00 PLT Okay, Dick. The nightside EPS readings are on tape

now, and that's it.

CC Thank you very much, PLT.

ll 05 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from LOS.

We're going to see you at _1_m at ll:ll GMT. We're
going to dump the data tape recorder at GUAM. And,
Pete, for the rest of this entry SIM, do you want me
to give you AOS/LOS time in PET? I'm ass,1_ng, if so,
I'm going to change to that.

PLT Yes, give it to him in PET, and then the first time
you do it, we'll see if we know how to convert.

CC Roger; and I'ii give you a - a time hack at Guam.

ll 05 48 PLT Okay.

ll ii 53 CC _Kylab, Houston. We're AOS at Guam for 6 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. I'm going to give you a time hack

in about 20 seconds, and the time then will be 15 hours
and 20 minutes PET.

CDR How about 15:21?

CC Okay, I'll do that.

CDR No, I mean, won't it be 15:21? Isn't it already 15:207

CC I think we're 1 minute out of sync, Pete. Right now,

on my mark, it's going to be 15 hours 20 minutes and
20 seconds. Stand by.

ll 12 56 CC MARK 15:20:20.

CDR Okay. Well we're off by 40 seconds somehow.

CC Okay. Okay. To continue Just a little bit to ta1_

about PET and GMT on entry day, Pete. The times have
changed because of - and they are going to change -
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even a few seconds - even between now and entry day.

And Just in case you're interested, right now, if
today were entry _my, a PET of 15 hours, even, would
go along with the GMT of 08:10:hl. This is not going
to be a problem on entry day because we're going to -
after you power up the CMC we're going to make sure
"the clock is all spified up and reading the right time,
and you're going to sync the MET to the CMC clock.
So on entry day, we should not have any kind of a
problem at all. The rest of the - of the AOS and LOB
calls today will be given to you in PET.

ii 14 ii CDR Okay. Well, you still haven't answered my question

about the Deactivation Checklist. Is there enough
difference that you are going to have to update the
times?

CC Roger, Pete. We're still talking about that one.

ll 17 20 CC CDR, Houston. In answer to your question about times

- there definitely will have to be some changes to the
times in the Deactivation Checklist in (_MT. Now the
PETS are also a very few minutes off. It's less than
l0 because the time of undocking has changed. However,
we are going to put it all together and get it up to
you in plenty of time, so that you can make the correct
changes to the Deactivation Checklist well prior to
entry day. We're about 20 seconds from LOS here at
Guam. We're going to see you at Goldstone at 15:_2.

ll 17 49 CDR Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. This is the point where we would give

you a GO for undocking. The controllers have looked
at the bird. It looks good and you have a GO.

ll 18 18 CDR Great.

ll 34 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S stateside for about 15 minutes.

PLT Roger, Houston.

ll 39 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to drop out for about 30

seconds as we go from Goldstone to Mila, and that's
going to occur in about i minute, and I'll give _rou a
call when we lock back up.
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SPT Okay.

ii 42 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back in contact at Texas;

stateside for the next llminutes. And the only thing
that I dldn't reed up awhile ago or mention to you
awhile ago is that, if _my questions do come up as we
review thro1_gh the procedures, both down here and on
board, we'd like you to, I'm sure you will, Just go
ahead and bring them up in reel time, and we'll t_lk
about them as we go, rather than saving it ell and
having any kind of an extended debrief at th* end.
We got i0 minutes left in this pass. Standing by.

ii 42 56 SPT Okay, Houston.

II 52 39 CC S"z_vlab,Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We're going

to see you at Ascension at 160, correction 16:10, and
Flight wanted me to advise you that the TV reception
during the flyaround today was Just exactly like it
was during the SIM.

ii 52 58 CC Now, what are we going to say to that? _-

ii 53 00 CC Roger.

12 03 29 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension for 4 minutes.

PLT Roger, Houston.

12 06 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We're

going to see you at Carnarvon at 16:40, and this is
the pass where we'd give you a GO for separation.
And the controllers have all looked, and you have a
GO.

12 06 _8 PLT Roger.

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SKYLAB AIr,-T0-GROUND ¥_fCE TRANSCRIPTION

12 32 59 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon for l0 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. Would you pass to the FA0 that we

completed M487-3 Charlie; CDR, PLT, and SPT; and
487-1 Foxtrot, and we'll get 487-2 Charlie a little
later on. It'll be on B channel.

CC Thank you very much, Pete, and he's got that word.

12 33 41 CDR And also, would you verify we have 30 minutes of VTR

tape. We're going to take care of that tour sometime
this afternoon.

CC That's affirm, Pete. You have full 30 minutes on the

VTR. It's ready for you.

CDR And I assume that we'll have 30 minutes in the morning

for the TV-5 you wanted?

CC Standby on that one.

12 34 24 CC CDR, Houston; on the TV-5, negative. We're not going

to schedule TV-5 in the morning because of another TV
requirement, it Just turns out, but we will pick up
TV-5 in a couple of days. But in answer to question
generally, whatever we schedule in the morning, the VTR
will be cleaned off, and it'll be ready for you.

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. I told you I was going to be talking

the rest of the day in PET, but I do have a message for
you here that relates to GMT. As of 13:00 GMT today,
which is about 25 minutes from now, in answer to your
previous question, you will have been on orbit exactly
22 days. You will have flown 317 revolutions of the
Earth, and that equates to 7,846,000 nautical miles.
And be advised, if you were earning 12 cents a mile,
that each one of you guys would now be due $1,083,h61.30.
Over.

CDR Roger. We'd like to file that claim.

CC (Laughter) Roger that.

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12 36 24 CDR Got a feeling we're going to go for Government quarters

and nothing available, on a buck and a quarter a day.

CC I'ii -l'll bet you're right.

CDR I know. That's what I got paid for my other three

flights.

CC (Laughter) Roger.

12 42 07 CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minute frc_ LOS at Carnarvon.

G1_,m is coming up at 16:54. This is the point where
we'd give you a GO for the SPS-I shaping burn.

12 42 20 CDR Roger.

12 46 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Guam for 9 minutes.

SPT Roger, Houston. Are we GO?

12 46 52 CC That's affirmative; you are.

SPT Okay, we're going.

CC Okay.

PLT Since you told us about the million dollars, we've done
the EVA, completed the Deactivation Checklist, undocked,
done the flyaround, and we're ready for SPS-1.

CC (Laughter) Roger that.

12 49 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We are going to see the SPS-1 burn

here at G1,_m on entry day, and - and we did see it
here today. We would be standing by for a burn
status report and, also, we would be configured to
watch you do your logic sequence" checks here at Guam.

SPT Roger that.

CC Roger.

12 55 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're go - about a minute from LOS

at Guam. See you at Goldstone at 17:19.

12 55 29 PLT Okay.
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13 12 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for the next

16 minutes.

CDR Roger.

CC And, Skylab, particularly for the CDR. If, during

this period, we'd - you guys would be eating and you'd
have the suits off. And we've been talking about a
couple of items on entry day that we'd like to bounce
off of you, Pete. And if you're doing something where
you could listen to us, I'll talk to you about them.

CDR Go ahead. We are eating and we're out of our suits.

CC Okay. The first one we've been ta3king about, Pete,

a little bit is the business of the time line between
undocking and the SEP maneuver. Turns out that due to
the two factors - one, primarily the slip in the launch
day and, secondarily, our desire to get the television
for the flyaround - that in order to obtain the separa-
tion - the relative positions between the two vehicles
that we described in that message to you yesterday or
the day before, on the flyaround, instead of doing a
360 degree inertial maneuver around the SWS, you're
going to actually have to do about another quarter of
a revolution. So, what we're considering is - is
adding about lO more minutes between undocking and
the SEP maneuver to give you a little more time
there and that still leaves, we think, plenty of time.
I think the correct number is about 34 minutes or so
between the SEP and the shaping maneuver. What do
you think about that?

1B 14 09 CDR Okay. I never did quite understand why we wanted the

workshop between us and the Earth at SEP.

CC Yes. Let me - let me try to describe, Pete, in words

of what the relative attitudes ,of the two vehicles will
be at the time of the SEP burn. Essentially, when you
get in maneuver - in the position for the SEP burn and
the reason tha it's changed, is because of the recon-
tact problem. You're going to be looking at the Sun
side of the SWS, and you're going to be in the SWS
X-Z plane and essentiality on the plus-Z axis of the
SWS. Now, as you look at it, you're going to be pretty
much looking at the Earth's horizon. And the reason
for this is - is that the Bet a angle is about 70
degrees. So when you actually do the minus-X SEP
maneuver, that's what the SWS will look like to you.
Over.
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13 15 21 CDR Okay.

13 15 23 CC Okay. With your concurrence, then, I think we probably

will stick that extra I0 minutes in there, and we'll
plan to do it that way The second thing that we wanted
to talk to you about _was this business of times, PET
and G}4T, on deactivation day, the day prior to entry
and also, on entry day, primarily those times that
you're going to be in the Deactivation Checklist.
We've been talking it-over and somebody came up with
an idea that we think will be - mA_e it a lot easier,
rather than send you a bunch of times and make you do
a bunch of pen and inks. And it essentially is that,
on deactivation day, I guess that's day 28, the day
prior to entry, we would give you a pseudo GMT that
we'll Just refer to, say as watch time, that you'll
set your wristwatches to. Now this - when you set
your watches to this time, you then could go through
the present deactivation checklist without having
made any pen and inks. And the times, the GMTs that
are on there, would coincide with the times on your
watches. We would, also, set up our tables here on
the ground so that all calls as to the A0S time, A0S
and LOS times, would also be in the s"me time. So,
essentially, from the time you set your watches to
the watch time, we wouldn't have to change them except
to give you a time hank occasionally, if you needed
one, from there to the rest of the mission. Over.

13 16 59 CDR Okay.

CC Okay, those are theon_ two things we wanted to

mention to you, I think. And we're standing by state-
side. We've got another ii minutes.

13 17 13 CDR Okay.

13 22 59 CC Skylab, Houston. One more minor point on the times

that we were Just talking about. One thing that I
failed to mention is - is that we have not coordinated
this idea of watch times with the deactivation team
which is not on duty here. And we will get with Nell
and do that before we formally institute this proce-
dure. For your information, if we do go to the watch
time I was suggesting, the difference would be 4 hours.
• And - But that wouldn't make any difference to you
since you were operating on the watches. But we've
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essentially set your watches ahead or changed your

watches by 4 hours at the start of day 28. Also, on
a different subject of the PET on day 29, which really
doesn't have anything to do with the change and the
idea about the watch times - because the u_ocking
time nominally was 15 hours and 43 minutes in the
nominal mission PET, and it is now go lng to be about
15 hours and 33 minutes - there will be about a
10-minute difference in the times that are in your
Deactivation Checklist, all prior to undocking. And
then after undocking, of course, all the PETs are -
are good. Out.

13 24 24 CDR I'm glad you said "Out" instead of "Over."

CC (Laughter) Roger.

13 24 59 CDR The way I see it, we'll have it deactivated some time
on day 28, and we'll be down some time on day 29.

CC (Laughter) Roger that, Pete.

13 27 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS; Vanguard

at 17:45.

PLT Roger, Dick. And the PLT got all those housekeeping
things done.

CC Roger.

13 27 58 PLT Still there, Houston?

CC Affirmative for about l0 or 15 seconds.

PLT Okay, to fix our water heater problem in the head, we

changed out the valve. That's the only spare on board.
We're bringing it back, and we're also strongly recom-
mending that Bean's bunch bring at least one more re-
placement with them.

CC Roger - Roger, Paul. And this is one time that we did

r_ad the tapes, and we've already been talking about
that this morning - -

PLT Why, you ras - -

f CC See you at Vanguard.

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13 28 27 PLT You rascal!

13 28 29 CC Ha!

13 40 14 CC Skylab, Hous - Houston. AOS at Van_,erd for 4minutes.

SPT Hello, hello. Who -who's that?

CC Houston, Texas calling.

SPT Oh, Roger; it's you.

SPT We've been having a lot of crank calls up here lately.

CC Roger.

SPT There was another one.

13 40 56 CC (Laughter). MY circadian rhythm isn't cranked up to

speed yet; that's the problem. Hang on.

PLT I don't blame you. Hey, how are you coming on the
answers to a couple of questions? First one being,
what's the story on our engine pressure to the reg-
ulator; and the next one was - I don't know if you
guys even know about it, the evening team last night
took it on the TCS, the Ther_-1 Control System logic
breakers.

CC Paul, - Standby I.

PLT Hey, if nobody there is familiar with it, Dick, Just

let it go and I'ii get it from the next team when I
get a hold of them. You know Just - they were going
to dig into the schematics for something we need.

13 41 45 CC Roger that. We'll - we'll take a look at it and see

if we got an answer for you.

13 43 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We got about a minute and a half

left in this pass. l've got a - we got a problem
that l'd like to speak to the SPT about. We dumped
the television from your TV tour that you did last
evening, and we did not receive any voice on channel B.
And we're wondering what configuration yon were in,
and we wanted to make sure that we got to talk about
it before Pete did his tour this evening. Go ahead.
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13 43 58 SPT Okay. I was on & lightweight headset, aud umbilical

connected to the speaker intercom box in the experi-
ment compartment, which was on cBannel B. And I was
on I_'A',:_COM/PUSH-TO-TALK and verified the hot mike,
and that's all I did.

CC Skylab, Houston. Have you been - have you used that

intercom box since then, since I can't tell where
you're talking from now?

CDR The tape goes on the'VTR, right? We didn't have to

have it on RECORD or anything.

13 44 50 CC Stand by.

13 44 52 CDR Does the voice go to video tape?

CC Stand by.

CC Skylab, Houston. The voice has to go on channel B, so

you do need to select the VOICE RECORD switch. We're
going AOS here at Vanguard. We're going to see you
a long pass later. Goldstone at 18:56.

13 45 14 PLT Okay, while you're gone you can be cooking up an

answer to why ... - -

END OF TAPE

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14 48 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for 13 minutes.

l've got some flare information for you and also a
couple of comments on the VTR.

SPT Okay, okay.

CDR While we're watching the flare go ahead with the

comments.

CC Okay, good. On the flare first, Pete, you might let

us know what you're doing. It - Actually it started
when you guys were in - in the dark. It started at
i_:19. It was originally classified subnormal, then
reclassified 1 Bravo, and then again to 2, with X-rays
coming Out of it. And our information shows it's
presently declining. Over.

14 _9 00 SPT Roger. Our information shows the same. We wandered

down to the ATMpanel at sunrise to see what was going
on. We noticed that you guys were conducting unattended
ops and that there was a flare going on which was
visible in XUV and X-ray, not in H-alpha because of
where you have the pointing. The PMEC count was
A1_ost 700 at that time, %ith an image fntenslty
count confirmatory at about I00. Both declining, and
both have continued to decline, and I have not pointed
at the flare or interrupted your - your unattended
progr_ma. We don't have ground rules for this sort of
thing. What would you like for me to do?

14 49 40 CC Stand by.

CDR Meanwhile, Houston, while you're checking that, we

found the problem with the VTR. The B channel input
switch was off. And we're not exactly sure which
position it's supposed to be in. I guess IC0M, PTT;
or PTT will work, won't it?

CC Skylab, Houston. That's affirmative. Those positions

will work.

CDR Okay. You do not have to have the record switch on,
correct?
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CC That's correct. We gave you an incorrect answer. You

do have to have the cables configured proper - properly,
but you do not have to have the voice record switch on
SIAs hit.

CDR Okay. Well, unfortunately, we verified that he was

ta1_ing on B chA-nel, but not at that block. And
we're going to have to put it in the checklist as
something that went down the crack, I guess.

14 50 47 CC Roger that, Pete.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. We think the best thing now -

We think you did the right thing, and - when you came
by. And we'd like to Just to go ahead and get this
one in unattended ops. And you can Just go ahead
and watch it as you like.

SPT Okay. I think for the next crew that it's one of a
couple categories that they might be thinking about.
And one is this, when you come around a corner and
you see a flare in progress. The other is like what
happened last night -Whenyou are doing some - some
other work and you see a sm_11 flare, which you don't
want to do a _,II flare program on, but maybe you can
snatch a little something.

CC Roger. That's a good suggestion_ And it,s obvious

that we do have a couple of categories of possibilities
here that we can talk with those guys about and come
to some new ground rules.

SPT Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to up-link some rate

gyro drift compensations, and we need for you to
stay off the DAS for a couple of seconds. I'll let
you know when we Wre through.

SPT You got it.

CC Thank you.

CC Skylab, Houston. Not to beat this VTR problem to

death, but we want to make sure of what you said,
Pete, and l'm not sure I understand it completely. I
- As I understand it, the - on one of the SIAs, the --

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channel B selector next to this channel B CCU input

connector was in OFF, and I'm wondering whether or
not that was - whether that was the SIA that Joe was
plugged into, or the SIA that the VTR cable was plugged
into. Over.

CDR Still read me, Houston?

CC Affirmative.

CDR Okay, that's VOX ll6. The switch was OFF on VOX ll6.

CC Okay. Real fine. Now we understand it, Pete. Thank

you very much.

CDR Okay. That's not in the checklist anywhere. It's

like this panel 132 switch business. We've gotten
bitten on that one too many times, too. We need to
put that in every place in the TV checklist that if
you're going to have voice, you're going to have to
check VOX ll6 and every TV ... you got to check
V0X 132.

lh 56 26 CC Roger, Pete. We probably do need to put some verifies.

The only place that we can find where that channel
B selector switch is to be put on chsnnel 1 - I mean
panel 116 to PTT is in one place in the activation
when you first activate the VTR. But after that, we
can't find where you ever reverify that. And
apparently, in some kind of operation between then
and now, it got put to OFF. And then without a
verify, we missed it. So we'll correct that in the
TV procedures.

CDR Yes, I think it got turned off way back when we

were originally going to use R channel for EREP and
we were going to disconnect that. And we got halfway
through doing that, and we talked to you guys and
decided to go A record and A for broadcast, and VOX
on EREP, and the switch never got put back in the
proper configuration. And what did you say it was -
ICOM/PTT?

CC It 's PTT, Pete.

CDR Okay.
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CDR Well, I'm sorry you lost that because Joe gave a
sterlingperformance on it.

CC No problem. It Just appears that we - Just one

little thing in the checklist that ... will correct it.
No problem.

14 58 52 CC Skylab, Houston. On the subject of the entry SIMs

today: the next - It turns out the way the stations
go that the - following this Texas LOS, the last
interface we have with you - and - is down at the
Vanguard. And our guys have gotten a good bit out
of it today. What we plan to do, if - if it sounds
okay to you, is we're probably going to release a]1 the
controllers, except for the trajectory people that
are running some of their targeting. And depending on
whether or not you feel like, by the Vanguard, that
you'll have gotten what you wanted to get out of the
day, we might have some suggestions for you in the way
of experiment operations, or Whatever, between the
Vanguard pass that's going to come up in about, oh,
another 15 or 20 minutes. And the end of the point
in today's time line, where it's scheduled for entry
SIN, it's your c_11.

CDR Good. Go ahead. We've - we've gotten all we can

gather.

14 59 53 CC Okay. We'll do some thinking between here and

Vanguard and maybe have a couple of suggestions for
you. We're about 1 minute from LOS. We'll see you
at Vanguard at 19:P-l. And we're going to dump the
data recorder there.

15 00 06 CDR Roger.

15 13 II CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard for about the

next 7-1/2 minutes. And it'll be a couple of minutes
more, but then I'll have a list of things that I can
read up to you. And you can - guys can pick and choose,
and do what you want out of them.

PLT All righty.

CC Roger.
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CC Skylab, Houston. I have a few items here I'd like to

read up to you. If you'd like to Jot them down,
and then you can decide for yourselves which one
you'd like to do, if amy, and Just let us - let us
know.

PLT Go.

CC Okay. One is to continue M552. In the event you get

to completion on M552, we want you to go ahead and
terminate, including the battery discharge, and that
termination is per page _-5 of the MDA Experiment
Checklist. Second item, is HK-60 Bravo, 60 Bravo,
which is condensate holding t,nk dump. Third item is
TV- 5. Fourth item is the TV tour. And cogent on the
- those two items - those you can do only one of the
two of them, and we'll leave it up to you as to which
one you got to clean VTR. We are looking at two or
three EREP items that we might be able to pass up to
you before the end of this pass, but right now I don't
have enough information on them. Over.

PLT Okay. We got it, Dick.

CC Okay.

PLT And we'll let you know what we're doing.

CC Roger.

PLT Well, we're doing 552, right now, Dick. The third
sample is in the cool down. We'll do 60 Bravo, and
we plan to do the TV tour instead of TV-5 today.

CC Okay. Sounds real good.

PLT And we will do M552 terminate before the day is over.

15 18 51 CC Okay, real good. And I've got one request here.

We need the XUV and H-alpha 2 DOORS to CLOSE.

PLT Okay, they were.

CC Roger.
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PLT Hey, Houston. Is there an earlier time we could

do the SPT's M0927

CC Stand by i on that one.

15 20 46 CC Skylab, Houston, We're i minute from LOS at Van_-,-vd.

l'm going back to _T times on the LOS calls. We're
going to see you at Hawaii at 16:22.

15 20 57 PLT Okay.

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16 22 47 CDR Houston, Skylab.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii. Go ahead.

CDR Roger. We've been talking about that TV. Is there

any chance - It seems to me last night the experiment
1 and 2 recorders were running. Is there any chance this
waste is on experiment 1 that you got back last night
while S073 was running?

CC Stand by 1.

PLT And, Dick, when you got a minute to shoot the baloney
about the condensate holding tank, I'd like to bend
your ear for aminute.

CC Okay, why don't you go ahead? EGIL is listening, and

we'll get an answer on the tape recorders here in Just
a second.

PLT Okay. It was my understanding _he condensate holding

tank was a plain old ordinary, everyday, vanilla water
t,n_ that had a few extra fittings put on it. We went
up to measure where the bellows was, and that thing
is completely out of configuration, which is one way
of saying it took us one whale of a long time to find
the little ferro magnetic strip in the stainless steel
bellows. Which I have now marked similiar to the
other tank for the follow-on crews. And for their
information, it's down on the bottom side of the tank
that's pretty much up against_the wall.

16 24 33 CC Okay. I'ii make sure they get that information. Any-

thing else on the - on the condensate holding tAn_
dUmp?

PLT No, we'll measure, if you care where the bellows was.
I assume you'd like to know.

S CC Just can't hardly wait.

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PLT Oh, also we have had a PPC02 high on A mol sieve, which
is the only one we're monitoring anymore. The gage
indication reads 2. How I think we've got two detectors
- one for the gage and one for TM and - caution and
warning, or sc_e such mix. How about checking them,
will you please?

16 25 13 CC Roger.

16 26 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're coming close to LOS. We're

going to see you at Vanguard at 16:50. We're reading
2 on PPC02, and we're checking on the instrumentation
nOW.

16 50 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Vanguard. We got you

for i0 minutes.

CC Let's see guys, I'm sorry we went LOS there. It was

a very low angle pass and I didn't get to give you a
LOS call that I'm sure you got. On the PPCO 2 HIGH,

we're wondering, is the mol sieve B PPCO 2 CAUTION &

WARNING inhibited?

CDR Yes, it is.

CC Roger. Okay. Next question is, the PPC0 HIGH

_2
light still on? And if the light is out - if the
light's on, inhibit the CAUTION & WARNING for MOLE
SIEVE A. If the light's - is out - turns out, this
may be associated with mol sieve A bed cycling, which
allows the outlet sensor to sense inlet gas for
approximately 1 minute.

16 51 30 CDR Okay, we'll take a look. We've got them both inhibited
right now.

CDR Meanwhile, Dick, the condensate tank bellows was 15-3/4

inches at the start of dump.

CC Roger. 15-3/_ inches at the start of dump. One thing

that we wanted to suggest was that you make sure -
since this is the first time we have dumped a holding
tank, want to make sure that, periodically, be sure
and check the waste process or. exhaust pressure to be
less than 0.08. It is good now; we're looking at it _
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on TM. And I have a - we have searched on, Pete, on

experiment i, 2 and the data tape recorders, and un-
fortunately we didn't make out there. We didn't get
the voice on any oi those. And I have an _nswer here
on the TCS logic circuit breaker for the PLT.

16 52 38 PLT Go ahead.

CC Okay. We think that the experience that you had with

the TCS logic circuit breakers in the heat exchanger
fans was normal, if you were in the following configura-
tion: panel 617, the four TCS HEAT EXCHANGER FAN
switches to AUTO, and panel 61_, TCS LOGIC circuit
breakers, two of them, closed. And also, if the OWS
TEMP was at least 4 degrees greater than the temp
selection that you had m_de on the little rotary
knob there, which we assumed that that was the case.
The fans ON signal from the TCS auto control module
sets a latching relay, so opeing the LOGIC circuit
breakers does not have an effect on the HEAT EXCHANGER
FANS. A reset to the relay must be sent either by the
auto control module or the OWS HEAT - HEAT EXCHANGER
FAN switch to OFF on panel 390.

16 53 49 PLT Well, if you're happy with that, I guess I am.

SPT Houston_ SPT.

CC Roger. We're happy, Paul; and go ahead, SPT.

SPT Okay. The CO 2 light is out. I have reenabl_d CAUTION

& WARNING. The gage was reading 2.7 a couple minutes
ago and now it's back down to 2. So it may be spiking
with the vent cycles.

16 54 17 CC Roger, SPT. That concurs with what we saw. We saw

as high as 3.6 on the - that last cycle there.

SPT Okay. On - both our experiment tape recorders are

running now, apparently for S073. Is it okay to
terminate them and go to M0927

CC Skylab, we're dumping the experiment 2 recorder now.

So we'll get back to you prior to this LOS and let
you know about configuration of those recorders.
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SPT Th_n_ you.

CDR Say, Dick, you ought to have that procedures for

dumping and not letting the tank get above 0.08 put
in the procedures Decause it's not in any of our
procedures. We've been watching it.

16 55 13 CC Roger. We copy studwe'll make sure that gets in there.

CC And, CDR; Houston. There's a teleprinter message in

the telepringter for you, I think.

CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised the ASCO is going command

a NAV update here at Vanguard and we'd like to mn_e
sure you stay off the DAS, please.

PLT Okay.

16 58 52 CC Skylah, Houston. On the tape recorders, after we finish

our dumping here at Vanguard, you - you will be able
to take them back and do M092. Just a reminder though,
on the CDR details pad, that 1901 - there's a little
step in there to reconfigure the recorders after
M092 for S073. Also, we're about 1 minute and 20
seconds from LOS. We're going to see you at Van -
correction, at Hawaii at 17:58.

CDR Okay, but in the meantime, youdon't waat 73 to run,

right?

16 59 37 CC Roger. Just let it run until you need it, and then
take the recorders for M092. And then after you get
through, reconfigure for S073.

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16 59 47 CDR Okay.

CC Roger. And we're through - we have finished our

dumping here at Van'guard.

CC Skylab, Houston. We had to terminate the NAV update

co_anding due to a dropout in data. You can have
the DAS back.

CDR Is it already in or not?

17 O0 3h CC Negative, CDR, it's not in. We'll get it up later.

17 57 48 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. We got a tank DELTA-P on this 216

condensate 6. And after I turned on the beater and
I've gone to vacuum which hasn't done amy good, it -
in preparation dumping, except Paul and - Joe dumped
it - it had about two cups of water in it when he
started and now it's completely empty, so don't ask
me where the water went to and don't ask me where the
vacuum went to. I don't have any idea. So what
would you like us to do about it while we're dumping
the big tank?

CC We'll think about it, Pete; stand by.

CDR Okay.

17 59 37 CC And, Skylab; Houston. Be advised we are dumping the

data recorder at this site.

CDR Okay.

18 00 22 CC SMylab, Houston. A couple of things while we're

waitin_ on an answer on the condensate tank; one is
- is we see you operating a building block 5 and we'd
like to - due to the film in S054 - we would like to
omit S05h. So when you get to the end of the sequence
that the 54 is in now, request you to terminate. Also
we're going to attempt again on the NAY update. So
if you can give us the DAS for a couple of minutes
we'll get that co,and in.

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CDR Okay,, the pad you sent me said to run 5_ on 5 Alfa

but not on 5 Bravo and Charlie.

CC Stand by 1.

CDR Oh, sorry, it's up at the top. I didn't see it up at

the top. Got it down at the bottom of one - No, oh
it's - I see. Okay, it's my mistake.

CC Roger.

CC CDR, Houston. We've got the NAV update. It's up

good this time and you can have the DAS back.

CDR Thank you.

18 0_ 25 CC SP_, Houston. I'm not sure where you are in the

sequence, but you might listen to this one little
flight plan comment on your Flight Plan this after-
noon. On the 1_)31, we'd like to delete ED31 photo
session that you've got scheduled today based on your
previous comments about the rate of growth; and re-
place with the visual observation and appropriate
voice comments as you see fit on B channel, and we
will reschedule the final photo session probably a
couple of days from now. And this is day 168 or 9,
and this is due to the apparent slow bacteria grow_ch.
Out.

18 07 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We're going to see you at Vanguard at 18:29. And we
think present configuration is - is okay for now on
the condensate dtmp system, so press on with that
procedure wherever you are in it and we'll get hack
to you on that one at Vanguard.

18 07 33 CDR Okay.

18 29 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Vanguard for the next

8-1/2 minutes. We're going to dump the data tape
recorder again here at Vanguard, and I got a couple
of words for the CD!_ on the condensate tAn_.

CDR Be right with you.

18 29 35 CC Okay. No problem. We've got 8 minute pass, Pete.

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18 30 31 CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay, Pete. We're "a little hit confused as to what

the configuration is. But since you do an ATM and
the other guys are doing biomed, so we figure if we
can stabilize the situation for the nexthour or so,
we're going to have an hour LOS and then by that
time, you should have a little more time to talk and
you can lead us through the procedures and tell us
exactly at what steps you had the problem. For now_
as we understand the configuration, you got the hold-
ing tank disconnected from the little tank and the
holding tank is doing its thing, dumping. The little
tank has lost vacuum. So what we'd suggest is going
to the Systems Checklist, page 2-h0, and under the
procedure listed for airlock module condensate tank
dump, step 3, it's 6 or 8 steps there that hopefully
will reachieve the vacuum on the - on the condensate
- airlock module condensate tank. You can go ahead
and do that procedure and get back to your ATM work
and we can talk about it again next pass. Over.

18 31 39 CDR Okay. You got it right.

CC Okay. Real good. Why don't we do that, and we'll

Just talk to you about it later.

CDR Okay.

PLT Yes, the big question Dick, is, what happened to the
water that was in the condensate tank, when all it's
supposed to be doing is sucking water in?

CC Roger. That's the big question, and we haven't

figured that out yet.

18 32 02 PLT Okay.

18 33 01 CDR Hey, this temperature valve is screwy - -

CC CDR, Houston. I didn't copy that.

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CDR Well, I w_s Just _ning seec_d_ryheater, emd I

don't show say temperature.

18 33 35 CC CDR, Houston. Sorry, I guess our ears are bad, but

the co... is a little bit ratty here ca the down-link
sad I still did not copy.

CDR Okay. l've been running the secondarTheater and

we've had this intermittent problem with it. And I
show no temperature at all on secondary heater - been
running for 30 minutes. You want me to go ahead sad
dump it or do you waut me to go to the primary
heater until I get some temp reading?

18 34 04 CC That's affirmative. We'd like yon to switch to the

primary heater.

CDR Okay.

18 37 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds from LOS.

We're going to see you at Hawaii at 19:36.

18 37 55 CDR Roger.

19 35 53 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S 6 minutes.

PLT Roger, Bill. Where are we?

CC You're over Hawaii, and we have a question for you

here. Did you disconnect from the holding tank or
at panel 393 on the hose?

PLT Per the checklist, at tank.

CC Copy.

19 36 39 PLT And we tried to _mpthe condensate tank twice. It

Just won't hold a vacuum is ai"1, Bill. It didn't.

CC Yes, we copy. We're thinking again now.

19 39 19 PLT H_uston, I got another question for you _ this dump

business.

CC GO, PLT.
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PET Okay, the holding tank is apparently empty. The ...

finder finds the bellows about i inch from the inlet
side into the tank. The tA-_ pressure during the
last _1_p_ sequence - we had to keep cycling it, by the
way, to keep from exceeding 0.09 in the waste tank,
and we never knew about that pressure restriction
until we got in flight. But anyway, we were cycling
the dump valve off and on. The bellows is at the end.
During the last sequ@nce, the waste bag pressure never
got above about 0.082. It is now dropping off to about
- it's on its way to 0.075. However, in accordance
with the checklist, once again we are waiting for a
water _,"T_ pressure to come off the peg at over 2. It
se_m- to me, it should have by now. Have you got any
good, soothing, closing words for us on that?

CC PLT, we're working on him at the moment.

19 42 _2 CC Skylab, we're going LOS here in approximately 25 seconds.

We would like for you to continue on page 2-37,
step 5, SWS Systems Checklist. We'll see you again at
Vanguard at 20:07.

19 _3 02 PLT Okay.

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20 06 56 CC Skylah, Houston; AOS i0 minutes.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go, SPT.

SPT Okay, the procedure for dumping the holding tank re-
quires the use of the minus-Z SAL vacuum port to dump
the pressure from the gas side of the tank. S073 is
in that SAL. And my question is, can we go ahead and
dump the gas out that port or will that contaminate
the experiment?

CC Stand by. We'll try to get you an answer.

PLT Hey, Houston; for information, M552 has been completed.

And the terminate section of the checklist has been
completed.

CC We copy.

PLT Houston.

CC Go, Skylab.

PLT Okay, we are - Pete is ready to do rod extend. If

there's any concern about venting through that airlock,
we are willing for a prize, which will be stated later,
to retract S073 completely, take it out of the air-
lock, vent the condensate tank, and reinstall S073
and go to a seven-rod configuration on it.

CC Stand by half. We're looking hard at it.

PLT Okay.

CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.

CC We would like for you to extend the seven S073 rods

with the trunnion angle zero and then dump. TheZ's
dump - -
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PLT Okay. All right, we got it. Thank you.

20 16 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. We will have you

again, Ascention at 20:22.

PLT Roger.

20 21 35 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 7 minutes.

PLT Roger.

20 22 49 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 7 minutes.

CC And, Skylab; it appears that you have leaks

at panel 393 and on the holding tan_ disconnects.
That's the quick disconnects.

PLT Well, then why has the DELTA-P on the condensate

tank steyed so good for the last 20 days or so? We
had it plugged in.

CC Paul, it's thought that they're only leaking when

they're disconnected. And we think the same thing
happened duringthe EVA when they were disconnected.

PLT Okay. That's a whole new set of QDs we got leaking

now.

CC Thatis affirm.

20 26 37 CC Skylab, there isn't much in the way of news, but

there're two or three it_m_, if it doesn't interrupt
anything you' re doing.

PLT No, go ahead; we're listening, we can all hear.

CC New that I look at it, there's even less. You can get
fish with your drinking water_ it says, in Mexic-1_.
They had a heavy buildup of fish that burst the fil-
ter on the local water purification, and they're
coming out the taps.

PLT Okay.

CC Now let's see if we can find sc_ething significant.

Says Houston is still n,_Ber three in the race, with
4-1/2 games out. -_
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PLT The Cubs, the Cubs.

CC Yes, that's what I'm looking at. They're doing pretty

well, it looks like. Stand by.

CC Okay. The Cubs appear to be leading the race at

3-1/2 games. Gary Player - -

PLT ...

CC Say again?

PLT Go ahead.

CC Gary Player is leading on the Oakmont course. The

astronomy satellite for radio sstronomy that was
launched earlier has gone into orbit around the Moon.
It's apparently operating normally. The other items
have to do with the energy crisis; and the EPA has
laid on some rather strict requirements, which Texas
is going to contest. Would involve strict gasoline
rationing and conversion of cars prior to 68 to post-68
standards; no new parking lots built, and an increase
in mass transit.

PLT Good.

20 29 h2 CC And we're going LOS here in about 20 seconds. We'll

have you - we'll have you again at Vanguard at 21:44.

PLT Okay. Thanks a lot.

CC Yes, that medical conference will, of course, be

coming up on your next pass.

PLT Roger.

21 l0 29 CC Skylab, Houston; A_q 2 minuted.

CDR Hi there. Where's the next one, and I'ii give you the
Evening Status Report?

CC Pete, we'll be coming up on Vanguard here - 21:44.

CDR Okay, 21:4h. Very good. See you there.

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CC Roger.

CDR I can give you the food. The CDR had everything plus
his two butter cookies. The SPT had everything. The
PLT ate .- Heavens, he ate everything. His optional
salt was 5.5, and the CDR's was 2.0.

CC We copy.

CDR Quick rundown on day 167 photo log, 16-millimeter:

Housekeeping 60E M516, Charlie India 12, 96, Charlie
India 05: Housekeeping 60E M516, Charlie India 1B, 96,
Charlie India 10. S073 extension M151, Charlie India
06, 18, Charlie India 0B. SS-millimeter: Charlie
India 31, 03, Charlie India 30, 51; CI28 was ccmpleted.
And it's loaded in drawer H; and it's gra_ tape all
wrapped up because it failed to rewind and we had to
take it out in the dark and package it. CX06, lOB.
Drawer A configuration: in Alfa l, 02, Charlie India
12, 96, Charlie India 05; A-2, 03, Charlie India 06, 18
Charlie India 03; A-B, 06, Charlie India 13, 96,
Charlie India i0; A-_ 05, nothing in the supply, no
percent, Charlie India 11; floating 07, Charlie India
09, 66, Mike Tango 03. That's it.

21 12 51 CC You made it. We - 1 second to LOS it says here, Pete.

We'll see you at Vanguard.

CDR Okay. M552 complete today.

CC Copy.

CC Unless there's some reason, we show S073 in LOW AGAIN.

We'd like that in MEDII_ GAIN.

CDR I haven't started to run it yet. And I was going to

start in medium and look at the - the fra-_ count
where the progrsm s_arts in accordance with the in-
structions.

21 1B 28 CC We copy.

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21 44 04 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for ii minutes at Vanguard.

SPT Bless your heart.

CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.

21 47 16 CC We want you to INHIBIT dump prior to 21:46. The

angles are: inner gimbal - these are star tracker
angles - are: inner gimbal plus 0319, outer gimbal
plus 2023. And we want the dump enabled by 21:54.

SPT That's if I get a star, or what?

CC Joe, that last one was: any time after - after 21:54.

SPT Is that contingent on my getting a star only, or - or

is that regardless?

CC Whether you get a star or not, Joe, enable.

SPT I don't believe it.

CC (Chuckle) Okay, Joe.

CC Joe, was that the action or the angles?

SPT They're fine. Talk to you in a minute.

21 47 45 SPT Okay, Houston. Stand by 1. I'm waiting for orbital

plane error to get updated.

CC Copy.

SPT O_ do you people have that INHIBITED? We've got a

star.

21 48 09 CC We copy. We have it INHIBITED, Joe.

SPT We were cut out.

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21 48 17 CC We have it INHIBiTs.

SPT Shall I enable it?

21 48 20 CC That's affirm. Enable, please.

SPT Okay.

SPT Okay. We got a 6.6"here; now can I enable MOMENTUM

DUMP?

21 48 55 CC Negative. Do not enable MOMENTUM DUMP. Do not

enable MOMENTUM DUMP.

SPT Okay. Then why were you in such a hurry for me to

get a star?

21 49 28 SPY Houston, I asst_ne you had us inhibit MOM_N'ItTMDUMP

because of the bad orbital plane error. Now that
we've got a good one, I'm Curious why you don't want
to reenable it.

21 49 40 CC Stand by half.

SPT Say again.

CC We took a dt_np sample that had _rrong data, Joe, and

we were in a hurry to get it inhibited. There was no
great urgency on the star.

SPT Okay, I - all right.

SPT We could inhibit and then reenable CMG control, how

does ATM like that or G & C rather?

CC Stand by half, Joe.

SPT Say again, Houston.

CC I'll be with you in a second, Joe.

SPT Well, never mind, Houston.

CC Sorry, Joe.

21 53 03 CC SPT, possibly this will help a bit. During the reed

conference, we INHIBIT_I0 the outer gimbal angle. The
star tracker had lost the star and we got a bad data

a__ _
r _ .
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sample. This could have been corrected. They could

have for_ed the contingency, but the procedure that
was passed up was considered to be the optimum under
the circumstances.

21 53 30 SPT Okay.

21 54 19 CC CDR, Houston.

SPT He's tied up, Houston.

SPT May I pass a message?

21 54 38 CC Yes, the S073 is picking up too much light. We want

the field of view to position 1.

SPT Okay.

21 54 49 CC And we'll be LOS in 30 seconds here. Ascension at

21:57.

21 58 0h CC Skylab, Houston. A0S for 15 minutes.

SPT Roger.

22 15 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll be LOS in 1 minute. There

are several items here.

CDR Go ahead.

22 15 27 CC We want you to change the ATM roll from minus 6400 to

plus 6400.

CDR Okay.

22 15 39 CC Close the S056 aperture door. The TV, per the cue
card, monitor l, XUV monitor. The video select ATM
monitor.

SPT Okay, Bill. We're doing a TV tour right now, and

soon as we're done, with it we'll go back to the ATM
monitor.

22 16 07 CC Copy that. And the momentum dump needs to be enabled

before 23:16. And we'll have you at Guam at 22:41.
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22 16 22 SPT Okay. Can I enable dump right now?

CC That 's affirmative"

SPT For roll, you want plus 6400, is that right?

22 16 35 CC That's affirmative.. Vice minus 6h00.

22 42 05 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS l0 minutes, Guam.

PLT Roger, Houston. We have one question on tomorrow's

Flight Plan. Two questions: What is the T027
opposite 19:00, and what time is trim burn?

CC Stand by.

CC PLT, Houston.

PLT Go ahead.

22 43 53 CC T027 is simply the sample array and it is not time

critical. And the trim burn is 08:59:23.

CC That last one is listed on the details.

PLT Yes, we're looking.

CC Paul, they aren't up yet. They are still to come up,

the details.

PLT Okay.

CC PLT, we have one more message for you, when it's

convenient.

PLT Go ahead.

22 46 31 CC We would like for you or the CDR to change the T027/S073

SHA_Wr UPPER LIMIT to 234. Return the FIELD OF VIEW to
zero. This should be accomplished prior to 23:15. This
is because of structural blockage and it's causing
premature cut offs.

22 _7 22 CDR 234 to SHAFT L and FOV is zero.

CC That 's affirmative.

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22 47 32 CDR I'm telling you that's done. We did it.

22 50 55 CC Skylab, LOS in I m/nute for the night. T_re will be

a tape recorder dump at Canary at 23:41. We'll see
you in a couple of days.

22 51 06 CDR Okay, Bill. Good night.

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07 Oh 34 CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.

CDR Good morning, Houston.

CC Well, did you get a good night's rest?

CDR You bet you.

CC We've got about h-l/2 minutes here left through

Honeysuckle.

07 04 56 CDR Okay.

07 08 35 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Hawaii at 24.

07 2h 23 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii 6-1/2 minutes.

07 24 35 PLT Roger, Henry. Hey, I Just tried to line up the orbital

slider, and it shows that our daytime pass is over
Europe. I think something's wrong. Will you have
somebody check that first ascending node, please?

CC Wilco.

07 26 27 CC Skylab, Houston; we blew that one. That's a descend-

ing node. We'll get you some new numbers.

CC Skylab, Houston; about 30 seconds from LOS, Goldstone

at 32.

07 30 40 PLT Roger.

07 32 32 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone, 9 minutes.

PLT Hi.

07 34 22 CC Skylab, Houston. I got that slider update for you

now.

PLT Okay.

CC Okay. It should be 159.h west at 72253. And the other

two are correct.
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PLT Okay. That's 159._ west and 072253.

CC That's affirm_t ive.

07 38 06 CDR What is it in Houston, H-nk, 2 o'clock in the morning?

CC You'd better believe.

CDR We Just passed over downtown San Francisco loud and

clear at midnight on Saturday night, right?

CC Right.

CDR When it's really clear out there, you can see both
bridges. It's a fantastic sight to see it at night.
You can see L. A. and San Francisco and - Super!

07 40 _3 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Bermuda at 46.

07 45 24 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda 6 minutes.

07 45 59 CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR or PLT, sometime this

morning when you get a break, we'd like for one of
you to run up to the S073 and change the FIELD OF VIEW
to 1. We're looking at a little more light than we
expected to see.

07 46 24 PLT That's done.

CC Tb_nk you, sir.

07 49 12 CC Skylab, Houston. I've got one Flight Plan change and

an update to the PLT's photo p_d and to the TV-15 rood
pad, whenever it's convenient.

07 49 38 PLT Stand by. We're scrambling.

CC No rush. Just whenever you're ready, give me a call.

PLT Yes, okay. Go ahead with the change - To which plan?

Fer the FLT? The ... pad or the photo pad?

CC The photo pad. We're changing the Flight Plan. We're

deleting S073 ST-3, and that changes your pad. All
we want to do is delete the lines that say, "Leave
DAC on until S073 ST-3 is completed."
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PLT Okay.

07 50 16 CC And I Just gave you the Flight Plan change' which is

to delete that S073 ST-3 at 11:00.

PLT Roger. Go ahead with TV-15.

CC Okay. We've got the mission day wrong. Down on the

last line it says, "mission day 22." It should be
24 today.

PLT Great.

07 51 27 CC Skylab, Houston; about 30 seconds from LOS. Canary

at 55.

07 55 ll CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries for 9-1/2 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we'll be commanding the

PROTON SPECT, OFF.

07 59 09 PLT Roger.

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08 oh 17 CC Skylab, Houston; 30 seconds to LOS. Honeysuckle at

h0.

PLT Roger.

08 39 50 CC Skylab, Houston through Koneysuckle for 9 minutes.

PLT Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. I've got a couple of things for the

SPT if it's convenient to listen right now.

SPT Go ahead.

08 h0 25 CC Okay. During the night on S05, we noticed the tem-

peratures to be decreasing, 8_d we've co_m_anded the
the thermal system on and temps are increasing. When
you get to the console, we'd like for you to verify
on the WLC that the THERMAL switch is on, and report
the status about how you find it. And also got your
SAP update. Filament's 79 at 0_0.2, 81 and 84 have
almost - I won't give you those coordinates. You've
probably got them. They've a]most totally disappeared
since the two bright M3 flares in active region 37
yesterday. We had seven subflsres without X-rays in
active regions 37 and 41 on that big complex there
between 18:00 yesterday and 0_:00today. The subflares
without X-rays have also been noted in active
regions 40, 42, and 43. And, there's a new active
region _5 at 080.7 with a small bipolar plage.

SPT Okay. Now let me ask you guys something, Houston.

You sent us a lot of ATMmessages last night, most of
which contradict each other. I got one nice little
massage telling me how to use the flare prep from
unattended cue card from which I inferred that I was
- that I should have used it yesterday and taken lots
of pictures of that flare that we came around the
Horn and saw. I'm also told on the solar activity pad
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that 82A and B are saving their film for flares, and
on the ATM schedule pad, that 82A is to have flare
enabled on it mos_ of the passes. Then I get a
message that says 82A and B will not be initiated in
the flare mode, and I 'm not quite sure what you guys
are thinking.

CC Okay. Let me - let us think that over a bit, Joe.

SPT 0kay.

SPT I guess the message about the unattended cue card did
not answer my question which was : Do the PIs make it
scientifically valuable and interesting to them to get
data on flare fall when they haven't had the rise?
We know how to use the cue card.

CC Copy.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go ahead.

08 43 35 SPT There's another aspect of that 82_A and B message. It

says that the cameras should no longer be used after
four and sixteen frsmes revaluing, respectively, I
believe it is. Understand that we operate those csmeras
per the schedule pad. And I assume that the PIs will
not schedule more data taking. Then will run the
film close to those numbers plus a reasonable pad,
because as they will know, our FRAMES REMAINING
indicators on board are not very reliable.

08 hh 13 CC Roger, copy.

08 h5 30 CC Joe, in answer to your question about the nares, the

answer is: If we don't see the rise, we don't want to
see the fall.

SPT Ok%y. How about 82A and B now? Am I to not use them
for any more flares for the rest of the mission or
follow the schedule pad?
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SPT Or am I to use them in other than the flare mode?

CC Okay. What we want you to do there is use the

82A aud B Just lik_ it called for in the pad. However,
when you get downto FRAMES REMAINING. 4 and 16, we
want to discontinue using 82A and B.

SPT So right now we may use 82A and B for flares. Is

that correct?

CC That is affirmative.

SPT. SPT Okay.

CC And, Skyl_b_ Houston. There was a question the other

night about the DELTA-P light onthe holding tank when
you were dt_nping that thing. Or I guess it was on the
condensate tank. And we've looked at what you said and
looked at the data, and we think that all your
indications were proper, best we can determine.

CC I guess - -

CDR What does that mean? That means we got a leak

somewhere, and we don't know where it is still.

CC Well, I guess if we're readingwhat you said correctly

the water went into the holding tank, if we understand
it right; the 2 cups of water you are concerned about.
And we think the DELTA-P light you're getting there
is the same old bugaboo we've had all along; is a
leaky OD.

CDR No, I disagree with you, H_nk. It didn't go into any.

water holding tank. The holding tank was disconnected.
We're talking sbout Just the 216 panel itself. It
should hold its own DELTA-P. And it goes from a
DELTA-P of _ to about 0.5 in about 15 minutes when it's
runningby itself. It's got a leak in it somewhere;
and it is not in one of those QDs.
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PLT Let me tell you why we think it's not a QD, H_k.
Because the first time - I agree with you. I don't
know where else the pressure is leaking into the
system. We decided the first time it was a leaky QD
in that aft airlock fitting. Yesterday we did not
disconnect there; we disconnected the line at the
holding t-n_. SO the other shift decided that was
also a leaky 03). And for what it's worth, I then put
the dmnp cover to plug in that 0_). And we d_mped it,
sucked the vacuum on it, and it did dr_x psi ... - -

08 49 21 CC We are about LOS.

08 49 22 PLT - - wherever the leak was, it was still there.

08 49 26 CC We'll be coming up on Hawaii at - on the hour.

09 O0 17 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Hawaii, 9 minutes.

CDR Good morning.

CC Good morning.

CDR Roger, Houston. The burn went on time.

CC Very good. Thank you, Pete.

CDR I wondered why we've got S019 today.

CC Oh, no; this is not Carl.

CDR Oh, you sound like Carl.

CC Well, Crip finally decided to come back to work.

CDR I wondered what happened to you.

CDR Hey, Crip. I can't imagine that I'm standing up here

photographing these locker doors for these gt_s on TV
so they can tmderstand what we did. It's hard for me
to understand that.

CC Roger.

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CDR Either B channel is unreadable, or we're not saying

it right.

CC Okay. I'm sure that they did get the information on

B channel but somebody apparently, requested the TV
just for visual confirmation.

CDR I understand, but that's quite an expensive procedure.

CC I don't understand'it either.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go, SPT.

09 04 39 SPT I forgot to tell Hank - We got excited about 82A

and flares and stuff, and I forgot to tell him that the
52 THERMAL switch is and was in the prime position when
I came on console.

09 04 53 CC Roger; copy.

SPT ON, that is.

CC Roger.

SPT And on this 82A and B flare business, I still don't

understand that. They want usto not use flare mode
after 4 and 16 frames remaining. But the two ex-
periments take 24 and 48 photographs, respectively,
during a flare. Are they sure they don't want me to
stop using the flare mode at some higher number, or
is their FRAMES REMAINING counter wrong?

CC Well, the way you read down was Correct. We'll

reverify that that's what they want, though.

SPT Because if we wait that long,, they're not going to have

their calibration film left. Maybe that's the risk
that they want to run.

CC Okay. I think the intent is that they really want

those films for calibration, but we'll reverify that.
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SPT Well, you see what I mean, Crip. If a flare happens

when 82A has, say, i0 frames remaining, and I go into
flare mode; it's all wiped out.

09 05 58 CC Roger. Understand.

09 08 30 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute until LOS. Goldstone at

09:12; 09:12.

SPT Okay.

CC We'll try to have an answer for you on your 82A and B

there, Joe.

SPT We won't get any flares until then.

CC Promise.

09 08 55 SPT Roger; copy.

09 l0 30 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Goldstone 6 minutes.

PLT Hello.

PLT Hey, Crip. Ask S073 if I can terminate now. It's

not running the program right now, is it or is it?

CC Checking.

SC (Music)

CDR That's what I have to say to this TV.

CC I'll tell A1 Bean that.

CDR And tell him I played that in the suit stowage and
locker locations.

CC Roger.

CC paul, you're GO to terminate S073.

PLT Okay.

PLT Hey, Houston; Skylab.

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CC Go, Skylab.

CC Skylab, Houston. You called?

PLT Yes, I had to move to a different box, Crip. Hey, I

can't get program 6 to work on S073. While you're
thinking about that, can I Just m_nually drive - or
using the switches, drive the S_ and TRUNNION to the
proper settings and then retract it?

CC Roger, Paul. You got a GO to do hat manually,

TRUNNION to 0 and SHAFY to 40.

CC Skylab, Houston, about 30 seconds until LOS: Mila

at 09:22.

PLT Crip, if you answered my last question, I didn't get

your reply. Did you give me an answer yet?

CC Roger. You got a GO to do that manually, Paul.

TRUNNION to 0 and S_ to 40 for retraction.

PLT 0kay. I terminated mode 3, set up 6, hit the start

switch, the PROGRAMER light came on, but it never drove.

CC Roger. Corollary's checking that out.

09 18 23 PLT Okay.

09 23 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Mila for 9 minutes.

And, Paul, we indicate that you're going shaft down
to zero and that shaft should be at 40.

PLT We got more problems than that, Bob, unless our read-
is not right. Now we had an upper shaft limit in
here. We've changed it now, whatever it was - 235.
The shaft angle is sitting at 345. And as soon as you
do anything - When you go to DECREASE, it goes back to
what is apparently the stop at 345. Now with it
_running down, if I go to TRUNNION DECREASE, they both
stop. As soon as I go TRUNNION OFF - They're both
off the shaftal drive to 345 is what I'm sayiz_.
What are you indicating for the angle on the Ehaft right
now?
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CC Stand by i.

CC Okay, Paul. We're still looking at the angle right !

now. We recommend that you cycle the pwoer off and
then back on. I

PLT We've done that half a dozen times, Bob.

CC Okay.

PLT We also did it with the c_ra progm disabled.

That didn't se_ to ,,_e any difference. We've fed it
all zips on the progr_,_er. That didn't see_ to m_e
any difference. The only way I can stop the shaft is
to leave the TRUNNION in DECREASE.

CDR It looks like the SHAFT INCREASE switch selector is

stuck in the shaft INcFJ_A_E position.

CC Roger.

PLT Bob, what we're reading on board right now is zero -

Whoops I Wait. Okay. Now that the CDR has gone quiet
the shaft angle is 0h0 and the tz-m-_ on angle is 117.
And the only way we got it stopped now is with the
S_ switch in OFF and the THUSslON switch in
DECREASE.

PLT Are you still there, Houston?

CC Roger. We're showing a tr,mn_on of ll2 and a shaft

of _0 right now.

PLT Okay. When - It wouldn't do it before for me, but now

Pete's got it. We've stepped back off a few steps on
trunnion some way. He was plm_ingwith the switches,
and we got it to count down a few counts. And with
TRUNNION in either IN_SE or DECREASE, it wlll stop
the shaft from rotating now.

CC Roger. Undertand. _ON IN_E or DECREASE

will stop the shaft.

PLT Yes, but it won't do anything to trtmnion.

09 28 07 CC Roger.

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09 31 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute until LOS. We're

still looking at some procedure that might solve your
73 problem. And we'll try to have that for you over
Canary at 09:33-33. And Joe, Just a reminder. We do
need to be in optical reference on 55 for the next
thing coming up.

SPT Okay.

09 35 45 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S over Canary for lh minutes,

14 minutes.

PLT Roger.

09 39 18 CC SP_, Houston. If you're copying, regarding your 82A

and B question involved with the flare, the word we
have is that if you get a flare, use 82A and B as
required to record it.

SPT Okay.

CC Skylab, we're loading momentt_nbiases of 0 back into

the computer. We'd like you to stay off the DAS for
us for a minute or so, please.

SPT Okay.

PLT Hey, Crip.

CC Go ahead.

09 40 49 PLT For somebody to be thinking about ; let's say that we

start running behind, get down to the wire, and I
start the S019 stuff late. Do they want the first
.star field photographed late and get what we can, or
do they want that star field sequence picked up on
time?

CC Okay. We'll look at that. And I'm reviewing a pro-

cedure right now for you to pass up for you on that
73. We'll have it for you in just a minute.
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PLT Okay. I'm standing right here. I'll Just do it as

you read it.

CC Okay, Paul. The procedure that we're basieA11y going i

to try to do is to take off the automatic progrAw-,_r.
And the procedure for you to do is turn the poweroff.

09 41 57 PLT Got it.

CC Okay. Disconnect tl/e aut_natie programmer. That's

the cable. And then insert the Jtmrper plug on the
manual control panel.

09 42 i0 PLT It's in work. Is that shorting plug Juliett I07

CC Stand by. That's affirmative.

PLT And it does go into m_ual control panel, right?

CC That 's affirmative.

09 42 37 PLT That's complete.

09 42 39 CC Okay. We'd like you to go ahead and try again to

drive it. And we'd like you to also note that you
cannot drive the shaft and t_Inn_ on at the s_me time.

PLT Still does the same thing, Bob,

CC That's what we were afraid of.

PLT Me, too.

o9 45 o5 cc PLT, Houston. We are still pondering what the prob-

lem is. Obviously, it's not in the automatic program-
mer. Meanwhile, we'd like you to go ahea_ and retract
two rods while we're thinking about it.

PLT Okay.

CC And leave the power on it.

09 45 22 PLT You want the power left on, huh? All right.
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CC SPT, Houston. The DAS is yours once more, and we

need you to enable the d_mp for us please, sir.

SPT OkaM.

09 48 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll see

you again over Carnarvon at 10:13; 1013. And we'll
be doing a data recorder dump at Caruarvon.

09 h9 03 PLT Roger.

l0 12 37 CC Skylsb, Houston. We're A0S over Carnarvon for 9 min-

utes. And we will be doing the data recorder dump.

CC PLT, Houston.

CDR He can't come to the phone right now, but whether we

got it into two rods, he gave it a good shake. And
whatever was hung up, unhung itself; and he got it
manually to 0 TRUNNION, 040 SHAFT. And it's in, and
he's taking it down.

CC Very good; solves all of our problems.

CDR There you go. Stick with us, kid.

CC Roger. Can fix anything.

CDR Meanwhile, the Betsy Production TV Company is still

at it.

CC Roger.

l0 15 20 CC PLT, Houston. Regarding your question as to which

star field to do first. If you're short on time, we'd
like you to go ahead and take the first star field
first. We assume that you shouldn't be in too much
of a time constraint, though.

PLT Yes.

CDR I hope mY demonstration of how triangle shoes work is

sufficient.
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CC I'm sure we'll enjoy it.

CDR Hey - Hey, Crip. I 'm not going to give a demonstra-

tion ¢f the little balls on the toes of t_ feetsies
because I don't use them, and I don't have time.

CC Copy.

i0 18 53 CDR Tell them it's strictly personal preference. Joe

likes his; uses them all the time except when he's
riding the bike because you got to use the triangles.
And I think Paul and I both use the triangles all the
time because it was Just easier than changing about.

CC Roger.

i0 28 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Guam for 6 minutes.

Sorry about that missed c_I] for LOS.

CDR And, Houston; CDR. On TV-15, I'm going to skip the

shower and then the TV tour i, which has no voice.
They didn't want voice, anyhow. And I've expended
more than enough time on this thing already; like an
hour and 20 minutes.

CC Okay.

CDR You got three ... triangle shoes, and the other two
it_m_ that were asked for in the list this morning:
suit stowage and locker doors. And that is it.

CC Roger.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go, SPT.

SPY The S056 special troubleshooting procedure has Just

been completed. And the two sequences were completely
nominal.

CC Roger. Copy. Both nominal.

CC CDR, Houston. Since you've completedyour TV, we're

going to go ahead and start rewinding so we can do
our dump at Goldstone.
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CDR Yea!

l0 33 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS. Gold-

stone at 51, 10:S1.

l0 51 02 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S over the States for about 15

minutes.

CDR Okay. Let me know when you're getting your TV.

CC Okay. Houston, we're dumping the VTR at this time.

That'll be our Mila pass at 57 before we're going to
get real time.

CDR All righty.

PLT Crip, you have time for a couple of words on S073?

CC Roger.

l0 52 01 PLT Okay. When I turned the power off - or left it on

prior to retracting it, last time I looked - Hey, I'm
just looking at something. Wait a minute. Okay, Crip.
It was reading whatever I told you. I had the shaft
to _0 and locked up by the SHAFY, OFF and the TRUNNION
to DECREASE. And it was reading whatever the last
number was I gave you, ll7 or so. I pulled it in
when I got into rod A. I was pulling it in in ...
until, apparently, the phot_neter hit the side of the
vehicle; not very hard, Just tapped it. And then I
went around the side. I took the first B rod off and
stowed it, and went around the side and looked; and
the trunnion was reading about 15 or so. So I went
ahead and cycled it; and it came right on down to
zero. And retracted it; and we're home free.

CC Okay. So you didn't actually physically shake the

inside case then?

PLT You mean the big, long box?

CC Affirmative.

PLT Heavens no! I don't want to tear the airlock out of

the wall.
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CC Roger. Okay, we misinterpreted what was Said s_hile

ago.

PLT Oh, Ckay. No, I ptulled it in and banged the photom-

meter head up against the outside of the venicle.
And that's -_hat stopped whatever was going o_.

CC _ay. We copy. And_ Paul, I'd like to change the

word I gave you on _019 awhile ago. If you do get
late for any reason, we want you to pick up at the
times on the pad itself and Just el_m_uate what you
missed.

PLT C_ay. I shouldn't be late.

l0 58 16 CC CDR, Houston. We're ready for your ATM TV this time.

Aud give us a call when you finish the required cycling.

CDR C_ay. You're looking at H-alpha 2 right now; and I'll

give it to you per the card.

CC Roger.

CDR H-alpha I.

CC Roger.

CDR There's white light coronograph, and l'm starting

to roll.

i0 59 31 CC Roger. Looks pretty.

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ll 02 53 CDR XUV, fine.

CC CDR, Houston. We blew that last XUVmon integration

sequence on the ground here. We would appreciate it
if you could perform it over for us.

CDR Okay. C_ning at you.

SC (Music: Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A. by Donna

Fargo)

ll 09 31 CC Skylab, Houston; LOS in 1 minute. Ascension at ll:19;

lllg.

ll 19 34 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS over Ascension for about 5 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CC PLT, Houston. You have a - need a minute sometime

this pass or the next to talk about a mod to your
SO19 pad.

PLT Come on!

CC Was that you, Paul?

PLT Yes. Wait a minute.

PLT Okay. Go ahead; I'm ready for your deletions.

CC Yes. If you'll look down at,the bottom of your pad,

that - at 12:07, we have a field l0 and then we got
ll and 32. There's a single star used for these three
fields, and it's really not available until 12:08.
What we'd like to do is to drop down and pick up
fields 9, 12 and ll - 9, ll before you get into fields
lO, ll, and 12. And I - -

PLT ...

CC Okay. I can give you some times, which are Just

recommended times, but basically, all we're doing is
at 12:07, picking up field 9, 12, and 9, ii.
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PLT Okay.

CC Okay. If you'd liT-e to COlmJ, I can go ahead and give

you these recommended times for the field.

PLT Wait I. Okay.

CC Okay. At - for field 912, we'd like that done at

12:07; 9, 11 at 12:11; field i0 at 12:15; ii at 12:16;
field 12 at 12:18.

PLT That's the same way I figured it out. How about that?

CC I knew you could do it all along.

SC (Music)

CC And, CDR; Houston. We copy you in optical reference

on 55; and we need you in mechanical for that par-
ticular step.

CDR Roger.

CC Skylah, Houston; 1 minute until LOS. See you again

at Carnarvon at ll:50, ll50.

CDR Hi, Houston. What do you wantto do if-this thing

hangs up in ACTIVE 2 LONG? Restart it or quit?

11 24 53 CC We'll check it.

11 25 5h CC Skylab, Houston; in the blind. If you can read, you

can restart 56 if she hangs up.

CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Carnarvon lO minutes.

CDR Roger.

CC And, CDR, if you'll stay off the DAS for us, please,
we'll be doing a nav update this pass.

CDR It's ali yours.

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CC Roger. And break a - PLT, Houston. I know you're

busy getting ready to set up on this SO19, but be-
lieve it or not, w_ got another mod at th end of
your pad. On field l0 and ll and 12, you should
add 100 degrees to each of the rotations; in other
words, you should be 184.7, 185.7, and 184.7. No
need to acknowledge.

SPT He acknowledged, Houston, in his own fashion. And

the carbon di - carbon monoxide composition of the
spacecraft atmosphere is undetectable.

CC Roger. Undetectable. Yes, I was afraid of his

acknowledgment; that's why I asked not to get one.

SPT Okay.

PLT They're making up a story.

CC Roger.

PLT I calmly whipped out my little pencil and made the

changes in fields 8, 9, and 10, like you wanted.

CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours once more.

ll 58 54 CC Skylab, Houston; LOS in 1 minute. Guam at 12:03, 1203.

SPT Roger.

12 02 53 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Guam, l0 minutes, l0 minutes.

CDR Hey, Crip. Are you there?

CC Affirm.

CDR ... the 509, make that line 81 and 82 in the shopping
list are complete.

CC Roger. Understand. Complete.

CC CDR, Houston. If you can give us the time hack on

how long it took to charge the bottle, we'd appreciate
it.
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CDR Oh, it quit hitting at me in about 3 minutes.

CC Thank you.

CDR Hey, Crip. Did they get good voice on the TV last
night?

CC I 'll check.

CC Skylab, Houston. Regarding that TV voice, so we can

be sure, which event are you ta1_ing about? Are you
speaking of the tour last night?

CDR Yes, Charlie.

CC Skylab, Houston. Regarding the voice on TV, we're

advised that the voice was received; however, it was
of poor quality.

CDR Okay. That's those bloody m_kes. They ... mikes.

All righty. Thank you. It's also on channel B. They
might see if it's any better there. We recorded B,
also.

CC Roger. And we're 1 minute until LOS. See you again

over Goldstone at 12:28; 3228.

PLT Okay. It's your last chance to make chaages to S019.

CC Aren't you glad? We have Pete's pad later.

12 12 14 CDR Wlg-n]rs.

12 27 h7 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Goldstone for about

17 m_nlltes.

CDR Okay, Houston. I had a very strange thing Just happen

with our orbit phase clock. As it counted through
60 minutes and it got down to 59 minutes and something
and suddenly Jumped and lost h minutes. It Jumped to
g5 minutes, and it is now counting at 51:53, which I
don't think is right.
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CC Okay. We're looking at it.

CDR Thank you.

PLT And only three more exposures, and I'll be done with
S019. Hang in there.

12 28 27 CC Roger. Copy, Paul.

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12 32 49 CDR Hey, Crip, how about having them look at 56 and see
if it's hung up in filter l?

CC Wilco.

CDR By the way, it hung up a second time in filter 1 in

the ACTIVE LONG 2, during the last rev.

CC Roger. Copy.

CC CDR, Houston. Can you associate that clock change

with when you enabled dump?

CDR Well, that could have been. That could have been.
I can't say for sure, but that could have been.

CDR As a matter of fact, I think I looked at the clo_k

at 60 and enabled dump, and then looked back again;
and sure enough, it was about 55. So maybe that's
what it was.

CC Okay, we're checking to verify that it's reading

correctly now.

12 34 41 CC And, CDR, Houston; 56, apparently, is hung up again,

and we need you to hit START. And by the way, we
have a pad for you in the teleprinter.

I CDR Okay,waitI.

CDR You there, Houston?

CC Affirmative.

CDR Tell me your update.

CC Roger.

CDR You got a pad for me, Houston?

f

CDR Hello, world.

CDR Hello, Houston. Are you there?

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CC Affirmative.

CDR All right. Do you have a pad for me?

12 39 15 CC We had sent you a message. If you didn't receive it,

we can retranemit it.

12 39 17 CDR You mean in the teleprinter?

0C Affi_nn.

CDR Oh, okay.

CDR I got it. Thank you.

12 39 50 CC Roger.

12 43 38 CC Skylab, Houston. Regarding your orbit-phase clock, it

does appear that the time change is attributable to
when you enabled dump. And the time that you're looking
at now is approximately correct, according to our
calculations. And we do have a long LOS coming up.
It's about a minute from now. And we'll see you
again over Goldstone at 1_:05, lh05. At which time,
we'llbe doing a data recorder dump.

12 hh 08 CDR 1405, and got you. Thank you.

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Note: The following conversation was apparently not

put on master recording; hence, no time annotation for
this segment (copied from PAO transcript) is available.
The conversation occurred at approximately lh:05 GMT
and lasted 1 minute, h0 seconds.

PRESUS Hello.

CDR Hello, sir. How are you?

PRESUS Fine. Is this Pete Conrad?

CDR Yes, sir.

PRESUS Nice to talk - -

CDR We all are listening.

PRESUS Nice to talk to you again, and Co-_,ander Kerwin and

Co_-,Ander Weitz are there with you, right?

CDR Yes, sir.

FRESUS Well, I Just wanted you to know that everybody here

has been following what you've been doing, and I
guess the way I could s_m,,arize this project is that
it proves that - that man still matters. With all
the - with all the technical machines and so forth
that you had to work with, it proved that when there
were difficulties that the ingenuity of men in space
is what really mattered. And'you've really made us
all very proud with the way you've handled some diffi-
cult problems in this project.

CDR Thank you, sir.

PRESUS And you'll be returning on the 22nd, I understand.

CDR Yes, sir. We're, of course, counting different days.

That's I think day 173. We're working day 168.
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PRESUS I see. Well, I'll - I'Ii be out in California at

that time; and after you've splashed down, I hope to
welcome the three of you. Perhaps when you do, maybe
you can come up tQ San Clemente and we can say hello.

CDR That's wonderful, sir. I'm sitting here talking to

you right now, coming up on the coast of California
looking out the window at a full Moon.

PRESUS Is that right? Let me also say this, that this is

Father's Day. I tmderstand that each of you is a
father; so congratulations.

CDR Thank you, sir.

PRF_gUS Fine, and we'll look forward to Seeing you after you
get back.

CDR Yes, sir. Thank you very much for the call.

PRESUS Thank you, Pete. Bye.

i}_ii hl CC Skylab, Houston. We have - have you over the States

now for about 8 more minutes.

SPT Roger, Crip.

CC And we copy the _ERLI_NT 1 RECORDER is ON at this

time. Appreciate it if you'd turn it Off if it is
not being used; then we'll d_mp it.

SPT Oksy.

PLT If anyone cares, the PLT made 30 rpm all the stinking
way. I didn't get to sweating.

CC Fantastic. I didn't think anybody could do that.

PLT I didn't either.

14 13 23 CC Skylab, Houston. For your info, we have your flight

plan for tomorrow on board at this time.

SPT Holy mackerel !

CC Wouldyoubelieve
that?
Day168 Page1633

SPT Fr-_kly, no. We're going to go look.

PLT We haven't finished today's yet, Houston.

CC Say again.

PLT We haven't finished today's flight plan yet. We

can't start on tomorrow's.

CC Roger. We Just got to try to stay ahead of you guys.

CDR Yes, but you know if we finish early today, we'll

start on tomorrow's plan.

CC 0keydoke. And for your information, we also have

your details ready. But we aren't g6ing to send those
to you yet.

CDR Chicken.

CDR Hey, Crip, you know amy fishing boats that are talk-
ing on on S-band? We're getting a little crosstslk
up here frc_ something. Sounds like a boat.

CC Roger. We copy crosstAlk every once in a while on

our loop, also. I'm not sure exactly where it's
cc_ing from.

SPT That's the first we've heard all flight'.

CC Skylab, Houston; i minute until LOS, Vanguard at

14:30, 14:30. And we will be doing a data recorder
dump at Vanguard.

14 18 34 PLT Roger, Crip.

14 29 47 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S over Vauguard, and we'll be

doing a data recorder dump.

14 29 50 CDR Roger.

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15 44 39 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone, 4 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CDR All your ATM ... is on the VTR.

CC Roger.

PLT Houston, PLT.

CC Go, PLT.

PLT We Just finished Joe on Ml31. I went to F521 to look

for the goggle stowage bag, and can't find it, Crip.
Will stowage people please check and see if it's any
place else? If you've got no other information on it
other than 521, where it isn't, then any next question
is : How about any handy Beta cloth or similar material
bags to bring it back in?

15 46 00 CC Checking.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go, SPT.

SPT Okay. I finished M131; also went to 150 head movements

and, ms the PLT said, we're stowing that equipment for
i return. I wanted to comment at this time on the bio-
medical checklist for the benefit of the follow-on
crew. As for as I'm concerned, they can use our check-
list. I - No significant mistakes have been found; no
significant changes are recommended. It's an excellent
Job of work, and those who were - were involved in
developing it did a good show.

PLT I second that.

CC Very good. I'm glad the - I'm sure they'll be glad

to hear that - -

PLT And now a word from our sponsor.

CC And we apparently have lost our star, and I guess if

somebody could go up there - -_
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PLT I 'ii get it.

CC We'd appreciate it. We're about a minute from LOS.

Have you again at .Vsaguard at 16:06, and we"ll be
doing a data recorder dump at - there.

16 07 24 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard, i0 minutes. And we -

CDR Roger, Houston.

CC And we are doing a data recorder dump.

CDR Hey, I'm not having very much luck with S056 today.
It quits Just about every time in active ll, and it's
Just _lmost impossible to get it all the way through.

CC Roger. Understood that you did not want to go ahead

and run it because of that?

CDH Well, no. I can get pictures, but I don't get all of
them. You know, it ba-gs up somewhere pretty nearly
every time; that's all. It either gets halfway through,
or it hands up on the third step through or something.
The other thing is, as I made a co,_ent on B cha-nel,
that active region 37 and 41 are kind of difficult to
figure out who is who when you're doing Sr-,e of these
building blocks. So I'm using my prerogative of
whose-ing and picking up here.

CC Roger. Copy.

PLT Say, Crip. We found that bag.

CC Okay-doke. Thank you.

PLT It was inthe bag bag. It hadn't been transferred yet.

CC Ah-so.

16 08 55 CDR Have them watching it. I Just started active ii right

now.

CC Okay. Watching

CDR Well, at least you won't have to spend next Sunday,

I hope, in the MOCR.
Day168 Page1637

CC I'm told by Flight that some of them will get to.

These poor guys got to man it all the time.

CDR I keep forgetting about the lab. You're right.

SPT Hey, Houston; SPT.

CC Go. SPT.

SPT Roger. Regarding your general message 2425, I don't

know what the item is referred to in the second para-
graph. I thought perhaps it was my relatives, but
they're bigger than a breadbox. So maybe it's the
change from my paycheck. At any rate, thank them for
their good wishes and a Happy Father's Day to my father.

CC Roger.

SPT And a Happy 89th Birthday to him, too.

CC Okay. I'll pass that on to Lee.

CDR I believe I'm going to have to ride that bicycle on

day 29, the way this schedule's going.

CC That 's affirmative.

CC CDR, Houston. If you've got a minute, you'll never

believe it, but I've got a pad change for you on S019.

16 ll 41 CDR Oh, I believe it. It'd spoil my whole day if you didn't.

CC Okay. It's attributable to - the UV/X-ray rotation

now is not what we had predicted it to be, and. what
we need to do is have you add 1 degree to all rotations.

CDR That's a good story, Crip. You ought to stick with it.

CC I got to come up with a new one each time.

CDR Consider it done.

CC Thank you.

CDR S019 PI's now on 25 today.

CDR Tell him we're willing to serve even if it's ...

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CC Roger. I'm sure he'll be glad to hear that.

CDR Looks like it bung ap again, Houston; 56, that is.

CC Copy. And we saw it.

CC Skylab, Houston. i minute untiiLOS. Hawaii at 17:16;

17:16.

CDR What'd you say, Crip?

CC We're going to LOS. Have you again in i hour at 17:16.

16 17 06 CDR Okay. We were Just all chortling over 2516 alfa.

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17 lh 29 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Hawaii, i0 minutes.

CREW Hello.

CC Hello.

CDR Hey, Crip. Have a look at 56 again. It looks like

it Just hung up.

CC Roger. Okay. Adam's looking at it.

CC CDR, Houston. Roger. We concur the 56 - 56 had

hung up and ... you start it again. And we've
currently had a rate gyro cliscompare in the Y-axis
and we'd like to get you to select rate gyros 2 and 3
in the Y-axis. I can give you those DA_ codes if
you'd like them.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Roger. That's 52015 for function code, and data

is 5002_.

CDR Okay.

CDR It's done.

CC Roger.

17 23 23 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. Vanguard at

17:h5; 1745. And we'll be doing a data recorder
dump at Vanguard.

CDR Okay, what happened? The Y gyro get a - Drift

compensation go out agmdn?

CC It looked like it failed the integral test right

now. I guess the word has it that the gyro look
pretty good. We're taking a look at it.

CDR Okay.
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17 h5 24 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Vanguard, 9 minutes, and we

will be doing a d_ta recorder dtump.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CC CDR,Houston. We indicate detector 6 and 7 on at

this time and they should not be, with this grating
setting. Could you .secure those, please?

CDR Roger.

CDR Hey, Houston. What I Just did there was run that
building block in seperate pieces with MIRROR AUTO
RASTER not r_mning, while I had the ACTIVE 1 LONG
going. And I got 12 frames and I quSt anyhow.

CC Ckay.

17 53 51 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in l minute; Hawaii at 18:52,

1852.

17 53 59 CDR Roger.

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18 51 58 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii, 7 minutes.

CREW Hello, Houston.

CC Roger.

SPT Hey, we see by the Flight Plan that t_ere are M092's
tomorrow for both the CDR and theSPT, and we were
curious what the advance plans were. Not all of them,
Just the rest of this week. Are those the last runs,
or are there more scheduled?

CC Okay. We'll take a look at that. And for your infor-

mation, Joe, we had you scheduled for a JOP 13 at -
I believe it's around l_:00 tomorrow, and we've changed
our minds. We're not going to do that. We're going to
give you back that time and use it for housekeeping
and shopping lists.

SPT You chickened out, huh?

CC Somebody did.

SPT That's too bad. I was getting all revved up for it.

18 52 59 CC 0keydoke. And this morning you had a question on that

item 2 on odds and ends about 82A and B, and the - I
guess, in reviewing, that we consider that whole section
on 82A andB incorrect. It is. possible to get the cali-
bration frames from the failed 82A camera. So would
you Just forget that was ever written down7

SPT Okay. I'll go tear it from its place of glory on the

panel.

18 53 28 CC 0keydoke.

CC I'm being told that there will be a run on - on Paul

on the day after the EVA for the medical, and that
will be the last one.

SPT Copy. Than_ you.

18 53 51 PLT Boooo. (Laughter)

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18 59 05 CC Skylab, Houston, LOS in i minute. Vanguard at

19:22,192_.

19 23 39 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Vanguard for 9 minutes.

CDR Hello, big bunch.

CC Hello, there. I trust you guys have had a good day?

CDR Yes. We had rather a pleasant day. Commander Weitz

is currently filming the body mass measurement device
on - for you guys on TV. And things are kind of getting
quiet.

CC Well, very good. It's been a pretty day in Houston,

too.

CDH Has it? For a change? That's nice.

CC Yes. Today was definitely a top-down day.

CDR (Laughter)

19 27 21 PLT You haven't lived yet, Houston, until you've seen the
Moon rise over Tierra del Fuego.

CC Gee, I'm sure that was pretty.

PLT It sort of leaves you speechless.

19 28 07 PLT 85's on tape for you, Houston.

CC Roger. Thank you.

19 32 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We're going

to see you at Ascension at 19:39. And we are going
to dump the data recorder at Ascension. There's a
couple of housekeeping it_m_ that the EGIL would like
to have you do. One is, in the command module, to
adjust the polychoke to orifice - l, and that can be
done anyt_e at your convenience. The reason is that
we're seeing a slow increase in PPO 2 and total cabin
pressure, and we think this_ll help out that situation.
Also, when - if we have data when we - when we have
confirmed that we have good data over Ascension, and
if you guys are not in the middle of supper, we're
going to ask one of you to do a small reg pot adjust
for us there. See you at Ascension.
Day168 PaE4164B

19 33 06 PLT Okay. No sweat.

19 39 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Ascension for the next

6 minutes. We have good d_ta, and if it's convenient
to you, sometime dl/ring this pass we'd like to do
this rag adjust. What we'd like in REG 1 ADJUST:
we'd like it 30 degrees, 30 degrees clockwise. On
BEG 2, we'd like 20 degrees clockwise, amd the end
result of this probably will Just about zero the
meters for transferred current to the ATM. That's
BEG i, 30 degrees clockwise; BEG 2, 20 clockwise.

PLT Okay. I'll go up and do that, Dick. And I got a

question for you on this general message regarding
changes to the M509 Checklist. Is the next crew
bringing up a new checklist for 509? If they are,
then why are we making these changes to our checklist?

CC Roger. Stand by and I'll get an answer.

CDR And, Dick, we'll put those EBEP questions on B channel.

CC Okay; very good. Thank you.

19 h0 51 CDR And of the three evening questions, number 3: Was

the waste management compartment H20 dispenser clogged
on the inlet or outlet side of the valve? We can't
determine that by looking at the valves. And we're
bringing the valves back.

CC Okay. We copied and thank you much.

CDR And I'll let the good doctor answer questions 1 and 2
for you when he gets ready. He's cleaning up right
now.

CC 0kay.

SPT Well, it's about 30 degrees on bus 1 and 20 on bus 2,

which didn't quite make zero on the transfer, Dick.

CC Roger. Stand by Just a second.

19 42 h5 CC PLT, Houston. We're happy with the rag adjust you

made. Incidentally, on this, EGIL tells me that the
reason - what we're doing here is we're incrementally -
incrementally changing the load sharing so we'll end
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up probably with one more reg adjust in preparation

for the ,,nm--_edphase, and this is allowing us to
look at the system a_ these different load-sharing
points for a day or so, in between steps.

PLT Yes, okay. TBAn_ you. Glad to do it.

CC Roger.

19 45 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from LOS.

We're going to see you at Guam at 20:23. And in
answer to your question about M509, we've run into
some test problems in Denver with the batteries, which
l'm not sure whether or not you have been made aware
of. And what we think this message does, is change
your checklist so that we - you can do the M509 checkout
that we're asking you to do without m-_ing an interface
19 45 31 To the onboard M509 batteries. The other half of the
question about the SL-3 and 4 crews, is that they will
be carrying up their own checklist. But we think that
the checklist changes we're asking you to do are one
t_me only, and they will support the checkout we're
asking you to do. Over.

PLT Okay. Thank you, sir.

CC Roger.

PLT I don't have to make it to the cue card then, Just to

the checklist to support this checkout?

CC That's affirmative, Paul.

19 46 oo PLT Okay.

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20 23 26 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam for 4 minutes.

PLT Roger.

20 25 49 CDR Still with us, Houston_

CC Yes, sir.

CDR I'm going to give you the food, ... The CDR ate
everything plus l0 optional salts, plus two butter
cookies. SPT ate everything, plus one butter cookie.
The PLT ate everything, plus seven optional salts.

CC Okay.

CDR And the film for Day 168 is: 16-millimeters in S073,
retract at PT1; CI13; 48 percent; CI10. Next one is
MIB1 0GIMF; M092/171 and the film was shot up; CI12;
' 00; CI05. 35-millimeter: CI31; 03. C130; 67.
70-millimeter; CX06; 103. No EHEP.

20 26 45 CC Roger, Pete. And we're 1 minute from LOs. We're

going to see you at Vanguard at 21:01. And anything
left in the Evening Status Report that you don't get
down here, we'll catch at Vanguard.

CDR Okay. A-I is transporter 02: And it's CI12_ 00; CI05.
Transporter 03 in A2: And that is CI06; 18; CI03.
Transporter 06 in A-B: CI13; 48; CI10. A-4 is 05
with nothing; and CIll for a takeup. Floating 07;
CI09; 66; Mike Tango 03. Over.

20 27 38 CC Okay. Real fine, we got all that. We're about

l0 seconds from LOS and we'll see you at the Vanguard.

CDR See you at Vanguard.

21 00 56 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Vanguard for ll minutes.

PLT Eleven[ We must be going right over them, huh?

CC Just about, that's right. I got a couple of notes

here. One is we showed that the star tracker wa_ un-
locked, the star is still Achernar, and outer gimbal -
to get a reacqulsition, which we'd appreciate - is
plus 2125.
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PLT Okay, plus 21 and a quarter. CDR is on the way; he

needs the practice.

CC Okay. And when CDR has a chance, we got e_erything;

we listened to the tspe of his evening status report
at the last pass. And we need clarification of
one item which is 35-millimter frA_ quantity. Tae
one we' re interested in is Charlie India 30. We read it
as 67, and we're wondering if that should be 57 or if
not, what? We need a clarification, Charlie India 30.

CDR Yes, it's 67. We've been getting up to 70 frsmes

out of some of those.

CC Okay, understand. Thank you much_

CDR Did you say 2125, plus?

21 02 59 CC That's affirmative, plus 2125.

CDR So far it hasn't sounded. It's still plus 345 or so

on the inner gimbal?

CC That's affirm, I didn't read you that one because ASCO

said it didn't ch--ge, but it is plus 0345.

CDR It ain't there.

CC Roger. Stand by Just a second please; I'll get right

back to you.

21 04 16 CC CDR, Houston. When you went through plus 1900, 1900

on the outer gimbal, we ss_ a real flash of a star
presence. Why don't you try that? Plus 1900 outer
gimb al.

CDR Very good, that got it.

CC Roger, Pete. Th.n_ you very much.

CDR Saved by the bell.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to command up same rate

gyro drift compensations, and we need the DAB.

CDR You got it.

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CC Roger.

CDR Dick, you guys through with the DAS?

Negative, we're not. Stand by please.

21 07 04 CDR Oh, okay. There's no problem.

CC Roger.

21 07 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through with the DAS; it's

yours again.

PLT It's been ours all the time, Houston, but let you
use it.

CC Roger.

21 09 37 CC Skylab, Houston. For the SPT, up at the ATM: We

noticed this morning that the fine Stm sensor bias
switch on the panel under attitude control was put
to OUT. And we prefer the switch to be IN since it
makes our calculations for uplinking - pointing coor-
dinates to you a little bit easier. And so we'd like
the fine Sus sensor bias to IN tmless you put it OUT
for some good reason that we don't know about. And
if you do, if you'll Just let us know, w_'ll make our
planning accordingly.

SPT We'll put it IN. I put it OUT to do the two left

coalignment, and forgot to put it back IN.

CC Okay, no problem. Thank you.

21 ll 18 CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds frem LOS. We're

going to see you at Ascension at 21:lb. And Skylab,
for the CDR: the family will be on the line at Ascen-
sion. I will give you an A0S call, and they will be
upstairs, but it won't be a private line. But I'll
give you an A0S call, and then Just let you have the
rest of that pass. Out.

CDR Thank you.

21 16 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Ascension for the next

8 minutes. We're having a little antenna problem.
How do you read?
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CDR Reads loud and clear.

CC Roger. Pete, I'll turn the rest of the pass over to

Rusty and the Conrads who are upstairs. The next pass
is G_ at 21:58 an, it's - that's the me_i[cal con-
ference. And I'll Just he standing by the rest of
the pass.

CDR Okay.

MRS. C. Hi.

21 16 40 CDR Happy anniversary.

MRS. C. Happy anniversary, to you, and thank you for the red
roses. You -,,_t have been thinking ahead.

CDR Huh ?

MRS. C. I said, 'hfou were thinking ahead. You sent me 20 red

roses."

CDR Well, I know, but I wasn't thinking that far ahead.

I ordered them fr_ here by secret communicator.

MRS. C. Oh, I see. (Laughter) Well, anyway, th-n_ you. And

here are the boys.

CDR Guys.

ANDRENg Hi, Dad.

CDR Who's that? Andrew?

ANDREW Yeah, Chrissy is out at the ranch. Peter and Thc¢_s

are here.

CDR That Andy?

ANDREW Yes, sir.

CDR How's it going? Did y'all race any time this month?

ANDREW Thamas did, but I didn't. My bike - I need some new

points.
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CDR I see. I'ii be back soon; I'll fix it.

ANDF&-_ Okay. Here's Tom.

THOMAS Dad.

CDH Go ahead.

THOMAS I raced 2 weeks ago. I raced Chrissy's bike and my

bike. Didn't do nothing; Just got tired out.

CDR I see. Ran out at Clover?

THOMAS Yes, sir.

CDR When didy'all come back from the ranch?

THOMAS Two days ago. I got m_ driver's license while we

were in Uvalde.

21 17 50 CDR Very good. Congratulations. How about Peter? Is he

down there?

21 17 54 THOMAS Yes. Here he is; Just a second.

PETER How you doing, Dad?

CDR Fine. I thought maybe you'd be in Uvalde.

PETER No, I think I ought to stay around and see if I can earn
a little money.

THOMAS Well, ... got stuck out at the ranch for 3 days with
us, so I don't think Peter's going to stay out there
too much more.

CDH I see.

BOYS Happy Father's Day.

CDR Say again.

21 18 19 BOYS Happy Father's Day.

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1650 Da_168

CDR Thank you. Where's Chrissy?

P_I'_'R He's out at the raLch.

CDR Oh, he's at the ranch. I see. How's his horse?

Pm1'_ Pretty good, I guess. He rides it every day.

CDR Very good. Did they get the pool fixed?

ANDREW Yes, it looks real nice, its - the ... work real
good. And hadn't had to vaeum, it in 2-1/2 weeks. It
looks real, real good; water's real clear.

CDR Great. That's good. I'm sure you've used it. What's
the weather been like?

ANDREW Well, it flooded down here a couple of days ago.

Boattown, you know the motorcycle place, was all under
water. And we weren't here, hut it also flooded out at
the ranch.

MRS. C. Both the rivers - -

MRS. C. Yes, both the rivers came down, and we were stuck out
there for h ds_s.

CDR Well, that wasn't too bad, was it?

MRS. C. No, wasn't bad at all. It was fun.

21 19 14 CDR If you think you've seen some big thunder storms around
there, you ought to see some of the ones we've seen
out here in the Pacific.

MRS. C. Well, the day we had the floods was the day you were
photographing all those clouds, I guess. I forget
what day - when it was. One da_ last week.

CDR I. remember that. That was one of our last EREPs. He

told us you had real bad rain.

MRS. C. Somebody say something.

.F_f_;R Dad, it's Peter. I got _ report card the other day.

CDR How'd you do?

v
Day168 Page
1651

R_ER Passed everything. Saved _y par.

CDR Very good. Did you get promoted?

21 19 55 PETER No, I'll get promoted next time.

21 20 02 CDR When do you have to go back for football?

PETER I don't know. They said they'd send me a letter, but

I don't - I think they want me to play both ways next
year. And I think I might test them a little hit -
how much they want me to play football.

CDR Okay. Well, I think we're getting to the last phases.

We start our EVA prep tomorrow night, for the EVA.

MRS. C. Are you going to bed awful early, now?

CDR Yes, we go to bed in another hour and a half.

MRS. C. And then you get up at 2 o'clock the morning of

splashdown?

20 20 44 CDR Let me figure it out. Right now we're going to get up

at 2 O'clock in the morning. And we're going to get
up even earlier than that on splashdown. That's why
we've moved the bedtime up.

21 20 56 ANDREW Dad, how long after you splash down are you going be
back in Houston, where we can see you?

CDR Two days.

ANDREW That's good. How about - how long after that do you
get out of quarantine?

CDR yell, I think I can come home then. I can't see you
guys until the end of 7 days. So that'll be 5 days.

ANDREW Okay. When are you coming to Bermuda?

CDR Well, I don't know. I haven't seen the schedule, but

hope I can go on the twentieth.

ANDR_ Okay.
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1652 Day168

MRS. C. I wrote down about three things I was going to ask you,
and I can't remember any of them, because I forgot to
bring mY list with - -

CDR Well, it probably wasn't too important.

MRS. C. No, I don't think it was (Laughter).

CDR I don't think I've iost too much weight, but our legs
have all gotten skinny.

21 21 53 MRS. C. Well, you'll have to do some swimming or some Jogging

or something when you come home.

CDR No, Joe thinks it's all fluid, and it'll come right back.

MRS. C. Rusty said they never were the best looking legs.
(lau ght er ).

CDR No, but thoy're the only super small ones up here
right now.

MRS. C. The only super what?

CDR Sm, ll ones up here right now.

ANDRE_ When are you going to be able to race your Vega when
you get back?

CDR Oh, not until after you guys go back to school.

PETER Hey, Dad - Dad?

CDR Go ahead.

PETER I 'm a legal grown up now. I want you to know.

MRS. C. Governor Dolf Brisco Just signed the bill that 18-year-
olds are of age now.

CDR Good. We'll start charging him rent.

MRS. C. (Laughter).

PLT Con gratul ations.

MRS. C. Well, we have another minute, but what'll we say? -

(Laughter).
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THOMAS Dad, have you all had another playday since that movie
we saw?

CDR Say, again, Thomas. You broke off.

THOMAS Have you had another playday since we saw that movie
where you all were floating around and everything?

21 23 09 CDR No.

21 23 13 MRS. C. Are you not going to take any days off again, now?
You're too busy?

CDR Oh, right, no. We don't have any. Tomorrow night

we start EVA prep, and the next day is EVA, and after
that is two days of deactivation.

MRS. C. Is Paul going to get the film, or who's going to go

after it?

CD_ I'm going to get the film. Paul's going to work in

my place in the SAS, and I'm going to go get the film,
and Joe's going to stay in.

PETER How's it like sleeping up there? Has your back been

bothering you?

CDR Nope. Been sleeping pretty good.

21 23 _9 MRS. C. Rave you been dreaming?

CDR Nope.

MRS. C. Are you sure? Have you had your head wired, ever?

CDR No, Just Joe. And it turns out he gets the same amount
of deep or partial sleep as he's been getting on the
ground. So it's about the same, I guess.

CDR You still there?

MRS. C. Yes, we're still here. We have about 30 seconds.

CDR They said they had antenna problems, and I thought

maybe you dropped out.

MRS. C. Okay. Well, we'll see you in a week. Right?

i"
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CDR Okay. Be good. Bye.

MRS. C. Okay. Bye bye.

P_.'I'EH Have a lot of f_u.

21 2_ Bl CDR All righty.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

22 01 24 CDR Hello, Houston; you there?

CC Skylab, Houston. Hello again. We're at Guam for

7 minutes.

PLT Hey, Richard, have the ATM guys take a look at the 56;
will you, please? When we came up in the sunlight,
the door talkback stayed white. I hit the switch to
CLOSE one time, but no change. I then hit it to
OPEN one time, and there has been no change. And
that's as far as it's gone. We're awaiting your word.

CC Roger, that. And I'll get it to you as soon as we think

about that one.

CC Skylab, Houston. Indications on the ground are the

same as yours; that - that the door is neither opened
nor closed. And we're continuing to look at it, and
we'll get back to you.

PLT All right.

PLT I suspect that it is mostly closed, Dick, because

the - Both apertures on the beryllium and aluminum
are both ...

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. In - About the S056 door, we've

got a crew malfunction procedure in the ATM Malf Book,
under X-ray tele, number 8 Bravo. And what we'd
like you to do, if you can, is after building block 1
is complete, to go ahead and start into that malf and
keep up with which blocks you go through. And let
us know, probably at the next station, how you came
ou$. We've got about 1 minute to LOS. The next pass
is at Vanguard at 22:38.

PLT Okay, Richard.

CC Roger.

PLT That leads me immediately to block 5, which says,

"Failure in aperture door drive system."

CC Roger. Standby Just 1 second._

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PLT Okay. I go block l, block 4, block 5.

CC Roger, PLT. Request that doors ll.

PLT Okay.

CC Roger. And we'll see you at Vanguard.

22 08 57 PLT Right.

22 38 55 CC Skylab, Houston_ Vanguard for 9 minutes.

PLT Okay, you ready for a status on the S056 door?

CC Go ahead.

PLT In your doors procedure, I completed the first two

blocks, which as I remember, the first thing you
do is inhibit both motors. And when I enabled the
primary motor, the tailback - the door talkback
immediately went to gray, and I got a READY light.
And that's where I left it, and I tried to run it.
Of course it didn't run very well in ACTIVE 1 LONG
after that. But other than that hangup, it's function-
ing normally now. But the talkback immediately went
to gray ; and so the door would sit there all the way
open or 99 and 44/i00 open, waiting for something to
tell it - to give it a gray tailback.

22 39 46 CC Okay, Paul. Thank you much. And we'll think about

that one.

22 42 06 CC PLT, Houston. In regard to the S056 door, we think

we're in a situation where the way the logic is
set up on board that by recycling power we can fool
both the t_S_back and the READY light. So if you
have the time to stay there, we'd appreciate it if
you'd Just continue on throagh that same procedure.
Just go right on down to block 3 and let the procedure
take you wherever it will. And also, I'm advised
this procedure does not have to be run in the daylight,
so if you can stay there and complete it for us, we'd
appreciate it.

PLT Okay. If I can Just finish m_ ice cream; I'll go back

and do it.
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CC Roger.

SPT Houston, are you there?

CC Go ahead.

SPT Okay. This is the SPT. I was closer to the ATM than
the PLT; so I did step 3, and guess what? The door
came open. And we wound up in step 4, which goes to
step 6, which says "Who disabled the door?" I don't
know.

CC Skylab, Houston. I guess we got into a situation

where the door got inadvertently disabled. We'd
like you to manually close the door. And we'll resume
normal operations the next chance We get.

SPT Super.

CC Very good. Thank you much.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOS. Canary

at 22:58 for the last pass of the day.

22 47 46 CDR Roger, Richard.

23 00 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Canary andMadrid for

12 minutes.

PLT Roger.

CC Roger. And we're going to be - G&S is going to be

commanding here to set up the configuration for the
rate gyros this evening. The gyro Y-I is now looking
real stable, so we're going to put Y-I and Y-2 control -
into control, so you ought to select Y-I/Y-2 for their
proper onboard monitoring. And we're also showing the
TACS ENABLED, and we think it probably ought to be
INHIBITED, per our earlier agreement about leaving TACS
INHIBITED.

CDR Okay.

CC Roger.

CDR I 'm trying to think when it got enabled. It should

have been shut off for the last umpteen days.
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1658 Day168

CDR Oh, the trim burn this morning, and we never

turned it back off. Thank you.

CC Roger.

CDR Say, what did that 9 seconds do for us anyhow? Is

anybody around there that can answer that? I figured
we got all of O.1 foor per second - or 0.2.

CC Roger. Stand by 1.

CC CDR, Houston. The very honest answer is - is that

the FIDOs are at home. And we will give you a
straight answer on the trim burn, and why we planned
it that way, and how it came out tomorrow, if that's
okay.

CDR Yes, ...

23 02 02 CC Roger.

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23 12 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS here in Madrid, and

we'll see you guy s in the morning. Have a good night's
sleep.

23 12 35 CDR Roger. Night, night.

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Day169 Page1661

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

07 03 l0 CC Skylab, Houston; good morning.

CDR Good morning.

SPT Where were you calling from?

CC Where am I? Oh, I'm at Houston still.

SPT Houston!

CC How's everything up there this morning?

CDR I don't know. We Just woke up. My little buzzer

went off about 2 minutes before you called.

CC Roger. We've got about h more minutes with you here

through Bermuda.

CDR Okay.

07 06 53 CC Skylab, Houston. About 1 minute to LOS. We'll be

coming up on Canaries at 12 with a recorder damp.

CDR Okay.

07 ll 3h CC Skylab, Houston through Canary 9-1/2minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. All your pads should be on board now.

CC Skylab, Houston. Before you get too wrapped up in that

Flight Plan, I've got a few words about it here.
You've probably noticed on there that we had a JOP 13
scheduled. We're going to have to scrub that. We
scrubbed it for several reasons. First off, the pre-
mission calculated target data wasn't available to us
because of the delayed launch. So we were unable to
select a suitable target, generate the pads, and get
a run in the simulator last night. Also, the schedul-
ing of the canister fine Sun sensor acquisition Sun
sensor alignment compilation that we normally do on
day _ wasn't possible so that we could get the required
pointing accuracy. I guess, to sam it up, we Just
couldn't get it all pulled together with enough
confidence to ensure the success of the JOP. So we
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tho_ght the best thing to do was to scrub it. And

we give you our apologies. In place of it, we will
be doing open housekeeping.

SPT Understand.

07 20 15 CC Skylab, Houston. One minqte to LOS. We'll be coming

up on Honeysuckle at 56. And in about 2 minutes from
now, at 7:22, you will become the new world champs
for longest space flight.

SPT Okay, thank for the note, Henry. We are all up at

the _ happily getting weighed.

CC Roger. Copy.

07 56 21 CC SF_ylab, Houston through Honeysuckle, 9 minutes.

07 56 27 PLT Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

08 01 07 CDR Hey, Hank. You still there?

CC Affirmative.

CDR How about having Tom Stafford or Deke relay to the

Russian cosmonauts our respects and - at this point
in our flight to them and their comrades. And wish
them good luck from us in the future.

CC Okay, I sure will, Pete.

CDR Thank you.

08 04 46 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Hawaii at 16.

PLT Okay.

08 16 26 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii 9 - 9-1/2 minutes.

PLT Roger, Hank.

CC And Skylab, I've got a little - small changes to

each one of your detail pads, and one addition to
the remarks at the end of this flight plan.

PLT Go ahead.

08 16 50 CC Okay, for the CDR on his details, we want to delete

the momentum inhibit at 13:20. And at 22:10 you see
a reference to TO03 filters. We'd like to pull out
the filter 5, and move it up to 19:30. The rest of
them remain at 22:10.

PLT Okay.

CC And for the SPT, we want to delete his ATM at 14:00.

That's the - I believe that's JOP 13. And for the
PLT details, we want to delete the momentum enable
at 15:00.

CDR Roger.
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CC And let's see, we've already deleted a JOP 13 in the

Flight Plan, and replaced it with housekeeping, general.
And at this s1_w_Ary, we left out a South Atlantic
anom-ly. There is one of them at 13:_i to 14:11.

08 17 47 CDR Okay.

CC That's all of those. I do have one change to that

509 checklist. That can wait until later if you like.

PLT I'm going to go get the checklist right now.

PLT Go ahead, Hank.

CC Okay, on page 16-1?

PLT Stand by.

PLT Okay.

08 18 46 CC To step 2, add MDDE DIRECT. And the reason we're doing

this is to configure the unit for ...

PLT Change to step 2, C and D power OFF, MODE DIRECT.

CC Roger. And thtat's ali the cb-nges. I do have one

comment for the CDR. He's got housekeeping 60 Tango
set up; it's the ATM C and D filter replacement. The
checklist says that the filters are in A2 in the CSM,
but if you have already done the day 25 transfers, or
if they are done - they'll be in a - say again?

08 19 32 CDR They're in A5. I know where they are, I'll get

the transfers.

08 19 35 CC Okay. I Just wanted to remind you.

CDR Hank, to the people that are going to analyze the

stowage, or analyze those parts where they come back;
the one that was changed out initiaS1ywill have one
red stripe of tape on it, and the one this morning
will have two stripes of red tape on it. Okay?

08 20 08 CC Okay. Copy.

08 24 59 CC Skylab, Houston; l minute to LOS. Goldstone at 28.

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08 28 32 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone 6-i/2 minutes.

08 28 _0 PLT Roger.

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SKYLABAIR-TO-GHOUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

08 34 20 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Bermuda

at 39.

08 34 2h PLT Okay.

08 39 31 CC Skylab, Houston througjaBermuda 8-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CC Skylab, Houston; i minute untilLOS. Canaries

at b9.

08 47 22 PLT Hoger.

08 h9 44 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Canaries or - Correction:

Canaries for 16 minutes.

SPT Morning, Crip.

08 49 54 CC Morning,sir.

08 49 59 CDR Hello, Crip.

CC Good morning, Pete.

CC You guys sound rather Jovial this morning.

CDR Yes, I think when we start EVA prep tonight,

we figure we're starting the countdown.

CC I believe so. I didn't know. whether you

were going to sound that Jovial after that
EVA message we sent you.

CDR It's Just the PLT; he's grumbling.

PLT I haven't read it yet. Maybe I'll give

you another call after I read it.

CC Okeydoke.

CDR Housekeeping 60 Tango is complete; both the

filters are back in A-5.
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CC Copy.

CDR Day 148-1 and today 169-1.

SPT Houston, SPT. May I INHIBIT momentum dump

early? Namely, now?

CC Stand by 1.

08 51 lh CC You're GO on that,'Joe.

SPT Thank you.

CDR Say, Crip, can you get them to explain to me

what's a D008.2/17 I've got a 1-minute survey
and a 2-minute survey? What do you want me to do?

CC Stand by l, Pete.

08 55 42 CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay, on page 6-2 of your Evaluation

experiments Checklist, in the third paragraph
down, it addresses a back-to-back survey. And
that's what this is.

CDR I got it; back-to-back. Okay?

CC Okay, is that enough info, Pete?

08 56 12 CDR That's enough.

08 58 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're into the Ascension

portion of our pass, and we are doing a data
recorder dump at this pass.

CDR Hey, Crip; CDR.

CC Go, CDR.

CDR On page 6-3 in that checklist, would you

verify that By Just doing speaker/headset
suit power, on (up), intercom T/R, that in
fact will voice record on what? DSE or
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on system B? Do I have to do anything

to make sure I get this data on 63.
We haven't done any recording the co-m_nd
module before, and I Just want to verify
that.

CC Okay, we're checking it.

CDR Thank you.

09 01 31 CC CDR, Houston. We can confirm that will

record okay in the COmmAnd module on the
DSE. And the DSE is on. And you probably
found that the log for that back to back
survey was on page 9-8 of the CSM Systems
Checklist.

CDR Yes, I know where that is. I think maybe

I got to take the PLT's intercom switch to
int erc om.

CC I've got ICOM checking.

CDR Now that will put it on B channel in the -

in the SWS, but, I'm not sure what goes on ...

CC Roger. What your're trying to do is record it

on the DSE.

09 04 02 CDR Are you there, Houston?

CC Affirmative.

CDR The other thing I'd like to ask you is: On these
places by the window - if they want the sensor
located - do they want the window covers on,
or the window covers off?

CC We'll check that.

CDR Yes, our configuration, of course, right now

you want the cover on.

CC We'd like those window covers removed, if we

could.

CDR Okay, we'll have the window covers off.

09 05 12 CC Skylab, Houston; LOS in 1 minute. Carnarvon at

09 :32, 0932.
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CDR Okay, see you there.

09 29 5_ CC Skylab, Houston. _DS Carnarvon, 8 minutes.

CDR Hi.

PLT Hey, Crip. Do you want me to read you those

refrigeration system and DCS parameters real
time for comparison?

CC If it's not too much trouble, we'd appreciate

it.

PLT Okay, I'm just finishing cleaning up in the

head; I'm captain today. And I'll be with you
in about 2 minutes.

CC Fine and dandy.

09 30 49 CDR We've got the double feature on right now, Crip.

We got the Moon; right underneath it we have the
southern lights, I guess you got to call them.

CC Sounds beautiful. Nice big full Moon.

CDR Yes, it's getting a little lopsided. It _s full

a day or so ago. It's got some ... green southern
lights - Aurora Australis, I think it's called,
by the more scientific compatriots.

CC Fantastic. What color are the southern lights?

CDR Say again.

CC What color are they? Just white?

CDR No, they're kind of a greenish. They're a very

pale, pale green.

09 32 25 CDR Say, another thing for you to put into the

hopper today: The ground has been strangely
ailent about the TV. We, of course, can't
put it out _ the SOTS; that's already out of the
EVA Checklist, but I'd like them to know what
they'd like me to do with it.

CC Pete, I didn't really get all of that. Are you

talkingaboutthe TV for EVA?
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CDR Yes.

CDR Did you get my last "YES?"

CC Say again.

CDR I said, the answer to that was, "yes."

CC Roger. I'ii tryto get the latest dope on it

right now.

CDR Okay.

PLT Okay, Crip; you ready for the refrigeration

system parameters?

CC Roger. Go ahead.

PLT I'll give you TCS first, all right?

CC Go.

09 33 48 PLT Workshop temperature indicates 76; pressure

about 5.4; duct flow in 1 is - indicates about
520: about 510 in 2; and 3 is at 550.

PLT On refrigeration system, in the freezerside,

the heat sink outlet - NO, I forgot. Wait a
minute.

09 34 35 PLT Primary heat sink outlet was minus 18. The

urine freezer indicates - a minus 13. The
wardroom freezers: 1 indicates minus 14; 2, minus ll
stowage freezers: one shows 1 minus 8; 2, minus 8;
3 minus 6. And on the chiller Side:
Primary water inlet reads 42. The food chiller
reads 41. The urine chiller number 1 reads 44;
2 reads _5; 3 reads 4_. All. the pumps are in
AUTO. And, as I remember, that does it. Is that
right?

CC That does it. Thank you very much. Appreciate

that, Paul.

PLT Roger.

CC CDR, Houston.
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CDR Say again.

CC Roger. Regarding the TV, I guess - It's our

understanding that you had offered to take the
TV outside. We're putting it as strictly op-
tional on your part. We do have a message down
here that we can send you up regarding the pro-
cedures for taking it outside. If you do not
want to take it outside, and you want EV-3 to use
it inside at the STS area, that would he fine,
also.

CDR Okay, send us the message for taking it outside,

and we'll smoke that over today while we're
organizing the lock and figuring out what we're
going to do with it.

09 37 0h CC Okay, we'll take a look at it. Also, regarding

the EVA procedures, we would think that it would
be wise perhaps to go over those this afternoon
over the air. I would like to propose some times
in your - at the end of your pre-EVA prep. We
have about three passes in there, starting at
about 18:lO. How would you take to discussing it
during those periods?

09 37 34 SPT That's fine.

CC Okay, we'll get the proper people lined up.

CC Skylab, Houston; LOS in 1 minute. Hawaii at

09:56, at 56.

09 37 03 CDR Roger.

09 54 56 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Hawaii _ minutes.

PLT Roger.

CC PLT, Houston. If you man the ATM console,

I've got a SAP update for you.

PLT Okay. I'm not there, yet. I'm still making

changes to EVA Checklist.

CC You may not make it up there at that rate. No

sweat. When you get a chance, I can give them -_
to you, or I can give them to you over the States.
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PLT Okay. Let's do that, Crip. I got a couple

more to ma_e here; then I'll slither on up.

CC Okaydoke.

PLT Tell you one thing, I'm going to bring this

EVA Checklist back with us.

CC I've got one down here that should look pretty

much like that one.

PLT I hope you can figure out what we're doing, then.

CC That's why I want Rusty to come in this afternoon.

09 58 54 SC And the clock is counting on D008.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute until LOS. We'll have

you again at Goldstone at 10:08, at 08.

09 59 34 CC PLT, Houston. Are you saving - are you making

note of the message headers so that we can ensure
that you have received all of them?

09 59 47 PLT Negative.

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09 59 57 PLT You still there? Let me give you a quick rundown on

what I've got.

CC Okay. I don't re_ly think we're going to have time

for - -Why don't we wait and try to get that later,
if we can, Paul?

PLT Okay, because Itve been cutting and pasting and

throwing away the scraps as I've been going, Crip.

CC Okay. We're Just trying to figure out how we could

go over them and ma_e sure that you had all the
changes.

PLT I suggest you pick out the important changes, and ask
me if I saw them and incorporated them.

CC Okay.

l0 O0 31 CDR That's for the next flight to work on: How to handle
that message traffic. We need some other stuff up
here to do it with.

CC Roger.

l0 07 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for 6 minutes.

PLT Okay, Crip. I'll be with you in a minute, as soon as

I get the ATM panel going.

CC Roger. There's no big hurry. Not very exciting

update.

PLT Okay. Go ahead with the changes to the pad, Bob.

l0 08 h7 CC Roger. It's Just an update. The solar activity has

been low. Three subflares have been reported, none
with X-rays - from active regions 37, h3, and a new
active region 4T, which is located at 26/1.0. That's
where the subflares have been from.

PLT Okay, thank you. Are they ready for the TV downlink
now?
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i0 09 21 CC Stand by i on that. They're - and they're - we do -

have had small surges from active region 47. And
filament 82 has been active and appears to be slowly
dissipating. And, Paul, it'll be 6 minutes before
we're ready for the TV. We're going to get that
over Mila.

PLT Okay.

l0 ll 54 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute tmtil LOS. We'll have to

drop you out for a couple minutes and haveyou again
at 14.

PLT Okay, I got a flare alarm here. It's Just barely

slipping up over the - what we got set on it, but I
don't see anything anywhere. Might be a little some-
thing in active region 37, I guess.

CC Okay, we're looking at it. You're up to the vicinity

of the Horn, also, it appears.

PLT Okay, we're going to set it at ... 43. Am I reading

it wrong?

PLT Right.

l0 15 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Mila for about l0

minutes. And, P. J., we blew it. You were in the
Horn; that's why you had the alarm.

PLT Okay.

PLT Tell me when they're ready, and I'll start doing the
TV down-link routine for them, Bob.

CC Roger.

l0 15 46 CC Okay, Paul. We're receivin@ TV now. You can go ahead

and go through your sequence.

CC Paul, we're having a little problem with our TV.

Could you hold up on your sequence for about 30
seconds? I'll give you a GO on it again.

PLT Okay.
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CC And, P. J., while you were looking at that white-light

coronagraph, it was - it should be obvious to you
where that piece of cont=m_nation is that we were
talking about.

PLT Yes, we see it.

CDR Bob, why don't you have them work up what o'clock
position that it, with me looking in there from the
foot restraints.

CC Will do.

CDR Thank you.

l0 17 _9 CC Okay, P. J. We're ready for you to commence TV

sequence once more.

PLT Okay.

PLT Hey, Crip, you guys get your signal independent of

ours. Is that right? In other words, our settings on
our monitor have no effect over the TV pictures you
get on the ground. Is that correct?

CC Your selection is - your selection of monitor is

what we get.

PLT I understand that. I'm talking about the contrast and

brightness adjustments on the monitor itself.

CC That should not have any effect ; that only controls

your monitor.

PLT Okay.

PLT Houston, I'm going to go ahead and enable momentum

dump now. Is that okay?

l0 23 35 CC Stand by. You're GO for enabling.

PLT Okay.

l0 26 08 CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute; Ascension at 10:36;

36.

PLT Roger.
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PLT Crip, you got star tracker update enabled?

CC I'll check that; we had it disabled last night.

PLT I figured that. It was clear over to stop; that Nu z

didn't look bad. I'm looking for a star now.

l0 27 15 CC Okay. The word is that we do have it disabled, and

you need to enable it, I guess.

PLT Okay.

CC That's both control and update.

PLT All right.

l0 35 47 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension for 5 minutes.

PLT Roger.

CC FLT, Houston. We show that the Nu Z update is not en-

abled at this time. Would you like to do it, or
wouldyoulikeus to do it?

PLT It 's in work.

CC Roger.

PLT How's that look?

CC That looks good.

lO 37 14 PLT That's good. I couldn't remember if I keyed in enable

or inhibit.

CC Okay. It's enabled now.

PLT I sure like this system.

CC I'm glad you're fond of it.

CC SPT, Houston. If you have a moment, I'd like to talk

about one of your housekeeping periods. If net, I'ii
get you at next station pass.

lO 38 22 PLT Okay. If he doesn't answer you, Crip, it's because he's

still tied up with the chair cal.
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CC Roger.

SPT This is another fun thing.

CC Thought'you'd like that.

SPT Did you call SPT?

CC SPT, Houston. Roger. If you've got a minute, I

wanted to tell you about this housekeeping period
you had coming up prior to your ATM run. We wanted
you to run a little condensate tank malf for us. If
not, I can tell you about it over Carnarvon.

SPT I'ii talk to you at Carnarvon, Crip.

CC Okay.

CC SPT, no need to acknowledge, but there is a tele-

printer pad regarding this _I f procedure in the
teleprinter at this time, and we'll talk about it
later.

i0 40 16 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute until LOS. Carnarvon at

ll:06, at 06; and we'll be doing a data recorder dump
at Carnarvon.

ll 05 h9 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Carnarvon, l0 minutes.

CDR Hey, Crip, the - the SPT's doing his television thing;
he'll talk to you about that at the next station, if
that's possible.

CC Roger.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go, SPT.

Ii 09 28 SPT Okay, the TV 28 is on tape, and go ahead with your

coments about the kind of tape to do.

CC Okay, have you had a chance to pick up the procedure

yet, Joe?

SPT To pick it up, yes; to look at it, no.

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CC Okay, basically, it's in two paragraphs: i and 2.

We would like to have you perform paragraph i anytime
within the next - this housekeeping period you're in
right now. And then we'd like to monitor it for a
while, and we'll give you a GO, when to do - and if
it's required, todo paragraph 2.

SPT Okay.

CC Okay. Right at the end of paragraph l, it talks about

monitoring the tank DELTA-P for 15 minutes. That's
not required of you; we'll go ahead and monitor it
here from the ground.

SPT Okay.

ll l0 24 CC And also, right at the end - after the monitoring,

it talks about condensate tank water valve fill.
We'll hold that for paragraph 2.

SPT Got it.

CC And while I'm tA!_ing to you about it, you'll notice,

if you read on ahead in paragraph 2, that it requires
using the water servicing umbilical, so you might
think ahead about - about getting that, if it's neces-
sary. If we did paragraph 2, we'd try to pick it up
at that housekeeping period right after your ATM pass.

SPT Roger.

ll 16 09 CC Skylah, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

See you over Guam at ll:20, 20.

SPT Roger.

ll 19 25 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S G,,_m, i0 minutes, l0 minutes.

SPY Roger, Houston. This is the SPT. I've completed the

first part of that procedure. The tank was empty to
all intents and purposes, and the bladder didn't move.
And the DA_.TA-P was 4.4, and it stayed there. And
you're in configuration.

CC Okay. Thank you, Joe.

ll 28 51 CC Skvlab, Houston. One minute until LOS. Goldstone

at 45, ll:45.

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_

i] 44 51 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Goldstone 17 ninutes.

!i 45 00 SPT Roger.

Ii 54 50 CC SPT, for your information, we were sittin_ here

enjoying your show - and - tell of the IHSS this
morning, and the voice that we got through _oldsto_e
is very good. However, looking at it throuFh Texas,
it's kind of garbled and so, accerc_in_ to our original
plan, we're _oin_ to re,_nd and £.uDp it agair through
Colc_stone. So we'll have it all with good voice
quality.

ii 55 i0 SPT Okay. Thank you.

12 00 21 CC SPT, ilouston. ,_o need to acknowledF_e this, but our

little test on the condensate tauk indicates that it
looks pretty tight to us, an¢_ there's no appare;'_t
leakage. So we're going to go ahead and check nut
that {_D, which calls for you to go into paragraph 2.
An_1 following your AT_i pass, we'r_ like you to .%o
ahead and proceed with that, do_m through probably
the part _There you put the cap on the QD, because _:e
do expect the QD itself to ieaL, since it has
previously. Tust wante_ to remin_ you, you do nee,'
to take the condensate tank water valve to FILL
before proceeding into paraBraph 2.

12 01 O! SPT Okay. I "knew you would.

12 Ol 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. L'e'll

have you again at Carnarvon at 12:45. 45.

12 01 3n SPT Ro_er.

12 45 29 CC Skylab, Houston. t%OS, Carnarvon 7 minutes.

PLT Okay_ Crip. Let me give you a list of the pages on

that EVA Checklist change that I got.

CC Okay.

• 12 45 47 PLT I'm doing that because I assume that's what you want.
Is that right?
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CC Uell, if it's okay with you, I thinh we might be just

as well off, just F.oing over those in total this after-
noon at that suggested time when we've got _!usty in
here.

PLT Okay.

CC But, I can no ahead and take them aF.ain.

I'L" All ri_)_t. I got a couple of other questions.

CC (;o.

]2 4_, 10 PL'r i'm scheduled this afternoon for an "I509 cheel:out.

I'm assuming that that is 509 Prep and checkout
section 13 of the 509 Checklist. Is that riqht?

CC We're verifying that right now.

Pl,w Okay, and for the film people, there's a little mlx-up
in our drawer A confizuratlon. Just a r_inute.

12 46 52 PLT Let me know when you're ready to copy about the film
configuration which - I'm iookinF, at the film thread
pad for this morning, Crip.

CC ()kay. :._lydon't you go ahead?

Plf? Ohay. .qorneway we got hurl dope to you last niqht.

And transporter 05, which is in Ad, was loaded
yesterday per the pad, with Charlie India 14. And
you notice that today's pad calls for Charlie India 14
in A1 on transporter 02_ (Laughter) Today's pad
says, 'Leave transporter 5 empty, but I'm leaving
transi_orter 2 empty. So all you got to do on today's
film thread pad is delete Charlie India 14 from 02,
and put it down on transporter 5. And that's the
way the drawer is right now.

CC Okay. Believe we got all that.

PLT Ohay. It's very easy to talk from today's film

dlread pad.

CC Okay. ilegardlng the :1509 checkout, the word I've

got is you're supposed to be doin_ pages 13-2
through 13-9 on - -
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PLT Wait a minute; wait a minute.

CC Okay-doke.

12 48 09 PLT I assume that somebody thinks that came up, hull?

CC Well, I would assume so. But I'd have to go back

and check the paperwork.

12 48 ]9 PLT Okay, wait. I'ii write it down, but I haven't seen

it yet. That's _£ny I asked.

CC Okay. It probably wasn't very clear.

PLT All right. Go ahead with those page numbers.

CC It's 13-2 through 13-9; 15-7, and 16-1 through 1(-4.

12 43 50 PLT Okay. 13-2 through 9; 15, that's 15-7, and 16, 16-1
throu_ -4.

CC Roger.

PLT Okay.

SPT ilouston, SPT.

CC C_o,SPT.

12 49 14 SPT I must be doing this procedure wrong, Crip, on the

condensate tank because I'm not getting a leak.
I have the O,D disconnected at panel 393. It's heen
that way for 12 minutes and the pressure is still
the same. If I - if I hack it for 15 minutes, ,hat
do I do? Just quit and reconfigure?

CC Stand by on that. Can you verify that you d_d open

the water valve to FILL?

J2 49 _, SPT Yes.

CC We'_l like to just sit on it for awhile, ,Toe, and

take a look at it. First time we've disconnecte_
and not have it go down.

SPT I know. It's the first time you've had the SPT do
it.
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CDR That's pretty insulting.

12 50 00 CC _o comment.
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12 59 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Guam for about 4 minutes.

Sorry I lost you without LOS call.

SPT Okay.

CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Go ahead.'

13 02 24 CC Roger, Joe. On that condensate holding tank, like to

understand once more. You said you did not cap it.
Is that correct?

SPT That is correct.

f 13 02 35 CC Okay. It looks good, and as you're observing, the

DELTA-P is holdin_ and - Just another confu_ing data
point for us. We don't understand it. It looks like
it's working good now, though. At your convenience,
you may go ahead and - and reconnect that at panel 393.

13 02 53 SPT And turn the heater off, I suppose, huh?

CC That's affirmative.

SPT Okay.

13 OB 13 CC Skylah, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll have you agalnat Goldstone at 13:22, 22. And
we will be doing a data recorder dt_np over Goldstone.

PLT Still here, Houston?

13 04 30 PLT When we get around to discussing the EVA checklist,

one thing that I would like to discuss then, or get an
answer than, is: Do you still want to use the other
power-conserve write-in that we had on powerdown,
the TCS fans and all the lights in the workshop for
the EVA prep?

13 Oh 51 CC We'll check it for you.

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13 21 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Goldstone for about 15 minutes.

SPT Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute until LOS. We'll have you

again at Vanguard at 47; 13:47.

13 35 35 SPT Think you do.

13 47 01 CC Skylab, Houston. "A0S Vanguard, 9 minutes.

CDR Thank you, Houston.

CC CDR, the PLT had a question earlier. I can go ahead

and clarify it now. We'll elaborate this after noon
during your pre-EVA stuff, but it iS not our intent
to go through any powerdown kind of operations like _
we did for your last EVA.

CDR Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. We'll have

you again over Goldstone at 15:02; 15:02 - nice long
LOS.

13 56 06 CREW Okay.

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15 Ol 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Goldstone for about

5 minutes.

15 01 45 CDR Roger, Houston. Housekeeping 7Bravo complete.

Yuck!

CC Roger; 7 Bravo complete.

PLT Yes.

15 02 04 CC Could I ask you a couple of questions, like, have

you completed the 509? If so, we're going to go
ahead and dump the experiment recorders.

15 02 ll PLT Yes, I have. I Just finished it.

15 02 13 CC Very good. Thank you, sir. Another note. In this

F session coming up on the ATM, you should finish off
the 82 Bravo film. So, go ahead and run it, finish
it up, and everybody else _Inning on the ATM today
can disregard the 82B stuff.

PLT Okay. There's no harm in Just letting it go through

zero, huh?

CC No harm.

PLT Okay.

15 02 40 CC Also, today it's your housekeeping period following

the ATM at 15:48. We'd like you to do the house-
keeping 7 Delta there; that's the water reservoir
checks.

PLT Okay.

CC Thank you.

15 03 02 CDR Say, Crip. What time's the EVA? What time are we
supposed to have that hatch open tomorrow? De you
know?

CC Stand by i.
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15 03 15 CC ii:_0 Zulu.

CDR 11:40 Z. Okay. TbAn_ you.

15-0h 46 PLT Say, Crip. We don't need an -n-wer right now, but
we've got to know for the EVA tOmOZTow, what canister
roll you want in prior to EVA? We've got a change in,
which I suspect is left over from the last EVA, so
they could get at the S05h door. I want to know
what do we want for canister roll? So, we can change
our checklist accordingly.

CC Roger. We'll check that out for you, Paul.

PLT Okay .... ATM, the checklist is down in the wardrooms.

I don't remember what page it's on.

15 05 25 CC Okay. Paul, while .'ve got you here, we've got a no

close/no open zo - there should be a white flag indi-
cation for you on S056 for the door. I guess you
had this problem last night also. The m-] f for that
is on page 11-16 - is X-ray Kelly, S056 8 Bravo.

CC We'll have LOS in about 30 seconds. We'll see you

again over Vanguard at 15:2_, 24. And we'll be doing
a data recorder dump at Vanguard.

15 06 06 PLT Okay, Crip. Doing 8 Bravo, which I did last night,

les_Is you _,w,ediatel_ to door I, which I'm going to
do now.

15 2B 3B CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Va_lard, I0 minutes. And we'll

be doing a data recorder dump.

PLT Roger, Bob: 82B shows zero frames rpmAinlng here.

(Music).

CC Sorry, Paul. I was unable to read you then.

15 23 51 PLT 82B shows zero frames r_-Ining.

CC Copy.

PLT Also, the results of that 56 door were Just the same
as last night; wait a minute.
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15 24 35 PLT I did that to catch my SCAN SPECT GRATING light, and

I blew it anyway. Results on the X-RAY tele - or the -
Yes, X-RAY teledoor were the same as last night. As
soon as.you stroke in that - I forget now what it is
- in block 2 of the door thing, _mmediately the door
talkback goes gray, and you get a READY light.

CC Roger.

15 25 54 CC PLT, Houston. We are indicating that that door is

still CLOSED, which is in opposition to what your
flag is going to be saying there. What you need to
do is to go ahead and try to command the door OPEN
once more.

PLT Can I do it while it's operating? I've got it op-

erating now, and its . .. through the filters. You
want me to do that now or wait until it's finished
with this sequence?

PLT Oh, I see. So you're saying I got to finish through

that doors and the whole door sequence.

15 26 37 CC Okay. We need you to go ahead and try to open the

doors and start the sequence over, if you can.

PLT You don't think they're open?

15 26 46 CC We don't think they're open - 56 is open, that is.

PLT You want me to stop this sequence then?

CC That 's affirmative.

PLT Oh, ho. Why do you guys keep inadvertently disabling

that door motor?

15 27 33 CC (Chuckle) _bre of 56's strange _ problems, I suppose.

We don't - we don't know the answer to that right
now, Paul. We're looking at it, and we are indicat-
ing the door is open now.

PLT Okay.

15 28 43 CC Paul, regarding those - that door talkback - When you

enable the motors like that, the talkback will give
you a wrong indication, and you still need to go ahead
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cycle the door to the position you want to get

a correct one.

PLT That's what I Just figured out, Crip. T_Ank you.

15 29 02 CDR Now hear this; now hear this throughout the ship.
The SPT has Just started his last LBNP run.

CC Skylab, Houston_ about i minuteuntil LOS. See you

again at Hawaii at 16:33 - 16:33.

15 33 28 PLT Roger.

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16 32 03 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Hawaii, 8 minutes.

16 32 09 PLT Roger, Houston.

16 33 42 PLT Houston, what's the earliest you can pick up this TV

down-link?

CC Copy.

16 34 44 PLT Hello, Houston; Skylab.

CC Go. I'm still checking out your -

PLT What's the earliest they can - we can figure to get

the TV down-link?

16 35 06 PLT Let me tell you why I asked. I'd kind of like to get
that 4 limb core align out of the way before sunset.
I think I'm running a little ahead right now, and
if you can get it earlier, I'll ship it to you earlier.
If you can't, I'll put it on tape. How's that?

16 35 23 CC Okay, we're checking on that right now, Paul.

16 35 25 PLT Okay.

16 36 03 CC P.J., you c_n go ahead and put it on the VTR for us.

16 36 07 PLT Oksu.

16 38 23 CC PLT, Houston. No need to acknowledge, but we have

three teleprinter pads sitting in your teleprinter
now, all concerned with the EVA, and at your first
opportunity you might want to pull them out.

PLT Okay.

16 38 _0 CC And be advised, all of those it_ma are of low priority.

That did include the TV, by the way.

PLT Okay.

16 39 29 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute til LOS. See you again

at Vanguard at 17:02, that's 02. And we'll be doing
a data recorder dump at Vanguard.
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16 39 h0 PLT That's ...

17 02 27 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over Vanguard for i0 minutes.

Then we'll be doing a data recorder dump.

17 02 35 CDR Okay.

CDR Hey, Crip. On this message 2515 Delta, odds and ends,
it is talking about examining the CO detector samples.
And I went and looked at those. And we are getting a
little hit of discoloring in them, but there's nothing
that would indicate more than 25 parts per million CO
to start with. And most of them are better than that.
And that is only at the extreme edge - each edge of
the little yellow colored hloh.

CC Okay. We copy that, Pete.

17 03 34 SPT Hey, Pete. Think they've been pretty much that way.
They were that way at the beginning of the mission -
some of them.

CDR Yes, I don't think they've changed since the beginning

of the mission. And I noticed that and made a comment
about that, I think, whenever I had to do CO sampling,
which was up there like day 16 or - you know, somewhere
in there.

CC Roger.

17 Oh 08 CDR And I have duly located CBRM 15 from the VC station

and so marked the spot in my mind where to potmd with
the hammer.

CC Sorry, Pete, I missed most of the your comment that

time.

CDR I said I have duly located CBRM number 15 from the VC

work station and have placed in my mind the proper
location to pound upon it with the hammer.

CC Yes. That's an A1 Bean procedure.

CDR Right.

17 04 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We need the DAS for a couple of

minutes to do a little tweak on a couple of rate gyros.
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PLT Okay. Go ahead.

17 07 42 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours once more, and the

Flight Plan is in the teleprinter.

17 08 27 PLT Roger, Crip.

17 lO 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See you

again in Hawaii at 1_:09, 18:09. And Rusty will be
available to talk EVA with you at that point.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GBOUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

18 09 15 MCC Skylab, Houston over Hawaii for about 9 minutes.

PLT Good morning, Rusty.

MCC Hey there, troops. I got some word for you.

PLT What is it?

MCC Okay. Let me t_l_ first, I guess, to CDR with regard

to the location of the expected piece of contamination
on the S052 disk.

CDR Okay. Go ahead.

MCC All right. CDR, when you look in the end - in the
mouth of the instrument out there, on the Sun end,
the pylon should show up very - as a very obvious
thing. The front surface of it is painted white, as
is the front surface of the D-1 disc. And in looking
in the mouth, if you go 120 degrees clockwise from
th pylon, you should see the expected piece of contami-
nation,, which is - should be about millimeter size on
the edge of the disc. From your location in the foot
restraints, CDR, the door is going to be slightly to
your right when we go to this roll position, which will
allow the sunlight to go down inside the instrument
and reflect for you. The pylon should be at about
your 1 o'clock position looking into the end, which
then, going 120 from that, would put the contamination
at about 5 o'clock.

CDR Okay. Got it.

CDR Go ahead.

18 ii ii MCC By the way, the star tracker is not locked on at the

present time. If there's somebody there to do it;
go ahead. If there's nobody there, we'll Just inhibit
the NU z updater - updata from the ground here.

CDR Joe's on his way.

MCC Okay, CDR, one other thing. When you're working on the
S052 disc there, you want to be aware that there is
a heat-rejection mirror down inside there, so that,
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with the Sun coming into the end of the instrument,

there will be a - a ray, a rather - a relatively bright
ray of sunlight coming back out. It's not enough to
worry about as far as _amaging anything or - or - or
making you too hot, but Just be aware that there will
be a solar reflection coming back out of the instrument.

CDR Yes, but it's not - it not infront of the D -! disc,

right?

18 12 08 MCC Negative. It's way down inside the instrument and

rejects the solar heat back out the tube.

CDR Okay. Understand you. I thought - The way I looked

at that schematic, the D-I disc was the first thing you
came to.

MCC Okay. The only other caution on it is we want to

make sure that you brush from the center of the disc
toward the outside and not to drag the hairs across
the edge of the disc, because it is very sharp and
will probably leave hairs floating around, if we do
that.

CDR Okay.Understand.

MCC Okay. For the SPT, if you've got an EVA Checklist

out, page 2.1-11, this is this operation on opening
the 52 door.

SPT Stand by_ Rusty. I'm getting you a star.

MCC Okay. Fine. Let me go ahead then and mention something

on the - on the TV and the sail material. I don't -
Have you had a chance to look at these last couple of
messages that have coma up on the teleprinter?

CDR Yes.

MCC Okay. We want you to know that they're both low prior-
ity; in fact, can you give us the status? Have you
done anything yet with the TV?

CDR No, we haven't. But we were going to go ahead and

rig it.
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MCC Okay. Our feeling on that down here is that if you

haven't already started, we'd Just as soon you'd for-
get it entirely, unless you particularly want to take
it out.

18 1B 27 CDR No. i don't want to take it out. We'll let Joe have
it up in the MDA.

MCC Okay. Fine. That'll - That'll be fine. And we'd

appreciate the pictures out the STS window, if he can
give them to us. All right. On the said material, we
also want to let you know that that is relatively low
priority also. If you are going to do that, we'd like
to have you do that, Pete, when you come back from the
transfer workstation before doing the D024, rather
than after. And you'll just have to watch out that
you don't put your feet on it when you're retrieving
the D024.

CDR Understand.

18 14 47 SPT And, Rusty, I'm ready to talk.

18 14 ii MCC Okay. On 2.1-11, we have this information on opening

the S052 door. And I want to make sure you understand
why the day and night thing or if you have any questions
regarding that.

SPT l'm sure it's to prevent you from damaging the instru-
ment. We're in such a high Beta angle that, it's
going to be a little confusing as to what's day and
what's not, and I guess we ought to use the computer
talkback. Right?

MCC That's negative. The computer talkback - The - the

reason is not to protect the instrument so much, Joe.
it's that, if the Sun is up and we have the canister
locked in solar inertial, we think that when you open
the door, it'll close again right away, because we
will probably not be within 5 arc minutes of Sun
center. And that's why the restriction. So if the
Sun is physically above the horizon, above the visible
horizon, you'll want to use the daylight procedure,
which puts you in experiment pointing. And you go
Sun centered so that the door will not close on you.
If you're at night, however, if the Sun is below the
horizon, you can Just go ahead and open the door follow-
ing nighttime procedure.
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SPT Okay. Which reminds me of something. At the very

beginning of this checklist, we were powering down
EPC loop, the rate gyros, and so forth. Is that a
change that we're now to ignore or what?

MCC That's affirmative. You are to ignore all pen and

ink changes that we had back there at the - for the
previous EVA. Those all apply to low power and things
like that. All of those pen and inks are to be desre-
garded. With regard to that, there was a question
asked this morning as to the roll angle on the canis-
ter. And we go to the original roll during the prep,
which is plus 4392, which is page 1.2-2.

18 16 20 MCC Okay, one change that we have added on that same page
during the prep is to have the roll gain at times 1
rather than the preflight panned times 2. The reason
for that is that we have had Z-gyro problems with high
roll rates on the canister. And so, in order to pre-
clude losing the Z gyros, we want to make sure that
we have the roll gain in times i. And, CDR, when
your're rolling the canister out there, we would
appreciate a relatively positive roll from one camera
position to the other_ that is, don't start and stop
rapidly going in and out of high roll rates.

18 17 07 CDR Okay.

SPT All right, Rusty, on the page - on the same page where
we power down the EPC loop, there are two other pen
and ink changes. One of them is to enable TACS; the
other one is to enable CMG AUTO RESET. They're all
in the same ink and everything else. Now which of
those do we pay attention to?

MCC Standby Just i.

SPT Got you, didn't we? I think we enable TACS, and I

think we enable CMG AUTO RESET. But it's pretty hard
to - to tell.

18 17 42 MCC Yes, sir. We do not power down the EPC rate gyros
and that block of pen and inks up there. We do enable
the TACS and the CMG AUTO RESET.

SPT Okay.
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MCC Okay. Just a short word on the malfunction procedure

with the feed PORT PURGE valve there. We found, from
testing down here in the last couple of weeks, that
there's a potential that the FEED PORT PURGE valve
may push in the flapper valve Just slightly, if there's
a low tolerance on the helmet. If that's what's caus-
ing a leak, what we're saying is, press on. It's no -
it's no sweat. Or you can try and reset the FEED
PORT PURGE valve. By the way we're going - -

CDR We've - we've already passed that check once with these
purge valves, and we never took them out of our helmets,
because we knew we were going to go EVA.

MCC Okay - -

]8 18 33 CDR So they're still in there, and I think they're all right.

18 t8 h2 MCC Two of the three of you have passed the check, Pete.
We're just playing cautious for the third guy. We're
going over the hill here. We'll pick up the Vanguard
at 18:40.

]_ 40 12 MCC Sky]ab, Houston over Vanguard for about i0 minutes.

PLT Roger.

MCC For your information, we're having a data recorder

dump at this time over Vanguard.

PLT Okay.

MCC And the only other information I've got to go from the
ground up in that direction is that the Summary Flight
Plan for tomorrow does not have listed in it any post-
-EVA time after the eat period for the SPT, and that
was an oversight. And we'd Just like to make sure that
the SPT takes whatever time's available for the post-
EVA stuff before pressing on with the houskeeping we
do have listed.

SPT I knew you were all against me!

18 41 l0 MCC That's very perceptive. And the one other thing we

want to clarify is that we do intend to bring back
three S082 magazines, two A's and one B.
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CDR You betyou, baby. The original one's already stowed,

Rusty, in the command module.

MCC Okay. Thanks. And were there any other things we

could clarify for you concerning the preps or the
operations tomorrow?

18 41 52 CDR I don't think so. Leaving the television down is fine.

I understand the sail business; I intend to stow it
tonight. And we'll install it before D02h. And I
think that's about it. We've been over the checklist.
We're on the - completed the first page in the check-
list cue card for EVA prep except for doing the helmets;
you know, the antifog. And I'm Just getting ready to
some ATM film.

18 42 23 MCC Okay. Fine. Did our - did our concern there on that
feed port leakage get through there before we went LOS,
Hawaii?

18 42 33 CDR Yes, it did. I checked Paul's, but it, at least by

eyeball,looksvery good. --_

MCC Okay.

18 h2 42 CDR We understand it and will act accordingly.

18 4h ll MCC Skylab, Houston. We got sort of a question here. I

wonder if there's a possibility that, after the TV
tour, you may have left a hot mike connected there
with a lightweight headset on it. We have noticed
an apparent shift in the quality of the channel B
voice, and we also noticed considerable background
the last couple of conversations you've had.

CDR Okay. We'll check the boxes that we have inter - that
we have comm cables connected to and verify that for
you, Rusty, in Just a minute.

MCC 0kay.

18 h5 h2 CDR Rusty, we didn't find any in ICOM/PTT. The one that's

in doubt was in PTT, which shouldn't mRke any difference.

MCC Okay. Fine. That may be just that your friends up

there were rather noisy on your last conversation.
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CDR Which - Are you referring to the SPT's day in the IMSS?

MCC No, the quality on that one was good, but we did have
one recorder dump for channel B that - that sounded
different as far as the quality was concerned. I
think it may have Just been something unusual at that
time, so I wouldn't go on a witch hunt for it.

CDR Okay.

18 46 26 PLT Hey, Rusty. I've got a couple of words on 509, if

you want to pass them on to Bruce.

MCC Sure. Go ahead.

PLT The checkout went fine; everthing was nominal. I

don't really have anything to report. I would recom-
mend to Hal and those guys that it - it - when those
thrusters fire, it's quite loud in the workshop. I
recommend that anybody down here wear ear protection
of some sort and that they have all loose objects
tied down, because you get a pretty good blast from
those thrusters, even though they're fairly small.

MCC Okay. We got it.

CDR He did a pretty fair flying job, seeing it was tethered

on the end of a 2-1/2-foot cable.

MCC Roger. We didn't hear that. And we have about

30 seconds before LOS here. We'll be picking you up
at Ascension at about 56.

18 47 19 CDR Okay.

18 56 29 CC And, Skylab, Houston here over the Ascension for about

4-1/2 minutes.

18 56 31 CDR Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

19 00 18 CC And, Skylab; Houston. We're about 30 seconds from

LOS here at Ascension. We're going to be catching
you at the Vanguard next, gateway to the Sout h At-
lantic anomaly, at 20:17.

19 00 35 PLT Roger. All aboard.

20 17 35 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard for l0 minutes.

PLT Hi there, Richard. We were beginning to think you

had a day or two off.

CC No, sir. Back at work again. How're y'all doing

today?

PLT Not bad, but we're having trouble making sure which
changes we're supposed to follow on the EVA Checklist,
if you can believe that or not. I got a question. On
page 3.1-8, if someone there will turn to that page.

CC Okay, hang on Just 1 second.

CC Okay. We're looking at 3.1-8. Go ahead.

20 18 29 PLT Okay, in the lower right-hand corner_ Dick, it says

ATM reconfiguration. Prior to the last EVA there was
a change which section 5 to page Charlie 12. What am
I - what is supposed to be used tomorrow?

CC Okay, stand by just 1 second.

PLT Okay.

20 19 35 CC Okay, Paul. Let me see if I can answer this question

for you. And if you don't understand it, let's keep
talking about until both you and I do. You're to
disregard an old message, the number of which was
1317 Alfa, which was sent up for the previous EVA.
There is one change in section 5 that is reflected on
a message you have - that you got today, I think, the
number of which is 2429 Alfa. And it's entitled EVA
ATM. Over.

PLT All right. Thank you.

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20 20 21 CC Okay. The message - EVA ATM message that we sent up

today makes one change under section 5.9 of the ATM
Experiment Checklist and Data Book.

PLT Okay. Well, I'll have to go up there and look.

PLT It's not as simple as Just nominally running to use

page Charlie 12 or section 5. I've got to move. Just
a minute.

CC Okay. Paul, I'll tell you what. Rusty was not plugged
in when you first called up, and did not hear the ori-
ginal question. If - if you'd like to restate it and
still don't understand what I told you, go ahead, and
maybe he can help more.

PLT Okay. Stand by, Dick.

CC Roger.

20 21 h7 CDR Hey, Rusty. On - if he's there listening - I was

looking out the window now, and I can Just see the
very top of a CBRM - either 3 or 15. I can't tell
which one it is, but I can see down there pretty good.
I can see the foot restraints and so forth in the VC.
If they tried that, how did they get out there?

20 22 09 MCC CDR, yes, I am here. And we were not very specific

about that, intentionally. It looks as though the
two ATM trusses that go down that way - the one
closest to the center work station would afford
relatively good handholds, but we were not too
specific about the best way to get there. We thought
we'd leave it to your Judgment. But if you rotate
around your seat about a 90-degree roll, it's right
in front of your nose.

20 22 39 CDR Oh, yes, I haven't had any trouble locating it. I know
where it is, but I - I presume it also says on the
package CBRM 15.

MCC I don't believe so, CDR. I think the surface is en-

tirely white.

CDR Okay. Well, I - never mind. I know which one it is.

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SPT Rusty, for me, would you review the - what the function
is of the stuck relay, and what I might expect to see
as he ha_uers it?

20 23 08 MCC Yes, sir. We hope to see - hope that you'll see, Joe,
after Pete hammers it, is that the charging current
will come up. That is, that you will begin to see
the solar arrays charge the battery.

CDR Okay.

20 23 24 MCC And two possibilities there that would relate to a

h_mmering on the CBRM. Certain testing that was done
preflight indicated that there has been a history of
the contactors sticking, and hammering on it in two
cases out of something like a thousand did free up
the contactor, and began working properly.

SPT Was it clear who suggested this approach?

MCC I don't believe so, but the way things operate, I

probably ought to check.

20 24 04 PLT Okay, rod C in the EVA checklist, page 3.1-8.

MCC Okay, we're there.

PLT ATM reconfiguration for stowage.

MCC Go ahead.

PLT What should the next sentence read?

MCC Okay, standby.

20 24 35 CDR Say, while you're standing by, let me answer the sec-
ond question of the evening questions tonight: Was
radial docking port clear and usable? Is radial
port of docking in position? I've answered that
15 times now. The answer is yes, again.

CC Okay, thank you. I'll make sure we've finally got it.

CDR Got what?

CC That it's clear.

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20 25 01 MCC 0kay, the sentence after "ATM Reconfiguration for

Stowage" should be back to the original. That is,
it should say, "See ATM Experiment Checklist and
Data Book, Section 5," and we do have Just a couple
of changes that were called up for that Experiment
Checklist and Data Book.

PLT Okay, Joe made some changes to that today, on page 5-9-

CC That's correct.

PLT So, what is now on page Charlie 12, I can tear out of
the book and throw away. Is that right?

CC Stand by. We'll check that one.

20 25 B5 PLT Okay, the reason I left it in rod C is it says, "Post

EVA panel reconfiguration for unattended ops." Now
that was before our last EVA, and I don't know what
you intend otherwise. I Just wanted to know whether
I could throw it away or not.

20 25 46 MCC Okay. The intent of that the last time related to

the low power problems that we were having, and we're
now back to essentially normal, with the exception of
things like the S054 power and things of that kind.

PLT Okay.

MCC Okay. We're going to recheck that, but in looking at

it, from what we can see, and get an answer right now,
all that stuff on Charlie 12 was related to the low
power situation, and if it's any different from that,
we'll let you know tomorrow.

PLT Okay.

20 26 39 MCC There is one other thing that I thought I'd mention

to you tonight, Just to make sure you're aware of our
concern, and that is that you will be having three
people on one SUS loop, and that that SUS loop will
be running in BYPASS rather than in EVA. We want you
to understand that you will not have the same cooling
that you had last time. The inlet temperatures to the
LCGwill run slightly higher_ And so we would like to
ensure that you do not get behind the power curve by
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storing very much heat and then going to, say a diverted
position of 5, and expecting everybody to remain cool.
In other'words, we'd like you to try and stay ahead of
the heat buildup, and if possible, we'd like - we'd like
you to avoid using position 5 unless it is necessary.

CDR Now that's radically different, Rusty. We probably

won't get it overheated. I never got hot a bit the
last time.

20 27 37 MCC All right. But you realize you were running an EVA
position before, and this will be slightly different.
The loop will not be quite as cool.

20 27 47 SPT Rusty, this is Joe. I rigged the LSUs this afternoon

per the cue card, and I put EV-I and EV-2 on SUS 2.
Is that wrong?

MCC I've - all - We're going to have to get you an answer

at Ascension. We're only 15 seconds from LOS here.
But all three will be run on the same SUS loop. We'll
get right back to you.

SPT Okay.

20 28 15 CC And, guys; we're going to see you at Ascension at 20:30,

and we will be dumping the data recorder there.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

20 31 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension for the next

I0 minutes. And please stand by_ we're straightening
out the question on the SUS loops. We'll be right back
to you, Joe.

PLT Yes, we found the message, Dick.

CC Roger.

MCC Okay. So you will have all three connected to SUS-I,

then?

PLT Right.

20 31 50 PLT Joe's point is well taken. We changed a lot of other

things on those EVA cue cards, and didn't change that.

CDR If those guys on the next crew don't do anything, they

better work something out with the guys on the ground
about these changes, because we have no way of keeping
them straight.

MCC Yes, we've got very much the same problem here. I don't
think we're in much better shape than you guys are.
The only thing is we have more inputs. I think in re-
gard to that, if, during the prep tomorrow morning,
there's any question at all about what we've meant,
please feel free to ask.

CDR I was trying to pin down the hA_mer one day. I can't
find it. I'm not sure it didn't get slipped in the
checklist someplace. I got the one about the location
of the CBRM, but - and I don't know what happened to
the one with the hammer. It went into the checklist,
I guess. You know what message that was on? Which
group it was in?

20 32 54 MCC Was this the one ta/king about prep of the hs_mer,
Pete?

CDR Right.

CC Okay, we're looking - .

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CDR Hey, meanwhile, the CDR ate everything. He had no

optional salt. He's going to have two butter cookies.
The PLT ate everything today but his bread. He added
plus one H20 and 1.5 optional salts. Add plus one H20
to the CDR, also.

CC Okay.

CDR And the SPT ate everything today.

CC Roger.

CDR And let me give you the film.

20 33 53 cc Okay, we're listening.

CDR Okay, the film, day 169. 16-millimeter: S092/171,

MI51, sPT; Charlie India 14; 38; Charlie India ii.
Ml51-1; Charlie India 14; 00; CI, Charlie India ll.
35-milllmeter: Charlie India 30 exposed, Charlie
India - By the way, we got 70-something pictures on
that - Charlie India 32; 08 - Charlie India 31; 28.
CX06 on the 70-millimeter is still on 103. No EREP.
A-l: X-porter 02, no supplies, no percentage; Charlie
India 12. A-2 is: 03; Charlie India 06; 18; Charlie
India 03. A-3: 06; Charlie India 13; 48; Charlie
India i0. A-b: 05; Charlle India i_; no film; Charlie
India ii. Floating: 07; Charlie India 09; 66; Mike
Tango 03. That's it.

CC Okay, thank you, Pete. We got it.

MCC And, CDR. That message on preping the h_r was on

the same message with the one that talked about bringing
the SUS - the SUS-1 loop on, in about four steps there.
And I can t_]k to you about it, if there's a question.
It should be in your Prep Checklist on page 1.2-5.

20 35 21 CDR Okay. Well, that's where it is, then ....

CDR Okay, Rusty. I remember it was a 2-1/2-inch loop, and

it was supposed to go on the VC tree, right?

MCC It was a 2-1/2-inch loop, and the reason - no - it -

it will hook into the temporary stowage hook in the
S_. And the 2-1/2 - the reason for the 2-1/2-inch
loop is in order to interface properly with the boom
- the Jaws of the boom hook.
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CDR Oh, yes. Okay.

MCC And with _he - with the brush we have a smaller loop,
and we're taping that to the VS tree. And then you
can use the small elastic wrist tether hook when you're
down at the Sun end, to hold onto that one when you're
reaching down in there.

CDR Right. We got - we got that tether. Okay.

MCC And when you get out there - on that CBRM - how about
giving it a hit for us, too, will you?

CDR Okay. I had a little practice on the Moon. I'll see

what I can do up here. They guarantee you can't break
it ? Right?

MCC We've been - we asked very carefully about that, and

we were given tremendous assurance. In fact, they
hit an operating CBRM as hard as they could, about
" 30 to 35 times, over in Htmtsville, and it kept right
on operating.

CDR Okay.

20 37 43 CC Guys, we've got about _ minutes left in this Ascension

pass, and I've got a couple other - more general notes
for you. One is: Tomorrow morning, we're going to he
operating ATM unattended operations for about 1 hour
after you wake up. And since there's no other ATM op-
eration scheduled tomorrow, we have no other reason to
send up a SAP pad or schedule pad. And we don't intend
on doing that this evening. And I'm assuming that you
guys are going to be busy preping for the EVA anyway,
so that won't make any difference.

PLT You're right.

CC Okay, the other note I have here is an answer to Pete's

question last night about the trim burn. First of all,
the purpose - the functional purpose of that trim burn
was to set up a ground track drift rate, such that when
A1 Bean and his friendly comrades get up there on SL-3,
their first trim maneuver will put us back on a pre-
mission nominal ground track. And the reason - there
are several reasons for the thing being so small. One
is, we've had less drag than we predicted; we've vented
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less than we had predicted. We've shortened up the

time between SL-2 aud -3. And also we were on the
west - We already were on the proper side of the
ground track and drifting towards it. So that trim
burn went off Just like we planned it, and it aceun-
plished our purposes.

20 39 08 PLT Good.

CC Roger.

PLT How much time we got?

CC Still got 2-1/2 minutes. Go ahead.

PLT Are you ready for the status on our wardroom window
heater?

CC Yes, sir.

PLT Okay. Since it wasn't working anyway, I decided last f

night we might as well turn it off. So I turned it
off. We got up this morning, and the whole inner pane
was covered with frost - fog. Covered with condensa-
tion on the inside. So I turned it back on, and it
went _ay. So the heater is working. Now I don't
know whether that dual element's - one of there's working,
or both panes are heated, and only the inner one's
heated - working anymore. But the - it obviously
heats the inner pane yet, Dick, because it drove that
condensation off and keeps it away. But we still have
what was formally water, is now ice, but m_ybe that's
because it works in space more than it did before. I
don't know; you tell us.

CC Well, Just so we won't have to ask you another question

later, tell me again which side of the inner pane the
fog was on?

20 40 12 PLT It was on the inside. You could wipe it off with your
hand.

CC Okay. Thank you.

20 hl 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We're going to see you at Guam at 21:15.
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20 41 16 CDR Roger.

21 14 53 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Guam for l0 minutes.

SPT Roger.

21 16 05 CC Skylab, Houston. Star tracker is unlocked, and we think

you see - we think we see you trying to help us out
in getting it - reacquired. Outer gimbal should be
plus 1980.

SPT Roger.

21 18 07 CC Skylab, Houston. I'm not sure what the other two guys
are doing. Joe, I guess, is at the ATM. If you're not
doing anything and in a listening mood, I got a couple
of news items that I - that I'll read up to you.

SPT Go, babe.

CC Okay, first one here is a telegram that came to Gener-

al Stafford today. And it says: "Colorado Aerotech,
accredited under the state of Colorado, an aviation
mechanics technology school being duly authorized by
the Chairman of the Colorado State Board of Community
Colleges, does hereby issue and grant th e honorary
degree, Master of Aviation Airframe Maintenance, to
U.S. Navy Captain Pete Conrad; U.S. Navy Co_m_ander,
Joe Kerwin; and U.S. Navy Commander, Paul Weitz. This
degree is presented for the outstanding efforts exer-
cised in restoring the Skylab to an operational state
under most adverse conditions, utilizing the most rudi-
mentary airframe tools. In addition, each astronaut is
recognized for his initiative and ability as a truly
first-rate airframe technician, operating in space,
repairing and altering a spaceship." From Colorado
Aerotech.

PLT You made that up.

CC Negative.

PLT Super.

21 19 29 CC One question I have for you guys. The other day when
we were not reading your news up every night, did
somebody pass you up information about the TU144
Supersonic Transport at the Paris Air Show?
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PLT Yes, we did hear about that accident, Dick.

CC Okay, fine.

CC This is from Tokyo. A strong earthquake followed by

a tidal wave hit the northern Japanese Islands Sumday,
injuring at least 23 persons and carrying more than -
causing more than five million dollar's damage. About
300 tons of dead salmon were washed ashore by the
6-1/2-foot tidal wave that followed the tremor. And
the quake measured 7.25 on the Richter scale. In
Washington today, President Nixon and Soviet leader,
Leonid I. Brezhnev, today begin a long planned slm,,_t
conference, each pledging that the talks would improve
the prospects for world peaee. Brezhnev promised the
week-long conference would Justify the hopes of our
people and serve the interests of a peaceful future
for all mankind. Nixon predicted the conference would
help lift the burden of armaments from the world and
build a structure of peace. Here's one from Kyle,
South Dakota. A leader of the American Indian movement P
told the Senate subcnmm_ttee on Indian Affairs, Susday,
that the Indians want to be recognized as a sovereign
nation in their own dealings with the Federal Govern-
ment. The traditional Chief, Frank Fools Crow and
Charles Red Cloud, called for the removal of Stanley
Lyman as Bureau of Indian Affairs Superintendent on
the reservation. Red Cloud said, "A lot of the money
comes on to the reservation, but no one knows where
it goes." Red Cloud also asked that liquor be banned
from the reservation. Finally, here from - here's
one from Paris. American and North Vietnamese officials
resumed talks on U.S. diplomatic aid to Hanoi today
after a lapse of 2 months. 'We seek a successful
conclusion as the contribution to the consolidation
of peace in southeast Asia," Chief U.S. delegate
Maurice Williams said. The reslmlption of negotiations
was agreed in a co_mmmique siEned last Wednesday,
pledging both sides to renewed comm4tment to peace
in Viet Nam. We've still got about 3 minutes left here
at Guam, and I'm standing by.

PLT Thank you.

21 22 05 CDR If we get that CBRM fixed tomorrow, we ought to

qualify for our Ph.D. in airframe mechanics.
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CC I would certainly think so.

CDR A little update; we've got the D-1 brush duster-offer

all installed on the VS tree. I have cut off a hunk
of the SEVA sail, and I am about to go sew for a while.

CC Okay. Fine.

21 22 38 CDR That might qualify me to join my wife in the Timber

Cove Sewing Association.

CC I was just going to suggest that same thing.

21 24 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from AOS. We're

going to see you at Vanguard at 21:55. That will be
the medical conference. The next pass after that
is Canary at 22:15.

CDR Roger. See you there.

21 24 21 CC Roger.

"- 21 59 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're standing by at Vanguard. We've

got 6 minutes left in the pass.

CDR Okay. Super.

SPT The SPT is trying for a rare perfect powerdown for

unattended ops.

21 59 34 CC Roger.

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22 00 01 CDR S_y, when I get hack, I want to know how much time
you all estimated for me to do this sail Job.

CC Okay, I'ii make sure that - I'ii pass to Rusty and

figure out what is it they thought.

CDR Okay. Then I'll tell you how long it really took.

22 O0 15 CC Okay.

22 01 15 SPT Houston, Sl°T. Does ATM want H-alpha to take pictures

tonight?

CC Stand by i.

22 01 32 CC SPT, Houston. Negative.

22 01 36 SPT Okay, I'm ready for my final exam.

CC (Laughter) Okay.

SPT And if the PIs are listening, we will have a final

debriefing for them on channel B a little bit later.

22 01 52 CC Okay. Very good. Then I'll sure alert them.

22 Oh 09 CC _ylab, Houston. Two comments. For Joe: the ATM

officer says that you got a B+; that the grating was
ho be 0000, and he's going to take care of that from
the ground. And for the CDR: I'm advised by our
EVA friends that the estimated time that they thought
it would take you on that sail job was 15 to BO minutes.

22 04 37 CDR Well, I've already invested about an hour and 15 in

lit, and I got about another half to go.

22 04 44 CC Well, sounds like we sure blew that one. Sorry.

We're about 30 seconds from LOS at Vanguard. We're
going to see you at Canary at 22:15, and we're going
to dump the data tape recorder at Canary.
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22 15 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Canary and Madrid for

the next 13 minutes. The G&N at this site is going
to be updating the Z-3 rate @_ro for drift compensa-
tion. And Rusty had one note he wanted to mention
to you at this pass. I'll turn it over to him.

22 16 03 MCC CDR, vacuum division here.

PLT Go.

MCC In the process of - I wcmder what the status is on

loading the film freezer. Are you trying to get that
out of the way tonight?

22 16 20 PLT It's all done.

MCC CDR, this is sort of a low priority one, but if you

get a chance, we'd like to have you take a look at
the aperture window - or maybe you already did on
the S054 magazine - and see if the al_ninum filter
there at the entrance was still intact.

22 17 03 PLT He will.

MCC Okay. Want to be a little bit careful in sliding

back the spring-loaded plate there - not to do it
too rapidly, but Just bring it hack cau{iously and
assure that there aren't any holes in it, and then
let it slide forward slowly again.

PLT Roger.

22 17 36 PLT You want a picture there?

MCC Negative. If there are anyy holes in it, we'd like

to know about it and then we'll have to schedule
putting - 54 m,gs, but we don't anticipate there will
be any. We would like your rec_-mendation, though,
if there is any evidence of those.

22 17 56 PLT Okay. Well, I'll tell you, if we see any evidence

of holes we'll probably put gray tape over them.

22 18 O0 MCC Okay.
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22 27 48 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS at Madrid.

We're going to see you at Guam at 22:54 for the last
pass of the evening. See you then.

22 27 58 PLT Okay, Dick.

22 53 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for 7 minutes.

22 56 i0 PLT Say, Richard?

CC Go ahead.

PLT There's a very bright star, which is probably a planet,

out near the Moon. By near, I mean it's within about
i0 to 15 degrees of the Moon, now. Could you have
somebody find out what it is?

CC Sure will. Stand by.

22 59 40 CC Skylab, Houston. On the question you had about the

planets, both Mars and Jupiter are in that area of
the sky. Jupiter is the planet that's closest to
the constellation Nuuki, and we think - two-starred
Nunki - and we think that it's probably Jupiter that
you see.

PLT Okay. Just think it's too bright to be Mars. Thank

you.

CC Roger. And we're about 45 seconds from LOS here at

Guam. We'll see you guys in the morning. The first
pass is about 15 minutes after you wake up. And it'll
be a Honeysuckle pass, and y'all have fun tomorrow
on the EVA.

PLT Sure will, and good night.

23 00 20 CC Roger. Good night.

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08 03 22 CC LOS IN 1 mminute. Canary AOS, 08:05.

CDR Roger.

08 05 h0 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 16 minutes.

SPT Roger, Houston. What's our Beta a_gle this morning?

CC Stand by half.

08 05 56 CC That's 62.5.

SPT 0ooo.

08 21 20 CC Skyl_b, LOS in 1 minute. Carn_rvon 08:48.

08 h8 20 MCC And, Skylab, Houston vacuum division now on station

i and ready to support you over Carnarvon for about
6 minutes.

PLT Roger, Rusty.

08 h8 33 PLT Hey, I'll probably come to it later in the checklist,

but for right now, I've already set up the EVA DAC
and don't have a frame rate setting. Do you remember
what that is?

MCC Stand by and we'll get it for you.

PLT Okay, thank you.

08 49 05 MCC Okay, that is 6 frames per second there, PLT.

PLT Thank you.

08 h9 hl PLT Stand by for a caution.

CDR Hey, Rusty, CDR.

MCC Go ahead.

08 51 18 CDR I'm going to give you a guess, but I think we're

about 20 minutes away from picking up and - LCG -
to commence LCG donning.
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MCC Okay. I usderstand about 20 minutes from LCG donning.

How about the rest of the preps inside aside frf_n the
EV-I and 2? Where do we stand there?

08 51 48 CDR Paul's doing the systems right now and the only thing
that I didn't do on the front of the card yesterday
which is in work right now is I'm anti-fogging helmets
and otherwise on the cue card we're holding at LCG
donning for Paul to catch up on systems.

MCC Okay, fine. We wondered what it was Paul was expecting

the caution and warning on, and we're trying to figure
out whether he Just performed page 1.2-6.

08 52 22 PLT That's affirmative. I got the caution and warning

when I turned off the mol sieve B fan.

MCC Okay, Paul. If that was the handwritten stuff on the

bottom there, we want to remember that we're running
down on the printed checklist - the preflight one now
and stand by on that mol sieve B.

PLT Okay. Letme know.

08 52 h9 MCC Okay. We would like you to turn the mol sieve B

back on again.

08 53 O0 MCC Okay, and also PLTs in anticipating you turning on

the - going through the SUS loop activation here,
we're going to start up the second pemp in the
primary coolant loop, and you can stand by for a
caution and warning on that one.

MCC PLT, we had a handover from Carnarvon to Honeysuckle

there. I wonder if you got that last conversation?

PLT Yes, sir. It's running.

08 54 18 PLT You're right. I'll tell you how I got into it. It
was the first line of that write-in which says remove
the portable fan is still applicable, so I went down
the rest of it also.

MCC Okay. Fine.

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08 55 02 MCC The PLT, Houston here. We would like to have the SUS
loop activated before the EV-1 and 2 get into the -
get suited up and get into the connecting to LCGs to
the PCU. And, we have Hawaii coming up at 09:ll,
which is about 15 to 16 minutes from now. And, we
can be standing by at that time to monitor you with
this procedure on activating the SUS loop. Or, if
you're really ready for it before that time, go ahead
on your own, following that procedure that we've up-
dated you with on 12-9.

PLT We're ready now. Are you?

08 55 54 MCC Yes, sir. Go ahead right now. We'll watch it.

PLT Okay.

08 57 08 SPT Houston, for what it's worth, we don't get the EVA
warning when I fired up that p_np that time.

MCC Okay. Roger. We got about 30 seconds here going

over the hill at Honeysuckle, and we'll pick you up
at Hawaii at about 09:ll. And Just to make sure you
understand - -

SPT Rusty, we thought you wanted to look at that. Do

you want him to continue?

MCC Yes, Just clarifying that. Just continue right on

with it. You can do it during LOS here.

08 57 43 SPT Thank you.

09 Ii 08 MCC And, Skylab; Houston with you over Hawaii for about
6 minutes.

SPT Okay, bow's the suit loop look? - Suit loops look -
the flow?

MCC Would you say that again?

SPT I don't think I can.

09 ll 32 MCC Okay. It looks good from here. It looks like we're

getting good modulation on the valves, and it look
copaeetic.
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SPT 0k_y.

09 12 38 CDR Hey, Rusty, PCU 010 is 6000 for the CDR; PCU 016,
6200 for the PLT.

MCC OkaY. We got that.

MCC How's the SPT doing? Can he take down a note or two?

SPT Wait.

SPT Say, Rusty, in case I've never told anybody that I

don't like this CCU connector, I don't like this CCU
connector on the _bilical.

09 14 00 MCC Okay. We think we understood that you don't like the

CCU connector on the _bilical. Is that correct?

SPT Yes.

MCC Okay. We got it.

SPT Go ahead, Sky Prince.

09 lh 41 MCC Okay. Wanted to let you know about the TV this morning.
We're set up for Goldstone to Mila real time between
ll:02 and ll:19. That's a little over a rev from
now. Other times the VTR is available, and it's
ready for your use any time you want it; any time
you think there's anything interesting to put on the
VTR, it's clean. And, in particular, if you're able,
we'd like to get a shot of the airlock - the pre-EVA
stowage of the airlock, and also what the airlock
looks like with the two guys in it there, Just before
you close up the hatch, if that's possible, Joe.

09 15 20 SPT Should be able to get you that all right, Rusty. I

don't think we'll get much out the window, ss Paul
mentioned. You can see some things out these STS
windows, but you can't get the camera in - in position,
and when you do, you're pretty close to the top.

MCC Okay. Fine. I trust your Judgment on that. No

problem.

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SPT Okay.

09 17 22 MCC Okay, Skylab; we're about 20 seconds from LOS at

Hawaii. _nd, we'll be seeing you with the States
at about 9:24.

09 2B 42 MCC And, Skylab, we've got you stateside now for - oh,
something like 6 minutes on this pass, and then we
have a short break and we'll be picking you up at
Mila.

PLT Okay. We're all in the bedroom, we're getting the

LCGs on.

09 29 09 CC And, we're about LOS here at Goldstone. We'll be

picking you up over Bermuda at about 09:33.

PLT Okay.

09 29 26 MCC I bet you wouldn't have even missed us.

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09 33 18 MCC And, we've got you over Bermuda now for the next
l0 minutes.

CDR Roger.

PLT You got any words for us, Rusty, on why we didn't
get the EVA-I warning when we turned on the SUS pump?

MCC Stand by. I'll find out.

CDR The only thing I can think of is that we're not in

BYPASS.

MCC Okay. Our conclusion is, we've seen it before, and

we're - we Just assumed since the last time we saw
it, that it's inoperative.

CDR (Music) That's funny that it went inoperative in both

loops, even though we're not using SUS 2, it stopped
doing it here, too.

MCC That's a good obs. Standby.

09 36 33 MCC I guess our assumption on that is that if you activated

the SUS this morning on 317 rather than 217 that it
should have worked. And since it didn't, it looks
as though we don't have CAUTION & WARNING there -
that it's in OFF. And we understood that your call
was - that both loops did it, referred to the last
time, since we only activated one loop this morning.

CDR You said it right, Rusty. When I did the housekeeping,

whenever it was, way back in the old days that - that
circulated those two systems through the 317 and the
323 panel, I got the CAUTION & WARNING Just like I
was supposed to every time I went from PRIMARY to
SECONDARY, and to OFF to ON, and so forth. Of course,
that systems housekeeping procedure, we've never
seen the EVA caution since then.

MCC Okay. Well, we'll keep a look at the loop this

morning on the station contacts, but it looks like no
sweat.
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09 43 30 MCC Skylab, Houston. We've got about i0 seconds to LOS.

We'll be picking you up over at Ascension at 09:50,
which is about 6 minutes from now.

09 43 39 CDR Okay.

09 50 13 CC And, Skylab, we've got you over Ascension here for

almost l0 minutes.

CC Skylab, we've got you over Ascension here for about

9-I/2 minutes.

09 58 28 CC Joe, you might want to switch your - your TV selector

there to TV before you use the VTR. And, in fact,
you could go ahead and rewind back to the beginning
there to give us the full tape if you want - or make
the full tape available to yourself.

09 59 48 CC And, Skylab, we've got about 30 seconds to LOS here

at Ascension, and we'll be picking up Carnarvon at
10:22.

i0 22 43 CC Skylab, Houston, over Carnarvon for about 10-1/2 minutes .....

And we're seeing data on the PCUs.

l0 22 51 SPT Roger, Houston. EV-1 and 2 are in the LS - or in PCU

checkout and I am about to configure CSM comm.

CC Roger.

PLT Now.

CDR Okay, you ready for the rest of this?

PLT Yes.

l0 24 51 CDR All right. We went to BOTH. We verified 02 FLOW,

REG 1 LOW FLOW light is OFF.

PLT Yes.

l0 25 00 CDR LOW VENT FLOW light is OFF.

l0 25 01 PLT OFF.
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CDR And lower SEVA protective visor ; we can check that.

PLT Okay.

CDR That's your outboard one.

PLT All right.

l0 25 12 CDR Okay. PCU checkout. Note: Cuff gage accuracy. Plus/

minus 0.15 psig max, nominal plus/minus 0.04, Reg 1
LOW FLOW and LOW VENT FLOW light's at 5 seconds away.
Go to REG SELECT-PRESS SELECT to REG 2.

l0 25 32 PLT SELECT REG 2.

l0 25 33 CDR All right. You should get a REG 1 LOW FLOW and a
possible LOW VENT FLOW.

l0 25 39 PLT Okay, I got a REG 1 LOW FLOW.

l0 25 hl CDR I did too. No VENT FLOW yet.

PLT Right.

l0 25 45 CDR Okay, now - MODE SELECT, DELTA-P.

PLT If I can get it in here now - I'm going to ... it up.

0kay.

i0 26 03 PLT Phew! I'm going to get back in the foot restraint.

CDR Oh that 's okay.

PLT You can read your checklist from there, right?

CDR Yes.

l0 26 15 PLT Does the light go out?

CDR Huh?

i0 26 18 CDR No, the REG i shouldn't; we're on REG 2.

PLT Yes, but I'm looking for when this SUIT PRESS light
goes out.
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i0 26 30 PLT Psig's 3.1.

CDR Yes.

I0 26 37 PLT Off the peg. I'm sure glad you can modulate this
valve. There, mine was out at 3.

i0 26 h7 CDR Okay, mine's little over at 3.4, and mine is out and
I'm stable 3.4. Okay?

i0 26 57 PLT Okay, I'm stable at a little over 3.4.

i0 27 02 CDR Okay, verify cuff gage stable 3.2 to 3.5. Now, PRESS
SELECT REG 1 and REG i LOW FLOW light should go off.

i0 27 i0 PLT Okay, KEG i. I got a SUIT PRESS light, I just lost -

there it comes.

I0 27 16 CDR Yes, I got a LOW VENT FLOW and a SUIT PRESS light
and I - now it's all OFF.

PLT Okay, I have - clean board.

l0 27 23 CDR I lost a lot of pressure doing that.

PLT So did I.

CDR Yes.

PLT Well, it's cycling. It's doing that hunting now.

CDR Yes.

PLT Whee! That'll do something to your ears.

CDR Yes.

MCC Talking about doing things to your ears, we got you

here on V0X.

l0 27 38 CDR Roger. Okay, we're - we're on PEG l, Rusty. I'm

stable now, 3.8.

l0 27 44 PLT I'm stable at 3.7.

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i0 27 46 CDR Okay, now, PRESS SELECT, BOTH. Verify no change in

cuff gage or displays.

i0 27 54 PLT That's verified.

i0 27 55 CDR Okay. I'm at 3.8.

PLT I got no change either.

CDR _ integrity check. You ready for that?

PLT Yes.

i0 28 Ol CDR Okay. Next sequence terminates 02 flow to PGA. BEG 1

LOW FLOW, and LOW VENT FLOW lights will light. Monitor
cuff gage for max decay of 0.8 psig, your suit has
a check. You're the only one that has it, on account
of that valve in your helmet. So are you - Now, let
me read it through once for you, and then we can get
going. Hey, Joe, are you on the line? Joe?

SPT Standby. I'm just hooking up.

CDR Okay. What we need is - I need you to time 1 minute

for me when I tell you.

SPT Oh, you do, do you?

l0 28 33 CDR Okay. Now, the first thing we're going to do, Paul,
is FLOW SELECT, OFF, and then i_ediately go PRESS
SELECT, OFF, for 1 minute. And you're going to check
the decay. Okay?

PLT Yes.

i0 28 43 CDR All right. First, FLOW SELECT, OFF.

PLT You doing it now?

CDR Yes.

PLT Joe ready?

CDR Yes.

SPT Yes.
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CDR All right.

PLT He 's ready.

CDR All right.

i0 28 5h CDR Okay.

CDR MARK. 1 minute. Some reason I wound up in 3.9 by

the time I got shut off.

PLT Mine came up a tenth also - to 3.8.

CDR I think that's from closing the VENT FLOW.

PLT The flow.

CDR Yes.

lO 29 33 PLT (Whistle I can whistle all right at 8-1/2 psi.

CDR Uh-huh.

PLT (Whistle Easy.

i0 29 47 PLT Looks like I've got a fairly tight suit. I've lost
about a tenth. I've lost less than a tenth. Well,
I've lost 0.08, I guess.

i0 29 58 MCC MARK. Your minute is up.

iO 30 03 CDR Okay. PRESS SELECT to BOTH.

PLT Okay.

i0 30 08 CDR And then, FLOW to IVA.

PLT Oh, that feels good.

i0 30 13 CDR Okay. We passed that check. Cuff gage stable, 3.6

to 3.9; all lights OFF.

i0 30 20 PLT Yes. I'm back at 3.7. All lights are OFF.

CDR Okay. You can go back to - -

i0 30 26 PLT ABSOLUTE.
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l0 30 27 CDR ABSOLUTE, and you're going to get a tone - SUIT PRESS

at 3.1 to 2.8.

l0 30 33 PLT Okay. I'm going to modulate this one, also.

CDR Okay.

CDR Good.

PLT Mine are super.

PLT What I was telling Pete earlier, Joe - I'm sure glad
we got - you can modulate this MODE switch.

CDR You can thank Sky Prince down there on the ground
for that.

PLT Yes, thanks.

MCC Old TDD strikes again. Your books say - -

l0 30 56 PLT Didn't work so good going to ABSOLUTE. (Chuckle)

l0 31 02 CDR Okay. I've got a SUIT PRESS light.

PLT So do I.

i0 31 05 CDR I had a KEG i LOW FLOW and it went OFF and a LOW VENT
FLOW and it went OFF. Okay. Now notify EV-3 that
the _ integrity check is complete. Be so notified,
EV-3.

SPT I stand notified.

CDR Note: The EV-3 will read all procedures from here
to ALSA deactivation following EVA. Temporary stow
EV-I and 2 post cue card. And we're ready - Hey, let
me ask you a question first, Joe. Have you put the
VC-tree in?

SPT No, I ...

CDR - - No. I thought it was the VS. Okay. Very good.

Okay.
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SPT Okay ...

i0 31 54 PLT Whoops, sorry. We missed the DAC.

CDR I'll ge_ it - I'll get it. I'm Just looking at it.
I'll go get it right now.

PLT All right.

i0 32 04 CDR It's OFF.

l0 32 21 CDB It's OFF.

PLT 1 verified.

SPT ...

PLT No, no. You're not really.

CDR Paul.

PLT Because I'm coming, if you ain't there.

CDR Paul. Now watch - when you get up there, it's very
important - I'll keep - -

PLT Yes, I know. Go under you umbilical.

CDR - - umbilical, right.

PLT Okay.

i0 32 49 PLT You're clear. Back down then.

CDR That 's mine you' re stuffing away.

PLT Yes.

CDB You know that.

PLT Okay. The wrong one.

CDR No.

l0 33 02 PLT EV-1. That's me; EV-1 comes up.

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CDR Yes. No.

PLT No.

CDR It's nine_

PLT Or six.

MCC Okay, Skylab. We're going to lose you here at

Carnarvon. We'll be picking you up in about 3 minutes
at Guam.

CDR Okay. Bye.

l0 33 19 PLT I'm EV-1, Joe.

CDR It's his. Yes. Oh, I may have done that inadvertently.

i0 33 33 SPT ...

i0 33 35 CDR NO, you - -

i0 33 41 PLT Okay. All right, I see where you stand.

i0 35 57 CDR Well, I think we ought to switch them.

SPT/PLT All right.

CDR Now, wait a minute. I don't want to do that.

PLT There ain't no way you're going to get around it.

CDR Why?

PLT How else are you going to switch the whole thing?

CDR Well, you Just - Oh, no, you're right. Yes, never
mind, never mind. Yes, because - I forgot, we got
to turn off electrical power and everything else.

PLT Yes.

CDR Ckay. Let's go the way we are. I'll - I'ii Just - -

PLT Here, let me Just stow these umbilicals. All right.

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CDE Even - -

PLT Here, I'll hold it. Give it to me. Tearing up my

checklist.

CDR All right, hold it.

CDR On the back, can I get the - -

CDR What?

SPT ...

l0 37 17 CC And, Skylab; Houston. We've got you for about 9 minutes

over Guam. And when you get done with what you're
doing there, we'd like to know what it was, so that
we can track who we've got on what loop down here.

PLT We didn't do anything.

MCC Okay, so understand you're going to be running on

the - out of the differentspheres.

PLT Yes, that's right.

MCC Okay.

CDR Now wait. Too many people are ta1_ing again. Let me
Just talk to - Wait a minute. Let me talk to Rusty
a minute. Rusty, yesterday I hooked up the umbilical
that I used the other day; so we are, in fact, back-
wards. Okay?

l0 37 56 MCC Okay. So you're coming out of the EV-1 sphere, and

Paul's coming out of the EV-2 sphere. Is that
correct ?

CDR We talked about the hatch, and there is no problem

there ...

l0 38 15 MCC Okay, we dropped out there unfortunately, Pete. We

understand that you are running on the EV-1 umbilical,
and the PLT is running on the EV-2 umbilical. Is
that correct?
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CDR Yes, that's correct.

MCC Okay.

CDR Everybody understand who's on first now?

MCC Roger.

CDR Okay. Now go ahead, Joe.

i0 38 34 CDR The hatch handle is in OPEN. Now the other handle,

the release handle, is in LOCK.

PLT Yes, it always goes to LOCK.

i0 38 45 CDR Okay. Now l'm going to unhook it from the wall.

Next. Now l'm coming. Next. Okay. Next, I have
to unlock the release handle. Right, Paul?

PLT Yes.

CDR Okay.

]0 39 26 CDR Okay, equalize pressure. Now wait. What did you

say about unlock the handle? Okay. Now CLOSE. Good,
yes, to LOCK. It is.

PLT Yes.

CDR Did it kind of ratchet when you closed it, Paul?

PLT I don't remember.

CDR Okay.

PLT All right.

I0 39 53 MCC And, PLT; Houston. If you've got a second there,

it's no big deal, but we're not getting very good
biomed. If you can sort of press on your sensors
through your suit, we'd appreciate it.

PLT Hum bah, hum bah, h_m bah. How's that?

MCC That sounded great. I'll tell you what it looked like.
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CDR Hey, Paul?

CDR Okay. Wrapped around your neck we (laughter) Wait -

Okay, that 's good.

SPT Are you getting TV, Houston?

MCC Say again.

SPT Are you getting TV?

CDR That's right there.

i0 40 32 MCC We saw while you were pressing on them, but it then

dropped out. So if you want to hold yourself all
through the EVA, you can. But we'll give you a choice
of letting go.

i0 40 41 PLT We asked if you were getting TV - television.

CDR They're not over the States.

PLT I was just telling them what Joe asked.

CDR Yes, I know.

PLT Roger.

CDR Okay.

i0 41 26 MCC And, for Joe's information, we pick up realtime at

Ooldstone at ii:02. So that's about another 20 minutes
away.

CDR Okay, we ought to be - -

PLT Thats what I was wondering, why I turned around in

here. Now I know. No.

l0 h2 36 CDR You've got to hold it until we get the hatch closed.

PLT Well, my concern was whether I could reach down here

with it ON.

CDR Rusty, are you there?

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CDR Houston, you there?

MCC Go ahead.

l0 42 49 CDR Okay, I checked that S054; it's okay.

MCC Okay, thank you.

l0 42 58 CDR All right, now let me Just stop 1 second. I got the
brush, I got the hammer, I got a VC tree, and I got
a VS tree, and I got a EV-1 and a EV-2 in the lock.
Is that right?

PLT That ought to be good. Come on in with it.

CDR You better take that cue card off the door first, Joe.

PLT No, it stayed on your side.

SPT Excuse me.

CDR No, the other way.

PLT This end, this end. That's it.

CDR Now be careful, you're not knocking my paint brush

off the handles, are you? You're banging the VS tree,
okay?

CDR Yes, I hope not.

CDR Now wait, let's see. Yes, he's got it up over the
roller. Right?

PLT I'm not sure which it is. Yes, that's right. Okay.

PLT Yes, it's in.

MS It's ...

l0 44 46 PLT REG 1. Okay.

CDR Okay.

l0 4_ 56 PLT Okay, going to DELTA-P.

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CDR Ah, the old ears are doing it. Good!

PLT Good.

CDR Okay.

l0 h5 28 PLT I'm off the peg. SUIT PRESS is out at 3.0.

PLT Now, it'll open up once the egress starts.

CDR Yes.

l0 45 52 PLT Okay, EV-1 has a good pressure; Just a tad under 3.7.

l0 h5 56 CDR And I'm 3.8.

MCC Okay, Houston, we're going over the hill here at Guam,
and we'll be seeing you at Goldstone at ll:01.

CDR Roger, 11:01. Bye.

MCC Bye to you.

l0 h6 ll SPT Roger. Houston, do you read EV-3?

MCC Yes, sir, I do.

SPT Okay, Just a check. Than_ you.

lO 46 50 MCC And, be informed, we are GO for hatch opening.

CDR Okay. Thank you.

l0 46 25 PLT EV-l's in BOTH.

lO 46 32 CDR All right.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRASNCRIPTION

ii 01 03 PLT-EVA - - hanging up the - -

CDR-EVA You're sitting on the boom. You've got to go under-

neath them slightly.

PLT-EVA Well.

CDR-EVA There you go, you're clear. No.

PLT-EVA Okay.

CDR-EVA All right.

PLT-EVA I want that one just like that.

CDR-EVA Okay, coming at you. All right. Got it?

PLT-EVA Yes. Yes, I hope so.

PLT-EVA All right.

ii 01 57 CDR-EVA Now the infamous DAC.

CC Skylab, we've got you over the States now for about
16 minutes.

CDR-EVA Let me get it off.

PLT-EVA Wait, wait, let me.

CDR-EVA Huh?

FLT-EVA Let me put it on, and then I'll check it.

CDR-EVA Well, tell me what to set it - yellow or red? No,

yellow or red?

FLT-EVA That's - doesn't it give a color? Okay, fine.

CDR-EVA Fine.
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CDR-EVA Man, when they said EVA, they weren't kidding.

PLT-EVA (Laughter)

CDR-EVA (Laughter) That's beautiful.

PLT-EVA It goes on f/6, Joe, right?

PLT-EVA Now I see it. Walk toward EV-I, that's myself even.

ii 03 16 CDR-EVA Okay. Red is to red, right? All right, now what

speed? 1/500.

PLT-EVA You're going to have to set this again, I'm sure.

ii 03 h8 CDR-EVA Eleven, wanted at infinity. Yes, you got that and a

one thing at 6 fps you ready for the camera?

PLT-EVA Yes.

CDR-EVA All right. Wait, I'm hung up.

CDR-EVA ...

PLT-EVA Huh?

CDR-EVA I've got to get down. Let me get down. What am I

hanging up there for?

PLT-EVA Your hat is hanging up there.

CDR-EV_ There you go, there you go.

CDR-EVA I don't want it that way. There we go.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA The trigger goes which way?

PLT-EVA Oh. That does help.

CDR-EVA Yes, you're going to put it on the outside rail there.

That's it. Can you see where the silver tape is,
right below the clip?
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PLT-EVA Yes.

CDR-EVA Those line clips, that's where it goes. Okay, my boy.

CDR-EVA Look_ at that, man. Are we sliding down the termina-

tors!

PLT-EVA Well, wait a minute.

CDR-EVA He winked and said, "I'll see you later," as we

slipped along the terminator. How's that? (Laughter)

CDR-EVA Where are you going there?

PLT-EVA I'm trying to get this thing on.

CDR-EVA (Laughter) That's the one thing I always said in

training was going to cause us more trouble than any-
thing else.

CDR-EVA Side down, backwards, hanging out - that a boy. Yea,

yea! Now you better - after that smashing-around you
better check red to red.

ll 05 06 PLT-EVA Okay. I can't see the other one. Those are red to
red.

CDR-EVA Yes.

ll 05 09 PLT-EVA All the settings are on the bottom.

CDR-EVA Yes.

PLT-EVA That's clever.

ll 05 18 PLT-EVA Infinity up ll and 1/500.

ll 05 22 CDR-EVA And, 6 fps.

PLT-EVA Six fps.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA Okay, hold it until I get back in.

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CDR-EVA Okay.

CDR-EVA Okay, here I come.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA Don't fall. That's a long way.

CDR-EVA Tie that. Now tie it. That worked pretty slick.

CDR-EVA Boy, it looks like a long way down to the Earth. Hi,
there.

PLT-EVA You know why?

CDR-EVA Why?

PLT-EVA It is a long way down.

CDR-EVA Yes, I guess you're right. All right, I'll keep on

going.

PLT-EVA Look at the Sun hitting the tops of those clouds_ just
the tippy top.

CDR-EVA Yes.

PLT-EVA Where are we, Rusty? What part of the ground are we
_ver?

MCC Oh, try something like Montana.

PLT-EVA That's what I figured. I think I can see some of

those big lakes up in Canada around Winnipeg.

CDR-EVA Oh, boy, is this translation super slick. The big

water tank in the sky (laughter) is alot better than
the little water tank in Marshall. Whee.

PLT-EVA Okay, I'll hook your umbilical.

ll 07 Oh CDR-EVA Wait, I want to look at the CBRM 15.

CDR-EVA Okay, wait.

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ll 07 20 CDR-EVA Okay, it's - Joe, you better get the drawing out.
Let's see, there's three CBRMs here, and it looks
to me like it's the furtherest to my right and the
closest to the Sun end.

MCC That 's correct.

CDR-EVA All right, that's correct. And Rusty, you want me to

hit it - at the bottom of the leg that has all the
screws sticking out. Is that right?

MCC Stand by, let me get my little picture here.

CDR-EVA Get your little picture. It's not exactly the way I
p_ ctured it.

MCC Okay, the upper - If you were standing in front of it,

it's the upper left-hand portion of it that's raised.
Is that correct?

CDR-EVA Yes.

MCC Okay, if you start at the screws on the upper right

hand corner of chat upper portion - -

CDR-EVA Uh-huh.

ll 08 13 MCC - - okay, you come down three screws, and you hit the
corner, and you turn to your left, and you go one
screw. And that one's the one you pound on.

CDR-E_A Hold it, you Just lost me.

CDR-EVA The - upper right is away from the Sun end.

MCC That's correct, and you come toward the Sun end three
screws. That takes you down that first short leg.

CDR-EVA On it.

PLT-EVA Yes .... one screw to the left. See?

CC Right?

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CDR-EVA I see. I got it. All right, now.

CC And, that's the one you pound on.

CDR-EVA Yes. Okay, I'll do that last. What's next? Let's

go on the checklist. I got to clamp m_ LSU.

PLT-EVA Yes.

PLT-EVA No, not yet. I thought you said you wanted to do

that last.

CDR-EVA Yes, I want -

PLT-EVA Yes, I know.

CDR-EVA Okay, go ahead and pass me the h,mmer. I can't

clamp my LSU then, because I'm going to have to go
around her.

PLT-EVA All right.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA Let me clamp your ISU up there.

CDR-EVA Okay.

ii 09 07 CDR-EVA Oh, look at that neat SAS panel. Oh, and there is the
orange sail. Oh, I see what's the matter with that
sail. That's why we got the hop spot on the wall.
Joe, you're absolutely right. The one rod didn't -
the aft rod didn't extend fully. Yes. I'll tell
you we could - -

SPT Houston, EV-3.

MCC We got you, go.

PLT-EVA Are you ready for the hs_mer, Pete?

CDR-EVA Yes.

MCC Go ahead, Joe.

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SPT Stand by.

ll 09 51 SPT Okay, Rusty. I'm on the step where I turn the REG ON,
and then I go charge around and verify the batteries
are charging, and immediately turn the REG OFF. It's
not discharging, it's at zero, essentially zero.

ll l0 09 MCC Okay, Joe, we've got the checklist here. And we

dropped out just a second there. Understand you got
the REG ON, and the CHARGER switch ON, and it did not
discharge when you turned the CHARGER ON.

CDR-EVA Okay, stop.

SPT That's right, it reads a hair below zero just like

normal.

Ii l0 27 MCC Okay, and then you want CHARGER, OFF.

ll l0 28 SPT Well, the first time I went CHARGER, ON, and it

dropped to minus 5 amps momentarily, and then to
zero, and I hit CHARGER OFF. Now I have REG and
CHARGER ON - -

CDR-EVA Did you retract it?

SPT - - I have the CHARGER in BAT - STATUS lights in

zero on the amps.

MCC Okay, stand by.

SPT I just went through the cycle again. Go ahead.

ii ii O0 MCC Okay, if you turned the REG OFF after you saw the
discharge there, that's just right, and we're ready
for Pete to bash on it.

SPT Okay. No, wait a minute, because I've done it again,

Rusty. Should I Just go through it - go through the
steps again? Ignore the responses, and will that
get us to a ready configuration?

ll ll 21 MCC Okay, as long as you turn the REG ON, the CHARGER ON,
and then the REG OFF, then we're ready.
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_PT Okay.

CDR-EVA I've got to get to it first. Just a minute. Okay,

Paul, tell me that I'm staying clear of - -

PLT-EVA Yes, I will.

CDR-EVA - - any - Holy Christmas, that Sun is bright.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA I will, I'll tell you.

PLT-EVA Wait, Pete, if you're going to go further, I've got

to give you more umbilical.

CDR-EVA Okay. I can almost reach it. All right. Okay.

PLT-EVA I'll tell you when he hits it, Joe.

ii 12 31 PLT-EVA There it goes. Yes. Boy, is he hitting it! Holy

eats!

CDR-EVA All right, anything happen?

ii 12 5h SPT Houston, EV-3. He hit it with the hammer. I had no

joy. I turned the CHARGER ON, and I'm getting a lot
of amps plus on the battery. Do you want to have a
look at it_

MCC Okay, that's good. It - it worked. Thank you very

much, gentlemen; you've done it again.

PLT-EVA How about that.

CDR-EVA (Laughter) I can't believe it.

PLT-EVA (Laughter) I can't, either.

MCC How hard did you hit it?

CDR-EVA Pretty hard.

PLT-EVA Yes, he hit it pretty hard.

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MCC That's what it takes. The old Army technique wins

once again.

PLT-EVA But he's still hanging on. The ATM is still whipping
around, but it will settle down soon.

SPT Rusty, EV-3.

MCC Go ahead.

ii 13 45 SPT I got a REG light on that CBRM now. Shall I command

the REG ON, or are you happy with the present con-
figuration?

MCC Stand by just l, I'll check with EGIL.

SPT Thank you.

PLT-E_A Let me get rid of the b_mmer for you, Pete.

CDR-EVA Yes, just a second, let me get locked hack in here

again. Okay.

ii 13 50 MCC Okay, we'd like to leave it the way it is, EV-3. Just
leave it with the REG OFF.

SPT Okay, just keep us posted on your desires, and we'll

press on.

CC Okay.

PLT-EVA Watch the boom.

CDR-EVA Okay, stand by. Stop.

PLT-EVA Yes.

CDR-EVA Yes.

CDR-EVA Okay.

ll 14 12 PLT-EVA Okay, EV-1 is at 365, no light.

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ll lh 18 CDR-EVA Okay. EV-2 is at 370, and while I was just finishing

pounding, why - I had a flow dropout and back on
again, but I think that was -

PLT-EVA I'm getting that, too as I move around up here, Pete.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA You ready?

CDR-EVA Yes, retract it.

SPT-EVA All right, let me read you the next step while you're
retracting it which is center boom, extend 1 foot,
deploy the boom hook, and verify that the boom hook is
unlocked. That may already be done.

CDR-EVA Yes. It will be.

PLT-EVA All right. Just a minute and i'll catch up with you
when you get there. Okay.

CDR-EVA Wacked a little paint off the CBRM, but I guess it

was worth it.

MCC Hold on; I'll check with EGIL.

CDR-EVA Okay. We're 50 percent done now. If I can find a

1-millimeter speck on D-l, we've got it made, huh?

PLT-EVA Why don't you clamp your 11mhilical, Pete?

CDR-EVA Okay. Yes. Let me do that.

CDR-EVA How's that?

PLT-EVA Okay.

CDR-EVA Wait. I didn't give myself enough. Ahh, come on.

PLT-EVA Yes. They work like they always have.

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CDR-EVA Yes. But I'll tell you. The big water tank in the
sky is the way to do it. Say, Rusty, while he's
doing that, let me say something about this sail.

MCC Okay. We 're listening.

ii 15 40 CDR-EVA It needs to be rotated. We'd get a little better

cooling on the upper part if we rotated it - (Chuckle)
How am I going to tell you?

PLT-EVA Looking from the inside out.

ii 15 55 CDR-EVA Looking from the inside out, we want to rotate it

- it looks to me like counterclockwise, approximately
15 degrees. And, that would cover the top end of the
gold that's exposed. And, it would also pull more
of it over the bottom end, where it's not fully
deployed. And I really recommend that we do that.

MCC Okay. We copy.

CDR-EVA That's why that water tank ring is hot, then cold
underneath, and then hot again, Paul.

PLT-EVA Yes. Do you want it to go - If you look down there,

it's low on your right side.

CDR-EVA As I look down there, it's low - It's - looking at

me?

PLT-EVA Yes.

CDR-EVA As I look that way, which is minus X - -

PLT-EVA Yes.

CDR-EVA - - it should rotate this way, which means it's low

on the rlght-hand side.

PLT-EVA Okay.

ii 16 42 CDR-EVA Yes. Should go counterclockwise about 15 degrees.

PLT-EVA Okay.
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CDR-EVA That would really do the trick.

PLT-EVAAll right,' Joe. I'm ready - the VC - what do we put

on there first?

CDR-EVA What am I flying over, Rusty?

MCC You're flying over the chain of islands just north

of the Dominican Republic now.

CDR-EVA Oh, yes. I recognize it.

SPT You getting TV, Rusty?

MCC Yes, I do. And EV-3, for your information, we're

going to be going LOS here in about a minute from
now. So if you do not want the TV on the VTR, you
can turn it off.

SPT Roger, Roger. You ready, if I read, to send it down?

Yes.

MCC EV-3, in fact, we have stopped the tape recorder.

You have lh minutes left on it; so you can turn it
on when you decide you've got something worth looking
at.

SPT Okay.

ll 17 56 CDR-EVA Well, it's off about 4 inches, but that's good enough;
we'll go with that.

CDR-EVA Very nice.

PLT-EUJA Okay. The way it looked - Let us get it stopped, Joe.

PLT-EVA Rusty, this boom is really working slick.

MCC That's probably because of the improved water con-

ditions up there.

CDR-EVA Okay. Stop.

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CDR-EVA No, wait a minute. Paul, back it up a little. I'm

going to have to go back in there. Yes. Okay.
Stop; that's good enough.

ii 18 37 CDR-EVA Launch lock, release, pull. And it stowed.

CT Yes. Okay. Stand by.

CDR-EVA Okay, to ... - Boy, the canister rolls easily - I

means rocks easily.

PLT Does it?

CDR-EVA Yes. All right, go ahead.

MCC Okay. We're going to pick you up again at Carnarvon

at 12 on the min - on the hour.

PLT-EVA Twelve? We've got to stop for lunch then.

CDR-EVA Do what?

ii 19 12 MCC That's the people at Greenwich that do that - not you

guys. Presson.

12 00 21 PLT-EVA To 5 now.

CDE-EVA Okay .... Have to turn - Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay.

PLT-EVA Hello, Houston.

MCC Hi there. We're reading you five-square, and we got

you over Carnarvon for about the next 7 minutes.

PLT-EVA Okay, Pete is just finishing up at the Sun end. He

thinks he saw and identified the speck on the S052.
We did not look at it, of course. That is, we didn't
look at the display. And, we've been going from
experiment pointing back to solar inertial while he
works down there_ because that whole c_nister really
moves when he's in the XP.

12 01 09 MCC Yes, sir. You should definitely be in - in solar

inertial when he works on it. In fact, the procedure
calls that out, Joe.
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SPT Well, I don't think it does, Rusty - -

CDR-EVA All right;

SPT - - but we can argue about that over a beer.

12 01 21 CDR-EVA All right. All right. Now, it's all done. The in-
side 82B handle is down. The outside 82_B door is
LOCKED. They're both in the thing. What's next?

CDR-EVA Okay?

CDR-EVA And two things, Rusty: As he started rotating the

canister around - You know all these things we've
been seeing on the white light coronagraph?

MCC Yes, sir. Go ahead.

12 01 5h CDR-EVA Well, I believe they're coming from inside the ATM.

Would you go for that? Because as he started rotating
the canister with the door open, I actually saw one
little piece of - it looked to me like silver in-
sulation, Mylar-type or whatever, come floating out
of the S052. Okay. Now when I got the S052 around
to me, I'd looked down in there, and of course - I
stand right over it_ so that took care of any sun-
shine that'd back out at me -And in the position
that you described, it looked, as best I could tell,
like a piece of white thread, if that makes sense.
And I guess it does. There is a lot of white cloth
around in here. and I believe I got it off. The disk
on the outside, anyhow, is as clean as I can see it
right now. And, Just to make sure, I brushed from
inside out, 360 degrees around very gently. There was
no tendency for any hairs to hang up on it. And as
best as I could tell, there were no hairs on it. The
brush worked fine, and it remained soft. So I think
everything's in good shape, and you can get a look at
it later.

MCC Okay. Fine. Thanks very much. Would you guess what
most of those particles are? I understood that at
least one you saw looked like aluminized Mylar, or
something llke that.
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12 03 13 CDR I - I only saw one piece come out. But I'm thinking
that - Look, another thing -When I pulled S052 film
container out, there was a little washer floating in
there that was _n the container - next to the container.
And I picked that up. We have continually run across
cutout blind rivets floating around inside the space-
craft. And lo and behold, I've seen at least One out
here floating around_ It came floating out of the
ATM. So I still think this thing is belching itself
of whatever wasn't kept out of it when it was on the
ground. It's just slowly - All these things are work-
ing their way out. Let me tell you another thing. I
believe it was A-quad that I'm looking down at from
the VC tree station, and the silver insulation, look-
ing plus X to the left side, which is in the Sun, which
is in the Sun, is quite blistered all over the whole
side of the service module. You can very definitely
tell it's been in the sunshine for a long time. The
quad itself looks pretty good, although there is paint
blistered around it. But not any more so than on the
other quad that I can see. There's white paint
blistered pretty well all over the service module,
to the point where some of it fls_ked off.

MCC Okay. We got you.

12 04 h5 SPT Okay. Pete verified the 82A, 82B, and the XUV MON
door_ are CLOSED. Rusty, it was in the checklist to
go hack to SI. It was on the second p_ge of that
particular change. Sorry.

12 05 01 CDR-EVA Okay. All doors are closed except S05h.

SPT Okay ....

PLT-EVA Yea! What?

PLT-EVA Wait a minute; I ain't got the DAC on yet.

CDR-EVA Our biggest problem so far, Rusty, has been that DAC.

MCC Yes. I guess we'd have guessed that, too.

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12 05 30 SPT Houston. We got an - an ACS mA1f, probably CMG SAT.

We're momentum dumping now.

CC Okay. We'll see if we can give you some word.

SPT Thank you.

PLT-EVA Okay. What do you want me to do, Joe?

SPT ...

CDR l'm on my way. Here come my ziggies.

CDR-EVA There we go into night too, huh?

PLT-EVA Yes.

PLT-EVA I'm going to need some new settings for this DAC in a
minute, Joe, when the Sun sets.

PLT-EVA Just hold it right there, Pete, until I change

them, will you?

12 06 20 CDR-EVA Yes. I'm in the - I'm in the foot restraint.

PLT-EVA Okay.

CDR-EVA I'm perfectly comfy.

PLT-EVA That enough umbilical?

CDR-EVA Wheee! Is that a pretty - Yes. Is that a pretty sun-

set! Upside down. Wheel

12 06 38 PLT-EVA We got a END OF FILM light on this thing; with only

75 percent gone.

PLT-EVA I'll try it. Give me some settings.

CDR-EVA It's probably Jammed.

CDR-EVA Happened the last time.

CDR-EVA Last time we had one of those END OF FILM lights with
- Think I better raise my EV visor; that's one of the
reasons I can't see anything.
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CDR-EVA Oh, that's pretty!

12 07 12 PLT-EVA Okay. f/l.8.

CDR-EVA Hey. You're not going to get any more pictures. I can
tell you that.

12 07 25 CC Okay. Joe, be advised. We're reselecting 2 and 3

in the Z-axis, for your information, on the rate
_ros .

SPT Thank you. I just figured out what was wrong.

CDR-EVA Oh, boy, can I see the lightning on the ground. Where
are we, anyhow?

CC Okay. You're coming up over Indonesia at the present

t im_ _

CDR-EVA Ah, it's a thunderstorm. I see three very bright fires.

I wonder if they're oil well fires.

PLT-EVA Yes, sir. Yes.

CDR-EVA All righty.

CDR-EVA Okay.

PLT-EVA Hey, that lighting is good out here, isn't it?

CDR-EVA Yes.

PLT-EVA Why don't you see if you can get a - -

CDR-EVA Hold it. That's good. Right there.

PLT-EVA Yes.

CC O_ay. We're about to get LOS here at Carnarvon. We'll

b_ picking you up at Guam in about 5 or 6 minutes.

12 08 53 CDR-EVA Okay. You can go ahead and retract it now, Paul.

12 15 04 CDR-EVA Ah, heck: Ah darn it!

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PLT-EVA Here' s my foot.

CDR-EVA This is an impossible task. As usual, it's got to be

the toughest one of them all.

PLT-EVA Get back on top, I'll grab you on either side with mY
feet.

CDR-EVA I can't get back up on top. I'm rotated around now.

There, how's that? Gosh darn stuff is hard to handle
out here. It doesn't want to do what I want it to do,
at all. Real simple idea. All it wants to do is
stay straight.

12 16 01 CC And, Skylab, Houston; we've got you for about the

next 5-1/2 minutes.

12 16 02 CDR-EVA I wish I knew who kept inventing these net-o things

like putting sails around. It's the toughest task
in EVA. I got it! I got it, i got it all done!

PLT-EVA Don't touch it, don't touch it!

CDR-EVA No. I'd Just like for the thermal fan to determine -
No, okay, I'm getting out of here.

PLT-EVA Let me get back in.

CDR-EVA All right. Hold on there.

PLT-EVA No, wait.

CDR-EVA Wait.

PLT-EVA Let me get back up there to the handrail.

CDR-EVA There we go. Okay. Wheel That's the most work of

the whole EVA.

CC Roger.

PLT-EVA Where am I?

12 16 38 CDR-EVA 3.7, okay; it's on there.

PLT-EVA What am I hung up on?

CDR-EVA Where wait.

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PLT-EVA There. Okay, you're in, whatever it was.

PLT-EVA Whoops. _Laughter)

CDR-EVA Okay.

12 16 54 CDR-EVA All right. We've got one light blinking. I guess

that's a - must be a running light; its not an EVA
light. Hey, Joe. Can you turn on the docking lights?
Not the docking lights but the - darn lights were on,
but not the - you know what I'm talking about, the
running lights•

PLT-EVA No, I don't think we can. Can we? No, they're

on the upper right-hand side of the panel there.

12 17 33 CDR I guess they're tracking and docking, I think. Docking

is what I want. See, that's the white light right next
to D024 that really lights - No, forget it. No, that's
the flasher; turn that off.

PLT-EVA ... tracking light.

CDR-EVA No, okay, never mind.

CDR-EVA Hey, are you ready for D024?

PLT-EVA Let me get your umbilical out of the way.

CDR-EVA Roger.

12 17 58 MCC Troops, if you want the docking lights on, we can com-
mand them on from the ground, if you like.

CDR-EVA Okay. Well, I guess I can read D024. There's a nice,

white light mounted on it, right?

MCC Should be.

CDR-EVA Yes. Well, that's all right; I can read it. A and B
•.. Wait a minute; let me get down there. Okay. Here
I go.

PLT-EVA Hey, Rusty, post-pass, remind me to talk to you about

the scorch patterns on the outside of the vehicle here,
will you please?

MCC Yes, sir, we will.

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CDR-EVA Okay, now what do you want me to do? Just a second.

PLT-EVA Don't I move this DAC before ingress, Joe?

12 19 21 CDR-EVA Okay, I can move the container, and it's not stuck.
Okay; f/7.

PLT-EVA Yes, I'd chanc4 - I "don't see any f/7.

12 20 12 CDR-EVA All right. Lid's OPEN. Okay. My altitude fly off in

there. Okay, i0. Okay, I have it in my hand. Samples
toward the ... Okay. No, not yet.

12 20 20 MCC And, just for information, it appears, Pete, you may be

running a little low on your diverter there as far as
which half is taking out the cooling. And, we've got
about _0 seconds to LOS here at Guam. We'll be seeing
you over the states at Goldstone at 12:38.

12 20 38 CDR-EVA Okay. It's stowed. Yes, okay.

CDR-EVA Whee !

CDR-EVA Hey, that's one of them.

CDR-EVA Okay, now you want the pip pins back in, right?

CDR-EVA Get two of them first. Just one of these deals where
you got no foot restraints; you're going one handed,
you know. This thing is really - All you had to have
done is put a set of foot restraints there, and you'd
have had it made.

PLT-EVA Well, it's too late.

PLT-EVA You don't need the container?

CDR-EVA No, I'm not there yet. Wait a minute.

CDR-EVA Just have to diddle around; trying to take forever.

PLT-EVA Yes, I know. I've noticed.

12 22 02 CDR-EVA Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

12 37 48 PLT You want to take this tree? Oh -

CDR Hey, Paul.

PLT What?

CDR The same thing applies here, right? The 0 - the OWS
is higher than we are, right?

PLT Yes.

CDR Why don't I just go to OPEN?

PLT Yes.

CDR Okay. Whenever it equalizes it'll open.

PLT Yes. I can hear it coming in.

CDR Yes. I can feel it on my ears.

12 38 15 MCC And, Skylab, we've got you over Goldstone on the

stateside pass here for about i0 minutes.

CDR Roger. We're in up - complete.

CC Okay. We'd like to know if you're through using the

VTR. We're set up for real time. And INCO can dump
the tape recorder.

PLT Yes. We're done with it.

MCC Okay. And, Joe, depending upon what your time scale
looks like, if we can power up for some VT - for some
$052 white light to take a look at it, we'd appreciate
that. But that depends on your time line and we've
got a procedure standing by, if you'd like us to read
it to you.

PLT Okay. We're doing post-EVA, Rusty. He'll get back

with you when he can.

MCC Roger. No sweat.

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PLT Okay. They got a month to look at it.

MCC Negative. We don't get the down-link.

CDR Yes. That's right. We want to - -

PLT Yes.

CDR - - verify that we got that - -

SC You're right.

PLT - - thing off. Yes.

CDR No, not at all.

PLT Well, we ... - -

CDR The - the OWS hasn't equalized yet, anyhow.

Sl°T Okay, Houston. Got a pencil? Here, let me get a

pencil. Go ahead.

MCC Okay, Joe. You can Just do it as we're calling it

out, if you want.

PLT Right. Go ahead. I'll relay for him.

12 39 h2 CC Okay. We want the FINE SUN SENSOR door to OPEN. And

verify that's OPEN and then go into EXPERIMENT POINTING
MODE.

12 39 54 MCC And following that, we want to - -

PLT Wait. Wait a minute.

PLT Are we still dumping?

MCC I think that's - Stand by on that. It looks as

though we're about 6 degrees out of attitude,
presently. Hold on. Why don't you Just press on
and we'll get back with you?

12 40 19 PLT All right. So, the FINE SUN SENSOR door's OPEN.

CDR Paul?
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PLT What?

CDR Let me give you the hammer.

SPT Rusty, just as we came up on sunrise on this pass, I

was looking out the window, and I noticed the ATM go
into an attitude maneuver. At the time, I assumed it
was the third dump maneuver, but maybe it overdid
itself.

MCC 0 - Okay. We're looking at it right now.

CDR Where do we go? The suit donning stations?

PLT Yes.

CDR Okay.

PLT Uh-oh. Go ahead.

CDR Yes. That's down here. Now, wait a minute. Do we

turn the DAC on?

SPT I think so.

CDR Yes. For M151. Well, I'm - I'm halfway there. I'm
going to pocket over here and turn it on. Ha-ha.
There's some film left anyhow. They want that.'

PLT Well, I'm not going to be down there for a while.

CDR You aren't?

PLT No.

CDR Well, I'll hold it. Maybe ... itself.

PLT Okay. I'll get it when I get down.

CDR Matter - matter of fact, there's only 15 percent left.

PLT Are you done, Joe?

PLT Well, how about - No, no, no, with this S052 thing?

PLT Well, how about paying out my umbilical then, and I'll
go below. Can you put that someplace? Where is the
strap it was on? Here.
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CDR Well, it does say, "push button on." There's not going
to be much film, but go ahead, - -

PLT All right.

CDR - - when you come down.

PLT All right.

CDR Okay. Rusty, you there?

12 42 38 MCC Yes, we are.

12 42 38 CDR Okay. My appraisal of looking at the flat orange

on the sail is that other than slightly flat, it has
not lost its original color at all.

MCC Okay. Understand. It's Just like the sheen has gone
off it, but about the same color.

CDR That's my appraisal, yes.

PLT Yes. You -

CDR Yes.

PLT Yes.

12 43 06 CDR PRESS SELECT to OFF and - and doff a glove.

PLT Okay. Oh, you're supposed to go PRESS SELECT, OFF

first?

12 43 42 PLT What?

PLT That's good.

SPT Thought I could share with Rusty our little simile.

We used a hammer and a feather out there today and
did some good with both of them.

CDR Block 2.

12 44 17 MCC Okay. And Joe, we can proceed on now. We're back in

SOLAR INERTIAL. We - What we did was a CMG RESET
there. Right at the last maneuver we ended up in
the CMG RESET maneuver.
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PLT Guess that I can get off.

SPT Okay.

CDR Yes.

CDR Why is this thing being so stubborn? All right.

... down.

12 44 49 SPT Okay, go a - Wait a minute. I got SUN, and I'll go

to EXP. And I'm there, and press on.

12 44 56 MCC Okay. Just go ahead and point to Sun center. And we

want to turn the 52 MAIN POWER, ON, and the DOOR, OPEN.

SPT In work.

12 45 34 MCC Okay, Joe. Then, after you get the door open, we want
to go the MIRROR POSITION to TV, the SYNC GENERATOR to
PRIME, and the WLC TV POWER, ON.

12 45 55 MCC And, of course, we'll need you to select whichever

monitor you bring it up on on the video switch for us.

PLT I'll select MON 1 because it's already on.

CDR Well, that wasn't too bad for a couple of amateur

EV-1 and 2s, seeing that's not our regular role.

12 46 21 CDR That i plus 36 sound familiar to you, Rusty?

MCC Roger. One plus 36 sounds very good to me.

SPT I thought I was especially good in my new bit part as

EV-3.

CDR But we had to keep urging him on, though.

CDR EV-B?

SPT Yes.

CDR What are you up to?

SPT ...

MCC And, EV-3, we can reset that ACS alert light, if you'd
likeus to.
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SPT That's a CMG MALF and no sweat.

CDR No, are your switches and doors ...? Did you set the
door 0P_?

MCC Okay, Joe. And - and w - -

SPT Let's see; l've given it the door OPEN two times now,
and it's - it's going white and then going back to
barber pole. I suspect that we may be more than 5 arc-
minutes off, although the FINE SUN SENSOR doesn't
think we are.

12 47 45 MCC Okay, Joe. Did you reenable power to the door? I

guess that's about the only thing I can think of
right off the bat. And, how long does it stay white
before it goes back to barber pole?

12 47 56 SPT Not too long - 4 or 5 seconds. I did enable the prime

to reenable the primer and motor per the procedure.
And, indeed, I have a barber pole talkback, which
tends to verify that. AUTO door is NORMAL. MAIN
POWER is ON. I've gone from FAST SCAN to STANDARD MODE.

12 48 15 MCC Okay_ And do you have the mirror to - to TV WLC

POWER ON? Remember it has a 90-second warmup there;
so we may not see anything right away.

SPT Yes, but that's got nothing to do with the door not
- not coming open. The door ought to come open. I'm
going to connnand it CLOSED just to - and it, you know,
immediately goes barber pole again.

CDR Oh -

12 48 34 SPT Now I'm going to command it OPEN again.

CDR We'll hold at our present configuration - -

12 _8 37 SPT Now it goes white and stayed white, and it's still
white in the - Ha! We may just make it this time. -
Doggone it. Wait a minute.

PLT While you did that, I could - You didn't notice that
smell?

12 48 57 SPT It went back to barber pole then, Rusty.

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MCC Okay. Stand by on it, Joe.

PLT PLT ... H-alpha.

MCC Why don't you press on, Joe. Let us take a look at
it here, and we'll get back to you.

CDR Wait, wait, Paul - Paul, hold it. Man, are you strung
out! (Laughter)

PLT (Laughter) ... Wooo!

CDR That's funny. (Laughter) I was waiting for you to

let go whistle back in - in the food locker. (Laughter)

12 49 32 CDR Hey, Rusty, you there?

MCC Yes, sir. Go ahead.

CDR We'll hold right here in our suits (laughter) until

you get that S052 door open. I hear another job
coming. (Laughter) Don't get too far undressed.

CDR Oh, l'm serious. Can you get the door? ...

MCC I hope that we can disregard that on you.

SPT Hey, Rusty.

MCC Yes, sir, we've got you on TV real time right now
down there in the 0WS. Go ahead, Joe.

12 50 09 SPT I have -l've opened the H-alpha 2, and we are far

from being Sun-centered. So, let me manually zero
the FINE S_{ SENSORS, which is what our problem was
all along, I think, huh?

CDR ... they're dumping the TV.

12 50 37 CDR The wedges get off-scale?

SPT It sure looks that way.

CDR Yes.

CDR I'ii tell you -

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SPT ...

CDR When in SI I get ... when I moved hanging on to that

canister.
12 51 16 SPT Yes, the - the UP/DOWN FINE SUN SENSOR is - is going
sticky - sticking on me here, Houston. I'm going to
have to drive it way off.

MCC Okay. Understand you tried to rezero those - the wedges

there. We concur with that. Looking at the ACQ SUN
SENSORS, they both indicate that you are, in fact, Sun-
centered. So, let's try rezeroing, and hopes that
works.

SPT Okay. The up/down wedge had that peculiar problem in

it where you have to drive it clean off the Sun and
then back on. And it's coming on.

MCC All right. There is some suspicion you may be on the

back side of the wedge.

SPT I know, but it was stuck before.

MCC Okay.

CDR Yes. We'll get it.

SPT I think we are on the front side now, Houston. Now

I'll t_j to open that door again.

12 53 01 SPT Okay. The DOOR is OPEN, I've got a READY light.

I'm centering up. And let me select WHITE LIGHT
CORONAGRAPH. And go to TV position.

12 53 16 MCC Okay, we've got it right now. And it looks like it's
gone. It looks like a very good job, guys.

SPT Of course.

CC There is a little bit of trash floating around out

there, but other than that, it looks great.

SPT Isn't that something?

CDR Okay, I think there's trash floating around there

because even in SI, when I was out there hanging onto
that canister - the railing that's on that canister -
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I moved that canister. And if there's anything loose

inside there again - like, I think, when we first saw
all those things after docking and everything, we Just
- whatever was floating around in there, we knocked
loose. And I think I shook things loose.

12 53 53 MCC Okay. By the way, Joe, you can go ahead and close it
up now, and you can take it right back to the config-
uration it was in, that is SI with all the doors
closed, the SYNC generator OFF and the WLD power OFF.
And we're about to get LOS here over the States, and
we'll be picking you up over Vanguard at 13:03.

CDR Bye.

MCC Bye, bye. Good Job, guys.

12 54 15 CDR Thank you. It was fun. Okay. What'd you do?

SPT ...

13 03 51 MCC Skylab, we've got you at the Vanguard, gateway to

the South Atlantic anomaly, for the next 6 minutes
or so.

13 04 2_ CDR Roger, Rusty. For your information, the OWS temperature

rose to about 80.5, almost 81 .... the duct ... now.

MCC Okay. We think that's probably because the aft heat

exchangers were off. Thank you.

CDR Okay.

MCC And, at your leisure, we're sending up a message here

to the teleprinter regarding doing an S183 run later
today. And you can breeze over that sometime within
the next hour, and we'll get a pad up to you if you
want to do it. That's up to you.

CDR Roger, Rusty. Is that for me to do?

MCC I'm not sure who is scheduled - yes, it is scheduled

for CDR. And it's your decision on it, Pete. Right
now, the - the message that you're going to get says
something about 17:h5. But we think we can probably
do it earlier than that, if you'd like.
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CDR Okay. Well, I'd like to give it a try if it's running

that magazine, because I never did figure out whether
I goofed up by shutting the power off in the middle
of the cycle. I don't think I did, but never have
figured out what happened ... try.

MCC Okay. Fine. We'llbe ready.

CDR That must also be -

CDR That must also be ... T027.

MCC Okay.

CDR Is that correct? Is that correct?

MCC Yes, that is correct.

CDR Okay. No - no strain. We'll work until we get tired

or run into 23:00. Got a question for you, Rusty,
real quick, if you've got the photo people there.
We used up the magazine transporter 05 on suit donning.
And we've gotten to the part where we're just getting
re_,_y to do our zippers, to take our suit off, and I
want to know if you want the rest of that. If so, I
think you can use transporter 07 or either the one in
A-2 or A-3. And I know that they're scheduled for
something, but if you've got some film for me real
quick, let me know before we start, and I'll put it on.

MCC Okay. We'll get right back to you on it.

13 07 55 MCC Okay. And for your information, we've got the REG ON
on the CBRM 15, and it's looking real good.

CDR Very good.

MCC And, EV-3, we're going to go ahead and set your ACS
ALERT light here. We got another one on fron the
reset routine.

MCC Okay, Pete. We - we've been looking around, and we

c_n't find any film that's going to be appropriate
for you to use. So Just go ahead and get out of the
suits. We'll Just miss that. And be advised that
during the next dump, we expect, because of the momen-
tum situation as it is now, that we may see another
reset routine coming in. So, you can be prepared for
thatone.
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CDR Okay.

13 12 52 MCC Okay, Skylab. We got LOS here at the Vanguard in about

another 15 seconds. And we'll be picking you up next
at - Okay. Goldstone at 14:16.

CDR Roger. When's the next EVA?

MCC The next one's going to be when you jump into the
water, or at least out onto the carrier. Don't break
your neck.

13 13 20 CDR Okay.

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14 16 06 CDR Hello, Houston. Are you there?

CC Roger. Very good. We're here for ll minutes over

Goldstone.

CDR Okay, I got a lot I want to tell you about on S05h

today.

CC Go ahead.

CDR Okay. The S054 door lock - film door lock, would not
lock. So, it's only held by the magnetic lock. So,
I unlocked it, and it would no way move after that.
And I tried and tried, and you'll hear it on the voice
tape. And I couldn't get it, but I wanted to make
sure that I knew what I was doing. So I checked the
rest of the doors, and they all worked fine. And, for
some reason, it just decided to bind up in the pins
retracted position on that door; so the magnets are
the only thing that's holding it. But they are very
strong magnets; so I wouldn't worry about that door.
I don't believe that it's ever going to open until
it's pulled open.

CC Roger.

CC And, CDR; Houston. While we're talking here. The -

We're currently working on a message which is in -
involves some changes to your day 27 transfers. So
in case you were going to try to get into any of that
stuff early, be advised that that will be coming up.

CDR I couldn't imagine that the day 27 transfers would go

the way they were written.

CC Figured you were thinking like that. As a reminder

to the PLT - he'd mentioned something about scorching
on the outside, and he said he wanted us to remind
him of it, so he could talk about it later.
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PLT Yes, Crip, the MDA and the - the thermal curtains,
which were formerly white, are both very yellow now.
They're very yellow. And not only that, but it's a -
You can see everything that's between the surfaces and
the Sun, because there's a perfect outline of it. So,
it must have all happened in the 28 days we've been
here. But, I triedto get some pictures of the MDA
with the DAC while I was out there. I don't know if
they'll come out or not. But - I mean that it is
almost brown it has changed color so much - the MDA
especially around the STS. And as you go forward to
aft on the MDA, this discoloring gets darker.

CC Okay, very good, Paul. We copy that.

14 18 33 CDR It looks very similar to what the white paint did on

the Surveyor that we brought back from the Moon.

CC Ah so.

CC We have no id - idea of where you're at right now, on

your - on your procedures. But, for the ATM eloseout,
we have a canister roll that we'd like to - to give
you. I don't know who is going to do that today,
whether Joe is or - or Paul. But what we are going
to do is we want to put the canister roll to zero.
That's left blank in the checklist right now. And
the checklist called for experiment roll, and we don't
have that available to you. But we want the canister
roll at zero.

PLT Okay, copy that. You got a page in the checklist for
chat?

CC Yes, I do, It's - Stand by 1. It's on page 5-10 of

the ATM Experiment Checklist. And it - it might be a
l_ctle bit confusing, because the way that goes - goes
through, it has you looking at experiment rolls.

PLT Okay, zero canister to]l, huh?

CC Roger.

CC SPT, Houston. Are you in the vicinity of the ATMpanel?

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CDR What do you want, Crip? I'ii do it.

14 20 55 CC Okay. We'd like you to cycle - cycle the STAR TRACKER

ACQUISITION switch to AUTO for us, please.

CDRdSPT Okay.

CC Thank you very much.

14 25 12 CC CDR, Houston. Do you have a moment to talk about this

S183 message?

PLT Hey, Crip, before you do, let me verify that you want
the - the RAD FLOW PRI and SEC circuit breakers OPEN
on panel 200?

CC Checking that.

CDR Okay. What do you want?

14 26 29 CC Regarding the circuit breakers on the RAD FLOW, they

are supposed to be OPEN. And go ahead, CDR.

CDR ...

14 26 41 CC Roger. Unfortunately, we're getting pretty close to

LOS here. Don't believe we got a chance to talk about
this 183, but we'll see you again at Vanguard at lh:h2.
Basically, all we wanted to know is if you've looked
at the message, and have an estimate as to whether
you think you can do it. We think that you could
probably get into it earlier today than we talked about
on the message, so some of the things about deleting
some stuff and when you complete some stuff may not be
applicable. However, about 17:00 is about the first
darkside pass that we think you might be able to get
to it. And would like you to think about those items
and talk about it at Vanguard.

CDR Okay.

14 40 36 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard 8 minutes.

SPT Roger.
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PLT Okay, Crip. ATM configuration for stowage is com-

plete if you all want to take a look at it.

CC Okay, Paul, appreciate it.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're in the process of trying to

get to you a message up before we leave Vanguard here.
It concerns some items that you can add to your shop-
ping list. Today you guys were so efficient and -
and did such a good Job in such a rapid pace, that we
figure you're going to run out of things to do today.
We have sent these up. They are to be done more or
less at your leisure, if you can get them in. And
that's the priority you should put on them. There -
What this one message alludes to - a couple of other
messages that you don't have o - on board. One of
them is about the updating the day 27 transfers.
That's pretty lengthy and we're still working on it.
Another one talks about some EREP things for deacti-
vation. Those are not to be done, of course, until
w_ finish up the other EREP stuff that Paul has for
toaay. So, those would be later on today.

SPT Okay.

CDR I have your S183 message, Crip. And I'll get to it

as I get there.

CC Okay, fine. Pete, there is one item that you might

need that isn't on there and we'd normally send up on
the pad. And that is the magazine to use. I can give
you that number now, if you want to copy it down for
a future reference.

CDR There's S183 magazine 1-1.

CC That's the carousel. That - the magazine is Uniform

Alfa 03, India 15.

CDR That's the same one as before, right?

CC That is correct?
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CC You probably noted that that is a different carousel

than the one you used last time.

CDR Yes, the original one.

CC That's affirmative.

CDR I presume we're going to bring both carousels back, is

that correct?

CC That is affirmative. And we did get that message up

on the shopping list. So, that's in your teleprinter.
Also, there's one dealing with a little malfunction
procedure we'd like CDR to run on S009 later, today.

CDR Okay. I don't know when l'm going to get to your

command module malf you sent up last night.

14 45 21 CC Whenever you're ready for it, you call us and we can

get to it.

CDR Okay.

CC PLT, Houston. The configuration on the ATM looks good.

CDR You say something, Crip?

CC Roger. I was just telling Paul that the configuration

on his ATM looks good to us. He remarked about it
after closeout.

14 49 37 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute until LOS. Hawaii at 15:50,

15:50. And we'll be doing a data recorder dump over
Hawaii.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

15 49 09 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Hawaii for about 6-1/2 minutes.

PLT Rcger.

PLT Roger, Houston. Hey, PLT's a little confused about

the message reference in the shopping list item on
EREP deactivation number 2711, which appears to be
one of tomorrow's that we haven't got yet.

CC That's right, Paul. We're probably going to send that

up at our nest - next station package - passage at
Vanguard.

PLT Oh, okay. Well, don't get the impression that I'm
standing around waiting for it, hut I Just wondered
what the story was. Thank you.

CC Yes. That's also true of the - They're talking about

day 27 stowage message and that's going to be coming
up later, too.

PLT Okay.

CC if you guys could, we'd kind of like to get an idea

where you're - where you're at in the time line today.

CDR 0nly if you say "please."

CC Pretty please.

CDR The CDR is stowing S1 - S082A and H. I've completed

the rest of the stowage.

PLT SPT is finishing up suit configuration on all three

suits. And the PLT - I left my checklist down there,
but - What'd I just do? I Just did something.

CC I'll take your word for it, Paul.

PLT Well, I just dumped the LPGs, for one thing. So I'm
a little beyond that.

CC Okay. Very good.

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15 50 06 CC And, CDR; Houston. It doesn't sound like you're going

to be getting there. We are up-linking a pad for that
183 pass, in case you wanted to get this night bit
around 17:00. You can tell us at Vanguard whether
that doesn't look like a GO, and we'll make you up
another pad for later on.

CDR Go ahead and up-link it for later on, and if I get there,
I get there; if I don't, I don't.

CC CDR, correction on my last. We did send you the pad.

However the CMGs are doing something a little bit
weird on us. They don't appear to be dumping to the
correct momentum state. So we don't want to go and
inhibit momentum dump currently. So do not execute
that 183 pad.

CDR Okay.

SPT Houston, SPT. PCUs numbers 13 and l0 were used. I'm

saying that because you're dumping my tape recorder.
And that tells you where I am in the checklist.

CC Roger. PCUs 13 and 10.

15 52 26 PLT And the PLT Just turned the page in his EVA Checklist
to find out that he's done.

CC How about that.

CDR Hey, Crip.

CC Go ahead.

CDR I don't think l'm that far behind, because l've eaten
lunch.

CC Oh, we don't - we don't think you're behind. You're

way ahead.

CDR Okay. Well, I'ii - like - keep pressing on here.

CC Okay. No, I - Don't get the idea we're trying to rush

you or anything. You guys are way ahead of where we
had anticipated. We're Just trying to find out roughly
where you're at. By the way, we need somebody to lock
the star tracker on for us, if you would please.
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PLT Okay. I'm going back up to stow this checklist. I'ii

get it.

CC Okey-doke.

PLT Star tracker chowc locked on up here, Bob.

15 54 22 CC Roger. Apparently it's on a - on a particle of some-

thing else. What we'd like you to do is to go to gimbal
angles OUTER of plus 1550, and INNER of plus 0394.

PLT Oh, okay. That's INNER of 394 plus and OUTER of

plus 1550.

CC That's affirmative.

PLT When I can recover from my power-down situation here,

I'll do it.

CC Okay.

15 55 5h CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll have

you again over Vanguard at 16:18 - 16:18. An item of
interest over Hawaii there, we do have a - an active
volcano on the big island.

CDR Hey, right. Are we over it right now?

CC Oh, you're a little bit to the east of it right now,

I think.

CDR Now about next pass?

CC Next pass is a good one to look at it. I'll remind

you of it then, and we have got that EREP pad up for
Paul.

CDR Give us an overhead time of the volcano at - at

_anguard, if you can. And we'll see if we can't
get a 300 millimeter of it.

CC Okay.

PLT Which one is it, Crip?

SPT Hey, we got a star?

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CC Roger. Copy. You've got a star.

PLT Which volcano, Bob? Do you know?

CC Kilauea. And it's going to be at around 17 - probably

around 17:30.

16 18 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over the Vanguard for about

l0 minutes.

CDR Roger, Crip.

CC Roger. And I guess the situation on that momentum that

you're interested is that we think perhaps that we got
a bad Nu Z in the dump, because of the star tracker
being blocked on a particle or something. And - so
we're going to take a look at it on this next dump
cycle before we decide when we're going to do the
183 thing.

CDR Okay.

16 19 56 SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go, SPT.

SPT i'm stumped. What do we ultimately do with our EV

gloves? I don't think we bring them home, do we?

CC We'll check it out for you, Joe.

SPT Thank you.

16 21 37 CC SPT, Houston. I'm informed that you consider your -

you can consider your EV gloves trash. And dispose
of them accordingly through the trash airloek.

SPT Okay.

CC Wouldn't hurt to wait a couple of days on that, though.

SPT I concur.

16 25 14 PLT You still there, Houston?

CC Affirmative. We've got about 2-1/2 more minutes.

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PLT Oh, okay. Can you have someone, quickly, confirm or

deny on my EREP tape recorder photo cassette, it says,
"Use the Nikon with a 35-millimeter lens." Now before
I start looking all over for the 35-millimeter lens,
would you confirm that - that in fact is the lens
they want me to use?

CC Okay. We'll check it out for you, P. J.

PLT And if it is, in case I haven't found it, how about

seeing if anybody knows where it is.

CC I'll do that also.

CC Paul, regarding your question. Yes, that is the lens

the 7 want you to use. It should be located in one of
the dome lockers, 416. It's a close-up lens.

PLT Yes, I just found it in the stowage book, Bob. I Just

wanted to make sure I had understood before you went
over the hill.

CC Roger, yes. And incidentally, another subject, Paul.

I was informed today that all of the voice from
channel B was lost during your M509 checkout yester-
day, so we didn't get any words that you put on there.
We did understand you to say the whole thing was okay.
But if there were any other significant comments, if
you get a chance today, you might put them back on
B channel.

PLT No, I gave that to Rusty last night or this morning.

There wasn't anything on B channel because I didn't
say anything.

CC Ah hah, okay. Well, that's - that's good, yes. We

did get your summary on air-to-ground, so fine.

PLT Okay, good enough. Yes, I just sent a checklist mode.

It said turn on the B recorder. When I got done, it
said turn it off. And I hadn't said anything.

16 27 36 CC Okay. Fine and dandy. We're about 30 seconds from

LOS. We'll see you again at Hawaii at 17:25, 17:25.
We'll be doing a data recorder dump at Hawaii. And
incidentally, that's the pass where you might be able
to get a look at that volcano, if it's visible.
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PLT What time?

CC 17:25 is when I get you in AOS. You're probably about

- be overhead at around 17:30.

16 28 02 PLT Check.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

17 23 59 CC Roger. You're talking about an unattended ops. Can

I Just hold up on that then and - or -

17 24 46 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Hawaii lO minutes.

CDH Roger, Houston. S183 is installed; T027 is out. Be

advised that when I pulled it out, it collected quite
a bit of moisture on the SAL end of that. And I put
the plate on, and I'll go pull a vacuum on it. The -
the SAL is deprepping [?] right now with 83 in it.

CC Roger, Pete. Should be able to - you think you'd be

able to do that 183 op this next sunset then?

CDR No, I've got this DO09. Is that the next one? You
mean it's - What are we doing - coming into daylight
or going into darkness? I don't know where we are.

CC You're Just now coming into sunup here. We would like

to replace that D008 you had with 183, if we could.

CDR Okay, is this pad that I have good?

CC Okay, fine. Did you get that last pad, the one that
we were unable to do on the 1837 I was just going to
read you some times on it, because we're going to be
unable to send you a new pad.

CDR Well, it was 1630. You mean INHIBIT MOMENTUM DUMP -

no, you want to do that later, of course?

CC Yes, - -

CDR And the - -

CC - - If you've got the pad handy, I've got some new

times, and I'd Just like to read those to you.

CC Go ahead.
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17 26 20 CDR Okay, MOMENTUM INHIBIT at 18:07. And you can - The

183 op time would be 18:17. Start exposures at 18:22.
ENABLE MOMENTb_4 DUMP 18:h6. And sunrise will be 18:41
for stopping.

CDR Okay, and then the lot of 308.5 and the tilt 072 for
star field 155.05 is good. Right?

CC Roger. We may end up having to change that rotation

due to a new Z update, depending on what our momentum
dumps, but the other numbers are good.

CDR Okay, you want me to drop D008_ we'll catch that later
on today in the anom_ly?

CC Negative on that.

17 27 37 CDR Okay. All right, let me tell you something else about
T027. The - the thing was apparently very cold up in
the front end. And when I torqued the inner knob all
the way down, it did not close the little door over f
the front of the instrument completely because it kind
of ground to a halt. And it said, you know, "snug it
down until it's tight," and I did. But that didn't
close the little door all the way. So it - it got
some moisture inside, I suspect, also. But my ques-
tion is: I've got to pull a vacuum on that end. Would
you like me to back it off Just a tad to open the
little door inside a little bit so that the vacuum
gets all the way in there? Or does it Just get all
the way in there, anyhow?

CC I'll check on that, Pete.

CDR Okay.

CC While we're checking, if - Apparently, we've lost the

star again. Guess we got a lot of trash floating
around outside. And we're - we're wondering, also,
if somebody could get that for us, we'd appreciate it.

PLT Okay, we'll get it in a minute. We're looking for

Hawaii. Are the numbers still good?
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17 28 h5 CC Roger. 31 is the time of closest approach, which is

going to be about 3 min - 2 minutes from now. Also,
f I was wondering,y'all had that message on the CSM
coolant malf that we'd like to run. We've got another
6 minutes here, if - But we would like to get that
run either here or Vanguard, which is our next pass.
Vanguard's probably more appropriate, since we're
getting close. We're going to be at Vanguardat about
57. Do you think we might be able to do it then?

CDR Yes, I can do it now. Let me see if - I got it in my

book, I think. I'm on my way to the command module.

PLT Hey, Crip. I need some clarification on these tape

recorder photos, too.

CC Roger. We'll try to get that clarified. Can I give

somebody some gimbals for star tracker?

PLT In a couple of minutes, Bob.

CC Okay. Why don't you go ahead and tell me your ques-

tion on the tape recorder?

PLT I don't understand what the keyed area of the black

clamping ring is.

CC Okay. I'ii see if I can get some experts to tell us.

17 30 21 CDR Okay. I'm on the SECONDARY COOLANT LOOP, the ECS

INDICATOR is SEC_ ECS RAD HEATER SEC is - switch is
OFF; and the ECS RAD HEATER PRIM switch is OFF. I'm
going to open the ECS SEC COOLANT LOOP HEATER control
MAIN A CB. It's been open.

CC Okay. We copy. We'll sit there for a moment.

CDR Well, it's always open. It's open per the checklist.

CC We just wanted you to verify it. That's all, Pete.

CDR Okay.
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CC Okay. Okay. We can go on step 2 there for the ECS

PRIM RAD control MAIN A. !

CDR All right. Just hold it.

17 31 30 CC Okay. Now we're going to monitor the temp valve. [?]

PLT Come with gimbals, Crip.

CC Roger. INNER is plus 0400_ OUTER is plus 1200.

PLT 1200 ? Wow ! Small.

CC Okay. Pete, if you'd go ahead and close that breaker,

and open up B - MAIN B.

17 32 13 CDR All right. MAIN B is OPEN.

CC Thank you, and we'll look at it.

CC Okay. CDR, you can go ahead and close that one, also. f

And that didn't solve our problem. Thank you.

CDR Okay.

CC Sky - -

CDR Crip, I think I can get this DO08 done. Why don't I
press on with it?

CC Roger. Pete, your option - The only thing we were

indicating was the 183 had priority over it. And,
for your information, that message revising your day
27 stowage transfers is in the teleprinter.

CDR Okay. How long is it?

CC Three of our pages; about 150 lines.

CDR Oh, heavens.

17 3h 16 CC Okay, Skylah. We'll have LOS in about 1 minute. We'll

have Vanguard at 17:57, 17:57. And, Paul, we haven't
got a clarification on that message yet. And we'll
try to get that for you over Vanguard.
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PLT Okay. Good enough. I Just don't know what it is,
Crip. And if anybody explains it to you, I suggest
you try to get hold of a picture of it.

CC Okay. Apparently, nobody here does either.

CDR Hey, and, Crip, you going to send up more 183 pads.
You want more of them today?

CC We're going to try and get a clarification on that.

We're talking about doing one. But it would be in
your presleep activities. And there's some question
as to whether we can do it unattended or as requires -
requires somebody there. But we do not want to re-
move it. Definitely, do not want to unstow. We'll
probably unstow it tomorrow morning.

CDR Okay. I don't mind running it tonight, if you want.

17 35 09 CC Okay. Appreciate it.

17 57 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Vanguard for about

7 minutes.

17 57 30 SPT Roger, Houston. That Allen Belt dosimeter has been

changed. What was wrong with it?

CC Apparently, the power supply on it, they think, -

with it failed from down here.

CC And if - For Pete's question regarding the T027, we

want to go ahead and do it per procedures. The only
thing, you might try just tightening that knob, in
case there was a little ice on it or something, so
that it might go ahead and tighten up now. Close up
the cap.

CDR I got it tight after I came in. See, I tightened it

down per the procedure while I was in the airlock,
and I thought I had it snug tight. And that's because
it was real cold. Well, then as soon as I pulled it
in, frost froze on everything. And I took a look
down at the front end as soon as I got it in, and I
could see that it wasn't all the way in. So I went
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and really put my arm into it. And by golly, by

really putting my arm into it, I got the door all the I
way closed. So that's the way it turned out. But,
unfortunately, I think it has warm moist air all over
it.

CC Okay. Well, that's fine. You can go ahead and evac-

uate it. We don't need you to open it back up to do
that.

CDR Okay.

CC Okay. And for P. J., I think I can try to explain

what the people wanted on that tape recorder photo-
graph. And while I'm waiting for Paul to get there,
we're going to inhibit orbital plane error update
because we've been having that problem with the star
tracker. So if y'all stay off the DAS for a minute,
we'd appreciate it.

SPT Okay.

CC Okay, sad that's been done. So the DAS is yours again, r

And, P. J., are you in a position to listen to me
describe this thing on the tape recorder?

PLT Okay, I'm looking at the tape recorder.

CC Okay. Was your question in that first paragraph about

the keyed area, the black clamping ring?

PLT Precisely. I don't know what that is.

17 59 56 CC Okay. The lower reel carrier, that bottom black por-

tion where the reel goes on.

PLT Yes.

CC Okay. The keyed area is Just those metal pins stick-

ing out of it - the chrome-colored pins.

PLT The two that stick vertically up and mate it with the
reel hub? Or the three that go out on the side to
en_age the reel?
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I CC Three on the side to engage the reel.

CC And all - -

PLT Okay.

CC - - All they really want you to do is - -

PLT Hello.

CC If you Just get a photograph of that area from head

on, I think that would Just about get what they wanted.

PLT Oh, that's why I couldn't figure it out. Because they

want it at this area, which with three pins equally
spaced around it, you can't get it all in one shot.
And the next shot they wanted was one vertically down-
ward. I'll do my best.

CC Okay. Yes. You see where that split is in the ring,

chrome ring Just above it?

PLT Yes, but that is split, Bob. That ring floats on

there. I can put that split anywhere I want it. No,
you're right, you're right. That split winds up with
another locating pin in there. Okay, now l'm with
you. Now I got you.

CC Okay. You just get it from there, I believe you can

get it.

PLT Yes. All right.

CC And basically, that number 2 is the same one of the

top ring.

PLT Okay, now do they want them tight, or loose, or does

that matter?

CC It does not matter.

PLT Okay.

CC And, CDP, if you can copy for 183 because of NUz, we

need to add plus 8 degrees to your rotation.
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CDR Plus 8.

18 02 13 CC That's affirmative.

18 02 31 CDR 316.5, right?

CC That is correct. CBR, also, in reviewing your rec-

ommendation regarding rotating the parasol, you have
a GO to do that. It's a simple procedure I'm sure
you're familiar with. It's Just a matter of taking
the lock off and rotating it. We would recommend
that you mark it such that we could return to the
original position, if there is any _lestion about it.

CDR Okay, we will.

18 03 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS; be

a long LOS. We'll see you again at the Vauguard at
19:35, 19:35.

END OF TAPE
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19 35 29 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS at the Vanguard for 9 minutes.

PLT Roger.

CC Hi there. I hear you guys have been having fun today.

CC Sk¥1ab, Houston. If it's convenient to anybody, we

need MOMENTUM DUMP ENABLED. If it's not convenient,
Just let us know; we'll co,and it.

PLT It will he done.

CC Roger. And - -

PLT It's on, Richard.

CC Okay. Thank you, much. And, Paul, l've got a question

for you. And it has to do on your - on the shopping
list we sent up to you about the S073 film stowage.
Have you already done that?

PLT Pete already did it. He's on the bike right now.
Can he call you hack when he's done?

CC Yes, no problem. If he's already done it, no problem

anyway.

PLT Okay.

CDR I did it, Dick .... not want it done?

CC Sorry, there was a loud squeal and I didn't catch that

one. Say again, please.

19 38 lO CC Skylab, Houston. Somebody said they thought you had

said, on that last one that I didn't copy, what - Was
anything wrong with the S073 stow? Answer is negative.
What I was going to say was is if you hadn't done it,
the very last step in the procedure has you put the
photometer back in the stowage container. And that
piece of equipment is also used on S149, which we'll
be using tomorrow. So it might have saved you some
time not to put it back in there. But either way,
we're all set, I guess.
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19 38 54 CDR Dick, I'm trying to ride the bike. The S073, also,
I took the shortage block out down and stowed it,
and hooked up the regular cable. Is that the way
you want. it run tomorrow?

CC Roger. Let me check that one.

CDR Say again.

CC Roger. I'ii get back to you on that one. Stand by.

CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, that's affirmative.

That's okay to go ahead and use the regular cable.

CDR Okay. Hey, Dick. Also, we rotated the sail about

12 to 15 degrees. They might start looking at those
temperatures up around the water tank that were
looking hot.

CC Real good, Pete. Thank you very much. And that'll

probably help us out.

CC Skylah, Houston. We've still got about 3 more minutes

here at the Vanguard. And then after this pass, we're
going to have a pass at Ascension for about 9 minutes.
And sometime in these two passes, we'd sure appreciate
it if you'd let us know what items on the shopping list
you have gotten done, and what you think you will have
done this evening so we can crank into our - for our
tomorrow's plan, as soon as possible. But either one
of these two passes would be Just fine. We got
minutes left. Standing by.

CDR Okay. The CDR got the 183 done. It's in the airlock
closed, vacuum, ready to go again. And the S073 ...
stow 3. And I've stowed S009_ it's stowed in the
command module.

CC Roger. Thank you, CDR.

SPT And the SPT on - Whatever they were, I did them all,
Dick. (Laughter) I did the ETC photographs and the
stowage lift changes and whatever else you gave me.

CC Okay, Paul, for you, I had an IMSS-I, a VABD replace-

ment, and stowage hook update. I'm sorry; that was
for Joe, but I think that's who was talking to me,
anyway.
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SPT Yes, that's who was talking to you. What was an IMSS-I?
i I didn'tsee that.

CC Stand by just a second.

CC Joe, th _ i)_B-i is environmental sampling of the

veh_ "_te.

SPT Oh. Okay, we'll accomplish that,

19 43 09 CC Okay

19 43 21 PLT The J LT will have everything done before retiring

for ,he evening.

CC Roger, Paul. Thank you very much. And the only

question we had from that was for Pete, who is fur-
iously riding the bike and who we keep asking questions
of. On the S009, you said you stowed it. Did you do
the malfunction procedure? And if you - or if you
didn't, do you figure you'll get to do that this
evening?

CDR I can't find it. I took it out, folded it up, and

stowed it.

CC Okay, Pete, we'll chase it down. And if the piece

of paper got lost, we'll be glad to sent it back up
to you, if necessary.

CDR Okay, but it doesn't have anything to do with - there's

something wrong in the motor, not the S009 case ...

CC Tbst's affirmative, Pete. The mal was on the motor.

We've got about 30 seconds left here at Vanguard.
And we're going to see you at Ascension at 19:48.

19 44 31 CDR Okay....

19 50 25 CC Skylah, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension for the next

8 minutes. Be advised, we're going to command the
vehicle into experiment pointing mode. And the ATM
officer's going to take over unattended operation of
the ATM when we get to Guam. And I guess the next
manned one will be when Beano and the guys get there
on SL-3.

PLT Okay.
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SPT Next time the star tracker unlocks, call Beano.

CC Roger.(Laughter)

19 51 35 CC And, Skylab; Houston. If somebody is available to go

to the STS panel, we have data. We'd kind of like to
do the last REG POT adjust that we'd planned to do for
the mission. And the request is REG BUS i adjust
15 degrees, 15 degrees clockwise. And this should
cause the PCG-I to increase about 5 amps.

19 52 16 CDR I rode my bike up here to do it. Now what did you

want? One REG BUS i, 15 degrees, right? Clockwise.

CC That's right. REG BUS i, 15 degrees clockwise; and

no adjustment required on REG BUS 2.

CDR Okay, tbere's 15 degrees.

CC Thank you, and we're looking at the data now.

CC Skylah, Houston. For the CDR, we have up-linked,

again, the S009 malfunction message that is in the
teleprinter now. And I have a message here that l'd
like to read to all three of you guys, if you're in
a listening mood. It reads: "To the crew of the
Skylab space station, Charles Conrad, Joseph Kerwin,
Paul Weitz. We sincerely congratulate the courageous
crew of the Skylab astronauts on your achievements in
conquering outer space. Wishing you successful com-
pletion of your program and safe return to our beauti-
ful, blue planet Earth. On behalf of the team of
Soviet astronauts, signed: Vladimir Shatalov."

CDR That was very nice. We appreciate it very much.

CC Roger, Pete. Thank you much. We'll pass it on.

CC Skylab, Houston. On the REG adjustment, the EGIL

says, I guess, on the number of degrees was slightly
too much. We'd like to go about 5 degrees counter-
clockwise on REG BUS i, please.

CDR Okay. You got it, and do you still have the tele-
printer?

CC Stand by.
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CDR I tried to slew, and it wouldn't slew; and I ...

got caught ...

CC Roger. The INCO says the teleprinter is yours.

CDR Thank you.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We're going to see yo u at Guam at 20:32, and we're
going to dump the data recorder at Guam.

19 58 01 CDR Okay, Richard. I'll - I'll run this S009 malf tonight,
sometime, and I think another S183 pad; and I'll run
that tonight. Thank you.

19 58 ii CC Hey, very good. And the EGIL is very happy with that
REG ADJUST. Thank you very much.

CDR Okay. How does the CRBM [sic] 15 look?

CC He is super happy about that one.

CDR That's good. So am I.

CC One question we did have as we go over the hill, we're

assuming that all your power system alert lights are
off now.

CDR Well, we'll take a look at it.

19 58 42 CC Okay. If we miss you, we'll get you at Guam. How

many times did you have to rap with that hammer?

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

20 32 06 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS at Guam for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Dick. Say, I noticed on that 27-day stowage

update that we're only bringing back 19 rolls of film,
and I would like to strike for the crew to have a
400-footer for their own. That - We've got some
things that we'd like to do with it to bring back,
if nobody objects.

CC Roger, Pete. Let us check on that one, and confirm

that that's okay. Stand by.

CDR Yes, and if they're really generous, we could use two.

CC Okay.

20 3h 33 CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, in answer to your

question; affirmative. You guys can have two h00-foot
rolls, and do good work with them and bring them home,
if you see fit.

CDR Okay. Thanks very much.

CC Roger, Pete.

20 37 14 CC Skylab, Houston; a couple of items. One, we'd like

to have the MPC INHIBITED, please. And the second
one, back on the two 400-foot cassettes for your use,
we do request that you get two of them out of drawer
Bravo. And, Just tell us on channel B or air-to-
ground, whenever you decide - preferably air-to-ground,
which two you pick, so that we can do our own cassette
planning. Thank you.

PLT Roger.

CC Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We're going to see you at Vanguard at 21:11. A_Jd
that Vanguard pass is scheduled as the Evening Status
Report.

20 40 16 PLT Roger.
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21 Ii 42 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS, Vanguard for ii minutes.

CDR Hello, Houston. CDR, with the Evening Status Report.

CC Roger, Pete. Stand by. Go ahead.

21 12 23 CDR Okay. The CDR ate everything, including his asparagus

for the last time - Oh, heavens; it was terrible -
and two butter cookie cans. The SPT ate everything
except one coffee with sugar. And the PLT ate
e_erything except item 75, bread. And he bad a
DELTA-H20 of 0.5. And he had 9 optional salts. And
the photo status for day 170 is as follows: MI51,
EVA donning: Charlie India 16, 00, Charlie India 14;
EVA: Charlie India 15, 55, Charlie India 12. With
the remark that transporter 02 had END OF FiLM light
on because 85 percent film remaining outside, and it
did continue to count down; so we assume it's good.
M516, EVA film removal: Charlie India 09, two balls,
Mike Tango 03; Mike 48, 74 Echo, Charlie India 13, 32,
Charlie India i0; Mike 48, 74 Foxtrot, Charlie
India 06,00, Charlie India 03. The 35-millimeter sta-
tus is Charlie India 31, terrain count 41, Charlie In-
dia 32 19; 70-millimeters: Charlie X-ray 06, i03.
There was no ETC or EREP, and the drawer A configuration
is as follows: AI, 02, Charlie India 15, 55, Charlie
India 12; A2 is 03, Charlie India 06, 00, Charlie
India 03; and A3, 06, Charlie India 13, 32, Charlie
India i0; A4 is 05, Charlie India 16, 00, Charlie In-
dia 14; and floating is 07, Charlie India 09, two
balls, Mike Tango 03. And you have all the additions
to the Flight Plan that were completed. The deletion
was the 008-1. And that's about it. Over to you.

CC Roger. We got all of that. Thank goodness to the

miracle of tape recorders. And, thank you very much,
Pete. We've got a couple of other things I'll be
ceming up with for you in Just a second.

21 14 59 CDR Okay. We rotated the sail back a little bit because

the PLT and the SPT found that their bedroom walls
_ere beginning to get hot. (Laughter) So we probably
overturned it a little, and we done backed her off
to what we think is the right amount now. And we'll
check the walls in a little while.

CC Okay. Real fine. Thank you.

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21 15 35 CDR Yes, well, went back up and looked at what we'd done.
It looked like we rotated at - about 25 degrees instead
of about 15, so we backed off 10; and we may back off
a little bit more.

CC Okay. Just let us know, Pete.

CDR Well, I think it's about 15 right now, but it's by

eyeball. And we can - we can feel it on the Wall
very easily where the line is. And we'll get her
ironed out to where -And I also think it is getting
cooler up by the water ring on the other side of the
vehicle.

21 16 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got a momentum situation that's,

unfortunately, going to make us change our Flight Plan
that we talked to you tonight about S183. We're
building up momentum in X and Y, and we don't want to
get into a situation where we spend the TACS. So,
unfortunately, regrettably, we would like to scrub
the 183 pass for the next night cycle. And right now
we would like you to go up and ENABLE the MOMENTUM
DUMP so that we can get a good dump this night pass.
And, if there are any other requests we have for you
tonight about 183, I'll be getting back to you in
just a minute or so.

CC And, we have Just about a minute or so before the

momentum dump starts; and so we need that MOMENTUM
ENABLE as soon as you can get it, please.

21 17 0h CDR It's ENABLED.

CC Thank you much.

21 17 lO CDR You know, I don't mind staying up 15-20 minutes or

so. And I've got it all cranked up and ready to go,
so why don't you crank out a pass for the next night
pass? How about the star tracker? Is it good?

CC Standby.

21 17 35 CC CDR, Houston. Star tracker is good now. We're not

sure it still will be after we do these dumps, but
we'll be getting any changes back up to you when we
have to.
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2i 17 46 CDR Okay, this pad I've got here is Just until 23:00.
And inner gimbal, 39_; outer gimbal, 1717. You want
to update that?

CC Standby, Pete, I'll get right back to you.

21 18 I_ CDR Right now, I'm reading h07 and i_19.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Roger, SPT. Before you say anything, Joe, we're not

going to read you a new star tracker gimbal angle at
this pass. We may have one for you coming up later,
though. Go ahead, Joe.

21 18 58 SPT Roger, that. IMSS-I's completed. Is there any

objection to my doing IMSS-2 this evening?

CC Stand by.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're checking on IMSS-2; we'll get

back right away with you. And we think we can make
some minor changes to the S183 that we up-lird_ed -
the S183 pad that we up-linked a while ago. And, we're
going to have a long Ascension, Canary, Madrid pass
after this Vanguard LOS. And we should be able to
get you those changes, if you're willing to stay up
and do it next night cycle.

21 19 51 CDR Yes, I am. And also, be advised that I do show a

BAT pole barber pole when I'm on CBRM 15.

CC Roger.

21 20 39 CDR Then I show a REG volts on 17.

CC Say again on 17, Pete.

21 20 50 CDR REG volts. But I think that's been with us since

that funny regulator.

CC Roger. Concur.

21 21 23 CDR But the BAT CHARGER light's out. And that's it,
Dick. We Just show the BAT volts barber poled on
15, the REG volts barber poled on 17.
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21 21 34 CC Okay, Pete. Thank you very much. We're about h5

seconds from LOS. 're going to see you at Ascension
at 21:29. And for the SPT, we are GO on IMSS-2
tonight_ if you'd like to do that.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

21 30 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascensio_, Canary,

and Madrid for the next 13 minutes. Be advised, the
first several minutes of this pad we'll - pass we'll
have air-to-ground, and then when we get Madrid
AOS - when we hand over to Madrid, we're going to
conduct the med conference. And then if you get
through talking, we'll turn it back over to me for
the remainder of that pass, and I'll - should by then
have some 183 pad changes for Pete. If we do miss
- miss it, though, at Madrid, we still have a Guam
pass that's prior to sunset and enough time to read
the time changes on that pad.

CDR Okay.

21 34 08 CDR Say, Dick; CDR.

CC Go ahead.

21 35 52 CDR We're back to our old VOX again. You guys are going
to have to tell us what UCTA you want us to use on
day 29 because I just checked; they're not in A-6.
We put 6 up in the locker, and all 6 of them have
WLC on them, which I guess means with lithium chloride.
So if there were any in there that didn't have any
lithium chloride in it, they must have gotten used
by us on launch day; the second set that we used or
something.

CC Okay, Pete. Let me check with our stowage folks and

make sure they understand your question; and either
way, we'll get back to you and advise you what we
want you to do.

CDR Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. In about a minute of so, we're going

to be handing over to Madrid, and at that point we'll
- you'll be getting a call from the surgeon. And
when you get through, we'll talk to you again in
Madrid, probably.
/

CC And also, Skylab, the EGIL says that he's hap_y with
the present configuration on the CBRM 15, and before
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we do anything else to figure out about that barber

pole - if we ever do - we'd like to think about it
some more. So we're happy.

CDR We're happy too, Houston.

21 37 20 CC Roger.

21 43 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS here at Madrid.

We're going to see you at Guam at 22:19. Correction,
22:09. We're going to dump the data recorder at
Guam. And, Pete, we're going to have a brand new
S183 pad to up-link to you at Guam.

21 4_ 06 CDR Okay.

22 l0 05 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS at Guam for 7 minutes.

PLT Oh, if you're at Guam we must be at Guam, too.

22 lO 19 CC I sure hope so. I got an answer for the CDR on his

question about UCTAs. The proper UCTAs to use are
ones that do have lithium chloride in them. And we
think that they can be found per an earlier conversation
that we had many days ago in Dh26. And if they aren't
there, they probably are still in the CDR's sleep
compartment, but we think they're in D426.

PLT You're right.

CC How about that.

22 lO 55 CDR Okay, Dick. I got another one for the stowage people
I have put on B channel, but just to make sure you
get it - The broken TV camera, I understand is stowed
in D-6, which I assume is the old SO15 experiment
compartment - in the conmmad module. That's number
1. Number 2 - I've taken the lens and found the old
lens bag which I had stowed and the lens covers, and
I have stowed the lens in F521, but also, I have stowed
the monitor and the power cable and the monitor cable
that came off that c_-_ra, imless they want me to do
something else with it.

22 ll 34 CC Roger. And understand the monitor and the power cable

and the monitor cable also are in the F521. Is that -',
right?
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CDH That's right. Now, later on in the day, I see that

I take the other TV camera home with me, and - go
ahead and mount it in the command module and I will
probably find some_ _ere in here what to do with the
power cable off of it. If not, it'll be _m 521, also.

CC Okay, Pete.

CDR And you are sending me an S183 teleprinter message.

Right?

22 12 50 CC Skylab, Houston; affirmative. We just up-linked a

brand new message, and it had a whole bunch of times
and stuff changed in it. So we figured we'd Just
give you a fresh copy.

CDR Okay.

22 13 16 CC And, CDR, about the only thing on that pad that requires
kind of fast action is we - is the momentum inhibit.
That's to be done - like right away.

CDR Okay.

CC And the only reason on that - we kind of wanted to

see that over this Guam pass.

22 13 46 SPT Okay, Dick. I got momentun INHIBITED. Right?

CC Roger, we confirm. That's right. You're in the

right configuration.

CDR Okay.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. The EGIL reports that he can

already see the change from your second adjustment
on the parasol. On some of his temps - the water
tank 1 temps, of course, will take a lot longer to
show any change in.

CDR Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS here at

Guam. We're going to see you at Honeysuckle at 22:23.
And the controllers here are wondering how many of
their backup - you're - of their backroom eomm loops
that you have. Because apparently you have both
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ASCO's and EGIL's, because in the last hour or so

you've anticipated something we were getting ready
to call up in a couple of cases. And you sure could
save me some air-tc-ground ca]Ss if you'd just let
me know.

CDR Ho, Ho, and what's that? Like the star tracker just
now?

CC Yes, the star tracker and you were also Just ahead
of the EGIL guys when you moved the parasol a while
ago, too.

CC And it was in the direction that his backroom guys

was going to ask for it.

CDR Yes, well, when I eyeballed it, I - I realized that

I'd moved it about 25 degrees. Because P. J. went
to his bedroom, and he says, "My bedroom's getting
hot." And we went over into Paul's - to Joe's,
which is really in the corner, and that was really
hot. So we said, '_Well, we over-smoked that one.
We'll have to back off."

CC Roger that. Gct to keep those guys happy.

CDR Right. But I think I've got about 15 degrees now,

and if my eyeball angle here is the same as my
eyeball angle was outside, we ought to just cover
to the meteoroid shield point on that side.

CC Okay, good. Well, we'll keep - we'll still be

keeping a good eye on it, and we're going LOS and
we'll see you at Honeysuckle.

22 17 27 CDR Okay.

22 23 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle for

3 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. Be advised the cat's already out

and the rest of us in work.

CC Roger that, and there's not a whole lot of news

this evening, Pete, but there's one - there is one
article here that I'd like to pass up to you.
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CDR Go.

CC Okay. The Smithson _n Institution researchers

conducting an investigation several hundred feet below
the surface off Key West became snagged in the wreckage
of a World War II destroyer Sunday. Rescuers slowly
decompressed a chamber of midget submarine trapped
underwater for 31 hours, but could see no signs of
life of the two men inside. The other two men in
the forward compartment were pulled safely from the
civilian research sub, Sealink, as soon as it surfaced
on Monday. And it's now reported that the two scien-
tists in the forward compartment are in excellent
condition after the sub was pulled from the water
yesterday. And one other note on this news item. The
destroyer that the midget submarine was taking a look
at on the bottom was the U.S.S. Fred T. Barry, which
was scuttled a couple of years ago to form an artificial
barrier reef. And the U.S.S. Fred T. Barry was -
had another noteworthy experience earlier in its
career, when Midshipman Richard Truly took his first
midshipman cruise aboard that ship, but I haven't -
I haven't heard yet whether there's any correlation
between that fact and the fact it was chosen to be
scuttled. Over.

MS Yea!

SPT You got off just in time.

CC Roger.

CDR Say, in answer to your teleprinter message that you

sent up. I have one here that I received - can - Do
you have a minute to get it?

CC Roger, we got about h5 seconds left in this pass.

Go ahead.

22 25 41 CDR Okay. It's to Captain Charles conrad, Jr. from NASA.

First paragraph reads: "On or about 22 June, 1973,
you and your crew will detach from Skylab l, leaving
it in all respects ready for the arrival of the
Skylab 3 crew on or about 27 July, 1973." Paragraph
2: "At that time, you and your crew will proceed
by space and air to the U.S.S. Ticonderoga without
delay, and report immediately to the SMLS for duty."
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CC Roger. We copy that and we're looking forward to

that - those orders being - going into effect. We're
going LOS 19ere at Hon_vsuckle. We're going to see
you at the Vanguard at 22:51.

CDR Okay. Pass those to Captain Bean.

22 26 26 CC I sure will.

22 50 h7 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Vanguard for h minutes.

SPT Hello.

CDR Hey, Richard. The reason I work so hard to stay in

front of you guys is to keep from the surprises. In
the F-27 day transfer I smelled a rat on the -
finding the food - and sure enough, most of the lockers
all had launch bolts in them. I have gotten the food
that is requested to be returned. And on B channel
I just put it on there, as whose food I robbed when
I couldn't get it from overage. Okay?

CC Roger. Got it. And we 'ii look on B channel and get

that information.

CDR There you go.

CC And actually, that was just a plot from Bean to get

you to take out the launch bolts.

CDR That's what I figured. The other thing is, in _qti-

cipation of you telling us, I think we will change
the teleprinter paper tonight. It has hung up several
times, and be ... it, as you remember one time I asked
you, and it was coming off the roll a little crooked
and getting over to the left now, and it looks fairly
low and I think we'd be better off if we just changed
the roll.

CC Roger. And we concur with that. Go ahead.

CDR Okay. Besides that, we haven't even gotten into the

middle of tube i yet, and there's 87 tubes of that
stuff up here.

22 52 33 CC Oh, it seemed to me like we must have used about l0

of those tubes the way we've been putting out the
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paper. I've got an answer for you on the TV cameras,

Pete. The - for the broken television camera - the
way you described the stowages is exactly the way that
we would like it. 2md on the working one, the camera
lens monitor - monitor cable are to come home, of course.
And the - use the existing comnaud module TV power cable
for that. And leave the SWS TV power cable in - where
you said, in - I think it was F521.

CDR Yes, either put it there, or where it came from, which

is in another one of those lockers right by there -
526, or something like that.

CC Roger. Why don't you just - -

CDR But I'll put it on B channel.

CC Okay, fine.

22 53 28 CC Also, this evening, we're going to up-link - We made

a couple of minor changes to your Flight Plan for
tomorrow. They were based on the fact that Joe reported
he was going to already have done IMSS-2. And also,
based on your photo report, it looked like one of the
cassettes had some extra film that was left over for
EVA. And we're going to ask you to photograph MII0
in the morning, which we never have done. And we're
about a minute and a half from LOS here at Vanguard,
and this is the last pass of the evening. We do have
a - it's - I know you're going to be up. We do have
a Canary-Madrid pass at 23:09, if you'd like to give
us a call, but I won't call you. Also, there's two
or three guys on this team that are going to see you
again at entry, hut for most of the guys on Chuck
Lewis' bronze team, this is the last shift that we'll
get to work with you guys on Skylab 2, and it's really
been our pleasure, and I can guarantee you that the guys
both out here in the front room and in all the SSRs
have really been - done a super job. And they _dght
even be willing to buy you guys a sarsaparilla or
something when you get home.

CDR We appreciate that. We appreciate everything they've

done for us. A great job.

CC Roger that. See you in the morning.

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SPT Goodnight CAP COMM. Gooduight FA0, INCO, EGIL, G&C,

ATM, and all you guys.

22 54 59 CC Goodnight_ Dick.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

23 ii ii CDR Hello, Houston; Skylab. S183 is running.

CC Okay, Pete. Thank you very much.

CDR How are those guys going to make out with this Moon?

CC Sorry, I didn't copy that. How are they going to make

out with what?

CDR Well, the Moon is up; and I thought that that kind
of put the fritz on the S183 and S019. So I wondered
how they thought they were going to make out, seeing
the Moon is still about two-thirds of the way up.

CC Roger. Well, whatever Corollary says nex_, I'ii

pass on to you.

CC Skylab, Houston. I'm advised that, premission, we

did intend to operate not, you know, with the bright
Moon up. And for this pass this evening, all but
about two of the targets are pointed fairly much
away from it. And since we did have the opportunity
here on the SL-2 to get in the S183 passes, it Just
looked a good bet to get some more data; and so we
decided to do it this way. And we're going to take
a look at the data. And I guess we'll - we'll know
after you come home.

CDR It does sound good. It's rtudning Just fine.

CC Roger.

CC Incidentally, we got about l0 minutes left in this

pass.

SPT Everybody's gone to bed up here, except the CDR and

the PLT.

CC Roger.

CDR Don't let him fool you. Dr. Vampire is laying out
his blood-sucking instruments right now.
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CC Roger. Incidentally, I don't know how the weather is

in Europe tonight, but you're going to be crossing -
crossing the coast of Spain here in Just about 3 or
4 minutes. And loo_ing at our big map up there, it
looks to me like you're going to be going just north
of Madrid and south of Paris, and then continue on
over the Alps.

PLT Yes, it's a good-looking pass, Dick. But unfortunately,

we got spacecraft sunrise in 6-i/2 minutes, and that
really wipes out the ground.

CC Roger.

PLT Went smack over Paris last night. Just as it was

really heaving into view, the Sun hit it.

CC Roger.

23 22 32 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS at Madrid.

See you in the morning.

23 22 39 PLT Nighty-night.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

00 &l 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We see a lO000 DO NOT ENTER on

the DAS. Go ahead.

CC Skylab, Houston. We see a 2000 DO NOT ENTER in the

DAS, and we're AOS Bermuda. Go ahead.

00 42 27 PLT Okay, Richard. We noticed a little bit ago that

we had cut you out of the teleprinter by leaving
it ON instead of in COMMAND. You guys know that?
Do you know which messages got up?

CC Roger. Stand by 1.

PLT Okay. Let me tell you. The last one that we're
pretty sure we received was either the "put-out-
the-cat" message or the 183 pad, whichever of those
two was last.

CC Stand by.

00 42 18 MCC Skylab, Houston. We would prefer the switch in

COMMAND. It turns out we do have a way to get
around that by comanding. However, we had not got
to the point where we needed it, and you do have all
the messages on board we've up-linked.

00 43 32 PLT Okay. Good enough. It's back in COMMAND - it's back

in COMMAND now, Dick. See you in the morning.

00 43 37 CC Okay. See you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

07 17 19 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda, 3 minutes.

PLT Good morning.

CC Morning, Paul.

07 18 l0 CDR Just being a nice guy and letting me sleep in a little?

07 34 06 CC Skylab, Houston.

CDR Go ahead, Houston.

07 34 23 CC During the dump maneuver there was a large change in

rate gyro Y-2. We're going to command ON Y-I and Y-3.

CDR Roger.

07 37 09 CC LOS 1 minute, Honeysuckle 08:07.

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08 07 52 CC Skylab, A0S 7 minutes, Honeysuckle.

PLT Thank you, Bill.

08 14 14 CC LOS 1 minute; Hawaii at 08:27.

04 14 21 PLT Roger.

08 27 54 CC Skylab, A0S 8 minutes, Hawaii.

PLT Roger, Bill. Hey, sometime today or - how about asking

photo people how many photos are required for the
Hasselblad for the flyaround?

CC Wilco.

PLT Thank you.

08 35 39 CC LOS in 1 minute. Goldstone at 08:40. And, Paul, we

feel that you should leave a full Hasselblad mag for
the flyaround. It'll probably take something more
than 50 pictures.

08 35 57 PLT Thank you.

08 40 04 CC Skylab, AOS for 5 minutes.

CDR Say, Bill; CDR.

CC Go, CDR.

CDR Okay, on that Hasselblad - it doesn't sound like you're

aware that's a 170-picture magazine. We have about
60 pictures left on one magazine and 170 on another,
and we would like to use as much as possible for Earth
terrain photography. And if 50 or 60 is good enough,
we'll probably shoot up what's in this magazine and
work our way into the ot_er magazine until we got about
60 or 70 left.

CC We copy that and agree, CDR.

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CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Did you get the S009 MALF done last night?

CDR Yes. It's on B channel.

CC Copy.

08 45 29 CC We'll be LOS in approximately 30 seconds. AOS

Bermuda at 08:49.

PLT Roger.

CC And be advised that getting things off channel B

is fairly slow down here. So if there's anything
that you feel that is in any way urgent between now and
undocking, you might give us a direct call on it.

08 45 55 PLT Wilco.

08 50 00 CC Skylab, AOS for l0 minutes.

PLT Roger.

CDR Bill, CDR.

CC Go, CDR.

CDR Sometime today, would they work up approximately how

far we're going to shift our watches tomorrow to get
on the deactivation time line? And Just give me a
little rundown on that today, so I know what to expect.
Are we going to set our watches ahead or behind, and
when do they want to come up with the clocktime?
Have we got to wake up to it? Do we want to - you
know, how do we want to work that little deal?

CC Wilco, Pete.

08 54 44 SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go, SPT.
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SPT Roger. I'd like to have some words on why we're doing
MITI in mode 1 this _orning. It's something we have
never used in training, have no baseline data on, and
I understood it wasn't supposed to work very well.

CC Roger, all that. Stand by half.

CC Joe, in essence, this is a troubleshooting procedure.

They're trying to get some information operating in
this mode that can be applied in its normal operation.
What you Just said is all essentially correct.

SPT Okay, we'll talk about it afterwards.

CC This came up for quite a bit of discussion here.

CDR It came up for quite a bit up here, too.

CC We copy.

CDR. Houston, CDR.

CC Go, CDR.

CDR On these contsmlnation photos, I assume they want to

use the 35-millimeter camera that is to be developed
for color interior rather than color exterior.

08 57 18 CC It is the 35-millimeter, and stand by half on the film.

SPT Houston, SPT.

CC Go, SPT.

SPT On reading my message 2712 about drug stowage - does

that mean that I'm not to bring ED31 homey

CC Stand by half.

CC We're going LOS here in about 30 seconds. We'll have

you Canary in approximately 14 minutes. Correction on
that, we have you at Ascension at 09:06, and we'll have
the answers for those questions at that time, if we don't
get them before.
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09 00 03 CDR Thank you.

09 06 42 CC Skylah, Houston through Ascension for i0 minutes.

CDR Good morning, Henry.

CC Hello, there. Well, you guys did it again. Another

outstanding job with the hammer.

PLT Yes. Give us a hsmmer and a place to stand, and we'll

fix anything.

SPT You're late this morning, Hank. You got to sleep in,
huh?

CC Well, it depends on how you look at it.

SPT Right.

09 08 h6 CC CDR, Houston. In res - In answer to your question about

how we do the watches: What we're thinking about now
is just setting all the wristwatches ahead about 4 hours
tomorrow morning, and that will put us on a time line.
We're going to get a little message up to you later on
today with all the details.

CDR Okay. We Just do that when we wake up - jump from

07:00 to about ll:O0?

CC Roger. That's what we're thinking about.

CDR That sounds real good.

CC Skylab, for the CDR. In answer to your question on the

film, you can use the numbers on the pad, or if you
want to use the spotmeter, use a ASA of 160.

CDR That doesn't really answer m_ question, Henry. My

question was: We have two 35-millimeter cameras in
here. One we've been exclusively shooting out the
window with it - they both have color interior in
them. One we've been exclusively shooting out the
window; the other one we've been exclusively using
with the flash. Now, I assume the one with the flash
is going to get exposed at 500 ASA, because that's
what it says on the can. That may not be true, seeing
they're all flash pictures. And the other one is
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that - that the other one is going to get exposed at -

or developed at ASA 160. Now, which camera do you want
me to use? The one that we've been shooting out the
window, or the one that we've been using inside with
the flashgun? That's my question.

09 13 15 CC We'd like you to use the one that's been using out
the window. And we 5elieve that's 03.

CDR Okay. Yes. I - I understand, now. And that's going to

be ASA 160 development. And if I use the spotmeter,
I'll set it for ASA 160. Okay. Thank you.

CC Roger. That's correct, Pete.

CC Skylab, Houston for the SPT. In answer to your

question earlier: Do you want ED31? It is our plan
to bring it back, but there's some confusion here as
to when and where, and how we're going to do it, as
you can see from the message. And we're about h0
seconds from LOS. Carnarvon will be coming up at 39.

09 16 26 SPT Okay, Hank. I'll work it out and let you guys know
what we're going to do.

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09 39 27 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for i0 minutes. And

for information, we'll be commanding the drift update
to Y-2 gyro.

SPT Okay, Houston. This is the SPT, and I've got a choice
for the medical people on returning the stuff that
needs to he chilled. I can put everything in one
large overcan with no heat sinks, or I can use two
large overcans and have a heat sink in each. I'd like
to know which one they want. That's all I need to
know.

CC Okay. I'll get an answer.

SPT Thank you.

09 43 20 CC SPT, Houston. What we want is everything in two cans

with a heat sink in each. And regarding ED31, there
is a stow message on board that you got several days
ago, 2329 it looks like - 2325 Bravo. And we'll also
be sending up some stuff tonight on the Deactivation
Checklist. So we'll have some more words on ED31.

09 43 46 SPT Okay. Well, I don't think I need any. The confusing

thing was that this morning's pad said ignore that
EDI30 - ED31 stuff that you got before. Bus I'll Just
go ahead and put everything in two cans.

CC _oger. That message was confusing, and we apologize.

09 44 03 SPT Okay. Just don't send me any more now.

09 25 38 CC SPT, Houston. Not to belabor the point, but just give

you a few more words on this ED31. The message we
sent up last night should have been a little more -
should have been a little better explanation there.
It shouldn't have said, "Disregard;" it should have
said that we're going to do this later. We made a
goof, I guess, in that we modified the Experiments
Checklist to indicate the stowage of ED31, whereas we
should have been including it in the Deactivation
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Checklist. And that's - The message this morning

should have explained that a little more, instead of
leading you to believe that we weren't going to bring
it home. We'll - The deactivation information we'll
send up will have, as I said, the conten _ of that page
1-10 that we told you disregard; it'll be there. And
also some more words on how to tie it in the command
module.

SPT Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. About 1 minute from LOS; Guam at 53.

And for info, I don't know whether it was voiced up
or not this morning, but we're on gyros Y-1 and Y-3.
We had another integral failure on Y-2 last night.

09 49 17 SPT Okay.

09 53 12 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9 minutes.

09 55 59 CC Skylah, Houston. We sent you up a message on day 27

transfers. I got one small change for that, whenever
it's convenient.

SPT Go ahead.

CC Okay. Under W748, where it says, "med kit bag, place

drugs, and etc.", we want to delete the reference to
the drugs in the IMBS Checklist. It should read,
"med kit bag, place antifog ampules, etc."

SPT Roger.

CDR Hey, Hank; CDR.

CC Go ahead.

CDR Take a note to talk to me when I get back about locker

A-8 and all the cushions in it, where they're supposed
to go, and for the back part of A-8, H-alpha l, S056,
52 and all that - 82 - 5h and all that business. It's
kind of goofed up.

CC Okay, will do, Pete.

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CDR The drawings of the lockers and the straps don't match
is what I'm trying to say. And I've been puzzling
over it for a lon b time, and I think I'm right.

CDR Hey, Hank; CDR.

CC Go ahead."

CDR I have it figured out. They put the S056 cushion where
the H-alpha i cushion should have been and vice versa.
Now once I got that sorted out, it all makes sense.

CC Okay; copy.

CDR And the reason that happened is both cushions looked

to me like they're almost identical. And they have
three black alignment marks to line up with three
white alignment marks in each place; and they're inter-
changeable. And somebody Just got them in backwards.

CC Okay. You think it's going to work all right once you
got it reconfigured there?

CDR Yes, I got the cushions sorted out. It all matches

up with the drawings on 3-5, and everything is super.

CC Okay.

l0 01 43 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Goldstone will be

coming up at 19, and we've got your press conference
there. And we'll be using a procedure like we used
before. We got a list of questions. As soon as we
give the AOS, they'll probably start out on the
questions.

l0 18 18 CC Skylab, Houston stateside for about 19 minutes. And

we've got a picture.

SPT Great.

PLT Right on the line, Hank.

SPT Houston, Skylab. Do you read?

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CC Roger. Read you loud and clear.

SPT Okay, that's on the lightweight headset.

CC That was a little bit weak.

SPT Well, I'll get my mouth a good inch away from it.
How' s that ?

CC Okay, that's a little better.

SPT How's that, Hank?

CC Hey, that's a lot better.

SPT Ah-ha.

SPT We've made a great breakthrough in lightweight head-

set technology. It took us 27 days to figure out
you're supposed to talk into the spongy part.

CC You fellows ready to answer a few questions this

morning?

PLT Yes.

CC Okay, the first one is for Dr. Joe Kerwin, the first
medical doctor in space. As far as you can tell now,
what effects have you noticed from weightlessness?
Does there appear to be a leveling-off effect as far
as zero-g changes are concerned?

SPT Well, right now the score is man 3, space nothing, but
it's a little early in the game, There appears to be
a leveling-off. In fact, there appears to be little
or no change in some of our experiments, and there
appears to be some change in the others - possibly
still continuing. I guess - let's wait until we get
down and look at the data before we m_ke any rash
decisions; but I'm very encouraged.

CC Joe, you're sliding in and out of view. There you are.

SPT I'm also done answering that question. You can go to

the next one.
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CC Okay, for Commander Conrad: "Please give us your

assessment of the mission and what you feel have been
your most significant accomplishments, especially
from a scientific _iewl_oint."

i0 21 42 CDR I guess our most significant accomplishment, from the

point of view of where we started this mission on May
the 15th, was that we have now, I would say, a 90-
percent up-operating space station to turn over to
the SL-3 crew. And probably, even more significant
in my mind, and also to go along with what the doctor
said, but I'll have to wait until the people on the
ground look at our - our physical data, I believe
that man has once again proved that he can operate
efficiently, well, and happily in space in the oper-
ation of a space station. Now I think that also con-
tributes to the scientific end of the thing. I have
no idea what they're going to find on our data. We
did get a flare. We've operated the ATM. We've
operated all the experiments to the best of our ability.
All of them, we _idn't do perfectly, but everybody has
a learning curve, and I think we've proved the time
line. And only time will tell the exact scientific
returns from the experiments that we've performed.

l0 22 55 CC Roger. Would all three of you comment briefly on how

you liked the Skylab food?

PLT I like it. It's quite palatable. It's been easier

to eat than I anticipated it would, and I've been
eating more than I thought I would.

CDR There were three items that I didn't like on the ground,
and I still don't like them up here, although I've
managed to get them down. I think one or two other
items that I thought that I would like, I just don't
really care for up here. And some that I didn't care
for too much on the ground came in pretty strong up
here. But I've managed to get it all down. Plus I've
found that I've had to eat more. And that puts me in
the position of eating my own words about the food
right now, because I never thought we'd eat this much.
And, frankly, I could probably eat a little bit more -
of the food; and it's good food.
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SPT That last statement was made by the "Butter Cookie

King of Skylab." (Laughter) There are some complaints
that I have about the food. And that in itself is
very e1_cburaging because it means the living up here
is not so rough that don't have time to bitch about
something.

CC For Co_nander Conrad: "Do you notice any difference

in your physical condition compared with the end of
your previous missions?"

i0 24 36 CDR Well, again, the doctors may make me eat my words,

but I have the feeling, at the end of 28 days, that
I'm going to be in better physical shape than when I
came back from any one of my three previous flights
except maybe Gemini ll, which was too short duration.
I'm certainly, right now, feeling one heck of a lot
better than I did at the end of 8 days of Gemini V,
just say, before retrofiring Gemini V, because that
was complete confinement. And I now have a 28-1/2-
inch waist, and I started out with about a 30. And
I've lost a little around the legs. And I don't be-
lieve I've lost any in my arms. I thir_k that with the
bike up here, which I've found that I absolutely have
to ride everyday and want to ride to get excercise,
I think I'm in as good shape right now almost as when
I left on May 15.

l0 25 39 CC That's May 25th?

CC Okay, for any one: "What is the biggest problem you

think that Captain Bean and his crew - -

PLT ... got mixed up on that.

CC - - will face on their 56-day flight?"

CDR We've been trying to kick it around, and I can't put

my finger - I don't think any of us can put our finger
on anything. I think the fact that Captain Bean and
his crew are three individuals different than the
three of us; perhaps, what we like, they won't like;
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and, perhaps, what we dislike, they will like. And I

would hesitate to make any guesses for Captain Bean
on what he's going to like or dislike up b_re or his
crew.

CC You were coming in pretty weak that time, Pete. We've

got a related question for all three of you. "Please
tell us of any particular suggestions you plan to make
to the follow-on crews, as a result of your experiences."

PLT Well, that's a pretty tough one to answer here, Hank.

I don't think I have any general suggestions. We're
going to go down and we're going to debrief them. I
plan to take Jack by the hand and sit down with him
and talk to him as long as he wants. And walk through
the trainers and just kind of jog my memory. And Just
tell him the things that I found out, and the way we
did things. And that's all there's going to be is a
report to him. And it's going to be up to him to
accept them or disregard them as he sees fit.

l0 27 15 CDR I generally think that that's true. By walking

through with them, we will at least get them over the
learning curve that we had. And as I said before we
even flew this flight, the idea for us was to get this
thing going, find out how long it took to do the var-
ious experiments, and come down and give those guys
a super-good time line so that they will be more
efficient than we were; and they should be. I think
that right now, on the last couple of days, we were
pretty well at our peak of getting things done. And
we get around this spacecraft pretty darned well now.

i0 27 52 SPT Right. One of the things we're going to tell them is

don't worry about this, don't worry about that. One
of the things that it - ... it is - to the job in
training. I think I'll be able to go back and tell
the guys that if you can run the ATM in training, you
can run it up here. If you can do the medical exper-
iments in training, you can do them up here. You get
used to the differences - to the different body English
that you need. The hardware, by and large, is in super
shape. The procedures, by and large, are in great
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shape. We've been debriefing day by day during the

flight. And I thi_k the most important thing we have
to say to them is to give them a pat on the back, and
say good luck.

PLT I want to add one thing to that, Hank. The - I can't

say too much for the fidelity - ... by having the
fidelity in the trainers that we have. You can hardly
tell the difference, and it's really paid off. And
the things that are easy to do in the trainer are easy
to do here - 98 percent of the time. And the things
that are difficult to do in the trainer are, likewise,
difficult to do here.

l0 29 23 CC Okay, we have a little com_ problem now. I'll get

the next couple of questions here in a minute.

l0 30 23 CC Okay. It looks like we've got our comm problem licked.

For Paul Weitz: "Do you feel Skylab systems are in
good enough shape to support the two 56-day missions
for their I_11 duration?"

PLT You betcha.

CC Okay. The last question for each one of you: "What

has been the most fun for you in living in Skylab;
and did you get any surprises from living in weight-
lessness?"

CDR Whether you were going to get sick, perhaps disorien-

tationed, and after a few moments in here that e11
went away. And can get yourself disoriented a little
bit, but it's only because of zigging around in zero-g.
And, of course, that to me is the most fun. The way
we - I'm really going to miss whistling around the
way we do up here.

CC You're dropping out on us.

SPT We're just dropouts. I'll bet
perience, you couldn't get ...
2 weeks .... The size of this
that every time you have to go
it's a little adventure. It's
after this Skylab ex-
Apollo spacecraft for
thing, and the fact
from here to there,
just been terrific.
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That and looking out the window are endless sources

of delight that I - I don't think we could ever ex-
haust. T think th_'ll sustain A1 Bean, "_nd Jerry
Carr and their troups throughout their 56-day flight.

PLT Now, there have been many surprises, and I guess the
main ones have been pleasant surprises. Mine is just
a reiteration of what Pete said.

CDR You there, world?

CC Roger. That was the last question. We've got about

h minutes left here. Have you got any last comments
you want to make?

CDR Yes. I'd like to say publicly how much we appreciated

the support from the ground; especially, with all the
last-minute things that were done to put this space-
craft back in shape, all the EVA work. And although
we laughed and kidded about hanging CBRMs with hammers
and so forth, it all worked. And the support from
the ground has been fantastic.

SPT Second that strongly. What I was going to say was

medically and subjectively, what's been such a pleasant
big surprise to me is how nice we feel. We're able to
get up in the morning, eat breakfast and do a day's
work. I'm tremendously encouraged about the future
of long-duration flights for that particular reason.
Guess that's it.

CDR See you on the ground.

i0 3h 01 CC Okay. And thanks for the nice words. We've got about
3 minutes left here before LOS.

i0 36 14 CC Skylab, Houston_ 1 minute to LOS, Carnarvon at 17.

CDR Roger. Say, Hank. Last night I mentioned that one of

the little details I had cleaned up in the stowage
was where to put the TV power cable on the operative
good TV when we stowed it. Be advised that the place
that we use it the most is the 6h2 panel. And I'm
going to leave it plugged into the 6h2 panel neatly
wrapped up. Okay?
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CC Roger. Copy.

i0 36 hl CDR Thank you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VCCE TRANSCRIPTION

ii 17 25 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon 7 minutes.

CC And, Skylab, we'll be having a data recorder dump

this site.

CDR Roger.

ii 23 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute to LOS. Guam

will be coming up at 31.

SPT Okay, Houston. We're swinging the last M092.

ii 24 01 CC Roger. Copy.

ii 31 15 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam; 6 minutes.

CDR Roger.

CC And, CDR; Houston. You're going to be headed up to

look at some$hing here about 11:45, a dump. And, I've
got several things I'd like to get you to do at the
ATM console, if it's convenient.

CDR All right, hold it just a second.

CDR Okay, Hank, I'm there right now. Go ahead.

ii 32 14 CC Okay. What we'd like you to do, Pete, is bring up

the panel and change the canister roll to plus 60 arc
minutes. The reason we're doing this is if it's
right at exactly zero, there's a remote possibility
that the ATMDC will misinterpret the exact zero as
being 180 and try to move the canister. Of course,
the next time it will pick it up, but we're just trying
to avoid that possibility.

CDR Okay, what do you want me to do?

ii 32 49 CC We want to roll the canister to plus 60 arc minutes.

CDR Plus 60, okay.

ii 33 02 0C And, the other two items while you're there: we'd

like you to bring up the star tracker; the pad is
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still good. And, we also want to look at the BAT 15

talkback, and see what it's doing now.

ll 33 49 CDR It is plus 60.

CC Thank you, sir.

CDE Okay, I saw the BAT VOLT talkback.

CC Say again, Pete.

CDR CBRM 15: I saw the BAT VOLT talkback.

CC Roger, copy. And the other thing is to bring up the

star tracker.

CDR In work.

ll 35 09 CC CDR, Houston. Stand by on the star tracker. We're

in a dump now; you're not going to be able to get it.

CDR Okay.

CC Sorry about that.

CDR Well_ it may catch itself when it comes out. It's

set at the right angle, now.

CC Okay.

CDH Anything else?

CDR Anything else you want done?

CC No, that ought to do it, Pete. Thaukyou very much.

CDR Okay. I'll try to catch it when we come out in the

sunlight this time ...

ll 36 21 CC Okay. And, we're about a minute from LOS. Goldstone

will be coming up at 55. And I guess you and Joe got
this dump to coordinate here, shortly. Or the 92 vent,
that is.

CDR Yes, say, it's not clear to me where you want that.
General message said: look out the CM 5 window. But
photos are out with that 243 in the wardroom window.
Is that correct?
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CC Let me check that one.

CDR Yes, I need - it slipped my mind, I meant to ask you

about that.

ll 37 04 CC Okay, I guess those are different observations. We

don't want any photos here, we just want you to look.

CDR Oh, hold it. I've got a photo pad for 1142, I think.

CC That pad, I think, is for the contamination photos.

ll 37 30 CDR Oh, okay. Well, I'll just go look on this one. I've
got it. I see. Thank you. Yes, it says: observe
vent and contamination photos, and I put them all
together into one big thing, okay?

ii 55 23 CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 14-1/2 minutes.

CDR Okay, Hank. On the vent, I couldn't see anything.

CC Roger; copy. And where are you now? Anywhere close

to the STS?

CDR Yes, what do you want?

ii 55 42 CC Okay. Panel 200 - we'd like to check the MDA port

heaters. PRIMARY and SECONDARY CLOSED, and that's
the top left, center row.

ii 56 09 CDR Okay, MDA PORT HEATERS: both of them were OPEN;

they're both CLOSED, PRIMARY and SECONDARY.

ii 56 14 CC Okay, after those are closed, we'd like to, on

panel 203, verify the - or if they're not off, open
the - MDA heaters port CSM switch to OFF and the
SPARE switch to OFF.

ii 56 3_ CDR They're both OFF, and they were OFF.

CC Roger. Copy. Thank you very much. And I got one

other thing here. If you've finished closing out
the S183, the stow one?

CDR Yes, I have.

ll 56 _8 CC Okay, I guess we're about to lock in on a decision

to bring that damaged filmplate, the one that you
took off of there on day 154. And, when you get
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a chance, what we'd like to do is wrap it in a towel

or a Beta cloth bag and use the gray tape to tape it
to the flat surface on the outside of the 183 film
carrousel 1-2.

CDR Okay. What are you going to do with l-l? Bring it

back, too?

ll 57 29 CC 1-1 is coming back, also.

CDR Okay.

12 Ol 15 CC Skylab, Houston. In order for the CDR and SPT to

get in your PT, you're clear to delay the med
deactivation as necessary.

CDR Thank YOU.

12 03 08 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, now that we got those

port heater circuit breakers CLOSED, we're going
to run a comm_nd check on them. We'll Just turn
them ON and back OFF again.

12 03 33 CDR Okay, Hank. The contsm_nation photos are complete.

CC Roger; copy.

CC CDR, Houston. Do you still have a - a message we

sent up on day 23, regarding the service module quad A -
procedure to vent it to the PSM?

12 05 ll CDR Surprisingly enough, now that you mentioned it, yes.

12 05 20 CC Okay, we see this quad A is continuing to warm up.

My tank pressure oxidizes is now to 20h psi, and at
your convenience and with pad and coverage, we'd like
to go up and ru/l through that and relieve quad A. We
got about 4-i/2 minutes left on this pass. You
think you got time to get it done?

CDR I'm looking at it.

12 06 07 CDR The service module RCS quad PROPELLANT A OPEN; talk-

backs - two of them, gray. That is true. And I'm
going to go ahead and open the PSM. I have done
that.
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CDR And it looks like it already did the job.

CC Roger. It looks l[:ke it to us, too.

CC Okay. It looks good to us. So you can go ahead now

and complete the procedure.

12 07 03 CDR APSF QUAD A PROPELLANT is CLOSED, and the talkback

is barber poled. And I'm going back to D and indicate
sample (loud whistle) pressure.

CC Okay. Good show. Thank you a lot, Pete.

12 09 19 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Vanguard at 21.

12 21 25 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard; 8 minutes.

PLT Roger. It must be coming right over the top, huh?

CC Well, not really; Just sort of a grazing blow there.

PLT Oh.

12 23 00 CC Skylab, Houston. That star should be available now

for star tracker.

12 27 02 CC Skylab, Houston, for the SPT.

SPT Go ahead.

12 27 09 CC Hey, Joe, sorry to hit you with this right at the

end here. But on page 318 of your checklist there.
at the end of the M170 run - 1 run - I guess there's
some concern here about getting the _ chamber there
all evacuated out. So we'd like for you to perform
the MS SAMPLE INLET valve CLOSE, and use a 5/32-inch
Allen bit, torque handle, _0 inch-pounds. And we
want to close it up now, and then the ion pump will
continue to run for another hour or so, and really
pump her down. This is to preclude some sort of a
lockout on SL-3.

12 28 31 CC And, Skylab, 1 minute to LOS. Be coming up on

Goldstone at 32 with a data recorder dump.

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SEXLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

13 32 _9 CC Skylab, Houston; stateside for. 12-1/2 minutes.

13 35 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We've been having a little trouble

tracking down the answers to theEREP questions. And
A1 has got an interest for his crew and the answers
to a couple of those. Would it be convenient to get
a couple of answers here real time?

PLT Yes. Go ahead.

CC Okay. I guess the ones he's concerned with are -

should the SL-3 and 4 crews continue the T-S8 aircraft
flights over the S191 sites?

PLT Affirmative.

CC Okay. And would you recommend that these - this type

of training be practiced on all the sites or only on
the more difficult ones?

PLT I recommend that if they have the time, to practice

it on all of them.

CC Okay. And would you recommend using the T-38 with a

VTS simulator in it? Or Just a T_38 looking through
the canopy?

SPT Both.

CC Okay. Is there anything else you'd like to add that

might help them out in their training. They're -
they've got about 2 weeks before they go into quar-
antine. They're trying to get all this set up.

PLT Well, I appreciate that. And I elaborated qu/te a

bit on the darn tape. I don't know what's happening
to those things.

PLT Yes. Tell Jack or A1 that you don't have time - Once
you start looking for the site and tracking it, you
don't have time to look at your photographs and all
that keen stuff, and back and forth. You've got to
know the sites. And for that reason, the more looks
they can get at it - and I can't emphasize too much
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how well - how much going out and looking at them

from the airplane helps in flight acquisition and
recognition. Now there's a - Looking at th_n through
the canopy is l0 orders of magnitude better than not
looking at them at a] I. And looking at them through
the VTS is twice as good as that. So Just getting
out in any airplane and looking at them is - sure
helps. It'll pay off in the end.

13 37 50 CC Roger. Copy.

13 37 51 PLT But the big thing to do on that, Ha,_, is to be

fRmiliar with the sites. And a11 you're going to
use the hook for is kind of refreshen your memory
and Jogging you on some checkpoints that you have,
some things to look for. But you don't have time.
Youstick your face in that telescope, and that's
where you stay from then on.

13 38 08 CC Okay. Tha._ you, Paul.

13 44 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute to LOS.

Vanguard will be coming up at 58. And some time,
within the next l0 minutes, we'd like to get the
star tracker up. If you don't, we'd llke to get the
MPC to INHIBIT so we can comm-nd the wedges over
Vanguard.

13 _h 38 PLT Okay, the star tracker; in work.

13 57 59 CC Skylab, Houston through V-_ouard, 8 minutes.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

14 02 07 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we're going to clear the

ACS ALERT light.

14 05 20 CC Skylab, Houston. About 1 minute from LOS; next contact

is Hawaii, a little over an hour from now at 07.

14 05 29 PLT Roger.

15 05 32 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii 5-1/2 minutes.

SPT Roger.

15 09 41 CC Skylab, Houston. I think the star tracker latched

onto a - some kind of a particle outside. Would you
bring it _p at your convenience? Reaquire?

SPT Yes, sir.

15 ll 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from LOS,

Vanguard at 34. And we'd like to get a current
assessment of the wardroom window. We're trying to
make our plans for deactivation.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND TRANSCRIPTION

15 34 37 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, i0 minutes.

CDR Okay, the SPT is headed for the star tracker to

salvage the situation. And the PLT will talk to
you about the 0WS windows.

CC Okay, ready to copy.

PLT Hey, I'ii wait until you talk to Joe about the star
tracker?

MCC Systems Corollary.

CC SPT, Houston. Are you having trouble with the star

tracker?

SPT Too soon to tel!. I didn't get right on it, Hank.

CC And Skylab, we'll be dumping the recorder at this

site.

SPT Okay, we got a star.

CC Okay, good show. Paul, what can you tell us about

the window? How does the fogging look now?

PLT Wait a minute. Let me get a picture of you - of it

for you. It's a good light angle. Let me get it,
and I'ii be with you in a minute.

CC Okay.

PLT Okay, Henry, the fogging is all gone. Now it's -

The fogging only occurred because I turned the
heaters off. What we have right now is a spot of
ice. It's egg shaped, just about as big as a hen's
egg at the cross section. It is a relatively clear
ice that has a lot of - it's a crazed pattern, like
ice that has been cracked. And in one corner of it,
near the edge, is a raised spot, which is the oueleus
of the whole thing. That's the part that was there
when we first took the cover off. That's - I'd esti-
mate 1/16 to 1/8 - it's hard to tell - 1/16 to 1/8 of
an inch thick. And almost, but not quite, 1/2 inch
in diameter.
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CC Roger; copy.

15 39 08 PLT That's it. There's something else that we've also

got on here. I d_n't know if we mentioned it to
you before or not. It should show up in these
pictures. Where the vent hole comes in between the
panes there at certain times, especially after a
night pass, it is more noticable than after you have
been in the light awhile, there is just a little
faint fog pattern like as though air had been coming
in and out through that vent port, although we've
had it closed except for that couple of days that
we left it open.

15 39 45 CC Roger.

PLT Yes. It's like an exhaust shape, like an exhaust

plume. It - it starts right at the edge of the
window and gradually gets wider until it Just then
kind of peters out near the middle of the window.

CC Paul, where is this ice spot located, relative to

the window? Is it right in the middle?

PLT Yes, sir. Without measuring it, I can't tell you

that. It's out in the middle. For all practical
purposes, it's right in the middle. Standing on
the wardroom floor, looking at the ice spot then
the rest of this ice pattern is - the ice spot is
in the lower right-hand part of this egg-shape pattern
that i described to you.

CC Roger ; copy.

15 43 30 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Hawaii, at 42.

16 41 l0 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for l0 minutes.

16 41 16 PLT Hello.

16 44 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We see that the star tracker's

broke lock again. The reason we're trying to keep
this thing locked up is we're trying to get some
drift rate on the gyro Y-2; and we got Z gyro. And
so far we're not getting very good information. So
rather than to keep messing with the thing, we'd
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like for you to close the shutter and power it

down. Then this evening Just before you go to bed,
when we got a little more frequent station contacts
we'll try to bring it up again.

PLT Okay, we'll power it down.

CC PLT, Houston. How did the lh9 set up go?

16 46 58 PLT It went okay.

CC Roger.

16 50 55 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute until LOS. Vanguard coming

up at 13 with a data recorder dump.

16 51 06 SPT Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

17 13 03 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard; 8-1/2 minutes.

SPT We're really here, Houston.

CC Say again.

17 17 00 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we're going to command

S149 power ON to get some temp measurements.

SPT Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. Been having a little problem here

with the co_n. I'm just making a con_n check now and
disregard.

17 21 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. About 40 seconds to LOS; Hawaii

at 23. That's about an hour from now.

17 21 12 SPT See you there.

18 20 50 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii 2 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

_8 24 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

Vanguard at 51 with a data recorder dump.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

18 50 53 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Vanguard for i0 minutes.

SPT Roger.

CC And we are doing a data recorder dump at Vanguard

this time.

19 O0 35 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute until LOS. Ascension at

19:04, 04.

19 O0 40 PLT 04.

19 04 29 CC Skylab, Houston; Ascension for i0 minutes.

19 13 47 CC Skylab, Houston; LOS in 1 minute. See you again at

Guam at 19:51, 51.

19 13 54 PLT Roger.

19 49 23 CC Skylah, Houston; AOS Guam, 7 minutes.

CDR Hi there!

CC Hello. How are you, CDR?

CDR Good, after having been buried in the command module

all day.

CC Where you guys have been? Y'all were so quiet, I

thought you were hiding from us.

CDR No, we were just trying to stay on the time line.

CC I thought you were preparing the vehicle for

Captain Bean and his crew.

CDR Well, we are. We're also packing our own bags.

Say, Crip, there are a few things on B channel today
that the stowage people ought to look at.

CC Okay, and they appreciate all the information you've

been giving them regarding stowage, also.
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19 50 3& CDR Okay. The one thing that I want to have verified is
I have put the extra S183 into A-4. And I want to
know if that is all right, rather than in a PGA bag
and tiea down on top of the locker.

CC Okay, we'll get clearance on that.

J9 53 13 CDR Houston, you guys are being pretty quiet down there,
too. You're cooking up all the changes for tomorrow
and the next day.

19 53 19 CC Well, Hank is still around here working on that sort

of thing right now. Actually, I'm just sitting here
loafing. Regarding your question on the 183, if you
managed to get that thing in A-_, that's fine and
dandy.

CDR I got it done; it only took a little crow bar, but

I got it in.

CC Okay.

CDR Actually, sir, without amy forcing.

19 54 O1 CDR The other thing, Crip, is I have two valves to dump

cormnand module water into the OWS system. And, I
also have this valve that is designed to put humidity
into the workshop atmosphere. Nowhere do I find
auything to do with that. Unless I hear otherwise,
I'm going to trash it, in the trash basket.

CC Stand by on that, Pete.

19 54 38 CDR I think it's residing in A-9 all this time.

19 54 hl CC Roger. It's the ones you keep in A-97

CDR No, that's where they wound up. I forget. I think

they came from A-3 originally, but I don't really
remember now.

CC Okay.

CC In the service module water - -

19 57 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over Vanguard at 20:28; and we'll try
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to have an answer for you regarding those valves and

that atomizer. Our initial inclination is we'll
probably want to put them back in the workshop some
place and save them for the next mission _n case we
require them. But we'll do a storage Ice _tion for you.

to _7 _1 PLT Roger.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND _01CE TRANSCRIPTION

20 28 03 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard for ii minutes.

CDR Hey, Crip; CDR.

CC Go, CDR.

CDR l've been going through that locker in the bottom of

_V room that has the - where there's six crew members'
... kit also the supply - resupply module that has
toothbrushes and the hand cream and the toothpaste
and so forth.

CC Roger.

20 28 44 CDR And, the - all the hand cream let go in there. It

got too hot. We told you that before, but we really
haven't had a chance to clean it up until now. And -
So, I just went ahead and closed it over, and all the
toothpaste had let go too. And, so I have thrown away
all the hand cream resupply that was in the resupply
kit. And l'm just about to go into the individual
guy's kits, because every hand cream in their indi-
vidual kits let go, and l've got to check the
toothpaste also. And, more than likely it may or may
not have let go in the individual kits, and if so,
I'ii let you know. But those - those are two items
that - they're completely wiped out up here - that I
think the other guys need to bring.

20 29 32 CC Okay, appreciate that. And, for your information,

regarding those items that you were talking about in
A-9, what we think you're talking about is this - the
atomizer device. That, we'd like you to stow in 440,
D440 for us. And, there were two QD devices: one
was the waste water transfer QD and the condensate QD
adaptor. Those should be stowed in MI51 if we could.

20 30 04 CDR 0kay, MI51 for those and D440 for the atomizers -
humidifiers. Roger.

20 30 10 CC Roger. And Pete, while I got you here, we've been

having a little problem with those spots on tae TV,
and we'd like to try to get them cleaned up iC we
could. And I guess the question really is: Do you

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think you got time this evening to get the optics

brush out of 524 and dust off the lens of both the
external portion, and if you could remove it and get
the internal portio_ too, we'd appreciate it.

CDR Okay.

CC Thank you.

20 32 16 CDR Say Crip, you still there?

CC Affirmative.

CDR Say, the other thing I haven't checked theirs, but

none of them broke open, but our sha_ng cream was
awfully hard. And I have a suspicion that that was
due to heat, also. I get the feeling that shaving
cream - there is no toothpaste in the individual kits;
so I've thrown away all the toothpaste. They are
going to have to bring more of that. I've got the
feeling that shaving cream, toothpaste, and hand
cream have all gone bad, too.

CC Okay, it's on note.

CDR Yes, I won't throw away the shaving cream because it's
not broken open, but I get the suspicion of something
she _ky.

CC Copy.

CDR Hey, a hand cream from that dropped in the head. It

was the only place I could open it up to use the
sand - sand collector to collect all the hand cream
particles.

CC Okay. None of the cream got out in the individual

kits. It's felt that - you ought to Just throw them
all away and resupply the whole kit, Pete.

CDR Well, we can do that because in - inside everybody's

kit -yes, it broke open inside everybody's kit. I
was Just pulling the ... down in the -in the thing.
If you think you can resupply kits, I Just as soon
get rid of them, because they're all dirty inside and
so is the resupply module. It's filthy.
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CC Okay. Why don't we take that under advisement down

here, and probably make some recommendation before you
leave.

CDR Okay, well, until _ _u do, I'm going to s+ p throwing

stuff away. I got other things I can do.

CC Okay.

20 34 08 CDR l've already thrown away everything in the resupply

kit, and I just finished AI Bean's and Joe Pogue's
kits. And I'ii stop right there.

CC 0k_.

20 36 54 CC Hey, Crip, you still there?

CC Say again, please.

CDR I said, are you still there? Question, I have the

TV lens, and it looks clean as a whistle inside, and
outside, I think, and how about if I change it out
with the last that I stowed to leave on board and
the busted camera?

CC Let us check that out, please.

CDR Well, let me tell you this. I can see where the dirt
is, and l'm not going to be able to get at it. It's
on the next lens in from the front lens - that's
causing the spot.

CC Roger. Understand it's the dirt on one of the lens

that you haven't got access to.

CDR That's right. And let me make a suggestion that I

bring both lens home use the good one and br±ng this
one home, you clean them up and send them back.

CC Roger. I think they intended to bring both - both

lens back down anyhow.

20 38 07 CDR That's not r_y instructions, but if you say so, but
I haven't gotten that word, yet. I've already stowed
the other lens.

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20 B8 16 CC Okay, we'll look into that, Pete. I guess right

now we understand that the intent is to bring both
TV cameras home. And, those day 27 transfers should
have said that. We'll check back into it for you.

CDR No, you've got it wrong. I'm bringing b_th cameras

back, but it didn't say a thing about the other lens.

CC Ah, so. Okay.

CDR Ah, so.

CC Okay, we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll have

you again at Ascension at 20:42. And we'll have a
clarification of what to do with the lens at that
point.

20 38 _7 CDR All right.

20 43 05 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension, 6 minutes.

PLT Roger.

20 43 lh CC Okay. And, I guess this is the word on the lens. We

would appreciate it if you'd take that one that you
stowed and try it out, observe the TV monitor with
each lens and select the best one, and use that one
for flyaround. You can stow the extra lens in B-6 -
Bravo 6.

CDR Okay. You want to bring both lens home and now that
I have exAm_ued this carefully in the sunlight, it is
obvious that - I don't know how this lens got by
inspection. Because all those big blobs, which I can
see quite plainly, are on an inner lens.

CC Okay. Fine.

CDR ... go get the other lens, right?

20 48 01 CDR You still there, Crip?

CC Affirmative. We're still over Ascension. Actually,

we'll probably get a pretty long pass here. We'll
probably have a small dropout between Ascension and
Canary.
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CDR Okay. The other lens is, Just visibly - naked eye,
is alot better ....

CC Okay. Fine. Then that'll be the one you'll use.

Regarding those personal kits, we - Just forget
about cleaning them out, leave them like they are.
We'll have them candidates for resupply, and if they
don't get a resupply, well, the guys can clean out
their own kits.

CDR Okay.

20 49 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We'll probably have to drop you out

for about a minute, between Ascension and Canary.

20 51 43 CC Skylab, Houston. I've picked you up again once

more, over Canary, for about 8-1/2 minutes and we
will be doing a data recorder dump over Canary.

20 51 53 PLT You still there, Houston?

CC That's affirmative, for about another 2 minutes.

SPT Okay, Crip. We Just decided that, unless you guys

have any big objection, we're going to get a leg up
on this early bed, early get up stuff, and we're
going to go to bed an hour early tonight, and get up
an hour early tomorrow.

CC Sounds good from us.

SPT Okay. Don't call after 10, we'll call you.

CC Okay. I've got to check my time schedule to figure

out when is what.

CDR Okay. That's an hour from now.

20 59 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll have you again over Guam, at 21:26 and that's
where we're scheduled for the Evening Status Report,
and we'll see what we can do about the other items
for this evening.

SPT Okay.
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CC Okay, Skylab. We're going to set up so you will

have the medical conference over Guam.

21 00 07 SPT All right.

21 27 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We got you for about 7-1/2 more

minutes. We've got a long message for your deactiva-
tion changes sitting in the teleprinter for you,
hopefully. They're coming up - -

CDR Thanks a lot ! You waited until we were going to go

to bed.

CC Roger. No reason for you to go to bed. Because

nobody down here can answer any questions about them.

CDR Okay. The CDR ate everything tonight, plus two cans
of butter cookies. The SPT ate everything and the
PLT ate everything plus one can of butter cookies
extra, and 1.5 DELTA H20 plus - well, wait until I
find it - oh, okay, I've got his corn hiding behind
the hungee that he had is card behind. He didn't
eat his corn. And I have a photo log for you.

CC Roger.

CDR The CDR had three optional salts.

CC Okay.

CC We're standing by for your photo.

CDR I have my ice cream in one hand, my spoon in the

other, two cans of butter cookies empty between my
legs because I was on my way to the trash locker, and
I can't read. Just a second.

CC Okay.

21 29 32 CDR Okay. Photo log for day 171. 16-millimeters in S183:

Echo Alfa 03, 80; and MllO with the Charlie India
15, 00, Charlie India 12, M487: 3 Bravo in Charlie_
Charlie India 13, 18, Charlie India lO. M151-Slh9
PR-3: Charlie India 17, 20, Charlie India 06.
Shoot it up, Charlie India 17, nothing, Charlie India
India 06. 35-millimeter: Charlie India 31 is all
gone, Charlie India 33 is now loaded, 01 on the frame
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count, Charlie India 32 is in the other camera, 27;

we took CX06 out of the Hasselblad with approximately
103 exposures on it, and we then loaded Charlie
X-ray 23 for the flyaround and so forth, and the
frame count right now is 004.

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21 30 30 CDR There was no EREP, of course, and the drawer A con-

figuration was: A-I is now 02, Charlie India 19,
i00 percent, Charlie India 15; 03 is Charlie India 20,
i00 percent, Charlie India 17; and those are the two
we plan to shoot up on our own. Alfa 3 is 06, Charlie
India 13, 18, Charlie India i0, and we'll shoot that
up. And A-4 is 05, nothing, takeups Charlie India 16.
And I suspect tomorrow night it will he 02, 03, 06
with takeups of Charlie India 19, Charlie India 20,
Charlie India 13, and Charlie India 16 with no
supply. Okay?

CC Okay. I hope our people in the back room managed to

get all that. Also, Pete, we had requested on your
details, if we could, to get a rundown on the con-
sumables inventory, page 5-1 and 5-2 of your stowage
list. Is that available, or did you put that on
channel B?

CDR I got it. Just a second.

CDR Okay. Urine disposal bag - Wait, let me get the

PLT down here to - -

PLT It's on channel B.

CDR Oh, I'm sorry. He says he put it all on channel B.

Okay?

CC Okay. That'll be fine, if you have it on channel B

for us.

CDR I hope the guys on the ground can decipher it,

because I can't understand it up here. But he has -
the PLT knows all.

21 32 39 CC Very good. Suspected that all along.

CDR Actually, he's sitting here nodding, looking like a

Buddha, telling me.

CDR We'll go ahead and digest the checklist changes, so

we won't bug you until tomorrow.

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CC Okay. That'll be fine. The deactivation guys have

secured, and they'll be available to you in the
morning and can ans,,-erany questions you may have on
it.

CDR Okay.

CDR We've already got day 28 anyhow, so it doesn't make

any difference. We just didn't want to tell them.
(Laughter )

CC I suspected that, also. You guys just want to loaf

tomorrow.

CDR Yes, the PLT thinks if we continue on our present

rate, we'll be ready to retro about 1 tomorrow after-
noon.

CC You guys really are anxious.

21 34 09 CDR We're just trying to stay ahead of the changes.

CC You've been doing pretty fair so far. We're about

to go over the hill. Got about 1 minute. If you
do want to call us, we'll be over Vanguard at about
22:07, that's 07, and I'll probably be talking to
you again after splashdown. Good luck, guys.

CDR Okay. Thank you, Crip. Where are we right now?

CC Oh, just about over Borneo right now.

CDR Oh, yes. There it is, Borneo. I couldn't recognize

what it was. Yes. Thank you.

21 34 43 CC I couldn't either if Rusty hadn't told me.

PLT See you, Crip.

CC Take care.

PLT Thanks to your whole team.

CC Yes, thank you guys. You did an outstanding job.

CC And we've just completed sending the last of all

those messages. That should do it for this evening.

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21 35 12 CDR Okay. We turned off the teleprinter anyhow. We didn't

want to do them.

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REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND V0_CE TRANSCRIPTION

06 07 02 SPT Hi there.

06 08 14 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 7 minutes.

SPT Good morning, Houston.

CDR Did anybody ever answer you this morning, Bill?

Hello, Houston.

CC Go ahead, Skylab.

CDR Oh. We just wondered if anybody answered you this

morning,

CC That's affirmative.

CDR Okay. We were having a big discussion, and you came

in, and when the discussion was over, we said, "Did
we ever answer that?"

CC Pete, they've even got a little song for you down

here this morning.

CDR They do? Well, play it.

SPT Houston, Skylab.

CC Go, Skylab.

SPT Okay, the medical status report asks me to voice record

some 0GI data on the PLT. I've done that twice. And
the data no longer exists up here because we erased
our cue cards. I think they ought to search channel B
again.

CC We copy, Joe.

06 ll 31 CC And, Joe, we appreciate your patience on this chan-

nel 5 stuff.

SPT Okay.

(Music: The Lonely Bull)

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06 13 42 CDR You should have started doing that on about day 2.

CC For some reason, they thought that that might be

appropriate for yo_, Pete. I don't know who thought
it up.

06 14 53 CC And, Skylab, we'll be LOS in i minute. Goldstone

at 06:18.

SPT Okay.

CC And the crew down here couldn't find a song for three
bulls ; it was only one.

CDR Cute little ole song, love.

(Music: Love Me)

06 19 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS for 6 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

06 24 54 CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute; Bermuda at 29.

06 29 43 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 7 minutes. We'll have a

1-minute keyhole about 2 minutes into this pass.

PLT Roger.

CDR Are you still there, Bill?

CC Say again, Skylab.

CDR Roger. Do we Just set our clocks ahead exactly

4 hours for clock time? Is that right?

CC I think it's - -

CC Pete, if you set your clock ahead 4 hours at this

time, we would show you day 38, 10:31. That's day 28.

CDR Okay. Thank you.

06 34 20 PLT Hello, Houston. You still there?

CC We're still here. Go ahead, Paul.

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PLT Okay, I was Just wondering. I don't remember start-

ing up Slh9 in deactivation before. Is that in the
Deactivation Flight Plan or are y'all going to send
up a message to in:tiate its - thing.

CC Stand by half, Paul.

PLT Okay.

CC Paul, you don't need a pad for that. That'll be

commanded from the ground.

PLT Oh, okay. So leave it just as it is, POWER OFF and

the whole works, huh?

CC That' s affirmative.

PLT Great.

06 35 45 CC LOS in i minute. Canary at 10:38. And, Paul, we hate

to ask you, but did you do the T027/S073 mall?

CDR No, he didn't but by the time he got it up, S149 was
already out in the airlock and, you know, activated.

CC We copy.

CDR As a matter of fact, we had a little discussion about

it. We really don't have too much sympathy over that
one because the malf has been in that thing for 8 -
9 days, and it's been cooling its heels sitting over
on a box. You know, we could have done it Emy time.

06 36 40 CC We copy.

06 39 05 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

06 43 59 CC SPT, Houston.

SPT Yes, Houston.

CC The pad that we sent up for the time change yesterday

of h hours was based on your getting up at 7 o'clock
instead of 6 o'clock. Is this adequate for you?
There is actually an hour difference.
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SPT Right. Let's keep the 4 hours and we're Just an hour
ahead of the time line. We will - we won't press on
too fast ahead because we don't want to wind up, as
the PLT pointed out, at lunch with no water in the
wardroom.

CC We copy that.

06 47 30 CC LOS in i minute; Honeysuckle, Ii:23.

06 47 36 PLT Roger.

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07 24 04 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 8 minutes.

SPT Roger, Houston. We'd like to stop and have coffee

with you, but the CDR says we're going on a trip
tomorrow, and we have to pack.

CC Press on. Sounds as if the CDR may he getting a

bit travel proud.

SPT What was that Carolina expression, Bill?

07 24 41 CC Oh, that's an old country expression, getting ready

to go to town, travel proud.

SPT That's what we're doing.

CC Skylab, for information only. We're putting the

final patches into the secondary computer. No need
to acknowledge.

07 31 22 CC LOS in i minute. Hawaii ii:44.

07 43 35 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go, CDE.

CDR Your Evening Status Report minus Delta is on B chan-

nel.

CC We copy.

07 44 27 CDR Houston, CDR.

CC Go, CDR.

CDR The SPT is the only one that's bringing back his
crew log. The CDR and the PLT did not use them. We
will stow them here so the people have extra paper
if they want them.

_- CC We copythat.

07 52 24 CC LOS in 1 minute. Goldstone 11:56.

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07 56 01 CC Skylab, AOS 6 minutes; Goldstone.

08 01 38 CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. Bermuda, 12:06.

08 06 32 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS l0 minutes.

SPT Roger, Bill.

08 16 38 CC Skylab, we're going LOS. Ascension at 12:23.

08 23 Oh CC Skylab, Houston. AOS lO minutes.

08 23 l0 SPT Roger, Houston.

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08 33 Oh CC Skylab, LOS 1 minute. Carnarvon, 12:56.

SPT Okay. See you then.

SPT And, Bill, would you find out for me if the Biomedical
Checklist gets used on the next mission.

CC Joe, a new checklist will be brought up on 3.

08 33 37 SPT Okay, thank you.

08 56 _8 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. I got a question for you. I want

to know if - how long I got to keep venting 02 .

CC Stand by a half, Pete.

CDR And, Houston; CDR.

CC Go, CDR.

CDR We'd also like to test the comm_nd module TV. We

have permission to do that?

CC Stand by half on that one. And for the oxygen, they

want to leave the polychoke hooked up and remove it
tomorrow at the checklist time, Pete.

CDR Okay.

CC Pete, we're having some data problems with this pass,

and they would like for you to do it over the States
where they can observe the TV.

CDR Okay. Well, it may not be convenient then, but give

us a holler.

CDR ... Hi there, world.

CC We're having a little come problem. Go ahead, Pete.

CDR ...

CC You're in and out. Say again.

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CDR Okay, on panel 5, EXPERIMENT POWER Charlie circuit

breaker is not mentioned in our book. It's OPEN, and
we'd like to know if that's where it's supposed to be.

CC Stand by half, Pete. And be advised, we're having

some data problems here. We may have dropouts both
on this station of the c,-,m, and we may have c_m,
problems over G1,am_

CDR I can see that on m_- S-band.

CC Pete, we're supposed to have _ more minutes here, but

in case we lose you, why this is the last time third
temmwill be up. And everybody has certainly enjoyed
it. And - -

CDR We enjoyed it. And we appreciate all your help.

09 02 21 CC As for myself, it's been pretty wonderful watching

what's going on - next best thing to being there.
And we'll be looking for you when you get back here,
with sugar cookies in both hands.

09 02 35 CDR Okay, Bill. Well, I'ii tell you, you were such a
nice goy to us and your team that we went ahead this
morning and took the mug shots for you.

CC That is well beyond the call of duty. Thank you,

Pete.

09 02 h9 CDR You're welcome.

09 05 2h CC We're i minute until LD6. We'll have you at Guam

at 12:11. Andwe're working the circuit breaker.

CDR Ok_.

CC Skylab, Houston thro,,_h Guam for 7-1/2 minutes.

CDR Hi, there. How do you read now, Hank?

CC Okay, read_ng you loud and clear.

CDR Okmy, you were a little wobbly there. We were watch-

ingyou wobble on our S-band max meter, ha ha.
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CC Roger. In answer to your question, Pete, on the

circuit breaker, eyperiment Charlie on panel 5, the
only thing that was attached to that thing is S015,
which, as you recall, was a late casualty.

CDR Yes, we couldn't find anything in this quie - We're

doing this quiescent switch configuration, and we
couldn't find any mention of it. And we didn't know
whether it was supposed to be OUT or IN when we came
across it. We'll leave it OUT.

CC Okay, and it looks like you're pretty far ahead of

schedule here. What are the other two fellows doing
now or do you know?

CDR We're having a poker game in the command module right

now. All three of us.

CC (Laughter) Roger.

CDR And so by the way, we're all suited, and we're ready
to go, if you got a pad.

CC You're going to have to hold off. We only got a

4-foot trench down there now.

CDR You got a _-foot what?

CC Trench.

CDR Okay. And let me pass one thing along for you, Henry.
There is no doubt in m_ mind that we got things pretty
well handled here; and therefore, with your permis-
sion, all the triangled items in my checklist for
day 29, which signify that I can bring up on day 28,
I intend to do after dinner. Which is, I believe,
power up the G&N.

CC Roger. Copy.

09 13 51 CDR Yes, sir. Let me read them to you, Henry. C_N/SCS

powerup, SPS/RCS quiescent termination, E-memory
dump, CSM caution and warning check, ECS prep - EMS
entry check. And I will complete those tonight -
after dinner.

09 i_ 16 CC Roger. We copy.
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CDR Hey, Henry. You thereT

CC Roger. You got aboat 3-1/2 minutes, Pete.

CDR Okay, how about looking at the BATT RELAY busT We

show it reading low here. We show 3.0, and the nmm-
hers say 3_ to something higher.

CC Okay, we'll check it.

09 15 37 CDR Thank you.

09 16 56 CC Pete, our telemetry is showing 26.h on that bus. It

looks good to us.

CDR Okay, our meter must be reading low.

CDR And the _nm_nal says 30 to 37. The PLT says he

understands, and he's going to explain it to us
d,,-wys. Okay, we understand it now why we're reading
low.

CC Okay.

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute until LOS; Goldstone

at 35.

09 18 12 CDR Roger.

09 35 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're stateside for about 20 minutes.

CDR 0kay, we'd like to check out the CSM TV.

CC Okay, go ahead.

CDR Okay. We've got it at CSM TV doors, and off S-band

and TV and nothing's z,,--ing. Do we go to C0_%ND
RESETY You guys did it. Okay, thanks .... Henry
are you going to get a picture down there.*

CC We'll be recording it at Goldstone, Pete.

CDR Okay. Well, let us know. Since I cleaned this lens

up - We had a lot of - They complained about that other
lens, and I found it had internal dirt in it, which
I could see. And I have replaced the lens with the
other lens, and want to know if we got a good lens.
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CC Okay.

CC CDR, Houston. Since you were in the class at 6:10,

may we assume that you've accomplished everything
prior to that?

CDR You can bet your sweet hippy, baby.

CC You guys are really moving ahead.

CDR We got up early this morning.

CC Okay. We're getting the video signal at Goldstone

now, and we 're recording it.

CDR We're reviewing re-entry procedures, and I assume

from the entry-minus-6-day check pads that I have,
that I can. go through there and change all my gimbal
trims and everything to what you had on those pads
because they ought to he fairly close. An example
in the book was pitch was plus l.hh and plus 0.33.
And the pad I had the other day was plus 0.057 and
minus 0.ii. And I assume those are correct.

CC Okay, those trims are probably not good, Pete. We'll

be up-linking you some new settings tonight on the
preliminary pads.

CDR Yes, they can't be too far off, though.

CDR Six days, all we've done is throw s_ay a little

oxygen - couple another pounds.

09 38 36 CC Okay. The stowage is not reflected in those trims.

09 38 h2 CDR Oh, the minus 6 day stuff reflected minus 6 days, huh?

CC That's affirmative.

CDR Oh, sneaky. I knew I couldn't get ahead; that there

was no way. Well, we're done with the TV. And if
you guys want to command it OFF, go ahead.

CC Okay, we'll turn the down-link OFF, and you can get
the camera.

CDR Okay.
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PLT Hank, I got to go to COMMANDRESET to turn that off

to enable that switch. Do they really want me to
do t_ _t_

CC Stand by i.

09 40 32 CC COMMAND RESET's okay, Paul.

09 _ 59 PLT Hank, you still there?

CC Roger. Go ahead. Okay. We Just had a handover.

Did you transmit right then?

PLT Oh, okay. You reading all right now?

CC Roger.

PLT Hey, if you'll pass that - I know something that always

came up in the time-lining people, and if you'll pass
to AI Bean and ... I started at the forward end of
the _A, went at a rate of travel that's typical of
moving with a fairly massive objective such as a
drawer _111 of S190-_azines. And from the forward
aft to the I_)A down to the big hole in the workshop
grid took me right at 1 minute. I turned around and
came back at - By myself at what has come to be, I
th4nk, a moderately fast but also typical rate of
movement of an _mh_ndered man, and the same distance
in about 20 seconds.

CC Okay. Understand from forward MDA to the experiment

compartment? Is that where you went to?

PLT Well, the forward - the grid in the experiment com-

partment, Hank. The big hexagonal hole in the grid
floor.

CC Okay. That took you about a minute. And with a load

coming back, about 20 seconds.

PLT Yes, sir.

SPT Has anybody seen _ rubber ducky? (Squeaking rubber

duck)

SPT Oh, I found it.

CDR You still there, Houston?

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CC That - that 's affirmative.

CDR Don't iet that out about the SPY, will you? We've
been trying to keep that quiet for the last 28 days.

CC He really took one with him, huh?

CDR You bet you.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute to LOS; Ascen-

sion at 03.

(Music: Up, Up with People)

CDR You know, it's Just like the day-before-Christmas up

here, H,n_. We're having our farewell party with all
the office staff and everything before we leave.

CC It sounds like a ball. You know, you've got to

realize it's only 5:00 in the morning down here.

09 54 24 CDR (Laughter) Well, we're Just getting ready to eat

lunch here in a minute.

i0 03 17 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension 5 minutes.

CDR Gosh, Hank, you got a EREP slider update for us?

CC Okay. See if I can get you one. Are you in the

wardroom now?

CDR Yes, slr.

CC I wonder if we could get one of you to sllp over to

panel 617 there and get EXPERIMENT i and 2 RECORDERS
to Charlie on the rotary switch.

i0 03 46 CDR Okay.

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i0 04 15 CDR You want them ON or just on Charlie?

CC We just want the two rotary switches on Charlie so

we can look at some data from the - from the exper-
iment there in the SAL.

CDR Okay.

CDR When do you activate 149? While we're here, or after

we leave?

I0 Oh 5h CC Okay. We're going to do a checkout on it today, and

then we'll turn it on just before you leave tomorrow.

CDR Are you actually going to open the doors?

CC That's affirmative.

CDR Let me know because I can watch it. I can see it

from the window.

CC Okay.

CDR We've got some time, you know. If you got a problem
with that thing, we can probably pull it in for you
and troubleshoot it, if you want to check her out
real early.

CC Okay, we'll - we'll let you know what happens.

lO 06 38 CE CDR, Houston. Corollary says that the previous

team has already checked out the doors. What we're
going to do is put the power on it and see if we got
the same problem that we had with T027. What we
were going to do is look at the shaft and trunnion.

CDR Okay. You going to drive it up and down?

CC Well, it shouldn't drive, we hope. We want to - if

we got that same sticking relay kind of thing, it
might drive, and that's what wei're afraid of. We
want to take a look at it and see what it does.
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CDR Oh. You go ahead and put the juice to it and I'll
watch. I can probably tell you turn it off ..,

i0 07 21 CC Okay. We're going _o probably do that at Carnarvon

then, Pete. We're about 1 minute to LOS, and Carnar-
von will be ceding up at 34.

CDR ...

IO 07 _i CDR ...

CC Pete, I can hear you keying, but I can't read you.

CDR I said, "Are we going to be in the dark in Carnarvon,

and also what's our Beta angle today?"

l0 07 56 CC Okay. Our Beta's up to 69 degrees, and we're only

down to about a couple of minutes of daylight. In
fact, on about 3 revs - a couple of minutes of night -
about 3 revs from now, we'll be all daylight.

CDR Ah! Crazy.

CC You can probably tell the bird's getting a little

warmer too.

i0 08 19 CDR I was going to go look at that.

i0 34 51 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon, 8-1/2 minutes.

I0 35 33 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?

PLT You're loud and clear, Houston.

CC Roger.

CDR Go ahead, Houston. Do you want to run this 140 on?

CC Okay, we'll be ready for that in Just a minute, Pete.

I'd like to chat with you a second about your plan
for the early CSM checks.

CDR Go ahead.

lO 36 16 CC Okay, the way we see it, it's fine to do the SPS/RCS

quiescent termination. In our opinion, the G&N
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and the SCS powerup doesn't really gain us a lot.

For one thing we don't have our REFSMMAT ready in
time, and we've got to get the clock synced up for
you and get the time squared away. The alignment
sequence tomorrow would be changed to do a P52 op-
tion 3 first and then a P52 option 1 and so on -
the time line. The caution and warning checks we
wouldn't want to do today because of the SPS pres-
surization which we've got scheduled to do first
thing tomorrow morning. And the ECS prep wouldn't
be desirable because of the secondary coolant loop
and cryo changes. And if you do the EMS check, we
still want you to do it again tomorrow. And - it's
kind of a bad picture all the way around. The crews
that are supporting this - we've got to turn them
right around to support the entry tomorrow, and it
really puts us in a bind. Plus we got a site cover-
age problem this afternoon. We get into that -
Vanguard, Hawaii, back-and-forth deal with the long
LOSs.

CDR What the heck did anybody ever put them in the book
and do early for anyhow then?

CC Well, you see the reason we're in this bind, Pete,

is that we're in sort of a nonnominal situation. We
had the - it would have worked normally. However,
we're in a situation such that we've got some cryo
and coolant loop problems and the STS pressurization
which are not nominal. And they affect the things
that we - some of the checks that you want to do.

CDR Could be a typical jet flight takeoff and invert

with EV, hut when you get to the end, look out.
Okay. We'll sit up here and twiddle our thumbs and
wait for you.

i0 38 51 CDR (Music) l've got lots of music to keep me happy.

PLT How about giving him something to do, Houston. Will

you please?

CC l've got one question. Can you stomp you foot up

there in zero-g as easy as you can in l-g?
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CDR You bet your sweet bippy, and you can also go
"Ah haa."

PLT You can only stomp once.

CC Roger.

CDR ...

l0 40 26 CDR Say HAnk, would you do me a favor?

CC Roger. Go ahead.

CDR Would you ask old rhyming Red Stu Roosa to pass to
Bill Bailey my thanks and ask him to pass on to
Jeanie Pruitt, Loretta Lynn, Danny Davis, Tom T. Hall,
Conway Twitty, Nat Stuckey, and Bill Anderson my
thanks for all the personal tapes and nice little
messages they sent because it's - you laugh at my
country music, but I've really enjoyed it for the
28 days. And I appreciate everything - the extra
effort those people did on mM behalf.

CC Roger. Will do.

i0 41 08 CDR Thank you, sir.

CC CDR, Houston. Corollary has all ready turned the

power on to S149 and checked it out. We didn't see
any movement in the shaft and trunnion, so I guess
all indications are normal. He'd rather not open
doors at this time, so it appears to be in a normal
condition.

CDR Okay.

i0 42 45 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS. Guam will be

coming up at 47.

PLT Roger. Houston, may we power up a couple of fecal

driers today?

CC That's affirmative.

l0 43 02 CDR Okay.
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i0 47 19 CC Skylab, Houston; through Guam for 9 minutes.

PLT Roger.

l0 55 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute to LOS; Gold-

stone at 12. And we just sent you a message up,
should be in the teleprinter now, and you can accom-
plish, as convenient.

lO 55 53 PLT Okay.

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ii 12 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for about 16 minutes and

we'll be dumping the recorder over Mila at about 20.

PLT Okay.

ll 24 34 CC Skylab, Houston. I wonder if it would be convenient

to give us an update on where you are in the check-
list here in the next couple of minutes?

ll 24 43 PLT Well, we're all in a hold awaiting lunch.

ll 24 51 CDR And we don't want to close down waste management

and wardroom until on time. So we'll just hold them
until lunch.

CC Have you picked up some of the items that are

scheduled after lunch?

CDR No, not really. You've got me convinced that we're

wasting our time getting ahead.

CC Well, we didn't really mean to do that. We were -

thought you were shooting to get to bed early tonight,
to get a few more winks.

CDR We'll make that, all right.

PLT Hey, Henry, the PLT is holding for lunch except I

have all ready replaced the solid strap and the
charcoal canisters.

CC Roger, copy.

ll 26 17 PLT And I'm not planning on starting to shut down the

water system until after the evening meal.

CC Roger, understand.

ll 27 09 PLT Henry, you got a minute?

CC Roger, go ahead.
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PLT If you will look at the Deactivation Checklist, and

look at the Flight Plan on page Charlie, please.

CC Okay.

PLT Okay, in my column is a time - critical function

to turn on the wardroom dump heater, but I can't
find out why I'm turning it on.

CC Okay, that's for - in preparation for the wardroom

water system deactivation, which comes after dinner.
And we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll be
coming up on - Roger. We'll be coming up on
Vanguard at 38.

PLT Well, that's what I figured, but I didn't see any

reason to turn it on that early, so I moved it on
down to an appropriate time ahead of dumping any
water.

11 28 4_ CC Okay, that's all right.

ii 38 h3 CC Skylab, Houston; through Vanguard 6-1/2 minutes.

PLT Roger. Houston, what's GMT at splashdown tomorrow?

CC Roger. I think it's 13:36, but I'll check it out.

PLT Okay.

ii 39 59 CC Okay. Splash is at 13:50.

PLT Sounds like we missed 28 days by i0 minutes, huh?

CC That's about it.

CC Maybe you could hold at 10,GO0 on the way down.

PLT Okay.

CC We just got some interesting data in here, now.

The recovery ship's crews have been practicing out
there. And they simulated a splash 4-1/2 miles
from the carrier. And the time from splash to hatch
opening on the deck was 33 minutes.

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CDR Yea!

SPT That's fantastic. And we hope to beat h-i/2 miles.

CDR Hey, Hank, CDR.

CC Go ahead.

CDR Roger. Let me pass you an Evening Status Report

Delta for the CDR.

CC Go ahead.

CDR 2/25/3300, 1/05/0300. That's the last one.

CC Roger. Copy.

ii 43 38 CC Skylab, if it's convenient for one of you, we'd

sure love to get the star tracker up.

PLT Well, it's not convenient, but we've ordered Joe to

go do it.

CC Roger. (Chuckle)

CC And while you're up there, Joe, would you get us a

readout on the S052 frame counter?

SPT S052 FRAMES REMAINING is 7871.

CC Roger. Copy.

CC And, Skylah, we're about 1 minute from LOS. Gold-

stone will be coming up in a little over an hour
at 49.

SPT Roger. And you've got the star.

ii 45 55 CC Fine, thank you.

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:[2 h9 0O CC Skylab, Houston; stateside for 12-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger.

CC And, Skylab, the first time it's convenient, we need

to get the MPC, INHIBIT. In fact, I guess we need it
pretty _Jiek because we're trying to get a load up.

CDR Oka@, Houston. We got some bad news for you. We

were jettisoning the charcoal canister through the
airlock per the procedures, and it has hung itself in
the trash airloek. And, in going back and looking
at another one, I have the sneaking suspicion that
the lip on the charcoal canister, the little flat
1-beam type thing that's welded on the side of it,
has slipped over the lip below the trash guard, and,
man, it's really hung in there. We're working the
problem, but I doubt - it'll be pure luck if we
bounce it off that lip and get it out of there.

CC Roger. We copy.

12 50 15 CDR I guess I should have looked at that thing closer,

but I think it was poor headwork for us to ever
assume that we should put that thing through the
airlock.

12 54 16 CC CDR, Houston. I wonder if you could give us an exact

description of the configuration. Was it - was the
canister in a bag - trash bag? Or, just give us a
description of - of what happened, how you put it in.
Story here wants to go over to the l-g trainer and
see if we can come up with something that might help
you out.

PLT Okay. It was the - the canister - charcoal canister

from mol sieve in a bag with four EV gloves. The two
gloves were on either side with the fingers dow_1, so
that the wrist ring was up above the canister, and
two more lay crossways on top of the canister.

CC Okay. Understand you had four EV gloves and - was -

two of them with their fingers down beside the canis-
ter, the ring over the top, and then the other _wo
gloves laying on top of the canister, all in a oag.
Is that correct?
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PLT That's right. All in a disposal bag.

CC Disposal bag. Roger.

PLT And it went just about halfway, I'd estimate. You

still there, Hank?

CC Roger.

PLT Okay. When you lift up the eject lever, the handle
that the - the handle you pull on is about 3 inches
above the lid.

12 55 h8 CC Roger. We copy.

CDR Okay. And, on the ejection stroke, it moved very

smoothlyuntil it just all of a sudden abruptly stopped.

12 59 28 CC Skylab, Houston. Have you done anything in waste

malf number 3 yet?

PLT Negative.

CC Okay. That seems to be the one that's appropriate.

In the meantime, story is on his way over to the
trainer to try to duplicate what you did, and see
what he can find out.

CDR Okay. Well, there's an iron lip - steel lip welded

on the side of that thing, a break. And, I've got the
feeling that when it got to the very bottom of the
trash airlock inner skirt, it popped through and it's
resting on the ledge that the outer seal goes on.

CC Roger.

13 00 39 CC Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS. Vanguard will be

coming up at 15 with a recorder dump.

13 lh 00 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, 7-1/2 minutes.

PLT Roger, Houston. On that waste malf 3 -

CC Roger. I don't think was much help, was it?

PLT Well, we went from block 1 to block 2 to block 6.

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CC l_eger. That's - that's the way we looked at it after

we got ih out. That didn't seem to be much help.

_q/F Yes, that's right. So having wound up there, then

we started working on it a little more. And wherever
it jammed, it must have been forcibly in the lip on
the side with the eyelid retracts ON. And by judicious
application of muscle, we did manage to get it up and
free; so the trash airlock is operative one more time.

CC Boy, is that ever good news! You - you could hear

the siFjas of relief down here.

13 15 00 PLT They were nothing compared to the sighs here, babe.

I'ii tell you what we did on the next one. And what
we recommend for the other troops is - Those charcoal
canisters, there's really no need to put them in a
bag, that we see. We just took the canister, laid
a - smoothed in all the sharp protrusions of gray
t_,De, and gently injected it through the trash air-
l,)ck by itself with its gray tape fairin_s, iIo bag.

CC Roger. That sounds like a good plan.

PLT There's nothing else with it, either. That's the best
plan, to just put it through by itself.

PLT Hey, Houston.

CC Go ahead.

13 17 08 PLT In the process of getting this thing loose, since

there are rather angular corners all over those can-
isters, we did put a few nicks and gouges both on the
bottom of the ejector plate - that's the elephant
foot - part there - and also in the sides - in the
wall. And, there just - you know, it's kind of
ragged. I don't think it's going to present any
problem operationally. But, if the next group wanted
to dress it up a little bit, they would have to bring
some - some coarse emery cloth or a file of the right
shape or something up to maybe just dress up some
of that gouged metal.

-_ 13 17 44 CC Roger. We copy.

CDR ... photographs of it, Hank, and bring it back, and

you can make up your mind.
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CC Okay. That's a good show.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're having the same problem with

the star tracker today we had yesterday. We can't
k<_ep it locked up. So, at your convenience, we'd
just like to go ahead and close the shutter on it,
and we'll bring her up again tonight, when we've get
more station coverage.

CDR What are you going to do when you _icn't have us to

run that thing for you?

CC I guess we'll just turn it off.

CDR Why don't we do that now?

CC What we're really after, Pete, is trying tc get

good hack on the Z-gyros before you leave. That's the
reason we're - we've been working with it.

i_ !9 ii PLT Okay. It's CLOSED.

CC Thank you, sir.

CDR i was just pulling your leg.

13 20 19 CDR Command module is rapidly be_un_ ig to __ok like what

it looked like when we left - crusaded.

CC Roger. We copy. EGIL sees the waste c_nk pressure

coming up. Are you doing a water purge _r dump now?

CDR I think they were doing the squeezer bag.

CC Roger; copy.

SPT ... experiment. That's comp]ete now.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 second_ from LOS.

Hawaii at 23.

I_ 21 44 PLT See you.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

14 24 05 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 2 minutes.

CDR Two minutes: It's hardly worth it.

CC Roger. We got a low pass here. We up-linked a catch-

all message to you at Vanguard; should be in your
teleprinter now.

CDR Is that the one with the entry changes that - about
the activation change?

CC Roger. We hope that's the last of them; there's a

couple of things we omitted last night.

CDR Okay, I got them. They're already in progrs_n.

CC And Skylab, for info, we had another RM failure in the

Y-axis. We're reconfiguring 1 and 3.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS. We'll

be coming up on Vanguard at 51.

14 25 50 CC Skylab, Houston. I guess I don't have to tell you,

but I'd take a close look at those urine separators -
when you put those in the trash airlock.

14 26 03 CDH Yes.

14 51 23 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 9-1/2 minutes.

CC And Skylab, Houston. I guess we would recommend that

you hold up this evening on dumping those urine
separators through the airlock, until we look at it
a little more closely. Story is on his way to the
trainer now; he's going to be looking at how he might
get that thing through safely. And also, he is going
to try to duplicate the problem you had with the
charcoal canister.

PLT Roger, Houston.

14 53 39 CC Skylab, Houston. I'd like to make a general comment

on the messages we sent up last night concerning
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circuit breaker configurations. We up-linked you

some asterisks, and there's some of those may not be
correct. I guess the main emphasis to the message
should be that the circuit breaker positions as
called for in the diagram - and with the changes
tna_ we up-linked - are what you want to do, regardless
of where the asterisks are. We have sensed - around
one place where we know we are in error. We called
for the four heater switches on panel 200 to have
asterisks, and I guess at this time we know that only
one of those is open. So there should be only one
asterisk. And that is on the OWS radiant heater 1
and 5.

14 5_ 44 PLT Okay. I'm going to take a checklist and go up there

right now and look at them and make sure I understand
them.

14 57 28 PLT You still there, Houston?

CC That's affirmative.

PLT Okay. My only question on these, Hank, then, is on 202.

If you'll turn - whenever you want that one - the
SAL control breakers.

CC Roger.

PLT Okay. It's understanding that when we leave, you want

SAL control breaker 1 OPEN and 2 CLOSED. Is that right?

CC That's zight, Paul. That's so we can control the 1_9.

It should be in that configuration now.

PLT Well, it's not. They're both closed right now.

CC Okay. I stand corrected. You will be opening number 1.

_nere's an asterisk been added there. You will be
opening that one.

PLT Okay. The only thing I didn't figure out how to do

was - on SAL control 2 - was ... and delete the asterisk.

CC Takes a good eraser.

PLT Yes.
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14 58 30 CC The main thing, I guess, Paul, is that in all cases,

I think that the bars indicate the correct position
with the changes that we up-link to you.

PLT I understand them all now. Thank you.

CC And if it's possible, Skylab, we'd like to get an

update from each of you as to where you are on the
checklist now.

PLT Okay. The RLT is holding on the Flight Plan at the

bottom of the page Charlie, at Urine Collection.

CC Roger. Copy.

14 59 45 CDR The CDR is at about 19:00 on the time line. I've done
miscellaneous act PGA donning prep, fecal bundle
transfer, and I have just thrown into the trashbag
my urine separator. And I'm cleaning all that stuff
out right now.

CC Roger. Copy.

CDR And the SPT is in the same place.

CC Roger. We copy. And we're about i minute to LOS.

Vanguard will be coming up at - or Hawaii will be
coming up at 59- And shortly here, in about 35 minutes
at 36:53, you'll have your last sunset for this flight.

i5 00 45 CDR 36:53, last sunset. Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

15 58 53 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii; 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. Be advised all three of us are up

to dinner time. We're actually a little ahead of
that. We - we're changing out the - closing out the
last urine drawer right now.

CC Roger. Copy, and just to fill you in, Story went over
and configured the disposal bag with the configuration
you had, and it jammed every time he tried it. And
he also is taking a good look at the urine separators
and he definitely does not reco_end that you try to
put those separators down through the trash airloek.
We're looking at several things. He's looking at how
he might configure them to get them through there.
We're also looking at a possibility of, at least for
now, storing the urine separators in the T027 sample
array container.

CDR Okay, you mean the small one, and pull a vacuum on it?

CC Roger.

15 59 57 CDR Okay, be advised that it won't hold the vacuum. I

pulled the vacuum on it when I stowed the box the
other day and when I went back to open it up and put
the dump port on it, why it didn't have any vacuum at
all. Either that or the plus-Z airlock vacuum hose
is not working. Now, that could be, too. I haven't
tried to verify that, but I can if you want me to.

16 00 22 CC Hold up on it for right now, Pete. We'll come up

with a plan somehow.

16 07 38 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Vanguard at 30

and there'll be a data recorder dump there.

16 07 48 CDR Roger.

16 29 51 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard; 8-1/2 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston, Vanguard; 8 minutes.

SPT Roger.
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16 3h 00 CDR Hey, Hank. I think that we could wrap those urine

separators in a m_ner so that they can't turn side-
ways, which seems to be the had feature, and get
them through the airlock, if you want to try that.
If not, we're open for whatever you guys want to do.

CC Okay, Pete. Story!s over at the trainer right now,

trying to come up with a scheme to get them down and
we'd like for you to hold off until we get the results
of that.

CDR Okay.

CDR Tell him that _ suggestion is to put two towels and

tape them on either side of the flat - on either flat
side, so that they can't turn sideways in there. And,
Just individually, one at a time, because the more
bundles you get, the worse things get - cap them out.

16 34 58 CC Roger. That's exactly what we're looking at, is trying

to tape the towels to it and see how we can package
it up so it won't hang up.

16 37 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're approaching L_. Hawaii will

be coming up at 37, 1 hour from now.

16 37 16 PLT Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

17 36 28 CC Skylab, Houston through Hs_ali for 6-1/2 minutes.

SPT Hello.

CDB Say, Houston; CDR.

CC Go ahead.

CDR One thing that we couldn't find was the sample return
bags for the 0WS water and we have put a sample in a
in-suit drinking device, which will be in L-3 vice
the sample bag. And it is so marked - You want to
tell the collection people that on the ship?

CC Okay, wilco. And - we looked at this urine separator

problem and - and it looks like that's a pretty
dangerous thing to do, is to try to dump it. Not
dangerous, but it could Jam the airloek very easily.
So what we're going to rec_,m_nd is that you take the
three separators and put them in the T027 sample array
box. Make sure the lid's on plenty tight and vent
down, and then we'll forget about it. It should take
about 15 minutes, probably, to pull it down.

CDR Okay, now I told you it didn't hold the vacuum, and I
Just checked that and pulled another vacuum on it.
I'm going to see whether it holds it or not. It did
not hold it the other day when I put T027 back in.

CC Okay, we're not really concerned about that. If we

vent it down one time, then the in-flow of the air
is into the thing, and I guess we don't worry about
that.

17 38 12 CDR Okay, that's where we'll put them.

CC And one other thing, Pete. We been watching this

quad A. The temperature is still sneaking up on it,
and we're running about 3 or 4 degrees below the trip
point. So rather than having that thing wake you up
tonight, we'd like to have you INHIBIT the 5 Bravo
thereon panel 201, the tunnel.

SPT Okay, 5 Bravo.

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17 41 09 CC Skylab, Houston. If it's convenient, could you tell

us where you are on the checklist?

SPT Well, the SPT is complete for tonight because the

urine separators are all changed out, and I'm helping
the other gu_s who helped me catch up.

CDR Yes, we're closing out the wardroom; we're Just getting
ready to shut down the water system.

CC Roger. Copy.

CDR I 'm actually on page l-h_, step 3.

CDR What's our next station, Hank?

CC What was your question again, Pete?

CDR Next station?

CC Okay, the next station will be Vanguard again at - at

08, and we got a recorder dmmp there. And we're about
1 minute from L0S.

CDR Okay, well, I'll have the food for you.

CC Okay.

CDR Also, you sent us a message about transferring some

film, and there was one film number that was wrong on
there. CI19 is one of thefilm, that we were going
to shoot up. So the film that we transferred from
drsxer A to drs_er F, as I remember, was 21 - CI21
through CI2_.

17 43 00 CC Roger. Copy.

18 08 06 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard 9-1/2 minutes.

SPT Roger. "

CDR Gi_e you the Evening Status Report, Hank.

CDR Are you ready for the day 172 eloseout nmmbers?

CC I think we've got everybody up now, Pete. Go ahead.

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CDR Okay. The Alfa for the CDR was 0h5, the SPT was 040,
for the PLT was 030. Bravo was 4478 for the CDR, the
SPT was 7315, and the PLT was 5h59. I believe we
reported Charlie this morning. We've reported Delta,
also, to you today, and Echo. And let me get over to
the food. Okay. The PLT, who didn't have any Delta
reported, had 2/15/2000. And the food was as follows:
The CDR ate everything plus two butter cookies. And
at lunch time today, we made the substitution that
we told you we were going to ,_e on B chin-el on day
22. I hope everybody was aware of that one. We never
heard anything. So we went ahead and did it. I had
i0 optional salts. And the SPT - he ate everything,
and he also did not - He did make the substitution that
I Just mentioned for lunch. And he did not have any
coffee with sugar, for snacks, and he had 7 optional
salts. The PLT ate all his breakfast. He ate all
his lunch with the substitution, as mentioned, no corn,
no bread, and no coffee with sugar. He had 1.5 extra
water and 5.0 optional salt. And he wants to talk to
yOU •

PLT On this wardroom water drain, I notice our waste tank

pressure's getting kind of high. I'm supposed to
switch to the chiller now. Do you want me to go
ahead and switch? Because there's a caution note in
the procedures; it infers you don't want to interrupt
the flow, once it starts.

18 iI 26 CC Stand by 1.

CC Okay. That's correct, Paul. Press ahead. Don't

interrupt the flow.

PLT Okay.

CDR Okay. The CDR is going to have two cans of butter

cookies tonight.

CC Roger. Copy.

18 ll 53 CDR Did you got those scheduled photos in drawers the way
I left them with Mr. Truly? And that's it.

18 15 18 CDR Hey, Hank, you there?

CC Roger. We've got a couple of minutes left.

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CDR Hey, look, these T027 cans - I hate to belabor the

point, hut I've had the vacuum hose on it for a half
an hour, and I went up, pulled the hose off, and
opened the lid. That's how poor the vacuum is. Now,
the SAL is going to stay open; the plus-Z SAL is going
to sta_ open. Do you want me to leave the vacuum hose
connected to T027 for good? They can unconnect it
when they get up here and maybe they will have some
way to throw those things through the trash airlock
and they can get rid of them.

CC That's negative. We don't want to leave the hose

connected.

CDR It ain't doing any good to stow it iu there, I can

tell you that, because that thing has got no vacuum
whatsoever. I mean, I can't even pI,11 the vacuum
long enough to hole the lid shut. I'd rather dick
around with the SALs and everything and put them out
the trash airlock, I believe we can do it. Think it
over and tell me at the next station.

CC Okay. Can you tell if you are getting any flow at all
out through the hose while you've got it hooked up?

CDR You bet your sweet hippy. I put the hose Just to
check that, too. I put the hose on the lid with it
open, and I can - it's Just sucking away merrily right
through the vacuv_lxu'twhere it is supposed to. It's
Pulling a vacuum, but I don't know why the lid doesn't
- for some reason it doesn't hold. It had the vacuum
in it when we came up here.

18 17 06 CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS. Ascension is cuming

up at 23, and that will he your med conference.

18 2_ 5_ CC Skylab, Houston. We got about another 5-1/2 minutes

thro1,sh Ascension.

CDR Roger.

SPT Okay, you might pass on - I ass_e that the deactivation

of the water system for SL-3 is pretty much the same
as ours. These numbers aren't working out too well.
I'm sure you guys saw there what the waste tank
pressures got up to. Plus I been waiting at least
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3 minutes for the dump pressure to get down, and right

now it's reading Just a tad over i. I'm still waiting
for it to get below 0.7.

CC Ro_er. Copy.

CC CDR, Houston. In regard to the T027 container, we're

not concerned about the fact that it won't hold the
vacuum. We want you to put the separators in there,
batten down the hatch, and forget about it.

CDR All right.

CDR It's Al's worry, not mine, Hank.

CC PLT, Houston. EGIL says we ought to press ahead; we

can go on the time. Just go 6 minutes and let that
do it.

PLT I didn't get that, Hank.

CC Roger. We'll follow the times in the checklist going

to 6 minutes. That's for the PLT.

18 27 50 PLT _k_y.

18 29 h5 CC Skyiab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS; Guam

at 07.

PLT Roger, Houston. And the CDR has managed to get some
vacuum in T027.

CC Roger.

CDR Got the same old problem, Hank. Loose nut on the
stick, the CDR.

CC Roger. Copy.

SPT You didn't see the other set of clamps on the hinge
side.

18 30 35 CC (Laughter) Roger.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

19 01 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston, on the last A0S of the day.

Standing by for 6 minutes.

SPT Hello, Houston. What time is it down there anyway?

19 07 15 CC The local time is 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

SPT Goodness gracious. Well, we're going to bed.

CC Sounds like a fine idea.

SPT I shouldn't have asked. The PLT was getting sleepy

and now he's wide awake again.

CC Sorry about that.

SPT So I'm going to play him some soothing music. Neither

country and western, nor classical, nor Up With People;
something everybody can get along with.

CC Beautiful.

SPT ...

CC Beautiful. (Music) : "America."

CDR Hey, Carl, where are we?

19 09 15 CC Skylab, FLIGHT sends his compliments about your

selection of music, and we're currently over Guam.

CDR Over Guam; okay.

CC And, Skylab, a couple of small matters. First of all,

we'd like confirmation that you've proceeded the rest
of the way through the waste - the waste management
water procedure. Also, like to confirm that you
took the T027 rod out of the box before you put the
urine separators in.

CDR No. Nobody said to put - take the rod out. Want the
rod out? I'll take the rod out.
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CC Okay, that's no big deal. We'll take it as it is;

just a point of information.

CDR 0kay.

19 09 58 PLT Yes, the water system deactivation is complete.

CC Roger; and thank you.

19 12 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We have 40 seconds to LOS. And

we'll see you early tomorrow morning on splashdown
day.

CDR Okay, Houston; and be advised that I'm goin_ to take

transporter 03, which has supply CI 18 and takeup
CI 17, and stow it in the back of F drawer. It's
one of the rolls we were going to use. We don't have
anything to use it on." And it's fully loaded; and I'
I'm just going to put it away in F drawer, for them.

CC Roger, Pete. We copy. Roger. And, Skylab, a

question is coming through here. Just for reference,
man you tell us where you put the bag with the BO19
film canister?

MCC Yes, sir, the CAP COMe, has it.

CDR Which $019? The good one or the bad one?

CC It's the bad one.

CDR The bad one's in a plenum bag.

CC Roger. We copy.

19 13 46 CDR And it's tied under TO27 on the forward experiments

compartment area by the sunny SAL.

CC Roger. We copy; and thank you.

CDR Going to use it for something?

CC Say again.

CDR Going to use it for something?

r r
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CC There's a possibility that there might be spare

parts in the battery that could be useful later.

19 14 i0 CDR Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

00 48 h6 CC Good morning, gentlemen. Welcome to mission dsy 29,

the last day of a very successful Skylab 2.

CDR Good morning, Karl. Everybody's up and at 'era.

We're throwing out bedding.

CC Very good. We'll be with you for 12 minutes through

Mila and Bermuda.

SPT It's wonderful of you to pretend it's morning, Just

for us.

CC Down here in Mission Control, it's hard to tell the

difference. Imagination does everything. Incident-
ally, be assured that we have scoured all Houston
for an appropriate wake-up song. We wanted it to be
"Rubber Ducky", and weren't able to find it. Sorry
about that.

CDR (Laughter)

00 h9 40 CC And, Skylab; you have four burn pads on hoard:

2901, 02, 03, and 04. We'd like for you to confirm
that they're on board and okay.

00 49 54 SPT We got them, and preliminary glances - they're - it

looks like they came through good, Karl.

CC Very good; thank you.

CDR You really mean three burns and an entry pad, don't
you_

CC Okay, I'ii Roger that.

CDR You can tell that big m=. I heard say 'qes" in the
background, "hello."

MCC He said, "Roger, that."

CC He says, "Thanks and hello back."

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CDR Say, Houston; CDR. Would you pass to me one more

time the approximate time you wanted to move the
RCS hot fire? Do you want to get it to Guam, or do
you want to get it in Carnarvon instead of Guam, or
something? I got it in my book, but I Just want to
stick it in my mind.

CC Stand by.

00 53 25 CC Roger, Pete. We'd like to do that over Carnarvon

instead of G,_am.

CDR Yes, what was the approximate time?

00 53 59 CC Roger, Pete. The time we have doww here is 15:05.

15 :05 PET.

CDR Thank you, sir.

00 57 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to confirm that you have

the undocking procedures on board. And, we're re-
ferring to two messages. One is 2317, and this in
return - in turn, refers you to message 0105. Are
both of those available to you?

CDR Wait 1. I think - I think you're referring to the

one - the first one you're referring to, I put in
the checklist, in the fourth section, if I'm not
mistaken. Let me look for the other one.

00 58 lh CDR Okay. The number on the - I got a 0620A and an

0315, and that was the real old one. And then I put
one in the Procedures Book - the CSM Procedures
Book. And that's the only three I know about.

00 58 37 CC Roger. Is the one in the Procedures Book - it said

to put it on the back of page 5-11. Could you
confirm that?

O0 58 h6 CDR That I can confirm.

CC That's - It's in the Systems Checklist. And you do

have that one on board?

CDR That 's Charlie. It 's in the eom_-nd module right

now.
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CC Okay, Pete, and the other message was the undocking

message that went up on day i and is still important.
We think that that was placed in the cnm,_nd module.
Do you have any reference to it? That's 0105.

CDR 01057 No, I - pass my memory on that one. Would it

have been a message that we put in the Systems Book?

CC Okay. It sounds like that. We' ii put that on the

teleprinter for you.

CDR Very good.

00 59 37 CC And, we have I minute to LOS; we'll see you at Madrid

in about 3 minutes from now.

Ol 04 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid.

CRE_ Roger.

CC We'll be with you for 8 minutes.

01 ii 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We have 40 seconds to LOS;

we'll see you again over Carnarvon at 36.

01 ii 39 PLT Roger.

01 37 02 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for i0 minutes.

CDR Roger.

PLT Good morning, Henry. Hey, I Just wanted you to know -

wait until I find the other speaker.

O1 38 Oh PLT Okay, Hank. In proceeding through the closeout,

I'm not closing out - turning off the heat exchanger
fans yet. And I got a question. On the instrumen-
tation selectors - you want them left on Charlie
Charlie - is - I heard you say something yesterday.
Is that where you want them left?

01 38 27 CC We'd like to close them out per checklist.

PLT Okay.

CDR I've got some number for you. Ready to copy?

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CC Go ahead.

01 38 33 CDR Okay, this is the morning-evening status report for

day 29. There is no Alfa for you. There is no
Bravo. Charlie the chair: 27003, 2700h, 27003. The
CDR: 6.073, 6.07h,6.076. The SPT: 6.625,6.63h,
6.625. The PLT: 6.738, 6.738, 6.738. There is no
Delta. There is no Echo. Lastnight - you'll have
to add to our last night's food: The Co_mnder -
one cherry drink; the SPT, one cherry drink; the
PLT, i0 ounces of H20. This morning the Com,_nder
had one cherry Juice vice his coffee with sugar.
Because who wants cold coffee with sugar? Yuk! The
SPT had an orange vice his cold coffee. And the PLT
had one cherry.

CC Roger. We copy.

Ol 39 58 CDR And the PLT had no coffee, either.

Ol hO 30 CDR And - and the SPT didn't have his grapefruit drink
with breakfast for the TT as listed - two T's because
I think they're smacks or something.

CC Roger.

CDR Here comes the computer.

Ol _i h3 CC PLT, Houston. Just a reminder there, you can go

ahead and configure panel 617 and heat exchanger
panels to stay on until you reconfigure panel 390,
because we're running them in manual.

PLT Okay. Good. I'd forgotten that, Hank. Thank you.

CDR Hey, self-check looks all right.

CC Roger. We concur.

Ol 4h 23 CC CDR, Houston. We can take an E-MOD now if you're

ready - page 7_.

CDR Okay, is it all right to send you that while it's

doing a No ampere, or should I wait until the computer
c_ts the - the IMUs up?
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CC Stand by.

CC Okay, CDR. After the turn-on sequence is complete,

we'll bread_. That takes about 90 seconds.

CDR Okay.

CC We've only got about 2 minutes left here. Why don't

we hold that - Honeysuckle. And it - we get - we
might get a dropout in data here between Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle here. It looks like about 20 seconds
or SO •

O1 45 2h CDR Okay. We'll hold her.

01 47 46 CC Skylab, we're back up again through Honeysuckle for

about 4-1/2minutes.

01 h7 52 CDR Okay. Here comes your EMDD.

CC Okay. We're ready.

CDR Got it.

01 52 04 CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we have retransmitted to

you message 105; that's the message we sent up way
early in the mission for mating the probe and drogue.
And we retransmitted the contingency undock procedure
Just to make sure you have both of those on hoard.
They should be in the teleprinter.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

02 20 30 CC Skylab, Houston; stateside for 16-1/2 minutes.

02 20 33 CDR Roger° You want PO0 and ACCEPT?

02 20 35 CC That's affirmative, sir. We're ready with your

up-links, and we're also standby to monitor your SPS
repress on page 2-12.

CDR Okay that's coming up right now and you got PO0 and - -

CC Oh, wait a minute, Pete. We don't have any data yet.

CDR Oh, okay.

CC Okay, CDR. Data looks good. Now, you can go ahead.

CDR Okay.

CDR ... pressurizing it into the green; however, it must

be on the ground.

CC Say again, Pete. We had a poor eomm here.

CDR I said, it's barely coming up into the green. How

does it look to you on the ground?

CC Okay. We're having data problems again, soon as we

get it squared away, we'll take a look at her.

CDR That's nothing new.

CC CDR, Houston. We're seeing the pressures now and

they both look good to us.

CDR Okay. I indicate that it's still slowly crawling up.

Now far do you want me to shut it off there? You
want me to go ahead and go back to AUTO now?

02 23 06 CC Okay, CDR. You can go back to AUTO.

CDR Roger.

02 23 25 CC And, CDR. For info, we retransmitted the message on

hooking the probe and drogue together, and the
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contingency undock procedures. And both of those

should be in the t_lep_inter.

CDR It looked to me like I only got the one message, which

is the one we already had.

CC You - you - Are you saying you don't have message

0105 on board?

CDR That's right • you sent me the other one - that I

already had.

CC Okay. We'll check that out, Pete. If we haven't - if

we find we haven't sent 0105, we'll resend it. That's
the one that hooks the probe and drogue together.

02 24 20 CDR The message you transmitted was 2317BI, which I

already got.

CC Okay, the reason we sent that One, we Just wanted to

make sure you had it. I know you said you had it,
but we did it just as a precautionary measure. And
we will ensure that you get the other message. We'll
send it again.

02 24 39 CDR You guys don't trust me or something?

02 28 27 CDR Hi, Houston. Are you there?

CC Roger Go ahead.

CC CDR, Houston. Go ahead.

CC CDR, Houston. We had a handover then. We're standing

by.

CC CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.

CC Okay. Were you calling just a moment ago? We had a

handover there, and you were cut out.

CDR Yes, what is the undoeking time?

CC Roger. It shouldbe on the pad we sent up.

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CDR Okay. We'll use that one.

02 29 56 CC Okay. It's still good; 15:34:13. And I also have

your P52 stars for you that goes on page 2-32, 730.
I guess that's really about 740 in your Flight Plan
now.

CDR What's the page?

CC Page 2-32.

02 30 25 CC That'll be stars 37 and 42.

02 30 37 CDR Roger. Stars 37 and 42. The undock time's 15:34:13.

Right ?

02 30 48 CC That's affirmative. And your up-links are complete.

02 30 53 CDR Yes, going back to BLOCK.

CC Skylab, Houston. Whenever it's convenient, we'e like

to get an update from the SPT and the PLT.

02 33 04 PLT Okay, the SPT has the urine lockers stowed in the
command module; is presently stowing A-7.

CC Roger; copy.

02 33 Ii PLT The PLT is in a short hold, waiting for the time to

come up. We're going to do the command module's
power transferred internal.

CC Roger. We copy.

CC CDR, Houston. That message 105 ought ot be on board

now.

PLT Okay.

CC Skylab Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS. Madrid's

coming up at 41 with a recorder dump.

02 36 07 PLT Roger.

02 41 21 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston; 6 minutes through Madrid.

PLT Roger.
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02 47 33 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

Caznarvon's coming up at 19. You're looking good
going over the hill.

02 47 42 CDR Roger.

03 18 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We got a low elevation pass, a

couple of minutes through Carnarvon.

CDR Okay, Hank. I did the P52 a little early. Let me

give you the data.

CC Okay, go ahead.

CDR Okay. Star 40, and star 45, five balls. Plus 1000.15
minus 000.31 minus 000.63. And, the GMT, I guess,
off - now 65 was 03, 02, 0000, which I guess is 07:02.
It's phony time.

CC Roger. We copy.

SPT And, Houston, SPT. Now that we've finished with the
star tracker, may I configure the ATM for quiescent?

CC I'll see, SPT.

SPT Okay. You guys check up on me.

SPT Where's your next pass, Hank?

CC Say again.

SPT Where's the next space contact.

03 20 13 CC Okay. We'll drop out here for just a minute or so.

We'll come up on Honeysuckle at 28 for a couple of
mlnu_es.

03 27 40 CC Sky,lab, Houston through Honeysuckle for about a

minute and a half.

03 28 ii CC Skylab, Houston, about 1 minute until LOS. We'll

be coming up on Goldstone at 57.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

03 56 56 CC Skylab, Houston; stateside for about 16 minutes.

CDR Roger. Do you want PO0 and ACCEPT?

CC Roger. You can go ahead and give it to us. It'll

be about h more minutes over Texas when we up-link
the clock sync.

CDR Okay. That's going to be PET, right?

CC That's affirmative.

CDR Hooray! I got it right!

CC (Laughter)

03 57 23 CDR You've got P00 and ACCEPT now.

CC Okay, sir. And for info, the electrical system

looked real good going over the hill there at Honey-
suckle, and we've checked out the _OD and it's okay.

03 57 36 CDR Roger. And we're on page $5-8 in that Command Module

Systems Checklist doing the predocking switch - first
look at the panels checks.

CC Roger. And could we get an update on the SPT and PLT?

PLT Yes, the PLT just configured - Just finished configuring

the SPS circuit breakers. How about if you guys
verify your con_nand capability?

CC Wilco.

CDR And the SPT is helping me, because he's up to where

he should be.

SPT And did you verify ATM command capability, Houston?

03 58 24 CC Negative, sir. Now that you are through, we're going

to give it a GO.

_ SPT Okay.
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03 58 36 PLT Henry, what I have not done yet, but I have had it
at the appropriate places - l'm hack out at the
workshop - is the heat exchanger fan, OWS heat ex-
changer fans are still running, l've added the
switches to my checklist further down, and l've
added the circuit breakers to my checklist further
down.

CC Roger. Copy.

04 01 44 CC CDR, Houston. We noticed you got a C&W there. Was

that - Did you ENABLE 5 Bravo?

04 01 50 CDR Yes, if you remember, both of them are bad. Alfa

and Bravo are bad - I mean quad A and quad B are bad.
Quad B 0FF/SCALE HIGH 300. We got both those shut off.

04 02 03 CC Roger, copy.

CC CDR, the PT's in; the computer's yours.

CDR Th_nk you, sir.

CDR Houston, you still there?

CC Roger. Go ahead.

04 03 36 CDR I think you missed one on page $5-I0, panel 377 - I

think you want the glycol to RAD SEC valve to FLOW
instead of BYPASS per the new procedure, right?

CC Stand by i on that, please.

04 04 15 PLT Houston, how about either turning the TV ON or let

us hit COMMAND RESET, please.

04 04 40 CC Go ahead and hit COMMAND RESET.

CC _DR, Houston. I think in page 2-42 there of the

_hecklist, we - we don't do page 5-10 in the CSM Sys-
tems Checklist at this time. We catch that a little
later down the line, and there we'll configure that
system properly.

CDR That's not what it says in my book. Wait - Hold it.

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CDR It says - In my book on page 2-42, it says, "F5-7,

8, 9, and ii, except panels 4, 230, 201, 98, 12,
and 351." You don't want to do page i0, is that what
you're telling me?

CC Roger. Page i0 wasn't in that list. On page 2 - 2-38

your copy - -

CDR It says, "Start on F5-1 and configure all panels

on F5, 7, 8, 9, and ii except panels 4, 230, 201, 98,
12, and 351," which are on those pages, 5-10 you
sho!,id do.

CC I've got affirmative and - and the - the steps that

on 5-10 were accomplished on page 2-38, and we did
have a change in there where we went to normal.

CDR That's right. I've already done it. I just wanted

to confirm it.

CC You're correct.

Oh 08 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We've been watching the primary

refrigeration loop here pretty closely, and it doesn't
seem to be performing properly. In fact, the whole
loop seems to be slowly warming up. I wonder if some-
body could run down and check panel 611 and check that
all the circuit breakers are CLOSED.

PLT I did that twice; I'll do it again.

04 09 31 CDR Hey, and; Houston. I'm getting ready to terminate

the 02 purge here a little while, okay?

CC Roger.

CDR Thank you.

04 09 47 PLT Houston, all the circuit breakers on 611 are CLOSED.

CC Roger. We copy.

04 i0 09 CC And, SPT, for your info, all the ATM command checks
were good.

_. SPT Roger. Thank you.

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04 12 34 CC Skylab, Fouston. We're about i minute to LOS.

Madrid at 18, with a recorder dum b . And, CDR, you
can go to BLOCK.

04 18 39 CC $kylab, Houston through Madrid 9 minutes.

PLT Roger, Hank. We checked all the freezer doors and

that. Everything's" latched up secure. The only
thing that's different is the SPT has taken out all
that frozen urine, and he put some warm hardware in
tmere. But the - it was just the empty trays; the
mass of it wasn't much.

CC Roger. That doesn't seem to be the problem. We're

a little puzzled about a thing. Our telemetry seems
normal. The valves and everything in the right places,
however, the - the loop seems to be warming up.

04 19 23 PLT Okay. Also, I got a question for you on the config-

uration of the breakers on panel 613. Regarding the
SAL power. All the SAL outlet breakers are OPEN
except plus-Z ontlet i. Is that really what we want?

04 20 19 CC Okay. That was one of the changes we up-linked, Paul.

The configuration there should be all of those experi-
ment circuit breakers OPEN except BUS 2, SAL OUTLET 2,
MINUS-Z.

PLT Okay. We didn't get it. At least it didn't show up

in the book; I'll change it. You want the one S149's
plugged into, right?

CC Say again.

PLT I _igured you want the one that S149 is plugged into.

CC That's affirmative.

04 24 22 CDR Hey, Houston, you still there?

CC Roger, for about 3 more minutes.

CDR Well, we got the television in the rendezvous window.

You can co_nand it on anytime you want to get a check
on it. See if you like that new lens; changed lens.

CC Roger. Our telemetry looked good. And for the PLT,

we've got your REG ADJUST settings for you.
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PLT What REG ADJUST settings? I was just marveling at

how EGIL figured it all out so it came out exactly
right when we unhooked the CSM.

04 25 33 CC I think this is - Oh, he's got a failure here. He

wants you to adjust BUS 2 clockwise to increase the
PCG total 2 by 5 amp s.

PLT Okay. How's that look?

CC Okay. It looks good to us.

PLT Okay.

04 27 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. About 30 seconds from LOS; Honey-

suckle at 04.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

05 04 21 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 5-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger. You guys better figure out what happened to

that freezer loop, quick. It's up to 6 degrees, and
it's switched to secondary.

CC Roger. We see they switched over, and we're talking

about it right now, Pete.

CDR It ain't doing any good, though. The temperature's

Jump from 4 degrees up to 6 degrees in the urine
freezer. Everything's shut, everything looks normal
here. It must be - may be some circuit breaker or
something on the 200 panel.

05 07 17 CC Skylab, Houston. What we talked about during LOS

there was - we kind of narrowed in, thinking that
perhaps the - either the bypass valve hung up or the
relief valve that goes around it opened up on it.
And we had planned to switch over to the secondary
loop by COMMAND, but the system beat us to it. Now,
we would like to look at this secondary loop for
awhile. We think that the system has - all the
freezer's compartment temperatures were up and we
think the system had enough heat in it that we haven't
seen - had time enough to see the secondary loop do
its thing. But we'd like to watch it awhile. And
perhaps later on, when you do the final closeout
down there, we may want you to switch a pump for us.

PLT Okay, that's coming up pretty quick.

05 09 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute until LOS.

We'll be coming up on Hawaii at 25. We'd like to
remain on the secondary loop through Hawaii and
perhaps even the stateside with - We're thinking we
may want to goback to the primary loop and if we do
that we'll - The only switch action we'll require
from you is to do a pump switch for us on the primary
loop.

SPT Roger, Houston. We copy.

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05 i0 06 SPT I was looking at a PPC02 HIGH CAUTION we just got,

Houston, you might take a glance at. Probably
normal.

05 i0 17 CC Okay, we see it.

05 i0 34 CC Okay. I guess that PPCO 2 might be expected with the

steve flow down. I guess we're not concerned about
it at this point.

05 25 36 CC Skylah, Houston through Hawaii for 7 minutes. And

we have switched back to the primary loop on the
refrigeration system.

PLT Roger. How does it look?

CC It doesn't look good to us right now. We're still

smoking it over.

CDR Secondary loop look good?

CC Negative. It didn't look good either.

CDR Holy Chrictmas."

SPT Was it something we did during closeout that's not

obvious?

CC Not that we can tell. We're thinking of the pos-

sibility now we may have a radiator frozen up.

CC We're in this high Beta now. We're in a situation

where the radiators are meeting their coldest tem-
peratures. They're pointed away from the Sun all the
time and no albedo from the Earth on them.

CDR Hank, for your information I'm on page 2-58.

CC Roger. Copy.

05 27 14 CC And for the PLT, the co,and checks all turned out
good. The AM command checks, and for the CDR, stars 37
and 42 are still good.

CDR Okay.
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PLT Okay, and the PLT is holding at the top of page 67.

CC Roger. Copy.

CC PLT, are you down in the experiment area?

PLT No, sir. _'m out of the workshop and all lights are
out and I'm in the MDA. I can go back down, if you
want.

PLT What do you need, Hank?

05 28 ll CC Okay, we're just discussing here now, Paul, we

decided - we were going to have you switch over to
pump 2 on primary loop, but we decided we're going
to leave it on pump 1.

PLT Okay.

05 31 O1 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute until LOS. Goldstone at 33.

05 31 05 CDR Okay, well, we're going off the comm here for a
minute. We're pulling the umbilical.

05 33 19 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 9 minutes.

CDR Okay, Houston.

05 41 44 CC Skylab, Houston, about 1 minute to LOS. Burmuda

at 46.

05 41 5_ CDR Roger, Houston. We're just about running 20 minutes

ahead, just nice and comfortable.

05 42 00 CC Roger. Copy.

CC CDR, Houston. Just want to fill you on what we're

thinking about - we're considering a 45-degree pitch
maneuver for the SWS to put the radiator in the Sun
a little bit, and we haven't made our mind whether
we want to do with the SWS or the CSM.

CDR We'd just as soon let you guys have the SWS.

05 42 22 CC Roger. Copy, and we're about LOS.

05 46 31 CC _ylab, Houston through Bermuda for 6 minutes.

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CDR Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're having a little trouble

selecting antennas from the ground. Could you give
us CO_&_ND RESET?

CDR Want it left there, or you want it back in NORMAL?

CC Roger. We'd like to go back to NORMAL.

CDR We'll do that.

05 50 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're still having trouble with the

aDtennas. Could you tell us the position of your two
S-band antenna switches?

CDR Okay. They're in OMNI B and REMOTE.

CC Roger. We copy.

CDR I'm still in the process; I just finished reconfig-

uring the comm. That may have been part of your
problem. S-band POWER AMP PHASE MODULATOR X-PONDES
2 FLIGHT for a while. I just closed it again.

CC Roger. Copy.

05 51 44 CC Skylab, Houston, 1 minute until LOS. Canaries at 45.

05 55 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Canary for 9-1/2 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. How do you read?

CC Roger. Reading you loud and clear.

CDR Okay.

06 04 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're pretty much convinced now that

we're going to have to do a maneuver to put that
radiator in the Sun and we're still looking at the
possibility of doing it with a CSM. The reason we -
we can't get a handle on the TAC usage and, of course
you know the TAC is critical for us and well, we're
still debating whether to do it with a SWS or the
CSM and we should have a decision on that Carnarvon.
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CDR Well, don't ask me to do it in the next little bit;

man, we got tunnel drogue, probe, suits, junk. I
can't even move in here right now. You can forget
us for at least an hour until we get this command
module straightened out. You want us to maneuver, you
couldn't ask for a worse time.

06 05 07 CC Roger. We're taking that into account, Pete; and

we'll be switching over to PET now. All times will
be in PET. And Honeysuckle will be coming up at
30 PET. I'll be handling over to Richard now. Keep
:t in the groove, and we'll see you in Houston in a
couple of days.

CDR Roger.

PLT So long.

CDR Thank you for everything, Hank.

06 05 30 CC Okay. See you guys later.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

06 40 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.

CDR Hi there. We'll all pressurized doing our suit

integrity checks.

CC Roger. Understand, Pete. And we're prepared down here

to - We're going to have a quick look at these
refrigeration temperatures. We're prepared to co--and
the maneuver here at Honeysuckle, to maneuver the SWS
to an attitude about 45 degrees to the Sun. And our
big plan is, Pete, is, depending on the temperature
response we get when we get to this attitude, we're -
we're going to stay here about - at least half a rev.
And depending on the temperature response after that
half rev, we're going to decide whether to maneuver
back; and then have you conduct the planned flyaround.
Or if it's not responding, or we need to stay there
for a full rev, we may go ahead and stay in this
oddball attitude for the full rev and modify the
flyaround as necessary, to save the refrigeration loop.

CDR Okay.

CC And the maneuver will be - I have the angles on the

ball that you'll see at the end of this maneuver. And
it's going to be about a 10-minute maneuver time, and
I'll let you know when we con_nand it.

CDH Okay. Well, nobody can write anything down right at

the moment.

CC Okay, no problem. When - If you want them, and when

you do, I've got them.

CDR And the good SPT wants you to be reminded that he put
undocked gains in the ATMDC.

CC Roger. We know that. Thank you much for the reminder.

CDR Okay. Just trying to keep you honest like you keep
us honest.

CC Yes, sir_ and thank you.

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PLT Say, Richard, you got time for a stowage change?

CC Affirmative. Go ahead.

PLT Okay, on eloseout, I was supposed to put the eloseout

camera - the Nikon, in M151, I think. Wasn't really
room for it in there. It is now stowed in M158.

CC Okay, I got that. Thank you, Paul.

06 43 29 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised with the maneuver's in

work, and we've cormna_ded it to start.

CDR Okay. Why don't you tell me the gimbal angles?

06 43 43 CC Okay. Roll, 276; pitch, 312; yaw, 311. And there

may be a very slight variation in that due to a slight
uncertainty in Nu z.

06 hh 03 CDE Okay. And we're releasing docking latches at the time.

CC Roger.

06 44 29 CC And also, Skylab; Houston. We've still got 5 minutes

here at Honeysuckle. Anytime you get a chance here
at Honeysuckle or at Hawaii, we're - I'm ready to
copy the P52 data.

CDR Coming at you. 37; 44; four balls 1. Plus 001.20;

minus 002.18; minus O01.01. The time 13:13 35.00
Peter Echo Tango time.

06 45 02 CC Roger. Got it, Pete. Thank you much.

06 h8 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS. We're

going to see you at Hawaii at about 13:50. The
maneuver's about halfway complete, and we can begin
to see the temps coming up on the radiator. And I'll
let you know, when we get to Hawaii again, how we're
doing there.

CDR Okay. You see any improvement in the refrigeration

loop?

CC Pete, we don't expect to see any in the loop itself

until we can throw out whatever blockage is in the
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radiator. So the first thing to do is make sure

that those temps are coming up; and they are.

CDR OKay. Good enough.

06 49 01 CC Roger.

07 00 35 CC Skylab, Houston; Hawaii for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. Be advised that all 12 docking latches

are undone; the tunnel hatch is installed. And we
have a DELTA-P at 2.6 at 6 minutes, and it's still
going down.

CC Roger, CDR. Copy.

CDR And on the DSKY, as the present angles of the vehicle,

it looks like - you know, where it is - pretty good.
I'm showing 27662, 31380, 31061.

CC Roger. Copy.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. Be advised that we've had a

couple of minutes here to look at the refrigeration
system data. The radiator temperatures are coming
up as we expected. Apparently, the whole problem
isn't solved yet because we still have a pump DELTA-P,
that's now where it should be. But the basic purpose
of the maneuver is being - as we expected - is to get
the radiator temps up first; and that's happening,
and I'll keep you posted.

CDR Okay, thank you.

CC Skylab, Houston. Since we up-linked the teleprinter

pads - or the pads to you on the teleprinter earlier
today and we did in each of those pads had double
numbers on them, it's your choice as to whether you'd
like to read them back for - to make sure that you
got them correctly. If you would like to, we still
got 5 minutes here at Hawaii and we got a stateside
pass coming up, so Just let us know.

CDR No, they're - they're all good. I copied them in the

book. I understand all of them.
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07 04 35 CC Okay, Pete. I've also copied them into my book, and

the FIDO has checked them again; and as of now, they're
GO.

CDR All righty. I haven't configured the DAP yet, but I

will.

CC Roger.

CC And, CDR: Houston. We don't think there's any

particular hurry for you to reconfigure the DAP. As a
matter of fact, until we kind of find out where we are
with respect to this refrigeration system problem.

CDR I understand. And we'll be happy to maneuver for you,

if we have a free moment.

CC Okay.

CDR Right now, we're pretty busy.

070534 CC Okay.

07 09 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you at Goldstone at 14:01.

CDR Roger. 14:01.

07 12 49 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Goldstone for 6 minutes. Request

ACCEPT. We're going to up-link a state vector, gyro
compensations, and a PIPA bias for you here.

CDR Okay, you got it.

CC Thank you.

CDR You still there, Houston?

07 17 51 CC That's affirm, Pete. We got about a minute left before

LOS here at Goldstone. Go ahead.

CDR No, I was Just _atching the up-link, and it didn't

look like much was going on. I'm wondering whether
you got it all in.

CC Stand by 1.
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CC CDR, Houston. Negative. We're not through up-linking.

We're still doing the PIPA bias updates. For your
information, we think we probably will be coming out
of this SWS maneuver attitude probably at Bermuda,
which is coming up AOS at 14:12. We'll look at the
data there before making a final decision. And the
maneuver time that we think that we'll be using is
15 minutes.

CDR Okay. I,just completed the EMS checks. Entry checks

are okay. The null bias is now plus 1 foot per second
for 1 minute and 40 seconds.

07 19 02 CC Roger. Copy.

07 23 19 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Bermuda 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. Be advised, we have a good tunnel,

and it's vented.

CC Real good, Pete. Thank you.

CC Skylab, Houston. Everything's loaded up there. You

can go back to BLOCK. Thank you.

CDR I still show an UP-LINK ACTIVITY light on, and a bunch

of stuff in the DSKY.

CC Stand by.

CC Skylab, Houston. Good catch. We were handloadiug

all those commands, which was one reason that they
were going so slow, and we made one error on the
ground. Thank you much. You can go back to BLOCK now.

CDR That is a good load I got in there, 2101027414567

CC That's affirmative, Pete. That's a good load.

CDR Okay.

07 29 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We still have about 5 minutes in

the pass here at Bermuda. Be advised, we've made the
decision that we're going to remain in this attitude
until the Ascension pass, then we're going to come
out of the maneuver and back to the fly around
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attitude at Ascension. We'll use a 15-minute

maneuver time. And this will put you in a attitude
in time to undock and do the flyaround as planned.

CDR Very good. Has - has that salvaged your refrigeration

system?

CC Well, I tell you Pete, the numbers tell us that it's

- we hope that it's heading in the proper direction,
but we won't know for sure until we get back in solar
inertial. So we really aren't sure yet, but it looks
encouraging.

CDR Okay. I hope so.

CC Me, too.

CDR Houston, are you there?

CC Affirmative. Go ahead.

CDR You want us to hold the P52 until 15:03 or you want
us to go ahead with it now?

CC Well, we were just talking about that. Hang on a

second.

CC CDR, Houston. We think it is okay, if you want to, to

go ahead and do the P52 now. The stars that you
ought to use are stars 1 and 2 in this attitude; but
be advised, you should delay the GDC align, naturally,
until we get back into the fly around attitude.

CDR Yes, I understand.

CC Roger.

CDR Hey, Houston, are you there?

07 31 43 CC Affirmative. We've got 1 minute left. Go ahead.

07 31 46 CDR Okay. N_,J you had me scratch out this RCS thrusting
prep, but you are going to have an RCS hot fire. I
guess I'm not exactly sure of what we're doing. I guess
we're doing an RCS hot fire on the quads rather than on
the PSM, is that what it is?
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CC That's affirm, Pete. That is what we're doing.

CDR Okay.

CDR And where did you want to do the RCS hot fire?

CC Stand by.

CC CDR, Houston. We plan to watch the hot - hot fire at

- hot fire at Carnarvon at 15:02. (Laughter)

CDR Carnarvon at 15:02. All right. We'll have a run fire

for you.

CC Roger.

07 35 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Canary and Ascension for

15 minutes. And be advised, we've started the
maneuver back to solar inertial.

CDR All righty. And let me give you our P52. Star O1,
star 02: Five balls, plus 000.37, minus 000.6h, minus
000.40; the time, 14:23:00:00, And then, Dick, let
me verify a few things with you. I'll read you
some pads. Just a second.

CC Okay.

CDR Okay, let's verify the SEP pad. I have set,

016;29;13;00 minus 005.0; all zips; all zips;
NOUN 22 181; 011;359; NA; 00:23, NA, NA, NA, 28151
plus O1, excuse me, plus 0.77 minus 0.03 and - it's a
plus 0.03.

CC Roger. With that plus, that's a good readback, Pete,

on the SEP pad.

CDR Okay, let's try shaping. 016;Sh;h3.00; 255-minus 255.8,

plus 000.0; plus 065.3;359;198;000;2_9.2;00:10;
303.0;lhh;2815; plus 0.77 plus 0.03. And that's it
for that.

CC And that's a good readback on the shape pad.

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07 37 31 CDR And R_f_O: 019; 59; 5978; minus 18.5; plus all balls;
Flus 04_._; 0001_0; 0o0; 1'(5.o; Ou:O(; 040.0; 14;4;
27_20 plus 0.78; minus 0.09. CM RCS Capture HP is
e_ual to 44 nautical miles.

CC And that's a good readback on the retrofire pad.

CDR And let's try entry. Area 561-5 Golf; 041; plus 24.77;
minus 127.07; 1165._; 25980; 25:26; 26:00; minus 0306.4;
roll right 55/75: 30;40; 25:47; 29:26; 33:33. One, target
north of ground track; two, lift vector up; three,
pitch for roll in entry 61 degrees.

07 38 58 CC Roger, Pete. Good readback on all the pads.

07 48 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We don't see tNe VHF ON yet, and we

think it probably shQuld have been configured ON,
on page 2-81 of the Deactivation Checklist, which
would have led you to page 5-5, I think, of the
Systems Checklist - CSM Systems Checklist.

CDR That's a sneaky way to get there.

CC Skylab, Houston. On this maneuver back to solar

inertial attitude, we are spending a little TACs, and
it is conceivable that we might get the CMG AUTO RESET.
It's just to let you - Be advised, no action required
and no particular concern.

CDR Okay. Low soon are we going to be back in attitude?

CC Stand by 1.

07 50 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got 1 minute left in the

maneuver, Pete, ...

CC And, Skylab; as we go over the hill, we'll see you at

Carnarvon at 15:02.

CDR Okay. And, all you want to do is fire the jets that
are turned on presently, is that right? I canlt
really decipher much out of this thing.

CC Well, CDR, if we can't let you k_ow here, I'll have a

good description of it when we come AOS at Carnarvmn.

07 50 51 CDR Okay.

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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

08 13 20 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Carnarvon for 8 minutes.

CDR Hi there, Carnarvon. How are you?

CC Just fine, sir, and you?

CDR Okay. I think I got this thing figured out, if you

guys are happy.

CC Roger, Pete. We are; we want to look at the SWS

attitude control system real carefullY before we do
the hot fire check. And also want to make sure we
got our backroom recorders all turned up to speed
before we give you a GO to do the check.

CDR Yes. All you're going to see is four thrusters,

right; two pitch, and two yaws, right?

CC That's affirmative.

CDR And it's going to be mid-impulse, right?

CC That's affirmative.

CDR Hooray! I figured it out by myself.

08 14 l0 CC And, CDR; Houston. We're not going to start the

heart - hot fire check here; right now we're going
to work with the SWS and make sure the attitude con-
trol system is squared away.

CDR Okay. What do you want to do? Do it - do it at Guam?

CC No, we - well, we - We haven't given up at doing it

here at Carnarvon, but we're just standing by at the
moment.

CDR Okay. Can I go VERB 46 and - and get all primed and
ready so that when you want it, I can give it to you?

CC That's affirmative, Pete. Go ahead.

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08 17 25 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we're not going to be

able to do the hot fire check here at Carnarvon.
We're going to do a nominal H cage to improve our
momentum position so we can stop using the TACs; and
we will try to pick it up at Guam.

CDR Okay. Now, are my -I've aligned my GDC to the

undock attitude. Is that good or not?

CC Standby.

CC CDR, Houston. The GDC al - should be aligned to

213.510 and zero per a pen and ink on page 2-85.

CDR That's right. I want to know if that's good attitude

right now; I'd like to realign it again.

CC That's affirmative, Pete. That is a good attitude.

CDR Thank you. Okay. You guys interested in my 4-hour

and 52-minuteGDC driftcheck?

CC Of course we are, Pete. Go ahead.

08 19 06 CDR Okay. I started on a Greenwich mean time of 03:07,

a_ least I assame that's what you had in the computer
for a while. And as best as I can decipher it, I
stop it at 07:59, which comes out to 4 hours and
52 minutes. And now, 20 was 286 22 33223 3_205, and
the thumb wheels wound up at 2755, 3518, and 3586,
which isn't too bad.

08 19 41 CC Roger, Pete. Copy.

CDR And a sec, coolant loop pump is on AC2.

CC Roger. And, CDR; Houston. Nominal H cage has been

commanded.

CDR Okay.

08 20 42 CC Skylab, Houston. On the electrical power system, we'd

appreciate it if you would configure descent battery 2
on main A. The reason is descent BAT 1 is getting a
little warm and we're trying to manage the temperatures
a little bit. We do want to leave - we do want to _
leave BAT 1 still on main A, also.
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PLT How's that?

CC Roger.

08 21 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

We're going to see you at Guam at 15:17, and be
advised the total attitude excursion of this maneuver's
about 40 degrees, 40 degrees.

08 29 13 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Guam 5 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston.

CC And, Pete, we're still looking at attitude control

system to see if we can get it squared away in time
to get the check done. In the event that we can't
get it squared away in time, we'll just skip the hot
fire check.

CDR Okay.

08 30 41 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we're going to scrub

the hot fire check. We're having some problems with
the rate gyros in the SWS, so we're Just not going to
do it this pass.

CDR Okay.

08 34 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We're going to be at Goldstone at 15:41. We are
unable to give you a GO for undocking because we have
not gotten the SWS into ATT HOLD CMG due to Y-rate
gyro failures. And, we're getting - trying to get
configured - we'll - We will get configured at AOS
Goldstone as soon as possible and give you a GO for
undocking there.

CDR You do not want us to undock at 3h. Is that what

you're telling me?

08 34 46 CC That's affirmative, Pete.

08 52 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone. Be advised

we've got three commands to get into the burn; Y-2
drift update, get Y-2 into the control loop, and then
command into ATT HOLD CMG, and then you'll get a GO
_-_ for undocking.
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CDR Roger. We're standing by.

CC Roger. And we got good television, Pete.

CDR Okay.

CC Incidentally, Pete, in our estimation, we think

probably if we can get you off here at Goldstone or
ve_r shortly, that probably you will have time to -
to get around on a complete flyaround, if you concur.

CDR We'll give her a go.

CC Roger.

CDR We haven't done anything by the Flight Plan yet, so

we'll go by ear again.

CC Roger that.

08 54 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're in ATT HOLD CMG. Yo_'re GO

forundocking. _-_

CDR Okay. Standby.

CC Roger.

08 55 05 CDR Okay, we're free. We got 0.4 of a foot per second,

Houston.

CC Roger.

08 55 16 CDR Bye-bye, Skylab.

08 56 33 PLT Houston, that TV Just isn't working well on peak.

08 56 38 CC Roger. Suggest you try average. We're about 40 sec-

onds away from about a 1-minute dropout between
Goldstone and Texas. And that television did look a
little bit better when you changed it.

08 59 07 CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS again at Texas. And we got

you for the next 12 minutes, and we got a picture.

CC Skylab, Houston. We believe we'd like to try peak

again on TV and take a look at that.

PLT I'm ahead of you, again.

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CC I know. You got our loop up there again. This is

quite a sight to all us guys on the ground who haven't
seen it yet.

CC And, PLT, Houston. I guess peak is just too much.

Like to return to average.

09 O1 15 PLT Yes, that's peak at f/&6.

09 05 02 CC PLT, Houston. Another suggestion is go back to peak

on television and open up the f-stop wide open. And
if that doesn't work, we'll come back to where we are.

09 05 17 PLT Okay, it's in now, Dick.

CC Roger. Under - understand the f-stop's wide open

now. Is that right?

PLT That's right.

CC Roger, Paul. I guess we'll go back to where we were.

Still can't get a heck of a lot of detail.

PLT Okay.

PLT Houston, did y'all turn the TV off?

09 08 44 CC Skylab, Houston, affirmative. We had LOS at - at

Mila. So, just a reminder, you can go ahead to S-band
AUX TV to OFF and f-stop to fully closed.

09 lO 16 CC Skylab, Houston; we're 45 seconds from LOS. We'll see

you at Ascension at 16:09.

09 l0 26 PLT Roger, Dick.

09 19 55 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension for 5 minutes.

09 20 01 CDR Roger, Houston.

09 24 23 CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute from LOS. We're

going to see you at Carnarvon at 16:39. The con-
trollers have looked at the CSM, and it looks real
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good. You're GO for a separation. And in the event

you guys_are getting warm, when you get a reasonable
difference - dist%nce away from the SWS, it's okay
to activate the evaporators.

09 24 _3 CDR Roger, Houston.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

09 49 56 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon for ii minutes, and

standing by for your sep burn status.

CDR Burn on time; 5 feet per second. Negative.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about l0 minutes here at

this pass. I'm not sure how busy you guys are. I
have one little checklist change to make on page 5-4,
about descent batt 2, that I'd just as soon get out
of the way while - and get ahead, anytime you guys
get a chance.

PLT Which book, Dick?

CC Entry, Paul.

PLT Okay, go ahead.

CC Entry Book, page 5-4 - Right after the last line it

says "abort system propellant RCS co_nand verify."
Just add "take descent batt number 2 off main A."
And this is the one we Just had you put on, and the
reason is, is to give it a few minutes to be condi-
tioned orior to separation.

PLT Understand.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We've looked at the bird. It looks

real good to us. You're GO for the SPS-1 shaping
burn. And a reminder: after the shaping burn, we'll
be watching it at Guam, and when it's complete, we'll
be configured to watch you do the logic sequence check.

CDR Okay.

l0 O0 55 CC Skylah, Houston. We're going LOS. See you at Guam

at 16:53.
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i0 03 31 CC Skylab, Houston. Standing by at Guam for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Houston. We're in the final count for the

burn. Everything looks good.

CC Roger, Pete. We're looking at the data; looks good

to us, too.

CDR We're past all the horizon checks. Everything looks

fine.

CC Roger.

l0 06 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We watched the burn on the data,

and we got everything but the DELTA-V counter.

CDR I had 14.1.

CC Thank you, Pete. --_

i0 08 22 CC And, CDR, Houston. Be advised we're configured on

the ground to look at the logic sequence checks
whenever you get secured from the burn. We've still
got about 5 minutes left here at Guam.

CDR Okay.

CDR Okay, we're ready to give you the logic sequence.

SEQ logic.

CC Roger.

CC Roger, Pete. We're ready on the ground for your

cleared SEQ logic 2; I'm on UP.

CDR There they are. On UP.

CC Stand by.

i0 09 31 CC Skylab_ Houston. It looks good. You're GO for

power alarm.

CDR Roger, Houston.

lO 12 27 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Goldstone at

17:20.

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CDR See you then.

i0 12 34 CC Roger.

i0 30 37 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS stateside for 12 minutes.

PLT Roger, Houston.

SPT Houston, Skylab.

CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead.

SPT Roger. How does the refrigeration system look?

CC Roger. Let me get you an update on that, and I'Ii

get back to you in just a second.

SPT Okay. We're doffing suits. We're going to have a

little lunch.

CC Okay. Good.

CC Skylab, Houston. For your information, we still do

not understand the refrigeration system problem in
the SWS. The temperatures in the coolant loop, itself,
are still slowly on the increase. And - so, I really
can't spell out much more of a detailed briefing for
you now. We did discover the first indication of a
problem; occurred about 20 minutes or so before any
action that you guys took during the deactivation.
So although in the end when we took the frozen urine
out of the freezer, there may have been some - some
effect of that thermal spike on the system. The -
the problem was strictly coincidental, and it occurred
prior to your - you guys getting to that point in the
checklist. Over.

SPT Okay, Richard. Thanks a lot.

CC Roger. And we've still got several minutes left

in this stateside pass, and I'm standing by.

SPT Okay.
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i0 41 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS in

Mila. We're going to see you - I'll give you a call
on VHF. We've got a real low elevation pass at
Carnarvon at 18:17. And going over the hill, the
bird looks real good.

SPT Okay. We'll see you then.

i0 41 58 CC See you then.

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SKXLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

ll 27 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon through

VHF for 2 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon, VHF, for a

couple of minutes.

PLT Roger, Houston. Row do you read?

CC Roger. Read you loud and clear. And I have a little

hit of good news for you. The - the FD0 made his
run so well prior to your undocking that there are
no updates required for the retrofire pad or the
endtry pad. How about that?

PLT Okay. Thank you.

CC Roger.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS at

Carnarvon. We're going to see you at Goldstone
at 18:53. And we're wondering if you've accomplished
P527

PLT Not since the burn, Dick.

CC Roger.

CC We'll see you at Goldstone at 18:53.

ll 29 5h PLT Okay.

12 03 h5 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS stateside for 9 minutes.

CDR Hello, there. You want P20 in ACCEPT?

12 03 51 CC Yes, sir. We sure do, and we'll give you some state
vectors and P30 targets. And we're standing by for
your P52 results. And, when we confirm we have data,
we want you to activate the co,and module RCS.

CDR Okay, sir. The stars were 35 and 43. The SPT did
an outstanding Job with 5 halls, plus 001.28,
/-_ plus O0.hh, minus O01.O1. The time 18:32:00:00.
Page1962 Day173 _

CC Roger; got it.

CDR Okay. What would you like us to do, pressurize

the RCS?

CC Roger. Stand by just a second, please.

CC CD - CDH, Houston. Affirmative. We're looking at

the data and we're ready for you to proceed.

CDR We go to turn on the logic.

CC That's affirmative, Pete. You're - you're clear.

CDR Okay.

12 05 24 CC Skylab, Houston. You're GO for PYRO ARM.

12 05 27 CDR Okay. They're ARMED.

CC Roger.

CDR Okay, looks like we got both of them.

CC Roger. We concur, Pete. They look good on the

ground, too.

CC And, Skylab; Houston. When we get through with this

HCS activation to your satisfaction, we've seen kind
of a funny in the optics I'd like to talk about for
a second, and get you to run through a little proce-
dure for us. And we'll find out if it is onboard or
on the ground.

12 06 35 CC Okay, what we'd like you to do is leave the MODE

switch where it is and call up NOUN 91. And we'll
look at it on the ground, and you can compare it to
your TPACs. And we've seen funny readings in our
telemetered trunnion reading. And this ought to
confirm or help us confirm where the problem is, if
any.

CDR Yes, well I think we have a problem, Dick. Joe has

had to - we had to redo this last P52 here. I'll
let him tell you.

CC Roger.
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SPT On two P52's, Dick, the first time I let the auto
optics take me to a star, the NOUN 92s were okay,
but the trunnion didn't go there. It went to ...
instead. And in both cases the problem was solved
by ....

CC Roger. Copied everything except in most cases the

problem was solved by what?

SPT By zeroing the optics.

CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out for a second, Just

for a second; stand by, please.

CC And, Skylab, we'll be unable to do this procedure

that I mentioned until we get through with up-links.

12 08 12 SPT Roger.

12 12 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got all the up-links in, and

you can go back to BLOCK. And, if you have the time,
if you'll call up NOUN 91 and compare it to TPACs,
we'd appreciate it.

12 12 27 SPT Okay, Dick. You probably see NOUN91, and it does

in this case agree with the TPACs.

12 12 38 CC Roger. And when we saw the problem before, Joe, the

optics was in the zero mode. We're about 20 seconds
from LOS. W@'re going to see you at Vanguard
at 19:16.

CDR All right ...

12 12 50 CC Roger.

12 27 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for 6 minutes.

12 28 03 CDR Roger; 6 minutes. Houston, any particular time? Or

I was going to - to burn attitude about 19:30 to
start the maneuver, if that's all right.

CC Stand by 1.

CC Roger, CDR. That time will be real good.

CDR Okay.
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CC And, if you guys would like to hear about the weather

at the reeoveryarea, I'll give it to you here.

CDR Okay.

12 28 37 CC It's - it's real pretty out there. It's a2000 foot

broken, l0 miles visibility. There's about a 12-knot
breeze blowing. The wave heights are _ feet. Air
temperature is 67 degrees. There'll be two helos in
the area eallsign. Recovery and Swim. And you're
being awaited by the USS Ticonderoga. And we're
waiting to see you back here in Houston, too.

CDR Alrighty. You can relay to the Tico, we've got their
fox corpen and our hook is down.

12 29 25 CC Roger that.

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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

12 31 31 CC Skylab, Houston. Everybody around here has looked at

the bird, and it looks real good. You're GO for
SPS-2 deorbit and entry. There's an ARIA out there
that will be talking to you after the blackout ; so
we'll see you there. Have fun.

CDR Roger; Roger.

CC We still got about 2 more minutes left here at

Vanguard, and I'm standing by.

CDR We're worried about this 90-miles perigee we're at

right no_ or close to. It looks like we're going to
run into the ground, it looks so low.

CC Roger.

CDR We had a lovely tour down the Andes Mountains there.

SPT You know on launch day, Pete wouldn't let us look out
the window; so this is our first look down this low.

CC Roger. I know_ou guys have been in sunlight for a

long time, and you're going to miss darkness by Just
about l0 minutes because the FDO tells me you're never
going to get into it. But you're going to - the place
in the - - your landing spot in the Pacific is going
to be Just after dawn when you splashdown.

12 32 39 CDR Roger.

13 42 35 CC Skylab, Houston through the ARIA. How do you read?

CC Skylab; Houston through ARIA-1. How do you read?

CC 8kylab, Houston through ARIA-1. How do you read?

CC 8kylab, Houston through ARIA-1. How do you read?

13 _3 53 CDR Roger. We read you loud and clear, Houston. Every-

thing's okay; we're out of 40,000.

CC Very good3Pete. You're in the groove.

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CDR And it's reading 2477, minus 2707.

CC Roger.

CDR Hello, Recovery. Hello, Recovery; Skylab. On the

mains ; everything' s okay.

TICO 0552 ... 055, 2 and one quarter.

REC Skylab, Skylab, this is Recovery. How you been doing

up there? Over.

CDR Skylab reads you loud and clear. We 're 4.0, 4°0 °
Everything' s fine.

REC Skylab, Skylab, this is Recovery. How you doing up

there? Over.

CDR Recovery, Recovery, Skylab. How do you read?

REC This is Recovery; loud and clear. How you doing?

CDR Roger. We're in good shape. Three good mains.

REC Roger. You're looking good from here. We're about

3 miles to the northwest here at the present time.

CDR Okay, we're out of 4500 feet, and everything's good.

TICO Recovery, this_is the Ticonderoga. Request you query

Skylab for computer readout. Over.

REC Roger; Recovery; Roger. Skylab, give us your

computer rendout. Over.

CDR Skylab; say again.

REC Roger. Do you have a computer readout?Over.

13 47 41 CDR Yes, sir; 24.78, 127.06.

REC Ticonderoga? o

TICO Recovery from Ticonderoga. Roger; out.

TICO ... able to find out .... Roger.

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13 48 57 REC And this is Recovery. We have a visual below the

overcast, about i00 at 050, 6000, Ticonderoga.

TICO Ticonderoga; Roger.

ELS This ELS; stand by for a MARK on i000.

TICO Ticonderoga; Stand by_

ELS Stand by.

13 49 43 ELS MARK .... on your 060, 6-1/2 miles.

TIC0 ELS, Ticonderoga. Roger, out .... stable I, stable II.

REC Recovery. -

13 49 56 REC SPLASHDOWN and it looks like stable I.

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