Skylab 1/3 Technical Air-To-Ground Voice Transcription 2 of 6

JSC.08476 -" ....
i SKYLAB 1/3
TECHNICAL AIR-TO-GROUND
VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
PREPARED BY
TEST DIVISION
PROGRAM OPERATIONS OFFICE
r.
National Aeronautics and _'_-Ad__ .... -_._- _-.._.r_ ... ....

' LYNDON B. JOHNSON SPACE CEN'.rER
-_ Houston, Te._mm
"_ . OCTOBER 1973
., i
• " . !.
TAG Tape 218-1h/T-122
_'_ Time: 218:23:30 to 219:00:56
Page i of 5/821
SKYLAB AIR-TO-GOUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
219 00 20 03 CC Skylab Houston through Va_uard. We've got you

for l0 minutes and you - we show you are repressed
and inside the workshop.
SPT You're right there, Story.
CC And if you could spare a moment, could you tell us

what you got done.
SPT Yes, that's all it's going to take is a moment.

We got it all done.
CC Okay.
CC Understand the ramp came off all right.
SPT Yes.
CC And you got the - -
SPT S149 went out okay and so did 230.
CC Okay and you got the reefing lines attached all

right.
SPT Yes.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab is everybody reading me?
CDR I think we are.
SPT Yes, Story, go ahead.
CC Okay, I've got a message for you from Vice President

Agnew. Your fellow Americans and people of alI
nations applaude your courage and ingenuity. Every
generation has it's heroes, but not since the age
of the great terrestrial explorers has any one
group captured sow ell as the astronauts the
imagination of mankind. Just as all generations
now honor the memory of those early pioneers, future
/-_ generations will honor the accomplishments of the
explorers of space. My very best wishes on your
\
TAG Tape 21B-141T-122 -_-
page4 of 51824
219 oo 29 48 cc Okay.
CC We're 30 seconds to LOS and we'll see you over

Ascension at 2 minutes.
CDR Okay, that's disconnected and if you want me to

Just go down there and connect the 393 to the
condensate tank, I can do it.
CC Stand by 1.
CDR Okay.
CC Why don't you Just follow the checklist on that,

A1. Let the PLT get it.
219 O0 30 35 CDR You bet.
219 O0 33 O0 CC Skylab, we're AOS, Ascension for lO minutes.
PLT Story, you got anything time critical on that

post-EVA or can we go ahead and get the some chow
first?
CC We're working that. Just a second.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay. We need to get the recorders off and we'd

like to get you down to page 3.1-5 up to the LSU
disconnect, prior to eating.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
CC And we're also working on a plan to transfer about

an hour to an hour and a half of your post-EVA
work to tomorrow morning.
PLT Okay. We like that too. Thank you.
CC And one other thing, on the private comm, we 're

working out a scheme to get you better comm on the
private comm which will involve us talking on VHF
and you on S-bands, but we need a little more time
to work that out and we could do it better tomorrow ....
night than tonight, but what's your feeling?
r_- TAG Tape 218-14/T-122
Page 5 of 5/825
PLT Why don't we have our standard VHF calls tonight?

We're already one or two behind on them anyway.
CC Okay, we'll do it tonight.
219 O0 37 06 PLT Story, as long as we've got you there we might as

well give you our PRD - D readings instead of re-
cording them. Owen's is 19035 and mine is 07073.
CC Copy.
PLT And I corrected Owen's to 19, to 033.
CC Got it.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over at Guam in 34 minutes at 01:17 and we'll be
dumping the tape recorders over Guam.
219 O0 h3 05 PLT Okay, Story.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 219-01/T-123
Time: 219:00:56 to 219:02:00
Page 1 of 3/82
BKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
219 Ol 17 _O CC Skylab, Hou.ston. AOS, Guam, 9 minutes.
PLT Okay. Hello there, Crip. Just for the reoord,

we used PCU number 15 - 015 on the MDA, this time.
CC Okay, very good , Jack. You guys pIAt in a hard day's

work today.
PLT Oh, it went by pretty fast.
219 01 18 15 CC Well, good to hear that.
CC I'd like to talk for a few minutes about our sched-

ule passes for this evening. We've got your phone
calls currently set up and we delayed them a little
bit from what our original setup was. Currently
got yours, Jack, set up for about 02:17, over
Canary, if that's satisfactory. And Owen's set
up at 02:55, at Guam.
PLT Sounds good to me.
PLT Sounds good for O. too.
CC Okay, very fine. I'm sure the gals are looking

forward to hearing from you. This pass was set
up to be the evening status report, if you've got
it we can take it, if not, we'll get it later.
219 01 19 05 PLT Okay, we don't have it ready, Bob.
CC Okay. What I would recommend then is that that

Canary pass at 02:17 would be a good time, if AI
could give it to me then. That's plenty of time,
I believe, such that maybe you can get it set up.
The next pass coming up at Vanguard at 01:57 is
still scheduled to be a reed pass, if that's satis-
factory.
PLT Yes, those are both fine.
CC Okay; very good. We're still puzzled a little bit

about what went on with the EVA lights out there.
And I was wondering if the Big 0 could tell us,
when your Sun end lights were out, were - could
he see whether the center work station lights were
on or not?
TAG Tape 219-01/T-123 -_
Page 2 of 3/828
219 01 19 56 SPT Okay, Bob. I Just got over to the squawk box, and
I understand you want to know if the center station
work lights were on?
CC Yes, were they on or off when the Sun end's were

off?
SPT Well now, l'm not going to be able to give you a

firm answer. We noticed that a number of the run-
ning lights around the EVA trail were on and all
of the three switches in the airlock were on. But
when the Sun end's lights came on, I remembered
that my attention was attracted toward the center
work station as well, as if the lights over in that
area had Just come on at the same time. So I have
the impression that they only came on when you
commanded although we did have plenty of other
lights around the EVA trail before then.
219 01 20 34 CC Yes, those at - those at the center work station

at the Sun end are the only ones controlled by that
command and it sounds like that was the situation.
SPT Okay, I'd agree with that.
CC Okay. Sit back and relax and I'll try not to bug
you anymore this pass.
SPT Okay. Let me bug you for a moment. On - I have

$230 in it's - a pair of bags now and the EVA
Checklist calls for me to Just put it back in
dome hl6. I had the recollection that they were
supposed to go in a cooler or a freezer. Could
you check the disposition of these two bags, please?
$230.
CC Checking into it.
219 01 23 07 PLT Crip, one other item. I got to a point in my check-

list where I'm suppose to check the MO1 SIEVE HEAT
EXCHANGER OUT at a temperature greater than
h6 degrees, and right now it's about 2h degrees,
so there're a couple of steps that I can't do.
CC Roger, Jack.
PLT That
's page3.1-5. j
_, TAG Tape 219-01/T-123
Page 3 of 3_829
219 01 24 ii CC Owen, the correct place to store S230, you're abso-

lutely correct, they do want to keep that cold, is
in W-756, one of the freezers in the wardroom.
SPT Okay, fine. W-756. Thank you.
CC Roger. It was suppose to have been a pen-and-ink

in to pick that up, but apparently it's not in your
book or something.
SPT I thought I -
SPT I thought I put all the pen-and-inks in there. I

do now see a pen-and-ink at the bottom that says
W-756 - that must be it right there. So it has
been pen-and-inked correctly. Thank you.
CC 0keydoke.
219 01 26 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from going

LOS. Next pass is at Vanguard at 01:57, and that
will be your medical conference. And I'll have you
_-_ again at Ascension at 02:14. 01:56, med conference;
02:14, Ascension. See you later. And I got some
procedures that allow you not to have to do all
of your EVA stuff tonight and I'll get those to
you as soon as I get you again.
SPT Okay, Bob. And thanks to everybody down there for

all their long, hard work today, too. Over.
219 01 27 08 CC Okeydoke. You guys did quite a bit up there

yourselves.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 219-02/T-124
Time: 219:02:00 to 129:03:30
Page I of ]3/831
SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND TRANSCRIPTION
219 02 04 26 CC Skylab, Houston. I've got you for about 3 minutes.
PLT Okay, Crip.
CC Hey, Jack, can you give us an idea when you think

you're going to get in that EVA Checklist tonight.
We can shorten it up and leave you some items to
do tomorrow. If you guys think you can get all
the way through it, fine and dandy.
PLT AI says we're going to get it finished.
CC Okay, when the boss speaks, troops obey. l'd

like to pass on to CDR that the condensate dump
on the holding tank is not required tonight, sure
he'll be happy to hear that.
PLT The S055 guys might be interested to know that, -

that on the ramp that I took off - l'm Just looking
at it now - the top part of that ramp didn't show
any marks on it at all, so - after getting it
off and inside I looked at the underside of it.
The ramp really works on both sides and underneath
there's a scar about - or a gouge about three-
quarters of an inch long by a little over an
eighth of an inch wide. It runs from the ramp,
three-quarters of an inch back and it's all
shiny silver; so apparently it was wearing in
there fairly good and could possibly have caused
the problem.
CC Okay, l'm sure they'll be pleased to hear that.

Did you copy my comment about the condensate
holding tank not being required to dump it tonight.
PLT No, I didn't hear that.
CC Okay, if you'd pass that on to AI, l'd appreciate

it.
CC And, - is the CDR available? Or is he busy?
PLT AI is listening, and for the record SOP 016 has

a pressure of 6000.
TAG Tape 219-02/T-12h A
Page 2 of ii /832
219 02 06 40 CC Roger, on 6000.. Okay. what I want to tell A1

was that tonight when he goes up to purge the fuel
cells, we've reached - =mend the QDM and we want
to switch over our cryo tanks. And can you copy
down those positions or I can get you a little
bit later.
CDR Give me about i0 seconds to get out a pencil.
CC We've got about 30 seconds until we're going LOS

and I'm - I'll - we'll get you at the next pass.
It's at Ascension at 02:14. That's also when
we'll be standing by for the evening status report.
CDR Okay, I've got that in hand; I'll be ready to

copy the message.
219 02 07 27 CC Okay, thank you sir. And if you're copy, we

need RIGHT on the VHF antenna.
219 02 15 19 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for about a

minute and a half.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for about another

minute and a half.
CDR Is this where you want that night report? (Music).
CC Yes, I tell you what A1, we're going to drop out

for about 30 seconds here in about a minute so
why don't we hold up on that and let me go ahead
and give you the switch positions for changing
over the cryo tanks.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, on panel 2, 02 HEATERS 1, AUTO; 02 HEATERS 2,

OFF; HYDROGEN HEATERS l, OFF; HYDROGEN HEATERS 2,
AUTO, HYDROGEN FANS 1, OFF ; HYDROGEN FANS 2, AUTO ;
and that's all of it. This switches from - over
from OX tank 2 to l, and hydrogen 1 to 2.
CDR Okay, I'll do this _-,,ediately after the fuel

cell purge, okay? (Music).
TAG Tape 219-02/T-124
Page 3 of i]_33
CC Okay, we're going to drop out here for about

30 seconds to a minute and I'ii give you a call.
And for Jack, we'll be set up for his home call
on this pass over Canary on VHF using right
antenna.
CDR He' s on the way.
219 02 17 01 CC In about a minute.
219 02 18 48 CC Skylab, Houston, through Canary for 12 minutes,

and we're standing by for the evening status
report.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're standing by for the

evening status report, when you get it.
CDR Just getting it here, Crip.
CC 0keydoke.
CDR Okay, here she comes. Urine volume: 117, 140,

165. Drinking water gun readings: 4736, 7823,
5661. BMMD: 6.248, 6.248, 6.245; SPT, 5.985,
5.983, 5.986; 6.959, 6.958, 6.964. No exercise,
no medication. Sleep: 6-1/2/G; 6/F to G; 7/g.
Okay, food log: we don't - aren't able to give
you that at the moment. We're - haven't eaten
anything yet and we'll try to give you that the
last pass of the night or if not, early tomorrow
morning. We'll give it last pass tonight if
you'll stay up that late.
CC We'll stay up a long time for you.
CDR Okay, next comes the photo log. 16 millimeter:

M151/EVA prep, post CI18. Just a second; we didn't
put that down. Just get that in a minute. Let's
go to 35 millimeter: CX28; frame count 2_.
ERE? same as yesterday. This - CI18 has 13 per-
cent remaining, 13. So now let me give you
Drawer A configuration: A-1 same as yesterday.
A-2, 03, CI18, 13, CI17. A-3 and A-4 are the same
as yesterday. And the rest of the business is
not applicable.
TAG Tape 219-02/T-124
Page _ of I1/83_
219 02 22 02 CC Okay, great we copied all of that.
CDR And we'll give you the rest of the information

later tonight.
CC Roger. Is Dr. Okay, happen to be availiable?
CDR He's listening. He's taking a picture of his

spider's web.
CC Oh, great. I've heard that - that we finally got

one spun last night. We had a couple of items
here. I was wondering - Have you closed out the
ATM C&D yet, or is Jack going to do that later?
SPT Bob, I believe that's on the PLT's checklist,

isn't it, for the post-EVA?
CC Roger, it is. I was wondering if mRybe I could

tell you about a couple of itmes that we'd like
to get because he's up there on a phone call.
We don't have to get them now but I Just want to
mA_e sure that they get done later.
SPT If you could wait until the next pass, I'd

appreciate it.
CC Okay, we'll do that.
SPT A1 says he'll copy it, if you wait a minute.
CC Okay, tell you what, I've got one I could give

to - give to A1 and maybe he could accomplish it
for me. We do need a - to get a reg adjust in and
if you're standing by I'll go ahead and read it.
SPT That doesn't sounds like the ATMpanel.
CC No, No, I'm going to hold up on that ATM panel.
SPT He's on his way to the MDA, so he'll talk to you

from up there.
CC Okay, fine.
SPT He's got the spider - he's got the spider cage
open right now with one eye up in that direction
to make sure we don't have spiders _mning around
the ... spacecraft ...
/_ TAG Tape 219-02/T-124
Page 5 of ii /835
CC Better watch out if they get out.
219 02 24 58 @DR Okay, Crip. I'm up here ready to do what you had
in mind.
CC Okay, well, since I've got you there, I.'ve a

couple of things we can - we can do. The - we're
a little bit concerned about that - the fact that
you didn't get an 82A and B light out there and
we would like you to, on the ATM panel, to put
your ALERT/STATUS to VARIABLE on the lighting.
We' re ass_1_ug it 's - was in FIX.
CDR Actually, unless somebody changed it, they're

OFF right now.
SPT We assumed that was the only problem, Bob. We

had all those lighting switches off.
CC Oh, okay, we were trying to figure out what the

problem was. Well, had - had - Did you check it
_ after you turned them back on?
CDR No, we haven't done it. We've - You know, you

said don't bother the panel unless we give you a
procedure. I'ii turn th_n on right now - if you
want me to.
CC Why don't you. If you'd go to VARIABLE and give

us a LAMP TEST, we would appreciate it.
CDR Well, I went to VARIABLE and got no lights at all

on any of them for STATUS.
CC Okay. Roger, but did you take the LAMP TEST

select below that and switch to STATUS?
CDR Yes, now we've got everything. I hadn't turned

the variable up enough. It was full down. Answer
is: they all work.
CC C_ay, we're going to - we're going to assume, I

guess, that that was the problem. Then, could you
confirm for us, down on your console power
distribution, that you've got both circuit breakers
on STATUS LIGHTING backup pulled?
TAG Tape 219-02/T-12h
Page 6 of 11/836
219 02 25 49 CDR That's affirmative. Both pulled.
CC Okay, appreciate that. Could we get you to go to

panel 206 and do a REG ADJUST for us?
CDR I'm right there, ready to do it.
CC C_ay, if you've got samething handy, we'd kind of

like to mark the current position of those REG
ADJUST pots.
CDR Give me Just a second.
CDR They are marked.
CC Okay. Very good. What we wanted to do is to

turn them both down simultaneously and, looking
on PCG, TOTAL, if you would, decrease ADJUST 1 -
or correction -PCG, TOTAL 1 by 3 amps and PCG,
TOTAL 2 by 9 amps and do that simultaneously for
us please. Just about 20 degrees counterclockwise
should do it.
CDR How does that look to you? It's hard to read

3 and 9 up here but that was kind of a guess at
it.
CC Okay that's - we'll take a look at it and could

you give us your readings of - for PCG, TOTAL
now on -mps?
CDR Left, 40. Right, 37.
CC Roger, copy. 40 and 37. And now on the - We

need to get, under ATM, the amps reading.
BUS AMPS.
219 02 28 03 CDR TO the transfer bus, we're getting about 15 from

the ATM on l, and l0 on 2.
CC Okay, I understand a minus 15 and a minus lO?
CDR That's right. It's headed towards the transfer

bus, in other words, coming from the ATM.
TAG Tape 219-02/T-124
Page 7 of 11/837
CC Roger. Very good. Okay. Appreciate that. We

had some other items on the ATM C_D closeout but
I'ii get those to Jack later after the phone call.
CDR Okay, no trouble if you want them done now. I'm

Just standing here.
CC Okay, well, one thing we need to do is to check

the M0L SIEVE A HEAT EXCHANGER in and out
readings. Jack was having a problem with that on
his checklist a while ago.
CDR In and out on A is 65 and 36.
CC Roger, copy. 65 and 36.
CDR 64 end 25 on B.
CC Okay. You can tell Jack, when he's ready, that

he can press on in that checklist, that those
readings look good to us. He was hung up there
awhile ago.
CDR Okay, I guess they're still out of limits as far

as the checklist is concerned, but you're satisfied
Is that correct?
CC That 's affirmative.
CDR I 'Ii sure tell him.
CC Okay, we're reading above 48 on that out temp.

And 46 was - 46 was cutoff.
219 02 29 50 CC Okay, we're about i minute from LOS currently,

and we'll have - have you again at Guam at 02:55
and that'll be set up for Owen's phone conversation.
219 02 56 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Guam for about

6-1/2 minutes.
CDR We been kind of chatting down here, - Crip, because

it seems a lot warmer down here than it did when
we left this morning. What did it do, heat up,
and now it's cooling off again, or what?
CC Well, I'll see if I can get a reading for you on

that now.
P_e 8 of 11/838
CDR What islands are we over? Are we over Guam right

at this minute?
CDR I didn't know, it was so big. It's a big one.
CC You got - probably looking at the Philippines out

there also.
CDR Could be, yes. It's quite a number of big islands.
CC AI, we're speculating that you should start cooling

down now that you got the heat exchanger fans back
on. They were off for a good period of time there.
CDR Maybe that's it. You're speculating too that we're

going to start being cooler down here now with
this configuration, than we were Just previously
with Just a parasol, huh?
CC That's what we speculate, yes. AI, while l've

got you here on the loop, can you tell us what time
you'd like to wake up tomorrow?
CDR Yes, I think we're going to get to bed about -

let me - let me go look at the Flight Plan and
I'll tell you at the next station, okay?
CC Okay, that'll he fine. Normally, this would he

about your going-to-bed time. I ima6ine you're
going to be up a little bit late. You can do
that, well uh, we got you over Honeysuckle shortly
after this and you can tell me there, at about
03:07.
CDR Okay, we - we're probably going to be up another

2 hours - be my guess.
CC Okay.
219 02 58 44 CC And do we have Jack up at the ATM panel, Al?
CDR No, Jack's down here putting up some EVA equipment,

but maybe Owen's up there. No, Owen's on the
phone, Jack's down here and he's listening.
Page 9 of 11/839
CC Okay, I wonder if I could have him -_e some notes

for us. We've noticed that he has been doing some
stuff with - up the ATM panel. And on closeout
tonight, we'd like to get the EXPERIMENT ROLL at
minus 5400. And we also want to make in sure that
MPC is INHIBITED. And we also want to verify that
the EVA AUTO DOORS are in STORAGE.
CDR He 's got them.
CC Okey doke, very good.
219 03 02 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll see you again at Honeysuckle at 03:08. And
we will be giving you a call at Honeysuckle.
CDR You might keep calling us for the next hour or so,
Crip.
219 03 02 25 CC Okay, I'll call until we decide not to - till you

dec - until you tell me not to. And Skylab, we're
not really sure where you stand on that ATM C&D
panel reconfig. For your information, on the
star tracker, we do have - computer control
inhibited on the star tracker. So it wouldn't
be working properly and we want to leave it secure
tonight.
219 03 07 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Honeysuckle for about

4 minutes.
SPT Okay, Crip, I didn't get the message on the fine

sun sensor.
CC Okay, it was - it was on the star tracker I was

talking about. We've become a little bit con-
cerned about the thing getting unlocked at night -
and a couple of times the shutter hasn't closed
for us properly, so we're going to set a standard
procedure where we have you manually close the
shutter - and we want you to do that tonight to
take the STAR TRACKER SHUTTER to CLOSE - and we' ll
go ahead and reenable computer control - and this
is going to be a nightly occurrence Just to maWe
sure that we maintain a good star tracker for
EREP ops and so forth.
SPT Okay, STAR TRACKER SHUTTER to CLOSE.

TAG Tape 219-02/T-124
Page I0 of 11/820
CC Roger, we'll be sending you a checklist change to

mA_e sure this gets done in the future. And you
got the other changes on the ATM C&D for the
closeout didn't you?
SPT Yes, we got that and I guess that was experimenting

roll you wanted at minus 5200, that right?
PLT Okay, that's all done.
CDR Okay, it looks to me like the best bet is Just to

get up an hour later, Crip.
CC Copied. One hour later?
CDR Roger. That'll Just flip everything that can -

we can take that out and still not - we don't want
to miss the ATM, and we don't want to miss the
M092 - and so maybe we could Just pull it out of
there sc_aewhere else, and we'll work on that other
stuff. And if we don't make it, you can so an ...
two days from now. We'll try to get that tape
recorder change, but we don't know if we can or
not.
CC Okay, we - we concur with that. If you'd like, we

can make a rec_endation on how you arrange around
or we could leave it to you.
CDR Make a rec - make a recommendation on what? How

to move it around?
CC Roger. We've kind of t-lked about it previously

maybe Just lopping some stuff off the front there.
CDR Okay, y'all make your recommendations and we'll

sure follow them.
219 03 i0 59 CC Roger.
CDR Well, we Just whistled by the continent of Australia

pretty doggone fast. You can see it in one fell
swoop here.
CC Roger, you're getting ready to come up over

New Zealand.
_. TAG Tape 219-02/T-124
Page Ii of ll/Shl
CDR Yes, I was kind of looking out for it. Didn't

see it. That Great Barrier Reef is samething.
It's easily vivible from up here - Multiple
multiple shallow-water reef that you can see from
up here.
CC Roger, I believe that's great diving country out

there off the Great Barrier Reef. Like to try it
sometime. The - we're getting ready to go -
start into unattended ops, and if you guys would
stay off the DASS for us, we'd appreciate it. We
got about I minute left until LOS. Our next pass
is going to be at Canary at 03:55 and would you
like a call from there?
CDR Right. We'll probably Just be getting finished

and getting ready to hit the pad.
CC Okay, I will give you a call at Canary at 0B:55.
219 0B ii OB CDR Thanks, Crip.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 219-03/T-125
Page 3 of 8 18h5
SPT I think we ought to have one for the ATM because

I didn't _now when our day off is coming and since
we're starting sort of full-scale ops tomorrow,
I'd like to- at least to know, shortly thereafter,
is it possible, what things we could use and what
we c_nnot. Now, I do have tape over those two
items you Just mentioned and I do understand that
you do select the appropriate sync generator from
the ground and perhaps Just leave it on. Is that
correct? And then we won't have any use for the
switch. But I think we had ought to have that
list there so it doesn't rely on Just one man's
memory and all three of us will know about it.
219 04 04 00 CC Roger.
CC Owen, we understand your request and we'll try to

put something together that satisfies your request.
SPT Okay. Thank you a lot, Bob.
CC Roger. And in answer to Al's earlier question on

the LCGs, we would like them stowed in Dog h2h, up
in the dome 424, and they are planned to be reused.
CDR Didn't know that. Now let me get something straight

about this, if I can - the command module config-
uration. The only two switches I've really changed
were the 02 heaters. I reversed them. That is,
I put HEATER 1 to AUTO and _TER 2 to OFF. The
other four were already in that position. By that
position, I mean the position you gave me.
219 Oh 05 l0 CC Okay, I guess - we're a little bit confused here

right now on - on the - We did not expect them
to be in that position.
CDR Let me tell you the position they're in at the

moment. 02 HEATER l, AUTO; 0 2 HEATER 2, OFF. Now
I changed those so that that's how they are at
the moment, right Just like it ... Now the ones
that were always like this and still are like this
are: H2 HEATER l, OFF; H2 HEATER 2, AUTO; H-1
FAN, OFF ; H-2 FAN AUTO.
TAG Tape 219-031T-125
Page 4 of 8 1846
CC Okay, that's what we read up to you and that's

what we wanted. We'll try to look into the problem
of why they were different than we - we thought -
we - thought they were.
CDR I think you should look into it because we certainly

don't go around changing those heaters and fans
because - you know, you're controlling the whole
thing. All I can imagine is they've been that way
since day 1. We Just never changed them and perhaps
somebody sent a message or thought they did telling
us to change them and it never occurred.
CC Okay. We'll - we'll look into that, A1.
219 04 06 17 CDR Okay. I don't have _ Systems Book - it would be

interesting to know what the quiescent configuration
that the Systems Checklist calls for. I bet it
calls for Just those four that - as they are now,
so they been that way.
CC Roger, AI. Why don't you Just don't sweat that

and we'll - we'll look into it and see if - see
if we can explain it. We don't see any big problem
with it. And I could tsIk a little bit about the
Flight Plan for tomorrow and our recommendations
for modifications.
CDR Let - let me get it in my hand.
CDR Go ahead.
219 04 07 07 CC Roger. On - What we're recon_aending is deleting

the overage food transfers that we have scheduled
for you and Jack at 14:00.
CDR Good suggestions.
CC Okay. And we - we know that Owen really wants to

get into that ATM, so what we're recommending there
is deleting out that housekeeping period he's got
scheduled at around - oh, I guess it's about 14:15.
And that won't give him a - the full hour catch-up
but it doesn't look like his postsleep activities
are going to be too crowded and he can just go ahead
and get on that ATM activation at the - the time we
got scheduled. And then if he's got any catching
up on his postsleep he can take it out of that
housekeeping time at 14:15.
_ TAG Tape 219-03/T-125
Page 5 of 8/84 T
CDR That didn't _-ke sense. You cut the housekeeping

time and then said, "If he has any m-_ing up to do,
he can do it in the housekeeping time." But it
doesn't make any difference, you're right. We'll
get up - Wake us up like we said and we'll get up
and do these - per what you Just said.
219 04 08 17 CC Roger, A1. What I was Just saying was that we have
no housekeeping scheduled in that period and since
the ATM activation and checkout has got to be tied
to sunrise, it's - it's required to be done at that
time or - it's either that or losing an ATM pass
and it - that's really your choice.
CDR Well, that means he has to make the pass at 13:15

or whatever it says on his pad.
CC Yes, sir. That's correct.
CDR He'll be there.
CC 0keydokey and we're about, going LOS here. CRO is

going to be 04:35 and do you want a call?
CDR Yes, that' ll be the last one. We'll tell you about
our food there, too. And then we'll hit the pads.
219 04 08 55 CC 0keydoke. That'll be fine.
219 04 35 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Carnarvon for

14 minutes.
PLT And it ain't going to be long and I'm going to be

A - LOS for about 6 hours, my friend.
CC Getting a little tuckered, huh?
PLT Got to get ready for tomorrow.
CC Right, that's a good idea. I know you guys have

been going at it long and hard and wouldn't be
surprised if you're already in the rack. We did
have one question, if somebody's available, we
were - are interested in determining what the
MOL SIEVE A HEAT EXCHANGER, OUT temperature is
because there was quite a disparity between your
reading and the ground. Is there anybody could
"_ give us one more reading on that or are you all
tucked in?
TAG Tape 219-03/T-125
Page 6 of 8 /848
PLT No, I'm on mMwa_ up there now.
CO Thank you very much.
CDR Okay, here's the evening food report.
CC Go ahead.
CDR CDR: one salt pack; deviation, add cherry drink,

add peaches, subtract strawberries, chicken and
rice, and a biscuit. Okay, SPT: nine ri - nine
salt, add an apple drink, subtract a pork and
potato, a biscuit, a strawberry, and a lemon
pudding (music). PLT: four salt packs, omit
all noon meals plus mashed potatoes, add three
apple Juice.
CC Roger; when you said plus mashed potatoes means

he did not get it, right?
CDR That's right.
219 04 37 27 CC Okay; copy that. And did you gentlemen have a

chance to get any exercise other than your EVA?
CDR Not a single bit. We Just got finished putting

all the gear away.
CC Sorry about that.
PLT Hey, Crip, that's reading 25 degrees.
CC Understand; 25 degrees.
PLT Yes. What are you reading?
CC Jack, you're cutting out there. I understand 25.

Is that correct?
PLT That's affirmative, Crip.
CC Okay, that's - that's about half of what we're

getting. We don't understand that at all.
219 04 38 47 CC CDR, Houston. Last night, and I think maybe couple

times previously, you've expressed some concern
over the - your midcourse 2 being 8-1/2 feet per
second and, well, they got some dance for you on
TAG Tape 219-03/T-125
Page 7 of 8/849
that is - we're still looking into it. We're not

sure of the complete story ourself [sic]. We
would like to know if you - what your chart solu-
tion was ?
CDR I don't have it here. I can look it up tomorrow,

but it was something llke 3 feet per second for-
ward compared to 8 and I don't remember the up
and downs.
CC Okay. But there was a considerable disparity

between the two, is what you're telling me.
0kay, it - -
219 04 39 26 CDR Well not only that, but the fact that all of a
sudden, after a good TPI and a good midcourse l,
it pops up with 8 when I really expects something
like eight-tenths or something.
CC Roger.
CDR I'm not sure that I didn't put in 8 forward and

then immediately turn around and have to break it
out. That - And some - something is f_mny there,
but I don't know what it is.
CC Okay. Copy that and if Jack hasn't departed the

STS area, could he give us mol sieve B?
CC If he's -
PLT Now what do you want me to do, Crip?
CC Jack, if you're still in the STS area, we would

like to get M0L SIEVE B HEAT EXCHANGER, OUT temp.
If ygu've already departed the area, forget it.
PLT I 'll get it.
219 04 40 21 PLT Reading 25 degrees also.
CC Roger. Understand 25, also.
CC Try tapping on your meter or anything?
CDR We hit the meter, but it's still 35, [sic] A_ 25, B.
CC Okay _,we copy.

TAG Tape 219-03/T-125
Page 8 of 8/850
219 04 41 ii CC And we are reading 50, five zero, on both of them.
CDR Well, there's something strange.

Our last call for tonight. Wish you good night.
If you need to talk to us, we'll be over Bermuda
at about 05:24. The Crimson Team won't be around
tomorrow, but we'll see you on execute, day after
tomorrow.
SPT Okay, Crip. Thank you for all of your good work.
Have a good day off.
CC Hope - hope you guys get a good night's sleep

after all that hard work.
PLT Ah, we enjoyed it. It's Just like I was telling

the guys, riding a white horse on the top of the
world.
SPT Kind of - kind of like Peter Pan. It reminded

me of.
CC Sounded like a tour guide there, going over the

Andes.
SPT Yes, we're really coming up on something spectac-

ular now, too. Look on m_ map and see if I can
figure it out.
PLT That's New Zealand.
SPT Near the water ... coming in.
219 04 50 26 CC Roger. You're over New Zealand.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 219-04/T-126
_ Time: 219:05:00 to 219:12:00
Page 1 of 1/851
SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS

TAG Tape 219-05/T-127
/_ Time: 219:12:00 to 219:12:23
Page 1 of 51853
219 12 07 53 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for lh minutes at Canary.
SPT Good morning, Bill.
CC Good morning.
CDR Say Bill, our teleprinter didn't work today. And

we went up there and looked at it and it looks like
the friction drive, the rubber - looks almost like
about a 5-inch - no, no, no - 1-inch washer - it
slipped off its little drive shaft. And we're up
there fixing it now. And so Just as soon as we get
it fixed, you're going to have to send up most of
the teleprinter messages that you sent up this morn-
ing, because they kind of overlapped one another as
they printed - -
CC We copy that, AI.
CDR - - tell you in a minute which one - which was the

last good one.
CC Copy. And when you have a moment, we have a couple

of messages here for you.
219 12 08 48 CDR Okay, go ahead. And then we'll work on the printer.
CC Okay. We understand that the cryo tank configuration

is as follows: the H2 nnmber 1 HEATERS, OFF; H 2
n1_er 1 FANS, OFF; H 2 2 W_TERS, AUTO; H2 2 FANS,

AUTO. And if this is the case, we want you to
configure it as follows: H2 1 HEATERS, AUTO;
H 2 1 FANS, AUTO; and H2 HEATERS and FANS, OFF.

2
219 12 09 55 CDR Okay. I'll sure do that. In other words, you want
the H 2 1 HEATERS and FANS, AUTO, H2 2 HEATERS and
FANS, OFF. Now there was this - a real funny last
night because when y'all called up and asked me to
configure them the way you said we were - should -
that you just read first, that's the way they already
were. And we didn't, for sure - didn't go up there
.-- and change them around without EGIL telling us to -
TAG Tape 219-051T-12T
2 5 185
no, no - EECOM saying so. So somehow they must have

told us to do it and then - and then whoever did it
didn't log it or something - is all I can guess.
CC A1, the indication that we have is there may be a

wiring reversal and we're in the process of checking
it out.
219 12 i0 44 CDR That would be something wouldn't it. Okay, now I'm
going to go up there and configure them right now
and then get back to work on the teleprinter, unless
you have something else.
CC We need the DAS for a Y-2 gyro compensation.
CDR You've got the DA$, we hadn't bothered it.
219 12 ii i0 CC And A1, if you got any good teleprinter messages,

we need to know the number of the last good one.
CDR Okay. Jack's got them and he'll probably say in

Just a second. He's gone to the co_nand module
a minute.
CC Copy.
219 12 12 00 CDR And as a result of this teleprinter problem you're

either - I suspicion you'll want to think about send-
ing up another spare with Jer. Even though we're
not using their spare, I don't know how long this
one will last. Now one thing we need to know. The
little rubber grommet about - I'm going to revise
the distance of it. It's about three-quarters of
an inch long and about three-eighths of an inch in
diameter. It drives the paper roller - slipped to
the left as you view the paper roller. Now what
we plan to do is look at it and move it back into
position, but it may be that you'll want us to take
it off again and reverse it and then put it back on
so that it'll hold tighter; I don't know. We'll
Just put it in a temporary position here so it will
work, and you can think it over and we'll do what
you want.
CC We copy that, and we'll get you an answer on it.

TAG Tape 219-05/T-127
Page h of 5/856
PLT Okay. We've got the teleprinter fixed, Bill. And

you can send the message. The rubber roller at the
top of it had slipped off and was binding against
the case and tearing up the rubber - few rubber chips
laying around. But we squared it back in it again,
and it looks like it's going to work all right.
CC Very good. We'll be sending a test message up.
219 12 19 18 CC And this test message is going to be an ATM schedule.

However, discard this message. Do not use this ATM
schedule that's coming up. It's simply for test
purpo ses.
PLT _ay.
219 12 20 51 CDR You still there, Bill?
CC That's affirmative. Go ahead, Skylab.
CDR I thought there was nothing new in the world, until

I floated by the head a little while ago, and I
looked in there and Jack was in there using the
urinal upside down. Seemed to work pretty good.
CC (Laughter) We copy.
CDR (Laughter) That's a Marine. It takes a lot of guts

to do it that way, but it seemed to work.
CC (Laughter) Copy.
219 12 21 18 CDH He claims it's the most natural attitude now that
he's looked at it. Anatomically speaking, it seems
to work a little better.
CC We'll run an anthropometric study on that one.
CDR Ask his backup pilot to check it out on the ground.

We don't want to keep doing it in space Im]ess they
can do it down there.
CC (Laughter) Okay. We'll have to find another Marine,

I guess.
219 12 22 33 CC Skylab, could you check the teleprinter up-links,

and see that they're coming through all right at
/ this time?
TAG Tape 219-05/T-127
Page 3 of 5/855
219 12 13 00 CDR Okay, the last good pad that csme up was sheet i,
I guess you'd call it, or sheet 2 - of the - no,
sheet 1 of the ATM schedule. In other words it's -
here's the Code: 1127-1, ll5 ATM schedule 11/219.
Now when it got down to the next plate, where it said
1127-2, ATM schedule 11/219, that's where it quit
working. They sort of overlap. Anything after that.
CC We copy .that, A1.
CDR The SWS cue cards, for example, overlapped - and

didn't work. And then there's probably some other
things that Just didn't even print. We're going
to go back up there and work on it.
CC Copy.
219 12 14 06 CC SPT, Houston.
219 12 14 40 SPT SPT. Go ahead.
CC What time do you p18/_ to make your first ATM pass,

Owen?
SPT Whatever time the schedule says. I thought it was

13:00 - 13:15 or something like that. I haven't
looked at it yet.
CC Okay. And are you free to copy solar activity

up date at this time?
SPT Go ahead.
219 12 15 13 CC Active region 85 at 9/0.4 has produced a subfaint

flare at 02:58 Zulu and a subnormal with C-1 X-rays
at 07:30 Zulu. There's a slight decay in the lead-
er [?] plage, active region 86 at 25/0.8, have an
arch filament system present with occasional point
brightenings. That' s all.
SPT Okay, I've got it Bill, thank you.
219 12 18 14 CDR You still there, Houston?
CC Go ahead, Skylab.
f-_ TAG TLpe 219-05/T-127
Page 5 of 5/857
CC And we're going to be LOS in approximately 1 minute.

We'ii have you again at Carnarvon at 12:h8.
CDR Coming through real fine, Bill.
219 12 23 16 CC We copy. Thank you.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 219-06/T-128
Time: 219:12:23 to 219:13:50
Page i of 10/859
219 12 23 29 CDR Now this is the one, thought, that when we get
it finished, which it looks like it's almost
finished, you want us to Just throw it away. Is
that correct?
CC That is affirmative. That ATM schedule we want

discarded. And we'll get the rest of them up as
fast as we can.
CDR Okeydoke.
CDR Bad news. It J_med again. We'll take this head

out and replace it with the other head, because
it's the head drive. Then we'll take a look at
the little rubber grommet and see what we can do
about it.
CC Copy that, AI.
CC That spare, AI, is located in M-202, in case you

don't have it.
CDR Thank you. M-202. We'll find it. Yes. The

little rubber is gone off again. What we're go-
ing to have to do, I suspect, is take it down in
the workshop and take that rubber off and try to
find some sort of adhesive material and slide the
little rubber grommet back on again. Otherwise
it Just isn't going to work ...
219 12 24 53 CC Copy.
219 12 50 37 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle

for 9 minutes.
CDR Morning.
CC Morning to you, sir.
CDR The teleprinter is ready to go on your command.

And then we'll go up there and check the first
message and see how it came out. The little
rubber grommet slipped down again. And if you
._ could give that a high priority,we'd like to get
sc_e sort of repair on it, because that was our
only spare that's in there now.
TAG Tape 219-06/T-128 - ,
Page 2 of i0 /_60
CC Okay. Thanks for getting that teleprinter right

up. We'll be sending stuff to you right now.
CDR Okay. And it seems to me that the fundamental

problem is going to be keeping this little rubber
grommet on the metal shaft that it's on. It moves
to your - to the the left, to the viewer's left,
as it prints out. I mean, it spins around as it
prints out normally, but in this case, it moved
to the left and engaged the frame of the case.
And it sort of distended the left end of the
grommet, so that the grommet no longer is a perfect
cylinder but rather a sort of - a cylinder with
a flare on the left end as you view it. Now it
seems to me maybe, we've got some sort of glue or
something we might be able to put up here on it
and then slide it back on, but we won't do it.
We'll wait until we hear from you.
219 12 51 58 CC Okay. That's a good description, A1, and I got

it.
CDR It looks like it's printing okay so far, Story.
CC Thanks, A1.
CDR The print on the left-hand side of the page is

much lighter than normal, but the right-hand side
is okay. We can still read both halves, and
maybe the left will improve, but essentially, the
left is printing a little bit lighter than the
right.
CC Copy.

over Hawaii in 14 minutes. And, Owen, during the
night, we selected primary motor only on the
S055 door, and we're seeing normal operations on
one motor.
219 13 00 31 CC And as we go over the hill here, Skylab, Y-2 may

fail the integral test, and no action required.
219 13 13 21 CC Skylab, we've got you through Hawaii for 8 minutes.

We're coming up on a 1-minute keyhole here in
_ TAG Tape 219-06/T-128
Page 3 of 10/861
about 20 seconds. And we see you did get a

caution and warning on Y-2 failed integral, and
we hope you got our call on that prior to leaving
Honeysuckle_
PLT Yes, sir. We did, Story, thank you.
CC Okay.
SPT It does show us running on single right now. And

CLUSTER CAUTION and WARNING, of course, is in ATM
ALERT. And, also, l'd like to know where the ATM
fellows would like for me to pick up on the ATM
checkout. What page on the ATM Checklist in their
data book would they like us to begin at? Over.
CC Be right with you.
PLT l've got a couple of words for my friend and

colleague, Don Lind, on his experiment, if he's
around, or if you want to relay it to him.
CC He's in an altitude test at the Cape; I'ii give

it to him.
219 13 lh 2h PLT Okay. In placing his clip on his experiment, it

all came off all right, but I thought he might
want to know that the placement is as follows:
When you're laying along the truss with your head
toward the command module, the one clip is about
three-eighths of an inch to the right of the test
pattern. And the other clip is about three-fourths
to 1 inch to the left - to the left of the test
pattern. I wasn't able to get that one right on
the edge of it, because of the little knot in the
bracket that holds the barrel of the thing to-
gether_ it wouldn't clip over that. So, I had
to move it right adjacent to it. And that put
it three-eighths of an inch to the right.
CC Okay.
219 13 15 2B CC And, Owen, you should have an ATM schedule pad

there that'll tell you where to pick up.
SPT Well, the latest ATM schedule pad that came up,
r I'm Just lookingat it right now, is a ih:58,
TAG Tape 219-06/T-128
Page _ of 10/862
which starts the nominal experiment work. And

I was wondering about htis first rev coming up
next, for checkout, C & D, I think it's called
on my Flight Plan. And that one, I do not have
an ATM schedule on, I don't believe. I show an
activation and checkout on my Flight Plan, and
that's not on the ATM schedule.
CC We thought you - we sent you up a checkout pad

prior to the teleprinter fail, Owen.
SPT Okay. I'll see if I've got one. I'm not sure
whether - it's in my ledger or not.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC I've got that ATM pad here in front of me, Owen,

if you'd like for me to read parts of it to you,
to get you started,
SPT Ah, no, I think you're talking about 11:27, and

I do have the first half of that that looks okay,
starting at 13:26, the TV down-link.
CC Okay. That's what we need.
SPT Okay. About the, oh, first 8 or l0 inches of that

looks okay. Maybe I can even read a little further
than that.
219 13 18 02 CC Okay. Have you got down through "At - at 9 minutes

of day remaining, observation observing time,"
down on through "Earth horizon light and fine
Sun sensor?"
SPT Yes, I've got that.
CC Okay. That's all there is. We sent the rest to

you.
SPT Okay. Fine. I see the other's a repeat. Yes,

that's fine. Thank you.

over stateside in 4 minutes.
TAG Tape 219-06/T-128
Page 5 of 10/863
SPT 0kay, Story. Are you ready for the EVA AUTO
DOOR to come to ENABLE, and for me to go ahead and
open up all the doors? That sort of stuff's not
on this pad, but I assume you're ready for me to
go ahead with all of the normal power operations.
219 13 22 00 CC That's affirmative, 0wen. You can press on as

normal.
219 13 25 36 CC Skylab, we're AOS Goldstone for 6 minutes.
SPT Roger, Story. And active region 85 really looks

like it's ready to produce a little activity.
CC Okay. And we'll be looking for some TV over

Goldstone. And on your CBRM SELECT switches, we
need tape on both the rotary and toggle switch.
SPT Okay, I'll put it on the toggles as well.
CC Thanks - -
SPT How many - how m_ny of the toggles?
CC Just the CBRM SELECT toggle.
SPT Story, I'm giving you down-link television of the

ATM display. Would you tell us when you can see
it from down there?
219 13 27 38 CC We're getting it now, Owen.
SPT Okay. That's H-alpha 2 you're looking at right

now. I want to give you a white-light coronagraph
and then discuss it for a minute.
CC Okay.
219 13 28 01 SPT Okay, you can see the corona now, I assume.
CC Yes, sir.
SPT Okay. Now when I powered it up maybe 30 seconds

ago Just as I was giving you that first call, there
was a very bright blob up at about, oh, 130 - about
130. And I thought it was very likely some con-
f taminationthat had come out and drifted into the
TAG Tape 219-06/T-128
Page 6 of 10/864
pressed portion of the telescope there. But Just

as I started to give you a call, it's now slowly
drifted off the screen. So it could be that it
was something out there in front of the telescope.
It looked like it was going to be a permanent
fixture for a while. But at any rate it drifted
on out of the field of view now.
CC Okay,
CC Was it in-
219 13 29 40 SPT And now, Story, can you see the little Jitter on
H-alpha 1 at this point?
CC Yes, we've got it, Owen. And Just as you're doing,

we'd like you to cycle through all the things you
can send us on TV.
SPT Okay. I can probably give you a bit of XUV MON

also, although I've not powered it up yet. I'll
do it right now.
SPT Active region 85, which is down there about

6 o'clock on your display right now, when you turn
the brightness way down, shows a - a series of
very bright points. Four to five more or less
arranged vertically in the present view. And
they - they're very small points right along the
neutral line and - or even perhaps one's - it's
either side of the neutral line. And really look
much brighter than the surrounding plage.
CC Roger.
CC And we're going LOS here, Owen. We'll see you

over MLA in 1 minute, And we'll be dumping the
tape recorders over MLA.
219 13 31 21 SPT Okay, I'm going to give you a little XUV MON in
the last few seconds here.
219 13 33 54 CC Skylab, we're back with you over MLA and Bermuda
for 12 minutes.
SPT Okay_ how do you read me_ Story?

TAG Tape 219-06/T-128
Page 7 of 10/865
CC It's about h by 5.
SPT Okay, fine. I got• a headset rigged up here with

the TRANSMIT button taped down. Just wanted to
make sure _t was coming through all right.
CC And we got about three integrations on the XUV

monitor and that's where we went LOS, Owen.
SPT Okay, now are•you getting down-link at this point -

TV?
CC Not yet.
SPT Okay. Let me know and I'll give you some more
XUV MON.
219 13 35 ll SPT Okay, while we're waiting on that, I want to give

you some panel configurations so you'll know exactly
where I'm at. I got on my display panels, all
four switches to BUS 2. On my LIGHTING panel, I'm
running INTEGRAL,FIXED; NUMERIC, FIXED; and ALERT
STATUS, I'm also going to put down in FIX.
CC Copy.
SPT And I've put the EVA AUTO DOOR to ENABLE. And,
of course, leaving tape to sick . .. switch, the
power system CBRM Sk_LW.CTrotary and the toggle
switch, and everything else. Okay, on my console
power distribution, all of my experiments are
selected up to the EXPERIMENT BUS 1/NUMERIC LIGHT-
ING BUS position. All the circuit breakers are
CLOSED except STATUS LIGHTING BACKUP. Two circuit
breakers OPEN.
219 13 36 16 CC We copy that, Owen.
SPT Okay. I'm standing by for more integration here,

when you got the TV.
219 13 36 37 CC And, Owen, we' re GO for the TV now.
SPT Okay.
SPT Okay, that ought to be enough.

TAG Tape 219-06/T-128
Page 8 of l0 /866
SPT You might ask ATM if there's anything else that

he wants in particular on that TV at this point -
more important than the others.
CC We' re working that, Owen.
219 13 38 ll SPT Okay. I'm starting on the S056 powerup and check-
out on page 1-7 at this time if Millican and crew
would like to watch it from down there.
CC 0wen, if possible, we'd like some more TV on the

XUV MONITOR. We only go three bl_ps.
SPT Oh, I gave you a lot of them.
CC I know, we're Just not getting them.
219 13 38 37 SPT Blip, blip, blip. There's a long one. We'll get
the corona out there.
SPT Blip. Now it's ready to go. I can see the corona.
Blip. Blip. Blip. How about those?
219 13 39 05 CC I can't see it on the screen, Owen. We're picking

that up in MLA, but we're not real time here in
Houston.
SPT Okay, how about that H-alpha? That's a nice steady

picture. Do you see that one in Houston?
CC The TV's Just going to MLA, Owen. We'll - we'll

get the playback later.
SPT Okay. Understand. I Just didn't quite understand

what you were telling me before. Okay. It ought
to have plenty of XUV MON now on the tape down
there then.
CC Okay. Press on with the rest of your stuff.
SPT Incidentally, I didn't know - we may have already

passed in the other procedures. Would you like
to have the H-alpha camera power on now so we
can start taking H-alpha 1 pictures? I'll need
to go H-alpha 1 CAMERA, ON, and H-alpha 1 to AUTO.
219 13 40 18 CC Okay, 0wen. I guess we'd Just like you to keep

going on the checklist.
_- TAG Tape 219-06/T-128
Page 9 of i0/867
SPT Okay.
CC And if you've got a pencil and paper, I've got an

update to your mineral supplements today.
SPT Go ahead.
CC CDR, two phosphorus, one magnesium, two potassium;

SPT, three calcium, one magnesium, two potassium_
PLT, four calcium, two phosphorus. Disregard the
other items on the current med status pad.
SPT Okay, we'll go Just by the one you sent up now.
CC Thanks.
SPT Incidentally, when you call them up, I - if you

could give us the five-digit code, that way we
wouldn't have to woi_i=yabout keeping track of
which element and stuff.
_ CC I should have done that. Thanks.
CC Disregard all the other items, not Just the sup-

plement items, on that reed status pad.
SPT In other words, disregard the whole pad?
CC Yes.
SPT Okay.
219 13 h2 35 SPT Okay, Story. I've got S056 down through that
first set of procedures. I don't get my READY
light.
CC Copy.
CC Did you get the lights on H-alpha, 0wen?
SPT No, because - no, I did not.
219 13 h3 06 CC You got any READY/OPERATE lights on any of the

panels?
TAG Tape 219-06/T-128
Page i0 of i0/868
SPT Negative. Just a minute. Okay, now I've got it.

I've got to go to ALERT STATUS, VARIABLE out of
FIX.
CC Roger.
SPT And I have my S056 READY light, but not my H-alpha

READY light because I don't have my H-alpha L
CAMERA POWER, ON.
CC Roger.
SPT Frames remaining 5998 on S056.
CC Got it.
219 13 h40l SPT And the Millican machine is running.
SPT The next note was something we had some discussion

about whether or not it was supposed to have been
deleted or not. And that is the "Do not power up
beryllium or aluminum high voltage until 24 hours
after EVA." We have complete at least approxi-
mately that now, and I'm wondering if they're
ready to have the BERYLLIUM ALUMINUM HIGH VOLTAGE
POWER turned ON?
219 13 44 36 CC We're ready, Owen. You've got a GO.
SPT Thank you.
CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS here, Skylab. See

you over Ascension in 7 minutes.
SPT Okay. Do you want me to wait for Ascension before

turning the HIGH VOLTAGE, ON?
CC Yes. We prefer you wait until Ascension, Owen.
219 13 45 46 SPT Thank you.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 219-07/T-129
Time: 219:13:50 to 219:15:00
Page i of 8/869
219 13 52 16 CC Skylab, we've got you through Ascension

for l0 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story.
CC And, Owen, we'd like a clarification on

your light status there, On the alert
status light, was it going from VARIABLE
your light status there. On the _T._RT
STATUS light, was it going from VARIABLE
to FI_ that got you the light?
SPT The READY lights came on when I went from

FIXED to variable.
CC Copy.
219 13 53 03 SPT My S056 door is closed at this time.

And I'm going to put HIGH VOLTAGE ALUMINUM
switch ON, now.
SPT Okay. That count 's remaining appropriately

low. I'm going to go ahead with the
BERYLLIUM switch, now.
CC Owen, you going to need the DAB, now?
SPT No. Go ahead.
CC Okay. We'd like to reconfigure the Y

gyros.
SPT Good idea. We'd appreciate that.
219 13 54 21 SPT Okay. Here comes the door.
SPT Okay. Those counts look reasonable, and

we did step automatically to position 2
on both the beryllium and the alnm_uum.
And there are all sorts of transients
going across the white light coronagraph
now. Be nice for you to see those.
They're mostly Just - They look like
little out of focus balloons drifting
TAG Tape 219-07/T-129
Page 2 of 8 /870
across the field of view of the corona-

graph. There are not too many of them,
but I've seen a half a dozen since I've
been talking about them, here.
CC Okay, Owen.
219 13 57 56 SPT Story, as I was rolling the canister to

minus 10,800, the white light coronagraph
picture, which I was looking at at the time,
moved off the display to the ll o'clock
position, and Just disappeared, Now I'm
also looking at H-alpha 2, and as well as
the crosspointer needles on S052. And the
canister was staying very close to Sun
center. And at this point, I do not have
a white light coronagraph display. Little
considerably ... about that fact. Okay.
Now it's back.
CC Okay, Owen.
SPT Now I've got it.
CC CDR OR PLT, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
219 13 59 04 CC Okay, A1. On your VTR electronics change-

out on page 4-10, disregard that note on
real time TV.
CDR Okay. Understand. Got it in sight. I

was Just reading the book.
CC And when you're done with your changeout

there, from the ground we'd like to do a
fast forward and rewind. And then we'll
be looking for some TV over Goldstone at
about 15:0_. And as a reminder in your
checklist there, channel B has been flip-
flopped for channel A, of course.
219 13 59 45 CDR Good point. And another thing, I'm not

sure - we're going to get on it right now,
but this procedure looks a little bit
.,_ TAO _pe _.9-07/T-129
P_e 3 of 8/8Tl
longer than i hour, so we'll get after it

and see what happens.
CC Okay.
219 14 01 56 CC We're going LOS here in 15 seconds, Skylab.

We'll see you over Carnarvon in 24 minutes,
at 14:24. And we're running on rate gyro
Y-l, with redundancy management enabled.
219 14 02 i0 CDR Roger.
219 14 24 38 CC Skylab, we've got you loud and clear through

Carnarvon for i0 minutes.
219 14 24 5_ 8PT Okay, Story. On that first rev I got only

chip A of building block i complete. And
let me give you a little more information
about it. On 82 Alfa I gave it both -
both of the time exposures, and on 82
Baker, the 1-minute exposure but not the 4-
minute exposure. As far as your last com-
ment about the time on H-alpha i begins to
drift to the horizon light, I never did see
any drift on H-alpha i or 2 until the time
remaining counter had counted out and the
H-alpha doors closed. So there was no ef-
fect of any light into the fine Sun sensor.
Looking at the white light coronagraph on
several occasions, I did notice there is a
rather bright disk about one-half solar
radius in diameter which drifts through the
field of view. It's not something ex-
ternal, it is rather sharply in focus; it's
like a reflection from something. And it
will drift across, normally, around the
periphery of the white light coronagraph
image. And it's got me puzzled at this
point. I don't know what sort of an arti-
fact it is. But I'ii keep on the alert for
it, and when it's possible, why maybe I
can give you a picture of it. Now I pro-
pose you Just pick up at 14:58 with the pad
as scheduled. One other thing that was not
complete, I guess, was the S054 powerup.
I delayed doing the image dissector and so
on until we were in AOS. And I'll - Do
TAG Tape219-07/T-IZ9
Page4 or 8 /872
you want to wait until the Sun is up or can

we do s_e of what powering up here over -
over Australia.
CC You can do it right here, Owen.
SPT Okay.
219 I_ 27 i0 SPT My IMAGE DISSECTOR switch is going to ENABLE,

X-RAY IMAGE switch to ENABLE, PHOTO MULTI-
PLIER to ENABLE. IMAGE THRESHOLD is at 256.
Photo MULTIPLIER is reading very erratic,
of course, at this point, 100's, 200's,
around in that range. IMAGE INTENSITY COUNT
is around 10, l0 to 15 and somewhat oscil-
lating. We still have no television scan
on the X-ray _mage. BRIGHTNESS control is
fUll clockwise, and I can see no TV sweep.
I have not got the timer installed yet, but
we will get that timer installed so we will
get that checked out as soon as we can.
Okay, I'm going to go GRATING, IN again.
And it is shown IN, back to OUT.
219 14 29 07 CC Owen, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Now to get that X-ray image Owen, on -

on the console power distribution, you
need the X-RAY SPECT switch to BUS 2.
219 lh 29 23 SPT Okay. Went to down.
CDR Say, Story, are the ATM Folks putting to-

gether this teleprinter up-link that's
going to explain to us sort of the situa-
tion on the ATM and the strategy of opera-
ting from now on, so that we know what's
good and what's bad, and kind of what's
going on. Right now we're a little bit
in the dark.
CC Understand you want a s11mmary pad, Owen,

on the ATM?
SPT We discussed this with Crip yesterday and

asked for it and the ATM people are
TAG Tape 219-07/T-129
Page 5 of 8/873
supposedly putting it together. My guess

is they Just haven't had reaction time
yet, but Crip and Adam and the back room
there probably know about it.
219 14 30 31 CC Okay. That's affirmative. General message

004 and it should be up there.
SPT Okay. We haven't seen it yet. Maybe it

Just csme up this morning or something.
We'll check the teleprinter right bow -
again. Okay, it Just came off the tele-
printer, Story. ThAnk you.
CC Sure.
SPT Boy, that's quick response.
CC We aim to please.
SPT Yes, sir.
CC And we sent up two copies of that, 0wen.
SPT Okay, thank you.
219 14 32 31 SPT Story, I don't see that image test dot at

the top of the screen in IMAGE THRESHOLD
position i. Is that supposed to be pre-
sent even with the door pinned open?
CC Stand by i, (>wen.
219 14 35 03 CC Skylab, we're l0 seconds to LOS here.

We'll be picking you up over G_,,m in
3 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. And there's a possibility

that you might want me to do chip B on
building block 1 at the beginning of the
next orbit or right after those alignments,
instead of the planned activities for this
next rev. And if that's - if you should
want to do that, Just let me know by voice
and I'll modify it and do that.
CC Okay.
TAG Tape 219-07/T-129
Page 6 of 8 /874
SPT I'm - I'm going to be away from the c_,_._,_

here for about 15 minutes.
CC Start right in at 14:58, Owen.
CC Skylab, we've got you _hrough Guam for 9

minutes.
CC SPT, Houston,
SPT Go ahead.
CC Now, we'd like you Just to press on, on

the 14:58 pad when you get there.
SPT Thank you.
219 14 40 13 CC And why don't you try looking at the X-ray

image and using the counter test. You
ought to get a 4 by h image on the tube.
SPT I do get that one.
CC Thank you.
CC CDR, Houston,
CDR Story CDR. Did you call?
CC Yes, sir. Wondered how you were coming on

the VTR electronics changeout.
219 14 42 49 CDR Well, we've got the old ones off. We're
getting ready to put the new ones on. One
funny, out of MDA tool kit, the 3/16-inch-
long Allen wrench - I put it in the screw
and then started using the ratchet on it,
and I was ratcheting it, and it sounded
good, but nothing was moving. I looked up
at the tool itself and this ratchet tool
had been Jammed up a little bit, not the
ratchet but the 3/16 Allen. Instead of
Just having a plain - plain straight bar
it's got a bar with a pin and a sleeve sur-
rounding it - sort of ... up. The
only problem was that the coupling between
the sleeve and the Allen is broken, so
,_ TAG Tape 219-07/T-129
Page 7 of 81875
when you turn the ratchet, it doesn't turn

the Allen bit. So that's a failure of that
tool and you need to have Jerry and them
bring up a new one, 3/16-long Allen bit in
the MDA tool kit.
219 14 43 51 CC Okay. We copy that. We were planning on

using Arabella as a model to check out
the VTR, coming up over Goldstone here, in
about 20 minutes. It doesn't look like
you'll be ready for a VTR checkout, but
we wonder if you could give us some handheld
TV of Arabella over Goldstone?
CDR We'll sure give it a go.
CC And we'll need the bypass connector hooked

up for that. And we'll need Owen to go to
TV on the video switch.
CDR Two problems, there. One, we don't know

what the bypass connector is, and the
second one - I tell you what we can do, we
can get this thing rigged out, I'm kind of
afraid to start running it with the power
cables disconnected like they are. Why
don't we wait until the next time around
and we'll give it to you then?
CC Okay. It'd be fine.
219 14 _5 01 CDR Yes. We got all this power disconnected

and circuit breakers out and everything.
I'd sure hate to - start fooling with it
now.
CC Okay.
SC ...
CDR We'll give it to you - next time.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll

see you over Goldstone in 15 minutes.
f_
TAG Tape 219-07/T-129
Page 8 of 8/876
CDR What we did, Story, now, is take the 3/16-

long Allen hit out of the spare tools locker
down in the - the experiment compartment,
and we're moving that one up to the MDA-
so we'll be sure to have a good one up there.
21914 47 5_ cc Sot it.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 219-08/T-130
Time: 219:15:00 to 219:16:30
Page 1 of 10/877
SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
219 15 04 00 CC Skylab, we!ve got you stateside for 16 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. How do you read me?
CC Loud and clear.
SPT Okay. I just completed the S055 mirror alignment.

The limb, with the FSS BIAS, IN, was reading
1027. I've aligned the mechanical crosshairs,
1025. And there was a lot of change down. I
need you to bring the mechanical reticle a long
way down, to make that align. I'm Just now
getting started on the four-limb coalignment.
And you can expect these first few alignments
on the first few days here will probably take a
little longer than they will after we get
organized better a little later. I Just checked
our friend Arabella on the way up and she did
completely spin a new web last night. And she's
a very fast learner indeed. This time the web
is essentially, at first glance, like one you
would find on the ground. It has the radials to
all four sides of the box, approximately
converging on the center with the circ1_m9erential
lines spiraling all the way out, or at least most
of the way out. It would be a very satisfactory
web on the ground I would think. And we'll do
what we can to get some photographs of it later.
And I think the other two fellows are going to
try to get the handheld TV on the next pass.
Now, I should also be feeding you some ATM TV
at this time if you got any video capability
right now. Jack says he's pulled the circuit
breakers for that, however, so I guess you're
out of luck at the moment for anybody.
CC Okay. Yes. No TV this stateside pass, Owen.
SPT Okay.
219 15 05 54 CC And we'd like a star tracker lockon. And the

pad you've got up there now should be good.
SPT The one from 2 days ago?
CC Yes, sir.
TAG Tape 219-08/T-130 -_
Page 2 of i0 /878
BPT _ay.
8PT AI, Jack says he's got whatever you were hooking
up, hooked up now.
PLT AI, what I've got is - I found a way to bypass

the VTR. I've got the coax connectors hooked
up. How about turning it on real time to the
ground?
CDR If you want, it's okay withme, but don't work

on anything while you're doing it. Just hook
it up and stand away from all that gear.
PLT I will. I've got it all connected.
CDR Okay. But don't - don't fool with any box the
connector' s in.
PLT I won't.
219 15 07 OB SPT Okay. Okay, Story thinks - Jack thinks he's

got the hookup completed now. And we should
be sending you down some real-time TV.
CC Okay, we'll take it.
PLT Hey, Story, we ought to have a picture of the

mad professor working on the ATM panel there.
You got it ?
PLT Story, we're right in the middle of the _T_

hookup, but we've got the bypass coax hooked
up. So you should be getting some real time.
Let us know how it comes out.
219 15 07 56 CC Okay. We've got a circuit breaker for you to

close on panel 202, TELEVISION, ATM VIDEO.
SPT Okay.
219 15 08 19 SPT Okay, it's CLOSED now.
PLT Okay, it's closed now. I noticed the TV airlock

module circuit breaker is out also.
CC And we're getting you right now, Jack. We're

taking a look at you.
.-_ TAG Tape 219-08/T-130
Page 3 of 10/879
PLT Okay.
SPT And you should have your star.
CC Looks like you've got a good star there, 0wen.

Stay off the DAS a while, while we update Nu L.
SPT Okay.
SPT Another point, the two-limb Sun is very clearly

vi sible -
219 15 12 58 SPT Yes, I'm going to give you a little TV of the

H-alpha, as I'm performing this four-limb
coalignment, Story.
CC Okay, Owen.
SPT Okay. Can you see the H-alpha there?
CC We're looking at it.
SPT Okay. I'm on page 2-1 and I'm putting a reticle

on the inner limb. See the spicules sticking
out above the top of the - over the top of
crosshair there?
CC Roger.
SPT Reading is plis 1002. Jack's picture ATM

people are reading down there also.
SPT Okay. l'm going to give you a picture of the

SLIT now also, so you can see how wide these,
lines really do look.
SPT Plus 997.
219 15 15 22 SPT MARK that.
SPT And put it to H-alpha i, RETICLE, right in the

same spot. Okay.
CC PLT, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC That you, Al?

TAG Tape 219-08/T-130
Pa_e h of 10/880
CDR Yes, he's listening.
CC Okay. When you get to running M092, delay the

vent if possible beyond 15:h7. That's after
dump commence. Looking at the time line,
that's probably no problem for you. And
prior to disconnect in the bypass, be sure to
open up on panel 202, the same circuit
breaker you closed there. That's TELEVISION,
ATM VIDEO. And also on panel 202, TELEVISION,
POWER AM circuit breaker, you can close that
to get us back in a nominal configuration.
PLT Okay. Then I get them all closed when we're

finished, right?
CC That's right. And complete the VTR changeout

procedure per the checklist.
PLT Wilco.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go.
219 15 18 56 CC Could you clarify what part of the teleprinter

you exchanged?
CDR I had to tele - change the whole big box

because the drive wheel that failed was the
black one. It's part of that big box, as
opposed to the little red one that's part of
the little head. So that's why I mentioned that
we changed the last one we got up here.
CC Okay. We understand that. Thank you.
CDR It's a shame to lose that big electronics

box Just because of that little rubber wheel.
CC We'll work on the grommet.
219 15 19 37 CC And, Skylab, we're coming up here on a

42 minute LOS. We'll see you over Carnarvon
at 16:02. And, Owen, on the CAUTION/WARNING
panel, ACS MALFS, we'd like you to ENABLE the
RATE GYROS.
SPT Roger.
TAG Tape 219-08/T-130
Page 5 of 10/881
CC And during the LOS here we'll be on Y-I only,

redundancy management enabled.
219 15 20 00 SPT Y-I with redundancy management and RATE GYROS,

ENABLED. Okay. They're ENABLED.
CC And during the dumps if you have any kind of

failure, which is unlikely, all you need to do
is put Y-1 back on the line.
SPT Okay, put Y-1 back on. It is on now, of

COUrSe.
CC That' s affirmative.
SPT Okay.
219 16 03 29 CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon for

7 minutes.
CC And, CDR, from what we can see down here, it

looks like the VTR procedure is complete.
SPT That's right. I think they got it all changed,

Story.
CC Okay. Understand we're clear to do some

commanding on the VTR.
SPT Just a minute. Let me get that through

confirmation from them. I 'm not sure what
they've all done. Okay. The answer is yes,
Story.
CC Okay. And I got a couple of things for you

here, Owen. The test - the test dot on the
X-ray image is different than the flight
vehicle - than in the simulator. All you get
is some random dots around the 12 o'clock
position of the CRT. And if the brightness is
turned up at all, that will preclude you
seeing those test dots.
219 16 Oh 35 SPT Oh. That's interesting. So I'll try that

again. And then I was going to do my debriefing
on the real time here on this pass instead of on
channel B. Go ahead with anything you got up
for us first.
TAG Tape 219-08/T-130
Page 6 of i0 /882
CC The med pad that you've got up there is good

except, of course, the supplements which we
called to you. And delete paragraphs 4 and 6.
SPT Okay. Just a minute I've got to pull it out

and see what it is.
CC Roger.
SPT Are you t_Iking about med status ll05?
CC Affirmative.
SPT Okay, down in remarks, I see a paragraph h.

I don't see paragraph 6.
SPT Maybe you've got a different message than mine.
CC It's buried down in there, about the last h lines.

It' s concerning ED63.
SPT I thought this was a med status report.
CC Yes, reed status. That's right.
219 16 06 52 SPT Okay. My ll05 is med status, got a bunch of

preflight information on it. My ll05 Alfa 2,
again is more reed status M092 and then some
remarks and stuff. Remarks says 1 through h,
then some stuff down there for A and B. I
don't see anything like h and 6.
CC Okay. You don't have a ll05-A3.
SPT Okay. I'll have to go look up Alfa 3. Stand

by. I tell you, I'll look it up later and
remember to mark out. I'll put it on my note
pad to delete paragraphs h and 6.
CC Or we've got an updated pad down here we can

send you, Owen. You can Just use that one.
SPT So I can throw all my ll05 and Just keep your

ll05 Alfa 3?
CC Stand by l, Owen.
219 16 08 00 SPT Okay. Let me go ahead with this update here.

This is the ATM information on that last pass.
Now I managed to do all of step 6. I did not
TAG Tape 219-08/T-130
Page 7 of 10/883
do step 7. On the coalignment, I had to

actually repeat that about three times. That
took up the extra time. It turns out that
the H-alpha image is slightly larger in
diameter than the white light image on the XUV
SLIT display, l'd say it's a couple of
arc seconds in dia - radius, about 4 arc-seconds
in diameter larger on H-alpha, even accounting
for the double limb. The double limb is
clearly apparent and I'm not talking about the
outer limb. l'm talking about the inner limb.
And so I have to shade it Just a little bit
inside on the H-alpha i and 2 or H-alpha
alignment to make it agree with the XUV SLIT
position. And the following numbers are the
ones I got for the four-limb coalignment
starting down the blocks that you will find in
our pad. H-alpha I is plus 1002, plus 997
plus i001, minus 893, minus 895. I skipped
H-alpha l[sic]. 82B is minus 914 minus 915,
plus 973, and the coalignment is still at
up/down or is aligned 0832, very close to
what it was on mission i. Essentially
identical. Now as far as - -
219 16 09 32 CC We're coming up on 15 seconds to LOS, Owen.

We'll see you over Guam in 7 minutes. Be
dumping the tape recorders at Guam.
SPT Okay, I've got a little bit more information

on the experiments S055 after detector clipout,
S054 last frame might have been a little be -
below 400 kilometers. S055 had some good
mirror align scan in the last few minutes, and
some good J0P 7 data.
CC We copied then.
219 16 16 58 CC Skylab, AOS Guam 7 minutes.
CDR Hello.
CC Who's that?
CDR CDR, Just calling this ...
CC Okay, A1. And over Goldstone we'd like to

check out the VTR. We'll be - we'd like about
4 minutes of real-time TV and VTR record. We
can command all that from the ground. Then
TAG Tape 219-08/T-130
P_e 8 of l0/88_
we'll interrupt real-time TV and dump the VTR,

to check it out. So, in the next i0 or 12
minutes here, we'd like you to do either
TV 59-C or aim the TV camera at anything of
your option and turn it on.
CDR We're working on 92 now. So we're not going

to be able to do anything optional. But we
do have the TV setup pointing at the ATM
panel. Owen will be up there in a minute so
you can get some good shots of him at work.
CC Okay. That 's fine.
CDR Okay. And I'ii go power up the TV right this

minute so it' ll be running when it comes over
the hill.
CC Swell.
219 16 18 21 CDR We changed our minds. We'll give you that

kind of TV, later. We'll give you a little
effort of Jack in the tank, here. We're
going to pump him down, see how he does. You
can watch his veins distend and that sort of
thing.
CC Okay. I'll be looking. And all you need is -

is to aim it at something like that and then
turn the power on. We'll do all the co_anding
of the VTR from down here.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Stand by.
CC Okay. You can disregard the med pads you've

got up there. We're sending right up now,
1130-1 and 1130 Alfa 2.
SPT That'll supersede all the other stuff, right?
219 16 19 35 CC Yes, forget all the other stuff, and we'd

like the DAS here for a few minutes to
update Y-2.
SPT You got it.

_ TAG Tape 219-08/T-130
Page 9 of 10/885
CC And while I've got you, Owen. We've been

noticing down here that, during the night
portions of orbit, that you're leaving the
MPC in ROLL ENABLE. And we'd like to have
those in INHIBIT during the night portion.
SPT Very good. Just forgot. Thank you.
219 16 20 29 SPT We changed our minds again. We're going to

give you the grand variety show. We'll give
you everything we got all at once.
CC Okay. We 'll be waiting.
CDR Okay. Not all at once, but in a row.
219 16 22 39 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds until LOS. We'll

see you over Goldstone in 17 minutes at 16:h0.
CDR Say, Big O. I'll also glance out the window.

If it looks good I'll take it off the window
and point it out and you can shift it down
he re.
SPT Okay, that'll be fine.
CDR Give them the old montage effect.
CC We're still reading you loud and clear.
219 16 23 20 CDR Are you reading us on intercom, Story?
CC I heard that last call.
SPT No, I've got a hot mike, Story. So you're

reading me, but A1 hasn't ... a headset, so
you only heard one-half of the conversation.
CC I heard A1, too.
SPT Uh-oh. Well then I don't understand that.

You press transmit, Al?
CDR Do you hear me now, Story.
CC Loud and clear.
CDR Somehow we got this whole thing hooked up

where intercom is being transmitted around.
TAG Tape 219-08/T-130
Page i0 of 10/886
SPT Maybe we never got it reconfigured from EVA

yesterday.
CDR ... we had yesterday?
CC We don't mind listening to you.
219 16 23 57 SPT Say again.
CC We don't mind listening to you; Just wanted

you to know that we were.
CDR (Laughter) I'm glad you told us, Story. Say,

how about trying to figure out how it is ...
I hooked up this way? We don't think we should
be transmitting ... hookup.
CC We're going LOS. See you over Goldstone.
CDR Okay.
219 16 24 23 SPT The only thing I can figure out, A1, is that
it's something up in the ...
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 219-09/T-131
Time: 219:16:30 to 219:18:00
Page 1 of 6/887
219 16 h0 22 CC Skylab, Houston. Got you AOS stateside for

15 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story. And we figured out why we were

sending down the intercom a while ago ; we got
it straightened out.
CC We straightened it out too, but you beat us to

it.
CDR Okay. What was your solution?
CC We thought because you had the intercom taped

there and you were hot mike, that anyone else
that was ICOMing the same channel would transmit.
CDR Fantastic.
SPT You caught us in the act. Caught me with a

mistake.
SPT Have you got some TV down there, Story?
CC We 're looking at you, 0wen.
219 16 43 33 CC And, Owen, we'd like some more color on the TV

to check out the VTR. So we'd like to go back
to looking at you.
SPT Done.
CC And we've got it.
SPT And, Story, I'm going to send the TV down to the

workshop where the - where Jack and A1 are
getting set up for M092 runs.
CC No. We'd like to stay right here, Owen, Okay.

Go ahead. That'll be fine.
SPT Okay.
219 16 45 45 SPT Okay. I think I mentioned on the last rev that

the S055 detectors kicked off at one point. I
don't know how soon I caught it. I think not
TAG Tape 219-091T-131 r_
P_e 2 of 61888
too long after it happened. But I'm starting

another MIRROR AUTO RASTER now with all seven
of the detectors on. So, if you see it kick off,
be sure to let me know and I don't know that it
was detector 5, but I suppose the probability
is that that's what it was.
CC Copy, 0wen.
SPT *** there, so your slit's pointed above this

active region for about four frames before I
noticed it and turned you off.
SPT If you want four frames on quiet active - or

on - on quiet background, why you probably have
four frames of it right now - the first four
of your auto sequence.
219 16 48 27 SPT *** a time there, so it's a pretty bright point

apparently.
SPT Another comment of operational interest. It does

appear to peak up very nicely. As I Just moved
back and forth, no more than 5 arc seconds as
near as I can tell from the H-alpha 2 monitor,
the counting rate increased markedly, so it's
fairly isolated, with short boundary, point
that we're looking at. And the detector
picked it upvert promptly when you slew on to it.
CC Okay, Copy that, 0wen. And Skylab, we're

dumping the VTR now, so we don't have you on
real-time TV. And, 0wen, I understand when the
high voltage detectors kicked off, they all
kicked off.
SPT That's affirm.
CC Okay - -
SPT And might say HIGH VOLTAGE is still ENABLED;

it's not in OVERRIDE.
CC Okay. Have you got ATM experiment checklist

change number 001?
219 16 49 50 SPT I have change 1 incorporated; that's right.

But last night, when we went back to the
configuration, you wanted me to go back to
_-_ TAG Tape 219-09/T-131
Page 3 of 6 /889
0VERRIDE, after - correction, go back to ENABLE,

so I left it there. Now change i is incorporated
in this book, which I think does call for the
OVERRIDE. Is that what you're getting at?
CC Yes, sir.
219 16 52 26 CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Looking at your momentum, AI, we show there has

been a vent fairly recently. Did you use the
main vacuum valve or anything to check out the
M092 regulator?
CDR The only - We did not use the LENP vent. The
only thing we've done is the trash airlock
handle happened to be in VENT instead of PRESS,
and so we pressed. We didn't vent.
CC Okay.
CDR And that's through the tank. That shouldn't

bother anything. We haven't touched any of the
air so far. We've turned on the - M - the mass
spectrometer, but that isn't a vent. It - it
uses vacuum, but it isn't enough to worry about.
CC Thanks.
CDR Okeydoke.
CDR Are we cleared to go ahead and continue with

the LBNP?
CC Affirmative.
CDR Say again.
CC That's affirmative, AI, press on.
CDR Okay. I don't know where your vent came from.

Trying to think about it right now. We haven't
touched the valves, and the only thing we've - -
TAG Tape 219-09/T-131
Page h of 6 /890
219 16 55 29 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over the Vanguard in ll minutes and all the
systems are looking good.
219 17 05 48 CC Skylab, we've got you over the Vanguard for

8 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. ThAnk you.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Is your number 2 tape recorder in the B position,

Al?
219 17 07 25 CC And we're getting good data now, Al.
CDR Okay.
CDR What happened, Story, is we got - The knob

apparently is loose and it was halfway between
2 and 3, the knob was, but it was really on 3.
Looked good, but wasn't; we'll - we'll fix it.
CC Okay. Thank you.
219 17 09 04 CDR If you're getting good data, Story, I won't

bother to take the backup data. How does it
look to you?
CC It's looking good to me, A1. Let me check with

the biomeds.
CC A1, we've got good data down here.
CDR Good. Let me tell you something I put on the

tape recorder that could probably save us some
time. I recorded the legbands on Jack, and then
Owen, and I did ours the other day. We're
going to try to use the same band - legbands
all the time. We've got about 20 pair up here
and they all look the same, 1_nless you search
around and try to find these numbers. And
we've got all sorts of different rules about
using letters and umbers. So, if these legbands,
which we think satisfy the rules, are okay,
then we're Just going to keep using them.
Would you see if that's an okay thing?
I-" TAG Tape 219-09/T-131
Page 5 of 6 /891
CC Okay. We'll put the band numbers and the data

together and get that to you as soon as we can,
A1.
CDR I've got to make an adjustment here in a second,

but as soon as I do, I'll read you the band numbers.
CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
219 17 l0 45 CC Owen, did you get a second GRATING AUTO SCAN

after you rolled the canister?
SPT I thought I did. Didn't show up on the telemetry?

Have they dumped it yet.9 Or were you looking at
it then?
CC We saw a MIRROR LINE SCAN when we had LOS.
SPT Okay. Well, I think - Oh, that's right. I

left it in MLS and then switched it to GRATING
AUTO SCAN. And I did give you another GRATING
AUTO SCAN on the end of that. So building block 36
was completed as scheduled. Since then, I've also
picked up item 5 on the shopping list and done
one of those, and I'm now picking up building
block i0 and running it, as it was omitted in the
earlier preceding rev. And, so I've repointed
to another spot in the active region 85. And I'm
doing a building block i0 to complete this orbit.
CC Ok ay.
2_19 17 ll 47 SPT Incidentally, I've also given 55 several other -

well, at least one other set of mirror line
scans across the neutral line in active region
85. Couple of minutes of MLS across the
neutral line pointed at the bright spot.
CC Copy.
SPT The pattern of brightness is changing here

_]most from minute to minute. The brightest
element in the whole active region is the one
that I did the building block 36 at. And it
has been the brightest all along. However,
TAG Tape 219-091T-131
Page 6 of 6 1892
say, 5 minutes ago, there was another bright

region right next to the Sun spot, that rose in
intensity. And now it is _eeayel down to more
or less thesame level as the plage in general.
And so, all of these bright points are Just sort
of continually changing their contrast with the
plage in background more or less with time
contents like 5 minutes or so. Over.
CC Okay.
219 17 12 55 SPT Looks like we Just got another trip out on S055.
I'm going to leave detector 5 off this time.
CDR Okay, Houston. Let me give you those cuff

numbers and the - the cuff letters, so that you
can check them out.
CC Go ahead, A1.
CDR CDR:CH and BU;CH, left; BU, right is the CAL.
CC Okay.
CDR SPT: AX BU; AX, BU.
CC Got them.
CDR PLT: AD and 6"/; AD, CV.
219 17 14 29 CC Owen, we'd like to inhibit Y-1 redundancy

management. Then I've got two DAS numbers for you.
SPT Go ahead.
CC 52,015, 50,020.
sPT 52,015, 50,020.

CC That' s correct.
CC And we'd like that before the next dump.
CC And that's because we - we're venting, Owen.
CC And we're going LOS here, Skylah. We'll see

you over Goldstone in 1 hour and 3 minutes at 18:17.
219 17 15 17 SPT Okay, those were *_*
END OF TAPE
_ . r
TAG Tape 219-i0/T-132
_- Time: 219:18:00 to 219:19:30
Page I of 7/893
219 18 18 19 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Goldstone and Texas for

ii minutes. And we'll be dumping the tape recorders
over Texas at 18:24.
CDR Story, when you say tape recorders, that include

the experiment tape recorders?
CC Boy, that ESP's working again now. Where are you

with respect to MI71, AI?
CDR We're Just getting ready to start. We took a break

for dinner.
CC Okay, we'll hold off the dump, and y'all press on.
CDR Okay. I gather, then, when you say dump, you

mean dump the experiment recorders and the voice
recorders. Is that correct?
f
CC That's usually the data voice recorder when we call

a dump, A1.
CDR Okay. The two data voice recorders, huh?
CC Just one.
219 18 19 56 CDR Oh, okay. I thought when we selected two different

recorders here, experiment 1 and experiment 2, we
were getting two different re - recorders.
SPT Hello, Story. I'm just completing the building

block 7 of this particular pass. And looks to me
like we've got a little subflare, essentially no
X-rays up to the northeast of the main spun -
Sun spot in active region 85. It Just brightened
up, say, the last 5 minutes, and it's pretty bright
right now, but it may even be diminishing again.
It's Just another one of those occasions I was men-
tlonlng earlier where the whole intensity keeps
ch_nglng _lmogt from 5_4Kinute intervals to the next.
I would avwreciate it if the NOAApeoDle could con-
firm that this is Just a subflare up in the north-
east of the main spot in active region 85. And I'm
Just starting to pick up on my build block 10's.
TAG Tape 219-10/T-132
Page 2 of 7 /894
all of which are supposed to be done at the same

pointing. I think I'll not pick up this little
bright region at the moment because it doesn't
seem to be the spot most likely to have a flare
even though it's the brightest in that active region
right now.
CC Copy, Owen. We'll get you an answer.
219 18 22 13 CDR Story, is there a sharpening stone or whetstone

aboard Skylab somewhere?
CC Boy, I sure don't remember one, but I'll check for

you.
CDR We sure need one. I guess that ought to be on

Jerry's list, to bring up a small one fox' himself.
I suspect we didn't put one on because we didn't
want to get shavings, but it's kind of ridiculous
now that we've been here. We ought to have one up
here.
CC Okay.
219 18 22 54 CDR There's little particles and big particles and

everything and they never Just - never seem to get
in your eye, Just as they don't when they blow in
the wind down in - on - in - on Earth. Every once
in a while they might, although I've never seen
anybody with anything in their eye here, yet.
CC Okay.
SPT Did you say this is a Goldstone pass, Story?
CC That's where we are right now.
SPT Do you want some TV video from the ATM?
CC Stand by 1.
CC 0wen, we'd have to call up all the lines and all.

Why don't you Just press on with the Flight Plan?
Thanks anyway.
SPT Roger.
TAG Tape 219-I0/T-132
_e 3 of 71895
219 18 25 09 SPT And how does ATM think the panel looks at the
moment?
CC Say again, (>wen.
SPT How does ATM say the panel looks?
CC Okay, we'll get that word from him. And NOAA does
report that there was a sub - subbright flare in
the area that you mentioned, and also an Ellerman
bomb in the southeast corner.
CC And the panel is GO, 0wen.
SPT Thank you.
CC PLT or CDR.
219 18 26 19 SPT Houston, one comment about roll. I've rolled to

about minus 5500 on the EXPERIMENTROLL, in order
to get 82B slit more or less uniform. I noticed
the pad says roll 10800, so after this one building
block 10, I'm putting the ROLL to near 10800 but
I'll not get the 82B slit with uniform material in
it this way, unless I hear otherwise from you.
CC Okay, 0wen.
219 18 28 02 SPT Okay, another comment about the comm. Are you
still with me, Story?
CC Yes, got another minute.
SPT Okay. Apparently this switch on this headset had

been taped down in TRANSMIT for quite some time.
None of the three of us did it, so it's probably
been left that way from SL-2. Now the chann&l B
was normally placed in SLEEP. But any time, of
course, we put it to ICOM/PTT that'll mean that
the ICOM gets transmitted in real time. We are
wondering if perhaps the fact that this has been
taped down for the last l0 days might have had
something to do with some of the comm funnies that
we've been unable to explain up to this point.
TAG Tape 219-10/T-132
Page 4 of 7/896
219 18 28 47 CC Which switch was that taped down, Owen? Was that
tha - the - the - the CCU?
SPT Yes. It's the CCU switch, which I have to my

headset and plugged into channel B on panel 131.
CC Okay. But the selector for B was OFF, right?
SPT Well, normally it was in SLEEP, or OFF. But, from

time to time, I expect we put it to ICOM/PTT in
order to use the headset. And we don't remember,
of course, all the times we happen to put it to
ICOM/PTT.
219 18 29 18 CC Roger. Good observation. We're going LOS, here.

We'll see you over the Vanguard in i_ minutes.
219 18 41 54 CC Skylab, we got you through the Vanguard for

8 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. Still pressing along on the - more

building block tens here, and I've rolled around
to - of, about minus 10,800. Let's see, that's
about 10,400 here and it should be a real g_ood
position for S05 [sic] mirror line scan. It's
cutting right across - oh, at three or four bright
points along - more or less parallel to the neutral
line. And they have been brightening alternately
all the way along. Almost every time you look back
at the panel, it's a little bit different structure
and the 82B slit is not in a particularly good
configuration. I have been giving it an extra auto
on each of these sequences, however; they might
want me to stop that; if they call it up, I can
cut one of them out. But other than that, chugging
right along. Let me know about the panel, please.
CC Okay. Thanks, 0wen.
SPT Some of these little bright points might - right

along parallel to the neutral line - might be
Ellerman bombs in through here and if so, the S055
line scan at the moment is cutting right across
several of them. One of them somewhat left of the
center position now. My guess would be, oh, like -
something like about colnmn 20 or so. And they
might take a look to see if their H-alpha picture
TAG TaDe 219-I0/T-132
Page 5 of 7 /897
and the - the mirror line scan configuration

corresponded to passing through scme of these. I
would appreciate it if NOAA could confirm whether
or not these numerous small bright points along
more or less parallel to the filament in through
here are Ellermsm bombs or Just brightenings in
the plage. Over.
219 18 _3 59 CC Okay. They're working on something for you, 0wen,

and we'll get that question answered for you.
SPT Thank you.
219 18 h5 08 CC SPT, Houston.
SPT GO.
CC 0wen, we'd like, in 82A, WAVELENGTH, LONG; exposure,

1 plus 20; as in the_pad at ROLL, minus 1080.
SPT Okay. I was just going to give it to them. I'm

essentially right there right now, and I'm going
to give them a 120; it's already set up on the
panel.
CC Okay.
SPT Wouldn't think of forgetting them.
CC Roger.
SPT But I do - but I do appreciate the reminder.

Incidentally, y'sll, we Just got another little
brightening upward to the northeast of the Sun spot
there again. Up where that subflare was.
CC Okay.
219 18 47 16 CC SPT, NOAA reports that a flare is beginning in

active region 85 at this time.
CC And no flare mode, SPT.
SPT Okay.
SPT It's triggered the preset levels down here, Houston.

p The IMAGE INTENSITY COUNTER's up about 30. And
BERYLLIUM APERTURE is in position - in position 1.
TAG Ta_e 219-I0/T-132
:_e 6 of 71898
CC Yes. And we are in the SAA, also, SPT.
SPT Yes. I'm aware of that. But it - the H-alpha

signature looks pretty good, also, as well as all
of our indicators, which are normally insensitive
to the South Atlantic anomaly.
CC Okay.
219 18 48 53 CC Okay, Owen, we copied all you said _nd we'd like
you to go into flare mode.
CC Did you copy my GO for the flare, Owen?
SPT That's right. We're in there right now.
CC Okay.
SPT However, I'm not as enthusiastic about it as I was.

Because if anything it's at peak or decaying again
now. I'm still inclined to think it was an X-ray
emitting region. But it didn't particularly develop
very - very - very far.
CC Okay.
219 18 50 22 SPT That should have been a particularly good one for
S055, as well as both X-ray instruments, because
we've been looking at this active region all through
its development and the 55 line scan was sweeping
right along parallel to the neutral line there and
should have picked up several of the most intense
portions of the active region.
CC Copy.
SPT I also note that we had an ACS - an S055 ALERT light.

So, one of their detectors triggered out here might
have been during the intense part of that X-ray burst.
And I'd turned off detector number 5 at the time,
so it might have been another one of the detectors.
I'd appreciate your advice on which one of those
we ought to leave enabled. Whether you want to go
back to ENABLE on 5 or try turning another one off
and see if we can eliminate some of these tripouts.
Over.
Page 7 of 7 /899 "
CC Okay. We're a minute from LOS. I'ii get that as

fast as I can, Owen.
SPT Good. Thank you.
219 18 52 04 CC Okay, Owen. Detector 4 tripped out first, and then

Just shortly ago, 5 tripped out. And they'd like
you to use all the ones you can.
SPT Okay. I'll try to keep them all on.
CC We're going LOS here in 15 seconds. We'll see you

over Hawaii in 1 hour at 19:52.
SPT Okay. Fine, Story. See you later.
219 18 52 31 CC Roger.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 219-II/T-133
Time: 219:19:30 to 219:21:00
Page 1 of 7 /901
219 19 50 50 CC Skylab, we've got you through Hawaii for 6

minutes.
SPT Okay, one thing to get started on and then I

have several other things to bring up with you
Story. When I came around to look at the Sun
this time, S056 door presumably got it's normal
DOOR OPEN signal but the door flag went white
and never fUlly opened. I then gave it another
DOOR OPEN, waited a while, gave it two DOORs -
CLOSEs, and no change. So I wanted to wait
, and maybe let you folks try two motors from
the ground or something like that. But as far
as I know, this is the first time S056 has had
a hangup and it's still sitting white on my
panel.
CC Okay, Owen. We've had S056 door hang up twice

before.
SPT Good. You want to take care of it from the

ground then and see if you can open it here?
219 19 52 O1 CC Okay, we'll work on that from the ground then.

And that flare you had last pass was active
region 85, of course. It was classed as a C-3
flare.
SPT Very good. I was pretty sure it had an X-ray

signature. As a matter of fact, I Just asked
you that question on channel B. So, that's
fine. I think we got the best-timed history
of the development of that thing than we've had
before and that we should ever exl_ct, because
we've been sitting on it there watching little
various regions - active regions come and go
for a full orbit or so, and we' re sitting square
right on the best spot at the time of the event.
So that should be very interesting things to
look at.
219 19 52 46 CC Yes, looks good. In 1400 millihertz, we had 90

plus units; in 2700 millihertz, we had 27 plus
r units. And those small bright spots along the
Page 2 of 7/902
filament that you queried us about we consider

that that was part of the flare surge.
SPT Okay, fair enought, sounds fine. I wasn't certain

because they looked a little larger that I had
expected Ellerman bombs to be. A little bit
beyond the resolution - in other words, larger
than the resolution of the instrument. So I
thought very like - I wasn't certain whether or
not it would be interpreted as a bomb or Just
part of the flaring region, so appreciate your
information. Incidentally, while I'm on it
here also, _mmediately following the flare, a
dark filament formed to the north side and could
be seen actually moving off to the right and
by the time slm_ise came around again here, it
completely disappeared. So during the night-
time interval, that large dark filament blew
off to the north.
CC Okay.
SPT And now on the first building block 2 in JOP

6, I didn't catch in time that switch from
GRATING OUT to IN on the S054, so I took that
first set of exposures with the GRATING IN.
Now on the second set for S054, I already had
a pen-and-ink to change that to - to FILTER
number 3. Since I didn't get that one with
the filter in, I wonder if 54 would like to
change one of their later exposures to filter
in. And if so, if you'll voice that up to me,
I'll change the pad accordingly.
219 19 54 06 CC Okay; got it. And on your WLC image dropout

during your checkout, Owen, we think possibly
that was the AGC dropping it out when we got
pointed off - a little bit off Sun center
during the roll.
SPT Well, maybe that's right. It hasn't happened

since. I Just made a 90-degree roll looking
at the monitor and there was no problem there.
I haven't had any recurrence of it since that
first rev this morning.
CC Okay. And if you can stay off the DAS we'll

update your NU z .
Page 3 of 7/903
8PT Fine. And don't forget 56 door here, if you

would, so I can go ahead and get that to working.
219 19 55 06 CC And, 0wen, try opening the door in S056.
SPT Okay. I've already got a gray barber pole -

gray flag and READY light, so it looks like it's
already opened normally.
CC We think that's a false indication and like you

to command it open, Owen.
SPT Okay.
SPT Okay, it went white, then gray, and I got a

READY light again, so I assume that I'm okay
this time. Thank you much.
CC Okay. And we 're showing it open.
SPT I don't know why your talkbacks work accurately

and the ones up here do not. I guess it's a
different piekoff point.
219 19 56 56 SPT Now the whole configuration of the active region

has changed since we looked at it on last orbit.
CC Roger.
219 19 57 30 CC And could you put the VIDEO switch to ATM i,

Owen, and give us some XUV?
SPT Okay.
CC It's your DAS, Owen, and, as far as the grating

goes on S054, Just follow the pad from here on.
SPT Thank you. And I 'm running a little bit behind

here with the little things we've been talking
about. So I'll not be able to finish as] the
scheduled building blocks here - the last part
of Baker or Charlie.
CC Okay, we're l0 seconds to LOS. WE'll see you

over the Vanguard in 22 minutes and be dumping
the tape recorders there.
Page 4 of 7 /904
SPT Is this real-time TV?
CC It's real time only over Hawaii and we'll be

getting it later.
SPT Okay, l'm giving you several XUV MON photos

as requested.
CC And we saw some of your TV of the EVA, yester-

day from Hawaii ; looked great.
219 19 58 39 SPT All right.
219 20 19 58 CC Skylab, we're A0S through the Vanguard for 9

minutes.
SPT Okay, fine, Story. We're going to complete all

of the scheduled activity on this dayside pass
and I've got about three short things for you.
First of all, I'd appreciate a new message 002
from day 07 or day of your 215. That's the
message which relates to the installation of
the S054 timer. We do have that manned now
and I'd like to go ahead and get that mapped
on the panel if you'd send me up that message
again, please. Next item for the 82A experi-
menters. Exposure 193 is going to be a nice
long one in SHORT/SHORT. I didn't move the
switch out of time for a moment there. In
fact, I locked 2 or 3 minutes, so you'll have
one long exposure on 193 before going ahead
to give you that sequence in AUTO 1. And S054
FILTER 2, I didn't catch the change to FILTER
l, so you'll still have that in FILTER 2 as it
is on the JOP _mmary sheet. And a couple of
my comments about detectors on S055 wouldn't
have made much sense now, I see, because I'd
forgotten that we'd gone to HIGH VOLTAGE,
OVERRIDE. So, therefore, the detectors did
trip off Just one at a time and it does look
like it's FILTER 5 that keeps tripping off.
It did trip off one more time and, of course,
the others kept working. I've reset 5.
219 20 21 20 CC Copy.
SPT How does ATM like the panel?

TAG Tape 219-11/T-133
Page 5 of ? /905
CC Stand by i,
SPT And we want to thank Joe Harriman and Jesse

Smith back Of - back in the ATM science room
there from NOAA for predicting this flare ac-
tivity so well today. They were right on the
money.
CC Okay, I'm sure they're reading you, Owen, and

they like your panel and they'll get another
copy of that 002 up.
SPT Thank you, Story.
219 20 23 43 CC 0wen, what information did you want from ATM

experiment checklist change number 2?
SPT I thought that change number 2 described the

installation on the X-ray spect timer. On _y
checklist I've got that little note made down
in there, and I thought if there was any in-
structions for the way in which it should be
installed, I should take a look at them again.
CC Okay, I can give them to you if you got the

thing right there.
SPT I have it in hand.
219 20 2_ 08 CC Okay, we can give it a try. Tape timer to

panel adjacent to, and right of S054 door switch.
Route timer cable vertically along panel seam
over top of the console to the left, over duct
entering console on the left, and down to utility
outlet 2 on panel 134.
SPT Okay.
CC And verify UTILITY OUTLET 2 switch is OFF.
SPT 0kay.
CC Connect timer cable to panel 134 receptacle.
SPT Go.
CC And then turn UTILITY OUTPUT POWER switch ON.

Page 6 of 7 /9.06
SPT Okay, that's fine. Thank you.
219 20 24 51 CC Okay.
CC CDR and PLT, I would like to wait here until we

get LOS prior to starting MO92/M171. We need
to dump the tape recorders.
PLT Okay, we'll hold, Story. How long's that going

to be?
CC Be 4 minutes and II seconds.
PLT Okay.
SPT Okay, we're all through with the scheduled ac-

tivity for the day on the pan - for this orbit
on the panel Story. And I did want to point out,
I took a look out at the filament on the east
limb a little while ago at the start of this
orbit, and it stands out very nicely on the
H-alpha displays.
CC Copy.
SPT Prob - probably 20 or 30 arc seconds above the

chromosphere.
CC 0kay.
219 20 27 16 SPT And I'm seeing a lot of small bright spot within
the plage agea at this time. How about asking
NOAA if they would identify any of these as
E]I erman bombs?
CC Okay.
CC And, 0wen, they say there's a - a slight sub-

flare in progress, but not an Ellerman b_nb.
SPT Okay, fair enough. I'm seeing a lot of Just

small points scattered around through the plage
that are brightening, but it - nothing like the
subflares that we had before, or the class C,
of course. And also I'm checking with my de-
tector number I intensity. I can't get intensity
counts on detector number 1. Oh, oh, I'm still
Page 7 of 7 /907
at grating intensity position 2665; that's my

reason.
CC Okay. And CDR, PLT, you're cleared to go with

M092 and M171 and check your tape recorder po-
sitions.
CC And, Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll see

you in about an hour at 21:26 over Hawaii.
219 20 28 59 CDR Roger.
END OF TAPE
Time: 219:21:00 to 219:22:30
Page 1 of 5 /909
219 21 26 46 SPT Hello, Houston.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii. Go ahead,

0wen.
SPT Hello, Bruce. I Just came back up to the panel

a few minutes ago to take another look at the
Sun here, while I was doing S063. And I'm
unable to get a picture on the tubes. Could you
check to make sure both those sync gens are not
turned on?
CC Okay, we'll check on that. Hold on, please.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We show no power on TV

bus 1. Request you standby and not change the
configuration until we can track this down a
little further. Over.
SPT Okay. I'll tell you the only thing that I did
in accordance with permanent general message
number 004. I was putting the console power
distribution switches from bus 1 down to their
bus 2 position. I did - I was doing that at night
after the last pass and that's the only panel
power reconfiguration that was done. And perhaps
this turned off the sync gen power in the process
of switching down to bus 2.
219 21 28 54 CC Okay; we copy that and we'll have an answer for

you momentarily.
SPT Okay.
PLT Bruce, are you guys doing something with the

recorders?
CC Roger, Jack. We're dumping the data voice recorder

at this time. Sorry about that.
PLT 0keydoke; I'll wait.
PLT Would you let me know when it's ready, please?
CC Roger. We'll give you a call.

TAG Tape 219-12/T-134
Page 2 of 5/910
219 21 32 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston for the SPT. We request

you stay off the DAS for a few moments here,
we're going be up-linking a command to force the
contingency momentum sample, since we believe
that the vacuum venting on M092 has upset your
normal momentum profile. Over.
SPT Very, good. I'm clear of it.
CC Hey_ Owen_ this is Houston. We're finished

commanding and we have about 3 minutes left in
this pass for your general information.
SPT Okay, any thoughts about why TV bus power went off?
CC We're still looking at it.
SPT 0kay, I'll Just stay clear of the panel until

you give me a call. I'll go back down and work
on S063 a while.
SPT I'm reasonably certain that it happened when I

switched the H-alpha bus from bus 1 to - H-ALPHA
switch from EXPERIMENT BUS 1 down to EXPERIMENT
BUS 2. There was still the TV lines showing on
the television monitor until that switch was
thrown down to bus 2. And from the corner of my
eye I noticed Just a brief flicker on the monitor
tube, and after that there was nothing visible.
That was one of the reasons I came back up. So
that's - The place to look would be on the
H-ALPHA switch when I go from BUS 1 to BUS 2.
CC Okay. Understand that you had one of the

electronic cursors showing, or you had a full
raster until that time? Over.
SPT Well, it was a full raster except, my brightness

level was very low so that I could only see it
around the edges, but it was the full raster until
I put H-ALPHA - and I'm pretty sure it was H-ALPHA
down to BUS 2.
CC Okay, thank you, Owen.
219 21 36 01 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS; next

station contact through Vanguard at 21:58 in
23 minutes. Over.
F-_- TAG Tape 219-12/T-134
Page 3 of 5"/911
219 21 58 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for the

next 7-1/2 minutes for the SPT. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce; say again, please.
cc Okay, Owen. With regard to your TV problem,

the way things are wired up, the TV monitor sync
generator switch draws its power from the H-alpha
experiment bu - sub bus. And since the switch
is in the OFF position and is taped in that
position, whenever you power the H-alpha BUS up
from a powerdown configuration, as you did by
switching the switch to experiment bus 2, you
initiate a pulse-out on the line frc_ the center
position of that switch which commands both TV
bus 1 and TV bus 2 off. We' re going to examine
and rework the procedures and permanent general
message 4 to see if we can work around this. For
the time being, you can expect that, whenever
you perform that action, you will lose the TV bus
power. I'd like you to go ahead and use the DAS
command which is 101B1, I repeat 101S1, to
reenable TV bus 1. Over.
219 21 59 56 SPT Just a moment. Okay, 101B1; 101B1 will reenable

power. And one way around this, I suppose, would
Just be to leave H-alpha 2 in the bus 2 configura-
tion permanently alset. Would you like for me to
do that until you think about it further?
CC Roger, Owen. We concur with that for the interim;

and your DAS command readback is correct. Also,
for your information, we are going to reenable
ya - reenable gyro Y-2. So you will be in a
Y-l/Y-2 with redundancy m_agement enabled
configuration. And our next station is Vanguard,
a full rev from now. And since we lack a daylight
site or rev, we're going to be in SOLAR INERTIAL
between Vanguards rather than EXPERIMENT POINTING.
Over.
219 22 01 03 SPT Okay, now, do you want to use the DAS for that
right now or am I cleared to go up and put in
the - turn on the TV bus power now?
CC We're sending that command right now. Where are

you located?
TAG Tape 219-12/T-134
Page 4 of 5 /912
SPT I'm down in the forward compartment, working on

S063 so it'll take me - oh, 15 seconds to get up
there.
CC Say, 0wen, we don't need you to turn TV bus 1 on

any particular time. You may do that at your
convenience and also the H-alpha switch to bus 2
at your convenience. Over.
SPT Okay, I'd Just like to get them out of the way.
So I'll go up now and get the H-alpha to bus 2
first, and then put in the DAS command.
219 22 01 51 CC Okay, O_en, we're not quite finished. Give us a

call when you get to the ATM and we'll give you
our status.
SPT Okay.
SPT Okay, I'm up at the ATM panel now, and haven't

put H-alpha into bus 2.
CC Okay, and the DAS is yours ; you can command

TV bus 1 back on, i0131. Over.
219 22 02 49 SPT 10131 is entered in.
CC Okay, and telemetry shows TV bus 1 to have been

reenergized.
SPT Thank you very much, Bruce.
CC Roger; thank you. You daught us on that one.
SPT I don't know how anyone would ever have guessed

that that's the way it's wired up. But anyway,
it's - Just glad to have some fellows in the
back room there who can figure it out. And I
Just see the TV come back on now on the screen.
And for the moment, I'm going to put a piece of
tape across that H-ALPHA EXPERIMENT BUS switch,
so we' ll permanently leave that down in BUS 2.
CC Okay, if you got something other than red tape,

you might make it gray tape or something.
SPT They're all gray tape on the ATM panel at the

moment.
Page 5 of 5 /913
CC Okay.
SPT Maybe I ought to mA_e them red though, over on

those power, switches and the sync rood switch but
they're gray at the moment.
CC Yes, you guys might think - Well, whatever is

most convenient for you all; you're up there.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We have a little over

1 minute until LOS Vanguard. Next contact is
Vanguard in an hour and a half. One thing we'd
like to check on some time this evening, we'd
like to insure that you get pressure suit number 2
drying co_enced, at your convenience. And also
the LCGs should have been hung out to dry rather
then being trashed. We show that the location
in the EVA Checklist - D-42_ is wrong; it should
be D-_22. Your EVA postcue card has the correct
data on it. Over.
SPT Okay, the LCGs are out hanging to dry right now
and I'll make sure we're started on the second
suit.
219 22 06 09 CC Okay, th_nk you, Owen.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 219-13/T-135
Time: 219:22:30 to 220:00:00
Page i of 7/915
219 23 36 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for

l0 minutes. Out.
CDR How you doing, Bruce?
CC Oh, not a great deal for you, Alan. I was Just

checkingin for a 9-minutepass. I guess you all
are eating supper about now.
CDR Well, I'm eating and Owen's upstairs fixing S063

and Jack's up in the forward - up in the MDA,
I guess it is, doing some last-minute thing there.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR We had a little problem with this Nikon. We've

got a brand new Nikon up there and we were loading
it; we had trouble loading it the other night and
finally got it loaded with visible. Now we're
loading it with this dim-light stuff. We finally
Just gave up and took out the film and looked
inside, and on the bottom - you know, this bottom
part that engages the little buttons and causes
the inner cam to rotate?
CC Yes, I do. Open the cas - yes, that's the cassette-

opening mechanism.
219 23 37 h9 CDR At the back of the cassette-opening mechanism was

some epoxy that had dropped in there, so it wasn't
allowing the - the film - film cassette to seat
well enough. It seated well enough to - to look
like it was in there, but it Just wasn't enough to
rotate because then it would push it against
the lens, you know. So we scraped it out with the
ole' pocket knife and it works like a charm now.
I don't know how it could get epoxy in there. At
least it looked like epoxy.
CC Okay. I understand you fixed it with Swiss A_:my

knife serial numbers 001 or something like that.
CDR That's about it. Have them put it under the ole'
housekeeping pad. Say, let me mention a couple of
TAG Tape 219-13/T-135
Page 2 of 7/916
things about the housekeeping pads. I did this -

I don't have my book wlth me but the - I mean it
was 4C. The - the only ones that you ever clean
in here are.in the other - in the - Dock Hudson
ought to rewrite those procedures. You clean
the screens in the waste compartment. But you
don't turn off the fan when you do it, because,
if you do, all the stuff falls out. So you leave
the fan running and clean that one. You clean
the big screen up on the top of the dome because
it collects most everything up there. And then
you clean the little screens that are with the -
the - the fans in the MDA - the individuals [sic]
ones, you know, like the one that blows in the -
in the CSM? And there's two other [sic] little
individual ones. Now, the ones that go into
the MDA heat exchanger, whatever the name of that
is exactly, and the ones that go into the OWS
aft heat exchanger - the mesh is so big that it
never catches anything there. So those should
Just be removed from the cleaning. And then
you'd end up with three categories, at least in
that - in that group: the head, the main screen
in the dome, and then there's the little screens
up in the MDA on those three fans up there.
219 2B B9 44 CC Okay. We copy that. And I guess you - you do

wind up with debris in the solids traps when you
change them out. Is that correct?
CDR Yes. Those are - those are a different housekeeping

number. You sure do.
CC Roger. I understand.
CDR And I - I'm thinking only of this - those parti-

cular cleaning tasks that I had today. Some of
them could be removed from the checklist. They
just don't - they're not real.
CC Okay. We copy. Thank you.
219 23 40 17 CC And for the PLT, if it's convenient. We have two

small tasks for you. Over.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.

"-" TAG Tape 219-13/T-135
Page 3 of 7/917.
CC Okay, Jack. Panel 207, we'd like to reenable the

following CAUTION and WARNING INHIBIT switches:
SIEVE A GAS FLOW, SIEVE B GAS FLOW and SIEVE A
PPCO 2. I'll run that by again. That's SIEVE A
GAS FLOW, B GAS FLOW, and A PARTIAL PRESSURE CO 2 .

Over.
! PLT Okay, that's done. What's next?

1
CC Okay. On panel 206, on your REG ADJUST BUS 2
pot - that's the - the big knob, I believe. We
want you to adjust it clockwise approximately
20 degrees, until the BUS AMP PCG TOTAL 2 cur-
rent increases by lO amperes. This is for BUS 2
only. Over.
219 23 41 26 PLT Okay. I increased it from 30 to 40 amps on the

PCG TOTAL 2 and that moved the dial from 2:30 to
3 o'clock.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC And for - for the information of the SPT, we're

going to reenable EXPERIMENT POINTING during
this pass.
CDR He heard you and said, "Okay, thank you for the
information." As soon as I finish eating, I'm
going to go up and run that PPO 2 troubleshooting
procedure. And I'll probably be giving you a
call in after not after too many more passes
with whatever occurred as. a result of it.
CC Okay. We'll be standing by. Just for your

information, the pass at 01:13, which is third
pass from now, will be the evening status report
and fireside chat.
219 23 42 30 CDR Okay. Thanks, Bruce. How long is that from now,
you say - time?
CC It's about an hour and a half. It's the next

time over Vanguard, which we're over now.
CDR Good enough. We'll sure be ready.
219 23 44 28 CDR I'd like to pass some information to the flight

planners if I can, Bruce. Namely that Owen is
still working on 63 and he hasn't had a chance to
TAG Tape 219-13/T-135
P_e h of 7/ 918
eat yet nor do his PT. He's got an ATM pass

coming up here, and he's going to do that. And
then he's going to eat and PT, but I guess - I
guess it's a plea. The first time we do any of
these things like S063 or anything else for the
first time -we talked about this, but they're
never -we're never able to complete it the first
time on time. Once we've done it once and found
all the parts, then it's okay, we can fiddle with
those squares but, boy, you Just can't do it the
first time. You Just have to hunt all over for
things.
CC Okay. We copy that, Alan. And do you have any

feel for percentage increase or anything like
that? We have a hard time keeping track of exactly
how much time you've spent on something on board.
Over.
219 23 45 22 CDR That's true and that's our fault. We don't always
keep you informed. My guess is before we
launched, it was something like 30 percent. My
guess right now, the first time you do anything,
you ought to have closer to a hundred percent more
time. And then once you've done it, it can go
right then immediately back to the - whatever
the canned number is. In fact, I think one of
the mistakes that we made on planning our flight,
as it's going at the moment, is asking them to
start us out like Pete was on day 16. The thing
that - that we ought to realize, and I realize
it a lot now, is that by day 16, we'll be going
like nobody's business up. here. But you sure
can't pull that off on day 2, 3, or 4, because
you Just don't - You lose things, you don't know
where to stand, and you don't even know where
your triangle shoes are, they're not adjusted
right, and there's a million things that come into
play at the same time you're trying to do an
experiment that, you know, that - that delay the
experiment. And after you've done it once, you've
located them all, you've spent 30 minutes trying
to get your triangle shoes adjusted off and on,
you know. And finally you get them right and
then you quit fooling with it. But when you
first get up here, all that stuff is - -
CC Break, break. Okay, we've got 9 seconds to LOS,

Al. We'll he dumping your tape recorder over the
f" TAG Tape 219-13/T-135
Page 5 of 7 /919
next site, which is Ascension. A0S Ascension

in 5 minutes at 49:25. We can continue there,
if you like.
CDR Okay, Just talking. Bye.
219 23 _6 45 CC Roger. Sorry about that.
219 23 49 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension. We've

got you here for the next i0 minutes and standing
by.
CDR Let's talk a little bit more about what we were

talking about a second ago. It sort of turned
out - that because you don't have any morning and
noon and evening up here, you - you - in fact,
you're really sort of isolated - you can end up,
you know, around lunchtime you Just keep working
because you want to finish something. And then
about 3 hours later, you suddenly discover it's
3 o'clock or 3:30 and you haven't even eaten
lunch yet. Same thing with dinner, and it - it
really fouls up your digestion and fouls up the -
these medical experiments. So you really -
What l've found out had - has occurred a little
bit, is, except for some sort of emergency,
that the two things that are holding the highest
priority are excercise and eating on time
(laughter). And - and all the time the Flight
Plans don't fit it. Now if you've got a EREP pass,
you go ahead and make it, but the minute it's
over and you shut the equipment down, before
you unload it or anything else, if it's past
mealtime you run and eat. Because you've got
to get that noon meal in around noontime. You've
got more than enough work to work straight
through until - until sleep and never eat. And
if you don't watch yourself, you will. We did
the first 3 or 4 days. We were eating at crazy
hours and all sorts of things, and it really is
something that you got to watch very closely, I
think. And now, we're trying to eat meals kind of
on time, at least between 12:00 and i:00 or
6:00 and 7:00. Just find a break point and Just
break and eat, and then when you've finished
eating, go back where you were and get on it
again. But whatever you do, don't miss the three.
TAG Tape 219-13/T-135
Page 6 of 7/920
And then somehow getting in some exercise before

you go to sleep. And if those things are out of
•the way, then the rest of the time we've been
using has strictly been doing experiments or,
you know, cleaning house or something.
219 23 51 20 CDR The living up here has been a lot different than
I personally imagined it. It's - one, it's a lot
more fun, but there's Just a lot more housekeeping
to do. You end up with all sorts of cans. You
know this can place that we put all the empty
cans? We end up emptying all six of those cans
once a day, Bruce. And, I guess, in my mind, I
thought we were going to do it about once every
3 or 4 days. And you've got about four or five
bags of trash every day. It's just fantastic
the total amount of housekeeping you do. Makes
you appreciate your wife.
CC Roger, Alan. We copied all that and we'll pass

that on. You know, we got somewhat the same
problem down here. We can't see the sunshine
from outside the Control Center either. So we
occasionally send somebody outside to see if
it's daylight out. Over.
219 23 52 i0 CDR That's right. And I suspect if you're not

careful, you can get your meal schedules fouled
up and then you - you know, then it just doesn't
work right. You got to have something kind of
timed so that the rest of it falls in place.
CDR I tell you another interesting thing. I think -

I think I personally had more fun on this thing
than the lunar mission. It's been a lot more
fun. You're - you do things repetitively, and
flying around inside this workshop is - is really
a ball. The command module zero g is okay. But
there nowhere to go, and you can't zoom along.
Here, when you can zoom 40 feet, you know, and
that's what you do normally, like when we were
EVA prepping the other day. It - it's quite
fascinating. And you get now where you don't -
you don't ever go by handhold anywhere. You always
grab and push off or kick off, or something like
that. And you don't try to be too accurate, I've
noticed. You just tend to head in that direction
and then, if you don't quite make it, you just
TAG Tape 219-13/T-135
Page 7 of 7 /921
kind of ricochet off. You don't bump into it but

you use your hands or your feet to kind of give
you a midcourse correction or two. And so you
end up headed towards - head first sometimes and
then feet first and then by the time - by the time
you get there you kind of belly towards it. And
it seems to be very natural and it's a lot more
fun, because you can sort of utilize all the space
that's here - the whole three dimensions. You
can cover and go to the top of the water tanks
and then down to the wardroom and then back up to
the MDA all in Just a matter of, you know, 20 sec-
onds. And it's easy and a lot of fun to do.
219 23 53 49 CC Roger; we copy that, A1. And it's really great

to hear you guys talking like that as opposed to
the way you were feeling a few days ago. Looks
like we got a real fine mission coming up.
CDR Yes, we think so. We were feeling awful poor for

about 3 days here. But we knew that it was bound
to get over with, and it did. And, yes, we're -
we're having a ball. Okay, I got to get back
to work.
CC Roger; out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 2 minutes to LOS.

We have completed dumping your voice data tape
recorder. Next station contact is through
Guam at 00:3_ in approximately 36 minutes. Out.
CDR See you later then, Bruce.
219 23 58 07 CC Roger; Roger.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 220-01/T-136
Time: 220:00:00 to 220:01:30
Page i of 9/923
220 00 34 15 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 9 minutes.

Out.
PLT What are you guys doing to my spacecraft?
CC You tell us and we'll try and answer your ques-

tion. Over.
PLT Sorry, Bruce, I meant to be asking AI. I Just

got the wrong button.
CDR Okay, Bruce, let me tell you the results of this

troubleshooting on the PPO2 sensor.
CC Fire away, we're listening.
220 00 35 03 CDR Okay, question i: Visually inspect sensor recep-

tacle, using flashlight for bent connectors, pins,
or damaged metal connector ... Everything looks
good on both the sensor and in the little recep-
tacle, l've used more than one sensor to make
sure it wasn't the sensor problem and none of
the sensors will rotate in that particular posi-
tion 2. Okay, n,,mber2 is self explanatory.
Number 3: It works in the unrotated position.
I do notice, however, sensor i shows 3.6 is the
partial pressure; 2 and 3 show 3.4. Four: If
sensor functions properly, leave in place. Tape
in place if required; record sensor serial number.
Now I can do that; no trouble. It says, if
sensor 2 does not function properly, panel 225 _2"
N2 control system, MONITOR switch 3. Now the
MONITOR has been in CONTROL I, MONITOR 3, since we
had the problem and that's where it is now. Do you
want me to return it to 2 even though this is a little
unusual?
220 00 36 19 CC Okay, we're working. I'ii be right back to you.
SPT Hello, Bruce - -
CC Hey, AI, answering your question - that's affirma-

tive. We'd like to be sensor i CONTROL, sensor 2
MONITOR, over.
TAG Tape 2_0-01/T-136
Page 2 of 9/_24
CDR Okay. Go ahead, 0wen.
220 00 36 42 SPT Some information for the ATM people: I came up

here on the panel, I guess about - oh, well -
20 minutes ago, and took a look at active region_85
again as soon as we came around on the sunny
side. And the configuration again has been
changed with the one dark spot nearest the west
edge and then three trailing spots off to the
west - or off to the east rather. And there were
a number of bright points scattered around, partic-
ularly the centers of those three trailing
spots. In sweeping over them with detector
number 3 on S055, there was extremely large contrast,
whereas the count was like i00 off the bright point,
it was as high as 5000 Just a few arc seconds away
on top of the bright point. So I interpret these
very small points as Ellerman bombs; if they
weren't, I'd appreciate them telling me what they
are. And I proceeded to take some data on them.
What I did first was a couple of MIRROR LINE SCANS
for 55 across this bright spot and they can see
the contrast there. Then ran a GRATING AUTO SCAN
and then an abbre - abbreviated MIRROR AUTO RASTER
to cover the entire region there. At the same
time I took _e frame of 82B, number 1520, 2.40 -
2-minute 40-second SHORT WAVELENGTH exposure for
82B. So I think they might find that data quite
interesting and I'd appreciate hearing their com-
ments about it after they've had the time to look
it over. Now the other thing - -
220 00 38 09 CC Okay, Owen, we'll relay lhat to them and did you
have anything further on the 02 system, Al?
CDR Isn't that important. What I did was change sensor

from 3 to 2 to see if it still indicated 3.6 there
and it does. So I'm going to go ahead and put
sensor - I mean, let me tell you, I'm going to
rearrange these sensors, and then I'll tell you
which is in where, by serial n11m_er. Just a
second.
CC Okay, Owen, while Al's working those serial num-

bers, if you want to continue, we're all ears down
here.
TAG Tape 220-011T-136
Page 3 of 91925
220 00 38 53 SPT No, the only other thing that I had in mind was
letting them know that I'm out on the standard
filament 23 working the program JOP at this point.
CC Roger; we copy.
CDR Okay, now this - I'm swapping these around, so

there's going to be a change or two from what I
gave you the other day when we did it. Sensor 1
is going to be number M0-31.
CC Roger.
CDR Sensor 2 is going to be n1,mher 39.
CC Say again the number please, and for the ATM

operator, we have a Y-2 gyro factor ready to
come up if you'd stay off the DAS for a minute,
please.
220 00 39 50 SPT We'll be clear.
CDR Okay, number 2 is going to be serial n,_mher 39.
CC Roger.
CDR And number 3 will be serial n_mher 50.
CC Okay; we copy.
220 00 40 04 CDR And for the fellows - EGIL, who's familiar with
how these look - they - on the end, it faces
outbound - outward where the - I assume the
oxygen ascends, there's a little plastic X or
cross that sort of protects it. When I inserted
number 50 the other day, I broke the little
cross. It didn't appear to have any effect on the
sensor's ability to sensor 02 or anything like
that. How - and I put it in 2 then because 2
wasn't being used. What I did now is I'm moving
it to 3 since it doesn't like we're using 3 at
the moment, but it looked to me like it functioned
completely normal - normally.
CC Roger; we copy, A1.

TAG Tape 220-01/T-136
Page h of 9/926
220 00 41 lO CC Okay, Skylab, Houston. We're through with the

load for Y-2; the DAS is yours again. We have
2 minutes until LOS at Guam. Next station is the
Vanguard at 1 plus 13 where we will be expecting
the evening status report, over.
220 00 41 28 CDR Roger.
220 O1 13 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for

approximately lO-1/2 minutes. Standing by for
the evening status report. Over.
CDR Okay, here it comes. Urine volume: - -
SPT ... JOP ...
CDR CDR, 102, and 050, 140 - -
SPT - - so - -
CDR Drinking water gun reading: 4754, 7860, 5669.
SPT - - I did the - -
CDR - - BNMD readings: 6.236, 6.239, 6.237; 5.962 - -
CC Skylab, this is Houston..
CDR - - 5.962, 5.961 - -
SPT Stand by.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston.
CDR - - 6.962, 6.956, 6.955.
SPT Say, A1, they're trying to interrupt.
220 01 14 39 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Two of you are talking

at once. Somebody's got a key button taped down.
Can you go over and pick up again after the
drinking water gun readings?
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Did you copy, we were

getting two of you transmitting at once? Sounds
like someone has a button taped down. Can you
pick up again with the CDR body mass measurement
readings? Over.
TAG Tape 220-01/T-136
Page 5 of 91927
CDR Okay, Just a second. We're going to try to work

out the co-,, thing here for you, Bruce. Just a
second.
CDR Okay, here goes the BMMD again, Bruce.
CC Go.
220 O1 15 38 CDR 6.236, 6.239, 6.237; 5.962, 5.962, 5.961; 6.962,

6.956, 6.955. Exercise: So far we've got a couple
of 171's, one on me, one on Jack, and you know
the protocol there. Nobody else has exercised.
Now let me give you a couple of other things that
Jack's done so far. He's over there exercising
right now. Here it is_ 2125/5000, and that
includes the 171 work. Next, 3/20 mark l, and
here's our mark 1 for you; 50 A's, 20 D's,
20 B's, and 20 backbends. Medications: none.
And here's the sleep: 4-1/2/ G to F. That's
for the CDR. SPT is 6-1121G; PLT, 6/G. And
comes the food log: CDR, three salts, and the
only deviation was to add a strawberry drink.
SPT, only deviation was to add the coffee. And
PLT, omit the bread and tuna and add two apple
drinks. Here comes the photo log.
CC Stand by on the photo. Go ahead.
220 01 17 33 CDR Okay, photo log: M51 - this is 16-millimeter -

M516-1, CI39, 00, CI13; M_87-hE, CI18, 00, CI17.
MI51/M092/I71, CI24, 00, CIl9.
CC Roger, we got all that.
220 Ol 18 ii CDR Okay, 35-millimeter: CX28, 17; 70-millimeter:

CXII, 076. No ETC today, nor EREP. Drawer A
configuration as follows: 02, CI2h, 00, CIl9;
03, cIIS, 00, CII7; 06, CI39, 00, CII3; 05, CI41,
19 - that is - say it right, let me do it again.
05, CI41, 99, CI16. And then at the back we had
07, CI_O, 95, CI09.
CC Okay, we got all that, AI.
220 01 19 i0 CDR Okay, here comes - Flight Plan looks real good
for us tomorrow; we're going to be ready to get
that EREP. Everything else is copacetic.
Looks like we have some exercise planned that we
TAG Tape 220-01/T-136
Page 6 of 9/928
can make tomorrow too and that's good. I want to

tell you what the sensors are again so that we
don't get too fouled up. 02 sensors: In 1 is
31, in 2 is_ 50, and then B is 39. Now I thought
about running the 02 sensor verification test,
that's housekeeping 60 or 70 or something like
that, but I did not because I wanted to check
with you. Seems like that might be rather a
propitious thing to do under the circ_m_tances,
but I'll Just wait until you decide for me to
do it or not.
CC Okay, we copy 1B1, 250, B39. This is different

from what you voiced down to us last time. Over.
220 O1 20 02 CDR That's right. I rearranged it so we had the two

that agreed the closest on 1 and 2 because that's
the ones we're going to use.
CC Okay, we've got 4 minutes until LOS and if you're

through with the status items we have some questions
for you.
CDR Let me give you a couple more. The shopping

list accomplished today: one was the teleprinter
changeout was performed. Inoperable equipment
was the teleprinter. Lunch schedule stowage item
changes were three strawberry drinks, from 550
to drink it.
CC Roger.
CDR Go ahead now - go ahead.
220 01 20 42 CC Okay, first question concerns the teleprinter.

And what we'll like to try to do is find out a
little more about the failure mode. The rubber
grommet, which is the drive grommet for the
cartridge, is mounted on a bushing, which in turn
is mounted by set screws on the drive shaft. The
rubber is mated to the busing via a serrated edge
and is also glued to it. I guess the questions -
there are three of them really - 1 guess it's -
one of these is - it's one of the above type
s ituat ions.
TAG Tape 220-01/T-136
Page 8 of 9/930
CDR I'd have to go up and look for that one for you,
Bruc e.
CC Okay.
CDR I'll look and tell you later.
CC Right. Don't go - -
CDR My guess is about half of them. And it seems

to me that we opened a new one to work on the
teleprinter - I mean not the teleprinter, but the
EREP tape, and they had dry ones in it but let
me go work the problem a little bit.
220 01 23 45 CC Hey, don't go look at it Just now, A1. We've got

about B0 seconds to LOS. Next station is
Ascension with an AOS 6-1/2 minutes from now.
What we'd like you to do when you do look at it,
is see if - okay, the reported dry squabs - swabs,
are they from the large 6 by lO metal foil pouch
previously opened on SL-2, or from the ones
that you opened on this mission? And I guess
if you opened more than one package, the answer
to that would have to be yes. And do the swabs
become dirty when you're attempting to clean
the ... bench rollers with them even though
they are dry? Over.
220 01 24 18 CDR The answer to the last question is they become

a little bit dirty, but you have the feeling
that you're Just rubbing them with dry swabs
where if you had some nice material in the
swab you could do a much better Job of cleaning.
CC Okay, we'll see you over Ascension.
220 01 24 B7 CDR You bet.
220 01 30 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension and

Canary for 14-1/2 minutes. How do you read?
Over.
CDR Read you Just real well. Now here's the answer
to the question. I went up there and there
was one pouch open. There were two pouches
closed. The one we've been using, according
TAG Tape 220-01/T-136
Page 7 of 9/929
CC Is the rubber bushing itself loose from its bush-

ing? Or is the bushing with the rubber attached
to it loose on the shaft so it can slide on the
shaft? Or is the shaft itself loose so that it
is moving from side to side within the teleprinter
mechanism?Over.
220 01 21 32 CDR The rubber bushing has come loose from its serrated
whatever-you-call-it. In other words, the
rubber itself looks like the glue broke free,
or wore out, and then the rubber bushing Just
moved off this serrated edge. Now we pushed it
back on the serrated edge and it worked for about
half a pad, but then it Just unwound again and
ran into the case itself.
CC Okay, realizing that you probably don't have

anything on board to do the Job, if you could
glue it would that be a fix? That is, that the
proper mechanism to address? Over.
CDR I would say that's exactly right. We moved it

on - It looks like if we could have glued it
on and let it dry real good it would have worked.
But you're right, no glue, at the moment.
CC Okay, I was Just trying to make sure that we were

talking the same language here. For the PLT,
it was stated that he had noted in his checklist
the adjustments he made during the thermal
alignment on S192. When he has a moment and is
off the bike and everything, we'd like you to
record this information .on channel B so we can
retrieve it later.
220 01 22 43 CDR Okay, we'll have him record that, Bruce. And I
think he heard it. I'll go tell him if he didn't.
And the next thing - Owen, and I don't think it
was all in fun, said shed [sic] that material
that he has that he puts on his sleep cap, because
that acts like glue in his hair. And it may be
that stuff is pretty good glue.
CC Okay. We'll check it for you. In reference to

the dry swabs. The four large 6 by l0 metal
foil outer patches each containing - pouches
each containing 25 prepackaged swabs - were
launched on SL-2. How many of these large packages
are still unopened? Over.
i_ TAG Tape 220-01/T-136
Page 9 of 9 /931
to Jack Lousma, were the pouches that had been

opened before. However, each individ,,al swab
is sealed so I opened one of the other two
pack - other two bags, opened the swab in
there and found them to have some moisture on
them. I don't know how much they should have
but these are slightly moist; not very, though.
220 01 31 07 CC Roger, A1, we copy and was the cleaning of the

tape recorder accomplished strictly with dry
swabs or did you have some moist ones and in
conjunction with that, do you feel that it's
satisfactorily clean for the EREP pass tomorrow?
Over.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 220-021T-137
_- Time: 220:01:30 to 220:03:00
Page i of 12/933
220 01 31 25 CDR Answer to that, it is satisfactorily cleaned. We

used much more swabs and elbow grease than we nor-
mally thought we should, that's why we cn-..ented
about the swabs. However, tomorrow before we run
the thing - I think Jack has a tape load tonight
or maybe tomorrow and we'll give it another cleaning.
CC Okay.
PLT ... already -
CDR Is it nice and clean, Jack?
PLT Yes.
CDR Okay. I guess you heard that, Bruce.
220 01 31 59 CC Roger. We copied Jack saying yes on cue. And I

guess in the future if you've located some that are
at least slightly moist, why you can use them until
we m_e up our mind what to do about other procedures
to help you out. Over.
CDR All right.
CC And another - -
PLT ... so far I've found that the ones in the Beta
pouches that were launched are wetter than the ones
that were brought up later.
220 01 32 27 CC Roger. And for Jack, what was the nature of the
difficulty - was it mechanical or procedural with
the OWS forward hatch during yesterday's EVA? And
how did you solve the problem? Over.
PLT It was - it was not mechanical and we solved the

problem procedurally - the hatch is in good shape.
CC Okay. We copy. And -
CDR About ready to proceed - -
220 01 32 51 CDR Say, Bruce, I got a little ahead on the procedures

TAG Tape 220-021T-137
Page 2 of 12 193h
and I read it to him out of step, which caused him

to get those handle sequences out of step. I then
went to the procedure that you use when you finish
EVA. We put it in the configuration it should
have been a_ter EVA and then we went back to where
we were and went through it properly. So he was
following my instructions, I Just got them out of
order.
220 01 33 13 CC Okay; we copy. We Just wanted to make sure there

wasn't some sort of mechanical hangup that we
ought to get cracking on developing a workaround
for, from down here. And another couple of questions,
this time on corollaries. What is the status of
the M509 battery number 7 check and did you complete
509 bottle topoff today? Over.
PLT The M509 battery check was positive and that was
put on the tape recorder last night. And the only
other item that I was ab - unable to get accomplished
today was the 509 battery topoff, and so you're
going to have to plan it tomorrow or some other
time.
220 01 33 50 CC Okay, we'll do that. That's not a time critical

item. And for the SPT, have you operated the
Polaroid c_mera and the persistent image scope? If
so, would you co_,_ent on their usefulness - break,
break. We got 30 seconds to handover, so why don't
you hold your answer until I call you through Canary.
Over.
SPT The answer is negative. Not yet. That'll take

care of it.
CC Okay. We got it.
CC And after handover I got some questions on the pole

operation.
220 01 34 21 CDR Okay. We'll be here.
220 01 34 47 CC Okay, here we are back again through Canary Islands.

It says a relative distance - relative to the 22-foot
diameter of the OWS. Would you estimate the distance
between the pole tips at the leading edge, i.e., the
aft 0WS end of the sail. Over.
_ TAG Tape 220-02/T-137
Page 3 of 12 /935
PLT Now, say that question again. What points do you

wa_t to have estimated, Bruce?
CC Okay. In relation to the 22-foot d_=meter of the

workshop, how far apart are the pole tips at the
far end, that is, near back toward the refrigeration
system radiator? Over.
220 01 35 29 PLT I'd say they're 20 to 22 feet. I couldn't detect

any bend in the red pole and the right pole might
have had a slight bend in it, but it was almost
imperceptible, particularly since the pole was also
bent in the longitudinal direction to hold it down
against the workshop.
CC Okay. So you figure they're about the distance,

equivalent to the diameter of the workshop, apart,
out there. Is that correct?
CDR That's affirm.
CC Okay. Do the reefing lines keep the sails spread

out at the trailing edge, that is the edge up toward
the ATM, satisfactorily? Over.
PLT Yes, it looked like to me that the reefing lines

spread it but it could have stood some more spreading
if we could have got them out at some point that
was wider. Wider in diameter.
220 01 36 26 SPT Just a second, Bruce. Jack could I refresh your

memory or ask you again? Seems like when we were
out there you were commenting about the fact that
there was a little more of the parasol showing up
at the 0WS end than there was up by the airlock
module end. And if that is so, then it would mean
that it was probably not quite a workshop diameter.
Do you remember that?
CC Okay. We copy that down here on the ground. Another

question, were the reefing lines cinched up so that
some tension remained in the lines? This should
tend to spread the pole tips apart if they were
bowed together. Over.
TAG Tape 220-021T-137
Page 4 of 12 /936
220 01 37 07 PLT Yes. We cinched them up tight as we could get them

at the time, Bruce.
CC Okay. And that left some tension in them. Did the

sail appear to be sy,_trical about the center line
of the workshop as you looked down it? Over.
PLT I thought it did. The parasol was a little catty-

wampus underneath it. It appeared to me that the
parasol was Just a little bit wider - covered a
little wider area than the sail did and that on the
leading edges, on my left as I was looking aft, you
could see about 2 to 3 feet of the parasol extending
beyond the sail. And on the right side, on the
leading edge, it appeared to be about even. On the
trailing edge the sail overhung the parasol about
a foot or 2 on the right side and on She left side
trailing edge, the parasol seemed to underhang the -
the - or extend beyond the sail i to 2 feet. Maybe
Owen's got some more numbers on that.
220 O1 38 25 CC Okay. We copy that. To what extent did the poles

have a tendency to cone when you were handling the
55-foot length and also when you were trying to
insert them into the base plate? How did that go?
Over.
PLT I didn't notice any coning at all and they went in

very smoothly. It was just like sticking a broom-
stick down in a hole.
CC Okay, great. Could you compare the dynamics in

handling of the poles in zero g with the test setup
you observed in Huntsville with the poles suspended
on strings? Over.
220 O1 39 O1 PLT I thought the demonstration at the - at the Marshall

on - in that regard was very worth while. Although
we put a lot more dynamics into the pole there in
that test than we ever got in the - in the pole up
here. And Owen was watching the pole - was able to
see it better as it was moving than I was, so he's
probably got some comments on that.
TAG Tape 220-02/T-137
iPage 5 of 12 /937
SPT Act_3-11y, the pole dynAmiCS did not get out of hand
by any means at all. Jack was very slow and very
careful so there was never any appearance of any
large angle coning. It was clear that he could
have done so if he had wanted to. But he was being
careful to avoid it, and what there was, he could
easily damp by Just holding his hand rigid and that
damped out the energy in the pole very quickly.
220 01 39 42 PLT I think it's also noteworthy to point out that when
we lowered the sail down on the parasol, that part
on the leading edge of the parasol that was blooming
up and not covering the workshop, came down and
forward so it exactly covered the - the foil -
as if it - as its original intent was.
CC Okay, we copy that. That winds up the evening

questions. Standing by for any comments from you
or I have a news suw,,ary I could read up to you
in the _-i/2 minutes r_,Aining at Madrid. The
next following station, I'ii update you again on
this, is Guam for your private medical conference.
Over.
220 01 40 27 CDR Okay. We understand, Bruce. Let me give you one

other tidbit. You sent up a message today and
wanted to _now how we liked the handlebars on the
bike.
CC Yes, sir.
CDR The answer is, we like them real well. The reason
is it allows you to position your body relative
to the pedals any way you want. You can lean
forward and pedal for a while ; you can lean back
and pedal for a while. If you want to pull up
tight you can move into a position where you
keep your arms slightly bent. If you want to
extend them, you can move to another position.
Probably - the thing though is - we've been using
a wire tray on the ceiling for a headrest - with -
putting some pads between our head and that head-
rest, without those arm extenders, that would not
be possible - or it would be possible but not
nearly so convenient. So all in all, I think
we've got the riding - the - bike problem
f licked. We haven't had a bit of trouble riding it.
TAG Tape 220-02/T-137
Page 6 of 12 /938
We ride it and sometimes we ride it without hands

and so - I think they can quit worrying about
that one.
220 01 41 32 CC Okay. We copy your comments and I guess you'd

permit us to say that's using the old head.
Over.
CDR The old what did you ...
CC Say again.
CC You ready for the news?
CDR Go ahead.
220 01 41 50 CC Okay. Cost of living council has _nnounced that

Phase IV plans will allow small companies
to boost prices about a month before major firms.
Break. A "don't-buy-anything-day" boyscot -
boycott sponsored by several consumer groups is
floundering. In the beef department the problem
is simple, there isn't much to buy. Break. The
first phase in the Watergate hearings ended today.
The committee will resume hearing testimony some-
time in September. Break. The Justice Department
is investigating major oil companies who own dis-
count stations that compete directly with indepen-
dent operators. Scientists report success with
the first implanted heart pacemakers that can be
recharged weekly through the skin. The recharge-
able device is the result, in part, of the space-
related technology. I gu.ess that was a commercial.
The Agriculture Department reported that the retail
food prices could average 20 percent higher this
year than in 1972. Federal Power Commission
issued a new rate schedule today that will more
than double the price of natural gas produced in
the Permian Basin. And wheat prices have moved
above $_.00 a bushel for the first time in the
history of the Chicago Board of Trade ; that's
a 150-year history.
220 01 42 59 CC The Commerce Department announced that more than

half of the 1973-7_ U.S. wheat crop has already
been sold for shipment abroad. At Stanford,
California, a control experiment showed that
children who took massive doses of vitamin C
TAG Tape 220-02/T-137
Page 7 of 12/939
experience significantly less illness than fellow

students who took fake pills. And then an item
for Jack, the Friendswood City Council passed a
special resolution late Monday which will allow
him to vote in the connunity's $400;000 water,
sewage, drainage system, and park land resolution.
Dr. Kraft will forward your vote to Mayor Ralph
Lowe and a notarized statement on receiving it
from you over air-to-ground. The City of Houston
still has most of its revenue sharing money
from the U.S. Governm_ut. Only 2.3 million dollars
of nearly 19 million has been spent. In Taylor
Lake, approximately six million fish appear to have
been killed. This may have been caused by a
chemical spill, which may have killed algae
resulting in reduced oxygen in the lake water.
220 01 44 01 CC Spring Valley residents in Harris County are

promised that a flood control project will be
launched soon. And Harris County and l0 more are
eligible for unemployment assistance. In Monday
night 's proexhibition baseball game, the San
Fransisco Forty-niners beat the Cleveland Browns -
excuse me - proexhibition game, the San Fransisco
Forty-niners beat the Cleveland Browns 27 to 16.
The United States won their round with Chile in
the Davis Cup zone finals. In the longest set in
Davis Cup match history, Stan Smith and Eric
Vandella won 39 to 37. The record-breaking set
took 3 hours and 43 minutes. Break. Six new
names have been added to the Baseball Hall of
Fame and they are: Warren Spahn, Roberto Clemente,
Monte Irvin, George Kelly, and Mickey Welch.
Umpire Billy Evans was also inducted into the Hall
of Fame. BasebA]] last night, the Astros beat
the Cincinnati Reds by 5 to 4. The Houston club
is 13-1/2 game.s off base, and leading the division
are the Los Angeles Dodgers. We've got 12 seconds
to LOS. Next station is Guam for your private
medical conference at 2 plus ll. Over.
220 01 45 ll CDR What's the space news?
CC You guys are still up there and feeling a lot

better and everything is coming along tickiboo
as Pete would say.
220 01 45 30 CC 25 minutes to AOS.

TAG Tape 220-02/T-137
Page 8 of 12 /gh0
220 02 17 58 CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
SPY Read you okay, Bruce. We couldn't get the

56 door open again.
220 02 18 08 CC Okay, we copy. One thing we'd like you to do is

we're showing a possible leak through the M092
vent valve. We're showing decrease in CLUSTER
PRESSURE and PPO_. We'd like you to check that.
We have about 252seconds to LOS. The ATM TV
down-link that we were expecting to receive over
this site was not coming down, apparently
because you have the switch in OWS instead of
ATM.
220 02 18 34 CDR Okay, Bruce. Let me tell you. The M092 valve's
closed. Now I've dumped about five things out
the trash airlock within the last 30 minutes.
Do you think that could account for it?
CC We don't know. We'll take a look at it. We've

got 6-1/2 minutes until we get you over Honeysuckle.
If you have a second, you might check the LBNPD
vent valve and we'll see you there.
CDR We checked it. It's closed.
220 02 18 59 CC Thank you.
220 02 25 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle_

short pass, 2-1/2 minutes. Over.
CDR Okay, how's the pressur_ these days? We checked

both of our rate-of-climbs, and they look good.
We suspicion it was the trash airlock dump.
CC Okay, we'd like you to confirm that there is

nothing in the minus-Z SAL. The door's closed
and the valves are closed and all that. What we
are showing is consistent with something leaking
out in the minus-Z direction. Over.
CDR Well, it's possible. I finished dumping the

condensate tank a minute ago and I'm putting a
vacuum on it now.
I- TAG Tape 220-02/T-137
Page 9 of 12 /941
CDR I had noticed that the other night, every night

that I've dumped the vacuum, which has been al -
every night, almost, except last night, there has
been no comment.
220 02 26 13 CC Roger; we copy. And for your information, if there

is someone at the ATM panel, we will turn off the
power of the S056 doors and then reenable the
primA_y motors via ground command and then you're
GO to reopen the door. Over.
CDR We're all here - -
CC Say again.
CC Say again.
CDR Go. Go ahead.
220 02 26 37 CC Okay. And also for your information, we have spun

up Z-1 and Y-3 rate gyros. Y-3 is looking favorable
but we don't want to commit yet. Z-1 is still no
good.
CDR Okay, that's good. May I suggest that - make a

request?
CC Suggest away.
220 02 26 57 CDR Okay, we got a message up here that discussed where

to put the displays - the four display switches
at night and during the day, as we understand it.
It also dispus - discussed the CONSOLE POWER
DISTRIBUTION switches, eight of them - that's eight
of them, and where they should be. We'd like
someone to send up a checklist change to the
unattended ops cue card, both powerdown to unattended,
and powerup from unattended. Address themselves to
the 12 - I mean those eight switches there on
CONSOLE POW_ and also the LIGHTING that tells us
exactly how they want them because the message is
a little bit ambiguous.
CC Okay, we'll do that. I think we can also catch

the flare from unattended card.
CDR That's another good idea.

TAG Tape 220-021T-137
Page i0 of 12/942
220 02 27 _8 CC We got 21 seconds until LOS. Next station contact

is through Vanguard. It will probably be the last
one of the evening unless you want to stay up late.
It's at 52:_9.
PLT Okay, Bruce. One other thing. Owen and I are

going to sit down and revise the dimensions that
the sail covers, and it would be halpful if you
could tell us how big the parasol is. We thought
maybe it was maybe 2_ by 22 and we think maybe -
I think maybe I told you that the sail covers are
a little more than it really does. Can you confirm
the dimensions of the parasol - -
220 02 28 27 CC Okay, we've got the door co-_anding done to the

ATM, and you should command the door OPEN as soon
as you're through with your data-take block, and
we didn't catch you on all that, Jack. If you're
still up, we'll get it at Vanguard.
PLT Okay. So we'll just have you - before you turn

in the numbers on how much the sail covers, let
us give you some more word on them, will you. I
got to sit down and think back a little bit and
I think it doesn't cover quite 20 feet.
220 02 28 48 CC Okay, we copy. Thank you.
220 02 52 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for about

4-1/2 minutes. This will be the last pass of the
evening. Over.
SPT Say again, Houston.
CC Roger, Skylab. This is the last pass of the

evening. To set your mind at ease on the apparent
cluster leak, the pressure drop has been less
than 0.10 of 1 psi over the last 8 hours. You're
clear to go ahead and turn in on schedule. We
were Just trying to isolate things when we were
talking to you last station. Also for this
evening, we have two gyros in the Y-axis with
RM enabled, so we'd like to go ahead and INHIBIT
the ACS MALF, RATE GYRO switch on panel 207 up
in the STS. And in answer to your question
regarding lighting for troubleshooting procedures,
you can go ahead and use the headlamp from the
IMSS kit if you so desire. Over.
TAG Tape 220-02/T-137
Page Ii of 12 /943
220 02 53 h5 SPT Okay, Bruce. I don't know who asked the question.
But we'll inhibit that rate gyro, and did, however,
someone ask you about using the headlamp?
CC That was an input from the surgeon down here.
SPY All right. It's got me puzzled.
CC Roger, Owen. And understand that's the RATE GYRO

switch on panel 207 CAUTION and WARNING, INHIBIT.
Over.
SPY Yes. I understand, inhibit it.
220 02 5h 28 PLT Bruce. 0wen and I got our heads together on what
the sail is really doing out there and we decided
that at the far end it does cover about 20 feet.
And that at the near end, it covers a little bit
less - maybe more like 17 to 18 feet. And it
turns out that if there was a wider place to which
to put the reefing lines, you would probably spread
it out a little bit wider in the front end, but
it seems like it's not necessary. Because when
we put the - when I pushed the sail down, it
squashed the parasol out Just as it would - the
parasol would like to be when it was initially
deployed such that the parasol is now flat. And
it covers any area that the sail doesn't cover.
So between the two of them, they're either covering
each other or covering the exposed area of the
workshop.
CC Okay, we copy, Jack. Thank you very much for the

details.
220 02 55 3h PLT And we laid her down so that the poles are touching
the workshop at the far end and are bent a little
bit such that there's a clearance of about
8 inches to a foot between the workshop and the
poles at the leading edge of the - the - of the
parasol or sail.
CC Roger.
TAG Tape 220-021T-137
Page 12 of 12 /944
CDR Story, as far as I know, we've made no input about

using the surgeon's light for anything, although
I see it stashed over here by the metabolic analyzer
and has be_n since we came here. I assume Joe
set it there.
220 02 56 23 CC Okay. Our understanding was that you all made the
statement that you had inadequate light for
troubleshooting, and we're merely saying that
that piece of hardware is available for your use
as you dig into nooks and crannies and whatever
else you want to use it for, should you desire to.
Over.
CDR Oh, I get it now. That - that makes sense. That's

a good idea. Maybe that's why Joe had it out.
CC Well, I don't know. He was an M.D.
220 02 56 53 CDR Yes. I'd asked Paul about - he was asking about
visibility in here and I told him that it's okay
unless you really want to get down and look at
something very fine and then it's hard to find
a place with enough lights. And I guess he came
back and said that's one you could use. So that's
good. That's nice of him. Say, another thought.
How's the DELTA - how's the cabin these days -
pressure?
CC We're coming up on LOS here. Cabin pressure's

okay. You only had 0.1 of a psi drop in the
last 8 hours.
220 02 57 23 CDR Okay, well, now another question. I discontinued

that condensate tank dump. How does the DELTA-P
look now on the water plates, et cetera?
CC Okay. Looks okay. Canary 's at ll :08. Give us

a call if you want to talk to us. Or do you
want us to call you?
220 02 57 43 CDR Call us.
CC We 'ii do that.
220 02 58 O0 CC DELTA-P is 4.0, if you're still reading us.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 220-03/T-138
Time: 220:03:00 to 220:i0:34
Page i of 2/945
220 03 ii 26 CC Skylab, this, is Houston through Canary for 14 minutes.

Out.
CC For you info, the condensate tank DELTA-P last pass

was 4.0 psi.
CDR Sorry, Bruce. I was riding the bike. I couldn't

hear you, say again.
CC Oh, we didn't mean to interrupt you. You had asked

about the condensate tank DELTA-P right near LOS
and the DELTA-P reading is _.0 pounds per square
inch. Over.
CDR Okay, thank you. That ought to last until tomorrow

night, I guess.
CC We certainly hope so.
220 03 12 16 CDR Wonder what's the highest DELTA-P they've seen

since we've been using this holding t_, Does
anybody remember?
CC We 'll check.
CC Our records indicate 4.1, A1.
CDR Roger.
CDR Let me give you some additional exercise.
CC You going to give us some exercise or information

on your exercise?
CDR Information on mine.
CC Go ahead.
220 03 13 i0 CDR Okay. 2 - this is in addition to the 171 run.

2, 15, 208, 3, i, 05, and that's 2- what's 75
times 57
CC 165.
CDR That 's h25.

TAG Tape 220-03/T-138
Page 2 of 2 /956
CDR And then I'm going to do 50 - this is a type 3

mark i, take about i0 minutes and I'm going to
do 50 A's, 20 B's, 20 D's. So that would be my
exercise for today. (Music)
CC Okay. We got that, and 35 times 5 is 175 instead

of 165.
220 03 14 01 CDR No, no, I mispronounced. I meant 75 times 5.
CC Oh, sorry about that.
CDR I do that arm exerciser on the pedal.
CC Right.
CDR Yes, you're right, is 375.
CC It's 375, yes.
220 03 14 26 CDR Will be in a few minutes.
220 03 23 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid i minute and

30 seconds until LOS. This will be the final
station contact of the night unless you want to
call us, in which case you can put i0,000 on the
DAS DO NOT ENTER. We will call you over Hawaii in
the morning at ll:00 for your nominally scheduled
wakeup. For your information, we are planning a
tape recorder dump through Bermuda at 04:42. No
other dump scheduled during the evening, so unless
you have something else to give to us it's time to
say goodnight, Dick.
PLT Okay, Bruce, thank you, and in that dump you'll find
all the EREP dope that the guys wanted on the S192
alignment.
220 03 24 47 CC Roger. Thank you.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 220-0hiT-139
Time: 220".i0:3h to _0:12:00
Page 1 of 2 19_7
SETLAB AIR - TO GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
220 ii 03 16 CC Good morning, Skylab ; Houston. We' re A0S at
CC Good morning, SEylah. We're A0S at Goldstone

for 7 minutes.
SPY Morning, Dick.
CC Good morning.
220 Ii 07 27 SPY Say, Dick, are these temperatures inside getting

cooler today?
CC Roger. Let me cheek what we're reading on our

TM. I think they have cooled down since you
got the new shade out. Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. Affirmative. The temps are

coming down. They dropped about 2 degrees while
you were asleep. And the present average temper-
ature around is about 75 degrees.
SPY Okay. It sure seems that way. Last night, I

crawled inside my sleeping bag for the first
time since we've been up here. Prior to this
I've Just been sleeping under the straps, with-
out being under any of the covers. And along
about the middle of the night, I got up sort of
chilly, so I crawled inside the sleeping bag for
the first time.
CC Roger.
220 ll 09 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We're going to drop out for about 3 or h minutes
and I'll give you a call at Bermuda.
220 ll 14 51 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda for 3 minutes.
SPT Roger, Dick.
cc Skylab.
Page 2 of 2 /948
220 ii 21 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS

at Bermuda. We're going to drop out for a couple
of minutes, and I 'ii call you at Canary.
220 ii 24 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Canary and Ascen-

sion for 14 minutes.
CDR How you doing, Dick?
CC Real fine, and you? Y'all been busy since I've

been on the console.
CDR Yes. We missed you.
CC Well, this team has been off and we been working

some of those procedures, that we've probably
been - (chuckle) you've been swamped with in the
last 2 or 3 days.
CDR Well, that 's okay. Everything went well. We

thought of a good special for TV for the people
down on Earth, particularly in the U.S. We'll
show ourselves eating steak later in the day.
CC That's a good idea.
CDR A little nostalgia.
CC Roger.
220 ll 30 09 SPT Power dump's complete. ENABLE, OFF. EXECUTE, OFF.

Real time back to Bravo.
220 ii 30 24 SPT MARK.
220 ii 38 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

We're going to see you down at Carnarvon at
12 :06.
SPT Okay, Dick.
220 ii 38 42 CC See you there.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 220-05/T-140
Time: 220:12:00 to 220:13:30
Page i of ii/949
220 12 09 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Honeysuckle. We've

got you for about 7 minutes. We are going to
have a keyhole that's going to start in about
i minute and it will last for about a mlnute. So
I'ii give you a call out of the keyhole.
SPT Okay, Dick.
220 12 ii 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of keyhole and we've

still got you at Honeysuckle for the next 5 minutes
Not sure what you guys are up to now, but at one
of these passes I've got two or three notes for
the CDR.
CDR We were up to having breakfast, but l'm standing

by to copy the notes.
CC Roger, AI. Really it's Just a couple of questions

for you. One is subject of the overage food
transfers. You've asked a couple of times for
some time and we're going to give it to you
tomorrow - a couple of hours to get squared away
on the overage food. And what we were - in looking
back over some of the transcripts, we were Just
interested in - in whether or not the time that
you had requested was Just generally to get
squared away, because of the funny menus that
we've been forced to implement over the last few
days, or if it was in response to a general
message that we sent up _oncerning the overage
food transfer for the extended mission days 57,
and so forth. Over.
CDR It's the former, but as we do it we'll take care

of the latter. So, what we really need to do is
have two men, at least an hour together, and that
way it goes a lot faster. It'd take one man
B-l/2 hours to do it I believe. But two men
together could probably get it done in an hour or
hour and a half.
220 12 1B 25 CC Roger, A1. We were - we were Just trying to

understand so we can help you back - help you out
about that. And if there's any - I don't think
there is, but if there is any other help from us
TAG Tape 220-05/T-lh0
Page 2 of ii/950
on that we - you'll get it and you'll get the

time tomorrow afternoon. Next thing is your
detail pad today calls for S015 heater control
switch - it's about the middle of the day, I'm
not looking right at it - to be placed to OFF.
And we'd sure appreciate your noting the time
when you do that and calling it down to us, and
that's for the biomed officer.
CDR Will do, Dick. Say, we been doing some thinking

also about our day off that comes up in 3 days.
And wanted to pass the word now so the flight
planners can be thinking about it. We thought
what might accomplish our aims and also be pretty
good too is to - if there's an EREP pass, to do
that, and then the rest of the day to do ATM. And
then try to do nothing else and then we'll take
a shower if we can and we'll get the place
shipshape and then we'll take a little time off
too. If that's not possible, then Just let us
know what the alternatives are. But it seemed to
us like maybe we could - we're not behind on
EREP, but we could m_ke up some ATM and then get
a little bit ahead in EREP.
220 12 14 48 CC Roger, A1. Thanks for the input and we'll get
back to you - to you on it. Incidentally we
have been doing some more thinking about those
midcourses back in the rendezvous and I have
a couple of words for you but we have a couple of
questions we want ask too. And sometime today
you might whiz up and get the rendezvous book
and help us out. Standby l, please. At any
rate, it turns out that the midcourse 2 DELTA-V
was almost exactly that that would have been
required to correct for about a 1.5 Sigma
midcourse 1. And our best guess at this time
was - is based on your reports and our monitoring
the data, is that the midcourse 1 was somewhat
in error. We can think of two sources based -
for this error based on what we think we saw.
First of all, we saw eight sextant marks and five
VHF msrks for the first midcourse. If it - if it
turned out that these were taken three sextant
and then five each alternating sextant and VHF,
the correlation is too tight by the time the VHF
comes in, and errors result. So the first question
we have is, do you remember your premidcourse 1
mark sequence? The second possibility is, if the
TAG Tape 220-05/T-140
Page 3 of I1/951
midcourse i was not completely executed, then the

combination of m - midcourse i residuals plus a
midcourse 2 nay errors could produce the midcourse
2 you computed and burned. So, the next question
we have is, what were the midcourse 1 post
maneuver residuals? And furthermore, if you have
the time, we're wondering if you could read us
down your chart solutions for midcourse 1 end 2
and with this information, we think we really can
nail it down. And Phil's team is on this shift,
and we'll be getting off, oh, about an hour and
a half from now. So if you could get that informa-
tion this morning and get it down to us we can
get back to you on - on it.
220 12 17 13 CDR Okay, Dick. In response to that first thing about

the marks on the first midcourse. I really don't
remember that one.
220 12 17 18 CC Break, break. Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS

at Honeysuckle. We'll see you at Hawaii.
22 12 17 37 CC I'm afraid I led him into that - slide - into

that LOS. But I'ii catch him at Hawaii.
220 12 29 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Hawaii for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for about

8 minutes. And for Al's information, I lead him
right into that LOS after I got up m_ questions
about the rendezvous. We went LOS _--_ediately and
I'm not sure you got my call. I didn't hear
anything of your response.
CDR Okay. We'll give it to you in a minute. We're

working on something else, Dick.
CC Okay. No problem. The only other note, AI, that

I have is, back to the subject of your day off
on mission day l_. The only thing right now that
we had planned already to try to schedule for you
is one troubleshooting procedure on the refriger-
ation system flush, on the secondary system. And
the reason we had to put it on that day was because
we - because of the way the pass coverage goes, and
because we want to watch a small portion of that
procedure during STDN coverage. But, other than
that we'll Just take your inputs and go from there.
TAG Tape 220-05/T-140
Page 4 of ii /952
220 12 31 31 CDR Okay. That sounds good, Dick. We Just like to

keep - We don't want to miss any of these EREP
passes, because they're going to go away here
before long. And we need to get this ATM caught
up. So we're going to keep doing this on our
day off. And then that still leaves us plenty of
time, individually, to take a shower and writing
a book, or get our personal effects shipshape,
and things like that. So we'll get plenty of
rest. At the same time, I think we can get those
things done, which are the first time critical.
CC Roger. Understand.
CDR Okay. Let me give you the information on the

mid courses.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
220 12 32 15 CDR By the way, I went up and put in the computer the
pad you sent up this morning for VERB 46, 45 -
correction 44. But I did not - I did Just as
it said, but I - When we do housekeeping today,
I'll do it over a station and y'all can check it,
per the pad also. But I Just thought I'd have
it in all day.
CC Okay. Real fine.
220 12 32 37 CDR Okay. Here's TPI-I, CMC solution, that was TGI,
let me get the mid course. Okay. Final comp,
minus 2.5, plus 0, plus 0.6. Now, I don't
remember what I burned out of that. I know I
burned that solution. But I assume I must have
burned it down to 0.2, or 0.B, or 0.4. You know,
tried for 0.2 but it moves around a lot. So,
somewhere in that neighborhood, 0.2 to 0.3 or
0.4. I tried to get it 0.2 and it may have - you
know as I punched it off, it may have Jumped to
0.4. Because, you think you've got it at one
number and then pun - Just as you're PR0ing, it
Jumps to another. Sometimes it helps you and
sometimes it doesn't. TPM-I chart solution was
plus - all zeros, minus 9. That didn't appear
too favorably with the plus 0.6 I had. Okay,
TPM-2: plus 8, plus 0.6, minus B.O. So, that's
8.0, 0.6 and minus B.O. The charts were plus
35, minus 25.
p_ TAG Tape 220-05/T-lh0
Page 5 of ii/953
CC Okay.
220 12 33 57 CDR I'd also like to know what you calculate my closing
velocity to be at each of the range gates. The
braking ranging gates.
CC Roger, AI. Our tracking can give us absolutely

no data on that one. So we can't help you out
at all.
CDR Okay. I didn't know whether somebody went back

and looked at the thruster, on time, and things
like that and said, well he was going this fast
at that - you know at that point or they had CMC
data that would let them know, or VHF was being
down-linked, because it was working. Just - Just
wondered. Got another request.
CC Roger. One more thing, though. Do you have any -

Do you remember at all about the ma_king schedule?
220 12 34 49 CDR Let me get the Big 0. He and I both remembered,

but it's hard to think back on it right now.
Seems like a little while ago, that the first mark
that went in was a VHF mark. Now that may be
wrong, but he mentioned it and I kind of agree
with him. I kind of remember it. But, normally
it isn't that way. Norm,11y we get the sextant
mark first, and then get to the procedure of
VERB 87. But let him talk. He's in the in the
head in there.
220 12 35 15 SPT No. I'm upstairs now inthe experiment end. That's
about the way I remember it Dick. It's pretty
vague at this point, but I seem to recall on the
first midcourse - the first mark in was a VHF, and
on the second midcourse, the first m_k in was
a sextant. But, that's only a recollection from
12 days.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. I guess the first thing that

comes to our mind there is, if the VHF mark was
the first one, we're wondering why there were
only five VHF marks compared to the eight sextant
marks, and how they - that got out of sync?
TAG Tape 220-05/T-140
Page 6 of ll /95h
SPT Well, that's something that I was wondering about

when you called it up a minute ago, Dick. I don't
know, but eight sextant is about the right number.
And of course, we have no control over the VHF.
And I don't know why it would have stopped at
three to five there, whatever you said.
CC Okay. Well, we got your answer anyway, even

though it is - it was several days ago. And
what was your question, Al?
220 12 36 20 CDR We'd appreciate if the ground could send up once

a week - take a look at the film we have on board
for out-the-window photography in the - both in
the Hasselblad and in the 35-millimeter, and also
in the 35-millimeter for interior with flash,
and send us a little pad about once a week that
says, not the total that's left, but says, if
you shoot this many per week, next week and on
through the rest of the time, you would - you
would end up Just right at the end of the mission.
We keep asking ourselves everytime we want to
take a picture out the window or inside or
something, whether or not we're ahead or behind
the nominal. We don't want to run out too soon,
nor do we want to have a bunch left at the end.
And it seems that it might be a small matter for
the photo folks since they get the data every
night. Once a week, Just send us a little pad
and say take eight out the window in the Hassel-
blad this week, or however many it is. And then
we can kind of keep - You know, we'll kind of have
something to feel - some feel for the problem.
Right now we've sort of lost feel for how many we
can take. We want to kind of evenly space them.
220 12 37 32 CC Roger, CDR, we'll sure do that and if the - we'll

think up some kind of a format - send it up to
you, and if you'd like to improve on it, just
let us know. We' re about 1 minute from LOS at
Hawaii and we'll see you at Goldstone at 12:41.
CC Skylab, Houston. We 're AOS, Goldstone for

6 minutes.
CDR Hello, Dick.
CC Go ahead.
TAG Tape 220-05/T-140
Page 7 of 11/955
220 12 44 02 CDR We've been looking over this new message, permanent
general message number - 5, and we're always in a
quandary when it says like, "pack your sample day
12." Now, today's day 12, but we're sampling
urine of day ii. Now, I wonder if today's a half
sample. Should we take a half sample today or
one tomorrow?
CC CDR, Houston. Today is the day to take the

one-half sample.
SPT Okay, Dick. We'll do that. Now this is again

exactly the opposite of the ground rules that we
worked out the last time we went through this
thing. Because on day 12, we'd take day ii
samples. And we'd store what we get today in
the slot for day ii. And l'm not sure that the -
that everybody's on the same line of thought on
what messages mean. And we'll take half-day
samples, half samples today, but it doesn't seem
to m_tch right.
CC Roger. Stand by i, please.
220 12 _5 20 SPT One of the samples has already been complete for
today. The PLT has already made a f_11 sample,
which was the original plan.
CC Roger, Owen; stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from LOS

at Goldstone. We're going to drop our for about
4 minutes and I'ii call you at Bermuda, and
we're continuing to pursue the urine sample
question now, and I'ii get back with you as soon
as we're AOS.
i
SPT Okay; keep in mind the fact that the PLT has
already got one full sample.
CC Understand, Owen.
CDR Yeah, Dick, and also if we start calling them

days, sorting them and putting them in slots with
other days, it's going to be a little funny, too.
CC Roger. I understand.
TAG Tape 220-05/T-140
Page 8 of ii /956
220 12 52 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're ADS at Bermuda for

i0 minutes. And for today's urine sample, Owen,
we would suggest that all three of you go ahead
and take a full ssmple since one already has,
and that will certainly give us time to consider
your - the little bit of confusion on the drawer
and we'll have it squared away today, and we'll -
prior to tomorrow's sample. Take a full sample
today.
SPT Okay, we'd appreciate that. And also we notice

that the message requires a lot of reorganization
of the spacers of things in the cabinet. We
would appreciate the minimum reorganization in
the stowage cabinet, as well as clarity in the
message regarding which day's sample and which
day it is being taken upon - taken by.
CC Roger Skylab. We copy that, and if you'll take

a full sample today, we'll have clear instructions
up there before tomorrow morning.
220 12 57 30 CC Skylab, Houston. The star tracker has apparently

wandered off of some bright object. And sometime
in the next _0 or 45 minutes, we'd appreciate, if
one of you guys goes by there, if you'd reacquire
for us. The star tracker pad that you have on
board is good. And we're really not serious
about really needing the update until - in prepa-
ration for the EREP.
SPT I'ii go do it now.
CC Okay.
PLT Say, Dick, I was Just kind of wondering if they've

gotten any of their TV back from the sites yet on
the EVA?
CC That's affirmative, Jack. We have. We were

playing a good bit of it back tonight, and we
saw some yesterday and it looks real good.
PLT Oh, I'm glad to hear that, thank you.

"_ TAG Tape 220-051T-140
Page 9 of ll 1957
220 12 59 13 PLT I was wishing we could have taken the TV out and
given you a picture back along the workshop
because it was really a plesant view - and be
good to give you a good info on how the sail went
out, but I was afraid we'd take it up and break
the wire or lose it or something.
CC Well, it sure sounded like a lot of fun. And you

guys sure set a long record that'll be a while
to be broken, I reckon, on staying out there.
PLT Yes, we were out there quite a while, but it

seemed to take all that time. We didn't want to
hurry, and we thought if we'd of rushed through
it we'd have messed up something and maybe only
saved l0 minutes. So, I think we were best off
Just to take our time and make sure we got
everything right.
220 13 O0 07 CC Roger. Certainly no doubt about that. It was a

full working day outdoors.
SPT Okay, Houston. How do you like that star?
CC Looks like a good lockon. Thank you very much.

We're about 1 minute from LOS at Bermuda, and
we'll see you at Ascension at 13:08.
220 13 09 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Ascension for about

9 minutes.
PLT Well, good morning, Crip.
CC Good morning. How are you doing, Jack?
PLT Very well.
SPT He says with a mouth full.
CDR Good morning, Crip.
CC Good morning, A1. How are you doing today?
220 13 ll 09 CDR Everybody's doing great. We're getting ready to

do this EREP thing. Say, we suspect that on board
there's another power cable for the TV. We got
two of them presently connected to TV. And we
wanted to find the third one if it's here and
TAG Tape 220-05/T-140
Page i0 of 11/958
connect it to this down-link box for EREP and

then we can leave it connected and save that sort
of time. We sort of looked around and couldn't
find it. Maybe somebody down there knows if
there is, in fact, a total of three up here. This
is not counting the one in the command module,
which won't work, I think, down in the workshop.
CDR So far the only other stowage item that we're a

little bit mystified about; we found everything
except the other two bottles of vitamin pills.
And nobody has seen the second two. We remember
getting the first one out. We didn't see any
second two - any second or third with it.
CC Okay. Got that.
220 13 12 15 CDR Certainly you sent us that information on an

up-link, but we can't find it.
CC Okay. We'll see if we can get a location for you.
CC CDR, Houston. On our first look here, it would

appear that all you've got are two TV cables in the
SWS, and the one in the command module, which of
course is not compatible with working down in the
SWS.
CDR Okay, that's too bad. I thought maybe Pete had

left one up here when he left, because we - Maybe
that's what we did. Maybe we only brought one and
then we used the one he left. But in any event,
I think that's something that SL-4 crew is prob-
ably going to want to bring up - is an extra
TV cable. It will give them capability in case
they break one. In addition to that it will work
all the time on the down-link box.
220 13 15 00 CC Okay. So noted. And regarding your vitamin pills,

it would appear that those other two cans are in
W-703 in a regular drug can and it should be so
listed on the outside of the drug can.
CDR That's kind of what we thought. Good deal. We

figured it wasn't with the one. Bye-bye.
TAG Tape 220-05/T-140
Page ii of 11/959
CC Correction on that. It was 706. In W-706.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're l minute from LOS. See

you again oyer Carnarvon at 13:41, 13:41.
220 13 17 50 CC And we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump

there.
END 0F TAPE
TAG Tape 220-06/T-141
Time: 220:13:B0 to 220:15:00
Page I of 7/961
220 13 40 51 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Carnarvon for about i0 minutes

and we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump.
PLT Okay, Bob. And I got one for the f_Im guys. This
is the first time l've unloaded the transporter and
put new film in and the question is, where do I put
the used film cassette - used 400-foot magazine?
And what l've done, is Just to replace it into the
place where I can get the new one out of. So this
morning the used ones are on C-6 and C-7. If that's
not satisfactory, let me know. You'll have to tell
me where to put the old ones because I don't remember
where they came out of and I - there's no point in
looking it up.
CC Okay, we'll get - we'll get word on you.
PLT Okay, thank you, Bill.
220 13 41 43 CC And if A1 can listen, I can give him the story on

those TV cables.
CDR I'm listening.
CC Okay. The original word I gave you was correct.

There are Just two SWS TV power cables on board.
One of them was originally launched with SL-1, and
Pete carried up one. And you only carried the one
in the CSM. So, you've got two SWS cables and one
CSM cable.
CDR Okay, I think it'd be good if Jer brought another

one.
220 13 h2 lh CC Okay, we'll so note it. By the way, we got some-

thing on the South Atlantic anomaly and horn time.
Due to the fact that we're not doing any trim burns
and some computational error prior to flight, the
times that you've got on board are incorrect. And
the ones that you have for today should be - should
substract ii minutes from them to make them correct.
And we're plan=ing on giving you fUture updates
on your Flight Plan where we've got the EREP slider
map information and the onboard trajectory DELTA
time if that is satisfactory.
TAG Tape 220-06/T-141
Page 2 of 7 /962
220 13 42 53 CDR I don't think that'll do the Job, Crip, because

every time you want to know what's happening, you
not only got to look at one piece of paper, you got
to get out another one and try to substract off to
see if you got the problem. By then, if it were
a flare, you would muff it. I think we ought to
think about the importance of catching flares and
not making mistakes with subtraction or addition
or something and maybe think about sending up at
least one of those pads per day like we planned
preflight before somebody got the idea of putting
them on board. In other words, Just lift them out
sort of like we have and we'll post them up over
there by the ATM, otherwise it's going to be pretty
rough.
220 13 43 34 CC Okay, I guess we'll take a look at what it would

mean to send up one, either one per day or one per
week or something like that for you.
CDR Okay, it may be that they all Just move every 5 days
and you can send us 5 day's worth and then we'll
recycle them. I don't know if that's true, but
maybe some - something like that.
CC Okay, so noted, and we'll - we'll look into it.
220 13 44 00 CDR Yes, we already realized that anomaly happened this

morning because we had the alarm go off. Owen raced
up here and I went and got the piece of paper and
I said well, it looks like we're not going to -
supposed to be in the horn for another 7 or 8 min-
utes, but maybe we Just got there early for some
reason. And I assume that what you just pointed
out is what occurred.
CC Roger.
220 13 4_ 26 CDR - - And we Just had a fire drill and that came off
okay. I think that these are worthwhile things to
do. We're going to have a rapid DELTA-P drill,
although we had a real one about day 3 of the
mission. And we'll see how that goes. But it's
worth it, because things are a little bit different
up here, finding the cards and moving the hatches
around. Quite a bit different than the ones you
TAG Tape 220-06/T-lhl
Page 3 of 7 /963
train us. And there some differences that _=_e

the whole thing worthwhile.
CC Okay. Sounds good. And if we could get you to

stay off the DAS in case anybody's in that area for
a little while, we're going to enable C&G auto reset
per our new criteria.
220 13 46 03 CDR Crip, got another suggestion for Jerry Carr,

Bill Pogue, and Ed Gibson, is - you know these two
rings - one ring of female Velcro squares and one
ring of male Velcro squares - those have turned out
to be one of the finest things we've brought up.
And, l'd suggest that they bring up double that
s_ount. It doesn't weigh anything, and they sure
are handy.
CC Okay. We' ii make that recommendation, also.
CDR Ok ay.
220 13 50 56 CC Skylab, we're about 15 seconds from LOS. And we'll

have you again at Guam at 13:55. And, Jack, I'll
try to get a good answer for you on your restowing
your film back in the film locker there.
220 13 51 i0 PLT Okay. Thank you, Crip.
220 13 55 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through GI,Am for

9 minutes.
CDR Okay. We're having our rapid DELTA-P drill, in

case you've got their on the caution and warning
there.
CC 0keydoke. And we copy that, we think you're going

through that mol sieve mA1f, is that correct?
CDR Jack was changing out the solids trap.
CC Okay. We still copy.
CC And, Jack, if you've got a moment, I'ii go through

that film, door stuff with you.
TAG Tape 220-06/T-141
Page 4 of T /964
220 13 55 44 CDR Okay. Wait a minute. We're in this drill. We'll

call ... for a while.
CC Okay. Understand.
220 14 03 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. See

you again over Goldstone at 14:20. 14:20 and for
your information, you are GO for your EREP pass
today.
SPT Hey, that's good news, Crip. One thing that puzzles
us a little bit is we went through these equaliza-
tion valves, we notice that two cabin pressure
release valves are open. We thought only one should
be. And the two that are opened are the one in the
STS section on the forward compartment and the other
one in the aft compartment. We thought one of
those - only one on orbit was open, but maybe we're
wrong.
CC Okay. We'll get you an answer to that over

Goldstone.
SPT Okay. Maybe it's Just one of them is closed, and

two of them are opened. But anyhow, that's the
configuration. The lock's closed and the other
two are open.
220 lh 04 08 CC Okeydoke.
220 14 20 21 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Goldstone across

the States for about 18 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob. I was Just noticing on the solar disk,

a spot that's not reported on the SAP over about
080.9. I was wondering if that might be a newly
emerging region? Or one that - that's simply not
been assigned a number. You might ask the science
room, please?
CC Okay. We 're looking at that o And we 'll be going

through the DAS to inhibit dump for this upcoming
EREP pass.
220 14 20 55 SPT Okay. I'll stay off the DAP - or the DAS.
220 14 22 40 CC And, Jack, at your first opportunity, I can t_]k

about that film drawer. But there's no big hurry
on it.
TAG Tape 220-06/T-141
Page 5 of 7/965
8PT Jack is indisposed at the moment.
CC Ckay. Good deal. Just call me when you want it.
220 14 23 16 CC And, Owen, I'm still looking at that active region.

I've got a SAP update that I can give you, anytime
that you' d like it.
SPT Just a minute.
CC I'm sorry, Owen. I couldn't copy. Did you say

you wanted it now?
220 14 23 37 SPT No. Just a minute. I was Just sc,nnlng the limb
of the Sun here, looking for prominence activity.
Just a minute.
CC Okeydoke.
220 14 24 21 SPT Okay. The best prominence activity we've got are
still over between 090 and i00 on the limb. And
I'm ready for the update.
220 14 24 33 CC Okeydoke. Active region 85 has leveled off in

growth, but remains intense and magnetically com-
plex. It has produced a few subflares, including
a small class B type during the night. The southern
portions of prominence 23 have been active and that's
05:00 Zulu, a portion of the prominence lifted off
to a 0.05 solar radii. Other regions on the disk
have been quiet.
SPT Okay. Thank you.
CC And, Owen, we've lost the star due to a big rotation

about the Nu Z and we're going to need you to lock
it on so, we've got a good pointing data for this
Z-LV pass.
SPT Do it now.
220 14 25 26 SPT Bob, do you always have real-time TV from Goldstone?

And how many passes a day?
CC Let me check that, Owen.

TAG Tape 220-06/T-141
Page 6 of 7 /966
220 14 25 49 CC 0wen, we dontt get real-time TV. And we haven't

got it this pass, unless we've got it scheduled up
then. And so - and we do those at specific times
during the _ay.
SPT Okay. Now you got TV down-link at 14:20. But

apparently, that is not in a real time. It's only
for tape recorded, video tape on that air-to-ground
station. Is that correct?
CC Roger. Say, you go ahead and dump it real time,

and the site records it and we get it later.
220 14 26 17 SPT Understand. Thank you.
220 14 27 16 CC 0wen, as best as we can determine, that area you

called out, at 80 degrees and 0.9 radii is probably
Just some plage left over from active region 76.
SPT We've got about 3.1 degree orbital plane here, which
is bigger than we've seen before. I guess that
accounts for about 200 arc minutes.
CC Roger. And did you copy my comment about, we think

that what you called out earlier is Just some plage
left over from active region 76?
SPT Yes, I did, thank you.
220 14 28 54 SPT How much longer will Goldstone be able to receive

this TV? I'm Just now getting set up to down-link
the TV to them.
CC Checking on that, 0wen. We've already passed Gold-

stone. We might be able to get it at Texas or
Mila though.
CC Okay, 0wen. We can get TV for another 7-1/2 minutes

going across MLA.
SPT Okay. Fine. I'll be down-linking the TV then to

the other stations, MLA or Texas.
TAG Tape 220-06/T-141
Page 7 of 7 /967
220 lh 30 03 CC And, Owen. We're going to update your Nu Z ourselves

this time, so if you'll stay off the DAS.
220 14 32 43 CC And, SPT, we still need the DAS for another minute
or so. We're going to be updating the Y-2 drift
for the - this Z-LV pass, also.
SPT Okay. That's Just for the down-link TV.
220 14 33 19 CC Copy.
220 14 36 35 CC And Skylab, we've finished commanding and the DAS

is yours once more.
220 14 36 41 SPT Okay, would you verify for me that the S056 door
is open?
CC Checking.
CC We show the door open, Owen.
SPT Okay, thank you. S052 is taking pictures in the

standard mode, but I've not got either a READY or
an OPERATE light this morning.
CC Roger. Understand. Neither a READY or an OPERATE

light on 52.
220 14 38 21 CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS at this

time. We'll have you again at Carnarvon at 15:18
and, 0wen, we want to make sure that in your last
MIRROR AUTO RASTER that you are in the GRATING
position 426.
SPT In the last one or in this one?
CC We copy you're already in this one.
SPT I'm sorry. I didn't go purposely to GRATING ZERO

and I should not have, but - So I'm doing it at the
wrong spot.
220 14 38 53 CC 0keydoke.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 220-07/T-142
Time: 220:15:00 to 220:16:30
Page i of 16 /969
220 15 19 ll CC Skylab, Houston. A0S through Carnarvon for 9 min-

utes. And, A1, I need to give you an update to
your EREP C&D checklist - correction, pad.
CDR Go ahead. Standing by to copy.
CC Okeydoke. Down at time 15:07:00, can you find

that where you've got an S190 intervalometer 20?
CC Correction, that was - -
CDR I've got one at 16:07.
CC That's correct. I'm sorry. It is 16:07:00.
CDR Okay.
CC That's suppose to be 16:07:05.
CDR Okay. Anything else?
CC Okeydoke. Down below that at 16:09:12.
CDR Okay.
CC Just above that where you've got S193 SCAT to

STANDBY, put a time beside that of 09:10.
CDR Okay. I've got that.
CC Okay. At 16:16:00 you have an EREP START.
CDR Okay. 17:16, I do.
CC Correction, 17:16. Just prior to that put an

S190, STANDBY. And time is noncritical, Just
below - Just as long as it's before EREP, START.
CDR Okay. I've screwed that one up. Let's go through

that, again. That's - That is 16:16 and now it
says EREP, START. Now go ahead and say again.
CC Okay. Just above EREP, START, put in S190,

STANDBY. And the S190, STANDBY is nontime critical.
It Just must be done before EREP, START.
TAG Tape 220-07/T-142
Page 2 of 16 /970
CDR All right. I'ii sure do it.
CC Okay. And hopefully the last one, down toward

the end of the pad where you have a READY out
for S190, that time - -
CDR Okay.
CC That time is noted as 25:33. That should be

25:13.
220 15 22 07 CDR Okay. Got that correction.
CC Okay. And that is all of them. For your in-

formation, we're running, as noted on your pad,
190A to film depletion. Also, we're running ETC
to film depletion. So, you may be getting a MALF
light on 190A and film depletion light on ETC.
And you can Just ignore those.
CDR Okay. Thanks for telling us that. It keeps us

from getting distracted. That's a good thing
to know. Maybe they ought to start putting
those on the prep remarks, or something like -
or operate remarks is probably where those notes
ought to go.
CC Okay. Sorry we had so many last minute changes

on you there. That should make for a good EREP
pass, a little help.
CDR Yes. It looks like a good one. And how's the

weather?
CC Okay. You're going to find it pretty cloudy

when you come up over the first part of the
States. It's about 0.8 coverage - Just overcast
over the - coming over Washington. And then it's
going to clear up across the midsection of the
country until you get down to about Texas. That
first VTS pass for - for Jack, should be in good
shape. However, when he gets down to around
Houston, we're running around 0.7 coverage right
now, 0.4 to 0.7. So it's going to be pretty
cloudy.
TAGTape220-07/T-142
Page 3 of 16/971
CDR Okay. That Rio Grande Reservoir is the toughest

site we all have. So I hope it's clear there,
because that's tough, any way you look at it.
CC That one should be very clear _ should be no sweat

on that one at all. South America, the northern
half of it's going to be pretty cloudy, but the
southern half looks pretty clear.
CDR Okay. By the way, Crip, how about setting up a

personal phone call for me to my mother in Fort
Worth, tonight ?
CC Roger. To your mother tonight. And we'll set up

a time for you.
CDR Okay. And Sylvia has the phone numbers and all
that other business. And by the way tell her
hello. We could sure use her up here, I'ii tell
you.
CC (Laughter ) 0keydoke.
SPT Bob, SPT. I did get the READY/0PERATE light stuff

straight - straightened out, no anomalies there.
And have some information on ch_nel A for the
flight planners, particularly with reference to
the time it takes to do chip A, they ought to get
that off the tape recorder sometime today and
look at it.
CC Roger, 0wen. Hit me again with which - You got

your READY/0PERATE lighta on 52 sq11_ed away?
220 15 24 30 SPT Well, yes. They're a11 sq_,R_ed away, except the
READY light is still intermittent, the way it
was the last few days. But outside of that,
everything else is okay.
CC Okay. OPERATE light is normal?
SPT That's correct ; and on S056.
CC Okay, Owen. And we'll need you to stay off the

DAS for a moment here, while we enable momentum
dump.
SPT Okay. That's Jack up there now. I'm down here

on the ETC.
TAG Tape 220-071T-lh2
Page 4 of 16 1972
CC Okay, Sorry. Jack, you copy?
CDR Okay, Crip, we'll stay off the DAS.
CC Okay. Thank you, A1.
CDR How's that maneuver look to you, by the way?
CC It all looks good down here, A1.
220 15 26 59 CC And the DAS is yours. I'm going to drop out here
in a keyhole in about 30 seconds.
220 15 27 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS. See

you again over at G_m at 15 :32, 15 :32.
220 15 28 34 CDR Okay. This is your friendly CDR - -
220 15 32 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS once more, through

Guam, for 8 minutes.
220 15 36 39 CDR If that bothers you, let's move it. It looks

like it does. It looks like it's in the wrong
position. I don't know how it got over there.
PLT Good show.
CDR Right. Let's take it away from here. You have

problems of your own. Put it under that -
right around - around under here. Around there.
Here, ... in a box like that. There, and that'll
get it out of your way. You might get more bat-
tery out of these. Ready.
CC And, A1, we are copying you two.
CDR Okay ; good.
CC Your VOX is a little bit weak, but still readable.
CDR Okay. I was helping Jack with something there.
220 15 37 36 CDR Okay, Jack, 38 .... and that's lO minutes, babe.
PLT ... 722 ... watch. 20 seconds slow.

TAG Tape 220-071T-142
Page 5 of 16 1973
CDR ..., Jack. Okay, Houston we're going to give

you all our readings here. And if you go out
of contact of course they'll be on record, I'll
Just give them all.
CC Okay, we got a - we got you for about 3 minutes.
CDR Okay, gage A starting with i: 56, 59, 86, 72,

65, 0 and that was 6, now wait; 7, 8, and 9 and
0 don't count. Okay, going to gage B, starting
with i: 42, 56, 76, 71, 73, 51, 31, I, 58, that
was number 9 at 58.
CC Roger. We're going to drop you in the keyhole

here for 20 seconds.
220 15 39 18 CDR Okay; I'ii wait.
CC And we got you back again for about a minute and

16 seconds.
CDR ...
CC Okay, we dropped you a little bit there.
CDR 86, 85, 72, 14, 58, 40, and that was 7, 40. Now
let me read you the ones that they call out special.
CC Okay, A1. We're going LO - -
CDR ...7, 30; B-8, l; C-7, 56; D-6, 58, and C-7 was
not greater than 80 so everything's okay. We're
standing by for 5 minutes.
220 15 41 18 CC Okay, going LOS. See you at Goldstone 15:56.

And we missed some of those readings, due to bad
COmm.
220 15 56 15 CDR - - 6:23. There's Houston.
CDR 56:23 MODE, AUTO. Jack, READY, on in 56:40.

I'll give you a call.
PLT Okay.
CDR Five seconds until READY on. READY is on.
PLT Okay.
TAG Tape 220-07/T-142
Page6 of16
CDR 58:32. Waiting for that.
CC Copying you through Goldstone, AI, 14 minutes.
CDR Okay. Good. Everything's going Just about perfect.
PLT How do you read the kid, there? Okay. There's

some off-shore coastal clouds.
CDR All right.
PLT *** on.
CDR Okay.
PLT Take some data on them.
CC Reading you loud and clear, Jack.
PLT Okay.
PLT How come this thing is drifting on me? Are we

still maneuvering?
CDR I have no idea, Jack. Let me look back.
CDR Look back.
CDR *** X, Y, and Z looked good. No, it's probably

not maneuvering. But that - It was suppose to
compensate for the - little bit finer than it
was the other day.
PLT Yes. It is too. IMC is drifting downward on me

and - -
CDR Turning right - it went for me.
PLT - - fairly great rate.
CDR That's going to make it tough to acquire these

targets.
CC The maneuver is complete.
220 15 58 26 CDR Jack must be having the same image motion com-
pensation problems we - I had the other day,
_ TAG Tape 220-071T-142
Page 7 of 16 _975
namely that the ... was moving down and right

all the time. And I think maybe somebody ought
to troubleshoot that one, see what we can do,
because that's going to make it a lot harder to
acquire these targets.
220 15 58 47 PLT There's a minus 10. The first one's complete.

Then I change to 125th. That's done. And I slew
up to 45 and right, 0.8.
PLT My GO time is 01:h0. I'm there; okay.
PLT Now, let's see where are we - over here.
PLT Okay. I'm looking for the San J1,a_ie [sic] reser-
voir. Know a guy that shot an elk not more than
5 miles from there, a year or so ago. Looks
like the mountains got clouds over them, Houston.
220 15 59 48 CDR Looks better up ahead, though, Jack. I can tell.
PLT I hope you're right.
CDR There's a big city down there. I can look through

my legs underneath the 190.
PLT Okay, 01 :40 my GO time.
PLT Might be going over Salt - there's Salt Lake.

We're over Salt Lake, Houston, right over the
Bonneville Salt Flats. We could have zapped that
one today very simply, but wouldn't have been set
up for next one. I guess we got good enough
data on that one.
220 16 00 31 CDR Okay. SHUTTER SPEED, MEDIUM on 190, right now.
220 16 O0 49 PLT 01:40, the time.
PLT It was clear over Salt Lake.
CDR For your information, Houston, on this down-link

box, we have positions 1 through 0, as opposed
to 1 through lO. So, where it says lO, I'll Just
stick it into zero place.
PLT Ah, shoot. We're coming up on broken clouds.

Come on lets get over them.
0
TAG Tape 220-07/T-142
Page 8 of 16 /976
220 16 01 42 PLT MARK, 01:40.
CDR Watch your IMC and make sure it doesn't move on

you.
PLT Broken clouds over the site.
220 16 02 14 CDR Okay. 192 is in READY.
220 16 02 21 PLT I got it.
CDR Good boy. How's the IMC?
PLT I got it.
CDR All right.
PLT Okay. It's hanging in there now.
CDR Good.
PLT We got the San Juanie [sic] Reservoir.
CDR You got it.
PLT Impossible shot. Okay, 7. Down-link box 7.
PLT Five degrees and - -
CDR ... bottom ... go.
PLT - - get a place on north shore in - of the forest.

A little cloud there, and we'll get away from
the cloud.
CDR Down-link box 9.
PLT Say hello to m_ friends, Mr. and Mrs. Ditty [?],

down there in the San J1_nie Reservoir from
k_mporia, Kansas.
220 16 0B 12 CDR 15, 192 MODE, CHECK. Okay 192 is in MODE, CHECK.
220 16 02 20 PLT Okay, we're running out. That's it. We got one,
Houston.
_ TAG Tape 220-07/T-142
Page 9 of 16/977
CDR Nice Job, Jack. That's a toughy. IMC worked

okay, huh?
PLT 0.5, 1.2.
CC Nice Job, Jack.
PLT Just barely saw that. Some nice targeting there,

Houston. You did a grand Job on that. Looks like
it came up a little bit shy of the target, the
site rather.
CDR Stand by. Stand by -
220 16 03 h6 CDR Pitch plus 30.
PLT Okay. now we're shooting for Lake Somerville.

No, wait a minute. Here come the clouds, again,
Houston.
CDH 42_.
PLT Rat link. Lake Somerville - then Hosenberg,

San Bernard Basin, Shell Tower. Standing by for
448. You're right, you do have clouds down there,
Houston.
CDR 424, 192 MODE, READY.
PLT 440, 193 ....
PLT Okay nothing but clouds and brown.
220 16 04 40 PLT MARK 04:h0. Let's zoom in there and see what we've
got.
CDR Zoom in.
PLT Don't recognize anything down there, Houston.
PLT ... all of Lake Sommerville.
PLT I don't see no Lake Somerville, Houston. I got

some kind of a road structure, but - -
220 16 05 20 CDR And ... MALFUNCTION 3 light is on.

TAG Tape 220-07/T-142
Page i0 of 16/978
PLT - - looks like a freeway around a city. Looks

like around Brenham; I'ii bet it is. Bet that's
the highway around Brenham.
CDR MALFUNCTIONlight 3 is on, but we'll Just keep

pressing on.
PLT Clouds really louse you up. Out to the coast.

There's nothing out at the coast.
CDR You know when they invent a new pointer they

ought to invent a radar pointer.
PLT Coast is completely clobbered, Houston.
CDR You could point with a tipper like a - in all

kinds of weather. Have an offset. 52.
PLT There's the city of Houston.
CDR 92 MODE to CHECK at 06:52. Maybe that camera 3

didn't really run out of film. It had a MAL, who
knows.
220 16 06 53 CDR Okay. 192 to CHECK.
PLT There's the Corpus Christi area. Houston, the

whole coast is clobbered and I can't get the
Shell Tower or St. Bernard, either one. They're
all under the clouds, solid clouds in this case.
It's complete overcast out there.
CC Afraid of that, Jack.
CDR Intervelomity [sic] 20, VTS to AUTO CAL. Get in

AUTO CAL, Jack, when you can.
PLT All right. Shucksl
CDR Keep going.
PLT Houston, looks like you homed me in on Brenham

there. I'm not sure, but there's a town with -
You homed me in on a city with a freeway around
the south side of it, looked like it was a outer
belt or south loop, half of a loop, around from
west to east around the south side of some city,
and I - I don't know if that was Brenham or not,
but it might have been.
TAG Tape 220-07/T-142
Page ii of 16 /979
CC Okay. We copied that.
CDR What do you think of this camera 37 Do you think

it really ran out of film or we had a malfunction.
CC It's kind of early to run out of film. We're

looking at it.
CDR Now, all I can maybe quess was it had a sick ...
film or something crazy like that.
CC Okay.
CDR You finished Jack, or you got another site?
PLT No, that's it, doggone it.
CDR Why don't you take this lid off and take a look
at 3.
PLT No, we don't want to expose the back side.
CDR Oh. Okay.
SPT Maybe you can sneak a peek in the upper right

hand corner. Oh, that's right. Because it's
liable to bother the exposure-taking.
PLT Yes.
CDR You're right. Good thinking.
SPT ...
PLT No, sir.
CDR No, we' re not.
SPT ...
CDR I've got another 25 minutes or - 15 minutes or

SO •
PLT No, I don't know what that town was you homed
me in on there, Houston. I - If it was Brenham,
Page 12 of 16 /980
I went back to try and get Somerville, but there

wasn't any Somerville there, so it must not have
been Brenham, must have been something else.
CDR Standby for a READY out, Jack.
220 16 09 l0 CDR 9:10. Your READY out should be out, okay?
PLT It's out.
CDR I mean that that's me, not you. I'm sorry.

STANDBY, OFF. R, OFF. SCAT's ON, R, ON. 09:38.
... told them where we were or something.
PLT And Houston, I saw a little bit of the road from

San Antone into Houston. Highway 1-10, and I
went from - I identified the point in the road
where either the - it's Brazos River or the river
to the east of Brazos crosses - crosses the - -
CDR 191 READY on now, Jack.
PLT - - crosses the highway.
CDR Mine isn't but your ... - -
PLT I wmnt directly from there and the ss.lt-dome area

was obscured by clouds - unable to see it.
CC Okay, Jack.
CDR OFF. 190 SHUTTER SPEED, SLOW. FRAM_S 30. In-

tervalometer i0. 30 now 93, CROSS-TRACK CONTIG.
130. 90 to STANDBY.
CDR Okay. We start in 16 minutes. Okay, Owen, we're

kind of cooling it up here for about 5 minutes.
Then we EREP start again. We must be whistling
over the water.
SPT ...
CDR Let's take a look at that camera 3, Jack. Unless

you got something to do.
PLT Okay.
CC A1, we'd like you to check the circuit breaker on

that 190 for camera 3.
/-- TAG Tape 220-07/T-I_2
Page 13 of 161981
PLT Let's lift it up this way, AI. No need to take it

all off.
CDR All right, go ahead.
PLT Circuit breaker is closed.
CC Okay. - -
PLT Camera 3.
CDR Why don't you take it off and remount it. Let
me take it off and remount it.
CC We're - We're going LOS in about 30 seconds and
PLT Don't take that off.
CC - - Vanguard at 16:22. Jack you're clear to use

the VTS across South American or playing with -
with or without IMC if you'd like.
220 16 ll 30 PLT Okay. Thank you.
CDR And we looked at K-3 camera, took it off and it

had no film in it. So apparently it did run out.
CC Okay. Copy.
CC Vanguard 16:22.
CDR Thank you, Jack, that good o
PLT Yes, sir.
CDR Excellent. That a way to do, Jack. Somebody

should have known that was going to run out.
PLT *** reason I ran out sooner than the rest.
220 16 ll 56 SPT I'll Just bet you that - that's a thick base film.
220 16 22 36 PLT - - must be a ... We got 657, we got no IIC.
CDR How's the - -
PLT BERYLLIUM? BERYLLIUM is only 2 volts in

APERTURE 4.
TAG Tape 220-07/T-142
Page 14 of 16 /982
CDR Gives you a clue, doesn't it?
PLT So, we're in the horn already. We're in the SAA.

We're coming to SAA now.
CDR Yes.
PLT We know that. We know that. It's right over

South America. On the other side. 20, 40, B0.
194 MODE, MANUAL. There's the old Vanguard.
CC You're right. We've got you for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay, we're whistling along. We just came into

the South Atlantic anomaly apparently because
we had a little master - I mean little tone and
all six FILM ADVANCE lights are - FILM ADVANCE
MALFUNCTION lights are on now. The last two
just came about 2 seconds ago. So apparently
we've finished _-ith 190. You may want me to turn
it off right now; I don't know.
PLT And, Crip, the IMC on the VTS does drift, and I
started out with a - at 45 up in zero and Just
went IMC, ON, and I'm at MAX zoom I'm tracking -
trying to track an object on the ground or Just
letting it track by itself. It's not holding on
to any object on the ground. It seems to be
drifting down and to the right, say at about a
150-degree angle from 12 o'clock, and it looks
like to me on the ground that it's at MAX ZOOM
traversing about a quarter of a mile per second.
And it's a little bit intermittent. It gets
down at about a minus 15 degrees and then the -
it seems to sometimes track straight down from
there, as opposed to that 120-degree angle. I
don't think it's going to cause us to close up
the shop, but it's going to make things a little
trickier. May have been the reason that I never
saw Lake Somerville there. I should have seen
Somerville because the clouds weren't as bad right
there as they were around Rosenberg. And I'd appre-
ciate it if somebody could identify for me a town
in that area that's got that freeway around -
constructed around the south side of town; maybe
it's a bypass or something.
TAG Tape 220-07/T-I_2
Page 15 of 16/983
220 16 25 20 CC We're look - we're locking at it, Jack. trying to

identify it. And we copy what you say about the
IMC.
PLT Okay. Few fires on the ground down here ; quite

a few now. I guess, at one time, I might have
6 to l0 of them in the viewfinder at MINIMUM -
at MAX zoom. Must be burning off some sugarcane
or something like that down there.
CDR Jack, you're supposed to start the SI m-ueuver

in 12 seconds or so.
PLT Well, why don't I Just go back here and start

the SI m-neuver.
CDR Okay. I'm glad they put it on a pad. _nose

guys are okay.
PLT Are you all secured there?
CDR It's done here. 16:26 right now is the maneuver

time, Jack.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay, let's park this thing, do 190 magazine de-

plete, and do tape measurement. Well, we - did
it itself; but we'll do it anyway. Okay, let me
get out the old postcard, voice record B-7.
Okay, one of my favorite recordings. 30, B-7
is 30 for the record.
PLT Okay, we're on our way back, Houston - to SI.

And we never did seem to get a star locked up on
that pass there, Houston.
200 16 26 56 CC I think it locked up and then we lost it. We

expected that.
PLT Oh, I see, okay.
CDR That's what happens sometimes. Okay, close and

latch 190, RECORD switch to OFF. EREP cal follows.
No. AUTO CAL monitor mag depletion. EREP, START,
then STOP after l0 seconds.
TAG Tape 220-07/T-142
Page 16 of 16 /98h
PLT Right.
PLT Okay. We'll get the star tracker ready here.

And I copy plus 3399 outer.
PLT Outer, you _mmy.
PLT 19 and minus 728. It's 1900 - plus 1900 and a

minus 728. That's right down here.
220 16 29 00 CDR Houston, l've got a question for you.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Seems a little crazy, but on this 190 film de-

pletion, which we suspect is already done. I
went MODE, AUTO, READY light on, frames 99 in-
tervalometer 2, F/_EP, START and then STOP after
l0 seconds. It says when camera sound stops,
repeat all previous steps. Now the camera sounds
we're listening for that camera's keep making
noise. So, I'd have to wait for 99 sounds.
CC Okay. And, Jack. Looking at - looking at the

town, it really looked like it should have been
Brenham. It possible could have been Bryan, al-
though Bryan has a loop that sort of goes up to
the north of it, too. And I copied that you only
had one on the south, or the southwest.
PLT Yes. It was on the south.
CDR What should I do about 90, do you think, Crip?
220 16 30 01 PLT I looked - -
END OF TAPE
r
TAG Tape 220-08/T-143
_, Time: 220:16:30 to 220:18:00
Page i of 7 /985
220 16 30 i0 CC Stand by, A1.
CDR Yes. Because otherwise it looks like we Just keep

running this thing until -
CC A1, we conclude that you've already expended all

the film. So you can press on.
CDR Okay. Well, I - I'm Just thinking about this

checklist. I want to change it. It says, "When
camera sound stops." That isn't what you mean, I
don't think.
CC Okay. We'll - we'll look at - -
CDR I think it ought - -
CC - - AI, we'll look at that. We're going LOS here

in 30 seconds and have you again at Goldstone at
17:33.
220 16 30 43 CDR Okay. I'm going to go to STANDBY on multispectral

camera. Is that right? Okay?
220 16 30 57 CDR That's wrong. Okay? Okay, Houston. On this

190 depletion check, I - I'd like you to send me a
checklist change or whatever - or Just a verbal one.
I think you want me to rephrase the sentence on
that card to say, "when all lights on." "When cam-
era sound stops or all MALFGNCTION lights on, MODE
to STANDBY; wait _ seconds; POWER, OFF." Seems to
me, that's what we want to - really want to do.
CC Copy, A1.
220 16 31 27 CDR All right. I thought you would ...
220 17 34 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over the States for

about 13 minutes.
SPT You don't have any real-time TV at this point, do

you, Robert?
TAG Tape 220-08/T-143
Page 2 of 7 /986
CC We're looking at it snowing out there on the 52

right now.
220 17 34 27 SPT Okay; well, I'm just going through that alignment.
And A1 is making a condensate dump at this time,
and you can see the effects of that. I don't know
whether you're worried about that or not, but you
can see there the streaks are so bright it affects
the video level and the AGC takes over. At least
it does on my monitor; I assume it does on yours.
CC Roger.
SPT Okay, I am now at the up/right - correction - up,

8 arc seconds; right, 16 arc seconds position on
the pointing error sensors. And I'm now going to
center it so that the diffraction rings appear to
be symmetric.
CC Copy.
220 17 35 28 SPT Okay. I've reduced my scope to low contrast. And, -

incidentally, the dump is completed at this time.
So you can see the rapidity with which the contamina-
tion particles decrease.
CC Roger.
CC And, 0wen, would you - For your information, if you'd

stay off the DAS for us, we're going to power down
Y-3.
SPT Okay, I'ii - try staying clear.
CC 0wen, you got time to answer a little question for

us?
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. The 55 PI has requested for you to observe

filament contrast between sunrise noon and sunset,
to see if you see a thermal or a Doppler shift
effects on the H-Alpha structure visibility. And
he'd like you to check both H-Alpha 1 and 2 if
possible.
Page 3 of 7 /987
SPT H-Alpha i and 2. And does he think looking at

network on the disk or fil_ments, I guess, was the
word that you mentioned - filaments, on the disc is
the appropriate or the best thing to try to make
this comparison with? Is that right?
CC That was the recommendation, yes - to use the fila-

ment.
SPT Okay. And can you get any word about how they like
the sFmmetery of the down-linked picture at this
point ?
CC We're checking that one.
220 17 37 2_ SPY Okay, I believe it's about the best. It's just -
I'll go ahead and assume that that's correct. Now
my pointing error sensor at this point is reading
out: up, l0 arc seconds. I have to go to the
TIMES l0 SCALE and it's reading to the right at
about 96 arc seconds at this particular point.
- SC Up, i0, and right,96.
CC Okay, we think the sym,,etery looks real good here.
SPT Okay, and that's the completion of this test. And

I'll go ahead now with picking up on JOP 2A, step 6.
I have the other numbers, incidentally, which I'll
read down to you a little later, whenever I've got
some time, on the fine Sun sensor and M - and
PES comparisons.
CC Okeydoke.
220 17 38 27 SPT I'ii leave you with that coronagraph picture as long
as I can here, until I need to get started on the
other JOP.
CC Okay. And, 0wen, whenever you get a chance, we'd

like to know whether you managed to complete building
block 1 this morning.
SPT I've got all that information on channel A, but I

would like to mention to you the revised building
block l, which is revised for our flight - there's
no way to complete chip A in those 7 minutes. It
TAG Tape 220-08/T-143
Page h of 7/988
took me a little over 20 minutes, although I did

have some extra complications involved. It's about
a 15-minute chip. And so it's the extra 82A and
B time exposures all have to be done sequentially,
and it's going to stretch that chip A out, no matter
what else that can be done. So I'd like the Flight
Planners to take that into account in scheduling it.
And I did work up to the first truncation point,
and the rest of the information is on channel A.
CC Copy.
220 17 39 22 SPT JOP 12 Delta was not done either, but that was done
last night on the last pass of the day. And I think
perhaps that's adequate.
CC Okay, we got that.
220 17 39 h5 SPT Okay, I'm going to cut your WLC off right now, and
let you take a look at H-Alpha while we go over
there and take a look at 85.
CC Okeydoke.
SPT It's character changes almost from hour to hour,

doesn't it?
CC Sure does. That's a pretty picture.
220 17 41 28 CDR Okay, Crip. You might tell the flight planners that
we're doing M509-E while we do the condensate dump
check. So we'll have all three of those bottles
charged by another BO minutes.
CC Okay. We copy that.
SPT Okay. There's your position for the photographs.
CC And, Owen, we did not rewind the - the VTR. So

you can Just pick it up for recording, if you want
to, after we go LOS.
SPT I don't think I'll have any more need for recording
here unless you want something recorded.
CC No, we were Just letting you know it's avaiable for

you.
I .
TAG Tape 220-08/T-143
Page 5 of 7 /989
SPT Okay. Fine. Thank you very much. And I see you've
turned it off now, haven't you?
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Thank you.
220 17 42 38 CC A1, could you give us an idea as to whether that -

you got a good seal with that glove or not - on
that condensate mount?
CDR I got what I thought was a good seal, although I

look at the glove and I don't see a particular
amount of vacuum being pulled in there. Let me look
at the DELTA-P. I haven't looked at it lately.
CC Yes. We indicate it's dropping off.
CDR It sure is. It's down from about 3.9 to where it

is now. Now the thing that you wanted me to seal
is right aro_ud the hose dismount. The hose side
of the quick-disconnect.
CC A1, did you try peeling back the foil to - to tape

that down or did you just tape it around the hose?
220 17 43 54 CDR I taped it around the hose per instructions. I

could sure peel back and work on it some more.
CC Stand by 1.
CC Understand it did not suck the glove down at all.

Is that correct?
CDR That's correct. And I'm putting some more gray tape
on it now, instead of that red. We'll see how it
does now.
CDR You may have significantly more volume in the glove

than you do in the tank when it's bottomed out, for
all I know.
CC Would expect it to - see it pull down a little bit

anyhow.
220 17 44 48 CDR Well, it would be hard to see a little bit, Crip.

You know, the glove is like a - kind of a limp
TAG Tape 220-08/T-143
Page 6 of 7 /990
balloon; it's got that much air in it. And right

now it's hard to tell whether it was less limp
than it was before, because it hasn't gone completely
evacuated and it hasn't blown up. So it's - you
know, it's in the area where it's difficult to tell
if it really has taken much of a vacuum.
CC Yes; we appreciate that.
220 17 45 34 CC Okay, A1. About the only suggestion we've got is

to see if we can torque that B-nut on the back of
that connector down some. And to do that, it would
take the 9/16-inch wrench backed up by the crescent
and 140 inch-pounds is max torque on the thing. If
you think you can do that, we'd appreciate it if
you would give it a try.
CDR Okay. Now this is the B-nut on the - connector

that has the glove on it at the moment?
220 17 46 05 CDR Well now, let me do some thinking along with you.
I'll go do that in a minute. The thing doesn't
look like it's leaking there.
CC Yes, we - we - we appreciate that. But what you

were saying about your volume there is also correct.
CDR You want me to dump the tank again and put some
more vacuum and do it maybe two or three times to
see if it ever sucks the glove down?
220 17 46 39 CC Okay, A1, we're going to go LOS here in about

30 seconds. We don't want you to get off your
Flight Plan. If you can't finish it, forget about
it. If you can tighten it and go ahead and suck
it down on the tank again and try getting a better
seal - and you can do that by peeling off the foil -
we'd appreciate that. But, again, don't get behind
on your Flight Plan. And we're going to have you
again at Goldstone at 18:00.
220 17 47 ll CC Okay. We're seeing 82A and B advancing, but no

"change in frame count. Can you give us an update
on that? Correction, 82B only.
" TAG Tape 220-08/T-143
Page 7 of 7/991
220 17 57 55 CC Skylab, we're A0S through Vanguard for about

i0 minutes.
SPT Roger.
220 17 58 26 CC And, gentlemen, we show that we've had another

Y-axis rate gyro discompare. We're going to update
the drift on Y-2 and go back to Y-I/Y-2 control.
And so if you will give us the DAS for a couple of
minutes, please.
SPT You have it.
SPT Boy, if we were trying to handle that from up here,

it'd be a full-time Job for two of us.
CC Full-time Job for several people down here.
SPT Incidentally, as far as I know, we've never had

an interrupt on S056. Can they confirm that their
experiment has never been interrupted prematurely?
CC Checking it. Okay. We show that we've had no

interrupts, which is a good deal.
SPT One of those positive glitches for a change.
220 17 59 30 CC Roger.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 220-09/T-1_4
Time: 220:18:00 to 220:19:30
Page 1 of 3 /993
220 18 00 16 SPT Okay, on page 2-19, there are five pairs of num-
bers that I want to read you relative to the
FF PES calibrations. First pair is, all
zips/plus 80_ number 2 is all zips plus 8; third
number is plus 70/plus 10; fourthe one is plus
72/plus 81. And the fifth one back at the center,
I'm Just reeomparing, - rechecking for you now.
Stand by and I'll give you the fifth pair.
220 18 O1 08 CC Roger, Owen. We're not showing the frames re-

maining decrementing on 82B. Can you give us
the latest - what you got reading on there?
SPT 82B is i_86.
CC Okay. That looks good. I think we've got a

telemetry problem here. It looks like it's
working okay.
220 18 01 58 SPT Okay. The UP/DOWN, LEFT/RIGHT, when we are back

at 00 on the pointing - on the ALIGN POINTING -
is plus 36, up; plus 45, right; and that completes
the - all the numbers that you need for that
calibration. And I am now putting the FINE SUN
SENSOR BIAS back IN.
CC Copy.
CC And, Owen. You can - You got the DAS back.
220 18 05 58 CC Owen, can you verify for us on your ATM schedule

whether you've got passes set up for 18:56 and
20:36?
SPT Affirm. The ATM schedule has 18:56, 20:36, Just

as you say.
CC Okay. Thank you.
220 18 06 39 SPT 55 is getting an extra mini-raster of active

region 85 here.
CC Roger.
TAG Tape 220-09/T-144
P_e 2 of 3 1994
220 18 07 08 CC Hey, Skylab. We're i minute from LOS. We'll have

you again over Hawaii at 19:08, 19:08.
SPT Roger.
220 18 08 46 CDR A couple of other comments, Crip, for SL-4.

Tell them to bring up another roll of gray tape
apiece. I think ... And they need to bring up
another complete roll of red tape. The little
red tape roll from the MDA is Just missing and
all we have is the OWS red tape. So what they
could do is Just bring up a roll and then they'd
be in good shape.
220 18 09 12 CC Gray tape, red tape. Roger.
220 19 08 31 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through Hawaii for 5 minutes.
220 19 09 12 CC CDR, I know you're busy there at the ATM panel.

If you get a - get a moment between stuff, l'd
like you to give us a call and I can update you
on a couple of items.
CDR Go ahead now; l'm Just rolling.
CC Okay, A1. When you get a chance, we'd appreciate

a report on the condensate system. We see a
pretty good DELTA-P there and wonder if we did
anything different. And I need to mod your
ATM schedule pad for your next pass.
CDR Okay, Just a second.
CC And, CDR, at your first opportunity, we'd appre-

ciate it if you'd reacquire the star per the
star tracker pad.
220 19 ii 36 CDR The situation on the condensate tank is this.

I've dumped it two times - that was the third -
and I been watching the glove and I haven't seen
a lot of change in the glove. I peeled back the
tape and then underneath that is some other tape
that I peeled back. Underneath that is some big
rubber thing which I did not peel back, because
it looked like it was a sort of fold.
CC Okay, it looks like the tank is holding pretty

good for a while. Do you have time to copy a
couple of ATM schedule things?
TAG Tape 220-09/T-144
Page 3 of 3/995
CDR Go ahead.
220 19 12 18 CC Okay, if you got your pad out there, on the 20:36,
we want to make that Just run a normal building
block 4. And where it says 48, in the 56, change
to EXPOSURE, NORMAL to EXPOSURE, LONG, scratch all
that. Want a complete building block 4.
CDR Okay, so you - first we have a 4A and then later

on we Just have a 4 - -
CC Negative.
CDR - - Completely normal.
CC Neg - You can Just scratch the A off there and

Just say do a building block 4, because we want
you to go through all the steps.
CDR Okay, so now I got a - a J0P 2A, step l, building

block 4, and then Just go through all those steps.
CC That's affirm.
CDR Okay.
220 19 13 39 CC A1, we show 56 out of configuration. We need you

to go back to PATROL, 1 - correction PATROL,
NORMAL, and start the thing over to reselect the
mode.
CDR As far as I know I haven't started anything yet.
CC You won't get it unless you reselect that PATROL,

though. We're going LOS. We'll see you over
Vanguard at 21:14, and we'll be doing a data voice
recorder dump there.
CDR Okay, you mean I've got to select PATROL between

each thing. I didn't start anything, so I Just
wondered why.
220 19 14 18 CC Roger. Correction on my A0S time. It's 19:36.
END OF TAPE
z._ Time: 220:19:30 to 220:21;00
Page 1 of 8/997
220 19 36 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS across the Vanguard

for i0 minutes, I0 minutes.
CDR Okay, I'm running - ... I'ii didn't give you the
real time for the down-link, so I put it on
VTR ...
CC Break, break, Skylab; you're unreadable right now.
220 19 36 57 CC A1, you were breaking up on that and it was

completely unreadable. Wait until we get a good
lock here and I'll cal] you.
220 19 37 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We had lost the down-link on

you there for a while. I think we got you back,
and I missed your previous co-_ents, AI.
CDR Okay. I didn't give you that real time awhile

ago for the doE-link, so I put it on the VTR.
220 19 38 06 CC Okay, that's fine. And the call I gave you going
over the hill back there at Hawaii was kind of
fouled up. What had happened is, appsx_ntly,
56 had got stopped sort of in between filters,
and we needed you to have cycled out of PATROL
MODE and then back in to get back into FILTER i.
But I don't know whether you managed to get that
or not.
CDR I just went ahead and did it on faith. I didn't

really understand why. In fact, I called Owen
and said that's s_ething new. But I guess it is
something that we Just don't see in particular,
because nobody knows if you get caught between
filters.
220 19 38 h2 CC No. What had happened was - apparently, it

looked like on Owen's last pass, we were getting -
he gave us a couple of extra pictures, and it
got stopped, apparently by turning off the
camera, which froze it up in between filters and
then when the camera was turned - camera power
was turned back on, it was not at the proper
filter position. That was an abnormal configuration.
TAG Tape 220-I01T-145
Page2 of 8 _998
CDR Okay. That's good. I tell you, there's one

funny maybe the backroom can help on. On this
building block - I mean this step 4, it says
peak DETECTOR 3 on zero, which I did. And it
turns out detector peak - I_ETECTOR 3 peaks
greatly from a - from a normal level of about
2 or 300 up to about 1400 what looks to me like
right on the exact limb of the S_m. If I come
further in onthe disk, it decreases; and, if I
go further out in the corona, it decreases. Now
that's why I'm taking the data. I'm Just wondering
if that's the place, because I noticed, as I went
out further along the pr_nence away from the
edge of the Sun, it decreased; it didn't increase
on 3. See if you think that's the right spot.
220 19 h0 06 SPT While he's checking on that, let me give you some
other word back to the S056 people. The way the
camera got in that configuration was doing item
number 13, which requires camera power to go off
and then turn back on and start/stop. So you'd
better take a look at the procedures on item 13
to m_ke sure that they are satisfactory and will
not hang up the camera.
CC Okay, Owen; appreciate that.
220 19 40 40 CDR And I gather, also, next step 4, which I'm getting
ready to start right now - I Just started - it
should be done on the same spot and that the
same pointing instructions apply.
CC Okay, A1. We concur with where you were t_Sking

about on DETECTOR 3. It should peak out on the
limb.
CDR Is that really where you wanted it?
220 19 41 14 CDR Is that true with all prominences or did I - what's

the story there?
CDR Okay. I'ii see if I can get you a good story on

it. And, for Jack or you, Owen, on this coming
UP 92 run, I guess y'all had a comment about
legband cals. And I can give you our latest word
on that, if you'd like.
_, TAG Tape 220-I0/T-145
Page B of 8/999
SPT Well, we think we're straight on it. I hope it's

not different frc_ what we've got, because we've
got a couple of -we've got legbands aIS laid
out now for everybody. Is there any change that
we have to make?
CC No, not really, 0wen. My understanding was that,

apparently, you gentlemen had a question earlier
this morning about whether to perform the cal with
the LBNPD closed or open. The recomendation
here is to go ahead and perform it with the LBNPD
open so you can verify circuit integrity. But -
And then when you close it gently it shouldn't
affect the calibration at a11. However, if you
don't find that is true, well, you can go ahead
and - and do the cal after the LBNPD is closed.
220 19 42 24 SPT Okay. Fine. Th_.nk you. That's Just the way we
had planned to do it. And I - It's a good
procedure. Thank you.
r CC Okeydoke.
CDR The problem is, the idea that it doesn't affect

it is not true. And no matter how close -
carefully you close it, we've noticed on _ll us in
all these different ones, it changes it about
0.15 percent. And so we had to go back and
re-cal. And we knew that the reason it was being
done open is so we could verify circuit integrity.
We haven't had problems along those lines. So it
turns out, I think, the best for everybody if we
close it and then go ahead and cal. Now, if it
turns out we have circuit problems, we can open
it up again and work on it. But that hasn't
been the problem. It's been the fact that you had
to cal it then twice. First one didn't reA11y do
any good for you.
220 19 43 07 CC Okay, A1, we copy that, and that's - that's fine

with us.
CDR We think we can get him better data. I think

Owen was asking you. I - I phoned down yesterday
and mentioned the exact legbands we were going
to use for the rest of the time, if we possibly
_ could, and wanted to know if those were okay.
Page h of 8 /i000
We thought they were on the approved list, but

there's about five lists floating around, and I
assume they are because we didn't get a "no"
an swe r •
220 19 43 38 CO We uuderstand what you've got laid out and that's

fine. You can press on like that.
CDR Okay. One other point and - We decided to use

two blood pressure cuffs. We - The maximum number
of people you run per day is two. And this way
we don't end up drowning out the second person
through the blood pressure cuff. So we - we're
going to use the one that's been used all along,
and then I broke out one the other day, which
Jack read down and I used. And so those are the
two we'll be using. So the equipment ought to
stay the samp unless something breaks or you find
out it doesn't work.
CC Okay, that 's fine, A1.
220 19 _4 22 CDR It's funny. This prominence I'm working on is

very s_all in H-alpha, and the one further to -
further up on the disk, as you view it with this
attitude, is much bigger. However, on the XUV MON,
it - they're Just the opposite. You can hardly
see the H-alpha one that's large, and this one's
very large in the UV.
CC Okay, A1. Copied small on H-alpha and large on

XUV MON, on the one you're working on.
220 19 45 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going over the hill in

about 30 seconds, see you again at Hawaii at
20:b3. And, A1, that condensate DELTA-P is
already dropped all the way out to us. I guess
it's down about 0.6 now, and you can go back to
your original configuration on it, when you get -
get a chance. We did not find the leak.
CDR That's right. Now if you'll tell me that B-nut,

I'll torque it again for you and I gather we're
going through a - some anomaly right now. Got
a high X-ray, but nothing on the beryllium, or ...
Page 5 of 8/1001
CC Okay. You're - you're in the South Atlantic

anomaly.
CDR Thought so. Everything else was okay. The -

What was the torque on this B-nut? I'll - I'll
check it.
CC 140 inch-pounds. But - okay.
220 19 46 29 CDR Okay. I'll get it later; not now. By the way,
we charged all the bottles. Bottle 2 is B000;
... is 32 - -
220 20 43 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Hawaii for

I0 minutes.
CDR Okay, Crip. Everything's going okay. I went

down and looked at a wrench to work on that
condensate. Discovered that - it doesn't look
like it's a B-nut. It looks like it's a stud
that may be welded on or something. I couldn't
see anything to hold onto to torque the other nut.
CC Co - -
CDR It doesn't looks like a double - you know, double-

nut B-nut.
CC No, It's not a double - B - nut. What it is, is

the - The back of the QD itself is - got a hex on it,
and that's where you'd have to put the - the
crescent wrench on. And then - -
220 20 43 49 CDR Where do you hold it when you turn? You mean -
you mean it's screwed into the - the tube itself?
I mean what part do you hold when you torque that?
CC Okay. You want to torque the B-nut that's on the -

on the hose, and you want to hold the QD with
the crescent. And the - the back of the QD has
got a hex on it that you can put the crescent on.
CDR I saw that, but I didn't see any B-nut on the

hose. I only see the one hex on the back of the -
of the connector.
220 20 )4422 CC Okay. The connector itself has - has got a big
hex on it. The physical - yes, it's about an
inch in diameter.
Page 6 of 8/1002
CDR That's right. An inch emd an eighth.
CC Okay. Right behind that should be a B-nut for the

9/16-inch wrench.
CDR I don't see it. I'ii take the hose stuff off and
look.
CC No, no, no, no, A1, don't sweat with - Sweat it

now. And I tell you, we're going to try reschedule
sc_e time later to - to troubleshoot the thing,
A1.
220 20 44 57 CDR Okay. I wasn't worried about it, I Just wanted

to - it Just didn't look like .... Okay. The
hose - the hose that goes to the center of the
water sensor ...
CC That's affirmative. The one that goes right in

the middle.
220 20 45 35 CC That was affirmative, A1. It's the one that's -

one's right - connects right in the middle. Right
behind that door.
CDR That's right. That's the one. Okay.
220 20 46 h6 CDR Houston, are you dumping the VTR? We - We're

using it, also.
CC Stand by i. You say you are using the VTR?
CDR Yes, we 're doing that 131.
CC Roger. Our problem was, we ran out of tape.

We 're rewinding it.
CDR Okay; understand.
CC And we're recording the real time stuff on the

ground. So we aren't losing anything.
CDR Okay.
F
Page 7 of 8/1003
220 20 48 09 CDR One point I picked out to do the step B - or

chip B on - is - It was brighter than A11 the
rest, even though it was very small. And I peaked
up DETECTOR 3, and it was up in the 6 and 700's
where the others were down in the 2 and 300's.
So, it's a pretty bright UV spot anyway.
CC Roger, AI. And we did understand that was right

on the limb. It wasn't off of the limb, right?
CDR No, it looked to me, that unless - You know, a

lot of times when those prominences - filaments
cross the limb, right on the limb, it's hard to
discern exactly which is prominence and which is
- limb if - if it's sort of a long - if you see
the long edge of it. And this looked to me like
it was right on the limb. Now, the only way I
could check it was to move further inside the
limb to see if the detector went up and dow -
or down. As I moved further in the LIMB, the
detector went down, so I had a feeling it must
be what you were lookingfor.
CC Okay. You checked it off the limb, right?
220 20 49 14 CDR Well, it was right - you know, right on the edge;
it's a toss up. I'd say it had a chance of being
on or it a chance of being off. It was right
on the - the margin there and it's not that
clear. When there's a - There's a very clear
demarcation line when you haven't got a filament
or a prominence. But when there isn't - when
there is one, then, you know, it sort of blends
in together right there.
CC Roger. Understand. Then m_ question was, whether

you had tried to take it above the limb to see
whether it - did it fell - did DETECTOR 3 fall
off there.
CDR It did fall off. Now it's conceivable I didn't

go far enough. I went as far as the - it showed
on H-alpha but, you know, the XUV was awful big
out there. Perhaps I should've scanned all
around even where I couldn't have seen it on
H-alpha and tried to find something.
TAG Tape 220-10/T-145
Page 8 of 8/1004
220 20 50 Ol CC Okay. We copied that, AI. We were trying to get

you a story about - we - we would've suspected
the peaking would've been above the limb.
CDR Okay. I suspect what I should've done, is gone

out maybe and Just kind of scanned around until
I happened on to a bright UV place. Maybe the
H-alpha spot that I used wasn't really that
bright in UV.
220 20 50 22 CC And, A1, would you stay off the DAS for us. We're
going to update that Y-2 drift. That thing's
still running around all swirly on us.
220 20 51 24 CC We're somewhat confused with what's going on with

the TV right now. Are you still recording 131?
CDR Jack was recording 131 and he asked me to turn on

the TV, which I did. Then I said, 'h/ou left
your drive wheel motor on." He said, 'Well, they
may be dumping." And I said, 'Well usually they
tell us." But - so I checked with you and
apparently you were dumping. Now, they - maybe
they're sending it down to you real time.
CC Okay. But have you completed the TV for 131?

That's what - really what my question was.
220 20 52 03 CDR The answer is yes, from Jack. He must of Just

finished.
PLT Yes, we gave you an OGI instead of an MS, Crip.
CC Roger. We'll be dumping the VTR over at the

Vanguard next site coming up at - About 1 minute
from LOS right now and we'll see you again at -
over the Vanguard at 21:15, 21:15; and we'll
be doing a data voice recorder dump there.
CDR A]] right. Incidentally, I tried the image

enhancement scope, but didn't get - have a lot
of luck. I may he operating it incorrectly, but
I couldn't get any action out of it.
220 20 52 44 CC Copy.
END OF TAPE
_" Time: 220:21:00 to 220:22:30
Page i of 3 /1005
SIC/LAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
220 21 14 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard for

9 minutes doing a data voice recorder dump. And
we'll have to take - get you off the DAS for a
minute. We didn't - to get that Y-2 drift update
in.
CDR You got it, Crip.
CC Thank you.
CDR Okay. We've finished with the planned program.

I might give you a little shopping list item 4 of
a chromospheric network here near this active
region if I can find one that will fill the slit.
CC Okeydoke.
220 21 15 18 PLT Say, Bob, we Just completed MI31 and I gave you
some OGI instead of motion sensitivity to begin
with, but we went out through the whole run and
also pieced together enough of the motion
sensitivity to fill the square. So looks like we
knocked off TV 19 and 20 both there - like for
you to tell me how they turned out, so we'll
know whether or not we got it all.
CC Okay, we'll try to keep you updated on that. We

had a little bit confusion on the dumping and
recording back there awhile ago over Hawaii, but
we'll get it straightened out.
PLT Okeydoke. Thank you.
220 21 17 13 CC And CDR, for your information, we've got your

phone call set up for about 00:30 tonight.
CDR Thank you.
220 21 17 27 CDR Okay. I think I've got one of these channels

that's ... one of the network - the boundaries,
that's long enough, I'll see if I can peak it up.
CC Okay.
Page 2 of 3 /1006
CC And we've completed commanding. The DAS is yours

once more.
220 21 18 58 0C And Skylab, we're - have got the VTR full right
now and we've got a little problem trying to find
a good dump site. So if you record any more,
you're Just going to wipe out what you've already
recorded. So it would be advisable not to use
the TV until you get another GO.
CDR Okay, Crip. And I wasn't able to pull off that

shopping list item; I ran out of time. We're
down to ESS now, so I'll Just cool it.
CC Copy.
220 21 19 B4 CDR I can get it to pick up a little on detector B,

not at all on detector 1. And for your information,
I went back there and fooled around with that
connector and there ain't no nut on the other
side of the big one. Looks like it's Just welded
in there or s_nething.
CC Okay; we copy that, A1.
220 21 21 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We need to ask you about those

legbands you laid out. Apparently there's some
confusion as to whether the ones you laid out are
the ones that were specified in general message
number 6. Is that so, or not so?
220 21 21 34 CDR Well, we'd laid out the numbers and sent them down
to y'all, so you can check and see if they were
satisfactory. There's been a lot of numbers come
up that said use these, and some that said no, we
changed our mind, use these others. So we thought
maybe a better approach would be to send you some
numbers that we thought were okay and ask - let-
ters - and ask you if - are you agreed that they
were okay. So that's what we did.
CDR I can go down there and look at them and read

them off again to you, Crip.
220 21 22 07 CC Well, we're going to have LOS in about i minute.

We're probably not going to be able to - to get
that in. Let me see if I can get a course of
action for you. We'll have you again shortly,
Just a second.
Page 3 of 3/1007
SPT Crip, let me give you those letters. On my left

leg we intend to use Alfa X-raM, on my right leg
Bravo Uncle.
CC Roger. Copy. Thank you very much, Owen.
CC And we're going LOS in 1 minute - we'll have you

again, Hawaii at 22:25, 22:25.
220 21 22 48 CC Those are good legbands. We concur with the

numbers.
220 22 22 39 CC Skylab, this is Houston through H_waii for

2-1/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Roger. We're all busy medical experimenting here,

and exercising.
CC Okay. I copy that transmission, you're loud and

garbled.
220 22 23 02 PLT We can't hear you above the roar of the bike.
CC Okay, it's a Mexican standoff. I can't hear you

above the roar of the bike, either.
220 22 23 58 PLT Your good friend and mine, the Okie from Oklahoma,
has completed another M092 successfully.
220 22 24 06 CC Roger. We'll forward that to the Guinness Book

of World Records.
220 22 26 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston, above the roar of the

bike ; we have i minute to LOS. Next station contact
will be Vanguard in 26 minutes. It is possible
that you may get a CMG desat firing or two here.
We're showing 88 percent on the momentum; it's
nothing to be really concerned about, but we
thought you ought to be aware that you may get
desat and possibly some alarms along with it.
220 22 26 39 CC Over.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 220-12/T-147
Time: 220:22:30 to 220:24:00
Page 1 of 5/1009
220 22 52 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for - for

approximately lO minutes. We're going to be forc-
ing a contingency momemtum sample, so we'd like
you to stay off the DAS.
CDR Okay, Bruce. We're all downstairs.
CC Roger. Out.
220 22 53 58 PLT Say, Bruce. Did they dump the VTR yet?
CC Negative, Jack. You're still full up on board.
220 22 54 20 CC Basically, Jack, for the highest quality dump, we're

planning on dumping the material you currently have
on tape over the States. And if you could look
at the orbit track, why you're about 180 degrees
out of phase with the States right now. So, it'll
probably be well into your sleep cycle before we
get around to dumping it. Over.
PLT Okay. It was MI31. And we kind of pieced it to-

gether. But I imagine they can cut it up and put
the back end on the front and all that sort of
thing so they can come out right.
220 22 54 52 CC Yes. We can make it come out very nicely there,

no problems. And in point of fact, if we did dump
it through Vanguard, why we'd probably have to
wait on the mail to send the tapes back to us so
we wouldn't be able to see it in real time anyway.
PLT Right, I understand. I had thought we were sup-

posed to do the OGI and turned out they want
motion sensitivity. So rather than cutting off the
OGI, we just did both of them. But we had to kind
of piece it together to get it all in.
CC It's all right. We copied that, oh, about a rev

ago, also, I believe.
PLT And I'm going to work on this mol sieve fan B mal-
function procedure.
Page 2 of 5/I010
CC Okay.
220 22 55 58 CC And Jack, this is Houston. While you're up there

in the vicinity of the ATM, it looks like the MPC
was left enabled and also the ROLL switch was left
enabled. We'd like to get them both put to INHIBIT
to keep the actuators from heating up over a period
of time; when you have a chance. Over.
PLT How do you like that?
CC We like it.
220 23 01 09 PLT Hey, Bruce, turns out going through the malfunction
procedure on that fan that the circuit breaker did
not open. So the assumption is there's something
wrong with the fan, and we'll go ahead with the
fan replacement.
CC Okay, Jack. Mighty fine. We got 1 minute and 30

seconds left here at Vanguard. We will be dumping
your data voice tape recorder at the next site,
which is Ascension. AOS at 6 plus 17 in approx-
imately 5 mintues. And press on with the fan re-
pl ac ement. Out.
PLT Okay. I probably won't get it done before LOS.
220 23 O1 45 CC Well, I don't see why not. You got a minute.
220 23 06 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Acsension for 9

minutes. We are dumping the data voice tape re-
corder this pass. Out.
220 23 07 25 PLT Okay, Bruce. I'm starting this mol sieve fan re-
placement. I noticed I got to yank some circuit
breakers on page 9-32 of the systems checklist. I
was wondering if that's going to mess up your tape
recorder dump or anything else.
CC Stand by. We'll take a quick peek.
CC Hey, Jack. We show that you should be in house-

keeping procedures on page 9-32. Is that correct?
Over.
PLT Yes, sir. That's where I am.

TAG Tape 220-12/T-147
Page 3 of 5/1011
220 23 08 28 CC Okay, press on, no problem. And for your informa-

tion, the S056 door is hung up again. So we're
going to turn the motor off and then reenable
the primar_ door motor. Over.
PLT Okay. Probably should've yanked that ramp off

there too, huh?
CC Say again?
PLT We probably should have yanked that ramp off of

there too, huh?
CC I can't agree with you or disagree with you on

that one right now. We'll have to work it
around the back rooms.
220 23 09 32 SPT Hello there, Houston. We're trying to sort out

how many ATM passes we're supposed to have after
dinner. So far it looks like we only got a pad
for one starting at just about 01:10.
CC Okay. We show just the one starting at about

01:00 Zulu for the SPT.
SPT Okay.
220 23 14 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute until LOS.

Next station contact is through Guam at 23:52 in
approximately 37 minutes. Out.
220 23 15 06 SPT Thank you, Bruce.
220 23 50 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 8 minutes.

Out.
SPT Hello, there, Bruce.
CC Okay, I'm sorry I didn't read you there, other

than the fact that you came back. Over.
PLT Sorry, Bruce we just had a MASTER ALARM and it was

SIEVE FLOW. I swapped that - that fan and now
nothing happens. When I turn it on, why it doesn't
run and it won't even blow the circuit breaker.
TAG Tape 220-12/T-147
Page 4 of 5 /1012
220 23 52 ll CC Okay. Understand in M0L SIEVE B, SECONDARY FAN,

you swapped the fan and now when you - with the
circuit breaker closed - you select SECONDARY,
not only does the fan not run but the circuit
breaker doesn't open either. Is that correct?
PLT You've got - exactly right.
CC Okay, we copy. And what MASTER ALARM was that

you just had? You said that it was a SIEVE FLOW-
was it B? Over.
220 23 52 h4 PLT I don't know which one it was, Bruce. It was

intermittent and it extinguished itself and we
came up and we didn't check to see which one
it was.
CC Okay. And we'd like you to reselect the PRIMARY

FAN on SIEVE B and button it up.
PLT Yes, I already did that. Thank you.
CC Okay.
220 23 54 06 SPT Hello, Houston. What is the next time for

sunrise?
CC We'll have it for you in Just a second, Owen.
SPT Thank you.
220 23 54 51 CC Owen, sunrise at 40 kilometers is 01:05 Zulu.

Over.
SPT Thank you, Bruce.
CC And for you or the PLT, we'd like to stabilize

the mol sieve B configuration by opening the
M0L SIEVE B FAN, SECONDARY circuit breaker on
panel 200, when you have a chance. Over.
PLT Yes, that's already open, Bruce.
CC You're a couple of miles ahead of us tonight,

Jack.
PLT What?
v-- • --
TAG Tape 220-121T-147
Page 5 of 511013
CC You're way ahead of us.
220 23 55 39 PLT You better keep watching me.
2PO 23 57 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to 30 - and

30 seconds to LOS. Next station contact will be
Vanguard at 00:29:40. We'll be coming up with
a telephone call for the Commander, if and when
you get through with that - during that station
pass, we'll be standing by down here. The pass
itself is approximately ll minutes in duration.
That's at 00:29:40. If you're through with the -
running PTs, we'd like to get the ESS turned off.
And for the SPT, be advised that the S056 door
opened normally in response to the automatic
signal this past sunrise. And for the PLT, Just
so that he doesn't feel left out. There is a
note in the SWS Systems Checklist on page 9-33
regarding the fan starting or not starting and
basically it says that if the fan doesn't start
when you select it, turn the switch off, wait
30 seconds and try again. And we're wondering if
you went through that procedure and still we're
unable to start SECONDARY FAN SIEVE B? Over.
220 23 58 45 SPT Affirmative. He tried; it wouldn't start.
220 23 58 48 CC Roger. Out.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 221-Ol/T-lh8
/-_ Time: 221:00:00 to 221:01:30
Page i of 4/1015
221 00 30 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for 10-1/2

minutes. Out.
PLT Hey, Bruce, is now the hour for Al's call home?
CC This is Houston, say again, please?
PLT Is now the hour for Al's phone call?
CC Yes, indeed, he should be in the command module

working - it's on VHF.
PLT Okay, he's on his way. Tell them not to give up.
221 00 30 51 CC Okay, we got the other party on the line down here.
We're hanging on.
PLT Okay, he'll be configured in a couple of minutes.
221 00 38 44 CC Skylab, this is Houston, still through Vanguard.

We have 2 minutes until LOS. You might pass that
on up to A1 for his information. Next station
contact is through Ascension in a little over 4
minutes. Over.
221 00 39 02 PLT Okay, Bruce. We'll see you there.
221 00 44 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

approximately 7 minutes. We'll be followed by
Canary and Madrid in short order, so I'll almost
continue this pass here for about 20 - 25 minutes.
221 00 45 33 CDR Hello, Bruce. Are you there?
CC Yes, we're here. But we have very low signal

strength. We're going to drop and reaequire. Would
you stand by, please?
221 00 47 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension with

minutes to LOS. How do you read? Over.
CDR Hello, Bruce.
CC Loud and clear, Alan.

TAG Tape 221-01/T-148
Page 2 of 4/1016
CDR Could I get you to send up - let me look. Let me

make sure I phrased this right; hold on. How
many total general massages did you send up - per-
manent general messages?
CC Stand by, Alan. We're checking.
221 00 48 42 CDR Okay. The reason is, a lot of times we take these
general messages and put them somewhere, to use
there. For example, the one on the urine the other
day. We had to put it in the head, but we'd still
like a copy for our book. So that if someone says,
go look at general message such and such, we can
go in there and look. And otherwise, we've got to
run around all these places and look on the walls
and see if that number was the one they called
about. I got 1 and 2 in the book. I wish you'd
send on the teleprinter tonight as soon as you
can, a copy of all the other general messages be-
sides 1 and 2. And make it a procedure to send up
two copies of each permanent general message. I'll
put one in the book and then the other one at the
appropriate place.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Wilco. Out.
221 00 50 19 CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to LOS at

Ascension; 1 minute and _5 seconds to A0S at Canary,
that 's a 40-second dropout.
221 00 52 46 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Back with you through

Canary and Madrid combined for 9 minutes. Out.
221 00 53 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Madrid

for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
221 00 58 37 CC SPT, this is Houston. Just a reminder on your ATM

ops coming up at 01:10 Z on chip Alfa of building
block l; you're to delete all of 82B - that's all
82 Bravo operations from building block 1 in order L
to give you more time for operating the rest of the
hardware. Over.
SPT Okay, I'm still down in the workshop, Bruce. Did

this come up on a pad or something or here did
that - is that Just a voice modification?
f-_ TAG Tape 221-01/T-148
Page 3 of h/lO17
CC That's a voice modification. I believe it was

sent up once earlier today. And we're Just remind-
ing you about it since you're faced with the sit-
uation coming up here in Just a couple minutes.
SPT Okay, fine, I appreciate that, because I was not

aware of the change.
CC Right. That's 82B, dropout of chip A of building

block 1.
SPT I remember it well.
221 01 00 47 CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute until LOS. Next

station contact will be Vanguard at - belay that.
Next station contact will be Guam at 01:27, this
will be the evening status report and we'll be
dumping your tape recorder at Guam. We've got quite
a lot of conversational traffic for you at Guam,
so we'll try and get everything in. In the mean-
time, two of the questions that we will be asking
are what saddle settings are being used for each
crewman on M092; and what is the amount of film
remaining in CX28 cassette and where is it currently
located. We suspect it may have been used up and
removed. But you can be checking on these in the
meantime. Over.
SPT Okay, some of that LBNP stuff was sent down on the
channel A. But it will only take a moment to
repeat it, I expect.
221 01 01 46 CC Okay, see you over Guam.
221 01 27 18 SPT Hello, Bruce.
CC Roger, reading you loud and clear. We got you for

the next 9 minutes and 47 seconds. Standing by for
the evening statu s report. Go.
i SPT Why don't you open the S056 doors for me while you're
doing it, please?
CC Okay, we'll go ahead and do that for you. We can't

open the door but we'll disable and reenable the
motors.
SPT Thank you.

TAG Tape 221-01/T-148
Page 4 of 4/1018
221 01 27 50 CC CDR, this is Houston through Guam for 9 minutes

and 20 seconds. Standing by for evening status
report.
CDR I was Just taking some desiccants out of the dryer

in there, Bruce. We finished drying suit number 2;
we're getting to start drying suit number B tonight.
So, we had to put in the new desiccants and take
out the old.
CC Okay.
CDH Here comes the report. Urine: 104, 125, 150.

Drinking water: 4777, 7930, 5669. B_D: 6.224,
6.224, 6.222; 5.978, 5.980, 5.977; 6.958, 6.959,
6.966. Exer - Just a second, let me catch one of
these things that's squawking.
SPT Are you ready for TV down-link now, Bruce?
CC Affirmative, go ahead, Owen°
SPT Thank you.
CDR Okay, let's talk about exercise.
CC Go.
221 O1 29 51 CDH CDR, 2/2B/BO2B. 15375, and that was using the
ergometer for arm exercises. In addition to that,
there was 15 minutes of mark I; 50 A's, 20 B's,
20 C's, 20 D's, 20 E's. Okay now for SPT; he did
60 reps of A, 40 of B, BO of D and he's going to do
some ergometer later tonight and he will pass that
word before he goes to bed. PLT; 2/20/4050, B/25.
Mark l, 50 A, 20 B, 20 D, and 20 backbends. No
medication. Here comes the sleep 6/G, 6-1/2/G.
Here comes the Food Log: CDR, 1B salt packs and
an extra strawberry drink; SPT, four salt packs,
did not eat pork loin, and he wwighed it and it
was 2.187 on the SMMD, that's the part he did not
eat. PLT, four salts used and from yesterday, now,
add one apple drink and substract one orange drink -
that was from yesterday - Today he ate it all.
Okay, let's go for Photo Log.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 221-02/T-149
Time: 221:01:30 to 221:03:00
Page I of 11/1019
221 01 31 31 CC Stand by, please.
CC SPT, Houston. Over.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. We got your door motor disabled and then

our computers went down - down here on the ground.
If you want to DAS in 40113 that w_ll reenable the
primary motor and you can open the door then with
the switch. Over.
SPT 40113. Thank you.
CC Roger. Readback correct. And we're standing by

for the photo stuff, A1.
221 01 32 26 CDR Okay, coming at you. 16-millimeter: VTS-TK 3h-D,

CL01, h5, no information on the takeup, because
there isn't one.
CDR M131-1, CI42.
CC Okay, we copy that; M131-1, CIh2.
CDR Okay, just a second, we got a hold here.
221 01 34 ll CDR Okay, here we go; we got it. M131-1, CIh2, 50,
CI24; M487-4A, CI_2, 28, CI2h; Mh87-hF we have
not done yet, but we will do later and that will
use some more of CI_2. I'll report that later
because I got - I'm Just collecting the trash
now, Jack's getting it all in shape. Okay,
35-millimeter: CX28, lh; 70-millimeter - By the
way, on that 14 we haven't looked at our Flight
Plan for tomorrow, but if - if we have S06B on it
then,we will have shot up all lh frames. If we
i do not have it for tomorrowwe'll probably still
have the 14 frames on there. We're trying stretch
that until we do S06B. 70-millimeter: CXl0 098.
ETC: PT03, 93; that 93 was at the end of the EREP
pass and there were three single exposures, and
then ran the film out. So essentially, the film's
i
TAG Tape 221-02/T-149
Page 2 of ll/1020
all gone from the ETC. Now, ERE?: Set, F 8276;

0h69; 7992; 7375; 9145; 8047. And as you know
we used set F today, although we have not been
instructed to unload. Drawer A: A-I, 02, CI42,
30, CI24; A-2 same as the morning. And A-3 and
A-4 are same as before.
221 01 36 01 CC Okay, AI, and we copy all that. We have 1 minute

to LOS coming up here. The next site will be
Vanguard at 02:08 and we will require Vanguard
for use for the evening fireside. We didn't get
around to the questions this pass. Over.
CDR Okay. We'll have time to get them on the next one
after that and I'll also need to give you some
Flight Plan deviations, shopping list and that
sort of thing.
CC Okay, fire away.
CDR I'll do it then.
CC Oh, we got 30 seconds if you want to give me

some of them now, or whatever you want.
221 01 36 37 CDR Okay, here - SPT exercise yesterday, was done

after everybody - after the report last time;
2/15/2100; A, 50 reps; B, 30 reps; D, 20 reps.
Shopping list items accomplished today: we
charged the three 509 PSSs, and we have dried
the second suit and desiccant. Inoperable
equipment is presently the mol sieve B secondary
fan, as you well know.
CC Okay, we're coming right up on LOS now. That was

the 509 PSS topoff, drying the second suit and
mol sieve B fan inop. We'll see you over Vanguard.
CDR Thank you very much. Bye-bye.
221 Ol 37 23 CC Roger. Out.

TAG Tape 221-02/T-149
Page 3 of i1/i021
221 02 07 54 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Vanguard for

8 minutes. Over.
CDR Loud and clear. Let me give you a couple of

additional reports before you give us the doctor.
CC Doctor is next pass. Go ahead with your additional

reports for we do need some conversation. Over.
CDR Okay. Now M4 - this is 16-millimeter: M487-4F,

CI42, 23, CI2_. Drawer A configuration then - I
want to make a correction to A-1 and have it read
02, CI42, 23, CI24.
CC 0kay, we - -
CDR A couple of other quickies.
CC Go ahead.
221 02 08 41 CDR We have a DAC power cable - the insulation's

broken and the shielded cable frayed at the base
of the DAC connector plug due to insufficient
mending radians. We replaced it with another one
and stowed the plug in the same place we got the -
we placed all of them up there among the camera
equipment, I don't remember the number of the
compartment. And that's the correction, so stand-
ing by to talk with you.
CC Okay. For you, first off, during command module

housekeeping 4 at 02:30 Zulu, we need to get
readouts of helium t_nk 1 and 2 quantity and
pressure. So if you'd give us a call when you
start that. We show AOS Madrid after the medical
conference at 02:31.
CDR Will do. I'ii be right over there waiting for you.
221 02 09 37 CC Roger. And that should be hydrogen instead of

helium. And for you or the SPT, up on panel 130,
when you first noticed the problem with AC BUS 1
for the ATM C&D, were the LIGHTING INTEGRAL
and NUMERIC BUS - NUMERIC pots adjusted when you
noticed this to see if possibly the adjustment
TAG Tape 221-02/T-149
Page h of 11/1022
to the low setting could have been the problem?

And what is the status - or what is the setting
on these pots at this time? Over.
221 02 i0 i0 SPT Okay. That'happened about a week ago, Bruce, and

I don't have the vaguest idea what the position
of those pots or switches were at that time. Now,
I can give you the - l'm Just now powering down
for the night. And I can tell you where they are
at this mc_ent, if I - that's your question.
CC Okay, if you would, please. Do you recall fiddling

with them or wiggling - moving them around trying
to get AC BUS i to glve you the lights? Over.
SPT My recollection is following the checklist and

we'd have to go through the checklist and see what
that calls for and I followed that, nearly as I
can recall now, right down the line.
CC No, we can go through the checklist, Just tell us

where they are now.
221 02 i0 50 SPT Okay, INTEGRAL switch is OFF and the pot is

counterclockwise. The NUMERIC switch is - at the
moment it's FIXED and pot is counterclockwise.
ALERT STATUS switch is in VARIABLE and the pot
is fully clockwise. That's the three. Over.
CC Okay, thank you very much, Owen. And we have a

question again for the comm-uder on the CX28,
35-millimeter film. The past several days, day 9,
we got 19; day 10, we got 24; day ii, we got 17;
tonight, we got i_. The numbers that we should
be getting down are the readings on the frame
counter. And these are going up and down and
we're wondering whether maybe some days you're
giving us the number of exposures you took and
some days you're giving us frame counter. Over.
221 02 ii 48 CDE It's possible we erred, very easily. Eight now

the frame count is a little bit less than i_, so
I don't know whether to call it 14 or 13.
TAG Tape 221-02/T-149
Page 5 of 11/1023
CC Is that what the counter on the camera is showing?
221 02 12 02 CDR That's the counter on the electric part. As you

know, the one that's on the manual, the one on top,
we should hot use according to preflight discussion.
CC Okay. So that 's the one that 's counting down, so

it's saying you've got lh frames left, is that
correct ?
CDR That is correct.
CC And you - your plan is to change this out prior

to S063, on its run tomorrow.
CDR That is a fact, and we'll shoot them up to zero

and then change it out.
221 02 12 30 CC Okay, we're making progress here. For Jack, he

had a question on how you're handling the
16-millimeter f_]m in drawer Charlie. Basically,
the cassettes that have been exposed and returned
to the drawer should be on the left as you look at
it. Then there should be one or more empty slots
and the virgin, unexposed film should be on the
right. So when you need to get a fresh cassette
to load on the transporter, you take one from the
right of the slot, you load it on and you take the
exposed film and you put it into the left of the
slot. And you have a sort of a moving empty slot
that goes from left to right across the first row
and then it proceeds from left to right across the
second row.
221 02 13 13 PLT I understand that, Bruce. But there's no way of

keeping track, then, of what 's in where. So when
we go to unstow the thing, you'll say go to C-2
and get CI48, and CI48 may not be there. Is that
right ?
CC No, we're not going to say go get CIh8. We had

the same thing on SL-2. The exposed, or the used
up exposed film, is not in a strict sequence but
it is to the left of the slot. Everything to the
right of the slot should be in strict order. On
your return - -
Page 6 of ll/102h
PLT Okay, I 'ii do it that way.
CC Okay. On your return you'll be directed to take

the stuff out of drawer Charlie to the left of
the slot-tyPe thing and bring it back and we'll
check what's left against our checklist.
PLT Okay, that 's fine. Thank you.
221 02 1B 56 CC Okay. We're standing by for the saddle settings

that are currently being used for each crewman on
M092. And if you'd give us a call or put on
channel B, the time at which the S015 heater
control switch is turned off this evening, we'd
appreciate that. Over.
CDR Okay. And the settings are 6, 7, and 8; CDR,

SPT, PLT, in that order. And I was going to turn
it off when we were over the station at lh -
or no, 02:31.
221 02 i_ 27 CC Beautiful, we appreciate that and we'll be watching

for it. Also, a couple of days ago, we sent up a
question pertaining to the IMSS slide stainer
trying to establish the amount of alcohol that
was remaining as an option for tape recorder head
cleaning. Have you all gotten anything accom-
plished on that? Over.
SPT I recall a question about a slide stainer on a -

or a message that was later - there was a message
came up to delete paragraphs h and 6 and I
thought that was one of the paragraphs deleted.
And then, after that, you sent up a whole new
replacement message which had that paragraph
omitted. Now, am I thinking of some other
paragraph?
221 02 15 09 CC We think you're thinking of permanent message h in

some other paragraph. When you have time, we
are interested in getting the information on how
much alcohol remains in the slide stainer in those
two reagent containers.
SPT Okay, and that 's a new one for me then, I'll have
to go check. I hadn't remembered that.
TAG Tape 221-02/T-Ih9
Page 7 of 11/1025
221 02 15 25 CC Okay. A couple of quick ones on EREP and we'll

have to catch you again later. We got 30 seconds
left in the pass. Your next pass is private
medical and that will be at 02:27. And you have
a new condensate tank water site dump - only
procedure sitting in the teleprinter waiting for
you. If you can get that out, you can use it on
the dump tonight. And I'm going to hold these
EREP questions because we're z-,nning out of time.
We'll see you when you're through with the medical.
Probably through Madrid. Over.
220 02 16 01 CDR Okay, we'll go look because we're in the midst of

that dump right now.
CC Okay. It leaves the hoses and everything set up

when you're through with the dump, since we're
doing it on a daily basis, until we get all our
condensate tank problems psyched out, at which
time, we'll probably modify the procedure and
unrig.
CDR Sounds good. We've had them rigged since day i.
CC Like I said earlier tonight, you're way ahead of

US.
221 02 16 26 CDR I don't know about that but I'll -
221 02 33 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary with

30 seconds to handover and then we got you through
Madrid for 8 minutes and i0 seconds.
CDR Okay, l'm standing by in the COmmAnd module.
CC Okay. If you're standing by in the comm-nd module,

we would like to get a readout of quantity and
pressure on the hydrogen tanks number i and 2.
Over.
CDR Okay, hydrogen t_nk i quantity isll and ...

qnAntity is 5 ...
CC Hey, A1, we're right in the middle of handover;

better start over.
CDR 021 is 76.

TAG Tape 221-02/T-149
Page 8 of ll /1026
221 02 34 22 CC CDR, Houston. We lost that in the process of

handover. Could you read out the hydrogen quantity
and pressure again, please.
CDR I sure will, I'll give you hydrogen; 1 quantity,

ll percent, 3_I percent. Hydrogen tank 2 quantity,
53, 53 percent. Let me give you the pressure;
hydrogen tank 1 pressure, 220, 220. Hydrogen
tank 2 pressure, 250, 250.
221 02 3h 51 CC Okay, mighty fine, we got that. and for the

PLT, on EREP, the VTS pad for today had an error
in the cross angle. Instead of reading left, 002,
it should have read left, 020, at hS-degree
pitch. The values of 30 and zero were correct,
but I believe - this is on the Somerville site -
may have explained your problem for acquisition.
Also, for the CDR in connection with EREP, early
depletion of the S190 Alfa, station number 3 is
believed to be a result of a short led - load of
f_]m approximately 5 feet short. We're still in
the process of checking this out. We'll keep
you posted on it, but we don't believe there was
any hardware malfunction involved. For the PLT -
Stand by. Over.
CC For the CDR, we see your DAP load. It's good and
you're cleared to go back into STANDBY.
221 02 35 54 CDR Okay, I Just got PO0. I guess you can read my
DAP Just on a down-link, huh?
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, that's good enough. And let me mention

something else, I agree with you on that EREP
business because we took a look at that camera
real quick and it was empty. So - and then we
stuck it back on again. So we presume, that sure
enough, that it was either a short load or a
thick-base film, we didn't know which, but glad
to hear the information.
221 02 36 18 CC Okay. And we' re sending you up a change to the

EREP post cue card. You'll probably get it
tomorrow. It doesn't affect you immediately
since you're not doing film depletion tomorrow.
_ TAG Tape 221-02/T-149
Page 9 of 11/1027
For the PLT, on your VTS _m,_e motion conpensation

drift, could you tell us if you were using the
HIGH or the L0_ gain position of the switch with
IMC and what - was the drift any different between
the HIGH and LOW positions of the switch? Over.
PLT No, Bruce, I tried it in both positions and it

was the same in both.
CC Okay. As you looked through the viewfinder, was

the scene drifting to the bottom right of the
field-of-view or was it the crosshairs that
appeared to be drifting to the bottom right with
the scene stationary? Over.
PLT It was the latter.
221 02 37 13 CC Okay, if you considered the scene stationary, the

crosshairs were drifting to the bottom right
about 150 from 12 o'clock.
PLT Yes, if you consider the scene stationary, the

crosshairs are drifting down to about 5 o'clock.
CC Okay.
PLT ... about h to 5 o'clock, Bruce. It all depended -

it was a little bit intermittent. Seems like
when it got around to minus i0 degrees, then it
kind of straightened out and sometimes went towards
6. It didn't always drift at the same rate,
either. It kind of was at that varying speed.
CC Okay, we copy. For the SPT, has the S054 timer

been installed at the C&D console and is it
operating in a satisfactory fashion? Over.
221 02 38 01 SPT It has been installed and it is operating in a

satisfactory fashion. And we put it up in a
slightly different location th_n on the front of
the panel. It was, I think, obstructing too
much of the panel at that point. But we've got
it right at the right-hand edge of the panel,
mounted on one of our clipboards. And it does
appear to be functioning properly there.
TAG Tape 221-02/T-149
Page l0 of 11/1028
CC Okay. That's up where one of the monitor cue

cards _ould go, up in that area?
221 02 38 22 SPT No, it's on one of the clipboards that we have

on the rail - these little rail clipboards that
we clipped onto that rail for our pads, and so
forth.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC And for all three of you, we have been instructing

the crew every evening on the solar activity pad
not to be too cautious in initiating J0P 8 and
16 for coronal disk transients because we are,
"super anxious to catch one. Rather than put
this message in the teleprinter every evening,
we would like to save paper and emphasize to the
crew this point now, and subsequently delete it
from the SAP. Over.
221 02 38 59 SPT Sounds like a good idea, Bruce, and we're all
triggered to go for transients. And all the
ones that I've seen are related to that condensate
dump discharge, and I didn't think that our friend
at the - at HA0 wanted any pictures of that.
CC No, I - I agree with you, 0wen, I don't think he

does. For your summary Flight Plan pad tomorrow,
line ll, the changes to the postsleep activities
should read: S063, stow at lh:27. I believe
that's instead of 14:17; that's Just a 10-minute
slip. Over.
SPT I'll never notice it in the noise level.
CC Beautiful. And -
CDR Do you want to get a mark when I turn off the

S0157
CC Stand by, please.
221 02 39 51 CC For the SPT, we need STORAGE on the EVA AUTO DOOR
switch and the panel closeout. And did I copy
Comm_uder saying that he turned the SO15 heater
off?
i-- TAG Tape 221-02/T-149
Page ii of 11/1029
CDR I'm going to give you a mark when I do it. That's

kind of what I thought you wanted here.
CC Oh.
221 02 40 06 CDR MARK. Turned off.
CC Okay, we got it. And for all of you, you need

to give us some information if you put any special
voice on the COmmAnd module DSE, so we'll know
when to dump it. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce. That -
221 02 40 24 SPT And incidentally, the requested roll for unattended

minus 750 could not be reached because we hit the
mechanical stop a little ways before we got here.
CDR And we have not been putting any voice on the

CSM tape.
CC Roger, Alan. And we copy that, Owen. And you're

going to have to close the experiment doors before
you go into the stowage position on the switch.
SPT Thank you. Thank you.
221 02 h0 56 CC Okay, 1 minute to LOS here at Madrid. Next station

contact will be Honeysuckle at 3 hours 15 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Nominally you'll be asleep by
then. The way things are going, do you want us
to give you a call?
CDR Would you, please.
CC Will do it.
CC That's in approximately 3h minutes.
CDR Okay. We purged the 02 in the fuel cells. We're

standing by for the heat to come up so we can do
the JOP on the hydrogen.
CC Okay, glad to hear that everything came out all

right.
221 02 41 29 CDR Okay.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 221-03/T-150
Time: 221:03:00 to 221:110:30
Page 1 of 4/1031
221 03 15 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for

7-1/2 minutes. Over.
PLT Hello, Bruce, add one apple drink to my menu

today, will you, please?
CC Okay, one apple drink, that's beginning to sound

like the old Lousma.
SPT Say, Bruce, I'm Just putting on my 133 cap. I

am supposed to wear that tonight, am I not?
221 03 16 24 CC That's affirmative. And speaking of sleep and

wake-up, we don't have a site at exactly
ii:00 Zulu tomorrow morning to wake you up with.
We offer you the option of calling ii minutes
early or 25 minutes late with y'all setting
your onboard timer. Over.
CDR Call us Ii minutes early.
CC Okay, we'll do that through Canary at 10:49:54

tomorrow morning.
221 03 16 50 SPT Say, sometime tomorrow, Bruce, would you set up

on a pad or something, the frequency at which
I'm - I'll be wearing this 133 cap - how many
revs for the mission here?
CC Okay, we'll get that for you, Owen. Okay, Owen,

the answer to that is every third day, and I
guess it just goes on like that for the rest of
the mission.
SPT Okay, every third day. ThAnk you.
221 03 17 26 CC And if you al1 are interested, I've got some news
clips I can read up to you. I don't want to
prevent you from sending any information down to
us, if you like.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
221 03 17 38 CC Okay, a former Jocky, singer, and standup comic,

one Bob Sparks by name, has departed from Bar
Harbor, Maine, on a balloon flight to Paris.
TAG Tape 221-03/T-150
Page 2 of h/1032
Nearly i000 spectators watched the 37-year-old

balloonist leave in a nine-story red, white, and
blue bag. Sparks said he expects to be in Paris
in 5 days. Unsuccessful trsns-Atlantic balloon
flights have been tried in 1873 and later years.
The gondola of the present bA]]oon could be
converted into a boat. In other aviation news
since you've gone, the first flight of the
wingless X-24B modified lifting body research
vehicle was successful. It flew on August l,
by NASA pilot John Mankey_ lasted h minutes
ll seconds after it was dropped from an altitude
of h0,000 feet. Mankey later said the flight was
highly successful, with a landing speed of
200 knots. Near Albuquerque, New Mexico, police
are trying to locate a little boy who has been
broadcasting pleas for help on a citizen's band
radio since Tuesday. The ten-year-old says his
father is dead. Search officials are going on the
theory that the plea for help is a real one.
221 03 18 50 CC Some 12 million residents of six sub-Saharan

African nations are severely affected by drought
conditions according to Red Cross agencies. In
Mall and Mauritania, about 80 percent of the
population is in desperate need of assistance.
Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk is listed
in satisfactory condition following corrective
vascular surgery. Cattle rustling and illegal
deer hunting are having an effect on meat
prices and the deer population. Ranchers are
guarding cattle 24 hours a day. Hijackings
have become common across the nation and deer
poaching is up as much as 60 percent in
Pennsylvmuia. In area and regional highlights -
stand by - milk prices are going up in the
Houston metro area and the exact increase is yet
to be determined. The Environmental Protection
Agency may take action against an Amarillo smelting
facility soon that had been given permission by
the Texas Air Control Board to proceed with
smelting processes. The EPA action could close
the plant down.
221 03 19 53 CC Governor Dolph Briscoe says he will lead a trade

mission of Texas based firms to Japan in early
September. And the city of La Porte has filed a
suit against the Southern Pacific Railroad and
Dalstrom Corporation to stop construction of a
_ TAG Tape 221-03/T-150
Page 3 of 4/1033
railroad switchyard. Well, last night you asked

about world press reaction to your mission. The
RCS quad loss, the coolant loop situation, and
the "stomach awareness problem" kept Skylab on
the front pages. Dr. Kraft's conversation with
you over the air-to-ground was widely used verbatim
in many press accounts. Anomalies in the CSM and
0WS bring the news media into action. The most
interesting long-running normal Skylab item has
to do with Arabella. She is getting as much
attention as the three homosapiens aboard.
Television carried some of the good TV footage
of sail deployment that went so well. And the
European press have been giving Skylab a great
deal of space, as well as the Australian radio
stations. A quick look at the sports scene:
The Astros take on the Pittsburgh Pirates tonight.
Don Wilson stopped the Bucks on four hits last
night for a i0-0 win. University of Oklahoma
has been slapped with 2-year probation; the
school is barred from TV appearances and ball
games for 2 years as a result of recruiting
violations in football and basketball. Although
Tom Weiskopf didn't win the Westchester Classic
last weekend, he did move into second place in
1973 money winnings. So far Weiskopf has won
$22,000. Leading the pros this year is
Bruce Compton - Crsmpton who has collected
$2_5,000. Jack Nicklaus is Just over 200 K
for the year. Over.
221 03 21 37 PLT You got to watch these Okies. We got one aboard,
I know.
CC Yes, I'd put him on probation, too.
SPT I'ii change the subject then. If you're interested

in Arabella. She did spin another nice web last
night and we got some photos of it on board
and we'll let her go to work again tonight.
221 03 21 58 CC Okay, very good. Floating around the pool down

here somewhere, we're debating methods of feeding
the spider. We may have something for you in
the next day or so. And before you turn in we'd
like you to verify on panel 207 that the RATE
GYRO switch is in the INHIBIT position and we
got about a minute and 15 seconds until LOS here
at Honeysuckle. Over.
TAG Tape 221-03/T-150
Page 4 of 4/1034
SPT Did you get the message on channel A relative

to ED52?
SPT It had to do with Just that subject of feeding

and so forth.
221 03 22 46 CC Negative, Owen, we have not yet copied that

message. It may be down here. We'll go back
and screen the tapes again.
SPT Okay, Just asked some questions and had some

suggestions in there on what we might want to do.
CC Okay, we'll look for it.
SPT Incidentally, I hope that you've notified Miss

Judy Miles, the student investigator for the
web-forming experiment, all about the information
and how things are going, and I'm sure she'll be
involved in discussions of how we might want to
proceed from here.
CC I'm sure that's being accomplished, Owen. And

we'll check on it.
221 03 23 41 CC Time to say good night, Dick.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 221-04/T-151
Time: 221:10:30 to 221:12:00
Page 1 of 5 /1035
221 i0 49 lh CC Good morning_ Skylab, Houston. You're about a

minute from LOS at Canary. We're going to see
you AOS at Honeysuckle; and we're about l0 minutes
before the normal wake-up time. And that's an
early EREP this morning.
PLT Okay, Dick; thank you.
221 l0 49 34 CC Roger, see you there.
221 ll 25 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Honeysuckle for

8 minutes.
221 ll 26 06 CDR Dick, were y'all able to teleprinter up last night,

an additional copy of all permanent messages
after 2?
CC A1, I didn't copy what - what the message was.

Say it again, please.
221 ii 26 23 CDR I asked yesterday - One of the problems we have

is - these permanent general messages is usually
we need to take the message and put it somewhere,
whatever it applies to, stick it either in the
head if it applies to waste, or put it up by the
ATM panel if it applies to there, which does not
allow us one copy for the permanent book in
there so we can find it when we need to go by
message number instead of by subject. So I said,
from now on send up two general messages and send
us one general message of - from 3 on, as many as
you sent, because we've got all those 3 through
whatever it is stashed around the spacecraft.
CC Okay, we'll get them in the pool, A1, and get

them up. I don't think they're on the teleprinter
tonight. We are, however, reviewing right now a
message that's going to be up to you today that
su_arizes all the checklist changes and the
permanent general message and n1_mbers that we've
sent up so far so you can do a little book work
this afternoon and make sure you're up to date.
221 ii 27 26 CDR Okay, we think we're in pretty good shape except

for putting the changes in the deact checklist;
that big list that was sent up about a week ago
Page 2 of 5/1036
and they were going to give us some time to do

it. We're still cooling our heels on that one.
CC Okay - -
CDR Hanging on the wall waiting to be -
CC Roger that.
221 ll 28 50 CC Skylab, Houston. Just like yesterday morning, we

need to get the star tracker - little help from
you to get the star tracker acquired, at your
convenience. We see a little Z-axis drift that
we'd like to get squared away and we need the
star tracker to do that. No hurry.
221 ii 32 12 CDR Houston, give me the latest and greatest gimbal

angle, for Canopus.
CC Roger, A1, Let me look at my star tracker pad.
221 ii 3B 26 CC CDR, Houston. Outer gimbal -best one right now

is plus 1800 and - but it will not be available
until day, plus h6 minutes and so we - we made
a mistake on that call. We should - I should
have let you know about that.
CDR Okay, what's the inner gimbal?
CC Inner gimbal is minus 0725.
CDR I think we'll get it in another - whenever it

can be gotten.
221 ii 34 ii CC Roger; we're going LOS. We'll see you at Hawaii

at ll:h6.
221 ii h5 37 CC Skylab, Houston. Hawaii for 9 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. If you don't have anything else

coming up for us for a couple of minutes here,
I'll take about 2 or 3 minutes to update you on
the web formation experiment. Over.
CC Roger. Go ahead. We'd like to hear about it.
221 ii 47 17 SPT Okay, Dick. This is the fourth day. Our friend
Arabella has her web formed. It's not entirely
clear whether this fourth web is any different
TAG Tape 221-Oh/T-151
Page 3 of 5/1037
from the one yesterday. It might actually be the

same web, although it's my understanding that
that's not the nature of their habit is to keep
the same web but then to eat it and then respin
a new one each day. But, reviewing things, the
first day we let her out, she - or opened the
vial - the little capsule she was in, she didn't
come out at all.
221 ll 47 4_ $PT And the next day I had to more or less tap and
shake the spider out of the little vial to get
her to move around in the cage.
PLT Cruelty to animals!
SPT And when she did come out, why she went through
the normal reactions of leg flopping and bouncing
from wall to wall for a few moments, until she
finally got over to the screen and hung on there.
However, the very next day she had a rudimentary
web formed and more or less from corner to corner,
without the normal circular pattern at all.
However, by the second day, she had learned very
rapidly, and starting from the corner-to-corner
stringers, she had then gone from stringer to
stringer and begun to get the radials out and
then formed a more or less normal radial pattern.
221 ll 48 30 SPT And by the third day, even that had been improved
upon, because she had seen the front of the cage
had been opened and she spun her normal web
rather close to the front of the cage, then tied
some other stringers toward the back of the cage
and pulled the web away from the front. So it
seemed that she learned very rapidly in zero g
without the benefit of any previous experience
and simply working on her own, she figured out
a very nice solution to the problems of zero
gravity. Now, we of course, have some photographs
of all this and we'll be bringing them back for
the experiments to work on. And the student
experimenter here is Miss Judith Miles, from
Lexington, Massachusetts, and she is certainly to
be congratulated for a very outstanding concept,
a very interesting idea and one that might very
well have some application in studies of how
animals and even men think and behave when placed
in a brand new environment. So these are the
things that are our first impressions. And
TAG Tape 221-04/T-151
Page 4 of 5 /1038
we'll be bringing back photographs for more

detailed and thorough study when we come back
home in about 6 weeks from now.
221 ll 49 42 CC Okay, Owen. Thank you very much for the update,
and I'm sure that Judith will appreciate your
compliments and we'll pass them on to her.
SPT Fine, Dick. Than_ you.
221 ll 50 09 CC And, Skylab, Houston. First for Owen, I have a

note for you that has to do with the spider that
I'm sure that they will appreciate. Tonight
after your meal, when you have filet mignon, we i
would appreciate it if you would share a small I
piece of red or pink meat about the size of a
housefly with both Arabella and Anita. When
Arabella is stationary in her cage, carefully
place her piece near her legs. And carefully
place Anita's portion in her vial. Over.
221 ll 50 41 SPT Okay. We'll do Just that. And, of course, you'll

want to take proper account of this. In our
daily tallies, caloric intake for the SPT. But
certainly won't mind sharing a couple of
housefly-size pieces of my filet with Anita,
especially since she hasn't had a very large
horizon at this point, as well as with Arabella.
CC (Laughter) Roger that. While I'm talking to you,

there's sort of an interesting solar activity
update I'd like to pass on to you. At about
10:59 Zulu, which was a little less than an hour
from now, the south portion of filament 27 that
is anchored in active region 84, began lifting
slowly, and material began streaming over the
west limb. The remainder of filament 27 now
appears to be lifting slowly along its entire
length. Over.
221 ii 51 33 SPT Roger. Looks like I'ii not have a chance to look
at it until after this EREP-S063 run - pass.
But please keep us informed, It sounds interesting.
CC Roger. Understand.
221 ll 54 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS;

Goldstone at 11:57.
r-- TAG Tape 221-04/T-151
Page 5 of 5/1039
SPT See you there, Dick.
221 ii 54 15 CC Okay.
221 ll 57 26 CC Skylab, Houston; Goldstone for 6 minutes.
221 ll 59 _7 CC Skylab, Houston. I imagine you've already made

your trip up to the teleprinter to get the
morning messages. We are up-linking here at
Goldstone and I think it's already on board. A
cue card change for - at least a piece of paper
to tape to three of the six menu cue cards, that
tells you what additional items are available to
you to eat, for those menus. And you might want
to go ahead and get them and take a look.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 221-05/T-152
Time: 221:12:00 to 221:13:32
Page i of 8/1041
221 12 00 16 CDR Okay. Thazakyou, Dick.
CC Roger.
221 12 08 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at Bermuda for about

the next 9 minutes. And we'll be giving you a
nav update here at Bermuda.
SPT Dick, give us a call when it's - when we can lock

up the star, please.
CC Roger.
221 12 ll O0 CC Skylab, Houston. The star will be available within

the next B or 4 minutes, and certainly by the
time I give you an -LOS call her at Bermuda.
CDR Thank you.
221 12 17 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about B5 seconds from LOS.

We're going to drop out for a couple or B minutes
and I'll call you at Canary. I believe that the
Canary pass is going to be very low level and
we're not going to bring up the S-band. So I'll
call you at Ascension. And that time will be
12:25.
221 12 25 25 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension for i0 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. We got your star tracker locked on.
CC Roger; thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. While we're on the subject of

the star tracker, and we appreciate you locking
it up for us; one thing we wanted to visit with
you about, we made a change a couple of days ago
to the unattended ops cue card and asked that Just
prior to going to bed, that each night you secure
the star tracker and Just after getting up you
lock it on. And we're not real sure because of
the - the way it unlocked last night, as to
whether or not you actually did that or not. And
since we don't know whether or not you've made
that change to the cue card yet, Just wanted to
remind you about it for tonight's activities.
TAG Tape 221-05/T-152
Page 2 of 8/i0_2
CDR Okay. Thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
221 12 27 5_ CDR Did that thing come up as a checklist change or

Just a message?
CC That was a checklist change to the unattended

ops cue card. I can get the checklist change
number if you give me about B0 seconds here.
CDR You got B0 seconds, okay. We've noticed that on the

ATM, particularly, unless we're not getting
them or something, that we have a lot of information
come up on messages on what to do, but we haven't
received very many checklist or cue card changes
as such. And we never change our cue card until
those come up because we don't know whether you're
just thinking about it or trying it for a couple
of days or what. So, we always wait for the
exchange of it - of the cue cards or checklist.
It seems to work okay for the SWS systems deact
and those others, but the ATM seems to - We get
the message but we don't seem to get any
checklist changes.
221 12 28 56 CC Roger, A1. The change that that one came up was
to the unattended ops cue card and it was
message 1129 which doesn't make much difference;
it was change 2. We are up-linking this
checklist status cue card, so this afternoon
when you go through the deactivation book you
might take the time Justto review which of the
checklist changes you do and don't have and we'll
- we'll up-link any that have got lost in the
mill. One thing on this particular one you -
you - you sure better write little, because I
had to really cram it in here to - to get it
here on this cue card which is the best we could
do.
CDR Okay. Well tell them to quit naming the checklist

changes general messages then. That may be what's
screwing us up.
CC Very good point and we'll try to do better.
CDR So will we.

TAG Tape 221-05/T-152
Page 3 of 8/1043
221 12 30 40 CDR Okay, I've got them right here, Dick. They - we
had them stuck under a thing here and hadn't
incorporated them. We'll get them in there.
CC Okay, real fine.
221 12 35 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. We'll see

you at Carnarvon at 12:58; and we're going to
dump the data tape recorder there. And the
checklist status message is on board.
221 12 58 04 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through CR0 for 9 minutes.

And we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump.
CC And, gentlemen, we need the DAS for a couple of

minutes while we enable star tracker update
Nu Z. And for your information, we're going to
put both doors on S056, both door motors, rather -
CDR Okay. I need it back fairly soon to make this

maneuver.
CC Roger. We'll give her right back to you.
221 12 59 29 PLT Good morning, Crip. I was just noticing about

the PCGs, that AMP HOUR INTERGRATORS on PCGs
5, 6, and 8 are not equal. And that the state-of-
charge of number 6 is pretty far down. Any fast
story on that?
CC Jack, been informed that that is the anticipated

drift that we expected permission, that they
would be - be like that and not be together.
PLT Okay. Should we expect the BAT CHANGE LOW on

BAT 6 for this EREP pass?
CC Skylab, the DAS is your again. You can go ahead

and set up for your maneuver. And, Jack, informa-
tion for you is, the batteries are charging very
well. No - no problem with that. And we did not
anticipate you getting a - a BAT CHARGE LOW
during the maneuver.
PLT Thank you, Crip.
CDR How does the maneuver time look?

TAG Tape 221-05/T-152
Page4 of 8/1044
CDR Say, Crip. Dick and I were talking about these

changes this morning.
CC I'm sorry, A1. I couldn't copy that. Would you

say again, please?
221 13 03 57 CDR Dick and I were talking about permanent general

messages, changes, and things. I looked through
our permanent general message file and found
that we have i, 2, 3, 4, and 6; 5 stet I need
another copy of. And anything that we have after
6, I need another copy of. And of course, now -
from now on y'all are going to send two copies
of each, which is okay and that looks *** squared
away already. One of the other comments we had
was the fact that, particularly on the ATM, we'd
get general messages telling us what to do. And
so far as we know, we'd never get the checklist
change to implement it. Let me give you an
example.
CC Okay; Wait -
221 13 04 44 CDR Permanent general message 4, number 4: The

DISPLAY switch 4 to BUS 2, and CONSOLE POWER
DISTRIBUTION switch 8 to BUS 2 for ATM C&D ops.
As far as we know, we do not have a cue card
change that implements that. Then, B switch
should be turned off when panel is not being used.
The LIGHTING NUMERIC switch is bypassed and in
config it should also be OFF. INTENSITY DATA
should be BUS 2. All that information appears
there, but as far as we know, it's not on our
checklist change. So I guess we ought to somehow
get that on a change, or else tell us where it is
and we'll try to find it.
221 13 05 33 CC Okay, A1. WE copied on your general message thing.

You haven't got 5, and anything after 6 you
haven't got, and you want two copies of them,
and we'll comply with that. Regarding the ATM,
especially on the lighting there, that was the
message that Owen had requested, and the lighting
thing we consider very temporarj. Today we've
got set up a troubleshooting procedure to do on
/_ TAG Tape 221-05/T-152
Page 5 of 8/i0h5
the LCA and we were going to try to hold

up until we determined exactly what the
configuration of the - of the buses in the
ATM CKD were before we gave you a checklist
change. But we should know before the day is
over; and we will comply on that also. We're
going LOS in about i minute. We'll see you again
at GUAM at 13:12, 13:12.
221 13 06 i_ CDR Okay. Thank you, Crip. We're going to try to

make sure that we handle them and don't - I
notice it takes us several days from the time
the message arrives before we really get doing
it right. We're going to try to cut that down
to the same day, and if you'll do the other
part, then it'll help us too. And I think
we'll have this thing configured like you want
it at night instead of like you wanted it 2
days ago at night or something like that.
221 14 06 38 CC Okay; I understand. Unfortunately, seems like

it's still a pretty dynamic situation as far
as checklist changes go. We'll try to get it
all squared away and work with you to m_ke it
a little bit easier on you.
CDR Okay, and we will do the same to get it like

you want it at night.
221 13 07 09 CDR And we've begun the maneuver.
CC Roger.
221 13 07 20 CDR And our biases are in.
CC Roger.
221 13 12 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through G1_m for

8 minutes.
CC And, Jack, on reviewing which of the status

of battery 6, we do recommend inhibiting the
caution and warning of BAT CHARGE LOW on number
6.
PLT You say disable it for a while, Crip?

TAG Tape 221-05/T-152
Page 6 of 8/10_6
CC Roger: INHIBIT it.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Could hear you calling; and

couldn't understand you.
PLT Sounds good, A1.
221 13 15 23 CC And, Skylab, we're going to send battery 6

discharge limit inhibit so they won't kick off.
CDR You copying us on, right now, Crip?
CC That's affirmative. I got you on VOX.
CDR Okay, good. Wanted to make sure it was working.

We're ready.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR Say, would you ask the Flight Planners how the
time that they're giving us to get ready for
EREP compares with what Pete is doing to get
ready for the E - toward the end of the mission.
I'd like to get a feel for that.
CC Okay, we copied that. Would you like a quick

s1_m_ary of the weather across the States?
CDR You bet.
221 13 17 02 CC Okay. It's - Coming up on the western portion,

it's going to be clear to scattered. Example;
in Montana right now it's running around ll00
scattered. You're going to - then it's going
to increase cloud coverage around 0.4 to 0.7.
Minnesota, right now you're running around
2500 scattteredwith scattered alto cu. And
time you get into southeast Wisconsin, it's
overcast with that funnel system that's noted
on your VTS pad at - and that runs down through
Illinois, goes to broked in Indiana, on Ohio,
West Virginia, breaks out scattered again,
Albemarle Sound area around Cape Hatteras list
cities reporting fog with a reduced visibility
but no clouds.
_ TAG Tape 221-05/T-152
Page 7 of 8/10_7
CDR Hope it lifts in time.
CC Roger. We hope it burns off.
CDR Yes, that's an easy target to get if the

weather's good. It's one of the easier.
CDR It's kind of patchy in that area. I think you'll

be able to see it.
221 13 18 ]I CDR Yes, I may be Just setting over the water, it

may Just be setting over the land. Either way,
we might be able to find it. Hope so. Say,
were you able to get the answers from the
flight planners? Who is the flight planner
today, by the way?
CC We started out with an hour and a half on Skylab

2 and finally reduced down to about an hour.
Right now we've been giving you guys an hour
and a half.
CDR Okay.
CC And we're going to maintain that hour and a

half until you tell us otherwise.
CDR Right. I 'm thinking about telling you

otherwise. I got to consult with the friendly
PLT here and see what he thinks.
221 13 19 02 CC Copy. We're going to go LOS in 1 minute. We'll

pick you up again over the States at Goldstone
at 13:37; 13:17.
CDR Okeydoke. I have 13:19 right now. My watch

must be out.
CC 13:37, 37.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, space fans, this is Jack, on channel A.

The subject is EREP.
CC Copy you, Jack.

TAG Tape 221-05/T-152
Page 8 of 8/10_8
221 13 19 33 PLT Okay, I'm going to record some information at

this time with S192 and check the Dog 6 meter is
reading 57 percent.
PLT Okay, here's the meter readings for you. I'm

just going to read them all because it's easier
to read them all than to read - voice record
some. Alpha 2, 60 percent. Alpha 6, O;1
Alpha 7, not required. Bravo 2 ...
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Time: 221:13:32 to 221:15:00
Page 1 of 18/i0_9
221 13 35 37 PLT Got to bed on time. That's all there is to it.
CDR Yes, eat on time. Get to bed on time.
PLT Yes, I - have a ... in the afternoon when I only

get 6 hours of sleep. I got to have 7. I don't
know about you guys, but - -
CDR I got the door open, everything's set, Jack.
PLT - - us young people need more rest than the more

mature individuals.
CC Don't let - don't rub it in, Jack.
PLT There he is! Down there again. He's listening,

doggone it all. We were Just commenting how we
got Just a little more rest last night, and we
feel a little better today. I don't know about
the 0., he's not saying much.
SPT l'm working while you're lallygagging.
PLT He had to wear that cap, but I was Just saying

that everybody thought we were going to get by
on less sleep, but ...
CDR ... some fnnnel clouds.
PLT Okay. We 're out to sea.
221 13 36 3h PLT SCAT and ALTIMETER to STANDBY. This will be

another classic pass down there, Crip.
221 13 36 39 CC Okeydoke. Weather looks real good. It's cleared

up now Just about all the way to Wisconsin, and
around Albemnrle Sound, a visibility of 20 miles.
221 13 36 50 CDR Okay, that's good news, too.
PLT Okay, 5 seconds to begin here.
CDR SPT, you got your door open.

TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page 2 of 18/1050
221 13 37 01 PLT MARK. SCAT and ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
CDR Let's go. Running through the old checklist.
PLT That was a big deal to wait for another 3 minutes

and 30 seconds.
CDR Got to warm it up .... run a line off - -
221 13 37 15 PLT The doors are open. I can see light coming
in the window. How's the VTS working?
CDR Good. I haven't checked the IMC.
PLT We ought to check the IMC early to see if it's

better before it warms up - -
CDR Okay. I'll check it.
PLT - - than it is later.
CDR IMC HIGH is tracking real well. IMC LOW is

tracking real well right now.
PLT Maybe after it gets warmed up, it gets worse,

Crip.
CC Copy.
CDR I'm looking straight down, and that's where it's

usually best anyway.
CDR Hey, I've got a nadir Swath at _3.
PLT How about the star tracker?
CDR The star tracker, I closed the shutter a while

ago.
PLT Okay, no star, huh? *** star. I take it.
CDR You take it, right.
PLT Okay. That's a shame. All them stars out there.
CDR B57.
PLT Checked the S192 alignment, Just for the heck of

it, Crip, and I put it on the recorder. But just
TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page 3 of 18/1051
for the interest of the _ fans down there,

VISIBLE was reading left, 83 percent ; right,
65 percent. THERMAL was reading 46 percent.
CC Copy.
PLT 40:30; I can't wait for 40:30 to get here.
CDR Snow on the mountains down there, Jack.
221 13 38 58 PLT We did not get any film advance malfuncitons on

our new load of film this morning when we did
the sensitometry. The present S190 camera
readings are as follows: Camera number l, 7561;
number 2 is 6898; number 3 is 7773; number 4, is
7768; number 5 is 1311; number 6 is 8629; and
each of those advanced 40 frames to get the
present readings.
221 13 39 38 PLT So S190 is working like a champ.
221 13 39 43 PLT Less than a minute to go.
CDR Lot of rivers down there, Jack.
SPT Must be coming right across -
CDR Right across northern Washington. No, even up

in Canada. I don't think we are in - -
PLT Okay, space fans, our EREP pass today brings us

across the northern border of the U.S. and
Montana. We go across Bismarck, North Dakota,
over Minneapolis, between Milwaukee and Chicago,
Over Columbus, over Richmond, Virginia, and
finally, over Cherry Point, North Carolina -
home of the famous Marine Corps Air Station.
40:30, getting ready to start.
221 13 40 30 PLT MARK. Start. Tape MOTION light is on; RECORDER

MALF is off. VTS AUTO CAL, STANDBY.
221 IB 40 40 PLT MARK it. There, he's got it.
221 IB 40 42 CDR Okay, done.
221 13 40 44 PLT Lights out. 40:53, 190 MODE to AUTO. SCAT, ON,
RAD, ON.
TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page 4 of 18/i052
221 13 40 54 PLT MARK. AUTO on 190.
CDR Weather is ... clear up here.
221 13 40 57 PLT SCAT, ON, RAD, ON. 194 MODE to MANUAL.

Done. 42:15 coming. Okay, everything is
apparently working good; 193's got _Y
lights. Sitting there in CROSS-TRACK CONTIGUOUS,
zero on POLAR, 1. 190 _9 FRAMES; INTERVAL, 20.
It's all set. So far, we like it.
CC In a minute, I'm going to lose you for about

a minute.
PLT We're going to miss you, Crip, but we'll see you.
CDR IMC is moving slowly down now, Jack.
PLT Oh, crap.
CDR Slowly, straight down.
PLT Slowly, straight down.
CDR Not too bad.
PLT Okay. What's your LEFT/RIGHT?
CDR LEFT/RIGHT is zero.
PLT Okay.
CDR I'm going to get my target out here, which is

going to be LEFT, zero. Okay. So that's going
to be Just like my target. If the weather's
good there, we'll zap it. Get it so easy.
PLT Wasn't no hurt. Target to come.
CDR Looking for 43 - -
221 13 h2 21 PLT POLAR, _ on 193
CDR - - Jack.
PLT What?
CDR Looking for h3:57.

TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page 5 of 18/1053
221 13 42 27 PLT Slipped over to POLAR, 5 for a moment, back to

POLAR, 4. Okay, 42:50 next. INTERVAL, lO.
CDR Weather looks good. Scattered clouds.
PLT Glad to hear that; I hope you can get them.
CDR Sort of a strato cu or sheep's back, as it's

known. Or alto cu, I guess you mlght call them.
Alto cu, no big - -
221 13 42 51 PLT MARK. INTERVAL, i0 on 190. Standing by for a

READY, on. Everything is _mkydorywithEREP.
CDR Clear now, Jack.
PLT Good. There's my friend Crip down there, again.
CDR Passing right over a big city. That's your - -
221 13 43 20 PLT MARK. The READY light is on on 191. Right on

time.
221 13 43 25 CDR 43:57, standing by.
PLT SCAT to STANDBY.
221 13 43 30 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.
221 13 43 32 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. INTRACK NON CONTIGOUS

is now set; RAD POLAR, 5-
CDR Coming into a front - -
221 13 43 39 PLT 193 S, ON.
221 13 43 42 PLT MARK. RAD, ON.
221 13 43 44 PLT MARK. 53 - 43:54 coming next. INTERVAL'S
CDR - - ... cloud.
PLT - - to 20.
CDR I'll start a little bit - -
221 13 43 55 PLT MARK. INTERVAL to 20 on 190; 44:50 - -
CDR Okay, it's taking pictures like it should.

TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page6 of 18/1054
PLT You down there, Crip?
CC Affirmative, for about 9 minutes.
PLT Okay. Is _y friend Milt Windler on this morning?
CC No, I've got Don Puddy here with me.
CDR Funnel clouds, Jack. 44 :52.
PLT Standing by for 44:50. Getting intermittent

RAD/SCAT GIMBAL lights, but we expect that.
SPT Okay, stand by for an S063 UV photo start.
PLT Okay.
CDR Getting fnnuel clouds by the bunch.
221 13 44 43 SPT MARK. The UV photo start.
PLT Okay, Owen, we hear you. Standing by for S190

to SHUTTER SPEED, Mk_IUM.
221 13 44 50 PLT MARK at 50.
CDR Okay, 44:52, off. And I'll get ready for 44:35.
45 UP and LEFT, zero.
PLT ... next. SCAT, STANDBY; RAD, STANDBY.
221 13 45 01 PLT MARK. SCAT STANDBY; 2-second delay.
221 13 45 03 PLT MARK. RAD, STANDBY. Okay. SCAT and RAD, ON;
221 13 45 l0 PLT SCAT, ON.
221 13 45 ll PLT RAD, ON. 45:30 seconds ...
CDR Stand by for ... ready in IMC.
PLT I'm going to start the tape burner. Going to start

this old tape burner going here in a moment.
Momentarily, 45 :30 coming up.
CDR 46:35, I want to go back.
CDR 46:25 ... - -

_ TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page 7 of 18/1055
221 13 45 31 PLT MARK. MODE, READY. MALF light, on; MOTION

light, on; INTERVAL's to i0.
221 13 45 38 PLT MARK. INTERVAL's to l0 on 190. SCAT, STANDBY;

RAD, STANDBY at 42. SCAT, STANDBY.
221 13 45 44 PLT MARK. 2 seconds.
221 13 45 45 PLT RAD, STANDBY. Okay, 46:15 next. We've got a

long wait here.
221 13 45 55 CDR ***06:35. Little hazy down there, Crip. Better

get better. Haven't seen the ground, lately ....
6:35.
PLT Okay, standing by to get the tape burner back to

CHECK here. Looks like we're reading 62 percent
of Charlie H. She's hanging in there steady.
CDR Better get a lot better fast. Looks like it is.
PLT 25 -
221 13 46 16 PLT MARK. 192 to CHECK, TAPE MOTION light back on.
CDR 46:35, I'm loading 4 - -
PLT 46:30 next.
CDR 46:35. I think we're going to get it, Crip! I

think we're going to get itl
221 13 46 31 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON.
CDR ... camera's on.
PLT Attaboy.
PLT My old CDE's hanging in there. ALTIMETER UNLOCK

light. It's on - and off - on.
CDR Got altimeter.
SPT Stand by for a S063 UV photo.
PLT Be quiet for a minute. O. wants to speak.
"_ SPT Start.
221 13 46 50 SPT MARK.
PLT Attaboy, O. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is flickering

on and off, on and off. It's off now; 1 second
on, 5 seconds off - -
TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page 8 of 18/1056
CDR I'ii find it. It's right in there somewhere-under

the clouds.
PLT - - 47:10, coming; MODE to READY. The old tape

burner's going to get rolling again here.
CDR Up here. Down here. There it is; we got it.
221 13 47 ll PLT MARK. 192, ON. MALF light, on and off; TAPE
MOTION light, on.
CDR ... take data.
SPT 192's ready; 48 next. Attaboy. Old eagle-eye

over there's got them locked on.
CC Good show, A1.
PLT Right under the pipper.
CDR Doesn't look right. Looks like the wrong place.

It is the wrong place.
PLT Standing by for 48.
CDR Okay. Let me move it and get over here and get
it. Got to be under there somewhere.
PLT At 47:06, you can go to - -
CDR Right.
PLT - - 30 and 0.7.
221 13 47 57 CDR There it isl I got her again.
221 13 47 58 PLT Att_boy.
CC Good deal.
PLT 192.
221 13 48 O1 PLT MARK. MODE to STANDBY on 192.
CDR We got it.
PLT TAPE MOTION light is on - again. 48:15_ standing

by.
,-, TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page 9 of 18/1057
CDR Little bitty place.
PLT Just a short pass. They cheated us today, A1.
221 13 h8 15 PLT MARK. INTERVAL'S to 20 on 190. 49:50, next. Is

Milt Windier only with you? or do you have
another - You working with the same flight
controller this morning, Crip?
CDR I need to set this up for 48:30 - -
PLT Who's the man who's _mning the mission down there,
Crip?
CC Roger. Don Puddy running. You've got the Crimson

team on.
PLT Hello there, Don.
SPT Stand by for a S063 UV.
PLT Skylab 3 crew. Better be quiet. Y'all want to - -
221 13 48 4_ SPT MARK. Start the S063 UV.
PLT Attaboy, O. Speak up.
PLT 1 minute here. Altim's monopolized the conversation

up here, as you've noticed.
SPT I can tell. h8 :50.
221 13 h9 13 PLT Charlie 8 is 56 percent. Tape recorder's running

fine. _9:50, next.
221 13 h9 hh CDR Thing locked on way left. My guess is it locked

on somewhere up there around - Portsmouth.
221 13 h9 50 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER is STANDBY. MODE is going to 3.

MODE, 3; RAND, 72. Not sure by - i0.
CDR Been a good day for 190B.
221 13 50 ll PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. Got a long wait here.

Say, Crip, did the EREP guys get all of those
192 alingnment words?
SPT Stand by; 63 UV.

TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page i0 of 18/1058
PLT Y'all be quiet for the 0.
CC That 's affirmative, Jack.
221 13 50 35 SPT MARK. 63 UV.
PLT I meant the stuff I put on the recorder the other

night regarding the initial alignment.
CC Yes, we got that, too.
PLT Okay, good. Hope they can decipher it.
CDR Say, Crip, you might pass to the EREP targeting

fellows, it looked to me like it locked on all
the way up - When I went to IMC, it locked on
up at around Portsmouth as opposed to down around
Albemarle sound, which is a long way off.
CC Copy.
PLT ...
CDR Yes, I did.
PLT That's an easy one to miss.
CDR Working on it right now. I'm working on seeing

some sargass1_ma down in there somewhere.
PLT Sargassums, Sargassum Bay.
CC How's the Sargasso Sea?
PLT An exotic weed of amRzing potency.
PLT Sailor's delight, huh?
CDR Performing ...
PLT Can you see some sargassum down there, Al?
CDR No, but I'm performing sort of a ru_ning square

search.
PLT Understand that 's what sargassnm does. _
CDR Nice to find some, wouldn't it? All I can see is

blue and then white clouds. I don't see any green
or even a different shade of blue.
TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page ll of 18/1059
PLT I wonder when they're going to let us take our

Okie down there off of probation.
CC LOS 1 minute. Ascension, 14:04.
PLT You're still on probation, 0.
SPT Okay, stand by for a UV mark.
221 13 52 37 SPT MARK. Okay. That's was a 2700 angstrom UV mark

with 8-second time exposure. And it looks like
we got one extra visible photograph on the retrace
there because we hadn't gone over the cam lock.
So you - kind of an extra visible photo.
PLT A freebie.
SPT A freebie, that' s right.
PLT Not many of those left, O. 53:20, standing by.
221 13 53 21 PLT MARK. Right on time. 190 is out. By golly!

Stand by for 190. 54, next. I'm going to give
you, maybe, you and AUTO ....
221 l_ 04 26 SPT ... B and the visible camera, and I still was not
able to drive back to the same target. It simply
moved beyond the field of view by the time I had
a chance to get back there. So I did take an
extra UV at 3200 angstroms of another target as
near as possible, but I'm sure it was some miles
beyond the first target. And we'll, of course,
have an extra visible of that same shot since the
trip - the levers have not driven over the cam
to release that trip mechanism.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Ascension

for 5 minutes. And, 0wen, I take it you were
doing some recording there on your ETC pad.
SPT That 's affirmative.
PLT Okay, and there he is down there. That m_gic

voice. Charlie 8 --
CC Hey, Jack.
PLT Yes, go ahead.

TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page 12 of 18/1060
CC I was Just going to tell you that all the guys

down here, all the EREP people, really appreciated
your commentary coming across there. It makes it
much easier on the guys down here to follow and
understandwhat was going on. Re_11y good Job.
221 14 05 29 SPT 63, STAND BY.
SPT MARK. 63 UV.
PLT Okay, thank you, Crip. We'll try to keep them

well informed. They've done a great Job. Also,
I want to give a good pat on the back to the guys
that made our checklist and these cue cards.
The cue cards are working great and the checklist
is in good shape. It's got the info in there
that we need. So they did a really dandy Job on
all that. And I hope the data comes out very
well. And Charlie 8, at this point, is reading
49 percent.
CC Copy. And we'll pass it on.
221 14 06 07 CDR ..., Jack.
PLT TAPE RECORDER POWER, OFF.
CDR 191 door is slow, and it seems to Just creep

through the field of view.
PLT That's supposed to take a minute and 48, I think.
CDR Okay, I'm timing it now.
PLT Good. Notice that a little bit yesterday down

there, EREP fans, that the 190 door seemed to -
to he slow. I didn't time it, but it seemed to
Jerk a little hit, which concerned me. So we're
timing it for sure today and watching it very
closely.
CDR Doesn't seem to be Jerking today, Jack.
SPT STAND BY 63.
221 14 06 43 SPT MAKR. UV photo - start.
221 14 06 58 PLT Okay, EREP fans, I'm measuring the take - the tape
on the take-up reel. The distance to the tape, I
TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page 13 of 18/i061
measure fifteen-sixteenths of an inch.

Fifteen-sixteenths of an inch open space remaining
on the take-up reel.
221 lh 07 23 PLT How long did it take, AI?
CDR About 01 :55, Jack.
PLT 01:55 on EREP door closing, so it looks like

it 's going nominal.
CDR Okay.
PLT Really ... up there - -
CDR Also, Crip, doing some thinking about that site

end. I don't think it was Portsmouth I was on.
I think that it was a good site end, and what
I was zoomed in on was Roanoke Island. Because
there's an airfield there. So I think that prob-
ably the pointing quantities were good. And I
don't think I got the target. I think I zoomed
in on Roanoke Island for a while.
SPT Okay, I'm Just setting up to get the 8-second

exposures now on 63 UV. And one comment on the
first set of 80 - 8-second exposures back at
13:52. I believe they may have been 10-second
exposures instead of 8 because the little marker
on this cam has a bright edge, and the light
glinted off the leading edge of that through the
window here. And I probably set it on the leading
edge rather than the white mark. And that would
add Just about 2 seconds to each end. I guess
that would make it a total of h-second exposure
increase on the first set of 8-second exposures.
Now after that, I'm sure I've got it on the center
mark. But I wanted to alert you to that possibi-
lity. I'm Just coming up, now, on the first of
the 8-seconds - second set of exposures, 40830.
Stand by on the 63 UV.
221 14 08 58 SPT MARK.
PLT Okay. We're going to power this beauty down.
SPT Okay, and expect the PI would be interested in

the accuracy of the tracking. My estimate is that
we can hold the target down there to within plus
TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page 14 of 18/1062
or minus 2 or 3miles or something like that,

Judging by the size of the cumulus clouds, which
I take to be 2 or 3, maybe, 5 miles across these
little individual cells. That's sort of the a-
bility to hold the target with this manual tracker.
CC Roger. Copy. Going LOS, 30 seconds. See you

again at Carnarvon at i_:35. And, A1, at that
time, we'd be interested in hearing a little
bit more about your VTS.
CDR Okay.
221 14 09 53 PLT Say, A1, you got everything powered down there
so I can power down the panel. I guess you've
got the door closed, the camera off and all that,
right? Okay, I'm going to turn the whole thing
off.
221 lh l0 07 PLT Display, off; BUS 1 and BUS 2, OFF. Okay, 0, we're
leaving up the recorder for you. When you're
finished with it, you can knock it off.
SPT Okay, it'll only be up for another 4 or 5 minutes.
PLT Okay. It's yours.
221 14 i0 27 SPT Stand by for the 3200 exposure.
221 lh 37 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Carnarvon for

8minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Jack, you got a moment?
PLT I'm listening.
CC Okays looks like we got a little conflict on our

flight planning for today. We've got you
scheduled for doing some I/LCA ATM CKD lighting
troubleshooting procedures for us at the same
time that we got a JOP 12 that Owen's doing,
and those are going to conflict with one another.
We're wondering if you'd mind switching that
I/LCA up where you've got housekeeping 81 Golf
scheduled? Just - Just reverse the two.
TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page 15 of 18/1063
PLT I'ii do it.
CC Okay, fine and dandy. We appreciate that.
CDR Crip, CDR. I think I may have some information

on that ...
CC Say again, A1.
CDR Let me give you a feel for what - what I think

occurred now that I've looked at the map and
thought about it a little bit - -
CC Okay.
CDR - - Although I'm not sure. My guess is the point-

ing put me right on Roanoke Island, which would
be excellent pointing. I'm not sure of that, but
that'd be my guess. And when I zoomed in there
to move down, I didn't see any - I didn't see
anything there. I didn't see any islands around
that could be the island that I wanted, so I said
to myself, it must not be Roanoke; it must be
Portsmouth, which is too far off to be reason-
able. That's where I made a - the ftmdA_ental
error. I should have said, it's got to be around
here somewhere; I'll Just have to look around some
more. Anyhow, I then moved down to the south and
east, as I would from Portsmouth. When I did, I
think I ended up down in the south end of p_,1 ico
Sound on that northern - northeastmost tip of land
or the - there's two little tips of land there.
One is sort of northeast, and one is sort of north-
west.
221 14 40 1B CDR My guess is, I probably ended up on one of those

two; whereas, if I'd Just stayed where I was, and
maybe gotten a little bit closer, I could have
seen it better and zoomed in on the right place.
But I kind of got ahead of myself and thought I
was at a different point. So my guess is, it was
good pointing and then I didn't get the target,
but I don't know.
221 14 40 36 CC Okay, very good. We copy that and appreciate

the information, A1.
CC SPT, you got a moment to talk about your ATM

schedule?
TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page 16 of 18/1064
SPT Yes, Crip. I started the maneuver back to SI

about 16:20 or so.
PLT One more question on that schedule, Crip. At

... is a mo 1 sieve fan replacement. What do
you want me to do, put the old one back in
where I replaced the new one last night?
CC Negative, Jack. We Just noted that, audunder-

stand that you'd already done it. So that's a
free housekeeping period.
PLT Okay, I'll throw that one out then. Thank you.
SPT Go ahead, Crip, I'm here.
CC Okay, Owen, we've got on your - you've got ATM

ops around 15:lO, 15:15 so - and your pad
starts at 15:25. What we'd like you to do is
go ahead and initiate ops at 15:lO, and fill in
the rest of it with shopping list.
SPT Okay, and this TV, have you got some down-link
capability there?
CC We'll check that.
SPT Okay, never mind. I've got to hurry up and finish

stowing 63. So I'll give you some down-link TV
with whatever capability you got.
CC Okay, We'll play that in real time.
PLT Incidentally, I haven't checked the ATM schedule

yet. Are any of these JOP 12's with calibration
rockets today?
CC That's affirmative ...
221 14 42 B1 CDR Thank you.
221 14 44 _6 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.

Have you again over _1,m at 14:_8, 14:48.
221 14 50 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over G1_m for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay, Crip.

TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page 17 of 18/1065
CC And for Owen, there's no need to acknowledge, but

the S063 PI thanks you for a mighty fine run.
That 10-second exposure setting was no problem.
The timer actually governs the length of the
exposure, not that setting on the micros_-ltch.
That off setting the microswitch is Just to shut
off the visible camera at about a second or so
early, and that won't be noticed at all. And we
estimate from your tracking error that you gave
us, it was about a half a degree and we - if you
could tell us whether that coincided with the
half-degree tick marks on your reticle for com-
parison, we'd appreciate it.
SPT Okay. I'm thinking about those half-degree tick

marks right now. And let me see, how m_ny
degrees - how many tick marks do I have across
the scope there - have across the face of the
reticle? Do you remember?
CC I'll check on that to give you a good number.
SPT Is that about a 10-degree field?
CC I'm not for sure of that. We're going to check

it for you.
CC And if you guys will stay off the DAS for us for
a moment, we're going to enable momentum dump.
SPT Okay.
SPT And for the S06B PI, might mention about a week
ago, I had a very interesting view of the southern
aurora, which I'll send down on channel A as soon
as I get a chance. I'll try to do that some time
today. There was no time for any handheld photo-
graphy, but it _as a very beautiful aurora.
CC Okay. I'm sure the Packers appreciate that.

Thank you.
CC And the DAS belongs to you guys again.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

see you again over Goldstone at about 15:14. And,
Owen, we'll get some detailed information to you
on that 6B reticleback. ProbablyJust ask you to
discuss that on the evening status report.
TAG Tape 221-06/T-153
Page 18 of 18/i066
SPT Okay. And I'm not sure I ever notified you or

mentioned that on the S055 intensity DATA, when
we put that to BUS l, the upper half of the
numerals are blank and the lower half of the
numerals are very dim. And so, for that reason,
we always put the 55 intensity DATA to BUS 2,
not BUS l, as is on the cue card.
221 lh 58 24 CC Yes, that's normal with the current configuration

we got.
END OF TAPE
J
Tag Tape 221-07/T-154

_- Time: 221:15:00 to 221:16:30
Page 1 of 4/1067
221 15 13 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone down

across the States for about 15 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob. And you might ask NOAA, or the other
fellows with an H-alpha camera in hand, to take
a look at active region at 0801.0. It's got a
potential for some surge activity right at the
present time. And possibly, even a little X-ray
activity. I'd like their comment on it.
CC Okay, we'll take a look at that. Could you tell

us - verify for us that the S055 EXPERI_NT NIGHT
INTERLOCK is verified in NORMAL?
221 15 14 19 SPT Hey, Bob. It is now. It wasn't when I got to

the panel.
CC 0keydoke. Thank you.
PLT Hey, Bob. If you want a little realtime TV on

S M131, why it's monitored and set up.
CC Okay. We're set up right now to get ATM TV

down-link from Owen, if it's available.
SPT Yes, I'll give you some as required on - as on

the pad.
CC If you guys want to coordinate it, we'll take the

131 until you're ready to. set up for that. What-
ever way y'all want to work it.
PLT We've Just got a little 131 to do. So if you want

any of it, why you can catch it now and - ... All
done. Whatever you want to do.
SPT I'll give you the 131 right now because I'm not
ready to go to Sun center for a little bit.
CC Okeydoke.
SPT And that was active region 84, I wanted to direct

the ATM science room to.
CC They're looking at it, Owen.

Tag Tape 221-07/T-154
Page 2 of 4/1068
CC Owen, at your convenience, we'd appreciate it if

you could reacquire a star for us. That's no big
rush.
221 15 16 28 SPT Okay.
221 15 17 08 SPT If you have real-time TV I'll give you a little

view of active region 85 and 84 right now, and
they can use that instead of their own H-alpha.
CC Roger, 0wen.
CC Owen, on this TV, we're recording it at Goldstone

right now. In about 2 minutes or so, we're going
to be able to pick it up live over MLA.
SPT Roger. Let me know when you've got it live.
CC Okay. And we concur that what you're looking at

is active region 84 with - filament number 27
should be up above it.
221 15 18 56 SPT Okay. I just would appreciate their evaluation to

whether or not that configuator ... torquing
should deviate from the planned program. I don't
see the surge right now in my H-alpha, but it's
a much brighter spot than ithad been yesterday.
It's the brightest thing on the Sun right now.
And it's a potential, I think, deviation at this
point.
CC Okay. We copied all that, Owen. And they're

investigating for you.
CDR Are y'all dumping the tape recorders, Crip?
CC Stand by one, A1.
CC Okay. I missed a call on that. We are dumping

across Texas, here, A1. And, Owen, we do want
to go ahead and get building block 1. That's
going to take priority. You should have some
time for some shopping list items, and yes, we'd
recommend item 5.
CC And, Owen, for your information, we're still get-

ting that 1B1 stuff on TV rather than the monitor.
Tag Tape 221-07/T-15_
Page 3 of _/i069
b
CC Okay. And we've got the H-alpha picture, there.
221 15 23 47 CC Owen, we interpret that as - your crosshairs are

on 85 and 84., sitting out there on the limb,
down at about 8 o'clock.
221 15 30 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Have

you again over the Vanguard at 15:40, 15:40.
That's about l0 minutes from now.
221 15 39 51 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard, 7 minutes.
SPT Hello, Houston. Information for the ATM science

room.
SPT Hello, Houston. Are you there?
CC Roger, Owen; go ahead.
SPT Okay, I gave them chip A at minus 5400, approx-

imately, in roll and chip B at 10,800 rather than
the other way around, unfortunately. I'd rolled
that way for the TV and didn't take time to roll
back. I think that ma_es the most differnece to
82A. And I did give them their 2 plus 40 exposure
at the minus 5400 approximate roll. Not as good
an orientation as it would have been in 10,800.
I held up their 10-second exposure until now. And
I'll give them their 10-second exposure at the
more favorable roll.
CC Okay, we copy that. And I've got some CALLROC

pointing information, but. I'm Just going to hold
it for you and give it to you later when you're
not busy.

have you again over Goldstone at 16:50, 16:50.
That's a little over an hour away. And, Owen,
I Just want to verify that you did understand that
we had both door motors on 56 enable now.
SPT That's correct' I did hear that earlier. Thank

you. And why don't you go ahead and give me that
CALROC info now; I've got - -
Tag Tape 221-07/T-154
Page 4 of 4 /1070
221 15 47 09 CC Okay, it's roll - I'm going to hold up on it,

Owen. We're dropping in and out too much to give
it.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 221-08/T-155
Time: 221:16:30 to 221:18:00
Page i of 8/1071
221 16 50 24 CC Skylab Houston. We're AOS over Goldstone for about

12-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello there, Houston. I'm beginning to think 85

is a pretty good number. Apparently that didn't
register. Has the ATM science room told you any-
thing about a flare about an hour ago?
CC No. Okay, well, now they - now they're telling

me.
SPT l'd guess about an M somewhere. Have they - Can

they give you a classification on it?
CC Mike 2.
SPT Mike 2, not bad - -
SC ... Mike ... --
SPT - - ... give the - give them the information. At

about 15:51 to 15:52, we transitioned from the
building block 1. We'd approximately reached the
truncation point at tim2 20; transitioned into
a flare mode; went over and pointed at active
region 85; and got onto the flare before it had
reached it's peak, I'm reasonably certain. The
peak numbers we were reaching on the IMAGE INTENSITY
COUNTER were about 220. The PMEC was in excess
of 700 and the beryllium count was saturated,
APERTURE 1 and over 4800 for quite an interval of
time. The whole flare laster less than lO minutes,
from rise to finish. We actually had it down to
nearly normal levels by the time sunset approached.
And so it's Just about the last l0 minutes of the
orbit, and we essentially caught almost all of
the whole flare. And - we were running in FLARE
MODE on 82A and B for a short interval of about
or 5 minutes, and everybody else was running in
their normal flare modes. I'm continuing now in
the manned mode, instead of being in unattended
OPS in the second orbit phase, the extended
TAG Tape 221-08/T-155
Page 2 of 8/1072
standard for S052. I did check the TV in the co-

and it's possible that there is some alteration
of the coronal structure well above active region
85, possibly a little bulging in the corona that
I could not have identified before. But no pro-
nounced transients are at this time available.
If you have any real-time down-link, I could give
you a little picture of it now. Over.
221 16 52 37 CC Okay, we'll check that out. And, Owen, could I

get you off the DAS for a minute here? We're
going to inhibit momentum for this rate gyro man-
euver we got coming up. And, also, we're going
to try to update rate gyro Y-2.
CDR Okay, we're off the DAS. Now a question for you,
Crip. On this rate gyro - these are the rate
gyros that are already running, these have nothing
to do with our ones we brought up. Is that correct?
CC That is affirmative.
CDR Okay, and another one. Are we going to keep the -

Canopus - I gather we're going to keep locked on,
all the time.
CC That's affirmative also, A1.
CDR Okeydoke, and I'll be back at 17:lO. I got to go

work on the command module.
CC Okay, while I got you there I - Stand by 1. Okay,

you asked a question on _he relief valves, yesterday,
in the lock, and according to what we got right
now 313 - panel 313 is supposed to be closed and
the ones on 300 and 391 are supposed to be open.
CDR Okay. Well then, we got it right, good.
SPT Obviously I'm not going to make that TV 61 schedule

on my Flight Plan either, Bob. I'll try to pick
it up later tonight and get my PT done after supper.
TAG Tape 221-08/T-155
Page 3 of 8/1073
CC 0keydoke. When - I've got some words for you on

the TV - the 461 on the PT, and whenever you think
you're going to get it in, well - well, I'll give
it to you.
SPT Okay, it looks like it'll probably be after supper.
CC Okay, we'll try to get it in this evening.
SPT I'd appreciate any con_nents the back room has

about whether or not to continue on this program
or whether they'd like to go unattended for the
last little bit of the orbit.
CC Okay, I'll check that out. You got time to write

down this pointing for the CALROC now?
SPT Yes, go ahead.
221 16 54 31 CC Okay, ROLL will be minus 10,800. The UP, l0 plus

lO, and LEgXf is minus 450.
- SPT Okay, ROLL is minus 10,800. UP, plus lO; LEgT,

minus 450.
CC That's affirmative, and we want the XUV SLIT BIAS

to be in.
PLT Roger. Crip, I've got the report on that I/LCA

troubleshooting.
CC Okay, I'll stand by to copy that, and we are re-

cording TV at Goldstone, in case Owen wants to
give us any.
PLT Okay.
CC Talk to me about I/LCA, Jack.
PLT Okay, step number 9 of the troubleshooting proce-

dures you sent up, asked me to report the status of
the integral, numeric, and status lighting. The
status of the INTEGRAL LIGHTING at the end of the
TAG Tape 221-081T-155
Page h of 81107h
test was that there was none, no INTEGRAL LIGHTING.

Status of numerics were as follows: all the NU-
MERICS were off, except H-alpha 1 FRAMES REMAINING.
The status lights - the only STATUS lights on were
the three CBRM number 3 lights. Over.
CC Okay, we copied that, and we're going - going to

have a malf procedure we want you to run.
PLT Okay.
221 16 56 B6 CDR Crip, I've got a question for the CSM troops. When
I SELECT, MANUAL RADIATOR, 2, I don't get a little
2 in the window; it still stays grey.
CC Understand.. MANUAL RADIATOR, 2 you don't - your

window still stays grey, right?
CDR That's right. Maybe that's the way it's supposed

to be in quiescent, but I don't know.
CC Okay, we'll check that one out for you, A1.
SPT We're just whistling down the West Coast, as you

know here, Crip; and we're halfway down the BaJa
Peninsula but we can still very easily see back to
L.A. and San Diego and clear up to the coast to -
probably up to Vandenberg.
CC Roger, sounds like a beautiful sight.
CC Jack, have you got a moment? I want to tell you

a little bit about the I/.LCA malf thing.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, what we'd like you to do is to get the ATM

malf book and run C&D number 9, which is loss of
AC-1. An exception to that is that on that console
power distribution we do want to keep H-alpha in
BUS 2 right now.
221 16 58 49 PLT Okay. ATM malf, C&D number 9, loss of AC-1, leave
H-alpha in BUS 2.
TAG Tape 221-08/T-155
Page 5 of 8/1075
i
CC Okay, and we do want you to stay on your time line,

and probably should try to work that some way so
that it doesn't interfere with what Owen's doing.
PLT Okay, I'll Wait until darkness and he'll probably

power down for unattended.
CC 0keydoke.
CC Roger. And Owen does have a GO to continue with

his manned ops, so I'm guessing he probably won't
be powering down for unattended.
SPT Okay. I'm inclined to think, Crip, that we're

going to see nothing else out of the corona, and
I'll knock this up - knock this off and pick up
some shopping list items for the next 30 minutes,
unless the back room prefers to stay in the second
orbit of postflare.
CC Roger, 0wen. Shopping list sounds good. Why

don't you continue on with that, and we don't want
you to miss too much of that PT. Got to get your
exercise, man. I'm going to outrun you here on
the ground.
SPT I wouldn't doubt it. You did before I left.
PLT Crip, I got a few requests.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Roger. Three of them ara for PAO, all concerning

Jackson, Michigan. Today is my sister's birthday,
and I'd like her to know that I'm wishing her a
happy birthday. Jim McDivitt went over the other
night to explain to my father, who also lives in
Jackson, Michigan, Just what the problem was with
the command module; and I want him to know that £
appreciate that very much. Thirdly, Scout Troop
number 1 from Jackson is at the Jamboree in
Pennsylvania; and I want to wish them well at their
Jamboree and their future scouting activities.
And then, fourthly, I'd like you to set up a phone
call with my wife this evening.
TAG Tape 221-08/T-155
Page 6 of 8/1076
CC 0keydoke. Think we got all of that and we'll work

on your phone call.
PLT Thank you very much, Crip.
PLT Oh, by the way, my sister's married name is

Judith Gertz. G-e-r-t-z.
CC 0keydokey.
221 17 01 53 CC Okay, guys. We're about to go over the hill here.

We got 1 minute until LOS. We'll have you again
over Vanguard at 17:16. That's about, oh, 14 minutes
from now, and we'll be doing a data voice recorder
dump over Vanguard.

about 7 minutes, and we'll be doing a data voice
recorder dump.
CDR Okay, Crip. And obviously, we're not doing our -

maneuvers, because Owen is working the ATM panel.
We'll do the maneuvers at some other time today that
you point out. We'll stop and go up and do them.
CC Stand by 1.
CC And because you're not doing the maneuvers, if

you'll stay off the DAS for a moment, we're going
to re-enable dump. And, A1, because of that
previous problem you reported when you selected
RAD 2, we got a couple of items we'd like you to
check. You can either get them now or later. I
can write - if you'd write them down for you, I
can give them to you.
CDR Okay, I'm in the command module right now. My

trust PLT says that I should not get a 2 if I
select them manually, only if it goes to control or
2 automatically; so he seems happy. But go ahead,
I'm in the command module.
CC Okay. Apparently the EGIL down here didn't seem

to think so. I'd like you to check on panel 2,
that you do - did have the ECS RAD FLOW control
in MANUAL SELECT MODE.
--- TAG Tape 221-08/T-155
Page 7 of 8/1077
221 17 16 33 CDR That's affirmative. It is.
CC It was there when you - when you tried to select

it, right?
CDR That's affirm. It stays there as its quiescent

place.
CC Roger. We thought so. Okay. On panel 5, we

want to check that the ECS PRIMAR RAD CONTROL,
MAIN A and B are CLOSED.
CDR They're both CLOSED.
CC And also on panel 5, that the ECS PRIMARY RADIATOR

CONTROL AC 1 and 2 are CLOSED.
CDR They're CLOSED also.
CC Okay, that's all the ideas we had. I guess we'll

take the PLT's reco_endation under advisement
and look at it again.
CDR Okay, I'd sure like to know. I'm sure that EECOM
would like to know, too.
CDR Okay, we're running the secondary loop now. And

so it's been running for about 15 minutes. It'll
be running another h5 minutes, and then we'll
come back and shut it down. We're also pumping out
the surge tank; it needs a little pressure. The
repress tank is higher than the other - than
the service module tanks, so we haven't been
pumping it up.
CC Okeydoke. And if Owen is listening, we can tell

him that his CALROC looks GO for a 17:30 launch.
SPT Very good. Thank you. And I'll debrief this

on channel A - this orbit here.
CC Roger.
TAG Tape 221-08/T-155
Page 8 of 8/1078
CDR And I've got housekeeping 7 and 7A. I wasm't

sure what 7A was.
221 17 18 36 CC Stand by l, A1.
CDR Okay. I know what it is, if it's not a CSM 7A,

but rather an OWS 7A.
CC Roger, A1. That wasn't very clear on your Flight

Plan. It's supposed to be an OWS 7A, which is
water cleaning.
CDR Okay. I'll go scrub up, down there.
221 17 24 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See

you again at Hawaii in about an hour at 18:25,
18:25.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 221-09/T-156
Time: 221:18:00 to 221:19:30
Page 1 of 4/1079
221 18 25 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Hawaii for about

2-1/2minutes.
SPT Very good, Crip. And what was the launch time
of that rocket?
CC 17:30:58. It was all good. They lost one detector,

was the only problem.
SPT Okay. Well, we're plugging away right down the

planned J0P right now. And the back room might
check to m_ke sure they like the panel.
CC They're taking a look at it.
CC Everything looks good. Pointing's real fine.
SPT Very good.
CC Okay. We're going LOS in about 1 minute. And

we'll have you again over the Vanguard at 18:52,
18:52. And that's about 25 minutes from now.
221 18 27 04 CDR Okay, Bob.
221 18 53 20 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S over the Vanguard for

9minutes.
PLT Okay, Crip. Say, I wonder in that phone call

tonight, if I could make it at the Canaries-Madrid
pass, which comes off about - I worked it out -
just a minute.
CC That's 01:_0 something and that's when we got

it set up.
PLT Oh, good deal. Thanks a lot. I got it 01:hh.
CC That's right. That's 01:_ is the time and

we've got it all set up for then. And we can
give one to the Marine Corps, you were right on
that talkback in the command module, about manual
select on the radiators.
TAG Tape 221-09/T-156
Page 2 of h/1080 !
PLT Okay. What 's the score?
CC I guess it's Marine Corps one, EGIL nothing. EGIL

doesn't think that's right.
PLT I don't either. I think it's more than one and

a nothing.
CC Can you tell us about - did you ever - break,

break. Owen we need to get the detectors 6 and
7 on for this pass, please, for 55.
SPT At this particular grating position?
CC Stand by i.
CC Belay my last, Owen. They did not want detec-

tors 6 and 7 on.
SPT Yes. I didn't think they did. However, I did

want to point out to the 55 people that on the
preceding scan, on grating position 2665, I did
erroneously turn on 6 and 7 and I'm sure they'll
want to take a look at the results.
CC Okay. We got that. And Jack, can you tell us

if you did get a chance to run through that malf
on the ILCA?
221 18 55 h9 PLT I ran through the pad you set up, but Owen had
that CALROC coming up and I didn't mess around
with the panel, so I'm waiting until he's finished
on his next night pass. I think it would work
in good there. And it looks like to me you want
me to set all the buses - all the switches to
bus 1 before I start the malf. Right?
CC That's affirm. Except that we don't want the

H-alfa switched over. We want to leave it on
bus 2.
PLT Yes. O.'s got a padlock on that one.
CC Okay. The problem with that one, of course, is

that it's the sneaky one that goes through that
SYNC GEN and turns off the TV BUS.
TAG Tape 221-09/T-156
Page 3 of _/1081
PLT I won't touch it.
CDR Have youthought of a new time to do these cali-

bration m_neuvers, Crip?
CC Okay. Right now, A1, we're looking in the

22:00 Zulu to 23:00 Zulu time frame.
CDR We can do it then. But I'll wait to hear from

you before I plan on it.
CC Yes. Roger. We need to coordinate it here, A1,

to make sure we got a star available and a few
other things and we'll give you an update on that.
PLT Say, Crip. Tell the EGIL he's doing a great Job.
We're just getting a little cocky up here.
CC Okay. I'm sure he appreciates that.
PLT Who is the EGIL on your shift, Crip?
CC Joe Moon.
PLT Know him well.
221 i8 58 29 CC And Jack, is there any chance you've gotten in

to doing that housekeeping 70X-1 early?
PLT Yes. It's a good chance I did. It'll be over

with in an hour and a half.
CC Roger. We were Just copying ... CO 2 LOW there

and I just wanted to ms_e sure that's what was
going on.
PLT I whistled by there and stuck it in 16:30.
CC Very good. See, you can see EGIL, EGIL's on the

ball.
CC CDR, Houston. You got a moment to discuss the

general message number 7, which is dealing with
your South Atlantic anomaly and horn times.
/
CDR Go ahead.
TAG Tape 221-091T-156
Pa@e _ of 411082
CC Roger, AI. I understand what we're going to be

doing is sending - we're planning on sending up
two, one to post Wound the ATM panel and another
one down in the workshop some place. And I guess
the real question is, according to the direction
you got early this morning, do you want a third
so that you can put that in your general message
book, or what?
221 19 01 26 CDR No, no, the general mess - the only ones that we
keep are permauent messages. So Just two of
permanent messages. Any message that's Just a
general message. You know, one time, perform this
check or something, Just one of those is enough.
Just the permanent one is the one we want two of.
CC Roger. We'd been entitling this South Atlantic

anomaly thing a perm_uent general message, because
we' re going to send you up one shortly that's
going to last for a week, and we had put it down
as general message number - number 7, you should
have gotten one of those last night, for a couple
of days. You can think about that for a while.
We're going to go LOS here in about 30 seconds,
and we' ll see you again in about an hour, over
Hawaii_ at 20:00.
CDR Okay. 0nly the permanent ones are the ones you
think are going to last the whole mission. The
other Just call them general message. And we
will keep them around for enough days to do the
Job.
221 19 02 23 CC Copy.
END OF TAPE
Time: 221:19:59 to 221:20:40
Page i of h/i083
221 19 59 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii for about

lO minutes, and we'll be doing a data voice
recorder dump here.
221 20 01 06 SPT Okay, Bob, I'm on the second pointing of this

particular JOP, and I'd be interested if the S055
troops could let me know how detectors 7 and 6
look.
CC Roger. And is Jack available to talk for a moment?
SPT They're down there throwing food in every direc-

tion. I'm not sure how - how long it'll take
him to get to a box.
CC Okay. No sweat.
CC Okay, Owen, we do show detectors 6 and 7 off as

they should be in the scan, and we'll keep a watch
on for when you get them back on again.
SPT I know I was - I knew they'd turned off. I was

wondering about their performance, whether their
sensitivity appeared to be normal or not.
221 20 02 39 CC Owen, we can see no degradation of them; appear

to be working good.
SPT Fine. Tban_ you very much.
CC And, Owen, one item, if - Did Jack manage to get

through the C&D malf regarding the I/LCA?
SPT No, he did not, because we've been working - didn't

want to fiddle with the panel too much - throw a
lot of power switches while we were in the middle
of this CALROC cross-calibration.
CC Okay, copy. The - the end of that malf, we're

Just going to leave a breaker pulled out that we
wanted to put back in, but we'll get that to him
later after he does it.
TAG Tape 221-10/T-157
Page 2 of 4/1084
SPT Okay.
SPT And the biomeds might be interested to know that I

got all my ergometer work in between runs here.
CC Okay; did we get any TV-61 in?
221 20 04 50 SPT No, I'm saving that. That's arm exercise.
CC Okay.
221 20 08 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

have you again over the Vanguard at 20:31 in about
22 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob. And I Just might mention, if Ed Gibson

is running around this - that part of the country,
might spend one pass talking with him this evening
about ATM activity, or tomorrow night if tonight's
not a good one.
CC Okay; we'll see if we can set that one up.
SPT Are you still there, Bob?
221 20 l0 07 CC Going over the hill now. Lots of static. Get me

later.
221 20 30 49 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard for

9 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob. I've given you all the CALROC cali-
bration information that was asked for on the ATM
activity - pad - ATM schedule, excuse me. And
I'm over here on active region 84 now, giving you
a little bit of item number 3. And the question
I had started to give to you at the end of the last
orbit was for Ed Gibson. I'd appreciate a little
feedback relative to that M-2 flare this morning,
such things as the time of start, time of various
instruments getting into operation, and what, in
general, the quality of the data looked like on that
flare this morning. If Ed has a chance to look up
some of that, I'd appreciate a little information
on it.
Page 3 of 4/1085
CC Okay. We'll try to get that for you. And, Owen,

while I've got you here, if you've got a moment, at
some time - we don't need it right now - but on
the CAUTION and WARNING panel, we'd like to get
reenabled the BAT CHARGE LOW for BAT 6. We had it
inhibited this morning for the Z-LV pass.
SPT Okay. I Just reenabled it for you and I should've

said active region 86, not 84. That's where I'm
at now.
CC Roger_ on 86. And, Owen, while I've got you here

also, yesterday, we had a little bit of confusion
about the filter on S056 and you were concerned
that - that item IB might have fouled the thing
up. And I believe it was a - a little bit of
misunderstanding on our part as to what the telem-
etry was showing. So at the - currently, we don't
believe there was any problem with the procedures
set up on that item lB.
SPT Th_k you very much. I appreciatethat feedback.

I was curious about it.
221 20 B7 14 CC And, Skylab_ Houston. Like to inform you that

your flight plans for tomorrow are onboard - in
your teleprinter.
CDR Thank you.
CC And Owen, have you got time to listen to a little

bit on how we'd like the TV for 61, if you get
a chance to do it this evening?
SPT Yes, go ahead.
CC Roger. Since you may not have a chance to do all

of TV-61, we'd like to be sure that you get the
Mark I and Mark II. If you don't get the ergom-
eter, we're going to schedule it later, since
you've already done ergometer. I'm ass_im_ng
that's the case. And we - we'd prefer if you
wouldn't use Just one - one view for both Mark I
and Mark II - to use a wide view for I and a
zoom-in for II.
SPT Wide for Mark I and a zoomed-in for Mark II.

Page h of h/1086
CC That's affirm. Appreciate that. Thank you.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. Have

you again over Hawaii at 21:38. Story should be
talking to you at that time. We'll see you
manana.
SPT Roger, Bob. Had an interesting day today.
CC Yes. Flare was pretty exciting. Hope you get a

few more of those.
SPT So do we. Jack was planning on getting the big

one, so it looks like he's going to have to go
for an X.
221 20 h0 00 CC Okeydoke.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tspe 221-II/T-158
Time: 221:21:00 to 221:22:30
Page i of 6/1087
221 21 38 26 CC Skylab, we're AOS, Hawaii for 7 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story. CDR here. We're getting ready to

run this channel B comm checkout. And according
to our piece of paper here, it says verify all
thumbwheel settings are correct on panels 9 and 6
using page h-9. Now 4-9 has this CSM configured
for A down-link, B record and we got it configured
Just the opposite. But I understand you want us
to go ahead and configure the thumbweels as if we
were operating normally. Is that correct or not?
CC Let me get that verified, AI.
CDR Yes, looks like somehow we have things backwards.
r CC AI, we got an answer for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Use the tht_bwheel settings on page 4-12 under

0A alternate.
CDR That's a good idea. We'll do it.
CC And thank you for bringing it to our attention.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Owen, we expect to have Ed Gibson over here to

talk with you about the flare data seen on the
ground, and also a critique of how you ran the
flare, over Canaries at 00:09.
SPT Close to midnight. Thank you.
CC That 's Zulu.
SPT That's midnight in Greenwich.

Page 2 of 6/1088
CC Okay. And I got an addition to the malfunction

procedure on ATM C&D that's on page 1-27, but I
Just got one aadition for you to do when you get
done with that.
SPT You mean you want me to Just do it on the voice

link now instead of up on the teleprinter?
CC Yes, it's a simple little thing. You can copy

it anywhere.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
CC Panel 130 circuit breaker MAIN INVERTER/LCA l,

CLOSE.
SPT I 'm sorry. Would you repeat it once more?
CC Panel 1]0, that's ATM panel, circuit breaker MAIN

INVERTER/LCA 1, CLOSE.
PLT Is that suppose to go with the _Asf procedure

number 9, C&D?
CC Yes, that's affirmative when you complete that mal

Just close that circuit breaker.
PLT Okay. That's at the end of the procedure, now.
CC Yes• sir.
SPT And this is a permanent change to be incorporated

in the book. Is that right?
CC No, that's a one time good deal.
SPT Okay, well we got it in there. Jack's got it down.
PLT Hey, Story, I'm looking around for the WMC fine
filters as - called out here on page 9-21 of the
systems checklist.
CC We got the page, could you - could you state the

question again, please?
TAG Tape 221-IIIT-158
Page 3 of 61zo89
PLT Yes, where is the WMC dabris fine filters?
CC Okay, we'll hustle on that one. We're about

30 seconds to LOS.
PLT Oh, plenty of time. Knowing you guys, how fast

you are, you can do that in a flick of an eyebrow.
CC We're i0 seconds to LOS here. I will see you over

the Vanguard in about 24 minutes at 22:09.
SPT Okay, and l'm Just putting your so]ar data on the
VTR right now.
CC Okay.
CC B-432, Jack. B-432. That's where the fine filter is.
221 21 45 39 PLT I told you you could do it. ThRnks.
221 22 09 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through the

Vanguard for i0 minutes. We'll be dumping the
tape recorders here.
SPT Okay, Story, Just a quick question: has Adam down

there said anything to you about a little activity
in the active region 85?
CC He hasn't yet, Owen.
SPT Okay, you got another smaller flare down there at

about 21:46 and it was high enough to go to
BERYLLIUM position number i in about a 3500 count.
I did not interrupt _ program because we were
Just completing the CALROC mirror auto rasters.
But I did happen to record the XUV MON for essen-
tially the whole duration of the flare and it
should be on the tape recorder right now. I
sort of be interested in what NOAA has to say about
the X-ray classification. It wasn't as strong as
the one earlier today but definitely was a X-ray
emitting region.
CC Okay, I'ii get some information up to you on that

one, Owen.
TAG Tape 221-11/T-158
Page 4 of 6/1090
221 22 i0 35 CDR Story, CDR.
CC Go ahead, AI.
CDR Ran - Jack and I ran those two co_n checkouts.

Essentially on the first one, doing all the dif-
ferent things that were discussed, we found no
difference in volume, no matter which one of the
amplifiers we turned off. Now let me rephrase
that slightly, every time we turned off a buffer
amp, the volume dropped significantly and we
turned it back on, the volume would come up. We'd
turn off the other one, it would drop the same
amount. When you put them both back on, they 'd
come up. You had the feeling that both buffer am-
plifiers were operating the same way. Same is
true for all the rest of the tests, we ran. We
did the part 2; also were recorded on the tape and
that should be on the tape now in time 22:00.
That's the time we ran the test. One thing is
still puzzling us, we have problems with channel
A, yet we're testing channel B, or we think we are.
CC Okay, I copied that, AI. Anymore for us on that?
CDR Nothing I can think of. Just kind of wondered,

are we rea]ly checking A on that test, or B like
we thought? And if we're checking B, why are we
checking B? Your problems was A, I thought. May-
be our problem's with B and it won't tape record.
I think maybe that's it. We got a problem with B
and it won't tape record and that's what we are
trying to check?
CC The last thing you said is correct, A1. The prob-

lem's with B.
CDR Okay, had forgotten it. Okeydoke.
CC And thanks. SPT, Houston.
221 22 12 46 SPT Go ahead.
CC Before I forget it, we need the star tracker

locked on.
r_
TAG Tape 221-11/T-158

Page 5 of g/1091
SPT Okay. Same old numbers?
CC Yes, the ones you got on board and that flare you
were looking at, we'll call it a subnormal optical
and it peaked out at 21:4h, and we didn't want to
interrupt your - your CALROC JOP.
SPT I didn't interrupt it, but I've got almost the

whole history of it on the XUV _0N on the VTR.
So when you get that back to Houston, you can see
the way you look in XUV from that.
CC Okay, thanks. And I've got a small change to your

rate gyro calibration pad that we passed up yes-
terday.
SPT Maybe we don't need to copy that. Why don't you

Just put it in the next pass.
CC That's c_ming up at - at 23:14.
SPT Okay, just a second, Story. Let me get it out.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, I changed the maneuver times there. The

first one, 17:10 change that to 23:14:00.
SPT Okay, 23:14.
CC Okay. And after that one, Just add 5 minutes;

increment all the other maneuver times 5 minutes.
Like the next one at 17:15 will be at 23:19:00.
And the third one, 23:24:00.
SPT Okay, got that.
CC And you understand the last four maneuvers, you

increment them up 5 minutes also. Oh, I can read
them to you. The one at 17:25:00 is 23:29:00.
And the 17:30:00 is 23:34:00. The 17:35:00 is
23:39:00. And the last one is at 23:43:00 [sic].
221 22 15 33 CDR Okay, thank you, Story. We'll pull it off.

TAG Tape 221-11/T-158
Page 6 of 6/1092
CC Thank you.
CDR Just for - Just for laughs, I thought l'd tell

you this. I looked in the book and found that
the comm settings for both the normal and that
alternate are the same.. The switches aren't,
but the thumbwheel settings (laughter) are the
same. So we'd have been okay either way.
CC We should have saw that too.
CDR And we got all of that stowage done, Story. It

took I'd - my guess would be between 4 and 5
man hours to do it. We got it a11 stowed and we
sent the information down on chan A record so Rita
and anybody else that is interested in the food
and where it is, can get it. Before we leave here
some 50 days or whatever it is from now, we'll a -
we'll go up there and inventory everybody's. That
way they will have some good handle on it.
221 22 17 17 CC Okay, thanks, A1. And while I got you there with
that pad, do not put in the iS-minute maneuver
time tmtil you have gone to SI mode with the
switch. That's right at the end of the pad.
CDR Got you. Thanks.
221 22 18 03 CC And we're a minute until LOS here. Will see you
over Ascension in 4 minutes.
221 22 2h 41 CC Skylab, we've got you through Ascension for 7

minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. I'm starting to work on the I/LCA

malf.
221 22 24 56 CC Okay, Jack.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 221-12/T-159
Time: 221:22:30 to 222:00:00
Page 1 of 5/1093

over Guam in 37 minutes at 23:08.
PLT Okay. Story, working through this malfunction

procedure, one thing I noticed on the time remain-
ing counter, is that all the elements in the lower
half of the time remaining counter, which are now
being used to count down the time, are very, very
dimly lit. The ones on the upper half, which are
not being used, are not lit at a]].
221 22 31 h6 CC Thanks.
221 23 08 31 CC Skylab, AOS Guam for 7 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story, I've carried around something in my

checklist here I wanted - in my billfo!d - or
pocket I was going to call down to you. That's
the amount of alcohol down there in the slide
container kit. And George 3, which is the alcohol -
the plunger is sitting at about 6 milliliters.
But there is a large bubble in the - in the alco-
hol and I really think there's no more than about
3 milliliters of alcohol in it. In W-l, William i,
a container of ethanol, which might be also used,
the plunger sits at about 7 milliliters remaining,
but again another large bubble is in the container
and I wouldn't estimate more than about 3 milli-
liters of fluid are in the container. Over.
CC I copy that, Owen.
CC I mean I've got a - -
CDR Okay, Story - -
CC Go ahead.
221 23 09 59 CDR Story, we'll be ready to go at 23:1h.
CC Roger.
TAG Tape 221-12/T-159
Page 2 of 5/1094
CDR We've gone over the checklist. I need to tell

you which ones we think - We think we've got
most of them, but some of them we're not sure
that we 've logged, like we' re logging them now,
so we want to make sure that we've got them in
there. So let me read you the ones we need. And
you can send them up, if you would.
CC Okay.
221 23 l0 21 CDR Skylab Stowage Book change, I; SWS Systems

Checklist, 5 and 6; ATM Experiment Checklist, 2;
Biomed Checklist and Log, l; Student Experiment
Checklist, l; ATM JOP S_-,m-ry Sheet change, I;
Decal change, i. If that's the urine decal,
we've already got it. Rate gyro Package Cue Card
change, i_ ETC Cue Card, i; and that's it. All
of the rest we verified are in and noted.
CC Okay, thanks.
CDR If you could get those up sometime this afternoon

or this evening, we'd get them done this evening.
Then it would be in good shape.
CC Okay, we're working.
221 23 12 l0 CC And no need - -
CDR Okay we've Just switched to the CMG MODE.
CC Okay, we're looking at a good m_ueuver time, A1.

over the Vanguard in half an hour.
221 23 46 19 CC Skylab, We're A0S over Vanguard for l0 minutes.
SPT Hello there, Story.
CC You guys eating now?
PLT No, we're Just getting ready to, I guess. We're

doing our exercise and our checklist changes.
CC Okay.
PLT Is Milt Windler down there today, Story?

TAG Tape 221-12/T-159
Page 3 of 5/1095
CC Yes, sir. He and all the m,_oon team.
PLT Okay, have him - have the honorable Mr. Windler

pass on to the Friendswood City Council my
appreciation for permitting me to vote in the
flood control election. And I vote for no floods
and all control.
CC Okay.
221 23 47 i0 CDR And, Story, completed the rate gyro tests and -
on time, and it's back in solar inertial.
CC Yes, we're looking at it and it looks good, A1.
221 23 48 30 CDR Story, CDR.
CC Go ahead, A1.
CDR Is tomorrow our day off? We were looking at our

Flight Plan and we weren't doing any EREFs or
- ATMs to speak of.
CC That' s affirmative.
CDR Okay; didn't know that. I thought it was 2 - 2 -

2 more days from now. O_y.
SPT Say, Story, I've got the monitors set up to do

TV-61 after supper. And I'd like to know how
much tape there is left on the VTR and about how
much time you would like to have used?
221 23 50 00 CC Okay. 0wen, you got 23-1/2 minutes left, and you're
also going to get some ATM stuff later on, so
probably you ought to spend only l0 minutes on
Tv-61.
SPT Okay, and let's see, did my Flight Plan have some
more ATM tonight ?
CC Stand by 1, Owen.
221 23 52 35 SPT ... sent up yet, 1427.
221 23 53 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out there for a

couple of minutes.
TAG Tape 221-12/T-159
Page 4 of 5/1096
8PT Okay, I had two questions for you. Did you get
them both?
CC Owen, we'regoing to run that TV from the ground.
SPT Okay. The ATM TV you're going to run from the

ground. So I'll put about lO minutes of TV-61
on. And I was wondering also if you had general
message 1427 already sent up?
CC It's on board.
SPT Okay, I haven't seen it yet, so I guess it's still

up in the teleprinter.
221 23 54 18 CC It went up about 2 minutes ago, Owen. And I've

got the S06B reticle. I can describe that to
you at your convenience anytime tonight.
SPT Go ahead right now.
CC Okay, you might want to copy that down on a little

pad that you could paste next to the experiment.
Okay. The horizontal line that's normal to the
flight path, the centermost dash there is i degree.
A11 the blR_k spaces going out away from that
center one are 0.5 degrees. And the little
dashes going out away from the center dash are also
0.5 degrees. When you get outermost on that
horizontal line, don't - the outermost dashes
are 1 degree. The entire field of view is
12 degrees.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Story. And that'll mean

that the total amount of Jitter, as far as my
tracking during a photograph is concerned, is on
the order of a few tenths of a degree, and I'll
get a more accurate estimate the next time I run
it. But D. Packer will probably like to know -
at least my first estimate is on the order of a
few tenths of a degree.
221 23 55 B9 CC Okay, thanks. And the vertical lines, as you look

at it, the first - the spaces are 2-1/4 degrees
and the vertical lines are 2.5 degrees.
TAG Tape 221-12/T-159
Page 5 of 5/1097
SPT Okay, 2-1/2 degrees apart, is that right? On the

vertical lines.
CC From the center dash to the line is 2-1/h degrees

and the line itself is 2.5 degrees.
SPT Understand. Thank you.
CC And one more thing, the little tick marks are a

quarter of a degree, 0.25 degrees - the tick marks
on the - the horizontal lines.
221 23 57 i0 CC And, Skylab, we're going LOS and we'll see you
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 222-01/T-160
Time: 222:00:00 to 222:01:30
Page I of 6/1099
222 00 00 29 CC Skylab, we're A0S through Ascension and Canaries

for 17 minutes, and we'll be dumping the tape
recorders here.
PLT Okay, Story.
CC And did you all get a lock onto a star, Skylab?
PLT S_y again, Story.
CC Did Owen get locked onto a star?
PLT Right now, he's locked onto a steak.
SPT My steak is pretty good, but A1 says that he locked

onto a star up there a little bit ago.
222 00 01 20 CC Okay, good. We needed one for that maneuver, and

we're showing now, in the middle of a dump, that
the shutter is OPEN, and we'd like someone to close
it.
SPT Okay, it will be closed. Now did you get your

update adequately? Or do you know?
CC We got to dump the data and then get it back. We

can't tell you right now.
PLT Okay, well - Okay, A1 says it's about the right

gimbal angles so it should have been Canopus. And
he's on his way to close the shutter.
222 00 01 56 CC Okay, thanks.
CDR Right, Story. After we made the first maneuver, I

used those angles that you gave, locked it on, and
it stayed locked on for a11 maneuvers including
back to SI.
CC Okay.
CDR One thing that's been puzzling me a little bit.

Last time I couldn't control the star tracker
until I got all this system powered up again. I
TAG Tape 222-01/T-160
Page 2 of 6/1100
wonder if there's one special switch I could throw

here that'll get the - get the star tracker to
close.
222 00 02 48 CC We're working it, AI.
CC AI, it ought - it ought only to take STAR TRACKER

SHUTTER to CLOSE.
CDR Well, maybe my little talkback is stuck. It doesn't

seem to want to go closed.
CC Copy.
CC And we're not seeing it closed either.
222 00 03 49 CDR Doesn't much want to close, does it?
CC No, we're about to pass you up some angles that we

can park it at and then let it stay open.
CDR Okay, I'll sure put it there.
222 00 04 i_ CC Okay, AI, that's INNER, minus 1800; OUTER,

plus 4200.
CDR Roger.
222 00 04 h6 CC And once you've got those gimbal angles in, AI,
turn the power off on the star tracker and get
back to the steak.
222 00 04 5_ CDR Okay. Owen came up to watch it, so he's now doing
it.
PLT His steak went away while he was gone.
CC And we know who got it.
222 00 05 47 SPT That INNER does not want to drive beyond minus 720.
CC We copy that. That's the INNER will not go beyond

minus 720?
SPT Affi rmat ive.

_ TAG Tape 222-01/T-160
Page 3 of 6/1101
CC Okay.
SPT Well, the OUTER is not behaving right either.
CC Okay, and we're looking at it.
SPT Okay, it's my fault. The procedure - I didn't have

the star showing in the window.
CC And we see it moving okay now, Owen.
222 00 07 43 SPT Okay, it's powered down.
CC Thanks.
SPT And the shutter still shows OPEN on the flag.
CC Roger; and we like the w_y it's pointed.
SPT Anything else I can do for you up at the panel?
CC I guess not.
SPT Yes, I better run downstairs and protect my inter-

est.
222 00 08 30 CC Yes, sir; and you better hurry.
222 00 17 54 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll be looking

for the evening status report over Guam in 25 min-
utes at 00:43.
SPT Okay. What happened to big E? Didn't he make it

over tonight?
CC The Big E is working feverishly and he'll probably

be getting with you in about half an hour or so.
222 00 18 14 SPT Okay. Maybe I'll get my steak finished by then.
222 00 44 43 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Guam for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, we may have dropped out on my call. We' re

AOS Guam for 8 minutes.
PLT OKay.
TAG Tape 222-01/T-160
Page 4 of 6/1102
222 00 45 25 CDR Okay, Story, I've got _ nightly report here.
CC CMay, AI, I'm standing by.
CDR Okay, urine: 78, 170, 180. Drinking water gun:

4825, 7984, 5669. BMMD: 6.238, 6.236, 6.238;
5.988, 5.990, 5.987; 6.970, 6.967, 6 - -
CDR Starting there, 2/15/2000 - -
CC Stand i, please, AI.
CDR He'll give you more later.
CC AI, we dropped out after the BMMD on the third

column.
222 00 46 19 CDR Okay, I'll go through the third column again, make
sure that you have it. PLT, 6.970, 6.967, 6.960.
Exercise: CDR - I'll give it to you later; I
haven't done it yet. SPT, 2/15/2000, and he'll
give you some more later. He's not finished. PLT,
2/30/6303, 1/05/0586. And that was pedaling with
his arms on the ergometer. In addition to that,
he's got 3/25 Mark I, and here's what they are:
50 A, 20 B, 20 D, 20 backbends. Sleep - No medi-
cation. Sleep: 7/G, 6/F, 6-I/2/G. Here comes the
food log. CDR: 10.5 salt packs used, one extra
strawberry drink, and, as usual, I substituted
the peaches for the strawberries and will continue
to do so until you all have evaluated 8.]7 of the
strawberries down there. And I probably will -
Just won't mention it anymore. SPT: He omitted
asparagus. He added peanuts and apple drink.
Eleven salts used. Mistake - that's two extra
salts two extra salts. Pilot: Five extra salts.
He _nitted the tuna spread and bread; he added one
tea and one apple drink. Photo log next.
CC Okay, got it.
222 00 48 17 CDR Okay, the 16-millimeter: VTS, TKh7D, CL01, 25;

35 millimeter: BVI3, frame count, 23; CXI2, 39;
CX23, 00. 70 millimeter: 69110, 102. EREP set T:
7615, 6952, 7827, 7822, 1365, 8683. No change in
drawer A configuration from last night.
/_ TAG Tape 222-01/T-160
Page 5 of 6/1103
22200 49 04 cc Okay.
222 00 49 08 CDR Flight Plan deviation: That - We finished the
overage food stowage, and we al1 - which took about
an hour, but we also configured days 56, 57, and
58 for prep, which took another 2-1/2 man-hours.
So they ought to add that on there. Two man-hours
for the stowage and 2-1/2 for prep 56, 57, 58.
Shopping list accomplishments: Replaced three light
bulbs in the STS section that were burned out.
Inoperable equipment: Just those light bulbs that I
mentioned. Unscheduled stowage: Now I gave a lot
of stowage information as a result of the transfer
of the food on channel A recording. And so that
will - that can be gotten off there, as opposed to
doing it again. It's quite long. Unscheduled
stowage items: Change towels, 736 to 831, five red,
three white, six blue of them. And a little note.
On last night's exercises, I couldn't remember -
Owen exercised late, and I couldn't remember
whether we gave it to you or not, and here it is:
Add - What we gave you, add this to it: 2/15/2000.
That's about all we have. I notice that we got a
pretty slow Flight Plan tomorrow. I gather that
not much of it's time critical, so we'll probably
Just get up when we want or do you plan to wske us
up?
222 00 50 58 CC We're working it, AI.
CDR Yes, we'd a - if it doesn't make any difference,

we'd Just as soon get up late if it turns out-if
it is a day off, which it looks like, we'd Just
as soon get up late. That's probably the best
thing. Because we can get all of that done pretty
easy, plus s_e others. Believe it or not, Jack
claims he's going to do T002. He's been trying to
get to it every night and never made it.
222 00 51 49 CC AI, the HK84M needs to be done over a stateside

pass, and it is a time-critical item. We need to
get it started on time.
CDR Okay, we can do it then, but maybe you could take

a close look at the plan, since it's so loose and
maybe Just pick out another time, and we'll do it
then.
TAG Tape 222-01/T-160
Page 6 of 6/1104
CC I'm working something right now. Stand by i.
CDR Okay. If it doesn't come out, we can do it then.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC A1, that HK84M is the only time-critical thing we

got here. Maybe you could Jump out of the rack
and get right into that and - and delay the - the
PSA activities and the M110 until after that HK84M.
222 00 5B 05 CDR Yes, that's good idea. If you don't hear us - if

we don't put something on the call, how about call-
ing and waking us up about B0 minutes before that,
because we sure aren't going to sleep that late.
CC Yes, that's a couple of hours extra there.
CDR Sure. We won't be that long. We'll probably be

calling you, but that's good. Just call us then
and if we're not already out, I'll go up and do
that, and then we'll do the Mll0 and all of the
other. But we'll - we'll get it done.
222 O0 5B B2 CC Okay, we're LOS here in about 20 seconds, we'll be

coming up on your reed conference at the Vanguard
at 01:2B. And a reminder to Jack. His - his
f_m_ly conversation will be at Canaries at Ol:4B.
PLT Okay. Which antenna would be best for that, Story?

Right or left?
CC We're going LOS here. What did you say?
PLT Which antenna would be best for that, right or left?
CC Left.
PLT Thank you.
CC Get the best one. We don't have an answer for you.
222 00 54 17 PLT Okay.
]_D OF TAPE
TAG Tape 222-02/T-161
Time: 222:01:30 to 222:03:00
Page 1 of 12/ii05
222 01 43 29 SPT Hello, Story.
CC Hello. Hey, Owen, I got a bunch of stuff for you

down here and then - -
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC Hello.
CC Skylab, _ou reading Houston?
SPT Hello, Story.
CC Hello. You reading us on S-band, Owen?
222 01 4h 37 SPT Hello, Story.
CC Reading you loud and clear. How are you reading

me?
SPT Go ahead.
222 01 h6 12 CC Owen, I've been reading you loud and clear, and we
got you AOS Canaries and Madrid for 12 minutes.
SPT Must have been no up-link. I was Just going to

mention the fact that - when I heard the S-band
locked up - that I wanted to make sure that you
didn't misunderstand what I meant about the quan-
tity of alcohol remaining. Those quantities that
I gave you were in the SL-2 dispensers, and there
are still two more cans of unopened dispensers for
SL-3, and maybe - well, and maybe SL-h. But, any-
way, there are two cans that are labeled reagents.
I'm not sure how m,uy vials or bottles of alcohol
there are in them, but those are still unopened.
So that's in addition to the stuff that was left
over from SL-2 that I reported earlier.
CC Okay. We did know that, and thanks, Owen. And

I've got Ed here to talk some solar physics with
you. I've got about six things to pass up to you,
prior to giving you to Ed, since I've only got one
more pass before you go to bed. So you ready to
copy?
TAG Tape 222-02/T-161
Page 2 of 12/1106
SPT Who are they for?
CC This, you'll be - -
CDR We'll be up a little later. You can pass them up

later if you want, Story.
CC Okay. Let me just get the things I need now then.
SPT Go ahead.
222 01 27 29 CC MPC switch to INHIBIT. And the ACS MALF, the

RATE GYRO on the CAUTION and WARNING - We don't
know where that is, but you'll probably want to go
to INHIBIT on that. In case Y-2 fails, redundancy
management will wake you up.
222 01 h7 47 SPT You'll get them both.
CC Okay. Over Madrid, we're getting up the condensate

dump procedure that you're missing up there. And
the rest of the night - it'll take us about the
rest of the night to get the rest of the things to
you.
SPT Okay. That'll be fine. We'll take a look for it

after Madrid.
CC Okay. And I guess I can catch the rest of the

things at Honeysuckle, and here's Ed. And you got
another l0 minutes here.
222 01 h8 15 SPT Very good. How are you, _d?
MCC Hello, Owen. Hello, A1. Hey, you folks have been
doing a great Job in catching a few flares. You
got some fairly happy PIs down here. O. - -
SPT That's great. You got a few happy crewmen up here

too, Ed. We were very pleased to have such good
fortune, and I'm sure alot of it is due to the
very good forecasting that Joe Hireman and Jeff
Smith have done for us.
TAG Tape 222-02/T-161
Page 3 of 12/1107
MCC Yes, well, we've got a report from those folks on

the flare today, if you'd like to know what it
looked like from down here. Unfortunately, we still
do not have the information from the experiments
themselves. That's going to take l, perhaps 2,
days before we get a good handle on that in - on
that data.
SPT Okay. Nell, I was interested in sort of the timing-

of our setting into operation as compared to
the start and peak phase. I'm pretty surewe had it
before the peak but didn't know how much and that
sort of thing. But if you don't have it yet, when-
ever you do get it, why you might let us know.
MCC Okay. I can give you a quick rundown on what it

looked like from down here. It was a subnormal
flare optically, and it started at around 15:47.
The X-rays started at 15:49; that was the M-2. And
at MAX, both of them MAXed out around 15:50 and
ended around 16 - a little after 16:00. You got
some good radio bursts at 6 centimeters; went from
20 flux units on up to around 1000-1/2 flux units.
It was located between two spots of opposite polar-
ity in the follower of active region 85 and, possi-
bly, you had a Delta existing there. You had a
ha - a very rapid rise. They had some emissions in
the off-bands in H-alpha 1 - one angstrom or so of
the red and blue but somewhat less intensity than
the on-band. The flare was preceded by less
intense flares at the same location. Had some at
l_:18 Z - you had a C-2. At 12:01 Z, another C-2,
and a couple previous tothat. The flare, which
you saw, was also followed by a sub-normal flare,
a C-3, at around 21:4h at the same location.
SPT That's the one that I reported. I had called it

at 21:40.
222 01 50 33 MCC Roger.
SPT Early at beginning of the start, because I had my

eye on it while we were over at the - doing the
JOP 12, and I could see the whole thing, and we
TAG Tape 222w02/T-161
Page 4 of 12/II0_
watched the rise on the BERYLLIUM and the llC.

And the whole phase didn't reach it's peak until
after 21:46 in the X-rays, which we had a direct
monitor on on board. And that's the one that - I
mentioned it also on the VTR with the XUV MON being
recorded. So it should mR_e a fairly interesting
display there, I think, when you get that
down-linked.
MCC Real good. That was a - a question we had down

here, Just which displays you were able to see,
both the M-2 and the C-3 which you saw the other
day.
SPT Right. Well, this was apparently another C-3 at

21:46, and I could see that very clearly on the
XUV MON. And on your VTR, you should have a little
bit of H-alpha 2, a little bit of H-alpha l, and
then, about 90 percent of it being XUV MON.
222 01 51 32 MCC Roger. Do they both show up on the X-ray image?
SPT I can't verify the - the second one at 21:h6 did;

I didn't have to look. But it certainly did on the
first flare, the M-2. It showed up on all - all
displays very clearly. And, of course, it was
clear to us where the M-2 occurred in the middle of
those trailing spots. And then the whole config-
uration has been changing all day, Almost on an
hour-to-hour basis.
MCC Okay. We've got some general comments and a few

questions. First are some comments. On 52, the
white light pointing - white light coronagraph
pointing looks pretty good down here. You're -
you're right on from what they want, so don't
change your procedures at all.
SPT No.
MCC In the shopping list, 82B. When you're looking at

active regions and Ellerman bombs and bright points,
it would help if we get some short exposures, like
l0 to 40 seconds or so.
TAG Tape 222-02/T-161
, Page 5 of 12/ll09
222 01 52 29 SPT Okay. I presume you're talking about

short-wavelength, 10- to h0-second exposures
on 82B.
MCC That's affirm. In order to help us plan on what

kind of capabilities you folks have up there, could
you tell us a little bit about the XUV MON and how
the camera and the scope are working out? For
example, can you locate bright points, and do you
think you could do any pointing on your own for
either bright points or coronal holes?
222 01 52 56 SPT Well, I've not really given it a good try yet.
We've only really been working 3 days, and we've
been so busy doing the main tasks plus our shopping
list, in my case, that I really c_nuot say that
we've properly evaluated how well that hood and
camera are going to perform. So I'll just have to
delay that until later now. I did do a little bit
of prominence study on the shopping list item, and
for that I used the XUVMONwith the INTEGRATE
switch to indicate where in the corona the brightest
portions of the prominence were located. And it can
certainly be done that way. The flares obviously
stand out very clearly. Now bright points we can-
not see at this point. Right now I've not seen a
bright point in plage with - without integrating.
And then when you do integrate, why, of course, it
brings the whole plage up quite a bit. I think, by
intergration alone, you can define where the coronal
holes are located. I'm not too optimistic about
being able to pick up bright points on the XUV
monitor. However, I think if we can just find out
their general location and determine what sort of
an H-alpha signature they have, then we can go
right to it on H-alpha and peak it up easily with
DETECTORS 1 or 3. On several of these cases,
when we were trying to peak up on bright points
within the plage, the contrast on DETECTOR 3
especially is so great, by factors of i0 or 20
or 50 to l, that you can peak up quite readily
with the detectors. So all we have to do is to
get in the general locality - within say
5 or I0 arc seconds, find the X - the H-alpha
signature that corresponds to the XUV
bright point,and then we can go there.
TAG Tape 222-02/T-161
Page 6 of 12/lll0
MCC Okay, that sounds good. Thanks for that des-

cription. The 52 timer, has that helped you?
SPT Yes, I've been using it all day today, and it's
much more convenient than keeping track of it on a
piece of paper which I'd been doing on the first
day. So it is of a significant help, and we're
using it regularly.
MCC Okay, the 55 CALROC worked today. They got some

good data back. Another question: Did you see
any changes in prominence 23 yesterday. Apparently
it lifted off the disk?
222 O1 55 15 SPT I'm sorry, Ed, I was distracted here for a moment.
Could you repeat the question?
GIBSON Did you see any changes in prominence 23 yester-

day? It - it lifted off the disk.
SPT Yes, it's gone today.
MCC Roger. Okay, apparently you were not there at the

time at which it lifted off.
SPT That's correct I did not notice it lifting.
MCC Okay, we've got another 2-1/2 minutes or so here.

The flare, C - C-B, which you saw on day 219,
there's a couple of observations on that. One is
that - it's - was - apparently was very bright as -
in terms of active regions, and the flare increased
by a factor of lO in magnesium lO. And all wave-
lengths increased together and magnesium l0 con-
tinued to rise and was rising when most of the
other lines were at their peak or started to fall.
They've been able to see time transients down here
is lO - to 15-seconds durations. There were a
lot of miniflares associated with it, most likely
associated with mi - Ellerm_n bombs. The mirror
auto rasters have shown that active region 85
has - especially in magnesium lO - has an
extensive loop structure running east-west from
the spot to the active-region edge. And we ought
to get some good viewing at the limb in about
2 days.
TAG Tape 222-02/T-161
Page 7 of 12 /llll
SPT Okay, that's sounds fine. I've given you quite a

few extra mini-rasters of active region 85, usually
accompanied by a grating auto scan on the particular
feature of most interest or the brightest at the
time. So you ought to keep on a lookout for these
shopping list items. They turned out to be most
useful, to me at any rate, and I think active region
85 - it ought to be very thoroughly studied, and it
has been a real help to get some of this active
region flare data.
222 01 56 59 MCC Very good. One question which you won't have time
to answer any where near fully right now. But as
you go along, could you give us some suggestions on
the timing which we've specified in the ATM schedule
pad and some of the JOPs that have been used and the
choices of the areas studied? In other words, do
you think you have seen things more opportune up
there at any given time? And, if so, when, and how
might we change the scheduling to make optimum ob-
serving of what's up there'
SPT Okay, fine. I'll do Just that. In fact, I'll try

to do it in real time while it occurs to me because
there's no way to do it in retrospect. And I'll
Just make some comments about, you know, this other
active region or prominence looks like we ought to
be taking a close look at it. And I'll - In fact,
I've already done this in one case - suggested that
maybe I ought to cut off here and go look at that.
And so, if you'll be - expecting some questions and
developing a technique for quick response, why maybe
we can work out some of those.
MCC Okay, we're around l0 seconds from LOS, and you

folks are doing a great Job and keep it up.
SPT Well, we appreciate those comments, and apparently

you're reasonably happy with the pointing and so
forth to the flares. And we'll Just keep working
with you all the way we have the last 3 days. It's
been great sport.
MCC Very good. We'll get back with you on some more
details on this flare when we get the information.
TAG Tape 222-02/T-161
Page 8 of 12 /1112
SPT Thank you.
CC And we're going LOS here, Owen. See you over

Honeysuckle in 34 minutes at 02:32.
222 Ol 58 25 SPT Okay, Story.
222 02 32 59 CC Skylab, we've got you through Honeysuckle for 7

minutes.
CDR Go ahead.
CC We're here for 7 minutes, A1.
CDR Okay, good, Story. We're in here working on our

487-2A.
CC Okay, and I've got something for someone concerning

the use of M092 legbands.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Did you get the message we sent up on the legbands

to use?
CDR We sure did.
CC Okay, I guess there was some question on which

ones you were using, but anyway the general mes-
sage that's the one to use. And the reason for
that is that, on the left leg, we'd like bands
with lowered sensitivity or a - a flatter slope,
because the legs are increasing quite a bit to the
lower body negative pressure. And on the right
side, we'd like bands with higher sensitivity to
pick up the changes in the thermal and the water
in the - in the can.
CDR We've planned to use the ones, if we can find

them - and there is no reason to believe we won't
be able too - the ones that were sent up on that
pad, until told otherwise.
CC Okay, that'll be fine.

TAG Tape 222-02/T-161
Page 9 of 12/1113
CDR I think that, for the SL-4 crew, they ought to

pick out the bands beforehand, and it ought to be
in their checklist which bands to use so that -
There is a whole bunch of them up here, and they
all look the same, as you know, and there's no
reason to have to scout around. Just - If they
define the ones, we'll use them.
CC Yes, sir. That' s true.
222 02 34 49 CC And - and did you get TV-61 done?
SPT Story, we've got some of it. I've got Jack on

there ; I'm not getting any cycling myself on there
yet. And I was going to throw it back to ATM MON-1
as soon as I've got my other in, inside the next 30
or 40 minutes. Is that soon enough for you?
CC Yes, that'll be fine.
CC Is the PLT busy now?
SPT (Laughter) What did you say, Story?
CC Is Jack busy now?
PLT Here I am, Story. I've performed that ATM mal-

function, and I - I suppose that's what you want
to hear about. Is that right?
222 02 35 53 PLT Okay, I performed it, Story, and I wound up in

block 5 of that malfunction procedure. I forget
what it was right now, but it essentially said
AC bus failed or a short circuit. And here are
some things that I noticed. Coming out of step 3,
the answer was yes, and I said one exception is
a very light illumination of all of the unused
elements in the lower half of the time-remaining
display and the intensity data display. And there
is a frequent intermittent flash or rapid brighten-
ing of the lower and some of the upper unused ele-
ments in both of these displays. That's the time
TAG Tape 222-02/T-161
Page i0 of 12/1114
remaining and the intensity data. In step h, I

made a note that the time-remaining display - You
still there?
CC Yes, sir.
PLT In step 4, I made a note that the time-remaining

display goes out except for a very light illumina-
tion of the lower elements. The center elements,
or the elements of the center digit are the
brightest, and that's when the switch was placed
in DAS ORB PHASE - DAS ORB PHASE switch to Bus 1.
When you go to numerics from FIXED to OFF, why
these dim, lower-half elements go out. And I
noticed also on the malfunction procedure in the
prerequisite colnmn, the only switch that doesn't
call out there that I thought would be necessary
is one of the eight switches on the CONSOLE POWER
DISTRIBUTION. It does not call off the ACS switch.
And so it is off as opposed to being at BUS 2.
But I did the reconfiguration after the - block 5
of failure. That's where it's sitting now, except
for we went through the operate unmanned or
unattended ops powerdown.
CC Okay, thanks. And how was the fidelity of your

conversation with the family tonight?
222 02 38 06 PLT It was good over Canaries, but it seemed like when
I got to Madrid, they heard me all right, but
mine came in real garbled. I had to have them
repeat several times what was said and, in some
cases I didn't get the -.the conversation at all.
But Canaries was great; seemed like it must have
been over Madrid that it was garbled.
CC Did you switch from left to right on the antennas?
PLT Yes, I did that. Didn't seem to make any difference.
CC Okay.
PLT But, thank you for setting it up. And most of the
conversation came through pretty good and - not
as good as it was, but it was Just good to talk
to everybody. And most of what they said was
intelligible after having them repeat it several
TAG Tape 222-02/T-161
Page ii of 12/1115
times, although they claimed that they were hear-

ing me loud and clear.
222 02 39 00 CC Okay_ thanks , Jack. And, for your information

only, due to analysis of EREP down-link data and
your comments, we will be doing an S192 thermal
alignment. The total procedure will take an
hour, and we' 1.1 be up-linking that to you.
PLT You say you're going to do a thermal alignment

on 1927
CC Yes, and we'll be up-link that procedure to you.
PLT Could you tell me briefly what's wrong with the

one we've got?
ACC Yes, I've got 20 seconds. I can't do it right

now. I've got one other question for you on the
comm. Or channel B audio test, when you switch
to panel i0 in the command module, did you have
to readjust the SIA volume?
PLT I'm going to have to let A1 field that one, and

he's busy conversing on 487 at the moment, but
he handled it in the command module. So let's get
him on the next station.
CC Okay, and I'm running out of time here. The next

one's Bermuda at 37 minutes from now. Do want
to call in, or you going to sleep?
PLT No, we'll still be up, but that ought to be the

last one, I guess. We're getting ready for bed
right now.
CC Understand. You want to call or not? It's 37

minutes from now.
PLT Affirmitive. Make one more call.
CC Okay. Be Bermuda at 03:17.
PLT Okay, I'd kind of like to know what's wrong with

the thermal alignment. Probably that'll be
TAG Tape 222-02/T-161
Page 12 of 12/ii16
apparent, but I'ii go ahead and do the procedure,

obviously, but I kind of like to know what to look
for and make it better.
CC I'll let you know then.
222 02 40 24 PLT Okay.
END OF TAPE
t
_ TAG Tape 222-03/T-162
Time: 222:03:00 to 222:12:00
Page i of 6/1117
222 03 18 i0 CC Skylab, we'ye got you through Be_mada for

3 minutes.
PLT ... okay, now I'm coming to the mike.
CC Okay, we've got a very low elevation pass here,

we'll probably break it in and out.
CDR What you want to know about that comm check today,
St ory?
CC Okay, A1, and if Bermuda doesn't work out you will

be getting to Canaries in 2 minutes.
CDR I'll Just wait too.
222 03 19 15 SPY Are you there, Story?
CC Yes, loud and clear at this time.
SPY Okay, for my exercise add 50 A's and 30 B's, and

Jack wanted to know what you found out abut EREP.
CC Okay, we're working the EREP. We'll have it for

you in a couple of minutes.
CC And, Skylab, we're 30 seconds until LOS we'll see

you over Canaries and Madrid in 2 minutes.
222 03 20 48 SPT Okay, Story.
222 03 24 25 CC Skylab, we've got you through Canaries and Madrid

for Ii minutes.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC Jack, we --
CDR What do you want to know about that comm check,

Story?
CC Okay, A1, the question is on channel B audio test.

When you switched to panel i0 in the command module,
did you have to readjust the SIA volume?
TAG Tape 222-03/T-162
Page 2 of 6/lll8
CDR No, everything seemed to work okay. You mean

by going to backup?
CC That 's affirmat ive.
222 03 25 08 CDR Yes. No, when we went to backup, it worked -

you couldn't even tell that you'd gone to backup.
0wen went in and flipped it, and I had to ask him
if he'd gone or not. He had, and then we tried
going to backup on the other one, which was
panel 6, and it completely cut out. You didn't
hear anything then which is - I guess logical to
believe. No, I set all the sensitivities just
like you - the book said, and - in fact they're
still that way; they're sitting in there now.
We've had very good comm. I could find no differ-
ence in any of - anything we tried was different
from the thing that we were using first. I saw
no changes as such.
222 03 25 53 CC Okay, and I got one more thing for you, AI. On
the OWS on the pressure suit drying station: is
the locker door that's out in the blower - Do
you leave that open or closed?
CDR Leave it open all the time we were using the

blower, but we shut it down tonight and put the
desiccants in the last suit. And we were thinking
about moving the suits up to the MDA tomorrow.
All three suits are down in the workshop now,
dried with desiccants in them and we left the
door open all the time because that's a hot
blower.
CC Roger. And Pete said that the blower got hot.

Did you even notice that the blower temperature
got hot ?
222 0B 26 28 CDR It got warm. I didn't think it was - it was

never too hot to touch it. But it - I always
had the door open. I imagine if I had closed the
door, maybe when I opened it, it would have been
hot inside the compartment. But as it was, I
thought it was satisfactory.
CC Okay. Are you riding the bike now?

TAG Tape 222-03/T-162
Page 3 of 6/1119
CDR Yes, I was a few minutes ago.
CC Okay. I'be got a couple of verifications on the

evening status report. If you're riding the
bike we can get it tomorrow.
CDR Okay - no, I wouldn't mind doing it. What's on

your mind?
222 03 27 00 CC Okay. They'd like you to verify cassette C-23,

the 35-millimeter. The prelaunch records show
no C-23 35-millimeter cassette. But there is a
C-33 and a C-13.
CDR 0wen loaded it this morning out of a drawer F.

Does that give you a clue? We're getting ready
to check on it right now.
CC Okay. And we're looking at the ESS still powered

up. If you're done with it before you go to bed,
remember to power that down.
222 03 27 57 CDR Okay, we will. We've invented what's known as

thylast rain - which has about five items on.
It'll save you, I think, all this trouble. One's
the ESS, one's the manual pointing controller,
the other's the SAL, one's the trash airlock
handle and press, and a couple of others which
have been things that have gotten to us over the
last couple of weeks. We think we're going to
cut that down to zero. We'd like to.
CC Hey, that's terrific.
222 03 28 25 CDR In fact, it ought to be part of - you know, just

a regular checklist that we make on board, because
those are the things that seem to bother you in
the middle of the night. Somebody kicks the
trash air lever in the middle of the day and
nobody notices it or - you know. It's got a lot
of loose parts here, so this way we hope to nail
them down before we go to bed.
CC Yes, and if we can find out what's on that list,

we'll quit bugging you.
TAG Tape 222-0B/T-162
Page _ of 6/1120
CDR Okay. CX12 we think is what it is.
CC Okay.
CDR Does that make sense?
CC I'll let you know. And on the 70-millimeter,

which - what's the ID number of the HDC that C-10
is on?
CDR HDC that C-10 is on?
CC Yes, what ID number is that?
222 03 29 30 CDR The only one we've got loaded is CXll. Let me
check.
CDR The camera in HDJ01 has got CXll on it. Does

that agree with our pads? Jack's got the photo
book up there.
CC I think that answers the question, A1. PLT,

Houston.
CDR He'll be here in a second. He's up in the film

vault right now doublechecking the books and the
numbers.
CC Okay.
222 03 30 25 CDR Okay. We've got a mistake. We gave you CXI0,

but it's really CXll. We've got it written
down wrong in our log. ANd we've got it right
in front of our eyeballs here, so maybe our
eyes are starting to fade.
CC Okay. Understand it's CXI1 on HDC01.
CDR That 's a fact.
CDR Looks like we did it for a couple of days.
CC Okay.
CDR Got it all straightened out now?

TAG Tape 222-03/T-162
Page 5 of 6 /ll21
222 03 Bl 03 CC Yes, we're finished with everything except an

explanation on the S192 alignment for Jack.
PLT HeryI am. Go ahead, Story.
CC Okay. It's simply a verification that you're

peaked out on the alignment. Looking at the
EREP down-link an/ your voice transcripts, they
think down here that you can get a better align-
ment. The present one isn't much improved over
SL-2. There's a lot of noise in the 20 cycle;
it's excessive, and they'd like to improve the
signal-to-noise ratio. And at present - with the
present alignment, they say it's almost difficult
to see a shoreline.
PLT Okay. I noticed in my book they were only looking

for 40's, so I thought that was a good n11mber.
Now, what number are they looking for?
CC We'll get one.
222 03 31 54 PLT Okay. It'll probably all come up tomorrow, and

I'll go ahead and do that. I hope I can peak
it out to its max value, and I thought I was
at it.
CC They're saying as high as you can get, Jack, and

possibly as high as 80.
PLT Well then, we'll try to get it.
CC Okay, thanks.
PLT How about the thermal ? I guess they're pretty

well satisfied with that, huh?
222 03 32 29 PLT I mean the visible, excuse me.
CC The visible's great.
PLT Okay. We'll work it over tomorrow and try to

improve that. I guess I was misled by the number
in the book.
CC And, Jack, we are going to send you some new

procedures with our reco_nendations on it.
TAG Tape 222-03/T-162
Page 6 of 6/1122
PLT Okay. That'll be fine. I'ii be looking for

them.
CC And one more before you go to bed: how are you

finding those new exercise devices that we put on
board? So - in case we need to send any up on
the next mission.
222 03 33 ll PLT Well, the only one we've been using is the
Mark I, you know, the one that Bill Parks came up
with. The others are kind of backup, but you can
wear yourself out real good on that Mark I and
exercise about everything you can exercise with
on the other exerciser. So unless that one fails,
we'll probably Just use it. And we'll keep you
informed as to how it's doing, but it looks like
the rope might be fraying a little bit.
CC Okay, thanks.
PLT And we got some exercise on the VTR for you, if

you want to pick it up.
CC Roger.
222 03 34 51 CC Skylab, we're 40 seconds to LOS. We'll let you

sleep in in the morning. And just as a reminder,
be sure to accomplish the Mll0 prior to eating.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 222-0_IT-163
Time: 222:12:00 to 222:13:32
Page I of 3/1123
222 13 05 31 PLT We hear you down there.
CC And we hear you up there. Good morning, Skylab.

We got about, oh, around 6-1/2 more minutes of
AOS.
PLT 0keydoke. The vampire is after us this morning.

We're all getting our blood taken.
CC 0keydoke. Don't let him have too much.
PLT Eleven CC.
CC You going to give Arabella a little bit?
SPT She had her filet last night. I don't know

whether she ate any of it yet or not, but she
had chance. You better get those M.D.'s to take
off about, oh, 1 miligram off my filet weight,
I was figuring up my calories yesterday.
CC Okay. Did you weigh that on the SMMD?
SPT Doggone it, I forgot it.
222 13 08 i_ CC Skylab, I don't know whether you've had a chance

to look or not, but Richard Truly assures me that
we may have beat the - the fireman's pole record
this morning.
CDR Yes, you bet. We're going to get those in today.

We think we've got them all in. We Just failed
to log them properly. We're going to get them
done today.
CC Roger. Looks like a massive Job.
CDR Yes, we will. We think it's done, except for

writing it on the cover.
CC Roger.
TAG Tape 222-0_/T-163
Page 2 of 3/1124
222 13 ii 29 CC Okay, Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS, then we'll

have you again at Ascension at about 9 minutes, at
13 :20.
CDR Okay, we'll make it there.
CC Sure hope so.
CDR I don't see how we can stop. The last time I let
Jive - Jack - Jack drive, we'd Just keep going
around and around, he never wanted to stop.
CC Get dizzy llke that.
SPT Think of the money we're saving up here.
CC Roger. Petrol 's cheap.
SPT Not even using that, I hope. I'll have to go up

and check the command module.
CDR Not even polluting the atmosphere up here.
222 13 12 09 CC You're right.
222 IB 21 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Ascension for

about 5-1/2 minutes. And the one active region
84 is acting up again, and we've got an eruptive
prominence. We can either handle it here
unattended, or you're welcome to it if you'd like
it.
SPT Bob, I won't be able to get up there for about

l0 minutes. Why don't - when is the next contact?
222 13 21 35 CC Okay. We're going to go ahead and take it here

at Ascension, and you can get it after that. The
next station contact is not going to be until
Carnarvon at 13:51.
SPT Okay. I'll pick it up after Ascension. I've

got to get this blood in the centrifuge and then
I'll be up there.
CC Okeydoke.
Page 3 of 3/1125
CC Okay, Owen. We're going to go ahead and wait for

you. 55 is running, and I guess we would recommend
a building block 16 and JOP 8 and Sun centered.
PLT Heck, I can go run these things Sun center. Even

CDR can do that.
CDR I'll go do it.
CC Roger; copy, A1.
222 13 25 09 CC And, CDR, I don't need a confirmation of this,

because I know you're busy right now. But on that
RS flush that we're going to do today, we want to
do that over ground station. We're planning on
picking up stateside, which will be around 14:0h.
And we'll be doing some commanding in front and
at the end. And we're going to end up commanding
you back into the primary loop. And so I Just
wanted to warn you so you wouldn't get into it
before we got there.
CDR Okay, will not. I'm planning to wait until we

come up and go from there. I noticed we've got
a SCAN SPECT light, I'll reset, if they want.
CC Roger, copy. And we're going to go LOS in about

1 minute. And be at Carnarvon at 13:51.
CDR Okay. Now I guess the ground is going to quit

working 55 at LOS, and then I can start working it.
Is that the deal? Or do - did they just leave it
running?
CC Stand by 1.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, A1; it's yours. We can't see any reason

for the 55 light on, right now.
222 13 26 42 CDR Okay, I'll start running it - -
END OF TAPE
Time: 222:13:32 to 222:15:01
Page 1 of 12/1127
222 13 50 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Carnarvon for

the next l0 minutes.
SPT Okay.
CC And we need the DAS for a minute so we can enable

CMG reset.
222 13 51 09 SPT Okay, Bob. You have the DAS. I'm back down in
the wardroom for a quick bite of breakfast
between - night pass here. Here's the informa-
tion. We got started at 13:30, and there is
very definitely a transient in progress. At the
moment, there is a large loop above the west
limb above active region 8h. The loop extends
out to between 2 and 2-1/2 solar radii at the
present time. At 13:30, we did start building
block 16. The loop feet extend up to a latitude,
or a Theta of about 45 degrees, then loop out to
2-1/2 radii and are back in at about 100 degrees
Theta. Now, I took a quick look Just before
sunset, at about 13:45, and did not see much
change in the loop structure. But it's clearly
a very large loop that was not there before
and is of the type that is associated with these
transient events. So it's a fairly slow change,
apparently. The next orbit, I'd suggest either
a 16 or 17; it's really not changing too rapidly,
but you might still prefer 16. So I'd appreciate
a comment from the back room on their preference.
222 13 52 20 CC Okay, Owen. Very good. Appreciate that descrip-

tion. And we'll see if we can get that info
back to you.
SPT Okay. And it's also sort of interesting that we

have a TV down-link in abou 30 minutes. I don't
know whether you'll have any real-time capability
to use it or not, but I can give you a look at
the transient if you do have any real-time
capability.
CC Okay. We're looking into that right now, Owen.

TAG Tape 2ee-05/T-164
Pa_e 2 of 12/1128
222 13 53 37 CC Owen, we unfortunately don't have any real-tlme

TV capability when we come up over Goldstone
this time. However, if you'll down-lik it,
they'll record it and we'll get it about an hour
later. And I'll call you over Goldstone and let
you know when we're there.
222 13 55 ii CDR Still there, Crip?
222 13 55 15 CDR Okay. I was sitting and watching out the window
a few minutes ago, and watching the terminator
approach. One of the things we've been doing,
both in rendezvous and entry, is using the
horizon as a backup cue for proper attitude.
Now, during the NC-1 burn that we made, I com-
mented to the ground that it looked like you
flunked the horizon check by l0 degrees or more.
Their answer was, after a while, "We think you
were using the terminator as an index instead
of the horizon." So naturally, the terminator
was l0 degrees less than the real horizon, and
they were absolutely right. The point is this,
I think, and we need to take a look at it both
for our entry and its checks - horizon checks,
because we made some that - backup burn attitudes -
or horizon checks; and also for Jerry Carr's
rendezvous. If the terminator is in the vicinity
of the horizon - in other words, it's Just begin-
ning to be night out there below you, we're
going to have to use the terminator as the cue
because you Just can't see the horizon. In other
words, your spacecraft is brightly lit. When you
look out, you cannot see the real horizon. The
only thing you can see is the terminator moving
towards you.
222 13 56 30 CDR Now when you're in the dark, you can look out and
see the horizon. Much the same as being in a
lighted room, and you have - By the way, cockpit
lighting decreasing, it won't help you, because
the illumination around you and on the spacecraft
is bright. So it seems to me we need to start
changing and writing our checklist so that they
look at the horizon it it's fully day; they look
TAG Tape 222-05/T-164
Page 3 of 12/1129
at the horizon if it's fUlly night. Or if the

terminator is out there in the front of you
during the period that you're making the check,
they're going to have to put that point in. Now
what they may want to do is say, 9 right, and
l0 degrees, terminator at 25 degrees, or some-
think like that. That way you can have both
options. But as it is now, the check is useless
because you can't see the horizon. Now, we need
to check that for our entry so we can change
our books if that's true. And I suspect it is
going to be true for Jerry's rendezvous, and need
to change that, So you'll need to get that
information over to the proper fellows.
222 13 57 28 CC Okay, A1. We copied that. And we'll get it in

work. If you've got a minute, I think we owe
you a report on strawberries and pork loin.
CDR You bet. Go ahead.
222 13 57 _0 CC Okay, we have concluded that the strawberries are

safe to eat despite the offtaste. If they're
completely unpalatable continue to substitute
peaches. And I guess we recommend you not eat
pork loin until we have determined the cause of
the offtaste. The substitute we currently recom-
mend is spaghetti and meat sauce. And if you can
give us any more information about that offtaste
on the pork loin, we'd appreciate it, Do note
that Jack is scheduled to eat pork loin this even-
ing. And if we substitute spaghetti that's going
to give him spaghetti for .both lunch and dinner,
and we're currently looking into that.
CDR Okay, let me get a couple of pork loin experts

to talk with you.
PLT This is Jack. I never made any complaint about

the pork loin; I like it.
222 13 58 30 CDR I believe that was 0wen, and I'm not sure he felt
it could be bad that he - I think he Just felt
that the taste had changed enough that he didn't
like it, but let him t,]k for himself. Now Jack's
been eating the strawberries, he likes them okay.
And I was really worried about the strawberries
going bad on us.
TAG Tape 222-05/T-164
Page 4 of 12/1!30
SPT That 's correct ... anything like that. It' s

Just that I did not want to eat any more of it,
and I am happy that they changed - they recom-
mended - with the change they recommended, and I'll
give the spaghetti a go and let Jack work on the
pork.
222 13 58 59 CC Okay, Owen. You were partially cut out there. A1

and you were both ta]king at the same time. But
understand you definitely did not want to eat any
more of the pork loin. That you think it tastes
real bad, and you're happy with the substitution.
I guess we were a little bit worried about here -
that they may be something that might cause you
to get ill or something. But we'll look into it
and see if we really conclude whether Jack ought
to eat it tonight.
PLT Okay, as far as I can see, there's nothing wrong

with it.
CDR Jack has no complaints and so I think we ought

to stick with the -
222 13 59 33 CDR And I assume, Crip, that the ground actually -

I was worried about the - not only thytaste of
the - of the strawberries, but whether they were
good or not. But they've tested them and say
they're good, huh?
CC That's what they've concluded. However, if you

really don't like them, you're clear to go ahead
and continue to eat peaches.
CDR They don't taste that bad. It's Just that they -
they Just had a funny taste - I would throw them
out if I were at home, because I would feel that
they were getting bad. But maybe that's Just the
way the heat has done up here.
CC Okay, we copy you.
222 14 00 46 PLT Hey, Crip, I never made any complaint about the
pork loin. I like it. The thing that I decided
that I Just couldn't get down was bread and tuna
fish when they're together.
Page 5 of 12/1131
CC Okay. That's the first tlme I've heard of a

bread and tuna fish problem. We'll - we'll - I
guess the concern we got down here was that there
may be something wrong with the - with the pork
loin. But we'll look into it and try to give you
a go on it the next - next pass here. We're about
m --
222 14 01 15 PLT Oh, you know these Okies, they're not used to
eating pork. They go to have filet, and roast
beef, and that stuff.
222 14 01 20 CC Roger. You marines are tough, I know. We're

about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll have you again
at Guam at 14:04. That's Just about 3 minutes
from now. We'll be doing a data voice recorder
dump there.
222 l_ 05 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over _iAm for

9-1/2 minutes.
222 l_ 06 58 CDR Say, we've been wondering , el Crip-o, about

this SO19. Are there - Is there only one pass
available, or only one pass they want, or what?
CC Stand by on that a moment, A1.
222 14 07 ll CDR Okay, because it looks like we've got time to run
it more than once for sure.
CC Okay, A1, actually you can run it whenever you'd

like. We need a couple of revs warning so that
we can get a pad prepared for you.
CDF Why don't you sent us a couple of more revs of

pad? We've got one rev I guess already on board,
so if you send us a couple more, we'll do them.
222 14 08 15 CC Okay, A1, what we'll try to do is to fill you in

for the rest of the day. It will probably take
ua a couple of hours to get that prepared, but
we'll - we will do that. And I guess the consensus
here is that the doctors would prefer if Jack did
not eat pork loin tonight until we have a full
opportunity to make sure that there is no problem
TAG Tape 222-05/T-164
Page 6 of 12/1132
with it. We prcmise we'll try to get something

confirmed on that within about 72 hours. And
we're still trying to find a substitute so that
he won't have to eat spaghetti twice today.
CDR Okay. Here comes Jack again.
222 14 08 55 PLT I think there must be some misunderstanding, Crip.

The only comment that O. made was that he didn't
care for pork loin. He didn't say it tasted
spoiled or rotten or anything. He Just said he
didn't like it. And I said I liked it. So I
don't understand the concern.
CC Stand by, Jack.
222 14 09 25 CC I'm assuming that nobody has - Owen has not gone
back up to the ATM panel. I've got a SAP update
that I can give you at - whatever your convenience
is.
SPT How much longer have we got? I'll go up there

righ now where I can copy it down.
CC Well, let's see, we've got about 4-1/2, - got

about 5 more minutes in this pass, and it's about
12 more minutes until sunrise.
SPT Okay, I'll go on up to the panel.
CC Well, there is no rush, Owen. If you want to

wait, I'll get it over stateside a little bit
later.
SPT Okay, if it's nothing that has to do with the

_mediate ops, why wait until I get up to the
panel. And I wonder if the back room has any
recommendation on building block 16 or 17.
222 14 lO ll CC Okay. We've got a recommendation on what we

want you to run on this stateside pass, plus the
SAP update, which is Just a general thing that
really didn't have anything to do with the coronal
transient.
SPT Give me the recommendation.

r
TAG Tape 222-05/T-164

Page 7 of 12/1133
CC Okay, you want it now?
SPT Right.
CC Okay, we'd like you to do JOP 6, building block l,

per the pad.
SPT Okay.
222 lh l0 38 CC We'd like you to delete JOP P_A, step 4, on active

region 4-85, and stay Sun center, doing building
block 2, deleting 82 Alfa and S054.
SPT Okay.
CC And S055 setting will be the same as for build-

ing block 1.
222 lh ll 01 SPT Okay. Now S055 still had that high voltage
SCAN SPECT light - alert light on, which you
apparently never did understand. And I noticed
at sunset the SCAN SPECT light went off. I
don't know what it will look like at sunrise
again, but we'll see if we'll - can get it in to
operation.
CC Okay, Owen. I guess - we don't think it'll be

on this time. We concluded that due to the
increased activity, plus we were in the South
Atlantic anomaly there, that - we think that is
the reason it went off.
CC And, Jack, we're still working this - this food

problem for you. We'll try to get the misunder-
standing squared away.
PLT Okay, Crip, thank you.
CC And Owen, I do have some more general information

about active region 85 and 84, if you'd like to
get it now.
SPT Go ahead.
Page 8 of 12/i13h
CC Okay, active region 85 produced the following

flares since day 221, which was yesterday. At
22:37, it had a C-2 subnormal and a C-4 subnormal
with three X-ray maximum and two subnormal. 85
has an enhanced plage east of the large spot and
two dark surges occurred. 84 is surging and has
an active prominence.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, and the - -
SPT It may have had an active prominence until about

an hour ago.
222 14 14 01 CC Okay, that was - that was the last information

we had, which is as of about 10:20 this morning,
so Im sure it's a little bit dated right now -
about 4 hours old. The - we're going LOS in
about 30 seconds. We'll have you again over
Goldstone at 14:30, and that is where we're going
to be doing the data voice recorder dump. Also,
we'll be set up to do that RS when we come over -
come over the hill if we'll do that purge system,
flush rather.
222 14 30 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Goldstone for

17 minutes, and we'd like to get into that RS
flush, if you're ready, Al.
CDR Okay. Ready to go right now. I verified per

your pad. Standing by to start on the flush.
CDR Okay. Stand by. We'll be CO,handing prime off,

secondary on, and we'll also be doing a data
voice recorder dump, here.
CDR Okay. Now my procedures show me doing primary

(secondary). Now, which system do you want me to
work?
CC We're going to only do secondary.
CDR Okay. So, we're going to flush the secondary

so I'll be pulling both circuit breakers.
TAG Tape 222-05/T-164
Page 9 of 12/1135
CC That is affirmative. You can stand by on that.

We'll tell - tell you when you're GO.
222 14 30 46 CDR Bob, let me give you some information for the
back room here. When I first took a glimpse of
the - right after sunrise, that transient loop
had now extended out to about four solar radii,
definiely moving outward. And so, instead of
doing chip A, which would have required me to roll
that loop righ underneath the - the pedestal, I
have done chip B on building block 1 and 6. And
I'm proceeding along on building block l, chip B
right now. And I would like your opinion. I
don't even think I ought to do chip A because
it's going to eliminate any opportunity to observe
this large loop. And if you have anything other
than the extension of chip B to recommend, I'd
appreciate it.
CC Okay. We'll check that and break, A1, if you'll

go ahead and press on on the flush,please.
CDR Okay. I'm going to do this procedure 49.
CC Okay. You can Just step on through it.
222 14 32 12 SPT Loop is still expanding outward.
CC Say again, Owen.
CC Roger. Understand. It's still growing.
SPT Do we have down-link capability - For TV?
CC We'll record it, if you'll put it down, and we'll

get a look at it in about an hour.
SPT Okay. I'm going to give you about 30 seconds of

it.
222 14 33 02 CC Okay, 0wen. We'd like you to terminate your scan

on 55 and bring up detector i only.
CC Go to STOP and go back to 3 scan.
SPT I Just tried it. And the SCAN SPECT light still
stays on.
TAG Tape 222-05/T-164
Page l0 of 12/1136
222 14 3h 3B CC Okay, 0wen. It appears we've got ourselves little -

little out of configuration from going unattended,
and what we'd like you to do is turn off all the
detectors. Stay off the DAS a moment. We're
going to send a stop co--and at 55.
SPT Roger.
222 14 35 55 CC And, A1. In your procedure, we're not observing

step 6 there, where you go to rad - roll -
RADIATOR BYPASS valve circuit breaker, closed.
CDR I'm sure doing it. I'm doing it Just like the
procedure. Maybe something's funny in there.
CC That very well may be. We're looking at it.
CDR Check all the switches over here. I'ii just

leave them both on for a second.
CDR Everything looks good.
CC Okay, Owen. I think we've got 55 squared away,

and you can go ahead and continue with your
GRATING 3 SCAN and DETECTOR 1.
222 14 36 53 SPT Th_'_kyou.
222 14 38 28 SPT Bob, unless I hear otherwise, I don't intend to

do chip A of building block 1. And also, if the
VTR is available for say 30 seconds at a time,
every time I take a look at the corona, I'll put
about 30 seconds of - of that information on the
VTR if you VTR people will agree that that is
satisfactory.
CC Okay, it is available to you.
222 14 39 18 CC 0wen, I mean - correction, A1, to give us a

chance to see what is going on with that step 6,
would you increase that wait period from l0 seconds
to 15 seconds between steps 6 and 7?
CDR You bet.
222 14 _0 20 CDR BYPASS is closed down.

TAG Tape 222-05/T-164
Page ii of 12/1137
CC Roger, copy, AI.
CC And, 0wen, we concur with you abut not doing

chip A. And we're going to get a modification on
building block 2A here, and I'ii get it to you in
a moment.
222 lh h2 59 CC Okay, 0wen, on - We'd like you to do building

block 2 as previously stated, omitting 82A and 54.
And follow that with anothe/building block 2,
omitting 82A only.
SPT Sounds like a good idea.
222 14 43 B0 CC Okay, A1, on this flush, we'd like you to go

through one more cycle, stop at step 7, and then
we're going to disable the SECONDARY and go back
to PRIMARY.
CC Okay, A1, if there is any confusion there, we do

want you to complete step 7.
222 14 44 28 CDR Okay, that's complete. We've got both the

RADIATOR BYPASS circuit breaker, that's CONTROLLER
RADIATOR BYPASS valve CLOSED and the LOGIC closed.
CC 0keydoke, and we'll go ahead and do the commanding.
CDR Okay. How did it look? I only did about 12 or

13 cycles.
CC Okay, we copied around 12 or 13 cycles. Now I'll

see if I can get you a status on it.
CDR That's quite a bit different than 40.
CC Yes, I guess we've concluded that if it was going

to do anything, it would do it in the amount
that you did. We wanted to be able to look at all
of it.
222 14 45 30 CDR I've got a comment too, Crip. On this vent through
the water dump valve which is 5093A, they say
obtain sterilization fitting, and put it on the
TAG Tape 222-05/T-16_
Page 12 of 12/1138
dump line. The sterilization fitting that I've

got has kind of got a quick disconnect on both
ends and really doesn't have a lot of sterili-
zation going for it. And it doesn't look like
anything really dumps through it. You have to
have something on the other end of it. But I'll
go check again. It may have the wrong fitting.
I guess the object is to slowly dump the atmo-
sphere in here. It looks like maybe that fitting
I have, which may be the wrong fitting, won't do
it. I'm going to go up and check the water
panel.
222 14 46 75 CC Okay, A1. We're going about LOS. We'll see you
again at Vanguard at 1_:57. And what we want
you to do it to use the purge fitting, and
message 14B9 should tell you to do that, it was
a correction.
CDR Okay, I haven't read it yet. Will do. And what

did it do, come up this morning?
CDR Okay, next question is: is the RS dump complete?

RFS flush?
CC The flush is complete.
CDR Successful?
222 14 47 05 CC It was not - we can't really say it's successful.

Correction on that, we'll see you at Goldstone
at 16:06. We don't have Vanguard.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 222-06/T-165
Time: 222:15:01 to 222:16:34
Page i of 2/1139
222 16 05 51 CC Hello, Skylab. We're A0S at Goldstone for about

lh-1/2 minutes.
CDR Been wondering where you went.
CC Long time around.
CC Okay. And we're going to be doing a little

repointing for ATM stuff if you'll stay off the
DAS for us please.
222 16 14 12 CC And, Owen, we'll get a chance to look at some of

that VTR you recorded for us last time around.
And for your information, we're sending you up
another S019 pad. And it's for the night pass
at around 18 - well, 18:28 is about the time it
starts. Also, we've got one more - one more pad
that we're going to send up to you.
SPT Okay, Robert. And did you say you did have a look
at that VTR?
CC Yes. We're taking a look at it now. I - The cor-

onal transients are fairly visible on 52.
SPT Roger. Sure is. Very clear indeed. It ought to

be some fascinating photography, because that's
got a lot better time resolution than the VTR.
CC Roger. That's pretty fantastic. Hey, while I've

got you on the loop here, Owen. The TV people
would like to thank you for a great Job. You're
a regular Cecil B. DeMille, back there. That
Mark I you gave us last night was fantastic.
SPT Thank you.
CC And when you set up a variety of views like that

it helps our tape editor do a very professional
job on it.
SPT Okay. Fine. I sort of hated to even put myself

in the act after Jack's demonstration of the
Mark I. I didn't want to make too much of a con-
trast there.
TAG Tape 222-06/T-165
Page 2 of 2/1140
CC Well, unfortunately, there was a little bit of a

contrast. But you don't have to be a m-_ine.
SPT Furtherest thing from my mind.
CC (Chuckle) Thee and me.
222 16 20 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll

have you again over the Vanguard at 16:31, 16:31.
And we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump there.
CC And we have cleaned off the tape recorder. It's

sll yours again on the VTR.
222 16 20 53 SPT Okay, Bob. Thank you.

about ii minutes.
PLT Okay, Cripper.
CC Roger, Jack. And I guess we're going to be doing

some ATM executing so I assume you guys are not
working on the DAS.
PLT No, sir, we're not up there now.
CC Hey, Jack, I wonder if you could tell us when you're

going to get around to that CBRM switch trouble-
shoot ing?
PLT Well, I could go and work on it now if you like.
CC We'd appreciate it very much.
CC And we've completed co_anding through the DCS so

the DAS is yours.
222 16 33 06 PLT Okay, Bob.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 222-07/T-166
Time: 222:16:B4 to 222:18:00
Page i of 4/ii_i
222 16 B_ 51 SPT We're taking a few pictures this morning, Crip.

We've had a few areas that are nice and clear.
We got a good picture of Rio, and Sao Paulo.
CC Roger. Just about over Rio now it looks like,

maybe a little south of there.
SPT Yes, we're coming over Buenos Aires and Montevideo

at the moment. Unfortunately we've got scattered-
to-broken clouds down there, so we won't be able
to photograph and that's unfortunate, but we'll
get them another day.
CC Okeydoke. Sounds like a beautiful sight anyhow.
CDR Crip, are you still there?
CC That's affirmative. We've got you for about

B-l/2 more mintues.
CDR How about setting up a phone call with my wife

some time during the day here on a real long pass?
CC Okay, we'll see if we can do something about that.
CC Hey, A1, while I've got you on the line there,

can you give me an idea if you did get that
fitting squared away and perform that F-6 and F-B
for M5097
CDR That's affirmative. All the work has been per-

formed up to this time on the time line.
222 i0 39 i0 CC Roger. Could you give me an idea of about what

time that you did that?
CDR I certainly could. Let me think now. When did -

if you can remember when I asked you, I did it
l0 minutes later.
CC That 's fine. Thank you.
CDR And that was - I asked you at the beginning of

the pass where we were doing the refrigeration
system cleanup. And that pass lasted about 8 or
9 minutes or whatever. And then right after that
I went over and did it.
TAG Tape 222-07/T-166
Page 2 of 4/1142
CC Rog. We've got it here. Fine, thank you.
222 16 39 51 CDR I need you to send up a couple of more changes.
CC Okay, A1. We got a couple of more minutes left

on this pass. If you think I can get them, why
don't you shoot them down to me?
CDR Okay, we need you to send ATM Experiment Checklist

chang e number 2. We need you t send SWS System
Checklist change number 5, and rate gyro package
cue card change number 1. When we get those, we
will have it 100 percent done.
CC Okay, A1. Those purposely were not sent up last

night because they were no longer applicable. It
would Just be bookwork for you guys, and they are
already passed. They were things like, you know,
that urine activation and that kind of stuff.
So we really didn't - don't see any need for
sending them up, unless you Just want them to keep
your books up to date.
CDR No, I'ii Just go around to the book and write that
it is accomplished on the book. That's all -
that's a good thought, I Just needed to m_e
sure. That's the same with SWS Systems
Checklist 5, huh?
CC That was - all three of those.
CDR Okay. Thank you Crip, we'll straighten it out.

And that's it, we're 100 percent done then.
CDR Okay, sounds real good. And we'll - -
PLT Hey, Crip?
CC Yes, Jack.
PLT I switched the CBRM SELECT to 5 - 5/17 and REG 17

stayed on; so, I'm supposed to consult with you
guys. Do you want me to lay off and wait until
you come up again or what?
TAG Tape 222-07/T-166
Page 3 of 4/iih3
222 16 41 26 CC Okay, we're going to go over the hill here. We'll

task to you about it on the next pass. We'll have
you at Goldstone at 17:47.
PLT Should I leave it at 5/17 or go back to where it

wast
CC Stay where you're at.
222 16 41 42 PLT Okay, I'm going to quite on it then.
222 17 46 47 CC Skylab, Houston, we're A0S Goldstone for a short

pass, about 4 minutes.
SPT Hello, Houston, you there?
CC That's affirm, 0wen. We got about 3 - little

over 3 minutes here.
SPT Oh, did you hear my comment?
- CC Negative.
SPT Okay, I Just mentioned I'm about to record a

bunch of hemoglobin information onto channel A,
which I think will be of interest to the bi_neds
as soon as you dump it. And it all looks fine.
I'll put it over there on channel A.
CC Okay, appreciate that info. I guess we'd kind

of like to know if you are going to plan on
running this S019 pad that we sent up, which
starts around 18:28?
SPT The answer is affirmative.
CC Okay. We're going to need to inhibit momentum

dump, and I've got a slight correction to the
pad.
SPT Okay, Just a minute. And A1 Just asked if you'd

send up another pad in addition to that one for
S019. And one of them will have to come copy
it, since they're going to be running it. Okay,
go ahead with your correction. Jack's ready to
copy.
TAG Tape 222-07/T-166
Page 4 of 4/1144
CC Okay. At - on the second llne of time of 18:36

for star field 401, I need to change rotation to
read 321.4 and tilt of 28.7. Okay, and I didn't
exactly understand what you wanted, but we are
planning on sending you one more pad for the
next rev. However, we might be getting into a
problem of how long we can stay - have momentum
dump and inhibited. And we need the DAS for
a minute here to reupdate Y-2.
SPT Okay, you've got the DAS and I think Al's looking
for the pad when it comes up. Understand the
possible problem_-ith momentum dump.
222 17 49 18 CC Roger, we'll be looking to that. We'll plan on

getting that up to you later. And for Al's infor-
mation, I've got the phone call set up for around -
it's 23:02. That's about the best I could do on
time. It's about a l0 minute pass.
SPT Okay, and you might fix one up for me after that.
CC Okay, 0wen, we'll work on it.
CC Owen, would you clarify that you did get that

last pad that we sent up on S019, the one that
has the pass for next - this upcoming night cycle?
SPT That's right, we got it for something like 18:20.

Isn't that the one you're talking about?
CC That's affirmative. Okay, and we'll still owe

you one for the next rev. Very good. We're
going to go LOS in about B0 seconds, and we'll
have A0S in about 18 minutes over Vanguard at -
stand by 1 - 18:08.
222 17 50 24 SPT Roger.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 222-08/T-167
Time : 222 :18 :00 to 222 :19 :30
Page i of 7/1145
222 18 09 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over the Vanguard

for about l0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Crip, I inhibited momentum dump. Looks

like NUZ is a minus 3.0. You concur?
CC Okay, Jack. Really, what we'd like to do is

to get that star tracker locked on so we can
get an update on NU z prior to this S019 op.
PLT Okay. I'll whistle up there and do that.

You got some angles?
PLT I got a pad. I'll look it up.
CC Yes. The pad - pad should be good. And while

you're up there, you might like to press on
a little bit with this CBRMmalf.
PLT Al's going on up there. And I'm going to stay

down here and get ready for S019. I, as I said
before, switched the selector to 17 and nothing
tripped off the line. And I'm supposed to wait
for your direction.
CC Roger. Maybe we can talk A1 into it.
CDR You can talk me into anything Just as soon as

I lock this star on.
CC 0keydoke. Sounded easy.
CDR I'll close them in a minute, Jack.
CDR Okay. I can't get the STAR TRACKER to go

to MANUAL for some reason.
CC Copy. It would not go to MANUAL?
PLT I noticed one problem we've been having as we're

running along here all the time, on the CONSOLE
POWER DISTRIBUTION ACS switch OFF, and if you
want to get anything to work, seems like you've
got to put that to BUS 2.
___ v __ -7
I
k
TAG Tape 222-08/T-167
Page 2 of 7/1146
CC Oh, you do? Okay. I guess, maybe, we're a

little bit lost as to where you'd left those
things down there. Are they currently all
in OFF?
PLT We put them Just like it says in the configure

for unattended ops; and that says seven of them
OFF.
CC Okay. That's affirmative. And before you operate

the panel at any time, you've got to put them
back on BUS 2.
CDR Yes, I put them in BUS 2 previously, Crip. It

just doesn't want to react. We had this problem
with it yesterday.
CC 0 - Okay. I'll - -
PLT We've got it now, Bob.
CC Jack, if you're available, I'd like to quiz you

about doing a 192 alignment today. Understand
that was discussed with you yesterday.
222 18 12 49 PLT That's affirmative. I've got a pad for it, and
I'm planning to do it this afternoon, unless you
tell me otherwise.
222 18 12 56 CC Roger. Okay, we appreciate it.
CC Okay, Jack. That sounds good. The 192 people

appreciate that. The only thing that we wanted
to make sure that might not have been quite
obvious from the message, that everytime you do
move the focus, they wanted you to control the
X and Z control to make sure you get that peaked.
PLT Okay. I take it they don't want me to wait

5 minutes anymore, unless I - at least I hope
they don't; that takes a lot of time.
CC Five seconds is a good number.
PLT Okay, that cuts it down pretty well.

TAG Tape 222-08/T-167
•Page 3 of 7/11147
PLT Okay, A1, got you the star.
CC Okay. We copy that. Appreciate it. Let's see,

I guess, we would appreciate it, A1, if you've
got a few minutes there at the panel, maybe we
could press on with this CBRM thing. I think we
can - I'm going to have to verbally give you some
steps, anyhow. So you could probably step in
and do what Jack was doing for us, if you can.
CDR Okay. Anything a marine can do, we can do. So

Just speak up.
CC Okeydoke. Appreciate it if you'd give us a

readout of REG current and the status of your
CBRM STATUS LIGHTS.
222 18 114 32 CDR Okay. First of all, CBRM STATUS LIGHTS, three
on - three are on. All three are yellow on
CBRM 3, all the rest are off. Now let me give
you the REG current. 22.5 and plus 14 amps on
the position it's on right now, which is -
CC It should be on 17.
CDR That's right. It's on 17.
CC Okay. Copy; 14amps. What we'd like you to do

now is to hit the KEG switch to OFF and verify
that it does turn REG 17 off.
222 18 15 29 CDR It did. The light came on and the - current

dropped.
CC Okay. Can you give me a current reading?
222 18 15 38 CDR Yes, it shows, minus full-scale low, and the

voltage shows at 21.5.
222 18 15 147 CC Okay. Now would you hit the KEG switch back ON,
please.
CDR Light out. Everything's the same as it was.
CC Okay - -
TAG Tape 222-08/T-167
Page 4 of 7/1148
CDR Same as it was, initially.
CC Okay. Okay, what we' d like you to do now, on

CBRM S_T.W.CTswitch is to go to 4/16. That is,
SELECT 16.
222 18 16 20 CDR That's complete. Nothing new happened. Now I'll

read you the voltage. Voltage is 30; current is
plus 7.
222 18 16 29 CC Roger. Okeydoke. Stand by i.
CC Okay. Now we'd like to repeat. Hit the REG

switch OFF, please.
CDR Say it again, Crip. I was talking intercom. Go

ahead.
CC I'm sorry. We're going to go ahead and turn the

reg off, please.
CDR REG did not turn OFF.
CC And, A1, while I'm getting an update on that,

we're continuing to - our ground testing of all
foods. And the premission guidelines still
stand; if the food is acceptable to you, it's
okay with us for you to eat it. If you notice
anything that you consider food spoilace [sic]
- spoilage, we would like you to report it to
us, and we will perform more exhaustive testing
on that particular item. The pork lion has proven
stable in food quality testing, and extensive
microtesting is currently in work and should be
complete in 48 hours. Tonight, Jack has got a
GO to eat the pork. And we kind of want you to
stay on the premission menus.
CDR Sounds like a good idea. The only thing was that
we really questioned about was the strawberries.
And you're well aware of that. Okay, standing
by.
CC Okay. Would you go to BAT position on the POWER

SYSTEM for us, please?
TAG Tape 222-08/T-167
Page 5 of 7/1149
222 18 18 ll CDR Okay, there.
CC Okay. We're going to have LOS here in about

1 minute. We'll have you again at Hawaii at
19:17. And we'll be doing a data recorder dump
at that time.
CDR Okay, and I'll be free to help you some more.
222 18 18 28 CC Okay. We appreciate that help you did us on

those switches.
222 19 16 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii for about

l0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Crip.
CC And if Owen has had a chance to get out of

the shower yet, we'd like to get an update
as to whether he thinks he's going to get a
chance to do the TV with Arabella. We've
been _nxiously awaiting to see what one of
those spider webs look like.
PLT He's working on it right now.
CC Fantastic.
CDR When's our next run on SO19, Crip?
CC Well, we're still investigating this bit as to

whether we're going to be able to handle - Stand
by 1.
CC Okay, we've checked it out. We can handle

three dump inhibits. We should be uplinking
you a pad right now; it should be in the
teleprinter for the next night pass. And time
on it's around 20:00.
CDR Thank you.
PLT Aloha, Crip. If you were in Hawaii, I'd be

looking at you now.
CC Well, given _ choice of where I'd rather be

right now, I wish you were looking at me.
TAG Tape 222-08/T-167
Page 6 of 7/1150
PLT Well said.
CC And, Jack, while you're talking to me here, next

opportunitysomebody goes by the ATM C&D, we'd
like to go back to SELECT 5/17 on that switch so
you won't be getting a POWER SYSTEM light on the
ALERT panel.
SPT Hey, Bob, as long as I'm up here at the panel,

how would 82B like to have me press the
INTEGRATE switch for them a couple of times?
CC Stand by l, Owen. We'd appreciate it.
CC Owen, you still by the ATM C&D?
SPT That's right.
CC Hey, we've got one more little set of switching

we'd kind of like to do to verify for sure that
we do have AC-1 out on that. We've got about
2 minutes here. I think it's adequate to do it,
if you Just go back - -
SPT Go. Try it.
CC Okay, I'd like to _A_e sure you got all your

circuit breakers IN except that STATUS LIGHTING
BACKUP, 502.
222 19 2_ 08 SPT And AC-1 is OUT.
222 19 2_ IB CC Okay, you can go ahead and put it back IN.

And then put all your CONSOLE POWER DISTRIBUTION
switches to BUS 1 except H-alpha, leave it in
BUS 2. And put all your DISPLAY switches, all
four of them in BUS 1. Then put LIGHTING
INTEGRAL and NUMERIC switches to FI_C_n.
222 19 24 4B SPT Complete.
CC Okay, have you got INTEGRAL and NUMERICAL LIGHTING?
SPT How about the _T,_RT/STATUS? Do you want that in

FIXED or VARIABLE?
TAG Tape 222-08/T-167
Page 7 of 7/1151
SPT That's affirmative. I sure do.
CC Okay. Would you - Do you have the EVENT TIMER?

Will it work?
SPT It is working.
CC Okay, you've got AC-I. You can really stay in

that configuration and we'll t,lk to you about
it later.
SPT Yes, that's good news. Yes, I'd like to hear

more about that. I think it's good news.
CC Yes, it sounds good. It sounds like we can go

back to original configuration. We're going to
go LOS shortly here. We'll have you again at
Vanguard at 19 :_7, 19 :_7.
222 19 25 32 SPT Fine.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 222-09/T-168
Time: 222:19:30 to 222:21:01
Page i of 7/1153
222 19 48 BI CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard for

8 minutes. And 0wen, if you've got a chance,
l'd appreciate getting to talk to you for a
few minutes.
CC Owen, realize you're probably busy. I Just want

to make a comment that you had a note previously
when you were going to run TV-59 to get some of
Arabella's spider web there, about rewinding the
V2R. That's not required for you to do. That
was primarily because at the point we had it down
in the Flight Plan originally with the - scheduled
with ATM TV. And we've already dumped all that.
SPT Excuse me, Bob. Would you say again what you were
saying about the VTR?
CC Roger, Owen. I was Just going to comment that

you had a note in your details about rewinding
the VTR when you' re doing TV-59 of Arabella and
that was not required. That was because it was
associated previously with some ATM TV and we've
already down-linked that.
SPT Okay. I've Just recorded about 5 or i0 minutes,

and I'll want to record another 5 or l0 minutes,
and then I'll be through with it.
CC Okay. Appreciate that. Say, Owen, can you verify

on thing for us? When we were going over the
hill there and I said the event timer was working,
can you verify that it was counting?
222 19 53 41 SPT That's right. I'm looking at it now. It's count-

ing down.
CC And your orbit phase is also working. Is that true?
SPT That's correct.
CC Okay. It sounds like AC-1 is working good, and

really all we've lost, is going to be VARIABLE,
NUMERIC and INTEGRAL. And everythingshould work
properly off BUS 1 and FIXED. And we'll get some
word to you to clarify your reconfiguration later.
TAG Tape 222-091T-168
Page 2 of 7/1154
SPT Sounds great.
CC And if you can give us s_e good words about

what Arahella's doing and you're get - getting
TV of it, we'd appreciate it.
222 19 54 i0 SPT Okay. I got a few words on the VTR. There's

nothing much new to report today. She's Just
still sitting in the middle of her web. But I'Ii
try to give you so_e VTR with some description of
how things have gone.
CC Okay. Did she eat her steak?
SPT Say again.
CC Did she eat her steak?
SPT Well, I'm not sure she ate very much of it.
d She'd kicked it out of the web this morning and
it had diminished in size, but that may be due
to evaporation of the water. And so, how much
of it she consumed, if any, I couldn't tell.
CC Okay. We appreciate that information.
222 19 55 38 CC End of line, we're going LOS. Hawaii, 20:53.

Okay. Still got you there apparently. We will
have Hawaii at 20:53. That's about 58 minutes
from now. We'll be doing a data voice recorder
dump there.
222 20 54 00 CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS over Hawaii for

9 minutes, and we'll be doing a data voice
recorder dump.
CDR Okay, Crip.
CC And is Owen or you or somebody available maybe

to get the ATM C&D squared away back on bus
1 for us ?
CDR I believe Jack's up there right by, doing some

alignment on EREP. He'd probably be glad to
do it.
CC Okay, what we want to do is get you squared away

in an operating configuration where you don't
TAG Tape 222-09/T-168
Page 3 of 7/1155
have to worry about switching back and forth

between the things.
CDR Sounds good. Is this the status session?
CC Roger; we're going to hold up on that until our

next pass at 21:25. However, we're - we have
some questions for you. However, if you got
anything you want to ask down, we're willing
to talk about it now, A1.
CDR Nothing except I thought those sheets of papers

you sent up this morning, particularly one that
gave us some broad picture of how we're done
and what we're going to do next week, the status
sheets, were really good. The only part I
didn't like was the thought that we would -
80 percent in 25 days, or rather 24 days, we got
•to figure a way to up that. We'll - we'll hustle.
We got to get that up a little bit, somehow.
222 20 55 25 CC I think you guys have been hustling pretty good,

but we'll all get together on it and then try to
increase it.
CDR Yes, we've got to do something. I don't think

we can accept it there.
CC I think three SO19 passes would convince Karl

you're doing pretty good.
CDR Okay, we'll be - tell me that time the status

report is going to take place again. I didn't
have my piece of paper out.
222 20 55 59 CC I'm sorry, A1. Okay. We've got a Vanguard pass

coming up at 21:25, then that's about 30 minutes
away from now, so that's - that's when we got
it planned.
CDR Okay. Did Jack ever come to the panel? If not,

I'll head up there.
CC Haven't heard from him. By the way, if Owen's

listening, we've got his phone call set up at
00 :00.
TAG Tape 222-09/T-168
Page _ of 7/1156
CDR He's listening. I think the reason Jaok is not

listening on that channel, I be right out - I'll
be up to the ATM in a minute.
SPT And do you have ED52 on the VTR, Bob?
CC Roger; would you confirm for us that we are in

the portable TV position?
SPT In the which position?
222 20 56 40 CC In the TV - on the TV SELECT. No, not MONITOR, 1

or MONITOR, 2.
SPT Ha-ha, good grief. I'd better go check it.
CC Well, Al's going up there, he can check it.
SPT One switch I forgot to check.
CDR Okay, Bob, go ahead, l'm up here now.
CC Roger. On the TV SELECT there, AI, would you

put us in TV. I think we're in MON i.
CDR Okay, TV it is.
CC Okay, very good. We Just need to get that

squared away - to get a look at Arabella. Okay.
PLT Hey, Bob.
CC Say again.
PLT Okay, excuse me. I thought that would have affec-

ted my VTR recording. As a matter of fact, I'm
not sure but what it did.
CC It does.
222 20 57 24 PLT VTR is going to be recording whatever we have

selected there, isn't it?
PLT So you see, I forgot to put that over to TV,

so I'll have to do it again.
TAG Tape 222-09/T-168
Page 5 of 7/1157
CC Would you like for us to rewind it for you?
PLT Why don 't you?
CC Okay, we're doing that. We'll let you know when

it 's complete. Al?
SPT I'll say one thing he's getting awful good at it.
CC (Laughter) Lot's of practice. Hey, we appreciate

that, 0wen. Hey, on the ATM C_D, what we'd like
you to do, basically we're - we're going to go back
to BUS 1 on everything and the only restriction
you have is you do not have VARIABLE, INTEGRAL
or VARIABLE, NUMERIC LIGHTING. And so we want you
to - if you have that general message number h
posted on the ATM panel, we want you to delete
item number 4. You copy that, AI?
CDR Okay, I was pnlling it out. Delete item h, okay?
CC Yes, that's the one that basically has you switch-

ing - the CONSOLE POWER DISTRIBUTION switches OFF
and then the BUS 2 at - ever - every time you use
the panel. Okay.
CDR Okay, I assume that ya'll are going to send a

checklist change up then, right away so we can
put it in officially?
222 20 58 40 CC Okay, I - to our knowledge, we have not sent you

a checklist change at _11 to put it any other way
than that.
CDR Maybe that's it, maybe we can get a - let me see

what I've got here. CONSOLE POW_ DISTRIBUTION,
SEVEN of them OFF. And later on, CONSOLE POWER
DISTRIBUTION, SEVEN of them to BUS 2. You mean
now there's - we don't have to turn them off and
then back to - at night, and we could Just leave
them on like we used to?
CC That is affirmative. And the one that you've got

H-ALPHA switch in BUS 2 right now, we would like
you to go ahead and place in BUS i.
CDR You say H-ALPHA to BUS i?

TAG Tape 222-09/T-168
Page 6 of 7/1158
CC That's affirmative. It's going to turn off your

TV bus and we're going to command it back on,
once you do.
CDR Here it comes.
222 20 59 34 CC Okay, A1. Over on S055, if and when you want

to use it, that INTENSITY DATA switch, you can
use in BUS 1 now.
CDR Okay.
CC Like to confirm that all - eight switches on the

CONSOLE POWER DISTRIBUTION panel are back in
BUS 1.
CDR They're back in BUS l, yes.
CC Okay, now all you need to do is any time you

leave the panel and don't want the lighting on,
your INTEGRAL you can turn back to 0FF_ and your
NUMERIC you can turn to OFF. When you want it,
you can turn it to FIY_O, both on INTEGRAL and
NUMERIC.
CDR Understand. And on - on this H-ALPHA EXPERIMENT,

BUS l, that should go - Just should stay there
all of the time, but if we wanted to turn it
to BUS 2, would that be okay?
CC Well, anytime you do, it's going to turn off TV

BUS l_ so we would prefer to coordinate that
with - with STDN if you _o.
CDR Okay, we kind of thought so, but we wanted to

get a feeling.
SPT Hey, Crip, I need some clarification on the S192

alignment procedure. And I've currently, gone
on your pad through step 3.3, decrease the thermal
reading by 5 percent down to 41 percent. Now
step 3.4 says, rotate the focus one-quarter turn
counterclockwise past the point where the peak
reading was obtained. What peak reading is that?
Is that the 41 percent I've got now? Or the
46 percent I had earlier?
TAG Tape 222-09/T-168
Page 7 of 7/1159
22 21 01 00 CC _6 percent. We're going to go LOS in about

30 seconds, we'll have you again - we'll have you
again at Vanguard at 21:25. And we will have
the VTR rewound for you. One minute from now.
END OF TAPE
.f

Time: 222:21:01 to 222:22:34
Page 1 of 8/1161
222 21 01 h5 CC We consider _6 the peak on that, Jack, and we

purposely went over the hill so we can back into
it.
222 21 26 3_ CC Skylab, we've got you through the Vanguard for

l0 minutes.
CDR Hello, down there.
CC Okay, A1. I've got about five questions for

you regarding teleprinter pads, misssion criteria,
and that sort of thing.
CDR Okay, we're all listening.
CC What criteria would you like for us to use as a

definition of a general message - a permanent
general message? We're noticing some of these,
although they are not permanent for the whole
mission, they may be good for 7 days or a couple
of weeks.
CDR I have those as Just plain old general messages.

If you wanted to write on the top, Just say,
"General message. Should be kept for 2 weeks ."
Because the permanent ones, I'm sticking in a
file down here with the idea that they'll last
until the end of the mission, unless it breaks
or somebody fixes it or we found out something
new. For example, thoseSouth Atlantic anomaly
pads have been coming up as permanent messages;
I suspect they ought to Just be Just messages,
and we'll be able to see that they're - they're
useful for several days. Think that's okay?
CC Okay, and then how will we know down here how long
you've kept them?
CDR Well, the permanent ones, we'll keep forever, I

guess. And the others - That's a good question.
I think maybe you can write on the second line,
"Useful for i0 days," and we'll keep them for
i0 days.
CC Okay, I see. And if they're worthwhile beyond

that, we'll remind you or send another one up.
TAG Tape 222-10/T-169
Page 2 of 8/1162
CDR That's a good idea. And that way, the permanent

ones are - are ones that, you know, we have on
our mind until somebody changes it instead of
some that Just run out.
CC Okay, and while we are on the SAA, we sent you

up a big one last night. The other alternative
there is to send you up a DELTA-time one, which
will slip it hack each time on a 3- to h-day
cycle. Which would you prefer there?
222 21 29 02 CDR I'd prefer the one like you sent up. I think
it's just the right size; it has all of the
nnm_ers there. We've got one down here in the
wardroom and one on the ATM. And in addition
to that, we got Just tons of teleprinter paper
up here. So we got no shortage of that. We don't
want to put too much wear on the teleprinter
until we get the other one fixed, I guess. But -
the DELTA would really foul it up. It's tough
enough to read anyway.
222 21 29 30 CC Okay, and how do you like the malfunction list

we sent up to you today, versus the one on
day 2157
CDR Liked it a lot better. Every single one of those,

I put in the book because it was something that
meant something to us up here that we had to do
something about. So I thought it was a good list.
CC Okay, and on something like the SYNC GENERATOR

switch, which we've asked you to tape, we're
thinking we should not send you up checklist
changes everywhere where you use that switch, but
since we've got an understanding there's tape on
it, to leave it at that; and likewise for channel A
and channel B. Do you want us to have you change
all the checklist, even though we have an under-
standing like you won't use the SYNC GENERATOR
switch and you know you are transmitting it all
on channel B?
CDR No, I - I think not, but I'll tell you what you
should do, if you would. How about sending us a
message tomorrow as a permanent - maybe we already
got a permanent general message, not - Yes, we do;
it says it's taped. No, I think that's satifactory.
Page 3 of 8/1163
That's satisfactory, although I noticed I had a

couple of changes today on the ATM systems
that - that struck - fooling with that switch,
which is okay, also.
CC Okay. And how will it affect your operations if

we delete the message length from the top of the
teleprinter pads?
CDR We'd never miss it. We have too much information

at the top and bottom of those pads, and I don't
think that anybody ever reads it. I think the
most things we read is Just the title and the
body of the message. All that other is interesting,
but I don't think we ever read it here.
CC Okay, and I got some medical stuff now. Is 0wen

reading us now?
CDR He sure is.
SPT I am.
CC Okay, have you seen any structural defects or

damage in the legbands? The last two runs you
had were - were real good.
222 21 31 34 SPT Have we noticed any structural defects? No, none

at all.
222 21 31 37 CC Okay, and how's the calibration going? Is that

going 211 right now?
SPT The calibration on the legbands, yes, has gone

satisfactory except for the one time. Now I
was not the observer on those last couple of runs;
I think it was A1. And so he could perhaps answer
that question better than I can.
CDR The cal has been going okay on the legbands, pro-
vided we close the can and then do it. And that's
what we have been doing; it's been working out
real well.
CC That's a good idea. And, A1, your heart rate hit

aobut 140 at 50 millimeters your last run. Did
you have any symptoms then?
Page 4 of 8/l16h
CDR Had none, but I was fighting it because I wanted

to make sure that I didn't have any problems.
CC Okay, good. Have you had a chance to take those

closeup still photos of the face and neck yet?
SPT Sorry, that's on my extra list, but I've had no

time for it.
CC Understand. And we've seen some noise in the VCG

down here during M092 and during the exercise.
Are you using the same skin prep you did down here?
SPT That's affirmative, and the impedence - almost

always looked real fine. And there has always
been noise on the VCG on 171.
CC Okay.
SPT Excuse me; I mean on the blood pressure, maybe

not on a VCG, either. So I don't know of any
change there.
CC Okay, and the data on the MI71 is slightly out

of sync. Are you hitting the CYCLE RESET at the
exact event times 19:41 and 9?
SPT Well, I know one run in which I missed a couple

of those and so l'm, at least, partially responsi-
ble for missing part of it. l'm not sure about
the other observers on thier runs.
CDR I don't think we have been working that hard to

sync that thing right on because we didn't think
it really made any difference as far as the data.
It Just gets the data, not out of sync, but, you
know, just makes it come down a little bit dis-
placed in the print.
222 21 33 32 CC You know, it's a - it's a little - a little more

important than that because it starts updating the
MA as soon as you hit that thing. And if you've
been in a period without the mouthpiece or
changing a load on your ergometer, makes a -
It's pretty important to hit that when you have
a change in the work load or put the mouthpiece
back in.
F- TAG Tape 222-I0/T-169
Page 5 of 8/1165
222 21 3B h8 CDR Okay, we'll try to do better on that. By the

way, we've - Okay, we'll - we'll Just do better.
We'll be careful.
CC And on the Mark I, are you seeing some fraying of

the cording?
CDR Very slight fraying in the cord. We used - did

some of those. I don't know what the letters are;
I think they are D's or E's where you got to move
the arm out to the side. And it turns out that
it scrapes, then, on the side of the metal box
and causes fraying. Once we noticed that, we
quit doing that; and I don't think it's frayed
very much since then. It's - it's actually in
pretty good shape. Plus we've got all sorts of
that same sort of rope up here, in case it does
give out. That's a - it's a great exerciser.
CC Okay, good. And - and what are you doing with

the vitsm_n pills? Did you find them? Are you
taking them every day?
CDR We're taking the vitamin pills, and let me talk

about - a bit about the food for a second. We're
taking the vitamin pills every day, and we haven't
gone to look for the other two now that we've
found out they were in one of the cans. I'm sure
that they are there because it is hard to get out
of those enclosed cans, obviously. Next one is,
we have not been using much in the way of spices
up here, but I think we're getting ready to start.
At first, you know, we d_dn't want to use them
because nobody was feeling too good. And the
only thing I've been doing is putting Tabasco in
my chili, and I think Owen put some pepper on a
steak the other night. But we're going to sit
down here in the next week and try to define what
we're doing in the way of spices.
222 21 35 13 CC Okay, we're going LOS. We'll see you at Ascension

in 5 minutes.
222 21 40 53 CC Skylab, we've got you through Ascension for

7 minutes.
CDR Okay, standing by.
CC How about Jack? Let me throw some stuff at him for

a change.
Page 6 of 8/1166
SPT He's busy on S019 right now, Story.
CC Okay. I'll - I'll change and go back into the

medicals again. During your M131 OGI runs, have
you noticed right/left oscillation to the line
targets? The SL-2 crew reported that they had.
SPT Well, I was trying to think. It's possible that

there was - As a matter of fact, I think the
answer's yes. I do recall some apparent oscillation.
Sometimes, when I'd first open my eyes, there'd
be apparent little oscillation. _d it moved one
way or the other sometimes.
CC How about Al?
CDR No, I don't remember any. I tend to go to sleep

in that experiment, and usually, when I open my
eyes, it's not focused too great. I'm going to -
I'll try to watch out for those sorts of things,
though. That's the greatest sleeping inducer I've
ever seen.
SPT Jack and I have felt the same way.
CC Okay. Does the tension knob on the Mark I exerciser,

does it tend to rotate when you'ry working the
exercises?
PLT Yes. .
CC Okay - -
222 21 42 41 CDR Not only does it tend to rotate, if you're not

careful, you'll get your foot or toe against the
knob and that'll cause it to rotate too because,
as you know, it rotates all the time when you pull
on it. And your foot touches it, it tends to slow
it down, so the relative position changes.
CC Okay. We've got a suggestion that - to keep some

tape plastered right nearby and tape that when
you're using it.
SPT Good idea.
PLT Hey, Story, I worked on the EREP.

f TAG Tape 222-10/T-169
Page 7 of 8/1167
CC Okay. And how about you? Did you notice a right

and left oscillation in the line target during
OGI, Jack?
PLT No, I sure didn't. But I'll look for it next

time. When does it occur, Just at rotation,
during rotation, or what?
CC Let me find out. While they're working on that,

Jack, did you perform housekeeping 70X-3, 70X-4,
and 70X-5?
PLT No, they weren't assigned to me.
222 21 43 57 CDR I did them all.
222 21 43 59 CC Okay. On the EREP, Jack, if you did, on step 3.1

and 3.2 - if you peaked X and Z each time the
focus was adjusted, we've confirmed that you got
the 46 percent reading as a peak number.
PLT I did what the procedures said, 3.1 and 3.0,

whatever they were. Let me see if I can find it
here. Yes, I did 3.1 and 3.2 peaking X and Z
each time, and it ran down to - but I ran down
to 41 percent, which is 5 percent below the 46
requested or 46 peak. And then I followed the
procedure, and I got the same thing I had before.
CC Okay. Do you remember the micrometer settings X

and Z after step 3.3?
PLT Yes, I've got them. I'll have to give them to you
in a minute, though. I'm busy on this SO19.
CC Okay.
CDR I got a question for you, Story. I'm suppose

to run this ATM here in 15 minutes, and I can't
find the pad for 22:00.
CC I got a pad for you right here. It's a new one

due to that coronal transient.
CDR Is it going to come up on the teleprinter or what?
CC I'll give it to you now. You ready to copy?
CDR Go ahead.
Page 8 of 8/i168
CC J0P 6, step i, building block I-A; target,

Sun center. Comments: ROLL, minus 1080; omit
82B/82A; exposures, 2 minutes and 40 seconds and
l0 seconds; 55, detectors, all; GRATING, all zips.
And if you're ready, I've got the next two steps.
CDR Go ahead.
CC JOP 6, step 2 building block 2, Sun center. ROLL,

minus 5400; omit 82A; 55, the same. And for the
first step, that's JOP 6, step l, the DELTA-T,
l0 minutes. And for step 2, the DELTA-T is
9 minutes. And I got one more for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC JOP 2-A, step 4, building block 36, target 85.

Omit 82A, S054 filament l, 3, and 6. And we've
going LOS here in 20 seconds, and we'll see you
over the Vanguard at 23:02. That's an hour and
15 minutes. And, A1, you got a phone call with
your family over that station.
CDR Okeydokey, and we'll get this ATM run off.
CC Thanks a lot.
CDR You still there, Story?
222 21 47 42 CC Barely, but yes.
222 21 47 46 PLT Okay, after the first one-eighth turn, I had

38 percent, and I peaked it up to 43. X was 549,
Z was 492. I went clockwise one-eighth turn more,
got 40 percent, peaked the meter to 41. X was 549,
Z, 493 ...
222 21 48 05 CC Okay, we're going over the hill. Press on with

step 3.4.
222 21 48 i0 PLT ...
END OF TAPE
Time: 222:22:3h to 222:23:15
' _ Page i of 6/1169
222 23 02 55 CC Skylab, Houston through the Vanguard for ii minutes,

and we will be commanding ATM, so stay off the
DAS, please.
CC Skylab, Houston through the Vanguard for l0 minutes.

If you didn't read me earlier, stay off the DAS;
we will be co,,,anding; and, CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC A1, we lost two circuits through the Vanguard and

we need to command here, so we postponed your
family converstion about 12 minutes, to Ascension.
222 23 Oh 22 CC Okay, I guess we're back with you.
CC Did you get my call, AI, that the fnmily conversation

will be postponed until Ascension?
CDR Okay, I heard you. Sorry you didn't get my call

back.
CDR How long is the pass there?
CC It is about 9 minutes.
CDR That's good. That's good.
CC Make it 10.
CDR All right.
CC And you will be on VHF, Al.
CDR Okay, you got a good antenna in mind?
CC It should be LEFT the whole pass.
CDR Okay.
CDR Say again what time that should start.
222 23 05 23 CC Okay, it's at 23:15:49.
CDR That'scloseenough.
TAG Tape 222-ii/T-170
Page 2 of 6/1170
CC And, A1, who's working the ATM panel about now?
CDR I'm working it. I'm Just closing out right now.
CC Okay, we're going to need the star tracker gimbal

angles - the parking gimbal angles put in and the
power turned off.
CDR Okay, tell me the numbers. I'll - I ought to

write that down somewhere. You're always giving
them to us. What are the numbers and I'ii write
them down and then we can always do it when you
want.
CC Okay. It's INNER, minus 1800; and OUTER, plus

4200_ 4200.
222 23 06 28 CC And before you touch the panel, A1, we'd like to
know what your AC, AUTO STAR TRACKER talkback is.
CDR Yes, it's volatile. I tried to lock on when the

star was available. I could get a star in the
window but I could never get the AUTO to stay in
AUTO. I tried about three different times and
then I Just said the heck with it, and let it go.
It's got a star in the window but a barber pole
in the AUTO switch. It's got - now it's got OPEN
in the shutter. I had another funny occur but I
debriefed it on the channel. It turns out that
in a MIRROR AUTO RASTER, every time the beam
would come back to the zero postion it would
increment the counter.
222 23 07 18 CC Okay.
CDR And so during a - It's much like a mine [?] scan

would do. I verified that everything was working
right by looking at the position of the beam and
it - it did appear AUTO RASTER correctly. It
Just counted a bunch of numbers while it did it.
So there's a little funny. Owen thinks it might
be - have something to do with the commands y'all
sent up earlier when you were using it unmanned or
unattended. And then when we came into it some-
how that - that had a funny set in it.
CC Copy. And are you at the panel now?

- Page 3 of 6/1171
r
CDR Yes.
CC What position did you find the S054 GRATING switch

in when you started running JOP 6?
222 23 08 05 CDR We got an S055 GRATING and I found it in zero. 54

was then - its FILTER was in STORAGE.
CC Yes. How about the GRATING position? Was that

switch in or out? Did you have to move it to the
out position?
CDR I see what you mean. No, the GRATING is - is in

and it 's atill in.
CC Okay, you didn't use that switch during - during

your orbit?
CDR I - I said the wrong work. I did not use the

switch during my orbit and it's out. All my building
blocks were for out and it was out.
CC Okay, that answers - -
CDR It still is out.
CC That answers the question.
CDR Okay ; sorry.
222 23 08 51 CC And I've got one other thing for you, A1, while
I've got you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC That 3/16 Allen bit, did you find that broken or

break it yourself?
CDR Found it broken. I put it in to turn the screw

when we were working the tape recorder and I thought
I - kept thinking I didn't have it in the little
slot because I didn't - I felt no force on the
handle, so it was broken when we got here, some -
sometime previous to time we arrived.
CC Okay, we were wondering about a resupply and we

don't need to resupply one now.
Page 4 of 6/1172
CDR I think you ought to resupply one. That's the

most important tool we've got and only a couple of
them are still around. 0nly one of them is still
around that - that's long and has the little -
kind of ball Joint on the end. The other has the
ball Joint broken off and then - I'd bring up a
couple of those if I were Jerry Carr.
222 23 09 47 CC Okay. We'll do it. That's a long one with a ball

Joint?
CDR Yes.
CC And one other thing. Sometime later on, could you

give us the serial number of the DAC power cable
which is broken? Insulation?
CDR Sure will.
CC And no need to reply, A1. But on taking S056

data below 350 kilometers, you will not hurt the
experiment. The data is of interest but it is
degraded data. It's not as good as the data above
350 K.
CDR Okay.
222 23 i0 42 CDR And I'm leaving the panel now unless you have
something else.
CC Not at the moment.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC I guess you're the chief spider-watcher, aren't

you?
SPT I've been doing a fair amount of that, yes.
CC Okay. That's what I thought. Have you looked at -

at what Arabella's doing as soon as you get up
in the morning? That's the most likely time when
she's probably spinning a web.
SPT She's been sitting in the middle of that web every

time we've seen her. So, my hopes of getting
Page 5 of 6/1173
anything with the DAC are pretty small. Maybe

you've seen the television stuff, but I don't
think there's any probability that we will actually
see her during the construction interval.
CC Okay, good. If you put the electronics - if you

make the electronics at 12 O'clock and - What orien-
tation is her head in? Which was is she looking?
SPT Would you believe me if I said up?
222 23 ll 59 CC Okay, yes. I will.
SPT I don't know which it is right now, Story. Which

way is up? She wouldn't have any idea. I'll go
check and see which way it is with respect to the
electronics box.
CC Okay.
SPT Any other questions before I go up to check?
CC Yes, I got 20 or 30 more.
SPT One what?
222 23 12 26 CC I got a lot more, but we're not going to get to

all them.
SPT Well, do you want to give me the questions, or

should - Do you want me to go check on which way
her head is pointed?
CC No, I'll just have you - have you check that

occasionally the next day or 2.
SPT Okay.
CC We're about 1 minute to LOS here. We'll see you

over Ascension in 3 minutes. That's at 23:15. And
no need to acknowledge, A1, but you'll have your
family conversation then.
CDR And that's power cable O1 that got damaged.
CC 01?
Page 6 of 6/i174
CDR That's affirmative. And it didn't really break.

It broke through the white insulation, exposed
the braided shield, so we took it down.
222 23 13 43 CC Okay.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 222-12/T-171
Time: 222:23:15 to 223:00:30
Page 1 of 4/i175
222 23 16 00 CC Skylab, we're AOS Ascension for i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story.
CC Was that Jack?
SPT That 's right - -
PLT Yes.
SPT - - he's on the bicycle right now, and Al's up in

command module, and I'm on the Mark I. Her head
is pointed toward the top of the box, Story, so
we'll call that 12 o'clock and I don't suppose
you've had a chance to dump the VTR yet, right?
SPT Okay, anything else, sir?
CC I've got a few questions. I don't want to inter-

rupt your Mark I.
SPT Well, better go ahead and get them.
CC Have you noticed any co - correlation, 0wen,

between the latitude and your ability to see the
light flashes?
222 23 17 Ol SPT No, we have not been sufficiently diligent in log-

ging the time and then cross-checking to see where
we are. That turns - turns out to take a fair
amount of time and we ... It's not a complete
random distribution of times of occurrence. But
I don't believe any of us have had time to log
them and then go back and find out where we were
to - answer your question.
CC Okay. Did you notice any peculiar odors when you

entered the _DA and the 0WS on activation?
SPT Negative. Noticed nothing unusual at all.
CC And, AI, we're reading you loud and clear down here
on the VHF. Possibly try switching antennas.
TAG Tape 222-12/T-171
Page 2 of 4/1176
CC And, Owen, if A1 isn't reading me, pass it up to

him to check his squelch also. We're reading him
loud and clear down here.
SPT Okay.
CC And also the VHF T/R switch and the volume setting.
222 23 19 02 SPT I'ii probably have to float up there, Story. I

think when he goes VHF, it probably disconnects
the intercom up there; so I'll have to float up.
CC Okay, tell him that - That's affirmative, Owen.

Tell him the COMM TECH who's trying to get things
set up there in VHF is reading him loud and clear
but apparently not getting things up.
$PT Okay, he's tried all of those good things, so I

can't explain it right now, Story. Do you have
any more questions?
222 23 20 06 CC Okay, tomorrow we're going to set up any - any

calls or even if there are no calls, we're going
to try transceiving on VHF and try to work those
problems out for you.
SPT Good.
222 23 20 25 CC Have you noticed any decrease in peripheral vision

caused by distortion of your face in zero g?
SPT Negative. It seems perfectly normal to me, and I

think any distortion of facial features is prob-
ably minimal. It can be noticed in a mirror. I
think Jack has suggested to us - probably as much
as anything, Just due to the lack of gravity hold-
ing down your cheeks. And that seems to be as
likely an explanation as any could be, but I don't
think there's any alteration to peripheral at all.
CC Okay. How about any differential temperatures

over the body, like cold feet when you're sleeping?
222 23 21 08 Sl°T Well, my feet are right down by the ventilator

and I noticed I got cold this morning but so did
the spacecraft. So I don't notice any unusual
f TAG Tape 222-12/T-171
Page 3 of h/l177
temperature differential, the one - the ones which

you would be expected to see or feel and compa-
rable to the ones you feel on the ground. So if
you're talking about any circulation variation, I
don't notice any.
CC Okay.
CDR Story, CDR. I've tried all of the things I heard

you mention to 0wen to do to get comm, and it's
Just dead as a doornail coming up.
CC Okay, A1. And - and also you're dropping out

transmitting down on VHF. Standby i.
CDR Okay, maybe the reason I'm dropping out is I've

tried several different antennas; well, I've tried
the same one several times, I should say.
222 23 22 12 CC Okay, as I had told Owen, tomorrow we're going to

set up where we are transmitting on VHF.
CDR That ought to be interesting.
CC Okay, would you like a call set up for tomorrow?

And - and you'll be on S2-band and we'll be on VHF.
CDR Well, I've got faith that somebody can work it

out. If we can't hit this station, maybe we can
hit the next one. Maybe it'd be the station not
able to key through it or something. I have faith
that Houston COMM TECH will eventually do it.
PLT Story, do you want any more word on EREP?
CC Just one thing. Did you load the sIgOA?
PLT Yes, sir.
PLT One other thing I took the liberty of doing on

192 was to continue clockwise on the focus, and
it - it takes a full turn and a half to get it
from its present position where you can run it to
the forward stop. And I took a couple of readings
TAG Tape 222-12/T-171
Page 4 of 4/1178
i
on the way to the forward stop and they were all

lower than the one where we'd been sitting at.
So the only other thing that entered my mind is
that perhaps, if we had a - a pattern that sort
of got diffraction range [?] of several outer lobes
or something like that, and they were sitting on
one of them, and maybe the thing to do would to
be to make a square search.
CC Okay, copy that, Jack, is - is A1 right there?
PLT I think - yes, he's here, go ahead.
22 23 25 44 CC Okay, A. - Owen's got the next pass at Guam;

that's 00:00, and - and Sue has got an appointment
at quarter of eight. Our - our next pass is at
Vanguard and that's at 07:40 local time here.
CDR Let's - let's Just go ahead and try tomorrow night

on S-band like you said.
CC Okay, we'll do it for sure and for 0wen, we're

going to give him the family comm on S-band. And
it's very unlikely we'll need to; if whave to,
we'll just break in, but we're going give him the
S-band at - over Guam at 00:00.
CDR That's a good idea, because it's sure good talk-

ing this way and that VHF you can't hardly under-
stand anybody. Yes, that would be great.
222 23 26 34 CC Okay. We're going LOS and Owen's family comm at

that time on S-hand.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 223-01/T-172
Time: 223:00:30 to 223:02:00
Page i of 7 /1179
223 00 40 27 CC Skylab, AOS Vanguard for i0 minutes.
PLT Hello, Story.
CC Hello.
CC Who's doing the - -
PLT Story, wanted to give you-
CC Go ahead.
PLT Yes, let me give you a few words on the instant

breakfast. I was Just working on one. Turns out
that the way that stuff is put into the container,
that it apparently doesn't all reconstitute good
or something. And most of the ingredients stick
to the bottom of the container, and I think
that when you try to empty one out, you don't
get the full benefit of all the minerals and
everything that's in there. So you might have
somebody on the ground look into that and find
out how much you're missing by not being able
to get it all out.
223 00 hl 33 CC Okay. Who's doing the magic with the star

tracker up there?
CDR Nobody's in the ATM. What magic?
CC The last thing we called up was to park it and

turn the power off, and the last pass we went
over where Owen was on S-band, we see that it
was locked on to the correct star.
CC Somebody had to drive it to a star and lock it on.
PLT Well, I know three of us who Just denied it. Now,

I haven't asked Arabella yet, but that's about
the last resort.
223 00 42 38 CC Could you verify that you did - did park the star
tracker, CDR?
TAG Tape 223-01/T-172
Page 2 of 7/1180
i
CC And Skylab, we are also looking for the evening

status report this psss.
CDR Just a second, Story, I'm parking the star

tracker again.
223 00 4h 19 CDR Okay. 4200 and minus 1800 and power OFF. And
I'll get the report.
CC Okay. Looks good.
223 00 45 30 CDR Okay, Story. Here we go. 094, 155 187; 4847,
8039, 5683; 6.254, 6.259, 6.255; 5.988, 5.990,
5.989; 6.953, 6.951, 6.951; 0, CDR hasn't done it
yet, he'll do it later tonight, SPT, 2/22/3000;
A, 60 reps;B, 60 reps - 40 reps, excuse me; PLT,
2/30/6360, 1/05/0604; no medication; sleep: 6-I/2/G,
6-I/2/G .... CDR, four salt packs and one of my
grape - I was supposed to have a lemonade and it
said lemonade on it but when I drank it, it was
grapefruit Juice, I'm pretty sure. So grapefruit
juice for a lemonade. SPT, three salt packs,
everything else nominal, PLT, eight salt packs
plus two apple drinks. Photo Log: I'll read it,
16-millimeter, none; 35: CX28, 30; 70-millimeter,
CXll, ll6; EREP, no change; drawer A configuration,
no change. Okay. Flight Plan looks good for
tomorrow. Nothing new there. Shopping list
accomplishments, we worked on them all day long.
Okay, we'll read you - we think you probably know
about them. Let me get the list. The shopping
list - list. Okay. We did - we did three ATM
passes; A - SO19, we did three passes; ED32 with
TV-58, we did not do S063-H we didn't get to;
ETC load, Owen's going to do tonight. IMSS
checklist, Owen got through for hemoglobin and
for specific gravity. So we got a lot of those
checklist things done. Inoperable equipment,
nothing new. Unscheduled stowage change, seven
apple drinks from E-548 to wardroom where we'll
drink them. Three peaches moved to the wardroom
out of 550 where we'll eat them. And strawberries -
moved some strawberry drinks moved from 550, two
of them and a couple from other places, and I'll
give you that data later. And Owen says that he
doesn't think he's got an ETC load pad available,
but he wants to load the ETC.
f TAG Tape 223-01/T-172
Page 3 of 7/1181
t
223 00 49 04 CC Okay. We'll work on that.
CDR Okay. He'll probably need it tomorrow morning

early. We'll - we'll need the pad tonight so we
have the ETC tomorrow. Let me give you Jack's
additional exercise. 325 Mark I, 50 A, 20 B,
20 D, and 20 backbends.
223 00 49 43 CC We need the first BMMD reading on the SPT and

we're 30 seconds to LOS. Your reed conference will
be coming up over Canaries in l0 minutes.
CDR 5.989.
CC And also, A1, we need the MPC INHIBITED.
223 00 50 24 CC And if you're still with me, A1, we'd like an

identification on that lemonade.
223 01 06 30 CC Skylab, the CAP COMM'S with you for 8 minutes.
SPT Roger, Story.
CC And Owen, the start - the ETC pad is on your

details today.
SPT Okay, fine. I'll look for it there. I Just did -

forgotten where it was, I guess.
CC And on the shopping list on step 5, it gives you

the details for loading the spare.
SPT Hum. Load them both, huh?
CC Yes, we didn't do that in training, but I guess

we can do it now.
SPT (Laughter) Loading the spare is no different

from loading the prime. I Just hadn't noticed it
there on that shopping list.
223 01 07 18 CC Roger. While I got you 0wen, did you get to see
any noctilucent clouds and run the S063 on them?
SPT I have not have - not had a chance to do that, so

it's still an item.
TAG Tape 223-01/T-172
Page 4 of 7/1182
l
CC Okay.
SPT Fortunately, that list indicates there's about a

lh-day interval there, isn't there? So I'll have
some opporttmities but I didn't have a chance today.
CC CDR, Houston.
SPT He can hear - hear you -
CC Okay. We're wondering if he's using the - the

recent change to the condensate holding tank
dump. That 's change 006. It 's a new procedure,
and it dumps the holding tank into the waste tank.
Is he using that procedure?
CDR Yes, that's the one I'm using but to be honest

with you, I can't see a lot of difference between
that procedure and the one that was previously
in the book, except for the fact that you dis-
connected panel 393, I think it's 393. All the
rest looks pretty much the same. Is there a subtle
difference I've missed?
CC I'm getting an answer. And while we're getting

you an answer on that A1, on the star tracker there,
when we passed over Vanguard, I requested you to
park it and turn the power off. And when we came
back around to Guam, it had automatically locked
on to the proper star. And understand you didn't
touch it?
223 01 09 26 CDR We've talked about that.. I think Owen and I were
up at the panel at that time looking at the Sun.
And I'm not sure we didn't get distracted and fail
to park it. I may have failed to park it. I went
up there and parked it _mmediately thereafter.
I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
I think I Just failed to - to park it.
CC Okay.
CDR By the way, we're in the process of dumping

right now - that's the new procedure.
CC Okay. The new one doesn't involve 393 at all.

It Just dis - disconnects the WMC water dump line
from the sterilization fitting.
TAG Tape 223-01/T-172
Page 5 of 7/1183
CDR Let me get it, I think it does. Hold on.
221 01 12 20 CDR What's the message number, Story?
CC It's 1232A-1 and it's SWS Systems Checklist change

number 006.
CDR Okay. I'll - Just hold on a second.
CC And it's page 9-57.
221 01 12 40 CDR Okay. Here it is. And let me Just read it. See
if I've got it right. Housekeeping 60T Dump heaters
on. That's done. Dump heater light on, left
15 minutes. Connect condensate holding tank dump
hose to holding tank condensate outlet. That's
done. And to the connectors on the floor, ster-
ilization fitting, and all that other. Connect
sterilzation fitting to portable tank and all that
other. That's done. Now, it says dump heater
H20 light on. Verify. Water dump valve open,
when condensate DELTA-P indicates h psi, 1 hour

dump valve closed. Dump heaters off and condensate
closed. I'm doing it except for one thing. I've
been disconnecting the 393 - 393. So the thing
to do must be just to leave it connected there.
Everything else is done exactly the same.
CC That's - that's exactly right, A1. You answered

the question for us. We were seeing the little
tank go down a lot more rapidly than we expected.
223 01 13 h0 CDR Okeydokey. Let me go do that now. I've Just

got an - I had an error. What I did was make up
from this and the one in the book, a little check-
list of my own so I wouldn't leave anything on.
And apparently I wrote in a a mistake. So I'll
correct mine and go do it.
223 01 13 5h CC Yes. We were Just wondering what was going on.

We're going LOS here in about 15 seconds. We'll
see you over Guam in 25 minutes at 01:40.
CDR Okay.
TAG Tape 223-01/T-172
Page 6 of 7/1184
223 01 40 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you through Guam for

4 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story. How do the boys in the back room

like the way the ATM is running? I'm kind of
worried that 56 is still with us. It's been
in operate an awful long time on this PATROL, LONG.
CC We 're looking.
PLT It's working, I Just saw her Jump to FILTER 6.
CC Okay. And before you leave the panel, we'll need

the video switch in ATM MON i.
223 01 41 58 PLT I Just did it.
PLT I notice that little timer on S054 timed out

about 5 to i0 seconds before the fixture jumped.
CC Okay, I'll get you the - an answer, and the rest

of the panel out. So looks good, Jack.
223 01 44 49 CC Skylab, we're going LOS in about 20 seconds. We'll

see you over Honeysuckle at 1:49. And we noted
your observations, Jack. And we can't see any-
thing funny up there.
PLT Okay. I think its Just a matter of timer coming

off early. We'll Just watch it.
223 01 45 13 CC Okay.
223 Ol 49 52 CC Skylab; AOS Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
PLT Okay.
223 01 52 51 PLT Hey, Story, ask the 56 guys if they're hung up on

ACTIVE i, LONG. It's supposed to take 15 pictures.
Looks like it's taking 17. Ask them if they want
me to terminate - go on?
CC Okay, copy.
_ TAG Tape 223-01/T-172
Page 7 of 7/1185
PLT Okay, it says READY now. I guess my building

block is wrong, must be 18 frames it's supposed
to take instead of 15.
CC Okay, Jack.
PLT Somebody ought to check that, though, so we can

change our little building block.
223 01 54 l0 CC And, Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see

you over Canaries in 44 minutes at 02:38.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 223-02/T-173
_ Time: 223:02:00 to 223:10:44
Page 1 of 4 /1187
223 02 39 02 CC Skylab, we're AOS Canaries and Madrid for

13 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape recorders
over Madrid at 02:44.
CDR Story, I'm kind of wondering. How long is this

cabin purge going to go on where we're dumping
through the wardroom table to configure the
atmosphere for 509?
CC We'll let you know.
CDR Okay. I've got the exercises for the evening, if

you're ready to copy.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, back to the CDR: 2/31/4504, Mark i,

12 minutes, 58; 20 B, 20 C, 20 D, and i0 sit ups.
Now I don't know - I think you've already had the
SPT and the PLT, didn't you?
CC Yes. We got the SPT and PLT.
CDR 0keydoke. That's it.
CC And, A1, no need to acknowledge, but the cabin

purge will go on at least into tomorrow and maybe
2 days.
CDR Okay. Wasn't worried about it, just wanted to

have a feeling so that - we wouldn't go to sleep
and really not know that we should've turned it
off. I won't be worried about it then.
CC Is it making any noise?
CDR No, it's an awful small purge, Story. I've

noticed when I vent the waste tank, I mean the
holding tank, that I can hear it. But the one
going on out there, has a couple of screens -
extra screens in it, I guess. And the line may
be so small, you just can't hear it.
TAG Tape 223-02/T-173
Page 2 of 4/1188
CC That's a good observation. And it's true that

the cabin regs aren't even fully open yet.
223 02 42 16 CDR I finally figured out why I was doing that waste,
I mean that holding tank dump wrong. Because I
did it right a couple of times. What happened,
I think, was on EVA day, I had - we had to dump
it before the EVA, and we didn't dump it that way.
We dumped it with it connected at 39 - disconnected
at 390. And I think I must have set a bit in
my head that said, "Okay, that's the way we're
doing it." When I knew, I really knew that that
was just a one time affair when I thought about
it. When I wasn't thinking about it, I thought
that was the way to do it. So it kind of made
sense. I couldn't figure out why it changed back
the old way.
223 02 42 56 CC It looks good. And we're amazed you're doing as

well as you are considering how many changes
we've had. And for your information, Skylab,
on the last LOS, we did have a Z-axis integral
test failure and we were controlling on Z-2 when
we came up on AOS. And we'll be commanding back
to Z-2 and Z-3.
PLT That's the way the panel looks.
CC And, Skylab, we're showing the teleprinter paper

is low down here, and we've still got your detail
pad to go up for tomorrow, including EREP, ATM
snd the like. And we'd like you to change the
paper.
CDR Roger.
CC Yes, get it - after we go LOS here.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Yes, go ahead, Story.
CC Jack, your flight data file is right on that

ACT l, LONG in S056. It should take up 15 frames.
.... TAG Tape 223-02/T-173
Page 3 of h/i189
PLT Okay. I recorded it at cotmtdown, as I thought,

from 4961 to 4h43. And I might have read it wrong.
I'll watch it next time. I probably copied the
wrong numhe_.
CC Okay, and we're showing the H-alpha 1 and

H-alpha 2 doors still open. They need to be
closed. And you need to go to the STORAGE
position after you shut the doors.
PLT Yes, you're right. I think I overlooked those

two. Thank you.
CC And no need to acknowledge, but we will retrieve

the data and see how many frames were used. And
we're seeing the doors close.
CDR Story, I hope those flight planners are working

on something to help this prediction of 80 percent
by 24 days to something better than that.
CC You've got a full day tomorrow.
CDR That's true. By the way, I think we ought to -

T_Iking with Jack, and I think maybe what we
ought to do is cut our EREP time back - I think
they've got it an hour and a half right now.
I think that maybe we ought to run it back to
about an hour and 15 minutes. We'll run it that
way a couple of times and see how we do it. And
if we do okay, we'll shoot it back to - or there
isn't any couple of times, is there? Tomorrow's
the last for a while, isn't it?
CDR No, I mean there's some - there's some the next

day, so I think it'll probably be a good deal to
make it an hour and 15 minutes. We'll give it a
try tomorrow and may cut it back again.
223 02 48 27 CC Okay.
TAG Tape 223-02/T-173
Page h of h/ll90
223 02 50 h6 CC Skylab, we're a minute until LOS. This is our

last call for the night. Looking all over your
systems, they're all looking good.
CDR Thank you, Story. Enjoyed working with you today.

See you tomorrow.
CC Yes, sir.
CDR I like your technique of saying, "No answer

required," on some of these statements; other-
wise, we're constantly singing over the squawk
box.
223 02 51 27 CC I can see you floating down the tunnel while

I'm making the call.
END OF TAPE
r Time: 223:10:_4 to 223:12:00
Page 1 of h/llgl
223 i0 59 5h CC Skylab, this is Houston. Your bleary-eyed

wake-up crew is wishing you a good morning.
You're over Ascension, and we'll be with you for
the next 7 minutes.
CDR Good morning, Karl. Glad to hear from you.
223 ll 00 15 CC Good to be with you guys. We've Just been

watching for the last hour or so, some very
nice TV pictures of Arabella and also of you
guys doing aerobatics. Looks like great fun.
223 ii 00 28 SPT I wasn't sure how those TV things would come

out. I guess the handheld was not too diseon-
figurated.
CC The photos came through Just beautiful. The

sound was a little weak, but your voice did
come through.
SPT Yes, that could be cut in or out as desired,

probably, but I was a little concerned about
the steadiness of the handheld stuff sort of
out in the middle of the dome.
CC Right. Might be a good idea to hold it a

little closer to the mouth next time. The only
spacecraft event worth mentioning that happened
last night was some problems with the Z-2 gyro.
We had redundancy management failure on the last
three dumps, and it appears that we've had a
sudden shift in the scale factor on that gyro.
Corrective action is in work down here.
PLT Is that Z-2 or Z-37
CC It's the Z-2. They say to expect a redundancy

management failure on that one on every dump
maneuver.
223 ll 06 29 CC Skylab, we have LOS in 1 minute. See you over

Carnarvon at 11:33.
TAG Tape 223-03/T-174
Time: 223:10:44 to 223:12:00
Page 2 of 4/1192
CDR Okay. We had three good runs of your experi-

ment yesterday, Karl.
CC Hey, I want to thank you guys, and especially

Jack, for fine work on SO19. I was sure pleased
to get ahead of the game a little bit.
CDR Okay, and we're going to keep working on it.
CC Okay; thank you. I take it the pads were about

the right length. They didn't have any problem
finishing them?
CDR Jack is upstairs getting the pads. I'll check

the answer. I missed the last 120 unwinding;
never got to it. But I think he got all of
them over here.
223 ll 07 26 CC Great.
223 ll 33 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Standing by for

7minutes.
SPT Hey, Karl, how many exposures do you have in

your magazine?
CC That's for S019?
SPT Yes, sir.
CC I haven't calculated it. I'll have to get back

to you on that.
SPT Okay, I think we're setting up around 38 and 39

on serial 5.
CC Roughly speaking, I would have said that we

should have used about 40. So that's very
close to being right.
CC Jack, we have a voice update to the EREP 7 C & D

pad when you have a moment to copy it.
CDR Houston, are you still there?
CC Roger. We're still with you for another

3minutes
TAG Tape 223-03/T-174
Time: 223:10:44 to 223:12:00
Page 3 of h/i193
CDR Let me talk about some of this housekeeping for

a minute and maybe aid the flight planners, and
also you might pass it back to Doc Hutchinson.
We've noticed that many of the housekeeping
tasks are Just set up, most of which - almost
all of which were thought of preflight, really
aren't cleaning the things that are dirty. Some
are and some aren't. Let me kind of glance at
the list here and maybe mention some.
CDR This housekeeping 3C is a good one. We end up

having to clean those fans much more frequently
than even the housekeeping pad calls for. So
I would suggest housekeeping 3C be sent up every
other day.
CC Okay; we copy.
223 ii 39 23 CDR 3D is about on every week or once every 2 weeks.

Its vacuum cleaner replacement is not too - too
good. Moisture removal, 6B, dry chiller, that
ought to be about a once a week thing. And it
is. Biocide wipe disinfecting - the number 7 B
- I would suggest 7B about once every 2 weeks.
Most of the things you clean there with the ex-
ception of the fecal collector seat, don't really
need it. I would take the fecal collector seat
and move it over to the one - and we may get to
it before we run out, which is some house clean-
ing and biociding the trash area where we put
the food, where we put those cans. That's prob-
ably the dirtiest area here, yet we get the
fewest calls up to clean. So I don't know the
number on it, but the toilet seat and the little
trash area ought to get cleaning and biociding
about twice a week.
223 ii 40 28 CC Okay, we're copying all of that.
223 ii 40 31 CDR Housekeeping 14B, which is trash bag doors, clean

food chiller, clean urine drawers, and clean MA
hose, I'd take - I'd keep that and Just remove
the part about the chiller because we'll be
cleaning that out - drying it on a weekly basis.
That's about all you need, and leave 14B3 and B4.
You need to clean the hose, and you need to
clean the urine drawers.
TAG Tape 223-03/T-174
Time: 223:10:4h to 223:12:00
Page _ of h/ll9h
223 ii 4i 06 CC 0 - -
CDR And the moisture remov - - the moisture removal,

14C, I'd Just cut that one out all together.
There's no water under the table. And drying
the towel holders, they're not ever wet anyhow,
and then once every couple of weeks, we wash
them. So that lhC ought to be canned completely
because it's not productive.
CC Okay, A1. You're coming through loud and clear.

And we have - now have 15 seconds to LOS, and
we'll see you again at 57 over Hawaii.
CDR 0keydoke. I think that's about it. I'll glance

on here. Those - those are the ones that we do
a lot. And I'd recommend that they re - re-
schedule them and rename them for Jerry Carr's
book so that he ends up doing the one, partic-
ularly, over here where we - and I didn't -
I never did see it - the one where we clean
where we put our food after every meal.
223 Ii hl 56 CC Okay. We appreciate the good info.
223 ll 56 59 CC Skylab - Skylab, this is Houston for the next

h minutes.
223 12 00 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We had a small glitch

in the down-link voice. We have LOS in about
1 minute, and we'll see you again at 12:09.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 223-04/T-175
Time: 223:12:01 to 223:13:30
Page 1 of 6/1195
223 12 09 18 CC Skylab, Houston, standing by for 5 minutes.
CDR And we Just got an intermittent SIEVE OUT PPCO 2

HIGH light, Houston. l'm looking at SIEVE A
and it says, PPC0 2 IN5; and OUT, 5.
CC Roger.
223 12 13 08 CC Skylab, Houston. A quick comment on the PPCO2

outlet sensor. It's been taking a little
Jump when the MOL SIEVE *** are transfering.
And if there's a - It's nothing of any great
concern, but if it bothers - it bothers you to-
day, we'll think about turning off the CAUTION
and WARNING.
CDR Okay, we'll see how it does for a while.
CC Okay. And we've got 1 minute to LOS, and we'll

be with you again in about 2 minutes from now.
CDR Where are we over the ground right now?
223 12 13 50 CC You're Just going out of range from Goldstone

and you'll be over - you'll be over MILA in
another 2 minutes. You're somewhere over sou-
thern Canada, a little north of Minnesota.
223 12 16 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We'll be with you for

the next 8 minutes and we will be dumping the
recorders over Bermuda commencing about 1 minute
from now at 12:17.
CC And, Skylab, we have two pad changes for EREP.

One is for the Pilot on the 07 C & D pad, one
is for the CDR on the 07 VTS pad. Let me know
when you have a moment to copy.
PLT Go ahead with Al's; I'm looking mine up, Karl.
CC Okay, AI, this is on the 07 VTS pad on site 145.

That three sets of numbers should be revised as
follows: we had the wrong coordinates in the
data base. Site 145; 2607, 451, R-O30. Second
TAG Tape 223-04/T-175
Page 2 of 6/1196
line; 2639, 298, R-032. Third line; 2716,

three balls, R-028. And for site 270 also a
correction and also for site 270 and the special
pins it says: subtract 4 seconds from the 45-
degree time. That's all for that one.
PLT Was the last one for 270, only?
223 12 18 20 CC It - it says for - for site 270 and the special

pins.
CDR Okay, in other words 270, I subtract 4 seconds

from that and make it 2853. And in all the
special pins I subtract from- 4 seconds from
the h5-degree time and everything is okay?
CC Owen, I have a couple of quick bits of informa-

tion on ATM if you have a moment to listen.
SPT Okay, I 'm listening.
CC Righto. A - an update on - on activity during

the night, regions 83 and 85 have been decaying
and region 86 has had minor plage fluctuations
and filament activity. And there have been
minor prominence activity at southeast i0;
that's at a Theta or a position angle of about
260.
SPT Okay, have we got something coming up over the

limb there on the eastern limb?
CC Okay, great and also--
SPT No, I'm asking - -
CC Say Again.
SPT I'm asking the question. Do we have something

coming over the limb in that new active region
on the east limb?
TAG Tape 22B-O4/T-175
Page 3 of 6 /1197
223 12 20 42 CC The answer to that is negative. There doesn't

seem to be anything major connected with this
prominence. All we do is observe a minor prom-
inence, a bit - a bit of minor prominence ac
tivity over in that particular section.
SPT Okay.
CC Also regarding yesterday's confusion about

extra degrating counts for S055. Your analysis
was correct. We had a mirror mode and a grating
mode going simultaneously as a result of inadver-
tent overlap of crew and ground command.
SPT Okay. I guess it doesn't hurt anything but we

got to work to try to avoid that when we can.
CC We'll do our best to avoid that in the future.

And that's all for ATM at the moment.
223 12 21 52 CC And, Jack, when we have a moment, I still have

the - the update to the 07 C&D pad.
SPT You know, Karl, these little UV detectors that

we have stashed around the workshop for fire
detection, l've been meaning to ask for a week
or so now, what is it that makes those things
flash fairly frequently? Just a little bright
flash comes out of the light detection. You got
an expert around on those things, why you might
Just keep me informed - educate me on this point.
CC Okay; stand by and we'll see what info we can

get on that one.
PLT Okay, Karl, what pad is that on, please?
CC This is on the 07 C&D pad.
PLT Well, I got a thing about 07 on it. I got it,

go ahead.
CC Okay, stand by a couple of seconds for a hand-

over, here.
223 12 23 15 CC Okay, here we go, 07 C&D pad. First correction

is on the Slg0 READY, OUT time which is at 34:46.
That shouldbe correctedto 34:50,34:50.
TAG Tape 223-04/T-175
Page 4 of 6/1198
PLT Got it.
CC Next, for the fourth - for the Earth limb, we

miscalculated tape usage there and we'd like to
change. Change EREP START time which was 15:54:20,
we would like to change that to 15:57:00.
PLT Got it.
CC And the following two lines should be deleted:

That's VTS, AUTO CAL; and READY, on, for S191.
PLT Okay.
CC Third and last correction; add a postremark.

"Leave EREP coolant valve in FLOW until tape
reload." That's for cooling off the recorder
between passes, and the time with that is
20 :00 Zulu.
223 12 24 36 CC That's the time of the taper reload.
PLT Okay, I got that I ought to leave the - the

coolant valve in FLOW until the tape recorder
changeout is complete - the tape recorder reload
and that's at 20:00.
PLT Okay, thank you, Karl.
CC Sure thing.
CREW (Music)
CC Skylab, we've got -
223 12 27 59 CC Skylab, we've got 40 seconds to LOS. We'll see

you again at 12:37 and we're still working on
the winking fire sensors, Owen. Still no good
answer.
223 12 37 39 CC Skylab, Houston standing by for 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston standing by for 6 minutes.
CC Skylab, I've got a point of information on a

command that's been sent up recently. In
P TAG Tape 223-0_/Tl175
Page 5 of 6/I199
connection with the suspected leak in the primary

AM coolant loop, we've enabled the group 2 auto
switchover in order to allow the primary loop to
shut down if necessary.
CDR Okay, thank you, Karl.
PLT I take it that nothing is running in the secondary

at the present time. Is that right?
CC The - the secondary loop is up and on, running

normal.
PLT All right.
PLT Karl, is anybody making a prediction as to when

the primary is going to be shutting itself down?
CC We have some thoughts down here that it may be a

couple of weeks, maybe roughly mission day 30, if
the leak is confirmed and if it continues at the
present rate.
PLT Okay, and I take it that the secondary is still in

good shape?
CC Skylah, we'd like to have you keep off the DAS.

We're doing a drift update on the gyros.
223 12 _2 51 CC Skylab, the DAS is yours. Thank you.
223 12 43 _3 CC Skylab, we have 50 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over Carnarvon at 13:07.
223 13 08 O0 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for l0 minutes.
PLT Hey, Karl, I've got a PAO request.
CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead.
PLT Roger. Yesterday was one of my favorite uncle's

birthday and I Just wanted him to know that I hope
he had a happy one. He's had a lot of them and
I hope he has a bunch more. His name is Herman
Brandt, B-r-a-n-d-t. He lives in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania.
TAG Tape 223-0_/T-175
Page 6 of 611200
CC Roger; we copy.

We'll be coming up on Guam at 21.
223 13 20 59 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for l0 minutes.
PLT Hello again, Hank. Long time no talk.
CC Right. Back with you again. How are things going?
223 13 21 l0 PLT Very well.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 223-05/T-176
Time: 223:13:30 to 223:15:00
_ Page 1 of 6/1201
223 13 30 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from LOS,

Goldstone at 47.
223 13 46 26 CC Skylab, Houston, stateside for 17 minutes.
SPT Roger. I'll give you your TV down-link at the

end of Chip A on building block i. And I also
noticed that the flight planners have not yet
moved 82B from Chip A to Chip B on the ATM
schedule. It does show 82B omitted and I presume
that really should be for chip B and - whereas
they've got it shown in Chip A. It's Just a detail
that they'll catch up on, I'm sure. And did you
have any real-time TV?
CC Roger, Owen. We'll be set up at Texas, and that's

coming up about 5 minutes from now.
SPT Okay. Well, I may - I'll Just delay my roll from

between chip A and Chip B until you're real time
and I can give you white light coronagraph in roll,
in real time then.
223 13 47 18 CC Okay. And at Texas we'll be dumping data recorder

too.
SPT Okay, as soon as you've got it, let me know, be-

cause I'll be through with chip A and anxious to
go.
CC Roger. Another thing _e'.re going to want you to

do too, Owen. When we get on Texas, we want you
to bring up the star tracker on Canopus. And
that'll be at about 13:52 GMT. And then we're going
to update the Nu Z and have you park it and I'll
give you the angles then.
SPT Okay.
CC This is to get ready for the EREP.
SPT Sounds fine.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. For info, we're going to

inhibit momentum dump.
TAG Tape 223-05/T-176
Page 2 of 6/1202
CDR How are you doing this morning, Hank?
CC Real good. How about yourself?
CDR Good. Got a request - that's this. We need to

know from the flight planners if the housekeeping
that they're doing tomorrow is the housekeeping
that is on our little schedule for tomorrow. By
our little schedule, I mean our Flight Plan over-
view that they gave us prior to flight.
CC Okay, we'll check that.
223 13 49 05 CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, PLT, the cabin

pressure has decreased a little faster than we had
anticipated and we'd like to terminate the cabin
purge in preparation for the M509. That would
be on panel 706 to - to close the water dump and
then on panel 700 get the heater on.
223 13 49 35 CDR Okay, that's complete.
CC Thank you, sir. That was fast.
CC SPT, Houston. Our data shows that the S055 MAIN

HIGH VOLTAGE is not in OVERRIDE and we'd like to
get it there, please.
223 13 50 39 SPT Okay, the switch is in OVERRIDE. It's been there

ever since I powered up from uninhibit.
CC Roger; copy.
223 13 51 l0 CC And, SPT; Houston. We're getting live TV now.
SPT Okay, fine. I'll go from A to B. Chip A to B.
PLT Hank, for the EREP world, where it calls us to

enable and disenable the _4C, I presume that's
by yanking the number 1 *** breaker in the S190
package. Is that affirmative?
CC Stand by. I'll get an answer on that.
CC Pretty sure that's it, but let me check it.

TAG Tape 223-05/T-176
r Page 3 of 6/1203
223 13 52 26 CC That's correct, Jack; pl_]l the circuit breaker.
PLT Okay, and one other thing. I Just sampled the

water and - at the wardroom table and, before
chilling the sample, the reading was about 2.5
to 3.0, in that neighborhood. And after chilling,
it made it a little more clear I guess, down
around 2.5 somewhere but definitely more than 2,
so, I don't - according to my procedure, have to
put more iodine in it at this point.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC SPT, Houston. Our telemetry is showing that the

high voltage is off on all of the detectors and
we'd like for you to ENABLE the detectors, on S055.
SPT You got a good point there. That's what I forgot.
223 13 54 ll SPT Okay, that's the cycle through - through the full
display here and I hope that's adequate.
CC SPT, Houston. When you get a break there, we'd

like to get you to turn the star tracker on and
acquire Canopus.
SPT Okay.
223 13 56 32 SPT Okay, at Canopus.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. In regard to tomorrow's - tomorrow's

Flight Plan, the housekeeping as - is as the
premission plan you have on board, the overview.
And the only addition being the condensate dump.
CC And, CDR; Houston. One more update to that

housekeeping. We are not going to do, on house-
keeping 3 Charlie, -2 and-3, that's the vacuum
cleaning of the circulation A, and circulation fans,
and 0WS heat exchanger fans inlet screens.
223 13 59 23 CC SPT, Houston. We've enabled Nu Z update and we'd

like for you to park the STAR TRACKER now
at OUTER, minus 4200; INNER, minus 1800. And
we'd like for you to leave the POWER, ON.
TAG Tape 223-05/T-176
Page 4 of 611204
223 lh 01 43 CC SPT, Houston. Did you copy the angles I read up?
SPT Negative. We must have dropped out there for a

minute. I've got your star tracker locked up if
that's - if those are the angles you're ts]king
about.
CC Okay, well - no, we've got Nu z update enabled

and we'd like for you to - to close the shutter
and - with the switch, and park it at OUTER,
minus 4200; INNER GIMBAL, minus 1800. And we
want to leave the POWER, ON.
SPT 0k_y. That's OUTER, minus 4200; IN_EH - INNER

minus 8200 [sic]; manually close the shutter and
leave the POWER, ON.
SPT Okay, and are you still - Yesterday, it had been

plus 4200, so I guess you are reversing that
outer gimbal angle. That right?
223 14 02 44 CC That's affirmative. We reversed it.
SPT Okay. And are you still gettin_ any ATM TV

down-link ?
CC Say again, 0wen.
SPT Are you still getting the ATM TV down-link?
CC That 's negative.
SPT Okay, fine. I'll not worry about that anymore.

And Just wanted to make a comment to your ATM
science room that they're SAP conmuents are
acknowledged and I appreciate it.
CC Roger; we copy. And we're about 20 seconds from

LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 47. And
if there - as we go over the hill like to verify
that - that you did get the right angles. That's
minus 4200 and minus 1800.
SPT That's right, OUTER and INNER, in that order.

And I'll go park it now.
223 14 03 42 CC Roger, sir.

TAG Tape 223-05/T-176
F Page 5 of 6/1205
223 14 h6 l0 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon, for 6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon; 6 minutes.
CDR Okay. How do_you read us, Houston?
CC Okay. Reading you loud and clear now, A1.
CDR Okay, we Just went ov VOX for EREP.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. Just as a reminder, in case you

hadn't done it, A1; you had some preflight notes
in your site book in reference to site 145.
CDR IMC track until 5 degrees and then go up and get

that dry lake?
223 14 47 54 CC That's affirmative.
CDR Glad you reminded me, though. I was thinking

about it. Looks like the weather's pretty good
there. I Just hope this IMC works this morning.
That'll sure help.
CDR And how does our maneuver time look? Been loaded?
CC Stand by.
223 lh 50 06 CDR Okay, Z-LV selected. We're underway.
CC Copy.
CDR Maneuver time must have been okay there. We didn't

find mib. Next question would be, I asked earlier
this morning about which housekeeping items were
going to be on tomorrow's list and whether they
were the same as on our onboard Flight Plan and
never got an answer.
TAG Tape 223-05/T-176
Page 6 of 6/1206
CC I gave - I gave the answer up shortly thereafter,

A1. Apparently we must have had a co_mproblem
or something. We're doing the same housekeeping
that was on the overview, with the addition of
the condensate dump. And also, we're deleting
step 2 and 3 on the housekeeping 3 Charlie.
CDR Sounds good. And we've already got our house-

keeping done for tomorrow so tell them to stick
some experiments in there.
CC Roger.
223 14 51 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds from

LOS; Guam at 01.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
Time: 223:15:00 to 223:16:30
Page 1 of 17 /1207
223 15 00 _0 SPT A couple of modified item 5's on active region

86 and active region 85. I noticed from the pad,
for the rest of the day, that we spend most of
our time on JOP 2C, so I didn't want to look at
prominences - rather - not 2C, it's up at 4,
J0P 4. So I wanted to take a quick glance at
the active regions sometime during the day. So
those two item 5's or modified versions there-
of, are on active regions 85 and 86. No other
special comments on the last ATM pass. SPT out.
223 15 01 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 4 minutes.
CDR Want to verify one thing, if I can, on the EREP

pad, Hank. Down under "R_marks," it indicates -
It' s not under "Remarks ;" it 's just before "R_m_ks."
It says, "Data push button at times listed." I
don't think it means at the times listed. I think
it means when I finally get the reticle below the
horizon and keep it held there as long as l'm track-
ing. Whenever I start to scan back and do the next
sequence, then I should release the data putbut-
ton - pushbutton. That's kind of what I th_nk
they want. Would you verify that?
CC Okay.
CDR That way they'll know when the good data is as

opposed to anything else.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you'll go ahead and enter your

Z-LV offsets, we will up-link the strip correction
for the Z-2 gyro.
CDR Okay. Thank you.
CC And, SPT, Just as we got AOS, it appeared that you

were putting something on a recorder in regard to
the - your last ATM pass. And we were getting it
down-linked here.
223 15 03 43 CDR And we're a little bit concerned about entering

that thing late, that it may have restarted our
1B-minute maneuver or whatever minute maueuver
time we had going.
TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
Page 2 of 17 /1208
CC Stand by.
CDR Restarted our 33-minute maneuver time.
223 15 05 i0 CDR Houston, do you think it's possible that we could

recompute the DELTA-P from now until we need to be
there and do it again and then arrive there at
the right time?
CDR Because we had the right ray; I just slowed it

down. I need to speed it back up again.
CC We think that's right, AI. And we've got about

5 seconds until LOS. We'll be coming up on
Goldstone at 23.
PLT Space Pa - Okay, space fans, this is the PLT, on

channel A. Stand by - i.
223 15 06 13 CC We need an 18-minute maneuver time and the octal

for that is 50022, Skylab.
SPT Okay, say them again, Hank.
CC Roger. Octal 50022, 18-minute maneuver.
CDR Okay, we got that. Now what should we do about the

fine maneuver? Should we put it in again, or
what ?
223 15 06 33 CC Negative. Leave it alone.
223 15 22 57 CDR When do you start, Jack?
PLT At 25, A1; 3 - 2 more minutes. 14 to go.
CDR Should have been - I should have put in - makes

it 18 minutes, I should have immediately put in
16.
PLT Let's see; we're going to have the altimeter and

the scat running.
SPT It's going to be close, A1.
CDR Okay. Don't take a nadir align.
PLT No. We don'thaveone. -_

TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
Page 3 of 1711209
CDR Okay. Where is the ground? I see a lot of

clouds.
CDR Bunches of clouds.
PLT You down there, Hank?
CC Roger.
PLT Okay.
223 15 23 56 CDR Okay. We got in that time. As I see it, we're

going to probably be there about a minute late.
And we will not have those tenths-of-a-degree
biases in. You concur with that one?
CC We concur and that's okay.
CDR Okay; yes, that's what we figured. We were Just

saying to ourselves, we should've taken that 18
and subtracted 1 or 2 right off of it because of
the time it takes to get it in. That's good
reaction down there on the ground; although I don't
see any ground right now. All I see is a bunch
of clouds.
PLT Okay, Hank. We got the ALTIMETER to [sic] SCAT

to STANDBY on time, and we're standing by to go
to EREP, START at 25:00.
CDR 26:09 is when I've got to go, 26:09.
223 15 2h 47 PLT Got old motor mouth back on the panel again.
CDR 26:09 is the time - Well, it's starting to break

out •
PLT Good.
CDR It's clear, yes.
PLT Stand by to start.
CDR 20 - -
223 15 25 00 PLT MARK. EREP, START. TAPE MOTION light. 19h MODE
to MANUAL - -
TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
Page 4 of 17/1210
CDR Looking for 26:09.
PLT 25:33 next.
PLT 190 to AUTO at 33.
CDR Great. Everything settling out. The ground know's

what they're doing. 26:09 is the number l'm
looking for.
PLT Okay, stand by.
223 15 25 33 PLT MARK. 190, AUTO.
CDR 26:09; *** 6:09.
CC Skylab, info only. We're going to reenable Z-2

and Z-3, with RM en - enabled.
CDR 26:09.
PLT Okay, coming by with SCAT and RAD.
223 15 26 00 PLT MARK. SCAT, ON - -
CDR Looks like Walker Lake right there.
PLT - - RAD, ON.
223 15 26 06 CDR 26:09. We got Walker Lake. We're going to get it.
PLT Attaboy.
CDR That's it. We're on Walker Lake at the moment.

Nice pointing. I was a little bit to the right
but that's my own problem. Okay, we're taking
some data right now. Everything looks good.
PLT Standing by for 27 here. RAD SCAT gimbal lights

flickering a little bit.
CDR Okay, I'm watching the angles. When I get to 5,

I've got to move out. We're in good shape. Right
on the lake. Right on this lake.
PLT Way to get them there, A1. 01d Eagle Eye on the
VTS. Standing by for MEDIUM.
TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
Page 5 of 17/1211
CDR Okay I'm going to a different position on the

lake. I'ii release the button a minute. Okay,
putting it back in. Looking for 5 degrees.
PLT Okay, stand by.
223 15 27 00 PLT MARK. MEDIUM on S190.
CDR Standing by for MODE to READY on 192.
CDR Okay, that's it right there. I've got to zoom

out and find the next one. There's the little
thing you want.
223 15 27 17 PLT MARK. MODE to _Y on the the old tape burner.

RECORDER MALF lights off.
CDR Okay, we got ... - -
PLT TAPE MOTION light on.
CDR - - 2.
PLT That's the way to go.
CDR We'll zoom in and get it for you.
PLT Standing by for SCAT to STANDBY.
CDR Okay, we're taking data on that other spot. Every-

thing looks good. Going to be hard to get to that
next one. We got less than a minute. We're taking
data at minus 12. I'm going to pull out here now.
We got plenty of data. Okay, MIN zoom, OFF ....
five ... - -
223 15 27 46 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.
223 15 27 48 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
CDR 45.2 right 1.3.
PLT Going CROSS-TRACK CONTIGUOUS - -
CDR 45.2 right 1.3.
PLT - - ....05 next.

TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
Page 6 of 17/1212
CDR 1.3. Let's see, l'm looking for time 28:53.
PLT - - ... SCAT and RAD, ON.
CDR Got 53 seconds
PLT Stand by.
223 15 28 03 CDR Okay, we got that target Houston. We'll get

the ... - -
223 15 28 05 PLT MARK. SCAT, ON. RAD ON.
CDR ***5 and right 1.3. Stand by for 28:53.
PLT Charlie 8 is reading - -
CDR ... by for 28:53.
PLT - - 42 percent. Very, very small oscillation on

Charlie 8, when we got the high speed going.
CDR 28:53 is what l'm looking for.
PLT 52, l'm standing by for. Really runs that tape

off. It's down at 40 now.
CDR 28:53. 28:53.... - -
PLT Plenty of tape, they say, today.
CDR 0kay. 28 :53.
223 15 28 52 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY, 2 seconds - -
CDR -- •.. 3.
223 15 28 55 PLT MARK. RAD, STANDBY.
CDR Okay. Now that looks like it, right there. Let's
zoom in and check it out. That's it. We got it.
PLT Stand by.
223 15 29 01 CDR We have got it!
223 15 29 05 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON.

TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
Page 7 of 17/1213
CDR 0kay, we're taking data on the right lake even.
223 15 29 08 PLT RAD, OFF. Stand by for MODE to CHECK.
CDR That's the incredible part. Okay. Got some

good data here, Houston.
223 15 29 16 PLT MARK. 192 to CHECK.
CDR It's not a lake, it's a dried up pit.
PLT 30:30 next. Way to get them there, AI.
CDR Get those volcanoes, too; one of them. They're

all - Do you have any idea, Houston, which one
of the volcanoes is the best to *** cover, because
you can only get one of the three?
CC Okay. Going to try to get you an answer.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay. l'm going to move to a different part of

the lake now and take some more data. Okay, still
taking data.
CDR Move to a different lar - part of the lake and

take a little more data. Kind of a dark part of
the lake. May have a little water in it. I
mean - not lake - playa. Yes, l'm pointing at
some water on it. That'll be a good thing.
CDR Three points on this one.
PLT Stick by for an AUTO CAL here.
CDR Okay, babe.
PLT Way to get them. Two for two, right?
CDR Couldn't be much better - -
223 15 30 30 PLT MARK, AUTO CAL.
CDR - - Good point.
PLT READY light 's out.

TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
Page 8 of 17 /1214
CDR Okay,that'sall for thatone. !
CC CDR, Houston. The best one is Pacaya. That's

one in the primary column at 35:34 - 35:30.
CDR Okay, we'll get it. 35:30, we can get that, no

sweat. Keep 45, up, and left, 2.4; 45, up; left,
2.4.
223 15 31 02 PLT MARK. READY, out; 1 second late on 190.
CDR Okay, we're there.
PLT MODE to STANDBY. Frames, only want 7 on this one.

Very well. INTERVALS to i0. 30:32 next. Okay.
Seven frames, INTERVAL, i0 seconds.
CDR Set DAC to 1/60. After this, okay? Then do this

PI - SI maneuver later. 15:20. Have you got a
mark on there that says 15:48, start SI maneuver?
PLT Yeah, I've got it here somewhere, I think.
CDR Okay, remind me, would you, in case I'm forgetting

it?
PLT Yeah, I've got one on here.
CDR Set it to 250 the of a second. Here let me set

this thing. Okay, it's now 250. 35:30_ left, 2.4.
CDR Who calculated that new EREP time, Hank?
CC Okay.
223 15 32 20 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER - -
CDR Who did?
PLT - - to STANDBY. - -
CC Say again?
PLT - - 192 ... - -
CDR Who calculated that new EREP maneuver time for us?
Z-LVmaneuver time?
PLT PO_R is i.
TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
_ Page 9 of 17 /1215
CC That was out ASCO, Pat 0'Neill.
CDR Thanks, Pat. That was a good Job. We got it

right there.
223 15 32 40 PLT MARK. SCAT, ON. 93A going to - -
CDR 35 :30.
PLT MODE 5. Range, 69.
CC And we appreciate you cycling the Z-LV MODE switch.

We forgot to tell you that.
CDR No, we cycled that. But we didn't know for sure

if you had to go to SI and Z-LV. We thought all
you had to do was Just push Z-LV again.
CDR And we - we thought we knew how to do it on board

anyway, but we had a lot of second thoughts as
we watched it. If you'd have gone out of comm,
we were going to do it anyway.
223 15 33 17 PLT READY ON, on 191.
CDR Just ma_ing sure we didn't go the the coarse

gyros.
PLT 90 MODE to AUTO coming up.
CDR Okay, we're going - 35:30. It's the number I keep

looking for. Got a lot of clouds down here right
now, but it may clear off like it did before.
Covering a lot of ground.
PLT Stand by; 33:43 coming up. Stand by -
223 15 33 43 PLT MARK. 190 MODE to AUTO.
CDR 35:30 is what we're looking for.
PLT Okay, space fans, I'll tell you, our U.S. today
took us crossing the coast at the northern border
of California, coming down over Reno, Las Vegas, a
little north of Phoenix, crossing the border a
little west of E1 Paso, down over Monterey,
Mexico, and into the Gulf at Tampico.
TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
Page i0 of 17 /1216
CDR 35 :30.
CC CDR, Houston. In regard to your question about the

Earth limb. What I want you to do there is hold
the pushbutton when you position the VTS down
just below the horizon and hold it there for 3 sec-
onds. Then release the pushbutton and the
handcontroller and let the spacecraft motion take
it. And then, each time you go down, just hold
the pushbutton and hold it there for 3 seconds.
CDR Okay, l've got it. In other words, they want the
pushbutton pushed during the period when we're
not taking data, or not good data. Understand.
223 15 34 52 PLT MARK. READY out on 190.
CDR When we're maneuvering. Okay, I got that.
223 15 34 55 PLT MODE to STANDBY. FRAMES going to 8. Okay, that's

all they want. Very easy to please, the S190
guys. 35:53 next.
CDR Okay, we've got scattered clouds now. But we're

over the water. No_ we're not; we're over the
ground. You Just can't see it too well. No,
_e're over the water. It's hard to see. 35:30
we're looking for.
223 15 35 31 CDR 35:30, that was it. Okay, now, l'm right in the
middle of a bunch of clouds. I'ii zoom in, but
I don't have a hope.
PLT Should be coming down over Central America, heading

for Guatemala real quick.
CDR Yes, but it's hazy and cloudy. I can't even see
the ground through here.
PLT Maybe it will come out.
CDR Much less any volcanoes. No, I'm - l'm locked

on.
PLT Stand by for MODE to AUTO.

TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
_ Page ii of 17/1217
CDR No luck - -
223 15 35 53 PLT MARK. MODE to AUTO - -
CDR - - Houston. I can't - can't see anything. A

little further on there's some ground. But in
the area we are, there's no ground available for
viewing. The clouds are probably right over the
top of it.
PLT We just crossed into Guatemala.
CDR I'll see if I can pick up another one. Okay, at

30 degrees at 36:13. Forget that one. Let's go
for 0, 36:53.
PLT We're going to hit the Pacific at E1 Salvador.

We're going to come into the South American con-
tinent - coast at Ecuador. Crossing the ... - -
CDR ... 0kay.
PLT Standby.... ON - -
CDR 36 :53.
PLT That's ... - -
CDR ...
PLT ON ... - correction, RAD - 194 - -
CDR Okay, we're trying for that - -
PLT - - ALTIMETER, ON.
223 15 36 58 CDR - - trying for that one that we didn't get -

second - the second alternate. We're looking
down at the ground now. Let me zoom in. Let's
see if we see anything. Well, I see a lot of
ground. It's clear over here. but I don't -
see anything that looks like a - a volcano. I
wish I did.
CC Skylab, Houston. 30 seconds LOS. Vanguard at 49.
CDR Okay, that first site was a bad one. This third
one is clear as a bell, but too late. I tried
to intercept it at zero degrees, but no luck.
TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
Page 12 of 17 /1218
PLT Okay, we've got 190 all set up. FRAME'S, 36.
INTERVAL's, 20. Standing by for 40:01.
223 15 37 59 CDR ... weather report was wrong .... - -
223 15 47 42 PLT 91; EREP, STOP - at 54. Standing by for EREP STOP.
Getting around between - around 30 percent tape
remaining.
223 15 47 55 PLT MARK. EREP, STOP. Okay, start the EREP maneuver-
ing now. You got her? Okay.
CDR I got it. It's started.
PLT Earth limb set up. Okay. Forgot to do that.
CDR All right. We're ready over here for ....operation.
PLT Okay, S190 SHUTTER SPEE.D is MEDIUM. FRAMES is

13 set; INTERVALs are 20. Okay, I got to disable
the FMC. I got to open this up a little bit, A1.
CC Houston; with you for l0 minutes.
PLT ... Yes, I'm going to catch the guy who made these
snaps on this 190 thing and ask him what he's
doing for a living now.
PLT Excuse me.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, info, we're going to reenable Z-2,

Z-3, and redundancy management.
CDR Sounds good.
PLT Okay.
223 15 49 03 CDR And, we started the SI on time. Everything is

running along cozy at the moment.
PLT And the FMC breaker's been pulled.
CDR We even put in 8 minutes' maneuver time.

TAG Tape 22B-06/T-177
Page 13 of 17/1219
PLT I got to get this up in your way for a moment to

change my apertures, A1.
CDR All right. While you're doing that, I'll kind of

slide up here and m_ke sure that we don't get too
far behind. 15:57; got a little time to go. You
okay?
PLT Oh, boy, it's bright out there!
CDR Look at that!
PLT It's all cloudy. Okay, we're setting our apertures,

16.7. Capping shutters are running, I notice.
Don't get tangled up in them. Number 2 is on the
6.7. Okay, i and 2, 6.7. Ntunber B, 6.7. They
got a hangup on 6.7. Number 4, 2.8. I could
do all that. 2.8. Number 5 is 4.0. *** that
detent on that one. There it is, 4.0. Number 6,
likewise 4.0. Okay, let me check them. 6.7, 6.7,
and 6.7, the first three. 4 is 2.8, 5 is 4.0, and
6 is _.0. They're set. Okay, we're going to close
this down and - Oops! There's the ground again.
It'snot cloudyall the time.
223 15 51 05 PLT Okay, S190 is back in its preferred location. The

pins are in; the knobs are coming down tight.
Okay, she's fastened in now.
223 15 51 20 CDR Okay.
PLT Did we get everything? Omit postoperate; proceed

for Earth limb. Set the S190 apertures. Done.
No filter change - they're not changed. Disable
FMC. Standing by for 15:57. Oh, man! We've got
5-1/2 minutes to go. We'll update the ground on
where we've been since we saw them last. We
crossed the - in the Pacific off of San Salvador,
after coming over Guatemala City and San Salvador,
and we hit the western coast of South America
at Ecuador, Just below - Just west of Quito. We
came down over La Paz, Bolivia, Asuucion, Paraguay,
and we're crossing the - into the Atlantic coast -
oh, Just a little above the Uruguayan/Brazilian
border.
CDR Looking right down on the beaches. I bet there's

somebody there today in the Sun. Don't see them,
though.
TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
Page lh of 17 /1220
PLT Right now, we're about i minute from the coast -

Brazilian coast.
CDR We're there.
PLT Okay.
CDR Nice there. Nice place to go.
SC Okay, I'll tell you, my friends, Charlie 8 is

reading 24 percent. I hope we got enough. You
guys on the ground are so good, I know we must.
223 15 52 58 CDR Okay, there's the horizon. And we're at a kind

of a cockeyed angle.
PLT ... don't - -
CDR The horizon is not - Well, when we go to SI, we

don't - we go back to that roll. So the horizon
is not perpendicular to the line of sight. It's
sort of at about a - h5 degrees. I wonder what
our Beta angle is. What's our Beta, Hank? It
ought to be right at our Beta angle.
CC Stand by i.
CDR Say again.
CC 29.5.
CDR Say it again. Couldn't hear you.
CC 29.5.
CDR 29.5; l'd say that's maybe right. On this, I -

that's probably about 30 degrees. Not bad. Hey,
this is going to be easy. 15:57.
PLT That's the big number.
CDR Put it below there; mark it while you're doing it;

and then let go.
PLT Take data, and then take data here.
223 15 54 07 CDR Don't want to go to ALIGN, ON. Wait a minute, it

might be - -
TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
/_ Page 15 of 17/1221
PLT Boy, these EREP guys made a good checklist, and

a good set of cue cards. They got all the data
you might ever want in here. Fast forward is
120 inches per second. That makes it l0 feet per
second. So if we have 100 feet left, that'll
take l0 seconds to run it all. We'll Just check
them out on that.
PLT Standing by for 57, AI.
CDR It turns out if you put the ALIGN, ON, and get
low sensitivity in OFF/HIGH, it's better for this
arrangement.
PLT Okay. ALIGN, ON, huh?
CDR It's going to be good to do. I'll report the

clouds to the ...; 57:15 is what I'm looking for.
PLT Four - 2h percent says we got 1400 feet of tape

remaining. You know those things have 5200 feet
of tape in one of those rolls?
CDR That's a3unost a mile.
PLT No, I said it wrong. It's 7200.
CDR 72.
PLT 72001
CDR Don't get it loose in here. That'd be - -
PLT (Laughter) That's almost as much as the tele-

printer updates we get.
CDR Not quite. (Laughter). But they're loose in here.
PLT They're all listening down there, I bet you.
CC Right.
SPTT Okay, let me get a word in about the frames on

ETC camera. It's sitting on frame number 87,
after I have shot up my three single frames,
after the completion of the normal pass. That's
frame number 87.
TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
Page 16 of 17 /1222
223 15 56 02 CC We copy.
CDR Did you - you decide to open the door today, 0?
SPT Son-of-a-gun!
CDR Like the last time, huh?
SPT Just like the last time.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we've just had our

third RM failure on this Z-2/Z-3, aod so we're
going ahead and select the Z-3 only.
CDR Okay, we understand.
CC And that will be with RM enabled.
CDR Okay.
PLT l'm glad my initials aren't RM, you know that.

Everybody would get a bad impression.
CDR 57.... - -
PLT We're getting ready.
CDR We're almost there, Jack.
PLT Right. i0 seconds to go.
CDR I'm going to turn the camera on and leave it on.
PLT Chomping at the bit to get this thing on. Stand

by.
223 15 57 00 PLT START. EREP, START. TAPE MOTION light is on.
CDR 57:15. l'm at 57:05. l'm coming on with the

camera - -
PLT Oh boy, we're going to run the tape burner on this

one.
223 15 57 16 CDR - - on 57:10, I will. 57:10 - I'm pushing the

DATA button. I'm going to release it at 15 -
223 15 57 ll CDR Camera is on.
TAG Tape 223-06/T-177
Page
17of171223
223 15 57 16 CDR I'm releasing it. Okay, we've got cumulus clouds -
No no, stratus clouds we're looking over. And we're
just gradually moving up now to the horizon.
Everything is working well.
CC We're about 40 seconds from LOS. Goldstone will

be coming up at 17:03.
PLT Okay, Hank; thank you. 17:03, about 20 minutes.
CDR Okay, it's going above the horizon - -
PLT That's wrong, about 5 minutes. That's wrong, an

hour and 5 minutes.
SPT An hour and 20.
CC Now you've got it.
CDR Okay. And it's almost above the horizon. Okay

we had a left/right there. I had a right of 18.
I'm going to put the next one to right zero. Okay,
try that for size. Right zero below the horizon.
I'm pushing the DATA button; I'm getting ready to
release it.
223 15 58 19 CDR Release. Okay, it should glide right up.
223 15 58 23 PLT Okay, we're getting ready to go to READY on 192.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 223-07/T-178
Time: 223:16:30 to 223:17:34
Page I of 4 /1225
223 17 03 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone, 4-1/2

minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we can go ahead

and reset your caution and warning for that
rate gyro problem we had before.
CDR And, Houston, ATM's going along okay. I got

the message on this before it - at the bottom,
here, it says bottom of the first JOP callout
it says, "54 change GRATING IN," And that meant
GRATING IN for all of that particular building
block?
CC That's correct, A1.
CDR Okay, and one other comment on EREP. I made

sure that the, when we were doing the limb scan,
I made sure that the VTS pointed well above, not
only the horizon, but the airglow. That took
a few seconds longer each time than allowed.
So we started that last data take, which was
nigh sky, 1 minute later than pl-nned, but
we ran it 1 minute longer than planned. So I
think everything is Just perfect. But the
experimenter needs to know that. I think he
can probably figure it out. It's not on the
tape, but it's ... Also, the door for the VT -
Just a second. The door for the VTS took
3 minutes to close, which.was about 40 - 50 seconds
longer than the other day.
CC Roger. Copy; 3minutes.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. In regard to the problem

we had awhile ago with the maneuver there, the
ATM System Checklist and Data Book, on page 2-5,
tR1ks about that a little bit. If we need
the Z-LV biases, that last data command should
be entered as soon as possible after the Z-LV
mode is selected. And this is because the
maneuver is restarted when you - when you do the
center.
CDR We understand it. I goofed it up.

TAG Tape 223-07/T-178
Page 2 of 4/1226
CC Okay, I'ii say we came out of that pretty good,

though, A1. We calculated we had a 3.3 degree
Y error at the EREP start. And we actually reached
the Z-LV a minute and 44 seconds after we should
have. We had nine ETC frames and three 190
frames taken prior to reaching Z-LV, so we came
out pretty good.
223 17 07 31 CDR That's great. That was fast reaction time down
there. What I should have done is when you told
me that number, 1 should have subtracted 1 minute
off of it and entered it. It would have been
perfect.
223 17 07 42 CC Roger. And we're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 25.
CDR Okay, I'm in chip B of building block 2-C - J0P

2C and building block 5, and everything's cooking
along. And right now, I'm located on the bright
spot of 85 and there's not much bright spot there,
but we're right on the edge of it.
CC Roger. Copy.
223 17 08 35 CDR Chip C is a little ambiguous. It says, "Pointing

and roll same as 5A." And then it says, "Repoint
82B for uniform emission." Those things conflict
with one another.
223 17 24 47 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you'll give us the DAS, we'll

reset the caution and warning on the - that the
rate gyro had.
CDR Okay, you've got it. Big O. - -
CC And understand you had a question this morning

in regard to the fire sensors, about the little
flashes. That's a perfectly normal thing. I
quess it's some sort of radiation that causes a
little ionization in there. And incidentally, I
saw that all during the ground tests too. Those
little things will wink every once in a while.
SPT Yes, I assumed it was normal. I just wondered

what it _as that was causing it and thought
TAG Tape 223-07/T-178
Page 3 of h/1227
perhaps you could answer it. Another subject

now. I Just finished doing the ED32 with TV-58,
and when I went up to turn the VTR off, it had
already been. turned off. And I was wondering
how much of it you got or whether or not you
turned it off early. Over.
CC We'll get an answer on that. Just - -
SPT Okay, another question on EDB2. I noticed that

after inoculating the - each of the plates with
the antigen, after 5 or l0 minutes, the agar
had completely absorbed all of the antigen that
had been placed inside. Now I really wasn't
expecting that, but I expect that is normal,
also. And I Just wanted to check with one of
the experimenters associated with that to ma_e
sure that that was an expected - event.
CC Okay, we'll check that one.
CC And, SPT; Houston. We have indications here of

end of tape on the VTR; and apparently, that's
what turned it off.
SPT Okay, I had thought there was 30 minutes

available, and so I'm not certain how much of
the ED32 got on there. I hope the major part
of it. I only recorded about 20 minutes, and
so there must have been a good deal less or
something less than 30 available when I started.
CC We're a little puzzled about that one then, Owen,

because we had indications of beginning of tape
when - this morning, and so there should have
been 30 minutes available.
223 17 27 h3 SPT Okay, well, I don't know the answer to it right

now. When you dump the tape, you might let me
know what got on there and if EDB2 was covered
satisfactorily, the prep. And y'all also need
to know a time at which the inoculation was made,
and that is 17:00 Zulu because I need to get
rescheduled for photography, 24 hours plus or
minus a bit from now.
223 17 28 ll CC Okay, we copy. 17:00 Zulu.

TAG Tape 223-07/T-178
Page 4 of h/1228
CC And, CDR; Houston. In regard to your question on

82B awhile ago. That was a little ambiguous and,
I guess that - if that comes up again, the - the
message is to repoint the 82B per uniform emission.
CDR Okay. Well, we figure it out. I went down to

talk to 0 - Owen, and he said, "Go back to the
pointing on H-alpha 2, 55 OFFSET. That'll
put you back up where you were for step one.
And then make sure that 82B is in the uniform
emission of that area, which has nothing to do
with the bright stuff, but make sure that's
uniform for being off - the bright plage area."
So that's what I did.
CC We copy.
CDR And we finished that J0P with no sweat. But

right now, I'm - finishing that step. We're
now on step 1.
CC We copy.
CDR And for the fellows in the ATM backroom there,

science room, I noticed when I started running,
earlier, on building block 5, that it was again
counting up every time the RASTER went through
zero, which meant you had - you got about 30
for each MIRROR, AUTO RASTER since it flopped
at both ends. But now it's doing okay. So I
assu_e that - so the ground must have refit
something and it's ...
223 17 31 06 CC We copy.
223 17 33 46 CC Skylab, Houston. Con_n seems to be going in

and out here, about 2 minutes from nominal LOS.
If we lose com_, we'll be coming up on Hawaii
at 34. That's about an hour from now.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 223-08/T-179
Time: 223:17:34 to 223:19:00
Page i of 3/1229
223 17 34 43 PLT Houston - You still there, Hank?
CC Roger.
PLT How about having the ATM fellows come up with

a pad for running the ATM? I guess - let's see,
93 minutes after 000 - 00:40. That would
be 01:40 and then add 30, and that'd be 02:10_
I believe. Have them come uo with a Dad for the
pass after the 00:40 pass, if you would. And
we'll run it up here.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT I guess you may notice that our photomultiplier

exposure count is running up around 600, which
is a little bit higher than it has been. l've
been kind of looking around without moving
because I don't want to stop this particular
JOP. But it looks like we've got something
going on. It's Just a little bit higher than
ambient.
223 17 35 52 CC Roger.
223 18 3h i0 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 7-1/2 minutes.

And, Skylab - -
CDR Hank, on that request for that extra ATM pad,

forget it. I've realized, after looking at the
schedule more closely, that we can't make it when
we do EREP. Well be stowing EREP; no way.
CC Roger. I - I was going to ask you if you knew

something we didn't. That's fine. And if we
could have the DAS, we're going to bring Z-2 back
on the line along with Z-3 and enable redundancy
management.
223 18 34 44 CDR You got them.
CC And, SPT; Houston. We are configured for TV at

Hawaii here, if you can down-link us some XUV
MONITOR.
TAG Tape 223-08/T-179
Page 2 of 3/1230
SPT Okay, I'Ii give you a little bit of everything

I've got showing.
CC and you'll have to change your VIDEO select over

there from TV over to MONITOR.
SPT Sure appreciate those reminders. You must have

a telemetry bit - telemetry bit that tells you
where the position of that switch is. Is that
correct?
CC And, CDR, in reference to your comment last pass

in regard to S055, we don't understand that
30 count either and it doesn't - it doesn't
ring up with us at all. So if this occurs again,
we'd sure like for you to report it, any of the
crew members that notice that happening again.
CC You - you m-de a statement that you thought we

commanded something that cleared it all up, but
we did not command anything. Whatever it was
cleared itself up.
CC And for the SPT, no need to acknowledge, in

reqard to your comment on the agar, it is normal
for it to absorb the antigen.
SPT Okay. And I also did notice on plate A in the

top row, in other words the first pair of holes
inoculated, the plastic had separated from the
agar a little bit and provided a possible path
for some of the antigen to flow under. I don't
know whether it did or not, but there was a little
air gap underneath the plastic cover and the agar.
So, on plate A - Todd Meister who's the assistant
investigator ought to be thinking about that and
keeping it in mind in terms of his interpretation,
and we'll see what the pictures look like
tomorrow.
223 18 37 h8 CC We copy.
TAG Tape 223-08/T-179
,- Page 3 of 3/1231
SPT For the science room back there, this looks like
it ought to be an outstanding place for this
dop - JOP 2 Charlie. Ought to be a very
interesting structure. I'll have to do the
chromosphere androya [?].
223 18 h0 _i CC We copy.
SPT And you were Just asking - talking with A1 about

that raster scan counter. We are in a 3 AUTO
RASTER right now. And my raster counter is
passing 43 at this point, So, it - it's apparently
still misbehaving.
223 18 41 47 CC Roger. We copy.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 223-09/T-180
f -
Time: 223:19:00 to 223:20:30
Page 1 of 5 /1233
223 19 03 29 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 9 minutes.

And, Skylab, we'll be dumping the data recorder at
this site.
SPT Okay, I have Just one question about the ATM schedule
that was called up, Hank. I noticed my mirror -
extra MIRROR AUTO RASTER called for a dec-
tector number 5. Now I still have that taped. I
was wondering if the backroom wanted me to go ahead
and activate the detector number 5, and if we should
interpret "dectectors all" to now mean including
number 5. Over.
CC Stand by on that, 0wen. We'll get an answer right

quick.
CC SPT, Houston. We would like for you to go ahead

and try to use dectector 5 where it's called for
on the pad. I guess that means you have to get
your tape off of there.
SPT Okay. I'll take the tape off, and we'll also in-
terpret "dectectors all" to now include dectector
number 5; and we'll see if it will stay in.
SPT I presume the backroom is able to record my point-

ing coordinants, there, I don't need to voice them
down.
CC We got them, SPT.
SPT And my RASTER SCAN COUNTER is working properly after

the last reset. I don't know what made it behave
much better.
CC Roger, SPT. And if you'll let us use the DAS a

bit, we will update the Y-2 drift.
SPT A]] yours.
223 19 ii h3 CC SPT, Houston. Could you reconfigure the dectec-

tots per the pad, please? We're afraid we might
zap one here.
TAG Tape 223-09/T-180
Page 2 of 5/1234
SPT Thank you very much.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We're about 1 minute from

LOS. Hawaii is coming up at 10.
CDR Hey, Hank. This is the CDR. See if you can set me
up a phone call to my wife tonight, would you?
223 19 12 13 CC Roger. We'll work on it.
223 19 12 25 CC CDR, Houston. Do you want that before or after the

EREP pass this evening?
CDR Before is probably best, but if it's afterwards,

that's okay too.
223 19 12 39 CC Okay.
223 20 l0 39 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii, 9 minutes.
PLT Aloha, Hank.
CC Aloha.
PLT Say, could you break up the card game in the back-
room and have the ATM boys take a look at the panel?
CC Wilco.
CC Skylab, Houston. Your panel looks good.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. In regard to the RASTER SCAN

COUNTER that was cutting up on us a little while
ago. We think there might be a possibility that,
in the low-light levels, the 0-ORDER detector is
causing that thing to count. So this did happen,
as I understand it, in some ground testing. So
the next time you see the anomalous raster scan
counts, which will be at the ATM pass coming up at
00:40, we'll get a - use that instrument - we
would like for you to check the O-ORDER talkback
and see what it's doing.
CDR Okay.
TAG Tape 223-09/T-180
Page 3 of 5 _23_
CC Skylab, Houston. We've had some pretty poor VHF

comm in the last couple of tries with our phone
calls, et cetera. And so to check it out here
before this evening, we'd like to go up and bring
up a couple of panels - switches in the CSM so, for
Vanguard, we'll be set up to go SIMO, [?] and we'll
try to sort out the problem here in the MOCR. That
way, if we do have bad VHF comm, we "can _-_diately
go back to S-band.
PLT Okay.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay. This the PLT?
PLT Yes.
CC Are you in the command module now?
PLT I'm at the ATM.
CC Oh, okay. Well, we got something for you to do

there. We'd like for you to - We show detectors 3,
7 and - 3, 5, and 7 not up. We'd like for you to
bring all the detectors down and bring them up in
the proper sequence, see if we can get them up.
PLT They just now tripped off and I reset them by -

RESET detector 5. They all look up now?
CC Okay. They all look good now.
223 20 15 12 PLT Just about 30 seconds ago; I restarted on GRATING 200

and that's when they kicked off.
223 20 15 21 CC We copy.
CDR Okay, Hank. This is the CDR. I'm over at the

command module. What can I do for you?
CC Okay, we'd like to, on panel 9, we'd like to verify

that the S-bank is in T/R, and we'd also like to
bring the VHF AM up to T/R.
223 20 15 49 CDR Okay, I Just put it there. Both of them are in T/R.
CC And on panel 3, we'd like to bring up VHF AM B to

DUPLEX.
TAG Tape 223-09/T-180
Page 4 of 5/1236
223 20 15 59 CDR Okay, it's there.
CC And when we're LOS, you can adjust your SQUELCH for
noise plus i.
CDR Okay. Sounds good. We're sitting tight in that

mode right now.
CC And, AI, we're working on which antenna is going

to be the best. And we should have that for you,
hopefully, before LOS. If not, wefll get it to
you at Vanguard.
CDR Sounds good. And - you want me to stay in the

command module for a while? Why don't you just
tell this to Jack? He can zip over and change it.
CC Okay. We'll do that.
CDR Okay, there's only a fifty-fifty chance he'll have

to change it argfway. Right now, it's on LEFT.
CC PLT, Houston. Just a little reminder, we see it's

time now for the 1-minute and 20-second exposure
on 82A, LONG WAVET._NGTH.
PLT Okay, I already took that. That was the first one
I did. And I already got the 520. And it said to
omit the last.
CC Okay. That'll be okay, Jack.
PLT I'll give you another one, if you want it, as many
as you want. You name it; I'll do it.
CC Roger. Give us another one.
PLT Okay. One more 1-minute and 20 second exposure

coming up.
PLT I presume you want that in LONG WAVELENGTH again.

Is that right?
_--_ TAG Tape 223-09/T-180
Page 5 of 5/1237
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 42 with a data
recorder dump.
223 20 19 24 CDR Okeydoke.
END OF TAPE
Time: 223:20:30 to 223:22:00
_' Page i of 2/1239
223 20 hi 52 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, 9 minutes.
CDR Hello, Hank. Are you there?
CC Hello there. How do you read?
CDR Okay, I'm reading you now. I was reading you

very weakly the last time. How do you read me
now?
CC Okay. Reading you loud and clear.
CDR Oh, I'm reading you real weakly again, and then
I didn't read you for a while. It's kind of
intermittent. Sounds like you must be on VHF.
223 20 h2 52 CC That's affirmative. We're VHF only now.
CDR Okay, now you're loud and clear. And on VHF you
got more background noise than you do on S-band.
CC That's affirmative. And we'd like to have the

DAS to do a Y-2 drift update.
CDR Okay.
223 20 h3 h5 CC Skylab, Houston. We've been discussing the S191

door getting a little slower. For our EREP pass
this evening, what we would like for you to do,
if you - if you think of it, is to time both the
opening and the closing of that door, so we can
see what's happening to it.
CDR Okay, we'll time the opening and the closing.

It's easier to time the closing than the opening,
but we'll see if we can watch it as it goes open
with the viewfinder.
CC Okay.
223 20 50 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS, we

have a low-angle pass at Ascension at 58.
CDR Okay, Hank, the ATM pass went as advertised on

this rev. And just made a comment on the voice
recorder, that about 20:30 GMT, I noticed that -
that the prominence above active region 85 is
Page 2 of 2/12_0
missing. And it had disappeared in the last 5 or

i0 minutes prior to that because I had been watch-
ing it.
223 20 51 03 CC Roger. We copy.
223 20 59 05 CC Skylab, AOS through Ascension for 2 minutes.
223 21 O1 16 CC Skylab, we're B0 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over the Vanguard in an hour and 18 minutes
at 22:19.
END OF TAPE
Time: 223:22:00 to 223:23:30
Page I of 8 /12hl
223 22 19 28 CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, we've got Just two more stations here to

check out that VHF. We missed you entirely over
Ascension. Could one of you talk to us?
CDR How's life on Earth down there, Story?
223 22 22 07 CC Say again.
CDR I said, "How's life down there?" You want some-

one to talk to you.
CC Okay. It 's great.
CDR We haven't had rain up here in weeks. You know

that? It's getting to be pretty dry, a pretty
dry spell.
CC That'snot true down here in Houston.
CC Did you hear us calling over Ascension last pass?
CDR I don't remember. I was riding the bike. When

you're on the bike, you don't hear too much.
CC Okay.
CDR You working VHF or S-band?
CC We're on VHF through Vanguard here, and we'll also

be VHF through Ascension.
CDR Okay, yes. You have - it doesn't have the - the

tone and quality that the S-band has.
CC That 's true.
CDR I was looking over this shopping list. We got

some spare time right this minute. And it turns
out that, if I'd had the spare time yesterday, we
could have got these h87's - out of the way.
And there's Just about nothing we fan do in - on
the shopping list today except the 487-2B group
discussion, as near as I can figure it out.
That fills up something needed.
Page 2 of 8/1242
l
CC Okay, We'll work on that.
CDRY Yes, now you got the word - I hope the flight
planners have the word that we did all the house-
work for tomorrow and so they ought to fill up
today. In fact, maybe they ought to start doing
that for 2 or 3 days in a row here, because we're
getting ahead on this housework.
223 22 24 00 CC Copy.
CC While l've got you, AI, who's doing the - are you
doing the maneuver on EREP tonight?
CDR Jack's going to do the sighting - Jack's going to

do the maneuver; l'm going to do the C&D.
CC Okay. l've got a change in the maneuver time on

line 9.
223 22 24 33 CDR Okay. I think he's listening up there right now.

You might give him a call.
PLT Just a minute, Story.
CC Okay. On your maneuver pad, that's 1530A, line 9.

You might get that out.
PLT Okay. I got it, Story. Go ahead.
CC Okay. We're estimating, we're going to save 6

minutes by changing that maneuver time from 25
to 15 minutes and it's 52030, 50017.
PLT Okay. I got that. Looks like a 50-15 - minute

maneuver, huh?
223 22 25 53 CC That's the octal. It's a 15-minutes maneuver -

the octal's 50017.
PLT All right. That's what I copied; 17 for

15 minutes.
CC Okay.
CC And nothing else is changed on that pad, Jack.

Use the - the Z-LV maneuver time. The time to
initiate - that hasn't changed.
f TAG Tape 223-II/T-182
Page 3 of 8/1243
223 22 27 05 CC And, AI, no need to acknowledge. There is a

T002 you can do on that shopping list, as well
as the M487's.
CDR 0nly Jack can do those T002's, I'm afraid. And

he already did a hunch of them this morning.
CC Okay.
CDR I did a T003 - a couple of those.
CC Okay.
CDR I'm going to go work on day after tomorrow's

housekeeping.
CC Roger.
PLT Okay - okay, Story, I've got the ATM powered down
for unattended. How about having somebody have -
take a look at it to make sure it's okay?
CC Okay. Thanks, Jack.
PLT And I put it on tape, but I picked up a shopping

list item for 82B. On that one, I took as long
an exposure as possible; item number 16, I think
it was, and that was 12 minutes and a
SHORT WAVELENGTH.
CC Okay.
223 22 29 35 CC And, Jack, your panel looks good except the S056
door is closed and, per a checklist change yester-
day for unattended, we leave that open for un-
attended ops.
PLT Right. I didn't touch it when I went down through

there.
223 22 30 00 CC And we're going LOS here. We'll see you over
Ascension in 3 minutes.
223 22 33 13 CC Skylab, we're AOS Ascension for i0 minutes and

we're on VHF.
CC CDR, Houston.
Page 4 of 8 /12hh
H0U CT Ascension CON_4TECH, Houston C0_4 TECH; net i.
ASC CT Ascension COMM TECH; go ahead.
H0U CT Roger; read you loud and clear. We're - we're

not copying the crew's voice.
223 22 35 06 CC Skylab, we've got a down-link problem. We're

not copying your down-link.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got 7 minutes left

over Ascension and we did have a do-_n-link problem.
We ought to be with you now.
223 22 36 42 PLT Hello, Story. How are you reading?
CC Yes, sir. We're back up on S-band, reading you

loud and clear.
PLT Okay, I went and opened the S056 door. I don't

know how it got closed, must be when the Sun
went down. I want to answer your question about
TO02. I took some sightings in - I - recorded
them later on the tape recorder. I don't think
there's any requirement for a real-time VOX out
there, besides the star for T002. Is that affirm-
ative?
CC I'ii get you an answer.
CC Is CDR right there, Jack?
223 22 37 20 PLT Yes, he's here. Go ahead; CDR is listening.
CC Okay, we're thinking to guarantee him some good

family comm tonight. We like to put the family
comm on S-band and us on simultaneous VHF and
we can up-link your procedure for getting that
done.
CDR We sure are in favor of that, because you can

see how that S-band cow,, is yourself. Up-link
the old procedure and we'll be ready.
CC Okay, and one other thing. We did see the

condensate DELTA-P fall off very rapidly and then
start creeping back up. Have you been doing
anything with that system over the last hour?
.... TAG Tape 223-11/T-182
Page 5 of 8/12h5
CDR Haven't been close to the tank. Want me to go

check it?
223 22 38 09 CC No, we were just curious as to why it was doing

that.
CDR Well, I hope we haven't got a separator water

plate breakthrough. I'll go up and look over
the lines. Nobody's been near that tank, I don't
think, in the last hour or so. Let me go check.
CC Okay.
223 22 39 25 CDR Story, everything looks nice and tidy. I notice

that the pressure on the small tank is down, like
you said. All I can guess is the leak opened
up for a little while and then restopped up.
CC Okay.
CDR Want me to dump the condensate tank right - start-

ing right now? Because, otherwise, you're not
going to have any pressure. According to this
thing, it's down to about a half a psi.
CC Yes, AI. The condensate dump is scheduled right

about now. You might as well get ahead with it.
223 22 40 09 CDR Okay, I'll go work on it right now. And how about
mentioning to flight planners - let's try some-
thing for about 3 or 4 days to see if it works out.
Let's - Let's do one of two things, whichever
they think is the better. Let's leave all the
housekeeping off the Flight Plan and just put it
down at the bottom of the plan. Call it house-
keeping and list, but not - the letters, and we'll
get them done somehow. Or go ahead and put that
in and take the flight-planning time that I have
after supper, and do away with that. And put
experiments and ATM and all of that other busi-
ness in there so that we're sort of running a
full day. We're - we've got this housekeeping
shipshape up here and we're kind of ready to - to
crank them out.
CC Okay, we think that's an excellent idea. Put

the housekeeping off, on the bottom of the page
and number them, and flight plan you a little -
little tighter on that. And we'll see how
TAG Tape 223-11/T-182
Page 6 of 8/1246
you've -_hether you're getting ahead or falling

behind on the housekeeping. And, at present,
we're not in favor of your not getting too far
ahead on that, since some of those are periodic
things.
CDR That's what I noticed. Two days from now is the

CO 2 sensor change, so I didn't do it. But
you're right. Just let us know what we should do
that day's shopping list and let's see how it
works. And I can use my planning t_me at the
end of the day, if that's the way they want to do
it. And I'll try to get those things done then,
along with anybody else that can get them done.
223 22 hl 35 CC Okay, we think that's a good plan.
CDR 0keydokey.
CC And, while we're on the subject, your Flight Plans

for tomorrow are on board.
223 22 42 2_ CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

over Guam in 33 minutes at 23:16.
223 23 17 58 CC Skylab. We're AOS Guam for lO minutes.
SPT Hello, Story ; SPT.
CC Hello.
SPT Let me get that other speaker, Just a minute.
223 23 20 04 SPT Story, I've just finished running the ED63,

cytoplasmic streaming experiment. That 's the
one for whom - which the student investigator is
a Miss Cheryl Peltz out in Littleton, Colorado.
And, when I opened the three vials that have been
placed up by our wardroom light, they - There
was a - an odor of some sort of sulfuric com-
pound. And wasn't distinctly hydrogen sulfide,
but it did sound - did smell a little sulfurous
at any rate. And so I wasn't as hopeful as I
might have been. Then I - After extracting
several of the elodea leaves, it was clear that
there was very little resistance to the extraction.
Now if it had been a healthy plant, there should
._-_ TAG Tape 223-11/T-182
Page 7 of 8/1247
have been, as I understand it, a - a pretty

good tug required to pull the leaf from the plant.
I tried it on all three vials, and in each case
there was little resistance to separating the
leaf from the stem. And all three vials did have
this rather faint sulfurous odor. So, it was not
too encouraging, and I then prepared one slide,
put it under the 1000 power microscope and looked
for the streaming effects. The microscope was
in good focus. The details of the plant could
be seen, but there was no streaming observed. And
I have recorded that on the DAC camera and with
the motion picture time frames. I thenprepared
a second slide, from the same plant and exam_ ned
that also and was unable to find any streaming.
I've looked in a number of places on both leaves
and have a number of - oh, probably 5 or i0 minutes
of DAC recording of the view of the leaf, although
by eye, I was unable to see any of the cytoplasmic
streaming. I don't know whether you have any
other questions or any of the other people
associated with the experiment there might also
have some questions for me. But the time of the
experiment performance was within the last hour
and a half, between about 22:00 and 23:00 Zulu.
Over.
223 23 22 16 CC Okay, we copied all that, 0wen.
CC And we'll be looking for the evening status re-

port over this pass or - the next pass is Vanguard,
your medical conference will be then. We could
get the evening status report at Ascension at
00 :13 •
223 23 24 ii CC And, Owen, just as a reminder. According to the

update we sent you, preserve that experiment gear
for SL-4 and - and clean it off with a biocide
wipe and stow it in W-733.
SPT 733. Okay, I'm in the process of doing that

now. And I noticed your message ih27 starts out,
"When spider is observed spinning a new web."
I think that may be a bit optimistic. There's
been no observation of that as yet, and - unless
you want us to stay up into the wee hours, I think
we may not.
Page 8 of 8 /12_8
CC Okay; copy.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 30 seconds. Your

medical conference will be coming up over the
Vanguard in 30 minutes at 23:56. And if
possible, we'd like a star tracker lockon.
223 23 26 18 CC And we'd like the evening status report. Ascension

at 00:13 will be fine.
_D OF TAPE
" TAG Tape 223-12/T-183
Time: 223:23:30 to 224:01:00
Page 1 of 5/1249
224 00 05 48 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS here. We'll see you

over Ascension in 7 minutes, and be looking for the
evening status report there.
CDR We got it. We'll be up in a minute with it there,

Story.
224 00 06 06 CC Okay. Thanks.
224 00 14 27 CC Skylah, Houston. We've got you through - 2 more

minutes through Ascension, and, CDR.
PLT He's listening.
CC Okay. His private comm is coming up here in about

3 minutes, and I need to get him a procedure for
his talking on S-band.
CDR Okay. We're standing by to do that and/or do the

nightly report, whichever you like.
CC No, we want to get your private comm squared away

here. Would you like to talk on a - on a headset
or on the speaker, Al?
CDR I'll talk on the headset.
CC Okay. Here we go. We are going to teleprinter

this up to you so you'll have it. Panel 3,
VHF AM B to duplex; VHF ANTENNA, select the best.
It'll be the LEFT for your pass. Panel 10,
S-BAND to T/R; INTERCOM, OFF; Connect the headset;
SUIT POWER, ON. Panel 9, S BAND, OFF; VHF AM to
T/R. And on panel 98, SPEAKER, headset to HEADSET.
CDR 0nly one part I didn't understand. You want both

VHF A and B to DUPLEX or you Just want the VHF B
to DUPLEX?
CC Just VHF AM B to DUPLEX. And I've got the thing

here for you to get out of that.
TAG Tape 223-12/T-183
Pa_e 2 of 5/1250
CDR Okay, I know - Well, I can put it back like it is.

You want it back like it is now or back like the
normal comm S-band?
CC Just back to normal comm.
CDR Okay, I'll put it back like you had - it was

yesterday and has - like it is right at the moment.
And I'm going to give you VHF DUPLEX A and then
DUPLEX B, also, if that's what you want.
CC Okay. No need to acknowledge, A1, but you can

press on. And as soon as you get that set up,
you'll have your private comm. And in the
reconfiguration, we want DUPLEX Bravo.
SPT He's on his way.
22h 00 17 31 CC 0kay.
224 00 17 40 SPT Just a minute, sir. He's getting the switches set
up. How are you this evening?
CDR How are you today, Sue?
SPT Loud and clear up here, Comm Tech. How me?
SPT Hello, Sue, this is Owen here. Al's trying to get

the comm figure - reeonfigured up in the command
module so he can do the talking up there.
SPT Comm Tech, we're hearing you over the normal channel.
Doesn't sound like youtre on the private loop to me.
CT Stand by.
PLT Comm Tech, A1 Bean is hearing you. I guess you're

not hearing him.
SPT Hello, Comm Teeh, how do you read me. This is the
SPT, Owen, here.
CC Owen, Story is reading you down here.

F_ TAG Tape 223-12/T-183
Page 3 of 5/1251
CDR Okay. I've got the command module set up for the
situation, and I guess you Just don't hear me.
I hear you great on the private loop, but you can't
hear me.
CC And, AI, this is Story. We're reading you down

here.
CDR Okay. I think you're reading me just on the

standard S-band, aren't you?
CDR Let me run back over to the command module and look
at it again. Yes, l'm sure it's configured right.
224 00 21 33 CC Okay.
224 00 24 08 CDR Okay, how do you read on VHF?
CC Houston is reading you loud and clear, A1.
CDR Yes, I know it's - Looks like we somehow got it

all hooked up togetherbecausehe reads me great
on S-band when I throw the VHF switch on. So that
doesn't quite make sense.
PLT ... comm.
CDR Okay, hope you hear me now, Sue.
CDR Hello, Sue.
224 00 24 49 CC AI, we're going to add S-band and VHF to you for
5 more minutes of private comm.
224 00 55 21 CC Skylab, we're AOS, Guam for 7 minutes.
CDR Read you loud and clear, Story. How me?
CC I'm reading you five square, A1. And we need the

DAS here for a nav update and possibly, a
NU z update.
CDR It's yours.
CDR Okay, I'm not sure what came off on that private
comm com_. We set it up like you said, and it -
we Just never could get it. We got it for the last
3 minutes or so.
TAG Tape 223-12/T-183
Page h of 5 /1252
CC Roger. We're going to get your procedure up on

the - on the teleprinter pad, AI. We were probably
rushing things a little going the procedures at
Canaries - I mean at Ascension and then expecting
you to be all set up at Canaries.
CDR I'm not sure whether I should have done all that
stuff on panel 9, which I did per instructions, or
done it on 6 since we're reversed. All I know is -
the thing that changed the ballgame was he said
that - I heard this voice say, "Go to VHF on 10."
So I went to VHF on 10; it worked. I said, "Are
you hearing me VHF?" And he says, "Yes, I'm hear-
ing you S-band 2." Now I don't know why, but
that's what - That was the key thing. So then I
turned the VH off, and it still worked.
CC Yes, I had the comm tech have you go to VHF T/R

OFF on panel 10.
CDR Okay, he told me to go it to on, and I went on and

it all worked. So it beats me. We can give it a
checkout. Yes, that's much better comm. That's
the way to go.
CC We'll look at that; and we'll get your teleprinter

pad on board for setting things up.
CDR Okay, and when we do, let's set it up one time just
for practice, Just to see if it works.
CC Good idea.
SPT Okay, for the ATM room, I started it at a ROLL of

minus 5hO0 instead of 10800, so I'm doing chip B
first instead of chip A. I'll debrief the thing
on channel A so you'll have all the details of it.
22_ O0 57 19 CC Okay, Owen.
224 00 57 2h CC And, A1, if you're ready on the evening status

report, we're ready.
_- TAG Tape 223-12/T-18B
Page 5 of 5/1253
CDR Okay, I'm in the command module. It'll take me

Just a second to get back down near it.
CC Okay.
SPT I Just sort of checked around building block 1 and

I think it's going to take care of everybody's
desires on it. The only exception being, I've given
82A, already, their two exposures, and that was at
5400, which is not the optimum roll for them. And
it's my fault on that. And everybody else is going
to get what they wanted on it. They have got their
two exposures, but that 93 difference is what they
had intended on building block 1.
CC Okay, thanks, Owen.
224 O0 58 19 CDR Okay, here comes the nightly report, lll, 165,
160; &881, 807h, 5701; 6.256, 6.255, 6.253; 5.975,
5.977, 5.974; 6.972, 6.963, 6.967. And a note to
be added is: CDR is now weighing himself in
- T-shirts and shorts instead of Just shorts. That
should be added to - handed to the experimenters.
Okay. We're on exercise now: 2/30/)4270; 3,
Mark I, 15 minutes, 50, A; 20, B; 20, C; 20, D.
SPT: 2/33/5000; A, 60 reps; B, 60 reps; C, 30 reps.
Pilot: 2/35/7366, 2/05/0533. Those were arm
exercises and 3/20, Mark I, 50, A; 20, B; 20, D;
20 backbends. No medication. Sleep as follows:
CDR, 7/G; SPT, 6-1/2/G; PLT, 6-1/2/G. Here comes
the food report: CDR, eight salt packs. That's
not right. CDR had l0 salt packs.
END OF TAPE
F
TAG Tape 224-OI/T-18h

Time: 224:01:00 to 224:02:30
Page 1 of 5 /1255
224 01 00 14 CC Okay.
CDR Okay. Here we go, l0 salt packs and nothing - no

other change. SPT had three salt packs and added
one apple drink. PLT had eight salt packs and
one extra apple Juice. Photo log next. ET -
16-millimeter: ETC prep M151, C141, 87, C-I16;
EREP 6D, CL02, 85, and not applicable.
35-millimeter: CX12, frame count h3. It should
be added here, that we're a little puzzled about
the frame counts ourselves. We think may be that
the counter that counts backwards with the electric
feature, the one that we're supposed to use, may
have broken. Because we know it got doom to a
small number and then it all of a sudden showed
up at 40. So, we're not sure ourselves exactly
_ what the story is on that camera. But,we'll keep
using it, until we feel the 35-millimeter feeds,
such that we know it's run out. Okay, 70-millimeter:
CXlI, 121. ETC: CT0h, 087. Here comes the EREP:
and, of course, we're loading it up again. Set
FT 7705, 7042, 7917, 7912, ih55, 8773. Drawer A
configuration: 02, CI42, 00, CI2h; 03, cIh3,
I00, CIl8; 06, CI39, 00, CIII3; 05, CI41, 8 ...
CC We're going LOS. We'll see you at Honeysuckle in

5 minutes.
CDR Okay. I think I was finished. How long have we

got in this pass?
CC We're going LOS right now and we'll have 4 minutes

at Honeysuckle.
CDR ... 4. Did you get all that photo?
224 01 02 46 CC Yes.
224 Ol 07 29 CC Skylab, we're A0S Honeysuckle for 4 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CDR Okay, here's the rest of the report, Story.
CC Say again, A1.

TAG Tape 224-01/T-184
Page 2 of 5/1256
CDR I'm going to give you the rest of the nightly

report. Here it comes. House - Shopping list
items accomplished: housekeeping 60E; TO03, two
samples; T002 , two sets of pan observations.
Window defog, we defogged the window again - it -
it got a lttle streak of fogging on it. Sort of
eminating, like a Jet, from the place where you -
we vac - put the vacuum on it and where we put
it, theoretically, the dry air from the SAL
airlock. It, apparently, wasn't completely dry;
and the question I have in my mind is we'd like
to evacuate that space and then shut it off and
leave it Just as a vacuum, if we could. I'm
not sure we can do it, though. But, would you
check and see?
CC Okay.
CDR I - I - I've removed the restraints - those knee

restraints from dome locker 430 and 424 - the
blue ones on the outside - and put them in 454.
Unscheduled stowage item location changes:
from F548 to WPM to eat, two orange Juice; one
box of wet wi_es from WT35 to wardroom_ and one
bundle of fecal bags from F571 to H833. That
should do it.
224 01 09 21 CC Okay, how about transporter 5 and transporter 7?

We didn't get those, A1.
CDR Oh? Transpor - Transporter 7 has had no change.

Let me check 5.
CC Okay.
224 O1 l0 25 CDR I had to go get the book again. It was in A4.

It's 05, CIhl, 87, CI16.
CC Copy.
CC And we're 20 seconds to LOS. We'll see you over

the Vanguard at 01:36.
224 01 ll 38 CC Skylab, that'll be Canaries at 01:54.

TAG Tape 224-01/T-184
Page 3 of 5/1257
224 01 54 51 CC Skylab, we've got you AOS Canaries and Madrid

for 12 minutes; and we need the DAS.
PLT Okay, you got the DAS. We developed a minor

problem with the VTS; we're unable to - in
trying to make a VTS align - drive the - drive
the gimbals over to 12 laps. We can't get them
off of O0 with the door closed and switch in align.
CC Copy, Jack.
224 01 56 18 CDR Hello, Story. How do you hear?
CC Loud and clear, A1.
CDR Okay, we've got to record here, it's time D-2.

We've got to go 192, MODE, CHECK, and voice
record, D6. D6 is a mere 56 percent. Which is
well within limits, so that's it.
224 01 56 59 CC The DAS is yours, Skylab.
CDR Okay.
CC And, Skylab, we see the roll switch on the ATM

panel enable; we'd like that inhibited prior to
the maneuver.
CDR What GM [T] do you have us making the maneuver,

Story?
CC Is that the time you wanted, Al?
CDR Yes, what time do you have us starting the

maneuvers?
CC 02:07:00.
CDR That's what we got too.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Now we're working the malf down here; Jack, have

you done any of the mall?
TAG Tape 224-01/T-18_
Page 4 of 5/1258
PLT Yes. I got to the malf where it says we've got

to open a door to decide.
CC Okay. Which malf was that?
PLT I can't remember the number, but it's - does not

respond to hand controller inputs - is the one
I went down.
CC Okay.
PLT And it looks like we either got a door circuit

failure, a display failure, or a gimbal failure.
So we're going to wait until we get the door open.
CC Okay.
224 02 00 47 PLT Can I have the DAS now, Story?
CC Yes, sir. It's all yours.
PLT Okay.
PLT We going to work the star tracker for this, Story?
CC Say, again, Jack.
PLT Belay my last. Just screw the star tracker, no

stars.
CC And Jack, we've got two, - DAS entries for you,

after the maneuver has started.
PLT Okay, shoot.
CC At the 52015, 50034; that'll get you running on

both Z-2 and Z-3.
224 02 02 30 PLT Okay, that's the 52015 and a 50034. And that's
after the maneuver goes, right?
CC Jack, regarding the S191 malf. Go ahead and open

the door and continue with the malf. And try to
observe the door for Jerky - jerky opening, and
also time it, if possible.
TAG Tape 22_-01/T-18h
Page 5 of 5 /1259
PLT Wilco.
PLT How do like all of the entries in the DAS?
CC It looks good, Jack.
PLT Thank you.
224 02 05 22 CDR Story, in the DELTA-P - on that holding tank -

seems to be working okay now.
CC We've been looking at it.
SPT (Whistling) Can you hear me, Jack? It's a per-

fect pass coming up.
PLT Get them between the eyes, with our friendly 191
machine.
CDR Okay, where are we? Install rear shoe [?]. We've
done all that. Record - to momentarily record -
No, we get 5 more minutes - wait a few.
224 02 07 03 CDR We've started our maneuvers, Story.
CDR Got our biases in, or are you going to do it like

I did?
SPT H,imm-
CDR Hard way, huh, the easyway. What's the matter,

no confidence in the skill? At 3, HIGH, C; C-3,
HIGH is a little bit high, ouchX Limits are
53-83 and it's running at 88, 7. Houston, I was
Just running through the monitor, and I notice
3-C, which is in HIGH, at the moment, it's reading
about 87 or 88, and the limits are 53-83. Monitor C,
that's detector 7, AGC.
CC Okay, we copy that, A1. We're going LOS in

20 seconds, see you over Carnarvon in 23 minutes
at 02:35. You know, the latter portion of the
Z-LV, you'll probably get a CMG SAT. And it's
no problem.
224 02 08 l_ CDR Okay.
END OF TAPE
_- TAG Tape 22h-02/T-185
Time: 224:02:30 to 22h:ii:42
Page 1 of ii/1261
224 02 34 h6 PLT What are we coming up on, 0.? Or are you at the
window?
SPT Yes, we Just passed Sumatra off to the right,

passing Java off to the right at the moment, and
Just about 2 or B minutes we'll be hitting the
coast of Australia.
PLT Okay, I'm with you. Thank you. Went right over
Borneo, I guess.
SPT That's right. We're already crossed Borneo.
PLT Must be coming up on - What's that long island

there?
SPT Java.
PLT Java.
SPT Hot Java.
224 02 35 lh PLT MARK. 35:13 MODE, AUTO - -
SPT Too bad we don't have some sites on Java.
PLT 37:40.
SPT Got a few friend in Java.
PLT See the island of Sumba, we're coming on.
SPT I think Java is the most heavily, densely pop-

ulated part of the world.
22_ 02 35 h9 CC And Skylab, we're reading you loud and clear

through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle for lh minutes.
CDR Okay. Everything's going along okay. Jack made

an instantaneous, _]most, camera change, and
whistled down to the locker and got a new one
and put it in. His film - in his DAC ran out,
so he got another one. He got 02, I believe.
TAG Tape 22h-02/T-185
Page 2 of ii /1262
PLT Right.
PLT Hey, that weather over Thailand wasn't much good.

I found a - a couple of small holes in a - Just
zoomed in ahd took some data and the DAC was on.
I hope you can find them. I couldn't distinguish
whether or not they're cropland, the weather was
so bad. But we did our best.
CC Okay, Jack.
CDR We're getting Just random ALTIMETER UNLOCK lights

on 193, but ALTIMETER unlight [sic] light is off
at the moment.
224 02 36 40 PLT And it took 3 minutes and 13 seconds for the door
to go out of the field of view, when it was com-
ing open with the gimbals at the max upper stop,
54 or something like that. Three minutes and
13 seconds.
CC Okay.
PLT That's about twice as long as it ought to be.
CDR We're wondering if you want us to close them at

the end of this run or Just leave them open?
PLT I'm not closing the door until you give me the
word to close it, and by the way, it was Jerky
coming out.
224 02 37 13 CC Copy, Jack.
PLT Okay. We're going to do a couple of tracking

checks here.
CDR 37:40 we're waiting for, Jack. When the ready

light goes out at 190.
SPT Coming up on the coast of Australia.
PLT Rog-ger.
CDR 37:40. READY light, where are you?

_i TAG Tape 22h-02/T-185
Page 3 of 11/1263
224 02 37 38 CDR 8, 9, 40. READY out. Right on time. Stand by.

RANGE, 25; Intervalometer, i0; and SHUTTER SPEED,
FAST. Standing by for 39.
224 02 38 08 PLT MARK. 38:08.
CDR Okay.
224 02 38 37 PLT MARK. 38:37
PLT Moving, through the field-of-view so fast, I can't

watch it.
CDR Stand by; 3 seconds. 2, i -
224 02 39 00 CDR MARK. 93A, STANDBY; mode's 5; RANGE, 74; and

standing by for 40:43. 192 is on READY.
PLT In ll, 39 and ll.
224 02 39 20 PLT MARK. Out of field of view at 19.
224 02 40 43 CDR MARK. 40:43.
224 02 40 45 PLT MARK. 45.
CDR 40:43 is when 192 went. At 53, 190 goes.
224 02 40 53 CDR MARK. 190 is in AUTO. Standing by for 41:32.
CDR 41 -
PLT And we're making our little IMC test here, Story.
The target goes out of the field of view at
ll - ll:30 and takes 8 seconds. I'll take a
couple of more.
PLT Some darn thing, 8 seconds.
224 02 44 01 CDR MARK. SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM on 190.
CDR 550.
224 02 45 12 PLT MARK. ll.
CDR Intervalometer, 28.
224 02 45 20 PLT MARK. 19.

Page 4 of 11/1264
224 02 45 52 CDR MARK. Intervalometer, 28.
PLT Yes, she goes off the page at ll o'clock, Story.
CC Okay, copy, Jack.
PLT Off the page at ll and 8 seconds.
CC Copy.
224 02 46 16 PLT MARK. 193A is ON.
PLT Yes, we just crossed the coast of Australia.
CDR I just had an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.
PLT I ought to have a good shot of New Zealand here

pretty soon.
CDR Yes.
PLT I'm going to leave the door open unless you tell
me to close it, Story.
CC Okay, we -
PLT 191.
CC We'd like for you to close it for thermal and

contamination reasons.
PLT Okay. I'll time it. I assume she's all the way
open at the moment.
CC And if you get to - -
CDR READY, out. Standby. SHUTTER SPEED to SLOW.

47:25. Standing by. Go ahead, Story.
224 02 46 57 CC Did you get the VTS alignment done after getting
the door open, Jack?
CDR No way. The alignment mark is on the door.
PLT VTS alignemnt you can't do, with the door opened.
CDR It's on the back of the door.

r- TAG Tape 224-02/T-185
Page 5 of 11/1265
PLT I'll close the door and I'll try to do an

alignment, and then - Right now, our malf
procedures tell me I had a door circuit failure,
I think.
CDR 47:25. That's when ... - -
PLT But we'll see. I've got a hunch that maybe if

that door doesn't come up and close, it doesn't - -
CDR 4, 5 - -
PLT - - separate the align circuitry, but I ain't sure.
CDR 48:10, VTS AUTO CAL. One picture I took there.

Let me see what'd I get .... - -
PLT It says here continue operation, degraded mode.

Alignment cannot be performed if we have the same
trouble again. We'll see. Maybe the motor wasn't
strong enough to come up and hit the microswitch
hard enough or something.
224 02 47 56 CC Verify you have been able to point all right,

Jack.
PLT Yes, pointing's been very good, Story. Takes

out some of the drift. I've got to get back
there and maneuver, A1.
CDR Have at it, Babe. 48:30, I've got to go 190 MODE

SINGLE.
PLT Ahh.
CDR Take another snappy shot. 48:30, MODE, SINGLE.

What's that, Jack? [Alarm tone]
224 02 48 40 PLT Man, we got a - -
CDR The RATE GYRO's, I'll bet. What was it?

What kind?
CDR Yes. Okay. We just got that SAT you were talking
about, Houston.
PLT We got the - -

TAG Tape 224-02/T-185
Page 6 of 11/1266
CDR Partial - -
PLT - - caution tone and I presume it was CMG SAT

because the rate gyro's INHIBITED.
CDR 50, 194 MODE, MANUAL. 50.
PLT Okay, let's have maneuver - maneuver pad. There

it is, by golly, right there.
CDR Have you any new - new - new - new time for this -
PLT Do you like that 15-minute maneuver, Story?
CC Yes. That's affirmative.
244 02 49 23 PLT Okay, 52030 is in; 5 two balls 17 is in.
CC And we're going LOS here. We'll see you over

MLA at 03:22. That was a CMG SAT you got. We
fired one nib.
CDR That's not too bad.
PLT Thank you, Story.
CDR We'll pull it in the other direction in just a

second.
CDR Good calculation down there.
224 02 h9 58 CC You also got a M0L SIEVE PPC02 light.
224 03 25 23 CC Skylab, we've got you through Bermuda for

8 minutes.
CC Skylab, we've got you through Bermuda for

7 minutes.
PLT How do you read, Story?
CC Reading you loud and clear now.
PLT Okay. I'm closing that VTS door at 2 minutes and

52 seconds. Everything went black in the ...
so, there wasn't any light coming up through the
optics, and I don't know how long it took after
r TAG Tape 224-02/T-185
Page 7 of 11/1267
that for the door to close. But I do know that at

15 seconds later, we got flickering zeros on both
left and right sides, at the same time, on the
gimbal. Thgimbal ... was flickering. I was on
- I went to ALIGN, I was unable to slew the -
the - slew over at all and I didn't think that
was a very good indication to see both sides
flickering at once. I was unable to relieve that
situation by slewing either left or right, so I
turned the thing off. Later on, I turned the
thing back on and I had zeros on the left in
upper's only. I didn't have it on the right
anymore. I was still unable to slew over to get
out of zero into the align position. So that's
the story to date.
22h 03 28 16 CC Okay. I copied all that, Jack. And I got a couple

of answers to previous questions of yours here.
PLT Go ahead.
CC On the SO19, you've taken 40 exposures, and we

took seven on the ground for calibrationpurposes,
and it's okay to retract that at zero.
PLT Okay_ it's okay to rettact it at zero. We've

taken - we've got 47 of them used up is what you're
saying, and I'm wondering how many there are all
together.
CC Okay. I'll get you an answer on that. And with

respect to T002, we would like the GMT in all
modes. Even 1. Even though the star-angle differ-
ence isn't going to change, they're interested in
the distortion looking through the ward wind - the
wardroom window.
22h 03 29 06 PLT Do I take this to mean that I'm supposed to be on

channel A recording all the while I'm doing that?
.. ° in GMT - from beginning to end, and then I
don't think it has to have a mark. I've taken
three sets of data now. I've recorded all the
data so I could put it on channel A, and I gave
the approximate time. I think some of the
later programs will require being on channel A
and giving some marks, but I don't think the
star - star really requires it. But I understand
s you to say we'll want the approximateGMT.
TAG Tape 224-02/T-185
Page 8 of ll/1268
CC We'd like it as - as close as possible, Jack,

without interfering with the sightings.
224 03 30 07 PLT Okay. Well, I was doing it sometimes during the

time when I couldn't use channel A because the
other guys were using it, and I didn't want to
hold up the show for that. So I went ahead and
did it anyway, and wrote the numbers down and
recorded them on channel A. And I gave you the
approximate time for those. Where possible, I'll
put the whole scenario on channel A, although it
clobbers up a lot of channel A times.
CC Okay, And we suggest the MOL SIEVE A, PPCO2

war - CAUTION, we'd like you to INHIBIT that
when you go to sleep.
PLT Okay.
224 03 30 41 CC It'll probably wake you up. And we're showing

the star tracker shutters closed at this time.
We're going to inhibit that and do not park it
tonight.
PLT Okay. You're happy with it Just like it is?
CC Yes.
PLT Okay. I'm Just going through this powerdown for

your unattended stuff, and I'll follow this
checklist here, or what you've got on my notes.
CC Okay.
CC And no need to acknowledge, Jack, but there's a

total of 162 frames in SO19, and we'll use the
last seven for calibration.
PLT Oh, good. That's more than I expected. Glad to

hear that.
SPT Hey, Story. I'm not sure how you want this 56
door left. Now it is closed at the moment; and
do you want it opened back up again or left just
like it is?
224 03 32 56 CC We'd like it open, Owen.

.... TAG Tape 22h-O2/T-185
Page 9 of 11/1269
SPT Now inasmuch as I have the auto door - Well, let's

see, I will have it to inhibit here by the time
I get through, I believe. Or rather I'll have it
in storage. Now does that mean the 56 door will
remain open until we take it out of storage?
CC That's affirm, (>wen.
SPT Thank you. I presume the purpose of this - this

is just to avoid extra cycling during the un-
attended period. Am I correct?
CC That 's affirm.
SPT Guess we're up with you now on that point. Thank

you.
222 03 33 h2 CC And we're going LOS here in about i0 seconds.

See you over Madrid in h minutes.
222 03 37 29 CC Skylab, we're AOS Madrid for 8 minutes, and this

will be our last pass tonight.
SPT Okay, Story, I'm Just ready to leave the ATM

panel and I presume that you're satisfied with the
stowage situation or else you would call me.
CC It looks good, Owen. Thanks.
CC And, SPT _ Houston.
SPT What did I forget?
222 03 39 25 CC You didn't forget anything; it's what I forgot.

What method did you use to try to detect motion
in the coronal changes that you picked up on
mission day l_?
SPT Oh, that's a good one. There was no need to detect

the motion. You could tell from the configuration
of the corona itself that it was in a transient
situation; namely, there was an enlarged loop, as
I called out on channel A, extending from about
25 degrees in Theta_ around to Ii0 degrees in Theta
and looping out to about 2 to 2-1/2 radii. And
that's very different from any previous coronal
configuration except that - very much like the
pictures of other transient events. There was no
TAG Tape 224-02/T-185
Page i0 of ii/1270
doubt that a transient was in progress, Just by

a 15-second glimpse of the corona. Now when I
looked at it again after 15 minutes, there wasn't
much change. But after that night pass of about
30 minutes, there war obviously a very large
change, l'm not sure whether that transient was
moving at a uniform velocity or not. I suppose
that it certainly wasn't accelerating, although it
did look - My impression was that it was a greater
change over that 30-minute night interval. But
to answer your question, it was just the
configuration.
CC Okay, and l've got a note here on coronal transients

from the backroom. Corona transient of - of
yesterday was slower than the one on June lOth,
but more spectacular. There was very wide loop
structures. Your procedure of interspersing
FAST for the time resolution and STANDARD for the
Polaroid information is excellent. We followed
up your observations to look for magnetic field
restructuring. The TV down-link of the next day
shows restructuring of material above the limb.
SPT Sounded very good; thank you. And I wonder if it's

not about time for a little magnetic activity around
the Earth's environment here, perhaps another
aurora. Has there been any forecast of that?
224 03 41 20 CC We'll let you know.
SPT Okay, I did get that one very nice aurora back
on mission day 6, which we observed in the southern
hemisphere. I called that down on channel A,
also. But that was a - wea - a very beautiful
event. It was also - We were diverted at that
particular moment by attention to quad D. But
we would like very much to have another chance
to see one of those and get some pictures of it.
224 03 hi _9 CC Okay. And as for tomorrow, we are going to have

you chasing volcanoes.
SPT With which instruments? Of the present set, I

presume?
CC Nikon or Hasselblad.
TAG Tape 224-02/T-185
Page ii of 11/1271
SPT Right.
224 03 42 22 SPT Well, after all, S052 does look for transient
events, and it is a white-light instrument.
Might let Dr. MacQueen think about a little
flexible use of S052.
CC Roger.
224 03 45 13 CC Skylab, we're B0 seconds to LOS. We'll be giving

you a call about 11:45 in the morning. All of
your systems are looking good. And as for the
aurora goes - Owen, there are a couple windows
only about a minute wide and they occur early
in the morning when you'll be sleeping, so we
didn't bother to call them up to you.
SPT Okay, thank you, Story. I do have that pad that

came up a day or so ago which gives the general
times of favorable viewing. I didn't know whether
there was anything else in addition to that
general pad or not. Thank you.
224 03 45 46 CC Okay.
END OF TAPE
P TAG Tape 224-03/T-186
Time: 224:11:42 to 224:13:00
Page 1 of 3/1273
SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
224 ll 42 31 CC Skylab, this Houston, saying good morning on the

morning of mission day 16.
224 ll 43 28 SPT We heard you, Karl. How are you this morning?
CC Doing fine, thank you. How's everything up in

space?
224 ll 43 39 SPT Moving right along.
CC Great.
SPT 133 data look okay last night?
CC Say again.
SPT 133 data look okay?
224 ll 44 00 CC They say it looks good to us down here. And,

Skylab, we've got 1 minute to LOS. We'll see
you in about 6 minutes and we - Be advised we will
be dumping the recorders.
224 ll 51 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension. We'll

be with you for lO minutes.
224 ll 51 45 CDR Okay, Karl.
224 ll 52 17 CC You guys might be interested to know that we had

all three wives over to the house last night.
We're awful sorry you couldn't have Joined the
party, though.
PLT You ain't the only one.
CC Ha, ha, ha.
CDE Great idea Karl; so are we.
SPT Nice of you to do that, thank you.
224 ll 52 51 CC Sorry to disturb you early in the morning but

with EREP coming up fairly soon there's a couple
of pad changes I need to bring up to you.
TAG Tape 224-03/T-186
Page 2 of 3 /127h
PLT Hold on a minute. We're Just cutting up this

ticker tape for a parade and distributing it
around.
CC Okay.
224 ll 54 37 CDR By the way, last night, Karl, I measured the tape
on the EREP after the run, and it was 2-11/16 from
the edge of the tape to the edge of the reel.
224 ll 54 51 CC Okay, we copy that. Thank you.
224 12 01 34 CC Skylab, Houston; we have zero seconds to LOS.

We'll see you again over Carnarvon at about 12:23.
224 12 24 06 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We'll be standing by

for l0 minutes.
224 12 33 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. We'll

see you again over Guam in about 4 minutes.
224 12 37 40 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam; standing

by for the next 9 minutes.
224 12 h4 42 CC Skylab, this is Houston. AI, we need to amend

EREP message 1614 when you have a - have a moment.
And you'll find that there are two of them in
your - in your teleprinter, a short version and
a long version. The short one got cut off in
transmission. You can throw that one away.
224 12 45 39 CC Skylab, this is Houston. A1, we need to amend

EREP message 161h when you have a - have a moment.
And you'll find that there are two of them in
your - in your teleprinter, a short version and a
long version. The short one got cut off in trans-
mission. You can throw that one away.
224 12 45 59 CDR Okay, we threw the short one away, and GO on the
corrections.
CC Okay, n11mher l: Under ready verification S193A,

change the RANGE from 74 to 69.
224 12 46 23 CDR Okay, go.
CC Okay, following the 4802 entry, delete MODE ITC,

POL l, and ANGLE THETA. That's an ANGLE O.
/- TAG Tape 22h-O3/T-18@
Page 3 of 3/1275
224 12 46 40 CDR Okay, in other words, at 4802 1 Just go to

STANDBY, and the next event is 192 MODE READY
at 49?
CC That's affirmative. And number 3, following the

5302 entry, delete S193, R, OFF.
224 12 46 58 CDR Okay, got it.
224 12 47 02 CC And - and finally, note that teleprinter messages

1637 and 1638 - about opening the VTS door -
And we have about 20 seconds to LOS. And we'll
pick you up again over Goldstone at 13:03.
224 12 47 19 CDR Okay.
END OF TAPE
F TAG Tape 224-04/T-187
Time: 224:13:00 to 224:14:30
Page 1 of 8/1277
224 13 02 43 CC Skylab, Houston ; with you stateside for

17 minutes.
CDR Morning, Hank.
CC Good morning.
CC Skylab, if we could have the DAS for a little

bit, we are going to inhibit the momentum
dump, enable the ATM DC control star tracker,
and reselect Z-2 and Z-3 and RM.
CDR Good.
CDR What's the latest thinking down there about

when we might make this rate gyro hookup, or
is - is it still up in the air? Has there
been lots of discussion about it or what's the
general status of it? We got a nice message
about it this morning.
22h 13 03 40 CC Well, let me nose around and see what I can find
out, AI.
22h 13 09 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to - for someone

convenient - like someone to go up and bring up
the star tracker on Canopus.
CC Skylab, Houston. Do you copy regard the star

tracker?
CDR No. We hadn't heard a thing from you.
CC Okay. We'd like someone to - if it's convenient

to acquire Canopus for us. and then we're going
to do an NU Z update and then have you close the
shutter.
22h 13 12 33 CDR Got our number 1 star tracker expert on the way.
CC Roger.
224 13 13 34 CC And, CDR; Houston. In answer to your question

about the rate gyros, we're still in pretty
good shape on the - the ones we've got now.
Page 2 of 8/1278
There are no immediate plans to try to bring

the six pack in. In fact, we're going to try to
work in another set of scale-factor maneuvers
to get a little more information on the gyros
we're using now. The main purpose in sending
up the message we - that we sent up was Just
to take into account the new situation of the
command module.
CDR Okay. We kind of suspected that and - but just

wanted to understand it, so we can think about
it with you. Thanks.
CDR We noticed there was nothing new about rate

gyros in our weekly anomaly report, so I assumed,
even though we've been shifting back and forth
and had a bunch of discompares, that everyone
was still satisfied with the performance.
CC Roger.
224 13 16 02 SPT We have Canopus.
CC Roger. Thank you, Owen. And while we're doing

the update here, I got a quickie for you on
ED63. You mentioned you used all three vials,
I believe, yesterday. Just so we make sure we
got it straight, did you prepare slides of the
samples from the second and third vials?
SPT No, I only prepared two slides from the one vial
that seemed to offer the most resistance when
pulling the leaf off the stalk. The other two
vials, I pulled some leaves from, but the leaves
both came with essentially no resistance, and
I assumed that they were perhaps even in worse
shape than the one vial from which I took
several leaves to prepare two slides.
CC Roger. We copy.
224 13 18 02 CC SPT, Houston. We've done the NUZ update; you're

clear to close the shutter.
SPT Are you in any hurry to get it closed, Hank?

I'm downstairs on the ETC again now.
CC At your convenience, Owen, in the next 5 or

i0 minutes.
TAG Tape 224-04/T-187
Page 3 of 8/1279
224 13 18 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

Our next contact is Carnarvon at 02 with a data
recorder dump.
224 14 02 00 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 7 minutes.
SPT Okay. Hank, just a word about the ETC magazine.

I've used the spare magazine for the first time
today and I have that new vacuum seal installed
on it. When I hooked up the vacuum lines Just
a few minutes ago, I did not hear any hissing
the way I believe Joe Kerwin reported last
mission. However, I do still hear a small amount
of mechanical vibration, which is presumably
caused by a breath - a small air leak or some-
thing like that. It doesn't seem very much; I
can hear no hissing, but there is this very faint
mechanical vibration that's produced when I
hook the vacuum hose up. Over.
CC Roger; we copy. And we'd like for you to go

ahead and use it.
224 14 02 55 SPT Roger. Seems fine to me, also.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. If you can give us the

DAS, we want to get in a Y-2 drift update.
PLT How fast can you do it? I'm going to have to

maneuver here in 3 minutes.
CC We can do it in about 90 seconds.
PLT I got to load the quantities. Say again.
CC We can do it in about 90 seconds.
224 14 03 23 PLT All right, hustle. I got to load the rest of the
quantities also.
CC Okay, we're working on it.
CDR Okay, Hank, how about getting out that rate gyro
change that was sent to me this morning? I want
to see if I've got it straight.
CC Okay, I've got it out.

TAG Tape 224-0_/T-187
Page h of 8 /1280
CDR Okay, let's go over to the part where we start

doing the EVA.
224 14 03 56 CC Skylab, the DAS is yours.
CDR You ready?
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, it says, "Replace RGP EVA op pages 6 and

7 with the following." You got that sentence?
PLT Hey, I can't get in the DAS, Hank.
CC Stand by.
224 l_ 04 36 CC We don't see any problem here on the ground, Jack.
PLT Oh, that 's on.
CC Say again.
PLT Okay, we got it.
CDR Okay, let's go to EV - did you find the place

that says rate gyro EVA op?
CC A ffirmative.
224 14 05 12 CDR Okay, now let me just kind of skim along. I

want to make sure that I got all this in order.
Okay. That's pretty - pretty straightforward.
Go - go down then to where it says EV-1, it's about
5 inches down. "EV-I: Tether box end of EVA cable
assembly to self and hook the trunnion end to
loop of EV-2 left wrist."
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, is the next sentence: '%ul-2translate along

B-2 handrail?"
CDR Okay, now let's Jump down about 8 inches where

it says - under EV-2, "Translate to WC/IU area
using B-1 and dual handrail. Position self bet-
ween dual handrails and ATM by WC/IU."
TAG Tape 224-04/T-187
Page 5 of 8/1281
CC Okay.
224 14 06 00 CDR Is the next sentence: "EV-3, DAS 52011 ENTER,

ENABLE?"
CDR Okay, now jump down another 8 inches. Does EV-2

translate to FAS, ingress AM?
CC Roger.
CDR What's the next sentence?
CC "EV-3: panel 141, gyro 5 and 6. CBs, off."
CDR Okay, jump down to 8 inches, where it says,

"Coordinate with STDN or use out-of-the-window
cues for monitored SI."
CC Roger.
CDR Is thenext sentence: "Is CSM aft control required?"

And from there?
CC That's affirmative and it's in a box.
224 14 06 h8 CC Did you have some gaps in your message, Al?
CDR No, when I was pasting them on, I wanted to make

sure I got them in the right order.
PLT We're on our way to Z-LV_
CC Roger; we copy.
CDR Okay, then 8 inches further down, it says, "Go

to EVA hatch closure; post EVA-3, have EVA
checklist."
CC Roger.
CDR After that it says, "Replace post-RG EVA check-

list page 7 with the following?"
CDR Okay, we got it right. Just wanted to make sure.

TAG Tape 224-04/T-187
Page 6 of 8/1282
22414 07 29 CC Allrighty.
CC PLT, Houston. Would you go ahead and enter your

offset s ?
224 14 08 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS;

Guam at 16.
224 14 16 15 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam, 6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 5-1/2.
CDR By the way, Hank, was that called rate gyro

checklist change number 2?
CDR Okay, I may call you back on it. I got it all

posted in there now. I think it's in the right
order, but I may call you back and check on it
later.
CC Okay; and, SPT, are you free?
224 14 17 17 SPT Roger; reading you.
CC Okay, we need to get the purge going again for

M509. If it's convenient, we'd like to get you
to turn the DUMP HEATER on - the WATER DUMP HEATER
on panel 700 - and about 15 minutes later, on
panel 706, open the WATER DUMP valve and - and
give us a time on that.
SPT Okay.
CC And, PLT; Houston. Because we were about 53 sec-

onds late on getting the offset centered, we're
going to be really tight on getting up to that
first site, site 125. So I want to warn you,
about the time you get into Z-LV, it's going to be
right there.
PLT Okay, we'll be ready.
224 14 18 13 CDT Okay, this is - How do you read, Hank?
CC Roger; reading you loud and clear.

TAG Tape 224-04/T-187
Page 7 of 8/1283
i
CFR Okay, good. l've got to record a little item here
known here as D-6. D-6 is exactly 57 percent,
57 percent, which is within limits.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We sent you up a message

this morning concerning the S191 door and we've
thought about that a little more and so at the
completion of the lunar cal, we want to leave
the door open, instead of closing it as step 3
calls for there in the little pad we sent you.
CDR Outstanding idea; we're with you. Hope it makes

it open this time.
CDR Okay, Jack, let's get the window out of there.
224 14 19 25 PLT This window coming off. That's it. Let's even
open the door this time. Big door coming open.
There's the big Moon right out there. Heck, we
can do the lunar cal right now. It's a nice full
Moon out there, Houston. It's a beauty. Right
in the window.
224 14 19 56 CC I bet that looks pretty through that big picture

window there.
PLT It does. That's a beauty.
CDR Nice planet right next to it. I wonder which one

that is. Bright enough to be Venus or Mars. It's
a bright one. Maybe somebody knows down there.
They'll get some addtional data when they shoot
EREP on both of these. I never had realized it,
Hank, until I got up here, but all night - since
we're almost in solar inertial - we're at dumping,
which isn't much - end up with the same stars out
the window, so you have two or three bright
planets out there, and they [sic] just always
the same place at the window. They change slowly
but not too slowly; I mean not too fast. Okay,
that's done, Jack. See what's next. I think it's
unlatch, open 190 window cover; rotate 190 to
OPERATE; and position and install the pin. Okay.
224 14 21 14 CDR Done.

TAG Tape 22h-Oh/T-187
Page 8 of 8/128h
CC Skylab, Houston. We 're i minute form LOS ;

Goldstone at 40.
CDR Okay, Hank
PLT Everything looks good. Standing by for preoptics

safe check.
224 14 22 31 CDR Okay, we got everything in position I believe.

Window's open; 190's in position; this whole thing
is set up, and we're standing by for T minus i0,
which happens to be about 14:30, which is about
8 minutes - 7 minutes from now.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 224-05/T-188
Time: 224:14:30 to 22h:16:00
- Page 1 of 14/1285
I
224 14 39 41 CC Skylab, Houston, stateside 15 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, stateside 15 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you'll give us the DAS, we

need to reset Z-2 and Z-3 in RM. We had another
failure.
CDR I don't see why that doesn't work.
PLT I don't either.
CDR Hello, Hank. How you doing?
CDR Okay, we're coming over the mountains.
CDR Okay.
PLT Looks like Goose Bay on the left. Hazy down

there, toda_ -.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're reading you now. We'd

llke to get the DAS to put in a reset Z-2 and
Z-3 and reenable the F_.
CDR You've got it. How do you read?
CC Okay. Reading you loud and clear now.
CDR Okay, Jack, give him a try.
PLT How do you read me, Hank?
CC Okay. Reading you loud and clear, Jack.
PLT Okay. You got your down-link box working on

1 right now.
CC We copy.
CDR 254 is my next MODE to READY. And for those of

you down there that don't know what we're doing,
which may include same of us up here, we're going
to whistle across - near Salem, south of Salem,
TAG Tape 224-05/T-188
Page 2 of 14/1286
and a little bit north of Klamath Falls, over

Goose Lake, down Just north of the Grand Canyon,
over Gallup, New Mexico, Albuquerque, near the
Pecos River, down by Del Rio mud over through
Kingsville.
PLT Okay, I got the first one, here - -
CDR - - ... we hope that the weather's good. Jack's

got the first one, all righty. 42:54 is 192 MODE
to READY. You got her already, Jackum?
224 lh h2 55 CDR Yes, siree, Bob.
CDR MARK. 192, MODE to READY. 43.
22h lh 43 01 CDR MARK. EREP to START.
PLT Okay. We're taking a data on a uniform area in

Smoke Creek Desert.
224 14 43 ll CDR S, ON.
224 14 h3 12 CDR R, ON.
224 14 43 14 CDR 94 MODE to MANUAL. Okay, that's complete. We're

standing by for 43:33.
224 lh h3 20 PLT We'll whistle over here to this other desert;

take some data on it - by the likely name of
Black Rock Creek desert. Okay. That's one point
each. We'll - -
224 14 h3 33 CDR MARK. MODE, AUTO.
PLT - - move them out a little bit here. Take another

point in that same desert. Taking a light area
this time.
PLT Okay, we got the first one. We'll have to quit

on that and go to the next one. And that is 45
up and right 4.9. And that's going to come off
at h5:37. Okay, we got our gimbal angle set.
h5:37. We want the black dike, White Sands and
a spot between, if I can get her.
CDR h4:_2 down-link box is going to 3.

TAG Tape 224-05/T-188
Page 3 of 14/1287
PLT 45 :37 - -
224 14 44 42 CDR MARK. At 3.
CDR 44:50 goes to 4.
224 14 44 50 CDR MARK. Position 4. 58, it goes to 6.
224 14 44 58 CDR MARK. In 6. 06, it goes to the 8.
224 14 45 07 CDR MARK. It goes to 8. And 14, it goes to 9.
CDR Okay, it's in 9.
PLT Okay, there's the White Sands.
CDR 46 ... 190 to intervalometer, 10.
PLT There 's the dike.
CDR 190, intervalometer, 10.
PLT There's the lava flow. We're locked on to the

beauty, Hank. We're going to zoom in on it and
get them all. There's a - I see the dike too.
I see exactly what you're looking for. We're
going to get some data on it, right now. Coming
through 44. We got lots of time.
CDR Sure do, if you got it already. 46:08 we're

looking for, for one - -
PLT We're right on that black dike that's requested

for on that lava flow, Hank.
CC Hey, good show.
CDR Okay, intervalometer, 10. 46:14, 193 S to

STANDBY.
224 14 46 15 CDR S to STANDBY.
224 14 46 17 CDR R to STANDBY.
224 14 46 18 CDR MODE to CROSS-TRACK CONTIGUOUS.
PLT I hope the weather clears up down there in the

Brownsville area.
TAG Tape 224-05/T-188
Page h of 14/1288
224 14 46 22 CDE ... S, ON.
224 14 46 23 CDR R, ON. At 46:44 and ...
PLT Okay, we're picking up . .. between those two things,

and - get a little data on that.
224 14 46 44 CDR MARK. 46:44. SHUTTER SPEED MEDIUM. 92, MODE to

CHECK.
PLT And now we're going over the White Sands. Got
to find that precise point that the guy wants.
224 14 47 00 CDR MARK. 92 to CHECK. 47:15, 190 to 20.
CDR 15 -
224 14 47 16 CDR MARK. We're in_ervalometer 20 on 190. 47:21,

S to STANDBY.
224 14 47 21 CDE MARK. STANDBY, R to STANDBY. And it's - -
224 14 47 25 PLT Okay, we found the precise point on the White

Sands the guys want.
224 14 47 28 CDR S, ON.
224 14 47 29 CDR R, ON; - -
PLT That's for 48:19. 45, 35, 3.
224 14 47 31 CDE - - down-link box, position 1. In position 1.
PLT Okay, we got four of them so far, H_k.
CC Sounds good.
224 14 47 44 CDE 48, 193. S to STANDBY. 48 -
224 14 47 56 PLT 48:19.
CDR Okay, stand by, stand by.
CDE 49, we're going to go 192 MODE, READY.
PLT Okay, now. Five seconds on 380.
CDE Okay.
TAG Tape 224-05/T-188
s Page 5 of 14/1289
PLT Ten degrees on 385 and then find 390. No, the
weather ain't much good.
CC Skylab, Houston. Info, we had another RM failure

in Z-axis; we're going to take care of it.
CDR All right, that's good.
PLT The weather sure is 0.7 down there, Hank.
CC Okay, it should be 0.4 to 0.7. Probably, a

little cirrus will get in your way there.
PLT Hay, you know it !
CDR He can handle it.
PLT Looking right at Delta Lake, but I can't see it

for the clouds. See if I can get anything out
on the coast.
224 14 49 01 CDR 192, MODE, READY. TAPE MOTION light, on.

Everything's good.
PLT Everything on the coast looks clobbered, too,

Hank. I can get 3/4; I'll give you a little
data on that.
CC Okay.
224 14 h9 16 CDR MARK. S, ON and R, ON. It was the down-link

box again.
PLT Probably give you a little on 307 here. Give

you a little on that.
PLT Okay, Hank, the rest of that area was clobbered

by clouds. Go on to the next one. Doggone it.
50:56, 45, UP; LEFt, zero. I think you had me
some good settings on some good pointing there,
Hank. That was real good.
CC Roger; we copy.
PLT Okay, 50:56.
PLT I don't know, Hank.

TAG Tape 224-05/T-188
Page 6 of 14/1290
CDR *** the down-link box. 51:i0 it's going to 4.
224 14 51 i0 CDR MARK. It's at h. 51:18 it's going to 6.
224 14 51 18 CDR MARK. It's gone to 6 and 8 is 26. It went to 5

and then to 6. Now it's at 6. 26, it goes to 8.
224 14 51 29 CDR Okay, it's at 8. 34, it goes to 9. Okay, it's

at 9 now. Had a little holdup at 5. h4 to CHECK.
224 14 51 46 CDR 192, MODE to CHECK. 190 READy, out and gone to
STANDBY.
224 14 52 04 CDR Intervalometer, 10.
224 14 52 07 CDR FRAME, 65. That's written backwards. Somebody

wrote that thing backwards. Hope that's right.
Would you check to make sure that that clearly
means intervalometer, 10; FRAME, 65, Hank?
CC Wilco.
CDR I'm a little suspicious.
224 14 52 30 PLT That time 50:56 was going to be over land so I

shot short of the land, Hank.
224 14 52 35 CC Okay, we copy and the pad's right; intervalometer,

i0; FRAME, 65.
CDR Okay, that's where we are. Coming up on 53.

Stand by.
PLT Nadir swath.
CDR You' re swathing it.
PLT Okay, we're set for nadir swath.
224 lh 53 01 CDR MARK. S, STANDBY.
224 14 53 03 CDR MARK. R, STANDBY.
PLT Okay, I changed the camera to 1/250.
CDR Wonder what Ron Weitenhagen's doing today?
PLT Hello - say hello to old Ron Weitenhagen down there

will you?
TAG Tape 224-05/T-188
Page 7 of 14/1291
CC All righty, I'll do that.
CDR Tell him this machine's working okay. Same to

Roger Goodrum. It's working real nice. George
Laski is probably pretty happy about the way it's
working, too. Tell him hello.
224 14 54 03 CDR 190; MODE; AUTO.
PLT I guess, Hank, we - we're getting into the

Yucatan Peninsula there - -
CDR i minute.
PLT - - So I backed up and I - -
224 14 54 14 CDR MARK. 54:13 ... Auto - -
PLT - - I took three shots of the Gulf.
CDR A, ON, 54:30.
CC Roger;we copy. We're about 1 minute to LOS.

Vanguard at 05 and we're going to reset your
ACS ALERT light.
CDR 54:30.
224 14 54 30 CDR MARK. A is ON.
PLT Thank you.
224 14 54 32 CDR 54:32. 192; MODE, READY. 192's running in

READY.
PLT Okay, 55:hi.
CDR And, Hank, I notice there's a slight misprint.

Does - does the MODE, CHECK happen at 55:20?
It's got 55:2 nothing.
CC Roger; it's 55:20.
CDR Thank you.
CDR Go to MODE, CHECK then.

TAG Tape 224-05/T-188
Page 8 of 14/1292
CC Skylab, we have another RM failure in _. We'll

fix it at Vanguard.
224 lh 55 26 CDR Okay, 55:20, MODE, CHECK.
22h 15 0h 52 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for

9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, we're just cruising along, finishing up

the EREP.
PLT Hey, Hank, wonder if you could do --have some-

body do one thing for me kind of quick. Call
up over at the Harris County Youth Village, talk
to Dick Baker or John Peters, one of those
people. And have them tell my boy's Sunday
school class that I'm thinking about them this
morning. Will _-ou?
CC Okay, that was Dick Baker. What was the other

name?
PLT Or John Peters.
CC Okay, will do.
PLT Thank you.
CDE That's a good idea, Jack.
PLT Okay, 15:ll.
CDE Standing by for 191; 6 minutes, light, on.
22h 15 06 02 CDR The READY is on. Down-telling [?] switch

position to OFF.
PLT 15:ii.
22h 15 06 08 CDR Okay, down-link position is OFF.
CDR 15:07:12 is EREP stop.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to reenable Z-2,

Z-B, and RM and reset your _T.F.RTlight.
CDR Okay, Jack's over near the ATM DAS, but I don't
know whether he's using it or not.
TAG Tape 224-05/T-188
s Page 9 of ih/1293
PLT Not yet.
CC Okay, and be - before the pass is over, we'd

like to give you some DAS codes so that you can
take care of this if it occurs again. We're
going to be almost an hour here LOS after
Vanguard.
PLT Okay, wonder how we'll know if it occurs - on

our talkbacks.
SPT Just a minute, Hank; I'ii get to you.
PLT Have to stop in a few seconds or so.
224 15 07 l0 SPT ETC frame count at this point is 130, Hank.
CC Roger; copy 130.
SPT And I'll copy those DAS codes.
CC We'll have them; just a second, Owen.
PLT Okay, you're not using the DAS, are you, Hank?
CC Negative; DAS is yours.
PLT Thank you.
PLT And he loads of maneuver time for SI, which

is -
CDR Okay, I'm reading C-7 and C-7 indicates - -
PLT Thank you for alerting us on entering those

fine maneuvers, Hank.
224 15 08 ll SPT Say, Jack, does your pad call for you to return
to SI now?
PLT Yes, sir; 15:ll.
SPT Okay, we'll be going to ATT HOLD a little later.
CDR That 's right. From SI though, O.
SPT Okay, I thought about it from Z-LV.
PLT No, sir.

TAG Tape 224-05/T-188
Page i0 of lh/129h
PLT 52030.
CDR Jack, I'm going to open 190 rear shield in

a moment.
PLT 52015.
CDR I gather, Hank, we don't power a single thing

down for - from the interim period between where
we are right now and when we start the lunar cal.
SPT You go right to page 6-3.
CDR That's right.
224 15 08 48 CC That's affirmative, and, Owen, I got those numbers

now •
PLT Come on, 15 :ii.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, RG/RM config is 52015. Z-2/3 RG/RM enable

is 50034.
SPT Okay.
PLT Don't take it down there, Oh, you're bringing

it up, huh?
CDR T_]king to me?
PLT Yes, when you get it up, leave it up. I got to

change some stuff.
CDR Okay, so do I.
PLT ...
CDR I will assist.
CDR Okay, that's it; swinging it up and out of the

way. Oooh, it's bright down there.
CDR Let me change these filters - I mean these

apertures .... , I'm going to turn off 190.
CDR 8, 8, 9.5. h.8, 5.6 and 5.6.

• TAG Tape 224-05/T-188
Page ll of 14/1295
CDR h.8, 5.6.
CDR Okay, now, what do you want to do about these

filters? If anything.
' PLT I'll Just - I'll get to them on my checklist,

A1. We got time now.
224 15 l0 20 CDR All right.
PLT Just let me get this mauuever started.
UDR All right.
PLT I want to review what we need to do.
CDR I've disabled the 190 FMC; so that's good.
CDR P27, we go to at ATT HOLD.
224 15 l0 41 CC Skylab, Houston. Awhile ago when we said there

was no power change, there aren't any changes
other than what'sin your pad. There is one
thing there, I think, on the S190 FMC circuit
breaker; that's in the pad.
PLT Okay, I got that.
CDR Okay, we got that and pulled it Just a second

ago, so it's disabled at the moment.
CC And, SPT, did you copy the numbers?
PLT Here we go to SI -
224 15 ll 02 PLT MARK (Singing).
PLT Takes care of that maneuver pad, 0.; you've got

the rest. Here's a little thing for you.
CDR Hey, he wanted to know if you rec - if you got

the numbers, 0.?
PLT Huh?
SPT Hank, I copied 52015 and 50034; is that what you

mean?
TAG Tape 224-05/T-188
Page 12 of 14/1296
CC That's affirmative and we reset your AT._RT light

so that should be your cue that the thing has
malfunctioned again.
SPT Thank you.
SPT ... one.
CDR Could be. I - -
SPT ...
CDR Are we going to make two cal maneuvers today,

Houston, instead of one? We're trying to psych
it out here
224 15 ll 48 PLT That's news to the kid.
CDR That's what the Big O. says, and he ain't wrong

much.
PLT That's right.
CDR Needless to say.
PLT Change 190 filters and apertures, if required,

by your cal VTS pad remarks.
CDR Nice window. Ought to put one in the spacecraft

sometime. Okay, can I unscrew any of them of
interest to you? Which ones are going to come
off?
PLT Now let's see here. Let me read this. Looks

like postremarks, begin 190 filter change with
above sequence - Oops, wait a minute. We don't
change them yet.
CDR We got the CC, DD, EE, FF, BB, AA.
22h 15 12 h6 PLT We don't change them according to this. We

change them after the - after I do _ seven-point
sequence.
CDR All right. In that case, that's when we'll

change them. Know where the ones are we want
changed to?
TAG Tape 224-05/T-188
Page 13 of 14/1297
PLT Yes, they're all right in here.
SPT Are you still there, Hank?
CDR Which ones are you going to change and I'll make
sure they're loose here.
224 15 1B l0 PLT Looks like they all are - all of them are going
to be changed, everyone of them. You might not
want to loosen them, though, because you're
probably going to take some pictures with them,
aren't you?
CDR I know it ; I just wanted to make sure that

they're not jammed on there.
PLT Okay.
CDR They're all real loose anyhow.
PLT Kind of sticky sometimes.
CDR That 's what I wanted to prevent, last-minute

stickiness. That's done. Let's put it back
down again if you're finished.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from

LOS. Goldstone will be coming up at 16:17 and
also - -
SPT Hay, Hank
CC - - might point out that there is a possibility

of you requiring the contingency maneuver and
also a possibility of CMG SAT during the cal.
PLT Okay, Hank. I want you to verify one thin_. It

appears from my pad remarks here that we don't
require a S190 filter change at this point, but
we will after the seven-point sequence. Is that
right?
224 15 14 I0 CC That's affirmative.
SPT Hank, l'd also like to confirm that we're actually

doing two cal maneuvers instead of one, as shown
on page 6-2 of the EREP Checklist. It's like it
is in the ATM Systems Checklist on page 2-14 with
two cal maneuvers, plus a possible contingency.
TAG Tape 224-05/T-188
Page lh of ih/1298
CC Stand by i.
CDR Say again, Hank?
PLT We didn't hear you.
CC I think both maneuvers are required to do - in

the checklist - to do the cal.
SPT Okay, ...
22h 15 i_ h8 CC And they're called maneuvers 1 and 2.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 224-06/T-189
Time: 22_:16:00 to 224:17:30
r Page 1 of 6/1299
22h 16 17 16 CC Bkylab, Houston stateside for 11-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Hank.
CC SPT, did you ever get the cabin purge going?
SPT The what ?
CC The cabin purge.
SPT That 's affirm.
CC What time did you start the dump?
SPT I forgot to log it, but it's 20 minutes after you

asked me.
CC Roger ; copy.
224 16 17 48 SPT And another thing, I wanted to - mention, I got

straightened out on that maneuver. It was called
a cal maneuver on my pads, and offset maneuver
in the checklist ; and I remember being confused
by that on the training schedule, too. So I got
it straightened out shortly after I asked you, as
you were going over the hill.
CC Roger.
SPT All the maneuvering came off exactly on schedule,

and looked like a good run from all the way around.
224 16 18 15 PLT Hey, Hank, on the VTS, we're sitting here with
the power off, and the door open, at the moment.
CC Okay, we copy.
CDR And we down-loaded the tape recorder_ put the

data in the command module, and we're standing
by, in case you got any other tape you want put
in, because we got time.
CC We' re checking that now.

TAG Tape 224-06/T-189
Page 2 of 6 /1300
CC Skylab, Houston. If we could have DAS for a

moment, we'd like to reset Z-2, Z-3, RM; clear
the AI_RT light; and ENABLE MOMENTUM DUMP.
224 16 19 25 CDR Okay, you got it. We don't seem to get an ALERT
light, because we got the RATE GYRO INHIBITED. So
we don't ever get a red - an ALERT light. I guess
that's why.
SPT Incidentally, we set it about two times during

the last hour, and it keeps kicking off again.
We reset it and it kicked off, after a little
bit of maneuvering.
CC Roger.
CDR Hey, I got a big recommendation to tell the

Flight Data File people, Jerry Carr's mission.
Tell them not to put any of those little plastic
covers over the rings in the notebooks. The rings
don't come off anyhow, and we got spare rings,
even if they did, and moving that little plastic
around Just takes up time. It's a added incon-
venience.
224 16 20 34 CC Roger; we copy.
CDR They don't put them on Earth and we don't need

them up here, looks to me like, Hank. It Just
adds a little time every - everybody would like
to save.
CC CDR, Houston. We won't lead any more EREP tape,

since we're about 3 wee - 3 weeks away from our
next EREP; we'll Just leave it alone. And we'd
also like to get a rundown on - if we could, on
the - how the S191 door acted on this - this run,
when you opened her up.
CDR Okay, Jack will be here in a second. He's busily

working on the filters.
224 16 21 34 PLT I didn't time the door this morning, Hank, because
I was in a hurry to get a few other things done at
the time, and it appeared to me that it opened
at about the same rate as it did yesterday. It
took longer than normal, but it did get open.
CC Roger; we copy.
TAG Tape 224-06/T-189
Page 3 of 6/1301
CC Was the motion Jerky on the door again?
PLT Hank, I didn't watch the motion very long. I

noticed a couple of little jerks on it, but - but
that's all the time I took to look at it, since I
had to do some other things.
CC Roger.
224 16 22 21 CDR Hank, I've got an hour or 2 extra time today,

somehow; ask the flight planners if they can think
of things that we need to do, and send them up,
and I'll do them, preferably some sort of experi-
ment.
CC Where will your time be at, Al?
CDR Well, I got a little time there between the two

ATM passes and it looks like between 23:30, and
I got about 3 hours there. And housekeeping 60T
doesn't take very long. And housekeeping BA and
3M sure don't take very long. So I - I'm sure I
got 2 hours of pad in there somewhere.
CC Okay, we'll take a look at it.
CDR Yes, tell to - They could try somewhere around

01:00, if they got a SO19 or something like that,
something better, somewhere round in there. And
in between those 3 ATM passes, there might be a
possibility for something. We're - we - we've
got this place shipshape; we're ready to turn out
the work.
224 16 23 35 SPT Hey, Hank, how about asking the TO02 folks to
search up that data that I voiced down on channel
A, and ask if that's the way they like it pre-
sented, so that I can go ahead and do some more
of it; and I don't want to do it over again if
they don't like it that way.
CC Okay, will do.
SPT And, Hank, I was wanting to find out if that

EDB2 prep got down on the VTR last night. There
was some question about whether or not there was
adequate tape on the recorder for it.
TAG Tape 224-06/T-189
Page 4 of 6 /1302
22h 16 2h 40 CC Let us research that one, Owen. I'm not sure

we got the - the - the tape reviewed yet. We did
get 30 minutes of tape, though.
SPT And, Hank, the desiccants on 190 are not as blue

as they were, they're getting a little pale. And
I was wondering if you wanted some new desiccants
in for this long storage period, or if you'd rather
wait and put the new ones in after the storage
period.
224 16 25 14 CC Okay, I'ii get an answer on that.
SPT Thank you.
CC PLT, Houston. We'd like to go ahead and put in

some new desiccants for the storage period.
PLT Okay. I'll do it right now.
CC And, SPT, you asked a question earlier about

aurora. Our data show that the probability is
pretty low for the next few days. However, we'll
continue to look at it for you. If the aurora
does occur, then the best time and window for the
observation is the same as in your permanent
general message number 8 for the noctilucent cloud.
CC And, SPT; Houston. The ED32 TV was real good. We

got a full B0 minutes on it. That was 30 minutes
of good VRT work there, and the - the - the thir -
the ED32 was satisfactory.

22h 16 hl 02 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, ll minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. If it's convenient, I'd like to

read up a SAP update.
CDR Okay, Hank, should I get out a fresh peet - piece

of paper, or Just use the one we have now and sort
of mark it up?
CC Oh no, it's Just a voice update. You needn't copy

anything do_n; Just want to tell you a little
bit of what's been going on, since we sent the
SAP.
TAG Tape 224-06/T-189
Page 5 of 6/1303
CDR Oh, Okay; go ahead.
224 16 43 09 CC And while I'm doing that, if - if - if someone

is free to bring up the star tracker, we'd like
to get some data and see if we can find out what's
happening with our Z-integral failures.
CDR Okay, you want us to lock it on a star, is that

what you're saying?
CC That's affirmative, sir.
CDR Okay, go ahead and talk; and I'll lock it on a

star while you're talking.
224 16 43 30 CC Okay, the solar activity has been very low, with
no flares reported. Region 85 has gone over the
west limb, and regions 86 and 83 show little change -
no activity. The new region 88 is very small and
dim. Perma 29 seems to have become somewhat more
filled in. Several small type three sweep frequency
radio bursts have been reported in the past few
hours. Prominences visible on both limbs have been
quiet. Now Just a little while ago at 16:16 Zulu,
an eruptive prominence occurred in 8 - 85, active
region 85 on a llmb. Boulder reported the eruption
to be out 0.2 solar radii, and ATM observations
of this transient, is at crew option per the SAP.
CC PLT, Houston. If - if you haven't already done

so, you might as well go ahead and start baking
out those - this desiccants that you took out of
the S190.
22_ 16 45 16 PLT How about that, I'm right down here now packing
them in bags and putting them in the fecal dryer.
CC You're way ahead of us.
PLT No, we're thinking along the same line.
CDR I tried to lock on the star with the technique

of using the INNER at minus 708, and it never
would lock on the star, so I'm letting it track
itself now, see if it will give one.
CC And, CDR; Houston. Astro suggests that -

TAG Tape 224-06(T-189
Page 6 of 6 /1304
CDR .. • m
CC Yes, we suggest that you try INNER, minus 696.
CDR Not a bad suggestion, just got it. 695 for

INNER, 1511 for OUTER.
CC Roger; copy.
24h 16 47 02 CC Skylab, Houston. If you'll let us have the DAS

a minute, we'd like to enable Nu z update.
CDR You got it.
224 16 50 40 CC Skylah, Houston. We would like for you to re-

select Z-2, Z-3, and RM ENABLE per the DAB commands
we gave you earlier.
CDR Nobody's up there right now. You want us to go

and do it, or do you want to just do it?
CC We don't think we can get it in now, A1; we're

about a minute from LOS.
CDR Okay, good show. We'll go and do it right now.

Didn't know that.
CC We'll be coming up on Hawaii at 51 and while

you're up there, A1, you might as well close the
star tracker shutter.
224 16 52 l0 CDR Shutter's closed. Both commands are in.
CC Thank you, sir.
CDR Shutter's closed. Both commands are in.
22h 16 52 17 CC Roger.
END OF TAPE
I
TAG Tape 224-07/T-190
Time: 224:17:30 to 224:18:01
I Page 1 of 3/1305
224 17 50 23 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii, 7 minutes.
CDR Hello, Houston. How are you doing?
CC Okay, I guess you've got a reset during this pass -

a dump?
224 17 50 43 CDR We got a little more than that. We got a CLUSTER

ATT light and ACS MALF light, and when we whistled
up here to see what was going on, X was on SINGLE 2,
Y was gray, and Z was SINGLE 2. We checked caution
and warning four or five - by - and a whole bunch
of TACS was firing all the time. We checked the
caution and warning. It was 4511. We checked the
ALERT, it was 1411. About this time, it went NO
CONTROL in the Z-axis, barber pole in all positions.
We then proceeded to reset the - the rate gyros.
We looked at them all to see how they compared -
each axes [sic]. And they looked okay. So we
reset them back to the configuration you see them
in right now, per the pad. In the X-axis, we got
i and 2 on, with B as redundancy m_nagement. And
Y is 1/2, and Z is 2/3. And, by the way, about
3 or 4 minutes ago, Z went SINGLE again. So that's
where it sits. We hoped that would solve the
problem. It didn't appear to solve it too well.
It continued to fire a lot of TACS, so we looked
at the rates again, and we decided that maybe we'd
inhibit the TACS for a few minutes, to psych this
thing out. So we inhibited all the TACS, took a
look at the rates, and saw whether or not our rates
were proceeding in the direction to correct the
attitude error. In Y and Z - correction, in X and
Z, they were, but in Y, the one that had not failed,
they were not. So we thought about that a little
while, and we decided the thing to do, since we
didn't have the cow,hand module to stabilize it with,
which we would have liked to have done we decided
the thing to go - do was to go to CMG, ATTITUDE
HOLD. So we checked the CMG's to make sure they
were enabled. Went CMG, ATTITUDE HOLD; and
ENABLED the TACS again. This solved it, somewhat,
TAG Tape 224-07/T-190
Page 2 of 3/1306 !
i
in that it fired a minimum number of TACS after

that. But it still didn't seem to want to
stabilize. We took a look at the momentum. It
all looked good. We took a look at the CMG posi-
tion, and it looked to us like - that the outer
gimbal on i was at i00 percent. The outer gimbal
on 3 indicates at i00 percent, and it jumps back
to zero every once in a while, but we think that's
an SL-2 problem. We then decided the best approach
was to try to get the gimbals off the stop, so we
con_nanded a CMG to NOMINAL CAGE. After it caged,
we released it, and that's the situation you find
us in now, except we've gone back to SI. It's
quit firing TACS; it's - Except for switching to
SINGLE a few moments ago, it's acting just like
it was when we left you last time.
224 17 53 54 CC Roger; we copy.
CC Skylab, while we're absorbing all this, we need the

DAS for the Z-2 drift update and we'll reconfigure
Z-2, Z-3.
224 17 54 23 CDR Okay. And the thing that came quickly to head was
the fact, when we took a look at it, we realized
that we were going to have to solve the problem
with the ATM control system itself. And we had
an update pad that told us which gyros were best.
So we just went to those gyros, per our preplan.
But it didn't solve it completely, which leads me
to believe that maybe the procedure - the
malfunction procedure for this type of a failure,
which we can probably expect several more times,
at least - Hopefully not, but possibly - that we're
going to have to have an update to that malfunction
procedure that works, using Just the ATM itself.
Or, what's the best situation to put the whole
cluster in, without using any TACS up, until we
can let things settle down a little bit.
CC Roger. We'll work that one, A1.
CDR Okay. 1
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

Vanguard's coming up at 19 with a data recorder
dump.
TAG Tape 224-07/T-190
- Page 3 of 3/1307
224 17 57 50 CDR Sounds like a good idea. If we have that problem

again, we'll probably do it the same way.
OFTAP
TAG Tape 224-08/T-191
Time: 224:18:01 to 224:19:30
,- Page i of 4/1309
224 18 20 08 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 9 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR I'm getting ready to run JOP 4C, and step 4

indicates that it wants me to go over to area 85.
Now, 85's no longer visible up here. It's gone
around the limb, as far as I can see. So, I'll
Just go to the - to the coordinates given on the
pad and look in that area.
224 18 21 13 CC Okay, that's correct, A1. And, CDR, we'd like to

bring up the star tracker, so we can get squared
away. We may be wanting to co--and a maneuver here,
shortly, to take out a Z - X error out of plane,
and try to get in the situation, such that we don't
bomb out again on the next dump.
CDR Say, have you got some good angles, or should I

use the canned one?
CC Let's try the INNER gimbal, minus 695, and you may
have to do a good bit of searching with the outer.
PLT How much TACS did we fire, Hank?
224 18 21 55 CC We're still working that_ and I guess we're going

to have to wait until we can get the data back in
here, before we can really figure out what really
did occur. Best we can tell, you did the proper
thing in - in handling that.
CDR We still don't think the procedure is good enough.

It sort of leaves you hanging, won - hoping it's
going to work, instead of having a positive plan.
The - I've locked on a star. I don't know if it's
the right one or not, but it's close. OUTER, 1709;
INNER, 694; error, 3.5.
TAG Tape 224-08/T-191
Page 2 of 4/1310
CC CDR, Houston. If you'll let us have the DAS a

little bit, we'll enable the star tracker to ATM DC.
224 18 22 5h CDR You got it.
CC And we're going to reselect Z-2, Z-3 and go through

that little bit again. And when we LOS, you might
keep an eye on that ACS alert light, and then,
well, you've got the numbers on board there to
bring up Z-2, Z-3 in a reconfiguration again.
224 18 23 17 CDR Well, we have the feeling that that wasn't the one
got to us. We think that that, along with some
sort of X problem, got to the system and it just
couldn't handle it.
CC Roger; we agree with you there, A1, and we - we're

going to try to get the data back and see if we can
find out exactly what did happen.
SPT Another one I don't understand is that CMG SAT

signal. And every time we saw the CMGs, it was 50 -
60 percent, or below.
CC Roger; we copy.
224 18 25 27 CC Skylab, Houston. Looks like we're within 0.2 of

a degree of nominal NU Z so we won't be needing
a maneuver.
CC CDR, Houston. Just a little reminder. When you

get into the AUTO RASTER there in the S055, you
might take a gander at the EASTER SCAN COUNTER and
check to see if it - if it - when it's doing its
fun as to whether the talkback there on the zero
order, is illuminated or not - is showing or not.
224 18 26 59 CDR Okay, I'm having to operate it mechanical, because

l'm off the limb, but I'll check it mechanical.
CDR Hank, you might tell the ATM fellows in the backroom,
there's no way that I can finish step B of this
particular building block, because it's got a lot -
late start with the ACS problem. And I'll go ahead
and finish this particular chip - chip A and then
shut it down for the night - for this night pass.
I can bring it up and start on that tomorrow morning,
If they want, and probably still finish the other.
TAG Tape 224-08/T-191
Page 3 of 4/1311
I can finish the other pass and, if I got any

time at the end, I'ii come back and do this one,
but it's up to them.
22h 18 28 17 CC CDR, Houston. We concur with your approach there

to Just press on and get as much of it as you can.
CDR Okay, then, when we come up to day period tomorrow,

I'll start again right here, finish this, and then
press on.
CDR Hank, I might mention also, the technique I used

was to go to the pad coordinate§ and check the
MON, to see if there were bright areas there, which
there were. But that sighting is difficult, because
you can't see the little X - the pointer. Then
I rolled about that point on the limb, so I could
get the 82B slit changes to the limb, and then I
went out 30 arc-seconds. And that's where I'm
taking the data.
224 18 29 27 CC That sounds good to us, A1. Sounds like the right
thing there; and we're about 50 seconds from LOS.
We're also going to select Z-3 alone and with RM
enable, because Z-2 and Z-B are drifting apart.
We'll be coming up on Hs_aii at 26. And, as a
reminder there, would you close the star tracker
shutter?
224 19 26 09 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for l0 minutes with

a data recorder dump.
CDR Okay, Hank; have at it.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We'd like to know if you got

the M092 vent on time?
CDR Say that again.
CC Roger. Was the M092 vent on time?
CDR Let me check.
224 19 26 58 PLT Hank, can you hear me there? We're Just now getting
ready to start the 92.
CC Okay, we copy.
I-
TAG Tape 224-08/T-191
Page 4 of 4/1312
CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, we're going to force

a contingency momentum sample by inhibiting and
then reenabling CMG control, if we could have the
DAS.
224 19 27 47 CDR You've got it.
CC Okay, to get a little rundown here at first cut

at this thing, what we suspect has happened there
before was that we had a RM failure in - in Z-axis,
so it went over to interim strapdown and got
another Z-axis RM failure, which - Then the system
forced us into Z-3 and backup strapdown, which
put X-1 - X-2 and Y-2 in control, which are - are
the poorer of X and Y gyros. And we think that
this is what led into the problem. So to try to
improve on this situation, we're also going to
select Z-3 only with RM enabled and then, if anytime
you get the ACS alert light when we're LOS, we -
we can use a little pad you've got there to select
Z-3 only_ with RM enabled.
CDR Okay, that's the 52015 and 50037?
224 17 28 47 CC It's - it's the numbers on the rate gyro pad you
had in case your system went down when you're LOS.
It tells you how to select the best gyro, and we're
saying Z-3 ought to be the one.
CDR Yes, I'm going to read and make sure that we got
the same pad. 52015, 50037.
CC Roger. That's the right numbers.
CC And, CDR, sometime during this pass, we'd like for

you to give us a little XUV MONITOR on the VTR.
CDR I think we can do that.
CC And your TV switch - VIDEO switch is in TV right

now, so you'll have to switch that to MONITOR.
224 19 29 43 CDR Okay, now we're not centered on the Sun; we're on
the limb, but I'll give you what we got there.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 224-09/T-192
Time: 22h:19:30 to 22h:21:00
Page 1 of 4/1313
224 19 BO 28 CDR Okay. I gave you two each at one half, one, two
and four. I can give you some more if you
would like.
CC That'll be enough, A1. You can press on and try

to a - get back on your schedule.
CC And CDR, no need to acknowledge but we have several

items that we could get you to do during the next
night pass, and we'll have these either for you
here in Hawaii or Vanguard, which is the next
station, whenever you or - or the SPT can copy.
CDR Okay, we'll be ready to do it.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours with a Z-3

Enable with RM.
CDR Okay, I'm going to do this one about 15 seconds

above the limb.
CC CDR, Houston. What was your last comment about

doing something in 15 seconds?
CDR I did the last 36 - about 30 arc seconds above

the limb and I was doing this one at 15 arc seconds
above.
CC Oh, okay. We copy.
224 19 35 45 CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute until LOS. Vanguard

in 58.
22h 19 57 53 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Vanguard, 9 minutes.
SPT Hank, you ever figure out how much TACS we

expended?
CC Our first estimate at it is about 1200 pound-seconds.
SPT Good. That's not as much as it might have been.

More than we like, but still not as bad as it
might have been.
TAG Tape 224-09/T-192
Page 2 of 4/1314
CC Roger.
CC SPT, are you free to copy down a few things that

the CDR can accomplish during the next night
cycle ?
SPT Yes. Jack's just finishing up his LBNP here in

the 5-minute recovery. I'll copy some. Go ahead.
CC Okay. We've got indications that we may have one

of the 0WS heat exchanger fans not putting out
or failed; so during this period, if it's con-
venient, we'd like for him to just open up the
access door there in the airlock and take a look
at the heat exchanger fans and see if he can
determine if one of them is not running.
SPT Okay.
224 20 00 12 CC Another thing we'd like to do is get the M0L SIEVE A

back on a nominal configuration. And the way
we'll do that is on panel 203, M0L SIEVE A TIMER
switch OFF. Panel 228, want to m_ke sure both
BEDS 1 and 2 are in DESORB; have to use a T-handle
there. One of them will be out of that configura-
tion, but get them both to DESORB; then go back
to pane203 and turn the MOL SIEVE A TIMER switch
to PRIMARY. And the beds should cycle within
15 minutes and the M0L SIEVE A will be in a
nominal configuration then.
SPT Okay, Got it.
CC And another thing he could do if he has time is,

we would like to get a VTR voice check. We'd
like for him to take a handheld mike, and do
four short test counts on the VTR with the mike
at a distance of 6, 12, 18, and 2h inches from
the mouth. We're trying to determine what is the
best distance to get the best voice on the tape.
22h 20 01 31 SPT Okay. I understand that. Now do we have the -

a camera connected and the video on, or just
turn the VTR recorder to run and then make the
voice check?
CC All we need is V - -
TAG Tape 224-09/T-192
i Page B of 4/1315
SPT ... we have to have a video signal as well as

audio or just the audio?
CC We don't need the video signal, 0wen. All we

need is the VTR to run and use the mike.
CDR Okay. On this MOL SIEVE A to PRIMARY, I turned

SIEVE A OFF, put them both in DESORB and then
turned the TIMER to PRIMARY and it _mmediately
shifted BED 1 to DE - ADSORB and BED 2 to DESORB.
CC Okay. That sounds good to us and when you re -

make those test counts on the - the tape recorder,
if you'd begin by saying how far the mike is from
your mouth, that would help us, too.
CDR Sounds good. Okay. Is that all you want done on

MOL SIEVE A. Looks like it didn't do anything
but put it right back where it was.
22h 20 02 hO CDR Hank, when I looked in there, BED 1 was in ADSORB,

BED 2 was in DESORB, so I put BED 1 to ADSORB -
correction DESORB, and when I went back to PRIMARY,
it went to ADSORB again.
CC Roger. EGIL' s happy.
CDR And for the backroom, I Just went ahead and put
it on GRATING POSITION 2999 MECHANICAL instead
of 2897 OPTICAL, because I could set there quicker
and catch up better.
CC We copy, CDR, and one more - -
CDR That 's the same place.
CC - - And one more ver - -
CDR Say again.
CC - - one more very important item for you here.

When you close out your panel there, we want you
to be sure and go to SOLAR INERTIAL. This is
because we're going to go about an hour and a
half here without a station contact, and this
will protect us against any possible malfunction
in the canister actuator that would cause an
overtemp.
TAG Tape 224-09/T-192
Page 4 of 4/1316
4
CDR Okay. Is that going to be normal or just

today we're doing that?
CC This would - We'll have to do this, A1, any time

we have an LOS period that goes in the neighbor-
hood of an hour and a half.
CDR Sounds good. How are our C - how are our rate
gyros looking these days?
224 20 05 02 CC CDR, Houston. At the moment the gyros look real

good and in working through the building block
there, if you do run into any problems, we suggest
you delete the two-limb coalign and then later
this evening when the PLT or SPT are running their
passes, that'll be number 1 on the shopping list
to pick up.
CC CDR, Houston. Did you copy my last on deleting

the two-limb coalign if necessary?
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. Did you copy my last on deleting the

two-limb coalign if it's necessary?
CDR Sure did and it will be definitely necessary

because we're out of time right now.
CC Okay. Then maybe they can pick that up a little -

a little later this evening, if they have the
extra time on one of their passes. And also in
regards to that MOL SIEVE bed there, if you
could check that in about 15 minutes and make
sure it's cycled, that would help us too. We'll
be coming up on Vanguard again at 21:36.
224 20 06 47 CDR Okay. You wanted me to make sure that it just

swapped position in 15 minutes. Will do.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape _224-I0/T-193
Time: 224:21:00 to 224:22:30
Page i of 5/1317
224 21 36 43 CC Skylab, we've got you AOS through the Vanguard

for 9 minutes.
SPT Oh, - one other thing we need here, Story. AI

noticed that we actually had enough time to get
in an extra ATM run. So Jack is up on the ATM
panel right now, and he's doing the ATM work for
the next pass. And then he's going to pick up
those housekeeping items that - that Jack had on
his schedule. And we' d appreciate a voice up-link
of some suggested ATM activities for the next
orbit, and we'll get those, too.
CC Okay, Owen. And we dropped out over the Vanguard.

Did you say something prior to your ATM cn_ments?
SPT Only that we probably got a lot of stuff on your

experiment tape recorder now. We're just finish-
ing up the 93 run on the CDR. And so that will
be finished here inside of a few more minutes.
We're Just about to finish the pedallng, right
now.
CC Okay.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Yes, go ahead.
224 21 38 07 CC Jack, you're running a little bit ahead of us

here on the ATM, but we got some things you
could run. And that's a 55 - that's a 55 offset
alignment, and a two-limb coalignment.
PLT Yes, okay. We're running out of daylight now,

and the part that I got done on that rev was to
- We got started a little bit late, so I got the
JOP 2C, step 4, and I got two-thirds of the 121)
done. I didn't get the middle part of that, so
we'll pick it up the next time around. It's
pointing for JOP 2C. The prominence above the limb
over active region 85 was not visible in H-alpha 2.
And so I pointed H-alpha 1 85 arc seconds above
the prominence and could not see the - the -
active region in any H-alpha scope, because it's
Page 2 of 5/13.18
too far around the limb. But I think the - using

H-alpha i and pointing it at 85 arc seconds above
the prominence probably did the Job. And next
rev we'll pick up and do your alignments, and we'll
do the - JOP 2C, step l, and finish off 12D.
224 21 39 36 CC Roger. And, Jack, I worked for us the contingency

sample here, if you could stay off the DAS.
PLT Okay, it's yours.
224 21 41 19 CC And, Jack, the DAS is yours.
PLT Thank you. Oh, Story, how's your private come

working? Is it going to work tonight? If it is,
I would like to talk to m_ wife.
CC Okay.
PLT That is, if it's working. If it's going to be

hard making connections, why, I would Just a_
soon wait until tomorrow night.
CC We're working that out, Jack.
CDR Story, do we have ATM pads for every pass from

now on through the last one of the day?
CC Stand by I, AI.
22h 21 43 26 CDR If we don't, would you have them make up a -

a official one and send it up. And we'll Just use
the next one as we go along until we get the
final one, and then we'll do it as the last pass
of the day. Because we've got a little time here,
and we want to make sure we use it the best
possible way, which means these pads that have
been thought through by the backroom, you know,
with some inter action between one another, as i
opposed to Just a quickie.
CC Okay, and we'll keep you scheduled for the rest

of the day, A1.
22h 21 hh 03 CDR By the way, I checked the mol sieve, and in

15 minutes, sure enough, they cycled to the
opposite positions, Just as you would suspect.
I also checked the four heat exchanger fans;
they were all working very well. I turned them
Page 3 of 5/1319
all off and then turned them on, individually,

to make sure that they, in fact, were working and
weren't Just freewheeling. And all four of them
are working_ We have noticed that down in the
workshop, on ducts i and 2, we have 500 feet per
minute flow, and on duct 3, 550. We thought that,
perhaps, I and 2 were a little low too, but
couldn't remember what it was at the beginning.
At any rate, those four heat exchanger fans are
running full speed.
CC Copy, AI.
224 21 44 54 CDR And we haven't had a chance to get on that other

one yet, but we will. l'm on the bike at the
moment.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS, we'll see you

CC Skylab, we're AOS Ascension for l0 minutes.
224 21 49 21 PLT Okay, Story, let me give you a brief refacapi -

recapitulation of the EREP sites we got, and the
ones we didn't get with S191. We got 125; we
got 320; we got 325; we got 330. We did not get
380, 385, or 390, due to weather. We had some
alternate sites, part of which we got. We got
307, which is the north edge of Laguna Madre.
We got site B14, the north part of the area.
The south part of both of those areas was
clobbered; therefore, we did not get site 305 or
308, because they were covered with weather.
And we are, right now, riding with the 191 door
open.
CC (_ay, thank you Jack. And I've got some ques-

tions on T002 for you.
PLT Speak.
CC How many sightings do you have - 10, 20, 30?
PLT I've taken three sets of l0 each. I took the

first two of the Fomalhaut and _if, and the
third one, which I haven't put in the recorder
yet, was taken on Fomalhaut and Diphda.
Page 4 of 5 /1320
CC Okay, just a reminder, we do need a mark on every

sighting and the data is looking excellent.
224 21 50 51 PLT Okay, well I did give you a mark in every sight-
ing on those first three runs, and I really
don't see why it's necessary to tie up the re-
corder for a whole 35 minutes. And what that's
going to do is constrain us to getting fewer
runs in, because other guys want to use the
recorders during that period of time for 487 and
whatever else. So if they're going to tie us
down to that, we going to le - we're going to get
less done. I'd prefer to take the sightings as
I did, tell you what time span the GMTs were.
The angles between the stars aren't going to
change, because they never have for a long, long
time. Therefore, I don't see why it is necessary
to give you marks in real time for star to star.
I can see where it's necessary, when you start
to worrying about the Earth's horizon, but we
have not used the stadimeter yet. So I would
like you to get a relaxation on that requirement.
224 21 51 56 CC Okay, Jack, an update on that. For the star -

star sightings, all we need is a GMT period on
the time that you did them.
PLT Okay, and that's what I'm going to give you. I

guess when it goes - when it goes Moon - Moon,
I can do the same thing, but when you - when we
get star - Moon, why then we got to give you a
mark, right?
CC That's correct.
PLT Okay. That's the way we'll play it; thanks a

lot.
CC And they got one other thing for you, Jack.
PLT Roger; go ahead.
224 21 52 28 CC On the master anomaly list that we sent up, we said

that the H2 and the 02 heaters in the eon_nand
module, i and 2, were crisscrossed. That's not
true of the 02 heaters, only the H 2 heaters.
Page 5 of 5/1321
PLT Okay; understand that the wires are crossed

on the H2 heaters, but not on the 02, right?
CC That's right.
PLT Do you want any reconfiguration, then, on

the 02 heaters at this time?
CC No; fine the way they are.
PLT Okay, thank you, Story.
CDR Go ahead.
CC A1, when you do that VTR voice check, we'd

also like a simultaneous recording on
channel A.
CDR Will do.
CC That'll help us isolate the problem. And

there's an S019 pad up there in the teleprinter,
as well as the prep for it.
CDR Outstanding. Thanks.
CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds til LOS. We'll see

you over Guam in 34 minutes at 22:33.
224 21 58 48 PLT Righto.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 224-ii/T-194
Time: 224:22:30 to 225:00:06
Page 1 of 7/1323
224 22 35 IB CC Skylab, we're AOS, Guam for 7 minutes.
CDR Okay, story. Owen's up there - was looking for

the volcano. I don't know if he found it or not.
Jack's on the ATM. I Just finished that test for
the VTR. We actually gave them two tests. We gave
them a test at i, 2, 5, and i0 inches. Then we
gave them a test at 6, 12, 18, and 24 inches
simultaneously recording on chan A. Is that what
you wanted?
CC That's affirm. And for Owen, the volcano is in

the window at this time.
CDR I'm looking out the wardroom window and all I see
is clouds and water.
CC That's too bad. Anyway, for Owen, it'll be there

2 more minutes.
224 22 36 ii CDR Okay, I'm going up where he is. We took out the
ETC. It's stowed. And we got the friendly S019
in the airlock now.
CC Great.
224 22 36 39 CDR I'm looking over the Flight Plan for tomorrow and
I might mske some co_ents now instead of waiting
for the evening report. Do you think it would be
possible to give me an ATM pass, the one that's
around 19:00 or so in there that is not being used,
and move my EREP tape to somewhere else? Because I
can certainly put it in some off time. And then
there's a possibility, after 2B:O0_ for at least
one ATM pass that's not scheduled. And perhaps it's
Just scheduled and not on this list, and I Just
don't know it.
CC Okay. We'll work on that, AI.
CDE Gkay. And just move the other stuff around because
we'll be able to do it all; and get that ATM in
there. We don't want to miss an ATM pass tomorrow,
if we can.
CC I think we're getting the message. PLT, Houston.

Page 2 of 7/1324
PLT Go ahead.
CC Jack, we'd like a star tracker lockon sometime.
PLT Okay.
224 22 37 40 CC And when you get done JOP 2C, 12D, your S055 offset
in two-limb coalign and the building block 7B,
you can go to the shopping list and do items 16
and 3.
224 22 38 ll CC And, A1, we see the VTR is still running. Would

you like us to turn it off?
CDR We headed that way and stopped to look at the

volcano, which we can't see, still.
CC Okay.
224 22 40 12 CDR We may have seen it, Story. We see sort of a low,
very low cloud that's lower than the rest, and it
looks foamy. And it may be water or clouds. And
it's got a long thin trail of vapor issuing from
it. Now it's either a contrail or it's the volcano.
We're not sure.
CC Okay. Sounds good.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Yes. Go ahead.
CC Jack, we'd like to do a VHF con check over the

Vanguard in preparation for your family conver-
sation. We'll be over the Vanguard at 23:12. If
you could configure for VHF via the VHF private
comm, change the cue card that we sent you up
yesterday. You can do that just a couple of minutes
prior to getting to Vanguard.
PLT Okay. I had quite a lot of trouble with Vanguard

last time. How about the Ascension and Madrid
pass? Is that available? Or the Canaries, Madrid?
CC We had trouble there, too, yesterday. And we're

planning to have your fsm_ly comm over Guam at
00 :l0.
i TAG Tape 224-ii/T-194
Page 3 of 7/1325
PLT Okay, that's better. And we'll check out the VHF
setup that we've had in the past over Vanguard at
23:12.
CC Okay.
224 22 hl 46 PLT Story, are you - are you - going to have the
family cohen on S-band or VHF tonight?
CC We're going to try it on VHF.
PLT Okay. So we'll use the same old VHF procedure we've
been using since we've been here?
CC That's affirm.
PLT Okay.
CC And your ANTENNA will be RIGHT over Vanguard. We're

at 30 seconds to LOS here. We'll see you over at
the Vanguard in about 40 minutes. And, SPT;
Houston.
SPT Go.
224 22 42 30 CC 0wen, save those two ED63 vials for which slides
were not prepared. On the ground, we have seen
cytoplasmic stresmlng, even though the material
is dead. So save those and the slides.
224 22 42 45 SPT I've already biocided the ones I prepared the

other day. Of course, I still have the vials,
and I can do it again anytime we have free time.
224 22 42 55 CC Okay. We'll plan to schedule it.
224 23 13 28 CC Skylab, we're A0S Vanguard for i0 minutes.

I'm on S-band now.
CC Skylab, AOS Vanguard, 9 more minutes on S-band.
SPT (Music) Okay, Story. I'm reading you down here in

the workshop now. Say again.
CC Okay, 0wen. We're Just establishing a conml check.

I'll go back to VHF soon, here. And on your ATM
pass, I've got some things for you here.
Page 4 of 7/1326
SPT Okay. Is this going to be a voice up-link for

about ll: 23 :50. Is that right?
CC Yes.
SPT Okay. Let me got a piece of paper - I ought to

write this right down, so ...
SPT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. On the shopping list, do item 1 first,

and then 16 and/or B. And repeat those, even if
Jack got some of them done. And I'm going back
to VHF.
224 23 15 34 SPT Okay, another co_nent there. He didn't get the -

two-or four-limb alignment complete and there was
an 82B exposure that - 2 plus 40 exposure that
wasn't complete. I'll try to pick those up.
224 23 17 36 CC And, Skylab, we're back on S-band for 6 minutes.
224 23 17 45 SPT Roger.
CC How do you read now?
SPT I'm reading you loud and clear; just the way it
ought to be.
CC Okay, good. We've got a little background noise

on you, but it's very readable.
PLT Okay. Do you have some way of knowing when you

comeup, whether or not we're using our recorder
before you dump?
CC We'll got you an answer.
PLT Okay, the reason I ask is because I was Just

recording something and suddenly now the record
light is out and I can't record any more and
I guess I'll Just have to go back and repeat it
all. Do you want me to stay here, Story, or
shove off?
CC As far as VHF goes?

s TAG Tape 224-II/T-194
Page 5 of 7/1327
PLT Yes.
CC Are you satisfied with the VHF, Jack?
PLT Yes, this - this is real good. It's coming

through very clearly.
CC Okay, stand by 1.
PLT Okay.
CC Jack, you can leave that panel configured Just

the way it is until we hit Guam for your family
comm.
PLT Okay, Story. And what time will that be?
CC That's at 00:i0.
PLT Okay. 00:10. Thank you.
CC Roger.

over Ascension in 5 minutes. And no need to
acknowledge, Jack, but in our present config-
uration, we cannot tell from down here if you're
running the tape recorders.
224 23 23 32 PLT Okay. Thank you.
224 23 30 09 CC Skylab, we're AOS for 14 minutes through

Ascension, Canaries, and Madrid.
PLT I got a question for you, Story, on this velom-

eter. When you put it in, in the airstream,
do you put it with the blunt nose facing the
airstream, or do you put it sideways so that
the opening faces the airstream?
CC That latter is correct. I'll verify that for

you.
TAG Tape 224-II_T-194
Page 6 of 7/1328
224 23 30 42 PLT In other words, you hold the probe perpendicular

so the long axis is perpendicular to the air-
stream with the opening facing the airstream.
Right?
CC That' s right, Jack.
224 23 30 52 PLT Thank you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Could you get a pencil and piece of paper, AI,

and copy our new APCS philosophy?
CDR Go ahead.
224 23 42 27 CC I only got 2 minutes here, AI, so we won't have

time to discuss the rationale for it. But num-
ber i, inhibit the TACS, leave them inhibited all the
time. Two, Y-I redundancy management enable; that's
if you have a problem. Three, if you got a CMG
SAT or a CM - due to a rate gyro failure, try to
tough it out until the next AOS. If the rates
are building up to an unsatisfactory rate, damp
the rates with the CMS [sic] using the OA emer-
gency cue card. That's the emergency rate control
cue card.
CDR Okay, that's pretty straight forward. I'm a

little puzzled on Y-1 enable. You mean you want
me to go in and select Y-1 and make it cingle
with redundancy management enable?
CC It's Just that we're going to leave that enabled,

A1.
CDR What's going on in the Y-axis right now? What do

you have?
224 23 4B 56 CC We'll have to catch that over the next pass, A.

The general philosophy here is that with rate
gyro problems the TACS can get us into a lot of
trouble early.
Page 7 of 7/1329
CDR That's a fact.
CC Yes. We Just wanted to get this to you for the

next 40-minute L0S here. And remind Jack that his
family co_ is coming up here at Guam at 00:10.
CDR Okay, he knows. He's ready.
CC And Jack will be on VHF and start off on the left

antenna and then go to the right antenna, halfway
through the pass.
224 23 44 39 CDR Thanks.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 225-01/T-195
Time: 225:00:06 to 225:01:32
F Page 1 of 5/1331
SKYLABAIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
225 O0 ii O1 CC Skylab, we're AOS Guam for 7 minutes.
CC And, CDR, when you get a chance, we'd like you

to lock up a star tracker for SO19 ops.
225 00 12 15 SPT I'm at the panel now, Story; go ahead. What do

you want? The same angles, I suppose?
CC That's affirm.
CC And you could stay off the DAS here, too. We're
going to select Y-1 redundancy management enabled.
SPT Okay.
CDR Why are you thinking about Y-I so much? Do you

think that's what caused the problem awhile ago?
CC Stand by i.
CC We think it was Y-2 that caused the problem. So

we got to get the tapes back and analyze all the
data and the rest of it.
225 00 13 26 CDR That's interesting. We were hassling around,

talking about it, and we said it's liable to be
that one that didn't shift. That's what really
threw it into a tizzy.
CC Okay, we didn't like shipping up that procedure

to you with 2 minutes until LOS, but we felt it
was a good enough thing that we wanted you to
have it in that 25-minute period. And our reasoning
behind it was that the CMGs, if you have rate
gyro problems, the CMGs don't have enough control
authority to get you that far out in rates or
attitude, especially rates. And that's why we
wanted to inhibit the TACS.
CDR Okay. We kind of like that idea. It sounds good

to us.
CC And the other thing it does is it gives you plenty

of time to go up to the panel and analyze the
situation.
TAG Tape 225-01/T-195
Page 2 of 5/1332
CDR Right. And we have on our panel, now, a little

card we just made up. It tells us what to do
with Y, and it tells us what to do with X and Z
per your last message. So theoretically, we just
look at all rate gyros through the DAS, see if
they agree or don't look too bad, and then select
the ones that you said.
225 00 14 52 CC Okay, and we think it's extremely unlikely that

with TACS inhibited, that between AOSs, that you
could build up any unsatisfactory rates.
CDR Good news.
225 00 15 i0 SPT And the Y-axis was the one axis that didn't fail
redundancy management.
CC Okay.
CDR Houston, looks like we got to change the Nu Z. It's

0.9 and the pad shows 4.1. So I guess I'll have
to make these corrections. What do you think?
CC I'll be right with you, AI.
225 00 17 h8 CC Skylab, we're at 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see

you over Honeysuckle in 6 minutes.
CDR Do you agree we ought to do some subtraction on
these - NUz?
CC We haven't made the update yet, AI. We'll hope

to have that at Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay.
CC Checking now, AI, it ought to be close. And if so,

you can use that.
CDR Well, the pad says minus h.l, and Owen's panel up
there says minus 0.9.
CDR Well, we may have made a mistake. Hold on.
CC We've just updated it, now.
SPT It's minus 2.5, now.

TAG Tape 225-01/T-195
F Page 3 of 5/1333
CDR Okay, minus 2.5.
CC Go with that, A1.
225 00 18 52 CDR Okay, I'ii make the corrections then.
225 00 25 07 CC Skylab, A0S Honeysuckle for 2 minutes.
225 00 25 28 PLT Okay, Story.
CC Jack, how did the VHF go?
PJ_T Came off without a hitch, Story, and thank you

for setting it up. The only difference I noticed
was that when I talked, they had a lot of echoes.
I heard myself say it over again several times
in the background.
CC Okay.
225 00 27 35 SPT Story, for the ATM room, I just completed another
two-limb coa!ignment. And there is, essentially,
no drift from the last check, which was made, let's
see now, back about 6 days ago. There's a pos-
sibility that line 9 might be a little bit better
than line 8, but I think it's awful close on the
upper limb. And I think we'll Just leave it right
where it is on 0832 as the Coalign position.
CC Okay, thanks, Owen.
225 00 28 17 CC Skylab, we're going LOS here. We'll see you over
the Vanguard at 00:51.
225 00 51 27 CC Skylab, we have you over the Vanguard f_r 6 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CDR Story, I've got a question. I'm doing SO19 up

here, and I've been making the marks at the proper
time. I wondered if I had to leave the tape re-
corder going between marks? It takes a lot of
time on the tape recorder, and sometimes I've been
doing it and sometimes I've been turning it off
and then bringing it back on for the mark. Could
you find out the answer on that one?
CC You can turn it off in between marks, A1.

TAG Tape 225-01/T-195
Page 4 of 5/1334
CDR Sorry, I couldn't hear you.
CC You can turn the tape recorder off between your

marks.
CDR Okay, good. Thank you.
CC And on the TV down here, we're seeing everybody

wearing jackets. Are you cold up there?
SPT It's a lot cooler.
SPT I slept under a double blanket - in other words,

the one that pulls up from my feet - last night
for the first time. I think Jack did too.
CC Okay.
225 00 52 43 SPT A couple of notes on this last ATM pass. I did

a shopping list item l, a JOP 12D, step l, a
two-limb and 55 alignment, and a shopping list
16, over on the east limb. I believe it was not
a prominence - not the prominence associated with
active region 85, however. Now on this two-limb
alignment, I've spent quite a bit of time going
between the North and South Poles here - or up
and down the upper and lower limbs, and I believe
that 0932 is a better aligned position than 0832.
And I think we'll switch over to that - coaligned
line, if y'all are in agreement on the ground.
CC We'll let you know, 0wen.
SPT It turned out the H-alpha radius to the inner

limb is Just about 1 arc second larger than the
white light radius as seen by the XUV SLIT.
CC Pretty good instrument, huh?
SPT Well it's sort of hard to imagine this limb's

very much different in diameter with two tele-
scopes.
225 00 54 47 SPT Another interesting point that - Jack pointed out

on the last rev and I've just reconfirmed up here;
that is, the prominences are distinctly more visible
in H-alpha 1 than they are in H-alpha 2. Even
TAG Tape 225-01/T-195
_- Page 5 of 5/1335
when you zoom H-alpha 2 into m_x zoom so that it's

in nearly the same field of view, and adjust the
contrast and brightness so that contrast is low
and brightness is the best, it is still distinctly
more visible in H-alpha 1 than it is in the other
instrument.
225 O0 55 14 CC Copy, 0wen.
225 O0 56 41 CC And, 0wen, we're GO with you using align 932.
SPT Roger.

over at Canaries at 01:10. And we'll be dumping
the tape recorders over Canaries.
CC As we go over the hill, we'd like a stop on S056.
225 00 58 29 SPT Okay, I've given you several stops on chat one
already. And this is that - may be that same
difficulty we had before when we tried the long
exposure by turning the ... off.
225 01 l0 57 CC Skylab, we're A0S Canaries and Madrid for lh minutes.
225 01 13 lh CC And, Skylab, we'd like to inhibit star tracker

control, if you can stay off the DAS a while.
SPT Okay, there's nobody up there now anyway.
CC Okay.
225 01 24 27 CC Skylab, we're at 30 seconds until LOS. The DAS

is yours. We'll be looking for the evering status
report over Honeysuckle in 34 minutes at 01:58.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 225-02/T-196
Time: 225:01:32 to 225:03:00
- Page i of 5/1337
225 01 58 34 CC Skylab, AOS, Honeysuckle, for 7 minutes.
CDR How about a nightly status report?
CC We are ready.
CDR Here comes a few numbers: 132, 155, 190. 4923,

8131, 5711. 6.246, 6.246, 6.245; 5.980, 5.980,
5.981; 6.964, 6.959, 6.959. 2/27/4147, 3/15/MARK I;
40, A; 20, B; 20, C; 20, D; 30 situps. SPT,
2/17/2200; Pilot, 1/05/0524, 2/30/6603. No
medications. Sleep: 7/G; 7/G; 7/G. Food log on
the way: CDR, one salt, and substituted pineapple
for strawberries; SPT, four salts, no deviations;
PLT, five salts, added one apple drink. Let me
now read you the - well at the end I'll give you
the - the - spices were used that was requested
that we give those to you. Okay, here comes the
photo log: VTS track 3-D, CL01, 00; VTS track 13-B,
CL02, 70; VTS track 20-B, CL02, 50. MI51 of
M092/93, CI41, 72, CIl6. 35 millimeters: CI99,
34; CXI2, 36; this 35-millimeter business is a
bit foulded up.
225 02 01 06 CDR Our counters - we're trying to figure out how they
read. We think we've also got a failure in our
CX - our - our - visible - light Nikon in the
electric counter too, but we're not sure. We're
working on it. We'll work it out. 70-millimeters:
CXII, 133. ETC: CW02, 142; CT04, 068. Now I've
got to - EREP 190. And I'm'going to give you the
numbers first that apply right now, and then I'll
go back and give you the n11mhers after the first -
or after the last run last night, because we gave
the status report before then. SET, T: 7888,
7225, 8100, 8095, 1638, 8956. Now comes the EREP
from last night or how it was at the start this
morning, T: 7768, 7105, 7980, 7975, 1518, 8836.
Here comes Drawer A: 02, CI42, 03, CI24; 03,
CI43, 99, CI18; 06, CI39, 00, CI13; 05, CI41, 70,
CI16; and the backup, 07, CI40, 95, CI09.
TAG Tape 225-02/T-196
Page 2 of 5/1338
CC Okay.
225 02 02 48 CDR Flight Plan, we've already - Flight Plan we've

already talked about. We're hoping that there's -
that we never skip an ATM opportunity if there's
any way to shuffle the schedule. And we can try
to pick up some of these spare things in our spare
time. Out we're hoping that we never miss one of
them, unless it's for something like 509, where
you can't do it or something - or taking three
people - TV or something. O. and I assume we'll
got a new Flight Plan of the three of us, tomorrow.
Shopping list: we did ETC, stow; we did S019,
PR-I; we did S019, op; S019, stow-l. We did one
set of T002 scans, which are I0 sightings. And
we did one extra ATM pass. We're still standing
by for some more information on the rate gyro
malfunction techniques you want us to use. We
have the voice up-link but we're hoping for a
little bit more explanation in a more formal
teleprinter message about it.
225 02 03 47 CDR Unscheduled stowate item location change: tissues

from 931 to 802, and three full urine sample con-
tainers from D-426 to D-826 [sic]. Now they're not
full of urine, obviously, but they're the full
urine sample containers. Let me now give you the -
the business about the spices. Okay, what l'm
going to do is first give you Bean's spices that
he's using. And the amount on each is just exactly
like we did it on the ground. Here they come:
eggs, I may repeat myself because just glancing
over the menu, so I'll be repeating things over
and over again but they can sort it out. Okay,
here it comes: spaghetti, pepper and garlic salt;
filet, pepper and garlic salt; chili, tabasco sauce
and pepper; prime rib, pepper and garlic salt;
macaroni, pepper; chicken and rice, tabasco sauce
and pepper. Okay, those are the only ones we're
using - I'm using on my food. Let's -
Owen Garriott is not using any, and if he begins
using some, he'll let you know. Here comes
Jack Lousma: on veal, he uses tabasco; spaghetti,
tabasco; shrimp, horseradish. And that's it for
the spices. Any questions?
TAG Tape 225-02/T-196
Page 3 of 5/1339
225 02 06 00 CC Okay. Thanks, A1. We're 20 seconds to LOS here.

Your medical conference will be coming up over
Bermuda at 02:41. And where are you transmitting
from now?
CDR I'm standing down in the wardroom. Why? Any

particular noise or something?
CC There's a high-frequency whine in the background.
CDR We hear it, too. We think we're feeding back

to the set in the head. I'm going to go turn it
off.
CC Okay. And thRnks for your comments on the Flight

Plan real early; like that. It's - We can get -
that incorporated when you give it to us early
like that.
CDR That comment about the ATM - we're hoping that,

from now on out ...
225 02 52 05 CC Skylab, we're AOS, Canaries and Madrid, for

l0 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape recorders
over Madrid at 02:53.
CDR Okay. When are you going to send up our Flight

Plans for tomorrow? Or are they here?
CC They're there.
CDR We'll go get them.
CC CDR, Houston.
PLT He's listening.
CC Okay. We didn't plan to send up a new summary

or detailed Flight Plan, but on the ATM schedule
pad we do have an orbit scheduled at 23:00, and
we do have a rate gyro maneuver, which interferes
with the ATM that he requested, instead of the
EREP tape. But we m,y be able to work in a little
bit of ATM when that maneuver is done.
• __ r
TAG Tape 225-02/T-196
Page _ of 5/1340
CDR Okay. Hold - hold a second.
CDR Okay. I see your point there.
225 02 57 13 CDR I guess I get a little worried when I see - us

each doing three or four things and that's about
it for the day, because I think we've got the
ability and - and time and energy, and I know
y'all do doom there, to do a little bit more.
I don't know exactly how to flight plan it, hut -
today was a pretty good day. We got a lot done
today. And tomorrow looks a little lighter than
today. That's what I thought.
CC Okay. We're going - we're going to to schedule

you real heavy in the future, AI.
225 02 57 48 CDR Yes, I think you're going to have to. Maybe we're
going to have to extend the working hours past
23:00 or whenever they stop now, and let them
run over to about 01:00 or something like that.
I'm not really sure how to do it. But I do know
that all I've got tomorrow is to fly a 509 and
then change the EREP tape. That takes about
20 minutes, maybe, if that long. And observe a
92/171 and that's it. We're working less hard at
the moment than we were prior to flight. Now, I
know this is a change of tone from when we were
activating, I was asking for relief. But we were
way behind at that time, and we hadn't caught on.
Now we've sort of got the place shipshape and
we've kind of caught on how to handle two or
three balls at once, and ve've only got another
month and a half here.
225 02 58 39 CC Okay, A1. We got the message, A1. And we're

going to be scheduling a lot of stuff and you'll
find things, extra things, to do in the remarks
column.
CDR Okay. I'm hoping, you know, that these experi-

ment things, we need to do but like that S019
was good tonight, and - -
PLT Definitely not housekeeping.

TAG Tape 225-02/T-196
P Page 5 of 5/1341
CDR No, we'll get the housekeeping done. We need

a full schedule of other things. We can get the
housekeeping done.
CC Okay. I will do it. In reference to permanent

general messages, we have an idea here that any-
thing that applies to more than 1 day, we'll call
it a permanent general message. And we'll keep
track of those and when it no longer applies,
we' ii call them up and cancel them.
CDR Well, we were hoping you would do i_ the other

way. Namely, that we can do it that way and
we'll be glad to do it that way, but we were hoping
that we only pasted the ones in the hook that
were going to stay there. But suit "yourself;
we can paste them all in there, I guess.
225 02 59 41 CDR It's a lot of extra work with the permanent he-
cause if we have to get one and post it here where
we work it and then put one in the book. And
when it was just a general for 3 or 4 days, post
it where we work and then when the 3 or h days
is up, we throw it away. But we can do it either
way.
225 03 00 00 PLT Hey, Story, could you add a couple of things to the
Evening Status Report for me, please?
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 225-03/T-197
Time: 225:03:00 to 225:10:45
Page i of 2/1343
225 03 00 03 CC Yes, there's a message I've got to get to you here.

When we go over the hill this time, it'll be for
the night. And that is to terminate the cabin purge.
And that's on panel 706. WATER DUMP valve to
CLOSE. And on panel 700, the WATER DUMP HEATER,
OFF.
225 03 00 26 PLT Okay, that's done 8.1ready. I want you to add to

the Evening Status Report an extra apple drink
besides the one that's on there, and some more
exercise on the Mark I; twenty minutes. That'll be
50 A's, 20 B's, 20 Dogs, and 20 backbends.
PLT You gone?
CC No, we copy that. And on panel 207, we'd like you

to ENABLE the RATE GYRO CAUTION and WARNING
switch.
PLT Wilco. How long you on tonight, Story?
CC Be getting off around midnight. I've got the eve-

ning shift with the maroon team tonight.
PLT Okeydoke. Thanks a lot.
225 03 01 2h PLT Keep you off the streets.
CC Only until midnight. And tomorrow we '3_1be doing

a coarse gain patch in the computer, tomorrow.
That's just for your information.
CC And nothing's required on your part except to stay

off the DAS while we're doing it.
PLT Now we can do that.
CC And we're going LOS here. We'll see you in the

morning. We will not call you, but the next sta-
tion is Carnarvon at 03:26.
PLT Okay. Goodnight, maroon team.

TAG Tape 225-03/T-197
Page 2 of 2/1344
CC Yes, sir.
CDR We're going to activate the rate gyro, but I assume

you mean that we won't - You don't expect any rate
gyro problems tonight?
225 03 02 36 CC We don't anticipate any problems, correct.
END OF TAPE
- TAG Tape 225-Oh/T-198
Time: 225:10:45 to 225:12:00
Page 1 of 8/1345
225 ll 00 01 CC Reveille, reveille; all hands here out and trace

up. Hit the deck.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda with 1

minute until LOS. Next station contact is over
L Ascension at ll:O7. Over.
CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda.

How do you read?
225 ll 00 41 CDR Read you real good, Bruce.
PLT Too loud and too clear.
CC Roger. Out.
CC And for your information, we'll be dumping

the voice data tape recorder over Ascension, which
is your next contact.
CDR Thanks, Bruce.
CC I guess the motto today could be, "Rise and shine

with 509."
225 ll 01 38 CDR Yes, we've been looking forward to it.
225 ll 07 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

10-1/2 minutes. And we will be dumping the data
voice tape recorder this contact. Over.
CC Make that an out.
225 ll 15 40 SPT Hello, Bruce, you still there?
CC Oh, we certainly are, Owen, for another 2-1/2 min-

utes. Over.
SPT That's great. Say, I was Just looking at my gen-

eral message file and noticed that I don't have the
general message 7 and 9, although I have all the
rest, including 8 and 10.
Page 2 of 8/13_6
CC Okay, these are permanent general messages 7

and 9?
SPT Yes, could you read the title for those? I'll
see where they might be?
CC Okay, that's in work.
CC Okay, message number 9 had to do with the S192

thermal alignment. And we're looking for message
number 7.
CC And 7 is the SAA horn pad. And I think you've

got - 7 Alfa - is the latest one of those.
CC That's correct, 007 Alfa. And it's - 1412 is

the - lhl2 B-1 is the message number.
225 ll 16 44 SPT Okay, could you send me an extra copy of message

number 9?
CC Message number 9 for S192 alignment?
SPT You bet.
CC Okay, we'll do that. We think you already have

two copies on board, hut we'll ship up another
one.
SPT Okay, we Just checked around, and we don't seem

to have but one. Jack has it.
225 ll 17 15 CC And we've got 1 minute to LOS here at Ascension.

Next station contact is Carnarvon at 40 plus 39
in approximately 23 minutes.
225 ll 41 41 CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Hello, Skylab. Loud and clear here. We're 9

minutes through Carnarvon. Over.
_ TAG Tape 225-04/T-198
Page 3 of 8/1347
CDR While we were LOS, we had a command module

CAUTION and WARNING. We wandered up there and
found it to be RCS QUAD B. We scanned QUAD B and
found the temp at zero. We fooled around with it
a little while ms_king sure that all the propel-
lant, helium and all that good stuff to QUAD B was
off, which it's supposed to be, and it is. About
that time, the temp came up to about 130 where it
sits at the moment. So you might check it.
There it goes again.
CDR No, no that's the - -
PLT No, that's the flare alarm - -
CDR - - flare alarm. So you might take a look at

QUAD B from the ground.
CC Okay, I understand. QUAD Bravo, you found a temp

reading of zero on it. And then while you were
looking at it, it came up to 130.
CDR That's affirm. Everything else seemed to be nor-

ms.l, but you might want to look at it real close.
We also opened the window and looked out to see
if we could see any sparklers going by, and we
saw none.
CC Okay. We will take a look at it, probably over

_am. Our computer is down at the present time.
But I get the impression, from talking to you,
like maybe you feel that it's a transducer prob-
lem. Is that a - a fair call?
225 ii 43 07 CDR I'd say it's a fair call.
CC Okay. When someone has a couple of minutes here

this morning, we have a procedure for mA_ing a
handheld microphone test to try and psych out
some of the comm problems. And we also have a
few miscellaneous mission notes.
CDR What happened to the handheld mike test we tried

yesterday?
225 ii _B BB CC Okay, we got it on the tape recorder and on the VTR.

This one is aimed at real-time air-to-ground track -
we found problems with both of those recordings, and
we'd like to keep on working it.
TAG Tape 225-041T-198
P_e _ of 811348
225 ll 43 h8 CDR Sounds good to us. I'm ready to copy.
CC Okay, have you got the handheld mike around?
CDR Sure, I can get it out right now.
CC Okay. Why don't you get it out and locate your-

self in the vicinity of SIA 102 and 131 if you
would, please.
CDR Okay. Will do.
CDR Bruce, I'm on - now on handheld mike coming through

131.
CC Okay, what we'd like you to do is ensure that SIA

station 102 is in SL_._ A or B. And that the
handheld microphone is not connected to 102.
CDR Okay, I'll try to ensure that. Just a second.
SPT Bruce, while he's looking for that, we're looking

for a med pad so we can check our supplements for
the morning, and we don't seem to find one. Has
it been sent up?
CC Yes, sir; it has.
225 ii 46 15 CDR Okay, I've ensured that it's on. And it's also
in SLEEP.
CC Okay, and would you establish air-to-ground comm

or comm with us on SIA 131 using the speaker box
itself, that is, not the handheld microphone?
CDR Okay, how do you hear now? I'm talking on the

speaker box.
CC Boy, we read you loud and clear. Now if you'd

hook the handheld microphone to CCU CHANNEL B
on SIA 131 and give us a call, please.
TAG Tape 225-04/T-198
Page 5 of 8/1B49
CDR That's where the comm's been coming from,

CHANNEL B on SIA, with handheldmike.
CC Okay. We're reading you loud and sort of garbled,

A1. I think that there's probably not much point
in continuing - the isolation checkout procedure
here. I think we're getting a bad audio off the
handheld mike. Would you disconnect the handheld
mike now and give us a - final voice check through
the box on 131.
CDR Say again.
CC You just did it. You're beautiful, baby.
SPT Say, Bruce, I still don't find that med pad.

Would you send another one up so we can get our
supplements, please?
CC Okay, Owen. I can read the supplements to you,

if you want to Just copy them, and then we'll work
on getting the pad up to you.
SPT Give me l0 seconds, 5 seconds; do it.
225 ll 48 04 CC Okay. And while you're there, A1, by the A_4, during
some unattended ops last night, the S055 modes were
observed to continue running through orbital
night, indicating the possibility that the NIGHT
INTERLOCK switch is in OVERRIDE. Would you
check to verify and/or reposition the S055 SCAN
SPECT NIGHT INTERLOCK switch to NORMAL, please?
225 Ii 48 25 CDR I Just repositioned it to NORMAL.
CC Th_nk you.
CDR Okay, I'm going to disconnect this handheldmike

and proceed back to my breakfast.
CC Roger. And sometime - -
SPT I'm ready for the numbers, Bruce.
CC Okays Owen, for the CDR, it's four balls SPT;

triple balls 21; PLT, 01 triple balls. Over.
SPT Got it; thank you.

Page 6 of 8/1350
CC And for remarks, we have, "Mark spices and

quantity on the cue card report on channel A."
SPT Okay.
225 ii h9 15 SPT That last step's complete already, Bruce. We

read it down in real time, and it's already on
the cue card.
CC Okay, thank you. And for Alan, we'd like you to

put some red tape around that microphone and stow
it somewhere.
CDR Okay. You really think it's a microphone failure,

huh? And I'm not just using it wrong?
CC Well, I don't know how you're holding it when

you're using it, hut the audio that's coming
through is very bad.
CDR I would recommend let Owen try it or Jack try it

here on the next pass, if we could.
CC We think we've tracked it down enough to in-

dicate that the microphone itself is bad. You've
got about 40 seconds to LOS here through Carnarvon.
Next station contact over Guam in 4 minutes.
CDR Okeydoke. I'll put a little red tape on it.

Thanks.
225 ll 50 17 CC And over Guam, we've got a minor correction to

the maneuver pad for thia afternoon's rate gyro
cal for Jack. We'll try and catch him there.
225 ll 5h h0 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for 9 min-

utes. Over.
SPT Bruce, we were wondering if - you know, the

microphones for our tape recorders sort of look
the same way on the outside. We didn't know if
the inside was the same and the only difference
was the pigtail. If that's true, it's con-
ceivable there might be a way to exchange the
speaker - I mean the microphone in one of those
for the one in the one that Just failed that
has the proper pigtail to interface it with the
CCU. We don't know.
-- TAG Tape 225-Oh/T-198
• Page 7 of 8/1351
CC All right, let's take that under advisement. And

for right now, it seems like the best audio that
we can get, for VTR and things like that, is going
to be with the comm carrier.
225 ll 55 26 CC And if you have a couple of minutes to listen this

pass here, I've got a bit of a spiel to do with
the rate gyro situation you experienced yesterday
afternoon. Over.
225 ii 55 h5 SPT We're ready to listen, Bruce.
CC Okay, I guess the number 1 message I'd like to

preface all this with as we start out is that -
on thorough examination of the situation, it
appears like the gyros were all functioning as
we expected them to, and that the sequence, as we
go through it, may well be enlightening here. As
you know, we've been seeing small off-nominal
accumulations of momentum build up for quite some
time here, either as a result of some sort of as
yet undetected small vent, or possibly due to the
performance of the Z-axis rate gyro. But anyway,
yesterday, we started the day off with a slightly
off-nominal momentum, and by the time we had
finished the Z-LV maneuver, associated with EREP,
and the EREP lunar cal, and we came into the
dump maneuver at 17:03, we had about h0 percent
momentum accumulated in the X-axis, which is much
higher than we nominally expect to see. The dump
commenced at 17:03 and about h0 seconds later,
the Z-axis gyro had spelled redundancy manage-
ment, which we have been setting happen fairly
frequently recently due to a scale factor problem
between these two gyros. Incidently, we have
planned a m_neuver for this afternoon that will
enable us to a load of facts that will prevent
this problem in the future. The mAuuever that was
called for due to the high accummulation of momen-
tum in X was much larger than we normally see,
and consequently, the scale-factor problem that
we have in the X gyros showed up and caused an
X redundancy management fail about 6 minutes later.
TAG Tape 225-04/T-198
Page 8 of 8/1352
225 ii 58 O0 CC The really significant feature of the whole sit-

uation yesterday afternoon, however, came from
the fact tha_ the way that the momentum dump
program is implemented, it assumes that the
momentum accumulation about X is nominally small
so that while it's dumping Y and Z, it is also
programed to borrow momentum from X and to
redistribute it between Y and Z. It does this
under the assumption that there's a lot there to
borrow and without directly monitoring vehicle
rates about the X-axis, Now due to the large
momentum you had accumulated about X yesterday,
it, in effect borrowed out to the limit and the
vehicle then became unable to control its rates
about X. You drifted about X for something
less than a minute. And at this point, the
X attitude error, the actual versus commanded,
exc'eeded 20 degrees and the system went to COARSE
GAIN, terminated the dump maneuver, computer
commanded a CMG nominal H-CAGE, TACS ONLY,
gave you the CAUTION and WARNING for a STUCK
THRUSTER, HIGH RATES auto TACS, CMG SAT. All
these caution and warnings were, in fact, valid
and were to be expected for this situation. The
system then attempted to go through rather large
mR_euvers in all three axes to bring you back
_mmediately and simultaneously to solar inertial.
And using the TACS ONLY mode, of course, to do
this. You note, here, that when it put you in
TACS ONLY and commanded CMG nominal H CAGE you
were removed from CMG control until very late in
the - the procedure later on down here, which
I'll try to get to. About a minute and a half
later, the system went to FINE GAIN with a rate
still high.
225 12 00 13 CC You were within the TACS dead band, at that time
for SI, and were beginning to damp these rates
out. Fifteen seconds later, you selected ATT
HOLD CMG, but since the computer had commanded
TACS ONLY, even though you were in ATT HOLD
CMG, CMG control was not.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 225-05/T-199
Time: 225:12:00 to 225:13:30
Page 1 of 9/1353
225 12 O0 36 CC - yet enabl_d, and the TACS thrusters continued

firing since you were in TACS control, damping out
the rates and damping you around the attitude that
you selected for ATT HOLD. About a minute after
that, since you continued to get TACS firings under
the assumptionthat you were in CMG control,you
inhibited TACS. Now, at this point in the game,
the redundancy management scheme again was counting
TACS firings; that is, counting output signals from
the computer that it thought should be firing TACS
thrusters and equating each of these to some small
amount of momentum change. And it therefore failed
the momentum integral test because the thrusters
were not actually firing, although the computer
was commanding thrusters to file - to fire. This
gave you an X and Z failures to the backup strap-
down and finally Z to no control, due to the fact
that TACS was inhibited and the computer thought
it could still fire it. You then reenabled Z-axis
RATE GYRO control, reenabled TACS, and commanded
a nominal H-CAGE. The nominal H-CAGE really had
very little effect on the situation here, since the
CMGs were already being caged to nominal momentum.
At this point, we would like to comment - You men-
tioned that you checked the CMG gimbal positions
and found several of them on the stops. We believe
that you were perhaps erroneously reading the CMG
wheel speed since, in looking at the data, we never
found any CMG gimbals anywhere near the stops. We
do how - do, however, know that CMG three-wheel-
speed transducer is erratic and has been known to
fail to zero and back to near a hundred percent.
So we think that perhaps you were reading that
position. I'm coming up on 1 minute to LOS here
at Guam; next station contact is Goldstone at
19 plus 40. We have a coarse gain patch which we'll
be loading in the computer at that time. I'll
come back up with some more words on coarse gain
at Goldstone. Let me try to finish up the rate
gyro situation here, though, in the little bit of
time that I have left. Maybe we can talk about it
some more at Goldstone. X-axis - Excuse me -
2 minutes later, the X-axis rate gyro configuration
you selectedout of backup strapdowncoarse gain,
TAG Tape 225-05/T-199
Page 2 of 9/1354
we got a CMG saturation. The problem here was that

when you came out of the backup strapdown, since
you did this at night, the acquisition Sun sensor
had not had a chance to update the backup strap-
down and a considerable error had built between
the backup and prime strapdown, so it threw you
back into coarse gain.
225 12 03 45 CC I'm going to sign off here, since I think we're

going over the hill. Over.
225 12 19 49 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone United

States complex, with you for 18 minutes and 30 sec-
onds. Over.
225 12 20 00 CDR Okay, go ahead on the explanation if you've got

any more, Bruce.
CC Okay. Before we get back into that, let me take

Just a second to talk to you about this coarse gain
patch. We have the patch already on board, and
we're going to load it - that is execute it right
now. What this will do is modify your present
flight program so that you are on the coarse rate
on all three axes on the rate gyros and inhibit
any switching back to fine scale. The basic reason
for this is that we found in testing down here on
the ground, that with the high temperatures in
some of the gyros due to the heater problems such
as Y-2, they are much more prone to oscillation
in the fine gain mode. That is, I guess it seems
to strap it down tighter and you tend to get these
large oscillations. So for the time being and
most likelyuntil you resume your EREP passes on
about day 37, we're going to command all three axes
to the coarse mode and leave them there. The only
degradation that we'll experience is uncertainty;
that is, a possibility of error on the order of
2 to maybe 3 degrees which would compromise your
EREP operation, but should not affect ATM or any
other operations in the current time frame. Over.
225 12 21 27 CDR Okay, that sounds good.
PLT Hey, Bruce - -
CC And I guess the hope here is that we'll be able

to get Y-2 back to the point where we can really
r TAG Tape 225-05/T-199
Page 3 of 9/1355
depend on it, in coarse mode at least, and stop

having these RM problems.
CDR We'd like that, I'll tell you.
CC Go ahead, Jack.
225 12 21 h6 PLT Yes, the TV is set up at and pointed at 509. You

Just want a little ad hoc TV of people drifting
around getting ready for things?
CC Okay, we'll look into that. We're over Goldstone.
225 12 22 01 SPT Bruce, if we stay on coarse I presume that - or will

it preclude JOP 13.
225 12 22 ll CC I'll have to check into that, Owen. I suspect you

may be right because you're talking about attitude
uncertainty here on the order of, oh - 1 to
B degrees.
225 12 22 21 SPT Yes, that's far beyond - in - anything we could use

for JOP 13 and also be required for stability. And
the other thing we talked about preflight was one
of these times when - for example, I'm on the
panel through a night between two daytime ATM runs,
you shoot me up a list of stars to attempt a star-
tracker loekon with, Just to determine the star-
tracker sensitivity. If Steve Bales or one of
your astros down there has that list, why you might
send it up on the teleprinter at the next convenient
time. And I'll run through it on one of my night
passes between two ATMs. •
CC Ok - Okay, 0wen, we'll look at that. JOP 13 has

not yet even come into the 7-day forecast cycle
down here at the science planning meetings. When
the targets are selected and when it's planned, why
we'll have to look at the rate gyro situation and
see what we can do on that. The patch can be
unloaded on very short notice.
225 12 23 20 SPT Roger.
CC And back on the rate gyro situation from yesterday,

I think I had Just mentioned that you all commanded
nominal H-CAGE which was sort of a nominalH-CAGE on
top of the computer-commanded nominal H-CAGE, so
TAG Tape 225-05/T-199
Page h of 9/1356
that it drove you down to, I guess, zero momentum

and then comnanded back up to nominal H-CAGE.
You reconfigured the X-axis rate gyros per the
teleprinter message. I believe, came out of the
backup strapdown and since it was at night and the
acquistion Sun sensor patch which was put in to
update the backup strapdown that had not been op-
erating, there was considerable error between the
prime and backup strapdowns. This put the system
in coarse gain and gave you CMG SAT light - you -
and you did a fast maneuver. But you were still on
TACS ONLY at this time. About a mNnute later you
came down to fine gain. Six minutes later at 17:26
you released nominal H-CAGE which terminated the
nominal H-CAGE that the computer had started as
well as your own there. And this froze the CMG
gimbal in one location , since CMG control was still
inhibited. At 17:29:20, and via the DAS, you
commanded CMG control enable. This pretty well
cured the situation. TACS firing stopped; 9 min-
utes later you commanded SI, and the vehicle made
a relatively small maneuver at two SI and settled
back down. In order to s,_mmarize, Just - I guess
you could call it the thought for the day - is
that the problem arose basically from the combi-
nation of the fact that the software was unable to
cope with the momentum situation that we had and
the fact that the momentum budget was off nominal.
The rate gyro problems were really a result of this
situation and were not the underlying cause of it.
Over.
225 12 25 h6 CDR Okay, that's pretty complicated. It must have

taken them a few hours to figure that one out.
But it sort of holds water too. It makes sense
with what we saw. It also makes sense with the
sequence in which the warning - the numbers were
on the caution and warning DAS callout. And it
also makes sense with what we saw. I think that -
that the best thing we could have done in that
case was observe, and we talked about this after-
wards, observe the position of the CMG switch -
I mean the CMG talkback which I assume was probably
in CAGE when we got there, and then go from there.
We did not. We felt that our most important job
was to try get it from -
- TAG Tape 225-05/T-199
Page 5 of 9/1357
225 12 26 32 CC Roger. We confirm that the talkback was in CAGE

when you got up there.
225 12 26 40 CDR We turned off the TACS - -
CC We're handing over right now. Be back with you

in a second.
CDR - - to plan the effort we made.
CC I'm sorry Alan. I missed the last couple of sen-

tences. We were handing over from C_ldstone
to Texas.
225 12 26 57 CC Could you repeat your last two or three sentences,

please?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
225 12 27 12 CDR We read you okay right now. Apparently we had

a dropout.
CC Yes. Could you repeat your last two or three

sentences. We Just handed over from Goldstone
to MLA.
225 12 27 21 CDR No, I - At the risk of repeating some of it, I

think maybe our best move in the case like -
Let's assume that we have another failure of some
sort. But, of course_ at the time of the failure
you don't know if it's the same one. You Just
know you got a bunch of alarms. You wander up
there and observe first whether the TACS are
firing or not. And if you - that's what we did
by the way. Then we looked to see if opposing
TACS were firing, which they were not, which -
that gave us a good feeling. And then the next
thing to look for, which we did not, but I think
would be a good idea, is to take a look for the
CMG talkback to see if that thing is in CAGE
which I suspect it probably was. As you know
when it goes to TACS only, if I remember correctly,
you don't see a little talkback that says TACS.
It's just doing that down inside the computer
and you're not really aware of it. Once you ob-
serve whether that little cage switch is - you
check on this and see if the CAGE switch turns
TAG Tape 225-05/T-199
Page 6 of 9/1358
CAGE whenever the computer commands what it did,

auto reset. And then go from there.
225 12 28 27 CC Roger. We concur with your feelings there, A1.

And I guess m_ own from the simulator runs and
stuff we made as part of the first backup crew
is that you got to be careful that - when you
have something like this, you don't wind up with
the CMGs inhibited in the computer where it's
not at all obvious that the computer has taken
them out of control. Because even hitting the
CAGE RELEASE switch up there, if the CMGs are out
of control won't put them back in. You got to
use the DAS.
225 12 29 13 CDR You dropped out there, Bruce. Go again, where

you were saying the CMG's are out of control.
225 12 29 27 CC Okay, Alan I'm sorry; we Just had anotherdropout

there. In looking at the profile here, it looks
like the only - the only thing that you did that
could be considered an error was the inhibiting
of the TACS, because the system was, in fact,
trying to get you where you wanted to go and was
zeroing in on the problem. And when you inhibited
the TACS, why it caused you to fail redundancy
management in X and Z and threw you over to
no control in Z, ultimately. And I guess - as
I was saying, when we had the station handover,
from my own experience in the simulator, it's
awful easy to get in a situation where CMG con-
trol has been inhibited deep down inside the
computer somewhere. And it's certainly not
obvious, because even hitting the CMG CAGE RET_ASE
switch won't put you back in control. You got to
use the DAS for that. Over.
225 12 30 28 CDR Roger. Understand. Now, in the technique we

used before we inhibited, which I still think is
a good one, we observed the errors in the, you
know, the attitude. We looked at the attitude
and then we said, "Which of the TACS are firing?
Are the one - ones firing to correct that or not?"
In other words, "If we have a positive error, are
we getting negative TACS?" And at first we were,
and then after it kept going on here for 30 or
hO seconds, we decided that maybe it really wasn't,
that it couldn't handle the situation. It didn't
F TAG Tape 225-O5/T-199
Page 7 of 9/1359
have the logic within itself because of - some-

thing we didn't - You know, looking back in
hindsight, we know the problem. We can see what
happened. Then you say, "Wonder - wonder if it
really knows itself what it's doing?" And it
was firing plus-X TACs from time to time when it
had plus-X errors in the - in the - from solar
inertial. So our feeling was saying, "Maybe we
ought to Just turn these off and let it think
about it a little bit. We'll think about it a
little bit and then we'll turn it back on." So
it seems to me that what you have to do is - If
you know the failure when you get there, you
got it made. You can fix it in a flash. When
you go there, you don't know the failure you got.
You don't hnow whether you got stuck thrusters,
a computer that failed or just doesn't know what
it's doing. And that's exactly what happened.
We had a computer that could not figure out what
to do, although we had warnings that never said
the computer cannot figure out what to do. So
you have to sort of, it seems to me, look over
the total situation somehow. This is a tough -
this is a tough area, because there's no - All
these CMG's, rate gyros, computers are inter-
related, and it - I think it's impossible to
sort it out looking at it.
225 12 32 18 CC Okay, we're going to be dumping the data voice

tape recorder at this site. And would you stand
by Just a second, please?
225 12 33 03 CC For the PLT, we see on television we've got a

good picture. Looks like you're working on the
film-threading operation for this morning. And
back on the subject of the gyros, for Al; what
caused the situation where you were firing plus-X
thrusters when you had a plus-X attitude error
is that, when you hit ATT, HOLD, CMG, you had a
plus-X error from SOLAR INERTIAL MODE. Hitting
this switch redefined the - the attitude that you
wanted to hold, but the errors continued to be
measured from the solar inertial attitude. There-
fore the zero attitude, at which it was driving
you, really was not solar inertial. Over.
225 12 33 51 CDR Okay, we understood that. We still didn't feel

later on that it was really able to solve the
TAG Tape 225-05/T-199
Page 8 of 9/1360
problem itself. We felt we gave it sort of

adequate time to solve it, and it just didn't
seem to want to solve it.
CC Okay. And we certainly learned something here

looking at the momentum management situation and
the software, and I think we can say that we'll
keep a - a sufficiently close eye on it in the
future so that this problem should never arise
again. But we wanted to discuss it in detail
with you so we didn't _have any - any open issues
or any skeletons in the closet.
CDR No, I appreciate it. Seems to me we may need

to go back and think *** the math model we got
down there of this whole dumping scheme and -
to make sure that it doesn't do that again.
CC You're right. We shall do that. And a brief

note for the SPT, if he's anywhere in - in
listening range.
CDR Right there.
225 12 34 51 CC Okay, this is your sleep period solar activity

update. Culgoora has reported sweep frequency
type 2/4 events from 06:14 to 06:30 Zulu, sus-
pected to be from departed active region 85.
Small eruptive prominences seen later at 050 1.1
solar radii possibly associated with that. Other-
wise, the S%m has been very quiet. Over.
SPT Okay, have - has Culgoora noticed any transient

out on the west limb?
CC We're inquiring about that now, 0wen. That

wasn't on their prepared report.
SPT Thank you.
225 12 37 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda with

i minute until LOS. Next station contact is
Carnarvon at 13:18 in.approximately 40 minutes,
and we will be dumping the data voice tape re-
corder over Carnarvon again.
225 12 37 45 CC For the SPT, nothing seen on the west limb except
some type 2 and 4 bursts that we reported.
t TAG Tape 225-05/T-199
Page 9 of 9/1361
225 13 18 04 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for

9-1/2 minutes.
225 13 20 00 CC PLT, Houston. I Just wanted to make you aware

that we do have a correction for your rate
gyro maneuver pad. We'll read it up to you
later in the day.
PLT Okay.
225 13 26 44 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. Guam at 32.
225 13 27 29 CC Skylab, Houston; i0 seconds to LOS. Guam at 32.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 225-06/T-200
Time: 225:13:30 to 225:15:00
Page 1 of 3/1363
225 13 32 05 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 8-1/2 minutes.
CC Would you believe Guam for 8-1/2 minutes?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS; Goldstone

at 56, and we'll be set up for TV.
225 13 40 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about LOS; Goldstone at 56.
225 13 56 20 CC Skylab, Houston, stateside for 15 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
PLT Loud and clear.
CC Okay.
PLT Hey, Houston, we still got a little ad hoc TV.

M509 this time, just before we get going; the thing
is crankedup if you want to see it.
CC Roger; we copy.
225 13 59 03 CC Hey, that's a pretty neat-looking cartoon.
SPT Houston, let me know when you want to do this

PES/FSS calibration.
CC SPT, Houston. What we'd like to do is a normal

TV data cycle for down-link and then we'll do the -
the calibration. And Just a reminder; your VIDEO
switch is in TV.
SPT Yes, I was going to leave it in TV so you could see

this other stuff until you were ready to do the cal.
And then, when you're ready for that, I'll switch
it.
225 l_ 00 48 CC SPT, Houston. Did you copy? What we'd like to do

is do the TP - TV data cycle first and then do the
PES/FSS cal.
SPT Okay, I'll go ahead and give you the normal TV

TAG Tape 225-06/T-200
Page 2 of 3/1364
down-link right now, then go immediately into the

PSS - PES cal.
CC Roger.
SPT Houston, I've noticed that active region 86 is

showing up pretty well on the XUV MON. You might
take note of that.
225 14 Oh 34 CC Roger; we copy.
CC SPT, Houston. That was very good. We'd like for

you to press on now with the PES/FSS cal.
SPT That's what I'm doing. I'm halfway down page 2-19.
225 14 08 15 SPT Okay, I've got all those readings at the five
positions, Houston, and I'm going to go on over
to the next page. I'll read them down to you a
little bit later.
CC We copy.
225 14 09 22 SPT Okay, Houston, that's my estimate of the best

position for minimizing the scattered light around
the edge of the occulting disk. Backroom, I hope,
will agree, if not, they can comment now and I'll
give you the read out.
CC SPT, Houston. That looks good to us.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute to LOS; we'll

be coming up on Vanguard at 22 and we'll get those
numbers then.
SPT Okay, I can give them to you right now. You have
another minute or so of the TV from downstairs
available to you. And those numbers on page 2-19
are almost identical to what they were before. Zip
plus 80, zip plus 8, plus 68, plus ll, plus 72,
plus 81, plus 35, plus 45. And to minimize the
scattered lights, I get LEFT, plus 14; and RIGHT,
plus 78. Over.
CC Roger; we copy. We'll - may want to verify here

the - the first three numbers.
SPT Zip plus 80, zip plus 8. Over.

TAG Tape 225-06/T-200
Page 3 of 3/1365
225 14 ll 15 CC Roger; copy.
225 14 22 07 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, 8-1/2 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. We'd like to get the H-ALPHA NIGHT

INTERLOCK switch to NORMAL.
SPT Thank you.
225 lh 30 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS;

Goldstone at 15:33 with a recorder dump.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 225-07/T-201
,_- Time: 225:15:00 to 225:16:30
Page 1 of 4/1367
225 15 34 35 CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 12 minutes.
SPT Okay, Hank, do you read me?
CC Skylab, Houston. You were dropping out a

minute. Say again.
SPT Okay; have you got me now?
CC Roger; loud and clear now.
SPT Okay, and the last orbit went as planned except

for one thing. On the end of that last ATM pass,
there is a building block 7, J0P 2. It's
necessary to start S052 in particular on a
precise time, a minute and 25 before sunset, which
I did and ran it as per pad. However, I noticed
that the XUV detectors 1 and 3 did not drop off
normally at about 40 seconds time remaining, as
they almost always do. In fact, they continued
at nearly their normal count rate right up to
time remaining equals zero.
225 15 36 16 SPT I also noticed that the sun did not disappear some
l0 seconds after time remaining goes to zero as
it normally does. As a matter of fact, the Sun
was still up for about 65 seconds after time re-
maining went to zero. So it looks like we may
need a NAV update on the timing and that probably
messed up the timing on building block 7 at the
end of the last orbit. And I'm now doing the net-
work studies for this orbit, and the network is
changing pretty rapidly. I'm a little inclined
to think that I may not even be able to follow
one cell for the whole of this orbit, much less
pick it up on the next few orbits. So, we'll have
to see how that goes. Over.
CC Roger; we copy, (>wen.
225 15 37 13 SPT Jack and AI are down in the dome area flying
around on M509 right now. And during the night
pass, we got about 30 minutes on the VTR of
509 flyaroun d.
TAG Tape 225-07/T-201
Page 2 of 4/1368
CC Roger; sounds good.
CC SPT, Houston. ASCO says the nav looks good.

And what's happened here is our dump commence
is now - we're getting in a high Beta - the dump
commence is now prior to actual sunset.
SPT Okay; I understand. And that means the ATM plan-

ners didn't know about that, because that would
have affected the times at which we begin S052
in particular, and S056 to some extent. So that
probably messed up building block 7 on that
account.
CC SPT, Houston. We think we built the pads to take

into account this dump commence. However, we're
going to go back and look at it and see if we did
have an error.
225 15 40 13 SPT Okay. The reason I didn't think so is that we

normally start S052 at 1 plus 25, time remining
equals zero. That's the way it is on our J0P
s11mmary sheet. And that's normally ranged to
take the last photograph just about as the first
limb gets right into the edge of the field of view.
In other words, dowu as low as we can go with
S052 .... limb is still far out of the field of
S052, and we're not getting the pictures as close
to the Earth's horizon as we would like to get.
CC Roger; we copy, and we'll look into it.
CC SPT, Houston. ASCO advises that effective sunset

is exactly 65 seconds after dump commence.
225 15 42 23 SPT Good. That's just about the way it looked on my

watch. So you might check with the ATM, which I
guess you are already doing to make sure they
do that.
CC Roger; we're checking.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS; Vanguard

at 05:07.
SPT Roger.
- TAG Tape 225-07/T-201
Page 3 of 4/1369
225 15 45 55 SPT Oh, we should have mentioned to you, Houston.

In the middle of a 509 run here, about 45 minutes
ago now, we had another CSM master alarm, which
turned out to be the SM PACKAGE EMP QUAD B
again, off-scale low.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Vanguard, ll minutes.
225 15 58 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're seeing quad B temp down -

down low. Did you get an 0C and W on that?
SPT That's the one I called you about. Didn't you

get that call at the end of the last pass?
CC Roger. We read you to say that happened h5 minutes

ago. Is that correct?
SPT That's correct, 45 minutes to an hour ago, now.

We've not got another one since then.
CC We're getting a nominal reading on it now. We're

beginning to suspect we have an erratic transducer
on that thing.
SPT Roger. It looks just like the one we had earlier

this morning.
225 16 03 15 SPT Are you still there, Houston?
CC Skylab, go ahead.
CDR Just a note for your electronics experts on this

H-alpha 2 camera. When I lit off the panel for
the first time again this morning, I noticed
that same telescoping effect on H-alpha 2. When
we first turned it on, there was some sort of an
oscillation with about a i- or 2-second period in
which the whole image seemed to telescope in and
out. And this was remedied as before, by Just
zooming in, and then that will stabilize it and
it will never - it hasn't shown up again since.
And or that has happened two or three times now,
and each of these was associated with the first
turn on, after a long period off. And they might
try to figure out why, and if it's any potential
dangerto the H-alpha2 vidicon.
TAG Tape 225-07/T-201
Page 4 of 4/1370
CC Roger. We copy, Owen.
CDR Detector number 5 has Just kicked off Just a

couple times. So I've left it off now.
CC Roger. We've been watching that, Owen.
CC Skylab, Houston. Have you inhibited the

caution and warning on the packet B?
SPT Just a second, and I'ii go check and -What

is the inhibit number for that?
CC We were just question had you done this. We

noticed that the transducer's still going up and
down, but your not report - We don't see a master
alarm locked up.
SPT Well, I don't recall. I've got to go check to see.

I didn't do it - and I have to go check the panel
to see whether or not it has been inhibited. I
thought you might have the number handy, I'll
check it otherwise.
CC Okay. It's 5 Delta.
SPT Roger; thank you.
CC If it's not inhibited, you _dght as well go ahead

and do that, Owen.
SPT Roger. 5 Delta was inhibited so I guess Jack did

it when he - cleared the last alarm about an hour
ago.
225 16 08 00 CC Okay. Thank you, Owen. And we're about B0 seconds

from LOS, - Hawaii at 08.
225 16 08 08 SPT Roger.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 225-08/T-202
-- Time: 225:16:30 to 225:17:56
Page I of 6/1371
225 17 07 51 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii, 5-1/2 minutes.
SPT You were cut out there, Hank. Just got the
last couple of words. Say again.
CC Roger. We've got about 5 minutes left here

through Hawaii, and I've got a couple of
things I need to get up to you here.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, this is for the PLT, a correction to the

maneuver pad.
225 17 08 18 SPT Just a minute. Let me see if I can find him.
PLT I'm down here listening, 0.
CC Okay. There is an error in the fine maneuver

at GMT 18:50, about halfway through your pad
there. The X number should read 51144.
225 17 08 52 PLT Okay, I've got it. 51144.
PLT Hey, Hank, about an hour ago, we had another

MASTER ALARM in the command module. I believe
it was the service module RCS B PACKAGE HEATER.
That was the only thing i could find wrong.
CDR I reported it, Jack - -
PLT The temperature went off-scale low there again.

The last time I looked at it, it was zero. I'd
like you to confirm that everything is working
all right there. And I inhibited that signal
that was 5 Delta.
225 17 09 17 CC Roger. We copy. We've been looking at that,

and we suspect we have an erratic transducer
there. And I have a - some star tracker info
for your RG scale factor maneuvers. We would
like for you to acquire Canopus at 18:40.
And the gimbal angles there are INNER, minus 683,
and OUTER is plus 1643, and you may have to
vary that around a little bit.
TAG Tape 225-08/T-202
Page 2 of 6/1372
PLT Okay, I've got it. Minus 683 and plus 1643
at 18:40, Canopus.
CC Roger. And I wonder, in the next couple of

minutes here, could you give us a little run-
down on the M5097
PLT Yes, Al's debriefing a tape now. We just

completed it right on time. He flew all those
maneuvers on 509-1 in all the modes. He flew
some discretionary maneuvers and he flew some
HHMU, and then I flew the thing around a little
bit. And I think it's very easy to fly. It
flies like most any spacecraft that - in the
simulator or real spacecraft. Very much like
the simulator. It's not difficult at all, and - -
CC Skylab, Houston, break. We'd like to get

the XUV MON down-link, and you need to go to
MONITOR on the TV VIDEO switch.
225 17 ii 35 SPT As you see, 86 is getting a little brighter.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC PLT, Houston. We had to cut you out there

to get that call in to the SPT - cut out the
last part of your description or summary on
M509. Did you use two bottles or three?
PLT Well, we used two bottles and low batteries,

and it flies very well. A1 flew some of the
HHMU, and I got to fly it a little bit. We
got it on the VTR, by the way, so you might
want to pick that up as soon as possible. And
it's a nice, smooth-flying machine .... with
the systems at all. They all worked good.
CC Yes, it sounds great. We're looking forward

to getting that TV.
PLTYes, we had a conflict with the ATM TV during

the time that we were doing the donning, and
so we didn't really get TV-29. But we did get
quite a bit of it with A1 flying it. Owen
came down and took TV, so all the flying is
on the VTR.
_. TAG Tape 225-08/T-202
Page 3 of 6/1373
225 17 12 40 CC Real good. And we're about h0 seconds from LOS.

225 17 36 04 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, 9-1/2 minutes.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, regarding the conflict that we got with the

scale factor maneuver in the orbit beginning at
18:54, we suggest that at 19:04 you do the ATM
Sun-side prep, and then JOP 1 Alfa, step 9, and
the building block on NC-1 per the existing pad.
Then steps l0 to ll of JOP 1A, we can pick up later.
SPT Hey, Hank.
CC Roger.
SPT ... let's go back and slow down a little bit here.
19:04, you wanted the Sun-side prep and then what
else?
CC Okay, we'd like to do JOP 1A, step 9 per the

existing pad. And steps l0 and ll, we'll pick up
sometime later in the day when time permits.
SPT Okay, now I understand. So 18:3& is apparently the

one that can conflict with the rate gyro. I hadn't
noticed that on _ list yet, but I'll - We'll do
that.
CC Roger.
CC And also, for whenever it's convenient because we

ran the cabin pressure up for the M509, we'd like
to do our purge again. That's the DUMP HEATER ON
on panel 700, WATER DUMP HEATER. Wait 15 minutes,
and then panel 706 to open the WATER DUMP valve.
That's after 15 minutes. Okay, I've got a couple
of changes to the Flight Plan's - Today's Flight
Plan, as a matter of fact, for the CDR and PLT.
And, Skylab_ Houston. When you do start that water
dump would you note the time for us, please?
TAG Tape 225-08/T-202
Page _ of 6/1374
225 17 39 00 CDR Okay, we Just turned the heater on and 15 minutes

from now, I'll set my little timer, we'll start
the dump. And go ahead with your Flight Plan
change.
CC Okay, CDR, Just to move it up to what we already

know here about that - putting in the ATM passes,
you had an EREP tape scheduled at 19:00. We'd like
to move that down to 01:00 and insert an ATM pass
at 18:50.
CDR That's not a bad idea because I Just finished

transferring the tapes, anyhow.
225 17 39 37 CC And on your details, we want to add the 18:50 ATM

pass and put your transfers down at 01:00.
225 17 39 47 CDR Just forget the transfers. I did them a few

minutes ago.
CC Okay, and for the PLT, at 23:10, we want him to

insert an A%_4 pass and add the same for his detail
pad.
PLT I got it.
CDR Okay, and just one more second, Hank. On this one
I've got, say again the time of the ATM pass. And
one other thing, we'll have regular pads up like
we have for all the other passes, won't we?
CC Roger. They're already on board.
CDR Hey, that's great. Good thinking. What's the time

again?
CC 18:50.
CDR That's the time I should go there. What time is -

does the pass start? Do you happen to recall?
CC Okay, Just a second.
225 17 41 38 CC CDR, Houston. That's the pass that - on the pad

is at 18:34, but we were just talking about it
conflicts with the rate gyro maneuver - scale factor
maneuver. So we want to start the Sun-side prep
at 19:04 and then do the step 9 of JOP 1A. And
we'll pick up steps lO and ll later.
TAG Tape 225-08/T-202
Page 5 of 6/1375
CDR Getting at a J0P 1A just as soon as we can after

the maneuvers. I get it.
CDR Where are we over the Earth right now? I just

looked out the window and Just wondered.
CC You're over the South Atlantic. You Just passed

across the southern tip of South America.
225 17 42 23 CDR I'll be darned. There's a big set of islands down

here. I was just wondering what they were. I'll
have to look at my map.
CDR Falkland Islands. Okay, will do. Anything else,

Hank? By the way, how much longer is this pass?
CC Okay, we got 2-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay, if you haven't got any more, let me talk a

little bit about 509.
CC Okay, we did have one more thing. In - for the

rate gyro maneuver, we would like to enable TACS.
We don't think we're going to need any, but there's
a possibility that we may need a mib or two. So
we would like to enable TACS.
CDR Okay, we'll sure do it.
225 17 43 ii CDR Okay, I did 509 and it came off real well. We
started early and flew of both bottles. Inter-
estingly enough, by the time both pressurization
bottles were empty, we still had good battery
voltage, up around 27 volts. We changed the
battery anyway. We debriefed it com - we talked
about it, on channel A all the time, and then we
both debriefed it. So there's a lot of data there
for Ed Whitsett, Bruce, and Lou Ramon.
225 17 43 43 CDR Essentially, it's very, very easy to fly. It flies

just like the simulator and maybe a little bit
easier. The CMG MODE, as you might expect, is
much the better because it holds you at such per-
fect attitude all the time, and then all you do is
translate, and you can go to any attitude you like.
Certainly, the RATE GYRO MODE is okay. It uses
TAG Tape 225-08/T-202
Page 6 of 6/1376
more fuel - appeared to use more fuel that the

others. The DIRECT would - I would give it a good.
In fact, if I was building a maneuvering unit, I'd
just build a simple one with DIRECT and get rid of
all the others. The - ability to fly around in the
workshop is quite simple to do. There's no problems
there. When we finished, Jack flew it for about
3 or 4 minutes. May make that l0 minutes or so,
and no strain. The one thing that we did notice
that might have an impact on the future flight is,
we've got the 1,mbilical we're going to use for EVA
or - the EVA and also going to use it for the
suited work of 509, and attached it to the side of
the backpack and tried to fly it around, unsuited.
And it cost all sorts of fuel. Just way out of
proportion to not having the umbilical. It has
momentum of its own so that not only doesn't it
want to go anywhere or it has a place it wants to
go just because it's static ..., but when you get
it in motion, it wants to keep going. So it takes
a lot fuel to get it going in a direction, and then
it takes a lot of fuel to stop it. So unless we
can come up with some method to - Perhaps ask Jack
to follow it around and keep the strain off it,
which seems to me, sort of a phony thing, then I
don't know if that's going to work or not. We're
going to have to come up with a better idea than
Just hooking up the umbilical, getting in the suit,
because it Just isn't going to fly well.
225 17 45 40 CC Roger. And that's - -
CDR That's all I have time for now.
CC Roger. We're just about LOS and we'll be coming

up on Hawaii at h3, 18:43.
225 17 45 48 CDR Okay, I think EdWhitsett and Lou ought to be - -
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 225-09/T-203
Time: 225:17:56 to 225:19:30
Page i of h/1377
225 18 h2 22 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii, l0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for l0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank, we're getting ready to run the

maneuvers.
SPT I got a couple of quick items for you, Hank.
CC Go ahead.
225 18 h3 02 SPT At the end of the last Sun-side pass, there's

a brief glimpse of active region 86 put on the
S055 data recorder and S056. The 55 stuff
you might take a look at on the ground
and see if it's of interest. On the - the
gravity gradient dumping now encroaching some
on our sunlit time, first thought comes to mind.
Now this should alter the _00-kilometer times at
both sunrise and sunset by about the same amount
that gravity gradient dumping is encroaching on
the sunrise. So both of those times should have
become about 1 minute closer to the actual sunset,
which they did not do. So those times should
be modified. The second point is, I wonder if
you all have thought of - any more about reducing
row D, the half-dump angle a little bit. We
talked about that before launch and hoped that
y'all would have a chance to think through it
and perhaps give us a little bit more sunlit time
by reducing that. And then the third thing is,
I've got a little more hemoglobin data T'll put
on channel A for you.
CC Roger. We copied that, Owen, and we are looking

at changing row D.
SPT Thank you. And in the meantime, why, don't for-

get to change our respective sunrise/sunset. In
other words, the bO0-kilometer times.
CC Roger. We copy.
225 18 h5 08 CC And, SPT, Houston. In answer to your question

about the telescope,and we've taken a look at
that on your - you asked a question about the
TAG Tape 225-09/T-203
Page 2 of 4/1378
H-alpha 2 TV. We're pretty sure that's caused

by an instability in the AGC circuit, right after
it's turned on, before the thing gets warmed up
very well. It shouldn't damage the camera. It
shouldn't be any problem at all. And it always
goes away after the camera's warmed up. The
problem can be avoided by either zooming in at
least 3 seconds before turning H-alpha 2 number -
or the TV on, or by allowing the TV to warmup
15 minutes before exposing it to the Sun. This
caused no permanent damage to the instrument.
225 18 h5 h9 SPT Okay, that's the good news that we were wanting
to get. And we won't bother getting up there
15 minutes early. We'll Just zoom in, if it does
happen to us again. And we wanted to make doubly
sure that we weren't endangering the vidicon in
any way.
CC Roger.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Hank, we began cabin purge at 18:05. And we had

started the CO 2 - C02 filters at 18:h5.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. For the SPT, could you give us

a brief s11wmlaryon what you ran on S055 and 56 on
the active region 86?
SPT Roger. I Just had a couple of minutes right at the

end of the pass, so I zipped down to 86 and did
55 for MIRROR LINE SCAN for a couple of minutes,
and then the 56 got in the PATROL, SHORT. But,
of course, you won't see that.
CC Roger. We copy.
225 18 h7 hh SPT And the reason for mentioning it, it does lock on
the XUV M0N like active 86 is getting hotter or
brighter all the time, through the course of the
morning.
CC Roger. We copy.
_- TAG Tape 225-09/T-203
Page 3 of h/1379
CC Skylab, for info, we have a new med status pad-

pad on board for you. It's a 1705 Alfa. If you
do find the original 1705, please discard it.
225 18 49 20 PLT Hey, Hank, how long do you want me to wait to go

on the next maneuver? I noticed that it's scheduled
at 18:50, but I'm not sure this thing's going
to be settled down by then. Well, it might be by
now. We're at l0 degrees but it's still got some
... connect.
CC PLT, Houston. It looks pretty good to us. But

just follow the pad.
PLT Okay. I'Ii go on.

We'll be coming up on Vanguard at lh with a data
recorder dump.
225 19 14 22 CC Skylab, Houston, through Vanguard for 9 minutes,

with a data recorder dump.
CDR Okay. We're running into problems finding that

old cell boundary. Owen's working on it here now,
but it's not a recognizable entity and so we're
going to go back to the old pointing coordinates
and then move 20 arc seconds to the right. But
we do not have that cell in sight on the ATM.
CC Roger. We copy.
225 19 16 22 PLT Hey, Hank, I wonder if you could get us some cam-
era settings and types of film or something to take
pictures of things like moonrise over the sunlit
Earth and sunset, sunrise, and those kind of things.
CC Okay, we'll work it. And while I got you, Jack, I

got a little suggestion for you in regard to your
ATM pass at 20:07.
PLT Shoot.
CC Okay, what we would like for you to do, there,

instead of the JOP 4 Bravo, step i, building
block 33, that's called out there on Foxtrot 28,
we'd like for you to substitute,in its place,
step ll, building block 33, that's in the 18:34
pass that they're working now.
TAG Tape 225-09/T-203
Page _ of 4/1380
PLT Okay, substitute step ii, building block 33 for

4 Bravo, step 1.
CC That's correct. And if you're unable to accom-

plish step lO of the JOP 1A, then we'll delete
it. That's what they're on now. We don't think
that your're going to find time to do that step 10,
so don't worry about it; Just delete it. And also,
got some updates for your effective sunrise and
sunset times on the SAP. We were - did have some
bad times because of the predicted dump commence
time. And the new times are sunrise at 5h minutes
remaining and sunset at 03:44.
PLT Okay.
225 19 18 49 CC And, Skylab, Houston. For info only, for the past
few days, we've been watching the primary glycol
accumulator in the CSM decreasing at a - the
quantity decreasing at about three-fourths of a
percent per day. It appears to have leveled off
now. What we think has happened here is that there
are three valves in that system that - that may
not be fully sealed, and it's allowing the fluid to
seep back into the reservoir. We had a similar
thing happen like that on Apollo ll. There's no
action required at this time. But probably in a
couple of days, we're going to have you, perhaps,
on your CM 7-day checks, on day 20, we'll have you
check that a few valves are closed for us.
225 19 19 31 CDR We'll be glad to check it any time you want.
CC Okay, we'll come up with a message on that in a

day or two.
225 19 20 07 CC Skylab, Houston. Could you close the STAR TRACKER

SHUTTER with a switch for us, please?
225 19 22 h7 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds from LOS;

Hawaii at 20:2h.
225 19 22 56 PLT Okay.
END OF TAPE
_P Time: 225:19:30 to 225:21:00
Page 1 of 2/1381
225 20 22 44 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii 4 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank.
225 20 25 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to get the TACS

enabled. The M092 vent put a little more momentum
in there than we had anticipated.
CC Skylab, Houston. You copy?
225 20 26 19 PLT Yes, we got them enabled, Hank.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll

be coming up on Vanguard at 52.
225 20 26 32 CDR Roger.
225 20 27 48 CDR And, Houston, we show the outer gimbal on CMGs 1

and 3 100 percent.
225 20 27 54 CDR Well, we suspect that outer gimbal on 3 as being

a failure, as per yesterday's ...
225 20 28 42 CC Skylab, Houston. It looks good to us.
225 20 52 01 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, lO minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston. If we could have the DAS a

little bit, we're going to enforce a momentum
sample.
CDR It 's yours.
225 20 52 5_ CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to do a data recorder

dump here at Vanguard.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston; the DAS is yours.

Page 2 of 2/1382
225 20 53 55 CC CDR, Houston. If it's convenient for you to an-

swer now, could you repeat your comment just at
LOS last time, something about gyros 1 and 3. We
didn't copy all that.
CDR If you look at the gimbal angles on gyros 1 and

3 at that point, the outer gimbal angle on both
was indicating 100 percent. Now 3 is the one I
reported yesterday as indicating 100 percent, but
suspicioning that it was a gage failure. And this
morning they mentioned that they thought maybe
that wasn't that; it was WHEEL SPEED, but I didn't
want to argue the point. And it still reads
100 percent on 3, and it was reading 1O0 percent
on 1. I don't know what it's reading now. I'm
down here working 171/92, but Jack can give you
a look at it.
CC Okay; we copy.
PLT What parameters you want to know, Hank?
CC Roger. Could you give us your gimbal angles -

OUTER gimbal angles on CMGs 1 and 3?
225 20 55 38 PLT Number 1 is 31 and number 3 is off-scale low.
CC Roger; we copy.
225 20 56 h8 CC PLT, Houston. On gyro 3 there, the off-scale low,

do you mean minus 100 percent?
PLT That's affirmative.

i
PLT About a minus 105 percent.
225 20 57 13 CC Roger.
END OF TAPE
- Time: 225:21:00 to 225:22:30
Page 1 of 2/1383
225 21 Ol 24 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute until LOS. Ascension

at 06.
225 21 01 29 CDR Okay.
225 21 06 01 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension, 9 minutes.
225 21 14 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS;

Guam at 52.
225 21 51 45 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over Guam for 6-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger, Crip. I'm working ATM and working on this

filament at 29. I noticed pretty good prominence
here at - on the limb. Looks like it's over ac-
tive region 85. Didn't notice it before, but
if the guys in the backroom think it's signifi-
cant, why I'll do some work on it.
CC Okay, Jack, if you'retalking about the filament

number 29 at active region 83, we copied that
we've got a flare, which was in optical l-F, we
haven't gotten any X-ray information on it, that
started about 21:31. We're looking if your
current ATM procedures require any modification.
We'd like for you to carry on. I guess you're
in building block 2, right?
PLT I just finished up building block 2. Im going

to JOP 4B now. And that prominence that I see
is more like over active region 85. It looks
like it's narrow 80 and 1 solar radius, which is
active region 85 here.
CC Okay, copy that.
PLT However, I guess active region 83 is the lO0 one,

so it's - yes, I guess it probably is that one.
On the absence of any other word, I'm going to
press on with the normal routine.
CC That's - that's affirm, Jack; press on.

TAG Tape 225-11/T-205
Page 2 of 2/138&
225 21 57 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're getting to go over the

hill in about 30 seconds. And, Jack, if there's
any confusion, we would Just like you to go
ahead and press on with your normal ATM schedule
as we previously told you. That flare looks
fairly small. And we'll have you again at
Vanguard at 22:29, 22:29.
225 21 58 02 PLT Okay, Crip; thank you.

ii minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC And, Jack, if you're still there at the ATM

panel and you've got time, we'd like you to
place the six TACS switches to INHIBIT, please.
225 22 29 31 SPT He's sort of busy right now, Robert. Do you

mean off, not INHIBIT?
CC The switches - It doesn't say off, 0wen, it's

INHIBIT on all of the switches.
SPT Oh, I'm sorry. You said TACS. I thought you

said six pack, and those are already off. But
you mean TACS. Okay.
CC TACS. Roger. Not six packs, sir.
225 22 29 51 SPT Roger.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 225-12/T-206
. Time: 225:22:30 to 226:00:00
Page 1 of 2/1385
225 22 30 28 CC And Skylab, Houston. We'll need to pull the data

voice record dump here a little early, so we're
going to be dumping here at Vanguard.
SPT Okay.
225 22 32 16 SPT Bob, does the backroom say that S052 should still
be started at 1 plus 25, with the current time
remaining clock.
225 22 32 25 CC We'll check that for you, Owen.
225 22 32 36 CC 0wen, that's affirmative on your last.

have you again in about 3minutes over Ascension
at 22:43, 22:43. And for your information, your
Flight Plan's on board and the information that
Jack asked for earlier about Moon photography is
also on board.
225 22 39 57 CDR Thank you, Crip.
225 22 44 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Ascension for

about 6-1/2 minutes and can probably expect comm
to be a little bit poor this pass.
225 22 49 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from dropping

out over Ascencion. We'll have you in about
2 minutes over Canary.
225 22 50 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from

dropping out for a minute over Ascension. We'll
have you again over Canary in about 1 minute.
225 22 52 13 CC Skylab, Houston, AOS over Canary for 9 minutes.
225 23 00 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from LOS, we'll

see you again over Guam at 23:27 in about 26 minutes
from now.
TAG Tape 225-12/T-206
Page 2 of 2/1386
225 23 00 31 SPT Okay, Crip.
225 23 26 52 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S through Guam for l0 minutes,

l0 minutes.
225 23 26 57 CDR Okay, Crip.
225 2B 35 5_ CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. See

you again over the Vanguard in about B1 minutes
at 00:07, 00:07.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 226-01/T-207
Time: 226:00:00 to 226:01:30
Page i of 5/1387

8 minutes, and we'll be needing the DAS here for
a couple of minutes. We're going to put Z-I
and Y-3 - turn them back on to do a check while
we got this coarse scale factor enabled in the
computer; and this should in no way affect your
other gyros.
PLT Okay.

see you again over Canary at 00:27, 00:27. And
that's about 12 minutes from now.
226 00 27 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Canary for

14 minutes.
PLT We're not ignoring you, Crip. We heard you.
226 00 27 21 CC Roger. You guys sure are quiet up there today.

Y'all working that hard?
PLT We haven't been near a microphone all day, we've

been working so hard.
CC Well, that's good; that's good. Let's - We've

been loafing down here but we just came back
to work.
PLT I got the other two guys suspended up there in

midair in the workshop. They Just can't get
loose.
226 O0 28 00 CC Roger. I heard y'all tried to spin it up

yesterday.
226 00 28 32 PLT I didn't feel a thing; I was sitting down here

in the wardroom. Heard the TACS go off - It
sounds like somebody's banging on the water
pipes down in the basement when the TACS fires.
CC Pretty loud. Pete used to claim that it was

pretty loud, also.
226 00 38 O0 CC SPT, Houston. You got a moment, please, sir?

TAG Tape 226-01/T-207
Page 2 of 5/1388
226 00 38 50 CC Owen - -
SPT Hello, Houston.
CC Roger, Owen. You got a minute?
SPT I have a minute. I didn't think you did,

though; the way you walked away.
CC No, okay. I might have missed you coming down.

But we've got something that the solar people
tell me is called coronal rain going on, and
we'd like you to add an item to your shopping
list on this next pass you've got coming up.
SPT A coronal what?
CC Something to do with solar snow. I don't - No,

it's coronal rain.
226 00 39 21 SPT Oh, okay. Yes, I know what you're talking about.
226 00 39 23 CC I'm glad you do. What they'd like you to do

is - you've got an item 13 that's scheduled in
the shopping list at the end of your next pass?
SPT Okay. A1, was going to catch that, but we'll

catch it together. What's up?
CC Okay. What we'd like you to do is to add an

extended sc - EXTENDED STANDARD _©DE for S052
still pointed at Sun center, and if you'd put
the ROLL at minus 5400 for us.
SPT Minus 5400 with another EXTENDED STANDARD.
226 00 39 55 CC That's affirmative. And what they're saying

is they've got some enhanced coronal activity
above active region 83. And it's matter, I
guess, falling back in the Sun, which you're
familiar with. And if you'd catch that for
them, they'd appreciate it.
SPT Okay. We'll be happy to do that.
CC Okeydoke.
/---. TAG Tape 226-01/T-207
Page 3 of 5 /1389
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to go LOS. Have

you again at Honeysuckle at 01:15.
226 00 40 38 PLT Roger.
226 01 15 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Honeysuckle for

8 minutes. And, Skylab, do we happen to have
anybody at the ATM C&D, please?
CDR You bet, CDR is here.
CC Roger, A1. We're trying to troubleshoot this

problem you were having on the CMG gimbal
readout a little bit earlier, and we would
appreciate it if you would go through and select
CMGs 1 and 2 and 3 and give us the INNER and
OUTER gimbal readings.
CDR Okay, CMG i, minus 25 and off-scale low; that

would be minus 100 percent.
226 01 16 15 CC And copy 1.
CDR Okay on 2 it's about minus 2 and plus 2.
CC Roger.
CDR I'm reading you the INNER and out - then OUTER.
CC Roger; that's what we want.
CDR Minus 25 and plus 28 on 3. But I'll bet you if

we watched it long enough it'd be minus 100.
226 0116 49 CC Roger. Earlier today when you commented that

1 and 3's outer gimbals were on the stops, can
you recs]] if they were on the bottom at off-scale
low?
CDR That's affirmative. That's where they were the

other day when we had the problem, only we thought
it was real. I seem to remember that they had
a problem with the outer gimbal on SL-2 on CMG 3.
I couldn't remember for sure, and when I saw
the outer gimbal on 1 on the stop 2 I knew we
had a problem, but it may have been just - may
be just the problem we're seeing now.
TAG Tape 226-01/T-207
Page 4 of 5 /1390
226 01 17 23 CC Okay; we'll look into that. I don't believe

we did have a problem with the - with the gimbal
angle readings on 3. It seems like we might
have had CMG 3 WHEEL SPEED problem.
CDR Maybe that was it; I'd forgotton. So apparently

we now have two outer gimbals that aren't
reading correctly. They're reading full scale
low every once in a while.
CC Roger, and it appears that it's not continuous

either because awhile ago we got a 1 reading
and it was reading approximately correct on the
OUTER gimbal and now it's back off-scale low.
And awhile ago, B was reading off-scale low
and it's back on now. Okay; we'll - we'll take
a look at it.
226 01 18 34 CDR And so far I've finished - almost finished the

J0P 6. I'm going to the shopping list 13 in
just a few minutes. And it looks like we'll
get a good LONG EXPOSURE time on both 56; and
we ought to get a good long run and EXTENDED
STANDARD for the WLC - 52.
CC Okay; sounds good, A1.
CDR In fact, the second half of this JOP 6 as you

know is - it's EXTENDED STANDARD. That's what's
going on right now as a matter of fact.
226 01 19 08 CC Roger. I think the intent was Just get as much

as we could of this coronal rains.
CDR Yes. We're also minus 5400. You might ask

them if they want me to restart EXTENDED STANDARD
or Just let it keep running; which would they
prefer? Because I don't have to do anything
now, just go ahead and start up the experiments
56 - I can either leave 52 running or start it
up again.
CC Okay, A1, when you finish up building block l,

we'd like you to restart the EXTENDED STANDARD
on 52.
CDR Okay.
TAG Tape 226-01/T-207
_" Page 5 of 5 /1391
226 01 20 18 CDR We're going to give 56 a 15-minute exposure.

I think they'll like that.
CC Copy; a 15-minute exposure.
CC And, Skylab, I neglected tc tell you, but we

are doing a data voice recorder dump over
Honeysuckle here.
226 Ol 21 54 CDR Okay; we started that EXTENDED STANDARD.
CC Roger.
CC And, Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll

have you again at about 36 minutes over Bermuda
at 01:59, 01:59. And we'll be standing by for
the evening status report there.
226 Ol 22 27 CDR Okeydoke.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 226-02/T-208
/--- Time: 226:01:30 to 226:03:00
Page 1 of ii/1393
226 01 59 36 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS through Bermuda for 6 minutes.

Standing by for the evening status report.
CDR Now it's coming your way, Crip, so watch out.
1 CC Shootit atme.
CDR 142; 185; 170. 4963; 8196; 5719. 6.241, 6.239,

6.241; 5.980, 5.976, 5.975; 6.959, 6.958, 6.959.
2/30/4445, 3/15/Mark I, 50, A; 25, B; 25, C;
25, D; 20 - Correction, I didn't say that right.
3/10/Mark II, 20, B; 20, A; 10, G. Okay, now
for the SPT. 2/45/6000, 3/Mark II, 60, A; 60, B;
40, D. And there was 5 minutes for that; that
guy works hard in 5 minutes. Okay, here comes
the PLT. 1/05/0 - 1/05, I'm starting over again
on the pilot. 1/05/0513, then 3/20/Mark I, 50, A;
20, B; 20, D; and 20 backbends.
PLT Okay, I've got one more, I got 2/30/6306.
226 02 02 01 CDR Okay, medications, none. Sleep, 6/good; T/good;

6/good. Here comes the food log: CDR, l0 salts,
no deviations; SPT, five salts, no deviations;
PLT, zero salts, and one apple drink extra. Here
comes the photo log: M509, CIhl, CI16; M509-M151,
CIh3, 0, CI18; 35-millimeter: CX12, 22; CXl0, 038.
70-millimeter: CXll, 141. Drawer A confi-
guration: 07, CI40, 99_ CI09; 05, CI41, 9 -
Correction, 00, CI16; 06, CI45, 99, CI39; 03,
CIh3, 00, CI18. And the back of the drawer 1 is
the same as it's always been. Let's go back to
see anything else here. Flight Plan deviations -
tasks, times, constraints, and everything's okay
on tomorrow's Flight Plan. We like the way the
ATM schedule came out. That was good scheduling
on that ATM tomorrow. Shopping list accomplished:
HKlhH, HKTOU, HK60G; four sets, l0 sightings each,
Moon to Moon of T002. Unscheduled stowage item
location change: one scrambled egg from 562 front
to the wardroom. We're going to eat them. Okay
another thing that we did was get - Owen got an
extra hemoglobin - hemoglobin measurement. Now
this morning or yesterday, I can't remember which,
you sent up a repair procedure for the teleprinter.
TAG Tape 226-02/T-208
Page 2 of 11/1394
We did not execute that for three reasons.

One, we suspect that the teleprinter we got is
going to keep working; and if it doesn't, we hope
that the roller is the part that doesn't - that
doesn't fail, and we'll replace rollers. Okay?
226 02 04 33 CDR Second, if it does last through the end of the

mission, Jerry Carr's crew can bring up two or
three extra rollers. And three, most important
one, was since we were repairing it with tape,
we thought it would be wise to hold off until we
needed it. That way, the tape would be fresh and
sticky and probably last longer. If we repair it,
now and then use it a month from now, it probably
isn't going to last. So we've got the procedure
on board. We read it; understand it. And if our
teleprinter goes, and the roller goes on the
other one, the one that's in there now, where we
can't Just simply change the roller, we will then
execute the tape repair. Is that okay?
226 02 05 l0 CC Okay, we copied that, A1, and take it under

advisement. We're going to drop out here in
about 30 seconds and have you again in about
1 minute over Canary. And we'll finish the
evening stat°
CDR That was it, as far as I know.
CC Okay, we have a few questions that we'd like to -

to ask you when we get there.
226 02 05 28 CDR Okay.
226 02 06 56 CC Okay, Skylab, we're AOS once more through Canary.

And I think I've got you here for about 5 minutes,
and then we're going to turn you over for the
med conference. Like to ask you a question on
the 191 door opening characteristics.
CDR Okay, Jack will he answering that one. Go ahead,
Jack.
CC Okay. Jack, apparently, on that pass you had
over Australia, number 08, I guess that was day
before yesterday, you had some door Jerking, and
I'd like to ask you was the Jerking motion
continuous over the whole cycle? If not, was
it present in the beginning or the end; approx-
imately where? And what was the frequency of the
jerking motion, or was it constant?
TAG Tape 226-02/T-208
Page 3 of 11/1395
226 02 07 35 PLT No, it was an intermittent jerky motion. Some of

the Jerks were bigger than others. In fact, I
noticed it most about the time the trailing edge
of the door came into view. As it opened further,
of course, I got less of an angle on it, and you
can't see the jerking quite as well. I noticed
that just as the - edge of the door was clearing
the ground below mostly.
CC Okeydoke. And can you tell us if you saw it

yesterday on pass 09?
PLT I didn't look for it very closely because I had

other things that I had to get done in a hurry.
I recall it took longer than it should nominally.
And I guess I got no reason to suspect that it
did jerk, but on the other hand, I don't remember
specifically looking for that yesterday.
CC 0keydoke. I guess we'll have to find out more

about it when we get our next EREP pass, which
is quite a ways off. Okay. We'd like to ask a
question, I guess, of A1, on the fogging of the
wardroom window. Which side is it fog - the fog
coming from? And we're assuming that it's kind
of running left to right.
CDR You assume exactly right. It appears to be coming

in the place where the vent vented it out. Now
I've vented it down once; well, I actually vented
it down twice. And it took out most of the water.
But when I try to, you know, put that air back
through the desiccant - SAL desiccant, like it
reclaims. I suspect it's Just moist air there,
and the desiccant is supposed to be keep these
experiments dry. And I suspect it is not because
it isn't even keeping the window dry.
226 02 09 22 CC Okay; copy that. Understand - it seems like it's

coming in from the left, A1. Is that right?
226 02 09 27 CDR That's affirm; about midway up on the left-hand

side. And it even forms a sort of a cone with the
end of it right near the left-hand edge of the
window. Then it expands out and covers about
one-third of the window.
/
TAG Tape 226-02/T-208
Page 4 of ii /1396
CC Okay. I copied that. And a question in general

for you. Have you used the auto flash for the
Nikon camera? If so, in what condition was the
SL-2 battery when first used?
CDR SL-2 battery was good. We're still using

SL-2 battery. We shot a bunch of them today of
509, and we've shot a number of flashes. And
maybe Owen or Jack would know. I don't - still
think it's the SL-2 bat. Any comments Jack or
0wen?
PLT I didn't change it.
SPT No, it's got the same battery in there, and it

seems to give you a READY light pretty quick.
PLT Yes, I think it's a pretty hot bat.
CC Okay. Very good. And for Jack, can you tell us

where you are planning on setting up for that
TV-1 tonight? You've got it tomorrow morning.
PLT Haven't looked at it yet.
CC Okay. Well, the reason I mentioned it, we have

a particular TV camera that we wanted you to use.
Do you think you're going to do it tonight? I
can give it to you; if not, I'll wait until
tomorrow.
PLT No, I'm not going to set it up tonight, but you

can tell me what it is.
CC Okay. We'd like you to use serial number 3002

vice 3006. 3006 is the one that you've been
using for the past several days.
226 02 ll 02 PLT Okay, you want 3002.
CC That's affirm.
CC Okay, you guys, I'm going to turn you over to

med conference. We do need 56 DOOR switch placed
OPEN to us for unattended ops, please.
TAG Tape 226-02/T-208
Page 5 of 11/1397
CDR Okay. We're not finished with the panel. We're

going to do it when it gets sunrise. I've got
to put the grating back in visible and I figured
it would be in good shape for unattended -
226 02 ll 31 CC Okay, copy that. And I'm going to turn you over
to the doc now.
226 02 _3 35 CC Skylab, Houston; we're A0S over Carnarvon for

l0 minutes.
CDR Got you, Crip.
CC Hey, and if we got anybody near the ATM panel,

it seems like we've got a problem with 56's
shutter, and it seems to have risen again with
running item 13. What we need to do is to make
sure that the door is open, you got a READY
light to hit START - then STOP and then close
the - close the door.
CDR Okay, 56. I'll get up there and you can tell me
that again. And I'm not sure you really want me
to close the door, but I'll go on up there.
CC Roger. I meant to say airlock door not the - not

the 56 door.
CC And, Owen, if you've got a - if you're available

for a minute while Al's going up to the panel,
we have your 133 data here. However, what they've
done is averaged B days together. And I 'd like
you - to know if that's the way you want it, or
do you want it by individual days, or how?
SPT That's satisfactory, if that's the way it is.

I was just interested in round numbers and
wanted to make sure that it all looked the way
they expected.
CC Okay, how would you like it in the future?
SPT Why not around once a week, Just send me up a

little note that tells me - that'll be two runs
per week, probably - about that. And Just send
me up a little note on the pad that tells me the
s_mmaries and stages for that week.
s
TAG Tape 226-02/T-208
Page 6 of ll /1398
CC Okay, and you want us to go ahead and average

them together, then, for those runs?
SPT That 'll be fine.
CC Thank you, Robert.
SPT Okay, we'll send that up to you tonight.
CDR Okay, Robert, what do you want me to do?
CC Yes, sir, I'd like you to take the AIRLOCK door

switch to OPEN.
226 02 45 32 CDR Okay, it's open.
226 02 45 33 CC And do you have a READY light?
226 02 45 36 CDR Yes, I do.
CC Okay, hit your switch - START/STOP switch to

START and then to STOP.
226 02 45 4h CDR Okay; did that.
CC Okay, now you should be able to close the

airlock door.
226 02 45 51 CDR It's closed.
CC Okay, and that closed the shutter and I -

apparently, we're running into some kind of funny
when we're closing out item 13 about getting
that - getting that shutter closed.
CDR I sure hope it doesn't foul up the exposures we

took on 13. We went through the procedure, and
let me read it to you to make sure we know what
we're doing.
CC No, your procedure is correct. If you're hitting -

a right at the end of it, it calls for you to
hit START and then STOP. If you're doing that,
that should be shutting the shutter.
CDR It did that and the READY light came on. It

worked Just like advertised.
TAG Tape 226-02/T-208
Page 7 of 11/1399
CC Okay, so noted. If - I'd like to ask you a

question about ED32. On the film report tonight,
we didn't notice any interior color taken and
we had anticipated some being taken with ED32.
Can you update us on that?
SPT Yes, I have just not had a chance to - enter

those. Apparently - They should have been on
there, though. I corrected that - A1. So there
were a number of color photos taken on ED32. And
I don't know what was read down to you, but I
thought it was entered in correctly. At any
rate, I took some - oh, 12 to 18 exposures on
ED32 today. And I ran a total of five sequences,
now, and I was going to report on it tomorrow
morning.
CC And, A1, are you still up by the ATM panel?
CDR I'm not; but it sure isn't far away.
CC Well, apparently, there's some problem with the

H-alpha closeout per the pad tonight. Stand by 1.
226 02 h8 00 CDR We closed that baby precisely like the pad.

But we'll go up there and work on it some more.
226 02 48 25 CDR Okay, we found out the problem on the colored

interior. I read you CX12, 22, then I read you
CX10, 038. I should have read you CI10, 038.
CC I thought - . Okay, we've got that.
CDR I'm head - headed up to the ATM panel - for any

sort of things you've got on your mind.
226 02 48 49 CC Okay, apparently, we need the NIGHT INTERLOCK

switch on H-alpha to - in OVERRIDE and the
H-ALPHA DOOR switch OPEN.
226 02 49 42 CC Okay -
226 02 h9 56 CDR I did not close it out precisely like the plan.
I only thought I did.
CC Okay, A1, and you can verify that you are in

p AUTO on H-alpha l, right?
TAG Tape 226-02/T-208
Page 8 of ii/lh00
CDR That's a fact.
CC Okay, very good. And for your information, we're

going to be upping your PP02 just so we won't
get into a caution and warning problem here.
Also, like you to co,_nent whether you're liking
the cooler temperatures aboard Skylab.
CDR Hey, we love it. It's real nice, and it's only -
It's much better sleeping. Everybody's sleeping
longer now. It's cooler when you York. The only
time we notice that it's ... up here at all is
when they use the high-intensity lights, like
we did for 509 today. Other than that, it's
very, very pleasant here. It's much better when
you're riding the ergometer. The only time
that it isn't super pleasant is when you're
giving yourself sort of a sponge hath, then you
tend to cool off because it's cool and dry so
you evaporate pretty - pretty rapidly. But
that's a small problem compared with all the nice
little advantages of it.
CC Okay, we copy that. For your information, tonight,

we're having problems with one of our air-to-ground
lines to Madrid. So in case any prob - Belay
that_ we got them all back in.
CDR Okay, that's good news. And how do you think our
rate gyros are going to do tonight?
CC Okay, rate gyros are hanging in good, tonight, and

hope they continue that way. And we're going
to go ahead and start ATM unattended ops. Like
to ask you a question about the star tracker.
About one rev ago, after we'd already taken
away or inhibited control of the star tracker by
the computer, we noted that it had been locked
on a star, and then, I guess, last pass we
noticed that the shutter was closed again. Had
y'all been playing with the star tracker?
226 02 51 58 CDR Yes, I did. I locked it on a star to see how it

was doing. It locked on real well. And then
later on, when it told me to shut it off, I
closed the shutter and that was it.
TAG Tape 226-02/T-208
Page 9 of 11/1401
CC Okay, very good. And on that TV camera that I

told Jack about a while ago, we'd like for you
to continue with using the - the new camera; that
is 3002. We'll continue with that one until
further notice.
CDR Why? ls the other one bad or something?
226 02 52 23 CC Well, A1, we noticed that the color picture

doesn't seen to be as good with the other one.
226 02 52 29 CDR 3002, okeydoke.
CDR Let me tell you what we got inhibited on 207 and

make sure we - we're all playing the same game.
SIEVE A PPC02, SIEVE B PPC02, CONDENSATE TANK
DELTA-P - and that's it. If there's any that
we should or shouldn't have inhibited on those
three, well, please let us know, would you?
CC A1, we're going to drop out here for about

30 seconds. And we'll have you again in about
a minute over Honeysuckle, and I'll talk to
you about those CAUTION and WARNINGS.
226 02 53 18 CDR Okay.
226 02 54 23 CC Okay, Skylab, we've got you about - for about

4-1/2 minutes through Honeysuckle. And, A1, if
you don't mind, we'd appreciate if you'd repeat
that CAUTION and WARNING INHIBIT status.
CDR CONDENSATE TANK DELTA-P, PPCO 2 A and B, So there's

three of them inhibited.
CC Okay, we copy that; that's very good. And I

finally ran out of items here. I can give you
a little bit of evening news, if you would care
for it, before bedtime.
CDR You bet. Nobody's given us news in 3 or 4 days.
CC We're back. I hadn't been - I haven't been on

console. Well, if you're interested in what
the newspaper's saying about you, it says - the
afternoon paper says that, "Astronauts gather
data on southwestand ask for more work." Says,
TAG Tape 226-02/T-208
Page l0 of ll/lh02
"Skylab astronauts explore the American southwest

with space cameras and said they've gotten the
hang of things enough to do more work. Bean
said they were able to do their chores more
rapidly, now, and had time to tackle more Jobs.
We've got everything shipshape and we're ready
to do more work, he said." So it sounds like -
sounds like you guys are really trying to work
hard.
CDR We are. How about giving that to the flight

planners. There's about a thousand people -
10,000 people that's been working hard for this
mission; we want to m_ke sure that we pull it
off right for the next month and a half.
CC Yes, but we're getting to take a few days off

every now and then. It doesn't sound like you
guys are getting to do that.
CDR I don't know. We seem to be having all of the

fun. We were talking about it tonight. Jack
says, "When does the hard work start?" I don't
know; it just seems fun all day long.
226 02 56 07 CC Well, that's good. Let you know a little about

the less colorful side of what's going on down
here. The U. S. shifted into its - into phase IV,
today, and prices on many products could start
going up. However, the Cost of Living Council
officials would not speculate oh how fast or
how high the prices might climb.
226 02 56 25 CC If you're interested in a little bit of the sports,

Houston Astros handed the Chicago Cubs their
eighth defeat in a row, Sunday. The score was
3 to 2. Jack is probably interested that Jack
Nicklaus won the PGA by four shots Sunday to
become leader of major golf titles with 14 wins.
The win bettered by one the record of 13,
previously held by Bobby Jones. Nicklaus' titles
include three PGA, three U.S. Opens, two U.S.
Amateurs, four Masters, and two British Opens.
That's quite a record. I'm also informed that
some of the late evening news highlighted your
M509 run today. And that sounded like fun. I'm
looking forward to hearing you do TO20. Now
TAG Tape 226-02/T-208
Page ii of ii /1403
we're getting pretty close to LOS so that's -

we probably ought to conclude what news there was
right now.
226 02 57 32 CC And, Owen, you had requested earlier today,

apparently, some stars so you could do that test
on the star tracker to find out the threshold of
where it locks on. Unfortunately, we don't have
any stars readily available tonight because of
occulting. And we're setting that up for day 230,
if that's satisfactory with you. Also, we're
getting ready to dump the VTR, so that's not going
to be available to you for the rest of the evening.
SPY That sounds like a fine date there, Bob. And I

would think if you could send it up for - to be
done sometime when I've, say, got a double ATM
run, I'll do it on my night pass intervening.
CC Okay, that sounds good to us. We'll go ahead

and wish you a good night, here. If you need to
talk to us again, the next pass is going to be
over MLA at 03:31, 03:31.
SPT Thank you, Bob.
226 02 58 27 CC Night, guys.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 226-03/T-209
Time: 226:03:00 to 226:10:h0
Page i of 1/1405
SKYLAB AIR-to-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS

Time: 226:10:40 to 226:12:0h
Page 1 of 8/1407
226 ii 00 01 CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon.

Good morning, Skylab. Over.
PLT You sure it's morning already, Bruce?
CC I can't rightly say, Jack. I haven't been out-

side myself, but the clock tells me it's morning
and the map shows it's time to get up for you
guys.
226 ii 03 56 SPT Hello, Bruce, Skylab.
CC Go ahead, Owen.
SPT Hello, Bruce, we wanted to MAke some special note

of a few people who had made some special extra
contribution to Skylab in giving us an opportunity
to get up there and do this interesting work.
And one of those people is Tom McElmurry. So
we'd appreciate it if you'd give Tom a call this
morning and let him know that the crew of mission
2 is acknowledging his special contribution this
morning. And wake him up if you can, if you can
catch him early enough and let him know that, on
this day, we're making a special extra note of
his contribution to the mission and we very much
appreciate it. If you can let him know that's
true from the crew of mission 2, we'd appreciate
it.
226 ii Oh h5 CC Okay, we'll record this as Tom McE]murry day and

actually I think I'll Just wait a little _zhile
and catch him when he comes in to work, if you
don't mind.
SPT Well, sooner you can catch him at home the better,
we'd appreciate it if you'd give him a call.
CC Okay. We've got about a minute and 40 seconds

until LOS here at Carnarvon. Next station contact
is Guam at 11:12. Over.
226 ii 05 13 SPT Roger.

TAG Tape 226-0_/T-210
Page 2 of 7 /1_08
226 ii 12 49 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for the next

6-1/2 minutes. Over.
226 ll 13 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for the next

6 minutes. Is the SPT there? Over.
CDR He's up weighing himself, Bruce.
CC Okay. We've got someone here that we thought

might like to say a few words to him.
MCC You can go ahead, sir.
CC Go ahead, Tom.
MCC Hi - -
SPT Okay. Go ahead, Bruce.
MCC Hi, are you there, Scientist Pilot?
CC Hey, Owen, we've got Tom on the line here. Are

you reading him?
SPT No, no, I'm not reading him yet. Go ahead, Tom.
226 ll lh 23 MCC Owen, it has to be my telephone here. Can you

hear that now?
SPT Now we've got you, and very pleased to talk to

you for a minute there, Tom. Well, we wanted to
make a special note of all the work you've done
to get not only ourselves but all of Skylab off
the ground and working as well as it is.
226 ii 14 37 MCC I can't think of anyone that has done as nice a

thing for me in all my life here. When you say
working as well as it is, I'm not sure that's a
compliment though. You gents have done nothing
but maintain in grand style up there, although -
SPT Well, we thank you. We knew we couldn't call

early enough to get you out of bed, Tom. We knew
you were already at it and working away, but
we're pleased to have this Tom McElmurry day up
here on mission 2.
Page 3 of 7/1409
MCC Well, I sure appreciate it and we're down here

watching you come through in grand style. And I
want to co_nend you for all your fine efforts.
SPT I'll be thinking about you today, Tom.
MCC Well, that's mighty nice. We look forward to

having you back here on the 22nd.
PLT Hey, Tom, this is Jack. I want to make a special

note of all of your work too, and thank you a
whole lot. And - and - I appreciate your
friendship.
226 ll 15 31 MCC Thank you, Jack, very much. From all the reports
here, if you keep eating the way you're eating,
we'll probably have to bring you down early.
226 ii 15 hO PLT Well, I notice I'm losing weight. This morning,

for example, I weighed 109, and I've been feeling
a little puny lately. I guess I lost 81 pounds
overnight.
MCC What you need is a large piece of apple pie and

ice cream for breakfast (laughter).
PLT How about shooting a couple of ducks for me?
226 ll 15 57 MCC If I could m_age that, I would. Listen, I don't

want to use up your time. I surely do appreciate
the kind thoughts, gents. Keep up the good work.
SPT See you in about 6 or 7 weeks, Tom.
MCC Thank you. See you back.
SPT So long.
CDR Hey, thanks, Bruce. That was a good idea.
CC Roger. We've got about 3 minutes left in this

pass. When you have all your thoughts gathered
together I've got, oh, 5 or 6 messages and mission
notes to pass up to you.
226 ll 18 31 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. Next

station contact is Goldstone at ll plus 36 in
17-1/2 minutes. Out.
TAG Tape 226-04/T-210
Page 4 of 7 /1410
226 ll 36 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone and

United States passes for the next 6 minutes.
Goldstone and then the rest of them.
226 ll 41 19 CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to handover from

Goldstone to Texas. We will be dumping a data
voice tape recorder over Bermuda commencing at
ll plus 44. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston back with you for ll-1/2

minutes through Texas, MIA, and Bermuda. You may
be interested in knowing that at ll:00 Zulu this
morning the roll out of the Skylab 4 lauch
vehicle and CSM commenced leaving the VAB at that
time. It's expected to arrive at good old 39
Bravo at about 15:00 Z.
CC For the PLT, are you there?
226 ii 44 49 CC Skylab Pilot, this is Houston. Over.
226 ii 45 29 CC Skylab Pilot, this is Houston. Over.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jack, on the Flight Plan for today you are

scheduled for TV-1 shortly. We'd Just like to
comment that the TV-1 that you are doing today
will be edited and chopped up together with
TV-2 and TV-B which are scheduled for the next
2 days.
226 ll 45 54 PLT Bay, you cut out there, Bruce. I Just got your
last sentence. Could you start over again please?
CC Okay. You're scheduled for a TV-1 today coming up

shortly, and we'd like to note that the TV-1 will
be edited together with TV-2 and TV-3 which are
coming up in the next 2 days. And in order to make
the edited pictures come out right and look like a
single sequence we need to have you wear the same
clothing in each of the 3 telecasts, something like
a Jacket. Over.
226 ll 46 26 PLT Okay. Well I've been wearing the same clothes
for 2 weeks anyway, so that will be fine.
Page 5 of 8/1411
226 ii 46 31 CC Okay. I'ii refrain from the appropriate Marine

Corps comment on that. But in the same line,
while you're in the wardroom or around the wardroom
we'd like to get you to terminate the atmosphere
purge that's been going on in preparation for the
M509 ops tomorrow. And speaking of M509, we've
got the TV and the data back down here, and it's
looking real good. And we appreciate the detailed
commentary.
PLT Well, we wanted to make sure that we were saying

the things you were interested in. So if you've
got some - something you can - suggestions for
doing a better Job, we'd like to know.
CC No indeed. It looks beautiful to us. And

also systems housekeeping lines over on panel 614,
we'd like you to verify the 4 circuit breakers
for the HABITABILITY SUPPORT SYST_ WASTE TANK
VENT HEATERS. That's panel 614 HSS WASTE TANK
VENT HEATERS, 4, CLOSED. Over.
226 ll 47 36 PLT Okay, we'll get them and we've taken care of
the dump - the purge.
CC Okay, understand purge terminated.
PLT And the uniform is brown side out today, Bruce.
CC Roger, Jack.
PLT All 4 HEATERS ON.
CC Roger; thank you.
CDR Hey, Bruce, we can run up and do that CBRM

check that we got later this morning, right now,
if the follows on the ground want to watch it.
226 ll 48 33 CC Okay, Alan. We're ready, we're coming to you

through Bermuda. We're going to be dumping the
data voice tape recorder. And for your informa-
tion, we're reconsidering and regrouping our
position on the use of the APCS versus command
module for attitude control problems. A new cue
card has been developed, and we're in the process
of verifying the thing today. The basic plan
TAG Tape 226-04/T-210
Page 6 of 8 %1412
is to use the APCS for all attitude control

problems except emergency OA rate control.
Basically, we're going back to the same posture
as before, except that we will provide you with
a positive recovery method using the APCS that
minimizes TACS usage. Over.
CDR Say, that's great. That's been a long-needed

item. Good - good change, Bruce.
CC Roger. Glad we thought of it.
CDR Glad you did too. And did you say you want me
to do this CBRM procedure now or wait? It's
up to you.
226 ll 49 34 CC We're standing by. if you want to do it now,

that'll be fine.
226 ii h9 52 CC And for the SPT, when he has a minute free I've
got a couple of quick ones for him.
SPT I can listen to you now, Bruce.
226 ll 50 13 CC Okay. To update and clarify the general messages

you've got for taking pictures of the Galapagos
Islands and the typhoon today, we'd like you to
use the haze filters for both cameras and the MDA
window that's called out in the message regarding
the Galapagos refers to the S190 window up in
the MDA, not the STS windows and not the wardroom
windows. If you prefer to, you may also use the
S190 window for the typhoon photos, but that's
your option. With reference to the S056 ACTIVE l,
LCNG mode which Jack reported took 18 instead of
the nominal 15 frames a couple of days ago on
day 22B, we've checked back and premission testing
shows that any active mode of S056 can be off by
plus or minus three frames. Update on the solar
activities: P-29, prominence 29, is less active
since last night. And the filament near active
region 86 is "slightly active." The rest of the
Sun is quiet. Over.
TAG Tape 226-04/T-210
Page 7 of 8/1413
226 ii 51 33 SPT Okay, I think we've got all that. Thank you.
CC Roger. Out.
CDR Okay, Bruce, I've completed down through step 9,

and upon completion of steps i through 9, obtain
go from STDN to proceed to step i0. So I'm stand-
ing by at step 10.
CC Okay, Alan, you're GO to go ahead and go on to

step I0.
CDR Okay.
226 ii 52 53 CDR Okay, that complete procedure worked exactly like

it should have; that is, the light did not come
off when I cycled through them without attempting -
lights did not come on. No component came off
the line as I cycled through. When I attempted
to take reg 7 off the line it worked. It came
off. The light illuminated, I put it back on.
The light extinguished, and that's where we stand
right now. The check is complete as far as this
procedure you sent up is concerned.
CC Roger. We verify all that on telemetry. It looks

good to us down here and we're GO for the battery
verification test.
CDR Okay. Now do you want me to remove the tape from

CBPJ_ SELECTOR and start using it or what?
226 ll 53 46 CC Roger. Alan, you can go ahead and take the tape
off, resume normal operations in the CBRM rotary
SELECT switch and, while you're up there-, we'd
like you to select CBRM 17 and see if the light
and the flag go away.
226 ll 54 l0 CC We got one minute until LOS here at Bermuda.

Next station contact, Ascension at 12:03 in about
9 minutes, and I think I said that wrong. Just
the light should go out, and I presume you'll -
out.
TAG Tape 226-04/T-210
Page 8 of 8 /1414
CDR Yes, the flag doesn't go away, if we didn't have

a light. So we're on 17, but nothing's new.
CDR I'm going back to breakfast. See you later.
CC Roger, out.
CDR Hey, Bruce some of us less enlightened crewmen

up here still don't understand why everything
is working on that ATM panel now. Just the change
of the GB bus had made everything else work pro-
perly?
226 ll 55 27 CC We're losing you over the hill here, we'll pick
you up at Ascension in Just a minute.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 226-05/T-211
Time: 226:12:04 to 226:13:30
Page i of 10/1415
226 12 0h 17 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascencion for

5 minutes.
CDR The question we were wondering, Bruce, is why

is - are the CBRM SELECTOR working now? What -
what made it start working right?
226 12 04 40 CC Well, we've just been preparing a little disser-

tation for you down here regarding the status of
the ATM panel. Unfortunately we're carrying the
explanation of why CBRM 16 and 17 tripped off a
few days ago, and did not trip off today as an
unresolved item at the present time. We haven't -
we've been troubleshooting the system but we
haven't actually fixed anything for you. We
did want to get the CBRM rotary select switch
verification out of the way today so that we
could move on to the battery capacity test which
has to be done prior to resumption of EREP.
And especially, we needed to verify CBRM 7 since
that's the one we are using for the battery
capacity test. With respect to the TV bus, course
we are avoiding TV BUS 2 by procedural techniques
and on the AC BUS 1 situation, we verified that
all that you've lost on that is the VARIABLE
feature of the INTEGRAL and NUMERIC LIGHTING.
So that, in fact, you have the same capabilities
now on AC BUS 1 as were designed into AC BUS 2.
The I/LCA heater you may recall, we're running
on the number 2 heater because the number 1 heater,
which has been disabled by a circuit breaker,
is still failed to the full-on position, should
it be reactivated. Over.
CDR Okay. Thanks, Bruce.
226 12 08 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS at

Ascension. Next station contact is through
Carnarvon at 12:34 in 25 minutes. Out.
226 12 34 03 CC" Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for

the next 10-1/2 minutes. Out.
226 12 35 26 SPT Bruce, would you clarify for me again which of

these different photos you want the haze filter
attached for?
TAG Tape 226-05/T-211
Page 2 of i0 /1416
CC Okay, Owen, we'd like the haze filter attached

for the Galapagos photography. That's mes-
sage 1826-A. And for 1827 Bravo, the typhoon photo-
graphy. And I believe, as a general item,
air-to-ground photographs showing terrain and things
of this sort would probably be better rendered
with the haze filter on. Over.
SPT Okay, makes -. I understand now. I wanted to

make sure that it is not related to any of the
S063 photography.
CC That's correct. There is no relation to the

S063 photography. And while we've got you at
the squawk box, Owen, we've been doing a little
research on the dump-angle parameter roll. And
we've found that the maximum Beta angle which
will be reached during your mission is approxi-
mately 62 degrees, which is coming up in a few days
here. For this range of Beta angles, the ATM
viewing time using a 400-kilometer atmosphere will
remain relatively constant at 5h minutes. The
momentum dumps never start before bOO kilometers,
coming closest on day 235 with 400 kilometers
leading dump commence by 1 minute at that time.
Therefore, changing roll D [?] or inhibiting
momentum dumps will not increase ATM usable
viewing time. However, for execution of J0P 7,
the atmospheric extinction JOP, where it is
desirable to run during high Beta angles, we
propose inhibiting momentum dumps. This will
preclude canister movement while the doors are
open, thereby preventing damage to the instruments.
And we invite your comments. Over.
226 12 B7 25 SPT Okay, that sounds very good. I don't know how
often you'd want to inhibit dump. I presume that
it's impossible for us to go ahead and work all
the way to UV extinction and still get a dump
in that night. That's implied by your statement,
and I guess that must be true. So we will want
to not do it too often, but, whenever we do inhibit
momentum dump, be all prepared to run JOP 7; so
that sounds fine. And I would expect that our
bOO-kilometer times would start changing more
than they have. For example, yesterday there
TAG Tape 226-05/T-211
Page 3 of l0/i_17
was a 65-second chunk taken off sunrise and

sunset for dump, but yet our 400-kilometer times
only changed by l0 or 15 seconds. And so I would
have expected our 400-kilometers times to come
down approximately in the same DELTA-T that our
Roll-D [?] time goes up, in other words, the
infringement into solar time. And your procedure
sounds fine, and we'll just have to work out the
best passes, the most convenient passes on which
it - on which to run JOP 7. Over.
226 12 38 34 CC Roger, Owen. We are, in fact, back working out

the Flight Plan to include JOP 7 at the appropriate
intervals. It doesn't look - it doesn't look like
there's any requirement for consecutive revs or
anything like this, so we should be able to
inhibit the momentum. And we will manage the
momentum and rim the scheduling of JOP 7 for you.
The sunrise/sunset time DELTAS are being computed
down here on the ground. And they handed me a
nice little crew chart with the comment that I
could read the - the chart up to you if I wanted,
but it is sort of hard to get graphical stuff
up. About all I can say about that is that we've
looked over our procedures again, and they're
correct. So we'll keep on feeding the data up to
you. If you - if you run into any problems, why,
let us know and we'll work them. Over.
SPT That sounds real fine, and I appreciate your

extra efforts on this point. Thank the controllers
down there please. Thank you.
CC Will do.
226 12 40 58 SPT Are you still there, Bruce?
CC l's [sic] right here.
CDR I was looking at the first pad. l've got the

first ATM run this morning and it shows me
cranking up the ATM at 13:36. Since we've
already run that CBRM check, it's probable that
I'ii crank it up about 30 minutes from now, which
will be 13:10. So it's conceivable that somebody
might want to send up some 26 more minutes of work
_ forthe firstpasshere.
TAG Tape 226-05/T-211
Page 4 of 10/1418
226 12 42 26 CDR You may - may not be able to get anything up in

25 minutes. Well let's see, it's 25 minutes until
daytime, and that JOP takes another 25 minutes, so
that's 50 minutes.
226 12 42 40 CDR I can use something from my own imagination, but

I can't imagine that the backroom hasn't got a
better imagination than mine, with the background
and experience they've got compared to mine on
looking at the Sun, to come up with some sort of
voice pad. And I'll go ahead and run this JOP 6,
step I-A and B - chips A and B and then maybe by
the end of that, they will have come up with
something they like and they can send it up. If
they can't make it in 50 minutes, well I'll invent
something of my own.
226 12 43 15 CC Wilco. Out.
226 12 48 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for the next

9 minutes. We'll be dumping your data voice tape
recorder at _ at the end of the stateside pass.
CDR Say, Bruce, could you find out if there are any
safety pins on board and where they are? Secondly,
I'm doing housekeeping 7B2 which is, biocide clean
the waste management seat. Is there a house-
keeping for me to biocide clean the - the trash
area - not the trash are, but the can disposal
area in the - in the wardroom?
CC I understand you're looking for a - or you're

wondering if there's a housekeeping task that
cleans the six-can well in the wardroom, is that
correct?
CDR Right.
CC We'll find out about that for you.
226 12 50 18 CC Alan, I'm advised that the cleaning of the well

there in the wardroom is not a housekeeping task,
but it is your option anytime you feel that it's
required. Over.
226 12 50 33 CDR Okay, well, one of the things they asked us to do

when we got up here for housekeeping was take a
look at what we were doing and let them know the
TAG Tape 226-05/T-211
Page 5 of 10/1419
frequency. That one ought to be done every 2 days,

and it takes about i0 minutes. And they can
write it up the same way as they biocide the
toilet seat, which ought to be done about every
or 5 days, and then the trash airlock ought to
be done about maybe once every B weeks. It
stays clean all the time because everything is
in bags. So they might take that one that's
now called - I don't know what it's called -
7 something for trash airlock, and change the
name. And send us a little card and we'll
change it in our checklist, and call it, "Clean
up the six-can area," because that's probably
the - the germiest place in the whole spacecraft;
yet we never get anything up to clean it.
226 12 51 18 CC Okay, we copy that, Alan. Is there some sort of

a problem there? Because my recollection is
that we take the empty overcans and stick them
down in the - the well there and then the - the
food cans or the plastic bag, as they're used,
_ you Just stuff down into the empty overcans.
Where does the - the dirt seem to be accumulating?
Over.
226 12 51 _l CDR Well, it acclum - it accumulates right on the

top, not down in -behind the door but on the top
where the six little lids are. Because when you
take your food and stick it in there, there's
always a little waste matter on the - you know,
you eat soup - pea soup and then when you get
ready to stick the remainder of the pea soup in
there, a little bit gets on the door, and
a little bit gets right on the edge there of -
you know, right where the top of the can would
be. So that little area always has loose food
in it from everybody 's - what everybody 's been
eating. So it - it always stays dirty. Now
down beneath it, you know where you - where the
can tops are and where you see the barrels of the
can, that's nice and clean. It's Just that
area where you open the lids and stick things in
because they don't always fit so good.
226 12 52 27 CC Okay, we copy that Alan, and we're trying to

track down the safety pins right now; be back to
f- you in a minute on that. And from the ATM
backroomis the requestto perform as many ATM
TAG Tape 226-05/T-211
Page 6 of i0/1420
shopping list number 9 items in a row as possible

centering them up on prominence number 29 with
the pointing coordinates as called out in the SAP.
The exposur e length for 82B is 6 minutes, that's
6 plus 00. Over.
226 12 53 07 CDR Roger. Let me see if I got this right. Shopping

list 9 and I didn't have my pencil out, I have
the biocide wipe in my hand.
SPT I got it.
CDR Owen's got it.
CC Okay, shopping list 9, prominence 29 and 6 minutes

even for the 82B exposure and as many of the items
repeated, one after the other, as you can work in.
And for all hands, we have a request that when the
canister roll is not being performed, to place the
MPC ROLL switch to INHIBIT. This is to keep the
roll actuators from heating up - from being left
on. Over.
SPT Okay. We'll try to do that, Bruce. Now how

many experiments are running on that particular
shopping list item?
CC Three of them.
SPT Bruce, you said the MPC to inhibit it. You

mean the CANISTER ROLL to INHIBIT or did you
say what you meant?
CC Okay. The, proper terminology, I'm informed

down here, is the MPC ROLL switch to INHIBIT.
SPT Okay, that's fine; now I understand. And would

you confirm for me the best window for the
S063 - photography - twilight airglow?
226 12 54 55 CC Okay, (>wen. The best one will be STS window

number 3. Over.
SPT Okay, STS window 3. And my pad shows filter

for 391h angstrom. I don't believe I have a
filter with that label. I have a visible filter
and a UV filter. I'm assl,ming that means the UV
filter. Over on the ops it shows filter setting
visible.
TAG Tape 226-05/T-211
Page 7 of 10/1421
CC Okay, 0wen. That's the one that's labeled

single Vis - s-i-n-g v-i-s. Over.
SPT That's what it says on the pad. I'm wondering

which filter out of my S063 box. I have two of
them there, one labeled visible and one labeled
UV. And 3914 is sort of right on the borderline.
CC Visible - -
SPY I don't have a filter labeled 3914.
CC Visible one, please, Owen.
226 12 56 13 SPT How are we going to get 3914 filter with that
visible filter on the front of the camera?
226 12 57 ll CC Okay, 30 seconds to LOS here at Guam. Next

station contact is Goldstone, commencing a
stateside run in 16 minutes, at 13 plus, 13.
Over.
226 12 57 26 SPT Bruce, I'm still concerned about that filter, I

noticed that it says visible, so what's the
3914 angstrom have to do with them because we're
not going to get a filter on 3914 with that
visible filter on the front.
226 12 57 41 CC Okay we're going over the hill here, at Guam,

we're going to have to put you off until
Goldstone, I think.
226 12 57 48 SPT Okay, Bruce.
226 13 12 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstein - stone

and (chuckle) stateside passes for 17 minutes.
For the Commander's information, we've tracked
down the safety pins. They are located in the
workshop PGA maintenance kit, which is stowed
on the wall up in the upper compartment there,
right where the door would be in the trainer.
If you find a door though, don't open it. And
for the SPT on S063, the filters that are
available can be broken down into two groups.
There are some single filters and there are some
twin filters. We want you to use the single
TAG Tape 226-05/T-211
Page 8 of i0 /1422
filter that is labeled visible. The single

filters are haze, visible and UV. The visible
one, B914 angstroms, is correct. If you hold
it up to the light, it appears bluish-violet.
Over.
SPT Okay, that makes it clear. It was Just not clear

to me that visible and 3914 were synonymous. So
I got it from you now, Goldstein.
CC Roger. And did A1 get the location of the safety

pins okay?
CDR Okay, PGA maintenance kit hanging on the wall.
CC Right.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've replaced Goldstein here

in the MOCR. I'd like to get someone on panel
202 to do a circuit breaker for me.
CDR Okay; go ahead.
CC Okay, the I/LCA HF_TER 1 circuit breaker, we'd

like to close it, and then we're going to watch
it on this stateside pass. And give us a mark
when you do that please.
226 13 15 48 CDR MARK. Three seconds ago.
CC We copy.
SPT Hank, we're just coming over the west coast, and
it's quite a very pretty sight. The Sun's just
coming up down there. We can see Smoke Creek
Desert down there where we had the EREP site the
other day. But the prettiest thing is, the Sun is
Just starting to shine on the side of Mt. Shasta.
And the rest of the area around it is still in
the - in the twilight.
226 13 16 42 CC Sounds like a beautiful sight.
226 13 19 18 CC Skylab, Houston. Did you call?
CDR Yes, we noticed that our H-alpha 1 camera is not

working nor can we make it work in MANUAL. We
were Just wondering when you were operating it
_- TAG Tape 226-05/T-211
Page 9 of i0/1423
last night, if you left it in some slightly

different configuration that prevented the
NORMAL switches from working. We can go in and
command it, but we decided to ask you first.
CC Okay, we'll check it.
226 13 20 55 CDR How long do we have contact here, Houston?
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got 9 more minutes.
CDR Well, something else is bothering me a little

bit, Hank, and you might pass this to the back-
room, the ATM fellows. We worked long and hard
coming up with all these JOPs. They did, I
should say, O_en and A1 Holt and everybody else
that worked on them. And any time I've noticed
that we have any spare time, like this morning
we got something like 25 minutes of spare time
in the ATM, and with 50-minute notice, and we
don't come up with those sorts of things that
fill in that spare time. We come up with build -
with the shopping list items. The shopping list
items are okay; and were invented, I thought, for
periods of, you know, 5 to lO minutes at the
end of a orbit when we didn't have time to plan
something if some extra time came in. And they
only run one or two or three experiments that
accomplish, you know, small, worthwhile goals,
but certainly not the same type of goals that
are accomplished with the JOPs themselves that
were thought out by all experimenters together.
And I was Just wondering, apparently, the reaction
time is long enough so that we can't fill in,
on a 50-minute notice, some of these more compre-
hensive JOPs as opposed to a less comprehensive
shopping list item. Maybe -maybe we ought to
have each day_ or ask them to plan each day a
three or four JOPs complete with all the needed
data in them so that if we do get some extra time
in, more than just the shopping list item would
fulfill, they will have it ready to go. Because
30 minutes of ATM viewing time must be worth
SB million. I don't know what it's worth. But
to hop to a shopping list item may be okay, but
it seems - I'm just wondering if we're optimizing
what we're getting out of the time.
TAG Tape 226-05/T-211
Page i0 of i0 /1424
226 13 23 05 CDR I don't know up here, but maybe you and the
Flight Director and the ATM czar can get together
and give us some sort of answer on that. We've
noticed when the planning time is long, that
most of the time they give us not shopping list
items, but JOPs. Yet when the planning time is
short that's not true and there may be a way to
optimize the short planning time.
226 13 23 31 CC Okay, AI, we'll sure take a look at that.
226 13 24 50 CC CDR, Houston. In regard to your question on

H-alpha i, we think that the camera will operate
okay on the next pass; it operates on computer
command. We suspect what happened was that when
we took it out of OVERRIDE during the daylight,
and the computer - ... down the computer was
braced for a signal to get going, and it had -
the signal had already been issued. So we think
it'll be okay on the next rev. Now on the S052,
we'd like to go to STANDARD on that.
226 13 29 09 CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from LOS;

Vanguard at 39.
END OF TAPE
.... TAG Tape 226-06/T-212
Time: 226:13:30 to 226:15:00
Page 1 of 5 /1425
SKYIAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
226 13 39 ii CC Skylab, Houston, through Vanguard for 7 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. We see you are still in building

block I. We've got a change to our request for
your next work in the free time.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC What we'd like for you to do is J0P hA, step h,

building block ll. And if you can work it in for
two times through, that'd be real good. And you
use the teleprinter fail JOP sheet. And we want
you to do that on prominence 29.
CDR Okay, good. I was Just talking with Owen about

the comnent that we - that I made to you about the
shopping list, and he doesn't agree completely.
He thinks the shopping list fulfills this 30-minute
period. So you're going to have to weigh my
thoughts and his thoughts too, whenever you make
your decisions on this.
CDR Hank, did you have any feelings for what's going
on on that H-alpha 1 camera?
226 13 _l ll CC Roger, we - we think we pretty well understand it,

and we've got a few more words; and we're working
it up now so we can get it exactly straight to
you.
CDR Okay.
SPT How much longer is this AOS, Hank?
CC Roger. We have 3 minutes.
SPT Thank you.
PLT Hello, Hank are we still there?
CC Roger.
226 13 44 30 SPT Okay, we've completed the performance now of ED32

which was the student experiment entitled In-Vitro
In_nunology. This was the experiment that was
TAG Tape 226-06/T-212
Page 2 of 5 /1426
proposed and prepared by Todd Meister from the

Bronx in New York. And his experiment involved
the injection of antigen into some little agar
plates, and I think you have the TV down-link of
the performance of that. And then we took photo-
graphs at 5 different intervals some 24 to 48 hours
after this in._eetion had been made. And the
reaction with - within the plate had been observed,
and we hopefully have that on photograph now - the
reaction between the antigen and the antibodies
in the agar. And very clearly, little rings were
visible which grew as time increased. And we're
very hopeful that these photographs will show
those and allow Todd to properly analyze the re -
rate of this reaction and the response mechanism
that is in operation. And I think you have the
TV down-link of the set up of that already, and
we're looking forward to a very successful -
completion of this experiment when our photographs
get back on the ground 6 weeks or so from now.
Over.
226 13 h5 48 CC Thank you very much, Owen. Sounds good. And

JDR, got a few words on the H-alpha. The con-
figuration for manned operations - we had mis-
tskenly scheduled that in daylight for our
up-link pad. Now the reason the H-alpha 1 didn't
take the automatic exposures was that it was
reconfigured to manned ops after the momentary start
signal from the ATMDC is issued. What we do is
we blank off the DOOR OPEN signal at sunrise to get
our start for the automatic sequence. And since
it was already past sunrise when we configured
the switch, the sequence didn't start. So we're
going to take a look at our pads and perhaps the
cue card to see if we can't get the H-alpha re-
configuration a little earlier in the panel
config. And we're Just about to LOS, and we'll
be coming up on - Goldstone at 50.
226 lh 49 h7 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 12-1/2 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to get you to close the

star tracker shutter, please, sir.
CDR Just closed it before you asked. It was blinking

up here.
....
-- TAG Tape 226-06/T-212
Page 3 of 5/1427
CC You read our minds.
CDR Okay, we got JOP 5 running along real nice. On

the last JOP, we ended up having to turn off
detector 5 of 55 because it kept kicking off.
So far this time, it has not kicked off at all,
so we've got detector 5 running with our 3 RASTERS -
3 SCAN.
CC Roger. We copy.
226 14 50 44 SPT Hank, I noticed on my scheduled Flight Plan at

21:30, we have an M133 recorder. Is that the
head cleaning Job?
SPT That was on my schedule yesterday and was accom-

plished yesterday, so you can cb_]k it off.
CC Okay, will do. And while I got you here, on

your details there's an entry at 17:57 regarding
TV-60, video select TV.
SPT I see it.
CC We' d like to delete the non-time-critical after

that. In fact, in the future we're not going to
put non-time-critical by any of our TV entries
because it does affect our dump schedule.
SPT Okay. And you want that then in real time, not
on the VTR? No, no, no. I see. Yes it would
still be on the VTR.
226 14 51 33 CC Right, it's VTR. We Just wanted to say that

we'd like to do it pretty much on time.
SPT Yes, I understand now. Okay, will do. Quote

the time. How much time are you looking for on
the VTR?
CC About 15-'1/2 minutes.
SPT 15-1/2 minutes ; okay.

f
TAG Tape 226-06/T-212
Page_ of 5/1428
CC That's affirm. We had psyched out that as the

reason, but we thought there was some ws,v that
we could start it UD again. But apparently there
is no way, once the daylight signal comes, to
start H-alpha 1 again. Is that correct?
226 14 52 29 CC Stand by, we'll work that one. And we've got
a news releas e in here you might be interested
in. We've - The Program Director, Bill Schneider,
has directed the Kennedy Space Center to plan for
SL-h launch no earlier than September 25. And
the - incidentally, the vehicle is rolling out
to the pad today. And the decision on the
hypergal load won't be made before September 9.
226 14 53 03 CDR Okay, that's good. Looks like they got a renewed
bush - burst of confidence down there.
CC Roger.
CDR Yes, we feel that way up here.
SPT I got the S063 photos on schedule, Hank. And

debriefed that stuff on channel A.
CC Roger; we copy.
CC CDR, Houston, a little further word on the

H-alpha 1. Had you left it in the NIGHT INTER-
LOCK - H-ALPHA NIGHT INTERLOCK switch - in OVERRIDE,
it would have run. Or had you returned it to INTER-
LOCK - to OVERRIDE it would have cranked up.
CDR Okay, thanks for the dope. That's what I should

have done.
226 14 55 20 CC And we're going to take a look at the pass, A1,

and see if we can't - and the cue card to see
if we can't avoid getting into this situation
again. We may make a change to them.
CDR Yes, it looks to me like the change could very

simply - where it says H-alpha 1 INTERLOCK
switch NORMAL - could be put down there right
at - at the bottom of the first pass - instead
of the beginning.
TAG Tape 226-06/T-212
Page 5 of 5/1_29
CC We copy. And, PLT?
PLT Go ahead.
CC We'd like to make a change to the T002. Since

you've been getting a lot of these things picked
up in your spare time, the T002-1, 2, and 3 that
you have scheduled at 15:40, we'd like to change
to 6 Bravo, using stars 2 and 4.
PLT Okay.
226 14 56 37 CC And the h at 16:25, we would like to make that

a 6 Alfa.
CC PLT, Houston. We had a handover there. Just like

to verify that on the T002's at 15:40, we'd like
to change to 6 Bravo and at 16:25 a 6 Alfa.
PLT Okay, that's at 15:40 you want 6 Bravo and 16:25,

6 Alfa?
CC That's affirmative, thank you. And, SPT, in

regard to your photos of the Galapagos Islands,
the weathe r report now is it's probably going
to be about 0.7 coverage. You can take the
photos at your discretion.
226 14 58 09 SPT Okay, I'm all set up. I was Just looking at
BaJa passing beneath those correct windows, so
I might as well go ahead and take them. I'll
Just be a few more minutes.
CC Roger.
SPT Too bad we didn't know about it, about a week

ago. We had a couple of very pretty views of
Galapagos.
226 lh 58 23 SPT We could have taken some.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 226-07/T-213
Time: 226:15:00 to 226:16:30
Page 1 of 4/ih31
226 15 O1 20 CC Skylab Houston. We are i minute from LOS. We'll

be coming up on Vanguard at 14, and we plan to
dump the data voice recorder there.
CDR Okay.
226 15 13 57 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, ii minutes.
CC And, Skylab, we'll - the reminder, we'll be

dumping the recorder here.
226 15 14 33 SPT How long did you say we had here, Hank?
CC Roger. We've got about 10-1/2 minutes left now.
SPT Okay. Had some very good photographs of the

Galapagos. It was the best view, by far, that
we've had. _md the islands are very clear. All
the volcanoes' calderas were quite distinct;
there was no smoke or haze. Now there were clouds
around the island. As a matter of fact the -
SPT Except for the vicinity of the islands, there

probably was 0.7 coverage. It appears that the
wind is from the south. There were large eddies
in the clouds extending for hundreds of miles to
the north of the islands. There were convection
cells visible in these clouds, either stratus or
strato-cumulus clouds. And these eddies were
visible far to the north_ And I do have a number
of wlde-angle shots with the Hasselblad to try to
show the cloud coverage as well as the Nikon shots
showing the individual islands and calderas. Over.
CC Roger; we copy.
226 15 16 15 PLT Hank, could you let me know when you're done on
the recorder because I'm in the process of putting
some T002 stuff on it?
CC Okay, we'll let you know, Jack.
FLT There was one other question we've had about the
recorder. We have some sequences, like in S019,
where we give a mark at the beginning of a photo-
graph and a MARK at the end. And some of
TAG Tape 226-071T-213
Page 2 of hllh32
those photographs are like 4 minutes long or so,

so we've been in the habit of turning off the tape
recorder for those long ones. And we're wonder-
ing if that destroys the time hack, or does the
time pick up again whenever you start the recorder?
CC It's okay to do that, Jack. The spacecraft time

goes right on the recorder anytime it's running.
PLT So if you mark at the start of an exposure, turn

the recorder off, and then MARK the end, why you
still got the time down even though you don't
have the full Delta on tape, huh?
226 15 19 32 CC CDR, Houston. On your last rev there, it looked

clear to us that you weren't going to he able to
get in two building block ll's there on that JOP h.
Did you only get one of those in, or Just what
did you do there?
CDR I only got one in. But what I did was, I took
a 6-minute exposure on 82B in addition to that.
There just wasn't enough time; and by then, we
were in - at sunset so I had to shut off the
auto exposure a little bit short. Everything
else came off Just perfect.
CC Roger; we copy.
CDR Oh, yes, and I gave them a mirror - off - a

MIRROR, AUTO RASTER as we went into the sunset.
I knew it didn't make any - Part of it was not
good. But that prominence turned out to have
so much energy in it up near the top of the arch,
the part that's invisible on H-alpha_ it had
energy levels indicated on our gage, of around
2000. Where down in the visible area, it was
in the two to three hundred range. So I
thought they might like that. Apparently,
there is some pretty good UV higher up in that
arch.
TAG Tape 226-07/T-213
Page 3 of 4 /1433
CC Roger. We copy.
226 15 21 18 CC PLT, Houston; the recorder is yours.
PLT Okay, thanks for letting me know, Hank.
226 15 21 36 CDR He's had his nose pressed to that wardroom

window for 3 days.
CC Roger. (Laughter)
226 15 22 23 CDR Even though he's a marine, he makes a pretty good

scientist.
CC Say again, A1.
CDR I said even though he's a marine, he makes a

pretty good scientist.
CC Maybe there's a little hope for him yet, there.
226 15 24 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS;

Hawaii at 16:24.
PLT What do you suppose he meant when he said, "Even

though he's a marine." You know l'm tired of
getting along with sometimes a Navy Captain and
an undisciplined civilian.
CC I imagine you have a problem now and then, huh?
226 15 24 27 SPT He's learning.
226 16 24 16 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii, 2-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay, Hank. Do you fellows want this battery

number 7 information now?
CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay, I took the charger - the charger off

during the last night cycle, and here are some
voltage readings in the function of time. At
15:50 Zulu, 32 volts minus 7.5 amperes, and the
temperature has been steady at 49 degrees
Fahrenheit; at 16:ll Zulu, prior to sunrise,
30.0 volts, still minus 7.5 amperes;16:23
Zulu, after Sunrise, the load was lifted up to
31.1 volts minus 1 ampere.
TAG Tape 226-07/T-213
Page 4 of h/1_34
CC Roger. We copy.
CC What do you read right now, Owen?
226 16 25 14 SPT 31.i.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. A few more words on this H-alpha 1.

We've looked at this situation a little more, and
we've also - there is another thing that would
have started up the H-alpha. In your powerup
from unattended ops there, the last remark says,
"If the power is performed after sunrise, cycle
the mode to SI, wait l0 seconds, and then to
EXPERIMENT POINTING." And when you go through
that sequence, it also reissues the start command,
and that should have done it also.
CDR Thank you, Hank.
SPT ... exercising now, but I think he got the word.
226 16 26 07 CC Okay. And we are considering putting that NIGHT

INTERLOCK OVERRIDE s_-itch into the checklist for
a powerup, powerdown. It looks like we 're
going to be wanting to do that daily. And we're
about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll be coming up
on Vanguard at 52.
226 16 26 34 SPT Okay. I guess I'm clear to proceed on to step 5,

then, on the procedure. Step 4, I guess.
CC That's affirmative. Go ahead.
END OF TAPE
_ TAG Tape 226-08/T-214
Time: 226:16:30 to 226:18:00
Page 1 of 3/1435
SKYIAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
226 16 51 42 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard, l0 minutes.
PLT Hey, Hank, I'm using the tape recorder. Let me

know if you are going to dump it, okay?
CC We don't have a dump scheduled at this pass, Jack.
SPT Hank, let me take a couple of minutes here to

explain for the ATM science room what our onboard
photography with this time-exposure camera looks
like.
CC Go ahead.
226 16 52 31 SPT Okay. With the XUV mon we're getting pretty good
pictures now with the - using the integration
features of the XUVmon. At the moment, by far
the brightestthing on the whole disk is the
active region associated - or the plage associated
with active region 86. It's much brighter than
anything else on the Sun. It might be a little
bit brighter than it was yesterday, as a matter
of fact. There is a dark belt through the equator
that is dark. There is a band of longitude -
about 45 degrees of longitude from the west limb,
extending - that ought to be from the east limb -
extending from the equator up to the pole. Both
the caps of both the polar regions are dark. And
another interesting fact is we can see a number
of bright spots still, with the XUVmon.
226 16 53 23 SPT I think, although I've been unable to aGsociate

any of these with an H-alpha feature, I think
that given a little bit of time, like 3 or
4 minutes to go find one of these points, we
could locate it reasonably well within say - oh,
20 or 30 arc seconds from the XUV mon picture,
and then try to peak up DETECTOR 1 or 3 on S055.
And I think you have a reasonable chance, in 3
or 4 minutes, of picking up one of these bright
points.
r 226 16 53 52 SPT Now the H-alpha pictures - H-alpha 1 suffers

because of a little bit of the instability we've
TAG Tape 226-08/T-214
Page 2 of 3 /i_36
Mentioned in the monitor; that Jiggling back and

•forth - about 5 arc seconds with a period of a
second. And that tends to smear these time expo-
sures. H-alpha 2, when we zoom into max zoom so
we can see the H-alpha detail, also has the same
sort of Jitter. Although the amplitude is a little
bit smaller, and it is not precisely correlated
with the Jitter or wobbling on H-alpha I, they are
the same sort of thing that we can see on H-alpha 2
at max zoom.
226 16 54 26 SPT So it suffers a little bit also, but we can see

reasonable detail and some of the network with
the 2 H-alpha time exposures. And I guess that
sort of suggests - The XUV mon information sug-
gests two things. Active region 86 may look
interesting if we have any extra time. And we
ought to be thinking about trying to pick up
some of these bright spots by looking at the
XUV mon and then going over to maximize the
DETECTOR. That' s the end of this, Hank.
CC Roger, thank you Owen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

Hawaii at 18:00, with a data voice dump.
SPT Okay, Hank.
226 17 59 58 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger ; Houston.
CC And, SPT, Houston. Some of the work we've done

on ED63 with our ground control plants that were
dead have shown some streaming. We'd like to
be sure that you prepare slides for all three
vials that you have there, including the vial,,
of course, that you had prepared slides from
previously.
CC SPT, Houston. Did you copy?
226 18 01 01 SPT Oh, that - Excuse me I had you on intercom instead

of transmit, Hank. But, yes, I'll prepare slides
from all three plants. But then after that is
completed, then biocide the samples for - clean
the slides and throw the remainder away. Is that
correct?
F

Page 3 of 3/lh37
CC Okay, Owen, what we'd like for you to do is throw

them away only if you do not observe streaming.
226 18 01 35 SPT If you do observe streaming we'd like to save

them for further observation.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 226-09/T-215
Time: 226:18:00 to 226:19:30
Page 1 of 7/1439
226 18 01 h0 SPT Okay, that's fine. Now I didn't notice a pad

that gave me the appropriate DAC and transporter.
I was planning to use the spare. Did you send me
up a pad with that on it?
CC Stand by 1.
CC SPT, Houston. We did send up a message, num-

ber 1808, that gave you the camera to use there.
It's DAC 02.
SPT What transporter?
CC Transporter 7.
SPT Okay, I missed that one, I guess. Was there any

other significant information on there?
CC Nothing more than 12 percent required, transpor-

ter 7 is in A-1 and W-708 for DAC 02.
SPT Thank you very much, Hank.
226 18 03 17 CDR Let me ask you a question about the A_4 run - the
next pass - that's the 19:29 pass. I noticed
that it gives me a ROLL left 5400; then it gives
me an UP/DOWN zero and a right 600. Now what I
assume they want me to do is use the zero degrees
UP/D0WN if it satisfies either the - as it says
on here, "Verify latitudes suggested; meet target
criteria, quiet, enhanced, or depressed." Now
it doesn't say what kind of an area they want, so
I don't know how to - know whether it meets the
criteria. Secondly, they want me to point to -
point LS1, and LS1 is 130 arc seconds in from the
limb. The pad shows roughly right, 600, but I
assume what they want me to do is go out and find
the limb, record the numbers, and then come in
130 arc seconds. Is that correct?
CC Okay, we'll check it.
226 18 04 50 CDR No, I think I've found the problem here. LS-2 is
130 arc seconds in from limb. LS-1 would be up
at the latitude they're interested in, on the
central meridian. However, since we're operating
on the equator, it looks like, then they've
TAG Tape 226-09/T-215
Page 2 of 7 /1440
arbitrarily pick this point 600 arc seconds out

along the equator as Just a point. It's Just a
different place now. If you'll check, I think
maybe that 's the answer.
CC Will do.
CC While they're checking that, for the SPT and PLT,

would give you a little reminder to be sure and
voice record the N2 pressure after your OGI run on the
M131. Somehow, we've been missing this data.
CDR And another thing, Hank -
CC CDR, Houston. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, I - I think I've got it figured out myself.

Everything's going along okay.
226 18 06 20 CDR Oh, yes. I wanted to tell you that detector 5

keeps kicking off in these MIRROR AUTO RASTERS.
So I've tooken - taken the liberty of turning off
detector 5. Otherwise they miss a lot of data in
their rasters because when 5 goes, it kicks off all
the rest. And then it's _ybe BO seconds or
so before I happen to look up there and notice
that the blue light is - is on again, and we've
missed all of that rastering. So if that's
acceptable, then that's the way I'll run for a
while. We'll try it again later on and see if it
can - at a different line and see if detector 5 will
stay out. Maybe it's Just this grating position.
CC Roger; we copy.
226 18 07 04 CDE Owen Just squared me away. Au o - in OVERRIDE, it

only kicks off that one. So I'll Just keep
resetting it.
CC Okay, AI, I was beginning to wonder about that,

because I thought we were in OVERRIDE.
CDR We were.
CC And SPT, Houston. In regard to the CBRM 7 bat

capacity check you've been running, we would like
F TAG Tape 226-09/T-215
Page 3 of 7/1441
for you at step 5, whenever you get to that, to

record for us the reg volts and amps after switch-
ing the REG OFF. Now the reason we're doing this
is we suspect that the current will not read zero;
that there may be a bias in this thing, probably
high.
226 18 08 ll SPT Hank, I've been recording them every now and
then while I was up at the ATE panel. And we sort
of turned that job over to whoever is sitting on
the panel at the time, because it's going to
take a number of orbits for that battery to drop
down to 27 volts, fortunately. It seems to have
a pretty good charge on it. But it will take a
little while to do that.
CC Okay, we understand that, and I guess what we're

really asking is somebody Just to add a little
note right there at step 5. And when it is -
when you do get to step 5 that we'd like to record
the volts and amps.
SPT We've been recording volts and amps every half

hour or so.
226 18 08 42 CC The reading we're interested in is after the REG

has been turned OFF. And we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 30.
SPT Roger. I'm still trying to get this VTR - re-

corded. I've got a short segment on there. When
are you going to dump the VTR?
CC We'll be dumping it during the sleep period.
SPT Okay. I'm not sure what is time critical about

it if you are not going to dump until then, but
we're working away at it.
226 18 30 30 CC Skylab, Houston, through Vanguard for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, things are going well on the ATM panel.

82B has finished its AUTO STEP MODE, it's quiet.
I'm still finishing up with 56 on its maneuvers
and also 55. That's where we stand.
CC Roger. And if we can have the DAS for a minute,

we're going to do a drift update on Y-2, Z-l, and
TAG Tape 226-09/T-215
Page h of 7 /lhh2
Z-2. They're not in control at this time, but

we want to do a drift check on them.
CDR You got it.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. Just like to clarify - Just

m_ke sure we understand each other straight on this
step 5 of the bat capacity check. The - the
readings we want - You have been monitoring the
bat ray - volts and amps. What we really want -
and when you get to step 5 and the bat is down to
27 volts or you've got a barber pole, when you
turn the REG OFF, we want to read the reg volts
and amps - and record it.
226 18 31 43 CDR Okay, as I understand then, you want us to watch

the bat now until it gets to be 27 volts cr kicks
off. When that happens, then we select REG OFF,
if it hasn't gone off, and then read you the reg
volts. Is that correct?
CC Roger. We want the reg volts and amps at the

completion of step 5, there.
CDR Okay, we'll get it for you, Hank. It looks like

it will be a while, though.
PLT Hey, Hank, before I put much more data on channel A

on T002, I want to mRke sure that what I've been
doing is coming down okay and that it's intel-
ligible, and that you get all the numbers. How is
our channel A? Pretty - coming out - pretty - is
it coming out pretty well, "pretty clear? Are we
tA]king too loud or too softly or just what?
226 18 32 52 CC Skylab, Houston. There are no complaints on the

VTR or channel A. Both of them have been very
good.
PLT Okay, I used the lightweight headset on channel A,

and I'm not sure how it came out. So, before I
do any more T002, I'd like you to have some guys
listen to that tape that I made this morning and
tell me if it's all right. Okay?
CC Okay, we 'll do that.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Hank.

TAG Tape 226-09/T-215
Page 5 of 7/i_3
SPT Hank, did you all turn off the VTR or did it - did
it fill up?
CC SPT, we can handle the VTR from here.We've got a

full tape, it looks like, ready to go.
SPT Okay, that's all I'll put on the VTR then as far
as 60 - ED63 is concerned.
226 18 34 l0 CC SPT, Houston. I'd like to give you a few more

words on that MPC we had you remove from the de-
tails. I guess we need to get our knuckles rapped
a little bit there. The - the reason we did that
is that normally when we have dayside passes, where
you are recording the - on the VTR over the
continental U.S., we do have a dump problem be-
cause we only dump over the U.S.. Now the partic-
ular orbits we're in now, we're dumping at night
because that's where we're over the States, and it
really isn't critical as we implied to you that it
was.
$PT Okay, understand. So it looks like - well why

don't you leave MPC on when it really is? And
when we get back over U.S. in the daytime, why
start taking it off and we'll just follow your
directions there.
CC Okay, we'll do that.
226 18 35 02 CDR By the way, Hank, is the reason we haven't been

doing S019 lately - is it because of the full
Moon or something?
CC That's affirmative. CDR - -
CDR °.. don't want any data about right now. Huh?
CC CDR, Houston. The DAS is yours. And I've got a

couple of more comments on the question you had
on the next ATM pass. What we intend for you to
do is ignore, I guess, the third and fourth bullets
in that step l, and follow the pad per point.
And what we're doing is a - is a scan up to the
North Pole.
TAG Tape 226-09/T-215
Page 6 of 7/1444
226 18 B5 57 CDR Okay. Then I'II Just use the pad coordinates on
those LS-1, 2, B and not do the technique that we
learned in training, which is go to the limb and
then move back in a certain amount. Is that what
you want?
CDR Will do.
CDR The reason I wondered is today earlier on the pad,

they had me go to the limb and gave mc a number,
which I've forgotten. But the limb was not there.
The limb was in a different spot. So I went out,
obviously, to the limb itself. But that's why
I wondered.
226 18 B7 B8 CC SPT, Houston. We've got a couple of minutes here.

You asked a question the other day about the
Nashino Shima volcanic eruption. We've got a few
words on that. The activity began around the
last of May, and it's still continuing. And there
is active bubbling under the surface of the sea.
The water around the eruption site is discolored by
ash and floating pumice. And white smoke has been
seen rising as high as lO0 meters, and water plumes
several meters high have been seen at intervals of
2 to B minutes. And also about l0 reefs in a
BO-minute - BO-meter area were observed. And
there has been no historical record of eruption on
the island or of submarine eruption around it
before.
SPT I see. Well, I wasn't - h_dn't been familiar

with it, and I guess it's all submarine a_tivity.
And aside from that one, long trail, which looks
something like a contrail, it must have extended
for - oh, 50 to lO0 miles, I don't think there's
much chance of us having seen it.
226 18 B8 _3 CDR Except that the contrail seemed to originate in

sort of a circular area that looked foamy. And
it's conceivable that was the piJm_ce or the bub-
bling up of the water. It was round_ it didn't look
like earth, yet it didn't look like a cloud, either.
It might have - we might have actually - actually
got the spot.
TAG Tape 226-09/T-215
Page 7 of 7/1445
226 18 39 07 CC Okay, we hope so. We're about 30 seconds from

LOS.
CC We'll be coming up at Hawaii at 19:38 with a data

voice dump.
END OF TAPE
Time: 226:19:30 to 226:21:00
Page 1 of 5/1447
226 19 37 45 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 6-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to get a readout on

REG 7 of volts and amps.
CDR Okay. Just a second. I'll give you REG 7 volts

and amps.
CDR Plus 4 and 22.5.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR And as you can see, 7 is not connected.
CC CDR, Houston. Did that auto disconnect?
226 19 39 ii CDR No. I didn't see it when it disconnected, but

it's certainly that way now. All three lights
are on and nobody's attempted to disconnect it;
it done it itself.
226 19 39 51SPT Hello, Hank. I'm Just fixing to secure ED63 right
now. I've spent almost another 2 hours on it.
And there's no streaming visible, there is a very
slight amount of motion, perhaps in some of the
dark structure, although I'm not certain that
that's there. And I'm going to biocide all the
slides at this time. I'm a little behind on 131
as you can tell by my Flight Plan, I'm going to
have to get ahold of that now.
CC Roger; we copy. And, CDR, Houston. We're -

Hawaii's configured for XUV M0N down-link and
you'll have to switch your VIDEO switch.
CDR Okay.
226 19 41 ll CDR I'll get it in a minute - in just a second. I'm

setting up this building block.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, for info, we're going to attempt to command

PEG 7 back on line.
Page 2 of 5 /1448
226 19 43 03 CDR Okay, Hank. I'ii give you this series of - of

refs, 1/2, i, 2, and h seconds. Two each.
CC Roger.
226 19 43 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS,

Vanguard at 08.
CDR Okay. I gave those series, I'ii give them again.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay. That's two sets of those series.
226 19 44 42 CC Roger. Thank you AI.
226 20 08 24 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We looked at the data a little

bit and we do think that the auto disconnect was
about due at that time. We're going to complete
the battery capacity check by commands. We'll
command the REG, OFF - CHARGE, ON, REG, OFF and
we - you don't have to worry about it any more.
And we'll get the data hack and massage it. We'll
let you know how it comes out.
CDR Okay, I'm doing the shopping list items, here on

active region 86, trying to get a little UV data
for them.
226 20 09 20 CC Okay, and for the SPT. The ATM PIs really appre-
ciated the comments on the XUV MON Polaroid pictures.
And in response to that, we're scheduling JOP 17
for XUV bright points tomorrow. And we're going
to give the SPT observing time in his first ATM
orbit to observe and locate a likely XUV bright
point. And we'd like for those coordinates to be
voiced to the ground that day/night cycle and we're
going to coordinate with ground observation to fol-
low in two orbits. For - And those two orbits for
the SPT are then scheduled for JOP 17.
SPT Sounds real good, Hank. I think that'll be an

interesting program.
F TAG Tape 226-I0/T-216
Page 3 of 5 /1449
226 20 i0 07 PLT Say, Hank, I checked the iodine concentration in

water tanks 3 and 4 and iodine concentration in
number 3 is 4 parts per million and that in water
tank 4 is 7 parts per million.
CC Roger; we copy.
226 20 l0 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We're - Because of site problems,

we're going to have to dump this voice data re-
corder here at Vanguard.
226 20 12 41 CC CDR, Houston. We've got a report from ground

observatories that the activity in prominence 29
is sticking up quite a bit. I was wondering if
you were observing anything there?
CDR Hank, I haven't been over there looking at it,

I've been working on that one J0P and then I've
been thinking about 86 here, and I'm working on
it. I'll look at it next orbit if I have a good
position to do so.
J
CC Roger; we copy. And for the SPT, in this little

hole that we had there for the M133 recorder
clean - tape head clean that you've already accom-
plished, we're going to do the S019 again and we're -
S063, I'm sorry - and we're sending you up a pad
now and we'll try to get that up to you at Ascension.
226 20 19 39 SPT Hank, I'll tell you - we're Just now starting on
the 131 with Jack because I used essentially all
that time up doing ED63, and I'm not going to have
time to finish both Jack's run and my run on 131
before I have to go photograph those - whatever
that next photo was.
CDR I'll tell you what, Hank. I'll get him to show me
how to do it with the handheld thing and I'll do
it for you. So send up the pad.
CC Okay, we'll send the pad on up and then you can

work it out the best way that you can. If you don't
get to it, that's okay too.
226 20 14 38 CDR What I did, Hank, was go down to 86 and peak up

the UV detector, which peaked out at about -
detector3 on the 55 to - peaked out a little over
5000. The background was somewhere around a couple
TAG Tape 226-10/T-216
Page 4 of 5 /1450
of hundred. And I'm taking - I'm doing the active

region selection - shopping list number 5. I'm
doing ACTIVE l, LONG on 56, GRATING AUTO SCAN
on 55A and I may go give them a - it's almost
through.
CC Roger.
226 20 15 23 CDR And we'll give them also a MIRROR AUTO RASTER
if we can get to it. We think time may run out,
and we're doing 82B with all these times l, 2 sec-
onds, 10, 40 and 240.
CC Roger, we copy.
226 20 16 25 CDR And I'm looking at prominence 29. I zoomed out

quite a bit. It does look quite a bit different
than yesterday. It doesn't seem to have such an
arch shape to it. And the base that I'm looking
at has - is much more diffused and much more
filamentlike. By that I mean it has holes within
it and it's not a uniform cloud resting above the
limb but rather it's - it's a mult - It's a cloud
with several holes in it. That's not a good de-
scription, but the best I can come up with.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR And we got the - we didn't get the last exposure

in for 82]3. We got the l-second, the 2, the i0,
the 40. The 240 we weren't able to get in before
effective sunset here. And the ACTIVE i, LONG
has turned out. And everything else is working
okay.
226 20 17 31 CC Roger, we copy. The data voice dump is complete;

the recorder's yours. We're about 1 minute from
LOS. We'll be over Ascension at 2h.
226 20 24 07 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for 7 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank.
226 20 26 26 CC Skylab, Houston. It sounds like somebody's got

an open mike.
CC Okay, now.
Page 5 of 5 /l_S1
CDR I'll go check, but we've been using squawk boxes

so they don't stay open. We'll go twiddle them.
CC Roger, we copy.
CDR How's it sound now, Hank?
CC Okay, sounds good now, A1.
CDR Okay.
226 20 30 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to I.OS; Guam

at 08.
226 20 30 43 CC And Skylab, Houston, you're S063 pad should be

on board now.
END OF TAPE
Time: 226:21:00 to 226:22:30
Page i of 5/1453
SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICETRANSCRIPTION
226 21 07 53 CC Skylab, Hous%on. We're AOS over Guam for 6 minutes.
CDR E1 Crippo, how are you doing?
CC Pretty good. I heard you gentlemen have been

working pretty hard today. Getting in lots of
good sites.
CDH We're working as hard as they'll let us.
CC Well, we'll keep feeding it to you as long as

you're doing it.
CDR No, I was doing some thinking this morning. And

l'm not sure that - the problem is, we don't have
anything we can stick out of the airlock to work.
You got an awful long night period here where the
ATM operator just stands around and looks at the
wall. He is able to get all the housekeeping done.
We've done all our housekeeping for today. We had
that done 3 hours ago. And so you're kind of in
a quandary to try to fill that night period with
something useful.
CC Okay, we'll note that. And l'm sure that the

time line people will try to take advantage of it.
226 21 09 08 CDR l'm not sure they can.
CC You may be right.

see you over Vanguard in about 33 minutes at 21:46,
21:46.
226 21 13 i0 CDR Okay, Crip. Thanks.
226 21 45 52 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS through the Vanguard for

ii minutes.
226 21 46 57 CC Skylab, for info only, we now have a bat charge

complete on battery 7, and we're putting the REG
back ON on CBRM 7. And when we get the story put
together, we'll give you a briefing on it.
Page 2 of 5/i_5h
CDR Okay. Thank you. I've finished the J0P 9 and as

I was sitting on a filament. I looked at the
shopping list and noticed that the shopping list
requested that we have a long exposure 82B on it.
So I gave it a 5-minute exposure on 82B on the
filament we're on. I'm presently over on
prominence 29, and I'm going to give it a - I'm
giving it now, a PATROL, NORMAL because that 's
what's called out for prominences. I didn't get
a good alignment for 87-B, so - I didn't have
enough time, so I skipped it, and I'm doing a
MIRROR AUTO RASTER for 55.
226 21 h7 59 CDR I wasn't able to peak up the DETECTOR 3 in the

time I had left, so I would run a GRATING AUTO
SCAN, there. I Just decided to give a MIRROR
AUTO RASTER, and they might find something inter-
esting in there. It's becoming more tenuous now
than it was several hours ago, in my opinion; if
that's 29, I've got kind of a cockeyed angle of
it.
CC Okay, A1. We appreciate that update on it. Thank

you.
CDR I think that's prominence 29, but I'm not sure

because I've got a ROLL of 29 - 2898, and it
doesn't seem to have the energy that prominence
2 29 had before. So we may be giving you another
prominence and not know it.
CC Roger. Was that plus 2898?
CDR We've got minus 2898; and UP/DOWN in 910 and LEFT/
RIGHT is 375. Minus 910 and plus 375.
CC Okay. We copy.
CDR I think it's in the neighborhood, but I'm not

positive. There may be another prominence or two
over there I Just don't know about.
CC Okeydoke.
226 21 49 45 CDR And, of course, we're lucking out of time now, so

we're below the 400-kilometer level. But I don't
think it will bother - 55. 56 may be degraded
somewhat.
TAG Tape 226-11/T-217
Page 3 of 5/1455
226 21 50 02 CC Okay. We copy that, AI.
226 21 50 29 CC And, AI, it is our conclusion that you are still

on prominence number 29.
CDR That
's good.
CDR Funny. I couldn't find the energy in it this

time. Maybe I had the detectors flipped center
and I had H-alpha i pointed at it, but it's con-
ceivable that I just wasn't picking the right
spot.
226 21 50 54 CC Okay. We copy that.

see you again at Ascension in about 3 minutes, at
about 22:00. And we'll be doing a data voice
recorder dump over Ascension.
226 21 59 13 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Ascension, i0 minutes.
226 22 00 31 CDR Okay, Crip. We executed that pass for the twi-
light airglow. On the last two pictures, I was
about 3 seconds late; but I'ii debrief it all on
channel A.
CC Okay, AI, we appreciate you getting that in.
CDR You must be dumping. I'Ii wait and tell it there.
226 22 08 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute from LOS.

We're going to drop out for about a minute, and
we'll have you again over the Canary in a couple
of minutes.
226 22 08 33 CDR Okay.
226 22 ii 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, once more, over

Canary. And we got you for about 6-1/2 minutes.
226 22 12 14 CDR Crip, CDR. Did you copy?
CC I just copied that message. Didn't copy any

other.
CDR Could you set up a phone call for me with my wife,

tonight, and Owen open for the same thing.
Page 4 of 5/1456
CC Okay. I understand. Phone calls for you and Owen.

Thank you.
CDR You bet. Thank you.
226 22 15 04 CDR Say, Crip, why don't you check with the flight
planners and see if they got anything else to do?
I'm finished for the day, and I sure can't go to
sleep right now.
CC Okay, A1. We'll look around for you.
CDR Okay, I was looking over tomorrow's schedule. I -

we still have this problem, and I don't know
how we're going to solve it, and I guess we got
to ask their help in the matter. Somehow, we
always end up getting finished early in the day.
We get the housekeeping out of the way and,
you know, we - I think the problem is that we're
not Just - it's not taking us as long to eat as
we'd planned preflight; it's probably taking us
about 30 minutes or less. And we're ready a
little bit earlier in the morning to start work
than 14:00. And there's the spare time on the
ATM passes because there's nothing going on at
night. So you end up sort of being able to get
way ahead. And we're ending up trying to think
of things to do up here, and there Just isn't
that much on the shopping list. The only thing
we got on there is Just a couple of items, and
we're trying to delay a couple of those things;
for one, that conference. We were trying to
think. There's not anything that goes out the
airlock we could do that I know of. If there
was, send them up, and we'll start doing them.
We don't know what they can send up.
CC Okay, A1, we copied that. And we're - I guess

we can take that into account, and see if we can
shorten up some of those periods in our planning
so that we can stick things in it in the future.
226 22 16 48 CDR Yes, I think that would be good. If we - maybe

have us start working in the morning about 13:30
instead of 14:00. We always seem to be ahead of
the game. And then maybe let us work an hour
extra in the evening; shorten up our postsleep -
presleep activities, because we all have got
Page 5 of 5/1457
spare time. And you Just can't sleep 8 hours up

here, it turns out.
226 22 17 14 CDR And we got _hings to do that's interesting,

but I think we ought to try to get these mission
things out of the way, here. We got time to
look out the window, at the moment. It wasn't
this way the first week and a half; it was pan-
demonium. But now things are a little bit better.
226 22 17 31 CC Okay, A1, I copied that. We can probably talk

about it some more this evening. We're going to
go LOS in about 30 seconds and we'll see you over
Gl,_m in about 25 minutes at 22:43, 22:43.
CDR Okay. And I don't know the answer either. I

guess maybe the only way to do is add some more,
and then pretty soon we'll finally have to say,
,'That's too much." And then it will be some-
where between the too much and where we are right
now.
226 22 17 56 CC Copy.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 226-12/T-218
Time: 226:22:30 to 226:23:08
Page i of h /I_59
226 22 43 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam for about

l0 minutes.
PLT Okay, we're photographing the typhoon.
CC Jack, I copied you were photographing something,

I couldn't understand what.
PLT Yes. Owen's photographing the typhoon.
CC Okay. Very good.
CC And, if A1 or somebody's available, I've got some

items that we'd like to give you that you might
sort of add on %o your shopping list for doing.
CDR Okay, let me get out a piece of paper.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, the first one, A1, has to do with photo-

graphing noctilucent clouds, which is in general
message number 8.
226 22 44 37 CC Permanent general message number 8.
CDR Put that on the list.
CC Okay. The other one is housekeeping 83S, which

is to replace that seal that's causing you pro-
blems in the waste management compartment squeezer.
226 22 44 28 CDR Okay. Say, I meant to mention something about

that. I noticed that if l'm careful to get the
washrag completely in there and have a good vacuum
on the bag from the previous night, that it doesn't
leak so badly. So let me fool with it another
couple of days. It may be our technique - tech-
nique up here, and that's what's causing it to
squirt. It it doesn't, I'Ii jot this down, and
I'ii replace it.
TAG Tape 226-12/T-218
Page 2 of h I1460
226 22 45 26 CC Okay. Very good. And the next item is the crew-
men photographs that our good friend Bill Thornton
was wanting to get. And we're trying to get a pad
up to you on this pass that should cover those.
CDR Okay, and we'll get those crewmen photographs.

I guess Owen has got some details on that, huh?
I'll get out the camera and we'll get them tonight.
CC Yes. Actually, this pad will cover all of it.

We're going - If we don't get it up over this pass,
we'll get it up the next one.
CDR Okay. We'll do it.
CC Okay. The next item is ED74.
SPT I've got that.
CDR Okay, Owen says he's got that. We'll look at that.
CC Okay, and that's - that's all I really had for

you right now. We're going to take your recormnen-
dations under advisement and probably make some
adjustments to adding some stuff on for tomorrow.
226 22 _6 28 CDR Sounds like a good idea. And we'll Just keep
working away. I've figured I'd also do tomorrow's
housekeeping today. And that would get us a little
bit ahead to begin with. And then, when you add
those items, we'll be in good shape.
SPT Hey, Bob. We passed over the eye of the hurricane

at _3 plus 15, Just a little bit earlier than your
predictions, and should have some very good photo-
graphs of it. It's a very large area, of course.
Must be 200 or 300 miles in diameter; and a very
clear counterclockwise circulation pattern; and
alternating bands of clouds with clear streaks in
between it, with the general area of the eye also
clear. Over.
CC Okay, Owen. Copied that. Appreciate the

report.
TAG Tape 226-12/T-218
Page 3 of 4/1461
CC And, Jack, if you've got a moment, on 82B, we

show you in AUTO. And according to our info, you
should be on a timed exposure of 45 minutes with
the WAVELENGTH, SHORT.
PLT You're right. Thank you.
PLT Would you buy a 25-second one?
CC Couldn't copy that last one, Jack.
PLT Would you buy a 25-second one?
CC Forty-five minutes is really what appeals to us.

And when you finish that auto, if you'd start the
45 minutes, that'd be okay.
226 22 48 07 PLT Okay. Well, I'm going to go out of daylight be-

fore 45 minutes, is what I was getting at.
CC Stop - -
PLT Would you rather have a 25-minute exposure with

82B?
226 22 48 18 CC Forty-minute looks good right now.
SPT His point, Bob, was there's only 28 minutes of

sunlit time remaining. So 25 is the best he can
do.
SPT Stand by. Correction; make it 3B minutes.
CC Okay. Okay; 25's fine. Whatever you recommend

on those that you can get out of the smount of
daylight left.
226 22 52 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. That

message dealing with the portrait photos is on
board. We'll see you again over the Vanguard in
about 30 minutes from now. And that should be at
about 23:23.
PLT Okay, and you might tell Paul Patterson I'm giving
him a 33-minute time exposure, and I'm sorry about
the auto deal.
J
TAG Tape 226-12/T-218
Page _ of _/1462
226 22 52 53 CC Okay. No sweat. That's good, Jack. Thank you.
END OF TAPE
_ TAG Tape 226-13/T-219
Time: 226:23:08 to 227:00:30
Page 1 of h/1463
226 23 23 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Vanguard,

and if you'll stay off the DAS for us for a
minute we're going to update rate gyro Y-2 drift.
CDR Okay.
CC And, A1, if it's satisfactory for you, we -

have a phone call set up on the upcoming Canary
pass at 23:43. That's about 20 mlnates from
now.
CDR Hey, that'd be perfect, Crip. DO you think -

Are we going to do this VHF or what?
CC That's - that's our intent, to do it VHF. And

I'm informed this is a good VHF pass.
r 226 23 24 03 CDR Hey, that's great. Which antenna should we use?
CC Left antenna.
CDR Okay, I'll he there. Thanks.
CC And for Owen, I'm still working on yours. Haven't

managed to make contact at your home yet.
SPT Okay, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've completed our update on

Y-2 and the DAS is yours once more.
CC Jack, if you - You got a minute? Can you tell us

if you truncated 82B in that AUTO MODE awhile ago,
or did you let it go ahead and continue out?
PLT No, I truncated it.
226 23 31 h8 CC Okay, copied that. We're going to go LOS in about

1 minute. We'll see you again over Canary at
23:53 and, as I stated previously, that's where
we're set up for Al's phone call.
226 23 43 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Canary for

F 14 minutes.
TAG Tape 226-13/T-219
Page 2 of 4 /1464
PLT Okay, Crip. I wanted to mention in thinking about

it, something's squirrelly about that 82B that
I put on the channel A last night, and it happened
again, I think. As you mentioned, I - I truncated,
or thought I did, that 82B AUTO MODE there; but
it occurred to me that the timer had counted down
from 45 to about 36 or 37, and that's only a
5 minute mode. So for sc_e reason the operite -
OPERATE light stayed out or the mode kept working
or something. I think we got all the AUTO MODE,
but for some reason the 82B didn't shut itself
off in 5 minutes like it's supposed to.
CC Okay; copy. Stand by on that; we'll check it.
226 23 44 45 PLT At least the OPERATE light didn't go out. It

looked like it was operating although it wasn't
counting any frames, and I truncated one like
that last night because it was obvious that it
had gone too long. I think it went about
i0 minutes or so before I could shut it off and
start it over again.
CC Okay, Jack; stand by and I'll get you a story.
CC Jack, if you got a minute, I think I can explain

that 82B thing to you.
PLT Sure, go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay. According to our data here, in both cases,

last night and tonight, you were in LIMB SCAN,
LIMB POINTING on XUVs SLIT when you went into the
AUTO MODE, and - -
226 23 48 20 PLT Owen and I are both listening, Bob.
CC Okay. Did you copy that this case occurred when

you were in LIMB SCAN, LIMB POINTING? And when
you were doing that, the instrument automatically
scaled the exposures for the decreased intensity
of being off the limb.
PLT Just a minute, Bob. We didn't get the first part

of your transmission. I guess we had a dropout
there or something.
TAG Tape 226-13/T-219
Page 3 of;4/1465
CC Okay. We'll try once more. In both cases, last

night and this evening you were - had the XUV
SLIT in LIMB SCAN and LIMB POINTING. Do you
concur withthat?
226 23 48 59 PLT Yes, sir.
226 23 49 00 CC Okay. In that case, because you're pointing off

the limb, the instrument automatically increases
the exposure time, even in AUTO, to handle the
decreased intensity. And - -
PLT Okay. I remember that now and I understand it.

Thank you.
CC Okay. And like last night, the total AUTO MODE

would have run about 28 minutes, and tonight it
ran almost 18 minutes, if we'd left it there.
226 23 49 30 PLT Okay, so I did truncate it, then.
CC And so, when you are doing that, you should go

out of LIMB SCAN, LIMB POINTING. Okay?
PLT Did you say I should go out of it?
CC Before initiating an AUTO MODE.
PLT Okay.
226 23 50 48 CC Jack, to clarify my last statement, I don't

believe I said that proper. If you do want to
do a LIMB SCAN, LIMB POINTING, then you should -
that is normally done in the TIME MODE and not
in the AUTO MODE.
PLT Yes, Owen and I are talking it over, and we think

we got it sorted out. Thank you, Bob.
CC 0keydoke.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. For Captain Bean, who is

up in the command module, one of you guys might
have to relay it for him. We show him over the
time limit on the FUEL CELL 1 PURGE. If he'd
go ahead and switch over and do FUEL CELL 3 now,
we'd appreciate it.
TAG Tape 226-13/T-219
Page 4 of 4/lh66
226 23 52 ll PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, we still show that you haven't terminated

that _JEL CEIL 1 PURGE, and we'd appreciate it
if we could go ahead and get it stopped now be-
fore it causes some problems.
PLT On the way.
CC Thank you.
226 23 56 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See

you again in about 35 minutes over Honeysuckle
at 00:32, 00:32.
END OF TAPE
-- TAG Tape 227-01/T-220
Time: 227:00:30 to 227:02:00
Page 1 of 9/1467
227 00 32 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Honeysuckle, for

7 minutes.
CC And, Owen, if you're within earshot, the next

pass we got coming up over Canary, we got your
phone call set up at - and that's going to be
about 01:22, about 50 minutes from now.
SPT Sounds great, Robert. I'm at the panel here,

chugging away on the ATM.
CC Okeydoke. And - if you and Captain Bean can

lend an ear, I've got Bill Lenoir standing by
who would like to try to brief you on the procedure
we've been trying to come up with for regaining
attitude if you got a problem with the SWS attitude.
PLT Hey, Bob, let me ask you a question first.
CC Go ahead, Jack.
227 00 33 04 PLT We did our M131s today and it turns out that the
SYSTEM SELECT was OFF for them. We're wondering
if the data will come through anyway. And if it
did not, we will voice record on channel A, because
we've got it all written down.
CC Jack, the data should come through with no problem.
PLT Okay. We'll not read it down. Thank you. And

we're listening for Bill.
CC Okay. Here he is.
MCC Okay.
PLT How's your little boy, Bill?
MCC Oh, he's just fine. Thank you.
PLT Glad to hear that.
227 00 33 40 MCC Yes. He's doing just fine. Basically, on the

attitude control system here, the starting con-
figuration that we're talking about is the rate
TAG Tape 227-01/T-220
Page 2 of 9/1468
gyros as appropriate for the given data that we're

talking about: CMG control enabled, that's the
50000_ CMG auto reset enabled, that's the 50002%
TACS control inhibited, that's 50001; and all
TACS switches INHIBITED. The main difference
there is enabling the CMG auto reset, which gives
us a sneaky way of getting our CAUTION and WARNING
after we inhibit TACS control. The - the procedure
we're talking about now is for recovery from loss
of SWS attitude.
227 00 3h 27 MCC We will - Well basically, what we're trying to

do is to minimize the use of TACS while getting
back to attitude and try to prevent having to go
through the CSM. We're in no hurry to Jump into
the CSM. And, as you know, most of these malf
procedures - there's really no urgency to go racing
right through them. The first step we do for
the loss of attitude is to verify our rate gyro
configuration. And the main thing we're concerned
with, here, is have we gone no-control in any
axis? We can find that out on either status word 2
or looking at the ta]kback, and is it barber pole
in all three positions. And assuming that we have
not gone no-control in any axis, so we have good
control in all three axes, then we would go to
mode ATTHOLD switch, to TACS. We would then
ENABLE the TACS, both with the switch and through
the computer. And if, at this point, we had been
on a single rate gyro with redundancy management
enabled, it can erronously detect a failure here,
in which ease we would have to go back and do all
this again. At this point, we'll sit in TACS,
ATT HOLD and talk to STDN, before proceeding.
227 00 35 39 MCC And this is because STDN can give us some more
insight and help us minimize use of TACS. Most
likely, after talking to STDN, we'll allow the
rates to stabilize in the attitude. And when the
rates are low, we will enable CMG control and
select CMG ATT HOLD. Then, looking at the attitude
errors on the counters, we will pick the RMS of
their attitude error, compute a maneuver time
based on 1 minute per degree of error up to
35 minutes, select a maneuver time, and then hit
the mode switch to SOLAR INEPTIAL. That'll give
..- TAG Tape 227-01/T-220
Page 3 of 9/1469
us a nice long, slow maneuver back to SI, and we

ought to be real happy. Okay. Back up in the
beginning, if we came up and one axis was in
no-control, then we'll do things slightly different.
The first thing we'll do is we'll call up the
displays for the rate gyros in that axis and we'll
select the best gyro that we have, with redundancy
management inhibited. We'll try to verify this,
looking out the window and making sure these rates
look good. If we've got high rates, we will
proceed to TACS ATT HOLD and again contact STDN.
227 00 B6 53 _C If the rates are low, and by that I mean less than
0.1, we'll sit there, essentially in free drift,
and contact STDN before proceeding, trying to
make sure that we don't select a bad rate gyro.
If we get what we expect out of STDN on that one,
then we're looking for a reacquire maneuver. And
basically here, again, in TACS ATT HOLD, we'll
let the rates and attitude stabilize. When
they're low, we'll select CMG ATT HOLD. Then we'll
look out the window and use the Sun to estimate an
"- X and Y maneuver back to SI. Again, compute a
maneuver time and do our 52020 this time, and
repeat that sequence, if necessary. Then - and
here's where I would like an answer from you, as
to whether you think this is reasonable - we'll
estimate the Z error, based on the ground track
angle, out the S190 window. Again, compute the
maneuver time, perform the 52020 - -
CC Got a keyhole, ....
MCC Okay. We've got a keyhole here in - I guess,

right now. I'll call you again on the other side.
CDR Okay.
227 00 B8 B6 MCC Okay, A1, and Owen, and Jack. We're back out of
the keyhole, here. Then, we would perform our
maneuver, initialize the strapdown, set maneuver
time to zero, and select SI again.
CC Owen, I need to break in here for a moment. We

show that you're running 54 and that was supposed
to be omitted in this building block. So if you'd
TAG Tape 227-01/T-220
Pa_e 4 of 9/1470
Ko ahead and terminate that for us, we'd appreciate

it. And, we're Just about to go LOS here in
30 seconds. And we'll try to continue this, if
you'd like, on the next pass. That's going to be
Owen's phone call, and will also be Evening Status.
We'll have you again over Canary at 01:22, 01:22,
about h3 minutes from now.
CDE Okay. We'll be waiting.
227 00 39 22 MCC Okay. And I'll be standing by to talk to you

some more, if you'd like.
CDR Sure would. Why don't you take a break though.

See you in 40 minutes, or whatever.
CC Roger.
CDR Say - Bill - (static) ....
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS at Canary for 12-1/2 minutes.
CC And - CDR, if you're ready, what I would recommend

is we go ahead and get your Evening Status Report
out of the road, and then I'll turn the mike back
over to Bill so he can continue with the APCS
briefing.
CDR Okay. Just a second, Crip.
CC Okay. We're standing by for you.
227 Ol 23 B6 CDR I had my hands full of trash bags. Okay, here we

go. 142, 150, 192; 5013, 8268, 5733; 6.235,
6.237, 6.235; 5.960, 5.962; 5.962; 6.95h, 6.960,
6.956; 2/21/5000, 3; 3/15/_ I, Mark I. By the way,
let me back up and read that exercise again.
2/21/5003, 3/15/Mark I, 50, A; 20, B; 20, C; 20, A;
Mark II, 5 minutes, 20, A, 10, B, 10, C, 10, F.
SPT will do this work later; PLT, 1/30/6h51,
1/05/0515, 3/20/ Mark I, 50, A; 20, B; 20, D; and
20 baekbends. No medication. Sleep: 7/G, 6-1/2/G,
7/G. Here comes - here comes the food log: CDR,
13 salts and no deviations; SPT, no salt and added
one butter cookie; PLT, three salts and no devi -
devi*** Photo log: 16-millimeter: ED63, C140,
76, CI09.
TAG Tape 227-01/T-220
Page 5 of 9/i_71
227 Ol 25 29 CDR 35-millimeter: Now this 35-millimeter doesn't

make sense because these counters don't work.
Neither of them seem to work. They count up and
down, and left and right. So, we're Just going
to use them - try to keep up with the numbers
until they run - you know, until we feel like
they're not working and then, you know, we've
reachedthe end of the roll and then we'll roll
them back in. BB13, 17; BB13, 13; CXl2, 16.
70-millimeter; CXll, 150. No EREP. Here's the
drawer A configuration: 07, CI40, 72, CI09; no
change for the rest.
227 01 26 13 CDR Shopping and Flight Plan deviations, tasks, times,

and all that, and we've already talked about that
several times. Shopping list accomplished: crew
photos taken; all housekeeping on our plan for
today is done, plus housekeeping 3C; housekeeping
3D; housekeeping 7C; housekeeping 2hA; housekeep-
• ing 28A for the wall, ceilings, and floor of the
wardroom, and the waste management compartment.
Here's some unscheduled stowage item changes: seven
cherry drinks from F-5_8 to the wardroom;one box
of red washcloths, threewhite towels, one red
towel from W-736 to the waste management compartment.
That's it.
227 01 27 02 CC Roger. We've got all that recorded - on tape

somewhere, that is. Okay. And Bill is standing by
and ready to continue the discussion with the
APC--
MCC Okay. Just two other comments here before i throw

it back to you. What we're doing, basically, is
what I described to you earlier. We're putting
into the mill rightnow; we'll incorporate what-
ever comments and questions you have and run that
through the approval mill here and hopefully we'll
have it up to you by tomorrow night. And once
that is done, then we'll be looking at all of the
APCS malf procedures to redo those with respect
to your current configuration. And we'll up-link
those as we get them. Okay. It's your turn.
227 01 27 h9 CDR Okay. I think you're right that we can look out
the minus-Z and determine roughly what our orbital
plane there is and put it back to - We never really
know what it's supposedto be. But usually it's -
lately it's been running about minus 3 or so. So
we can put it back to zero, which would probably -
TAG Tape 227-011T-220
Page 6 of 9/i_72
we'd probably err plus or minus i0 degrees, but

maybe that would be better than Just letting it
hang out there at 20 or 30 degrees. I think that's
probably the best you could do. I think we need to
get that - a copy of those procedures in words on
the teleprinter pad so we can look at them, Bill.
It's kind of hard to think it through real fast as
you went through it; it Just takes some time to look
at them and digest it. It sounds like you've been
doing a lot of hard work on it. And my opinion would
be that it's probably going to be Just what we need.
We need to Just get it and read it and look at it
with you.
MCC Yes; we concur. We'll be sending these up tomor-

row, like I said.
227 01 28 50 CDR Okay. And we'll be ready to read them. We certain-

ly need something like that. When we had the
problems the other day - It's Just like the simula-
tor. You're standing there, saying, I wonder what
component has failed. We had the ACS light and
the over rate [sic] light and we had four numbers
in each of the CAUTION and WARNING register and the
_T.W.RTregister, so you're standing saying, "Which
one's first, which one caused it, what -" You
know, it's just exactly like the simulator in that
the visibility into this system, if you have more
than one problem or you're in an offnominal con-
figuration, is next to zilch.
227 01 29 30 CDR If everything is perfect and you have a failure,

then you can psych it out pretty well. I think
maybe next time we build a spacecraft, we want to
make sure that we have a little control stick
nearby or switches, because we could have Just
turned off the thrusters, looked out the window,
and then, using the little control stick, put it
right back where we wanted it.
MCC You bet. That sounds great to me. With our rate
gyros the way they are, it seems we don't have any
clean failures anymore. Everything gets intermixed.
227 O1 29 58 CDR That's a fact. And when you walk up there, you
don't know. You suspect rate gyros at first.
And then, of course - I'll tell you another couple
of complications we got - that ought to be in the
TAG Tape 227-01/T-220
Page 7 of 9/1473
simulator. The OUTER gimbal readout for CMG i

is minus 1O0 percent all the time. The OUTER
gimbal readout for B is minus lO0 percent about
20 percent of the time, Just depending on when
you happen to look. So, if you get a failure,
you can Just turn over and look at those and
that tells you not too much.
SC ... misleading.
227 01 30 30 MCC Okay, yes that does. That sounds very misleading
and what we'll do is - like I said earlier, we'll
be getting these up to you tomorrow afternoon
then. And if you don't have any questions or
comments here to incorporate, we'll push them into
the system now.
CDR Okay. No, I Just hope that, as you work these

out in the simulator over there, that you put the
sorts of configuration we have presently there,
and also the situation we got with the - with the
CMG readout. If that's an important factor in de-
terminingwhether or not it's a CMG problem or a
rate gyro problem or, in our case, it turned out
to really be a computer problem.
CC Okay, we are running the SOS in as close to flight

configuration as we can. Although this past time
we did not have your gimbal problems, but we did
have all your rate gyro problems and your
up-to-date configuration.
227 01 31 21 CDR Okay. Well, we haven't seen m_ny problems today,

because we're on these coarse gains. And I assume
with these coarse gains, things are going to be
dandy until we get back to EREP. And then, I
assln,e, when we get our fine gains in again, we
can expect some similar problems. My guess also
is that they're probably getting a better handle
on the CMG and momentum models down there now, I
hope, so that they never let it get into the con-
figuration it happened to get into the other day.
CC Yes. I think we're going to be able to preclude

getting it into where it got the other day. The
only thing that frightens us is what kind of things
are we not aware of - that we Just haven't dis-
covered yet.
TAG Tape 227-01/T-220
Page 8 of 9/1274
227 Ol B1 59 CDR That's a fact. Okay. Sounds good. You're right

about one nice thing though. This thing is big
and it doesn't move fast. And if we got the TACS
off, it isn!t going anywhere very fast, and you
can certainly stand to rotate up here for a while,
because even in ZLV, we don't get much electricity
for a rev or two, and it still makes out. So, I
really don't think that we can have any problem.
I believe if we had done a little more thinking
when we changed over to the new configuration with
the TACS on, we would have probably suggested that
we not have them on, and be in the configuration
we are right now. I think that was a tactical
error on our part up here, not thinking that
through.
MCC Okay. And we'll see you later then.
CDR Okay. Thanks for staying, Bill.
227 Ol 32 46 CC Okay, AI, I've got a couple of evening questions

I'd like to run by. Actually, the first one here
is for Jack, and the next one I'll probably have
to get from Owen later. If Jack is listening,
I'd like to - I understand that last night's
evening status report you - he gave us 4 seconds
of T002-3. However, we didn't receive this data
on the channel A dump, and we would appreciate it
if he could give us a rough hack at what time that
was recorded.
PLT I put that on today, Crip. Probably around noon

sometime.
CC Okay. About noon your time. Very good. We'll

be looking for it. And I guess I've got a sort of
a question on 509 flying tomorrow. What would
you think about putting in SO19 and having it in
the SAL while you were flying 509? Do you think
that would cause an interference problem?
227 01 33 53 CDR I think definitely not, for the simple reason you
don't operate down at the level of the SAL. You're
always up around the water ring lockers, plus you're
under such good control all the time anyhow that
you don't blip into anything. Even if you did,
you're going so doggone slow that you could catch
yourself. I'd say it would be the safest thing
in the world. We got a new perspective on that
509 and T20. They Just operate so much slower in
TAG Tape 227-01/T-220
Page 9 of 9 /i_,75
here, velocity-wlse, than we do, Just normally

moving around, that it tends to bother you. You
keep wanting to get going faster. So there's
absolutely no risk with either of those things.
227 01 34 35 CC Okay, we'll probably be asking you to do that

later. We're about to go LOS, probably in about
30 seconds. We'll see you again over Carnarvon
at 02:01, and that's about 27 minutes from now.
We'll be also doing a data voice recorder dump
there.
CDR Okay. Well, that's good news about SO20. We've

been sort of wishing we had a few more experiments
to do up here.
CC It was S019.
CDR I misheard you. S019. We'll stick it in there

and be ready to go when you say.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 227-02/T-221
Time: 227:02:00 to 227:10:30
/ Page 1 of i0/ih77
227 02 00 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Carnarvon for

9 minutes - correction 8 minutes.
CC And, Jack, we're standing by for your TV down-link.
PLT Okay. I'll give you a TV down-link, I don't see

it on the pad, buthere it comes.
227 02 01 55 SPT Hello, Houston. You read me?
CC That's affirm.
SPT Okay, Just one little other thing here we ought

to get onto the record. I guess it should be
noted that today we probably had the first -
first birth ever noted in zero-g environment of
space.
CC Oh, congratulations.
CDR Well, I don't think that congratulations are due

any of the three of us exactly, at least as far
as I'm aware, but do have an extra mlrmmichog on
board. One of those oh, 50 or so eggs hatched
out, and we now have a little fingerling or even
minifingerline swimming around in the plastic
bag along with the two larger minnows that we had
when we came into orbit. So our expectation is
that we'll have several more of these little
fellows hatching in the next few days.
CC That's beautiful.
227 02 02 h_ SPT If we get a chance tomorrow and there's time for

it, why, we'll try to provide a little short TV
of the fish swimming around. As a matter of fact,
one thing of interest has already been noted.
Our other two larger minnows will still occasion-
ally swim in these outside loops, pitching down-
ward very rapidly, whenever the little plastic
bag is disturbed_ however, our young minnow that
Just hatched out has yet to make any sort of man-
euver like that, as if he were already adapted to
zero g during the hatching process. Now I don't
TAG Tape 227-02/T-221
Page 2 of i0/1478
know whether that's the correct interpretation

or not, but at least that's the first thing that
comes to mind when you notice it swimming around
inside the little plastic bag in a very normal
manner. Over.
CC Roger. We copy that and we'll see if we can work

that TV thing in. While I got you here, Owen,
could I ask you a question about an M487 thing
you did for us?
SPT Yes. Go ahead.
227 02 03 36 CC Okay. This was several days ago; about 3 days,

actually. You were scheduled to do an M487-BA
which is an evaluation kind of th_ng, and we
couldn't find the data on channel A. And I guess
we'd like to find out whether you did that at the
time, if you can recall.
SPT Well, yes, as a matter of fact I can recall very

well. Just to clear up that little mystery, the
fact is I never got around to that item, and per-
haps you can get it rescheduled for me and I will
do it. Or even if you can't get it rescheduled,
I'll do it.
227 02 04 09 CC Okeydoke. We'll go ahead and Jot it down so we

can probably bring it up tomorrow, but if you
remember to do it, why that 'll be fine ; appreciate
it.
SPT Right. Soryy I didn't get it accomplished on

schedule.
PLT And, Crip. Are you getting some of our real-time

TV on the ATM monitors down there?
CC That's affirmative. We're copying it down at

Carnarvon. We actually can't see it here, Jack.
227 02 04 34 PLT Okay. I Just gave you the XUV INTEGRATED sequence
and I didn't give you anything on the WHITE LIGHT
CORONAGRAPH yet, because it's in operation and I
don't have any information up there that tells me
l'm supposed to run one of these off, that I know
of.
TAG Tape 227-02/T-221
Page 3 of 10/1479
CC XUVMONITOR is all we wanted.
CC Okay, Jack, I guess - we're under the impression

here that you guys wanted us to tell you in real
time when we were supposed to get it down and not
to put it on the schedule. And I guess we need
to clarify whether that's really the case or not.
227 02 05 ii PLT Yes, that's fine with me. It's Just that I was
unaware that you were going to do it and I'm
glad that you decided to. And I'll give it down
to you any time you ask.
PLT I already gave you one XUV MON and I'll give you
another. I think that's a good way to work it,
Crip.
CC Okeydoke. There was - somebody up there suggested

that, apparently.
PLT Okay, Bob. 487 dash what?
CC Dash 3 Alfa, which is number 1.
227 02 06 19 CC And, Skylab, if anybody's available to listen,

on that CBRM test that we ran earlier today, we
were only able to get 12.2 ampere hours out of
BATTERY number 7, which is - and we'd hope we'd
be able to do better. Right now we're pondering
possibly rescheduling this test with another
battery.
SPT What do you think that the total capacity is?
CC 12.2 is where it kicked off.
SPT I understand.
227 02 08 lh CC Owen, expanding a little bit on your last ques-

tion, BATTERY 7, of course, was one of a total
of seven that were apparently degraded when we
were setting up at that high thermal attitude,
and I guess we have to assume that all of them
apparently are still - are not able to get the
full ampere hours out of them. And this, of
course, would limit any EREP passes as far as
how much depth of discharge we could go to.
TAG Tape 227-02/T-221
Page 4 of 10/1480
SPT Right. I Just thought perhaps you'd want to also

check some of the ones which had not been over-
temped, to see if they were up closer to the
20 amp spec.
CC That's exactly what we were pondering doing.
SPT Okeydoke. Thank you.
227 02 i0 03 CC And, Skylab, Houston. I got a few items of even-

ing news I could shoot up to you now while we got
about 5 more minutes here of AOS, if you are inter-
ested in listening.
CC Skylab, Houston. I've got a few items of the

evening news that might be of interest if any-
body's available to listen.
CDR We're all listening, Crip.
227 02 l0 31 CC Okeydoke. Big Skylab news today, of course, was

your M509 flight. We even got the network news
this evening on that. It was a very enjoyable
demonstration. It looked - looked real neat.
The papers were quoting about how easy you guys
thought it were to fly - was to fly. The economy
moved from the freeze into Phase IV, and we've
been listening to act1,A1 or promised price in-
creases - notices free the nation'automobile and steel
industry. Houston Chronicle reports today that the
competition and confusion are keeping local prices
on merchandise down despite the lifting of the
freeze. We also had orders to halt the bombing
of Cambodia issued today. American pilots and
crews were instructed that the last bombs were to
be dropped before midnight tonight, ending more
than a decade of U.S. combat involvement in
Southeast Asia and 160 consecutive days of the
intensified campaign in Cambodia.
227 02 ii 32 CC Here's a brave gentleman, Bob Sparks says he will

try again next slm_er to be the first _an to fly
a balloon to Europe. Sparks said Monday that he
could not get around thunderstorms that caused
him to abort off the coast of Newfoundland during
his first attempt last Thursday from Bar Harbol -
Bar Harbor, I guess it's suppose to be. He
actually bailed out of his balloon, if I
TAG Tape 227-02/T-221
Page 5 of 10/1481
remember right. On the sports scene, Dave Roberts

blanked the St. Louis Cardinals 4 to 0 on five
hits Monday night, as the Astros ettended their
winning string to four and the Redbirds lost their
eighth in a row. That's really all the items of -
of interest I got. Again, you guys wanting to
wcrk more and flying around your 509 seemed to be
the big thing on - on Skylab. And it said, I
guess also that it's sort of setting a record on
amounts of ATM flights - correction, ATM passes
that we've been able to get in.
CDR We're going to help you beat that one in a couple

of days, Crip.
227 02 12 32 CC Going to have to give up sleeping a little bit,

I think.
CDR Well, I think what we're going to do is ask to

catch that first one in the morning. We're already
awake, and everybody's kind of stumbling around
down here trying to get in the wardroom and the
waste compartmentat the same time, so we think
maybe we'll Just ask one of us each day to go up
there and do the ATM while the other two get ready
and get eating, and then he comes down and eats, in
other words, he Just kind of offshifts his - his
breakfast and washup by 45 minutes. It'll clear
up the confusion, and it'll get in an extra pass
too.
CC Okay. We noted your comment, and if you conclude

that's what you want us to do, well, let us know
for sure in the future.
CDR I haven't talked it over with 0wen and Jack, yet.
227 02 13 25 CDR Here's a question we've kind of wondered about.

Whatever happened to those two divers that went
down to try to recover the stuff off the Andrea
Doria? They were going to do saturation diving.
CC Okay. They did get a few items off of it. I

heard they were trying to go into the sa - the
TAG Tape 227-02/T-221
Page 6 of i0/ih82
safe, and the last words I got was that the storms
were keeping them off of it. And they weren't able
to get in.
CDR Well, did they spend their 2 weeks and co_e up,
is that what's occurred so far?
CDR Don't worry about it. That's getting you awful

cold. Probably that was Tuesday week, or 2 weeks
ago. We've been up here for quite a while, and
so -
CC I guess that's - I hadn't realized they were plan-

ning on staying down for 2 weeks. They may be -
still be in the saturation condition. We'll see
if we can get you an update on that for tomorrow
night.
CDR Okeydoke.
227 02 14 19 CC I'm being told by PAO that they're still down.

They Just have not been able to go ahead and go
on in because of storm conditions.
PLT I like this environment a lot better.
CC I think you're right.
CC Okay. We're about 1 minute frc_ LOS. We'll see

you again over MLA in about 35 minutes from now.
That should be 02:49, 02:29.
PLT Okay, Crip. I'm working on this filament 28.

There ain't much left of it.
227 02 15 05 CC Roger. Understand, it's pretty well dissipated.
227 02 56 02 PLT Yesterday I turned out 6000 watt-minutes plus a

bunch of other stuff, and it'll be the same tonight.
CC Hello, Skylab, Houston. We've got you for about

minutes, I guess, across Bermuda here. And I've
got a couple of items I'd like to talk about.
PLT Let her fly.

TAG Tape 227-02/T-221
Page 7 of i0/ih83
CC Okay. We Just had a final management meeting

today and we've got a report for you on the CSM
quad problem, if you'd like me to go into it.
CDR Very much so.
227 02 57 ii CC Okay. The conclusion is that quad B failure is

attributed to a particle JAmming the valve. The
quad Delta is attributed to finger-tight oxidizer
side dynatube feeding - fittings. These fittings
are unique to quad Delta and to the oxidizer
fittings. As you've been told before, today I
think, SL-4 vehicle rolled out today and they're
preparing it to go no earlier than September
the 25th. But as now we see no need for a rescue
and, that is, we feel your CSM is okay for your
coming home.
CDR That's good. This little particle, do you think

there's a chance when we - if we use quad B that
it'll knock the little particle out?
CC I guess - stand by I, AI.
227 02 58 17 CDR The plan, I know, is not to use it unless you have
to, but I Just wondered if there was a plan to
maybe use it to try to knock the little particle
out and then we'd have three quads.
CC No, AI. They feel that the particle initiated the

problem and that it Just got progressively worse
and using it will - will not help.
227 02 58 35 CDR Okay. Now we do know that quad B we can use in a -

in a pinch. And particularly not - not that -
not that one thruster, but the other three. Now
the question on my mind is, if you had to use
quad Delta, what do they think would occur?
That - that's kind of what we wonder about. If
you had to use - first of all we don't plan to
use B or D, but if you had to in a pinch, what
would happen?
CDR You might want to think that over and teleprinter

it up.
TAG Tape 227-02/T-221
Page 8 of i0/148h
227 02 59 i0 CC Okay, I'ii tell you what, we'll - we'll try to get
you a good answer. I don't know if we'll be able
to get it this pass, but I think they do have a
feeling for that. I'd like to also comment on that
statement you made earlier today about the coarse
gains on the rate gyros. We don't really feel now
that that is helping us. However our test is not
complete and we're going to be leaving it in there
for a while and continue to look at it. The reason
you probably haven't seen any rate gyro failures
or redundancy manual failures is that we're Just
_-mning on a single rate gyro on Y and Z and they've
got nothing to really co_pare them against. Okay,
and I have a quick note here for Jack. He asked
a question about TO02 I'd like to get him before
I tell you guys good night. Is he listening?
227 03 00 Oh CDR Yes, he is, Crip. And hey, that was - we appre-
ciate those kinds of information. We have a -
a paucity of engineering information that comes
up and that's - we really appreciate what you said
tonight then.
CC Okay -
PLT Good night, Crip.
CC Okay, we'll try to get more of those up. We're

going to go LOS here in about 30 seconds. Madrid
pass is at 03:04. That's after your bedtime, would
you like me to continue with this there?
PLT It's _11 right with me, Crip, you got something
to say about TO - T0027
227 03 00 36 CC Okay, I'ii go ahead and try to talk it through the

LOS. It's about 5 minutes of - probably about a
minute 's worth.
PLT I 'm listening.
CC Okay, I'm not going to have time for it on this

pass. I'll have to get you over Madrid if that's
okay.
227 03 00 5h PLT Okay.

TAG Tape 227-02/T-221
Page 9 of 10/1485
227 03 04 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Madrid, now, and

we've got about 8 minutes. Okay. I'll cover this
T002 thing and then tell you good night.
PLT Okay. Go ahead, Bob.
227 03 04 4i CC Okay. In response to the questions you had earlier

today, the corollary people consider your voice
commentary excellent. The data on TO02-1, three of
them, are all excellent. T002-3, four are not re-
ceived yet; and 6 - 6Awas not accomplished, of
course, due to stadimeter problems; 6 Bravo was
good. However, on T002-6 - must be reseheduled
because 6-A and 6 Bravo must be performed together.
On 4, that was good. Suggestions they've got to
offer is number l, when the horizon rotates to the
ceiling, suggest you rotate the sextant instead of
the body. And number 2, they understand the dif-
ficulty with defining the horizon, suggest you
select your own criteria, tell us what it is, and
stay with it. And number 3, your comments on the
stadimeter were very valuable, and continue trying
to find good techniques.
227 03 05 51 PLT Okay. One thing I think I'm going to find out is
that the stadimeter works better with a night hori-
zon than with the day. I'm going to - they don't
ask for it, but I'm going to try some night stadi-
meter sightings.
CC Okay, Jack. If you'll continue with that and let

us know what you - what you think is best, I guess
the feeling was that you need a - needed a illumi-
nated horizon to do it.
227 03 06 23 PLT Okay. And one thing on the operational stadimeter

sighting, they want to have a 15-minute interval
in between three sets of sightings, and I don't
think that's going to work very good, because the
whole - the whole horizon, the whole day pass is
not Just for stadimeter sightings, only about 30
minutes of it is. So, I'm hoping that we can
change that 15-minute interval down to maybe
10-minute intervals. And thereby get better
sightings on both ends of the pass.
TAG Tape 227-02/T-221
Page i0 of i0/lh86
CC Okay. We'll - we'll note that and work on it.

And, for Owen, if he will Just record us his exer-
cise, voice record the exercise for tonight, that'll
be fine. And, for A1, we'll try to get you a tele-
printer message up tomorrow in regards to when
quad Delta could be used.
227 03 07 25 SPT Okay, Bob. You can start with the 2/30/5000 and
I'll add some more.
CC Okay. Sounds like I caught you in the middle of

it.
SPT You're right.
CC That's all I've got for you. There's about 5 more

minutes of this pass. I'll go ahead and sign off
here, and let you guys get on with it. And we'll
talk to you tomorrow, if that's okay.
CDR Good night, Crip.
CC Good night. And for Al's info, we Just sent up

a message, a general message which deals with sug-
gested rehashing of times for the time line. He
might look it over and give us some comments on
it tomorrow.
227 03 08 08 CDR Okay. Good idea. I talked with the guys about
this early-morning ATM pass and it's favorable,
so we ought to start putting that one in. We'll
Just get up about l0 to 15 minutes prior to that
pass, and that'll give the fellow a chance to get
up there, and then the rest of us will eat, and
then he can eat afterwards.
CC Okay. It'll be day after tomorrow before we can

get that in.
CDR Yes, that'll be pretty good. Thank you, Crip.

Good night ...
227 03 08 38 CC Okay, guys. Good night.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 227-03/T-222
l--
Time: 227:10:30 to 227:12:00
Page i of 7/1487
227 ii 00 00 CC Skylab, Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt

Island. Good morning. Over.
CDR Good morning, Bruce.
CC How you all doing up there? We're right on the

ball down here. Ready to go to work again. Over.
CDR Okay. So are we. We're Just pulling ourselves

out of the bag.
CC Okay. We're running through a stateside pass here.

I mentioned we're over Merritt Island, moving on
to Bermuda. We have about 10-1/2 minutes until
LOS. We will be dumping the data _oice tape
recorders over Bermuda.
CDR Okay.
227 ll 02 48 PLT You there, B_ace?
CC Right here, Jack.
PLT Okay. Today we want to give special recognition

to Elmer Taylor, so it's Elmer Taylor Day.
Elmer led our team that got the Skylab and the
commsnd module through extensive checkout at the
Cape. And he did an excellent Job. He was busy
all the time; he had a lot of work to do, and -
he did - he did his work very well. He worked
right up to the last minute. We had lots of
stowage changes at the end, and he was ahead of
it and on top of it all the way. And we just
want to give him a special tribute today and
give him a pat on the back and also a pat on the
back to the rest of the members of his team
because they spent lots of long hours and a lot
of time away from home. And we also want to
give a little extra thanks and appreciation to the
fsmilies of these men, for - they were separated
for quite a long time preparing the Skylab for
flight and seeing to all the many details that
are associated with tests at checkout world at
Cape Kennedy. So today is Elmer Taylor Day,
and we Just wanted to speciallyrecognizehim and
also the team that worked with him.
TAG Tape 227-03/T-222
Page 2 of 7/ih88
CC Okay, Jack. We'll certainly pass that along to

him.
227 ll l0 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minute until LOS here

at Bermuda. Next station contact over Ascension
at 11:20 in approximately i0 minutes. Out.
227 ll 21 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for

4-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And, PLT, this is Houston. Sometime when you're

up in the vicinity of the ATM panel or when you
go to pick up the teleprinter pad, if you'd give
us a call we have a couple of small items for you.
PLT All right.
PLT Okay, Bruce, go ahead.
CC Okay, Jack, one of the pads we sent up to you

last nighs entitled "General Message Rate Gyro
Drift," has a typo error in the thing. On line
19 for the Y-2 gyro drift value, we have told you
in the octal column that it's NA, and then we
came over and gave you a value in degrees per
second, minus .0017 as a matter of fact, and we
want you to disregard that number; that is, Just
delete the decima] equivalent. We don't have a
drift compensation for the Y-2 gyro. And we're
h5 seconds until LOS here. The next station
contact will be Carnarvon at 11:50 in approximately
25 minutes. Let me keep tASking though. One other
item is that the S055 data during unattended ops
indicate that the NIGHT INTERLOCK switch on S055
SCAN SPECT was left in OVERRIDE. I wonder if you
could verify that andor put it back in NORMAL for
us. The point of confusion here may be that
we're calling for the H-ALPHA 1 NIGHT INTERLOCK
switch to OVERRIDE on the ATM schedule pad prior
to closing out for unattended ops. Over.
PLT Roger. It was. There's no confusion. It's

Just that it was put there and left there for the
last run and wasn't changed.
227 ii 25 33 CC Okay, thank you very much. And we'll talk to

you over Carnarvon.
TAG Tape 227-03/T-222
Page 3 of 7/1489
227 ii 50 31 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for the

next i0 minutes. Out.
PLT Say Bruce, I've been curious for the last couple
of days as to what the plan is for the S192
THERMAL ALIGNMENT. Going to leave it like it is or
try to do better or did they find out it's okay
the way it is or what?
CC We're sorry you asked that, Jack. We are still

investigating the data, and we hope to have a
plan up to you in the next day or so on what we
want to do. And that will still give us a lot of
time to work things over and be ready to resume
the EREP passes along about mission day 37.
PLT Okay. The only thing I can think of is that

looked like to me like the focus was okay, but
that maybe we were locked on the side a little bit,
needed to do a square search or something like
that.
CC Okay. Well, we'll certainly take your information

here and factor it into the overall consideration.
I know there has been some talk about changing out
the detector cooler assembly. But on the negative
side of that, it's believed that the performance of
the visible channel of the other unit is not as
good as the performance of the visible channel of
the unit that's installed. So apparently, there
are a lot of factors involved in making the decision.
PLT Yes, plus we got good visible alignment on the

one we got. We might goof it up and that's 12 out
of 13 channels right there.
CC Yes, sir. We are also aware of that. And by the

way, when we were talking to you last pass about
this SO55 experiment, NIGHT INTERLOCK switch -
to OVERRIDE, NORMAL, we didn't understand exactly
what you said, with respect to the last pass of the
day. What we had on the ATM schedule pad for the
last pass yesterday, was putting the H-Alpha 1
NIGHT INTERLOCK switch to NORMAL and we don't
see a reference to the S055 to OVERRIDE.
TAG Tape 227-03/T-222
Page 4 of 7/ih90
PLT All right, Bruce, there's no confusion between

those override switches. There can't be. But
what I was trying to say was that the last guy
who used the ATM or used S055, must have ran the
grating in NIGHT to get it set up, and forgot to
put it back to NORMAL.
227 ii 53 05 CC Roger, okay. We understand now what you were

saying. It sort of missed us though when you ran
it by the first time. And while I'm talking to
you, Jack, in the M509 run for today, when you
change batteries about halfway through the run,
we'd like you to take the battery that you take
out of the m_neuvering unit, battery number 7, and
go ahead and start charging it right where you
swap batteries out, because we're going to be
pressed for time between the run today and the
run on Friday, to get a good 20 hours on each.
Over.
PLT Okay, we'll do that, Bruce. Thank you.
CC Roger.
227 ii 5_ 06 SPT Hello, Bruce. We had an interesting view out the

window at ll:h0, Zulu, here about 15, lh minutes
ago, now.
CC What did you have at ll:h0, please?
SPT Large - a very low pressure area. It's off to

the southeast of Cape of Good Hope there. I don't
know whether it had been reported or not, but
it's a very large, clockwise, circulating,
apparent low pressure area that looks like a
possible typhoon getting underway. Over.
CC Okay, thank you. We'll put that into the mill.

And since we're t81king to you, Owen, the solar
activity update for this morning again is fairly
short. Prominence 29 has disappeared. Active
region 86 contains a slightly active filament and
filament 28 should appear as a prominence as
rotation carries it over the west limb. Overall,
the Sun is classified as very quite today. Over.
SPT Roger.
TAG Tape 227-03/T-222
Page 5 of 7/i_91
CC And is the Commander in a position where he can

listen for Just a second, or is he tied up?
CDR No, he's listening.
CC Okay. As you may have noticed or may be aware,

we. the sn-..ary shift, make up the Flight Plans
during the early morning hours here. And this is
our last morning on Sl,.,_,_ary
shift for a couple of
weeks. What we've been trying to do in response
to your request for more activity and things to
do is Just to build up the level of activity
fairly gradually. The last Flight Plan that we
have made up this morning will be the one that
you'll go through tomorrow. You may note, in
looking at it, that we've scheduled over 8 hours
of ATM observations. And we think this is a
record for manned space flight. And we'd
appreciate your comments on how the workload seems
to be going, and what you think of the Flight
Plan for tomorrow, when you get into it and get
working with i_. Over.
227 ii 56 21 CDR Okay. We, as you know, we got that update this
morning with some proposed items to change the -
the time on - inflight time to do. And we've
been thinking about that and talking about that
this morning, so we got to do some planning on it.
We agree with this more ATM time. I was thinking
this morning, and it's going to become more true
as we move toward the east in the morning, as we are
now - The - the first guy that gets up on the
Flight Plan can easily go up there and run that
first pass. And then it won't do anything to
our sleeping hours at all. Yet, it will allow us
to get in one extra pass per day. So we're
looking forward to that ATM operation that way.
We'll let you know about the other too. We've
been talking about it.
CC Okay. I guess the big thing is Just to keep

communicating to us your thoughts on how the
workload seems to be working out.
CDR Okay. I know I've - we've had a lot of conversa-

tion about it the last 4 or 5 days and, of course,
we had some the first 3 or 4 days in orbit. And
I guess that's right. It's sort of an interative
TAG Tape 227-03/T-222
Page 6 of 7/1492
process, it Just takes a little while. None of us

up here or down there want to waste any of this
valuable time we got going here, because all -
everybody's got too much time invested in it. And
I think it's Just going to take iteration to get
it down to where we're doing the maximum each
day without - you kn w, not getting our proper -
with getting our proper rest, but still getting
the max_mllm work out each day. So it's - it's
going to take a little time to get it honed down.
227 ll 58 07 CC Roger. Out.
CDR Okay. One thing that - we have noticed is the

fellow that seems to end up with time all the
t_me is me, because I've got that - that planning
t_me in the evening, which really, there's no
planning hardly to do that I can figure out; it's
all been done on the ground. So my schedule
itself, as opposed to Jack and Owen's, has got to
come up in that area, let's say, because there's
Just nothing there. And the second one is, the
fellow that has the ATM really has every night
off and these nights are 30 minutes long. So
if you got three or four ATM passes, you got
about 2 hours, right off the bat, of time that -
that somehow could be worked. Now I don't
know how we're going to have to work it, because
it's hard to - to - Maybe we could do things like
S019, but have SO19 - the pad not start immediately
at Sunset - have it start 5 minutes after sunset.
I think a guy could do the ATM very easily, go
do the S019. He would mAke it on time, and then
he could go back up to the ATM. I don't know,
but these are possibilities; and I think that's
where we are going to be able to get the most
of our time, right there.
227 ii 59 22 CC Okay, A1. We have, in fact, started scheduling

you a little more heavily in the evenings to take
advantage of that planning time that doesn't seem
to be - being required. And we are 1 minute until
LOS at Carnarvon. Our next station contact is
Gnam in approximately 4 minutes. Your other
c_...-.ents,
with regard to the ATM, will certainly
by incorporated into the system. We are planning
more S019 work; however, there is a limit to the
number of S019 passes you can do in succession
TAG Tape 227-03/T-222
Page 7 of 7/1493
since it requires an inhibit to the momentum

dump. A fruitful thing to do - we're not trying
to pass the buck back to you guys again - would
be to take a look at the shopping list and see
what the individual who's on the ATM feels like
he could profitably work in during the night passes.
And we'll also look and see if we can't try
scheduling some and see how it works out. Over
CDR Okay. We're work - we'll be working on it with

you; we're trying to do it too.
227 12 00 07 CC Okay.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 227-04/T-223
Time: 227:12:00 to 227:13:30
Page 1 of 3 /1495
227 12 04 06 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for the next

9-1/2 minutes. Out.
227 12 13 06 CC Sk_lab, this is Houston; 1 minute until LOS at

Guam. Next station contact is Goldstone at 12
plus 29, beginning a stateside pass. Out.
227 12 13 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 30 seconds until LOS at

Guam. Next station contact is Goldstone at 12
plus 29, beginning a stateside pass. Out.
227 12 29 26 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone, a

stateside pass for 17 minutes. Out.
227 12 33 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,

coming to you for the next 13 minutes on our
stateside pass. Out.
SPT Hello, Bruce. I'm glad to hear you through

Corpus Christi. That's a new one. And I'm up
at the ATM panel right now and I've gone through
the poweruD from unattended. I've not touched
any of the experiment switches since I wasn't sure
you were through with it. However, I noticed on
the pad that you do not have any unattended ops
for this rev and if you aren't using it, I'll go
ahead and run some shopping list items on the -
from the ATM panel for this sunside pass. Over.
CC Roger, Owen. We're not using it. Have at it.
227 12 B4 09 SPT Okay, fine. I'll take it over from here.
SPT What sort of TV capability, if any, do you have

through Corpus Christi?
CC We have capability here, Owen. You can send it

down and we'll record it at the site. We can't
real-time direct in the viewing room or anything
like that but go ahead.
PLT We've also got the TV running on the action in

the forward compartment, setting up the airlock
and working on the tape recorder.
Page 2 of 3/1496
CC Okay. Let me Just make sure we're talking on the

same wavelength here. I understand the video that
you're going to be sending down to us is of the
operation on the - looking at the tape recorder.
It's been taken out of the airlock module system.
Is that correct?
227 12 35 41 PLT Well, right now we've got it on. Al's setting
up S019 in the airlock and I'm setting up to
start working on the tape recorder here, so we
might be able to give you some of that too. We're
unfortunately using the serial 005 camera because
it Just happened to be handy. But so be it.
CC Okay. Now the only - the only point to - that

was of any concern here is if you start using the
video tape recorder for recording video, we need
to work out our budget and give you a GO or NO GO
on that.
227 12 36 ii SPT No. It's not going on the VTR. It's real time
only as you can get it.
CC BeautifUl; we got it.
227 12 38 01 SPT Bruce, you still there?
CC Haven't gone anywhere, 0wen.
SPT Hello, Houston.
CC Roger, Hou - Skylab. Skylab, this is Houston.

Are you reading okay? Over.
227 12 39 18 SPT Okay, now we got you. I was Just going to report
on the appearance of the corona. Up on the west
limb, the streamers are largely up around 075,
sort of a multi-grouping of streamers straight
out at 075 over on the - that was the west limb.
Over on the east limb, there are three principal
streamers now, spaced about 20 degrees apart
about, oh, 270 and then plus or minus 20 degrees.
The appearance of the coronal is a little
different than it was as I recall from yesterday.
227 12 39 53 CC Okay; we're copying that.

TAG Tape 227-04/T-223
Page 3 of 3/1497
CC And Just for your information, Skylab, we are

getting some TV here in the Control Center now,
showing Jack taking s_ne screws out of the
airlock module tape recorder package. Looks
like it's down on top of the big vent fan filter
assembly from the waste management compartment°
227 12 41 25 CC And there goes AI, across our field of view,

probably to answer my transmission.
227 12 42 27 CC And we're getting the ATM TV now with the

integrated UV picture being flashed at us.
227 12 45 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS. And

looks like the next station contact here will be
Goldstone at 14:06 in about an hour and
20 minutes. We got a low pass going by Vanguard
at 12 plus 57 but we probably won't acquire you
there.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 227-05/T-224
Time: 227:13:30 to 227:15:00
Page 1 of 8 /ih99
227 14 07 02 CC Good morning, Skylab, Houston. We got you state-

side for about 13 minutes.
PLT Well I'll be doggoned. There is a Dick Truly.
CC Yes, sir; back to work.
PLT You got Phil Shaffer down there with you?
CC Sitting right here.
PLT Is he pulling that coin trick on you? He worked

his way through college working that coin trick.
227 14 07 27 CC The card trick? Jack, Phil says to tell you that
all he can say is that you are easy.
PLT He's right. I know it. He's a pro. I admit it.
CC Roger that (chuckle).
PLT I'm a lot easier when I'm using his quarters,

though.
CC Roger.
CC And, PLT; Houston. If you have a chance during

this stateside pass, the INCO would like to hear
how you - how you came out on the recorder - look
procedure and if you put any comments on channel A.
227 14 08 16 PLT I haven't put any comments on channel A yet, but

I'll give them to you. Turned out everything on
the top side rotated freely. On the front end,
there was nothing offtrack. I had to tear into
it and lift the whole thing out. And when I
looked under the underside, turns out that the
little yellow belt that is the motor drive belt,
that drives off the motor drive shaft into the
transmission of the tape recorder, was busted
with a clean 90-degree break. There's a little
bit of residue on each one of those rollers on
the drive shaft to the motor and into the rollers
• that go into the transmission. And I don't know
if we got anything here on board to repair them
TAG Tape 227-05/T-224
Page 2 of 8/1500
with. Looks like it would take a little time to

get into there and to repair it if we had one at
all. But it looks like the motor is good, the
tape drive is good, and the war is being lost for
the lack of a good belt.
227 14 09 18 CC Roger, Jack. Good description. Let me see if

there are any more questions and then we'll get back
to you.
PLT Does it sound like I'm shouting at you all the

time, Dick?
CC Yes; it does a little bit, Jack; high volume.
PLT Okay. Well I guess we talk extra hard to project

our voice from the thinner - atmosphere here, and
maybe try too hard.
CC No, we're - I'm hearing you loud and clear, but

it does sound a little bit like that.
PLT Okay. Is that better?
•CC Roger.
227 14 l0 08 PLT Seems like to me that I remember there being some

extra pinch roller belts on board, although I'm
not sure. And - but I don't ever remember them
saying anything about any extra drive belts being
on board. But if there are, I sure would like to
take a whirl at fixing that.
CC Roger, Jack. We'lltake a look at the stowage

list and see if there is anything on board that
you might could use, and we'll get back to you
after we've looked at that.
CDR Want a little TV down-link, Dick?
CC Roger. We're getting TV on the ground, A1.
CDR Okay. I'ii give you a little XUV M0N and mark as
a skip there - for you.
CC Okay.
TAG Tape 227-05/T-224
Page 3 of 8/1501
227 14 12 ii CC Skylab, Houston. Two things we think we - you

should be on - in ATM 1 position on the VIDEO
switch for us to get down-link. We've lost it.
Second, AI; we noticed we have a star presence
indication. However, the gimbal angles on the
star tracker make us think that the star tracker
is probably long - locked onto a part of the
vehicle. And the correct gimbal angles are
OUTER gimbal plus 1530 and INNER gimbal about
minus 6 - 78 or 80 to get a - a good star lock.
SPT I had a good star lock at that location on the

earlier rev, Dick. It must have come loose and
tracked over there.
CC Understand.
227 14 12 56 CC And, Skylab, if you can get it locked on for us,

we'd like to enable Nu z updates and then we'll -
you can secure it again.
CC Skylab, Houston. On the star tracker, if you will

see if you can - if you have time, to lock it on
again, we would like to enable the Nu z update,
and then you can secure the star tracker for a
while.
227 14 13 44 PLT Hey, Dick. While you are there, one of the most,
and I'm thinking about one of the most fun things
to do up here is to turn yourself upside down and
walk on the ceiling and getting glued in your
head the idea that - that that's right side up
now. And it don't - to float over to the - the
hole in the ceiling - the hatch in the ceiling -
and look down towards - it looks like you're
living in the attic then - you'd look down toward
the command module - it looks like if you step over
that hole you're going to fall clear on through_
clear down to the bottom of a well. And it's
really a lot of fun to do everything upside down
Just for the heck of it.
CC Roger. Has anybody fell down there yet?
227 lh 14 27 PLT Yes. The other guys are pretty good at - at

being careful, but I fell down it several times.
CC Roger. (Chuckle)
TAG Tape 227-05/T-224
Page h of 8/1502
PLT You sure had a lot a - sure had a lot of wires

and Junk on the floor when you start doing that,
though.
CC Roger.
CC And we've got a good TV down-link picture again.
CDR Wonder why you weren't able to get it on MON-2.

I had it displayed there_ Just switched over to
MON-2 but you never got it, huh?
CC Stand by 1.
CDR The one that had all the contrast and everything
adjusted for you there.
227 lh 15 _2 CC CDR, Houston. We're having to use MONITOR 1 only

from here on in because of the TV BUS 2 problem
that we had. And I did not copy your last
transmission down.
CDR I was wondering. What's the star tracker around

the inner and outer gimbals that we think we have?
It doesn't seem to lock on. See if you can get
a better thought on those gimbal angles.
CC Roger ; stand by.
CDR I'll quit fiddling with it for a minute and

rotate the ...
227 14 16 35 CC CDR; Houston. It's going to take us a while to

recompute some new star tracker gimbal angles.
So why don't you Just close the shutter and we'll
get back to you, possibly at the Vanguard, with
some new angles.
CDR Okay. I tried the ... once and all around and it
Just didn't work. Apparently, this 5.5 out of
NuZ we got has got them off a little bit.
CC Roger that.
227 lh 18 03 CDR Okay, I'll put the corona bath - back in 108 and
give you some more UV MON.
CC Roger, AI.
Page 5 of 8/1503
227 14 18 26 CDR Okay. Here comes a little sequence at you.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay; that was one sequence complete. I'll give

them another.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from LOS

at Texas. We're going to see you at Vangl,a_d at
14:31. And we're going to dump the data tape
recorder down there at Vanguard. See you there.
CDR Okay, (cough) I'll be standing by for those new

star angles.
CC Okay.
227 14 31 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at the Vanguard for

9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. Everything's perking along.
CC Roger, A1. I had one note from you - from the

ATM guys, here at this pass. And it really concerns
your next daylight cycle, if you have a minute
to listen to me.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay; it turns out that active region 90 has

decayed significantly during the evening, and
you may be - it may be very difficult for you
to even find. We suggest that on the next day-
light cycle when you're attacking active region 90
that you point at the brightest area near the
specified coordinates on the SAP pad when you're
performing J0P ll. And I have one chance to that
daylight cycle pad on J0P ll. At a time of
h6 minutes where it says, "Omit 82 Alfa, 82 Bravo,
and 52," we would also like to omit S054 because
the region has declined. Over.
2_7 14 32 03 CDR Okay. Looks to me - I was over there looking for

that region awhile ago and, sure enough, you
cannot find it. Also I don't think the pad points
out the coordinatesfor that region. So, if
Page 6 of 81150h
they want me to work that region, they'll have to

give me some real coordinates. The only thing
it gives me is - you know, let me tell you what
it *** 12/5_ That isn't good enough to find it,
and it sure isn't. I looked all around for it and
couldn't find it. Maybe they'd like me to skip
that whole daylight pass, go to the next daylight
pass, do it, and then that'll give them a chance
to come up with a brand new daylight pass, either
to slap on the end of the day or put on the one
after this - after the one I would do next. So,
in other words, it looks like we're going to end
up sort of wasting a pass there because we can't
even find the area.
247 14 33 00 CC Roger, AI. Give me a couple of minutes, and let

us talk about that a second. We'll get back to
you. We still have about 8 minutes left here at
Vanguard.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR; Houston. We'd like for you to stay off the

DAS for Just a minute so we can enable contingency
sample. We got M092 coming up and we'd also like to
enable TACS.
CDR Still haven't got you that lock-on yet.
CC Roger, CDR. And we've got some machine problems

here on the ground in computing new gimbal angles
for you, so we're not going to have that here at
Vanguard.
CDR I'll go over there. I've got a few minutes here.

I'll go work on it.
CC Okay.
227 14 35 15 CC CDR, Houston. After a little bit of consideration

down here, we think that we'd prefer, on the next
daylight cycle, to stick with the pad we have.
And the suggestion is to go ahead and point to
those general coordinates even if there is no
even bright spot there. And we'll take the data
on the quad Sun in that area and the coordinates
like you read them down to me is 120 degrees at
half a radii.
TAG TAPE _27-05/T-224
Page 7 of 8/1505
CDR Okay. I'ii give it a go. That's a pretty rough

way. Usually - normally, they come up on any
active region we're going to work on and give
us the up/down , left/right's for the roll of the
day which happens to be 108. And I noticed this
morning it was drifting, and wondering why but
I assume it must have been all of those machine
problems.
CC Roger. Copied all except the last couple of

sentences, A1.
227 l_ 36 09 CDR I assumed it must have been some sort of machine

problem, because the ground rule is on any active
region we work on - that the up/down, left/right
will be on the pad, although it doesn't seem to
be there today.
CDR Okay, Dick, we've got a star at OUTER, 1401, and

INNER, minus 670. I wonder if that's the right
one ?
CC Roger, CDR. We're checking. And, CDR, Houston.

I've got some pointing information for you for
that active region for the next daylight cycle.
It's for a CANISTER ROLL of 10,800; LEFT, 410;
UP, 250. Over.
CDR Hey, thank you. Good work.

i
CC Roger.
227 14 38 22 CC Skylab, Houston. While you've got the star, we're

going to enable the star tracker updates to Nu z.
CDR Okay. YOu think that's a good one, huh?
CC Yes, sir ; sure do. Thank you. And, Skylab,

Houston; Just one more thing. We want to make
sure that ACS iENABr.k_Obefore we start the 92
vent. It's coming up in about 3 minutes here,
or SO.
227 14 39 00 CDR Okay. I'm going to ENABLE it right now.
CC 0kay; good.
TAG TAPE 227-05/T-22h
Page 8 of 8/1506
CDR Mine shows the total momentum's about zero. So

everyting's looking pretty good at the moment.
CC Roger. We think we're in good shape, A1; we're

Just covering the bets. And, Skylab, Houston.
We're about a minute from LOS. We're going to
see you at Goldstone at 15:h5.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. You can go ahead and CLOSE the

STAR TRACKER SHUTTER now.
227 14 40 36 CDR Okay.
CC And, CDR, Houston. As we go over the hill, Aq_4

would like to remind you to go to line 8 on S055.
CDR Okay. They mean after this? This prescan, accord-

ing to mine, should have been done at 25. So
I'll go to 8 afterwards.
SPT Houston, that's line 9 now, in our latest cal.
CC Roger, Owen - -
SPT I think that's line 9.
CC - - Roger, Owen. We agree with you. You're right.
CDR Everybody agrees. Okay, we Just finished it.

I'll go to line 9 now.
227 14 41 22 CC Okay. Thank you much.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 227-06/T-225
- Time: 227:15:00 to 227:16:35
Page i of 5 /1507
227 15 _6 53 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS, Goldstone for

4 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. We're perking along here on the ATM.

I went over the coordinates that you gave me
for active region 90, which were left 410,
up 250. Then I sort of looked around to see if
I could find any remnants of an active region
and I found some at left 267, up Bl|J. So that
was off a degree ... or two, but l went up
there and that's what l'm running right now,
JOP ii.
227 15 47 42 CC Roger, CDR. And we concur with that; stay right

where you are. Also, Al, while you're listening,
I -we made a bad call to you awhile ago.
Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
CDR Read you good.
CC Okay. We made one bad call to you awhile ago

and that was on that TV 2, 1 and 2 business.
There's no reason, because of the short, that
we should not be able to use TV monitor 1 or 2,
Just normal ops. And so that does confuse us
a little bit because we did lose our down-link
TV signal while ago when you did switch over
the first time from 1 to 2, and we don't
understand that right now.
CDR Okay. I'll be glad to give you some more on

2 again, any time you want it.
227 15 48 38 CC Roger, Al. We'll have to schedule that a little

bit later because the lines are not up now. One
other note, getting back to this up/down and
right/left coordinates thing that you might -
that you - we'd like to understand. We've only
been putting the up/down and left/right coor-
dinates on the SAP pad for the solar features of
major interest and potential activity, and that
caught us today on this active region because
we did not expect it to disappear. And then,
when we needed the up/down and right/left
coordinates,they weren't on the pad. And so,
TAG Tape 227-06/T-225
Page 2 of 5/1508
we've been - the NOAA guys and our ATM folks have
been using their own Judgment as to whether or
not to put those coordinates on the pad. And
we Just as soon continue with this procedure.
However, if you would like them on - for every
one of those, on each pad we could do that too.
So why don't you think about that and let us
know.
227 15 49 29 CDR Okay. I'ii tell you what we thought were the
ground rules before we launched. And at that,
they would put them on for anything of importance
that they felt like, but in order to keep from
cluttering the pad we wouldn't put them on all
of them. But in every case, they would be on
there as suggested for any active region filament -
or - or whatever else that's going - that's
called out in that day's pad. So, if you got
something called out, you can i,mediately look
over there, find the coordinates, go there and
then of you want to change the roll or change the
coordinates or something to enhance it, that's
your own business. But the whole idea was to
allow you to move from one building block to the
next or one JOP to the next with ease, instead
of trying to turn around and trying to decide
which prominence is which active area is which.
You could go right there and then you could get
on with the program. We'd prefer that you send
up any that you like, but be sure to put the
ones on there that we're working tod_y.
227 15 50 29 CC Roger. Understand, AI, _nd we'll take care of

that. We're going LOS at Goldstone and we're
going to see you at Vanguard at 16:08.
CDR 0keydokey.
CC See you there.
CDR By the way, the remnants of that active area I

mentioned were a couple of filaments that are
slightly above line 25. Well, one's Just above
line 25; one is off to the left, and in a very
dim plage area, and that's it. Also, the shape
of the cells in that area is disturbed. And
Paul Peterson would be interested to know that
they're like ...
TAG Tape 227-06/T-225
• Page 3 of 5/1509
227 15 51 08 CC Roger, A1; and we are losing you. See you at

Vanguard.
227 16 08 01 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Vanguard for l0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We 're A0S, Vanguard for

9 minutes. The momentum is in good shape and
you can INHIBIT the TACS if you want to.
227 16 l0 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Vanguard for

8 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
227 16 i0 4h CC Roger. And in case you didn't get the last

transmission, we're looking at the momentum
state. It looks good and we think we can go
ahead and INHIBIT TACS now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've brought the T - TV

reception up at the Vanguard and we see you on
ATM TV-1 now. If you'd like to switch over to
TV-2, we'll see if - what kind of Joy we have.
227 16 ll 58 CDR Okay, Dick. There's a little H-alpha 2 for you.
CC Roger, A1. We're checking out at the site to

see what kind of fidelity we have on the
down-link. We're not bringing it in to Houston.
CC And, A1 - -
227 16 12 i_ CDR Okay, I'ii give them a li.ttle H-alpha i on both

scopes. That way, they can get a comparison.
CC Roger; and I'll get back to you when we have

some knowledge of how the down-link went, A1.
We got about 5 o/ 6 minutes left in this pass.
I have some more pen-and-inks that we need to
make to the rest of the ATM schedule pads for
today, due to the decline of active region 90,
when you can copy them.
CDR Okay; go ahead.
227 16 13 02 CC Roger. The next one is in the pass that starts

at 17:09 Zulu. And at time 41, same pen-and-ink
TAG Tape 227-06/T-225
Page h of 5 /1510
as before, we want to also omit S054. And then

after that daylight cycle, we're going to secure
your operations against active region 90. And
so for the remainer of the pads where - in JOP
2 Alfa, we'd like to change the active region 90
to active region 86, if you'd like to have them.
CDR Go ahead. We'll write them down.
CC Okay; you're still for a ROLL of 10,800; UP,180;

LEFT, 850.
CDR Okay; got that.
227 16 lh 01 CC Okay. The only thing that leaves on the pal -

pad, Al, that still reflects active region 90,
is down at the bottom of the pad where we're
going to power down to do unattended ops, and
we're still talking about how we're going to do
the unattended this evening, so that change will
have to come later, if at all.
CDR Okay, Dick.
227 16 14 37 CC CDR; Houston. Be advised, we're getting good

reception on TV-2 down at the Vanguard and so
we' re not sure what the anomally was but apparently
it's one time and we've got a good system still.
CDR Okay.
227 16 15 00 CC Skylab; Houston. This is for the PLT, and I'm

not sure whether he can - is - can listen closely
but no response reauired. What we intend to do
on the airlock module tape recorder, turns out
there is no belt on board that can be used to
repair that one. However, what we intend to do
is have you perform the same recorder look
procedure that we sent uD on the pad last evening
and you did on the first one. On the second
failed tape recorder, we think that tape recorder
was placed in a plenum bag and we're trying to
see if we can help you find it. And I'll be
coming up with you - with that later on in the
day. But we'll have you to get it out of the
plenum bag and then continue to do that same
procedure on that recorder.
TAG Tape 227-06/T-225
Page 5 of 5/1511
227 16 15 50 PLT You want me to put the one back together that I
got torn up right now?
CC PLT, Houston. Just put it together with a couple

of screws Just like the procedure says and we -
of course, what we really hope is, is that we'll
be able to make one good one out of the two we
have. Also, Jack, there was one thing that we
did not put on the procedure that we'd like you
to do and that is, read us the number on elapsed
time meter that's on the case. We'd like that
number for some engineering data to compare it to
what he thinks elapsed time was in that recorder.
PLT Okay. I'll get that and do you want any closeup
TV pictures of the thing? Or do you think you
got enough information?
CC Jack, we think your description describes the

problem to us adequately enough that we don't
need the TV.
227 16 16 47 PLT Okay. That's some big ice flows down there.
Boy, they're really big ...
CC Roger. You're Just about at the - 50 degrees

south latitude right now.
PLT Right.
227 16 17 17 CC PLT, Houston. Just one more note on the belt.

We may end uD asking you to bring that broken belt
back home. So don't throw it away. We're about
1 minute from LOS at Vanguard. We're going to
see you at Hawaii at 17:17, and we are going to
dump the data tape recorder at Hawaii.
PLT If you don't mind me cutting up some ... I'll

bring the transmission home ...
CDR ... and take place at position 25, so I moved it

back to 9 and that's where we're doing the
mirror LINE SCAN. Also it didn't call for 82B to
be omitted, so I'm doing 82B also.
227 16 18 04 CC Roger, CDR. We got copy.
ENT OF TAPE
TAG Tape 227-07/T-226
Time: 227:16:35 to 227:18:00
Page i of 5/1513
227 17 16 02 CC Skylab, Houston. Hawaii for 9 minutes.
CC And, PLT, Houston - who I think is at the ATM

console now, we'd like to - reminder, we'd like
the H-Alpha i, NIGHT INTERLOCK switch to the
NORMAL position, please.
CC Thank you.
227 17 19 32 CC PLT, Houston. On this activity, we would like

to omit S054 from running against that active
region where you are now.
PLT I'm pointed - per the coordinates that's on the

pad, which is the H-Alpha 2 or off-set pointing
right on Sun center, and I don't see the active
region that you're talking about.
PLT I will omit - what - what experiment do you want

me to turnoff?
227 17 20 17 CC It's - Jack, it's S054, and the reason was I was
visiting with AI, when he was up there earlier.
That active region 90 went away during the evening,
and so we made an update to the ATM schedule
pad to - in addition to those other experiments
for that - where it's listed there, we also wanted
to omit S054 at time 41.
PLT I'm working Sun - I'm working a quiet region; I'm

not working any active area.
227 17 21 02 CC Roger, PLT. We understand that. 54, due to the

wide fielf of view, was looking at an active
region, however, although it's not printed there.
And we do want to not run S054. So if you'll
just terminate that, we'll be in good shape.
PLT Okay. I turned it off.
CC Okay, thank - -
CDR Yes, this is the CDR. It's my poor writing there;

he couldn't read it.
TAG Tape 227-07/T-226
Page 2 of 5 /1514
CC (Chuckle) Roger.
227 17 22 58 PLT And I Just did a shopping list item 14 on S082B:

three shortexposures, and taking note of your
request to get a few more pictures on 82B.
CC Roger, Jack. Thank you for letting us know.
PLT I got a question about that shopping list, however.

The time of 30 seconds, I guess; and they want
that equally spaced over 30 seconds, or Just as
fast as you can get them off?
CC Stand by 1.
PLT It probably doesn't matter.
227 17 23 48 CC Roger. Stand by Just 1 second, Jack. I'll be right

back with you.
CC PLT, Houston. The answer is we'd like the exposures

as fast as you can get them off.
PLT Okay; that's what we did.
CC Roger.
227 17 24 25 CC Skylab; Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We'll see you at the Vanguard at 17:47.
PLT Okay, Dick, and where it says, pointing with 55,

OFFSET; 85 arc secs, I'm taking the liberty to
make that 80 arc secs, in view of the fact that
%-e've only got 80 arc seconds between our SLIT
center and our offsets now, as opposed to 85, -
since we're working line 9 instead of line 8.
227 17 2h 56 CC Roger, Jack; we concur with that. That's the right

way to go.
227 17 h6 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Vanguard, for

9 minutes.
PLT Say, Dick, I wonder if you could set up a phone

call for my family this evening, please.
CC Certainly can, Jack.

TAG Tape 227-07/T-226
• Page 3 of 5/1515
(Music)
CC Heavens!
227 17 h8 18 PLT Say, Dick, I've noticed that something on the Sun
that I don't see on the pad and that's at 210,
about 0.6 of a radius and I'm wondering if that's
a new filament developing or an old one going away.
CC Stand by.
PLT There're a few black spots there kind of in a line,

although they' re not contiguous.
CC Roger, Jack. Stand by Just a second. I'll get

back to you.
227 17 51 15 CC PLT, Houston. What you are seeing down there at

those coordinates you gave us is a filament ; it's
number is filament 37. It is very low interest
to us, and NOAA has seen no activity in it, and it
was left off the SAP for that reason. We didn't
know whether - how visible it would be to you,
but we have identified it.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Dick. It's very broken up in

about three or four pieces.
CC Roger. Well - thanks for asking the question,

and we have identified it, and we're not too
interested in it today.
PLT Okay.
CDR How much more time do you have on this pass, Dick?
227 17 51 56 CC We've got 4 minutes, A1. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, let me get at the piece of paper. I want -
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, I'm referencing now general message 1932,

and it talks about changing some times. And let
me go through it and give you some opinions, and
-_ then you can go from there, maybe.
TAG Tape 227-07/T-226
Page 4 of 5 /1516
CC Okay, A1. We're getting the message out now and

I'm looking at it, so go ahead.
227 17 53 09 CDR Okay, in th e post sleep, it said to reduce it from

220 to 130, I think that's a good idea to try.
We may have to up it in 3 or h days, but let's
go ahead and drop it down to 130. Presleep
3h5 to 2h5; I think that's good, too. Now if they
don't get in our physical training, then they ought
to Jump it back up to 3h5, but if physical training
is put in there somewhere during the day, then 2h5
is ample, at least we ought to start it. As you
know, we got that extra ATM pass this morning, and
so it's quite easy for us to do. And the thing
that puzzles us a little bit is the one that we've
been talking about adding was the one prior to
that pass. So, I don't know whether they didn't
schedule us the first pass in the morning, which
was the one Owen did duck, or that's the one they
thought we wanted when we said add a pass. But
somehow, it seems to me, that it's usually daylight
about 5 or lO minutes after we get up, and someone
of us could wander up there and do that. We talked
about that yesterday. Housekeeping, open, reduce
it from 130 to 30; I think that's a good idea. We
got our housekeeping done this morning before we
even started work. Okay, house - it says, "House-
keeping items having specific constraints will be
scheduled; otherwise we will list. And that's a
good idea. Okay, meal B; it says "reduce from
1 hour to 40 minutes_ I think that's a good idea
too. We'll try it. Okay, now lets talk about
experiments. This M092/171 and M092/1 - M093,
we ought to leave those at the time they are. It
takes us that long. The thing that really ups the
experiment time is M151. Usually, we can do it
faster than that, if we don't have 15. But when
we have M151 with any of these things, it almost
adds 15 minutes to the time. You got to go get
the film, you got to put it in place and then you
got - it's - Owen thinks it's more than 15 minutes.
I'm not sure he isn't right either. Let me give
you the times for SO19 without 151. If they throw
in 151, then they need to add another 15 minutes.
SO19 PR-1 ought to be 20 minutes, PR-3 ought to
be 20 minutes. SO19 ST-1 ought to be 25 minutes;
2, lO minutes; 3, 15 minutes; and SO19 FI is 10,
SO19 FS is 10.
TAG Tape 227-07/T-226
Page 5 of 5/1517
CC CDR, Houston - -
CDR And I'm not sure - -
227 17 55 38 CC CDR, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.

We're going to see you at - We're going to see
you at Hawaii at 18:53, and I do have all of
your comments so far, and we'll see you there.
CDR 0kay. Well, that's kind of it, and there might

be some questions for us. But I think we ought
to start going on that for a while and see how
it works out, and then we'll try to hold it in
better from there.
CC Okay, A1. There was one number I missed and that

was the SO19 PR-1 number I got all of the others.
CDR PR-I, 20 minutes.
CC Okay, we got all your inputs. And we'll be talking

about them today and cranking them in.
227 17 56 20 CDR Yes, I think we ought to maybe think about this

$019 - -
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 227-08/T-227
F Time: 227-18:00 to 227:19:30
Page 1 of 3/1519
SKYLABAIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
227 18 53 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Hawaii for 8 minutes.
SPT Okay, Houston, I have a little information here.

I believe I'm sitting on a bright spot right now.
I - first of all took an XUV photograph and then
scaled it as best I could and went to that loca-
tion, scanned around with the 55 pencil beam
and then settled on this location. And DETECTOR
3 - the detector count is on the order of 1200 to
1400 whereas Just a matter of a few arc seconds
away, it will drop to 200 counts and in the back-
ground it's as low as i00 counts. And it's an
extremely small point; Just a few arc seconds of
motion will drop the count by, oh, a factor of
5 or more. Now these coordinates, in case you
want to get your ground observers looking at the
same spot as indicated on your pad, are as
follows; ROLL is minus 10,800, and then -
CC Go ahead, Owen, I'm with you.
SPT Just a moment, I'm checking it here.
CC Okay.
227 18 54 27 SPT RIGHT, plus 400 and DOWN, minus 89. And those
are the coordinates that I'm at. And I'm doing
a building block ii now and if S054 would like
to run, I'll go ahead and put them into it if
they want to give me a filter or Just an okay
to go ahead.
CC Roger. Let me read those coordinates back to you

for 10800, it's roll - correction a RIGHT, 400,
and DOWN, 089.
SPT That's affirmative, Dick.
CC And Owen, we do not want to operate S054. I do

have a couple other items for you.
SPT Go ahead.
TAG Tape 227-08/T-227
Pa_e 2 of 3/1520
227 18 55 02 CC For one thing when you are - we are going to use
those coordinates in four sites. Kitt Peak,
Sacramento Peak, Aerospace, and Big Bear are
going to be watching that - those same coordi-
nates on the - on the bright spots. Also NOAA
has reported the new active region is possibly
emerging at - at about 270 degrees at 0.5 radii.
We Just noticed - the activity was first noted
about 19:50 Zulu, and the precise coordinates
are UP, 030 and RIGHT, 500, and both of that's
for a ROLL of 10,800, where you are now. It may
be another 2-day wonder like active region 90
and what we were going to suggest was - is when
you get down to JOP 2 Alfa on active region 86
at a time of 21 on this daylight pass, you might
go to those coordinates and if that active re-
gion looks promising to you, make your own deci-
sion and then do the rest of the day's operations
that are listed for active region 86 on this new
emergin_ active region. Over.
227 18 56 14 SPT Okay, and give me those coordinates once more,

please.
CC Okay, it's UP, 030; RIGHT, 500.
SPT Roger. I'll do that.
CC And Owen, Houston. The reason that we do not

choose to run S05h is strictly film limiting
problem and - -
SPT Okay, I understand.
CC Roger.
227 18 56 55 SPT Now I have a XUV bright spot up in that general

vicinity but, well, I'll Just have to see how
close it looks. It doesn't look quite like the
coordinates that you gave me but it's within 2 or
3 arc minutes of there.
CC Roger.
227 18 58 40 SPT Dick, I put H-ALPHA i, H-ALPHA 2 in XUV MON in

about a 60-second burst on the VTR, so you can
keep a track of that if you would. And for the
science room, the signature on H-alpha of these
TAG Tape 227-08/T-227
Page 3 of 3 /1521
bright spots is Just absolutely nil. There is

Just nothing unusual in these areas to be seen
on H-alpha. In this particular area that I'm
pointed at now - it looks from the XUV MON
integrated photographs - that there are probably
four bright spots, all very small in size, and
located within a couple of arc minutes of each
othe r.
CC Roger _ understand.
227 19 00 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We are 1 minute from LOS.

We're going to see you at Vanguard at 19:25, and
we're going to dump the data tape recorder there.
227 19 2h 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Vanguard for

i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Vanguard for 8 minutes.
227 19 27 14 SPT Dick, l'm doing a building block 7 in the coor-

dinates you up-linked. But the H-alpha does not
really show any emerging flux region or new
active region in that area. And we'll Just have
to see if anything develops there at this point.
But, I can't see it - at the present time.
CC Roger ; Owen. Thank you.
227 19 29 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got still about another

5 minutes here at the Vanguard. And if either
the PLT or CDR has time to listen to a little
ditty I have to talk to you about, I'd appreciate
it.
CDR We' re listening.
227 19 29 h0 CC Okay. We're concerned about the partially

saturated SAL desiccant that caused the fogging
in the wardroom window, and because of that we
want to allow 2 to 3 hours between the last S019
operation and the film stow in order to allow the
equipment to warm up and thereby not get any
moisture -
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 227-09/T-228
,_ Time: 227:19:30 to 227:21:06
Page 1 of 5/1523
227 19 30 02 CC - - on the mirror. So, on the pad that we sent

you earlier today for optional S019 operations,
we would like to scrub the - the last ops period
that's on there - that's a start time of 01:55.
That's just in the event that you had time to do
it anyway. And replace that period with a film
stow - S019 film stow procedure, which will allow
about 3 hours for the gear to warm up and avoid
condensation getting on it.
CDR Okay. Will do. We ran the first one and we were
planning to run that one, and also the middle
one. I guess the question would be, is there any
way we can take this desiccant, put the SAL in
VENT, by the way it's vented now, and the film's
in the film vault, but the S019's in the locker -
I mean in the - in the SAL in a vented mode. You
want me to open up the desiccant and let the
desiccantfeed [?] the vacuum, so it'll tend to
dry out?
CC Stand by.
227 19 31 18 CC CDR, Houston. As a matter of fact, we've been

talking about a procedure similar to that, but
what we'd rather do is wait until we get S019
out of the SAL and - and then do that procedure,
maybe overnight. But you're right, the - the
real solution to the problem is to get the mois-
ture out of the desiccant and we are planning on
doing that. But for today's operation, we'd Just
like to scrub that last session with S019 and
replace it with the film stuff.
CDR Sounds good. Now, one little update on the

window. I put the vacuJm on the window yesterday
for about 5 or 6 hours. And it removed all the
moisture, but if you look at the window Just
right, you can still see that area where the
moisture was, that sort of cone-shaped, shadowy
appearance. I don't know exactly what it is. I
don't think it's moisture anymore and it doesn't
look like dirt. But it - it's certainly some
F sort of contam_uanton the window. We were not
able to get that out, by the way.
TAG Tape 227-09/T-228
Page 2 of 5/1524
227 19 32 21 CC Roger, AI. Understand. I've got one other note

for you. And that is, later on on the Flight
Plan, we show a TV-3, which is - is TV of the CDR
eating suplqer, and there's a possible conflict
there between your ATM period and that TV-B. And
we just wanted to point that out to you and Just
make sure that we accomplish a TV-B while you
were having supper.
CDR Okay. I thought that TV-B was with the pilot,

but let me check.
CC Roger. I think the pilot takes the - takes the

pictures, but you're the subject.
227 19 33 05 CDR We don't think so. We're going to have to check

it. They told Jack the other day, he should do
l, 2, and 3.
CC Roger, A1. I'll check that one. And we're about

to go - We've got about 1 minute left at Vanguard
here, and then we're going to drop out for about
5 minutes and I'll call you at Ascension.
CDR Okay. No hurry on that either, of course.
CC Roger.
CDR His remarks say for TV-3, use the same clothing
as TV-1 yesterday, and so Jack's been wearing the
same clothes.
227 19 33 45 CC Roger.
227 19 h0 19 CC Skylab, Houston. Ascension for 6 minutes.
SPT Just a note for the backroom. I tried to go back

and find that same bright spot I was looking at
earlier in the last rev in magnesium l0 with
GRATING position 1941 on DETECTOR 3. And I went
back to the same coordinates, and I could see
nothing in that same general area. So, I'm all
set up at GRATING position 1941 now to take a
look at the beginning of the next orbit, but it
Just might be that it's the chromospheric instead
of coronal lines that are going to provide the
highest contrast. I guess you must have thought
otherwise. You had reason to believe that
TAG Tape 227-09/T-228
Page 3 of 5 /1525
magnesium l0 would be better. And it only was

about a 2-minute check at the end of this orbit
but the first conclusion was I could not see it
at the sam e spot.
227 19 41 35 CC Roger, Owen. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, on TV-3, the

intent of that TV session was to catch both the
PLT and the CDR together. Although it could be
run with one crewman it would turn out a lot
better, we think, with - with two of them there
as shown in the TV OPS Book. Also, I have a note
for the PLT if he can listen for a second about
the tape recorder.
CDR He's listening, Dick.
227 19 42 28 CC Okay. What we'd like to do on the second tape

recorder - and that is one that one of you guys
stowed in a plenum bag, and we're not sure it was
in the - during activation but we think that it's
in the plenum bag that is at position 6 or 7 down
in the plenum now. But you were the - you
probably know better than we exactly where that
is. What we'd like to do is using that same
recorder log [?] message that we sent up this
morning; and when you have a chance go dig out
that tape recorder and open it up and take a look
at the inside, and we'll see if we have the same
failure in there or not. And if we - and then
once we know what the to - the situation is with
that second recorder, possibly we can cannibalize
one of them and make a good one. Over.
PLT We'll get on it.
CC Roger. And again, the only change we want to

make to that procedure is to give us the reading
on the elapsed time meter, as I said before, so
we can check our data here on the ground. But
other than that, that message is good for the
second one also.
227 19 _3 37 CDR Okay.

TAG Tape 227-09/T-228
Page 4 of 5 /1526
CDR Okay, now we need some additional thoughts if we

can - an opinion on this TV again. Jack took
himself doing the SMMD and taking a drink of
water yesterday. Now do you think it'd be all
right for both of us run - to run together on
this one, or should we Just run Jack? It's sort
of up to y'all. We thought it was Just a one
man.
227 19 44 16 CC Roger, CDR. We'd prefer the two men in TV-3 vice
one man.
CDR We'll do it.
227 19 45 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOS.

We're going to see you at Guam at 20:25. And
Skylab, Houston. I made a mistake, that Guam
pass is going to be a low pass, we may not pick
you up. We will expect to see you at Vanguard
at 21:02.
227 21 03 07 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for

l0 minutes.
CDR Just got finished with the first half of the

509 run, Dick. It's going real well. Flew all
the baseline maneuver in all three modes then
flew a freestyle and tried a - a type where some
of us had thought would - maybe a way to work
maneuvering units. Mainly, hold on and push off
towards the next destination and then kind of use
it for midcourse correction and then catch on
when you got there. I flew the baseline maneuver
using that technique. I had the feeling at the
end that I might have even used more fuel than
Just flying it normally and Just being careful.
So, that's something that's sort of a little bit
different that a lot of us had talked about
before - before we came up here to fly.
CC Roger, AI. Thank you.
227 21 02 05 CDR Yes, it flies Just like a spacecraft. And I

really think that's one of the things maybe we're
overtraining a little bit on - relative to some
of these other things that we're doing up here.
And I think maybe Jerry Carr could think about
that. When he gets in it, it starts to fly and
/- TAG Tape 227-09/T-228
Page 5 of 5/1527
he'll be flying it the best he can probably in

B minutes. It Just isn't that much different.
It's not as much difference as going from a
T-bird to a T-38, or a T-38 to a - any other kind
of bird. It's just - it's awful simple. You're
confined in this space and you're able to
mAueuver at will. There's no danger involved. I
think you could get a stuck thruster on one side,
run you all the way over to the other side; you'd
still catch on, would have no strain. Not only
that, the safety observer can move so much faster
Just in his clothes than you can with that thing
on your back, that he could catch you and stop
you. It's a very safe vehicle. I don't think
there's any problem with leaving the experiments
in the airlock. You're not even down in that
vicinity, you're usually up around the dome
lockers. So all in all, it's been pretty
enlightening as far as the ease with which you
can fly and the safety of the whole - the safety
aspect of it.
227 21 05 22 CC Roger, A1. Thank you for the in - thank you for
the input.
227 21 05 25 CDR Might mention one other thing. The - it looks

like you really don't need a - First of all, this
CMG mode is by far the easiest to fly because it
Just holds you out there in space and you just
translate or rotate - point to where you want
and translate to it. However, of course, that's
weighted E?] in batteries. Same thing with rate
gyro. I really believe what you need on one of
these things because it really is awfully simple
to fly even in direct, much simpler than space-
craft direct, because you've got peripheral
vision and everything, making sure that you're
upright or wherever way you want to be and the
minute your motion starts to go in any - -
END OF TAPE
Time : 227 :21 :06 to 227 :22 :B0
Page i of 5 /1529
227 21 06 48 CDR - direction that you don't like it's obvious to

you - It's intuitive then to put in a correction.
My suspicion would be that we built one of these
things for real world outside we'd want to Just
have a direct mode. Make it as simple and light
as possible for the dirrect mode in there and get
as much gas -nitrogen gas as you could on it and
make the thing light. And that would be the way
to do it. These others are - are okay, but they're -
they're way, way unnecessary, I think, for any
kind of Job that - that we've tasked about doing
in space on shuttle or large space stations, or
adjusting telescopes or anything like that. Those -
they're - they're super deluxe, but certainly not
necessary.
CC Roger ; CDR, copy.
227 21 07 09 PLT Say, Dick, that tape recorder had 3, h, 7 hours

on it.
CC Roger. Thank you.
227 21 09 32 CDR Another thing, Dick, you might tell Ed Whitsett

and Lou Ramon and mention it to Bruce too that
this whole procedure of 509, the checklist, the
charging - Everything about this whole experiment
as far as procedures goes is really one of the
best ones we have. I don't think we've found an
error in there, it's worked Just perfectly, it's
really efficient. And I think those fellows have
done a pretty impressive Job about getting it all
pull - pulled together because it's not a simple
thing, yet they're pulled it all together where we
can pull it off fast and, we think, properly. Most
of it is - Just the fact that the checklist and
procedures are well organized and all this cabin
bleeddown and time, and charging early and every-
thing else has really made this work out right.
CC Roger; A1. Thank you for the compliment and I'll

pass it on to both Ed and Lou.
f
Page 2 of 5/15-30
227 21 ii 53 SPT Dick, I'm Just finishing up this run on bright

spots, JOP 17A, and I'll have a fairly lengthy
debriefing on channel A that the PI's might want
to pick up sometime tonight.
227 21 12 06 CC Roger; Owen. Thanks and they've copied that and

they'll be looking for it. We're about 1 minute
from LOS at Vanguard. We'll see you at Ascension
at 21:15 - that's 3 minutes from now.
227 21 15 16 CC Skylab, Houston, Ascension for i0 minutes.
227 21 20 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We still have about 6 minutes

here at Ascension, and we've got a reminder for
you on closing out that - excuse me - closing out
the ATM on S055, the - close out - all the high
voltages should be off, and the mirror stow
position now should be in llne 9.
227 21 22 13 CDR Go ahead, Houston.
CC Houston - Skylab, Houston. I had a reminder on

closing out that S055, Owen, did you catch that?
SPT No, I was on channel A, trying to debrief that

last pass. I really haven't done m_ - my power-
down operate next pass, so I haven't turned the
detectors off. Is there another reminder?
CC Yes, it was the high voltages on the S055 and

also the mirror stow position should be line 9,
but if you hadn't closed it out yet - we were
Just a little premature. No problem.
SPT Okay, I had a special reason for not having it on

line 9. I'm discussing that on channel A, and I
will return it to line 9, 32, column 32 now. But
there was a special reason that I had it away
from that position for the last orbit.
227 21 23 04 CC Okay, No problem.
227 21 25 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.

We're going to see you at Guam at 21 - correction
at 22:00. We are going to dump the data tape
recorder at guam. We also plan to update Nu Z
there, and be advised your Flight Plans for to-
morrow are in the teleprinter.
Page 3 of 5 /1531
SPY Okay, fine, Dick. Do you need the star tracker

lockon, or anything, or is it in good shape?
CC We may need it at Guam, but we'll let you know

there at AOS.
227 21 25 32 SPT Okay.
227 21 59 31 CC Hkylab, Houston. We're AOS across Ga - Guam for

i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. A0S, Guam for l0 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob. Glad to hear from you. And Just a

note for the ATM room back there. I do have a
good time exposure of the XUV MON at the end of
the last orbit. And the cross hairs are centered
right on the bright spot. So I think we did get
good data for the last orbit. And I do have some
fairly extensive comments on channel A that if
they have a chance to look at in the next day or
so, I'd like to have a couple of questions
answered.
CC Okay. We copied that. I assume that's the same

bright spot we were looking at earlier.
227 22 00 39 SPT Well, it's the same one that I was looking at
last orbit, but the orbit preceding that there
was another bright spot that I looked at that was
closer to the limb. So I only - the first bright
spot near the limb, I only had a very brief
chance to take one scan at. But all of last
orbit, we were working on this one bright spot,
and that's the same one I'm talking about.
CC Okay, 0wen. And - like you to stay off the DAS

for a few minutes. We've got a couple of oper-
ations we're going to perform. And we'd also
appreciate it if you could acquire a star for us,
so that we could get a Nu z update in for this
S019 run.
227 22 01 12 SPT What star would you like to have me acquire?
CC The one per pad s if you've got it.
SPT Wilco.
Page h of 5 /1532
CC Roger. That 's Canopus.
CC Owen, if there's any problem on that pad, I can

give you the numbers.
SPT No, I've got it here. I was Just commenting.
CC Okay. And for your information, what we're doing

through the DAS is we're going to enable the Nu z
update by the star tracker. And as soon as we
get it updated, we'll be inhibited it again. And
also, we're going to be inhibiting dumps for the
upcoming SO19 run.
227 22 02 05 SPT Roger. Understand. The other two fellows are

still flying around the workshop there in their
509 rig, but I presume they'll be ready for it on
the next time pass.
CC Roger. Down there having fun, huh?
SPT Really stirring up the dust.
SPT There isn't really much dust around. But there

is a few of these little paper covers that go
over your food cans, and a few extra pieces of
scraps of paper that get blown out by the breeze.
227 22 02 38 CC Roger.
227 22 04 33 SPT Okay. There's the star. It's also 3 degrees

away from the pad position of Canopus, but I
suspect that must be it.
CC Okay, Owen. That - that star does look good to

us. We think that's it.
SPT You know, Bob, the - when the Sun came up we had
about 60 minutes on our time-retaining clock. And
yet our effective sunrise is currently listed, I
believe, as 54 plus 13, _Imost 6 minutes later.
Is that correct, that it takes 6 minutes for us
to get above 400 kilometers in addition to the
time that we've got reserved for gravity gradient
operation?
_ TAG Tape 227-I0/T-229
Page 5 of 5/1533
227 22 06 h8 CC We'll get a reverification of it for you, Owen.
CC Okay, Owen. We have got our update on our Nu Z.

And we're though using the DAS. We would appre-
ciate it if you would CLOSE the SHUTTER on the
STAR TRACKER for us and verify for us that it was
CLOSED.
SPT Roger. It's gone barber pole.
227 22 09 05 CC Okay. We're i minute from LOS. We'll have you

again over Vanguard at 22:39. And, Owen, we have
reverified that 6 minutes approximately is
correct for the difference between end of dump
and sunrise - or effective sunrise for your
400 k [m]. That looks like a good number to us.
SPT Okay. Fine. Thank you. And I probably

estimated a little bit below h00 kilometers back
there. I waited there a long time, but didn't
notice that it hadn't quite counted down to 5h yet.
227 22 09 h0 CC Copy that.
END OF TAPE
Time: 227:22:30 to 227:23:58
Page i of 5/1535
227 22 40 19 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S over the Vanguard for

9 minutes.
CDR Hello, Crip. Say, I was wondering one thing;

I've noticed this. S019 pad is the one I used this
morning. At the time it - it was the latest time
I could do the first star and still make it through,
that's pretty optimistic too, but it doesn't have
the time on here when I can start taking them.
Could you find out when I can start taking this
set? The time that - the latest I can start taking
them is - 22:48 but I'd like to know the earliest
I can start.
CC Stand by 1 on that, A1.
227 22 43 09 CC A1, regarding your question on the time for the

star fields on S019, that 22:48 is actually the
earliest, not the latest. It is the earliest
time that you start and it is predicated on sun-
set time.
CDR Okay, Crip. I was looking on our checklist and

it said S019 ops sould start no later than this
time. This is the latest time to begin mirror
pointing and start exposures for this field, so
as to accomplish them. Exposures can and should
start at sunset. I Just didn't know what official
sunset was. We can get it from the ATM and it's
before this time, I think.
227 22 44 04 CC Okay, AI. It - apparently it sounds like we may

have a checklist problem in that particular area
but the time that we're putting down here is the
earliest that you can start it.
CDR Okay, I'll make a mod to the old checklist so

that we won't get confused.
CC And, AI; for your information, sunset is at 22:47.

Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, good.
CDR Okay. It makes sense now. Thank you.
..... CC Okay, it's 22:47:48 which is almost at h8.

Page 2 of 5/1536
227 22 h4 50 CDR Okay, we'll be ready. Thanks.
227 22 h9 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS.

We'll have you again over Canary in about
i0 minutes, and that's at, oh, 23:00 on the dot.
CDR Okay, Crip.
CDR Looks like the man that made up the pad made a
good guess at the Nu z. It's - he guessed 5.8 and
it's - we measured 5.8 Just a little while ago.
CC Shows we're - getting a handle on your momentum

states.
SPT Say, Bob, before the next orbit you might ask the
backroom if filament 28 might not have transitioned
into a prominence by now. I don't see anything
on the disk and A1 will be intoning that, it might
be a good idea ... - -
227 22 50 06 CC Copy.
227 23 02 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Canary for

ll minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have you over Canary for

l0 minutes.
CC And, Owen, your comment awhile ago regarding

filament 28 is correct. That has turned into a
prominence 28, and if anybody's available, we'd
like to suggest perhaps modifying this next ATM
pass that we got coming up that Al's going to run.
SPT Okay. Stand by Just a minute.
227 23 04 40 SPT Okay. I'm ready to copy. Go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay. Do you have the schedule pad there? I can

refer to it. Or if not, I'ii Just read this to
you.
SPT No, I don't have it here. I'm downstairs, but go

ahead.
_ TAG Tape 227-II/T-230
Page 3 of 5/1537
CC Okay. At - on the 23:27 pass at 23 minutes time

remaining, we suggest running building block ii,
JOP _A, step 4, on prominence 28.
SPT Okay, what about prior to time 23?
CC We'd like to go ahead and maintain the current

pointing that we've got there. It's - It should
be no problem. Actually, all we're doing is
changing J0P 4 Bravo to a 4 Alfa.
227 23 05 39 SPT That's Just sort of what I thought would be a

good idea anyway, if you'd like to Just flip the
page over there and use 4 Alfa. But prior to
time 23, is it clear what should be done? I don't
have the schedule in front of me.
CC Okay, at that time it calls for a h Bravo, step i.
SPT What do you recon_end us to do to that, since

there's no filament?
CC Stand
by i.
227 23 06 4B CC Okay, we've shuffled that around a bit down here,

0wen, and what we recormmend doing is, first run-
ning a _ Alfa, step 2. That's when he starts the
thing off; and then to run a 4 Alfa, step 4, and
he will have time to do that twice.
SPT Okay. I understand. That's good idea.
CC Okay. Thank you for calling it to our attention.
SPT Yes, I think you cut out, but you said _ Alfa,
step 2; 4 alfa, step _.
CC That's affirmative. And that step _, we can run

twi c e.
227 23 07 16 SPT Thank you a lot.
CC And Skylab, Houston. If you're clear of the DAS,

we're going to enable momentum dump.
227 23 09 1B CC Okay, Skylab, the DAS is yours once more.

Page 4 of 5 /1538
227 23 39 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam for h minutes.

And sorry I missed that LOS call awhile ago.
CDR Okay, Crip. We've got building block 33A rolling

along here from JOP hA, step 2. And things are
working well. I used the gratings that were in
the teleprinter ... JOP summary sheet as a starter
point. And that's what we're doing the MIRROR
AUTO RASTERS at.
CDR And if you have any more suggestions for the re-
mainder here, I haven't gone to step B yet. But
any suggestions for the rest of this orbit, let
me know.
CC Okeydoke.
227 23 40 h9 CDR And of course, we're not running 82A or 54.

We'll see you again over Honeysuckle in about 5,
6 minutes from now at 23:50. And for your infor-
mation, AI, you've got a message in the teleprinter
and we'd like to say that team 3 sends their
wholehearted concurrence with that.
227 23 h3 39 CDR Okay. Will do. Let me look at it.
227 23 h9 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS across Honeysuckle

for h-i2 minutes. And for the CDR; AI, we anti-
cipate that what we gave you will occupy your
whole sun-side pass. However, if you complete it,
you can give us another J0P hA, step 4, build-
ing block ll, omitting 82A and 54.
CDR Okay, understand. I'm Just getting to the first

one right now.
CC Roger.
227 23 50 38 CDR This has turned into a real nice prominence out
here. It's got a nice arch to it and, if I'm not
mistaken, I'll have to chase it around with the -
with the DETECTOR 3 in a minute when I get it set
- but if I'm not mistaken, it's also got a little
• Page 5 of 5/1539
offspring that's - it's about i0 arc - 15 arc

seconds away. Now it's making a kind of a double
loop there, double-arch filament of some sort.
CC Okay, copy that, A1. I'm sure the backroom will

appreciate that info.
CC And, A1, if you'll stay away from the DAS for a

couple of minutes we're going to update rate gyros
Z-2, Zebra 2.
227 23 51 28 CDR Okay.
CC CDR, the DAS is yours once more. Just a reminder,

you need to select TV on panel 132 over there
before we get into the TV session this afternoon.
I believe you have a monitor selected right now.
CDR Okay, I didn't realize I was giving it to you

now. There's MON 1 right there.
227 23 53 i0 CC Negative. Sorry, A1, I meant we need the TV posi-

- tion selectedlater for the TV operationswe're
going to be running. Would you - -
CDR Oh, yes, I know what you mean now. Okeydoke,

will do. What I thought I might do is run this
building block ii, since l'm running it a couple
of times at six different points on the - the arch
of the filament - I mean the prominence, and maybe
go over and take this one area that's not - the
second arch that I can't see in H-alpha, see if
I can pick it up and get oae of the runs there,
if possible.
227 23 53 h7 CC Sounds great to us. We're going to be going LOS.

We'll see you again at Canary at 00:38. That's
about hh minutes from now.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 227-12/T-231
• Time: 227:23:58 to 228:01:00
Page i of 2/1541
227 00 38 21 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Canary 13 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Canary for 12-1/2 minutes.
(Loud Squeal)
CC That got my attention.
227 00 40 32 SPT Trying to find the box that was squawking. I

was just looking over Arabella's latest work a
few moments ago as you called up, Bob.
CC Roger; is she still spinning away?
SPT About three nights ago I wasn't sure, but what

she was sitting tight with the same web for
2 or 3 nights running, so I took my knife out and
cut down about half of it in an effort to make
sure she was spinning a new one. That seemed to
make her very discouraged;as a matter of fact,
she seemed to eat it - eat the web and then wouldn't
spin any more for about 2 or 3 nights, until I
finally realized that the problem was, I hadn't
been giving her anything to drink. The water in
that little sponge vial, which is attached to the
bottom of her cage, I'm sure dried out in this
very dry atmosphere, and so I replenished the
water last night, and sure enough, she took out
again today and spun a new web over in one corner.
It's a little smaller than some of the others,
but very nicely formed with a circular - standard
circular pattern sort of covering the three sides
that male up one corner of the box. So I Just
got another photograph of that, and we'll plan
to bring it back with us.
228 00 41 42 CC Okay. Very good. For a moment there, I thought

you were going to tell me you hurt her feelings.
SPT Well, they might have been hurt there. I thought

they were hurt for a couple of days when she wasn't
spinning any webs; but I see now it was really
my fault for not providing her any drink.
TAG Tape 227-12/T-231
Page 2 of 2 /15_2
CC Roger. Appreciate the report, Owen.
228 OO 50 _5 CC Skylab, Houston. We're at BO seconds from LOS.

We'll see you again in 27 minutes over Carnarvon
at 01:18, 01:18.
CC Okay, and for your information, you have 5 more

minutes left on the VTR.
CDR Okay. If I can get those fellows off of down

there, why I'ii even put a little XUV MON on here
at the last couple of minutes.
CC And still allow - that 5 minutes and still allow

enough room for the XUV MON.
CDR You say you owe - allowing enough room for that,
Bob ?
CC That's affirmative. That was Just in - -
CDR Oh, very good. Well, I think they're through

down there now, anyway, so I'll have to figure
out something else to use that for.
228 00 51 40 CC Okeydoke.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 228-01/T-232
Time: 228:01:00 to 228:02:30
Page i of 12/1543
228 01 18 h2 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS across Carnarvon

for 13-1/2 minutes.
PLT Say, Crip. Could you tell me what time my

call is tonight, please?
CC Roger, Jack. We got you set up for 02:06

going across Bermuda.
PLT Okay. 02:26, thanks a lot.
CC 02:06.
PLT 02:06, okay.
CDR I can give you that nightly report if you want

it right now, Crip.
228 01 19 26 CC Fantastic. Shoot.
CDR Okay. Here it comes, i01; 145; 185. 5056;

8358; 5761. 6.234, 6.244, 6.244; 5.987, 5.983,
5.983; 6.960, 6.969, 6.96h; 2/32/4606, 3/10/
Mark I, 40, A; 20, B; 20, C; 20, D; Mark II,
2_0, A; IQ, B; i0, C; i0, F. And here's the
Mark II, that's a - 3/10 and it's the Mark I
I Just gave you - the Mark III just gave you.
Okay, here comes the SPT: 2/30/4400. Mark I,
A, 80 reps; B, 60 reps; D, 40 reps. Pilot:
2/35/7368, 1/05/0514. Pilot also 320Mark I,
50, A; 20, B; 20, D; and 20 backbends. No
medication. Sleep: 6-I/2/G, 6/F, 6-I/2/G.
Food log follows: CDR, i0 salt packs, plus
7 ounces of water, extra water. SPT, one
butter cookie and did not eat his asparagus.
PLT, 5-1/2 salt and one extra - one extra cherry
drink. Okay, here comes the photo log:
M509-2/M151, C145, 70, C139; M509-2, C140, 20,
CI09; M509-2 also, CI45, 00, CI39.
35-m_llimeter: CI99, 64; CXl2, 16.
70-millimeter: CXll, 155. No EREP, of course.
Drawer A configuration: 07, CI40, 20, CI09;
05, C146, 95, C141; 06, CI_5, 00, C139; 03, CI43,
.... 00, CI18. And the backup one, it's in the back
TAG Tape 228-01/T-232
Page 2 of 12/1544
of the vault there, CI4h, 90, CI42. And now

let me see what else. Flight Plan deviations:
that's a good Flight Plan for tomorrow. That
looks like one that will keep us busy all day,
but won't s£rain us too much. Shopping list
accomplishments : we put in all new wardroom
foot restraints, we did T_M 1 DTO and reported
that, and we did one extra ATM pass early in
the morning. Inoperable equipment : nothing
new. Unscheduled stowage item locations:
change some butter cookies from FSh8 to the
wardroom. And that's four of them. I got a
note on tomorrow's pad to take a look at - they
mention the command module primary glycol accum-
ulator has slowly been decreasing as we talked
about the other night. Ensure the following
valves are in a fully closed position: primary
accumulator fill and glycol rads inlet and out-
let. I checked all three and they're fully
closed, and so that's not the problem.
228 01 23 28 CC Roger. Understand. They are fully closed.
CDR That's affirm. Just as tight as can be. I

opened them Just a little bit to make sure that
the valve wasn't sticky or something and seated
them again, and all of them are seated properly.
228 01 23 h8 CDR That's it.
228 01 24 05 CC Okay, A1. If you've got time, I've got one

little recommendation that Pete's crew had for
you guys on reconstituting your instant
breakfast.
CDR Okay, that's good - we could sure use some-

thing like that. Go ahead.
CC Okay. I guess their - their recommendation is

to add 3 ounces of water and knead it and shake
it well, then add the other 3 ounces of water
and continue to shake vigorously until recon-
stituted, and I guess, basically, they thought
they could - with it not being completely full,
they could knead it a little bit better and get
it reconstituted and then go ahead and full
it up.
F TAG Tape 228-01/T-232
Page 3 of 12 /15h5
CDR Okay. We'll try that. Tell them thanks. If

they've got any other suggestions, we could - we
could stand those, too.
228 01 2_ 55 CDR We found on the - the extra drinks, like straw-

berry, apple, and cherry, that we got better re-
constitution if we put in hot water, then let
them sit around the room until they cooled off
a little bit, then put them in the chiller.
They seem - they seem to taste better at the end.
CC Roger.
CDR Flew that HH_ this afternoon onthe second run.

First run we flew just the regular backpack.
I'll tell you, that HHMU, you could fly it.
CDR Same thing is - -
CC A1, we lost what you were saying about the HH_

there on a handover, I think.
228 01 25 52 CDR Okay. Well, we flew the HHMU today, and I Just
had the feeling - although I could fly it and
didn't bump into anything, it was always under
control - it's just - it's just the same effect
that you'd have, I think, riding a unicycle.
You can do it, but it Just isn't the sort of
thing that - that you'd want to do if you were
EVA. It's - you know those - I think the day
of the HHMU is - is sort of passed. It - it -
it thrived in Gemini when we had not much weight-
carrying capability and not much room. But now
that we've got shuttle coming up, it can carry
a good payload. We got Skylab here and command
module; of course they're going out of business
soon, and then it'll be shuttle. It Just
doesn't make good sense to - to try to go out-
side with a - a thing that, you know - it's not
an intuitive device, and it - it requires skills
that - that you don't normally use. If you - I
believe if you ever - as long as you got to -
whatever you were going to in sight, you'd be
in good shape. But if you ever suddenly turned
around and were facing deep space or something,
or your visor came up and you got kind of glint
in your eye, you'd be in tough trouble because
TAG Tape 228-01/T-232
Page 4 of 12/15_6
it's Just really - it's really Just - it's not

a stunt, but it's - it's not really a transporta-
tion machine either.
228 01 27 Ii CC Okay. We copy that. Think we get your point.
CDR Yes. I tried - tried to use it Just flying

around, which is - you can do, and we did. And
tried to use it by pushing off and making mid-
course corrections with it also, and found that
you could do that too. But it's Just - like I -
like I think, it's - it's like - at least I
think, it's - it'd be like going on a trip and
taking a unicycle instead of saving a little
bit of money and buying yourself a bicycle,
or a motorcycle or a car. And it's kind of
interesting. I think Ed Whitsett and - and Lou
Ramon ought to do some thinking, and Bruce ought
to do some thinking. We don't have that 50 run -
9 run tomorrow, but we've got it, probably, the
next day. I don't think we ought to use
what [sic], if we get an SOP to do it. I don't
know whether we will or not, but if we do, they
sh - I don't think they should use that SOP for -
for that particular investigation because it
does - I don't think it's going to apply to the
future. And another co_nent about the run. I -
I - I am a little bit concerned about the umbili-
cal too, because it sure does torque even the -
even the backpacks. So I know the HHMUwould
be sort of helpless against that umbilical.
We're going to - I hope they've come up with
some good ideas on what we can do about it.
228 Ol 28 31 CC Okay. Understand. Your recon_nendation is not

to use the HHMU with the SOP. You - you can use
it with the umbilical, but you're a little bit
concerned about it. Is that affirm?
CDR Yes. You can use it. I don't think it's going
to overpower the umbilical, but we can go ahead
and do it. The - the main point is, I think,
that - that the only untethered flight we're
going to have suited is with that - with the -
that SOP. And I don't think we want to spend
any time evaluating the HHMU from the point of
view that it's probably, in my guess, would -
would never really blossom into a real vehicle
/_ TAG Tape 228-01/T-232
Page 5 of 12/1547
that we would use in space. Whereas the back-

pack has the capabilities that we probably will
use in the future that ought to be investigated
nOW.
228 01 29 20 CC Okay. We copy that.
CC And, A1, it is not our intent to use the HHMU

with the - the SOP.
228 01 29 34 CDR Okay. That's good. That's good. I hadn't

checked the thing for tomorrow or the next day,
but l've been ki - it's been kind of on m_ mind.
That was a nice note that Dr. Fletcher and
Dr. Lowe sent up. You know one of the nice
things about - for all of us in being in this
space program - or two of them, I think, is
one: you get to do - do things that are posi-
tive in this world, and most people, I don't
think, have that opportunity. Some do, llke
doctors and lawyers and - and a la - some, but -
but not all. And I think we're in a unique
f position, the thousands of us that are at the
Manned Spacecraft Center, in - in being able
to do that. The second is you get to work with
people that are hard chargers, and have kind
of got a positive outlook. And I don't know-
I don't know if you find that everywhere you
work. So, I really appreciate the words.
Owen and Jack were happy to receive it, and
we're really looking forward to the last two-
thirds of the mission. And we hope we can get
this Flight Plan settled down too, where we
can really crank out the work. Tomorrow looks
like a real good day.
228 Ol 30 48 CC Yes, sir. Those are fine words, AI. And I'm
sure that we're headed in the right direction
on the Flight Plan. I think we'll manage to
keep you busy. We got - I've got one item
here before I lose you. We would appreciate
knowing which items you have on your little
go-to-bed checklist. We understand you made
one up. And we know some of the things that
were on them, but we would be interested in
knowing all of the items that are on it.
TAG Tape 228-01/T-232
Page 6 of 12/1548
CDR Let me get it - a minute.
CC We don't need it right now, but if - I could

get it fromyou next pass, that'll - that'll be
fine. We're about a minute from LOS. We'll see
you again at MLA in about 35 minutes.
228 01 31 31 SPT Bob, I'll be doing a shopping list 9 in addition

to the shopping list 13 on the schedule.
CC Understand. A shopping list 9 in addition to 13.
CC MLA time is 02:05, 02:05.
CC And for Jack: your phone call will be at the

next station pass, and it will be left antenna
on VHF.
CDR We need to figure out a way where everybody

that's working in Mission Control down there, on
these shifts, these long hours, could come up
here and look out this window for about an hour.
228 01 32 36 CC We'll buy that.
228 02 06 39 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over Bermuda for i0 minutes.
CC And, CDR, if you have some time, we'd appreciate

being able to go through a few - few more ques-
tions that we didn't get a chance to ask during
the evening status.
CDR Okay, Houston ... I'm working on this film.
CC Okay, when - when you get a chance, AI.
228 02 07 _4 SPT And you might ask ATOM to check the panel con-
figuration ... for the night. I had to leave
the S055 in _CHANICAL REFERENCE 102 because
I didn't get it back to zero before the Sun went
down.
CC Okay, copy that, 0wen. And while you're there,

could I ask you a question about the ATM panel
closeout?
TAG Tape 228-01/T-232
Page 7 of 12/1549
SPT Anything.
CC Roger. Last night we noted about an excess of

200 watts on that panel above what we thought
the unattended configuration should be, and
we're just trying to ensure that you are power-
ing down per the normal configuration and things
like the INTEGRAL and NUMBEIC lights are going
off.
SPT Yes, ... they're both off, and as far as I know,

they were when I powered up this morning, al-
though I don't remember everything about the
panel specifically.
228 02 08 35 SPT And, Houston, Jack is reading the VHF up-link

but they're unable to read him on down-link.
CC Okay, we copy that. I'm having a little bit

of a problem on S-band too.
CDR Okay, Crip, standing by here.
CC Okay, we're - our comm is coming in and out,

so - so I don't know if we're going to get all
this, but I'll make a stab at it. First one is
maybe more applicable for 0wen. We'd like to
know whether you got the message where we wanted
to increase the motion on 131-1 to 30 rpm. Our
last run indicated it was at 25.
SPT No. As a matter of fact, I didn't have that in

hand, and Jack thought the message was 25. So,
we're ready to go on up to 30. It was just a
mistake on our part, and we'll get on up to 30
the next time.
228 02 09 23 CC Okay, you got a GO on that. Okay, next question

is about TV. If you guys are - are in agreement,
we'd kind of like to get some - get some TV on
your day off at strictly your option. But we
do need to inform the TV media - the networks
in advance. If - if you do it, we would suggest
maybe you - you could either pick something out
on your own, or you could do TV-28, which I be-
lieve is the Dr. Garriott special at the ATM
panel, or TV - TV-61 with Mark II and hand
TAG Tape 228-01/T-232
Page 8 of 12/i_50
pedalling of the ergometer. If - we would like

to know what your decision was going to be by
tomorrow, if we could, about 18:00.
228 02 l0 07 CDR We've been talking about that today and the
answer is yes, we'll put on something TV on our
day off. What we thought we'd like to do on our
day off is run the ATM, not the first half of the
morning, not that 12 of l, but about 13:00. Run
it the rest of the day Just as we have been, and
then not do anything else except the ATM, and
then we'll do showers and all this other busi-
ness, and we'll give you a good TV show.
CC Okay, and you're going to pick something out on

your own to do there. Is that correct?
CDR That's correct. If you'll give us all - the

full tape recorder, then we'll get it done, and
then we may do it twice or something, and then
they can sift through and pick out the parts
they like.
228 02 i0 h6 CC Okeydoke_ sounds good. We will have to use

the tape recorders the VF - VTR, because we
won't have any live passes for that day.
CDR Okay, and we'll sure put it on tape. We were

talking about that earlier today.
CC Okay. Another item associated with TV - We -

we - the - we're planning on doing some TV of
the science kit around day 25, which is 233.
And we're wanting to know if you've had a
chance to play with any of the - the science
kit items yet.
SPT Just a few of them, and I think there are a

couple of things that might make an interest-
ing demonstration.
228 02 Ii 27 CC Okay, Owen. If - if - we'd kind of like you

to run through all of them to make sure that
they're all operable, and if - if you'd give us
a GO on it, then we'll go ahead and schedule
the specific items.
- TAG Tape 228-01/T-232
Page 9 of 12/1551
SPT I'll only plan to run something that has been

reviewed.
CC Okay. If yeu'll let us know when it has, then

we'll go ahead and - and schedule it for you,
if that's satisfactory.
SPT It sure is.
228 02 ii h9 CC Okay, also, break in here. Let's see, on -

on 55 we need that - mech - yes, we need the -
to go back to OPTICAL REFERENCE.
PLT Hey, Crip, this is Jack. I'm reading them;

they're not reading me. Let's forget it this
time and get it on the next station. What time
will that be?
CC Okay, Jack. We got another station coming up

over Carnarvon. We got a Madrid pass, the
medical pass, in about 8 minutes from now. I
guess we can try it there.
228 02 12 23 PLT Okay, let's do that.
CC Okay, we'll make a stab at it, and we'll try

to get word to Gratia for you.
PLT Okay, can barely hear you on the squawk box.

Thank you.
CC Okay, our indications are that you should have

good signal. I'd appreciate it if you'd check
over to make sure your switches are in good
config.
SPT I put the switch to OPTICAL. Is that all you

need? I don't see how that'll help you much.
CC That's the word we got from the back room.

We need the switch to OPTICAL. Thank you
very much. That's what they wanted to set up for
unattended. Okay, I've got another question
on $230, and if Jack is listening he's probably
the best one to answer this one, I guess. The
samples that were retrieved were stowed in, we
understand, two bags, one red and one green.
.... And can you confirmthat for us?
TAG Tape 228-01/T-232
Page i0 of 12 /1552
SPT I happened to stow them, Bob, and I - I sort

of thought they were white. I can go check.
I thought they were white sort of Beta cloth,
and I put them down in the lower freezer.
CC Okay.
228 02 13 30 CDR I'm looking at them right now. I just pulled

them out of the freezer. They're both in white
Beta-cloth bags, but the question may be which
two did we bring in with the - switch stripes
on the handle? Was that the question?
CC No, that's not the question. Okay, if they're

both in the one bag, that's - that's fine.
CDR No, they're both - not in one bag. They're

both in individual bags, but both bags are
white.
CC Okay, what we'd like to do, AI, is to place

them both in one bag, if you could.
CDR Do you think I could?
228 02 14 02 CC Well, I guess that we thought you could. If

you can't, we should know about it. Okay, AI,
I guess there is some concern about it here.
You might not be able to. Why don't you hold
off; we'll check it. And we'll talk about it
tomorrow night.
CDR I'm already doing it.
CC Okay. If you can, we'd like you to put the

extra bag in dome locker 416. And I guess
it's - since it's white - both of them are
white, that's all you can tell us, which one
it is.
CC And, AI, if - if you've got a chance, or either

you or Jack, we need to talk about the EREP
tape recorder cleaning swab.
/ TAG Tape 228-01/T-232
Page II of 12/1553
228 02 14 55 CDB Okay, Just a second. Now, I put them both

in one white bag. I'll take the other white
bag and put it in which locker? Four something?
CC 416, 416.
CDR Put it in 416. I'm looking at the handles

of the 230 now. One is Just - they're both
sort of yellow looking, gold looking handles.
One has no marks on it, the other has a red
mark on it.
CC That's the way it should be.
228 02 15 18 CDR The answer on the swabs are: we tried every

kind of swab up there. The best ones are the
ones that were launched to begin with in those
Beta-cloth bags. And you'll find about
60 percent of the little Beta-cloth bags you
open have good, moist - swabs in them. The
ones that came up with Pete in - in his com-
mand module in the - metal bags, they're all
dry. So we have found some that are usable.
Now I don't know how that compares with what
they used to be, but they seem to clean the
tapes - real well.
CC I guess we need to get an estimate of how

many you've got left.
228 02 16 07 CDR Answer is you don't know because - because

you don't know how many are going to turn
out to be good. I would suggest that Gerry
Carr bring up enough to do the job. They
don't weigh that much, and that way you got
some good-quality ones. And it may be that
the ones that Pete's crew brought up weren't
so great. They're not too great when they
leave the Earth and it - they actually need
to put some more materials on the end of them
before they launch them.
CC Okay, we copy that, AI. And sometime, prob-

ably on our next pass over Carnarvon which
is about 37 minutes from now, if you could,
we'd appreciate knowing what magazines you
have in which Nikon cameras. We're a little
TAG Tape 228-01/T-232
Page 12 of 12./1554
bit confused about that. We're about to go

LOS over Madrid at 02:20 and that's going to
be for the med conference, and we'll try
to handle the phone call there also.
228 02 16 56 CDR Okay, now, the reason they keep getting

confused on the Nikon is one of them does
not count correctly on either the electric
counter or the counter on top of the magazine.
So the numbers are screwy. But we keep saying
that and saying we're Just going to keep using
it, but we'll go look again.
CC Yes, but which mag is in which Nikon is the

problem, not the count.
228 02 17 21 CDR The UV film is in the UV Nikon - -
END OF TAPE
s TAG Tape 228-02/T-233
Time: 228:02:30 to 228:10:30
Page 1 of 8/1555
228 02 53 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S for about i0 minutes.
CC And if Owen or A1 - are you available to t_Ik

for a moment?
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. Owen, we were still puzzling about

that ATM C&D and why it looks like it's got
more watts in it than we expected. We would
like to go ahead and - and turn off monitor 1
for this evening. It's not re - not required
for TV on down-link, so if you'd turn if off
for us, we would appreciate it.
228 02 5h 13 SPT Okay. I'll go up and see if there's anything

else that might he on that you're not aware of.
z--
CC Okay. We'd certainly appreciate that, and

one - before you take off, Owen, there's a
couple of other items I guess I should tell
you about.
SPT Go.
CC 0keydokey. On star tracker Nu z updates, we're

going to be sending a message to you tonight
that tells you how we'd like to handle that in
the future. Basically, Just to quickly sum-
marize it, it's Just - any time that we need
a Nu Z update, what we're going to do is have
you lock on, get a star, and then shu - close
the shutter immediately and leave it that way.
And we're - you're going to be required to do
that every time you're doing something like
S019 or 183 where it requires you to check the
Nu Z. You're going to need to do that to get
your Nu Z current.
228 02 55 03 SPT Okeydoke.
_-_ CC Okay; that's info. If you'd spread that

around, I'd appreciate it. Also - -
TAG Tape 228-02/T-233
Page 2 of 8 /1556
SPT They all heard you.
CC Okay; very good. On the momentum inhibit, I

guess we boo-booed a little bit tods_y on S019.
We - we didn't inhibit that thing for your first
run, and we need some w_v - and what we suggest
is on - when we're handling things like that,
sort of at your ad lib when you're going to do
them, if you're going to do them and they re-
quire momentum dump inhibit, we would appreciate
your letting us know, and we will inhibit it
for you.
228 02 55 39 CDR Okay, well, I guess there was a mixup because

we thought when we read the pads this morning
that we said we'd get them all. So that's
how it got fouled up. We're sorry.
CC No, it - it really wasn't your fault, A1, it

w_s ours. We should have inhibited and we
did not. So basically if you can Just let us
know, you know, that you're planning on doing
a pass, and we're all aware of it, then we'll -
it'll remind us that we've got to inhibit it.
CDR Okay. My guess is that those S019 things now

are always going to be on the schedule as a
defined item in time and we'll be doing them
all, or at least we've palnned to do them all.
228 02 56 18 CC Okay. If that's the case, we won't - won't

have any problems. If they're on the schedule
as regular scheduled items, then it'll be easy.
It's the others where we're Just going to send
you pads without having them on the schedule
where we get into the problems. Okay - -
CDR Okay. And then we'll try to keep you informed.
CC Okay. Very good. On the Nikon question awhile

ago, I don't know whether we ever got that one
clear to you or not. The reason we were confused
was that we thought that magazine CI99 had been
used up and when you switched to CI100, and then
all of a sudden we saw CI99 back on the report
tonight, that's where our confusion was.
F_ TAG Tape 228.02/T-233
Page 3 of 8/1557
CDR That's our mistake. Jack wants to talk with

you, though.
228 02 56 57 PLT Yes, we somehow backtracked in our little

book and I got a 99 there instead of 100 and
here's the way it's set up right now. The
Nikon 03 is the flash. That's got CI100,
frame count is 64. Nikon 01 has got the
300-millimeter on. That is CX12 and the frame
count is 16, although there's something a little
squirrely about that frame count, and we're
Just going to let it run down until it runs out
of pictures and change the film. Nikon 02 is
the S063 machine, it's got Bravo Victor 13
in it; the frame count is 14. And that takes
care of the 35's.
CC Okay. That - that Clarifies all that for us;

we appreciate the information. And if - if
you have time, we would appreciate getting
the items that you do have listed on that
F little cue card that you wrote up for closing
down things or checking before you go to
bed.
228 02 57 55 PLT One other thing - on tomorrow's - the film

thread pad, we'll be expecting a replacement
for that Nikon 03 film magazine CI100, which
is apparently full now.
CDR Okay. Here it is. It says final night check-

list - I posted on the wall there as you come
into the sleeping quarters so that when the
last guy goes to bed, which is - usually is
me, I Just read it and then do it. And it
says: Lights off - I don't think this is the
best order, but this is the way I put it
up there to begin with. Lights off, equipment
off and that includes things like the ATM panel,
and the experiment subsystem over there, and
the bike-riding equipment, and the metabolic
analyzer, and all that. The SAL configured -
that got us into trouble a couple of times
when we didn't have the SAL configured cor-
rectly at night. The other is heatersoff,
dumps complete - because we've got dumps going
TAG Tape 228-02/T-233
Page 4 of 8/1558
here all the time, particularly towards

nighttime. Waste tank -I mean the holding
tanks, and also these little squeezer bags.
Item 5 is the trash airlock handle PRESS_
that handle doesn't have a holding - detent
in PRESS, that's where it should be. And
it turns out, if you kick it in the middle
of the night, it kind of moves up half%,ay,
and it'll vent, and it'll Just vent all night
long. And that happened one night, because
somebody touched it in the middle of the night
and moved it up, So, what we've got now is,
we've Just got a long strap and wetve got that
thing strapped down so you can't kick it. And
I think maybe they ought to come up with a -
some better strap that Jerry can bring up
that's sort of like a bungee, where we slip
right around a little handle and then you'd
Just kind of hook it into the grid of the
floor and it would be sure to keep it spring-
loaded in the PRESS position; then you won't
have a problem. And the last one is film
and camera stowed. That's so we don't leave
some of these things out at night and get the
radiation all over them.
228 03 00 02 CC Okay. That sounds like a real good list. And

we appreciate you letting us in on - on what
items you're checking.
CDR Okay. The reason those came up is because

those are the things that bit us at first. And
we haven't had any trouble, as far as I know,
since the list came out. Well, we had trouble
one night, but y'all didn't call up. I dis-
covered it the next morning. It's because I
didn't follow the list.
CC Okay. Very good. Was that a small pressure

drop?
228 03 00 34 CDR Yes.
CC Okay. I believe that kind of clears off m_

little list of notes here, that I was supposed
to ask you tonight. I know it's Just about
your bedtime. I did have some evening news,
which I'ii be glad to give to you, or I could
Just wish you good night ; whatever you wish.
s • TAG Tape 228-02/T-233
Page 5 of 8/1559
228 03 00 5h CDR First let me - Give us the evening news. We'd

like to hear that. But, first we were thinking
today, also, we were - if maybe every night
these questions aren't any trouble to us, and
it gets us thinking, too. So, if you don't
have very much of a list, maybe the thing to
do is check with the ATM group and let's have
a little question-and-answer period every night.
And they've probably _ot some questions that
Owen can answer, and maybe even Jack or I. And
if they don't, you might check with the experi-
menters, that we've done their experiment that
day or the previous day or something like that.
And maybe we can up the total amount of informa-
tion we're sending back better, by answering
their specific questions now, before we forget,
instead of waiting until we get home. Because
we've got sc_e time here and it's not any trouble
at all.
228 03 O1 41 CC Okay. We'll make a stab at doing that. We do

go out and ask for generalevening questions,
but we can probably extend it a little bit, and
we'll see if we can slip them in. We've usually
got our hands full in the evening passes, though.
But we'll try that.
CDR Okay. Standing by for the news.
228 03 01 58 CC Okay. We've got about 2 minutes and then

we're going to drop out slightly and net you
again over Honeysuckle here. But I'll start
off on the first item. Show you that we're all
concerned about the environment, the National
Park Service announced Tuesday that the national
Christmas tree that adorns the park near the
White House, each year, will be a live tree,
not one that is transported from some place and
then discarded after the holidays. A h0-foot
Colorado blue spruce is to be planted October
the 15th and will be the national Christmas
tree each year. And eggs and pork are leading
the way in soaring food prices, since controls
on raw agricultural products were lifted in
mid-July. Dollar-a-dozen eggs, once the impos-
sible nightmare, are a reality on supermarket
shelves. See, you guys didn'tknow, you're
TAG Tape 228-021T-233
Page 6 of 8/1560
getting all that free food up there. The

Council on Environmental Quality said Tuesday
that energy conservation is one of the best
ways to reduce environmental impacts, The
council said that strict controls can be put
on things that harm the atmosphere, and Americans
can - can still get the energy they feel that
they need. The report suggested that the way
to do it, is through conservation. Higher prices
on some sources and shifting to different fuels
for some processes that are - that use existing
fuel inefficiently. We're going to drop out
here briefly and I'll have you at Honeysuckle
in about 1 minute. And I'll continue with the -
the news and give you a little NASA stuff on
that.
228 03 03 20 PLT Guess I'll have to start raising chickens

again.
228 03 03 23 CC You're right. I thought Jack had some of

those.
228 03 05 02 CC Okay. And if you guys are ready for my con-

tinuation of my evening news, I'll go ahead and
press on.
CDR Crip, Just before you do, Owen wants to talk

with you about this panel. We' re kind of con-
cerned about the 200-watt switches.
CC Okay. Press on--
SPT We've got the monitor turned off now, and is

there anything else that still looks like a
high power load to you?
CC We'll run it around the room. We couldn't think

of anything earlier, Owen.
228 03 05 31 SPT I do have the console power distribution

switches all onto the various experiment areas.
I think you probably know about those eight switches.
CC That's affirm; that should be normal configura-

tion. And, now the way we were doing this is
by looking at the thermal calibration in the
f" TAG Tape 228-02/T-233
Page 7 of 8 /1561
ATM C&D coolant loop. So, it's - we're not

looking at direct electrical outputs.
SPT I see. Wel_ of course, we can look at the

ammeter reading I suppose, if that - of course,
we can't read the - the current to the C&D panel,
I guess that's your point.
CC Yes. Unfortunately, we don't have any direct

reading in the panel itself.
228 03 06 22 CC 0keydoke; I - we'll - I - don't sweat the

problem. We'll go ahead and take a look at it
tonight and see if we can come up with what
seems to be - be causing the thing. We don't
really think that it ts any - any big duty for
tonight. NASA has awarded a grant to the
University of Texas at Austin for continued
research in - on the movements of the Earth
and the Moon. The project is the owner -
only lunar laser observation being conducted
in the world. A 100-inch - 107-inch telescope
at the McDonald Observatory in the Davis Moun-
tains is utilized for bouncing laser beans off
retro reflectors planted on the surface of the
Moon by the astronauts on Apollo ii, lh, and
15 missions. Here's a new law; a law requiring
all 1974 model cars to be equipped with air
bags or with devices that keep the cars from
starting unless seat belts are fastened, went
into effect today. News stories today reported
that the space agency officials have concluded
that the Skylab 2 Apollo comnand shio is a good
vehicle and has almost ruled out a rescue mis-
sion. Also, highlighted in news pictures, and
TV was the M509 experiment. Al Bean was quoted
as calling the unit a "sweet flying machine."
Stories also quoted AI Bean as telling Mission
Control that he and his crewmates have become
so well acclimated to their space life that
they were completing their work way ahead of
schedule and would like their experiment load
increased, which we've been trying to do for
you. One item also, Al, that's out of the news
here, I should mention. We promised you a
teleprinter message on quad Delta and when you
could use it, and we're working on that tonight,
TAG Tape 228-021T-233
Pa_e 8 of 8 11562
and should have it -get it up to you. Also,

we're planning on sending up that procedure
that Bill Lenoir talked about, as far as
recovering from a loss of attitude, u_ing the
APCS. We're going to go LOS in about i minute
from now. And I'ii go ahead and knock off
what news I have. The next pass is about
31 minutes from now, over Texas. And I will
not give you a call there. If you want us,
give us a ten thousand.
228 03 08 23 CDR Okay. Good night, Crip; good night everybody

down there.
228 03 08 25 CC Good night, guys.
END OF TAPE
F TAG Tape 228-03/T-234
Time: 228:10:30 to 228:12:00
Page i of 4/1563
228 Ii 07 h0 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS through

Carnarvon for i0 minutes.
PLT I think it's still night, Story.
CC It is.
228 ii i0 36 SPT Hello there, Story.
CC Morning.
SPT Morning there. This is AI Holt Day on board

Skylab 2. I wonder if you'll give AI a call and
let him know we appreciate all of the work he's
done in getting everybody ready to make our
solar observations and our pads and things and
all prepared mud all of our training program
- organizedand if you'd give A1 a call and let
him know we appreciate all of that.
CC Okay, it looks like an appropriate day since

you got about lO ATM passes today.
SPT Yes, I noticed on our pad last night, looks

like we're going to have a busy day at the panel.
CC And it'll be the same tomorrow.
SPT Sounds fine.
228 ll ll 38 CC And Skylab, for anybody. We have some more

teleprinter messages to send up and we're
showing the paper is low. We'd like you to
verify that the last message you have is 14h6
A-2 and then change out the paper.
PLT Hey, Story. If you want a little real-time

TV over Goldstone, why, we can set it up if
you're configured for it.
CC We could use some real-time TV over Goldstone;

however, we will be dumping the VTR at MLA.
TAG Tape 228-0_T-234
Page2 of h1156_
228 ii 17 O0 CC Skylab, we're B0 seconds to LOS. See you over

Guam in B minutes.
PLT The last thing you got on the teleprinter,

Story, is menu card 6 or something like that.
It's very difficult to read. It didn't print
very well.
CC Can you see what message it was, Jack?
228 ii 17 49 PLT Menu cue card 6, change number something and

I can't read it, so you'll have to send it
again. The one before that I can't read either,
very well. I can't really tell but let me
look to see how many others were sent •
228 II 21 05 CC Skylab, we're back with you over Guam for

i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, don't send anything in the teleprinter

because it'll come out on my finger if you do.
CC Okay.
228 Ii 24 33 PLT I'd like to write in red on the paper threading

procedures, Story.
CC Say again.
PLT I'd like to write in red on the paper threading

process.
CC Okay, I'm ready to copy.
PLT I think it's a little late.
CC It's never too late in this business.
228 ii 26 42 CC And, Jack, when you get done reloading the

teleprinter, we'd like to know if you could see
the red stripe on the paper, and the last read-
able message which you got.
CDR Story, do you concur that this is MII0 day for

us?
CC Yes, sir, seeing it down here.

/ TAG Tape 228-03/T-23h
Page 3 of h/1565
PLT Story, the answer is yes. I could see the red

on the paper. Looking at the roll, there 's
only 7 inches of paper left On the roll before
it gets to the end. Let me look at the last
message.
228 Ii 28 23 PLT Story, the last - The teleprinter is loaded

again, you can go ahead and use it. The last
readable message is general message 15,
number 2038 Bravo.
CC 0kay, thanks.
PLT Thank you.
228 ll 30 ll CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. See you over

Goldstone in 16 minutes at ll:h6.
PLT Okay, Story. And we've got the TV set up in

the experiment area. We'll just turn it on
and let you look at it if you want.
228 ll 30 26 CC Great.
228 ll h6 16 CC Skylab, we've got you stateside for 16 minutes

and we need the VIDEO switch to TV.
228 ii h7 39 SPT Are you getting the blood draw on TV, Story?
CC That 'd be fine.
SPT Well, we got it all set up and mlnning. It's

yours if you want to take it.
CC We don't have the lines called up this morning

but we will be able to get a replay from the
site; we'd like it.
228 ll h8 16 SPT Okay, Just got the CDR's blood draw th - -

We'll be going through the rest of them
shortly.
228 ll 56 55 PLT Hey, Story, we think we got some good TV of

Blood drawing and they ought to have that at the
site. Let us know when we ought to turn off the
TV, okay?
Page 4 of _/1566
CC Okay. The last we heard, the site was getting

good TV. And as you have been, we would like
you to get daily weights on the BMMD, even
though we won't be putting it on the Flight Plan
any more.
PLT We've got them already, Story, and tell me

when the TV won't any longer be any good.
CC Let me check.
CC Jack, on the TV, you can turn it off.
228 ll 59 12 CDE Story, what did AL Holt say when you called him?
CC Well, he was kind of amazed and I -by the

sound of his voice, I woke him up.
CDR That's good. That's good. Okay, thanks.
PLT Tell him he shouldn't be sleeping when the Sun

is shining.
228 ll 59 39 CC Yes, we're thinking about running you all

three shifts up there.
END OF TAPE
_ TAG Tape 228-0h/T-235
Time: 228:12:00 to 228:13:30
Page 1 of 5/1567
228 12 02 28 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds until LOS. We'll see

you over Carnarvon in 54 minutes at 12:46. And
an update on your Sun. The Sun has been ery
quiet with nO significant activity or new
features.
228 12 02 58 CC Skylab, we're i0 seconds to LOS; 5h minutes to

Carnarvon at 12:h6. The Sun has been very quiet,
no new features, and we've gotten all the mes-
sages up on the teleprinter.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Story.
228 12 h6 21 CC Skylab, we've got you through Carnarvon for

6 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story.
228 12 51 hh CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see

you over Guam in 8 minutes at 13:00. And, Ow_n,
we're wondering if you're going to get to the
urine specific gravity?
SPT Let me check the schedule, Story. I'm Just

finishing up on the hemoglobin now.
CC Okay, good. And it's not on the schedule,

Owen. It came up on a teleprinter message to -
to do that along with the Mll0. But we did
kind of hit you by surprise.
SPT I hadn't seen it on the schedule, so I hadn't

planned to do it, though I'll try to get it done
some time today. Are there any requirements
that are to be done with the ll0 in the morning
before breakfast?
228 12 52 hh CC No. The only reason for doing it along with

110 is because you can compare the results of
the hemoglobin analysis with the specific
gravity.
SPT Okay. Well, I haven't read it, and do you wt

to wait a day, or do you want to Just catch it
later in the day?
TAG Tape 228-0hiT-235
P_e 2 of 5 11568
228 12 53 02 CC We'll schedule it later, and we'll see you over

Guam, Owen.
228 13 00 35 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS at Guam for

5 minutes.
CC Skylah, Houston. For Owen, per the conversa-

tion you had with Story Just a few minutes
ago on the urine sample with MIIO: we'll pick -
we'll pick up that ssmple procedure starting
with the next M110 day. And then - -
SPT Roger.
CC _ - and then each day that Zou have MllO from

here on in.
SPT Roger.
228 13 02 26 CDR Ss%V, Dick, one of the things we've noticed

that's occurred over the last week or so, and
we've been kind of wondering if it's been going
by the experiments board and everything, is for
particularly Owen. Ke's had a lot of add-ons
Jobs that weren't normally - weren't planned
prior to the mission. They're okay with us to
do them, but of course they're displacing some-
thing else. So it's sort of - we want to make
sure that this has all been cleared. For ex-
ample, he's now doing a hemoglobin fairly fre-
quently, and it looks like urine is coming up.
We're doing manual blood pressures now for
the M092/171 business. There's a couple of
more that have Just kind of floated in the
door here, and would you take some steps to
make sure that all the experiment personnel
are aware this this is going on and that ade-
quate time is set aside in his schedule to do
it because particularly those hemoglobin and
urine take a little bit of time. Let me see
how long. Hemoglobin takes about 45 minutes
and urine takes about h5 minutes. So if we
want - they want us to do them, they are going
to have to block out that sort of time for
Owen. Because it causes him to get behind.
We'll be glad to do it and then Just shift
some of the work over to -to Jack and I. But
you're going to have to clock him out because
otherwise he gets behind.
f TAG Tane 228-04/T-235
Page 3-of 5/1569
228 IS 04 03 CC Roger, CDR. And be - be assured that those

kinds of things are discussed down here. Lots
of times we do make a mistake because we do
misestimate the time required, and we' re glad
to have your inputs on that or any changes to
the schedule that we show. But we sure do talk
about like that. And we've been working pretty
hard, mainly because you guys been working so
hard in - in finding things like this that sup-
port some of the experiments, you know, that
you can - that you can do. We're about i min-
ute from LOS. We're going to see you at Texas
at 13:27.
CDR Okay, no strain. We're glad to do them, and

we've got time to do them. But Owen seems to
be the fellow that all - all these extras have
fallen on, yet - yet, and they're sort of
add-on. So if they can schedule them with
about h5 minutes for each and then shift the
ATMs and other things to us while he's doing
_ all of that, I think it would make it a smoother
operation.
228 13 05 01 CC Roger; understand. We'll do it.
228 1B 23 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S stateside for

13 minutes.
PLT Okay, Houston. Getting ready for the TV down-

link on the ATM. We're all set up if you can
copy.
CC Roger. Stand by. We're checking.
228 13 23 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We are getting down-link of

the coronagraph now, and we're seeing the
picture.
PLT Okay, Dick. Okay, we're going to roll around

to .0,800.
CC Roger. We're watching the roll now.
228 13 25 13 CC Skylab, Houston. I wanted to point out a

couple of messages among the 9 or i0 feet of
teleprinterpaper you got this morning that we
TAG Tape 228-0_/T-235
Page _ of 5 /1570
would like you to Just be aware of, particu-

larly. One is permanent general message num-
ber 13, which has to do with the way that we're
going to be operating with the star tracker,
starting today. We've enabled the inputs from
the star tracker into the computer, and so the
updates will be accomplished when you acquire
the star per that pad. There are two parts
to the pad. One is the Nu Z update, and the
other is Z-gyro drift determination. And each
of those will be done either as scheduled on
your daily detail pads, or as we request them
or in some cases, like in preparation for S019
this afternoon, on the daylight pass. But
any time you need to do a NuZ update, you can
Just stick that pad up by the ATM and use those
procedures, and it will get done properly.
CDR Okay, Dick. I did - I locked on the star

tracker this morning during that ATM run and
went to SHUTTER CLOSE. That's probably where
it sits right now.
228 13 26 24 CC Roger, A1. Another message I wanted to point

out to you, and it's for the CDR a little bit
later when he's doing housekeeping 60 Alfa.
It's a general message entitled EGIL mlscella-
neous, and the number on it is 2025 Bravo, and
it's got a couple of little steps that we would
like performed in there when you do the 60 Alfa.
A third thing that I had to mention to you is
that yesterday, on one of the S019 runs, we
missed a dump inhibit, and we think we probably
invited you to fall into that trap by not put-
ting it on the pad or something. So in the
future on shopping list items that do require
a dump inhibit, we're going to point that out
to you on one of the pads that come up to you.
Probably right there on that shopping list pad
to make sure that gets done.
228 13 27 56 CC Skylab, Houston. If you will sts_y off the DA_

here, we're going - we are going to go ahead
and do that co, ending required to enable the
inputs from the star tracker into the ATMDC.
And then from now on we can use this permanent
general message 13 as an update procedures.
And I'll let you know when we are through
commanding.
TAG Tape 228-04/T-235
Page 5 of 5/1571
228 13 28 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We are through co,handing.

The DAS is yours.
228 13 29 21 CC Skylab, Houston. I'm informed our network

configuration - you heard our transmissions,
but I did not copy yours for the last couple
or 3 minutes.
CDR Okay. That explains a couple of things. We

thought we weren't getting down to you.
228 13 29 48 CC Roger. I heard you loud and clear now, AI,

and we've still got about 8minutes left in
the pass; so go ahead.
F_D OF TAPE
TAG Tape 228-05/T-236
Time: 228:13:30 to 228:15:00
Page i of 3/1573
228 13 30 00 CDR I can't find that message from EGIL.
CC Okay, its - number is 2025 Bravo, and it's en-

titled GM-EGIL miscellaneous. And no problem,
it's fairly short. And if you'd like me to Just
tell you what it says, I'll be glad to read it
to you.
CDR Would you do that? Because it's not presently

in view and -
CC Okay. What it says, AI, is, "Immediately after

step 7 of housekeeping 60 Alfa, adjust the REG
ADJUST, BUS i pot, 20 degrees counterclockwise;
and the REG ADJUST BUS 2 pot, 30 degrees counter-
clockwise." And both of those are on panel 206.
228 13 31 01 CDR The step 7 itself has REG ADJUST, BUS 2 pot
ADJUST, BUS AMP PCG, TOTAL 2 indication equals
BUS AMP PCG, TOTAL i indication. But you're
saying disregard that and Just make 2, 30 degrees
counterclockwise and i, 20 degrees counterclockwise.
CC Stand by.
228 13 31 54 CC CDR, Houston. The intent is to go ahead and

have you accomplish step 7. Don't skip it; ac-
complish that. And then after you've matched
them up and you have that as a normal position,
then you accomplish this step, which says on the
BUS 1 pot 20 degrees counterclockwise, and the
BUS 2 pot 30 degrees counterclockwise.
CDR Okay, we can do that. Now a question. I notice

it says that this hydrogen vent is not critical.
Does this mean I can wander up there and do it
now?
228 13 32 39 CC CDR, Houston. We prefer to have it after the

time that it's scheduled on your Flight Plan and
not do that now. I do have - there is one more
item in this general message I would like to
pass up to you with regard to housekeeping 60 Alfa.
TAG Tape 228-05/T-236
Pa_e 2 of 3/1574
And it says, "When the polychoke assembly is

installed as a part of this procedure, select
position i on the polychoke, and perform
M509-F3 Alfa. And then prior to sleep, perform
M509-F3 Bravo." Over.
CDR Okay, Dick, say again the two numbers.
228 13 34 03 CC Okay. M509-F3 Alfa, and that's to be done this

morning after you set the polychoke to posi-
tion i, and then prior to sleep, M509-F3 Bravo.
And of course, those have to do with prepara-
tions - our atmospheric management preparations
for the upcoming M509 run.
CDR Okay.
CC Roger°
CDR And to give the flight planners a feel, Owen

has just finished with the blood work and the
hemoglobin, and he's just starting breakfast.
He's been steady at it since he got up.
CC Roger; understand. "
228 13 36 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

We're going to see you down at the Vanguard at
13:48. We do want to make sure that - that we
did get all the teleprinter messages up there,
so sometime that - the messages that went in
front of and after this EGIL miscellaneous one
was a SWS cue card change, which was number 2030.
And the message that immediately followed on our
up-link, the EGIL miscellaneous message was
permanent general message 14, which has to do
with ED52. Some time this morning you might make
a check and make sure you have those two. And
then we'll be h_opy that we don't have some kind
of teleprinter problem. The _S cue card
change, incidentally, just to help you out a
little bit, was the change to some menu cue
cards.
228 13 37 40 CDR Okay, we got that one, and we got number 29

there, 2029.
TAG Tape 228-05/T-236
_ Page 3 of 3/1575
CC Okay. I guess the other one that we're in-

terested in then, is the ED52 permanent general
message lh, that was number - -
CDR We've got the one with the student experiment,

lb.
CC Okay, fine. I think we're in good shape then.
228 13 37 5_ CDR Jack seems to remember it, but all of our mes-
sages are out here ... apparently that's one ...
228 13 47 31 CC Skylab, Houston. Vanguard for lO minutes.
228 13 49 40 PLT Say, Dick, I was Just using the persistent

image scope on the XUV monitor, and it works
pretty good. Works quite well, matter of fact.
And I also notice that it looks like there's
a couple of bright things coming around the -
coming around the west limb, so maybe we'll
have something to look at here in another day
or two.
CC Real good, Jack. We'll be looking forward to

figuring out what they are.
PLT Yes, make it the east limb there; the Sun is

backward, of course.
CC Roger that. We were wondering.
228 13 56 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS at

the Vanguard. We're going to see you at Gold-
stone at 15:03.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOS,

Vanguard. Goldstone at 15:03.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC Roger. See you there.
PLT Say good morning to big Phil there, will you?
228 13 57 18 CC Roger. I'll do it.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 228-06/T-237
Time: 228:15:00 to 228:16:30
_ Page i of h/1577
228 15 03 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Goldstone for

5 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. And we started that cryo vent at

14:53.
CC i_:53, copy. And I've got one request from

[sic] Owen up at the ATM; we have a command
computer at Goldstone that's down and we need
a little help on our tape recorder management.
So on the ATM panel up there at the top, we'd
like TAPE RECORDER 1 switch to OFF and the TAPE
RECORDER 2 RECORD/PLAYBACK switch to RECORD,
please. Over.
SPT Okay, how does that look?
CC TAPE RECORDER 2 switch to RECORD, 0wen, not

PLAYBACK.
CC We see it, Owen, and it looks good; thank you very

much.
228 15 05 27 SPT How does S052 feel about a few extra standard
modes thrown in when we're at Sun center? Are
they getting a little tight on film or are they
still anxious to get a few extra standards? Over.
CC Stand by l, please.
CC SPT, Houston. We would - Negative on the standards.

We would like to save the film, and I do have a
note for you from the backroom on your - what
you put on that channel A last evening.
SPT Go ahead; like to hear it.
228 15 06 03 CC Well, it's really not too explanatory except that

we have listened and talked about it some and -
and we think that the most likely explanation is
due to a rapid evolution of the bright points
themselves and suggest that possibly we may
schedule, or you might do, a program of mirror
auto rasters in poly-i position to allow simultan-
eous study in both oxygen 6 and magnesium i0.
TAG Tape 228-06/T-237
Page 2 of 4/1578
We think this would be profitable and we're going

to be examining quick-look data from your building
block ll's from yesterday.
SPT Okay, sounds very interesting, and that sounds -

that interpretation sounds reasonable up here also.
228 15 06 43 CC Roger. We're about a minute from LOS. We're

going to be at the Vanguard at 15:25 and we want
to be super-prepared there to do the T013 task
number 3, as soon as we get our data locked up.
So if you'll be prepared to do that task when
we get there, A1, we'd appreciate it.
CDR We is [sic] ready now, fellow.
228 15 07 03 CC Roger. I'ii give you a call at A0S when we're

locked - we got our data locked up at Vanguard;
see you there.
228 15 24 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for 1O minutes.

And I'ii let you know when our data is locked up
solid.
SPT Roger. And we're recording on the VTR right now.
CC Understand, Owen. And we'd like you to let us

have the DAS for a few seconds. We're going
to command a dump enable and also turn some
heaters off which is some power management that
we're doing.
SPT You have it.
CC Roger.
228 15 25 09 CC And for the guys doing TO13, we've got our data
locked up solid now, so you can proceed through
TO1 - TO13 task number 3.
CDR Okay, we're going to start doing it right now.

Now we'll be on channel A record, so it won't be
on B unless you want it on B.
CC Roger. Channel A record is fine, A1. And before

you go over there, one request. Before you turn
the camera off after doing task number 3, we'd
like you to repeat step number 4 on page 30-1,
TAG Tape 228-06/T-237
_. Page 3 of 4 /1579
which is the time correlation sequence. Well

actually, we only want this if the cameras have
been turned off since that time. But since you
were a little ahead we thought you may have gotten
ahead of that. If - But we want to make sure we
get a time correlation - on the - on the film
for this task number 3.
228 15 26 05 CDR Will do.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've finished our commanding;

the DAS is yours.
SPT Houston, you should have on your telemetry, the

display of the 82B, white-light llmb position,
I believe. It's showing minus 9 arc seconds at
this point. And you can watch any disturbances
from there also.
228 15 27 h3 CC Roger, Owen. Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston. We found one very minor mistake

on your ATM schedule pad. It's for a pass that
you have later on today. The pass that starts
at 19:42 on the pad, that number should read
19:37, 19:37.
SlY9 Got it.
CC Roger.
228 15 30 02 SPT Houston, I've gone back to WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY

out of POINTING, and my question is, does the
telemetry still show the position of the limb
from their limb scan in the WHITE LIGHT - in the
WHITE LIGHT DISPLAY position of the switch the
way I am right now? Or is - is it necessary to
go on down to LIMB SCAN? Over.
CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out on comm there

for a second. We still have about 2 mintues left
here at Vanguard. And, Owen, we did lose the TM
indication of limb offset when you do - when you
go to LIMB SCAN. Over.
TAG Tape 228-06/T-237
Page 4 of h /1580
SPT Okay Dick, I'ii leave it where it is. I'm not

sure you' re getting what you want right now.
228 15 32 55 CC Roger. We're happy, (>wen.
SPT Okay, Houston, for your information, the CDR and

pilot are both going to perform this sequence
and - of soaring. Go ahead; are you ready, Jack?

see you at Hawaii at 16:34.
CC And Skylab, Houston. For your information, we

are seeing very, very, tiny, as you might expect,
motions from the spacecraft. But we are seeing
the data and we - we'll be taking a closer look
at it when we get it all here.
228 15 34 55 SPT Roger.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 228-07/T-238
Time: 228:16:30 to 228:18:00
_'_ Page 1 of 3/1581
228 16 33 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. We finished T013 and it was a pretty

straightforward experiment. As far as I can
tell, everything worked right. We went through
the procedures, we did the TV for you first, then
we went back and did sequences i, 2, 3, i. So
we think we've got all the information on TV and
on film.
CDR How's the command module hydrogen vent looking

to you these days?
CC We are watching it vent and it looks good.
CDR Okay, we're stowing 13 right now.
CC Roger.
228 16 40 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.

We're going to see you at the Vanguard at 17:03.
And we were wondering if you could give us an
estimate as to whether or not you'll have the
housekeeping 60 Alfa done prior to Vanguard,
because we want to look at the data at the Vanguard,
after the transfer is complete, if possible.
CDR How many minutes before you get there, Dick?
CC Vanguard is 22 minutes away, A1.
CDR We'll hustle and do it. We're stowing, but we'll

just stop stowing and go do that.
CC Okay, thank you much.
228 17 02 48 CC Skylab, Houston. Vanguard for i0 minutes.
CDR Okay. We shut down the fuel cells and made the
transfer, and we're busily installing the 02 vent.

TAG Tape 228-07/T-238
Page 2 of 3/1582 -
228 17 0_ 44 CC Skylab, Houston. A1, while you're up in the

command module, we'd like to confirm that the
H2 heaters and fan switches are all off. We
see the temperature in tank 2 slightly elevated
and we'd Just like to check on it before we go
for a long LOS period here. Roger. And that's
heaters and fans off on both tanks i and 2.
228 17 05 28 PLT Okay, all the heater and fan switches are off.
H2 heater number switch - number 1 switch was
on , so I guess that goes to tank 2, right?
CC That's affirmative. And it was on, but it is

now off. Is that correct?
PLT That's correct. And the 02 heaters are off also.
CC Roger, Jack. Thank you.
228 17 06 33 CC And, SPT, Houston. We show that H-alpha is not

running ; we think it should. And you might take
a check on your switches and help us out with
that one.
SPT Thank you very much, I've got it running now.

I had to turn to manual when I was doing a 4-limb
coalign, and Just forgot to put it back. Thank
you for the check.
CC Roger, Owen.
PLT Dick, how much tape do we have left on the VTH?
CC Stand by.
CC PLT, Houston. There's about l-l/2 minutes remaining

on the VTR, and it is in the RECORD mode. Over.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC Roger.
TAG Tape 228-07/T-238
_ Page 3 of 3/1583
228 17 08 07 CC And, SPT, Houston. Another question from the ATM

guys. We'd like to verify that you've done the
82 Bravo auto sequence this daylight pass, or -
or if you h_ven't, to be sure and accomplish it.
SPT Okay, that one's for me and 82 Bravo auto sequence,

and I haven't as a matter of fact. I will check
my pad again.
CC Roger.
SPT Hey, I sure appreciate those reminders down there

ATOM. That's really following things closely.
Appreciate it a lot.
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you. They're watching over

your shoulder.
SPT That's a real help too, by golly. Because we've

got, several times, two or three other th_ugs on
our mind at the same time and can occasionally
forget it just like I did this one here. There
were four experiments to omit and I read 82B - A,
and in my memory bank, I put 82B. And glad they
picked it up.
CC Roger ; understand.
228 17 l0 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute and a half

from LOS. We're going to see you in about an
hour at Hawaii at 18:10. And we've looked at
the power transfer in the command module, and it
looks real good. We'll see you at Hawaii.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 228-08/T-239
Time: 228:18:00 to 228:19:30
z_" iPage i of 5/1585
228 18 09 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Hawaii for

i0 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. And I'm - got all that stuff ready
to hook up to vent and I decided to top off the
storage and repress packages because the pres-
sure's pretty high. And when I finish that I'll
start to vent.
CC Roger, CDR. Thank you.
228 18 ii 13 CC And, Skylab, Houston. If you'll let us have the

DAS for a couple of minutes, we're going to in-
hibit the momentum dumps for the upcoming
SOl9 run.
CDR You got it.
228 18 13 23 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through commanding; you

can have the DAS back. And Just a reminder.
Sometime during this daylight cycle, we'd like
to get a Nu Z update with the star tracker, and
sunset is quite a ways off at 19:00 Zulu, so
there's plenty of time to get it before the Sun
goes over the horizon for you. And the later -
toward that sunset is, the better off you'll be.
228 18 18 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS Hawaii in about

1 minute. We'll see you at Vanguard at 18:h2.
CDR I've been working on that star for you, Dick, but
I can't seem to catch it.
CC Roger; A1. We were watching you. We - we didn't

have much suggestion, except we did see the inner
gimbal was about l0 arc minutes off the pad. But
we didn't think that should have given you any
problem, but we did watch you try. As long as
we get a Nu z update sometime prior to sunset,
we'll be okay for SO19. And the closer to sun-
set, the better. And sunset's at 19:00 Zulu.
228 18 19 32 CDR Okay.

TAG Tape 228-08/T-239 _
Page 2 of 5 /1586
228 18 41 23 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Hawaii for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay. I finally got that lockon. And I put

the star tracker in hold now, or not in hold,
but SHUTTER CLOSED.
CC Okay, good, A1. I was going to ask you about

that, and if you hadn't tried again, we were
going to ask you to search for us while we had
you in contact here, so - before you go over
the hill, but if you have already got it, sounds
real good.
CDR Roger. I hadn't looked far enough away. Middle

gim angle - inner gimbal was 660 which is close,
but the outer one was 956. I'll go AUTO now.
I was going to go back and lock on again Just
before sunset to get a good update.
CC Roger, A1. And we think the thing that's caused

the large change in Nu Z is the H 2 purge that
we've been doing.
228 18 42 23 CDR Okay, I just went to AUTO as you can see. It's
locked up now.
CC Roger. We see it. And you can go ahead and

CLOSE the SHUTTER whenever you're happy.
228 18 42 51 CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised, we're going to re-

enable the MDA heaters that we turned off
earlier, at this pass.
CDR Okay.
CDR Yes, it looks like the Nu z is running about

minus 2.7, I'll have to relay that information to
Jack.
CC Roger. Good show.
CDR Yes, I notice my pad for later on gives an esti-

mated Nu Z of minus 6.5, so that'll be a correc-
tion there.
CC That's affirm, A_l.

TAG Tape 228-08/T-239
_ Page 3 of 5/1587
228 18 43 40 CDR What did they do on SL-2 about this correction?

I know they weren't making the correction. Did
y'all give them better NUzS or what?
CC Well, in SL-2, AI, we had the star tracker up

all of the time, so we were getting much later
Nu Z updates, and we could predict them better.
228 18 h4 09 CDR l'm finishing up this set of - JOPs here, and

I plan to do - shopping list item number 16,
which suggests some limb pointing about h0 arc
seconds above either an active region promi-
nence or a quiet region or something or other.
So l'm going to run those the give them a very
long exposure, looks to me like I could give
them maybe a 6-minute exposure.
CC Roger, CDR. We copy and concur with you. Go

ahead.
228 18 4h 49 PLT Say, Dick, I notice the Nu z on the start - on

the S019 pad is minus 6.4, and we're read-
F ing minus 2.7 in the spacecraft. Think we
ought to go ahead and believe the one in the
spacecraft? It's a pretty wide disparity.
CC Jack, the Nu z we have on the spacecraft now,

that we Just got after the star tracker -
star tracker update, is the correct one. And
the large difference, we think, was due to the
H2 vent that we've been doing.
PLT Okay, I'll correct. Thank you.
CC Okay.
228 18 45 43 CDR Just a question for information: I've been
wondering, how do y'all know what our C02 level

is in the spacecraft up here?
CC Stand by.
TAG Tape 228-08/T-239
Page h of 5 /1588 4
228 18 48 08 CC CDR, Houston. The way that we're making the

calculation on the PPCO 2 is the - we're taking
a mol sieve A reading and then periodically
we're calibrating it with the data that we've
been getting from M171. Over.
CDR Well, that's kind of what I wanted, because

the only way we're able to tell what it is,
is 171. And I was trying to look for a re-
dundant way. And of course, our gages up
here, I'm not really sure they are right.
We've had so much - many problems with them,
I guess we're sure they're wrong. And I just
wondered if - if you had any better information
except for 171.
228 18 49 04 PLT Dick, I just want to check with you on this

Nu Z to make sure I got it right. I calculated
that the difference between your Nu Z and ours

is minus 3.7. Therefore, my first rotation
should be 313.2. Do you concur?
228 18 49 26 CC Roger. Let us check that real quick, Jack.

We're getting about a minute from LOS at
Vanguard. We've got a real low pass at
Ascension that is coming up at 18:58. If we
happen to miss that one, we'll see you again
at Vanguard at 20:19. And we're checking the
answer to that question right now.
228 18 58 l_ CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you at Ascension

for 2 minutes.
PLT Okay, got an answer to that question, Dick?
228 18 58 23 CC Yes, and I'm sorry it took us so long. We

went LOS, Jack. On the first rotation the
number - the correct number should be 309.5. And
that represents - you subtracting minus - or taking
each rotation number that is on the pad and
subtracting 3.7 from that number and you'll get
the correct one. So the correct one for
the first rotation is 3095. Over.
_. TAG Tape 228-08/T-239
Page 5 of 5 /1589
PLT Okay. That's the same number I got. I Just

wanted to confirm that I was doing it properly.
There is a little confusion on the sign there.
All we do is we take the difference between
yours and mine and, in this case, we subtract
it from that given on the pad. And I've got
the same numbers, and I'll subtract 3.7 from
every rotation on that pad.
288 18 59 ll CC Okay, that's good. Also the CDR, we'd like

to confirm that he did get accomplished the
M509-F3 Alfa after the HK60 Alfa that he did
earlier. And the second thing is, we've
noticed a decrease in our _4 indication on the
OWS duct number 2 flow. And the next time
some - somebody whistles by that panel down
there in - in the experiment compartment, if
you'd check out what that flow meter reads,
we'd appreciate it, you letting us know.
228 18 59 43 CDR Okay, the answer is we started that purge, but

as youknow I haven't finished housekeeping in
the command module yet because I'm putting
oxygen into repress in the surge tank.
CC Roger, understand.
SPT Ducts 1 and 3 are 540; duct 2 is 500, Dick.
CC Okay. Thank you very much.
228 19 00 h4 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds from

L0S at Ascension. We're going to see you at
Vanguard at 20:19. And our TM indication was
about 350 on=that duct. So it looks like the
one that is bad, and the flow should be good.
228 19 01 08 CDR Seems to me when we did housekeeping the other

day that it was 555 and 5. I'll go down there
and look again on my record.
CC Roger. Well, that corresponds very closely

with what Owen just gave us, 540 twice and 500.
228 19 01 26 CDR Okay.
ENDOFTAPE
'I'AUTape 22G-09/T-2h0
Time: 228:19:30 to 228:21:05
Page 1 of 4/1591
228 20 19 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Vanguard for

i0 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We see that you're into

the vent on M092. Owen, we'd like to - for you
to ENABLE TACS Just in - to guard against any
problems during this vent. Also, we'd like to
have the DAS, if we could, to reenable momentum
dump. And we'd like to get a status from A1 as
to whether or not he finished the HK60 and got
the polychoke hooked up.
SPT Okay, I'll turn off the TACS, you have the DAS.
And A_I is currently in the LBNP, so I don't know
whether he can get a message to you down there
or not right now.
- CDR We got that all done,Dick.
228 20 20 03 CC Okay, thank you very much.
CC SPT, Houston. You can have the DAS back. We've

taken care of reenabling the momentum dump. We
do not copy that the TACS has been ENABLED.
SPT Okay, I've turned all six of them on.
CC Roger; we're continuing to look at it.
SPT Double checked; all six switches are up.
CC Okay, we're still looking at our data, Owen.

Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. We're in good shape now. The TACS

is ENABLED per your switches and we had a little
datal - data delay on our displays.
228 20 23 09 SPT Understand.
SPT Just a note for the 82B folks down there, Dick.
This last exposure across the prominence is
TAG Tape 228-09/T-240
Page 2 of 4 /1592 _-_
going to be a little less than 16 minutes. You

can get it off the film. And I am using limb 40
for stability.
CC Roger; Owen. Thank you much.
SPT Hey, Dick, how many tape recorder dumps do you

fellows get per day now with the orbit - this
bad orientation? Do you only get one dump per
day?
CC You mean - which tape recorder, 0wen? That data

one or the VTR? It was - -
SPT I meant the VTR.
228 20 25 52 CC Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. I_'re still in a mode where we

only dump the tape recorder when we're over the
CONUS passes, and so naturally when we're in this
phase here where it's Guam and Vanguard and
Ascension only, it takes us a long while. Right
now we're waiting to swing back over to - to dump
tonight. Sometimes it takes us as long as three
or four CONUS passes to get the whole VTR down
here.
SPT Roger, that does mean that just one load per day
that you get dumped I guess.
228 20 26 41 CC That's right. One 30-minute VTR load generally

is what we been doing, I guess.
SPT Yes, the last work I heard was that there was
still a minute and a half left on the tape re-
corder. Is that right?
CC That's affirmative. That is correct and it's in

a RECORD mode and you can use it if you need it.
228 20 26 59 SPT Okay, thank you.
228 20 28 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS in 1 minute

from Vanguard. We're going to pick you up at
Ascension in about 3 or 4 more minutes. And
we're going to dump the data tape recorder at
Ascension.
TAG Tape 228-09/T-240
Page 3 of 4/1593
228 20 32 01 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Ascension for I0 minutes.
SPT (Music) Say, Dick, if Ed Gibson's somewhere

around the center today, you might see if he'd
like to run over and talk for a little bit this
evening, maybe about JOP 1Y and any other ATM
activities that are underway around there. Over.
CC Roger, Owen. I'll call over there and see what

he's up to. I haven't talked to ED in a day or
SO.
SPT Okay. I'd appreciate it.
228 20 34 24 CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. The - On your next daylight cycle

which starts about 21:13 on S055, there's
several grating positions given there, and those
numbers are for optical reference. If you use
a mechanical reference, you need to add 102 to
all of those numbers. Over.
SPT Roger. I understand, l'm only in mechanical

reference now so that I could get closer to
optical zero while I was in night here, and save
the time on the next sunrise effort. You'll
remember my last grating position was 59h, or
something like that. And I'll return to optical
reference and then position it at the appropriate
spot. However, I thank you for the reminder.
And while we're still here, I wanted to make sure
that the limb position for next orbit pass is
140 degrees at the limb. I believe that's the
indication on my activity pad here. I Just
wanted to make sure that was still a good spot.
228 20 37 48 CC Okay. And we confirm that is the right number

for you, 0wen.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS at

Ascension. We'll see you at Guam at 21:16.
CC And, SPT Houston. I called over. We're run-

ning - The SL-h crew is running a minisim this
TAG Tape 228-09/T-240
Page 4 of 4/1594
afternoon, but I - I will get hold of ED on the

telephone and talk to him a little bit later and
get back to you.
END OF TAPE
Time: 228:21:05 to 228:22:30
Page 1 of 5/1595
228 21 16 39 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We're AOS over Guam for

9 minutes.
SPT Okay, Robert. Change of shift, it sounds like.
CC Okay, 0wen, and we're standing by for your XUV

monitor down-link.
SPT Okay, you're ready to record it at Guam. Is that

right ?
SPT Okay, I'll give you a round of the displays.
228 21 18 h8 SPT Okay, they should have it.
CC We got it. Thank you very much, Owen.
SPT Of course I haven't seen tomorrow's schedule yet,

but I was wondering if there might be a little
JOP 17 activity planned? That 's bright spot,
bright point.
CC I'm not sure of that, Owen. We'll check on it

for you.
228 21 19 51 SPT Okay. It looks like one of the things that we

ought to be able to do with the quiet Sun we've
got now until a little act - more activity rolls
around these limbs.
CC Roger. Got a dull one, huh _.
SPT Well, not really. There's still plenty to do here

on the quiet Sun really, but while it is quiet,
why you ought to pick up all the odds and ends
or, not odds and ends, but all of the other acti-
vities that you might have reduced in priority
when the active regions come around. And bright
spots - bright points might be in that category.
CC Roger.
TAG Tape 228-I0/T-2_I
Page 2 of 5/1596 --
228 21 24 56 CC Owen, we'll take your recommendation on JOP 17

as a - as a planning input. We don't have it
currently scheduled for tomorrow. For tomorrow
we're planning on finishing up JOP i Bravo, doing
a JOP 5, starting JOP 9, and about one orbit of
JOP 15, and also a JOP 7.
SPT Okay, it sounds like a lot of varied activity

there, but if there is any time to work it in,
why, they might think about a little 17 activity.
228 21 25 26 CC Okay, l'm sure they'll be looking at it. We're

about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll see you again
over the Vanguard at 22 - correction, 21:56, 21:56.
SPT Okay, Robert, see you then.

ii minutes.
SPT Okay, Crip.
228 21 57 12 CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out there for about

30 seconds, and we're back with you.
CREW (Music)
CC Sure sounds different from Pete's music.
CDR Fortunately.
CC I said that sounds different from Pete's music.
CDR I said, fortunately.
CC Oh, okay.
PLT (Noise) Now is that better, Crip?
CC (Laughter) I can't even figure out what that is.
PLT That's the bicycle run.
SPT Hey, Bob, is Phil Shaffer on this shift?
CC Negative. No, Phil - -

TAG Tape 228-10/T-2hl
/_ Page B of 5/1597
228 22 02 59 SPT Maybe one of your people down there can explain
to me why it is that 400 kilometers is so asym-
metrical. We have about 6 minutes of waiting time
at sunrise, and only 3 minutes, 3.0, 3 plus 0.09
at sunset. And it seems puzzling to me that it's
so asymmetrical. Over.
CC I was puzzling about the same thing last night,

myself. I'll see if I can get an answer for
you. No, Phil was on the last shift, and he's
gone off. Don Puddy's on now.
228 22 03 28 SPT I see. Well, I don't know whether Don likes those
problems or not, but I knew Phil did, and that's
the reason for asking about him.
CC Phil avoided that same question yesterday, so I

don't know whether he likes it or not.
SPT (Laughter) Well that might have something to do

with the reason I asked it.
CC I'm going to break out m_ globe and flashlight.

see you again over Ascension at 22:13. And, Owen,
we copied that you did not go to HOLD on 82B as
called for on the - on the building block and
we're trying - going to try to figure out away
to recover from that for the next pass.
SPT Okay. You're quite right. I made a mistake on

that, and I know how to recover from it. I'll
do the AUTO STEPs at the appropriate limb posi-
tions. And I'm nearly at the end of this one
step and appreciate catching that. I hadn't
noticed it otherwise, and I'll pick up from there.
CC Okay.
228 22 06 26 SPT I didn't mean AUTO STEP, I meant AUTO MODE, at

the appropriate limb offset position.
228 22 06 31 CC Copy.
228 22 14 03 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Ascension for

about 2 minutes here, and then we'll drop out
brieflyand get you againat Canary.
TAG Tape 228-I0/T-2_I
Page 4 of 5/1598 -_
228 22 15 46 CC Okay, we're getting ready to drop out for about

30 seconds, and I'ii give you a call when we're
back on.
228 22 19 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS once more for about

l0 minutes across Canary, and we're having a
little signal strength problem. We may be drop-
ping out periodically.
228 22 19 55 CC And, SPT, if you get a chance, I'd like to talk

to you about your next pass.
228 22 19 59 SPT Go right ahead.
CC Owen, on that 82B, before you start the manual/

auto sequence you talked about on the next orbit,
we would like you to give us a 160-second time
exposure with a LONG WAVELENGTH at plus 4 arc sec-
onds above the limb. That's to handle the expo-
sure we lost last time.
SPT Okay, that's the one exposure that I did not com-
plete at plus 4 arc seconds, and I was wondering
how long it was; 160 seconds, and I'll - I'll do
that one and then I'll step on out to the - -
CC Okay - -
SPT ... plus 6 and do my first AUTO.
CC Very good, and Dr. Shaffer walked in a while ago,

and we got an answer for you why the thing is
asymmetrical.
SPT Fantastic; let's hear it.
CC Well, it so happens we're at the period of the

orbit where our dump commence is between the
40 k[m] and the 400 k[m]. Consequently, the sun-
set time you're looking at is from 400 k[m] to
dump commence. The sunrise time difference you're
looking at is from actual sunrise to - or 20 k[m]
sunrise to 400 k[m].
228 22 21 09 SPT Oh, makes very good sense. I knew those computers
couldn't be wrong. It's just too - too subtle
for me. And that means we can still do JOP 7's
TAG Tape 228-10/T-2hl
/_- Page 5 of 511599
at Sunrise - at Sun - oh, let me get it straight.

Yes - no, it still doesn't work right at sunset
either. But - hmm - ...
PLT Hey, Crip ...
SPT I did the atmospheric extinction it looks like.
PLT Say, Crip?
228 22 21 36 CC Yes, we're inhibiting momentum dumps for the

JOP 7 so that - there's no problem on that one.
SPT Okay.
PLT Say, Crip?
CC Go ahead.
228 22 21 h7 PLT It's awfully complicated. I think it's all these

rockets are shooting up.
228 22 21 55 CC Your bicycle's too loud to make out what you're

F saying, Jack.
PLT It's too complicated. I think it's all these

rockets are shooting up.
228 22 22 09 CC Copied it was too complicated, but I couldn't

get after that.
PLT It's all these rocketsare shootingup.
228 22 22 21 CC Oh, it's the rockets that's going up in the air.

Yes, that might be causing it.

see you again over at Guam at 22:55, 22:55. That's
about 26 minutes from now. We'll be doing a data
voice recorder dump there.
END OF TAPE
Time: 228:22:30 to 229:00:00
Page 1 of 3/1601
228 22 54 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam for the

next 7 minutes. And if you'll give us the DAS,
we're going to inhibit momentum dump for the
next upcoming S019 run.
CDR Okay, Bob, we're off.
SPT And do the ATM room like the way the panel looks
now, particularly 82B?
CC All looks good to us, Owen.
SPT Fine thank you.
228 22 57 14 CC 0wen_ the DAS is yours once more. And we're

going to need - or you're going to need a Nu Z
update for this S019 run you've got coming up,
if it's convenient, And you could lock the
star tracker on for us now and leave it on
through our next site, which is Honeysuckle,
about i0 minutes away. We'll be able to give
some update on our Z - Z-rate gyro scale factor.
SPT Okay, I'll lock it on and then put the door

open in auto.
CC Roger. I meant to say rate gyro drift.
228 22 59 59 CDR Crip, I think I'ii go do housekeeping CM7 and

so when you come over the next site it'll be in
process; fellows can take a look.
CC Okay, AI, appreciate that. Thank you.
CDR I noticed last time I ran it that the primary

loop had about 30 percent in it and I think we're
supposed to check it between 70 and 30. If it's
a little bit lower than that, do they want me to
pump it up this time?
CC A1, we're - we'll try to get you an answer on

that pretty quick. We're 1 minute from LOS, so
Honeysuckle is 5 minutes, correction, 6 minutes
away at 23:06.
Page 2 of 3 /1602 _-_
228 23 01 07 CDR Okay, plenty of time. I'ii just go get doing on

it and just hold on that one until I hear from
you.
228 23 07 05 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Honeysuckle for

3-1/2 minutes. And, for the CDR. AI, are you
listening now?
CDR You bet.
CC Okay. Regarding the primary loop. We are going

to maintain that between 20, 20 and 40 percent
for the duration of the mission now, so you do
not need to pump it up.
CDR Okay; thanks.
CC And, Owen. We show on 55 now, that you only got

one detector on. You should have them all on
except 5, according to us.
SPT Thank you, sir.
SPT Never get along without those fellows in the

backroom.
CC Very observant gentlemen.
228 23 09 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. See

you again over the Vanguard in 26 minutes at
23:36, 23:36. And, Owen, if you'd close the
STAR TRACKER SHUTTER for us now, we'd appreciate
it.
SPT Wilco.
228 23 i0 20 CC 0wen, correction on my last. We won't see you

until Canary at 23:5_, 23:54.
228 23 55 12 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Canary 12-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you'll stay off the DAS for

us for a minute, we're going to enable dump.
PLT Okay, Crip, you got it.
CC Thank you, sir. And is Owen in the vicinity?

Page 3 of 3/1603
PLT Owen's not more than 2 feet away.
CC Okay, I just wanted to tell him that I spoke to

Edward G. and he recommends waiting until
tomorrow night to discuss J0P 17, and he feels he
can have a much better discussion with you.
Also, he's going to poll and get any other items
from the backroom that might be applicable.
SPT Okay, that sounds fine, Bob. And it's - Let's

see, it's sort of late tonight. You might give a
call out to the house and see if the family's
around. If so, I'ii talk to them tonight.
CC Roger. We'll see if we can set something up for

you.
228 23 57 42 CC Okay, the DAS is yours once more. We've got

dump enabled.
ENDOFTAPE
.!

Skylab 1/3 Technical Air-To-Ground Voice Transcription 2 of 6

Enviado por

Dados do documento

Descrição original:

Direitos autorais

Formatos disponíveis

Compartilhar este documento

Compartilhar ou incorporar documento

Opções de compartilhamento

Você considera este documento útil?

Este conteúdo é inapropriado?

Direitos autorais:

Formatos disponíveis

Skylab 1/3 Technical Air-To-Ground Voice Transcription 2 of 6

Enviado por

Direitos autorais:

Formatos disponíveis

JSC.08476 -" ....

National Aeronautics and _'_-Ad__ .... -_._- _-.._.r_ ... ....

"_ . OCTOBER 1973

SKYLAB AIR-TO-GOUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

219 00 20 03 CC Skylab Houston through Va_uard. We've got you

SPT You're right there, Story.

CC And if you could spare a moment, could you tell us

SPT Yes, that's all it's going to take is a moment.

CC Understand the ramp came off all right.

CC And you got the - -

SPT S149 went out okay and so did 230.

CC Okay and you got the reefing lines attached all

CC Skylab is everybody reading me?

CDR I think we are.

SPT Yes, Story, go ahead.

CC Okay, I've got a message for you from Vice President

CC We're 30 seconds to LOS and we'll see you over

CDR Okay, that's disconnected and if you want me to

CC Why don't you Just follow the checklist on that,

219 O0 30 35 CDR You bet.

219 O0 33 O0 CC Skylab, we're AOS, Ascension for lO minutes.

PLT Story, you got anything time critical on that

CC We're working that. Just a second.

PLT Go ahead, Story.

CC Okay. We need to get the recorders off and we'd

PLT Okay. Thank you.

CC And we're also working on a plan to transfer about

PLT Okay. We like that too. Thank you.

CC And one other thing, on the private comm, we 're

PLT Why don't we have our standard VHF calls tonight?

CC Okay, we'll do it tonight.

219 O0 37 06 PLT Story, as long as we've got you there we might as

PLT And I corrected Owen's to 19, to 033.

CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. We'll see you

219 O0 h3 05 PLT Okay, Story.

BKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION

219 Ol 17 _O CC Skylab, Hou.ston. AOS, Guam, 9 minutes.

PLT Okay. Hello there, Crip. Just for the reoord,

CC Okay, very good , Jack. You guys pIAt in a hard day's

PLT Oh, it went by pretty fast.

219 01 18 15 CC Well, good to hear that.

CC I'd like to talk for a few minutes about our sched-

PLT Sounds good to me.

PLT Sounds good for O. too.

CC Okay, very fine. I'm sure the gals are looking

219 01 19 05 PLT Okay, we don't have it ready, Bob.

CC Okay. What I would recommend then is that that

PLT Yes, those are both fine.

CC Okay; very good. We're still puzzled a little bit

CC Yes, were they on or off when the Sun end's were

SPT Well now, l'm not going to be able to give you a

219 01 20 34 CC Yes, those at - those at the center work station

SPT Okay, I'd agree with that.

SPT Okay. Let me bug you for a moment. On - I have

CC Checking into it.

219 01 23 07 PLT Crip, one other item. I got to a point in my check-

219 01 24 ii CC Owen, the correct place to store S230, you're abso-

SPT Okay, fine. W-756. Thank you.

CC Roger. It was suppose to have been a pen-and-ink

SPT I thought I put all the pen-and-inks in there. I

219 01 26 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from going

SPT Okay, Bob. And thanks to everybody down there for

219 01 27 08 CC Okeydoke. You guys did quite a bit up there