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SL III MC-772/I
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SL-III MC-777/I
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SL-III MC- 781/1
Time: 21:48 CDT; 19/02:48 GMT
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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 awhile and continue to look at it. The reason you
probably haven't seen any rate gyro failures or redundancy
management failures is that we're Just running on a single
rate gyro on Y and Z and they've got nothing to really
compare them against. Okay, and I have a quick note here
for Jack. He asked a question about TO02 I'd llke to get
him before I tell you guys goodnlght. Is he listening?
CDR Yes he is, Crlp, and hey, that was - we
appreciate those kinds of information. We have a - a
(garble) of (garble) information that comes up and that's
- we really appreciate what you said tonight then.
CC Okay - -
PLT Goodnight, Crlp.
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 all right with me, Crip, you got
something to say about TOO2?
CC Okay, I'll go ahead and try to talk it
to the LOS. It's about 5 minutes of- probably about a
minutes 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.
PLT Okay.
PAO We'll reacqulre the space station in about
2-1/2 minutes through Madrid. Standing by for the air-to-
ground through that station.
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SL-III MC-782/I
Time: 22:01 CDT, 19/03:01 GMT
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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 timeline. He might look
it over and give us some comments on it tomorrow.
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
i0 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 A:nd, that'll be pretty good. Thank you
Crip. Good night ... - -
CC Okay, guys. Good night.
PAO Skylab-lll has moved out of range of
the Madrid tracking station. And the crew has received the
good night from the ground, on this the mission day 18.
PAO will stand by, however, until we hear from the friendly
physician on the state of well being of Skylab crew for this
day. At 3 hours 13 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skyl ab Control.
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SL III MC-783/I
TIME: 22:26 CDT 19/03::25 GMT
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SL III MC 784/1
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SL-II1 MC-785/1
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SL-III MC786/I
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SL III MC 787/1
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SL-III MC-788/I
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SL-III MC789/I
Time: 07:28 CDT, 19/12:28 GMT
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a go or no go on that.
SPT No, it's not going on the VTR it's real time
only as you can get: it.
CC Beautiful we got it.
SPT Bruce, you still there?
CC Haven' t gone anywhere, Owen.
SPT Hello_ Houston.
CC Roger, Hou- Skylab, Skylab this is Houston
you reading okay? Over.
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 3 principle
streamers now, spaced about 20 degrees apart about 270 and then
plus or minus 20 degrees. The appearance of the corona is
a little different than it was as I recall from yesterday.
CC Okay ; we' re copying that.
CC And Just for your information Skylab, we are
getting some TV here in the Control Center now, showing Jack
taking some screws out of the airlock module tape recorder
package. Looks llke it's down on top of the big vent fan
solar assembly from the waste management compartment.
CC And there goes AI, across our field of view
probably to answer my transmission.
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SL-III MC-790/I
Time : 7:42 C9T, 10/12:42 GMT
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I I ! MC791/I
Time: 09:03 CDT, 19/14:03 GMT
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SL-III MC-792/I
Time: 09:i4 CDT, 19/14:14 GMT
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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 downlink 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 one.
CDR The one that had all the contacts and every-
thing adjusted for you there.
CC CDR, Houston, we're having to use
monitor I 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, once the star tracker round
the inner and outer gimbal 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; standby.
CDR I'Ii put some (garble) with it for a minute and
rotate the (garble).
CC CDR, Houston, it's going to take us
awhile 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 (garble) ones and all around
and it just didn't work. Apparently there's 5.5 out of Nu Z we've
got - got them off a little bit.
CC Roger, that.
CDR Okay, I'ii put the corona (garble) back
in 108 give you some more UV mon.
CC Roger, AI.
CDR Okay, here comes the little sequence
again.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, that was one sequence complete,
I'ii give them another.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS at Texas. We're going to see you at Vanguard
at 14:31 and we're going to dump the data tape recorder
down there at Vanguard. See you there.
CDR Okay, (garble) I'ii be standing
by for those new star angles.
CC Okay.
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Time: 09:14 CDT, 19/14:14 GMT
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SL-III MC-793/I
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SL III MC794/I
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SL III MC795/I
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SL-III MCSOI/I
Time: 13:50 CDT, 19/18:50 GMT
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SL Ill MC802/I
Time: 13:59CDT, 19:18:59GMT
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CC Skylab_ Houston. We are one minute from
LOS. We're gonna see you at Vanguard at 19:25 and we're gonna
dump the data tape recorder there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean
time 19 hours 2 minutes. Loss of signal over Hawaii as
Commander A1 Bean, Pilot Jack Lousma begin the activities
with the M509 astronaut maneuvering unit, with Science
Pilot Owen Garrlott at the Apollo Telescope Mount. Next
acquisition will be Vanguard in approximately 22 minutes
from now. At 19 hours 2 minutes Greenwich mean time this
is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC- 803/i
Time: 14:24 CDT, 19/19:24 GMT
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CC Stand by.
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 SO19 out of the SAL and then
do that procedure, maybe over night. But you're right, the
real solution to the problem is to get the moisture out of
the desiccant and we are planning on doing that, but for
today's operation, we'd just llke to scrub that last session
with SO19 and replace it with the film stuff.
CDR Sounds good. Now, one little update on
the window. I put the vacuum 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, it doesn't look llke dirt. But it is
certainly some sort of contaminant on the window. We were
not able to get that out, by the way.
CC Roger, AI. Understand. I've got one
other note for you. And that is, later on on the Flight
Plan, we show a to TV 3, which is TV of the CDR eating
supper and there's a possible conflict there between your
ATM period and that TV 3, and we Just wanted to point that
out to you and just make sure that we accomplish a TV 3
while you were having supper.
CDR Okay. I thought that TV 3 was with the
pilot, but let me check.
CC Roger. I think the pilot takes the
pictures, but you're the subject.
CDR We don't think so. We going to have to check
it. They told Jack the other day, he should be i, 2, and 3.
CC Roger, AI. I'ii check that one. We're
about to go - We've got about i minute left at Vanguard
here, and then we're going to drop out for about 5 minutes
and I'ii call you at Asrension.
CDR Okay. No hurry on that either, of course.
CC Roger.
CDR (Garble) for TV 3 uses the same clothing
as TV i yesterday, and so Jack's been wearing the same clothes.
CC Roger ,,
PAO We've had loss of signal through the
Vanguard tracking ship as Skylab moves out over the south
Atlantic. However, we expect to reacquire through Ascension.
in about 4-I/2 minutes. So we' ii keep the line up for that
pass on this, which is the 1345 revolution of the Skylab
space station.
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SL-III MC804/1
Time: 14:35 CDT, 19/19:35 GMT
8/15/73
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.
CC Roger, CDR. We'd prefer the two men,
in TV3 vice one man.
CDR We'll do it.
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 paas is going to be
a low pass we may not pick you up. We will expect to see
you at Vanguard at 21:02.
PAO We've now lost all communication with the
Skylab space station it having moved out of range of Ascension.
Next station contact is in about an hour and a quarter at
Vanguard tracking site. Nineteen hours 48 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL III MC-805/I
TIME: 15:36 CDT 19/20:36 GMT
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SL-III MC806/I
Time: 16:01 CDT, 19/21:01 GMT
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SL III MC-807/I
TIME: 16:15 CDT 19/21:15 GMT
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SL-III MC-808/I
Time: 16:58 CDT, 19/21:58 GMT
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are still flying around the workshop there in their 509 rigs,
but I assume they'll be ready for it on the next time pass.
CC Rog. 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 and scraps of paper
that get blown out by the breeze.
CC Roger.
SPT Okay. There's the star. It's almost 3 degrees
away from the pad position of Canopus, but I suspect that
must be it.
CC Okay. We copy that.
CC Okay, Owen. That star does look good
to us. We think that's it.
SPT You know, Bob, when the Sun came up
we had about 60 minutes on our time remaining clock. And
in our effective sunrise is currently listed, I believe,
as 54 plus 13, almost 6 minutes later. Is that correct, that
it takes 6 minutes for us to get above 400 kilometers in addi-
tion to the time that we've got reserved for various gravity
gradient operations?
CC We'll get a reverlfication of it for
you, Owen.
CC Okay, Owen. We have got our update on
our Nu Z. And we're through using the DAS. We would
appreciate 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.
CC Okay. We' re 1 minute from LOS. We' 11
have you again over the Vanguard at 22:39. And, Owen, we
have reverlfied that 6 minutes approximately is correct for
the difference between end of dump and Sunrise - or effective
Sunrise for your 400 K. That looks llke a good number to
us.
SPT Okay. Fine. Thank you. And I probably
(garble) a little bit below 4 kilometers back there. I
waited there a long time, but didn't notice that it hadn't
quite counted down to 54 yet.
CC Copy that.
PAO At 22 hours 10 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC809/I
Time: 17:38 CDT, 19/22:38 GMT
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SL III MC-810/I
TIME: 17:58 CDT 19/22:58 GMT
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SL-III MC-811/I
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SL-III MC812/i
Time: 18:44 CDT, 19/23:44 GMT
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heading over New Zealand. During the pass through Guam and
Honeysuckle Just ended, the following message was sent
up by a teleprinter to the crew. A message of congratulations
and I quote it: To Bean, Garriott and Lousma, we've been
watching and listening as the three of you llve and work
in space. Your performance has been outstanding and the
observations you are making are of tremendous importance.
Through your efforts Skylab-III is a great mission. Keep
up the good work. And it was signed by Dr. James Fletcher
and Dr. George Lowe. We'll acquire again in about 40 minutes
at the Canary Island site. At 23 hours 57 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL III MC-813/I
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SL III MC-814/I
TIME: 20:].7 CDT 20/01:17 GMT
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SL-III MC-81511
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SL-III MC816/1
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SL-III MC820/I
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Time: 19:33 CDT, 21/00:33 GMT
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CC Okay - -
PLT Looks like about all that'll do is help
the last exposure on 82B about in half.
CC Okay, Jack, you don't have to wait for
that exposure to time out. All you need to do is to go ahead
and start the auto mode. And you can step the 82B near out
to their appropriate position.
PLT Okay.
CC Yeah. Using the manual step switch, of course.
The DAS belongs to you guys again. We're about to go over
the hill. We'll see you again at Mila in about 35 minutes
from now. End that's at 01:23.
CDR Hey, Crip, who was it that figured out
that I lefc it in flow instead of bypass?
CC Ca:me from the EGILs back there.
CDR Wonder which one psyched it out. That's
a pretty good call, you know it.
CC Roger, concur. Looks like Bill Moon did
that.
PAO Next station contact is Mila in about
35 minutes At 50 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
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SL-III MC-849/I
Time: 20:24 CDT, 21/01:24 GMT
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SL-III MC-850/I
Time: 20:34 CDT; 21/01:34 GMT
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cuff, and the serial numbers of the band, and then we're going
to use those numbers that we called down the other day
until we get - and if we change it we'll sure let you know.
CC Okay, this item here you may - you may have
to break out a book if you can write it down that's - pro-
bably satisfy it. We picked you up a permanent general
message number 14 regarding the spider and we messed up
on a stowage location in there. We put down right at the
end of it an F508 and it should have been F509.
CDR Okay, we got it Crip.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC Okay, and we had some little difficulty
understanding during TOI3 today whether the DAC was on
during task 3 performance over Vanguard. The voice indicated
that you did task 3 again later for the DAC or something.
CDR That's affirm. Just what occurred. We
were running a little bit behind, so we knew we had to come
over Vanguard and give you the information so we got over
there, set the TV up, and figured that the TV would correlate
with DAC task 3. But we knew they might want sound also.
So we ran 3 again later with film. So, they've had two
3's, two l's and a 12. So we gave them essentially an
extra 3, and they've got everything, I hope, that they
needed on both tape and TV.
CC Okay. But you were doing a TV when you came
over Vanguard at the time we were - you were doing task 3,
is that correct?
CDR That is a fact. So everything we did was
correlated either with TV or with film.
CC Okey doke, very good. Next question regards
the wardroom window which you told us the other night that
you had evacuated again. We'd llke to know if you performed
that per perm - per permanent general message number i0 which
basically left the thing evacuated to vacuum.
CDR We did, and I'ii tell you what, Crip. After
we evacuated, and I evacuated for about 5 or 6 hours, this
still - this little cone-shaped thing which is on the inside
of both windows. It's on the inside pane of the window
we're closest to and the inside wing of the outside window.
You can only see it when the light is just right, llke at
night you can't see it. And the more I've looked at it the
more I've realized that probably that came in the day that
we did the window procedure. And it doesn't look like
moisture anymore. It looks like some thin white coating.
But it - it's so thin that you can't - llke I say, you can
only see it when the light's right. I don't think it'll
disturb pictures. I think it'll Just be a noticeable thing
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SL-III MC851/I
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in very fi_ spirits and eager for more work. We are making
some minor :::_anges in their exercise schedule and electrolyte
intake to _iL-ther improve their physical-muscular conditioning
and resistance to the deconditioning of effects of weight-
lessness. And that's the end of the doctor's report. It's
our intenti _,n to stay ap live for the Madrid pass in the
event that t:lere is any more air-to-ground communication with
the Skylab ' [I crew. We'll keep the line up for the next
7 or 8 mot, _inutes. Standing by.
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one camera position does seem to work out in here, and that's
the camera in the dome. And I'm going to have to modify
those settings. And I want to know generally in what direc-
tion they want that dome camera pointed.
CC Okay, Jack. Stand by, please.
CC PLT, IIouston. On the camera, we just as soon
have it Just pointed right along minus X Just straight down into
the forward compartment from the dome. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS at Vanguard. We're going to see you, correction at
Hawaii, and we're going to see you at the Vanguard at 16:19.
CC SPT, Houston. We're pretty close to going
over the hill. I don't think we will get an answer to you
on what we think about the pointing for that network cell,
So just stand by for next ACQ.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
15 hours 58 minutes_ loss of signal overt Hawaii. Commander
Bean apparently not quite ready to fly the M509 astronaut
maneuvering unit. Pilot Lousma reporting he was ready to
put Commander Bean's helmet on_ and adjust the cameras prior
to the start of this the third run of the M509 experiment.
At Greenwich mean time 15 hours 58 minutes, next acquisition
at Vanguard in approximately 20 minutes. Skylab Control at
Greenwich mean time 15 hours 59 minutes.
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Time: 12:23 CDT 21/17:23 GMT
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with the fine Sun sensor. So I don't believe there was any
difference in the coordinates of the boundary position itself.
And then on the third rev, since I thought I had refound the
correct cell, then of course I placed the boundary in what
I thought was some 20 arc seconds away. And then I had to
step even further away to complete the step that I was on.
So I think there is some confusion about the actual location
of the pointing and the location of the boundary of that cell.
And as I was trying to explain on the other earlier pass, I
assumed that the boundary on the second rev was right where
it was on the first rev, because I couldn't identify it
clearly. And on the third rev I had to displace about 20 arc
seconds. See if that makes sense to the back room down there
please.
CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. To put the subject to bed here
for just a few minutes, the only thing we can figure is possibly
since we were only looking so far at the real time data that we
got over the Vanguard. And we are in the process now of
pulling out the MDRS data so we can look at that whole rev.
Possibly the point at which we picked the numbers, you were
not pointed at the cell there, At any rate, we'll pull out
the MDRS data and chase down and make sure that we do not
having a pointing problem. And we're convinced that we don' t.
SPT Okay, I think that's the answer right there
because you wouldn't know exactly where I put the boundary
because for all of my later steps I was off set from that
from 5 to 25 arc seconds. And so the data that's on the telemetry
is not the position of the boundary, but displaced from the
boundary the appropriate number of arc seconds for the step
I was on. And I think 1_.hat is the reason that the numbers
Just appear quite reasonable at first.
CC Roger, Owen. That makes sense. And be
advised there is some teleprinter messages in the printer
you might take a look at.
SPT Okay, I'll do it when I get a chance here.
CC Okay.
SPT Is that for me? Or who, in particular, Dick?
CC Nobody in particular, you Just might take
a look.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. And this is for the PLT if
he is listening. Later on today, Jack you are going to be
scheduled to take some pictures of a volcano down in
New Guinea. And you have onboard, that you carried up - -
SPT Hey, Dick.
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CC Go ahead.
SPT He's sort of tied up right now and says he
can't talk to you for a minute.
CC Okay, fine, no hurry. We've got - I was just
going to try to tell him that some time in the next couple
of hours I wanted him to get out a map and I could point out
exactly where that volcano is. I knew he couldn't do it right
now.
SPT Okay, he's tied up on 509 with A1 and working
on instructions.
CC Roger, understand.
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CDR Can you move this out, Jack? Thank you. Oops.
CC Skylab, Houston; a you go over the
hill we heard the question about you sitting far forward.
It might be that the - You might make sure the back spacer
is OUt.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean
time 18 hours 7 minutes. Loss of signal over Vanguard.
A detailed description by Commander AI Bean of operating the
astronaut maneuvering unit and 509 experiment, along with
the handheid maneuvering unit. Today's exercise was designed
to test out the flying qualities and piloting capability
of the AMU in a simulated EVA activity within the confines
of a 22 foot long dome within the orbital workshop. One
more flight of the AMU 509 experiment is scheduled later
on in the mission and this last flight estimated to take
probably 1 hour in length. Today's activity had Commander Bean
wearing the Apollo-type pressure suit, using the llfe support
umbilical, a 60 foot length umbilical cord which has electrical
water, oxygen, medical lines and voice capability included
in the umbilical llne. Next activity for Commander Bean is
the use of the S019 hardware or the ED26 experiment. One
of the 25 student experiments assigned to the Skylab program.
Next acquisition will. be at Vanguard in 1 hour 25 minutes.
At Greenwich mean time 18 hours 9 minutes, this is
Skyl ab Control.
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Now, let me tell you where the - all the switches are, so
we'll know. PSM i Helium and manifold isolation are barber
pole. Quad helium, all of them are barber pole; Quad
primary propellants are all barber pole; Quad secondary
propellants are all barber pole, but I suspicion that they
are open. Because, for example there, I didn't close that
one. Okay. Let's go over to the PSM propellant. A's gray,
B's barber pole, C's grey, D's barber pole. The (garble)
command module RCS propellant are both grey. And that's
where they all sit right now.
CC Okay, AI. That switch set and talkback
concurs with the way it should be.
CDR Okay. I'ii shut down the comm here, Crip.
Thanks.
CC AI, could I - One more item, I guess,
before you rush off. It seems that a phone call tonight is
going to interfer with a little shopping trip, I guess, get-
ting ready fcr the trip. I wonder if you'd mind putting it
off until tomorrow night..
CDR Not a bit. That's a good idea.
CC Okeydoke.
CDR Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We' ii se:e you again over Honeysuckle at 23:58, 23:58.
CDR 35 minutes.
CC That"s affirm.
PAO We'w •
. lost signal through the Madrid
tracking star, ion. Next acquisition is Honeysuckle in
33 minutes. At 23 hours 24 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
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And, I've got one other question for you. Were any of the
SL-4 return water bags from F507 A-9 used to package the
leaky ED72, and if so, how many? And, which of the 3 parts
of ED72 was leaking?
PLT Boy, you've got me cold. I don' t
know anything about that.
CC Nor do I.
CDR You've got us all cold.
CC Let me go back to my FAO on it.
z CDR Okay.
CC We copy that you haven't had a leak
and that you haven't used any bags. Is that correct?
CDR True to my knowledge. What- We're
still missing the polnt.
CC We had understood that you had had a
leak on the ED52. Way early in the mission.
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SC (garble)
CC We had understood that you had had a leak
on the ED-52. That was way early in the mission.
MS (garble)
CC 72, 72 I said 52 on the last time.
CDR 172 .
CC That's that fluid mechanics thing.
SPT I don't think there's any leak in there,
if there is I didn't know about it. I did see that little
shaker in there the other day and until - as far as I know
it looked all right.
CC Well, it looks llke we got our information
turned around here. Thank you.
SPT Okay, well you've really got us fooled on
that one.
CC Okay, and Owen, you have 7 minutes of time
available on the VTR.
SPT Okay, thank you.
CC Owen, one other item and I guess this should
be for all c_f you. I mentioned that bit on the Sun timing
should not be selected on the ATM C&D and that's in refer-
ence to the fact that we're operating on one rate gyro in
the Y-axis and if we did have a - you know, a small Delta
time era when we came over Aus - looking at the Sun, the
computer would intepret that as the Sun wasn't present when
it was supposed to and it would flunk redundancy management
on that axis.
SPT Oh,, I see, I didn't appreciate it at that
point and I had seen all the implications so I do remember
it now and 1 wasn't aware of it also, and I think probably
Jack. So, we'll make sure we stay in CMD. I am still a
little bit puzzled about how 82B exposures could get down
below the region of - 1:he (garble) of the maybe going
down to 20 seconds wou]Ld have been adequate. So I was Just
a little unclear about that pad and I didn't want to take
up that many exposures until I was sure I had it right.
CC Okay, we're trying to get that clarified
for you as to - on that JOP 7 and we'll - we'll get that
information to you tomorrow. We're about a minute from
LOS. This is really - should be our last pass of the night.
We're - will have Crow Carnarvon at 03:05 and I can give
you a call there if you want, otherwise I'm going to leave
you alone.
SPT Okay we'll take some news at Carnarvon.
CC Roger. Want some news at Carnarvon. We'll
give it to you.
PAO Next acquisition through Carnarvon in
25 minutes. At 2 hours 40 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.
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CDR Okeydoke.
CDR Tell me again where this is located Story
relative to - to - the states.
CC It's about i00 miles southwest of Cuba.
Between Cuba and and Yucatan Penninsula.
CDR Okay, well we'll take it with both because
I think maybe the - you know, one of the advantages of manned
space flight is to give a quick look at something that's happening.
Where as these photographs get back in another month and they don't
do any good; by then the hurricane will have disappeared from the
face of the Earth. Maybe the thing to do is to get them both,
and because it's likely (garble) may want to take a look at
this. It might be easy to get them both.
CC Okay, that'll be fine, we appreciate that
and you will be able to down-llnk real time to Mila.
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put it up over Goose Bay, Labrador. There was a very nice Aurora
visible. I did get a few photos with the 70-millimeter. I'm not
sure they are going to turn out right because of uncertain exposure
length. The Nikon, which I wanted to have ready, I had already
taken the visible lens off and didn't get it out in time.
Now I'II get that remedied so so it will be stowed properly
for any more. My question is, what is the probability of
another Aurora at the northern latitudes when they get up in
that region late tonight? Over.
CC Okay, we'll sure find out, Owen, and get back
to you.
SPT And the TV question.
CC Roger.
CC SPT, Houston. On the TV, it was being played
in here a little bit earlier, but I didn't have a chance to
look at it myself. But the guys who did look at it said
that both the TV on the fish and the spider was very clear
and very good.
SPT Okay, that's the first. Thank you.
CC And we could see the web that the spider has
spun, very clearly.
SPT Oh, that's fine.
CC I've got two more notes. One has to do with
when you plan to accomplish the accumulator check that is
on message 2231 Alfa. We'd like to do that durirLg a stayed-in
coverage, Ai. And any time you have a chance to is okay with
us. And the next item I have also is for AI, primarily.
We plan to start the statusing sessions with the Canary pass
this afternoon at about 22:26. That ought to give you some
time to read over the science message we sent up this morning
and talk about it. So if you have anything that you want
us to research - and in preparation for those series of passes
before that, if you think of anything just let us know and we'll
be glad to try to look up the answers for you.
CDR Okay. Thanks Dick.
CC Yes , sir.
CDR I meant to mention, when I was getting up
this morning, I heard some conversation about bleeding the
cabin down. Nobody sent that message up the other day, and
we kind of wondered why they didn't, but assumed they had
a reason .
CC Stand by i.
PLT And Dick, I understand that serial number 13
tape recorder that you want us to brine back, (garble) 22.
CC That's affirmative, Jack.
PLT Okay, I'ii take care of that right now.
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CC Stand by.
CC AI, I said that wronB I guess. Open it. If it
goes to zero then close it again. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay. It went to zero. And now I have closed
it and it is right at 15 percent, or 14 percent it looks like
at the moment.
CC Roger. That's what we see on the ground here
also AI and you can go ahead now and do the accumulator fill.
CDR Okay, sure will.
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that way f_u can just have the whole information for star
tracker immediately following the sap and cut them out at
one time.
CDR Well, good.
CC Roger, we're about a minute until LOS
at the Vanguard. We're going to have you in just about
another 5 minutes at Ascension we're going to dump these
data tape recorders at Ascension and when we get there I'll
talk to you about this MO92 vent.
CC And also, AI we uplinked two of tomorrow's
flight plans here at the Vanguard and your next one will
be coming up at Ascension. See you then.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean
time 19 hours 2 minutes. We've had loss of signal at Vanguard
next acquisition will be Ascension in approximately 3 minutes.
We'll leave the line up for that Ascension pass.
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Time: 14:32 CDT 22/19:02 GMT
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stay off the DAS, please? C&S would like to uplink a drift
compensation to Y-2 gyro.
CDR Go ahead, we' re clear.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got about 4 min-
utes here at Ascension. And I'd like to tell you about this
M092 slight change that we're making. It's going to show
up tomorrow first on SPTs detail flight plan, if you have a
chance to listen.
CDR Go ahead, Dick. We' re listening.
CC Okay, AI. I guess the situation that we're
in is since we lost the meteoroid shield and this makes this
M092 vent much more pronounced. And this coupled with our
recent TACS and gyro problems makes us gooesy about the
momentum state, and we want to make sure we do everything we
can to protect it. So what we're going to do is uplink
to the observer of each M092 run a window in which we would
like the M092 vents start to fall within. For example, I'm
looking at the detail pad for the SPT tomorrow, and it says
M092 vent start window, and give two times. What we're tryin_
to avoid here is having the M092 vent fall on top of any of
the momentum samples, any of the four momentum samples, and
there is one just prior to sunset and one just after sunrise.
And so the instructions to you are if possible go ahead and
start the vent any time within this window. In any case do
not start it early because there is nothing we can do to
counteract that problem. However, if you are unavoidably
late and you have to bus the last time, as soon as you come
over the _lill if you will just let us know then we can get a
contingency momentum sample. And we can make sure this way
that the momentum dumps are calculated correctly. Over.
SPT Okay, I think we understand all that Dick.
And we'll cooperate and get them in on those windows.
CC Okay. And for your information, the times are
fairly broad. For instance tomorrow's window is 26 minutes
long. Ae:i if the vent starts anywhere in there it's perfectly
okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours. Thank
you very :much. We're about i minute from LOS at Ascension.
We're going to see you at Guam at 19:51.
SPT Okay, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean tim_. 19 h_,ur_
]5 minute_. Loss of signal at Ascension. N_xt aC(lUi_i t i_n
will be G_am in 35 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 19 ht_urs
16 minute_ , this is Skylab Control.
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CC Roger, we copy.
CDR How much is left on the TV right now?
CC You have about 8 minutes left.
CDR Okay, perfect.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 41 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal at the Madrid
tracking station. Our next acquisition of signal 33 minutes
and 20 seconds from now will be at Honeysuckle in Australia.
Present time the space station has traveled a total of
35.5 million miles as it rolls about the Earth. This is
the 1390 revolution about the Earth. This is Skylab Control.
Our next acquisition 33 minutes from now. It's 41 minutes
and 28 seconds after the hour.
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Time: 20:29 CDT; 23/01:29 GMT
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the little Allen screw that you unscrew to replace the rope
in the handle looks ]Like it's a - it's a size we do not
have. Now I don't remember what size we've have. I think we've
got 8 and i0 and it's a 9. (Garble) missing i0 or
something_ so we need some assistance - thought down here
on how we might release this Allen screw without the proper
Allen wrench. Or maybe we've got the proper one somewhere
and we Just don't know it. That's it.
SPT ][ need some better star tracker coordintes
it looks 2 ike.
CC We' re working it Owen.
CC SPT, Houston. Would you try an inner gimbal
of minus 636. That should be more gac - or more exact. It
looks like you're in the right place.
CC And, SPT, Houston if you give us the DAS we'll
ENABLE DUMP.
SPT _ou can have it.
CC Did you copy the gimbal angle?
CC ()kay, CDR, Houston. We've got a correction
to your C--mount photos pad.
CDR ()kay, go ahead.
CC ()kay, we gave you some bad settings for the
Nikon. We want you to use a shutter speed of 12/50, and
an aperture of f/4.5.
CDR ! can do it.
CC And we also had an error in permanent gen-
eral message number 8-A that we sent up regarding SO63. The
- there was a statement in there regarding the filter on
llne seven. It said that - use the filter single visible;
that line should be deleted. That reference to the filter,
there shouldn't be any filter used when taking photography
of the no_:tilucent clouds.
CC SPT, Houston. The DAS is yours.
CDR In other words you want me to cut the part
that says filter singular visible?
CC Roger. In the message there is says filter
single visible, that should be deleted. There should be
no filter for the photos of the noctilucent clouds.
CDR ()kay, we've looked for these a couple of
times and we don't see those noetilucent clouds, I'm afraid
right now. We'll have to improve our eyeballs.
CC Roger, we copy.
SPT Hey, Hank, we're still a little bit open.
CC ()kay, SPT, I think the star is probably set
by now. Just quit trying on it.
CC And, CDR, your speed is 17,112.8 miles per hour.
CDR ()kay. Thank you.
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CC ()kay.
CDR And, don't dump that VTR recorder yet.
We'll let y_,J dump it ill _:nother - in a little while. Is
that okay?
CC ()kay. We had planned to dump it on
the next C_)_NUS pass. That' s about an hour from now.
CDR Okay. We'll be - we'll be in good shape
by then.
CDR How much time's left on there now, by
the way ?
CC And ah - Skylab be advised the video
switch is i_ the monitor position. If you recorded some-
thing recently, it might not have gotten on.
CDR That's what we think. And we want to
record something over the last couple of minutes. How many
minutes are left?
CC Okay. There are 3-1/2 minutes left and
the previou_ 2 minutes was on the TV on the ATM monitor.
CDR Okay. We'll put it on the last three.
Thank you.
CC Okay. We'd like to run through some
comments anG questions from - Bob had here, in the couple
of minutes we have left here. Would the CDR be willing to
have a Ml31-1 scheduled on himself. We're just interested
in your comNents concerning the OGI. And also we've got
some basel[_et data, that we could use.
CDR You bet. Be glad to do it.
CC Okay. We copy. And we'd like to know
if anybody_ _ had any problems with taking a shower, since
there's %o_, _ot water pressure.
CDR Jack's the only one that's had a shower,
we' ii ask _ J _o
PLT Yeah. It worked great, Hank. Got a
clean Mari_ _
CC Okay. Sounds good. Now a little bit
on the hemoglobin and urine specific gravity. Hopefully
the hemogl,Dbin determinations from the finger stick or
ear-lobe sti(k blood will prove to be more accurate and
more easilT_ to accomplish. The specific gravity of urine
is also vet> important when done in conjunction with the
hemoglobin _e terminaticn, since both reflect the body
first stat__. The urire specific gravity procedure in
permanent _T_essage number 15, that we sent up was an attempt
to simplif 7. Do you think this is going to help it a little
bit?
SPT We're familiar with the message and I
think it w[ I_ simplify and J t'll be no problem.
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from LOS now and we do have a few more items we'd like to
discuss with you. If it's okay with you, we'd llke to
continue stateside. It's 3 minutes into your bedtime.
That' s up to you.
CDR You bet.
CC Okay, then we'll see you over Texas at 03.
CDR We're already to take the C-mount picture
if we can see it.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 35 minutes and
48 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal now
at the Honeysuckle tracking station. Our next acquisition
of signal will be at Texas. And that will be 3 minutes
after the hour, 27 minutes and 43 seconds from now. The
crew was instructed just a short time ago during the
Honeysuckle pass that they would be awakened early in the
morning. The wakeup time is expected to be between 5:47
and 5:57, as they're within range of the Guam tracking
station. This is Skylab Control at 36 minutes and
23 seconds after the hour.
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we realized after it was all over that it did not have a S192
door close call out at the end of the message. And we want
to verify whether or not the door was closed. If you can't
rememberp we'd llke to verify that the S192 door switch on
the C&D panel is in the closed position. And if it is in the
open position, I've got a procedure for you. Over. And this
is not time critical, but that is the question that I have.
SPT Okay, he'll have to worry about it a little
later.
CDR I'ii worry about it for you right now. The
switch is in the open position.
CC Okay, then I have several steps that I'd llke
to read up to somebody any time that they can copy. And the
other thing that I wanted to pass on to Jack was, or anybody
actually, is the procedure that you are goin 8 to do this
afternoon to look for any coolanol leaks does not require
that you pull a certain panel off but the procedure that you
are going to do tomorrow to continue on does require that
this particular panel be pulled off. It's got about 50 screws
in it, but I thought I would just let you know, describe which
panel it was so that any time today if you had a chance to get
ahead on getting some of those screws out, I could tell you
where it is.
CDR Good idea. Tell me step by step the procedure
on 92
and I'ii do it while you tell it to me.
CC Okay. EREP power bus I on.
CDR Keep going.
CC Okay. The next step is panel power display
on. And then CB control to closed, verify. S192 power on.
S192 door to close.
CDR Okay.
CC Now wait for the door close light to come
on and then S192 power off.
CDR Okay, when I turned it on even though the
switch was in open the door close light came on. And then
it turned off and as if it was headed to open. And it may
be that the thing closes when you turn the power off, I don't
know. But it's in the process of being closed now. And I'ii
give you a call, it takes 60 seconds, whenever it closes.
CC Okay, real fine.
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hit the nail on the head yesterday though, because before you
took that photography, he and I did some talking about exactly
where that flow was. And the problem is, we Just not exactly
sure ourselves, And I think with the cloud cover and probably
with the color of that on the water was the problem. But we'll
take a look at what you asked and get it up to you.
CDR Okay, thanks, Dick. I don't mean to be shouting
at you. I have a hard time keeping my voice down up here.
CC No problem.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds from
LOS here at Hawaii. We'll see you at the Vanguard at 18:09.
CC And Skylab, we've upllnked one of tomorrow's
flight plans that is in the teleprinter now. And the others
will be up ._t the next site.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
17 hours 44 minutes with loss of signal at Hawaii. Next
acquisition Vanguard. Pilot Lousma's discussion with Capcomm
Dick Truly concerning scheduled photography of the Tonga vol-
cano in the _outh Pacific below Fijl, he requested better
island identification before he begins hls photography later
this afternoon. This is one of four separate hand held out
the window photographic sessions the crew will have had today,
At Greenwich mean time 17 hours 45 minutes, next acquisition
Vanguard in 22 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean
time 18 hours 6 minutes. Acquisition at Vanguard in
approximately i minute, as Skylab-3 begins its 1,401st
revolution of the earth of this the 23rd day of orbit of the
Skylab-3 crew. Hold the line open of this pass over the
Vanguard tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for
9 minutes and we're set up to receive down-llnk TV.
CDR Okay, Dick. We got it set up on mon 2
and I'ii give you some integration here on XUV MON. You'll
notice that the roll is minus 5400 I'm doing a mirror
auto raster between the two bright plages in 93 hoping
to spllt them out in the UV, and so I took that roll instead the
10800 which I had earlier so I'ii give you some integration.
CC Roger. ?
CDR Y'all got a lock up you say?
CC Roger, we are locked up AI, and be
advised we're not bringing the TV into Houston here we are
recording it at the Vanguard we'll bring it in later.
SPT The (garble) 2 days ago if I was going to
be ready for some science demonstrations on day 25, and you
wanted 48 hours notice looks llke I'd better sllp those a
few days I haven't had time to really go through that kit
yet. So I'ii give you a call when it does look llke I'm going
to have something to show you.
CC Okay, 0wen thanks for the input.
CC And Skylab, Houston; we had some guys
go over tc the one-gtralner awhile ago and we did have
some luck with the exerciser if you can listen to that
for a second, anybody.
CDR We're listening.
CC Okay, what we did AI was get a 1/8
Allen bit out of Drawer i BRAVO and a ratchet handle and
by inserting the 1/8 Allen bit into there and then cocking
it a lltt]e bit we were able to get quite a bit of torque on it
without endangering you know breaking the tool or anything.
And the guys that watched the handle being assembled said
that it was not torqued in there so we think that probably
if you would Just try that and that ought not take but a
second you know when one of you have a chance you may can
get it right out there even though the tool is wrong it
worked fox- us.
CDR ()kay, thanks we'll give it a go.
SPT Actually Dick, I'd already tried that but
I didn't put to much torque on it because I didn't want to
break the tool but I can try it again with a little bit
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more torque.
CC Okay, well Just use your own Judgement
about that: and if it: works maybe we'll be home free and if
not either way Just let us know.
SPT Okay.
CDR Okay, I've given them about 3 or 4
sequences of UV MON. I'm now giving a little H-ALPHA 2
and then ]'Ii give them H-ALPHA 1 and that's about all we got.
CC Roger, AI.
CDR Okay, there's H-ALPHA I.
CC Roger.
CDR And I'm way ahead on this JOP and it's
timed so just a second I'll move over to Sun center and give
them a little 52 and roll both directions.
CC Roger.
CDR We're still a little puzzled about one thing
Dick. This says TV downllnk, 9 minutes XUV MON at convlence.
Do you want us to give you all 9 minutes or Just what we're
giving you now?
CC Stand by Just a second, AI.
CDR I don't know whether that - those words
mean, there's 9 minutes in there to get that in or maybe
you want all 9 minutes. I don't know what you'd do with
all nine minutes of it.
CC CDR, Houston, the 9 minutes I think is
just the window it's generally the pass link of - or the
TV window link there and so when you get through stepping
you know give us each of the required items we're happy then.
CDR Okay, I'm going to go over to the center
and give you some things from there and then press on.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, here's a little XUV MON from the
center.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston we're 1 minute from LOS
we're going to pick you up at Ascension at 18:23 and we're
going to dump the data tape recorder at Ascension.
SPT Hey, Dick I Just wanted to mention that
in addition to the whole team doing a great Job your team of
CAP COMMs is doing a super Job too in getting the information
up in a timely manner and I know there's a lot that goes on
behind the scenes when you're not manning the console to get
things squared away too, so we appreciate all of those good
work the whole CAP COMI4 team-
CC Thank you Jack.
m
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And secondly did our NUZ and orbital plane error get updated.
I noticed orbital plane error was about 8.5 degrees, both
at the beginning of the orbit and after locking onto the
star. So the orbital plane error on our display did not
seem to change much. And the last question is did this
effect my ATM pointing, because I was relying on that minus
5400 arc minutes to be same as it had been the preceeding
orbit, in order to re turn to the same spot on the Sun for
this last sequence of photographs. So if ASCO can clear
that up for me, I'd appreciate it. Over.
CC Okay, Owen. We copy and we'll try to
get your a_swer here.
CDR Hank, if you got a few minutes, I'ii
talk about T20.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. Well, we flew it. We only used one
bottle. It doesn't take a lot gas, I've noticed to do the
job that iE can do. Essentially we found out one we knew
and one wa_ brand new. The one that was brand new is that - this
vehicle when you strap it on real tight, besides hurting
you when you strap it on tight because in order to get it
tight, you got to pull it up tight against you and we
worried al_out this in one g and we kept hoping that when
we got to zero g it would be steady enough so that it
wouldn't have to strap it on so tight. It isn't true. You
have to sn._ap it on even tighter and even when you do, the
rigidity between you and the foot-controlled maneuvering unit
and you and that back pack, particularly between the back
pack and the foot-controlled maneuvering it is a lot less than I
think anyb_>dy had imagined. It turns out that when you're
flying it _;ith the straps as tight as you can be happy
with them and you fire a few thrusters, it isn't very long
before all of a sudden you're sort of half sidesaddle on it
and you're really quite loose on it. And then as time progresses
and you doll t stop and check it, you get the feeling you're
like in a eep and it's going over rough ground and you
don't have a safety belt. It's maneuvering around and
you're kind of hanging on. And of course that upsets the
cg position That upsets your ... rolls and pitches
and yaws and trans - you know, moves them over to another
axis. Now, we got to come up with some sort of improved strapping
arrangement _ I believe, prior to the next run. I notice
that we on]y have this one and then the suited run, and I think
maybe this - Hold on a second. Lou Ramon and Don Hughes
might want to think of and telemeter - teleprinter up
some improved strap arrangement. Preferably one that goes
across the thighs and hooks to that hook down there between
your legs and foot. I think what they're going to want
to do for --
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little card up here that them broken out into A's, B's, C's
and D's and all that. And then I said, 2, which I shouldu' t
have said, I should have said 3, 3/10/_ark 2, 20A, IOB, IOc,
and 1OF. Does that make sense now, Hank?
CDR Hello, Hank.
CC Okay. We're - we're discussing that now,
AI.
CDR I thought you fell asleep down there. That
exercise makes youtired.
CC Makes me tired just to hear about it.
CDR In fact, I'm up there right now working on
the mark i, getting ready to transition to the mark 2.
CC Okay, let's run through that last one again.
A 3 - itf s - the first number 3 means it's other, and then
you next: number you used was i0. Can you tell us what that
is?
CDR That's the time.
CC Okay, that's the time.
CDR Okay, so it was number 3 of some other kind
of exercises, for I0 minutes and then I said mark 2 - or
mark I depending on which it was. That gives you the kind,
and then I told you ihow many revs of each type, and on the
ground there is a card that shows the type, and I assume
that if -- the only reason we're passing that down is in case
the - the biomed people are interested in somehow quantifying
the exerclse that we're doing on these other devices. We
can quit doing that if you want.
CC No, that's real good, AI. We understand it
now and we - we like the way you're doing it.
CDR Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. Did you accomplish all of
building ])lock i0 and if not, how much did you get in?
SPT I accomplished more than the building block
lO, so l_m also putting the XUV mon on the VTR right now
so you can get a look at it the next time you dump it.
CC Roger, we copy. And I guess we've discussed
the pointing problem a little more during the LOS. And the
- the pointing was in error prior to the updates and the
computer doesn't change the pointing at all after the update
you would have to crank that around. However, after the
update your readouts are correct.
SPT Roger. I'm Just looking at this XUV mon
right now and the loops between these two magnetic poles
are continuing to develop. They still don't much of an
H-alpha signature, but it might be better than - to go take
a look at that on this latter - this middle part of this
pass than _t would be to pick up on that coronal hole. If
you have any comment about that, why, why don't you let me
know here promptly.
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sieve fan had been turned on, which would indicate that that
has proceeded normally and is now ready there _ow back in
operation. We did not receive a report from Jack Lousma,
we may receive one during the United States pass coming up.
This is Dennis Williams, Skylab Control, 18 minutes after
the hour Our next acquisition in 30 minutes.
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to hear them. Then go back into the sol sieve area and
then like panel 393 or 316 and 390 where we have lines that
are hidden_ remove some of those panels with the high
torques and get in there lister to those. And after we've
done all that go back and do some bubble checks with soap
to see i£ there's any little seeping leaks that we've missed.
CDR ()kay, we'll rebuild the spacecraft for
yOU.
CC Skylab, Houston. If it's convenient
we'd like to get the things remaining off the ATM.
SPT We'll give it to you in a little bit.
Next two _ass or so_ Hank.
CC ()kay.
SPT Woops. AI says he's on the way.
CDR ()kay, H-Alpha 2081, 56 1701, 82A 47,
82B 134, _2 2478, 54 2327. How's that?
CC Roger, we copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about I minute
from handc, ver to Bermuda and that'll be your reed conference.
If we don' L pick you up the last part of that pass, the
next contact will be Madrid at 41.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 28 minutes
and 28 seconds Greenwich mean time. We got an indication
of a handcver to Bermuda and we do not empect to hear from
the crew ur_til the very end of this Bermuda pass. This
is scheduled for a private medical conference, the regular
private medical conference held with the flight surgeon.
But we will stay live incase air-to-ground is brough up
again for the remainder of this Bermuda pass.
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CDR (Garble) .
CDR It was scattered clouds in most areas
and some places it was clear where I could see the ground
in that vicinity I did photograph. And maybe some of
these will come out.
CC Okay.
CDR I know we need to be thinking about
a new approach to this picture taking business. For the
simple reason in almost all the sites that we've taken
pictures of or couldn't take picutres of because of the
clouds we've seen previously and really fantastic weather
and if we'd have Just known that those were the sites that
eventually we're going to want taken we could have very
simply taken them because for example the Tiffany Isles
we saw 3 or 4 days ago or maybe longer ago beautiful weather
we could have taken some magnificent shots. Yesterday when
we tried it: was all socked in and couldn't even find the islands.
Same with this area Peru we passed over it for 3 weeks now
and 50 percent of the time it's been Just clear as a bell.
Maybe there's someway to get a llst of these pads up here
and get them all listed and we'll put them on a file or some-
where and we can look through them and then you can send
up then and say we're thinking that it's about time to
get some plains of Nazca and we can say well we got it
2 weeks ago because the weather was Just perfect then.
CC Okay. We'll do it.
CDR Yea, because we're ending up trying to
shoot pictures of things we've seen and then when we try
to shoot them we can't: see them Just because the weather is
socked in about 50 percent of the time of some percent
and we can kind of work it both ways you can schedule them
at the same time and we can try and get them in advance.
We've noticed what part of the world seems to be clear
we can look on our llst and if they were somehow sent up
in geographical groups and then we can say well lets take
the - looks llke South America the whole west coast is clear
today and then kind of - next time we pass that way look
and see if we've got anything in that vicinty and try to
take it.
CC Okay, sounds good.
CDR That's not the complete answer hut there
must - somehow there's a better combination than we're
working at the moment.
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PL T Ro ge r.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean
time 17 hours 46 minutes loss of signal at Ascension. Next
pass will be over Guam will be very brief pass as CAP COMM
Bruce McCandless reported to the crew it would be a
noisy pass. That pasE_ to the spacecraft pass is on the outer
fringes of the tracking station at Guam. At Greenwich mean
time 17 hours 47 minutes this is Skylab Control.
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CC Okay, we copy.
CC And PLT, we believe that you are probably
through rolling the canister, and if you could we'd llke to
get the MBC tell to inhibit please to avoid overheating the
actuator.
CC And CDR, we'd like to get the four or the OWS
heat exchanger fans turned off since we show the dew point in the
cluster now up above 57 degrees Fahrenheit due to the condensate
system being shut down. Over.
SI'T Bruce, say again what you want to turn off.
CC Roger. The OWS heat exchanger fans. ] [' s
back there i. the F lock compartment.
SC (garble)
SPT One of them just went off.
CC Okay, thank you.
PLT Okay' Bruce, now what time do you want me to
start the extension deal, 9 minutes and go to ESS?
CC Do It exactly as it is carried on the ATM
schedule pad, since we have inhibited momentum dump. And
that will be at 4 minutes time remaining on your clock.
And we'd like you to inhibit the MPC roll when you get a
chance because we think you're through rolling.
PLT Okay.
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2-1/2 hours set aside from 5:10 to 7:40 p.m. central daylight
time to do an inspection of the coolant loop, a continuation
of a procedure set aside - started last night. That will
now be cancelled and postponed to a later date. Instead
Jack Lousma will assist Alan Bean in reassembling the
condensate system. This is mainly consists of putting
back panels and work of that sort. The reason for that is
that the system check wlhich was scheduled to take 6 hours
today has in fact taken a good deal longer than that. We
earlier had to cancel the operation of SO19, the ultraviolet
experiment and that was scheduled for Alan Bean earlier
today. And now we are also cancelllng our coolant loop
inspection in order to reassemble that condensate system.
There was no luck in finding the leak in the condensate
system. No sign of leak anywhere along the lines that were
checked by astronaut Bean this morning. Also during this
pass the crew was asked to suspend the dump of oxygen and
nitrogen overboard. They were reducing the pressure in
the workshop after running the nitrogen-powered jet shoe
experiment yesterday. That experiment does increase the
total amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere and to bring
that level back down into the desired range, they do dump
nitrogen and oxygen overboard. The reason for the suspension
of that dump was that the oxygen partial pressure levels
reached the minimum acceptable level. That's 3.3 to 3.4
pounds per square inch of oxygen. They will later resume
that dump after they have repressurized some oxygen in the
atmosphere. We also expect that they will increase the
pressure tonight in the workshop in preparation for an
operation of M509, that's the astronaut maneuvering unit,
tomorrow. Pressurization, depressurization necessary to
maintain a balance of oxygen and nitroBen in the atmosphere.
This is Skylab Control. Our next acquisition 26-I/2 minutes
from now. It's now 12 minutes and 25 seconds after the
hour.
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Just for o_r planning here, did you get any of that accomp-
lished?
CDR No, we've only got- I got- I pulled out
about seven or eight the other day and that was about it.
CC Okay, we copy.
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guite a few zal]s these days from people all over the
country who lave seen Skylab, and who would like their best
wishes to be relayed to you.
SPT Well, we want to acknowledge all those
good wishes Hank, and relay our interest in all the folks
down there and our appreciation for having us in mind.
CC Thank you, Owen, and we're about 40
seconds from LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 33
and that will be your reed conference.
CC And Skylab, in the event that we don't
get to talk to you past Carnarvon, Honeysuckle is a very
short pass and the next pass would be at stateside after
'your bedtime, so we'll say goodnight now, but we'll be
standing by. Have the comm up in case you have any comments
on looking at Enid The forecast there is clear.
SPT That sounds good Hank, I'll be on the
comm up here in the ATM area.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 6 minutes and
5 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now out of range of
the Madrid tracking station. Our next acquisition of
signal 27 minutes and 19 seconds from now will be at
Carnarvon, Australia. That is scheduled for a private
medical conference, and we do expect we will not have much
time for contact there. The Carnarvon pass is about a
6 minute pass. There may be 1 or 2 minutes available for
discussion during that pass, but it may be entirely reserved
for a private medical conference. There is a Honeysuckle
pass immediately after that. During this last pass Owen
Garriott indicated that he will be awake and listening
and talking here to the ground when he passes over Enid,
Oklahoma, his home town. People in Enid, Oklahoma indicated
that they will have their lights all on at 10:20 when he
passes overhead. So we will be staying up a little bit
late tonight for communications with the spacecraft, at
least sometime after 10:20. This is Skylab Control. It
is 7 minutes after the hour.
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CDR Okay.
CC Okay, and if Owen's detail pads are available,
he can delete his 1503 and 1520 entries Just to coincide with
that rate gyro temp thing that we talked about.
CC Okay, we have rewound the VTR and it belongs
to you guys again. And for your information we will not be
updating the SAP today.
PLT What's going to be the best window for looklng
at the hurricane, Crlp?
CC I'll see if I can glve you one.
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PL_ (garble)
CC Sorry, Jack. I couldn't copy that.
CC PLT, Houston. We were - we lost you in the
handover there. Would you say again, please?
CDR Jack's got the TV on the sunrise. Not
the (garbie) part, but near it.
CC PLT, Houston. you're going to be coming
up pretty close to the - the Yucatan area where Brenda's
located and still haven't got a correct window for you. Should
be probably i or 4 in the FTS.
PLT Hey Crlp, have you guys - are you guys
getting any TV of the sunrise?
CC Stand by. I think we're having to record
that.
PLT Okay. Well, maybe we better get the
VTR on then if you're not going to get it real time, we'll -
CC No. We were getting it at the site I understand
but we were recording at the site. We Just want to bring (garble)
in here.
PLT Oh, I see. Okay.
CC And you should be Just about over Brenda
at this - at this time. And window 1 is the best one. Jack,
correction cn my last - you need to put that on the VTR.
PLT Okay. We may not get it today, Crlp,
cause it's still dark down there.
CC Yes, we were afraid of that.
PLT Hey, yes Crlp, it's still dark down there.
CC Skylab, Houston. All of the messages we
got for you this morning, are onboard now.
CDR Okay. Thanks. I'ii give the site a llttle
UV mon, Houston.
CC Okay, AI. We'll appreciate that and we're
about 1 minute from LOS. We'll see you again over the Vanguard
at 11:47. ]1:47 and that's about a little over 10-1/2 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean
time 37 - ii hours, 37 minutes with loss of signal. A stateside
pass. Next acquisition will be Vanguard at approximately
8 minutes. During this pass, the crew was advised to delete
2 of the 4 scheduled target of opportunity photo sessions
that were en tap for today. The two eliminated were the Oka -
Okavoanggo Swamp and Botswana in central South Africa and also
deleted was the photographs of the Patagonia Desert in
Southern Chile and Argentina. However, on this pass, Science
Pilot Owen Garriott is scheduled to take photos in the Bolivia
area. Shooting pictures of inactive volcanoes, fault lines,
and other geological features in Bolivia in South America.
He's scheduled to begin this photo session at 6:49 this mornin E.
Next acquisition, Vanguard in approximately 7 minutes, 30 seconds
from now. At Greenwich mean time, ii hours, 39 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.
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with the door closed anci we'll be able to get it off and
maybe see what happened. I had the feeling that something
was out of sync in the drive train and rocklng it back and
forth it must have accidentally got in synchronization because
then it wheeled right in as easy as it always does. It didn't
act llke it was cold. It acted more like something was
Just not quite on the drive, you know, sort of like a screw
thread was not exactly threading right and once it gets on
its grooves, then it's okay.
CC Okay, AI, we copy. That's really good
news. What we'd like you to do is let it sit there with
the SAL door closed but not pressurized, warm up for a
couple of hours and we'll have a procedure up to you a
little bit la_er. You may assume that SO19 o½erations
scheduled for 23:30 this evening are cancelled. We may want
to give you something else to do in that time period. Over.
CDR Okay. We'll need something to do in
that time period. And that's exactly where it's in now.
Door closed, still in vent, and we'll let it warm up. Now
I won't go into anymore 509, cause you're about running
out of time, also. I'I:L put it on A.
CC Okay, we got 30 seconds to LOS here at
Honeysuckle. Next station contact in 25 minutes over the
Vanguard st 2_:35 Zulu. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce, and at that time, I'd
appreciate it if you'd wind the VTR back about I0 minutes
of real time for me. I've had it running the last i0
minutes when i didn't want it running. If you could do
that, I'd appreciate it. That'd give us more or less the
reasonable amount of time for TV 28. Over.
CC Okay, we'll give you a i0 minute wind
back. You' ii erase over whatever you had on there when
you go to record again. Your phone calls are set up. SPT
Bermuda at 00:59. CDR, Madrid 02:51. We can send that up
again to you,
SPT Thank you, Bruce.
CC And if you still hear me, next site
will be Canary at 21:53 instead of the Vanguard. Out.
PAO Sky.lab Control at 21 hours Ii minutes
Greenwich mean time. We have now lost signal at the
Honeysuckle tracking station. At the very end of that
pass the spacecraft communicator did indicate that there
will not be an acquisition of signal at Vanguard. The
next acquisition at Canary Islands 42 minutes from now.
There was some good news from the crew on this last pass.
They did indicate that they had success in bringing back
the SO19 which has been stuck in the solar airlock. The
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getting a few screws out. Now on the last two - the first
EVA, you used a procedure on the SO55 door there, to remove
the latch. Do we need to up-link you that procedure again
for the other two doors?
CDR You sure do.
CC Okay, we'll do that then.
CDR Whar_'s going to be the attitude hold
method here when we're changing out the 6-pack?
CDR EVA?
CC Okay, we're going to be a nominal H-cage
which should llelp, but essentially at drift and we'll have
the command module conflgurated- configured, just in case
we have to use it.
SPT Okay, so this concept of using the (garble)
Sun sensor et cetera, we decided not to use that, huh?
CC That' s affirmatlve.
CDR Okay, another thought. You said it will
begin at a sunrise. Say a few more words about any time -
I need to know a couple of things we were talking about
at- the last couple of days. One: how late in the game
do you make that plug change und - with the kick plate
under the ATM panel - or how early would be the question,
how early can you do that, and next - I get the impres-
sion you want to have this thing put in in one daylight
pass. Is that correct?
CC Roger, we'd like to try to get that in in
one pass.
CDR Okay, well maybe our plans ought to be to
- to plan and get out in the night and be standing there
out with all the equipment ready and then when the Sun comes
up and we cau see, then we can press on out and start work-
ing. That' i [ give us a full daylight pass.
CC CDR, Rusty has been working on this and he's
really the expert. But he's run this whole procedure change-
out thing in 20 minutes.
PAO Skylab - -
PAO Skylab Control at 1 hour 22 minutes and
49 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal now
at the Madrid tracking _station. Our next acquisition
of signal 26 minutes from now will be at the Carnarvon/Aus-
tralia station. During this last pass there was some dis-
cussion of [he upcoming extravehicular activity, the space
walk scheduled for Friday morning. No final plan for that
spacewalk. Details for that will be worked out during the
next 24 hour_. They did indicate that there will be an
installation of the rate gyro 6-pack that will commence at any
of the sunrises during the EVA, which will be expected to
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take several hours. They will also install the JSC, Johnson
Space Center, sail samples. These are samples of the thermal
material that are used for shielding of the workshop. They
did not have very good luck wlth the samples that had been in-
stalled before. They will be installing a new piece of sample
material to find out what the long-term effects are on this
nylon stop - rlpstop nylon with a Mylar base. Also scheduled
for that are the removal of ramp latches on the doors to two
of the ATM experiments. A similar activity was performed on
the first EVA on the SO55 ramp latches. These are devices
that are used to hold the doors in position during launch
and after that serve no purpose, and they have been thought
to interfere, somewhat, with the operation of those doors.
They will be removing those ramp latches and a procedure
for that will be sent up to the crew. They did indicate
that they did not recall well enough what was done on the
S055 doors, so they will have the instructions again for this
mission, They will also be replacing film on the ATM cameras
- a sequence of cameras which are now very low on film. They
have used up most of the film during a very busy ATM activity,
more than 90 hours of ATM activity already in this mission.
The estimate given by the ground was about 20 minutes for
the installation of the rate gyro 6-pack. Rusty Schweickart,
a backup astronaut, has worked on that installation and it
did take him about 20 minutes in the neutral bouyancy simulator.
They will be expected to complete that in one daylight pass.
A daylight pass will last more than an hour. This is Skylab
Control 23 minutes and 41 seconds now to our acquisition
of signal in Australia. We'll come back at that time. It's
now 25 minutes and 15 seconds after the hour.
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PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. Do you - you have one S019 pad
message number 2625 today.
PLT Yes, sir. Got it right before me.
CC Okay, on field number 457, the tilt on that
should be 6.4.
PLT Okay, tilt 6.4, the first field, 66.7.
CC That's - That's affirmative. Also regarding
T002 6 Bravo, we understand from some of the transcripts that
10 MARKS on each star is pressing you. You can relax the
MARKS count on each star to 6 to 8 MARKS, also use the stars
given in your details which are the same today as yesterday
and that (garble).
PLT Okay. It's really not the number of
MARKS that's pressing me. Once you get the star in the sextant
you can ripe off a whole bunch of MARKs in a hurry. The problem
is in going from one star to another, trying to reacquire the
star. The time consuming thing is finding the star in the
sextant.
CC Okay.
PLT So I was wondering if I can't get two sets
of MARKs on the both stars individually if one set of MARKs
on each star is acceptable.
CC Okay, we'll check that.
PLT I know what they want me to do is to take
i0 on one star and the_ jump to another and then Jump back to the
first star and then Jump back to the second star. The time
consuming part is to reaquiire those stars those four different
times. And if I were able to just do two times why that'd be
better. Or if I could make 20 MARKs in a row on one star instead
of breaking it up into four separate sets why that would
be more acceptable, or less time consuming anyway, more likely
to get the Job done.
CC Okay, we copy that and we'll try to get
an answer back to you.
PLT Okay, if they could work on that and give
me the answer in another 2_ minutes when it's going to get dark,
why it would help me because I'm at the window working on this
experiment now.
CC Okay, I got about 3-1/2 more minutes and
we'll see if we can get an answer for you. Also while you're -
see if we can talk you inta something else for tilt corollary;
you've got a pretty crowded evening in your pre-sleep and this
is up to you, but we would llke to know if you would consider
doing an additional S019 run for us in that period. It would be a -
PLT I'll do it.
°- ••
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- it felt good all the way in and out and operated well
and we watched the screw drive they all looked good. The
mirror reached the end of the travel that was perpendicular
to the screw drive as it should be. Let me pull it back out
and give it a check I'll run it in and out and tilt it
maximum directions and things and probably we'll have a better
feel from the problem then. Also it will be cool now and that
will be a more true test it was warmed up by the time we
checked it out.
CC Skylab, Skylab roger AI, we'll stand by
to hear the results from you on that one. For the SPT, we
expected to get rate gyro slx-pack temperature readouts
yesterday, at approximately 2000 and 2300. Also today
at 02:00Z and we were looking for these on channel A.
We didn't - haven't found them yet; did you put them
on and if so at approximately what time. Could you tell
us ? Ore r.
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CC Go ahead.
MC Got i00 percent key in here.
CC Roger. Thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston though Ascension
for the next 9-1/2 minutes. How do you read? Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension
for 9-1/2 minutes. How do you read? Over.
SPT We're reading you loud and clear, Bruce.
CC Okay, Owen. We will not be dumping the data
voice tape recorder, as we're down to 1 data circuit and
1 voice cirzuit here through Ascension. On your subsequent
rate gyro six-pack temperature readings_ we'd like you to
send them down to us in real time or near real time on the
air-to-ground loop as we're coordinating the final details
of the rate gyro procedure. We'd like to check it out as
we go along. Over.
SPT Okay. It looks like they're pretty well
stabilized _rom the measurement, just looking at the numbers
I sent down.
CC Roger. We concur.
SPT And would you ask the ATM science room please,
if they had a chance to look at those XU_ transients we saw
off the northwest llmb of the Sun yesterday afternoon and
what their interpretation of them is.
CC Ye;g, indeed. They've already done that, Owen.
In fact, they've got some traffic backed up here for you.
The down-link was looked at by the S082 personnel on the
SAR and by NOAA. The XUV mort shows some brazing on the northwest
limb, but an arch was not visible. No, I cannot confirm
the arch by ground data and the consensus is that the
phenomena was instrument scattered light caused by offset
pointing. Over.
SPT Okay. If it was instrument scattered, I see
scattered into the XUV mon so the display here would're
shown it. Now if that were so, I would're noticed it shown up
on the - shown up on the TV also, since the same thing I'm seeing
should have been on the tape recorder. I'm a little puzzled
why they couldn't see it when we could, unless it's a question
of sensitiwity.
CC You make a very convincing case.
SPT We tried a number of things to verify that
it was not instrumental. For example, we rotated our viewing
hood up here, to make sure there was no light leaking into
the instruments. The brightness only appeared with the
integrate switch. So it did disappear and become brighter
when the integrate switch was released, as did all of the other
XUV features. We also rotated the ATM canisters, during the
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CDR Okay.
CC Okay. We agree with your suggestion about
having Jack reconnoiter the connectors out there for the
rate gyro replacement. We plan at this time to have hatch
opening durin_ the daylight, during a daylight pass, with
about 20 minutes of day remaining. That should give Jack
plenty of time to go ahead out and take a look at the
connectors and compare them with what he's got in his
memory locat[cns from the photographs as to what they were
supposed to i¢ok like. We propose that at that time, going
into night, ycu can press on with the remainder of the EVA
work or any part of it that you feel that you'd like to do
along the EVA trail at night. That is, you can put out the
sail samples or start the center work station activity if
you feel comfortable with the time. Our only constraint
is that prior to the next sunrise, you be in a position
where you're ready to start the rate gyro pack activities.
The plan -- Go ahead, A1.
CDR I was going to say, we - from my experience
up here, the chance of hitting the hatch opening 20 minutes prior
to sunset a_e small. I mean sunrise or after sunrise or
whatever. Because just the amount of variables that are
taking place serially there, anyone of which can throw
you off schedule. So, it seems to me that what we'll do
is sort of work toward it, with the idea in mind that whatever
daylight pass we get out on, then we'll use that one.
Whatever amount of time there is to do.
CC As far as we're concerned, AI, you guys
seem to enjoy EVA and we don't have very many constraints
down here on Tzhe time. You can take whatever time you
want to get a comfortab].e feeling that you know what
you're going izo be doing out there. As I say, right now,
the hatch opening is scheduled with 20 minutes of day
remaining. E you beat that, fine, you can do whatever
part of the EVA you want. The only thing that we want to do is
to start the actual rate gyro cable installation at sunrise.
CDR We're with you, and we'll do that.
CC Yeah, at any sunrise, you know, after you get
out, but preferably the first sunrise after you get out. That's
your choice r_hough, depending on how you feel. Okay,
going into that pass, then, we will have, during the EVA
prep, configured the CSM in a stand by condition for take-
over in case of loss of attitude control and I'll say a
few more words later about the rules we've got here or
the guidelines we'd like to suggest for takeover. In any
case you'll be just a couple of DAS entries and a couple
of circuit breakers in throwing the CMC to AUTO away from
attitude control with tlhe command module.
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that is, that they do not know the torques that will be
given on the - put on the spacecraft by the movement of
crewmen during the EVA. Andithey don't feel a simulation
in space would be of much assistance to them at this point.
Indication was, that the crew should attempt to make a
hatch opening about 20 minutes before nightfall. That
would allow Lou - Jack Lousma a time to look around and see
how the parts do fit together. Commander Bean indicated
that he thought there were so many variables in getting out
of the hatch that it was very difficult to work for an
exact time, 20 minutes before nightfall. But that will he
their goal. They should start the rate gyro installation at
the following sunrise, after they do get out. So, Jack may
be expected to get out and take a look at the sltuatlon_ go
through a nightfall period, in which he does some additional
work and then be ready for that rate gyro installation
immediately following the next Sunrise. They did indicate
they wanted to save TACS gas iby maintaining attitude control
very carefully. Rusty said for obvious reasons, the obvious
reasons being that the TACS thruster attitude control system
gas is relatively low after a great deal of it was use - -
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first one up, is going to be the one Jack reconnoiters the areas
and so that means then we' re going to have to cool it that night
and then the next day we'll go out and put in the rate gyros.
So essentially it's sort o_ with a 50 50 chance you can say
then add 45 minutes and do it right there. But seems to us
that's the conservative way to go and the way we'd like to do
it so that would be an extra 45 and that would account for
the difference between the 4 hours and my guess the 5.
CC Okay, we copied that also for your information
we got a 2 hour and 40 minute prep time preceeding the EVA.
CDR Okay, what did we have last time, I
forgot.
CC It was approximately 2 hours A1, and we've
added about 40 minutes on it.
CDR That's good that ought to make it just
about right.
CC Okay, also another item we've got
housekeeping 3 Charlie down as one of the items that you
know whenever you carl pick it up and I'm not sure who would
be doing that but we would appreciate it if you would remove
that VCS stuff from the OWS mixing chamber and inspect the OWS
mixing chamber as screen for debri. If there is some debri
present, we'd appreciate it if you could vacuum it off and
reinstall the duct.
CDR ()kay, that's a good idea, never thought
of that. We'll do it.
CDR Don Puddy must run a good ship down there?
CC Ah yes, he runs a tight ship.
CC AI, I don't know if the other guys are
listening i'd like to pass on some info for you. The Fredo-
Fred Haise managed to (garble) one of the confederate air force
planes yesterday. He is not serious but he is in the
hospital. He got burned I guess 2nd degree burns over about
50 percer._ of his body and a few 3rd degree burns on his
legs but the prognosis is good and I understand he was
sitting up talking to people last night, pretty good shape.
CDR Guess you'd call that bad news and good
news.
CDR Well we're glad the good was last.
That' s great.
CC Roger.
CDR Send him our best and we' ii be looking
to see him when we get back home in another month. He
ought to be up and around again.
CC Oh, I'm sure he will be.
CDR That's great, thanks Bob we like to
keep up we kind of won - one of the things we were kind of
wondering up here the other day what was Pete doing?
CC Pete' s been loafing, I haven' t seen
him around for a while.
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CC That's fine.
CDR You know we ought to start putting it on the
ATM pad when we want a star tracker lock on, like it would
have been nice to have Owen lock it on early this morning,
then we would have had a nice collective nu Z for (garble).
PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean
time 13 he_rs 45 minutes loss of signal at Vanguard next
acquisition Hawaii in 56 minutes. Science Pilot Owen Garriott
reported the work he was doing on the rate gyro temperature
readings. As of readings from yesterday indicated the rate
gyro temperatures are lower than expected and this checkout
of the rate gyro temperatures will continue throughout the
day in support of the EVA for tomorrow. He reported he
had to knock that work off and go do the MI71 which is the
metabolic analyzer experiment. Each crew member performs this
particular experiment 8 times throughout the mission. Next
acquisition at Hawaii in 55 minutes Skylab Control at
13 hours z5 minutes Greenwich mean time.
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the moment_ as best I can read, reading 31.3 volts, minus 0.8 amps
which turns out to be zero, and 51 degrees.
CC Okay Jack; we copy that. Thank you. We
have one minute until LOS here at Hawaii; next station contact
in 25 minu_es over the Vanguard at 16:50. Over.
PAO Skyla5 Control; Greenwich mean time
16 hours 26 minutes loss of signal at Hawaii next acquisition
will he Vanguard in 24 minutes. Dr. Royce Hawkins, Deputy
Director for Medical Operations of the Life Sciences Directorate
at Johnson Space Center, will conduct a 5tiering on medical
status of the Skylab-3 crew at 2 p.m. this afternoon, the
Building i News Room. Dr. Royce Hawkins will hold a medical
status review of the Skylah-3 crew at 2 p.m. in the News Room
in Building i. At Greenwich mean time 16 hours 27 minutes
next acquisition Vanguard in 23 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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CC Today or tomorrow?
CDR Tomorrow morning, prior to the getting
out time.
CC Okay, we'll see you over Ascension.
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Vanguard pass, the crew was advised to shut down the primary
coolant loop, the one that has been concerned since mission
day 9, when a low indication on the accumulator showed low
on the primary and secondary inlet pressures of the pumps.
Our subsequent searches for a coolant loop leak on two
successive tries by Pilot Jack Lousma proved unsuccessful
and the secondary coolant loop will have been brought back
online and will service the EVA. The coolant loop had dropped
to a 5.8 percent pump pressure and it was felt here in the
Mission Control Center and approved by Flight Director Nell
Hutchinson that the primary loop would not expect to last
throughout the nlght_ so therefore bring on the secondary
loop and allow the secondary loop to become stable for the
heat loads that will be anticipated during tomorrow's EVA.
Also during this past rev, Pilot Jack Lousma still working
on the CBRMs, CBRM 18, CBRM i0, checking out voltages and
temperatures. There is only one CBRM on the vehicle that's
not operating. This was lost during the Skylab II mission,
15, which had been a problem during Skylab II, was brought
back online during an EVA when Commander Pete Conrad tapped
it with a hammer. We have about I0 minutes of tape or 4
minutes of tape, I'm sorry that we'll playback momentarily.
We have loss of signal at Madrid tracking station. Next
acquisition will be Guam in approximately 20 minutes. If
this press conference with Dr. Hawkins is still in progress
at that time, we'll tape that pass and play it back at the
close of the press conference.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Ascension
for 7 minutes and 20 seconds. Out.
PLT Hey, Bruce. On this power down for unattended
ops, I was wondering if the S054 guys want me to leave the
grating in?
CC That's a negative, Jack. We'd llke it out,
please. Over.
PLT Okay. I take it from this, they want me to
leave it M3 OP64. Is that affirm?
CC That's affirmative, Jack.
PLT Okay. I got it now.
PLT I didn't read those last few lines when I
was talking to you before. (garble)
CC Okay. We got you.
CC Skylab, Houston. 35 seconds to LOS Ascension.
Next station contact in i minute and 43 seconds over the
Canaries. Out.
PLT You there, Bruce.
CC Go ahead, AI.
PLT It's me, Bruce. Ask the boys in
the back room if they think SO56 is hung up on filter 5 in
ACTIVE i LONG?
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have done. And I don't know who's been working with you.
Who has been?
MCC Well, it's an awful long llst and we
only got a minute before you' re lost at Madrid and I better
return it to Bill.
CDR Okay, well, thank them.
MCC I'ii thank them all.
CDR We'll do it right.
CC Have a message for you for - in the
command module, AI.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Want you to select position 1 on the
polychoke since the pressure's falling off a little too
rapidly.
CDR Okay.
CC Second one on panel 382, use tool E and
verify that the suit heat exchange primary glycol valve
is in bypass; thatts clockwise. If it's not, put it in
bypass but don't over torque it. If it doesn't go with a
moderate force leave it as it. The reason for this is
Apollo 16 had a valve in an intermediate position and it leaked.
CDR Okay, I'll go do it right now. And I'Ii
verify that it is not, it's in an intermediate position
right now. I tried to recall why it might be there and it
looks llke our 7 day check has us put it sort of open for
a minute and then bypass for 30 seconds. And I assume
that must position it in the mlddle_ I don't know though.
CC We copy that. We're going LOS here.
We'll see you at Carnarvon. And also, Carnar - that's at
00:20 and at Carnarvon we'll be dumping the voice tape
recorder.
PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours 55 minutes
and 29 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now gone out
of range of the Madrid tracking station. We're 24 minutes
and 32 seconds from acquisition of signal at Carnarvon. That
Carnarvon pass to last approximately 10 minutes, and we do expect
a Honeysuckle pass immediately following that, about a
3-1/2 minute pass. Preparations, according to Alan Bean,
for tomorrow's extravehicular activity are going very well
tonight. They did set aside a little extra time at his
request yesterday evening, and he has had some time this
morning for that EVA prepreparation. He did say that
everything is going very well on that. Checklist has been
reviewed and apparently is in good shape. Rusty Schwelckart
was the spacecraft communicator during that last pass and
the preceding pass discussing the events for tomorrows' EVA
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CC Okay. We copy.
CDR Change that orange drink to an apple
drink. Here comes the photo log: We've got one photo to
take tonight of this maintenance 487, or whatever it is, we'll
get it. 35-mill - So there's no 16-milllmeter activity today,
so no change. Here's the 35: CII01, 55, CX1346; 70-milli-
meter: CX25, 051; Flight Plan looks good ... ready to do it;
and shopping list accomplishment: did all the things assigned
and all the housekeeping; unscheduled stowage item location
change, four Jams, one vanilla wafers, two lemonades
from 548 to SPT's food shelf. That's it.
CC Okay. We copy that, AI. And there's
one question. Have any of you used the gyro stabilized
binoculars, and if so, are they better than the Nikon
viewflnder with the 300-millimeter lens for seeing fine
ground detail?
PLT Yeah. You're breaking up, Bill. We're
not getting the full transmission.
CC Okay. We'll try again here. Have any
of the crew used the gyro stabilized binoculars for ground
sltings, and if you have used them, are they better than
the Nikon vlewflnder, with the 300-millimeter lens, that is
for picking up fine details?
SPT We have used it for such things as, for
example, the other day we werelooklng at icebergs off of
South America down towards Antarctica with them. And it is
better than the 300-milllmeter lens of the Nikon. I think
we - oh, have given them a try, Bill.
CC Okay. And have you done the F230
film yet, and M509 F3A?
PLT The answer is yes on the F230
pictures, Just took four of them, ... experiment.
They're setting out there, everything looks nice and gold
and doesn't have any discoloration on it.
CDR And we started the cabin purge Just
about 30 minutes ago.
CC Copy.
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SPT Ditto.
PLT Okay.
CC Ask A1 to give us a transmission.
PLT He's got to get up in the HDA to do that, Bruce.
CC Roger. Sorry about that.
PLT We're hearing him loud and clear on our
intercom now. i, 2, 3, 4, 5. Normal conversation seems
to work okay in VOX. Okay. I'm going to move back down into
the workshop, AI. As long as you think we've got everything.
Okay. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. All right.
PLT I think the VOX is in good shape.
CDR I can hear you whispering.
SPT Nope, that's fine.
CDR How you doing, Bruce?
CC Oh, loud and clear, A1. How are you reading
us? Over.
CDR Reading you real well. Panel 6 was not
configured. I reconfigured it and it works like a charm.
CC Okay. We got two items for you here. One,
you probably want to write down some times. The other is
at your convenience. We'd llke you to disconnect the multimeter
from the X-5 gyro package by the following procedure.
On panel 141, which is the little panel on the rate gyro
6-pack,open the X-5 circuit breaker, disconnect the connector
to the multlmeters - that has the multimeter leads on it. Cap
the connector, that is, cap th_ receptacle and then reclose
the X-5 gyro circuit breaker. Over.
SPT Okay Bruce. Just a moment and he'll get it.
CC And we apologize for having you do that
after you've suited. It slipped by us.
SPT Recorder. Attaboy. Give it a bell for Bravo.
CC And AI, we've got about 2-1/2 minutes
left here at Hawaii. When you can write, I've got some
times for you.
SPT Okay. Still working on the connector there, _
Bruce.
PLT You guys aren't saying much these days, Bruce.
I notice that we don't talk to you a whole lot.
CC Well, it's pretty much your show up there
with the comm coverage we've got here and - you know the phasing.
PLT Yeah.
CDR Okay Bruce, go ahead.
CC Okay. I passed you up one day remaining
minus 42 minute time of 16 plus 01, plus 16. The one for
the subsequent rev is 17 plus 34, plus 36 and the window
panes for your headsdown activity, are 15:45 to 16:05. Over.
CDR Okay. We copied on that.
SPT 25 minutes.
CC I understand you copied all that?
CDR Sure did, Bruce. Thanks.
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PLT (laughter)
CDR (Laughter)
PLT (Garble) A long time between games,
2 weeks.
SPT Oh yeah.
PLT We didn't know you thought it was our
problem. (garble)
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time,
16 hours 17 minutes, loss of signal at Vanguard. As
depressurlzatlon of the alrlock module, EVA area continued.
When it started it was 5.1 and at loss of signal it had dropped
3.09 and still going down. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson,
polling his flight controllers, EM-U officer, the extra-
mobility unit officer who supervises the suit system aboard,
he said everything looks good, everything is stable. Flight
Surgeon reports they were getting good data. EGIL said
power looks good aboard the spacecraft. The crew now has
approximately 31 minutes left of daylight, during which time,
when the hatch is open, Pilot Jack Lousma will reconnoiter the
trunnion area and the WCIU area, the workshop computer
interface unit for placement of the rate gyro 6-pack connectors
on the next daylight pass, which will begin at Greenwich
mean time 17:14. Commander A1 Bean is still in the alrlock
module, adjusting switches prior to final EVA. He will
work at the MDA console, the Apollo telescope mount console
which has the controls for the attitude pointing control
system, the APCS. We'll leave the llne open for the Ascension
pass coming up in approximately 3 minutes. When the EVA
starts and Lousma begins the connection of the 23 foot cable
to the two positions outside the M])A, the spacecraft will
be put in a free drift mode for approximately 20 minutes to
1 hour - as long as it takes Lousma to make the connections.
This will he the first time the spacecraft has been in a
free drift mode and during that period from the no control
to sunset, which will probably be 1/3 of an orbit, it will
take that long to get the Job accomplished, the ground feels.
We will have acquisition at Ascension in approximately 2 minutes.
We'll hold the llne open for that pass.
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PLT Okay.
SPT Now let me reach over here and I'll make
it parallel to this panel with the little bolt on it.
PLT I can sort of tell you - make it parallel
to the back of the ATM. That's something you've got good
reference to.
SPT Yeah, that's what I was lookin E at earlier.
PLT Okay.
SPT Okay.
PLT Make sure it will catch the TV there, O.
PLT Okay, you've got about a foot clearance.
Now, keep your feet - -
SPT I've got big feet though, so watch out.
PLT How do you llke that O?
SPT Oh, you're (garble) okay. (garble) That's
pretty close. That's good. That's plenty good.
SC Yeah.
CDR Okay, depress the AM, translate to the
D-7 handrail with back towards M_DA and left arm towards DAS.
PLT AM at D-7. Can you get that between my
legs there Owen?
SPT It's clear your two little legs.
PLT Okay.
SPT It's out of your legs.
CDR Okay, get the tether box in and you can
either tether it to yourself, but Just as long as it's tethered
to Owen you can take it in your hand if you llke, and - -
PLT Wait a minute. You've got to go up and
make the trunnion connection first.
CDR That's exactly right. You've got the
box end and he's got the other end.
PLT That's right. And I'm keeping it.
CDR You bet.
PLT Okay.
CDR Translate along D-2 handrail leading with
the right shoulder to the AM trununion carrying the other end
from the box end.
PLT Hey, I'm doing Just that. Hey look at
the Sun come up.
SPT Oh that's pretty. There is a very bright
above us, planet -
PLT Um-hum.
SPT - - Just above the border between the black
and the (garble)
CDR Okay, let me read you another note.
It says caution MDA panels are very thin and could be bent
while moving into position. Carefully position self between
trunnion and MDA.
PLT Okay, I'm going past my friend Don Lind's
experiment here, my associate and back-up pilot taking care
not to rub on that. You want to get this kink out of your
umbilical here. Did you step from your umbilical in.
SPT A little bit.
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CC Negative.
PLT Okay.
PLT Okay, we've got 4 out of 4, Bruce.
CC Beautiful, Jack.
PLT Now what?
SPT Jack.
PLT Hey, where are we here? Look at it down
there. We' re over - -
SPT Okay, why don't you get back into the
FAS now so I can run through the rest of the procedure,
please.
CC Uh - -
PLT Hey guys, sure you don't have anything more I
can look at while I'm out here?
CC No, you're over South America, on the way
back in you might take a look and make sure that the sail
sample isn't blocking the window with respect to $230 photos
and aurora photos.
SPT - pointed back - -
PLT Well it's not blocking the window, it's
looking right at the sun and -
SPT Is the corner of it shaded there, Jack?
I couldn't tell.
PLT There is about 1 inch, there's a triangle
of the corner shaded and the - the - it's about 1 inch,
SPT (garble)
PLT yeah.
SPT Get back in the same way.
PLT A (garble) thing of interest - -
CC Break, break, break, break. A1 you don't
need to wait until Jack gets back to the FAS. You can go ahead
press on while he's moving in.
CDR One thing that might be of interest to
you Bruce, when we went to TAts control here a little while
ago, we did fire a few nibs of course. I can see them, the plumes
extend out about 20 feet or so and there was absolutely no
perturbation to either the sall or the parasol when the TAts
fired.
CC Okay, thank you, hat's a good data point.
CDR Okay, and I was in fact doing that Job. I
disconnected the CBs, connected the signal cable and now -
I got the CBs on and we'll see what happens.
SC (Garble)
CC Okay, we're doing on telemetry AI, and you're
1 degree off in X and 4 degrees in Y right now.
CDR Thank you.
PLT Boy, we can see the whole southern part
of South America. There's a very beautiful bay
down there we're crossing. You can see clear over to the Andes
and we're crossing the east coast of South America.
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PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension
with a 10-1/2 minute pass for you. Out.
PLT No, I got to get around here (garble) -
CDR -- (garble) rack in this site, Bruce. Every-
thing settled down and we're pressing on with the rest of the EVA.
SC (garble)
CC Roger AI. We saw a fracture of about 1 degree
and you're settling down nicely. We're dumping the data voice
tape recorder.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay. Let me get back in here and stuff
some of this stuff back - -
CDR All right.
PLT - - It's going to be a big spaghetti boom
The (garble) AI don't mind much but we don't like it.
PLT It's a good look of the cow-,and module I've had.
Well, see if I can figure out which plug is which here. That's
right. I'm looking up the quad A and what it is and some of the
insulation on the outside of the quads is sort of chipped away.
It looks like the quads all look to be in good shape and down
on quad B, the paint and stuff has chipped away, all around
the quad. The nozzles themselves, all look to be in good shape.
CDR Looks good. Say Houston. I think I'ii
float to the command module and turn off the PSM helium and fuel
manifold if that's okay with you.
CC Roger AI. That's good with us. Go ahead.
PLT Just a minute. I'ii be with you. I want
to get rid of this tool here so that it doesn't bang all over.
And no hurry. Just a straight drop - straight down into the
water from here. From about 235 miles. (Laughter)
PLT Come on and step down in it.
SPT It sure is. That's tremendous. Amazing view.
I'm out of hose.
MS Hey I'm (garble) work station yet.
SPT Just a minute, AI. Okay. Can I get more
on my pwn umbilicle now, Jack? And I'ii go on down to center
work station.
PLT That'll be fine up here.
SPT Okay. Number 9 umbilicle coming out there.
CDR Okay. Both switches are off and talkback
is verble in the command module.
CC Okay. We copy that, AI.
PLT AI, what were those settings again on TV
X, Y, Z?
SPT Okay. I'm down in the center work station
now, AI. And -
CC Jack, this is Houston. Over.
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82A door neither open nor closed. The tlmer's timed out,
we're going to reset the power from here and co_,_-and it.
Over.
CDR Okay, that's a good idea. We got the B
doors closed we think.
PLT B2 is not. 82B2 is still opened.
CC We have a minute until LOS here at
Vanguard. Next station contact in ii minutes at the Canaries
at 19:41. And for the CDR_ the window is closed. Out.
CDR The window's closed_ you mean the door's
closed or the head down window or whatever it is?
CC Roger, the last.
SPT Okay, B2 Just closed. Yeah, everything' s
closed now. Okay, did you have any cycled experiments?
CC Okay, CDR this is Houston. We have not
yet reenabled power on 80 - - Okay, CDE, Houston. All the
doors are closed. We show your configuration satisfactory.
Ove r.
CDR Okay, I think maybe somebody needs to
take a look at these talkbacks that are supposed to show up
on these. We've had about 3 or 4 time holder-uppers here
while we tried to figure out why the talkbacks didn't do
like the checklist. For example, 82A and B, instead of going
barber pole are presently in the white configuration. So,
it's probably that we - it was working right except the
checklist suggested that it go some other direction and
never get there.
SPT Okay.
CC Roger. See you over Canary.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 32 minutes
and 6 seconds Greenwich mean time. During this last pass
over the Vanguard tracking ship the crew indicated that they
were working up at the Sun end there - Owen Garrlott working
at the Sun end of the workshop near the SO82A and B instrument.
And at the very end of that pass the ground indicated that
the doors were closed on those solar telescopes. This is
Skylab Control. Our next acquisition of signal 9 minutes
and 25 seconds from now. The EVA is still in progress at
this point but nearing it's end. This is Skylab Control. ItVs
now 32 minutes 42 seconds after the hour.
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CDR (Garble)
SC (Garble)
CC We have a question, AI. They ought to all
be on. And for a TV camera thermal management, we'd like
you to do the following: on panel 202 in the airlock module,
television power circuit breaker, alrlock module, to OPEN,
and then allow the TV camera to cool down for 15 minutes,
and after it's cool, and when you desire, reclose that circuit
breaker on 202. This lets you inside to turn the camera
on and off and the crew outside need not be bothered with
it and you still have about 1.9 minutes left on the VTR. It's
your option. Over.
MS Okay.
PLT Thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger.
CDR (Garble) Okay, I Just kicked off the -
one for the AM.
CC Okay.
PLT (Laughter) How're you doing there, O?
Need a couple of (garble) ?
SPT One, two, three, four, and a nut.
PLT Yep.
SPT All right. (Garble) the nut taped down,
but the nut around here in under the tape.
PLT I know it. They' re awful hard to manage.
PLT With these clumsy gloves on.
PLT Am I going the right direction, Owen?
SPT Okay, you can close the S056 door if you
want to.
CDR (Garble)
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maybe you'd have a field for us from this CMG - I mean the
noun 20s in the CMC.
CC Okay, and AI. We want you to go to go to -
Before you get to 20, if you hit 20 without being there,
it'll give you a reset.
CDR Okay. I'ii watch it. It's got six
to go and I'ii get it about two or three before hand.
CC Correct that. It would go to TACs only
if you get out to 20 degrees.
SPT Okay. Understand. You know it's too
bad we didn't build this with just a little control stick
we bllp this thing and put it right back where we wanted it.
CC Amen. And we show 16 degrees now.
CDR It's moving up pretty fast (static).
CC Do it now, AI. Go to at hold TACs now.
PAO Skylab Control 19 hours 57 minutes and
8 seconds Greenwich mean time. That pass through Canary
Islands and Madrid shows the EVA is still in progress, very
near its end, probably in the last 20 to 30 minutes of the
EVA now. Owen Garriott was working at the Sun end of the
solar telescope continuing his work there. Apparently, he
has now completed his change out of film. And he is now
working on the second of two launch lock ramps. These are
devices used to restrain the doors that protect solar instru-
ments. The devices are used during launch, to keep those
doors from moving. But they were considered to have possibly
be causing some interference with the smooth opening and
closing of the doors. So for that reason, two of the launch
locks. One was taken off during the last EVA. SO55 door
launch ramp lock was taken off in the last EVA. During this
EVA, two of them scheduled SO56, and the SO82 launch locks
were to have been taken off. That SO56 door launch lock
was taken off. Owen Garriott indicated that he felt that
although it did appear to cause some binding, even without
the ramp locks, on the SO56 door, there continues to be
some jerkiness in the last 12 to 18 inches of the operation
of that door. Right at the end of the pass, the ground
instructed AI Bean to prepare for a TACs attitude maneuver.
They did get two TACs, thruster attitude control systems
firing. Those are small gas Jets that are used to keep
the attitude of the spacecraft properly alined. They did
get two firings right at the end of that pass and he was
instructed to prepare for continuation of that maneuver.
They believe that the maneuver's necessary because of the
EVA movement taking place on the crew - part of the crew
or possible venting. A slight X attitude change that will
be corrected by thruster attitude control systems firing.
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SC (Laughter)
CC You mean even on the - the struts on the
trunnion - on the deployment assembley and stuff llke that?
PLT Well, on the side of the MDA and it's back
to doing a little EVA light and it's right by the hatch - -
CC Yes.
PLT - - with a little birdcage over it. That
(garble) birdcage - - (Garble)
PAO Skylab Control 20 hours 44 minutes and
45 seconds Greenwich mean time. We had some difficulty
during that pass with our alr-to-ground line coming out
Air-to-ground was being received here in Mission Control
as you could see from that tape. That was a recording of
the pass over Honeysuckle. At the very beginning of that
pass, the - Jack Lousma indicated that the film exchange
had been completed, the ramps were off of both the ATM
instruments - that's SO56, and S082A, and at that point
Owen Garriott was re-installing the S149 that had to be
removed to allow open access to the ATM instruments. The
S149 was nearly re-installed at the end of that pass. We
expect our next acquisition of signal at this point, still
35-1/2 minutes away. We do expect that EVA will be com-
pleted well before the 35 minutes are up and there are
some indications it may be over, even now. That nominal
H-cage is a momentum procedure used to instruct the control
moment gyros to go back to normal operation. The H, of
course being a symbol for momentum. That means that at that
pont there should be no additional venting and there will
- the momentum procedure will not take care of moving of the
- during the EVA. That was to begin at 20:50 Zulu, approxi-
mately 5 minutes from now, and that would normally follow
the EVA rather than being done during it. So they do
expect that the next acquisition of signal, 34 minutes from
now, will show that EVA completed and the crew back inside
finishing up the post-EVA procedures. Everything seems to
be working very well. At the beginning of the pass, Jack
Lousma said - asked the ground if they were sure if they
didn't have something else the crew could do outside. He
said he wasn't at all in a hurry to get back in, that things
were so beautiful he really didn't want to go back inside.
But the ground informed him that they would like him back
inside so they can go back to solar inertial and continue
the mission. The maneuver to solar inertial was successful.
A1 Bean asked whether or not it seemed to be working
properly, he was concerned that perhaps there was a - some-
thing wrong with the attitude control system since it did
not return as he had expected it to. But the ground informed
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the hill.
CC You think.
PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours i0 minutes and
55 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have gone over the hill
at Honeysuckle. We're now out of range of the Honeysuckle
tracking station in Australia. Our next acquisition of signal
13 minutes and 9 seconds from now at Hawaii. We did a good-
night from spacecraft communicator, Dick Truly, to Owen
Garriott, who was giving a final report on his eating habits
for the day. They are finishing their evening meal. They
indicated they would be going straight to bed following the
evening meal. Tomorrow's activity aboard the spacecraft,
a new record to be set at 7:00 a.m. and 40 seconds tomorrow
central daylight time. That will make this the longest
Skylab mission and the longest mission - longest manned
spaceflight in history. That record will be broken on
ground track 64 descending as the spacecraft travels towards
the southeast, about 2,000 miles off the coast of South
America, in the Pacific Ocean. Tomorrow's activity calls for
a good deal of time on the solar telescope, a total of more
than 7 hours of data taking. That solar telescope activity
divided among all three crew members as it normally is. The
Commander, to spend most of the afternoon tomorrow on the
solar telescope. Also scheduled for tomorrow, are runs of
the MO92, MO93 experiments. Both Pilot Jack Lousma and
Owen Garrlott will be running the MO92, MO93 tomorrow as
subjects. M131, one part of that, M131, motion sensitivity
experiment to be run. Science Pilot, Owen Garriott, will
be the subject of the first run on the second run to be
Pilot, Jack Lousma's subject. Also scheduled for tomorrow
is another check of the CBRMs. This is a test to find out
the depth of discharge on those CBRMs. Numbers 5 and 8 will
be checked tomorrow. Earlier investigations of the CBRM
degradation showed that they were down approximately 8 amps,
that's rather substantial degradation, although, it's not
substantial enough to cause any worry, since the power capa-
city of the spacecraft is rather good right now. But there
will be a test of two more of the CBRMs continuing tomorrow
during the nightime passes as they let those discharge to
as low a level as they can safely be discharged. And then
make readings on them. That activity described as housekeep-
ing 70-Y, will be handled by Science Pilot, Owen Garriott,
and by the other members of the crew. They will be dividing
the activities as they go through night time passes during
the day tomorrow. Wake-up time tomorrow morning 6:00 a.m.
central daylight time. And we do not expect to hear from
the crew until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow. This is Skylab Control at
13 minutes and 50 seconds after the hour. Our next broadcast
tomorrow morning before 6:00 a.m. wake-up.
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CC Thank you.
CDR And understand you wanted to mark i or mark 2
on TV?
CC Stand by i. We understand that you are not
using the mark 2 very much.
CDR Oh, we use it sometimes. We use them both.
CC That's mark 2, AI.
CDR That's what I thought. Okay and we're running
right now.
CC And while I've got you, one other question.
When you checked out the lights on the caution and warning panel,
did you enable the switches that were inhibited to check their
lights or did you just leave them inhibited?
CDR I enabled them, checked them all, and then
turned those back off.
CC Okay.
CC And we're a minute from LOS. We'll see you
over the Vanguard at 17:00. That will be an hour and 15 minutes.
And Owen, we'd like H-alpha i in AUTO.
SPT Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal through
the tracking station at Ascension Island. Normally in 38 minutes
we would be tracking through the station at Guam Island. However,
that maximum elevation at that station is only 2 degrees, and
unless it is an unusual circumstance, anything below 3 degrees
is skipped. Therefore next station contact will be the tracking
ship Vanguard again in an hour and 14 minutes. At 15:46 Greenwich
mean time, Skylab Control.
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CC Okay.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. We'll see
you over the Vanguard in 30 minutes at 18:38.
PAO This is Sky lab Control. Loss of signal through
the tracking station on Guam Island. Next station in 28 minutes
will be the tracking ship Vanguard. And on the next rev the
Ascension Island station will drop out, and we'll start picking
up Canary Islands and Madrid tracking stations. As the ground
track moves up over north Africa and Europe, southern Europe.
During this Just completed Guam pass, A1 Bean was advised
by the ground to stuff an article of used clothing into
the area, where the CSM command service module water glycol
leak was noticed recently, to act as sort of a wick to sop up
the cooling fluid. Back in 27 minutes, at 18:10 Greenwich mean
time, Skylab Control.
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CC Okay.
CDR We're going to be through truncating it
there, and I wouldn't reschedule this one until we get a better
handle on where that hole is.
CC Okay, we'll be handing over here in
5 seconds, AI. And just pick Out the best hole you can,
maybe to the south of active regions 93 and 02. Pick out
your own best hole.
CDR Okay, I did, but it's not satisfactory.
CC Roger.
CDR Houston, are you there?
CC Yeah, we got another 3 minutes, AI.
CDR Okay, well, I'm picking up on this
coronal hole here the next orbit. So I'ii get out my little
Polaroid camera at the beginning of the next orbit and try
to get a better handle on it. And my suggestion would be
that - but they'll have to think about it - that I'd go back
and do step 3 again on the new place that I find, if I
find a good one. And then that means that we wouldn't
be able to do something else in that orbit. So they might
want to think about it. I'ii wait to hear from you, though.
And I might be able to get it better with my Polaroid picture.
CC Okay, great. And we'll be seeing you over
Guam before you start the next daylight pass. At about an
hour and a half ago we saw a reset on the alrlock module
time reference system. We're wondering if by chance anyone
could have hit the 24 hour reset switch. That's in the
STS panel on 212 about an hour and a half ago.
CDR Let me check with my crewmates.
CC It's a momentary.
CDR Owen gave it a hit. Jack gave it a
hit.
CC Okay, that's fine, thanks.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll
pick you up over Guam in 25 minutes at 19:38.
CC And if you're seeing any erratic time
indications on the TRS there we'd like you to put that on
channel B, so that we can pursue that problem.
CC Okay, put it on channel A.
CDR Was that for the PLT?
CC That's for anybody and we were also wondering
why you used the reset switch?
CC We're going LOS here, we'll see you in
25 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of signal
through tracking station at Madrid, Spain. Next station in
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25 minutes will be the final Guam Island station pass of the
day, cutting down across the gap between New Guinea the
Island of New Guinea, and the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia,
tracking station. First pass over that station today.
Twenty-flve minutes to Guam and at 19:13 Greenwich mean time,
Skylab Control.
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CC That's correct.
SPT What mission day would you think that
falls on?
CC It's going to be mission day 31, Owen.
Like day after tomorrow.
SPT Mission day 31, halfway through a
59-day flight, huh?
CC Well, it turns out that lift off was
day lj which made the numbers come out that way. And the -
And splashdown turns out to be on day 60, is the way the
numbers fall out.
SPT I see. Okay. Thank you.
SPT Helps me with my arithmetic.
PLT You know the Professor, he's just used to
working on the back of an envelope. So, we got to check him
every once and awhile.
CC Well, we need the checking. So keep
it up.
SPT Well, on top of that, Phll Shaffer never
makes a mistake.
CC Who said that?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about I minute
from LOS. We'd llke to check and find out if the XUV monitor
door talkback is grey. We did not have an open hit down here.
CDR That's strange. I was using it a
minute ago and the door was open. Was closing and opening.
CC Okay. We're going to drop out here about
4 minutes and I'll call you at Madrid, A1.
CDR Good. X'm opening it now. Has been open;
I've been using it.
CC Roger. Understand.
CDR Okay. It's open now. May have just
got a funny bit.
CC Roger. We concur with you now, here on
the ground. Our TM looks good.
CDR Maybe I hit it when I went to integrate.
CC Roger, A1.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 16 minutes
and 14 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are now out of
range of the Bermuda tracking station. A pass over the
north Atlantic, that will take us to within range of the
Madrid, Spain tracking station in approximately 2 minutes
and 32 seconds from now, that Madrid pass to last approxi-
mately 8-1/2 minutes. During this last pass, spacecraft
communicator Dick Truly informed the crew that they will
reach the midpoint of their planned 59-day mission tomorrow
evening. That's at 11:48:25 p.m. central daylight time.
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The time he gave them was mission day of year 239, 04:48:25
Greenwich mean time. Owen Garrlott giving them a hard time
about the fact that it will occur on mission day-31, although
it's the midpoint of a 59-day mission. That's bit of inconsist-
ency due to the fact that the launch day is actually midway
in day I. And they will be Just beginning an official mission
day, although it will not actually be the 31st day that they
have been in space. They have now been in space for 28 days
and approximately i0 hours. And that is the record for
the longest space flight. They did surpass that record
earlier today. Midpart of the mission, again, 11:48:25: p.m.
central daylight time, tomorrow evening, Sunday evening.
This is Skylab Control, we have the line live for air-to-
ground through Madrid to begin in about a minute and 20 seconds
an 8-1/2 minute pass.
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something.
CC Okay.
CDR On the C152, here, 06, C152 is in that
50, not 00, C149.
CC Roger, AI.
CDR Okay. Flight Plan tomorrow, tell them
that's a good Flight Plan. It looks like we've got a good
day off for everybody. Owen's got some time. We've got
some good housekeeping. I'm glad they planned it the way
they did. It'll give us all time to get our clothes out and
things like that. So, that's a good plan and we'll pull
that off tomorrow. Our request is, that you don't call us
tomorrow morning. We'll set our own little alarm clocks
up here. Only Jack has to get up early and I have to get
up next. And everybody else can get up when they want, and
nothing's time critical for quite awhile, so don't call us,
please, unless you have something, of course. Shopping
list: nothing. Inoperable equipment: GB number one, as
you know. Unscheduled stowage item: nothing. So that's
the evening report unless you have some questions.
CC Roger, AI. I've got two or three
things that I'd like to talk to you about. And we might
as well do it now. We - That's fine on the wakeup call.
We had planned on calling you at 12:00 o'clock tomorrow.
But, I'm sure you guys can get the right people up when you
want them. So we will not call you in the morning. We
did want to remind Owen that the special specific gravity
check within MllO, tomorrow, is due. And as long as it's
taken on the first void, it can be done, actually, accomplished
either before or after the urine test, his choice. And
I've got two or three evening questions that I thought I'd
pass up to you.
CDR Fire away.
CC Okay. This is from ATM. The tempera-
tures on S052, and SO54 both cameras were high after
installation during the EVA. We're wondering, how long
were these cameras on the VC tree at the SAS work station
prior to installation?
SPT Well, I was just stopping a moment to
think. But, we took them out the night before, and the
following day they were installed. And so, it had to have been
less than an hour.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you very much.
Next question has the SO54 film been stowed?
SPT It's in the command module A-8.
CC Great. Next question is, it's going
to be a few ho - -
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was a relatively short period of time and should not have affected
the temperature which read a little bit high when they
installed it yesterday. Also some information on a speck
that's been identified on - believed to be on the occulting
disk of the SO52, white light coronagraph, one of the solar
instruments. The occulting disk is a small device about the
size of a dime, used to block out the Sun, so that corona
can be studied by the white light coronagraph. They were
uncertain - They still remain uncertain at this time where
that speck is, whether it's on the occulting disk or floating
in the area, or attached to some other items in the equipment.
A similar problem did appear on the S052 occulting disk during
the first mission. That was corrected by using a camels-halr
brush and during one of the Skylab ErAs, during that first mission
that a brush was used to brush avery very tiny speck of material
which was interferring with the photography of the corona
around the Sun. Yesterday, during the EVA, Owen Garriott
did report that there were a number of paint chips floating
in the area, as a result of removing the ramp locks on SO56
and SO82A, two of the instruments which had launch locking
devices to keep the doors from moving during the launch. Those
devices were taken off, but to do so, Owen Garriott had to
remove screws which were painted. And a number of paint
chips did come off. That is possibly one of the problems
of the SO52 occulting disk. No way of knowing at this point.
And also, no way of knowing how long it will be before that
problem might be solved. That does inferrer with the
data gathering, but does conclude the damage that - -
This is Skylab Control we're one minute from acquisition of
signal at Madrid. And we'll have the line up for air-to
ground at Madrid.
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about 40 degrees at the rate it's going now and the trip point
is about 38.
CDR Okay, understand, and I - in other words
you don't anticipate us having to break out our US heaters
and all that other business.
CC Negative, _right now we do not AI.
CDR Okay, good.
CDR Hey, we're going to go and set our clock
to day 238, if that's okay with y'all.
CC Roger, we concur with that and also AI,
we've upllnked a housekeeping 70 Zebra message. It's in the
teleprinter now and that's the PCG test that you're going to
be doing in the morning. You might want to take a look at
that and I have a few news items for you here. We still got
about 4 minutes left to Goldstone.
CDR Good we enjoy them every night.
CC Stand by - okay here we go. First thing
is - first thing first. I want to tell you a little bit about
Fred, he's made real good progress _day, his _ndltion is
stable he's taking food orally now. And all the intravenous
catheters have been removed. And so we think he's improving
very much.
CC And I'Ii go ahead and catch some of these
news items. Authorities discovered to the horror of many
Frenchmen today that the equivalant of 2 million bottles of
fake Bordeauz wine were in the cellars of famous wine making
region and that's being persued very carefully in France. A
500 pound bell from the sunken U.S.S. Houston, was delivered
Friday, to the U. S. Embassador in Indonesia. Also handed
over in the Embassy ceremony were a machine gun and a telescope
from the crusier which the Japanese sank in the Battle _ the
Java Sea in 1942; in which about 500 of the Houston's crew were
lost. A group of Indonesian frogmen found the wreck last June.
General Omar Bradley, the nationts only five star General has
been moved out of the intensive care unit of a Los Angeles
hospital. A spokesman said that Bradley continued to show
satslfactory progress. The Skylab news today is Primarily
centered around you breaking the manned space flight record.
References are being made to the old record set by Pete Conrad,
Joe Kerwin and Paul Weitz. Other milestones being mentioned
are the mission mid point which you reach tomorrow night and
of course the fact that you plan to gomore _an double the
old record. And incidentally at the time you cross the mid point
you would have traveled 12 million miles. Nineteen year old
Joyce Ann Koctch wanted to be an Army MP but flnding the
quota for women to be full, she is _ttling for being the Army's
first woman paratrooper, although she will never see combat if
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