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SL-IV MC-202/I
Time: 13:09 CST, 07:19:09 G_IT
11/22/73
SPT Roger.
SPT Oh, boy. There's the whole state of
Florida.
PLT IT11 tell you, in this position, it's
kind of hard to see.
SPT There it is. Boy, you can see all the
way down the eastern seaboard.
PLT Yeah.
SPT - Like they're having a relatively good
day up there in the northeast. Close to the coastline. Clear.
PAO Skylab Control, Houston; 1 hour 32 min-
utes -
SPT All three are closed.
SPT I'll tell you what, it's sitting right
in front of me. What roll do they recommend?
SPT Well maybe - I'll tell you what. I'm - Heck
you know, it's right between the handrails which we use to
hold on here. It's very - you know, it's centered right in
front of me. Let me take the - why don't you just read the
procedures on and if I have trouble, well, we'll roll them.
Counterclockwise, in work. Okay. Then we'll see if (garble)
up on it a little bit. Okay.
PLT It's 3.65 and no light.
SPT Stand by on mine. Okay, that latch is lifted.
SPT Wait a minute, wait a minute. Hold the
phone. Okay, go ahead.
PLT Boy, it's a real site. I'm looking into
the H-alpha filter which is reflecting my image off of the
ima=e off of my visor on the whole ATM.
CC Sounds beautiful.
PLT A camera for this one. I'm overlapping
I see three overlapping four - overlapping images because of
the curvature of my visor. Didn't go very far, did you, Jerr?
SPT That H-alpha filter, when I move off to
the side, I can see just a little dust on it. You know, a
little bit of reflection of small particles on the surface
of it, but I would say it's clean, but I can see that small
dust reflection. It looks as though there's several different
sizes of particles too. Some relatively large, which I can
see and then a relatively uniform smattering of smaller ones.
Okay. In work. Burce, if any of the guys in the back room want any
descriptions out here, I'ii be glad to give it to them.
CC Okay. I'm sure they're all ears back
there.
SPT Let them ask the questions.
CC You seem to be answering them all so
far.
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SL-IV MC-204/I
Time: 13:58 CST 07:19:58 _T
11/22/73
What would have been helpful is to have a - the pip pin which
we put through the fitter. So that it would snap without
ever hav _g to have the other snaps in there, so that we could
just put the pip pin through. And it doesn't matter whether this
thing float a qua _er of an inch off the plate at all. It
isn't going to be at the right angle, l'm affraid in this
process there is a couple of these things which have been
touched.
CC Okay, do you verify that the assembly
is clocked properly and the word we're getting down here
is you should be able to put the pip pin all the way through
and hold it in place with just the pip edge if you
push hard enough on it. Over.
PLT Okay, let me I got a good chest tether
up here Bruce. Which it's right next to the work. And go.
Now maybe you guys can answer something for me. On that
pip pin which I push in the center there, and release right
in the - the center release which releases the balls at the
end. Now _f I if I push down on them and let up real
quick will I expect to see that pip pin come roaring back
out at me. Or should I try to push on them. The wider part
around the -
CC I - -
PLT It release.
CC You should try pushing on the white part
as you release the release plunger.
PLT Okay, I'II try that Bruce.
CC And we got about 30 seconds to LOS.
Your next station contact in 4 minutes is Guam at 20:14.
And if you continue having trouhles with it, why just go ahead
and tape the thing and lets press on to other activities.
PLT I'm with you.
PLT A second. (Laughter) I can't even see the
end of the tape.
PAO Skylab Control Houston 20 hours ii minutes
Greenwich mean time, 2 hours 27 minutes, 50 seconds since the
start of the EVA. We've had loss of signal with Carnarvon
coming up next will be Guam in 2 minutes 30 seconds.
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SL-IV MC-205/I
Time: 14:IlCST 07:20:ii_T
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SL-IV MC206/I
Time: 14:36 CST, 07:20:36 GMT
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SL-IV MC-207/I
Time: 14:45CST 07:20:45G_T
11/22/73
SPT Okay.
PLT Okay Ed.
PLT (garble)
SPT Take it easy there. Okay, you've got it
all out.
PLT Well now have a tether for the jumper box.
SPT Wait just a minute I_ve got a EVA wrist
cutters here. What I'm trying to do right now is to roll
up and clamp my umbilical.
PLT Hey I've got one too let me -
SPT Okay, ready anytime you are Bill.
Send her up.
PLT Okay, now I'm going to bring it out and
hold it without a tether.
SPT Let me move in there a little bit for
that kind of a operation. Okay, come on over this way.
Just stay where you are. Hang on. Neg. it. Hold on to it
a different angle on it. There you go hold it - now hold
it still. Okay, let go.
PLT Okay?
SPT Yes.
PLT Right there Ed.
SPT Okay.
PLT Yes, itts in work.
SPT Okay that's - we might be able to use
that extra tether. Okay, now let's lock both of them.
PLT Okay itts complete.
PLT Okay, stand by it's in work.
PLT I got to change wrist tethers here it's
taking me -
SPT I'll tell you Bill you've got to have
some experience when you get in the great out doors there.
You really realize you're up. In here it still looks like
a window until you get out there at that Sun end.
PLT And I go first if I recall.
SPT Yes, you do.
SPT Itts silver it may be gold now. I think
I see a gold wraping around it.
SPT How are you doing there Bill?
PLT I'm just trying to get the tether loose.
PLT Okay I'm looking at 3.63 and no lights.
PLT Okay, 3.65 no lights. Okay, I'm coming
out.
SPT Let me guide your feet. Okay. Get your
bearings here Bill. And we've got your umbilical hose
snagged here. It's around the front of you - just a minute
that's your umbilical there. Okay, now just pick your left
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Time: 14:45CST 07:20:45_IT
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arm off - wait until you get on the handrail. Get over hare on
that 15 bring you right hand over here there you go.
Okay, Bill go ahead.
PLT Okay.
SPT Take it nice and slow Bill. And
watch that thing it gets wrapped around very easily.
PLT Okay.
SPT Bill read on a little bit will you
Jerry, so we can see what is coming up. Okay.
through.
PLT I will. I have a solution. _t it and
coming out. Okay I've got one little wiffler deal on this
LSU which I'd like to get out of here first. Make sure it
doesn't get okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of signal
through the Merritt Island launch area tracking station.
First Vanguard pass of the afternoon coming up in 8 minutes.
Meanwhile it appears that the Skylab IV crew are gaining
on the time line. They've begun to translate down to the
S193 antennna area for their repair job down there. The
S193 inspection and repair job will have pilot Bill Pogue
doing the actual mechnical work while Science Pilot Ed
Gibson assists and actually hold Pogue in place. The work
will take place on the bottom of the space staion, on the
Earth fac _g side as opposed to ATM film change out which
is on top of the Skylab Workshop, the side towards the sun.
The antenna in question is located on the multiple docking
adapter close to the workshop. For todays repair work
Pilot Pegue will be called or refered to as EV-2 and Science
Pilot _bson is Ev-I. While Commander Jerry Carr continues
to assist his fellow crewmen from within the multiple docking
adater, reviewing checklist procedures and montoring critical
life supports systems and vehicle statis. Pogue will first
inspect and clean the S193 Potentionmeter or pots for sh_rt_
through which electrical signals pass. It is possible some
contamination has lodged in this area and the crew has a
special nylon brush to clean the area. When this cleaning
is complete Commander Cart will turn on the Earth Resources
experiment package power. The two EVA crewmen will then
observe the movement of the antenna. If the antenna
does not drive to its proper position then the crew will
move to the next step, inspection of the flex harness.
If upon instection the harness is damaged the crew will
pin the roll and pitch gimbal, and then install the
disabled plug. In the event the harness is undamaged
Pogue with Gibson holding on to him will install the
jumper box. If this works the antenna with Commander
Cart activating the instrument from within the
multiple docking addapter should drive to 00 degrees.
These series of repairs should take about 2-1/2 hours;
total EVA time right now is 3 hours and 16 minutes since
the hatch opening. Now 21:00 Greenwich mean time; 4
minutes and 40 seconds away from reacquisition through
tracking ship Vanguard. The 2 EVA crewmen are in the
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SL-IV _IC209/i
Time: 16:13 CST, 07:22:13 _T
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SL-IV MC211/I
Time: 16:40 CST, 07:22:40 GMT
11/22/73
PLT Okay.
SPT Let's hope we can get that mother back
on a little easier than we got - the other one came off.
SFT Okay, you want to get the jumper box
on the tether. Okay. Okay, we're hustling. Okay, now let's
see, the tether and I'll take the - okay lock it. Okay,
you got it.
PLT (Garble).
SPT It's all yours, you want me to hold some
of the - -
PLT Wait I didn't get the tether locked°" "
SFT Okay, I can always get you_ don't worry
about that.
PLT (LauFhter).
SPT - - go.
PLT Okay. Got my feet there pull -
SPT Watch the horn. Watch the horn.
PLT I got it.
SPT Okay, now you want to come on back -
come on back toward me and I'll hold your feet. _#ait, wait,
wait, wait, wait.
PLT (Garble) umbilical.
SPT There we go. Yeah, that's over the
head. Okay, let me just turn you around this way Bill.
SPT Okay, get her on there.
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SL-IV MC212/I
Time: 16:45 CST, 07:22:45 _T
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SL-IV HC213/I
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SL-IV _IC215/i
Time: 17:47 CST 07:23:47 GMT
ii/22/73
port at 00:17.
CC CDR, this is Houston all the spacecraft
systems are looking very good. Over.
SPT Yeah, take it easy Bill.
SPT You want to try something different or
you.
PLT No I almost got it the last time.
SPT You just had the top cocked towards me.
SPT Thank you.
SPT Oops, rotate it a little counterclockwise
A little counterclockwise I think - -
PLT Well there's one way to do it bring it under -
SPT You want to have it reset so it's almost
cocked ready to go in.
PLT Yeah.
SPT Okay.
PLT Okay, I got it now, if you hold me
steady.
SPT Okay, I'm trying.
PLT No, missed.
SPT It happens, just happens, now back it off
slow and try it again. Back it off a little bit more counter-
clockwise.
PLT It is.
SPT Okay, now _ry it again then.
SPT Hey, hey I think you done it.
PLT Good, beautiful. Got it babe.
SPT Is that all the way down now?
PLT Yeah, it's all the way on.
SPT Okay s take wrist tether cutter off. We'll
back out of the way and see whether this whole ballgame
works.
SPT Away from the MDA.
CC Roger you're configured pitch off
on the disabled part.
CDR It is not labeled. Oh, yes it is too.
SPT That's what we're doing right now
Bruce.
CDR Pitch off is verified.
CDR Let me get back up to - -
PAO This is Skylab Control, apparently
Gibson and Pogue are progressing rather well in getting
the S193 antenna repairs accomplished. They're in whats
called step number 19 of there so-called road map for repair.
Which is installation of the disable plug in the pitch
axis. They move on into roll axis test. We'll be back
in 21 minutes for tracking ship Vanguard pass, 6 hours
and 13 minutes into the EVA. And at 23:56 GMT Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC216/I
Time: 18:15 CST, 08:00:15 GMT
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SL-IV MC-217/I
Time: 18:39 CST 08:00:39 GMT
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SL-IV _IC-228/I
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SL-IV MC236/I
Time: 12:17:CST, 08:18:17 GMT
11/23/73
that with the other two or will you he doing your 131 earlier?
Over,
CDR No, let's see. I'll try to not do my
131. I don'£ think I'm supposed to do that within an hour of
eating, am I?
CC That's correct.
CDR Okay, so as soon as that hour's up, we'll
try to get started on 131 and then get the other one done too.
CC Okay. We copy.
CDR We got nothing done on the overage food
reorganization mainly because of the other lost time and of
course, when we ask for private calls, that costs us each
about i0 minutes or so.
CC Okay. So I guess to recap, you've gottea
the housekeeping items pretty much for the whole day taken
care of and the SPT's gotten his PT out of the way and you're
coming up on lunch time. Is that a fair ascessment?
CDR Yeah, that's right Bruce, and I'ii tell you
what. Let's tell the FAO in the future please, do not schedule
heavy exercise or any kind of exercise right after a meal.
That's happened about three or four times now and there's just no
way anyone of us is going to get on the bike and pedal 4 or
5000 watts with having just eaten a big meal.
CC Okay. We copied all that and we're going
over the hill here, 40 seconds to LOS. Next station contact
in 9 minutes through Ascension Island at 18:45.
CDR Okay, Bruce and as soon as I get a couple
of moments free, I'm going to try to sit down in front of the
tape recorder and try to give you a few bits of information
on scheduling and things like that and where we seem to be
running into time problem.
CC Okay. I expect next site or two, we'll
have a revision for the - to the Flight Plan for you and we'll
talk to you over Ascension.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
PAO $kylah Control. Greenwich mean time,
18 hours, 37 minutes. We've lost the signal at Bermuda
tracking station. Next acquisition will be Ascension in
7 minutes and 50 seconds. Earlier in this pass, Pilot Pogue
discussing with CAP COMM Bruce McCandless the 55-millimeter
lens for the Nikon camera which he's scheduled to place in
the command module window for the first photography of the
mission of Comet Kohoutek. Three set - three separate ex-
posures are set for this afternoon at Greenwich mean time
20:48. The first exposure of 60 seconds, will take a exposure
of the star field. The second exposure, of 60 seconds, of 2
minutes_ will take a picture of the Comet and a third exposure, 60
SL-IV MC236/4
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TIME: 13:3(9 CST, 08:19:30 GMT
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Time: 13:53 CST 08:19:53 GMT
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SL-IV MC240/2
Time: 13:53 CST 08:19:53 GMT
11/23/73
CC Okay beautiful.
PAO Skylab Control Greenwich mean time
20 hours, 12 minutes with loss of signal at the Texas MLA
tracking station. We will have a long LOS on this pass.
Next acquisition will be Goldstone 1 hour and 18 minutes
from now. A Vanguard pass was scheduled however the elevation
is very low, 1.6. Next acquisition Goldstone 1 hour 18 minutes.
Pilot Bill Pogue should be near completion of set up of the
35 millimeter camera with a 55 millimeter lens to begin the
first photography of the Kohoutek, comet Kohoutek. Passage
of the comet Kohoutek near the Earth-Sun system late next
month offers a rare opportunity to observe and photograph
a comet through such a long period of its approach and retreat.
One Skylab IV experiment recently added to the array of experiments
that will scan the comet is the 233 Kohoutek photometric
photography. The experiment uses a 35 millimeter camera
SL-IV MC240/I
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SL-IV MC243/I
Time: 17:(17 CST, 08:23:07 GMT
11/23/73
day it means you're running to the STS all the time to get
things done when you're trying to run other experiments.
CDR Roger.
SPT Say, Story, when you think we'll be
coming around (garble) attended ATM ops?
CC It'll be about - that'll slip us one
day here Ed, that'll be on mission day 12 we'll be getting
to that.
SPT Okay, thank you Story.
CC And we're about 20 seconds from LOS.
We'll see you over the Vanguard in 20 minutes at 23:33.
And I'll be dumping the data dump recorders there.
CDR Thank you Story. In our (garble) observations
today on 131 we saw the subject tend to sllp into 133 very
easily.
CC Yes sir. That's a good observation. It's
been noticed in past. While I got you there, did Bill get
the S233 ops done?
CDR Stand by.
CC We're going over the hill. We'll
catch you at the Vanguard.
PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours 16 minutes
and 23 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now out of range of the Goldstone tracking antenna. And
we're 16-i/2 minutes from our next acquisition at Vanguard.
Unfortunately at the very end of that pass, Spacecraft
Communicator Story Musgrave did ask whether or not the
comet Kohoutek photography had been completed and Commander
Carr reported that he would check with Bill Pogue. He said
stand by and that was the last we heard from them. We
probably will get an answer on that in another 16 minutes
at Vanguard. This is Skylab Control at 16 minutes and
54 seconds after the hour.
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SL-IV MC 244/1
TIME: 17:32 CST, 08:23:32 GMT
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SL-IV MC245/I
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Time: 20:17 CST 09:02:17 GMT
11/23/73
CC Okay, Jerr.
CDR That about covers it, Story. We didn't
have any Flight Plan deviations other than the realtime
changes made with you and us. I might report that the food
reconfiguration is coming along very nicely now. Bill is
working on his photo and film situation, and getting a good
inventory on that, and Ed has spent quite a bit of time
tidying up the MDA and getting ready for solar observing.
CC Okay, sounds good. And we're sort of
surprised by this momentum buildup. Could you verify that
you haven't started housekeeping command 4 yet, the fuel cell
purge.
CDR That's affirmative. I have not started
that yet.
CC Okay. Now we're not seeing any vents at
all, but we are seeing the momentum build up a little bit.
Could you verify you've done nothing else which could create
a vent?
CC Trash airlock or anything like that?
CDR No Story. As far as we know there have
been no vents. There hasn't been anything going on that
would require any kind of a vent.
CC Okay. That's our feeling too. I guess
we're just learning how to operate with two CMGs.
CDR Okay.
CC And we're going LOS here in about 15 seconds.
Vanguard will be coming up in 25 minutes with your medical
conference, and we'll be dumping the data voice recorders
there.
CDR Okay. We'll see ya.
PAO Skylab Control at 2 hours 26 minutes and
31 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station now
out of range of Hawaii. Our next acquisition 23 minutes and
18 seconds from now will be at Vanguard. That is the scheduled
medical conference for the evening, and we would not expect
to have any live conversation during the Vanguard pass, however
we will come up in advance of it in the event that the medical
officer should complete his session before the pass is through.
This is Skylab Control. We're 23 minutes from our next
acquisition. It is now 27 minutes after the hour.
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SL-IV MC249/I
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SL-IV MC250/3
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SL-IV MC250/2
Time: 21:03 CST, 09:03:03 GMT
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SL-IV MC255/I
Time: 08:29 CST, 09:14:29 GMT
11/24/73
home and industry. In the JSC news, you and your families took
up the front page of the Roundup. The Carr, Gibson, and Pogue
family photos occupy the front page along with news of your
spectacular launch and stories about Kohoutek and gypsy moth.
In sports on Thanksgiving Day, Notre Dame beat the Air Force.
Texas defeated the Aggies, yeah. Washington Redskins skinned
the Lions, and the Cowboys fell to the Miami Dolfins, 14-7.
Also, on Turkey Day, number 2, Alabama defeated LSU, 21 to 7.
Today, Oklahoma claimed their number i and Flight says he
concurs with that after trouncing Nebraska 27 to nothing.
And I can't find any funnies.
CDR Hey, Crip. Thanks for the news. Appreciate
hearing a little bit about our home.
CC Rog, rog. Some of the - -
CDR Looks like the folks up north are getting
quite a bit of snow. It looks very cold.
CC That makes me glad I'm down south. Some
of the controllers in the room said I was the funnies when I
was reading the news.
CDR You are kind of strange but I didn't want
to mention it.
CC Thanks. I need some support.
CDR Try to get even for that reveille you gave
us this morning, Crip. That was a nerve jangler.
CC I thought you'd appreciate that. Owen
said it sounded like Marines doing close order drill.
CDR I'll get Owen for that.
CC I think Jack took care of him. Jerry, you
might be interested Bill Bullock. Said he's been trying to
scrounge up some MG parts for you in LA. They haven't been
successful yet. Going to have to start looking in England next.
CDR Say again, Crip.
CC Said Bill's said he's been trying to find
some parts for your little sports car but he hasn't been suc-
cessful out on the west coast. He said he's going to have to
England next, I guess.
CDR Son of a gun% Wouldn't think they'd be
that hard to find.
CC Oh well, he's got to have some kind of
excuse to keep going out the west coast, I guess.
CDR Rog.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you again over Honeysuckle at 15:22, that's about
36 minutes away and if you guys will give INCO a NuZ update
while we're gone, he would appreciate it.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time 14 hours,
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SL-IV MC-256/i
Time: 09:21 CST 09:15:21 GMT
11/24/73
got - got you for 6 minutes here. We've got a good long
Hawaii pass coming up and then we got a Stateside pass, so
there's plenty of time - any time that you guys like to we
can discuss it.
CDR Okay. We'll give you a call. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you again over Hawaii in ii minutes at 15:42,
1542.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 15 hours
32 minutes. We've had loss of signal at the Honeysuckle
tracking station. Next acquisition in 9 minutes 25 seconds
at Hawaii. The crew is well into their postsleep activities
for today. Pilot Pogue should be about complete with working
on the portable water tank. Getting it ready for filling it
with Nitrogen to be used for the S201 experiment when it's
used. When stowed the S201 camera must be protected from
cabin air humidity by sealing the canister and flushing it
with dry nitrogen. The work that Pilot Pogue is doing on this
operation is in preparation of use of the $201 experiment.
For breakfast this morning, the crew will be on their high
energy bar diet with Commander Jerry Carr and Science Pilot
Gibson eating the high energy bars along with flake bar or
crispy bar or chocolate chip bar along with a - a can of
appricots for breakfast.
PAO Next acquisition will be Hawaii in 7 minutes
55 seconds at Greenwich mean time 15 hours 33 minutes. This
is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC257/i
TIME: 09:40 CST, 09:15:40 GMT
11/24/73
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SL-IV MC258/I
Time: 10:].3 CST, 09:16:13 GMT
11/24/73
PLT Negative.
CC Okay. Fine. Thank you.
PLT Are there other windows during the day?
CC Yeah, I - it's - we've got another down
on your shopping llst at 23:06. If you get a chance, you
might - might try it there. We'll get - get somebody - -
PLT Get garble) to see if I can find the
thing.
CC Okay, fine. We'll get somebody to give
you a reminder.
PLT Sure appreciate it.
CC Yeah, Okay. There also is a pad that
you've got onboard that might help you locate it.
PLT Roger. I get the maps and see if we have it
located as far as where it is in the constellation.
CC (Garble.)
PLT (Garble.)
CC We're going over the hill, but you should
be able to see it on any - any nightside there.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
16 hours 32 minutes. Discussion on the previous Canary per-
Ascension pass concerning work by Science Pilot Ed Gibson
on checking out the CBRM, Charger Battery Regulator Module.
There are 18 on board the spacecraft which work in - off the
ATM solar- the four solar array panels on the Apollo Telescope
Mount. CBRM 3 on the first mission, went out of order as
well as did CBRM 15, but, as you may recall, Commander Pete
Conrad during one of the last EVAs on the first mission, tapped
the CBRM 15 from the outside of the vehicle and it came back
on line. Today's checks - are routine checks to be made of
all the electrical power systems aboard the spacecraft.
Today, they will do CBRM number i0, then followed by acheck on
CBRM number 18. Later in the day, they plan to do a check on
PCG number 6. This is Power Conditioning Group unit number
6. There are eight of these aboard. These work in parallel with
the workshop solar array panel, providing power to the space-
craft. Pilot Pogue was asked if he was able to get the
photographs this morning of comet Kohoutek through the command
module window. He reported negative, he did not do that.
Threre is another window. Later today at Greenwich mean
time 23:06, the comet will rise in the sky, and at 23:11 a
1-minute exposure is scheduled; at 23:15, a 2-minute exposure
is scheduled of the comet and again at 23:16, a 1-minute exposure
of the ca - of the comet using the $233 35-millimeter camera
placed in the command module window. Next acquisition will
be Carnarvon in 22 minutes and 35 seconds. This is Skylab
Control at 16 hours 34 minutes.
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Time: 10:55 CST 09:16:55 GMT
11/24/73
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TIME: 11:26 CST, 09:17:26 GMT
11/24/73
you get a chance to - to see the comet with the - with the
(garble) ?
PLT I saw a fuzzy spot, but I was not - I
did not satisfy myself that I had found iC. But I do know
the area now and I can get you some good photographs. And
by the way, I pointed the camera in the wrong area last night.
CC Okay, copy that. I believe you can
thank - thank Mr. Truly for that chart; they worked it up
last night. And if the the comet should be almost right
in the center of that window, and it should be, you know, at
least unocculted throughout the night side. And your observations
on the - the cloud was - was very interesting and we'll
get the appropriate people to - to listen to what you had
to say about it.
PLT Yeah, it's sort of a dirty yellow color.
Crip, another way to describe its location too is right
where Spica comes out from behind the Earth, that's where
it rises, is right where the cloud is.
CC Okay, which is sort of a permanent feature
there?
PLT Yeah, it persisted for several minutes.
CC Okay, real good.
PLT I kept thinking I was seeing some kind
of reflection off the ATN structure or something. But it
when I saw that one sort of streamer out, it really fascinated
me and I got Jerry to come up and look at it. It was there.
CC Could you sort of give an estimate about
how high it was going up?
PLT It was higher than the airglow.
CC Okay.
CDR About twice as high; just about twice.
CC Roger; copy.
PLT Also, another observation is that the
of course, the airglow is very finely defined, very accurately
defined. And the - those clouds were sort of indistinct and
fuzzy. And the spike that I saw was also a fuzzy spike. But
it does, it looks an awful lot like a coronal streamer.
CC Okay, very good. We're 1 minute from LOS.
And we'll see you again over Texas in about 2-1/2 minutes at
17:40, 17:40. You didn't have a chance to get a picture of it
or anything for us, did you Bill?
PLT No, I didn't have the camera up there.
CC Roger.
CDR Crip, you can tell I got these guys well
trained, they just can't wait to get on the ATM.
CC Roger. Seeing coronal streamers off
the Earth.
PLT Said it looked like one, Crip.
CC I believe you, I believe you.
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SL-IV MC-261/I
Time: 11:36 CST, 09:17:36 GMT
11/24/73
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SL-IV MC-262/1
Time: 11:59 CST 09:17:59 GMT
11/24/73
CC Roger; that.
CDR 18 is now 32.0 volts.
CC Okay, and did we start P - -
CDR And CBRM 10 is 30.0 volts.
CC Roger; copy 30.0 and we need to get the
SAS reconfigured at least for the daylight and get it
put over to PCG7.
CDR Say again, Crlp.
CC Okay. Just so that we could get the
sass reconfigured for when we get around to daylight side
we need to put it over to 7, past 6.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay; the status is on 7.
CC Jerr, I think you maybe misunderstood me
on panel 205 under photoray output_ we want to take the output
from 6 and put it to PCG7, under solar ray output number 6.
CDR Cable put output at 6 on the 7.
CC Roger; thank you.
CC PLT, Houston. Bill for your information
we just sent up a teleprinter message which has some questions
regarding the 193 antenna and at your convenience you can
answer those for us.
PLT Roger; Crip. And I just got the (garble)
pictures of the - what I reported as a noctilucent cloud and
the striations apparently they're still there. I saw 1 kind
(garble) a transient event lasting for several seconds this
spike that I was talking about but it wasn't as prominent as
the last time. However, I think in the last 4 second exposure
there were distinct striations that radio striations in the
noctilucent cloud.
CC Okay; very good. Appreciate it Bill.
PLT They sort of move as you move along so -
you know it's sort of kind you're seeing the sunlight reflected
through this somehow refracted
CC Roger; they move perpendicular to your
Flight Path. Over.
PLT Yeah; that's correct, now that I think
of it, that's exactly what they do. They just sort of move
along the horizon and apparently back towards the Sun.
CC Okay; thank you.
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SL-IV MC263/I
TIME: 12:38 CST, 09:18:38 GMT
i1/24/73
Control.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
19 hours 9 minutes. As the spacecraft crosses the northwest
Pacific Coast of the United States, on the end of the
revolution 2,803 for the Skyla5 space station, we will
have contact through Goldstone. CAP COMM is Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS through
Goldstone for 17 minutes; 17 minutes.
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SL-IV MC266/1
TIME: 14:46 CST, 09:20:46 GMT
11/24/73
CDR Roger.
PAO Skyla5 Control at 21 hours, 2 minutes
and 40 seconds, Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
now out of range of the tracking antenna at Corpus Christi,
Texas. Our next acquisition of signal in 9 minutes and
26 seconds from now will be at Vanguard. That time we'll come
back live for air-to-ground through Vanguard, we're now 2 minutes_
and 56 seconds after the hour.
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SL-IV MC272/I
TIME: 17:12 CST, 09:23:12 GMT
11/24/73
SPT Okay.
CC And when you go to REG off on i0, Ed,
check to see if you get any more of those status lights on.
SPT Okay, I haven't got REG i0 OFF. That's
one of the things -
PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours and 23 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now out of range
of Tananariw_. Some difficulty there at the end of that pass,
it was not clear exactly what procedure was taken by the crew
on Skylab and we'll get a report on that at the next pass.
During the last pass a CBRM test charger battery regulator
module test in progress indication from Skylab Science Pilot
Ed Gibson that the test was completed on CBRM number i0 but
there was some unexplained anomalies in the behavior of
CBRM number 5 which was not suppose to be effected at all,
it was not one of those being tested and we have no explanation
here on the ground for that, we do not get data through
Tananarive_ Tananarive, of course station that was just called
up for this mission, there is no direct data links so we
have no computer information from Tananarive, only voice link;
for that reason, it's impossible for the environmental officer
here at Mission Control to make any analysis of the behavior
of the battery until we get another pass. Perhaps we'll
have some data at that time and make some judgment on the
performance of the system. No immediate concern here about
the loss of a possible CBRM, no indication of whether the
CBRM is operating properly or not operating properly, it may
have just been a temporary flash of light. No explanation
of why CBRM charger and battery light would click on battery
number 5 when they were working with battery number i0.
Apparently though from the earlier indications at least,
those battery testers are working out as well or better
than expected, batteries appear to have excellent capacity,
and we'll get a more thorough report after an analysis has
been made of the data. Also give you about 30 minutes from
now a more complete report on what will be done tomorrow and
exact time for crew activities and a brief repetition of what
Flight Director Don Puddy had to say before leaving Mission
Control this afternoon. Present time Story Musgrave is the
Spacecraft Communicator and the Flight Director is Milton Windier.
32 minutes and 36 seconds to our next acquisiton of signal,
it's now 25 minutes and ii seconds after the hour.
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SL-IV MC273/I
TIME: i:06 CST, 09:23:56 GMT
i1/24/73
CDR Okay.
CC Ed, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC We'd llke a report on your CBRM i0 status
light and if you have selected i0 on the switch, we'd llke to
have a report on the barber poles if you're not selected to
i0, don't move the switeh.
SPT Sorry, Bill's going to go up there right
now and do it, I'm on the blink.
CC Okay.
SPT The way I left it Story, we had the
REG off, BAT on and charge on. The only anomalous behavior
was with 5.
CC Okay, thanks.
PLT Okay, Story, I'm up in the ATM now what
was that again.
CC I would like a report on the CBRM i0
status lights, understand you've got three lights and
if the rotary switch is in i0 give us a report on the
barber poles and if itls not in i0, just leave it where it is.
And let us know where the rotary switch is too.
PLT Okay, it is on i0, there are no barber poles.
CC Okay, thank's Bill. Twenty seconds here
to LOS, see you over the Vanguard in 22 minutes at 00:26.
PLT Rog.
CC And could you verify you got three lights
on CBRM i0.
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay Story, if you're all finished with
me I'm going to leave the Command module.
CC Okay, Jerr, the CMG looks good.
PAO Skylab Control at 0 hours, 7 minutes and
26 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station now out
of range of the tracking antenna at Hawaii. During this last
pass, again we're doing some additional checks on the
charger battery regulator module, no data being received here
in Mission Control over Hawaii, they had a problem there with
the tracking. But we did get a status report from the crew,
the report indicated the CBRM number 5 charger battery regulator
module number 5, that's one of the 17 operating CBRM that
are powered by the ATM solar array. That rate - charger
battery regulator module is working properly now and is charged
up fully. However number i0, the indication seems to be that
it is not charging anymore and there is no understanding exactly
why that has taken place. No doubt once we have valid data we'll
get a little bit better handle on what's wrong there. But
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Time: 19:32 CST 10:01:32 GMT
11/24/73
give his photo status report tonight later on and I'll be giving
my report that I promised about time utilization later on
this evening on tape. And that's the end of the report.
CC Okay, Jerr, thanks and have you completed
the day 4 transfers yet?
CDR That's affirmative. I went all through
that and verified it and that is complete.
CC Okay, is Bill riding the bike right now?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Do you know where Ed put the S054 film - which
locker he put that in?
CDR We put it in 152. And I looked at my
stowage book and it didn't look like that was due to have been
transferred across until about day 48.
CC Okay, we'll take a take a look at that.
How about the gas in the water? Down here, we've been sub-
,ratting about an ounce per each drink and about a half an
ounce for each erhydratable food item after your report, but
you reported that after going to tank 3 you had a lot less
water? Is that true now?
CDR That's affirmative. We told them to - the
standard would be 1/2 ounce off each drink and that's all.
It shouldn't be taking an ounce and then 1/2 ounce off the other.
CC Okay, that's your estimate now that you're
on tank 3?
CDR Yeah, I think so. Only about a half ounce
on drinks and I think on the foods, we're probably okay.
CC Okay, thanks. And for $232, it's the
barium cloud experiment that we're thinking of using the
right hand window in the command module, however_ wetre not
sure if there's any structural bloekage looking out that
window. The next time youtre out there in the daytime, you
might take a look at that for us.
CDR Story, we donVt have anything to mount that
camera. Do you mean for that to be handheld?
CC Stand by i.
CDR You know, as part of the big super weight re-
duction program, they took the mirror out.
CC We're going to be looking for something
to mount the camera on there now. We're just wondering about
obstructions out the window.
CDR Okay, we'll take a look tonight when I go
up to do the trim burn.
CC Okay, good. And we're about 20 seconds to
LOS here. We_ll see you over the Vanguard in 23 minutes at
02:05.
CDR Okay, Story.
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SL-IV MC 280/i
TIME: 20:18 CST, 10:02:18 GMT
11/23/73
now just about to cross the coast of Africa, Burn being completed
successfully there. Back in the command module, the countdown
coming from Science Pilot Science Pilot Ed Gibson. I believe
the voice was from - from Gibson that - both Gibson and the
Commander were scheduled to perform that burn. That was
performed successfully off the coast of Africa and no difficulty
crew members did mention that they had a sound like making
popcorn and also the stuff is raising off the floor down here.
Command module used to accelerate the workshop by about 5.8 feet
a second. A 88 second burn of the reaction control system
just on the command module and then after that the action
control system also being used to adjust the Skylab attitude.
Normally that would require some thruster attitude control
system gas, nitrogen gas is used to adjust the attitude when
the control moment gyros are no longer able to take the load.
The control moment gyros as you have no doubt heard, one of
them no longer being used, the other two are functioning pro-
perly and there have been no uses of TACSgas today and have
been none since yesterday afternoon. The explanation now
for yesterday's use of TACS gas is that the wheel for the
CMG that failed is believed to have continued spinning after
that, originally it was thought that it had ceased spinning
and they couldn't explain unusual momentum build up, the
momentum was no doubt due to the wheel continuing spinning
and that's now agreed upon by both the Marshall and people
here, people at Marshall Space Flight Center who have checked
into it and say that is a likely possibility and that's
believed to have slowed down over a period of about 12 or
14 hours yesterday and ceased late yesterday. No longer expect
any problem with that, tomorrow they have a major maneuver
for the Comet Kohoutek, a maneuver of at least 62 degree roll
and that roll is expected to give no problem to the momentum
management program that is being used. No adjustment made to
that program, although yesterday when there was some difficulty
there was consideration given to that possibility of some
adjustment being made to the computer program that adjust the
skylab space station attitude. So the CMG failure is not
proving to be any difficulty although it will take a little longer
to perform the maneuver and there may be occasional cost in
thruster attitude control system gas. Gas supply is however
in fairly plentiful even now and no difficulty is expected in
that area. Additional piece of information Ed Gibson with a
new record on the bicycle ergometer also has set another new
record, he slept last night for a total of Ii hours. Gibson
took a pill known as pro-f, promethazine ephedrine, that's a
drug normally used for motion sickness but the Science Pilot
it affects him primarily as a sleep potion and he has been
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Time: 08:37 CST 10:14:37 GMT
11/25/73
test we'd llke to run on the ATM C&D coolant loop, which
involves one of you doing some manpulation of the EREP
COOLANT VAL_E on panel 135 while we're taking a look at
telemetry here. If somebody would be available at Hawaii,
that'll be fine; if some other pass is better, we would a -
-we'll work it there.
SPT We'll be right here, Crip° Just call it
up.
CC Okay; thank you.
CDR Houston, Skylab.
CC Go.
PLT Okay; I'm on page 1-10B where we're
doing the troubleshooting on the console. And the note
near the top of the page says if any voltage is present, do
not take the resistance reading. Well, between - on W-14 Papa2,
between B and C and B and D, I get a voltage of minus 0.i on
each one. Is that close enough to zero not to worry anybody?
CC Stand by, Bill.
CC We concur. That's close enough to zero.
PLT Okay. So far up to now all the trouble
shootings been nominal.
CC Okay. And we're about i minute from
LOS. We'll see you over Hawaii at 14:58; that's about
ii minutes from now. And if somebody nould be available to us
to position this EREP COOLANT FLOW VALVE, we would appreciate
it there.
PLT Okay, Bob, we'll be ready. And on
page 1-10A, for W-14 B-1 and 2, all readings were zero. And
on the bottom of the page in the volt readings, they're all
zero. And tlhe (GARBLE) readings I got 2.43, infinity, 99.0,
100.3, and all the rest infinity. So it looks good.
CC Copy that.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
14 hours 48 minutes. Loss of signal at Honeysuckle. Next
acquisition will be Hawaii in 9 minutes 40 seconds, as the
Skylab crew _eontinues in their troubleshooting at the C&D
panel of the Apollo Telescope Mount. Trouble shooting the
TV monitor number 1. There are two TV monitors on board the
Spacecraft which show television pictures taken by the
TV cameras of the Apollo Telescope Mount experiments. TV
monitor number i failed on mission day 57 in the Skylab III
mission after showing problems approximately 6 days earlier.
The crew of Alan Bean reported trouble with the TV monitor i
when it showed black streaks and oscillating picture on the
approximately 6 inch diameter TV monitor. The crew is in
the process of checking this monitor out prior to the replacement
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TIME: 12:00 CST, 10:18:00 GMT
11/25/73
CC Roger that.
CC Bill, regarding your question on the
TV, we would like to go ahead and get the TV of the thermal
alignment also; so if you could turn it on for that. And
your checklist will show you securing it on page 10-18. And
we'll worry about the 41 a little bit later.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC EREP appreciates that good alignment;
those are real good number.
PLT Yeah, I was real happy. I started
out using the thermal focus and wondered why it wasn't
doing any good, but I I've got on the right track. Got
some good numbers out of it.
CC Roger.
CC PLT, Houston. For your information
we show i0 more minutes available on the VTR. So that's
about all you're going to be able to give us. So if you
could pick out a good i0 minutes for us, we'd appreciate it.
PLT Okay, I'm waiting until I get everything
- all the numbers set before I start turning the recorder
back on.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR Hey, Crip, I see good Marine air station,
Cherry Forkm down there.
CC Yeah, coming just about over it. That
pass looks like it's probably pretty close to - to the one
we're talking about for your EREP tomorrow. Anybody down
there shooting MLPs?
SPT They probably are so they can take over
some of the Navy commitments.
CC Yeah, we need all the relief we can get.
SPT You guys will do anything to get out
of sea duty.
CC Take me for example.
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