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Time: 13:08 CDT, 52:18:08 GMT

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PAO Earth resources pass, a 7100-mile

pass is still in progress. During the pass, Science Pilot
Ed Gibson indicated that he could see Mississippi River plume
very obvious and pronounced, going out well into the Gulf of
Mexico. Cloud cover over the eastern coast, of course, is
expected where cloud conditions are being studied and some
data being gathered with the viewfinder tracking system.
That's the pointing instrument that guides the S191 infrared
spectrometer and then major storm conditions over the north
Atlantic again where sea state is being studied. The relation-
ship between high winds and weather conditions and changes in
the ocean surface. And as Dick Truly pointed out, A. J. Roy
is flying again out over the Atlantic, gathering data with the -
with an aircraft to support the Skylab mission. This is compari -
comparison data that can be gathered at a much lower altitude.
We're just about a minute and a half before we'll get acquisition
again as the Earth resources pass is being concluded over the
north Atlantic, just off the coast of Prance. We'll leave
the line up live now for air-to-ground through the Madrid
tracking antenna where we have a 7-1/2 minute pass.
PLT The ALTIMETER, ON. READY light ON. No
unlock light. There, it just blinked. That was at 11:20
with just a momentary blink.
CDR (garble)
PLT Waiting for 11:40. We're ready, on 191.
PLT The ALTIMETER UNLOCK light comes ON steady
at 36. And there's 191 READY ON at a. S193 MODE, CROSS TRACK
CONTIGUOUS.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you AOS again
here at Madrid for about 7 minutes_ and Bill, while you
a break in here, we'd like to verify that the EREP BYPASS valve -
I mean the EREP COOLANT valve was put to FLOW. We didn't see
it drop in ATM C&D loop.
PLT That's affirmative_ Dick. And Jerry even
had his warm little ear right up there by the bulkhead and we
noticed a distinct change in pitch. I'ii let him describe it
to you.
CC Okay.
PLT When he's got the time.
CDR Yeah, we heard a definite pick up in the
noise level when it took the surge. Then it kind of settled
down - quieted back down to its normal level.
CC Okay, Jerry. Thank you very much.
PLT And I just put the ALTIMETER to STANDBY 4._
because I've lost my READY light. Be coming back on with it
momentarily.
PLT MARK. Back on. Got a good READY light.
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PLT On that - I0 about 7 seconds, I got an

ALTIMETER UNLOCK light again but I still have a READY. I
wonder if thermal heating has something to do with that thing
because it was working like a champ there in that first
sequence.
CDR I don't know. Say, we were pretty close
to high noon when you started using it. Over a period of
time, as you get the radiant heat.
PLT Yeah, that could be it. Could be back
reflection.
CDR Yeah.
PLT Still have a READY light.
CC And CD - CDR, Houston -
CC - - Just a reminder, we're coming up about
18:16 on the maneuver. We do not see the maneuver time loaded
in there yet.
CDR Okay. I was just coming over to do it now.
CC Okay.
PLT ALTIMETER back ON. READY, ON. (Garble)
Gives me a good flash about anywhere from 5 to 7 seconds after
I reinitiated following a MALF cycle. He 14 minutes even.
Waiting for 14:35. Nice thing about it at least it guarantees
you about 30 to 45 seconds of good data there every time you re-
cycle it.
CDR Yeah.
PLT UNLOCK light. Stand by, 14:35. By -
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. Waiting for
41.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. Waiting for 47.
Stand by -
PLT MARK. RAD, ON. RAD_ ON.
CDR MARK.
PLT - for 15 minutes.
CDR MARK.
PLT (Laughter)
PLT MARK. 194, MODE MANUAL.
CDR Okay. We're 1 minute from the fine maneuver.
PLT 18:16. Is that when you're doing it?
CDR Right.
PLT Rog. Fine maneuver, right. Yeah. Okay
Stand by for 16 minutes even. Stand by -
PLT MARK. Okay. That's 193 RAD to STANDBY.
EREP toward the STOP.
CDR Okay. We're maneuvering.
CC Okay, Jerry and if you'd let us have the
DAS here for a minute, we'd like to issue a heater command.
CDR Okay. You've go_ it, Dick.
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CC Thank you.
PLT Looks like a pretty clean run. 07 is
reading 34.
CDR Heater's cooling off, Dick? The CMG?
CC Well, we're having to continually manage
the heaters a couple of times a rev to keep them in our
desired limits. But we've been able to do that with the
station passes that we have.
CDR Very good.
CC And the DAS is yours.
CDR Okay. l_m going to re - going to enter
the maneuver time for SI now.
PLT 92 door going closed. And 190 door
coming closed.
CDR Okay, Ed. The SI maneuver time is loaded.
All you have to do is punch the button.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from
LOS. Carnarvon comes up - a real low pass at 18:49.
CDR Roger.
PLT (Garble) SWITCH (garble).
CDR It's latched.
PLT Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 20 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now over the
Mediterranean and we've completed an Earth resources pass
that covered the area from south of Acapuleo, cross the
southeastern United States and the north Atlantic Ocean,
which is major storm area at this time, to the coast of
France. 28 minutes and 39 seconds to our next acquisition
of signal. By that time, the crew should have a ehance to
complete the Earth resources procedures and close out every-
thing and Bill Pogue and Jerry Carr will be sitting down to
dinner. This is Skylab Control. It's now 20 minutes and
32 seconds after the hour.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1801/I
Time: 13:48 CDT 52:18:48 GMT
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PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 48 minutes.

We're now coming into acquisition of signal through Carnar-
yon, Australia. We'll bring the ]ine up live for air-to-
ground there.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Carnarvon for 3 min-
utes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston; couple of things for
you down here. Last night on the dump tape there was some
comment there about a problem with the location of the
ED 61, 62, namely that the lights might cause some problems
sleeping. If it if it did turn out last evening, or in
general, that this is the case it's okay with us to move
the experiment to nearby any other OWS lamp. If you decide
to do that you can use sticky back velnro out of the tool
kit to attach it, and - we'd like yon to make a light
meter reading of the illumination per the student experiment
checklist that's on page 2-3. The reading says that it
should be a minimum of 30. However, we would like a reading
of 40 or 50 if it's desired, and if you do decide to move
it another place that you like better just let us know.
CDR Okay, Dick. We sure will.
SPT Dick, the readings you got last night
at the specified location were between 5 and 20.
CC Umh. Okay, thank you, Ed. And I think
it's obvious to you, but this is one light of course that we
ddo want to leave on doing the next few days as we cool down
the vehicle.
CDR I'll buy that.
SPT Dick, we got a lot of lights powered down
here powered off and put down to low intensity. You want to
watch what: happens over the next 24 hours.
CC Okay. Great, Ed. We'll - we'll be
doing that. We're about 50 seconds from LOS here at Carnarvon.
Honeysuckle comes up in just a few minutes, and we're going to
have a very short pass there also. So I'll see you there.
PLT Okay, Dick, and tape 5.7 centimeters.
Figure configuration before the pad change. Charlie, Delta,
Echo, Foxtrot, Bravo, and Alfa 1 through 6 respectively, and
of course those are all double letters.
CC Okay, Bill. Got it.
PLT I'm going up now to reset the button.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, as we go over the hill,
may have misunderstood what you said (garble) PLT, but we
do not want you to reset the REG ADJUST pots yet. We'll
let you know when we do.
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PLT (Garble, static)

Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon, Australia, station now
over the hill from the Skylab vehicle. Our next acquisition
is a little less then 5 minutes away at Honeysuckle. A
report on the brightness of comet Kohoutek today. J. B.
Dozier of Marshall Space Flight Center indicates that the
aircraft and rocket measurements made yesterday on the comet
give an apparent brightness of about plus 1.7. That indi-
cates that the comet is about three times as bright as Dabih,
the star that was suggested by Ed Gibson as comparable a
few days ago. Gibson made his comparison using the naked
eye only and did not use binoc - binoculars or any of the
available techniques for exact estimates. The primary
method for individuals with binoculars is to defocus the
binoculars on a star to spread the light over a wider area
and then to make a comparison with the comet's brightness
that way. He did do it just with the naked eye and the
estimate was considered not to be highly reliable because
of that fact, but measurements made yesterday using air-
craft and rockets gave a plus 1.7 apparent brightness. To-
day's brightness should be about in the plus 2 to plus 2.5
range according to Dozier, who is one of the Kohoutek pro-
ject scientists. Previous prediction based on the comet
Arend-Roland would have given about a minus .9, which is
ten times as bright as the comet is now. However, the new
estimate does indicate that the comet is somewhat brighte_
than had been recorded by Ed Gibson, and is certainly bright
enough to be visible in the southwest sky. Could be visible
this evening in the southwest sky about an hour after sunset
near the planet Venus. Comet Kohoutek is now 83 million miles
from Earth, 34 million miles from the Sun and moving at a speed
of 150,000 miles an hour. We're about 3 minutes from acquisi-
tion of signal at the Honeysuckle Creek tracking antenna.
We'll leave the line up live for that pass through Honeysuckle.
Director Phil Shaffer, who'll be going off duty about 4 otclock
indicates he'll he available for a change-of-shift briefing
at an estimated time of 4:30 th_s afternoon in the Building
1 briefing room. Coming up live now at Honeysuckle Creek.
CC Skylab, Houston, we got you at Honey-
suckle for about a minute and a half. The next station pass
is Goldstone at 19:27. And Jerry, sometime today while
Phil and I were on shift, we wanted to talk to you a little bit
about two or three things. One is, I'd llke to recap a couple
of pieces of information from the last few days flight plan that
you've accomplished since we had our flight planning discussion
about a week ago. Also there were a couple of questions there
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that we wanted to get clarified so we'll make sure we're doing

them right. And finally, we got some discussions to talk
to you about about the the way we're going to be handling urine
samples during the rest of the mission. And I was thinking
about the only chance we have is this upcoming stateside pass.
So if you could make yourself available about that time, we'd
sure appreciate it. And AOS time Goldstone is 19:27.
CDR That'll be fine, Dick, if you want it now,
it's okay. We're eating lunch.
CC Well, I'ii tell you, I wish I had the time
now, but we're just about to go over the hill in about 15 or
20 seconds and so I just can't really get into any of it.
So I'll give you a holler at Goldstone.
CDR Okay, I'll be ready.
CC Okay.
PAO Skylah Control at 19:00 hours Greenwich
mean time. Skylab space station is passed out of range of
Honeysuckle Creek. Our next acquisition is 26 minutes and
45 seconds from now at the Goldstone tracking antenna in
California. Phil 8haffer again will be prepared for a change-
of-shift briefing about 4:30 p.m. central daylight time today
in the Building 1 briefing room. That's 4:30 p.m. that's
change-of-shlft time for Phil Shaffer. It's 6 minutes and
23 seconds to our next acquisition of signal and 39 seconds
after the hour, this is gkylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1802/I
TIME: 14:26 CST, 52:19:26 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 19 hours

26 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylah approaching the
coast of Mexico and Baja, California. There will be an
acquisition through the Goldstone tracking station in about
45 seconds. It should be a relative quiet period aboard
Skylab, it's lunch time for Commander Jerry Carr and
Pilot Bill Pogue, and for Science Pilot Ed Gibson he has
time allocated for some routine housekeeping duties followed
by pkysical training.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS stateside for
17 minutes.
CDR Rog_ Dick CDR standing by.
CC Okay, what I wanted to do here was go
over several things and ask some question just mainly about
how things has been going and to clarify a couple of points.
First of all, wetve taken a look at the last few days, since
we've had our ops conference about a week ago. And it looks
to us, appears to us like things have been going real well
although the final judge of that is you guys. The science
hours _ this morning we took a look at for the last few days and
based on - based on the same kind of ground rules that I
was talking to you last week when I told you we were scheduling
and accomplishing about 24 hours on - not including the day off
and also not including today since we don't know if any
shopping llst items will be done yet. The average for the
4 days in between there has been about 26 hours which is
obviously a - an improvement over what we were doing so that
looks
CDR Dick_ break, you cut out there.
CC Okay, I think we're having a handover
so let me make sure we Okay, I believe the handover is
complete now and so I'ii start up again. Essentially what
I did - we did was took a look at the last week and with
exception of the day off and also with exception of today
since we don't know how itls going to come out, we_ve averaged
about 26 hours of per day between you three guys which has
been devoted directly to science so obviously that's ahout
a 2 hour increase. I was wondering how you guys had felt
about the last few days and then - and then since we've had
a couple of different teams come on the summary shift, we've
had a little bit of confusion as to a cou - a couple of your
guidelines particularly in the presleep area and I'd like to
ask you about them.
CDR Okay, Dick we've Been feeling a whole
lot better there and we're not quite as rushed and we're
able to get things done a whole lot better I think and still
in whatever spare time we can get, we can get the shopping
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llst. I think this shopping llst idea is a very good one.

It gives us an opportunity to get a few things done more
at a leisurely paee and when the time is available.
CC Okay, well we're going to sure try to
keep it up. Jerry, let me go over this presleep guidelines
that you read down_ although I wasn't here this evening, and
let me read it back to you and see if this is the way that
you intended it because there has been a little bit of con-
fusion in our scheduling here. As I understand it, first of
all you want an eat time, and these times are just at the central
daylight time, but you want an eat time somewhere around
22:00 Zulu, and you want an absolutely free time for the hour
prior to bed time, which is like 02:00 to 03:00, which both
of those sound good. And you desire a total presleep time,
which includes that hour to eat of about 2-1/2 hours. Do I
have that right?
CDR No, we told them on the ground that they
could cut that back to 2 hours if they wanted to. Presleep.
CC Okay, and that - and that includes the
eat period. Is that correct?
CDR It doesn't matter to us. However you
want to work it.
CC Okay. I understand. Okay, the key thing
really, _s between the presleep and the post sleep time
that you gave us, which adds up to an excess of 3 hours. We're
assuming that that's time that's available in order to take
advantage of in scheduling science, and I Just wanted to clarify
that because there has been an effort - there has been a desire
to increase our science time here from an average of something
like 24 hours a day to around 26 or something llke that.
CDR Dick, the hour in the morning from the time
we get up until we start work, if we can leave that open and
not put any science in there, that's an hour presleep time and
that's all we need, or post sleep time. Then in the evening
if we are - essentially put to bed at 9 o'clock CDT, then
that's an hour free time there and we have no science or any-
thing to bother us in there_ then we have the time that I think
we need to kind of unwind and get ready for sleep, and the rest
of the time you guys can do anythlng, with-- as you desire, as
far as science is concerned.
CC Okay Jer, that answers the question. In-
cidently, I did notice also in looking back in the Flight Plans
that we never had to split PT this during week, which really was
a little bit of a surprise to me, but it's a nice surprise, l'm
not sure that's going to keep on happening_ but we hope it does.
But we certainly aren't going to make a habit, obviously of
splitting it. I've got a couple of specifics here that I'd like
to mention to you. First of all it has to do with the film thread
pad. You requested that we get it up to you the evening before,
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which is plenty okay with us. We think we can get it to you

about one pass earlier in the evening than we normally would
otherwise if during the evening status report you will read the
photo log first. What this will allow us to do is to build a
film thread pad and have it in the pool here, assuming no
deviations and then as we get the deviations at the start of
that pass, about half the time we figure we can crank them into
the pad and get a film thread pad up to you at that same site
if that's okay with you.
CDR Yeah. That's fine Dick.
CC Okay. I got one more subject to talk
to you about and that's urine samples. We've discovered
after doing all the additions and so forth that we're some-
where on the order of 23 bags short, and what we're intending
to do and I think this was mentioned to you very briefly
yesterday, but I wanted to talk to you some more about it today.
What we're intending to do is work up a plan where between here
and the end of the mission, we go to something llke a 36 hour
sampling period for the most of that time. This is going to
mean that you'll sample urine after you wakeup in the post
sleep one morning and then the following day you'll sample
it at the end of the day, probably during presleep. And
we're planning on starting this on tomorrow's Flight Plan.
We're Our guidelines Just for your information as far as
scheduling is that that's about a 20 minute task, and it's
a serial task so we're going to allow time in the the presleep
in addlt_on to your free hour to accomplish that. On the
evenings where we do work somebody up, right up to 9 o'clock
local, in other words, if he had to do his urine sampling
after that time, we're trying to get it cleared with the
PI now to accomplish the urine sampling earlier, llke right
before dinner, or just it kind of depends on how that
particular Flight Plan comes out.
CDR Okay Dick. That sounds fine.
CC Okay. That's all I had Jerry. If you
didn't have any other comments about how things are going,
or any suggestions for us to improve on it, that's all I have.
CDR Dick. One little thing that kind of rises
up and bites us every once in a while is maintaining correlation
between the details and the Flight Plan. Every once in a while
it seems llke different teams do things Just a little bit dif-
ferently and once in a while you'll find something in the Flight
Plan and not in the details and then when another team schdules
it, it will be done the other way. We were wondering if maybe it
might not be a good idea to put a little D, you know for Delta
after or alongside any item in the Flight Plan where you've got
details that need to be consulted as well.
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CDR Okay, Dick_ that sounds fine.

CC Okay. That's all I had, Jerry, if yon
didn't have any other comments about how things are going
or any suggestions for us to improve on it. That's all I have.
CDR Dick, one little thing that kind
of rises up and bites us every once in a while is maintaining
correlation between the details and the Flight Plan. Every
once in a while it seems like different teams do things just
a little bit differently. And once in a while you find some-
thing in the Flight Plan and not in the details, and then
when another teams schedules it it will be done the other
way. We Were wondering if maybe it might be a good idea
to put a little D, you know, for Delta after or along side
any item in the Flight Plan when you've got details that
need to be consulted as well. Just sort of an extra little
memory jogger to make sure you go over and check your details.
CC Tell you what, Jerry, let us kick that
around down here and see how we might could best implement
it and get back to you.
CDR Okay Dick.
CC And we've still got about 8 minutes here
stateside and I'm standing by.
CC And Skylah, Houston, the next time you
get a chance, you can put the REG ADJUST POTTs back to where
they were. We're happy.
CC Skylab, Houston. I think I dropped out
there, but next time somebody gets a chance you can reset
the REG ADJUST POTs to the pre-EREP settings. We're real
happy with them.
CDR Roger Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute from LOS.
Madrid comes up at 19:48 and we're going to dump the data/voice
recorder at Madrid.
PLT Roger Dick.
PAO Skylab now out of range of the Madrid
tracking station, or rather Bermuda, completing that stateside
pass at the start of the 3425th revolution for the Skylab
workshop. The major items of conversation during that state-
side pass concerned the mission status. CAP COM_ Dick Truly
observed to Commander Jerry Carr that the feeling here on
the ground was that the crew is making good progress and
increasing the amount of scientific work accomplished
daily, and asked Cart for his feelings. Jerry Jerry Cart
echoed the sentiments of the CAP COMM. He said that the
crew is feeling a whole lot better, and he attributed much
of the improvement to the shopping list approach, which allows
the crew more lattitude in scheduling and completing scientific
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activities with less rigid planning on the part of the

ground and a selection of items that the crew can draw from
to fill in the open spaces. Carr did observe that one
difficulty they are continuing to have from time to time
is in coxrelating the Summary Flight Plan with the detail
pads. He suggested that in cases where a detailed pad must
be consulted before carrying out a Flight Plan activity,
that the Flight Plan be tagged in some way. He suggested
using a D to imply a Delta or a change in the Flight Plan.
CAP COMM Truly said that we'd take a look at it on the
ground and see what we could do to correct that shortcoming.
We're now 3 minutes from reacquiring Skylab through Madrid.
We'll leave the line up for that pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Madrid
for 8 minutes, and we're going to dump the data/voice re-
corder here.
CDR Roger Dick. And been thinking a little
bit about what we were talking about, and you were asking
whether or not the eat period would be considered in the
presleep. And yeah, I guess what it boils down to is with
a 2-hour presleep period now, 1 hour of it will be for the
evening meal, which we'd like to have, you know, most
desirably right around 6 o'clock central daylight time,
and the other hour would be that period from 9 until i0.
CC Okay Jerry, that's the way we copied
it and we'll make sure you get that much time.
CDR By the way Dick, we're cutting a pretty
good swath in our ho - shopping list. I'd suggest that you
continue to feed up interesting things for us to do. TV 103
and 104, they gave us in the shopping list and then tried
to schedule them on us today and I asked them not to do that.
That we'd rather take those demos like that and have lots
of time to fool with them and get them all setup, and then
we'll ask for TV time when we're ready to do it.
CC Okay Jerry. Copy that and I agree with
you about the shopping list. That is a heck of a good way
to work and that's what Beno and those guys had found also.
You will notice in the next few days, I'm sure as a result
of this conversation is some increase in your scheduled
time, so don't hesitate to holler if we overdo it. We tend
to do that sometimes.
CDR Okay Dick.
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CC Skylab, Houston_ we're a minute from

LOS, Tananarive comes up at 20:09, I'ii call you there.
CDR Roger.
PAO Skylab is now ii minutes from Tananarive,
we're out of range at Madrid. Later this afternoon, a little
more than 3 hours from now. the crew is scheduled to conduct
the last of the solor ATM observations of the comet Kohoutek
using the solor telescopes aboard Skylab in the exercise
designate - designated JOP 18D. And for the - for the moment
the flight plan remains relatively easy going as far as the
crew schedule is concerned. Completing an eat perlod_ and
Jerry Carr has S063 operations scheduled. But for Science
Pilot Ed Gibson this is the physical training period. And
we have routine housekeepinK activities lined up at the
present time for Pilot Bill Pogue. 19 hours 59 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 20 hours 8

minutes Greenwich mean time, and we're standing by now to
regain contact with Skylab over Tananarive.
CC Skylab, Houston, Tananarive for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, we may have an early
LOS here at Tananarive; Honeysuckle comes up at 20:35, I'ii
call you there. Also CDR, what we're planning on doing on
today's Fflight Plan with regard to a jogger to lead you to
the details, we do not have a Delta sign and also we're
afraid if we use a D some of the Summary Flight Plan may get
confusing, so what we're planning on doing is in column - in
the left-hand column next to each guy's role on the Summary
Flight Plan. We're going to insert a dollar sign instead of
an exclamation point in that vertical line of exclamation
points, the dollar sign will indicate to you to look on your
details pad for information.
CDR Good idea, that's like money in the bank.
CC Roger that.
CC You and the flight director have the
same lousy sense of humor humor Jerry.
CDR Great minds track together.
CC Roger.
MCC Thank you sir.
PAO Skylab's gone over the hill a little
early at Tananarive. And that last comment was from Flight
Director Phll Shaffer, Capsule communicator at this time is
Astronaut Dick Truly. And we're beginning to see a few of
the team members for - for the on-comlng team headed by
Flight Director Neil Hutchinson filtering into the control
center. With a dhange-of-shift briefing tenyatively scheduled
for about 4:30 p.m. today. This is Skylab Control at 20 hours
19 minutes Greenwich mean time.
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Time: 15:34 CDT 52:20:34 GMT
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab coming up

now on the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, Australia.
During this pass over Australia CAP COMM Dick Truly may be
inquiring of the progress on M556, an experiment scheduled
to be conducted by Pilot Bill Pogue. This experiment
involves placing ampules in the high temperature oven, heating
them to about 465 degrees centigrade and allowing them to
cool in attempt to grow more perfect crystals using chemical
vapors as the transport mechanism, the vapors being driven
off by the high temperature. This is experiment has significance
in a wide range of industrial processes including medicine
and electronics. And we're about 10 seconds now from
acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab_ Houston, Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger Dick. The TV's on the video tape
recorder.
CC Okay, we noticed the switch is still on
PORTABLE. You might just make sure that you did switch it
to TV prior to putting it on there.
CDR Ho, ho, ho.
CC Ah ha, you owe me a sarsaparilla, me and
the INC0.
CDR Right, I'ii do it again.
CC Okay, stand by just a second Jerry, and
INCO will rewind it for you and we'll save the tape.
CDR Okay. I'm going to have to wait i0
minutes anyway, I want to get finished with this extended
standard so I can put some white light coronagraph on anyway.
CC Okay Jer.
CC Skylab, Houston; the VTR is rewound and
waiting on you when you get to it Jer.
CDR Okay, thanks.
CC Skylab, Houston, i minute to LOS; Hawaii
at 20:55.
CDR See you later.
CC Okay.
PAO We've lost contact now with Skylab through
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. And during that pass the
corollary science officer here in the control center reported
that telemetry data showed the crew had begun the M556 vapor
growth experiment. And we have about 14-1/2 or 13-1/3 minutes
rather before we regain contact through Hawaii. This is
Skylab Control, 20 hours 41 minutes Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 15:54 CDT 52:20:54 GMT
i/6/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. Now we're bringing

up the l_ne at this time for contact with Skylab through
Hawaii.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for
6-1/2 minutes. And for the SPT, we have a minor mod to the
JOP 18 Delta pad, and we'd also like to take the video tape
recorder now to prepare for dump, we see you put 3.7-minute's
worth on it.
CDR You got it Bruce.
CC Roger, thank you.
PLT SPT will be with you in a few minutes
Bruce, he's tied up.
CC Okay, no rush. We got about 2 and - 2
hours or so before we really need to get to it.
CC And Skylah, Houston again. At your con-
venience we'd llke you to go ahead and return the REG BUS
COARSE adjust PTTs to their pre-EREP settings, it's about 20
degrees counterclockwise. Over.
CDR Okay, that's in work now Bruce.
CDR Bruce, the REFs are counter on SO55. I
think we we've had an old complaint about that sometimes
incrementing just random.
CC Yeah, I think it increments in units of
80.
CDR Well, it appears that it's not random
anymore, any time when you're in mirror auto raster, every
time you go through the 20's column, you know, and it seems to
hit 23 more often than anything else. That's precisely when
the counter updates i.
CC Okay, so as it's going back and forth,
every time it passes through it every time it passes through
the 20's column you add 80 to the GRATING position?
CDR No, only on the up count, and it's not
adding 80. This is the this is the raster scan counter,
you know, and every time you do i full mirror auto raster it's
supposed to bump up i. But in this particular case it bumps
up i every time you go through 20 - column 20 counting up.
CC Okay, we've got that Jerry. That sounds
llke a new one to us. The previous one was on the GRATING
position count and it was going up random amounts that were
multiples of 80 80 GRATING lines.
CDR Roger.
CDR Okay Bruce, Ed seems to think it has
something to do with when the - when it crosses the llmb of
the Sun it sends a signal.
CC Okayp we'll take that input also. And we've
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got about i minute to LOS; next station contact is Goldstone

in 2 minutes at 21:03, and we'll be starting off with the
data/voice tape recorder dump.
CDR Roger.
CC Say Jerry, on this scan count, you have
a little foot prop there, don't you that - how about the
optical -the GRATING optical reference flip flop, can you
correlate that going to barber pole let's say with adding i
to the scan counter?
CDR Yeah, I'ii start looking at that, I just
thought about doing that.
CC Yeah, the zero order goody.
CC AOS Goldstone 9 minutes and 20 seconds,
data/voice tape recorder dump. Out.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCISOg/I
Time: 16:05 CDT 52:21:05 GMT
1/6/74
CC SkyZab, this is Houston, l minute to

LOS. Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Bermuda
at 21:16. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce, and that random - this raster
scan counter update looks like it is - have something to do
with the talkback. It's probably EMI. I tried running it
back and forth across the Earth limb. And every time we
went from barber pole to gray, we got an increment.
CC Every time you went from barber pole to
gray you got an increment?
CDR That's affirmative.
CC Okay.
PAO We've had loss of signal now through
Goldstone and we'll be reaequiring in about 3-1/2 minutes.
The change-of-shift briefing is still scheduled for 4:30 cen-
tral standard time central daylight time - correction - in
the JSC News Center briefing room with Flight Director Phil
Shaffer. The flight director at the present time is Nell
Hutchinson, and our Spacecraft Communicator is Astronaut
Bruce McCandless. With a little less than 3 minutes remaining
before regaining contact through Bermuda, we'll leave the
line up.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Bermuda
for 6 minutes. Out.
CDR 35.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 4 minutes through the Canary Islands at
21:26. Out.
PAO Skylab currently between Bermuda and
Canary Island tracking station. We'll be regaining contact
in about a minute and a half. A little later on this after-
noon, the crew is scheduled to conduct the final planned ob-
servation of the Comet Kohoutek using the ATM telescopes.
That operation to began a l%ttle after 23 hours Greenwich
mean time, and last for about 3-1/2 hours, In order to bring the
instruments into play on the comet, the Skylab space station
will be required to maneuver about 15 to 20 degrees in each
axis. It's predicted that this will require about 55 pound-
seconds of propellant or about 13 mibs minimum inpnlse bursts
or burns in a 20-minute maneuver which will begin over
Ascension at about 23 hours 12 minutes Greenwich mean time.
Again, the change-of-shift press briefing is scheduled to begin
at about 4:30 in the JSC News Center briefing room.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through the
Canary Islands for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
SPT Houston, SPT, standing by to copy the
change in the JOP 18 pad.
CC Okay, Ed, it's in building block 30A and
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if you're looking at the - would you rather look at the mes-

sage we sent up to you or the JOP 18D pad sheet. Over.
SPT Let's go with the pad sheet.
CC Okay, building block 30A under 82B. The
first exposure you should have in there is a 5 second one,
the second exposure's a 20 minute one, and the third exposure
is as long as possible. And on that third exposure, which
is as long as possible, we'd like to change wavelength from
long to short. Over.
SPT Okay, I've got it long to short.
CC Roger, and while we're talking to you
here, Ed, just like to remind you that your family phone call
is at Honeysuckle Creek at 22:10. Left antenna going to
right. Over.
SPT 22:10, left to right. Thank you, Bruce.
CC Roger, out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Our change-of-
shift press briefing is ready to begin. We'll transfer at
this time to JSC News Center briefing room and tape record
any conversations with the crew through Canary Islands for
replay following the press briefing.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1809/I
Time: 16:46 CDT 52:21:46 GMT
1/6/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab coming up

now on Tananarive and we've got about a minute of conversation
with the crew that we taped through the Canary Island pass
which we'll attempt to play back now before we get to that
acquisition at Tananarive.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, i minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 14 minutes through Tananarive
at 21:48. And for the CDR, or whomever's interested, the
flight plans for tomorrow are in the woodpecker.
CDR Roger, Bruce, thanks.
PAO That completes our tape playback and
we're standing by now for live conversation through Tananarive.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Tananarlve
for 2_i/2 minutes. Out.
LOS. Next station contact in 19 minutes through Honeysuckle
Creek at 22:10 with the SPT phone call. Out.
SPT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're out of
contact through Tananarive and about 17 minutes away from
regaining contact through Carnarvon, Australia - or rather
through Honeysuckle Creek, Australia. And that'll be our
last full Honeysuckle Creek pass. We pick up the following
revolution through Carnarvon, Australia. As we enter that
period of time where we have the maximum amount 6f coverage
from continental U.S. sites on the orbital groundtraek.
This is Skylab Control at 21 hours 54 minutes Greenwich mean
time.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1810/I
Time: 17:09 CDT 52:22:09 GMT
1/6/74
PA0 This is Skylab Control at 22 hours 9

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. And the major activities scheduled in the
flight plan at this is ATM operations with Commander Jerry
Cart at the ATM console, and Science Pilot Ed Gibson is
scheduled to be eating dinner shortly, and for Pilot Bill
Pogue it's a combination of SO63 operations and his physical
exercise period for the day. We should have the call to the
crew shortly from CAP COMM Bruce McCandless, we'll stand by
for that.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
Creek for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; I minute till
LOS, next station contact in 12 minutes through Hawaii at
22:31. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That concludes
a relatively quite pass through Honeysuckle Creek, Australia.
And we're coming up now on the evening meal for the crew.
Eating in shifts with Ed Gibson Science Pilot getting dinner
first, while Jerry Carr is holding down the duties at the
apollo telescope mount console observing the Sun. Gibson's
menu for today shows him eating turkey and gravy, potato
soup, asparagus, pineapple and grapefruit drink. For Commander
Jerry Carr when he gets around to dinner a little later on
this evening he's scheduled to have a meal consisting of
prime rib, potato salad, asparagusp tea and apricots, and for
Pilot Bill Pogue it's chicken and gravy, macaroni, green beans,
asparagus, tea and ice cream. And we have 8-1/2 minutes before
we regain contact through Hawaii. This is Skylab Control at
22 hours 22 minutes Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MCI811/I
Time: 17:29 CDT 52:22:29 GMT
1/6/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're bringing the

line up now for acquisition at Hawaii and that's scheduled
to occur in 54 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii
for 9-1/2 minutes. And we need the DAS for a minute to give
you a nuZ update. Over.
CREW Roger, Bruce.
CC And we've finished with the DAS. It's
all yours again.
CDR Roger.
CC Info for the CDR. We just saw a sub-
normal flare in active region 12, information only.
CDR Right, we saw it too. We almost went on
it. It flared about 3 minutes ago, Bruce.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, this is Houston. I've got a couple of
words on what we discovered on your raster scan (garble)
problem. Over.
CDR Roger, go ahead.
CC Okay, we've decided to name this one
after you, Jerry under the ambiguous Carr mode of operation
on the the ATM. It turns out that the system is functioning
as it should from the wiring diagram, and that if you are
near grating zero so that the zero water detector works. If
you're in a raster scan mode and if the instrument is scanning
onto and off of the disc of the Sun, then you will in fact
get an increment to your counter each time that you A. com-
plete a raster, and B. scan back onto the disc of the Sun
going to the talkback gray on zero order unit. Because the
signals from the grating scan complete which is tripped by
the zero order detector and the signal from the raster scan
complete, which comes out of another set of logic are dioded
into that counter. Now in the future in order to preclude
this ambiguous mode of operation, all that you need do is
put the GRATING REFERENCE switch to MECHANICAL and that -
and not drive the grating and that won't change your grating
position counter, but that will interrupt the output of the
zero order detector and you'll be back to just counting
rasters. Over.
CDR Okayp Bruce, thank you. And tell the
boys in the back room that l_m deeply moved for the honor
they've bestowed on me.
CC Okay, we_ll do that. We were sort of
surprised to - to report that you had indeed discovered a new
operating mode ourselves.
CC Skzlab, this is Houston, i minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 3 minutes through Goldstone at 22:42.
Out.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. We have just a

brief dropout here. While the station - space station is out
of range of Hawaii and before we pick up again at Goldstone
about a minute and a half before that acquisition. We'll
leave the line up during the pass over Hawaii. We advised
the crew_ Jerry Cart in particular, who is operating the Apollo
telescope mount instruments that a subnormal flare had been
observed in active region 12. Carr responded that the crew
had seen it also about 3 minutes earlier.
CC Skylabp this is Houston through Goldstone
for 7-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab_ this is Kouston, 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 4 minutes through Bermuda at
22:53, leading off with the data/voice tape recorder dump.
Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We'll be back
up again in about 4 minutes when we reacquire Skylab through
Bermuda.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1812/I
Time: 17:53 CDT, 52:22:53 GMT
1/6/74
PAO This is Skylab Control; we're coming up

now on Bermuda for a 9-minute pass. And in Mission Control,
Flight Director Neil Hutchinson has been reviewing the fol-
lowing day's Flight Plan and 7_day forecast Flight Plan
activities with his flight controllers.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda
for 8-1/2 minutes with a data/voice tape recorder dump. Over.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; if you're busy
with the recorder we can let it slip until Canary or Ascension.
CDR Affirmative, Bruce; I'm debriefing ATM.
CC Roger; out.
CDR Houston, CDR's finished with the recorders.
CC Okay, thank you, Jer.
CDR Houston, CDR, you can tell the guys in
the backroom that I've debriefed this on the tape, but es-
sentially, that subflarezhappening right in the middle, I
guess I - I mapped out the right-hand side of one curve and
the left-hand side of another, so we probably don't have a
very good data match.
CC Okay, we copy that; thank you.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS; next station contact in 8-1/2 minutes through Ascension
at 23:10. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary
and Ascension for 15-1/2 minutes and we'll be doing a data/
voice tape recorder dump now. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to
LOS; next station contact in 24 minutes through Carnarvon at
23:43. And for the SPT, we noticed the CANISTER ROLL has not
yet been INHIBITED, although you're at minus 6300. We'd like
to INHIBIT for added stability. Over.
PAO Skylab passing over the horizon from
Ascension with the characteristic burst of noise. And as we
lost contact with the space station, the crew was in the process
of maneuvering to the desired attitude for the final scheduled
ATM observations of the Comet Kohoutek. This will be a rela-
tively large maneuver on the order of 15 to 20 degrees in each
axis,requiring about 20 minutes of maneuver time. And the
preliminary prediction is that the maneuver will lead to a use
of about 13 mibs of propellant attitude control propellant. They
should be in attitude when next we acquire through Carnarvon in
about 22 minutes. This is Skylab Control at 23 hours, 21 minutes
Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1813/I
Time: 18:43 CDT 52:23:43 GMT
1/6/74
PAO This is Skylab Control; 23 hours 43 minutes

Greenwich mean time with Skylab approaching acquisition through
Carnarvon, Australia. And when we next hear from the crew
they should largely have completed the maneuver for the final
series of Kohoutek observations with the Skylab ATM instruments.
They should have acquisition in about 20 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle Creek for 9 minutes. Out.
CC And for the SPT, we need the DAS for a
minute to control the CMG bearing heaters. Over.
SPT You got it Bruce.
CC Roger.
CC And we're through with the DAS set, back
to yOU.
SPT Roger.
SPT Houston, when you're looking at Venus
there's no mistaking it, it looks around 6 octal units and it's
exceptionally bright, had to turn down the intensity on the
scope just so I could work with it.
CC Roger, we copy Ed, thank you.
CC And Ed, if you'll pardon us looking over
your shoulder, we don't show SO54 running for a long exposure.
Over.
SPT Right Bruce, thank you.
CC Roger;out.
CC 1-1/2 minutes to LOS here, next station
contact in 7 minutes through Guam at 23:58. And for the SPT,
if you llke you can put up to about 18 minutes worth of - up
to about 8 minutes worth of comet/Venus TV on the VTR. Over.
SPT Okay, thank you Bruce, I'll probably do
that at the beginning of the next orbit when I reacquire.
PAO This is Skylab Control, we've had loss of
signal through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. We'll be reacquiring
in 5 minutes at Guam. Watching the performance of the Skylab,
particularly the gyroscopes following the maneuver to the
attitude for JOP 18 observations of the comet, the GNS officer
reports that the momentum - the gyro momentums look reasonable.
We've seen 8 mibs so far, 6 have predicted based on ground
simulation runs of the maneuver. We had a prediction for a
total of 13 mibs as a result of this exercise. At 23 hours
54 minutes Greenwich mean time this is Skylah Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1814/I
Time: IB:57 CDT 52:23:57 GMT
1/6174
PAO This is Skylab Control. Science Pilot

Ed Gibson will be at the ATM console for something in excess
of 3 houYs in this final ATM observa£ion of the Comet Kohon-
tek. Prior to loss of signal through Carnarvon and Honey-
suckle, Ed Gibson described Venus which he sa_d was unmistak-
able, very bright in the monitor. And we_ve given him a go
ahead to put some of that ATM video on the video tape recorder
giving us an opportunity to bring it down and look at it
tomorrow. Reaequiring through Guam - the first Guam pass of
this evening in about 15 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Gaum for
5-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 7-1/2 minutes through Hawaii
at 00:ii. Out.
PAO Skylab now out of range of the antennas
at Guam and we're about 6 minutes 20 seconds away from re-
acquiring on what will be the last acquisition of the day at
Hawaii. That'll be a very low-elevation pass - spacecraft
just barely off the horizon, as seen from Hawaii. And a
relatively short period of contact. The ATM operations being
conducted right now by Ed Gibson on the last major activity
Flight Plan for the crew today. The crewmen wily be allocated
an hour or two to complete pre-sleep activities. They'll be
getting their sleep period at about 3 hours Greenwich mean
time. And we've just begun the 53rd day. We're now 5 minutes
53 seconds into day 53. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1815/I
Time: 19:10 CDT 53:00:10 GMT
1/6/74
PAO This is Skylab Control, we're standing

by to regain contact through Hawaii at zero hours i0 minutes
for 1 minute, next station contact in 11-1/2 minutes Goldstone
at 00:22. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control, we'll be coming
up on Goldstone, California in 6 minutes and we'll take the
line down for the intervening period. At 16 minutes i0 seconds
PAO This is Skylab Control, we're standing
by now for the call to the crew from CAP COMM Bruce McCandless
through the Goldstone tracking station at zero hours 21
minutes Greenwich mean time.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone,
Corpus Christi, Merritt Island and Bermuda coming up here.
And we've got you 5 minutes through Goldstone to start with,
and we'll be doing the data/voice tape recorder dump at
Merritt Island. Out.
CC One minute till LOS 5 next station contact
in 2minutes, Corpus Christi. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt
Island and Bermuda for 11-1/2 minutes_ data/voice tape recorder
dump if you're not busy. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 30 seconds till
LOS, next station contact in 9 minutes through Ascension at
00:49. Out.
PAO Skylab now moving out across the Atlantic
toward the Ascension Island tracking station out of range of
Bermuda. And we're about 8 minutes from acquiring at Ascension.
And the crew has setteled down into what is traditionally a
relatively quiet period aboard Skylab. Flight Commander
Jerry Cart and Pilot Bill Pogue having completed their evening
meal, or finishing it up at least and scheduled to begin
pre-sleep activities, and Ed Gibson completing the last major
scientific experiment of the day or activity_ the Joint
observations program 18 of the comet Kohoutek, that's scheduled
to continue until about 2-1/2 hours Greenwich mean time.
This is Skylab Control at zero hours 43 minutes Greenwich mean
time.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 19:48 CDT 53:00:48 GMT
1/6/74
PA0 This is Skylab Control at zero hours 49

minutes Greenwich mean time with the spacecraft coming up
on Ascension Island. And in Mission Control, Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson has been reviewing future Flight Plan activities
with his team of flight controllers while keeping an eye on this
evening's ATM observations of the Comet Kohoutek. CAP COMM
Bruce McCandless will be putting in a call to the crew in
about 30 seconds.
CC Skylah, this is Houston through Ascension
for 5-1/2 minutes. Next station Carnarvon, we'll be standing
by to receive the evening status report. Out. And we need to
get the DAS here for a minute for a CMG bearing heater command.
SPT Roger, Bruce, you have it.
CC Thank you, Ed.
CC And we're through with the DAS commands,
it's back to you, Ed.
SPT Roger.
CC And the VTR has been cleaned off, it's
all yours;.
SPT Roger.
LOS. Next station contact in 25-1/2 minutes through Carnarvon
at 01:20, and we'll be standing by for the evening status
report at AOS. Out.
PAO Skylab's out of range of Ascension now
at zero hours 57 minutes, and we'll be acquiring through Carnarvon
the last Carnarvon pass of the day. And 22-1/2 minutes
over Carnarvon, we'll be getting the daily crew status report,
and then a short while later_ over the Guam tracking station,
we'll have the daily medical conference. Skylab Control,
57 hours 50 minutes - or correction 57 minutes 50 seconds
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC--1817/I
Time: 20:19 CDT 33:01:19 GMT
1/6/74
PAO This is Skylab Control, Skylab coming up

on Carnarvon the last acquisition of the evening through the
Carnarvon, Australia station. And we're about 50 seconds
away from regaining contact. The crew at that time will have
completed all major scientific activities with the exception
of the ATM operations. Ed Gibson has the duty at the ATM
C&D console. And this time is allocated for Commander Jerry
Carr and Pilot Bill Pogue to begin preparations for sleep
the pre-sleep activities. We expect to get the usual daily
status report from the crew over Carnarvon this pass.
for I0_i/2 minutes_ we need the DAS right now to configure
the CMG 5earing heaters, and we're standing by for the photo
log and then the evening status report. Over.
SPT You got the DAS.
CD_ Okay, on the photo io_: 16-millimeter,
Delta Papa 2, Charlie India 127, 18, Charlle India 93;
Delta Papa Ii, Echo_ Foxtrot, and Gulf; and Delta Papa 12,
Charlie India 127, 00, Charlie India 93; Tango Victor 107,
Charlie India 79, 62, Charlie India 126; EKEP VTS, Charlie
Lima i0, 50. Nikon i, Charlie X-ray 39, 35; 2, empty; 3,
Charlie India 112, 47; 04, no change; 05, empty. 70-millimeter,
Charlle X-ray 51, 040. ETC is Charlie Tango ii, 068. EREP,
set Tango, 9024, 8362, 9238, 9230, 2774, 0099. Drawer A:
Alfa i, no change; Alfa 2, 05, no supply, take up is Charlie
India 127; Alfa 3, 06, Charlie India 79, 62, Charlie India
126! Alfa 4, 08, Charlie India 77, 07, Mike Tango 09. BACK,
07, Charlie India 78, 44, Charlie India 74. That's it.
CC Okay, we got it, standing by for the
evening status report. The DAS is yours.
CDR Okay, sleep: CDR, 7.0, 6.5 heavy, 0.5
light; SPT, 6.8, all heavy; PLT 7.5, all heavy. Volume: CDR,
1750! SPT, 1750_ PLT, 2100. Water guns: 8226; 4190; 0238.
Body mass: CDR, 6.316, 6.318, 6.318; SPT, 6.354, 6.349, 6.349;
PLT, 6.214, 6.205, 6.214. Exercise: no change on all three
of us. Medication: none for any of us. Clothing: CDR,
shorts and socks; SPT, trousers, shorts and socks; PLT, shirt.
Food log: CDR, salt zero, deviationsp minus 1 lemonade,
rehydration watery plus 1.5; SPT, 4.0 salt_ no deviations,
minus 1.0 water_ PLT, zero_ zero, zero. Okay, Flight Plan
deviatlons: the SPT did seven TV77_ and tomorrow the CDR and
the PLT will swap EREP tasks, the PLT is the only member of
the crew that's been - that's had training on EREP cal with
the lunar field of view. Shopping llst accomplishments:
PLT did T002-3 today, the data's on tape 02:40 to 03:00; SPT
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did Tango Victor 101, 1-hour prep, and he also got a

sweat sample, and he did SO63 photo sequence. Inoperable
equipment: Transporter 07, we had an early-end-of-film
light, we troubleshot it a little laterp hand wound it and
cleared it, and it's operating okay nowp we're going to put
it back into use; transporter 08, film broken with 7 percent
remaining. Unscheduled stowage: none. _ousekeeping completed.
CC It sounds like you guys had a bang up
day there, you're really ripping through the shopping llst
accomplishments and repair work. Got a couple of questions
for you here, and then we'll let you go. Did the urine dump
line work satisfactorily this morning, and we're you able to
evacuate the new urine bags through the dump llne successfully
or did you have to use the backup procedure? Over.
CDR NO, it worked llke a gem.
CC Beautiful. For the SPT, was the comet
ever as briKht as Venus, and if not can you estimate how
much fainter it was at its brightest. Over.
SPT No, it was never as bright as Venus by
a considerable margin, but I'd have a tough time giving you
any kind of a quantitative assessment of that Bruce.
CC Okay, and you put some comet sketches
on the TV today, we'll get those back into site here later
on tonight. Do you think it's worthwhile doing TV of comet
sketches later, say day after tomorrow or anything like that.
Over.
SPT I think a 2-day interval now is a little bit
close, I think maybe we ought to open it up to about a 4-day
or so and next 4 days from now I might give you a little
something_ but there's really not too much changing other than
the tail length and other very small features.
CC Okay, we'll feed that into the mill, and
for the CDR again, on mission day 46 which is about a week
ago, you gave us a M487 2 Charlie debriefing but when you got
to the comments on item number 5, habitability improvements,
you noted that you were going to go by that one for the time
being and come back to it later and we checked the voice
tapes and we can't find any place that you came back and we're
wondering if the next day or so you could take a minute
and put some words on that subject on the tape recorder at
your convenience. Over.
CDR Okay Bruce, I better put that on my
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CC - - can't find any place that you came

back and we're wondering if the next day or so, you could
take a minute and put some words on that subject on the tape
recorder at your convenience_ Over.
CDR Okay Bruce. I better put that on my
shoppi_g list so I don't forget it again.
CC Roger. And since we're shifting the evening
news around to the morning these days, why that about wraps
it up for this site, unless you've got something for us.
Next site, which is Guam at 01:33 acquisition is your evening
medical conference and after that we'll talk to you for about
a minute and a half or so through Goldstone and then let you
knock it off for the evening at 02:00.
CDR Okay Bruce. I don't think we have any-
thing. On that housekeeping for today, I said it was all
finished_ it really isn'E. I still owe you a squeezer bag
dump, which I'll do before bedtime.
CC Okay. You talk about owing us a squeeze_
bag dump, that reminds me: about the old one about getting
change for a mib.
CDR What's a mib?
CC A minimum impulse bid for your TACS.
CDR Is that right?
SPT Hey Bruce, I might could give you a
couple of words.
CC Go ahead.
SPT J0P 18, this looks like the last one
we're going to be working on, and from my side, working them
up here, it looks pretty successful. I think the JOP Summary
Sheets were put together in a very short period of time,
but an excellent job done on them. I've had no trouble working
my way t_rough them. I thought they were very carefully
thought out and well donee As far as maneuvering, I
think the ASCOs and all the guys down there on the ground
coming up with maneuvers did a great job. We've done a
lot of maneuvers here on two CMGs, that I think we were
hesitant to do repetitively on three CMGs just a couple of
months age. So all in all, I think the folks down there
did a great job and it looks like a pretty successful program.
CC Okay Ed, we'll certainly pass those
comme*_ts on and I share your feelings with you. We've gone
from a situation where on three CMGs, we thought we could
Just barely hack it, where we've done a beautiful Job with
you all doing it here on two CMGs and the assessment we're
getting from the back room is that we've given the comet
a very thorough looking ove_ with all the AT}_ instr_ments
and the consensus down here is that it's been a rip.-roaring
success due in no small part to your dedication to the tasks
involved, and getting on with the program there.
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CC CDR, Houston. Reference your remark about

the PLT, we show the PLT on S191 for the LUNAR CAL tomorrow,
which takes place from about 00:30 down to 02:00. Over.
CC And also the EREP CAL at 12:00 Zulu.
CDR Let me reread what I've got. I didn't
see it that way.
CC We got about i0 seconds to LOS. Med
conference coming up at Guam at 01:33 in 2-1/2 minutes. We'll
talk to you for just a minute at Goldstons before you sign
off for the evenin$.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's all through
Carnarvon, Australia. Ed Gibson giving us an evaluation of
what he felt was a very successful program of comet observations.
using the ATM instruments. Gibson in the process now of
completing the last of those scheduled observations using the
Apollo telescope mount equipment on Skylab. And we have about
i minute remaining before we regain contact with the crew
through Guam where they're scheduled to have their daily
private medical conference. As you heard CAP COMM Bruce
McCandless advise them, we'll be talking to them briefly
through Goldstone when we acquire there on this revolution.
And then close down the circuit for tonight and let the crew
begin preparations for their sleep period. We'll leave the
line up for the Guam acquisition. That's scheduled to occur
in about 40 seconds.
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PAO Skylab's now out of range of Guam. That

pass taken up entirely with the daily private medical conference.
We'll be talking with the crew briefly over Geldstone before
closing down the air-to-ground circuit. For the sleep period
tonight. Acquisition at Goldstone is scheduled for about
15 minutes from now. This is Skylab Control at 1 hour 44
minutes Greenwich mean time.
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PAO This is Skylab Control at I hours and 58

minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by to regain
contact through Goldstone, California in what we expect will
be our last bit of conversation with the crew this evening
before they retire for the night. CAP COMM Bruce McCandless
will be calling them in about 30 seconds. Our flight director
on this shift is Neil Hutchinson.
Corpus Christi_ Merritt Island and Bermuda for 16 minutes, but
we_ll just talk to you here for about a minute or so and then
let you have some peace and quiet. For the SPT, when you close
out from JOP 18 Delta here, we'd like you to leave the
apparatus in solar inertial since we're short on daylight
sites, and we won't be doing it unattended, that is at the end
of step 35, stay in SI instead of going to experiment pointing.
There's no convenient wakeup site right on ii:00 Zulu, so we
recommend that you set your alarm clocks, we'll call you from
over Guam at 11:29. Over.
SPT Roger, understand Bruce. l'm sorry I
didn't quite understand the reason for not going to experiment
pointing.
CC We're not going to be doing any unattended
work this evening because we're short on ground sites and
daylight and therets a possiblity that if we can't see it in
daytime if we have a failure in the wedge drive motors we
wind up with a horrendous situation. So we'd rather not do
it, Just leave it in SI. Over.
SPT Roger Bruce, will do, thank you.
CC Okay, and if you need us after we sign off
here, i0,000 do not enter in the DAS, we'll give you a
call. And film thread pad is on board for your use at your
discretion this evening. And a final item, they'd like to
remind you that there will be no urine sampling tomorrow
morning, the next urine sample is tomorrow evening in accordance
with the Flight Plan and the new urine sample pad you have on
board. Over,
CDR Okay Bruce, thanks a lot, and you're right
on that lunar cal thing, I was not reading high enough on
the Flight Plan.
CC Okay, so if we're squared away on that
why we"ll bid you a good night.
CDR Okay, good night Bruce.
PAO We'll be in contact with Skylab for another
14 minutes through Goldstone, Texas and MILA. We'll leave
the llne up for the conclusion of this stateside pass
although we don't expect any further conversation with the
crew tonight.
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CC SO56 airlock to close please before

you leave the panel.
PLT Roger.
SPT Roger, Bruce, I haven't finished up the
powerin B down for unattended.
CC Sorry about that, but this is our last contact
this evening.
SPT Okay, will do.
PAO Well that concludes our stateside pass
and it'll be the last contact we have with Skylab for the
night. The last telemetry data that we will be receiving
for another hour and 18 minutes, we don_t reacquire the
space station until it comes back around to Goldstone, almost
a complete revolution from now. Have the mission surgeon's
daily report on crew health prepared by Dr. Jerry Hordinsky.
The report reads as follows, "crew health remains good, the
crews mental and physical state is GO for more of the same
busy schedule they have been following since the turn of the
year." That completes the mission surgeon's daily report on
crew health for today. At 2 hours 17 minutes Greenwich mean
time on mission 53, this is Skylab Control Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1821/I
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PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 28 minutes

Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now just south
of Japan about to be acquired through the tracking antenna
at Guam. Pass through Guam will last i0 minutes. The space-
craft communicator on duty this morning is Story Musgrave.
The flight director is Milton Windier. The crew will be
doin_ a Earth resources calibration maneuver shortly after
this pass, so this will be a very busy and fairly lengthy
discussion, probably including the morning news.
CC Good morning, Skylab. Got you through
Guam for 9 minutes.
PLT Rog, Story.
CC MorninK, Bill.
PLT Is the news there?
CC It's there, but I've got about three U.S.
changes to get to Jet prior to starting the U.S. cal, so let
me give those to him and then I'll press on with the news.
PLT Stand by i, Story.
CC And no need to acknowledge, but for Jer
I'll need his CDR detail pad and the only other pad I'll
need for him is the EREP cal C&D pad.
PLT He_s getting them out now.
CC Okay. We sent plenty of them up to you
last night.
PLT Okay, Story. Go ahead.
CC And this is on Jerks detail
PLT Rog. He has it.
CC Understand you're ready for me to read.
PLT That's affirmative.
CC Okay. CDR details. Detail 11:02 and 12:00
put down 11:50, EREP, plus 1 ON; S191 hour (garble).
PLT He has that one.
CC Okay. And at 15:58, cross out 15:58 and put
down 16:08.
PLT He has that one.
CC Okay. And on the EREP cal C&D. Cross
out on, that's on page 2, G and P (?) : 12:57. Cross that out and put
down 12:56.
PLT Okay. He has that one noted.
CC Okay. l_ve got about three or four more
for you but those concern EREP 22. It's, oh, 5 hours from
now so they can wait, and if you're ready here's the news.
CDR Fire away.
CC Israeli government is reported preparing
to withdraw its forces 18 miles from the Suez Canal if
Egypt agrees to reduce its troops and arms on the last side of
the waterway. Newspaper reports in Israel and the United States
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said this is a plan discussed by the Defense Secretary

Moshe Dayan, and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger during
Dayan's visit to Washington last week. Dayan, before leav-
ing Wahington, said he thought the Israeli cabinet could not
submit its proposal to the Egyptians at the troop disengagement
in talk in Geneva, but there was no indication yet Just
when his proposal would be made. Robbers who stole an 80-pound
weather vane that for 232 years sat atop Boston's historic
Faneuil hall probably used a helicopter, police said
Saturday_ Police and city officials said the missing
4-foot-long grasshopper, gilded with gold leaf is priceless.
An expert said it will probably sell for hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars. Superintendent of the old hall, located
in the Hay market Square area, discovered the grasshopper was
missing when he went on the roof to raise the flag Friday.
The last time he remembered noticing it was a month before.
But several persons said they saw it on Christmas, police
said. President Luis Echeverra (sic) of Mexico has ordered the
highest funeral honors for David Alfaro Sequarez, (sic) the last
of Mexico's three great muralists, who died of Cancer Sunday.
He was 77. The president ordered that the body lie in state
for 24 hours at the Palace of Fine Arts in downtown Mexico
City. Burial will be at noon. That's on Tuesday. Snowy Alaska
may not yet rank as a winter vacation haven, but
Japanese ski enthusiasts are are discovering it by the
charter load. Winter visitors from Japan have doubled over
the past year and are now pouring in at the rate of 1,000
skiers a month. Prince Charles_ heir to the British is one,
took a spill from his horse during a polo match but remounted
and continued the game. The prince_ who recently arrived in Sing-
apore to join the frigate H.M.S. Jupiter, as comm off leer, feel
during a match at the Singapore Polo Club. Bing Crosby, hospital-
ized with pleurisy is reported in good spirits as he watched
a telecast of the annual pro-am golf tourny that he normally
hosts at Pebble Beach. Sheets of rain drenched southern
California Sunday as a wave of storm fronts lashed the coast
and residents battled snow and mud left by earlier
storms. The National Weather Service said 5.29 inches of rain
were dumped over the area by late Sunday and the outlook
was for more of the same. Forecasts said more flooding and
mudslldes could be expected. And that's all I've got for you
on news this morning.
FLT Thank you, Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS, about
30 minutes from the Vanguard at 12:09.
PLT Roger.
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PA0 Skylab Control at 11:40 Greenwich mean

time. The Skylab space station is out of range of Guam, after
the morning first morning message to the crew. One of the
primary things discussed, of ¢ourse_ is the Earth resources
calibration that's being made this morning. That pass is to
begin at 12 12:58_ is when the pass itself begins, although
preparations will be under way right in the next 20 minutes.
And the morning news read up by Story Musgrave. 28 minutes
to our next acquisition of signal. This is Skylab Control.
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PAO Skylab Control at 12:08 Greenwich mean

time. The Skylab space station is now Off the coast of Chile.
55 seconds from acquisition of signal through the Vanguard
tracking ship. Pass through Vanguard will last about 10-1/2
minutes. The Spacecraft Communicator is Story Musgrave.
We'll bring the line up live now for air-to-ground through
Vanguard. This pass will be followed by a fairly long LOS
before we're - we have our next acquisition at Canary Island.
CC Skylab, AOS through t•he Vanguard for
9 minutes.
SPT Morning, Story. I have a question for
yOU.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Story, in looking through the pads here,
I noted that I have a EREP CAL maneuver, which is great, but
I don't see anywhere denoted in either my Flight Plan or the
details. And I was wondering how I would know to look for that
pad in the future.
CC Because you beat Story to them by about
l0 seconds. It should've been on your details and on your
Summary Flight Plan, Ed. And I was just going to just going
to call you right then.
SPT Okay. I'm up to speed right here and if
no one objects, I might take a quick peek at the Sun.
CC They say to have at it, Ed.
SPT Thank you. For the bookkeepers, Story,
I got it all read last night after we finished up that
JOP 18 also.
CC Okay, Ed, and we just sent yo11 up a solar
activity updates on board.
CC Skylab, about 30 seconds to LOS. i0 minutes
to Canary. And we'll be dumping the data/voice at Canary.
SPT Story, a note on that solar actlvitiy update,
there is a lot of enhancement in XUV and it's a region which I
did a little work on last night at around 260.1. Looks as
though we have another active region coming around the corner
there; and I noted some fairly - relatively high intensity -
130 arc-seconds to 60 arc-seconds off the limb last night, and
I'm taking another look now.
i CC Okay, Ed.
PAO Skylab Control at 12:20 Greenwich mean time.
The Skylab space station is over Brazil, out of range of the
tracking ship Vanguard. Our next acquisition is 8-1/2 minutes
away at Canary Island. Central Florida will be the subject of
thorough study by Skylab astronauts today as they make their
19th lengthy survey of the Earth's resources along a 6800-mile
course from the southern tip of Mexico, across the Gulf waters
to Florida, and along the coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean,
eventually reaching France. The Skylab crew will get electronic
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and photographic information on everything from oceanography

to land use planning. The focus of attention for today's
survey is the state of Florida. Using pictures and computer
tapes generated by the 24-minute pass, scientists will
i prepare ecological maps of Tampa Bay and the St. John's River-
Cape Canaveral area of central Florida. The region's land
use, affected by rapid growth which includes the Disney World
complex, will also be analyzed and evaluated using data gathered
today. The pass begins at 12:08 central daylight time and
concludes off the coast of France at 12:32. Yesterday, as
part of the visual observations program, Pilot Bill Pogue
reported on some photographs he'd taken out of the window
of areas of the United States. Included in his photography
yesterday were several frames of each side of the Rocky
Mountains and down into the Central Plains area, showing
snow cover over the United States. The Pilot indicated, in
channel B tapes that were dumped and transcribed here in
Mission Control, that the Central Plains area and snow cover
of the mountains showed some very good relief and topography
details. He also indicated some photography of northern
Wisconsin and Minnesota area and took pictures of a plateau
in Canada and ice in the St. Lawrence delta. Skylab Control.
We're a little less than 7 minutes from acquisition of signal.
It's now 22 minutes and 30 seconds after the hour.
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Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is of_ the coast
of northwest Africa about to be acquired through the Canary
Island tracking antenna there. Pass through Canary Island
and Madrid is an overlapping pass with a total duration of
about 15 minutes. Spacecraft communicator is Story Musgrave,
although new team is now coming into Mission Control. Phil
Shaffer about to take over from Milton WindleT and Dick Truly
now in Mission Control will take over shortly from Story
Musgrave. We'll bring the line up live now for air-to-ground
through Canary Island and Madrid, 15 minutes.
CC Skylab, AOS Canaries and Madrid. Will be
dumping the data/voice here at Canaries. And we got you for
13 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC And, Bill, if you get ahead on setting up
your EREP there, I've got about three changes to get up to you.
There's no hurry, however; I can get them up in the next
2 or 3 hours, but if you get ahead and get some time I'll
give them to you.
PLT Roger.
PLT Okay, Story. I have my pad now.
CC Okay, Bill. PLT detail. At 00:22, you
can scratch everything on that line. 00:22, delete it all.
PLT Okay. That's deleted.
CC And if you can dig up EREP 22 C&D next_
PLT Okay. I have it.
CC And go to page 2, and go down to Ii min-
utes and i0 seconds.
PLT Got it.
CC Okay. Delete all that. Delete S192 MODE
CHECK.
PLT Roger. I got that.
CC And then moving on down to what looks
like 14 minutes and 15 seconds, S192 MODE to READY, delete
that.
PLT Got it.
CC Okay. The next one is the EREP 22 VTS.
Jer'll be doing it.
PLT Yes, and that's one of his pads?
CC That's one of his but you can copy down
the change all right on that.
PLT Stand by just a minute. Go ahead with
the change, Story.
CC Okay. And you'll probably need an extra
piece of paper. I don't think you'll have room to copy what
I have to say on the pad itself.
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PLT Okay. Go ahead.

CC Okay. On EREP 22 VTS, that's 53:20, just
below operate marks. That's where you want to put this. Add:
ii minutes and 00 seconds, special 02.
PLT Got it.
CC Select three cloud, three water sites.
PLT Okay.
CC Track each site for i0 seconds through
nadir.
PLT Roger.
CC And then, just below the word primary
and above special 01, put special 02.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Area ii00 to 1445.
PLT Roger.
CC And that's cross-track angle right 00.
PLT Roger.
CC That's it for now. Thank you.
CC Ed_ Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Ed_ we're 6 minutes to LOS here and we'd
like to see the maneuver time before we go LOS.
SPT Okay.
CC Ed, your maneuver time's confirmed and
we've got all the EREP changes up to you.
SPT Thank you, Story.
CDR This is the CDR at 12:39. Delta 6 at
time speed times E2 [?] which was 1233 was 43 percent. CDR
out.
CC Okay, Jer.
CDR Okay. This is the CDR with the monitor
readings. Alfa 2 is 93, Alfa 3 is 87, Alfa 4 is 93, Alfa 5
is 98, Alfa 6 is 20, Alfa 7 nothing. Bravo 2 is 91, Bravo
3 is 82, Bravo 4 is 91, Bravo 5 is 91, Bravo 6 is 47, Bravo 7
is 33, Bravo 8 is 0 - correction, make that I; Bravo 9 is
58. Charlie 2 is i00, Charlie 3 is 88, Charlie 4 is 97,
Charlie 5 is 50 correction, 46, Charlie 7 - Charlie 6 is
46, Charlie 7 is 48, Charlie 8 is 92. Delta 2, 86; Delta
3, 85; Delta 4, 85; Delta 5 is 15, Delta 6 is 46, Delta 7
is i0. Okay, the S192 switch is verified OFF. Ready. DOOR
OPEN. And the 192 DOOR is OPEN.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and about
26 minutes to Guam at 13:09.
CDR Roger, Story. 192 MODE to CHECK. S190
HEATER SWITCH OFF light is out. Panel 117 checks are okay.
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CDK - 192 MODE to CHECK. S190 HEATER
SWITCH OFF light is out, panel 117 checks are okay.
time. Skylab space station is over eastern Europe out of
range of the Madrid tracking antenna. Our next acquisition
is a little more then 25 minutes away. During this time,
about 14 minutes from now, right after the spacecraft goes
into darkenss, they'll be doing an Earth resources instrument
calibration by pointing their instruments at the Moon, which
provides them with a constant light source_ That activity
will take them back into the next daylight pass. We should
have acquisition during the calibration run. Some of the
early discussion here with Jerry Cart was his preparations
for the EREP calibration. Pilot Bill Pogue is operating the
viewfinder tracking system for the S191 to calibrate that
instrument by pointing the instrument at the Moon. And the
Earth terrain camera's also being used for calibration, with
Science Pilot Ed Gibson operating that during the pass.
Later in the day they'll do an Earth resources pass that
will cross Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, the Atlantic
Ccoast of the United States and coastal waters, and then
over the North Atlantic to Flor to France. Today's pass,
although it's numbered pass number 22 is in fact the 19th
pass of the mis - of the mission so far. Three of the passes
were scheduled but not completed because of weather conditions
degraded before they could be run. In addition to the 19
Earth resources passes, including the one today, there have
been three solar inertia], passes using the Earth terrain camera
only and, including today's Eart - EREP calibration, there are
two calibration runs pointing at the Moon. 23 minutes
42 seconds to our next acquisition of signal. It's 46 min-
utes after the hour and this is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control at 13 hours 7 minutes and
50 seconds Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station
is now about to come within range of the tracking antenna
at Guam. We'll bring the line up live as this Earth resources
calibration is being completed.
PLT (garble). I'm going to the (garble) Basin [?].
PLT MARK. Data mark for i0 seconds on the
(garble) Basin.
CC Skylab, Houston; Purple Gang's with you
here at Guam for the next 4 minutes.
CDR Hello, Richard.
PLT MARK. i0 seconds on the coast - coastal area.
CC Is the Moon pretty today?
PLT Yes. Nice and full.
PLT Okay. All right; now I need to go 5 de-
grees down, which will make that a total of 6 degrees.
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SPT Looks like your little clock alarm went

off early, Bill.
PLT Yes. I'ii get it just a second here.
SPT No rush.
PLT Sure did. Okay. i0 seconds on 5 degree
down. Okay. Camera OFF. That was a good run. Okay. I'm
standing by to do - No, it didn't go off early_ either.
I'm due here in just about 2 minutes. I'm going in a
minute and a half. 13:12 I'm supposed to change.
SPT Right.
PLT Okay. I'm putting my gloves on. Do
you have to take any more pictures right now?
SPT No more pictures for now.
PLT Okay. Let's
SPT Press on.
PLT Get her now. Take my headset off.
SPT Scatterometer work to do here and radio-
meter work. Okay. My next mark's at 11:30. 13:11:30
Stand by.
SPT MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
SPT MARK. RADIOMETER, STANDBY. Okay.
The next mark is 12:00. Stand by -
SPT MARK. SCATTEROMETER's ON. Okay.
Coming up on 06.
SPT MARK. 191 REFERENCE to 2.
CC Skylab, Houston; 50 seconds to LOS.
Honeysuckle at 13:19. See you then.
SPT Roger. Okay. Next mark is 13:06, the
VTS AUTO CAL. Stand by -
SPT MARK. AUTO CAL at 06. Mark is at
13:30, 13:30. Stand by.
SPT MARK. SCATTEROMETER to STANDBY.
193 MODE going to XTWC[?]L/R. POLARIZATION is 5. Next mark
is 13:48. Stand by.
SPT MARK. SCATTEROMETER ON, RADIOMETER ON.
SPT Watch the time, Bill.
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CDR Stand by -
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER, ON. RADIOMETER, ON.
CDR Watch the time, Bill.
time. Skylab space station has passed out of range of the
tracking antenna at Guam as we cross New Guinea. Our next
acquisition is a little less than 4 minutes away at Honeysuckle.
During this pass, the Earth resources calibration photography
of the Moon is underway. Also the electronic scanner 191
used on that calibration on the Moon surface, the Moon
providing constant light source that can be compared for
photographic developing and processing. These activity (sic)
on Earth resources - is a pass across southern Mexico and the
southern part of Mexico. The focus will be on determining soil
types and land uses in south Mexico to identify erosion or harm-
ful use of the land there; and the goal of this project is to de-
termine locations that might be suitable for land or forest
reclamation projects, an important conservation effort being
made by the Mexican government. Werre about 3 minutes from
acquisition of signal at Honeysuckle, and wWe'll keep the line
live there for air-to-ground. Pass at Honeysuckle'll last
about 5 minutes. And at this time in Mission Control, Flight
Director on duty is Phil Shaffer and the Spacecraft Communicator
is Dick Truly,
CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 4-1/2
minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. That one on the horizon.
Down. Yeah, there's another one down.
PLT Down.
CDR Down, apparently.
CDR Gee, you color in 3 black squares today
for EREP. Make it (?)
PLT Isn't that 71?
CDR No. But is a special 1 and special 2.
Okay. One minute to EREP, START. All right. Okay. On my
mark, it'll be 21:50. Stand by -
CDR MARK. EREP, START. And 22:00 -
CDR MARK. S190 MODE to AUTO. Looking for
a READY, ON at 15.
CDR MARK. READY's out at 12. MODE is STANDBY.
SHUTTER SPEED, MEDIUM. Next mark is 22:40. Stand by. And -
CDR MARK. MODE to AUTO on S190. Looking for
READY, out at 22:55.
CDR MARK. The READY light went out at 50.
SHUTTER SPEED to FAST. MODE which is STANDBY first. Now
it's SHUTTER SPEED is FAST.
CC Okay, Jerry. We're 40 seconds from LOS.
Canary comes up at 14:08. See you there.
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CDR Roger. See you then.

CDR Next mark's 23:20. Stand by -
CDR MARK. 190 to MODE AUTO. Looking for
a READY out at 23:35. MALFUNCTION light on number 3. Must
be out of films. READY light without a 30 T. Going to STANDBY.
EREP, STOP at 38. By golly, we just barely had enough film.
S190 camera number 3, MALF light came on at the last exposure.
CDR Okay. Our friendly MONITOR Bravo number
7 is reading 33 percent. S192 door going to CLOSE now. Okay
I'm latching number 192 - or S190 window.
Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now crossing
New Zealand, out of range of the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia
tracking antenna and 42 minutes from our next acquisition at
Canary Island. This morning, the Skylab crew completing an
Earth resources calibration run_ photographing and taking scanner
data on the Moon for comparison purposes in calibrating the
EREP film and electronic data that'll be gathered during the
pass today and four other passes so far completed. As they
indicated, they were running out of film at the very end of
that EKEP calibration, and that film will he replaced for the
Earth resources pass to begin just after 12 o'clock central
daylight time today. One of the sites for today's activities
is an environmental mapping in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.
Intense study being made there of a potential space photography
for making maps of the biological growth and changes in water
environment of a bay area, and also a similar study being
performed in the St. John's River-Cape Canaveral area of
Florida, on the other side of the coast. That study uses
both photography and multispectral scanner electronic data,
either one of those things can be used, and they're interchang-
able to a large extent, one of them, of course, being electonic
and lending itself better to computer processing, while
the other is a more traditional photographic method, requires
visual interpretation. Four major studies of oceanography
are also scheduled for today. Intense study of the North
Atlantic. That's an area that's now been well studied by
the Skylab missions with mul - -
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PAO There is a potential space photography for

making maps of the biological growth and changes in water envi-
ronment of the, of a bay area and also a similar study being
performed in the St John's River Cape Canaveral area, Florida,
on the other side of the coast. That study uses both photo-
graphy and multispectral scanner electronic data. Either one of
those things can be used, and they're interchangeable to a large
extinct, one of them of course, being electronic and lending it-
self better to computer processing, while the other is more tra-
ditional photographic method and requires visual interpretation.
Out of (?) four major studies of oceanography are also scheduled
for today, Intense study of the North Atlantic, that's an area
that's now been well studied by the Skylab missions, with most
of the mandatory requirements for projects in that area al-
ready having been completed. The study today includes four
major projects on ocean investigations, primarily studies of
the sea state and sea foam characteristics, the characteristics
of the sea's surface, under varying wind conditions and under
the varying weather conditions. A study of Earth resources
informa - Earth resources oceanography will be made for scien-
tists in a number of universities around the United States.
39-1/2 minutes to our next acquisition of signal. 28 minutes
after the hour, this is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control at 14:06, Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station over the North Atlantic is about
54 seconds from acquisition of signal through the Canary
Island tracking antenna. Pass through Canary Island and
Madrid is an overlapping pass lasting about 13 minutes. We'll
bring the line up live now for Dick Truly, the spacecraft
communicator.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS at Canary and
Madrid for 12 minutes, and sometime during this pass I have
a TV correction to make to the SPT and CDR's Summary Flight
Plan and also a note for the CDR on ED 31.
CDR Roger, Dick. Go ahead. The EREP tape
remaining was 4.2 centimeters.
CC 4.2 centimeters. Okay Jerry, thank you much.
Jerry, here's the deal. In the - first of all, in the Summary
Flight Plan for you and Ed. For you, at 14:45 where it says
ED31 ops, and also for Ed, at about 16:30 for ED61 ops, we should
have written photo underneath each one of those blocks. Those
operations are supported by a photo pad, but we normally put
photo on the Summary Flight Plan, and we failed to do so on
this one.
CDR Okay, thank you.
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CC Okay, I got a couple more.

SPT Thank you, Dick.
CC Okay, Ed. And Jerry, I got a couple more
for you here. On your ED31, when you get into the ED31 check-
list or at least the student project experiment checklist on
the ED31 stow section, page 5-9, it says - it says here to get
these cans out for to use for the Petri dishes and discard
the contents. Turns out that the contents of the cans, there's
some boric acid tablets in there, and we do not want to throw
them away. So don't go verbatim by the checklist; be sure and
save the boric acid tablets.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay. And Jerry, as long as I'm talking
to you, we're putting together the final touches on tomorrow's
Flight Plan, and there's one item in the - in the morning, there's
an opportunity to do a SO19 Kohoutek maneuver. It turns out
to be the only opportunity of the day to get it in, and it's
going to involve the SPT doing a maneuver at about 11:48 Zulu,
which is going to take him approximately - so it's going to be
about a 15 - or 20-minute block and he's going to end up getting
some PSA after that for a total of about an hour and 15 min-
utes. The wake-up site (sic) is 5 minutes prior to ii:00 Zulu. One
of the things that helps us here is the fact that there is no
urine sampling in the morning. So, if it's okay with you,
we're going to press on with this plan.
CDR Yeah, that sounds reasonable, Dick.
SPT Right with me Dick.
CC Okay, great, we'll press on and put it all
together:, and that's all the notes that I had for you here.
We've still got about 9 minutes, so I'm standing by.
CDR Okay, Dick, and, on those Petri dish
containers, I saved the original one that they came in. I
couldn't see any good reason for throwing it away. So what
I'ii do is put them in that container and discard it.
CC Okay, and, while corollary's thinking
about that one, Jerry, one thing we'd like to confirm, and
that is, with the PLT's, we'd like to make sure prior to this
next EREP pass, that the S190 filters got changed and we're
on his CAL - EREP CAL, VTS pad.
CDR That's affirmative, they got changed.
CC Okay real fine, thank you much.
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CC CDR, Houston_ we've got about a minute

and a half before LOS. Carnarvon comes up at 14:48. Back
to the subject of ED31. Let me make sure I understood a -
what you'le doing. It's okay with us when you stow an ED31
to put the petri dishes either in the boric acid cans, as
long as you don't throw the tablets away, or in the original
petri dish cans and then the 15 little petri dishes
in those containers will end up in the chiller. Let me
confirm with you that that's what you intend to do.
CDR That's affirmative.
CDR Okay. Thank you.
PAO Mission Control at 14 hours 22 minutes
Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is out of
range of Madrid. Our next acquisition is 26 minutes and
12 seconds from now at Carnarvon_ Australia. Skylab crew
began the morning with an Earth resources calibration maneuver.
That calibration performed right after 13:00 Greenwich mean
time. As the instruments were pointed at the surface of the
moon which is - reflects a constant source of light used to
judge exact brightness characteristics of the film and
filter combinations on the cameras a_d also the ability to
resolve on the part of the other instruments of the Earth
resources package. Earth resources passis planned for today
begins at 17:08 Greenwich mean time. A little less than
3 hours from now. Begins in Southern Mexico, crosses
southern Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, central Florida, the
Atlantic coastal waters and eventually crosses the Atlantic
to end in the Bay of Biscay, just off the French coast.
25 minutes till our next acquisition of signal. This is
Skylab Control at 22:40 after the hour.
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time. We're now coming up on acquisition of signal at Car-
natron, Australia. Carnarvon/Honeysuckle pass will last
about 15 minutes and the line is live now for air-to-ground.
MCC Skylab, Houston, with the ATM conference
and we've got about 13-1/2 minutes. Over.
SPT Bill, go ahead.
MCC Okay. Let me hit you here first with
a couple of solar updates. We've got one note here on active
region 14. It has grown somewhat in the past few hours and has
developed a group of tiny spots. In addition there are
surges at about south i0, east 90_ which suggest that the
returning active region 97 may be rotating over the limb and
may not be totally dead. And in addition_ of interest there's
an apparent piece of prominence that's about i0 degrees west
of north, which is at a very, very high latitude for a
piece of prominence, and it has been confirmed by at least
two observatories. We've looked on previous days' H-alpha
and we can find nothing on the disk that would indicate what
that is, Perhaps later in the day on observing time you
might find it interesting to go up there and see if it's
still there and if so do some work on it.
SPT You said 10 degrees west of north?
MCC Right. It's almost at the North Pole,
just a little bit to the right as it looks on our H-alpha
and on our neutral line drawings here.
SPT Okay. I_ll go ahead and take a look at
it. And the other one, the surges you said were were
around 260.
MCC Yes. About 255, 260 right on the limb.
SPT Okay. I was going to talk to you about
that later. For the past three times I_ve had observing time
I've been working on that area and there is some XUV brighten-
ing, quite appreciable brightening, and I've been able to
find some fairly high counts, I think about an arc-mlnute
or so, off the limb, and something suggesting a loop struc-
ture, although l've not really had time to fully confirm that.
So it looks as though we've got, around the active region,
16 coming around the corner there. Probably be about a day
or so before you can see it.
MCC Okay. Sounds good. We_ll be interested
in studying that. On today's plan one of the things that's
evident, although I don't believe we've actually mentioned
it on this plan, although we've mentioned it before, where
82B, the PRS is NO GO, so that on all of our limb scan type
things we do our pointing, they prefer the white display to
H-alpha te put the slit on the limb, note the fine Sun sensor
reading, and then move out the appropriate number of arc-seconds.
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On the pass that begins at 15:07, that you will be doing

shortly, the 17-alpha we're doing on the bright points, 55
has noticed in previous data that bright points are exhibit-
ing time changes that - well, from one total MAR to the
next they noticed significant changes. That's the reason
that we swapped to the BB-28 to get the mini-MARs in
and look at them on a 1-minute time frame. Following that - -
SPT Okay.
MCC Following that orbits of Jerry's, at
19:47 and, well, the two BB-28s, JOP 2C, step 6, BB-28. That
first one, although it doesn't appear so, is to get long
exposure for 82 Bravo over the active region. The second
set of that 2C, step 6_ BB-28 is not realted to the first.
It is actually the first step of a quiet region minilimb
scan which we will finish tomorrow. And that's about the
only odd things about today's plan. Do you have any other
problems with it?
SPT No. That's pretty straight forward.
The way we've been working the 82B offset is exactly as you
just spelled out, using the white light display. The bright
points, I'm not sure whether the brightest is the best.
There is a fairly bright one around 200.3; however, there
are some fainter ones around close to Sun center also. I'm -
I'm not sure whether that might actually be a small dipole
and a little emerging flux, but I'ii go over and take a look
at itp and I'm wondering what their classification is as far
as their bright point versus the small EFR. If we see any-
thing in H-alpha resembling an EFR, I would assume
that we that we've ought to press on and find a bright
point with no manifestation in H-alpha. Maybe cyou can con-
firm that before it does come time to do that. The
MCC Okay. We'll look at that.
SPT Okay. Active region 16, or the next
one comes around the bend, is kind of interesting because it
does have some fairly high counts of oxygen VI up
around between 150 and 250 an arc-minute of so off the limb
that I'm able to step down towards the limb. We'll find a
maximum first of all in (?) roll up around that, then step
down for three or four steps on the mirror and then left/
right and find maximum to the left and to the right, which
would fly a - a limb structure. And I'm trying to get some
GRATING AUTO SCAN on those locations, and the observing time
I've been able to put in since yesterday. The 55 information
which you sent up is very - going to be very useful. Got
a couple of questions on it. The last one says disk and
prominences, and I assume that means filaments and promi-
nences, filaments being on the disk, and secondly I'd
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like a few more words on the disk work to be done at

Lyman-alfa. You said the disk (garble) at 0.9, then only
for a few minutes. I'm wondering if you can amplify on
that a little bit. One thing we want to make sure is
we're very conservative with working with Lyman-alpha.
MCC Okay. Let us take a look at that and
get some more words up to you. You're right, we want to
be conservative on that, and Dick has a few words here he
wants to mention to you, Ed.(?)
CC Skylab, Houstonp let me Just break in
here a second. We're about to hand over from Carnarvon to
Honeysuckle and we're going to be dumping the data/voice
recorder at - at Honeysuckle, and I'ii let you know when
we're through.
MCC Okay, Ed. Let's see, we just recently
sent up an 82B PRS MALF. You guys probably have not had a
chance to look at it yet. Is that right?
SPT That's right. I have not seen it yet.
Wait and - well, I'ii look around here and - and then work
it a little bit.
MCC Okay. We_ll talk about it tomorrow then.
You might all three look at it. Even though it's got your
name on it, it's not clear who (sic) we would schedule it
for yet. Okay_ Ed. A couple of other thoughts here. The
JOP IE that we were apparently talking about yesterday on
the micro_MAR_ whatever we want to call it, on 55.
SPT Bill, you you cut out after the discussion
on the 82B, apparently you got a handover. Would you pick up
again there, please?
MCC Oh, okay. We'll talk about that tomorrow.
You all three might want to look at that, so we can schedule
it for whoeverls best timewise. On the 55 limb scan that
we were talking about yesterday I concluded that we were talk-
ing JOP i Echo, and 55 is definitely interested in that. As a
matter of fact we'll be trying to schedule that for tomorrow.
SPT Okay. Very good.
MCC And an an
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MCC Let's see. We just recently sent up

an 82B PRS malf. You guys probably have not had a chance
to look at it yet. Is that right?
SPT That's right. I have not seen it yet.
When - well I'ii look around here and - and then work it
a little bit.
MCC Okay, we'll talk about it tomorrow then.
You might all three look at it even though it's got your
name on it it's not clear who we would schedule it for yet.
Okay Ed, a couple of other thoughts here, the JOP IE that
we were apparently talking about yesterday on the micro-MAR
or whatever we want to call it on 55.
SPT Bill, you you - you cut out after the discussion
of the 82B. Apparently you've got a handover. Could you
pick up again there please.
MCC Oh, okay. We'll talk about that tomorrow.
You all three might want to look at that so we can schedule
it for whoever is best timewise. On the 55 limb scan that
we were talking about yesterday I concluded that we were
talking JOP 1 Echo and 55 is definitely interested in that.
As a matter of fact we'll be trying to schedule that for
tomorrow.
SPT Okay, very good.
MCC And an answer from 55 also on the plumes
that you gave them a couple of days ago. On one plume they
did see it in most of the detectors most lines on your
mini-MARS but it was not clear in some of them. There were
two plumes seen in oxygen IV and in oxygen VI and they have not
yet analyzed the grating auto scans. But the conclusion
is to keep the plumes coming for them.
SPT Okay, very good.
MCC Okay.
SPT One general - Go ahead.
MCC Go ahead, I was gonna talk a little bit
here about our flare program meeting yesterday and that may
take a bit of time here.
SPT Okay, just let me add two quick things.
One, a question, and that is on documentation. I'm wondering
whether I'm giving people sufficient information so that when
they go to interpret their data they've got all they need.
If not, they could send up a - a more of a standard format
on the teleprinter of the type of information which they would
need from the observer when he is doing a program in order
to help them in their data reduction. And secondly, just
looking at the pictures today, the white light coronagraph
had not changed (garble) from yesterday but the streamers
over at 240, 250. There really are two of them. One's super-
imposed upon the other. And I can see the one which probably
has a base somewhere around 230 maybe, is inclined slightly towards
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the north and the one that has a base maybe 240 is pretty much
radial and as you get further out you can see the two diverge
and if you look at the scope yon see that the two of them
almost - they don't cross but because they are at opposite
angles the one streamer if you look at it, the single streamer
that tends to neck down and then diverge again, which is kind of
interesting until you realize what's happening. The XUV
monitor picture only take (garble) of course as the active
region 16. The - what else you see on the disk the other
active regions have remained about the same except for solar
rotation. Still have a good coronal hole at the south. Very
small negligible one at north with a filament channel coming
down from it on the east side and a couple of bright points
around which we could work with today but nothing else.
Go ahead.
MCC Okay, Ed. Thank you and the answer on
the bright points is we do want to go for bright points and
not - and emerging flux region. Okay now on the flare
discussion that we had yesterday wetve mapped out the planning
here which really represents the ATM request for the next
14 days or so through January 20 or day of year 20, mission
day 66 which involves an increase in the time that we have
been getting. The main point here is that we will be picking
up the active regions on the limb. Mostly looking at the
corona as it comes over, picking them up on the limb and
following oh - following them over past central meridian
passage. Generally speaking most of the experiments feel
that they want to be shooting film at a fairly high rate to
get the flares, that waiting doing nothing will probably
miss the rise. The general feeling is that we will be
scheduling JOP 2C and things of this nature which will put
the experiments in a fairly high data-take mode when we feel
flare probability is high. We do want to point out though
that the crewman, whichever of the three of you that's on does
have the discretion at any time he feels the activity warrants
it and he feels that he has a better chance of getting the
flare rise, the preflare trigger et cetera to jump the
program that we have uplinked and go into JOP 3B building
block 24. We will be processing some changes to building
block 24 so that experiments like S054 will be taking data
in the actual wait portion but this would let the crewman take
his attention and really apply it i00 percent to the XUV mon
H-Alfa and so on.
SPT I think that's a good idea Bill.
MCC Okay and - -
SPT That'll give them some good time history.
MCC Say again, I cut you out.
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SPT That will give them some good time history

in case we don't happen to start the thing right at the initial
point brightening. The - You know the first i0 or 15 seconds
of it they'll still have part of it.
MCC Okay, and to carry on here a bit, I will
be preparing a message that will show you our 14-day plan
here in as much detail as we know it over the next day or
so. Presently your next crew day off is 3 days from now on
Thursday. We will have a PI rep who will speak to you at that
time. We'll try to schedule it with all three of you. And
he will speak to you on the active Sun plans for all of
ATM and how we will be carrying out for the next week to
2 weeks. And let's see we're a minute from LOS. MILA is
next at 15:35 which is about 35 minutes from now. We have
another 30 seconds I'll let you carry it on.
SPT Okay, one thing I would like to add we
concluded our JOP 18's yesterday and then I - I mentioned
briefly last night when Bruce was on, I thought the whole
program went pretty well. I thought it was quite successful
from looking at it up here, from two standpoints. One is
the observations which were carried out using the ATM JOP
summary sheets which I thought were in excellent condition.
They reflected awful lot of hard work in them on the part of
the people through all of the PIs down to A1 Holt who finally
put the whole thing together. And secondly, I think the ASCOs
and all of the other folks who worked out the maneuvers did
a great job. We were doing maneuvers on two CMGs people
were a little hesitant to - to do with that kind of frequency
on three CMGs just a couple of months ago. So overall I was pretty
happy with the program. I think we're coming back with some
good data.
MCC Okay good. Thanks for your words. I'll
see that they get passed on and we'll be talking to you
tomorrow.
SPT Thank you Bill. So long.
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time. The Skylab space station over New Zealand, out of
range of the tracking antenna at Honeysuckle Creek During
these last passes over Carnarvon and Honeysuckle, Bill Lenoir
was here in the Mission Control Center discussing the solar
experiments with Science Pilot Ed Gibson_ mentioning for
example that active region 97, now expected to return on the -
on the eastern limh of the Sun_ rotating back into view, has
giving some small surges observable by the ground and Science
Pilot Gibson indicated that he could see definite signs of
brightening in the extreme ultraviolet range which is, of
course, not visible down here. And also an unusually high
prominence in the upper latitudes of the Sun further to the
north than has normally been seen. And some tiny sunspots
associated with active region 14, also identified by Dr. Lenoir.
Earth resources calibration run made this morning, it was
expected to use about - total of about 21 mibs. It has used
so far approximately 35. That's slightly higher than was
expected but not a tremendous use of gas. Well within the
range of desirable TACS usage for tke day. Yesterday, 109
pound-seconds were used. The remaining supply is 17,806
pound-seconds which works out to a remaining daily average
of about 370 pound-seconds. Temperatures have come down
since yesterday. The average temperature in the workshop
now about a degree lower than it was yesterday - at about
71 degrees. It's expected to continue to reduce the next
several days as the total amount of lighting in the workshop
has been reduced to cool it off in advance of the high Sun
angles that are expected about January 18. At that time,
the maximum temperatures in the workshop may go as high as
79 with the lights powered down. Without the powerdown, it
would've been - would have probably gotten as warm as 83 degrees
inside the workshop. So that powerdown was done yesterday
with Ed Gibson and the other crewmembers turning off a number
of lights around the space station to keep the temperatures
low and they are about a degree less at 71 now. A number of
Earth resources sites scheduled today including a target of
opportunity for Commander Cart, who will be running the view-
finder tracking system_ the telescopic sites that are used
on the infrared sensor. That target of opportunity is up-
welling offthe Pacific coast of Mexico, just before they cross
the Mexican continent - the very southern part of Mexico is
the beginning of the Earth resources pass today. First
medical review for the Skylab crew is scheduled for January
i0. That medical review is to prove - approve extensions
beyond normal mission length. Presently, we're on day 53
of the mission. That will be day 56. The 8-week nominal
mission for this crew and beyond that, regular reviews will
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have to made by the doctors to approve the continuation up

to a maximum of 84 days. Skylab crew earlier this morning,
made an Earth resources calibration maneuver. Later in the
day, they'll be making a regular Earth resources pass. It's
expected that about 55 pound-seconds will he used for the
Earth resources pass. A 6800-mile =rack from the coast of
Mexico to the coast of France. This is Skylab Control.
29 minutes to our next acquisition of signal. It's now
6 minutes and 27 seconds after the hour.
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Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now over
Colombia about to be acquired through the tracking antenna
at Merritt Island, Florida. This pass through Merritt Island
in Bermuda will last approximately 12 minutes, and we'll bring
the llne up live. The space craft communicator is Dick
Truly, the flight director on duty right now is Phil Shaffer.
CC Skylab Houston. Hello at MILA and Bermuda
for 12 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. I got a little bit behind

the program here in the ATM two things came up. One, when
I looked at for two bright spots both of them turned out
to be midiactive regions like in G and H-alpha. Just as
I got settled on the third one, which I could not see any
manisfistation at H-alpha which I am still working now.
Started drifting off in the attitude. We had CMG number 3
outer gimbal hung up in the negative stop. So I had to go
to ATT HOLD and put in the 2-minute maneuver time, reselect
SI, and it all worked - worked out a little bit. It took about
1 minute or so before the drive logic seemed to do anything. We
drifted a little further (sic) off attitude during that period
of time and we got back and we're working it now. I don't
think we_ve used any mibs at all.
CC Okay, SPT, thank you for letting us know.
We don't show any use either. At the time you went LOS we
thought we probably were in good shape although we were at the
end of a pretty large (garble) maneuver. We felt like the
gimbal angles were going away from the stop center, but apparently
one of them didn't get up - hung up so thanks for helping us.
SPT Hello again, Dick. Let me give you the
coordinates of where I've been working.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Roll of plus 0004. Up/down of minus 298,

and left/right of minus 190.
CC Okay.
PLT PLT, Houston. At looking at our data it
appears that you've already accomplished housekeeping 14-H
the inlet C02 cartridge replacement. Our data shows that
sieve B on the sieve B side we're showing an offscale
low so you might check the sensor and make sure that - that
they're in there and seated properly.
PLT Roger. I noticed that, and I will go check
it out.
CC Okay, Bill. Thank you much.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're 30 seconds from
LOS. Madrid comes up at 15:50. That's 4 minutes from now.
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time. Skylab space station is now out of range of Bermuda,
about 2 -½ minutes from acquisition at Madrid. During this
beginning of the pass over Merritt Island in Bermuda science
Pilot Ed Gibson indicated that he was having some trouble
at the ATM panel. Attitude drift had occured. Space station
moving just very slightly from its pointing at the Sun and
he took action then to instruct the attitude to hold position
to move back to solar inertial, that is to point the instruments
directly at the Sun center again, and the problem apparently
caused when one of the - the control moment gyroscopes
reached the end of its line of travel, hitting a gimbal stop,
and then step had to be taken to correct that allow the gimbal -
allow the CMG to move back off of the gimbal so it could have
free travel again and again maintain attitude control. That
problem was solved satisfactorly with the attitude instruction
put in by Science Pilot Gibson. And no use of TACS gas was
reported by the guidance officer here in Mission Control.
Also an inlet cartridge for C02 was replaced today by Bill
Pogue, and the sensor now that reads the amount of carbon di-
oxide in the atmosphere is reading _ off a scale low. There is
no _ no reading of carbon dioxide at all in the atmosphere. So
Pogue is going to check that sensor to make sure that it's seated
properly so it's getting proper readings. It will give
the crew a caution and warning if it goes offscale low
to indicate that it is not performing at proper levels.
54 seconds from acquisition of signal at Madrid. We'll bring
the line up live for air-to-ground here, a pass of 8 - ½ min-
utes.
CC Skylab, Houston, Madrid for 7 minutes.
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CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds

from LOS. Carnarvon comes up at 16:23, and we're going to
dump the data/voice recoder at Ca - at Carnarvon. And PLT,
Houston. We see on MOL SIEVE B the PPCO 2 reading on scale
now so whatever you did, looks like it worked.
PLT Yes, I took and - I interchanged them
from MOL SIEVE A to B. I couldn't do anything by taking
it out and putting it back in so I interchanged the units
and they're both reading now.
CC Okay. Good.
time. Skylab space station is passed out of range of Madrid.
At the very end of that pass Bill Pogue reporting that he
had made a change of the partial pressure carbon dioxide sensors
that reads the total amount of carbon dioxide in the atmos-
phere before it's scrubbed out by the molecular sieves, and
Dick Truly says that we're getting a good reading here now
in Mission Control that indicates that the sensors have come
back on scale. They're working properly. 23 minutes and
42 seconds to our next acquisition of signal. This is Sky-
lab Control at 59 minutes 35 seconds after the hour.
PAO Skylab space station is now coming with-
in range of the tracking antenna at Carnarvon. We'll bring
the line up live for air-to-ground here. The pass lasts
about i0 minutes and 20 seconds. We'll have a brief inter-
ruption and then a 5-minute pass at Honeysuckle Creek.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Carnarvon for
i0 minutes. And Skylab, we're going to dump the data/voice
recorder here.
PLT Dick, I got a couple of questions on the
ETC pad.
CC Okay_ Bill. Give me about i0 seconds
and let me look at it and I'ii try to help you out. Okay.
I got it. Go ahead.
PLT Roger. Has to do with the ETC callout.
I have an ETC auto callout at 8, 17:08 even, and then back
to standby at 10:15, and then I have another ETC standby at
11:30, back-to-back standby, then I have an ETC AUTO at 14
minutes, a standby at 16:30, and another standby at 19:45,
and another standby at 22 minutes. How about having them
check those real quick and see which one of them, if -
if that in fact is correct, and it very well may he, it may
Just be something I don't understand, but it looks like there's
a mixup on what ought to be auto and what ought to be standby
there, and the other thing is that Ed's pad is probably correct.
However, I make these callouts and I may confuse him _ I use
my pad, cal lout these that I have on my pad.
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CC Okay, Bill. Good question and we will

check it. Skylab, Houston, two things here. I wanted to
talk to SPT for a minute about the maneuver times and so
forth when you have a chance Ed, and also when somebody's
available we would like to do another reg adjust in pre-
paration for EREP 22.
SPT Go ahead, Dick. I'm listening.
CC Okay, Ed. During the that LOS
when you - when we got the glmbal on the stop and you made
that little maneuver for us we've that generated some
discussion here and it turns out that there's a difference
between .- on onboard notes which is in the ATM malf proced-
ure and a - ATM DC program note here on theground, and it
revolves around the constraint on maneuver times due to the
gimbal on the stop logic which is normally active during
the first minute and the final minute of a maneuver.
Real briefly, the onboard note which if you'd like to take
a look at when you get a chance is in the ATM malf book,
page 4-11, says that a maneuver time of i minute should not
be used, and our ground program note indicates that a ma-
neuver time of 2 minutes or less should not be used because
for a 2-minute maneuver time that logic will be activated
during the first minute and the last minute of the maneuver.
We think - we are trying to straighten out in our minds to
make sure we understand exactly what the two of them should
say and we will get them together, but until we have thought
it out properly we'd suggest the better of valor is to use
a minimum maneuver time, if that comes up again, of 3 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick. I_ii go ahead and do that
from now on out. I had talked about the first one, the
1-minute maneuver time and I thought 2 was a clean time
to put it in. We were at a small attitude deviation and we
had plenty of H, where HT was down there around 20 percent
or so, 15, 20 percent. I'ii wait until I hear from the -
you further_ though, before I everuse 2 again.
CC Okay. Real fine. Zero's okay and 3's
okay but let's stay away from i or 2. We also see that 2
is still loaded in there and the upcoming maneuver time
hadn't been loaded yet, and when somebody gets a chance l'd
like to get a reg adjust done.
PLT 20 degrees clockwise?
CC Yes, the same as yesterday. We'd like
to mark the present position and rotate each of the pots
20 degrees clockwise.
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CDR 20 degrees clockwise?

CC Yeah, the same as yesterday, we'd like
to mark the present position and rotate each of the pots
20 degrees clockwise.
CC PLT, Houston, I've got an answer for you
on your EREP C&D pads.
PLT Okay Dick.
CC Okay. It turns out that both pads actually
are correct. The confusion factor comes is that (sic) if you
have the time and look closely at Ed's ETC pad, there are some
multiple entries there at - at the same times, and the entry
that you have only reads the first of those multiple entries
to jog him to go ahead and use his pad. So there's nothing
wrong with your pad to tell him to do it; however, he has to
use his complete pad for the thing to work properly. But
we have rechecked both of them. They look okay.
PLT Great, thank you.
CC Roger.
CDR How's the weather, Dick?
CC CDR, Houston, I'll tell you what - we were
just in - about to update me on the weather so I can give
it to you and we got a Honeysuckle pass just following this
one, and I'll get it up to you as soon as I'm smart about it.
CDR Oh, very well.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute from
LOS. Honeysuckle comes up oh - we're just gonna drop out
a few seconds before Honeysuckle. The weather again today
looks like you guys are gonna get a nice view of plenty
of clouds. The weather just - at the very first of the data
take will be hroken, it will be 8 to i0 cloud coverage
over Mexico. It'll be broken again between Yucatan and
Florida and then go back to about g to i0 - i0/i0 cloud cover
over Florida. And the heavy weather will continue just about
all the way across the North Atlantic. The storm that we
talked about yesterday is still there. It probably will be
breaking up a little bit as you get to the last end of the
data take and approaching the European land mass.
CDR Roger, Dick. Okay. Thanks.
CC Roger.
SPT Sounds like real spectacular VTS viewing.
CC Yeah, I think so.
PLT Houston_ Skylab.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Roger, Dick, and we got a couple of problems
here in my EREP prep. I got a FILM ADVANCE MALF light on
camera 3 and 5. This is a new load. The counter that advanced
properly 28 or sensitometry advanced and when I got the MALF
lights I followed the procedure on the cue card and did a single.
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Advanced that. Everything advanced the proper number of frames.

I took the cameras 3 and 5 off and looked at the film. One of
them looked a little - a little bit wrinkled. That was number
3. So I tried to straighten that out by using finger force and
I got that one to where it's operating pretty smoothly now. I
did another single and both of them advan - and marked the film
with the pen - marker pen. Both of them advanced and I still get
MALF lights and a separate, perhaps related problem, is the FMC
breaker _s now popped again.
CC Say again the name of the breaker, please.
SPT The forward motion compensation, the FMC.
CC Okay Bill, let's think about that a second.
We've still got 3 minutes here at Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab Houston, we're 30 seconds from
LOS. Texas comes up at 17:09; and PLT, Houston, about all the
help we can give you here is: number i_ we think we - you can
ignore the MALF lights if - if you think the film is advancing
properly as you said. We would like to try to reset the 190 -
correction the FMC circuit breaker by going 190A POWER to
OFF, then attempt to reset the circuit breaker, and then 190A
POWER back ON.
PLT Yeah, I'ii do that real quick and tell you.
Okay, POWER OFF, breaker in, POWER ON, the breaker stayed in,
and how about doing one single real quick and I'll let you
know if the if the FMC pops.
CC Okay, GO.
PLT Good; it stayed in.
CC Great, see you at Texas.
PAO Skylab Control at 16:39:47 Greenwich
mean time. The Skylab space station, now south of New Zealand,
has passed out of range of the tracking antenna at Honeysuckle
Creek. 30 minutes to our next acquisition at Texas. During
this last pass Bill Pogue, doing his Earth resources preparations,
preparing the equipment for the Earth resources pass to begin
about a half an hour from now. Said that he had some problem
with cameras 3 and 5 of the SI90A multispectral photographic
facility. The cameras - two of the six cameras in that set of
photographing equipment,ggave him a malfunction light. Apparently
some problem with the new film load that he just added to
the camera bank. The earlier film load ran out during the
lunar calibration this morning and another 425-frame roll
has been added to each of the six cameras of the 190A. He also
said that the forward motion compensation circuit breaker
had popped. That's a - forward motion compensation system is
a device that allows the cameras to compensate for the fact that
the space station is moving about 285 miles every minute.
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And without the forward motion compensation you loose some

of the resolution, although only a vary limited amount.
Resolution is reduced by about i0 percent without the
forward motion compensation operating. However, after resetting
the circuit breaker and making sure that the cameras were
running film properly, Bill Fogue tested it again by shooting a
frame, and the forward motion compensation circuit breaker stayed
in, so that means that everything is working properly again.
And the film, which was reported as being a little bit
wrinkled when he first tried it has heen straightened out
and seems to be going through the camera as all six of them
properly. Truly informed the crew that weather's 00 today's
weather report just finished early this morning, indicates
that weather conditions over the two land masses that were
to be surveyed today are not very good. 8- to 10/10 cloud
cover virtually overcasts over (sic) both the southern part of
Mexico and also over central Florida. That's a shift from
yesterday's weather report, which indicated a central Florida
would be clear and also indicated generally good conditions
over the southern part of Mexico. However, a fairly large
percentage of the 14 task sites indicated for today's Earth
resources pass are weather and sea conditions. A primary
area for study is the north Atlantic Oceanography can -
oceanography of the ocean's surface and the relation between
the ocean and weather patterns above it, including precipitation
and frontal areas off of the coast of France. So for that reason
the pass is going to go on as scheduled, even though it
does mean that some sites - four of them for certain look like
they'll be clouded over. They will take data over the sites
in southern Mexico and also over central Florida, but now
it appears that weather conditions there are not going to
be very satisfactory for good good photography or good
electronic scanning. There is, however, a fairly clear area
Just off the coast of Mexico where the - Commander Jerry Carr
will be attempting to point the telescant - using the tele-
scopic sites point as infrared spectrometer upwelling area
of cold water coming up from the bottom of the ocean due
to current flows and changes in the ocean surface in that
area. That's one of several additional things not an official
Earth resources task, but an area that's certainly of considerable
interest to oceanographers. For - the reason good oceanography
and an excellent to study some cloud tops and global
cloudiness_ Skylab crew will continue on that Earth resources
pass covering a 6800_mile area from the Pacific Coast of
Mexico to the Bay of Biscay, just off the coast of France.
25 minutes and 40 seconds till our next acquisition of
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signal at Texas. It's now 43 minutes 40 seconds after the

hour and this is Skylab Control.
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time. Skylab space station is about a minute and 30 seconds
from acquisition now at Texas. An Earth resources pass will
be beginning here and we're coming up - -
PLT Okay, I got a start here in about 10 se-
conds.
CDR Yeah, they'll be coming up to Texas any
moment now. I'ii ask them.
PLT Okay, start at 7:45. stand by.
CDR MARK. EREP start. And at 53 1 want
190 mode to AUTO.
CDR Mark. 07:53, 190 mode AUTO, at 8 minutes
ETC to AUTO, Ed.
CDR Hello, Houston, CDR how do you read?
PLT MARK.
CC Hello, CDR, loud and clear.
CDR Okay, we got a little question on the time
line and Bill just told me that at 11:20 he went to VTS
AUTO CAL, and I'ii be right in the middle of the special 0-2
that was read up (garble) we don't want to do that, do we?
CC Stand by.
CDR I could do a VTS AUTO CAL now, and it'd
be done :in time.
CC Okay, Jer. Stand by.
PLT We do have MALF lights 3 to 5, which are
being disregarded.
CC Okay.
PLT Stand by for 08:54.
CDR Coming up on the coast of Mexico. In the
45_degree pitch.
PLT - by - -
PLT MARK.
CC Skylab, Houston.
PLT 192 MODE READY.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Skylab, Houston, we'd like an AUTO CAL
now, it's a good catch. We missed it.
CDR Okay.
PLT ALTIMETER STANDBY. Mark when the MODE
says (garble) .
CDR AUTO CAL at 00,09:00.
PLT And, stand by 10:50, now, okay.
CDR Okay, good show, Jer.
CDR Okay, that means the AUTO CAL is not going
to be done until 11:26, so I'm going to miss 26 seconds of my
data.
PLT Okay.
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PLT Well I had a line drawn there, I was won-

dering, :if there's any inconsistency, but, it'll work out fine,
except for the 20 seconds of data.
CDR That's okay, there's plenty of time, I
think.
PLT Getting a TAPE MOTION flicker.
CDR Yeah, I got that this morning, too.
PLT Okay.
CDR Seems to be all right, though, it just
moves well.
CDR Okay, we're coming up on the coast of
Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula. And along the coast I see
a lot of coastal blooming today, a lot of plankton blooms along
the coast.
PLT Standing by for 10:15.
PLT ETC, STANDBY, shortly, Ed.
PLT MARK. And, we're going to SHUTTER SPEED
FAST, pausing momentarily at MEDIUM.
CDR Okay, the plankton blooming is along a
part of the coastline that curves to the south, and then curves
back up to the north. It's right, well there's a wide, there's
a peak on along the western side. Sort of a point of land
and it's south of that point of land along that area. A
lot of coastal blooming. Now we're at the northern point of
Yucatan Peninsula, there's not much coastal blooming at all.
PLT Okay, at 11:30, ETC, STANDBY; it's about
15 seconds, Ed.
SPT Ro
CDR Okay, the TRS's camera is going on, needs
to be 19]_ light on and, be on now, Bill.
PLT It's not.
CDR Okay, it's 11:26. This AUTO CAL ought to
be finished.
PLT Okay, ready now. 18 to STANDBY 190 mode
to STANDBY on frame 32, still not on interval 20. It's on
now. Good show.
CDR Okay.
PLT 13:24 is my next one. That was at about
43 or 44.
CDR Okay, I got cloud-free area here. Having
a data take, 25 degrees.
PLT (Garble)
CDR And l0 degrees, taking data.
PLT Dick, are you listening?
CC Yes, sir.
PLT 13:24, I turned the RADIOMETER OFF, this
means that, if I've done everything correctly here, that will
be both SCATTEROMETER and RADIOMETER OFF, do we want that?
I thought we wanted one of those on for heating.
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CC Stand by.
PLT I think the configuration is RADIOMETER
STANDBY and SCAT OFF. If I turn the RAD OFF, that'll mean both
RAD and SCAT are OFF.
CC Roger, I understand.
CC PLT, Houston, the answer is, we do want
to get the RADIOMETER OFF. We need the RAD and the SCAT OFF
with altimeter ops and that is okay.
PLT Okay, stand by -
PLT MARK. RAD OFF. 13:30.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER ON. 13:53 is the next
one.
PLT I do have an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light, it
just went: out.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, we're in good shape. READY light,
no, no UNLOCK.
CDR Second pointing. Taking data.
PLT MARK. 190 MODE to AUTO.
CDR That's the end of that one.
PLT And ETC at 14 minutes to AUTO, Ed, I'm
sure you got that one. 91 REFERENCE to 6. I only have one
MALF flight to the, I only have a MALF LIGHT on camera 5 now.
Cycle the power off, that last, at that last sequence.
15:30, S190.
PLT MARK. SHUTTER SPEED MEDIUM.
CDR Hey, it went over the coast of Florida.
CC PLT, Houston, while we got a short break
here, I would like to advise you, we have seen FILM ADVANCE
MALF lights before on mags that had not been used previously
and so we don't think that's anything unusual.
PLT Okay. I cycled the power off after the
last 190 sequence and put it back on and then when I did my
sequence this time, it's in a sequence right now, I only have
a 5 light right now.
CC Okay.
PLT 192 MODE to, STANDBY at 15:20.
PLT MARK. Stand by. 192 POWER OFF, and waiting
for 16:30.
PLT 192 POWER OFF, okay.
CDR Okay. Got the nadir swath going, the weather
over Florida is beautiful.
CDR I should say was beautiful. Starting to
pick up clouds now. Nice blue water.
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PLT Okay, Ed, at 16:30, ETC, STANDBY.

PLT Still have an ALTIMETER, UNLOCK light
but your READY light is remaining ON.
CDR Still scattered clouds.
SPT MARK. ALTIMETER, STANDBY in MODE 5.
Stand by for 17:13.
CDR Lots of cloud streaks between - -
PLT Stand by.
CDR - - 16 minutes and - -
PLT MARK. 17:13, ALTIMETER, ON.
CDR - - 17 minutes.
PLT READY light, no UNLOCK light.
CDR Scattered, to broken cumulus and cloud
streaks.
CC Roger, Jerry, you can say hello to the
guys at Cherry Point and Beaufort, you're just passing them to
the left there.
CDR Rog, hello, all you (garble)
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CDR Still scattered clouds.

PLT MARK ALTIMETER to STANDBY, in mode 5.
Stand by for 17:13.
CDR Got some cloud streets between -
PLT Stand by.
CDR 16 minutes and 17 minutes.
PLT MARK. 17:13, ALTIMETER, ON.
PLT READY light. No UNLOCK light.
CDR Scattered to broken cumulus and cloud
streets.
CC Roger, Jerry. You can say hello to the
guys at Cherry Point and Beaufort. You're just passing them
for the last pass.
CDR Rog. Hello, all you (garble). Like to
slew off to the left and look at you but I'd catch the dick-
ens.
PLT 17:45, SCAT to STANDBY.
CDR Okay. Broken overcast - -
PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY. And I do have
an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light and I still have a READY light.
CDR (garble) overcast. Looks like two layers
at least.
PLT l've lost my READY light. I'm going to
turn off.
CDR Hey, one of your MALF lights went out.
PLT Yes. Number - number 3 went out.
CDR Yeah, it got well.
PLT Yes. You can cycle the power off between
sequences and give it another shot. That's what I did. Okay.
15 seconds, and ALTIMETER back ON. And the ALTIMETER UNLOCK
light is flashing, and it went out.
CDR Still a solid overcast.
PLT What are we doing? Taking pictures of
cloud cover?
CDR Yes. It's a nadir swath. Okay. Let's
take a are you taking data?
PLT Yes, I am.
CDR All right. Let me just
PLT Take a look at the IMC if you want to.
CDR Right.
PLT Hurry up MC I'm (garble) on this thing.
CDR Yep.
PLT Beautiful.
CDR Okay. The breaker's still on.
PLT Still in. FMC breaker's still in.
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CDR Okay. Showing 800 counts on the - on

the K-5.
CDR Check my drift. Okay. (garble)
PLT MARK, S190 INTERVAL to i0.
CDR And some cirrus above stratus.
PLT And at 45 I want SHUTTER SPEED, FAST,
and ETC will go to STANDBY at 19:45 which is about 5 seconds.
PLT MARK. SHUTTER SPEED, FAST. (Garble)
light stayed out. Stand by for 20:33.
CDR Low overcast with cirrus on top.
PLT Stand by.
CDR Okay. And we're beginning to break out.
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY; RAD to
standby. 20:45. Stand by.
PLT MARK. SCAT ON, RADIOMETER ON, ALTIMETER,
RANGE 74. And at 22 even I should get a readyout on the
190.
CDR Yes. Let me take a look here and see if
it's done any moving since the last time I looked at it. Okay.
5 is adw_nced i0 frames.
PLT Yes.
CDR It's advanced another one. It's doing
fine.
PLT Good show.
CDR I don't know what's causing that MALF
light there.
PLT Oh, that little sensor, if it doesn't
get on - I'd better watch what I'm doing here. 22 even
that's (garble)
CDR Hey, I got an end of film light on the
on the DAC. We're out of film. There's no sense in letting
it grind.
PLT I'm getting an occasional flash of the
RAD/SCAT gimbal light.
CC And Jerry, that doesntt surprise us.
We thought you might run out of film. No problem.
CDR Okay.
CC Lots of good cloud pictures.
CDR Yes, I'll say. Lots of clouds. We're
now going into a broken to scattered condition.
PLT Stand by. And ETC to STANDBY, Ed.
CDR Cirrus over scattered Cu.
CDR Well, after all the scrunching up we
did on that label on the side of that cassette to try to
give ourselves lots of room. Now it's out of film and I've
got four lines left to write on.
PLT Well, the way it was going you know it
looks like we're only using 2 or 3 percent (garble).
CDR Yeah. Clear as a bell now. Nary a cloud
over the water.
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CC You might know. We're i minute from

LOS. Madrid comes up in 5. I'll call you then.
CDR Weatherman speaks with forked tongue.
Oh, there'a a cloud. Okay. That vindicated me.
PLT (garble)
CDR Okay. Well I'm going to go off the
headset. There's not much more here. There's no data being
taken. Back at the scattered cu.
PLT RAD/SCAT gimbal light's flickering again.
Waiting :for 24:10.
CDR Scattered going to broken on the cu, no
cirrus.
PLT MARK, SCAT to STANDBY.
PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. Waiting for 18.
CDR And that's the end of the swath.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. RAD is OFF and 24:30 ALTIMETER
will be coming ON. (static)
time. The Skylab space station is now over the North At-
lantic. Skylab crew working on that Earth resources pass
that will conclude over Madrid, where we have acquisition
about 3 minutes from now. The 6800-mile Earth resources
pass semms to be going very smoothly. Jerry Carr working
at the telescopic sites, the viewfinder tracking system for
the S191 infrared spectrometer, siad that he had a good view
of some plankton blooming off the coast of Mexico, and
he gives somewhat - some of the description. That's not
the first that plankton that's been seen by the crew.
They've heen observing that all over the world, particularly
along the coast of South America. The seaweed growths very
large and very distinct in color, have been a primary subject
of visual observations for the crew. Before yesterday Com-
mander Cart also noted something else that was new for this
mission. Said very substantial oil fires in northeastern
Algeria were reported on the recorded tapes that are dumped
and transcribed here in Mission Control. He said that he
saw two large oil fires, or what appeared to be oil fires,
in Algeria near a large petroleum pot - processing plant,
the runway next to it, and he said it's the first time he's
seen that. They've been over it two or three times but had
not noticed the plant and the huge oil fires were spewing a
great deal of black smoke, and there were a couple of smaller
fires to the north and a little bit to the east with consi-
derably less smoke. Carr indicated he could not see, however,
any any flame. Only the heavy black smoke from the - from
what appeared to be a petroleum processing plant in Algeria.
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And he's also been observing dune fields in that area. That
was the purpose of this visual observation. He was watching
patterns in sand dunes to determine what characteristics limit
the sand dune fields to certain areas and seem to prevent
them from developing elsewhere. So he got a little side
benefit by seeing and photographing some oil fires in that
area. We'll bring the line up live now as we're coming back
into acquisition of signal at Madrid for the completion of
this Earth resources pass.
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PAO - - he was watching the patterns of sand

dunes to determine what characteristics limit the sand dune
fields to certain areas and seemed to prevent them from
developing elsewhere. So he got a little side benefit by
seeing and photographing some oil fires in that area. We'll
bring the line up live now as we're coming back into acqui-
sition of signal at Madrid for the completion of this Earth
resources pass.
PLT 28:05. Stand by -
PLT MARK. The 28:05 ALTIMETER, ON. 193 MODE
CROSS-TRACK CONTIGUOUS. Stand by for 30:05.
CC And Houston's back with you for 8 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is
ON. READY light is still ON. Okay. 1002. Lost my
READY light. Went OFF with the power. Coming back on at
17 (cough).
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON.
PLT MARK. Light came on at 29, 29:29. They're
waiting for 30:05. Stand by
PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. RADIOMETER
to STANDBY. 30:15.
PLT MARK. REFERENCE 2 on 191. 30:30. (Garble)
RADIOMETER, ON. Stand by -
PLT MARK. RADIOMETER, ON. 31:15. I want
a VTS, (garble) CAL.
CDR You got a fine maneuver coming in at 45
seconds.
PLT VTS, AUTO CAL, okay. 194 MODE to MANUAL..
31:54 standing by. Stand by
PLT MARK. 31:54 is RADIOMETER to STANDBY.
CDR Fine MANEUVER's in.
PLT Rog.
CC Okay and PLT, Houston. When you get a
second, I need to make a real quick comment to you.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. We just discovered a pad error
which at 15:20, present, your pad - you turn the S192 power
to OFF and this means in your post cue card, you will not
be able to close the 192 DOOR. We also have a mission rule
that says if the power goes off for more than a minute, we
want to leave it off for a couple of hours. So when you get
into the post cue card, right there at the very top of it,
where it says, "192 DOOR, CLOSED," don't do that step in
a couple of hours or when we're satisfied. We'll remind you
of it and get you to go back and accomplish that.
PLT That's a very good call, Dick. I ques-
tioned that when I did it. I don't know if you remembered
but I sort of made a special intonation when I went to 192
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POWER, OFF but Okay. Thank you very much for the reminder.
CC Okay. Well, I'm glad we caught it in time.
PLT I would've sure done it.
CC And -
CDR Okay, we're on our way to SI.
CC Okay, Jerry and we need the DAS here
for a minute or so.
CDR Okay, Dick. You got it and let me tell
you about something we saw a little while ago. Right after
sunrise, I was up looking out STS window number 3 and looking
off to tlle south towards the South Pole, and I said to myself,
"Oh, gee whiz, look at those cirrus clouds over there." Then
I realized that those cirrus clouds were up above the airglow
and I don't know what they are but they're very, very in-
terestlng looking phenomena. And I took - I got the Hasselblad
real quick and took some photos of it. But if anybody there
got any ideas what it might be, IVd be interested to know.
PLT Stand by
CC Okay. Thank you.
PLT MARK. Okay. EREP, STOP. Okay. Looks
like a fairly decent run there.
CC And CDR, Houston. We still have a couple
of minutes here. Back to the FMC circuit breaker that Bill
found out prior to this pass. That was pulled open during
the CAL maneuver and it might save us chasing a hardware
problem, Do you recall whether or not you closed it after
the EREP CAL this morning. If you didn't, that might've been
why it was open or did you close it and it just popped again?
PLT Stand by just a minute. Jer's off in
the -
CC Okay.
CDR Say again, Dick.
CC Yes, Jerry. Awhile a go, Bill reported
that he was prepping up for this EREP pass. That the FMC
circuit breaker was open and you had opened it on the CAL
maneuver prior to that and were to close it after that. And we
were thinking perhaps if you missed closing it, that
might explain that and save us chasing a potential hardware
problem.
CDR You know, Dick I think you're right. I
don't remember closing that breaker. Itll have to look at
my pad and see if it calls it out anywhere.
CC Well, l've- I all ready looked. It does say
down in the remarks to enable the FMC and it is in the
checklist but it would be an easy thing to miss and that's
probably - probably what happened.
PLT Okay. That takes a load off my mind
because I was afraid we were going to run into that (garble)
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problem we had about 4 or 5 weeks ago. You know, where we

had to twist the little screw and all that stuff.
CC Rog and we're 20 seconds to LOS. Carnar-
yon comes up at 18:04.
CDR Roger and we're all ready headed toward
SI; I started early. Fired a bundle of TACS.
CC Roger, Jer. We_d recommend leaving it
alone. We're watching you.
PLT Bravo 7 is reading 3 21/2. Approximately
(static)
mean time. The Skylab space station now over the Balkan
Peninsula, is out of range of the tracking antenna at Madrid.
Earth resource pass completed here well - before we lost
signal and final steps are being taken there to close out
the Earth resources experiment package. During the pass,
Commander Cart indicating he saw coastal blooming and
plankton off the coast of Mexico. That's something that he
observed while watching through the viewfinder tracking
system of the infrared spectrometer. Carr also indicated
over Madrid, that he saw something that first appeared to
be cirrus clouds. But after a closer look, it turned out -
were above the airglow. That's very far up in the atmosphere and
no immediate indication what that might be but no doubt,
scientists in Mission Control will be taking a closer look at
the comments and trying to figure out exactly what that might
be. The Earth resources pass seemed to go very well today.
The _ some discussion there at the end of the FMC circuit
breaker. That's the forward motion compensation for the
S198 cameras. That electronics provides for compensation
for the fact that the space station moves at about 4 miles
a second across the ground or a little over 17,000
miles an hour. The FMC break - -
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mean time. The Skylab space station now over the Balkan
Peninsula is out of range of the tracking antenna at Madrid.
Earth resources pass completed here awhile before we lost
signal and final steps being taken there to close out the
Earth resources experiment package. During the pass Commander
Carr indicating he saw coastal blooming and plankton off the
coast of Mexico. That's something that he observed while -
while watching through the viewfinder tracking system of the
infrared spectrometer. Carr also indicated over Madrid that he
saw something that first appeared to be cirrus clouds but
after a closer look the - it turned out to where above the
airglow that's very far up in the atmosphere and no immediate
indication what that might be but no doubt scientists in
Mission Control will be taking a closer look at the comments and
trying to figure out exactly what that might be. The Earth
resources pass seemed to go very well today the - some discussion
there at the end of the FMC circuit breaker. That's the
forward motion compensation for the SI90A cameras. That
electronics provides for compensation for the fact that
the space station moves at about 4 miles a second across
the ground or a little over 17000 miles an hour. The FMC
breaker had popped earlier but Dick Truly indicated that
perhaps the problem was that it had not been in fact enabled -
that the breaker had not been installed - had been had been
pushed in or or activated before the Earth resources pass
was to be begun. However when it was noticed that that was
popped out during the preparations Bill Pogue did put the
FMC breaker back in and it worked properly. He also had
a malfunction light on two of the cameras of of the SI90A
but he checked those out earlier and they seemed to be
working properly. There was no problem with film advance
or otherwise so it's believed that that malfunction light
just stayed on without indicating any actual malfunction.
Everything seemed to be going very well, in fact a little
surprise for the weathermen here is that there were a number
of areas that were cleared out that he had not expected,
including the area over Florida. Apparently the crew
indicating that the weather looked pretty good until they
got up to the coast. So that - that came as a bit of a
surprise. The last weather forecast given here in Mission
Control just a couple of hours ago indicated that weather
would be not very good for the Earth resources sites in
Florida or in southern Mexico, hut both of those areas appear
to he at least fairly clear. 25 minutes to our next
acquisition of signal. 39 minutes after the hour. This
is Skylab Control.
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time. Have an announcement. Dr. Horst Keller of the Max
Planck Institute will be available for a Kohoutek review
briefing at i:00 central daylight time in the Building 1
briefing room, that's room 135. Again that's i:00 in the
Building 1 briefing room. Dr. Horst Keller of the Max Planck
Institute will be available for a Kohoutek briefing. That's
about 17 minutes from now. This is Skylab Control.
CDR (Inaudible feedback)
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time. The Skylab space station is currently over the North
Atlantic. We have recordings that were made during the pass
over Honeysuckle some time ago, during the press conference
and we'll play back the recordings from there and then follow
up with the recordings made over the United States and try
and play catchup after the Madrid pass. One point of
interest is a maneuver made earlier today for the Earth
resources pass unfortunately was not made correctly in the
return from Earth resources Z-local vertical to solar inertial
position, An error was made in following instructions for
the maneuver to return to solar inertial and the maneuver
was made almost an hour before it was scheduled. That error
cost almost i000 pound-seconds today. We're going to
play back now for you the pass over Honeysuckle and the
United States.
CC Skylab Houston_ Carnarvon for 3 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CDR Skylah Houston_ we've still got a couple
of minutes here at Carnarvon live got a note for either the
SPT or the PLT on this afternoon's M092 run.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, if you remember the problem we've
been having about the legband Charlie Juliett and the fact
that when we've used it we've ended up off-scale on a couple
of occasions we've very cleverly changed a cal - a ground
cal program that we have here on the grou - on the ground
and this afternoon, rather than using the 3.5 as indicated
on the pad for an LVMS bridge cal number, we'd llke you
to use 2.0 and this evening we'll have - we'll be sending
you up a general message that tells you to permanently change
that leghand so that from here on out we_ll use 2.0 for
that legband.
PLT Roger, copy that. And 2.0 is the cal
number for Charlie Juliett.
CC Okay, that's correct.
PLT And 1.3 centimeters on the tape, EREP tape.
CC 1.3 centimeters, okay I got that.
CDR Houston CDR.
CC Go Jer.
CDR Looking back over the pad and how I
managed to throw us into the SI mode so earlyp I think - l'm
not making any excuses but the pad itself has got it looks
pretty much like a trap. I'll tell you what we ought to do.
I think in the future maybe when the - like in this case the
CDR _ apparently I was not to do the SI mode, that was to be
an SPT Job later on. Why don_t we either leave it off or
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make some sort of remark above the - the SI modes saying, " 1 hour
from now or will be done by the PLT," or something like that.
Probably it won't ever happen again but just to preclude
that and make sure it doesn't that probably would be a smart
thing to do.
CC Okay Jerry, let us think about how we
can avoid that trap in the future. We're about to go LOS
here. I'll call you at Honeysuckle in 6 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab Houston, we're AO - AOS stateside
for 16 minutes. And we're dumping the data/voice recorder
here.
PLT Roger Dick.
CC Skylab Houston we've got a funny going
on up at the ATM. If somebody has a minute to run up there
for us I'd like to speak to him about it and get him to look
at something for us.
PLT Ed's on his way.
CC Okay.
SPT Go ahead Dick.
CC Okay, two things Ed. One is we have an
error in - in powering down for unattended ops on your
schedule pad. We need S054 exposure ran - range to 256.
And also we've noticed AGC oscillation on H-ALPHA 2. We'd
kind of llke somebody to select H-ALPHA 2. If you could do
that and take a look at it for us and report to us what it
looks like.
SPT Okay, will do.
CC All righty, thank you sir.
SPT Okay, how does it look now Dick?
CC Stand by. SPT Houston, looks stable now
to us. What did you do?
SPT Okay, it's the same old problem we've
had with H-ALPHA 2, you've got to zoom in when it's first
powered up. Apparently the power to it was interrupted
and I'm not sure how that happened. And then I came back
up and in order to get it stable you have to zoom in a small
bit and wait until it stabilizes and then move back out.
CC Okay, we may have another question. Hang
on just a second, Ed. SPT Houston, we can't think of anything
else to ask you about it right now. Appreciate the information
and going up there for us.
SPT No problem Dick. Glad to do it. Dick
l've got a couple of things for you.
CC I'm sorry, say again.
SPT I've got a couple of points. I'd like to
mention a few things to you.
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CC Go ahead.
SPT Okay one is when we were doing the EREP
Today we were coming up on the west coast of Central America.
I could see some fairly large eddies a couple of hundred
miles or so in diameter. I could see these same things
yesterday, which I attributed to the confluence of two currents,
and I thlnk we ought to concentrate a little bit more on that
site. I was able to see a small amount of blooming in the
circulation pattern so I think we have a good way of picking
it up. Secondly, our friend friendly ED6163, just as a
note and try to clarify something this thing has taken so
far today about 2-1/2 hours of my time which I managed
to rob from other things. You know, hustling through the
ETC prep and post and a whole host of other ways. What
I'm wondering is how the bookkeeping is done on this stuff.
It just occurred to me the other day as we started reading
off numbers of times spent on various things that we just
put an awful lot of time in on things like this and perhaps
people have never really understood that. Charged particle
mobility for example which was a 1-hour experiment took me
more like 8 or 9 and ED6163 is turning out to be a time consumer
at least for the first go around on the photography. I'm
wondering when the people figure up the times whether they've
worked with tke stuff that's been put into the Flight Plan
initially or in the way it's actually been flowing which
we've probably given you very little information on. I'm
convinced that we've probably put in a lot more than what
is shown because guys are - we've been going now, well, pretty
much 14 hours a day or so working just - and you know 2 hours
for eating and 8 hours for sleeping and working the rest of
the time and it's got to show up somewhere.
PLT Roger; Ed, concur on this particular one
we showed something just looking at the Flight Plan - something
like a half an hour, so it's obviously - that that's a bad
misestimate and the best way we got to correct that is you
guys letting us know. So keep it up.
SPT Okay, I ought to be able to steam along
a little faster on it but I had to figure out how to make the
whole darn thing work. The lighting arrangement for it is not
too easy to work. We also had to change film in the middle
of it and a couple of other small things that came up. The
second time around ought to be a little faster though.
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SPT The the lighting arrangement (garble)

is not to easy to work. We also had to change the film in
the middle of it and couple of other small things that came
up. Second time around ought to be a little faster, though.
CC Okay, copy. Incidentally_ I've had a note
here talking about lighting that I meant to ask you about.
Turns out that since you guys started turning down the lights
yesterday, that the temperature in the bird has gone down
oh, like somewhere in the order of a degree and a quarter,
a degree and a half, so it is doing us some - some good.
Then I was wondering if you could make an estimate as to - well
first of all do you think you've achieved some kind of average
lighting level now? And if you have what kind of estimate
can you make on the number of lights that are off now that
were on say 2 days ago?
SPT Okay, I give you - I think we've reached
a workable level, occassionally we have to turn an additional
light on for a task, but we usually turn it off. I'd say
we're probably down to about half the number of lights on
and the ones that we have left on are down to the low
intensity, l'm not sure of the difference between the wattage
of high and low intensity, but I think it's probably cut the
total wattage down considerably to a fraction of what it
was before.
CC Okay, well we were shooting for Just
about half the number of lights that were normally used.
So sounds like it's going to work just about the way we
planned. And we'll keep you advised. Thank you much.
SPT Thank you, Dick. Wh - by the way, what
is the difference betwen high and low intensity? And what
factor is involved there in wattage?
CC I'ii find out, hang on. SPT, Houston,
the high intensity is 12 watts and the low intensity is 9 watts.
SPT Okay, thank you, Dick.
CC Okay. And - - CDR, Houston, on this
handheld 170 that's on your Flight Plan, coming up we're
boosting the laser up to 10 watts to try to get through
the cloud cover that's up there.
CDR Yeah_ we were just wondering if they were
we were going to be able to see them.
CC Rog, we are too. Skylab, Houston, next
time somebody gets an opportunity, we_d llke to reset the
REG ADJUST pots to their pre-EREP 22 level?
PLT - - Dick, I'ii get it in about 5 minutes.
CC Okay, fine.
CDR Looks like they didn't have enough watts
to do it, Dick.
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CC Okay, Jerry sorry about that. Thanks

for trying, anyway.
CDR Dick, have you figured what the total
TACS cost on that early maneuver was?
CC Stand by. We were talking about some
numbers just a second ago, let me see if we understand them
now. Hang on.
CDR Okay, I suspect it was costly, we fired
a lot of mibs.
CC Understand, stand by, Jer. CDR, Houston,
our estitaate right now is somewhere in the order of 965
pound-seconds, however, we will be running that - or taking
a closer look at it. And when we understand exactly what
it was, we'll certainly get back to you.
CDR Okay, thanks.
CC Say, incidentally, Jerry, talking about
this - we've come up with a suggestion about how to
make this maneuver pad a little more clear. And so if you
have a chance anytime today, and have that maneuver pad
in hand, I can tell you what we'd proposed to do and let you
comment on it.
CDR Okay, I'm ready now.
CC Okay, what we'd suggest doing is see the
dotted line just prior to the statement that says, after
maneuver starts LOAD to SI maneuver. What we'd do is delete
that dotted line, since that's done by the crewman that does
the fine maneuver. However, following two lines below that.
following the - the maneuver time entry, and prior to the
SI MODE with a time entry, we'd put a dotted llne there,
and if it belonged to a different crewman like it did today,
we would stick SPT in the middle of that dotted line just
like CDR is in the middle of a dotted llne at the head of
the message.
CDK I think that would really do it Dick.
That sure would have saved me today.
CC Okay, well that seems like the simplest
thing. And if you think thatts good enough, we_ll do that.
CDR Yeah, I think so (static)
CC And CDR, Houston. The comm got bad
there for just a second. Am assuming you said okay.
CDR Yeah, I agree with you, that looks
like a good solution.
CC Okay, fine.
SPT Dick, I can go ahead and get those REG
ADJUSTS, if you like right now?
CC Okay, go ahead_ we appreciate it.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're a minute from LOS.
Madrid comes up at 19:05, 5 minutes from now, see you there.
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PLT If you have time, you might take a look

at the REG ADJUST.
CC Okay, Bill, sure will. Hey Just a
reminder, as you guys are preparing for this M092 this
afternoon it is an MI51 dealie.
PLT I have three marks in my Flight Plan.
CC (Laughter) We Just couldn't help but
hug you. And the KEG ADJUST looks good. Thank you very
much.
PLT Okay, and thanks for the reminder.
CC Roger.
PLT Got the portable timer set.
CC Roger. Skylab, Houston, we're AOS
Madrid for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. And we've got the VTS
unpowered right now, while we're using the power for intensity
lights on this DP23.
CC Okay, Jerry, thank you very much. And
incidentally, l've got a procedure here for getting the 192
door closed. If somebody could copy it down we'd like it
not to be done however, until we have LOS Madrid. And that'll
insure us we have about 2 hours an - which is the time we're
shooting for.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, it's real simple. EREP power BUS
i to ON. Then S192 power ON, 192 door CLOSED, should get a
door CLOSED light, should come on 60 seconds. Then S192
power OFF. And BUS i power OFF.
CDR Okay, thanks.
CC Real fine, and it's okay to do that after
LOS Madrid. Thank you much.
CDR Good enough.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 45 seconds to
LOS. I'ii give you a call at Tananarive at 19:27. And SPT,
Houston, sometime this afternoon when Ed - when itts your
best opportunity, and you got time to visit with us for 2
or 3 minutes. We'd like to talk to you a little bit more as
to what's been holding you up today on the ED61. The reason
we're particularly interested, is as yon know we're going
to have an ED61/2 ops scheduled for the next several days.
And if there's some way we can clean up the procedure or help
you out or schedule it for the right amount of time, it'll
help us out to know that as soon as - so some time this after-
noon why don't you pick a time and give us some words on that.
SPT Okay, will do it Dick.
CC Okay, great.
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 19:19 Greenwich
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mean time. The Skylab space station is now out of range of

Madrid. That concludes the recordings of passes made over -
about two-thirds of the globe. As the ground indicated the
toatl amount of TACS usuage on the Earth resources pass today,
965 pound-seconds - -
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 19:19 Greenwich

mean time. The Skylab space station is now out of range of
Madrid, that concludes the recordings of passes made over - about
two-thirds of the globe. As the ground indicated the total
amount of TACS usage on the Earth resources pass today 965
pound-seconds. That went well over the estimate which was
approximately 50 pound-seconds of gas. And the error was
due to a insertion of the solar inertial mode request for the
space station to go back to its Sun pointing direction about
an hour before it was scheduled to. That required a very
rapid maneuver and the rapid maneuver did use the extra TACS
gas. The remaining supply of gas still well over the 16,000
mark, which leaves a substantial supply for remaining activities.
7 minutes to our next acquisition of signal at Tananarive, it's
now 19 minutes 45 seconds after the hour, and this is Skylab
Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab approaching

Tananarive at 19 hours 26 minutes Greenwich mean time. The
next major activity scheduled for the crew, the MO92, M093
medical experiments with Science or Pilot Bill Pogue is the
subject on that, Science Pilot Ed Gibson is the observer, and
Commander Jerry Carr will have the duty at the Apollo telescope
mount console observing the Sun.
CC Skylab, Houston, hello at Tananarive for
8 minutes.
CC Skylab j Houston, we should still have you

here for about 2 or 3 minutes but in case we have an early
LOS, Honeysuckle comes up at 19:51.
PAO Skylab Control. Thatts all through
Tananarive, the next station to acquire will be Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia, 16 minutes from now we'll have them through
Honeysuckle for about 5_i/2 minutes. This is Skylab Control
at 19 hours 36 minutes.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. We're about to

regain contact through Honeysuckle Creek, Australia about
i minute from. We'll stand by for the call from CAP COMM
Dick Truly.
CC Skylab Houston, Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC CDR Houston, just for your information,
when you came AOS here at Honeysuckle it's apparent to us that
CNG number 2 is experiencing a number - another glitch like
it has before. The indications to us are about the same.
Wheel speed's down a little bit and we'll be - we'll let you
know when it's cleared up.
CDR Roger Dick.
CC Okay.
CDR Hey Dick, what's the nature of the
glitch? Is it the temperature again?
CC Well there's 2 or 3 things that goes - goes
on Jerry, and all of them are indicated here. The wheel speed
is down presently at 8870, and it's about oh somewhere around
30 RPM low. The wheel amperage is up just a hair. And the
temps - tell you the truth I'm looking in real time and not
looking at a plot that GNS have, but in general, the temperature
has been a little bit slower to respond. But this one
doesn't look any different or worse than the other ones.
CC Skylab Houston_ we're about 15 seconds
from LOS. Hawaii comes up at 20:13 and one other thing
Jerry is the two bearing temps now have just about converged
in temperature and normally there - there's a spread between
the two temps of several degrees.
CDR Roger, copy.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab out of
range through Honeysuckle Creek, and you heard CAP COMM
Dick Truly advise the crew that telemetry indications
here on the ground show a return of the glitch as he put it
that we've seen in CMG number 2, control moment gyro number 2.
There are a series of indications, which taken together imply
an abnormal performance of that CMG. The wheel speed is
down about 30 RPM. It normally runs around 9000, we're looking
at it around 8900. It's down now to around 8870 RPM. The
wheel amperage is up just a little bit and the temperatures
have been slower to respond to the heating and cooling cycles
so the main difference - the main indication on the temperatures
pointed out by Flight Director Phil Shaffer is that the
difference that wetve normally seen in the bearing temps
between the two gyros has disappeared. The gyros are running
at essentially the same temperature whereas number 2 has
generally been about 2 to 3 degrees below its (garble), the the
other gyroscope. This would indicate that bearing 2 is running
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a little warmer than normal. Dick Truly advised that the

problem that we are seeing is no more or less severe than
similar glitches we've seen in the past and we expect that
it will work itself out and recover. We'll be reacquiring
Skylab through Hawaii. This will be a very low-elevation
pass. Correction - we will be picking up Hawaii at - in about
14 minutes) but that will be a very low-elevation pass of
about 3.3 degrees which is just on the ragged edge of being
able to acquire a usable signal. At 19 hours 59 minutes
this is Skylab Control Houston.
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117174
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab coming
up now on Hawaii and we do have an early acquisition so we'll
bring the line Up and stand by for the call to the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston, Hawaii for 3-1/2 minutes.
SPT Rog_ hello Dick. Like to mention one
small thing that came up during the M092 prep. I - in order to
CC Hey Ed, I can barely hear you. Go ahead.
SPT Dick, are you reading me now?
CC That's much better, go ahead.
SPT Let me get rid of this squeal.
CC Okay.
SPT Dick, for the M092 left leg Charlie Juliett,
try to get that down to 2 we had to go to full scale low
on the gain and the best we could get it down to was 2.3
rather than the 2.0 which you talked about before.
CC Okay Ed, copy.
CC Say incidentally, guys we got ahout a
minute to LOS and about a 3 minute gap in between here and
Goldstone, so I'ii give you a copy. Just the last few
minutes we were handed some photos that were taken on SL III
of the aurora and I don't know right now whether or not this
was northern or southern latitudes. But these pictures are
extremely striking and they do appear very much like what
could be described as cirrus clouds and they do extend -
portions of them in these photographs do extend above the
airglow very visibly. Their color is extremely white just
like clouds against a real black sky, and of course the Earth's
horizon in the airglow. So our best guess right now for lack
of anything else is what CDR saw awhile ago was probably the
aurera.
SPT Very good, thank you Dick. Hey I did have
a question on that pad which was sent up for photography (garble)
it said southern Hemisphere only. Yet in the past month or
so we've seen quite a bit of it, especially up over by the
Great Lakes.
CC Okay, we'll check that one Ed. Out. We're
about to drop out over the hill here, I'll call you
Goldstone,
SPT Thank you Dick.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That'll be all
through Hawaii. Although it wasn't passed up to the crew, the
GNS officer reported during that pass that CMG number 2 was
looking real good now. He said that the temperatures had
come back to normal, the RPM rate was normal and the current
was about: normal. By way of background the first of the 3
control moment gyros on Skylab failed mission day 8 following
the EVA. We then had i0 intermittent problems or glitches as
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they've been referred to with CMG number 2 before mission

day 56 I believe it was or day 356 rather and at that
time we began controlling the CMG heater cycles manually,
which cut the number of glitches in half, we've had 5 since
that time. And in general the CMG glitches have occurred
following major maneuvers. We have about a minute and a half
before we regain contact through Goldstone. And during that
pass over Hawaii we also advised the crew that the strange
cirrus looking formation that they reported earlier today
seeing it floating above the horizon - airglow horizon, may well
in fact have been the polar aurora. We have pictures of the
polar aurora taken on the previous Skylab mission and the
aurora as CAP COMM Dick Trnly advised the crew does look
strikingly like some whispy cirrus formation but floating well
above the airglow layer. Those photographs by the way are
available in the JSC still photo office. We have about 45 seconds
now until acquisition, we'll stand by for that through Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston, hello stateside for 9-1/2
minutes.
SPT Hello Dick.
CC Hello there.
CC CDR, Houston, we'd like to have the DAS
here a couple of minutes, and - sp ASCO can do an outer gimbal
backup command.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, thank you.
SPT Dick, looks like southern California has
got a real low moving in on them. Moving right across them,
it's about half way over them. Got a very well defined
pattern.
CC Roger Ed, they've had a tremendous storm
out there oh, couple or three days ago as a matter of fact out in
the Mohave Desert, I was reading the paper last evening that
(garble) had 16 inches of snow and that was generally true
all through up in the Mohave Desert up in Death Valley it
was snowing also and sticking on the ground.
SPT Sure looks like it could do that from up
here.
CC Rog, well it's dumped a lot of rain and
snow out there on the west coast the last few days.
CC Skylab, Houston, the DAS is yours.
SPT I don't see any- bvershooting cloud tops
Dick, but there certainly is a awfully lot of cumulus just
spattered uniformly throughout a very wide area all in the
pattern of a low.
CC Rog.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're 30 seconds from
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LOS, Texas comes up in about 4 minutes.
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SL-IV MC1845/I
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CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 5 - we are

at Bermuda AOS for about 5 minutes. There is a keyhole here
that's going to happen about a minute from now. And will
last about a minute. Couple of items for you, first of all
the CMG, at that last LOS was looking back okay. So, looks
like that problem was temporary and not a problem anymore.
And an answer to the SPT about the photo pad for shooting
the aurora. We put it on there for the southern one only
because we thought that was the only one you would be able
to see, however, the settings that are listed are good and
you're certainly welcome to use them anytime you see them
either north or south.
SPT Thank you.
CC Roger.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Roger, Dick, looks like we got a
scheduling problem here. You got Bill doing MO93 and them
Ed and I overlapped on PTPH which looks like somebody's not
going to use the ergometer.
CC Okay, let me see if we can unravel it
here, wait a second.
CDR Okay.
from LOS. Canary comes up at 20:43. We're going to dump
the data/voice recorder at Canary.
CDR Okay.
PA0 We're about to regain contact with
Skylab through Canaries at Canary Island tracking station
on this extended pass over the continental United States
with just brief dropouts in communications between Hawaii
and Goldstone, and again between Goldstone and Merritt
Island. We have about a minute remaining before we reacquire
through the Canary Island tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Canary for
about 9 minutes. And an explanation of how we intended the
Flight Plan to work here was since Bill had had his PT earlier
in the day, we assumed that he would be off the M093,
ergometer portion of the run. And that both CDR and SPT
would use the last half of their PT period on their ergometer
and we figured that would work out the way it was on the
summary Flight Plan.
CDR Okay, I guess the question is heating
restraints on the ergometer?
CC Well, again, I guess - I guess I have to
ask you guys how it turned out the way we scheduled it. We -
it appeared to us that we had at least an hour after the
lunch period prior to anybody getting on it. Oh, I'm sorry
you said iheating not eating, l'm sorry.
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CDR Yeah that's right heating constraints on

the ergometer itself. Bill's going to put 300 on, I'ii put
on 5,000 and then how long is Ed going to have to wait
before he can put on 8,000?
CC Okay, we talked about that just a
second ago, Jerry, though. Let me _ let us check it again
real quick and get back to you.
CDR Okay.
CC And Skylab_ Houston_ I forgot to remind
you at AOS here, but we are dumping the data/voice recorder
with you got another running. So any voice you put on will
be attained there.
CDR Okay, good enough, I owe it an ATM de-
brief.
CC Roger.
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CC CDR, Houston, we've rechecked the

ergometer constraints per the cue card and our - and our
heating constraints and it looks to us like we're perfectly
okay with - with the number of watt minutes that you and
Ed _ The part that Bill's going to put there - put on there
is just about negligible and the 5,000 that you plan and
the 8,000 that Ed plans in that scheduled period is okay.
CDR Okay, great, thanks, Dick.
CC Roger.
CDR Dick, which recorder have you got
designated for recording up here? We're not getting any
green light.
CC Stand by. Skylab, Houston, the dump is
complete and INCO thinks you should have a green light if
you're asking for voice record now. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS. Tananarive comes up at 21:03.
CDR Yeah, but what recorder did they have
designated,say_2 or 3 minutes ago?
CC Jerry, at a couple - 3 minutes ago your
voice was going on a recorder number 1 which was not the
data/voice configured recorder, so you would not have seen a
light at that time. But it was - we were getting a voice.
CDR Okay, good, Just wanted to make sure.
CC Roger.
PAO That completes the pass through Canary
Islands. They'll be reacquiring at Tananarive in about ii
minutes, And in Mission Control at this time we're in a
midst of a shift handover. The oncoming team headed by
Flight Director Nell Hutchinson. Flight Director Phil
Shaffer will be breaking free at about 4:15 for change-of-
shift press briefing in the JSC News Center briefing room.
Again, our predicted time for the start of that change-of-
shift briefing is 4:15 p.m. This is Skylab Control at
20 hours 53 minutes.
END OF TAPE
$L-IV MC-1847/I
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1/7/74
PAO This is Skylab° We're a minute away from

acquiring Skylab through Tananarive. This will be the last
Tananarive pass of the day. Skylab currently on the 3440th
revolution. And our CAP COMM is astronaut Dick Truly, he'll
be going off shift shortly to be replaced by Astronaut Bruce
McCandless at the CAP COMM console. Again our change-of-shift
briefing tentatively scheduled for 4:15 p.m. today.
CC Skylab, Houston, Tananarive for 5 minutes.
SPT Hello Dick (garble) this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute and
a half from LOS and case we have an early one, Honeysuckle comes
up at 21:27, see you there.
SPT Okay Dick, I'ii talk ED61 to you at that
time.
CC Okay, real fine Ed, thank you.
PAO During that Tananarive pass Ed Gibson
noted that he would be talking to us through Honeysuckle
Creek the next station we'll be acquiring about the ED61
experiment, plant growth, one of the student experiments.
A couple of days ago on mission day 51 Ed Gibson planted rice
seeds in a specially designed container and it is scheduled at
several points during the mission to photograph those seeds
and observe their Browth. The object of the experiment is to
determine what effect if any gravity has on the normal
orientation of a plant with the roots going up and - or with
the roots going down and lhe stem growing up and how that -
how those growth patterns are effected by varying amounts
of light. We'll be acquiring at Honeysuckle Creek in 15-1/2
minutes at 21 hours 17 minutes this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 16:21 CST, 53:21:21 CDT
i/7/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. Flight Director

Phil Shaffer has left Mission Control and is enroute to
the JSC News Center for the change-of-shift briefing. That
briefing should be ready to begin in about 5 minutes.
END OF TAPE
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1/7/74

minutes Greenwich mean time. We're currently in contact
with Skylah through Goldstone, California. And we have
accumulated about i0 minutes 40 seconds of conversation
through the previous stations, Hawaii, and Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. We'll replay the taped conversation,
bring you up to date and then continue on live.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through
Honeysuckle Creek for 9 minutes. Over.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Yeah, Richard Truly told me that the
friendly SPT was going to have a few thousand words on ED61
for us over Honeysuckle here. But it's no big deal to us
if you want to come back later,'why that's fine.
PLT He's right in the middle of exercise,
right now, Bruce. He'll get with you later.
CC Sure, we'll catch him later this evening,
Bill.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, Ed.
SPT Okay, the discussion ED61, 62 originated
when I remarked that it took around 2 or 2-1/2 hours to get
the thing put together today. And the folks on the ground
was wondering what the holdups were. Most of them occurred
because of the first time through all the gear. And I
don't think there's anything which I can't do the second
time around a heck of a lot quicker and probably pretty much
do it on schedule. But they're interested in finding out what
was the hangups I ran into so, I'll just go through them.
They're very small but there's a fair of them. First, it took
a little while to figure out what the K2, K3 adapter ring
assembly is, how it works, how it puts together, where you
find it and so forth? That Wont be a problem the second time.
Putting the camera on the mount, it's set up for a slide, which
is only good with the electric Hassleblad turns out you can
unscrew the slide. The screw which holds the slide on, also
holds the camera on, but that took a little while to figure out.
The taping together of the sides where the 61, 63 con - 62
containers really isn't feasible because you got to continually
rotate it, and to tape them together and you got to take the
tape off to rotate it. So, you're just left fighting with
those sides flopping around whenever you're working to make
the - just - it's just cumbersome, slows you down a little bit.
CC 30 seconds to LOS.
SPT (Garble).
CC 30 seconds to LOS. Next station contact
in ii minutes at Hawaii. Ed, go ahead.
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SPT I'ii pick it up later, Bruce.

CC Okay, sorry about that. But we're
beginning to get the picture on that.
Hawaii for 9-1/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Houston, Skylab, PLT.
CC Roger, Bill.
PLT Bruce, last night there was some talk
about giving the photo report early and I can't recall
exactly how early they wanted that. Was that just - have it
read first, or did you want that like maybe an hour or so
ahead of the evening status report?
CC Well - what we're trying to do down
here Bill, is have the film thread pad standing by out at
the site, or at least ready to go to the site. And if you
could read the photo log down at the beginning of the evening
status report pass, then that'll give us the duration of
your reading up the evening status report to check that against
the film thread pad, make a correction if we need to and
try to get up the same site. However_ realistically, I'd
expect to see it about a site or two later if there's any
major changes. Over.
PLT Okay, answers the question. Thank you.
CC And of course what we're trying to do
is get the thing up to you so that be - while you still have
a little time left in the evening so that you can work on it
at your option as you requested
PLT Yeah, I sort of cut the legs out
from under the photo people last night, with a couple of
reports on transporters. And I got the thing already to
go now, if you want to take it?
CC Give us 5 seconds and we'll take it.
PLT And w_ll get you some of the handheld
stuff.
PLT I have it now if you want it, Bruce.
CC Okay, Bill let her rip. We're standing
by to copy.
PLT Roger. 16-millimeter, EREP oal,
Charlie Lima i0, 41 percent; EREP VTS, Charlie Lima i0,
empty, zero percent; documentary photos 23, Charlie India
128, 79 percent; Charlie India 127. MI51/M092/93, Charlie
India 178, 29 percent; Charlie India 74. 35-millimeter.
Nikon i, Charlie X-ray 39, 18, Nikon 2, Bravo Victor 28,
39; number 3, Charlie India 112, 07; Nikon 4, Bravo Echo
09, 06 percent - 06 frame count; Nikon 5, Bravo Hotel 06,
00, fu - full load. 70-millimeter, Charlie X-ray 51, 66;
PC, Charlie Tango 120, 12; Bravo Whiskey 03, 077; EREP,
set Tango is depleted. Set X-ray, 9961, 2142, 9685, 9047,
0818, 9724. Drawer A configurations: A-l, no change; A-2,
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transporter 05, Charlie India 128, 79 percent; Charlie

India 127. A-3, no change; A-4, transporter 08, Charlie India
77, 07 percent; and the film broke MT09 was stowed. There's
no takeup reel on A-4 right now. In the BACK 07 Charlle
India 78, 29 percent, Charlle India 74.
CC Okay, we copy all that. Do you happen
to know when the film on transporter A-4 broke? Over.
PLT Yes, I was getting ready to photograph
the TV_I07 yesterday, I had one - I had two jams and one of
them was finally diagnosed as a break and the other one
I was able to - to use a little tool and thread it through
and get it working again. But both of those were yesterday
- oh in the middle of the day, whenever it was I was going
to photography TV-107.
CC Okay, we copy all that. Thank you,
Bill.
PLT And those were the two jams and they
were reported last night. They were both in attempting
TV-107 yesterday.
CC Roger.
SPT Houston, SPT, I'ii pick up here as
quickly as possible.
CC Okay, we got about 4 minutes left here
at Hawaii, Ed.
SPT Okay, next stumbling block is at the
windows where we were supposed to have viewed - there's eight
of them should allbe clearly marked, unfortunately when you
use the marking pen, it doesn't stay in the metal so therefore
you ended up getting (garble) cutting out some (garble) burst,
which took a little while - -
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01/7/74
SPT If we get enough (garble) which took a little

while. Repositlonlng of the - actually the - let's go back
the handheld positioning of the camera mount adjacent to the
light was not aver relatively easy thing to do until you got
the hang of it because you had the llft flopping around and
you had to get the light to just about the right value. I
found that rather than the eight inches which they suggested
I had to get down to around within 1 inch of high intensity
light. In order to get the intensity readout they specified
on the light meter.
CC You say you went to 1 inch?
SPT That is correct, 1 inch.
CC Okay, we'll check on that. They may have
been talking about 8 inches from the film plane. That's
where you usually get in a hangup with these extension tubes.
Go ahead.
SPT Step 8 on 2-6 of the (Garble) experiments
checklist:. And the way I would interpret that is within 8
inches from the light.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
SPT Okay in the middle of that then we had a
film load because we - it takes 8 and there were only 4 left
on the (garble). And lastly just normal breaking (garble) down
putting everything back in its place, K2, K3, so forth and -
and the logging. A lot of it were just learning curve and
some of _t was just first time - (garble) I think the next
time ought to be something on the order of half an hour
or 45 minutes.
CC Okay, we've got all that Ed, and we'll
just go ahead and schedule you for normal duration run next
time and see how that works out.
SPT That'll he fine.
CC Roger. Thank you for the details.
CC Skylab 9 this is Houston. i minute till
LOS. Next station contact in 2 minutes through Goldstone.
And we'll have a data/voice tape recorder dump at AOS which
is 21:58. Out.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Goldstone
for 7-1/2 minutes with the data/voice tape recorder dump.
PLT phone call next site at Bermuda. AOS is 22:10. Out.
CC Skylab this is Houston. i minute till
LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes, through Bermuda at
22:10 with the PLT phone call. Out.
CC Skylah this is Houston through Bermuda
PAO This is Skylab Control. That completes
our tape playback and we're currently up live through
Bermuda.
CC Skylab this is Houston, LOS next station
contact in I minute through Canary Island. Out.
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01/7/74
CC Skylab this is Houston through Canary

Islands and Ascension for a total of 16-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And sometime for Bill when he has a
minute I've got a minor correction to his water cal pad.
PLT Roger Bruce, ready to copy.
CC Okay Bill, step 2 where we say obtain
DAC magazine Charlie Lima i0 change that to Charlie Lima ii
from J4. And on the last page next to the bottom line where
it says stow DAC magazine (garble) and J3 (garble) change that to
J4. Over.
PLT Have it.
CC Okeydoke. Thank you.
CC Skylab this is Houston for the CDR we
have a change to S019 (garble) pad. Over.
CDR Stand by Bruce.
CC Roger.
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PLT Okay Bruce, I have the pad and I'll copy

it.
CC Okay Bill, SOI9K pad, what happened is

we calculated the pointing for prism out instead of prism
in. So we got to change all the - the rotation and tilt settings
here. Are you ready to go? The first one which is about the
third line down, change rotation from 251.6 to read 250.6.
PLT Stand by i, I had the maneuver pad out.
CC I'm sorry, I was -
PLT Okay Itm sorry Bruce, would you start over
again, please?
CC Okay_ about the third line into the pad,

change rotation from 251.6 to read 250.6. Over.
PLT Roger, 250.6.
CC Tilt goes from 23.3 to read 21.3 and the
rotation XX goody becomes XX 0.6. Over.
PLT Roger, that makes the tilt 21.3 and the
XX 06 - 0.6.
CC Okay, then for star field 352 which is

the next one down, we change the rotation value from 148.7
to read 150.9, tilt goes from 24.2 to read 23.6, and the
number of turns changes from 3.6 to 3.5, rotation goody goes
from XX 8.7 to XX 0.9. Read back.
PLT Roger, the 148.7 changes to 150.9, and
the 24.2 changes to 23.6, the XX 0.9 and it's 3.5 turns.
CC Right, we showed you should have jacked
up the periods and run a new pad underneath that one, we're
sorry about it.
PLT Okay, we have the corrections now, thank

yOU.
CC Would you like us to ship you up a new
one at Carnarvon if we can get it put together here?
PLT Why don't you go ahead and do that Bruce,
if itVs rio trouble, if you don't, well_ we have this.
CC Okay, we'll give it a try.
CC And i minute to LOS, next station
contact in 27 minutes through Cananrvon at 23:02. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control, we'll have a 25-
minute break here between Ascension and Carnarvon, Australia,
the next station to acquire Skylab. At 22 hours 38 minutes
this is Ekylab Control, Houston.
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01/7/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're coming up

now on Carnarvon, Australia. A pass that will take Skylah
across the southern coast of Australia, then on out over the
northeastern coast with coverage by both Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle Creek. We'll have acquisition in about 30 seconds.
CAP COMM is Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle Creek for 8-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC And Skylab if you'd check the old wood-
pecker there your S019K pad has been revised.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab this is Houston. 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 16 minutes through Hawaii at
23:26. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab now out
of range of the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia station. 14
minutes away from regaining contact through Hawaii. And
this is the traditionally quiet period of day while the
crew is eating dinner. At least for 2 of the 3 crewman.
Meal today for Commander Jerry Carr is lobster, corn, and
shrimp, with coffee and ice cream. For Science Pilot Ed
Gibson his menu shows iobster_ pea soup_ asparagus, orange
drink, bread and ice cream. And Bill Pogue is the only
one who's varying from the norm of lobster for dinner. He's
having a filet with green beans and peaches and bread along
with - with his evening meal. And according to the Flight
Plan at this time Commander Jerry Cart and Pilot Bill Pogue
as well as Science Pilot Ed Gibson should either be eating
dinner or just finishing it up. The major scientific activity
remaining on the Flight Plan for this evening is the ATM
operations. And Science Pilot Ed Gibson has the duty at the
ATM console. This is Skylab Control at 23 hours 14 minutes.
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SL-IV MC1853/I
TIME: 18:25 CDT, 53:23:25 GMT
01/7/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab about

to make its final pass of the day over the Hawaii tracking
station. Now that'll be a 4-1/2 minute period of acquisition.
We'll stand by for the call from Cap Comm Bruce McCandless.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Hawaii
CC Skylah this is Houston. i minute till
LOS. Next station contact in 8-1/2 minutes. Goldstone
at 23:38. Out.
PAO Skylab's now out of range of the Hawaiian
Hawaiian Island tracking station. During that pass over Hawaii
telemetry data showed the crew Jerry Carr in this case, beginning
the maneuver to the desired attitude for observations of the
comet Kohoutek using the S019 UV steller astronomy experiment.
That - instrument looks through the scientific airlock.
As using an articulated mirror system. The maneuver will
require approximately 20 minutes and will involve a change
in attitude of about 80 degrees, mostly in roll. Skylab
now about 5 minutes away from Goldstone California. This
is Skylab Control 23 hours 33 minutes Greenwich mean time.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're awaiting
acquisition of Skylab through the Goldstone tracking station
for a stateside pass that will take the space station across
the northern part of the United States down across the Great
Lakes and out over the Eastern seaboard. We'll be regaining
radio contact in about 45 seconds.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Goldstone
for 4_i/2 minutes. Over.
CC Skylab this is Houston for the PLT.
We have the film thread pad on board but we believe there
is an error in it, which goes along with the photo log. On
Nikon 03 we anticipated that you would have run out of
exposures on CII12 sometime today and the pad for this
morning instructed you to go ahead and reload with CII13 and the
frame count that you passed down indicates that you probably
did do this as you went from frame count last evening of 47
down to 07 and when you get a chance, at your convenience not to
interrupt you meal or anything like that, could you just
confirm for us that it was indeed CII13 in there and the
count is 07. Over.
PLT Stand by i.
CC No, don't interrupt.
PLT No, I was Just getting ready to go up and
do the SI maneuvers. Stand by to do that and get the film
thread pad I'ii go by the film vault on my way.
CC Thank you.
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PLT Houston, Skylab PLT. That's correct.

That is i[13 and the film number frame number is correct.
CC Okay, and if you could just make the
appropriate corrections to you film thread pad - I think
it's status only in the 35-millimeter section. We'd appreciate
it.
PLT Rog will do. Thank you very much.

CC And you can disregard the remark which
says when 112 is deflated reload with 113 obviously.
CC One minute to LOS. Next station contact
in 2_i/2 minutes through Corpus Christi at 23:45 and we'll
have a data/voice tape recorder dump coming up Bermuda at
23:46, Out.
CC Skylab this is Houston through Corpus

Christi and Bermuda for - Stand by. Corpus Christi on for
1 minute.
CC Skylab Houston here we go again. This

time through Merritt Islands for i0 minutes with the data/voice
tape recorder dump. Out.
CDR Houston, CDR I'm using the tape recorder
can you redesignate another one for me. This is for S019.
CC Negative. But we'll delay the dump for
you .
CDR All right sir, thank you.
CC Keep on trucking,
CC Skylab this is Houston. 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 9-1/2 minutes through Ascension
Island at 00:06. Out.
PAO Skylab_s now out of range of the Bermuda
tracking station on way - on route to Ascension. We'll be
picking up through Ascension in about 8 minutes. The guidance
and navigation officer reported that the maneuver into attitude
for the $019 observations of the comet Kohoutek was accomplished
without use of thruster attitude control system gas. And the
CMGs are _ are looking normal at this time. The maneuver
required about 20 minutes to bring the space station into
the proper attitude. And of course it will be placed hack
in the solar inertial attitude following the ohservations of
the comet. Goddard Space Flight Center which has been
compiling and coordinating comet observations reports that
sitlngs from a T-38 jet aircraft flying at an altitude of
ahout 43 thousand feet over the past 3 nights show the comet
growing dimmer to tke naked eye. On the 5th of January
the comet was clearly visible easily visible with the
naked eye. On the 6th and 7th it was visible but with some
difficulty to the naked eye. Last night Science Pilot Ed
Gibson reported the comet was still visihle but changing
very slowly. And he recommended that astronaut observations
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and reports on the comet be passed down every 4th day instead
of every 2nd day because of the fact that the comet is now
changing very slowly in its appearance. This is Skylab
Control at 23 hours 59 minutes Greenwich mean time.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. We're standing

by now to regain conversation through Ascension, that will
come in about 43 seconds. This pass will have a duration of
about 7-i[/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension
for 7 minutes and for the SPT and anybody else who's running
the ATM in the near future we've got a message.
CDR Stand by Bruce, l_m just about to go back
to solar inertial.
CC Okay.
CDR Bruce my rates look good. Could you
confirm my gyro 3 outer glmbal, their reading is full-scale,
low again.
CC It's looking good to us, about 42 degrees.
CDR Okay, carry on Bruce, what was it you
wanted.
CC Okay, SO82B has 13 frames of type i01
film remaining. We've scheduled this tomorrow in the Flight
Plan on some faint phenomena, this is the comet-type film,
and therefore we'd like to restrict 82B to scheduled
operations until this type 101 film has been depleted then
you're back on the solar type film. Type 104 film begins
at a frame count of 344 that's 344. Over.
PLT (garble) that puts 82B special sensitive
comet film, there are ii frames remaining which you are
reserving at least that's what you want to use for tomorrow.
CC Okay, we -
PLT The film picks up at 344.
CC All right, we show 13 frames remaining.
PLT Sorry, 13.
CC Yeah the intent here is just to n0t use this
stuff up on shopping list items or anything like that.
PLT Okay.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead Jerry.
CDR Okay, we had a close call on this SO19,
This doggone canister started to Jam up like the other one
did. And I got desperate and decided that since we didn't have
much to lose l_d go for brute force and I about tripled the
force required to put the lever in the slide retract position
and it went in_ now it seems to be working normally except the
forces are just a little bit higher on the operating mech-
anism. But at least it feels like it's doing what it should be
doing.
CC Okay, which exposure or which frame was that
on? I don_t know that it makes much difference - -
CDR At the culmination of the first Kohoutek
frame_ w|_ich was the 400-second one, is where the problem came
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I lost about 2 minutes fiddling with it And finally it got

desperate and decided to go the brute force way and got it
running again, so essentially what happened is I didn't get the
last widened exposure he wanted on the star field, but I did
get all the Kohoutek stuff.
CC Okay. Sounds like you took the right action
there and I'm not sure what we can do about it, but we'll cer-
tainly feed it into the mill and see if there's anything we can
come up with.
CDR Okay, the whole blow by blow is on tape. I'm
beginning to think maybe I ought to get that other cassette
and try a little brute force on it.
CC Why don't you stand by on that and let us
think that one over.
CDR Yes, I'ii wait until you folks talk about
it.
CC We got about a 1-minute keyhole here. I'ii
call you on the other side.
CC Hey, 35 seconds to LOS at Ascension. Next
station contact in 23 minutes through Carnarvon at 00:36. Out.
PAO That's all the communications we'll have
through Ascension. During that Ascension pass, the GNS officer
reported that the crew was maneuvering back to the solar inertial
attitude from the attitude they were in to observe the comet.
and that the maneuver was going smoothly. He reported that,
from telemetry data received so far, shows that the attitude
control system utilized i mib, i minimum impulse burn in re-
turning to the desired attitude. Commander Jerry Carr reported
that he'd had some difficulty with the film canister for the
S019, that it had appeared to jam. He used - used brute force
on it, as he put it, to get it cleared and found that it did
seem to clear the problem, and that the canister now appeared
to be working normally and doing what it should, perhaps still
a little bit sticky but apparently functioning as it should.
He said as a result of the problem and attempting to get it
cleared up, he used up about 2 minutes of the ohservation time
but was able to get all of the planned observations of the
comet. He was not able to get one wide field exposure of a
star field which had been requested by the principal investigator.
The PI for the S019 experiment is Dr. Karl Henize of the
NASA Johnson Space Center. 21 minutes away from regaining
contact with Skylab, that'll be through Carnarvon, Australia.
And we_ve passed into the 54th day Greenwich mean time it's
now zero hours 16 minutes GMT.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab space

station coming up on Carnarvon, Australia. This will be our
next to the last pass over Carnarvon. One more low-elevation
pass on the next revolution. Skylab currently in the 3442nd
revolution of Earth. And we're about 40 seconds from regaining
contact.
Carnarvon for 10-1/2 minutes. And we're going to pick up
the delayed data/voice tape recorder dump here with your
permission.
CDR Okay, Bruce I think we're through with
it for now.
CC Roger, we'll let you know when we're
finished with the dump.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute to
LOS. Next station contact in 3-1/2 minutes through Guam
at 00:49, And the evening status report will be coming up
at Goldstone at 01:15. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houstonp through Guam
LOS. Next station contact in 16-1/2 minutes through
Goldstone with the evening status report. And we'll be
standing by at 01:16 to copy. Over.
CDR Roger, Bruce. We'll be ready.
CC Okeydoke.
PAO Skylab's now out of range of Guam.
We'll be coming up on a U.S. pass in about 15 minutes.
During that pass over the United States_ one of the
activities will be to site the S191 infrared spectrometer
used in Earth resources surveys on the Moon. And at the
same time to collect data on the Moon from a backup unit,
being operated on Mount Capulin in northern New Mexico.
The data collected on the - on the two units will then be
compared to calibrate the flight unit. As we said about
15 minutes before we reacquire through Goldstone, California.
At i hour 2 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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1/7/74
PAO This is Skylab Control at 1 hour 15

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on Goldstone,
California for a pass over the continental United States,
that will include the crew status report and also the daily
private medical conference.
Goldstone, Merritt Island and Bermuda for 16 minutes.
Standing by for the evening status report. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Sleep: CDR, 7.0, 7 heavy;
SPT, 6.8, 6.0 heavy, 0.8 light; PLT, 7.0, 7.0 heavy.
Volumes: 3600; 1750; 2650. Water gun: 8235; 4236; 0274.
Exercise: CDR, no change; SPT, no Alfa; PLT, no change.
We'd like to make a change in the standard exercise for all
of us. Change method Foxtrot to read zero springs, and 400 toe
rises. Let me correct that. Reduce method Foxtrot to
zero springs and 400 toe rises. Some of us have walk and
run on there, that should stay on. But across the board
each one of us is going to stop doing springs, and we're
all going to do 400 toe rises from now on. That includes
today. Medications: none for anyone. Clothing: CDR,
shirt and socks; SPT, none; PLT, none. Food log: salt for
the CDR, plus 3.5, minus one coffee with sugar, plus 2.0
rehydration water; SPT, 1.5 salt, plus two biscuits, plus
butter cookies, one butter cookies, plus one lemon pudding,
plus vanilla wafers, plus one grape drink, minus 20 CCs
for TV-101, rehydration water zero; PLT, salt zero,
deviations zero, rehydration zero. Photo log you've
already got. Flight Plan deviations: ED61/63, 2-I/2 hours.
Shopping list accomplishments: PLT, T002-1 stars ii and 12,
it's on tape from 02:20 last night to 02:40. SPT, SO63
comet photo sequence, two times, also the SPT did put one half
hour in on TV-101. The CDR, I hour on TV-103 preparation,
and you can go ahead and schedule me VTR time whenever you can.
And I'ii go ahead and do that one. And the CDR did one sweat
sample today. Inoperable equipment: none. Unscheduled stowage;
none; a note to the medical people in the sweat sample area,
rather than using wipes if they want any more sweat samples
we would recommend the use of a wash cloth, rather than wipes.
CDR, out.
CC Okay, Jerry, we've got all of that,
but we missed your body mass measurement readouts from
this morning. Over.
CDR Okay, the CDR: 6.301, 6.306, 6.302;
SPT, 6.365, 6.365, 6.365; PLT, 6.233, 6.231, 6.236.
CC Okay, we got those. A couple of qmick
ones for you. Better set your alarm clocks for revelry
in the morning. We'll call you through the Vanguard at
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11:25 Zulu. Your phone call for tomorrow, Jerry, is at

02:34 to 02:44 Zulu through the Vangua=d. And we've got
one question here for Bill. On S063 airglow or would you
rather - Disregard the question, we'll catch it on
post flight debriefing. And - - Okay, we're going to
go ahead and turn you over to the medics here, for the
medical conference. And this'll be the last pass of the
evening observing your 02:00 sound through, so we'll bid
you a good night. And see you in the morning.
i0,000 on the DAS if you want us and we're taking the VTR
for dump.
CDR Okay, Bruce, good night.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've completed
that continental U.S. pass, 42 minutes and 30 seconds
remaining before we regain contact with Skylab through
Carnarvon, Australia. The last part of the U.S. pass taken
up with the daily private medical conference. And we'll
have the mission surgeon's report on crew health shortly.
The GNS officer here in the control center reports that
the S019 observations of the Comet Kohoutek required a
minimum use of thruster attitude control gas. One minimum
impulse burst of TACS propellant is all that was required
so far. And the crew has maneuvered back to the solar
inertial attitude. We don't expect any further conversation
with the crew this evening. By the time we again have
contact through Carnarv0n , we will have entered the period
one hour prior to bedtime, and we'll be observing silence
on the communications loops allowing the time - the crew to
have some time to themselves. And time to complete preparations
for bedtime. The wakeup call to the crew will come
tomorrow morning through Vanguard at 11:25 Greenwich mean
time, or 6:25 Houston time. The crew will be setting their
alarm clocks to wake up at 6 a.m. or ii hours Greenwich
mean time. And the major activities on the Flight Plan for
tomorrow includes S019 observations of the comet, that again
is using the UV stellar astronomy equipment. They're
also scheduled to run another M092/M093 series, the lower
body negative pressure and vectorcardiogram medical
experiments, designed to determine the effects of prolonged
weightlessness on the cardiovascular system. Science
Pilot Ed Gibson will be the subject for that test run with
Pilot Bill Pogue being the observer. And the crew will also
be conducting additional observations of the Sun using the
Apollo teiescope mount instruments. We'll come up again
with the mission surgeon's report on crew health as soon
as that is available. At 1 hour 36 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.
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minutes Greenwich moan time. We have the mission surgeon's
daily report on crew health. The report reads as follows:
Health status is excellent, recent crew/ground interchanges
have developed mutually satisfying improvements in
scheduling, and consequently resulted in an improved sense
i of well-being and accomplishment. That conclude the
mission surgeon's daily report on crew health for mission
day 53. The report was prepared by Dr. Jerry Hordinsky.
We'll be reacquiring Skylab in about 20 seconds through
Carnarvon, Australia. We do not plan to put in a call to
the crew through Carnarvon in observance of the quiet period
1 hour prior to the crew's beginning of their sleep period.
However, we will keep the line up in the event the crew has
any last-minute subjects they'd like to discuss with the
ground.
PAO This is Skylab Control, we're out of
range now at Carnarvon with no conversation with the crew.
We'll take the line down at this time, leaving it down through
the night, until the wakeup call to the crew tomorrow
morning. That's scheduled to occur at 11:25 Greenwich mean
time, or 6:25 Houston time tomorrow morning. If we should
have any conversation with the crew in the interim time
it will be recorded for subsequent playback. This is Skylab
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1/8/74
PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 24 minutes

35 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is now
just west of Chile about to be acquired through the tracking
antenna on the ship Vanguard. This pass through Vanguard will
last a little less than ii minutes. The spacecraft communicator
is Story Musgrave. The crew was awakened by their alarm this
morning at 6:00 central daylight time or ii:00 Greenwich mean
time, and the ground has not interrupted them since we have
had no station pass since then. So this will be the first
callup of the morning from Story Musgrave.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you through
the Vanguard for i0 minutes.
PLT (Garble), Story.
CC Good morning, Bill. And we've been shipping
up some pads to you with a teleprinter low indication. You might
check the last pad you got. The last one we sent to you was
5414 Alfa. That's an EREP Z-LV maneuver pad.
PLT I didn't see any red on it.
CC Okay.
PLT (Garble) 5414 Alfa we have, and we ought to be
pretty good for the message you're sending up right now.
CC Okay Bill_ if you haven't seen any red,
we'll ship up a solar - solar activity update pad and a 5-day
forecast. That's all we've got left for tonight.
PLT Okay, we ought to be fine for that and
then we'll check the paper out.
CC Okay, beautiful.
CC And are you all ready for the news now,
or if you're not I've got Ascension coming up here in about
15 minutes.
PLT No, hit us with it.
CC Okay. More than 3,000 government reforcments
backed by armored vehicles fled Phnom Penh's northwest defense
lines to counter a big rebel force slashing towards Phnom Penh
Field reports said the insurgent attackers have abducted 4_000
villagers. Brian Faulkner quit as leader of North Ireland's
Unionist party. His departure, following a vote against
him in the party's governing body_ the ulster Unionist Council, was
a clear setback to Britain's plans for peace between Protestants
and Roman Catholics. Faulkner kept his job as Chief Executive
of the province's 7-day old administration. The FAA may recommend
sanctions against foreign airlines who refuse to tighten security
against terrorists. The discussion of sanctions includin_
possible denial of landing rights, grew out of last month's fire-
bombing and hijacking atRome. Thirty_two persons, many of
them Americansp died in the incident. The U.S. Parole Board has
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ordered three of the five convicted Watergate burglars released

on parole effective March 7. The board freed Eugenio Armandez,
Frank A. Sturges, and Virgilio R. Gonzalez who have served more
than a year in prison and are confined at a federal prison camp
in Egland Air Force Base in Florida. The Federal Energy Office
is looking into rumors of oil stockpiling and fuel hoarding.
Officials say they are investigating possible petroleum stock-
piles by the oil industry and fuel hoarding by the nation's rail-
roads and trucking firms. They said there was no evidence so
far of hoarding or excessive stockpiling. For only the 21st
time in more than 270 years rare astronomical conditions are
producing swelling tides along the coasts of the United States.
The tides, along with other weather factors, were causing
erosion in Newport Beach, California. But on the East Coast
the feared combination of tides, offshore storms and on shore
winds have not materialized. Pioneer movie producer Samuel
Goldwy was released from St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica in
satisfactory condition, a hospital spokesman said. Goldwyn, 91,
had been under observation at the hospital since December 22,
the nature of his ailment was not disclosed. But a hospital
spokesman said Monday it was minor and primarily related to
age. He had suffered a stroke some years ago. President
Nixon has acknowleged receipt of 24 paper Christmas trees from
Viola Shand_s first grade school in Jarratt, Virginia. The children
made the trees last month, decorated them with nonelectric
homemade ornaments and called the display, even a first grader
can be ecology minded." They got a letter from Nixon thanking
them for their "Message of encouraging support." And that's
it for this morning.
PLT Thank you, Story.
CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS, 7 minutes
to Ascension. Finish sending up all the messages we have for
the moment_ so at your convenience you can change out the paper,
but there's no hurry.
PLT Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 11:37 Greenwich mean time.
The Skylab space station is now over Brazil out of range of
the tracking ship Vanguard. Our next acquisition a little less
than 6 minutes from now will be at Ascension. This is Skylab
Control at 37 minutes after the hour.
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time. Skylab space station is now coming within range of
the Canary Island tracking antenna where we_ll have a pass
through Ascension,Canary Island and Madrid. The pass is
an extended one. It'll last approximately 16 minutes. Comet
Kohoutek still as interesting as ever to the world's scientists,
will be photographed twice today by the Skylab crew. Even though
the comet is now reported to be only as bright as an average star,
astronomers hope the Skylab photographs will enable them to pierce
Kohoutek's mystery. While scientists on the ground begin watching
the fading comet s the space veterans on the Skylab space station,
will be turning their eyes and instruments toward the Earth. The
Skylab astronauts will make their 20th survey of Earth resources
late this morning. The 6800 miles of photographic and
electronic data gathering, will include known sources of
geothermal energy. The surface temperatures measured by
Skylab's instruments may aid Scientists in detecting new
areas where the Earth's inner heat may be used to generate
electricity. Such geothermal energy already provides power in
the western United States and several foreign countries. The
Earth resources pass is scheduled to begin late this morning.
We'll bring the line up live now for air-to-ground through
Ascension, Canary Island and Madrid and Spacecraft Communicator
is Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, back with you through Ascension
for 3 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, we'll be dropping out just for
30 seconds here while we hand over at Canaries and Madrid.
We plan to dump the data/voice at Canaries.
CDR Roger, Story.
CC Skylab, we're back with you through
Canaries and Madrid for 12 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC And we got a computer down here. Could
you verify that no one's using the voice recorder?
PLT That's affirmative_ Story.
CC Okay, thanks.
PLT That is to say, no one is using it.
CC Understand.
CC - - Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Story.
CC For your information only, we've got a
computer problem down here. We've had no data throughout
Canaries and Madrid. And you've got PT scheduled here coming
up pretty soon and we'd llke you to refrain from riding the
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ergometer during the S019 ops. That goes from about 12:15 to
12:47.
CDR Will do.
CC And how's the maneuver going, Ed?
SPT Looks pretty good so far.
CC Okay.
CC Seeing we're a minute and a half from
LOS, about 25 minutes to Guam at 12:24.
PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station is now passed out of range of the
Madrid tracking antenna. Our next acquisition is at Guam.
That's approximately 14 minutes away. (Garble) that time
right now the computers in Mission Control are down and it's
very difficult to tell what's happening. Our map no longer
gives accurate readings because of the computer shutdown and
we have very little data here to look at in Mission Control.
This is Skylab Control. One thing we can be sure of the time.
It's i minute after the hour.
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1/8/74
PAO - Control at 12 hours 24 minutes Greenwich

mean time. Skylah space station is now 54 seconds from acquisi-
tion of signal at Guam. We'll bring the line up live for the
pass through Guam_ which should last about 7 minutes. Space-
craft communicator on duty is still Story Musgrave, although
handover has begun here in Mission Control with Dick Truly
and Flight Director Phll Shaffer coming on to replace
Milton Windler.
CC Skylab, we're AOS Guam for 6 minutes. And we
still have no data down here.
SPT Hello, Story. It's looking good from up
here.
CC Okay.
SPT Skylab, we're a minute to LOS. The next
station is Canaries in about 50 minutes at 13:23. Be dumping
the data/voice there.
PAO Skylah Control at 12:32 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station is out of range of Guam.
Honeysuckle will not be in acquisition for this upcoming pass.
They are supporting a separate mission. 51 minutes to our
next acquisition at Canary Island. At this time in Mission
Control, the computers are still down. And certain problems
are now going to have to he solved a long way around. In
fact, ground stations will be asked to give data on the
performance of various things on the space station that are
not monitored by the crew including the heater cycle for the
control moment gyroscope. That will allow ground control of
that gyroscope command. It's still a - possible from the
ground. However, if heaters are not available for assistance so
that for that reason. The ground station personnel will have
to play a much more important role during the next hour or
so. No time yet on the exact repair time for the computers.
However they're now in maintenance after a problem that's
still not explained by the computer staff here in Mission
Control. 50 minutes and a half to our next acquisition of
signal. This is Skylab Control.
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1/8/74

time. The Skylab space station is now about to come within
range of the Canary Island's tracking antenna. The pass
through Canary Islands and Madrid that'll last approximately
15 minutes, Computers are back up in Mission Control after
apparently an electronic problem that we now believe to have
been solved. Only one part of the computer system's still
down. Everything is ready to go. And Phil Shaffer's taking
over as Flight Director and Dick Truly now on duty as the
Spacecraft Communicator.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary and Madrid.
Hello from the purple gang. We_ve got you for 13 minutes
and we_ve got our data back down here and we're bringing our
machines back up. How are you guys doing this morning?
CDR Morning, purple gang. We're doing great.
Welcome aboard.
CC Thank you, sir. It's a very foggy morning
in Houston.
CDR Maybe that's what got the computers.
They're all fogged up.
CC Could be. As a matter of fact, I heard
on the radio coming in that it was ii degrees below zero in
Minneapolis this morning. So I hope you guys are toasty up
there. You can feel sorry for the folks up that way.
CDR Say, speaking of Minneapolis, Dick, you
know there's a great circular volcanic structure up in - up
in northeastern Canada that we discussed every once in a while
in our geology briefings that we got for the Apollo program.
And Bill and I have noticed on two occasions that out
near Minneapolis, there's also a green circular structure in
the ground that is extensuated by the snow cover right now.
I was wondering if the geologists might have a word for us
on that. So far, we haven't really located Minneapolis and
so we can't tell you whether it's east or west, but it's right
up in the Wisconsin/Minnesota area. It's about the same size
as the one up in Canada.
CC Well, we'll certainly sic our purple
geologists on it and try to get you an answer.
CDR Well, he doesn't really have to turn
purple to get the answer.
CC Yes, but the only one we have is purple.
So we_ll get him.
CDR Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. We still have about 6
minutes in this pass. Sometime when you get a minute, I'd
like to speak to you, please, sir.
SPT Morning, Dick. Now_s a good time. Go
ahead.
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CC Hi, Ed. Hey, if you'll whip out your

Summary Flight Plan for today, I wanted to give you a choice
here about moving something around and it might break up
so - a little more time for you to do something that you'd rather
do, I don't know. If you'll look on your Summary down at
about 18:15 or 18:30, somewhere right in there, it has the
ED61 ops photo. And then if you_ll look down lower at a
time of about 23:15, there's a block of open housekeeping.
What happened yesterday was when we built this Flight Plan,
and prior to the conversation with you in the afternoon about
the problems you were having with ED61, we moved that ED61
ops from the lower housekeeping block up to that block where
it is now because we felt like in that upper block, there
would be a little more time. If - however_ if you would
like to move it back down to 23:15 or so_ it mi - it would free up
that other one right after your eat period there, and it
might give you a little more time to do something off the
shopping list or science demo practice or whatever you feel
like doing. Whichever place you decide to do it though,
let us know because succeeding days, we need to schedule it
pretty much on the 24-hour repeat timing.
SPT Okay, Dick. Let me tell you where we
stand on that. l've already whistled through ED61. I got that
done this morning, l'm pretty fast with ETCs still (?) also. What
I'm wondering is, what (garble) that opens up that time frame in there
and I see that the ATM was not running command that time.
I wonder if I could slip in an demand ATM pass somewhere
around there, right after ETC ops. Probably take me around
5 - i0 minutes to get that thing stowed and l've got crispy
bars which I can eat in 5 minutes. I've got an ED 61 that's
done, so it looks as though that opens up that whole time
frame.
CC Okay. We - we're looking at that right
now, There is a scheduled handheld photo right in there
but that ought to be easy for you to whip off and get in the
middle, I would guess.
SPT Okay. Now that we're starting to have a little
activity come around the corner, Dick, l_d like to see if we
can concentrate as much time as I could squeeze in here.
CC Roger, Ed. And while they're taking a
look at and making sure that that's okay with everybody to do
that extra ATM pass, I have a question for you guys about
the presleep activities that I was going to ask later but
since we're talking about ATM anyway. You notice on today's
Flight Plan and also the one we're working for tomorrow, the
evening meal - it - we end up that one guy eats - everybody
gets plenty of time to eat the evening meal, at least on the
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Flight Plans, but one guy eats seperately than the other
two. And as long as we take advantage of the daylight cycles
down there for an ATM pass, probably this is going to be
true every night. And we kind of didn't want to do this without
you know, talking about it in advance and making sure that
that was okay with you.
SPT Dick, from my standpoint, Jerry may have
something to add on to it, but Dick_ I don't object to doing
that at all. I - (garble) time. Hold on. I'ii get
rid of this squeal.
CC Okay. Well, unless I hear differently
from Jerry, then, that's the way we're planning them anyway,
and that's the way you'll probably been seeing them.
SPT Dick, for now, that sounds good. We'll
get back with you if there's any change.
CC Okay. Great.
CC SPT, Houston. We think in that extra
ATM pass is a neat thing to do and we'll be - we would like
you to get that scheduled_ or somebody get that scheduled
handheld photo for us that's there listed in the summary
around 18:00. And ATM folks will be thinking in this, Ed,
to see if they have any suggestions about what you might
do during that daylight cycle.
SPT Okay, Dick. Thank you.
CC Roger. And we're about 30 seconds from LOS.
Madrid correction, Carnarvon comes up at 14:04.
35 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station is moved
out of range of the tracking antenna at Madrid. Almost 26
minutes before our next acquisition at Carnarvon, Australia.
Computer problem this morning, still not completely understood.
It was a problem with the main computer that services virtually
all of the other computer functions here in Mission Control.
Similar problem had occurred previously some time go. But
this is the first time we've seen it during this mission and
that -
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and 25 seconds Greenwich mean time. Skylab space station
has moved out of range of the tracking antenna at Madrid.
Almost 26 minutes before our next acquisition at Carnarvon,
Australia. The computer problem this morning is still not
completely understood. It was a problem with the main
computer that services virtually all of the other computer
functions here in Mission Control. A similar problem had
occurred previously some time agop but this is the first time
we_ve seen it during this mission. And, that problem now
appears to have been completely solved, only temporary
interruptions expected during the remainder of the day on
some of the minor and secondary computers. Most probable
explanation is there was some sort of electronics interruption
that might have set the equipment off and that caused a shut-
down of the computers for a period of time. From about 11:25,
this mornlngp shortly after our Vanguard acquisition, between
11:25 and 11:35 to about 12:45 Greenwich mean time, there
were no computers to observe here in Mission Control. We
now have computers back and the data is being reviewed over
that period of time. No serious problems occurring because
of the loss of the computers, data is still being acquired
through the ground stations. 25 minutes to our next acquisi-
tion of signal. This is Skylab Control. About 7 minutes,
immediately after that we'll have a pass a Honeysuckle Creek,
lasting almost 8 minutes, for a total of about 15 minutes.
The spacecraft communicator is Dick Truly, the Flight Director
Phil Shaffer.
MCC Skylab, Houston. Long pass here through
Carnarvon and Honeysuckle, for 14 minutes. Over.
SPT (Garble) - tore it up.
MCC Okay, Ed. You came through very weak
there. On the solar update for today, we don't have too
much to add. The emerging flux regions that are popping out
and disappearing all over the Sun, itts really Just more of the same
story. You've probably noticed on the plan for today, we've
scheduled Jerry on some prominence observations with instruc-
tZons to pick his own. To us, it looks llke there may not
be all that much to pick from. We thought maybe you might
have a better idea, having looked at it more recently.
SPT Okay, the small bit of observing time I
did manage to squeeze in this morning, I was looking at a
surge over above active region 16, and I didn't have a chance
to take a lap around the llmb, I'ii do that though this next
orbit.
MCC Okay, fine. You might pass on whatever
thoughts you had to Jerry, if in the event he cannot find
a prominence, the schedule just asks him to go on into the
shopping llst items. On today's plan the 17 alfa JOP that you
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will be doing next orbit at 14:25 is a repeat of yesterday's.

55 wants very much to get as close to a full orbit's worth
of i minute mlni-MARS on the bright spot as they possibly
can, which is why they have repeated that today.
SPT Okay, I agree that sounds llke a good
idea. I'm sorry that the control system and also selection
wouldn't let us do it yesterday. I see some good bright points
which have developed on the XUV monitor which were not there
yesterday, close to the center of the disk and I'ii try
(garble) one rather quickly that does not have any H-alpha plage.
MCC Okay, good. Sounds good. Now, I've got
a couple of answers to questions that you asked regarding
the question of information that you were downlinking and
whether it is sufficient. I guess the answer is in general
the numbers and all that is sufficient. The one thing that
we would llke more of and we were very happy the day that
yon had the three observing orbits, is a little more chatter
and in particular what you're th_nkinK of when you select
various targets and things such as this, that if you possibly
can just let us know what you're thinking and why such and
such looks better than somewhere else. That helps us try
to get inside your mind here a little bit.
SPT Oh, okay. I'll go ahead and do that.
Sometimes when you're up here looking at it, it all seems
straightforward and you don't realize that you folks don't
have the same visibility a couple of days later when you're
just looking at the transcripts. So, I'll go ahead and do that.
MCC Okay, fine. And, also on the shopping
llst 30 t for $055. Disk and prominence, you asked the question
whether that meant filament as well as prominence and that
answer is affirmative. It does. Some more guidance on the
Lyman_alpha part of that. New guidelines: If you are less
than 0.9 of a solar radius, in other words pointing more
in toward the disk, you should limit that to less than 30 seconds,
with Lyman-alpha on detector i. Between 0.9 and the solar
radius, 1 minute is a nice guideline. Outside the solar
radius there would be no limit at all.
SPT Bill, is that 30 minutes or 30 seconds
per step?
MCC No. That's 30 seconds, total. Well,
actually that's 30 seconds at the - at the center of the
llne and when you're off, that wouldn't apply. You'd have
to gauge that more by the counts when you could see when you
were on the llne and when you off in a wing.
SPT Okay. I suspect the first time through
that, I'll whistle through there pretty quick because you
do have a flat plateau there and if you took 30 seconds per
step you could be considerably longer with Lyman-alpha
intensities on that detector so I'll play it conservative
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the first time around, and we'll see how it goes.

MCC Okay, fine. You also might start on
some feature off the limb, just to get the experience when
there really doesn't - there is no time limit.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay. Let me hit you with a couple of
other things. For tomorrow's ATM conference, the schedulers
were unable to work you in, so rather than give it up,
it looks llke Jerry will be scheduled for the ATM conference
somewhere along midday unless you would prefer that we
just skip it altogether.
SPT No. That's a good idea, let's go ahead
and - sounds like a good idea for Jerry, right now he's
strapped into the (garble) and probably can't respond but that
sounds good.
MCC Okay, fine. And, on today's extra orbit
that we got, it turns out it's not all that much of an orbit
for you. We will not be getting back to SI until 18 minutes
prior to 400 kilometers and that would be at 18:04. What we
suggest is that you operate shopping list items and we're
particularly interested in active region 16, from what you
said it sounds like you are also.
SPT Yeah_ that's affirm, Bill. We'll talk
a little bit more about that in a minute.
MCC Okay. And (garble). They are willing
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MCC extra orbit that we got, it turns

out that it's not all that much of an orbit for you. We
will not be getting back to SI until 18 minutes prior to
400 kilometers. And that would be at 18:04. What we sug-
gest is that you operate shopping list items and we're
particularly interested in active region 16. From what you
said it sounds like you are also.
SPT Yeah. That's affirm, Bill. We'll talk a
little bit more about that in a minute.
MCC Okay. And - -
SPT Go ahead with anything else you have.
MCC Okay. And in the event that Jerry does
not find a good prominence it goes into the shopping list.
In spite of the notes which - on the schedule pad - on the
SAP saying 82B, i01 film use scheduled ops only, they are will-
ing to operate in shopping list 7. But that is all.
SPT Okay. I'll make a note of that.
MCC Okay. And one final comment here. The
day-off conference will be given day after tomorrow by Bob
MacQueen on the solar activity plans we have for the next
2 weeks.
SPT Oh, okay. Very good. Be glad to talk
with Bob.
MCC And, in spite of thing - that was the
last one. One more is that tomorrow we will be scheduling
you to do the PRS test on 82B. I'm prepared to talk about
that today, if you want to. I will not be able to talk to
you tomorrow because of the schedule. So I'll turn it back
to you now.
SPT I looked it over. And it appears fairly
straightforward in terms of what you want us to do. I
don't see any problem. We'll just have to make ourselves a
little table up, additionally, so we can get the fine sun
sensor findings figured out before we start into it. Other
than that, it looks straightforward.
SPT A couple of questions. One on 54, in
the exposure of 17 minutes, I guess, four times they're 256 at
17 minutes and 4 seconds. How precise would they like us to
be on that? We can set the ti_e.r up and try te make it as
precise as possible. At any instances, where we'd have, say,
an extra 2 or 3 minutes, would they like us to continue that on
up to 21 or 22 to give them a longer exposure, or is it get-
ting an effect of 4 over 256 the most important thing to go
after there? Today, where we have one which is specified
for 27 minutes, I suppose there that they are interested in
the max possible, despite the fact that 27 minutes is written
explicitly?
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MCC Yes. That's affirmative. Generally

on the 17-minute exposures, that's part of their synoptic
program and they do want 17 minutes. And the last number
that they gave me your accuracy was plus or minus 1 minute on
that. And generally when we're longer than that, it
generally turns out that we're going for the max possible.
The number we put in is our calculation of how much is
left.
SPT Okay.
SPT And looking at, first of all, the white
light coronagraph, we don't see any real major chan_e in these
structures. Small ones, though. The streamer over at 2 o'clock
has greatly diminished in intensity. Form pretty much
remains the same. Maybe the sonthern edge of it has diminished
the most in intensity. The ones above active region 16, that
is around, say, 230, 250, that one remains pretty much unchanged.
in overall intensity and in width, but I can see three streamers
now, as opposed to two yesterday, as we go further out. And there
also appears to be a little bit left in the way of streamer
structure north of that. That is around 290, 300. yesterday,
I could see a certain number of small streamers and now
they're there but greatly diminished in intensity. The XUV
monitor, the story again is pretty much the same, except
for the bright points I have mentioned. Active region 16
looks fairly intense_ although it's right on the limb, and
you'd expect it to. The coronal hole at the south is still there.
And I've been looking at these pictures and noticed that
there really is two levels of coronal hole, if yon will.
If you look at the center of the disk, you can see a coronal
hole, which is and, also to the southern part, which is
less in intensity than the remainder of the disk, but it still
has a significant step in intensity above what you see at
the South Pole. The south is just completely blank in
the picture I have; and then there's a step function up to a
relatively low intensity, and then another step up to the normal
disk around the center. And I - this is something I hadn't
really noticed before, that there was really was two levels.
SPT Let's see. One other - one other thing.
The surging above active region 16, I did notice something this
morning, and went out to i0 - to 15 arc-seconds and 55 got e
little data on that truncated MIRROR AUTO RASTERs at 54, so we're
12 short. I only had about 8 minutes or so to work it.
I've been wondering, in looking at it - What ever happened to
active region 13, are the NOAA guys suspicious, or did that
just disappear.
MCC That just sort of decayed and died a
natural death on the disk, And they stopped giving it a
number.
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SPT Oh. Okay. As far as the observing

programs for today, I guess we've covered it. I don't see
anything else other than to work active region 16. And I'll
take one look around the disk and see what else is out on
the limbs, but that occurs to be it from here.
MCC Okay, fine, Ed. Thank you very much.
There's 3-1/2 minutes left till LOS. I'll turn you back to
Dick Truly, here, for the - I'll turn you back to Dick Truly,
here, for the rest of the pass. And I'll be talking to Jerry
tomorrow, and Bob MacQueen will talk to all three of you the
day after.
SPT Thank you very much, Bill. So long.
CC And SPT, Houston. While you're still
close to the phone there, since you did the ED61, this morning,
we'll be scheduling that one some time during the morning
for you. And it's okay with us, you don't have to hit that
do it exactly when it is scheduled. We would like you to get
kind of close to it the maximum of 4 hours away each morning,
though, in case you pick it up early in the postsleep activities.
SPT Okay, Dick. I understand what you're after
there. However this morning, there really was no significant
change. The right Gs are just setting there looking nominal
and not doing much.
CC Rog. At about what time did you take the
pictures?
CC As a matter fact, Ed, let me ask you
two questions. Assuming that we do - that you do accomplish
it in a scheduled block, is a half an hour about the right
amount of time, or if not, what, and also this morning, what
time did you take the photos? Do you remember?
SPT Yes. I took them just around 12:00 even.
And half an hour is more than adequate for that. I've learned
how to do that pretty streamlined. After the time I spent
yesterday to get it all worked out, now we can whistle through
it pretty quickly. The kind of thing which - which we had to do
initially was to take that time out to learn how to do wome-
thing well, and then you can go through it in - well, this case,
about 20 minutes it took me.
CC Okay. Real fine.
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SPT Dick, and one other thing on TV i01, right

now I've got the thing set up and pretty much ready to start
with some data, but I need to know something about the DAC film
which is available. I'm wondering if you could tell me what the
status is on that so I can pick as a on the shopping list
item.
CC Okay, we'll work on that one. We're about
30 seconds from LOS. Bermuda comes up at 14:53, and Jerry, are
you close to the phone real quick here before LOS?
CDR Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay, some time in the next day or so, we're
going to try to pick up a 192 alignment check. If, in fact,
this morning after you do the EREP mag that's scheduled, if
you are running a little bit ahead, if you did the EREP BUS i
to S191 POWER ON about i0 minutes early we figured you might
could get in the 192 alignment check prior to EREP today and
we would not have to worry about scheduling. It - it is not
a requirment today, though, so if you're not running ahead, don't
sweat it,
CDR Okay Dick, I seriously doubt that I'ii get
ahead on that EREP mag thing since I haven't done that up here
before.
CC Okay, fine. We're certainly not planning
on getting it. We are planning on scheduling it, just thought
we_d let you know. See you at Bermuda.
CDR So long.
CC Okay.
time. Skylab space station is now over New Zealand. That was
the morning ATM conference held at the beginning of the pass
over Carnarvon and Honeysuckle with Bill Lenolr scientist-astronaut
talking to Ed Gibson about the present conditions on the Sun,
and recent observations by the Science Pilot. And Dick Truly
conludlng the pass there after Bill Lenoir had finished. 33 minutes
to our next acquisition of signal. Ths is Skylab Control at
14:20 Greenwich mean time.
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time. The Skylab space station is now over Venezuela, about
to be acquired through the tracking antenna at Bermuda. The
pass through Bermuda will last i0 minutes. The Spacecraft
Communicator is Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for
about 8 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. The folks in the backroom
on ATM, I've been able to locate about six or seven different
bright points. I looked at well, half a dozen of them,
and every one of them had some small manifestation in H-alpha.
So I've chosen one which has a relatively low manifestation
but it's relatively bright. Maybe it just the particular type
we have on our disk at the present time. But I was able to
see something in H-alpha with every one of them.
CC Okay, Ed. Thank you much.
CC PLT, Houston. I'm not sure where you
are in your PT, but either here or at the following Madrid
pass, either one of them would be plenty soon enough, I've
got a couple of corrections to a couple of your pads for the
upcoming EREP maneuver.
SPT Dick, he'll talk with you pretty soon
on the next pass.
CC Okay. That'll be fine.
CC Skylab, Houston. We had a question a
while ago on TV i01 and some requests about the DAC film. With
the DAC film status as it is, we'd prefer not to use it for
TV 010 i today. However, we do have about 25 minutes of -
essentially free time available on VTR. So what we'd rec-
commend doing is is if you want to do TV I01 today, do it
as you see fit using the VTR and let us know when you did it
so we can plan our VTR dumps this evening.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Dick. I'ii try and
squeeze some of it in today if possible.
CC Okayp fine.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're 15 seconds to
LOS. Madrid at 15:06. See you there.
SPT So long, Dick.
time. The Skylab space station over the North Atlantic, is
out of range of Bermuda. We're 2 minutes and 20 seconds
from our next acquisition at Madrid. Madrid pass will be an
8_i/2 minute one. Morning, the Skylab crew busy with ATM
observations and Kohoutek photography, using the S019 camera.
Now, during the next hour or so, they'll be doing an Earth
resources pass, that's on the next revolution around the
Earth. As they come across Central America, they'll begin the
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pass. The pass lasts about 24 minutes. Total distance to

be covered by the pass is 6800 miles. Primary sources for
information today are going to be a volcanos (sic) and a number
of special sites for Bill Pogue to point at in Guatemala.
That volcanic region is being studied as part of a geothermal
study to gather data on characteristics - surface charac-
teristics of geothermal areas. An answer to Jerry Cart's
question earlier this morning about a large crater-llke area
reported to be in northern Minnesota or Wisconsin, haven't
been able to locate a geologist who knows the area well
enough_ and there are visual observations teams specializing
in that area, so we skould get some information later on it.
We're about a minute from acquisition at Madrid and we'll
leave the llne up live.
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CC Skylab, Houston. Madrid for 8 minutes.

CC CDR, Houston. In reference to your
question, the other day, about the circular area around
Minneapolis, we don't have an answer on that one. We're also
still looking at - Bill Lenoir and the handheld photography
troups are working hard on that one and also the circular
area around Mexico City and we've also been looking at some
photography around the Plains of Nasca. But Lenoir did
tell me to tell you he was pretty sure the one around
Minniapolis was a hundred thousand people huddled together
in that minus-ll_degree weather to keep warm.
CDR I believe it. Hey that circular area
down in Mexico City looks like some sort of an atheletic
field or something like that. It's circular, it's got a
lot of green grass, and we just didn't recognize it as any
kind of an atheletic field that we're familiar with.
CC Roger. One of the - That was one of the
things that we're still looking. The National University
Soccer Field down there has the capacity of an excess of
i00,000 people. And that very likely might be it.
CDR Okay. As I remember, it was near the
airport. I'ii try to look for it next time I go over.
CC Okay. I kind of think that is what that
one is.
CC And, also, a reminder for Bill. I've
got a couple of pad changes I need to get up, any time here in
Madrid. We've still got 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick. Which one would you want me to
do first?
CC Okay. VTS pad first.
PLT Stand by.
CC Okay. And the next one, while you're
getting them out, is the maneuver pad for EREP 23.
PLT Okay. I have the VTS pad.
CC Okay, Bill. There's two things on that.
First of all, on the left side about four big blocks down where
it says special 02, that's a mistake. It should read special
04. And then right under that, the block where it says
special 01, we should have put a remark in that block that
says the DAC is not required for the special 01 nadir swath.
Over.
PLT Roger. Got those changes.
CC Okay. And the next one is a minor one to
the Z-LV maneuver 23 pad message 6414 Alfa.
PLT Okay. I have it. Go.
CC Okay. Down there in the monitor vehicle
rates, maneuver to Z-LV attitude, that bottom block. The -
We've got a sign error there. The Z-axis maneuver that's
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listed there is a plus 0.001, should read minus 0.001. And

that's it.
PLT Okay. And that's duly noted and of course this
would confirm that is maneuvered for the Z-LV attitude, the rate.
CC That's correct. Thank you very much, Bill.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS.
Carnarvon comes up at 15:40. We're going to dump the data/
voice recorder at Carnarvon. And just a reminder, we still
need a teleprinter paper changeout. We're not In trouble
here for any short messages. We might want to send up to yon another
schedule at the moment, but we will be unable to uplink the
Flight Plans later. But that's about 3 - 3hours or so from now.
So there's no big hurry. See you at Carnarvon.
SPT Thank you, Dick. We'll get it.
CC Okay. Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control over eastern Europe. The
space station now out of range of the tracking antenna at
Madrid. And it's 15 minutes and 52 seconds after the hour.
Astronauts Jerry Carr, Ed Gibson, and Bill Pogue will make
their 20th Earth Resources survey late this morning. The
24-minute observation, using Skylab's seven Earth cameras and
four electronic instruments, will focus on a very active volcanic
region in Central America, and on world-wide weather
conditions. Four Guatamalan volcanos will be studied in
detail with Skylab's infrared sensor. Bill Pogue will use
the telescopic site to point the electronic device at the
hot region. Characteristics of the volcano may help scientists
determine other areas where the Earth's inner heat is near
enough to the surface to be tapped for electrical generating
power. Such geothermal energy is already used to provide
electricity in northern California and in several foreign
countries including, Iceland, New Zealand and Italy. We're
23 minutes from our next acquisition of signal at Carnarvon,
Australia. Yhis is Skylab Control.
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time. Skyla5 space station is now 55 seconds from acquisition
of signal at Carnarvon, Australia. The pass at Carnarvon is
10-1/2 minutes long. A brief interruption and then a 5-1/2-minute
pass at Honeysuckle. We'll bring the line up live now for
air-to-ground through the Australian tracking antennas.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon and Honey-
suckle for 15 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, Jer.
CDR Hey Dick, we've got a scheduling problem
for S063. The only people who have had training on that have
been the PLT and the SPT. The CDR has continuously avoided that
particular experiment. I have done some setups - some preps
up here now but this'll be the first operation pass that I've
been assigned to. You might consider reassigning that, or
we_ll go ahead and I'll give it a try.
CC Okay, Jerry. Let us think about it a
little. That catches us by suprise and we're sorry about
that, but we'll - let us think about it a little and get back
to you.
CDK Okay. I Just might caution the FAOs to
make sure they have a good listing there of who's been trained
on what. You know, way back when, we decided that there's a
lot of experiments that all three of us would not trained on,
that we would have a prime and a backup on some experiments,
and the third guy would just ignore them.
CC Okay. We'll sure do that and just he
sure and point them out to us if we do make a goof.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. In checking with our train-
ing guys_ the information that we had was that you had
been trained on the comet ops but not the airglow ops, and
perhaps that was in error. The one today is a comet ops.
CDR Roger, Dick. I'll go ahead and try
then.
CC Hey Jerry, no, don't misunderstand me.
We're not asking you to try it. I was just trying to clear
up and make sure that you had noticed that it was comet ops
and check that piece of information with you to see if we
were accurate or not. We - it might very well be real easy
for us to swap it around. We just - before we wanted to take
a look at that stow, I Just wanted to ask you and see if that
was incorrect.
CDR That's incorrect. I have not even touched
the $063 equipment on the ground. I stayed away from it.
CC Okay, fine. We'll get back to you and
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also for the SPT, when you can get to it, we need the ATM
powerdown for EREP.
SPT Okay, Dick.
CC All righty. Thank you, sir.
CC And CDR, Houston, a note for you here
if you've got a minute. An answer to your questions on the
sweat samples. Turns out we only have one more sample that's
required. That's on the SPT and that will complete all our
requirements for samples for the mission. We would prefer
that you go ahead and use the wet wipe; and the reason for
this is that we - we know what the consti - constituency is
of the wet wipes and we'd be kind of working with an unknown
with using a towel or wash cloth and so we'd prefer the
wet wipes for this last sample. Over.
CDR Okay, Dick. I hadn't thought about the
consti - constituency idea.
CC Okay. And I made a mistake. It's a dry
wipe, not a wet wipe.
CDR Roger. I understood that.
CC Okay, fine.
CDR Houston_ CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR I've looked over the S063 comet ops, It
looks like it probably isn't too terribly difficult to do
and I can handle that without a_y prohle-m. I Just have to have
one of the other guys check the setup and make sure I've got
it riKht, a_d I think we can muddle through it. We call that
OJT.
CC Well, I tell you what, Jerry. If you
want to do it that way, it suits us fine. It will prevent
us from rescrambling the rest of day, but I don't think it
would he that much of a job. It's kind of up to you. That
suits us.
CDR I will give it a try.
CC Okay. Have fun on the 0JT.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle.
We_ve got you for 5 minutes here and sometime this pass, if
somebody's close, we'd appreciate on panel 206 another pre-
EREP reg BUS adjust. What we'd like is pots 1 and 2, rotate
clockwise about 25 degrees. And if you overshoot one
way or another_ we'd rather you overshoot than undershoot.
CDR Okay. Clockwise 25.
CC Yes, sir.
CDR Okay, Dick. That's complete.
CC Thank you, Jer.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute
from LOS. Next pass is Texas at 16:25 and the reg BUS adjust
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looks real good to us; and, Jerry, we're assuming you didn't
have time for that 192 alignment and we're planning on
skipping in that probably tomorrow.
CDR That's correct, Dick.
CC Okay. Thank you much. See you in Texas.
time. The Skylab space station is now south of New Zealand.
29 minutes from our next acquisition of signal, which will be
at Texas. During this next pass, we'll begin be beginning
an Earth resources pass. The Earth resources pass is sche-
duled to begin at 16:25 and will run for 24 minutes to 16:49.
The pass begins in the Pacific Ocean, just off Central
America, and concludes over France. First site for the view-
finder tracking system, which Bill Pogue will be operating,
telescopic sites are used to control the infrared spectrometer
S191. The first sites are a series of four volcanos in
Guatemala. Santiaguito, which has two lava flows coming out
of two vent areas of the volcano; Fuego_ which is now
experiencing gas plumes althougk no eruptions are occuring
there right now; and Acatenango, which has three active vents;
and Pacaya, wkich is a large lava area Just southwest of the active
crater. All four volcanos in Guatemala are subject of scanning
and sensing today as part of an Earth resources study to
determine the characteristics of geothermal energy sources.
These are sources of internal energy from the Earth's central
heat that may eventually provide electrical power to a number
of source a number of areas around the world. Already, geothermal
power does provide energy in northern California and several
foreign countries. The Earth resources pass also includes
ocean currents in the Gulf of Mexico. Hydrobiological or
ecological mapping of the Florida Keys, - -
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PA0 - - internal energy from the Earth's central

heat that may eventually supply electrical power to a number
of areas around the world. Already geothermal power does provide
energy in northern California and in several foreign countries.
Earth resources pass also includes ocean currents in the Gulf
of Mexico, hydrobiological or ecological mapping of the Florida
Keys, storm fronts and clouds in the North Atlantic and weather
conditions and cloud formations over France. The total pass,
a 24-minute pass of a 6800-mile-long track from Central America
to France, 27 minutes and 20 seconds to our next acquisition
of signal at which time we should be Just beginning an Earth
resources pass. This is Skylab Control.
PAO Skylab Control at 16:23:39 Greenwich mean
time. The Skylab space station is about a minute and a half
from acquisition through the Texas tracking antenna. We'll
bring the line up live a little early hecause of the Earth
resources pass_ which is expected to he underway very shortly
here. The space station making a pass from Central America
to France to study everything from geothermal energy to weather
conditions, to the ecology of the Florida Keys. We'll bring
up the line live now for air-to-ground from the Texas,
Corpus Christi station.
PLT 2606 is what I - (garble).
CC Skylab, Houston, we're with you for 15 minutes
stateside.
CDR Roger, Dick. On my monitor Charlie 3 is
reading about 5 percent high.
CC Roger.
CDR Correction Dick, it's right in. It's right in.
I was overlooking the altenuator limits.
CC (garble).
CDR Okay_ reference to 6 on 191. Stand by. MARK.
SCATTEROMETER going to STANDBY at 26 even. The next one is
at 06. Stand by. MARK. ALTIMETER going to STANDBY.
PLT Okay. (Garble) it in. (Garble) the volcano.
CDR 26:12 coming up. Downlink going to position
5_ Okay. I move it (?) all the way in. I think - went to position
5 at 13.
CC Okay.
CDR Let us know as soon as you can verify a
downlink. TV downlink.
CC Okay, we'll let you know.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, next mark will be 26:54. Stand by.
MARK. S192 going to READY. (Garble.) Picking up(?).
PLT (Garble).
CDR MARK. Service (garble) on 190.
PLT (Garble).
CDR Okay, Ed, at 27:30 we've got an ETC to STANDBY
and then AUTO.
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CC CDR, Houston. We verify good downlink.

CDR It always works better when you've got the
cables connected.
CC Rog.
CDR MARK, 27:30 up.
PLT Camera off. Okay, I didn't get any of
the volcanos. I got some volcano craters. I don't know - I
had nothing to work from. Okay_ 04, 29, 33. 35 left (?) zero.
CDR Okay, on my mark it will be 29:10 when
the S190 light should go out. MARK. It went out right on
time. MODE going to STANDBY. Frames going to 39. Next
mark's at 29:30. Stand by. S192 mode to CHECK. Your ETC ought
to be STANDBY, Ed.
PLT Okay, I'm tracking a clear area of water.
CDR Next mark is at 30 even. 16:30:00.
CDR Stand by. MARK. RADIOMETER is OFF.
Next mark is 30:11.
CDR Stand by. MARK. The ALTIMETER is on.
We've got an altimeter UNLOCK light. At 17, 192 mode goes
to READY. MARK. I did it at 20. 192 MODE to READY. 23, 90
to AUTO. That was 3 seconds late. 30:30. MARK. ETC to AUTO.
I got distracted watching the altimeter and got 3 seconds late
on a couple of those.
CC Okay, Jer. No problem.
PLT IMC off.
CDR Should be within the tolerance.
PLT nadir swath.
CDR Okay, coming up on 30:50 downlink switch
will go to position. MARK. Going to position 7.
CDR Okay, ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is still on
but we still have a READY.
CDR (Garble) up on 31:10. Stand by. MARK. Downlink
to 8.
PLT Okay, we're going right across them.
CDR Coming up on 30:3 - 31:30, Ed. Stand by. MARK.
ETC to STANDBY. 31:40. Stand by. MARK. 192 to STANDBY.
PLT Bahama banks.
CDR Sounds like you've got some clear weather.
PLT Yeah, it's fairly clear, just a few clouds.
We're coming Cgarble) escarpment now. I'm just about in the same
doing nadir swath (garble). We're on the crosstrack here now,
32:09. Okay, we're into our nadir swath at 32:09. Kodak (?)
CDR Okay, the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light went out
a little wkile ago.
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PLT - - went to our nadir swath at 32:09 (garble)

DAC.
CDR Okay, the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light went
out a
little while ago.
CDR Yeah, these volcanoes were to the northwest of
covered witlh documentation. Not a whole lot of a lot of
mountains. I didn't see any of the plumes or lava flows
or anything.
CDR Yeah. That's Central America and if
you don't have time to look at it, it takes a while to locate
stuff.
CDR Okay. Coming up on 33:25.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. 190 INTERVAL going up to 20.
SHUTTER SPEED going to FAST.
CDR Next mark is at 33:40.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY, MODE 5.
CDR 33:55 is next.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's on.
CDR Okay, Ed.
CDR MARK. ETC POWER ON. ALTIMETER UNLOCK light
FLICKED.
PLT I just reajusted to nadir. It had drifted
to approximately 1 degree up-track.
CDR Next mark will be at 34:30 where we want ETC
to AUTO.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. 34:30. ETC to AUTO.
CC Skylab, Houston. This is a nice long
pass. We've still got you for about 6 minutes. Standing by.
CDR Hey, that's great.
CDR Is it clousing in yet, Bill?
PLT It's starting to cloud in now. It's
about 0.5. (garble) cu.
CDR Dick, I never did hear a weather forecast.
Was it forecast to be as cloudy today as it was yesterday?
CC No it wasn't. And I forgot to get it
up to you at Honeysuckle there. And I was considering giving
it to you in between some of these steps, but it just kind
of crowded. In general, it's a lot less overcast than it
was, partic as you - as Bill has already seen so far. He
is getting ready to go into a 0.6 to 0.7 cloud :cover though, across
the North Atlantic.
PLT Yeah. We're into that already.
CC Yeah.
CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light just came on.
CDR No, it's still got a READY light.
PLT Picking up some cirrus now.
PLT Looks almost like Jet streams cirrus.
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CREW We give this til 43. Yeah.

CDR Okay. The READY light on the ALTIMETER
just went off. I'm going to STANDBY.
CDR Okay. Going back to ON on the ALTIMETER.
Got a READY light.
CDR Okay. And my next mark will be at 37:15.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER's OFF. RADIOMETER is
going to - ALTIMETER to STANDBY, and RADIOMETER is going to
STANDBY.
CDR 37:27 coming up.
CDR MARK. SCATTEROMETER is ON. RADIOMETER
is ON. ALTIMETER is going to RANGE 74.
CC Roger. You got me, Jerry. Thought I was going
to get to make a call to you on that altimeter switch.
CDR Yeah.
CC Rats.
CDR Curses foiled again.
CDR RAD/SCAT GIMBAL light. Now it's out.
CDR RAD/SCAT GIMBAL light (garble) OFF.
PLT Well, I may have gotten that target.
PLT Lava flowing, it could have been flowing
down the side of that crater.
CDR Sure.
PLT So I may have gotten it after all.
I just figured I was going for a big crater. I think it was
real close to the pointing they gave you.
PLT I did not see the gas plumes, nor the
(garble) vent_ nor the triangular lava area.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.
Madrid in 5 minutes at 16:45.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CDR Okay, looking for S190 READY out at
40:10.
CDR MARK. The READY went out at 40:14. MODE
to STANDBY. ETC to STANDBY, Ed.
PLT Yeah. We're over a solid overcast now.
CREW (Garble)
PLT Now we're breaking out.
CDR Even the reflections of the Sun around
the window there look cold.
PLT You wouldn't like to go for a little
skinnydipping down there?
CDR No. I don't think so.
PLT (Laughter)
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time. The Skylab space station is now over the North Atlantic.
The Earth Resources pass is still in progress. It will
be concluded over our next tracking station, which will be
at Madrid. Earth Kesources pass was underway durin_ the
entire U.S. and Bermuda station contact. Beginning of the
pass our indications were that the EREP diagnostic downlink
unit, which is used to check the electronics on the Earth resources
instruments appeared to be working properly. And the data
being gathered here in the Mission Control looked like it
was an accurate reflection of the performance of the instru-
ments. It does not, of course, give information about the
ground sites but only about the electronics operation. Bill
Pogue indicated that he did not have much like getting the
volcanoes, specific areas that he'd been asked to point
for. Although later on, he said that he may have gotten
a lava flow on one of the four volcanos that were infrared
spectrometer sites at the very beginning of the pass. He
indicated that it was difficult to spot them with a very
limited amount of time as the space station passed overhead.
Central American study is one of a number of passes
being made to study geothermal energy in known areas where
heat near the surface is quite ohvlou_ as a part of a plan
to develop techniques for identifying areas where geothermal
energy might he available at or near the surface.
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PAO - - operation. BIll Pogue indicated

that he didn't have much getting the volcanos, specific
areas that he'd been asked to point for, although later on
he said he may have gotten a lava flow on one of the four vol-
canos that were infrared spectrometer sites at the very
beginning of the pass. He indicated it was difficult to spot
them with a very limited amount of time as the space station
passed overhead. Central American study is one of a number
of passes being made to study geothermal energy in known
areas where heat near the surface is quite obvious as a part
of a plan to develope techniques for identifying areas where
geothermal energy might be available at in or near the
surface. Data from the known sites will be compared the
data from unknown areas to see if there are any similarities
that might indicate potential sources. A minute and a half
to acquisition, but the crew may come up a little bit early
during the Earth resources pass so wetll bring the line up
live now.
PLT Okay. I've got a maneuver coming up at
49. That's 471/2 minutes from now. And I've got, for who-
ever_s monitoring this, I'm going to leave this thing on
on nadir swath. It's not costing a bit.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're with you again
Madrid for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CDR (Garble) 191 REFERENCE is back to 6,
where it belongs.
PLT - it's okay, I might _?) go over and
make that (?) maneuver.
CDR Got a little ahead of myself with the
191 REFERENCE to 2, about 2 minutes early. Got the fix
where it belongs, so I'ii get it back to 2 at the proper time.
CC Okay, Jer.
CDR Okay. I've got an ALTIMETER UNLOCK light.
Still got a READY. On my mark, it'll be 46:40.
CDR MARK. Now the REFERENCE can go to 2.
On my mark, it'll be 46:50. Stand by
CDR MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. My mark,
it'll 56.
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. On my
mark, it'll be 47:05. Stand by
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER, ON. On my mark, it'll
be 48:00. Stand by -
CDR MARK. 194 MODE to MANUAL. 48:10, we're
going to have a VTS AUTO CAL. Stand by -
CDR MARK. AUTO CAL. Next, 49, 16:49:00.
Going to have a maneuver. Hey, Bill, 16 seconds to the maneuver.
Right? Okay. On my mark, it'll be 16:49. Stand by -
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CDR MARK. 16:49. 49;06 on my next mark.

Stand by -
CDR MARK. RADIOMETER to STANDBY. Looking
for a 191 READY on at 50:50. Good show. Okay. I've got
a few steps to do here but they're not very - Okay. Starting
to watch now for S191 READY on.
CDR MARK. Your READY_ on was at 50:50,
right on time. EREP, STOP at 56. Stand by -
CDR MARK. EREP, STOP. Push three MARKS.
down-link switch to off. TAPE RECORDER POWER, OFF. 92 DOOR,
CLOSED. 90 POWER, OFF. 93_ RAD/SCAT and ALTIMETER's all three
OFF. 194 POWER, OFF.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS.
Carnarvon at 17:19. See you there.
PLT Roger, Dick. We're going to go have a
bite to eat.
CC Real good. That looked like a real good
EREP pass to us.
PLT Thank you.
time. The Skylab space station is now out of range of the
tracking antenna at Madrid. 26 minutes to our next acquisi-
tion at Carnarvon. That Earth resources pass has been com-
pleted and apparently everything went very well that the -
pretty much as predicted weather conditions. Clear views
of Guatemala and also the Florida area with cloud cover and
weather conditions being steady over the Atlantic and France.
Earth resources pass out of the way, the crew will take a
little time now to eat. This time, Science Pilot will be
putting away the Earth terrain camera and sitting down to
meal immediately after that while the other two crew members
will go immediately to eat their lunch. And then right after
lunch, they'll be back at the Earth resources instruments to
do an Earth limb pass in solar inertial, taking a look at
the Earth's atmosphere rather than the Earth's surface. The
Earth limb pass is scheduled to take place just after 18:00
Greenwich mean time, a little more than an hour from now
and right after the luncheon meal. And while they're doing
that, Science Pilot Ed Gibson will be taking a look for
the laser to be beamed up at them from the Goddard Space
Flight Center. The laser, with the total output power of
about a 1/3 of a watt_ will be pointed at the space station
as it goes across the northeastern United States. That
handheld operation is scheduled to take place right during
the Earth limb observations, right around 18:00 today. And
right after he's completed his T053, or laser observation,
he'll go to work on the ED61 student experiment. That
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experiment to determine the growth patterns of rice seeds in

zero-gravity and under varying light conditions. Experiment
was originally designed by a high school student in West
Point, Nebraska, Joel Wordekemper. Skylab Control, 24
minutes Uo our next acquisition of signal. It's 55 minutes
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PA0 Skyiah Control at 17:18 Greenwich mean

time. We're coming llve now at Carnarvon, Austral_a for
a 5-1/2 minute pass. Spacecraft Communicator is Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. Carnarvon for 5 minutes.
CDR Roger.
SPT Let me tell you about something kind of
interesting we went over the by the Gulf of Fonseca last pass.
CC Why don't you tell me something kind of
interesting?
SPT Yeah. As we were going over there, we could
see down a fairly large eddy around 60 miles or so in
diameter, circular right off the Gulf of Fonseea. And You could
see blooming at the very edges of it and Just inside the
blooming it looked as though, there was a fairly dark, red llne
which had the same appearance of the red type which we've seen
elsewhere. I'm not sure that's really what it was but it had
that appearance. And it looks as though also that's where we
get the convergence of a equatorial current and a countercnrrent
which could be associated with that eddy. So that western side
of the Central America is looking interesting bgea_se we saw a
oountercurrent up by - or a large eddy associated with that
same type of confluence of currents up there by Acapuleo just
the other day. From then, all the aetionts over on the east
side, (garble) something on the west side too.
CC Okay_ Ed. Thank you very much. Inciden-
tally, we appreciate somebody turn - changing the teleprinter
paper out. We're going to send up a test message and then
we'll be using that one later. Also Ed, this morning - re-
member the day we ginned up a little message: to give you some
information about the comet. It turns out that several more
ions and elements have been identified in some spectra] analysis
and if you - I thought I'd read them up to yon if you'd like,
there's about five extra ones.
SPT Oh, okay. Very good, Dick. Go ahead.
CC Okay. In addition to the ones that were
on the message that we sent the other day, the following have
been identified: carbon-hydrogen ion, carbon dioxide, carbon
monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, and Lyman-alpha. Incidentally,
a matter of information - the hydrogen cyanide and also the -
one of them that was on the previous lists, the methyl cyanide,
have never previously been identified specifically in spectral
analysis of a previous comet. The best thought is that they
probably were present but not detectable because of the equip-
ment and since we've done so much looking at Kohoutek, we no-
ticed them in this comet.
SPT Yes, that's interesting, Dick. I wouldnlt
suspect to find those. I think the $08B data, when that comes
back, will come up with a host of additional lines and perhaps
some more components. It's a very sensitive instrument.
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cC I think you're probably right. We're

about i minute from LOS. Honeysuckle comes up in about 7
minutes. And Ed, one more thing that I was going to get to you
sooner or later about. You know this little portion of an
ATM pass that you're going to get to do after awhile, is
only about - oh, just a very short time that you might get
a peek at the Sun prior to doing that scheduled handheld at
a time on your details, an on-station time of 18:05. We
were just thinking that you might consider if you do look
at the Sun and it is not a whole lot going on, you could
stay at the wardroom window about another 3 minutes and pick
up two more optional handheld sites. That, of course, depends
how the weather is up there.
SPT I was looking at that, Dick. What time
do I - would I be able to start the pad? I might be able
to get something going with S055 on something interesting
and just let her run.
CC That's going to be very -
SPT - (garble) down here.
CC - It's going to be very close, sunrise is
about 18:04. So it's going to be a hussle to really do much
of anything right there at the start prior to that first
handheld. I'm sorry I'm sorry. I said that wrong. You
get to solar inertial at 18:04. Sunrise will be much pre-
vious to that.
SPT Okay, Dick. I'ii certainly try to pick
up these handhelds. I think they've got some real interesting
and useful ones there. And if I can get something useful
going on on solar observations also.
CC Okay, great. We'll see you at Honeysuckle.
SPT So long.
time. Skylab space station is passed out of range of Car-
narvon. Our next acquisition at Honeysuckle is about 3
minutes away. During this pass, Ed Gibson described on the
west side of Central America in the Pacific Ocean_ an area
of plankton blooming. This is the second day - second time
in the last few days that plankton blooms have been spotted
in and around the Central American area. Yesterday was ju6t
off Mexico's east coast, I believe. And that indicates that
both sides of Central America seem to have large bloomes of
plankton, large areas of the sea covered by living organisms.
And also, Ed mentioned in reply - the description of some
additional elements in- t_e comet including hydrogen cyanide
and hydrogen Lyman-alpha that the S082 instrument should
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bring back some very interesting data on the comet composition.

That area, of course, is a subject of considerable debate
right now because of the unusual characteristics seen in the
comet as it passed perihelion and then declined very rapidly
in brightness after reaching an apparent magnitude in the
minus levels - probably between minus 2 and minus 4.- minutes
to our next acquisition. We'll leave the line up for a pass
through Honeysuckle. The pass is a very short one lasting
about a minute and a half.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle.
Very short pass, about a minute and a half. Texas comes up
at 18:01. We're going to dump the data/voice recorder at
Texas. And if Jerry's close, I'd like to speak to him just a
second about a couple of flight planning items.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Jerry, real quick, on the science demos,
the mode we're in is that when you guys - you guys are
practicing up on them in your own free time, and let us know
when to schedule them and that's fine with us. We Just want
to let you know that we aren't trying to schedule any practice
time and if any of the demos require a hunk of time that you
feel ought to be scheduled, if you'll let us know, we'll be
glad to do that. Second thing is, the other day when we
talked, we didn't really talk about the crew day off. Our
previous plan, and what we're planning on for your day off
day after tomorrow, is to schedule about i0 hours total of
experiment work. But we'd like to emphasize to you that
that's strictly at your discretion. If you'd like zero or
any other number, if you'll let us know, we'll change crank
that into our planning.
CDH Okay. I think last day off was a little
over scheduled and I'll be interested to see how you work it
this time. But I think we all ready have more of a day off
and just, say, 2 free hours in the shower.
CC Concur with that. Well, why don't we
try to put one together and even during the day off, if you
think it's a little much, feel free to knock off at your
descretion any work it is, no problem.
CDR Okay. We're all interested in getting
in all the Kohoutek work done because we realize that the
scheduling problems there and the same goes for ATM and
EREP.
CC Okay, great. We'll see you at Texas.
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CC Feel free to knock off at your dis-

cretion, any work it is, no problem.
CDR Okay. Well, we're interested in getting
all of Kohoutek work done, because we realize the scheduling
problems there and the same goes for ATM and EREP.
CC Okay, Great. I'ii see you at Texas.
time. Skylab space station now out of range of Honeysuckle
Creek, 27-1/2 minutes to our next acquisition is Texas. The space
station is a comfortable 73 degrees, warmed by the Sun today.
But the astronauts have been keeping their eyes on a variety
of Earth features_ including those in the snow-covered northern
United States. When mission control communicator, Dick Truly,
mentioned the cold weather in Minnesota this morning,
Skylab commander, Jerry Carr, asked about a large crater-like
feature he'd seen in that cold north area. The morning
conversation indicated that it was somewhere in Minnesota or
Wisconsin, he said he was not able to pinpoint it, there were
no land marks that eas- he could easily spot when he was pass-
ing over it. Geologists here in Mission Control have investigated
it. They have not succeeded in pinpointing what Skylab Commander
Carr saw_ but the Earth observations scientists have been
investigating, They say that there is only one large crater
know in _innesota. That crater near International Falls, Just
south of International Falls is only about a mile in diameter.
They don't believe that's necessarily what he saw, but they're
going to look into it a little bit more. This is Skylab Control.
It's now 34 minutes 22 seconds after the hour.
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PAO Skylab Control at 18:00 hours Greenwich

mean time. The Skylab space station is now about to come within
range of the tracking antenna at Corpus Christi, Texas. This
pass through Corpus Christi, Merritt Island and Bermuda will
be a rather lengthy one with about 17 minutes of acquisition
of signal. Flight Director is Phil Shaffer and the space
craft communicator is Dick Truly. We'll bring the line up
now live for air-to-ground through the U.S. and Bermuda
stations.
PLT (Garble) the pictures (garble)
CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you for
17 minutes,
CDR Roger, Dick.
CDR Back in the saddle again.
CC Roger. And we're dumping the data/voice
recorder here at Texas. I'll let you know when we're through
there.
CDR Okay. You going to redesignate another
one?
CDR You know, we're in the record mode right
now .
CC Stand by just a second.

CDR Okay.
PLT (Garble) OFF HIGH. (Garble)
PLT Good.
CDR Now (garble) backs too easy.
PLT Yeah.
PLT 07:04. 0704 turn the DAC ON.
This coming (garble) 18:13:49, I turn it off.
PLT 9 minutes on this thing.
CDR Okay. I'm looking for an S191 READY light
ON at 02:46.
CDR About 30 seconds from now.
CDR MARK. READY light's on at 46. REFERENCE
going to 6.
CC Roger, Jerry. And we've decided not to
dump here. We won't have any problem making up that schedule
though. So I'll let you know when we are going to dump.
CDR Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. No response required.
The laser is goin_ to be at i0 watts up at Goddard, and the
folks up there say that they're looking up and see some holes -
see some blue skies through the broken clouds.
CC Roger.
CDR Rots a ruck, eagle eye.
PLT Okay. (garble)
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PLT (Garble) high.

PLT Line I'm going to use next (garble) verify
at (garble) 0704.
PLT Stand by,
PLT MARK. Pushing (garble) it was 16 degrees
up. At the start at 17:04. Letting carry through. Pushing
the DATA button.
PLT Okay. Stand by.
PLT 6, 7, 8. (Garble) DATA push button re-
acquiring.
PLT Okay, I got the picture at 07:57, stand by.
PLT MARK. Okay. We got the same thing as
14 degrees up at start.
PLT And 57:08:40. DATA push-button is being
held.
PLT (garble)
PLT Stand by.
PLT Trying to make a left/right correction
after this one.
PLT 40.
PLT MARK. Okay. 0, left/right. All
right we're back to the picture waiting for 50 to come up.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. Okay. It's ii degrees up.
Holding the DATA button.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to take
the DAS here and do an outer gimbal backup command.
SPT Roger, Dick.
PLT 09:33.
PLT Stand by.
PLT 09:33 and 09:42.
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PLT Stand by. Trying to make a left/right

correction after this one.
PLT 40 MARK. Okay, zero left/rlght.
All right, we're back to the picture, waiting for 50 to come
up. Stand by.
PLT MARK. Okayp it's ii degrees up. Holding
the DATA button.
CC Skylabp Houston. We're going to take
the DAS here through an outer gimbal backup command.
SPT Roger, Dick.
PLT 0933.
PLT Stand by. 933 and 0942. Release DATA
button, reacquire. Stand by.
PLT MARK. Pushing DATA button - zero
degrees excuse me, 08 degrees. 8 degrees up and we're
pressing down. Cable run to 1026.
PLT Left/right is holding in pretty good.
PLT 1026. Okay, release and going to the
horizon again.
CDR On my mark it'll be 10:35. Stand by.
CDR Stand by.
PLT Stand by.
CDR MARK. S190 to SINGLE.
PLT We're at zero
PLT MARK. 05 degrees up at 40. Okay I
start at 40 instead of 35. And, that's 6 degrees up now,
6 degrees at - apparently right on the border.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
SPT Roger.
PLT (Garble)
CDR On my mark, it'll be ii:13.
PLT Waiting for 11:19.
CDR Stand by.
CDR MARK. 192 MODE to READY. At 11:20, my
next mark.
PLT Stand by for mark.
CDR MARK, 190 SINGLE
PLT Stand by.
PLT Stand by for 28.
PLT MARK. 3 degrees up.
PLT (Garble) starts at 12:11. Got started at
11:28.
CDR Okay, my next mark will be at 12:11.
CDR 12:11 coming up. Stand by.
CDR MARK.
PLT MARK.
SPT - - That's 190 MODE to SINGLE.
PLT Okay that's 40.
PLT 12:35.
CDR (Garble) 12:17
CDR MARK, 192 to STANDBY.
PLT Rate 12:35.
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PLT MARK, and it's zero degrees up. 8:12:35

right up to 8:13:49.
CDR Okay, it's a real good run. It look like
one time was off at 10:35. 11:19 was started at 10:40 with
the 10:40 to 11:19. The up angle (garble) was correct.
PLT Yeah, and I'm still holding the DATA
button here ready to 8:13:49.
PLT And DAC will go OFF at that time.
CDR Okay_ I'ii have a MODE SINGLE at that
time, as well. On my mark it'll be 13:49.
PLT Stand by.
SPT Stand by.
CDR/PLT MARK
SPT 190 MODE, SINGLE
PLT DAC OFF. Ready for next push button.
And we see (garble) degrees up. And, zero degrees (garble)
data over. Following interval, you can DAC only at beginning
and in the middle. Okay, we want 15:16:55, standing by for it.
3 degrees up zero left/right. DAC only. I don't guess they
want the DATA push button pushed. Oh, all right DAC only
(garble).
PLT Okay, reta=ck 3 degrees up zero left/right.
DAC ON at 18:16:55, OFF at 17 and 5 seconds more 28 to 33, 20:28
to 20:33. Okay that's what you do there.
PLT Standin_ by for 16:55.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute til LOS
Madrid comes up in 5 minutes. I'ii call you there.
SPT Roger.
CDR Okay, at 3 degrees up zero left/right
standing by for 55.
PLT Stand by.
PLT MARK. Okay, DATA push button is being
held, DAC OFF 20:28
time. The Skylab space station over the North Atlantic has
passed out of range of Bermuda. We're 3_i/2 minutes from
acquisition at Madrid. At the present time the Skylab crew
at work had their second Earth resources activitiy for the
day. This morning they made an Earth resources pass from
Central America to France to study geothermal energy,
ecological balance of the Florida Keyes_ and weather conditions
over the North Atlantic and France. At the present time
they are engaged in an Earth resources pass to study the
Earth limb. This does not require a maneuver of the space
station. The space station remains in solar inertial or
Sun pointing attitude. And_ the Earth limb observations will
be concluded in the next couple of minutes. This is - -
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PAO - - Florida Keys and weather conditions
over the North Atlantic and France. At the present time,
they're engaged in an Earth resources pass to study the Earth
limb. This does not require a maneuver of the space station.
Space station remains in solar inertial or Sun pointing at-
titude and the Earth limb observations will be completed in
the next couple of minutes. This is an attempt to gather
data on the exact condition of the Earth's atmosphere by
looking through the atmosphere at the edge of the Earth.
During the afternoon_ a medical experiment's scheduled on
Science Pilot Ed Gibson. The M092 and 93 experiment with
limb blood flow. And later today, comet operations to be
scheduled once again. S019 operations were done this morning
by Bill Pogue. This afternoon, he_ll be doing the 5233
handheld photography of the comet to gather data on its
exact brightness and changes in exact brightness. And then
late in the evening, comet observation_ have been scheduled
on S063 for Commander Cart. Earlier_ there was a discussion
of that comet observation. Cart indicating that he had not
had experience using the S063 but after checking a little
bit more closely, he decided he thought he could handle it
without much trouble and he'll get a little bit of assistance
probably from one of the other two crew members. Coming up
on acquisition of signal at Madrid. We'll bring the llne up
live now for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. Madrid for 9 minutes.
PLT Roger, Dick. Okay. I guess cheek the
maneuver here.
SPT Dick, I think the clouds got to us on that
one. I could not locate it at all.
CC Okay, Ed. Sorry about that. Thanks for
trying.
SPT Got some reservation though on lake ice
and a storm's coming off the Great Lakes which I'ii put on
tape.
CC Okay, fine.
CDR Say, will that bother this AUTO CAL? Did
you kill your power? Okay.
CDR I didn't think so either but I thought
l'd ask.
CDR Okay. I'm looking for a 191 READY light
at 24:20.
PLT MARK. READY light ON at 18. EREP to STOP.
Okay. Bravo 7 is reading 34 percent. 34 percent. 192 DOOR,
going to closed. I'm throuBh now. Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Sometime around here
when you get a chance_ we'd like to redo the REG BUS ADJUST
that we did a while ago. We'd like to rotate back to where
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we were and that's approximately 25 degrees counterclockwise

from where you are now on both pots. And I've got a quick
question for the PLT and CDR when you get a chance guys.
PLT Okay. I've done the REG ADJUST. Take a
look at it and press on.
CC Okay, Bill. We're coming up in the next
several days and several instances where we'll probably be
doing some more back-to-back EREPs about this time of day
and it was convenient to us today to schedule your - you guys
eat period in between the two EREP maneuvers. But we didn't
want to do that if it was too cramped and so we wanted to ask
you kind of how it went today.
CDR That was no problem at all. There was
ample time to eat, Dick.
CC That's real good. If the timing works
out this way again then, we'll probably stick your eat period
in the middle there again, like we did today.
CDR Very good.
CC Okay. And the REG ADJUST looks good to
us and CDR, Houston. If you get a moment, I've got a minor
correction to your detail pad.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. We made - the tail end of this day
got kind of crowded and we made a mistake on the medical
conference. It should read, "Carnarvon at 23:54," instead
of where it is. This will put it tonight prior to the
evening conference which is something we usually try to avoid
so that the surgeon can listen to the evening conference prior
to talking to you guys. But tonight, it's Carnarvon, 23:54
and l'm not sure whether Story reminded you before I came
on duty this morning but your phone call this evening is
Vanguard at 02:34.
CDR Okay. Got them both. Thank you.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. i minute to LOS. Ta-
nanarive at 18:44.
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time. Skylab space station is now crossing the coast of
north Africa and it's passed out of range at the tracking
antenna at Madrid. We're 12 minutes from our next acquisition
at Tananarive. During this pass over Madrid, Science Pilot
Ed Gibson indicated that he has been doing some more observa-
tion of Great Lakes ice and snow and will put some informa-
tion on the ground tapes for dumping later. Science Pilot
also indicated he had no luck in seeing experiment
TO53. That's the laser beam from Goddard Space Flight Center.
Even though the power had been boosted to a i0 watt output,
that's about 30 times, the previously expected level. The
higher output level is not sufficient to pierce the clouds and
that overcast conditions out there apparently didn't interfere
with the observation, which is listed in the Flight Plan as
handheld 170. And also a rescheduling of the private medical
conference now at 23:54 at Carnarvon. Science Pilot saw
the Great Lakes yesterday, and recorded a message for the
ground visual observations team. That message in the channel
B tape recordings that are transcribed in Mission Control
indicates that he saw a cloud formation and some lake ice
on the Great Lakes. He said the winds - lake he studied the
most thoroughly was Lake Superior. The winds were coming from
the north and coming off the Lakes you could see a fairly
extensive cloud cover. On the southern edge of the lakes,
Lake Superior in particular, most of the southeasterly flow,
you might, (garble) So most of the clouds are formed over
Lake Superior went on over Lake Huron into the upper part of
Lake Michigan and moving in a southeasterly direction. He
said the one detail he could see was cloud streets, these
long thin rows of clouds forming, forming specific points
on the northward side of Lake Superior pretty much equally
spaced and growing in width until they finally merged with
one another, becoming thicker and thicker. And those cloud
streets moved out in a second band over the southeastern United
States. They appeared to have a heavier fatter, thicker cloud
density all the way along as you moved away from the lakes.
And it was clear that these ridges grew right out of the water.
They merged clear _ (garble) moved into ridges which merged
into one another. But they also maintained their identity by
having some troughs in between the cloud streets. So he made
a very thorough discussion of the relationship between the lakes
and the cloud patterns that he could see in the upper Great
Lakes areas. Skylab Control. We're 9_i/2 minutes from our
next acquisition of signal. It's now 34 minutes and 22 seconds
after the hour.
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time. Skylab space station is now coming within range of
the tracking antenna at Tananarive. The voice relay from there
should begin very shortly and we'll have about an 8 minute
pass. We'll leave the line up live now for air-to-ground
through Tananarive.
CC Skylab, Houston; hello at Tananarive for 7
minutes.
CDR Hello at Tananarive for 7 minutes.
CC Hello.
PLT Hi Dick, PLT here. I have two small -
a small spot on plat number 2 and 5, they're about a half a
millimeter in diameter and they do appear to be opaque. Do
you want me to try to clean them or leave them alone?
CC Hang on Bill.
PLT I just got through trying the camel hair
brush and doesn't work.
CC Okay Bill, hang on just a second.
CC PLT, Houston, I guess for now we'd rather
think about them rather than do something a little hasty
here. So for now why don't you just let them go.
PLT Roger, and also on camera number 6, about
the same size spot. All three of them look like tiny little
specks of emulsion that had been smeared on the plat.
CC Okay, thank you Bill.
CDR Dick, the EREP tape remaining is 4.5
centimeters.
CC 4.5 centimeters, thank you.
CC PLT, Houston. After doing a little bit
of thinking about this, we do think it's okay for you to use
the SI90A clean procedure that's on the back of the SL the
EREP odds and ends cue card if you can take time to do that.
We're getting close to LOS Tananarive; Honeysuckle at 19:08.
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CC Skylah, Houston. I understand I dropped

out there. What I was saying to Billp was that we think it's
okay for you, Bill, to try the S190A clean procedure on
the back - third column on the bottom on the back of the
EREP odds and ends cue card to get those little spots off
or try to. Over.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Okay, fine. We're going LOS. Honeysuckle
at 19:08.
PA0 Skylab Control. 18:52 Greenwich mean
time. We're now out of range of Tananarive, and concluding
that pass over Tananarive for the first time today. 15-1/2
minutes to our next acquisition at Honeysuckle. This is
Skylab Control at 52 minutes 38 seconds after the hour.
time. Skylab space station is now coming within the range
of the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking antenna. The
pass through Honeysuckle Creek is a very brief one, 2-1/2
minutes. We'll bring the line up live now for air-to-ground
there.
CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Hi, Ed.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're about 30 seconds
to LOS. Goldstone comes up at 19:36.
PAO Skyla5 Control at 19:14 Greenwich mean
time. Skylab space station is now over the North Island in
New Zealand and we're out of range of the tracking antenna
at Honeysuckle Creek. 22 minutes and 20 seconds to our
next acquisition. That'll be at Goldstone, in Mahova Desert
of California. By the time we get acquisition again the
Skylab crew should be beginning the M092 run on Science Pilot
Ed Gibson, with observer Pilot Bill Pogue. ATM passes, the
one that's underway and the one that's upcoming will both
be handled by Commander Jerry Carr. Sun relatively inactive
today, but still a number of bright points another minor
active region being observed by the crew. M092/M093 run is
the lower body negative pressure run, and is also being done
with the limb blood flow test attempted to determine how
much ability the muscles have to aid in the pumping of blood
out of the lower body and back into the upper body, after
the crew has been in space for 54 days. This is Skylab
Control. It's now 15 minutes after the hour. We're 21
from our next acquisition.
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minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on Goldstone,
California. And the crew at this time involved in ATM
operations. Commander Jerry Cart has the duty at the ATM
C&D console. Also, on the Flight Plan for this afternoon
is the medical experiment M092/M093 lower body negative
pressure and vectrocardiogram experiment. The crew is also
scheduled to utilize the SO63 equipment. The - airglow
horizon photo instruments. And they'll be looking at the
Comet Kohoutek with that piece of equipment. We have about
i0 seconds now until acquisition of signal.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS stateside for i0
minutes. And we'd like to have the DAS, so GNS can update
the TACS pluse within the thrust level.
CDR Okay, you have it.
CC Thank you sir.
CC Skylab, Houston, the DAS is yours.
CDR Roger, thanks.
from LOS. We're just going to drop out a couple of minutes.
I'ii give you a call at Bermuda.
CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Bermuda for
5 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, 50 seconds from LOS.
Canary at 19:59.
CDR Roger, see you then.
CC Okay.
range of Bermuda completing our statesdie pass for this
revolution. We'll be reacquiring through the Canary Island
tracking station, With overlapping coverage from Madrid in
about 4 minutes. The change-of-shift press briefing is
scheduled for 4:15 this afternoon in the JSC News center
briefing room. That will be with Flight Director Phll
Shaffer.
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CC Skylab, Houston. Canary for 9 minutes.

CDR Roger, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're a minute from
LOS. Tananarive comes up at 20:19, and a couple of tomorrow's
Flight Plans are in the teleprinter.
CDR Thank you, Dick.
PAO So little conversation with the crew,
Both on that stateside pass preceeding and on this one
through Canary Island and Madrid. The ATM activities occupying
a major part of the crew's time at this time at least as
far as the commander, Jerry Carr, is concerned. And for
Science Pilot Ed Gibson and Pilot Bill Pogue, their next
major activity in the schedule is the M092/M093 lower body
negative pressure and vectorcardigram medical experiments.
The next station will be Tananarive and we'll pick up there
in i0 minutes. This is Skylab Control at 20 hours 9 minutes
PAO This is Skylab Control at 20 hours
18 minutes and we're standing by now to regain conversation
with the Skylab crew through Tanarive. This will be our
last Tananarive pass of the day.
CC Skylab, Houston, hello at Tananarive
for 6 minutes.
PLT Hi, Dick.
CC Hi there.
CC Skylab_ Houston, 1 minute from LOS,
Tananarive. Honeysuckle comes up at 20:43 and we're going
to be dumping the data/voice recorder at Honeysuckle.
CDR Roger, Dick. And you got IR photos on
the shopping list, wonder if you ask the folks to give us a
camera to load the IR film in in the event we get to it?
CC Okay, we'll try to have that at Honeysuckle
for you.
PAO Skylab Control, we'll regain conversation
with Skylah in about 16 minutes. That completes the
Tananarive passp the last of the day. And during that pass
the crew involved in ATM observations and the lower body
negative pressure medical tests. Ed Gibson serving as the
subject for the lower body negative pressure runs today.
And there's a variation on that medical test. The crew
is running what is called the llmb blood flow measurement
on Gibson. This test is conducted by attaching a blood
pressure cup llke that used in the doctor's office to
measure blood pressure. The cup is attached to the left
thigh and is pumped up first to a pressure of 30-millimeters
and the circumference of the leg is measured. The test is
then repeated at 50-millimeters of pressure and another
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measurement taken. A comparison of the two measurments

gives an indication of the quanity of blood pooling in the
leg and is in turn an indication of the extent to which
the cardiovascular system has gotten out of condition,
which the heart and blood vessels tend to do when not working
against gravity. As an additional piece of data, Gibson will
also tighten and then relax his leg muscles. This leg muscle
expansion and contraction assist the blood vessels to expel
blood from the leg, pooled blood. By comparing the results
obtained in this manner with similar results from preflight
tests on Gibson, the surgeons will get an additional indication
of the extent to which the cardiovascular system has de-
conditioned. This is Skylab Control at 20 hours 30 minutes
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minutes. The space station now approaching the southeastern
coast of Australia and we'll be picking the conversation up
shortly through Honeysuckle Creek, Australia.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
Creek for 9-1/2 minutes. We're standing by to dump the data/
voice tape recorder here, and I have some information on the
IR photos if you're ready to copy.
CDR Go ahead Bruce.
CC Okay, Nikon 02, if you want to get ahead
on the IR photos shopping list items; down load Bravo Victor
28 from Eikon 02 noting the frame count before you remove it
and load IR i0. Over.
CDR Okay, down load Bravo Victor 08 and load
IR i0.
CC That's Bravo Victor 28.
CDR Okay, 28.
CC Roger. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; i minute to LOS,
next station contact in ii minutes through Hawaii at 21:03.
And we see the CMG number 2 outer gimbal near its stop, you
may get a reset, if so just let her go.
CDR Okay, looks like our attitude just went
bananas right in the middle. We're off 1.8 in X and .2 in Z.
CC Okay Jerry, would you load a 3 minute
maneuver time and reseleet solar inertial please?
CDR Okay.
CC And it closed the doors on you as you've
probably noticed by now_ we'll talk to you over Hawaii.
CC You have to go to stand by or at hold and
then reselect SI after loading the maneuver lime.
PAO We've had loss of signal through Honeysuckle
Creek and Skylab coming up on Hawaii in about 9-1/2 minutes.
This is Skylab Control at 20 hours 54 minutes Greenwich mean
time.
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minutes Greenwich mean time, wit_ Skylab coming up on Hawaii.
And in Mission Control we've - are in the final stages of
completing a shift handover. Flight director on duty now is
Neil Hutchinson and the spacecraft communicator or CAP COMM
is astronaut Bruce McCandless. And we're still looking toward
a change-of-shift briefing with offgolng Flight Director Phil
Shaffer at 4:15 p.m. in the JSC news center briefing room.
Acquisition of signal at Hawaii in about 30 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for
i0 minutes. Out.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Roger, go ahead.
CC Roger, as a result of that glitch on the
APCS, we see that you started the ATM pass over again here, which
is fine, but we would like to be sure he gets the last building
block 28 run on this pass. So we recommend that you truncate
what you're doing at about 19 minutes time remaining and pickup
on the last BB28. Over.
CDR Okay, what I did Bruce, was I stopped all
the clocks and when the door closed and I just picked up the
count when I got back on and got the doors open - I picked up the
count again, and we're just pressing on.
CC Okay, beautiful.
CDR 56 still have the shutter open and every-
thing, all I had to do was open the doer. I think 82B probably
changed - changed one frame on me,
CC Roger, that's the word we're getting on
82B.
CDR Okay, so we got two halves instead of a
whole.
CC 82B was the one that was concerning us,
Jerry, in that it started - with the 17 minutes over again, why,
you wouldn't have had enough time to to press on to the last
building block, and we do want to get that last BB28 run.
CDR Okay, it looks like 82B is going to get
about a 9_minute exposure. Well looks like I can stretch that
to 11.
CDR Bruce, do the guys in the back room see
anything emerging in the way of maybe a new active region of
something up at about 280 at .8 or .9 radius?
CC We'll check on that.
CDR There's a XUV bright spot there, that was
been there since this morning, and I saw some H-alpha enhancement
there a little while ago.
CC CDR, thls is Houston. We have a bi-polar
region at that point_ but is not drawing. It has not been
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assigned a number, and if it stays like it is right now it

never will be. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylah, this is Houston; 1 minutes to LOS,
next station contact in 3 minutes through Goldstone at 21:15.
Out.
PAO Skylah Control. We_ll regaining contact
through Goldstone in 2 minutes. We'll leave the line up for
that Goldstone acquisition. During the pass over Hawaii and
also at the conclusion of the Honeysuckle pass prior to that, we
heard conversation between CAP COMM Bruce McCandless and Jerry
Carr concerning a gimbal drift. And what had happened was
that the number 2 control moment gyro outer gimbal had drifted
against the stop. This would have corrected itself automatically.
However, in the process of resetting there was a small attitude
change, and due to the fact that Carr was in the midst of
taking data on the ATM instruments, he elected to correct the
attitude shift rapidly using the ATTITUDE CONTKOL MODE, which
fires 1 or 2 minimum impulse bursts on the thruster attitude
control system to correct that attitude ratker than waiting
i0 or 15 minutes for the gyros to brZng it back in line. And
in so doing the loss of ATM data was minimal, the amount of
TACS gas exspended was also very small and perfectly exceptable
for the sort of maneuver. We have about 30 seconds remaining
before we acquire signal at Goldstone for this stateside pass.
Also our change-of-shift briefing is about to begin. We'll
tape the remainer of this stateside pass and play it back
immediately following the change-of-shift briefing with Flight
Director Phil Shaffer. And we'll shift to the JSC news center
briefing room at this time for the change-of_shift briefing.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 16:31 CDT, 54:21:31 GMT
1/8/74
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 21 hours 31

minutes Greenwich mean time. We're currently in contact
with Skylab through the Bermuda tracking station. And we've
accumulated about 1-1/2 minutes of taped conversation through
the previous pass over Goldstone. We'll playback the tape
and then stand by for the remainder of the pass live.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Goldstone
for 7 minutes. And we're going to take the VTR here at
Goldstone only for a short dump. Out.
LOS. Next station contact in 5 minutes through Bermuda at
21:27. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Bermuda
for 8 minutes. Out.
LOS. Next station contact in 2 minutes through the Canary
Islands at 21:36. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston, with you through
Canary Island and Ascension for 16 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab_ this is Houston, 4 minutes to
LOS. Next station contact in 27 minutes through Carnarvon
at 22:19. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control, that completes
almost continuous coverage over the continental United States
with a break from Bermuda to Canary Islands and then again
overlapping coverage through Canary Islands and Ascension.
And relatively little conversation with the crew. The crew
apparently still busy with the ATM observations conducted
by Commander Jerry Carr. And the MO92/M093 run which is
tying up Science Pilot Ed Gibson and Bill Pogue. They're
scheduled to complete those activities at about this time_
and then they have routine housekeeping chores scheduled
as well as some comet observations and photography with the
S063. And by that time they'll be working their way into
the evening meal period. We'll be regaining contact in about
25 minutes. The next station to acquire will be Carnarvon,
Australia. This is Skylab Control at 21 hours 55 minutes,
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1883/I
TIME: 17:18 CDT, 54:22:18 GHT
118174
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab now
approaching the southern coast of Australia. We'll have
a low elevation pass through the Canarvon station with the
Carnarvon tracking antenna viewing spacecraft nearly on the
horizon. That will be a relative short pass and we could
find a relative weak signal strength there. The spacecraft
will then be picked up through Honeysuckle Creek, Australia.
We'll be acquiring signal in about 30 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon -
through Honeysuckle for 9 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. i minute to
LOS, next station contact in 14 minutes through Hawaii at 22:42
with a data/voice tape recorder dump at AOS. Out.
PAO This is Skylab Control, that completes
our pass over Australia through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
with no conversation with the crew occurring. And as
CAP COMM Bruce MeCandless advised them_ we'll be acquiring
over Hawaii in about 14 minutes. This is Skylab Control at
22 hours 29 minutes Greenwich mean time.
CC This is Skylab Control, we're bringing
the line up now for acquisition through Hawaii, this will
be the last Hawaii pass of the evening and we should be in
contact here for about 6_i/2 minutes.
for 8 minutes, starting off with the data/voice tape recorder
dump if you're not using it, over.
PLT Roger, Bruce and I have the photo log
if you're ready to copy.
CC Fire when ready, William.
PLT 16,millimeter,
CC If you're reading, we're not copying after
the first word 16-millimeter.
PLT Roger, we got a bad squeal up here. Okay,
16-millimeter, EREP CAL, Charlie Lima ii, 95 percent, now
that was the EREP CAL that was done last evening. EREP 23 plus
Earth limb CAL, Charlie Lima ii, 80 percent and that
was the stuff that was done today. 35-millimeter, Nikon i,
Charlie X-ray, 39, count is 13, Nikon 2, Bravo Vicor 28,
count is 25; Nikon 3, Charlie India 113, count is 23;
Nikon 4, Bravo Echo 09, count is 15, that anticipates
9 exposures on those S063 comet ops coming up; Nikon 5,
Bravo Hotel 06, the count is 04 and that anticipates
3 exposures on the $233 comet ops that's coming up.
70-millimeters, Charlle X-ray 51, the count is 103. ETC,
Bravo Whiskey 03, 134. E_EP set X-ray 0051, 2232, 9775,
9137, 0908, 9821. Drawer A configuration; Alfa i, no change;
Alfa 2, no change; Alfa 3, no change; Alfa 4, transporter 08
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no supply, take up reel is now Charlie India 77; in the

back no change.
CC Okay, thank you Bill, we've got all that
down here.
PLT Thank you.
CC Skylab, PLT this is Houston we've got
1 minute to LOS, next station contact in 5 minutes through
Goldstone at 22:54. And I've got a change to your ATM schedule
for next pass, the one beginning 23:44, which I can give you
now or wait till Goldstone.
PLT Give it now, Bruce.
CC Okay, on your JOP 2 Charlie, step 6,
building block 37, you'll find three 82B exposures over there
1 plus 20, 5 plus 00, and 17 plus 00. And we want to reverse
the order of those three exposures in order to insure the
longer exposures will be taken on the type i01 film, over.
PLT Rog, understand, take the 17 first, the
5, and then the 1.20.
CC You got it.
PLT Thank you.
PAO And that's all through Hawaii, we'll
take the line down now and come back up again in about
4 minutes when we reacquire through Goldstone, California.
This is Skylab Control at 22 hours 51 minutes Greenwich
mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1884/I
Time: 17:54 CDT 54:22:54 GMT
1/8/74
PAO This is Skylab Control; we're presently

awaitin_ the call to the crew through Goldstone, California
from CAP COMM Bruce McCandless. This is stateside pass will
take Skylab across the northern part of the United States and
out over the eastern seaboard crossing the Great Lakes. And
we'll have contact through Goldstone, we don't quite hit the
Texas area of coverage on this pass. We'll pick up Texas next
revolution, and then on over to Merritt Island and then finally
out through the Berumuda tracking station.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone
for 5 minutes. For any crew memeber, when you get a moment, we
have the med conference coming up Carnarvon this rev at 23:54.
And last evening we wound up recording the med conference on
the airlock module tape recorder. To preclude that this evening,
we'd like someone to go up in the command module and check the
quiescent comm configuration per page 3-3 of the systems check
list for panels 9, i0 and 6. Over.
CDR Okay Bruce.
CC Thank you, Jer.
CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS,
next station contact through Merritt Island in 3-1/2 minutes at
23:02.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for
10-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
CDR Go ahead Bruce.
CC Okay, earlier today y'all asked for some
IR film so you could take the IR photos tonight, and we gave you
a cassette that you could load. Since then, however, it develops
that the situation is not quite that simple. From the way Bill
read the photo pad - or the photo status report down this evening,
we gathered that you've not yet taken the BV28 film out of Nikon 02
for the IR load. The situation that comes up is that you've
got two SO63 airglow runs tomorrow morning by the SPT. One of
these require the BV28 film, the other requires the infrared
film. Probably the simplest manipulative sequence would be to
go ahead and leave BV28 in Nikon 02 until after the first SO63
run, then down load it, load the IR film and use the IR film for
the second S063 run and go ahead and take your IR photos tomorrow
as they're scheduled in the Flight Plan. Over.
CC But before you answerp we can acomodate
either way, it _s just means that yon have to if you put the
IR film in tonight we'll run the SO63 with IR first in the
morning and then you can down load the IR and put BV28 back in.
And in all fairness, even if you leave it in tonight and take it
out tomorrow, BV28 will eventually have to be reloaded anyway to
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finish up the roll of film. Over.

CDR Roger Bruce, we didn't necessarily intend
on doing the IR films tonight. I just mainly trying to find
out what cassette was next, not realizing that we were
scheduled for IR films tomorrow.
CC Okay, I gather from that you're saying
you'll sort of stick to the Flight Plan. The only difference
it makes to us is that we need to know in order to build the
SO63 pads with the right times on them. Over.
CDR Okay, we will not do IR tonight, and we'll
leave the film out of - out of the camera. We'll leave the
BV28 in.
CC Okay_ thank you very much, and we're sorry
for all the confusion attendent.
CC we got about 15 seconds to LOS here,
next station contact in 7 minutes through Ascension at 23:20.
Out.
PAO And that's all through Bermuda. And we'll
be reacquiring Skylab in 6 minutes through Ascension. In the
Flight Plan at this time, Jerry Cart is scheduled to be eating
his evening meal. It's exercise time for Science Pilot Ed
Gibson, and Bill Pogue has the duty at the ATM console. This
is Skylab Control at 23 hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1885/I
Time: 18:20 CDT_ 54:23:20 GMT
1/8/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're about

to regain contact with Skylab space station through
Ascension. This will be our last pass through Ascension
Island today. We_ll have contact in about 45 seconds.
Ascension for 9-i/2 minutes. Out.
LOS. Next station contact in 23-1/2 minutes through
Carnarvon at 23:53, with the evening medical conference.
Subsequent station contact now 37 minutes away through
Guam at 00:07. We'll talk to you over Guam. That'll be
a data/voice tape recorder dump at Carnarvon. Out.
CDR Roger, Bruce. We about figured out
where all that stuff got recorded last night. Bill was on
channel A and I called PTT at the VTS station, and we
suspect that probably what was coming over channel B was
going right through his mike and right back down again.
CC Okay, (laughter), we copy that. So, in
other words the command module's in good shape and we Just
happen through the airwaves there.
CDR Yeah, I think - I think that's what
happened, they got recordeded because he had the recorder on
and was doing his VTS work on that EREP CAL last night.
CC Okay, we copy. Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control, that's all through
Ascension, the last pass over Ascension today. And as you
heard CAP COMM Bruce McCandless advise the crew we'll be
having the medical conference during the Carnarvon pass.
We're scheduled to acquire at Carnarvon in 22 minutes. Our
next open loop conversation with the crew will be over Guam
in 37 minutes. Thruster attitude control gas usage today
was quite low. The total for today so far is 61 pound-seconds.
And the estimated use for tomorrow is approximately 30
pound-seconds, All of that associated with the EREP pass.
23 hours 52 minutes or rather 23 hours 32 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1886/I
Time: 19:05 CDT 55:00:05 GMT
i/8/74
PAO This is Skylab Control. Now day 55, zero

hours 5 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is approaching
Guam, we completed the private medical conference with the
crew through Carnarvon, and CAP COMM Bruce McCandless is standing
by to put in a call through Gram in about 30 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam for
i0 minutes. Out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. 1 minutes and 40
seconds till LOS, next station contact 17-1/2 minutes through
Goldstone at 00:33, and the film thread pad is on board. Over.
CDR Roger, thank you Bruce.
PAO Skylab now out of range Guam. And just before
loss of signal we were able to determine from telemetry infor-
mation coming into the Control Center that the crew had begun
to maneuver to attitude for the SO63 observations, photography
of the comet Kohoutek. Commander Jerry Carr has charge of that
experiment using the ultraviolet airglow horizon camera
attached to the scientific airlock. The next station to
acquire Skylab will be Goldstone, California for a U.S. pass
that will take Skylab in over the coast above the U.S. Canadian
border, down across the Pacific Northwest, and finally coming
out over the coast of Florida in the Atlantic Ocean. The
acquisition at Goldstone will be about 14 minutes from now.
This is Skylah Control at zero hours 18 minutes Greenwich mean
time.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC1887/I
TIME: 19:31 CDT, 55:00:31 GMT
118173
PAO This is Skylab Control bringing up the

llne now for another stateside pass. Skylab about to come
within range of the tracking antennas at Goldstone, California
and we'll be hearing call from CAP COMM Bruce McCandless
within about 40 seconds. We also have the Mission surgeon's
daily report on crew health. The report reads as follows:
"No medical problems exist at this time. The crew seemed
quite satisfied with today's activities." The mission surgeon's
daily report was prepared by Dr. Jerry Hordinsky.
Corpus Christi and Merritt Island for 16 minutes, out.
CC Skylab, this is Houston 1 minute to LOS,
next station contact in 43 minutes through Carnarvon at
01:32 and we_ll be standing by to receive the evening status
report at AOS, Carnarvon, over.
CREW Copy.
CC See you there.
PAO Skylab Control, that completes our
U.S. pass through Goldstone, Texas and MILA. During that
pass the - two of the three crewmen were eating dinner and
the third Commander Jerry Carr was handling the S063 experi-
ment, a first for him this mission. That experiment being used
to look at the Comet Kohoutek. We won't reacquire Skylab
for 41 minutes as the space station comes around over
Australia, we'll be picking up conversation through the
Carnarvon tracking station at that time. Crew has a full
day scheduled again tomorrow of scientific activities - a
schedule in many respects similar to todays with ATM observa-
tions scheduled, a major Earth resources pass and the medical
experiment series M092 and M093. The Earth resources pass
is scheduled to begin tomorrow morning at 15:43 Greenwich
mean time or 10:43 central daylight time, as Skylab approaches
the western coast of Central America. The pass will continue
on over Central America, across the Carbibean and into
the North Atlantic ending over France at 16:05 Greenwich
mean time or 11:05 central daylight time. Among the targets
of interest on tomorrow's Earth resources pass in
Central America, the data that the crew will be collecting
will be used by principal investigators looking at hot water,
steam and lava associated with Central American volcanos.
Information will also be of interest to principal investigators
attempting to develope techniques for predicting volcanic
eruptions in Central America. And in addition Central American
data will be used by principal investigators doing mapping of
cultural and ecological changes in that area. Out over the
oceans, information will be used for sea surface state evaluations
and principal investiEators will be attempting to correlate
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1/8/74
sea surface state with weather conditions. At 38 minutes

30 seconds now from reacquiring Skylab. At 0 hours
53 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-IV MC-1888/I
Time: 20:31 CDT 55:01:31 GMT
118174
PAO This is Skylab Control at i hours 31 minutes

Greenwich mean time. It's been about 41 minutes since we
last had contact with Skylab and we're about to regain
communications through Carnarvon, Australia. Over Carnarvon
we'll be getting a crew status report for today. We should
be in contact for about 7 minutes.
for 7 minutes, standing by to copy the evening status report,
go ahead. Over.
CDR Roger Bruce. Sleep: CDR, 6.0, 6.0 heavy;
SPT, 6.5, 5.5 heavy, 1.0 light; PLT, 6.5, 6.0 heavy, half light.
Volumes: N/A for today. Drink water gun: 8288; 4248; 0293.
Body mass: CDR, 6.315, 6.313, 6.314; SPT, 6.387, 6.386, 6.387;
PLT, 6.240, 6.240, 6.241. Exercise: No change for anyone.
Medications: None for anyone. Clothing: CDR, shorts; SPT,
shorts, shirt and socks; PLT, shirt. Food log: CDR, salt
zero, deviation plus one lemonade, plus one grape punch,
rehydration water plus 2.0; SPT, zero salt, plus 2 biscuits,
plus 1 tuna, plus 1 tea, plus lemon pudding, plus 1 vanilla
wafers, rehydration water 18 ounces plus; PLT, salt zero,
plus i tuna, plus 1 biscuit, plus i coffee, rehydratlon water
minus 1.0. Flight Plan deviations: No great deviations today
for tomorrow's Flight Plan. It's beginning to bring up a
little concern over the amount of ATM time that's being assigned
per day. We just this evening received a - an ATM overall
plan. We're looking at it, we would like to talk about that
tomorrow morning at the ATM conference with eye toward
increasing the ATM at least one more pass per day. Shopping
list accomplishments: TOO2-2, star 16 to near limb on tape
01:55 to 02:05; 2 TOO2-2, star 50 to near limb is on tape
at 21:40. All housekeeping was done. S063 comet photo
sequence was done. Inoperable equipment: none. Unscheduled
stowage: none. And Bruce, a change to the photo log. On
Nikon 04, up the count from 15 to 16.
CC Nikon 04 the count is 16. We've got all
that. And we will he prepared to discuss the ATM scheduling
with you tomorrow. Understand that your concern is over
that you're not getting enough scheduled. Over.
CDR That's affirmative. We'd like - we'd
llke to take a look at the possibility of scheduling at least
one more pass per day. And I want to make sure that the
SPT is - got the lion's share of the assignment, and that
the CDR and PLT have - probably about one day is plenty.
CC Okay, have anything else in mind or
should we go ahead with the evening questions?
CDR No, that ought to do it, Bruce.
CC Okay, yesterday you ga_e us some new
method Foxtrot exercises deleting springs and increasing toe
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1/8/74
rises. We'd like the times associated with the increased

number of toe rises. Over.
CDR The total Delta T will be the same for
the springs and toe rises, just convert it all to toe rises
over the same span of time.
CC Okay, for Bill. On mission day 52, which
was 3 days ago, T002, you did not indicate what filters were
used. If you recall, could you tell us what they were? And
also we would for you to continue calling out marks when the
image is aligned? Over.
PLT I did not use any filters, and copy on
the last remark.
CC Okay, another one for Bill, for 64 dollars.
Reference SO63 airglow ops on day 52, seems to be a popular
day, at 21:24, on this pass the rotation of the A-MS mirror
was fixed and the airglow was acquired by tilting the mirror.
Here comes the question. Can you compare the ease of tracking
the airglow with this acquisition procedure with tracking
the airglow by changing mirror rotation while holding the
tilt fixed? Over.
PLT Yes, I can. I don't see that there is
any problem. There are two comments I would like to make -
within that respect. And that is I'm wondering if we may be
able to use that long eye relief on a Nikon, I'd - I'd like to
try it once. If they would give us a chance rather than the
site. The site has so much of the image truncated that since
- I was mislead there on a couple of exposures I think, and
I was not tracking the horizon at all. I was tracking the
edge of the field of view as it is truncated by the side of
the AMS canister. So, that is a suggestion I'd like for them
to take under consideration.
CC Stand by a second, please. Okay, in
reference to your remarks about that, the airglow tracking
equipment was not planned to be used with the AMS and had it
been the site would have been better positioned. The camera
viewfinder can't be used for tracking because the airglow
would not be visible through the narrow ban filters. Over.
PLT Okay, that's fine, that's a good answer.
And then I have one other comment I also made on tape, and
that is that you - you can actually lean down and see through
the AMS mirror and get a better view of the horizon than yon
can looking through the sites. That's how I noticed my error.
CC Okay, that's a good input. We got 45
seconds to LOS. Next station contact in 8 minutes through
Guam at 01:45. That'll be our last pass for the evening.
Does the airglow seem to rotate as fast and move across the
mirror as rapidly as it does with a rotating mirror method?
Over.
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PLT I there's not enough difference to - to

worry about and I I was I would much better stay with
fixed rotation and tilt and work with that, rather than try
and change the rotation and tilt.
CC Okay, understand stay with _ the fixed
rotation and acquired tilt. With the reticle not illuminated,
how did you position the reticle with respect to the line of
the airglow while tracking? Was it mo - was the moonlit
Earth a help in tracking?
PLT Negative, the moonlit Earth was not a
help. And wa the main thing I'm trying to do is look at
the position of the camera itself_ and figure what the long
axis of the film frame is. And just try to put the horizon
across the center of that as best I can.
CC Okay, thank you, that winds it up. We'll
say good night to you over Guam.
SPT Good night.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've lost data
now from the space station as it - goes over the horizon
from Carnarvon, Australia. And the next pass over Guam, as
you heard CAP COMM Bruce McCandless advise the crew, will be
the last during which we'llplan to have conversations with
the crew this evening, before they begin their sleep period.
During the pass over Carnarvon, Commander Jerry Cart, as part
of the crew status, expressed concern over the amount of time
being assigned for ATM or Apollo telescope mount observations.
Carr said he would like to talk to flight controllers tomorrow
about increasing the ATM passes by one per day. Today's
scheduled for the crew was one of the most active of scientific
work that they have experienced this mission, with s total
of something on the order of 30 hours, 30 man-hours of
scientific activities accomplished. We'll be picking up
conversation through Guam in 5 minutes. This is Skylab
Control at 1 hour 41 minutes Greenwich mean time.
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SL-IV MC1889/I
TIME: 20:45 CDT, 55:01:45 GMT
1/8/74
PAO This is Skylab Control, we're coming up

now on the last scheduled pass of the day as far as active
communication with the crew is concerned. This pass over
Guam is predicted to last about 6 minutes. And then following
the normal practice we'll allow the crew 1 hour of quiet time
prior to their sleep period with no interruptions with
communications from the ground. Acquisition at Guam will
come in about 30 seconds.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Guam
for 6 minutes. Our last pass for the evening, we would
like to get an ATM frame count, if you could work that in
for us and also I've got a question here on the standard
exercise protocal, in that we're still a little bit unsure
about what it is you're doing with Method Foxtrot, over.
CDR Bruce, I'ii put it on tape again, it
depends on the guy, all we did was cancel out all springs
and now we're all doing 400 lifts and all the rest of the
Foxtrot remains unchanged.
CC Okay, the question is brought up down
here is that it looks like then it's taking you 5 minutes
to do 400 and Ed, 20 minutes to do 400 and Bill, 2 minutes
to do 400 and apparently our bookkeeping has broken down.
CDR Okay, we'll give you some new numbers.
CC Okay, thank you very much.
SPT Houston, SPT with the frame count, are
you ready?
CC Go ahead.
SPT 12499, 4249_ 155, 346, 4452, 04_ 056.
CC Okay, that last one was 04056, Ed?
SPT 4056, that's right.
CC Okay, we've got 2 minutes to LOS. Next
station contact is in 9-1/2 hours or there about through
Ascension, we'll call you at ii:00 Zulu for wakeup. And
a reminder the CDR phone call at the Vanguard at 02:34 Zulu,
left antenna all the way, over.
CDR Okay, 02:34 left antenna.
CC Roger, Goodnight.
SPT First one thing for the ATM folks before
we leave. Out at the white light coronagraph, there's a
streamer, very narrow which I'd not seen this morning,
which is narrow and (garble) intense for a good distance out,
maybe 3 radii out. It's not a helmet type streamer, it's
narrow all the way and it appears about 300 or 290 on the
disc.
CC Okay, we copy that, thank you.
range of Guam and that's the last station over which we
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expect to have any conversation with the crew this evening.

CAP COMM Bruce McCandless bid them goodnight. We'll be
giving them a wakeup call over Ascension tomorrow morning
at ii:00 Zulu or 6 a.m. central daylight time. And during
that pass over Guam, Science Pilot Ed Gibson reported that
it noted a change in the solar coronagraph and we're seeing
a streamer extending out about 3 to 4 solar radii. He
described the streamers as being narrow and intense.
Solar scientists here in mission control, say that the
fact that the streamer is apparently narrow for its full
length indicates that it may be an active region on the backside
of the Sun about to come around the - to the front side or
appear on the limb. And three solar radii would be a distance
of about 3 million kilometers or approximately 2 million
miles, a little less than 2 million miles in length, extending
outward from the corona. We'll be acquiring Skylab through
Goldstone for a stateside pass, where we expect to get data
only, no voice communications as we have said. That'll come
in about 12 minutes. We will bring the line up for that state-
side pass in the event the crew has any last minute subjects
they'd like to discuss before beginning their sleep period
although as mentioned we don_t expect any conversation with
the crew through that stateside pass. At i hour 57 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control, Houston.
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SL-IV MC-1890/I
Time: 2].:13 CDT 55:02:13 GMT
118/74
PAO This is Skylab Control and we're going

to bring the line up through this Goldstone, Texas, MILA
pass coming up in about a minute. As we mentioned previously
we don't expect any conversation with the crew, havin_ said
goodnight to them over Guam, however should they wish to
bring up any last minute topics for discussion we will have
the line up.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus
Christi. Sorry to bother you, 2 items we need reconfigured
before you hit the sack here. First is_ we see detector i
on SO55 was left on at ATM panel close out, and secondly it
appears that the VTR has not been completely reconfigured
per page 11-4 of the MDA checklist experiments since we've
got no power on it. Over.
PLT Yeah, you're right Bruce.
CC Okay, thank you.
PLT On the VTR that is.
CC And the old looking over your shoulder
team bids you goodnight, and I believe this is our last -
last evening shift of the mission.
PLT Night Bruce.
CC Well at least for this stretch. Goodnight.
PLT I'll get that VTR power in about i0
minutes, if that's okay. Were you going to use it right
now?
CC Yeah, that's fine, we Just wanted to
get it before you hit the sack.
PLT Okay, thank you.
PAO We've had loss of signal now through
MILA, and that should be the final goodnight to the crew.
Bruce McCandless requesting a couple of last minute con-
figuration changes to the S054_ the video tape recorder.
And again wakeup is scheduled to occur tomorrow at 6:00 a.m.
central daylight time over the Ascension tracking station,
that will be ii:00 Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab
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Time: 05:57 CDT 55:10:57 GMT
1/9/74
PAO Skylah Control at 10:57 Greenwich mean

time. Skylab space station is now coming - about to come
within acquisition of signal through Ascension. We should
have the morning wakeup cal] from Story Musgrave here at Ascension,
Canary Island and Madrid for the next 15 mimutes.
CC Good morning, Skylab. Got you through
Ascension, Canaries, and Madrid for 14 minutes.
CDR Morning, Story.
CC Good morning, Jer.
CC Skylab, we're about a minute from LOS.
And the nelzt time we'll probably see you will be an hour and
6 minutes at the Vanguard at 12:20. Guam has a problem with
their S-band, and we may pick you up over Guam. If we do it
will be in about 26 minutes at 11:40.
SPT Morning, Story. Talk to you then.
CC Okay, and if you're ready for it at the
next staticn we'll have the news for you.
SPT Okay, very good. Thank you, Story.
time. Skylab space station has moved out of range of Madrid.
Our next acquisition is 24 minutes away at Guam. Skylab crew
was awakened over Ascension at ii:00 Greenwich mean time by
Story Musgrave, the spacecraft communicator. The Flight
Director on duty is Milton Windier. Today's activity includes
4 hours and 16 minutes on the solar instruments, the ATM panel.
It's the totsl data take time. There are seven optional hand-
held photography sites listed on the crew's Flight Plan. Also
a run of the M092/M093 with limb blood flow experiments, that's
vectorcardiogram and lower body negative pressure heart checks,
the checks of the cardiovascular system. They will be performed
on Jerry Carr beginning about 16:35 this morning with Pilot
Bill Pogue acting as observer. So a number of other operations
scheduled for today including an Earth resources pass along
track 28. The pass lasts 22 minutes and covers a total of
6300 miles. Next acquisition is 22-1/2 minutes away. This
is Skylab Control at 17:40 after the hour.
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1/9/74

time. The Skylab space station is now 56 seconds from acquisition
of signal at Guam. The pass through Guam may have some diffi-
culty again with S-band as Story Musgrave pointed out at the
end of the last pass. But we'll bring the line up for a pass
lasting about 7 minutes here. We'll then have a brief interrup-
tion before we're acquired again at Honeysuckle. The line is
live now for air-to-ground at Guam.
CC Skylab, AOS through Guam for 5 minutes.
PLT Rog. Read you fine and square, Story,
standing by for the news.
CC Okay Bill, while l_ve got you, did you get
the S190 platens that's 2, 5, and 6 cleaned yesterday?
PLT That's affirmative. And everything looks
real good.
CC Thank you.
CC President Nixon marks his 61st birthday today
ready to emerge from a period of introspective seclusion with
a fresh effort to halt the erosion of Watergate on his presidency,
senior aides said. Several aide§ acknowledged that the strains
of the past year have taken their toll on Nixon's physical vigor.
But they described him as determined to lead the renewed come-
back campaign. They said part of it includes giving cabinet
members more visible responsibilities, continuing presidential
stress on foreign affairs, and a White House reorganization
with Vice President Gerald R. Ford assuming a broad role in
congressional and domestic affairs. The possibility of a
U°S.-Cuban dialogue on the renewal of diplomatic relations
was under study at the State Department following reports of
Cuba's willingness to consider the subject under certain
circumstances. Cuba's ambassador to Mexico, Fernando Lopez
Muino, said his government is "ready to discuss, not establish,"
relations with the United States if Washington is prepared to
end its support of the 9-year,old hemispheric embargo of the
Caribbean island. Jody Dietrich, age 6, was refused admittance
to a Miami Beach hospital 2 months ago because his parents
couldn't pay for the lifesaving heart surgery their son needed.
Jody underwent surgery Monday at St. Francis Hospital to repair
a faulty heart valve. And he is doing just fine today
with the operation a success, the hospital said. By the time
of the surgery, more than 4,000 had been donated to the youth,
including 2_000 from a "marijuana dealers association." None
of it will be needed however, two surgeons donated their skills
and the hospital is picking up the tab for Jody's care. New
Mexico State University regents have agreed to plan for a solar
heating and cooling system to be installed in the school's
proposed agriculture department building. Specifications
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indicate the system, approved Monday, will require 80 percent

less energy than a conventional system of comparable capacity.
Large undersea oil fields have been discovered off Brazil's
northeast coast_ the newspaper O Globo reported. The paper
said Brazil's state-run oil monopoly, Petrobras, was producing
1,000 barrels a day at the oil field. Scientists who say they
know little more about whales than Captain Ahab knew about
Moby Dick plan to use space age electronics to find out how
the massive animals live. The marine scientists said they
hope to be able to study whales in their natural environment
for the first time. They hope to find out why some species
of whales are threatened, and what can be done about it. The
scientists plan to attach sensing devices to whales and then
track their movements for up to a year. Eventually, they said,
the tracking would be done by satellites. A new volcanic island
in the Pacific, still too hot to step on, has been claimed
by Japan. The island is about 600 miles south of Tokyo, is
about 5 times the size of a football field and has six active
volcanoes. Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport has
suspended practice, bombing practice at the Matagorda Island, Texas
bombing rangewhile rare whooping cranes are nesting on the nearby
Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. Major Wood, Barksdale public infor-
mation officer, said Monday the suspension would remain in
effect until the cranes again leave the refuge on the Southeast
Texas coast. And that's it for the morning.
SPT Thank you, Story.
PLT Do you have the recorders, Story?
CC Yeah, we're dumping the data/voice here,
Bill.
PLT Thank you.
CC And we're a minute from LOS. The next
station is the Vanguard in about 35 minutes at 12:20.
time, The Skylab space station is now out of range of Guam.
Our next acquisition is 31 minutes away. That will be at Vanguard.
The Honeysuckle pass has been canceled for this overflight,
so we'll have our next acquisition a little more than 30 minutes
away. That was the morning news read up by Story Musgrave.
This is Skylab Control at 50 minutes 24 seconds after the
hour.
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TIME: 07:20 CST, 55:12:20 GMT
1/9/73

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station now 55 seconds
from acquisition of signal at Vanguard. The pass through
Vanguard will last about 6_i/2 minutes. We'll bring the
line up llve now for spacecraft communicator Story Musgrave.
CC Skylab, AOS through the Vanguard for
7 minutes.
PLT Roger, Story.
CC Jerry, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC On a noninterference basis with your
ATM work, sometime in the next half an hour or hour I'd like
to discuss what you'd like on updating your onboard master
anomaly list.
CDR Okay. I'ii have a couple of spare minutes
shortly.
CC Okay, let me know.
CC Skylab, welre a minute to LOS. 14 minutes
to Canaries at 12:40.
CDR See you at Canaries, Story.
CC Okay, Jer.
time. The Skylab space station is now over Brazil, out of
range of the tracking antenna at Vanguard. Our next acquisition
ii minutes and 44 seconds from now will be at Canary Island.
This is Skylab Control at 28:30 after the hour.
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Time: 07:39 CDT 55:12:39 GMT
01/09/74

Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is now coming
within range of the tracking antenna at Canary Island. The
pass through Canary Islands and Madrid will last 14-1/2
minutes. We'll bring the line up live now. A handover is
just beginning here in Mission Control, with Milton Windler's
team about to he about to go off duty and Spacecraft
Communicator Story Musgrave about to be replaced. We'll bring
the line up live now for air-to-ground at Canary Island and
Madrid.
CC Skylab° We're back with you through

Canaries and Madrid, 14 minutes.
CDR Roger, Story. And, go ahead with your
discussion there.
CC Okay, Jer. We're thinking we can save
you a little bit of time incorporating changes to your
master anomaly list that's in your Flight Plan book by not
sending up anomalies that you're very familar with and that
you're working with every day, such as the TV input station
that you replaced, the star tracker failures, the fact you're
running with 82B and XUV monitor doors open, we're feeling
maybe you don't want to have to incorporate those changes,
but we're interested in your philosophy on, the other hand
maybe you'd like a history of these anomalies and we just
like to know what you want on those.
CDR No, I think we can do along - get along
fine without them. There's no real need to compile a big
history up here and why don't we just figure on doing that.
Leave the stuff that we're really familar with out.
CC Okay, and let me Just run down, if you
got 30 seconds here a quick list of things and you can give
me a yes or no on them.
CDR All right.
CC The TV input station replacement.
CDR No, we don_t need it.
CC Star tracker?
CDR Negative.
CC The difficulty ejecting urine disposal
bags through the TAL?
CDR Negative. We're intimately familiar with
that problem.
CC The fact you're running with the urine
dump heater on all the time?
CDR Negative.
CC The ATM C&D coolant loop fluctuation?
CDR Negative.
CC The PCU composite leak you had during
your EVA?
CDR Negative. That's kind of a one timer.
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CC Yeah. Okay. The S019 AMS rotation

indicator problem?
CDR Negative.
CC The S019 cassette number 3 that Jammed?
CDR Go ahead and send that one up.
CC Okay. And, the S183 carousel problem?
CDR Yeah, well let's send that one up too.
CC Okay. And_ the S055, the delta, the
80 count delta that's on the indicator and the intermittent
first and second digit problem?
CC It's - -
CDR (Garble) go ahead and send that one up
tOO.
CC Okay, thanks. That gives us a general

philosophy and we'll get those three to you. Thanks.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Story.
CC Skylab. We're a minute to LOS. About
30 minutes to Carnarvon at 13:23.
CDR Roger, Story.
time. The Skylah space station now out of range of Madrid.
Our next acquisition is at Honeysuckle, that's 32_i/2 minutes
away. This morning Commander Jerry Carr is at work at the
ATM console. He'll take the first couple of passes, the
first couple of daylight cycles on the ATM. And, atmospheric
operations are being planned by Science Pilot Ed Gibson who's
working with the S063 airglow on ultraviolet airglow instru-
ment. That camera operation is scheduled to begin about
14:40 today, and he's doing a repair Job on that. He's also
doing operations photography of the rice seeds, this morning,
to see how the growth is progressing with the seeds that
were planted a few days ago. And, this morning Pilot Bill
Pogue is at work with some housekeeping activities and also
will be doing his exercise period in the beginning. Earth
resources pass scheduled to begin at 15:43 Greenwich mean
time and that crosses central America, Caribbean Sea, and
the Atlantic Ocean. 31 minutes 45 seconds to our next
acquisition, it's 56 minutes after the hour. This is Skylab
Control.
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SL-IV MC-1895
Time: 08:26 CDT, 55:13:26 GMT
1/9/74

time. Skylab space station is now over northern Australia
about to be acquired through the tracking antenna at Honey-
suckle Creek. The pass through Honeysuckle Creek will last
8 minutes. We've had a handover in Mission Control. The
spacecraft communicator on duty now, Dick Truly. And the
Flight Director who's just come on is Phll Shaffer. We'll
bring the line up live now for the Honeysuckle pass. Skylab
crew will begin Earth resources pass this morning at 15:43
Greenwich mean time. That's a couple of hours away.
CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning. And
hello from the Purple gang. We're at Honeysuckle for 8 minutes
and we're dumping the data/voice recorder here.
CDR Good morning, Purple guys.
CC Hi, Jer. You guys having a good day this
morning?
CDR Well, we're off and running.
CC I don't have a whole bundle of things to
tell you guys this morning, but Ed, when you get through, when-
ever this morning, you get through trying that S063 MAL taping
those batteries and so forth, why don't you let us know how it
turned out. No hurry on our part to know.
SPT Okay, Dick. That's all done and it's
working great.
CC Good show. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from
LOS. Bermuda at 14:11. See you then.
SPT So long_ Dick.
CC See you, Ed.
time. Skylah space station now over the South Island of
New Zealand, is 34 minutes from its next acquisition of signal
at Bermuda. Very quiet morning. Dick Truly's just come on
duty saying his first good morning to the crew. Crew awakened
this morning at 6 o'clock over Ascension and have had a
relatively busy day already. They've started their experimental
work at 7 o"clock central daylight time at 12:00 Greenwich
mean time, about an hour and a half ago, with Jerry Carr working
at the solar instruments this morning and Science Pilot Ed
Gibson working with the S063 ultraviolet airglow instrument
doing some preparations with it and also checking on - out
a malfunction on the instrument. And shortly, he'll be going
to work taking photos of the rice seeds growing in the Skylab
space station, an educational experiment suggested by a high
school student in Nebraska. Pilot Bill Pogue has done some
houskeeping and is now in his exercise period. At the time,
the Earth resources pass preparations will begin, 14:45 is the
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scheduled time for the beginning of the preparations. The

actual pass time, 15:43 to 16:05 Greenwich mean time today.
Along a 6300-mile track. That track includes sites in
Central America where the Skylab crew will be taking data on
volcanic and geothermal sources. That hot energy region may
provide data for gathering - for detecting other sites that
may be suitable for mining of geothermal energy by drilling
a very short distance down in the ground. It may be possible
to bring electricity out of the Earth's inner heat, providing
either steam or by a dry-steam method. That will be the
crew's 21st survey of the Earth's resources, includes
Central America, an area of Honduras to be mapped in detail
using Skylab data. And weather condlt_ons over the North
Atlantic_ again being studied toda_ as part of a very thorough
study of oceanography and worldwide weather. In addition to
the Earth Resources Survey, the astronauts are making a
number of photographs of Earth phenomena with their small
handheld cameraa. Among the area selected for visual observa-
tion and photography today are sea ice in the gulf of St. Lawrence,
geological features in Central America and the Colorado
Guadalope river basins in Texas. Also, today at approximately
2200 hours, the Skylab crew will be asked to try and observe
the T053. That's a Goddard laser experiment, to determine
whether or not lasers can be detected with ease at relatively
low power outputs and that is scheduled to be made later
this afternoon. 51 minutes 30 seconds to our next acquisition
of signal. It's 40 minutes after the hour, and this is
Skylab Control.
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TIME: 09:10 CDT, 55:14:10 GMT
1/9/74

time. The Skylah space station now just off the coast of
South America is about to be acquired through the tracking
antenna at Bermuda. We're 50 seconds from acquisition there.
The spacecraft communicator is Dick Truly and the Bermuda pass
will last about 8 minutes.
SPT Hello, Houston, SPT.
CC Hello, SPT; go ahead.
SPT Dick, are you folks in the backroom ready
for the M133 malfunction test?
CC Tell you what, Ed, stand by. Let me see
if we can get cranked up real quick here.
SPT Okay.
CC SPT, Houston_ affirmative. We have data
now. Have you been tell me where you are in the mal message.
Are you down through step 3 yet?
SPT That's affirm. I'm waiting for step 4.
I have the ELECTRODE SELECT to OFF right now and I'm ready to
go to left DEG.
CC Okay, why don't you go to left DEG for
60 seconds and let us tell you what we see.
SPT You got it.
SPT MARK.
CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. We're continuing to look
at our data so just leave it on there and I'ii let you know
when to turn it off.
SPT Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. Looks llke we are gettlmg
valid data oll the ground in this configuration. So, we're
looks llke we have found the loose connection. When I under_
stand a little better later on today we'll try to get back
to you and tell you more about what we found. But you can
go ahead and secure the test - test. It looks like a success
to us. There's no reason to continue these following steps here.
SPT Okay, thank you, Dick. Itm not sure what's
been done. The configuration I have is that the cap is plugged
in but not on. And also I have gone through the M133 tape
changeout. Maybe there was a loose connection that got plkked
up in that process.
CC Okay, Ed; understand. And thanks for
getting ahead. We appreciate it.
SPT Thank you r Dick. We got the 63 mal and
63 ATR (garble) for the ED61 ops done. And I got a little
start on the exercise and also the 133 stuff is done now. I'm
wondering if there's a way of squeezing in an extra ATM pass
sometime today with that extra a little bit of Juggling.
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I know we got some EREPs going so we're not Sun centered,

but we're solar inertial a good part of the time but I'd appreciate
doing what you could.
CC Well, why don't you let us look at it?
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute
from LOS. Madrid comes up at 14:23. We're going to dump
the data/voice recorder at Madrid. And incidentally this
Flight Plan today - this upcoming data/voice recorder dump
and also one that occurs, oh, a couple or 3 hours from
now are absolutely mandatory for us to manage the tapes this
morning. So, we will be dumping there at Madrid. I'ii give
you a call there.
SPT Okay, Dick, so long.
CC Okay.
time. The Skylab space station moved out of range of the
tracking antenna at Bermuda. We're about a minute from
acquisition of station again at Canary Islands and Madrid.
This pass through Canary Islands and Madrid will last about
9_i/2 minutes. Science Pilot Ed Gibson indicated during that
last pass that he's moved well akead of the Flight Plan
today. He's already about an hour in advance of where we'd
expect him to be at this time, and so he's done about 150 percent
of the expected work already this morning. And he asked
if it'd be possible to work in a little extra solar observation
time, another ATM pass. This is something that Commander Carr
mentioned last night in his evening status report that the
crew would be pushing for more time to observe the Sun in
each working day. They have a little more than 4 hours
of total time for data taking today. And we're coming up
live now on Canary Island and Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS Madrid for
8-1/2 minutes. And, Ed, when you got a chance, I got a
couple of quick questions for you on the M133 stuff we Just
did.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay, first of all let's talk about the
mal procedure. And in steps 2 and 3 when you were to verify
the - the cable connections that are listed there in the
message, if you still have it, did you just look at them or
did you disconnect them and reconnect or did you Jiggle them
or - or exactly what did you do to verify those?
SPT Okay, I just made sure that each one of
them was firm, but I did not reconnect them; take them off
and reconnect.
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CC O
SPT However, there was one connection, the
one going into tape recorder number 2, which I did disconnect
for the tape changeout. That's the only one I did disconnect,
however .
CC Okay, and the others you just kind of
grabbed hold and just made sure they were firmly connected
and then let it go at that?
SPT Correct.
CC Okay. Let me ask you a question on the
tape change procedure. In step 1 of the tape message it
says get a needle - wetre trying to - the problem is we're
trying to keep up with the needles. And it says either take
the needle that you previously used, or if it's not available
obtain a syringe with a needle from the microbiology kit
and we need to - to know which of those you did just to
keep up with how many needles and where they are.
SPT Dick, that's a utility needle we've had
here. I think Owen left it for us. We_ve washed it out
and used water with it many times and we Just left it around
for utilities. It was pretty clean because it had been
flushed many times with just plain water and dried.
CC Okay, that's great. We just wanted to
know had you gotten another one out of the microbiology kit;
and apparently not. So we got the information we need.
Thank you much, Ed.
SPT You're welcome, Dick. Dick, you may
be interested to know we got one more piece of life up here
inside the wild moth jar; only one new one that I can see.
That makes a total that I can count in here of five approx - maybe
six.
CC Okay, great. It's really getting crowded
up there, huh? Hey, listen, Ed, I don't know whether Story
told you this morning, but your phone call this evening
is Ascension at 22:37, and I'll remind you again.
SPT Thank you.
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CC CDR, Houston. We still got about

3 minutes left here at Madrid and the ATM guys in the back-
room are real interested in the activity on the Sun parti-
cularly around the southeast limb. If you have a chance
during these next 3 minutes, they'd sure appreciate a
voice update on that.
CDR Okay. I'ii have to stop my little mini
m%ni-MAR here in order to do it.
CC No. Don't do that Jet.
CDR Okay. I'ii get them to you first pass
after I finish here.
CC Okay. That'll be fine.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're a minute from
LOS. Carnarvon comes up at 14:56 and SPT, Houston. It
appears preliminarily that we will be able to get at least
a portion of an extra ATM pass sort of in the middle of the
day, it's not real obvious and right now we're juggling con-
flicts between data-take time, stows, preps and so forth,
but we'll have it worked out if it's possible and and get
it back up to you as in plenty of time.
SPT Thank you, Dick. Appreciate what you
can do.
CC Okay.
mean time. Skylab space station is now over eastern Europe
and that concludes the pass at Madrid. 24 minutes to our
next acquisition at Carnarvon. At the present time here in
Mission Control, the Flight Directors and the Flight Activities
officer are trying to reschedule the Flight Plan for this
afternoon. Science Pilot Ed Gibson has already completed all
of his morning activities and has begun his exercise period
more than an hour in advance. And, he's completed some after-
noon activities including the malfunction procedure on the
M133, that's a sleep monitoring device that has been acting
erratically the last several nights and telemetry has not
been very good on the M133, so he did that malfunction pro-
cedure. It wasn't scheduled to take place until about 19:08,
today and he's concluded that already this morning. So, right
now it looks llke between 18:28 and 19:15 Greenwich mean time,
he may have time for an ATM pass as Dick Truly mentioned to
the crew there is still some juggling going on to determine
whether or not we can make all of the necessary changes to
the Flight Plan to allow that extra hour of science research
to be do_e this afternoon. But, it looks very good right
now. That will give them a total of more than 5 hours on
the ATM panel today. That's of data_take time. One of the
things tkey do have to watch out for is the upcoming Earth
resources pass to be made at the end of this revolution as
the spacecraft comes over Central America. Includes sites
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in Honduras, potential sources of electric power, the geothermal

energy sources in central America, and also a powerful weather
front that crosses from the northern part of Florida, out
across Bermuda, and around a large looping course around the
North Atlantic. That weather front is reported to be producing
winds up to about 60 miles an hour in an area Just to the
east of New Foundland. In addition to the spacecraft over-
flight there will also be a C130 aircraft making an under-
flight to determine additional data on that storm - storm
and weather conditions over that area. That flight willbe
taking off from Langley this afternoon, or later this morning.
The flight goes from Langley and lands at Gander Air Force
Base in New Foundland. We'll bring the llne up again 21
minutes from now when we reach Carnarvon. It's now 34 minutes
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Time: 09:55 CDT, 55:14:55 GMT
1/9/74

time. Skylab space station is now just about to come within
acquisition of signal at Carnarvon, Australia. This pass
through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle is a - virtually overlapping
a short intermission of about 35 seconds between the two passes
and will last a total of 16 minutes. Skylab crew now within an
hour of their Earth resources pass that they'll be making
during the remainder of this revolution as they begin over
the Pacific Ocean to the south of Guatemala and Honduras.
Bringing the line up live now for Dick Truly, the spacecraft
communicator.
CC Skylab_ Houston. Hello at Carnarvon
and Honeysuckle for 16 minutes.
CDR Roger, Dick. I_m ready to talk to you
about the Sun now.
CC Okay. We're ready to listen. Go ahead,
Jer .
CDR Okay. What I'll do is Just describe the
XUV MON and the white light coronagraph and then H-alpha.
CC Okay.
CDR On the XUV MON, the active region 12
is pretty much gone. There's just a little bit of fuzz on
the west llmb there. Active region 14, 15 and 16, are about
the same, 16 has come around the limb a little bit more, there's
quite a little bit more bright area there. The little bi-
polar region that I mentioned yesterday that was enhanced
in H-alpha is got three spots in XUV right now. And they're a little
brighter than they were yesterday. There was one bright spot
yesterday that was below active region 14, about - Oh, I
guess about 0.3 of a radius below it. And it's there again
today and a little bit brighter. And that's essentially it.
The coronal holes at the caps are quite clear and we have
a filament channel that extends above the coronal hole at
the south pole almost up to active region 16. It actually
falls short of it, oh actually, more around active region 15.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. Do you see anything, or
did you see anything above the limb in the southeast region?
CDR I_ll get to that in a minute.
Okay. White light eoronagraph: Between yesterday and
today, the this large wide streamer that Ed was talking
about yesterday, that had three spikes in it, it's now reduced
back down to two spikes again. It's a little narrower, it's
about the same width at the base, hut's it's narrowed down
at the top. And then I remember, yesterday evening Ed
mentioned, I believe, to the ground that up at about 300 de-
grees, it looked like another spike, a long narrow spike.
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It was beginning to form. That's still there this morning.

And, to me, and on the picture l've got here that I took,
it looks like it's narrower at the base, at the occulting
disk than it is further out. It seems to be more like a
ray. Then in between this ray and a large streamer down
below, there seems to be a fuzzy area beginning to extend out.
It looks like it might turn into a streamer and that's at
about 270. Then over on the other side of the Sun on the
west limb, the wide streamer that extends from about 2 or
3 o'clock, is not any wider at the base or out at the end.
However, some of the material in the middle is kind of dropped
out, so what you've really got is a spike at about 2 o'clock,
and a spike at 3 o'clock. And then it begins to dim out a little
bit in between, in the wide band in between. And that's it
on the white light coronagraph. And then in H-alpha, active
region 14, now, is three sunspots. You've got the one bright
one that was there yesterday, there's one out ahead of it
about 45 arc seconds to the west and then to the east of it
about 50 arc seconds, there's kind of a weak floppy-looking
area that looks like it might solidify into a sunspot or
something. It shows up in the white light display of the
XUV slit. And - Let's see) the bright spot that I mentioned,
that's below active region 14 that's at about 110.3. We
have H_alpha enhancement there and I got a oxygen Vl count
of about i000. Active region 15 doesn)t look like much. It's
not very interesting and not very hot. The three XUV spots
I saw do have H_alpha enhancement They're not very - not very
hot, but it's better developed than it was yesterday. Prominence
64 is clear and more pronounced than it was yesterday, but
it's about the same size. Active region 16 is a fairly simple
active region, it's not too hot. Oxygen Vl maximum count I
could get was about 2000. It's one single sunspot. And then
below it) on that east llmb about 20 degrees below it, there's
a little bit of surge activity, a couple of small areas where
surges are about two to three times the heighth of the spicules
in that area,
CC Okay, Jerry. Copy.
CC CDR, Houston. One question for you,
in addition to what you asked. On your XUV, did you see
any brightening at all above the southeast limb?
CDR Right over active region 16, there's a
good deal oi! brightening and the brightening does extend a little
bit further to the south and to the north. But it's not too
pronounced,
CC Okay, Jerry. Anything else?
CDR No. That's about it. The main XUV
brightening at the limh is right over active region 16.
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CC Okay, CDR. Sure appreciate the real

good briefing and the guys will be using it to plan the res -
to take a look at the rest of the day and also this extra
ATM pass looks like we may get. While you're thinking about
that, let me give you a note for a couple of your succeeding
daylight cycles_ Jerry. And I don't think it's necessary for
you to be looking at the ATM schedule pad for this. But on
two of your daylight cycles that are coming up later, at
the end of them there's a powerdown listed for a S063 maneuver and
later for a S183 maneuver and ATM advises he would like
you to use the powerdown for EREP cue card when those show
up in the schedule pad.
CDR Will do it.
CC Okay. A couple of more things. When
you and Bill have a chance, I_ve got some EREP pass weather
for you. And also, I realize that SPT, right now_ is busy
on SO63, but the Possibly just before LOS, he and Bill
might have time, but at least when he and the PLT have time
to talk to me for a minute, both looking at their Summary
Flight Plans, I think we have an easy way to give Ed an extra
ATM pass.
CDR Okay, Dick. And we're ready to listen
to the weather.
CC Okay. It's improving - continuing to
improve. It's very much the same track, as you know, that you've
done the last couple of 3 days. And each day the weather's
getting a little better.
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CC - - at the end of them there's a power-

down listed for S063 maneuver and a later for an S183 maneuver
and ATM advises he'd like you to use the powerdown for EREP
cue card when those show up in the schedule pad.
CDR Will do it.
CC Okay, a couple more things. When you
and Bill have a chance l_ve got some EREP pass weather for
you. And, also I realize that SPT right now is busy on S063,
but the _ possibly just before LOS he and Bill might have time
but at least when he and the PLT have time to talk to me
for a minute, both looking at their Summary Flight Plans
I think we have an easy to get Ed an extra ATM pass.
CDR Okay, Dick. And, we're ready to listen
to the weather.
CC Okay. It's improving continuing to
improve. It's very much the same track as you know that
you've done the last couple of 3 days and each day the
weather's getting a little better. Looks like that prior to
crossing the Central American coast is a bubble of Just about
clear air and the first portion of the land mass there in
Central America will be somewhere around 2000 foot scattered.
It will get a little more cloudy on the eastern shores there
then as you cross up across Cuba and the Bahamas, that should
be very good, some occasionally some scattered to broken
clouds. Then again, as you cross the North Atlantic it's
goin_ to vary that that - there is a big low out to the
east of the Eurasian land mass there so it's going to vary
between some clear spots and also some fairly heavy cloud
cover but it won't cover quite the large areas that it has.
The coast of France as you cross it should be pretty clobbered
we think.
CDR Roger, copy.
CC Okay.
CC And, CDR, Houston. One item on the ATM
powerdown on S055. We need to line scan please.
CDR Roger.
CC Thank you.
CDR Dick. Confirm you want 528 on the grating
that doesn't add up to anything on the - on my chart up here
that looks right. It looks like it might be 518.
CC Stand by.
CC CDR, Houston. The backroom confirms
that 528ts the number that they desire.
CC CDR, Houston. l'm not sure that I got
caught in a handover there, but the backroom confirms that
528 is the number they desire.
CDR Okay. 528 mechanical ref.
CC Okay.
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CC Skylab, Houston. It's time for our

pre-EREP reg adjust if anybody's - anybody's available to do
it for us. What we'd like this morning is both reg adjust
pots 1 and 2, rotate about 20 degrees clockwise, that's
20 degrees clockwise and for your information with the beta
going up and the daylight periods getting longer and longer
it turns out that we're not after this EREP we probably are
not going to remove this adjustment and we'll go with it
and let it stay here until further notice.
PLT Okay. I just made it. Take a look at
it.
CC Okay.
CC Bill, we'Xe about a minute and 15 seconds
before we get into sunrise and we really need to get there
before we can give you a really good haoks_ but I_ll let you
know. We still have about 2 minutes in tke pass so_ go back
to what you're doing. That's fine.
PLT Okay.
CC And, PLT, Houston. If you've got your
summary flight plan there and have a minute I can explain to
you what the options are on - to get Ed this extra ATM pass
that involves both of you guys and then during the LOS or
sometimes you can talk to him and tell us which way you guys
would like to do it. Either way we get the ATM pass.
PLT Okay, press on.
CC Okay. The cleanest way to do it, if you'll
look at your column and also Ed's, down there about 18"30. you
notice he has an S063 AST-3 and then down at about 19:30 you
have an S063 comet prep 3 prior to your comet ops. The cleanest
way to do it is just to swap those two. You would do the stow
and then eat and he would do the prep after his ATM pass which
we"re going to stick in there right after his S063 AOT. Another
way that you might do it is you just shorten your eat period and
you pick up both the stow and the prep, if you would prefer to
Either way you'd get the stow and if you'd like to also do the
prep, since you're going to do the ops that'd be okay with us.
That would free up Ed for a good bit of time there that he
could do science demos but really doesn't matter to us, if you'd
just let us know which way you guys would like to handle it,
we_ll give you the supporting information and - a little Bit
later.
PLT Okay, why don't I go ahead and do both
of those, because I have chili for lunch and that's not going
to take me long.
CC Okay
PLT Why don't I just do the S063 Alfa Sierra
Tango 3 and we'll just call it quits at that.
CC Okay. Suits us fine and we'll - we'll
give you any supporting information you need and we'll
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look at the Flight Plan based on that. We're about to go

LOS here. I'ii give you a call at Texas at 15:43. See you
there.
SPT Thanks very much for working that out,
Dick. What time would the ATM pass start?
CC It's at about 18:28 when you'll get there,
you'll arrive there right after your S063 A0P and we'll have
a plan for you when you get there.
mean time. Skylab space station is now south of New Zealand
out of range of the tracking antenna at Honeysuckle Creek.
Our next acquisition is a little less than 30 minutes from
now at Texas. By the time we have acquisition of signal on
this next pass we should be underway with the Earth resources
pass, that's scheduled to begin at 15:43 Greenwich mean time,
or 10:43 a.m. central daylight time and it will run just
22 minutes until 16:05 Greenwich mean time, that's 11:05 CDT.
It's a 6300-mile-long pass. Begins about 500 miles from the
coast of Nicaragua over the Pacific Ocean and it concludes
as the space station crosses the English Channel near the
northernmost point of the space - spacecraft's orbit, that's
at 16:05. Fourteen Earth resources study sites have been listed
for today's pass. They include a mapping project in Honduras
a potential new source of electric power and a powerful weather
front over the North Atlantic. All these are subjects of spe-
cial interest for the Skylab crew today. Skylab astronauts
will be using the space station's electronic sensors and
six of the seven Earth reso - Earth observing cameras, the Earth
terrain camera is not going to be installed in the airloek
for today's observations. And, they'll be using the other
six cameras however in the 190A multlspectral photographic
facility and all the electronic sensors to gather data
for more than a dozen research projects during the morning
pass. Hot steam and related geothermal energy sources in
Central America will be underneath the instruments today,
With the new information that's gathered by the spacecrew
on such geothermal sources, many areas may be identified as
containing potential sources for electric - electric develop-
ment based on the Earth's inner heat. A NASA C130 will be
flying beneath the space station to gather additional infor-
mation about a huge weather front over the North Atlantic.
That stormy area has winds of more than 50 miles an hour and
swoops from northern Florida to Bermuda, in the mid-Atlantlc
and north to Newfoundland. The center of it is clear and
the Skylab space station will have the opportunity of seeing
the front from a number of different angles. They'll pass
the front once and through a clear area in its center off
the east coast and then up again through the front as they
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go out towards England. 27-1/2 minutes to our next

acquisition of signal. 15 minutes and 18 seconds after the
hour. This is Skylab Control.
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SL-IV MC1800/I

Time: 13:08 CDT, 52:18:08 GMT

PAO Earth resources pass, a 7100-mile

PLT On that - I0 about 7 seconds, I got an

PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 48 minutes.

PLT (Garble, static)

that we wanted to get clarified so we'll make sure we're doing

PAO This is Skylab Control at 19 hours

llst. I think this shopping llst idea is a very good one.

which is plenty okay with us. We think we can get it to you

CDR Okay, Dick_ that sounds fine.

activities with less rigid planning on the part of the

CC Skylab, Houston_ we're a minute from

PAO This is Skylab Control at 20 hours 8

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab coming up

PAO This is Skylab Control. Now we're bringing

got about i minute to LOS; next station contact is Goldstone

CC SkyZab, this is Houston, l minute to

if you're looking at the - would you rather look at the mes-

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab coming up

PA0 This is Skylab Control at 22 hours 9

PAO This is Skylab Control. We're bringing the

PAO This is Skylab Control. We have just a

PAO This is Skylab Control; we're coming up

PAO This is Skylab Control; 23 hours 43 minutes

PAO This is Skylab Control. Science Pilot

PAO This is Skylab Control, we're standing

PA0 This is Skylab Control at zero hours 49

PAO This is Skylab Control, Skylab coming up

did Tango Victor 101, 1-hour prep, and he also got a

CC - - can't find any place that you came

CC CDR, Houston. Reference your remark about

PAO Skylab's now out of range of Guam. That

PAO This is Skylab Control at I hours and 58

CC SO56 airlock to close please before

PAO Skylab Control at ii hours 28 minutes

said this is a plan discussed by the Defense Secretary

PA0 Skylab Control at 11:40 Greenwich mean

PAO Skylab Control at 12:08 Greenwich mean

and photographic information on everything from oceanography

PAO Skylab Control at 12 hours 28 minutes

PLT Okay. Go ahead.

SPT Looks like your little clock alarm went

CDR Roger. See you then.

PAO There is a potential space photography for

CC Okay, I got a couple more.

CC CDR, Houston_ we've got about a minute

PA0 Skylab Control at 14:47 Greenwich mean

On the pass that begins at 15:07, that you will be doing

like a few more words on the disk work to be done at

MCC Let's see. We just recently sent up

SPT That will give them some good time history

PAO Skylab Control at 15:03 Greenwich mean

have to made by the doctors to approve the continuation up

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 34 minutes

SPT Hello, Dick. I got a little bit behind

SPT Roll of plus 0004. Up/down of minus 298,

PAO Skylab Control at 15:47 Greenwich mean

CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds

CC Okay, Bill. Good question and we will

CDR 20 degrees clockwise?

Advanced that. Everything advanced the proper number of frames.

And without the forward motion compensation you loose some