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252 00 12 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Carnarvon.
We got you for about8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like he DAS for a moment.
We're going to go ahead and turn the REG, ON on
CBRM10.
SPT Okay, you got it.
PLT And, Bob, the temperature and pressure o 557,
was read on time l0 minutes ago. The temperature
was 51, and the pressure was 0.55 times l0 to the
minus 3 tort.
CC Copy, Jack, thank you.
PLT You bet.
CC Okay, and the DAS belongs to you guys, again.
PLT Looks like you turned it on, all right.
252 00 16 46 CC And, Owen, if you got a moment to talk to me, I
wanted to gi e you a note on the ETC prep you
got coming up later.
SPT Wait a minute, please.
SPT Okay, go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay, Just wanted to tell you that tonight we'd
like you to install filter 1 on the ETC. That
was necessary because of us scrubbing out that
pass, earlier today.
SPT Okay, is that all? I don't have an ETC pad yet.
I guess that will come up tomorrow?
CC Roger, Owen. We're going to have you, hopefully,
do an ETC pass early in the morning, which we
will be sending up a pad tonight. And you ne
e
d
filter 1 on for that.
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252 00 18 28 SPT Okay, that sounds fine. Now is that going to be
a solar inertial ETC or a Z-LV?
CC Roger, Owe_. That's ETC pass is actually the one
we're associated with EREP, and it is tomorrow
afternoon, not in the morning. And that's where
you need filter 1 on it.
SPT Okay, I'll put filter 1 on. Thank you.
CC We're actually scrubbing out the pass that - the
first one that you had scheduled in the morning.
And that's why we need to have the filter 1 put
on .
SPT Okay, fair enough.
CC Roger, the problem v_s weather over Africa.
SPT Okay.
252 00 25 2 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through
Guam for 4-1/2 minutes. I'm sorry I missed that
last LOS call.
252 O0 29 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.
See you gain in about 8 minutes over Hawaii at
00:37, 0
0
:37.
252 O0 35 4h CDR Houston, are you there?
CC Just barely, A1. We're coming over the hill right
now.
CDR Okay.
252 00 36 19 CDR How are you doing?
CC F
a
irly good.
CDR Okay, (>wen will be EV-I, I'll be EV-2, and Jack
will be EV-3.
CC Copy that. Thank you, AI.
CDR Okay.
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CC And we have got you for about 2-1/2 4nutes, here,
at Hawaii.
252
00 3
8
3
2
CC Sk
ylab, H
o
ust
on
. We're
i m
in
u
te fr
om LO
S. See
you again over Goldstone at 00:48. That's about
i0 minutes from now.
252 00 48 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Goldstone
for 5 minutes.
SPT Roger, Robert.
CC And, 0wen, we' re standing by for ATM TV.
SPT Okay. Let me see. I'll give you some.
252 00 52 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS. We'll
see you again in ab ut 2-1/2 minutes over MLA at
00: 55 •
252 00 55 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS once more for - oh,
about 12 minutes here through MLA.
PLT 0kay, Bob.
CC Okay, and if A1 is listening, regarding that TV
survey, we're going to be unable to get any more
time on the VTR tonight, due to dump sites. And
we'll try to get that in tomorrow if we can.
PLT Okay. We heard it.
CC And, A1, could you give us an est4mate of how
much more time you think you're going to need?
CDR I'd guess 30 minutes, plus or minus - no, no, ei-
ther 30 or 40 minutes would be my guess.
CC That's about our estimate. And we'll see if we
can work that in.
252 00 56 18 CDH Okay. Good. I got a couple of hours here until
sleep. I was g ing to go do that sound measure-
ment, which looks like it would take about 30 minutes
or so. You got anything else down there that needs
d
oi
n
g?
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CC Stand by i.
252 00 58 2h CC And, CDR, if you're looking for things to do, that
81J you had scheduled today and you ended up clean-
ing off the heat exchanger in that area, we do
want to go ahead and do 81J and pu in a new fan.
That flow at the transfer duct is still not cor-
rect. It is looking good, however, back at the
heat exchanger the one you did clean off.
CDR Okay. That will take about another 20 minutes.
252 O0 59 13 PLT Hey, Crip, I need about h5 minutes worth of work,
too.
CC We copy that, Jack.
252 01 01 lh CC SPT, Houston. You got a moment to talk with us
about shopping list item number 19 that you ran
last orbit?
SPT Okay, Bob. I was on channel A. Would you ask me
the question again?
CC Roger, sorry
a
bout that, Owen. Wondered if you -
on shopping list item number 19 that you ran last
orbit, we noted that you didn't complete that.
And we've seen that before, and we wond r if you've
got problems trying to fit that in in one orbit
or what?
SPT Okay, it was actually item 16 not 19. Is that
correct?
252 01 01 52 SPT Anyway, item 16 is what I was working on. And,
yes, I think, had I realized at the beginning of
the orbit that I was going to be pressed for that
extra 5 minutes, I could have still made it. This
is a segment that had never been time_ before, and
of course each step gets to be longer as it goes
along. So I got within 5 minutes of completing
it, and I think had I Just got very busy right at
the beginning without taking a look around at the
corona and a few things like that - I took time
out, incidentally, a the beginning to get a pic-
ture of the corona and to look around a little
bit. I think if I hadn't done that, I would have
had time. Over.
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CC Okay, you don't think it's a basic problem with
the shopping llst item 16. It's Just trying to
look far enough ahead so that you can work it in.
Right ?
SPT I think so. As far as I know this hasn't ever
been run before or timed. And I was sort of es-
timating down there when I started. I put times
by the various blocks, and I Just got a little bit
behind after i took the extra time at the beginning
of the orbit to look around.
CC Okeydoke.
252 01 02 56 SPT I wonder if they'd like to have me to go back and
pick up that one long - WAVELENGTH, LONG exposure
for 82B, at the first of the next orbit? That could
be done, although it - Yes, there's some observing
time, although, of course, you want to get in the
J0P 6 stuff.
- CC We'relookingintothat.
252 01 05 50 CC SPT, Houston. Regarding that 82B exposure next
orbit. We'd Just as soon not go back and get that.
SPT Okay, it wouldn't be any trouble to do it, but I
did think the WAV_LEWGTH, LONG was probably less
important to them than that SHORT. And I was going
to mention it to Jack. I'll Just let it go.
252 01 06 17 CC Okay, we're 1 minute from LOS. See you again in
about l0 minutes over Ascension at 01:16, 01:16.
PLT Hey, Crip. I got a hot item for yo .
CC Okay, we're going over the hill. Say again.
PLT The workshop temperature is a blazing 73 degrees.
252 01 07 26 CC Copy; 73.
252 01 17 02 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through A cension for
h-l/2 minutes.
PLT 0kay, Bob.
CC Okay; and, Jack, for you and AI, I guess the only
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items right now we've got to suggest are a couple
of housek eping items that you had scheduled on pad
for tomorrow. That's lh Hotel and 28 Mike.
CDR Okay, we'll check those over. And let me give
you the number of the fan. The old serial number -
the serial number of the one I took out is 129-120.
The new one I Just installed is 129-138.
CC Okay, thank you, AI. Another item, can you tell
us which battery you have installed in the ASMU?
CDR We don't think there is any installed. We think
they are both kind of set down at the bottom.
252 01 18 08 CC Can - do you happen to recall which of those two
batteries, 6 or 7, that you used first on the last
run?
PLT No, we don't. But there is probably somebody down
that's got in their library.
CDR I don't remember, Bob. But the first one didn't
have as - didn't hold the charge as long as the
second one. And we mentioned it on our report, and
I asked them to - that they might want to run a test
on the first one. I didn't think anything was wrong
with it, but it Just didn't hold the charge as long
as the second. And I was a little bit surprised that
it did not.
252 01 18 52 CC Okay, A1. That's actually the reason we're asking
the question. We hink that one was battery
number 6. And what we would like to do is to have
you go ahead and put it on the cB-_ger his evening,
if you could please.
CDR Write down "5 minutes from now." We'll have it on
there by then.
CC Okeydoke, th
a
t 's fine, thank you.
252 O1 20 h9 CC Skylab Houston. We're h5 seconds from LOS. We'll
see you at Carnarvon in 26 minutes from now at 01:46.
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And we'll be standing by for the Evening Status
Report there.
252 Ol 21 Ol PLT Okay, Bob.
END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
252 Ol 46 27 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob.
CC And, C R, at your convenience, we're standing by
for your Evening St tus Report.
CDR Okay. I 'll_i_'beright +there.
252 01 48 38 CDR Okay. Here it comes. Urine: 163;_-130; 223.
Water: 5877; 9731; 6_00. B_RD: 6_60_ 6__62:
6.263; 5.961, 5.964, 5.961, 6.938, 6.940, 6.939.
Exercise: 2/28/5241 - Make that 5 - m-_e that
2/
3
0/
55
_i. Ok
a
y,
3
/1
5
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ar
k I,
3
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O
/M
a
rk II,
3/05/Mark III; SPT, 2/32/5025, 3/20/Mark I, 60, A;
60, B; 60, D; PLT, 1/05/0611, 2/36/8498, 3/20/M-_k I,
70 A's, 20 B's, 20 D's, 20 backbends. No med-
ication. Sleep: 7/G, 6-I/2/G, 6-I/2/G. Here
comes the food log: CDR, 10.5 salt packs used,
add one lemonade. SPT, no salt, omit the tuna
and applesauce - no, omit tuna and asparagus,
substitute pork and potatoes, add Jam, and add
peaches. Pilot, five salts add peaches, grape
drink, butter cookies, and substitute a peach
ambrosia and peanuts, for tuna and bread. Here
comes the photo log: No 16-millimeter, so we got
no drawer A change. 35-millimeter: CI03, 59;
CX29, 00; CX31, 53. TO-milllmeter: CX26, 091.
ETC: BW02, 057. Nothing else on the report there.
Okay, Flight Plan deviations: _d not do MhST-4E
because scr en was not dirty; will do the moving
next time we vacuum a dirty screen. ShoDning llst
accomplishment: CDR did 487-3D, - I d/d that
yesterday late, by the way. SPT did MI72-PR2,
_
and C
D
R d
i
d
t
h
e _MMD
ze
ro m
a
s
s c
al. I
n
o
p
erab
l
e
, equipment : nothing new. Unscheduled stowage
,[_'i,! item location change: three pork and potatoe
from 559 to wardroom, 12 butter cookies from 559
to wardroo , and two batteries from the entertain-
ment kit to the image intensity monitor, he bat-
teries there had pooped out. We put tape around
the batteries, and fired them down the airlock.
And that's it.
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CC Okay. Believe we copied all that. And, I had a
couple of questions, if I may.
CDR Shoot away.
CC Okay. Concerning the little digital thermometer,
we've been maki
n
g quite
a
bit of use of th
a
t with
the 6-pack readings aud so forth, and we - We'r
a little bit Concerned about perhaps it becoming
degraded. First question, I guess, is, do you
always use the same unit or have you been using
both units on a random basis?
252 Ol 52 45 CDR i don't know the answer because we Just open the
box and pull out the first one we reach. So, I
guess you'd have to say it's probably random, but
it may be the closest one every time, and we wouldn't
know it.
CC Okay. Is the response time still on the order of
60 second ?
CDR I'd say 60 or better.
CC Okay.
CDR I've noticed that it usually stables out at least
by B0.
CC Okeydoke. And, have you noted any unusual readings
that might indicate that the battery is depleting?
CDR Not at all. It's been real reliable. The only
thing that l've seen is a problem, is that thermal
grease we use is one heck of a t ing to get out of
the tube. And that's the only problem. You've -
really get your exercise trying to get it out. I
hope it doesn't get harder as time passes, because
if it does, Jerry certainly won't be able to get
it out
.
It may be that consismency ,II the time,
though.
CC Okay. Copy that. And, A1, today you had some
six-digi BMMD zero mass readings called out in
your details. We haven't had any mention of this
on any - any of the dump tapes yet. Have you
managedtogetaroundtothat?
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CDR Sure did. I Just put it on channel A about
30 minutes ago, or so. So they're on there. I
can give them to you now if you want them.
CC No, that 'iiIbe fine. We can get the_ off channel A.
CDR Say, I been wondering, - I been - I'm about half
through with this sound measurement. And one -
seems to be one artificiality in it, and that's
the fact that all this equipment -is x-_n_ug at
_- once, as I check one individual item. I know that
this microphone is suppose to be directional.
However, I do notice the s4m_larlty in so_e of the
frequency ranges, an_: I In_picion [sic] that other
equipment that's _m_ug nearby is Just overriding
the one l'm testing. I assume that that's the
correct proce
d
ure, th
o
ugh.
CC Believe so; we're checking with corollary.
CDR Okay. It would be nontypical, I gu ss, if we didn't
do it that way - nonrepresentative.
CC That is correct, AI. You - You're doing it right.
CDR Okay. We got one other one. N1n,Ber i was called
the cabin heat exchanger fan muffler. Now number
5 is ealled the AM circ fan. We have a feeling
that's the same thing, but we're not sure. We
don't find anything that's called AM duct fan
muffler. I - I didn't say that right. I didn't
say that right. We don't find anything called
cabin heat exchanger fan muffler. The only heat
exchanger we find in the STS is the one that's
labeled AM CIRC FAN.
252 01 55 51 CC See if I can get that clarified.
252 01 55 52 CDR Yes. Thank y
o
u.
252 01 56 07 CC Okay, Skylab. We're 1 minute from LO S. See you
ags_n at G11_Jmin about 4 minutes at 01 - at
02:00 even. And I'll try to have an answer for
you on that one, A1.
CDR Okay. I'll go work on the others.
252 02 01 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Guam for
9 minutes.
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252 02 08 23 CC PLT, Houston. On your last run on ATM, can you
tell us in building block l, did you run S056 in
patrol long or manual?
PLT You mean tonight or earlier today?
CC Tonight on your last time. Just - Just your
previous building block l, that you Just did.
PLT I ran a patrol norm_1 on 1 Alfa, and I'm in a
PATROL, LONG now.
CC Okay. The reason we asked the question is, we saw
the shutter on 56 staying long - open abnorma1_y
long. But, we'll take a look at it.
252 02 09 23 PLT Yes. I m kind of wondering if that thing is hung
up
.
But I think it hung up
a
t the beginning of the
patrol, long, and I rec cled and kind of started
over again. But I noticed that at the end of the
patrol, normal that it was stuck on filter l, but
it had not gone to READY, and I went to STOP, and
then _-,,ediately got a READY light. So, something
squirrelly is going on with that.
252 02 09 47 CC Okay. We copy that. And, CDR, if you're listening,
I need you to consider about wakeup time tomorrow
to get the ATM pass in. We don't have a good
time t
o
- to give you a wakeup call, so you might
need to set your timers in on that. We're about
30 seconds from LOS. Goldstone at 02:25, and
that'll be for the medical conference,
CDR Okay. We'll set our clocks for it tonight.
252 02 29 41 CC Skylab, Houston. I'm - got you back here for
12-1/2 minutes through the States.
SPT Okay, Bob. And it looks like that timer battery
must have been thrown out. I carried it around
for a couple of weeks and I think I finally tossed
it in the trash bag and it's long gone.
CC Okay. No big ditty at all. For A1, I guess one
item on the film report for tonight. We didn't
see any report on - for BB which is UV film on
S063 that you shou d have used.
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252 02 30 i0 SPT I must have forgotten to put that down. And it
is reading seven I took seven frames from 14
lea_ s seven.
CC R
o
ger. Copy seven. And if AI is
a
v
a
ilable, w
e
probably are goi
n
g to ru
n
i
n
to the
q
uestio
n
to-
morrow - We*ve got a TV-54 scheduled and we're
going to neea to - We're t=Iking about doing the
rest of that inventory. It's going to be strictly
his option which he desires to do, and he might
give that same though .
CDR What's 54, Bob?
CC I w
a
s afr
a
id you was
[
sic
]
goi
n
g to ask that.
That's Owen's science demos.
CDR We'll probably favor his things because it takes
longer to prep. I can do mine on a moment's notice.
And, also, mine can fit in around other things
for the next 3 or 4 days. So we'll probably let
Owen do his thing and then I'll fit around this
other.
CC Okay. Copy that. And in our earlier discussions
on those
s
ound
mea
s
u
rem
en
ts f
o
r 487, w
ha
t y
o
u got
is satisfactory. We had a duplicatiCn on the -
on the pad, 8pparently. Item, 1 and 5 are really
the same things. That is, the cabin heat exchanger
fan and the AM circ fans are really the same item.
CDR Okay. T at's kind of what I assumed, so I gave
th_n the rate gyro package which ma es more noise
than all the rest put together as item 1. And I
re d that down on the c little while ago.
CC Roger.
PLT S_, Crip - Just a minute - How long are you going
to be with us?
CC We got you for l0 more minutes.
PLT I'll check in with you in about a minute.
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252 02 32 03 _C Okay. One item I mentioned earlier, however, I
certainly didn't state it very clear [sic]. 0wen,
you were called out to do that ETC pass over Africa
tomorrow m rning. And that has been scrubbed due
to weather.
SPT Ray. Understand. I have filter i in the ETC
right now.
CC Okay. Very good. So really the only guy that's
got to get up early on the day off is the CDR.
CDR I think it's about m_ turn, though, so that's
okay. And I'ii set my little alarm clock as I
understand y'all aren't going to be around at
that time.
CC That's affirm. We'll have a pass Just about ll:O0
so we'll - we'll get you a little bit later.
CDR Okay. What time is sunrise? I noticed my pad
said ii:00, but usu-11y the Sun rises about i0
or 15 minutes later.
CC Stand by. I'Ii see if I can get a sunrise time
on that.
CC While they're looking for that, any time you guys
are interested, if you want me to attempt another
news broadcast, I do have some evening news down
here.
CDR Yes. We think you need to pract- Ac ually we
don't want to hear the news, but we think you
need to practice, so go ahead.
CC I thought you - (chuckle ).
PLT Hey, Bob, can I give you one thing?
CC g
o
ahead, J
a
ck
.
252 02 33 22 PLT Before I turn all the lights off I'd like to give
you the frsme counts on ATM. R-alpha has got
5833, Milligan has got 1521, Tousey, A has got 45;
Tousey, B has got 273; MacQueen has got 3332, and
the Vaiana, Krieger has got 202_. And Reeves has
got all he wants.
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CC Roger that. Jack, would you verify that 73 on
82B?
252 02 34 04 PLT 82B is 273._
CC 27
3
. Roger.
252 02 34 08 PLT And l'd like to give you a little word on our
friend 557 over there, too. It's sitting around
65 degrees right now. Now, I had calculated that
it was supposed to go to the sub mode at 01:53
and when I came up and looked at it at 01:4_, it
was already in the sub mode. Now, that was cal-
culated on the basis of my data that I got on
board here, which may be up to date and may not.
A
n
d our pressure
n
ow is readi
n
g 0.i ti
m
es i0 -
i0 minus three. And I 'm wondering if you want me
to go to VENT or stay in OPEN on the b1_1_head
vent valve tonight.
CC We want you in VENT, Jack.
SPT Okay. I'ii put it in the VENT, then. ThAn_ you.
And that's all I'm going to say, so go ahead with
the news.
252 02 35 13 CC And, A1, for that first pass in the morning, 10:58
is 400 and that's Just about the time we're going
to have - have you on the first pass.
252 02 35 32 CC and for the skylab news report, the Skylab
astronauts photographed the Earth and Sun Saturday
in their quest for more information on their home
planet and its inergy source. They also tried to
form new metal alloys impossible to manfacture on
Earth. An editorial writer said the Skylab Prog
is demonstrating daily that it is a sound investment
in the future. President Nixon met with his advi-
sers on ways to deal with the energy shortage for
2 hours at the White House Saturday. The President
told newsmen the Government will ease antipollution
controls and will urge the States to do the same.
The A_nistration will also press for Congressional
approval on the Alaskan pipeline bill and legisla-
tion to remove the price ceiling on natural gas.
President Nixon will go on nationwide radio Sunday
_ to give the public a 1-daypreview of the second
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State of Union message he is sending Congress
Monday on his legislative program. The Miss
America Pageant is being held in Atlantic City
tonight; h .owever, a labor dispute threatened to
black out television coverage. And our Houston
Oilers are
p a
y
in
g t
h
e N
e
w Orlea
n
s Sai
n
ts i
n
Tulane Stadimn tonight. The Oilers have won two
and lost three games in _Yb_bitlon play, while
the aints have lost =11 five of thier games.
Msybe we can get you an update on that score; I
haven't hear_ one. The Houston Astros s=n_ below
the 500 mark for the first time since mid-April
when they lost to San Francisco, 9 to 6, Friday
night. And the Nebraska Cornhn-_ers defeated
UCLA h0 to 13 today in an exciting season-opening
football game. An
d
more exciti
n
g than that, the
JSC had their -n-ual picnic today and Bob Crippen
spent at least 30 trips going in the dum_ tank.
I guess that concludes most of the news. We still
have you for about a- -
252 02 37 32 PLT So you're all wet as usual, eh, Bob?
CC (Chuckle) You've got me figured out. l've managed
to dry out a little bit.
PLT You k
n
ow, I w
a
s goi
n
g to
m
e
n
tio
n
to you, you ought
to see a doctor about that plugge -up head but it -
I thought it was my imagination, but I guess it's
full of water, huh?
CC Right.
PLT It's hard to believe the last picnic out there at
Tom Manison's place was a whole year ago.
CC Yes. It moves aroun fairly rapidly. Everybody
ha
d
a pretty goo
d
time out today
.
Ate a lot, got
full tI-._
4
es.
SPT You know, Bob, we've got an awful good flight
surgeon that hasn't had much business for the
last 6 weeks. We might be able to loan his services
to you.
CC Could probably use it. He's too busy worrying
about you guys to have him look at me.
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4 P
LT
You th
e
re
, B
o
b
?
CC Yes, sir. Still got you for 2-1/2 inutes.
PLT How about having the ATM troups take a look at the
panel and see how they like it while we put it to
bed for tonight?
CC Okay. The panel looks good to us. We can't tell,
of course, about the overrides on 55.
25
2
0
2 h
O Ol
P
LT Tha
t's
E
N
AB
T
.
_ ....
CC Roger. Copy that. That noise I hear in the
background, does that happen to be the 6-pack?
PLT Yes, it probably is, Bob. Kind of - It's, well,
a hl.......ng noise like everything else. But it's
the loudest thing in here. It's directly across
from the speaker box. So that's probably it.
CC Roger.
PLT Actually it's pretty quiet in here. The noisiest
place is up there in the MDA, but y u don't hear
the ... We thought that m_ght be too noisy but
there's not much of anything you can hear running
down there. The only thing is the blower overhead
the waste management compartment. It's not objec-
tionable at ,11. Those fans in the ducts, you have
to put you ear right up to the duct in order to
hear them. Other than that, why, the only noise
is A1 and Owen.
252 02 41 01 CC" Glad they built you a nice quiet workshop. And
A1 would probably be interested to know that we
have finished dumping the - the VTR, so we've got
all of that inventory he did earlier today on the
ground.
252 02 41 20 CC And, Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS ... tonight,
ur last call to you. We'll wish you a good night.
Next pass is at Carnarvon at 03:26. If you're
eeded for any reason - need us, give us a - give
us a i0,000. A
n
d I'ii have them gi e you a call
tomorrow morning around Ii:00, and we'll be expect-
ing you'll be getting up setting your clocks.
Good night, guys.
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CDR Good night down there.
252 02 41 27 PLT Good night, Crlp, to you and the whole team. A d
I Just put th
e
BULKHEA
D
VENT v
a
lve t
o
VENT
a
nd
the pressure started to rise immediately.
CC Copy that. Thanks, Jack.
CDR Looks like a good plan for tomorrow, too. I hope
the weather is good for EREP.
CC So do we.
CDR Kn
ow
y
o
u do. A l
o
t
o
f
w
ork th
a
t g
o
es on do
w
n
there to get re
ad
y f
o
r tho
s
e thlngs.
W
he
n
the
weather is bad, it's - it's all down - Well, not
all of it's down the drain, but a lot of it's down
the drain.
CC That's - that's affirmative.
252 02 42 22 PLT Say, if they can't get that television through
from the Miss America Pageant, l'm sure that
_ everybody would rather see Skylab anyway, and
we can send a lot of TV down, so you could use
that.
CC Yes. You're pretty, Jack, but don't know if
you' re that pretty.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANBCRII_flON
252 i0 57 59 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the Vanguard for
10-1/2 m nutes. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. l'm up and in the ATM panel. Every-
thing is going okay. And if you can mln_mlze
calls, then the other two guys can sleep for a
while.
CC Wilco. I do have a SAP update for you, if you
are intere
s
te
d
i
n t
hat.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
CC New active region 24 has formed at 120 degrees -
0.6. Spot group is growing fairly fast. The
flare probability there is 3/0/0. Three sub-
normal flares from active region 09 at 01:26,
01:46, and 05:08 this morning with no X-rays. The
flare probability is up to 8/
3
/0 from 8/
2
/0. An
d
F55 in active region 09, and F58 in active e-
gion 19, have been moderately active. Over.
252 i0 59 i0 CDR Okay, th_nk you, Bruce. When is the next station
contact? And I'ii - I tell you wh=t. Whenever
we're ready, I'ii Just put i000 - i0,000 on the
dash - DAS, and you can see it.
CC Okay. Next station contact is at ii:ii through
Ascension. And then I1:55 through Guam. Over.
CDR Okay. It'll probably be around Guam time or
ater, then.
CC Okay.
CDR Thank you, Bruce.
PLT Say, Bruce, I presume you want this TV of A rica
ive, right?
CC Stand by. We though you were sleeping in.
P
LT
Wel
l
, I g
o
t TV and
h
andhe
l
d p
ho
t
o
s, an_ -
so
I'm
up, about to get it done.
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252 ii 00 01 CC Are you sure you've got the right day's Flight
Plan?
CC We have voiced up - I think Bob Crippen - the TV
of Africa got scrubbed, Jack.
PLT Okay. I guess I didn't get the word. I got it
down here for 10. Is it still scrubbed then?
CC Yes, it is.
PLT Okay, so be it. Thank you.
252 ll 00 36 CC However, the handheld photo at ll:15 is still
good, so we'd like you to get that.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC However, if You want to sleep in, feel free.
CDR Say, Bruce, I was noticing on my first - both
JOPs 2Ds, step 6s, they read - they said "system-
atic pointing" at the first. I'm not sure I know
what that is.
CC We're checking on that.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. On that 2D, step 6, what we're looking
for is systematic pointing, which implies keeping
the 82B sllt parallel and moving it across the
target of interest at about a 4-to-5 arc second
increment so that, in this case, the second one
will be h to 5 arc seconds right or left of the
first one.
252 ll 06 02 CDR Okay. Do they want me to cross the neutral line,
or Just find a bright area h or 5 seconds away
from it or how?
252 ll 08 19 CC CDR, Houston. The first time you do 2 Delta,
step 6, center it up on the feature. And on the
second one, Just go 4 or 5 arc seconds either side
of that. Over.
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CDR Thank you.
252 ll 17 18 PLT Okay, Bruce. We got our photos of Ascension
Island. An_ it looks like a rather r_mote outpost
down there in the - in the ocean. And we Just
want to thank all of the troops down there as well
as those in the tracking areas around the world
for their diligence and for their support.
CC Okay, we copy, Jack. And I suspect that all the
people at the tracking station on Ascension are
also listening. And I got a thumbs-up on that
one, so they got it from you firsthand.
252 ii 17 54 PLT Yes, we're Just glad to ...
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
252 12 35 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston through the real Vanguard
for l0 minutes. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
CC We copy you'ze at 10,000, standi g there in the
DAS. You can go ahead nd clear it whenever you
feel like it.
PLT Okay. Thank you. We're all up and at 'era.
CC Was that a lousy pun?
PLT Yes.
252 12 35 53 CC We got one low-priority question here. Sometime,
when the SPT gets a little while, could he comment
some more on the sock shortage. We understand n
mission day 37, he reported that he needed
a
ddi-
tional socks. And looking around, w find that
there's some SL-2 garments; union suits, and con-
", staut wear garments, that have intergral socks that
could probably be cut off. We'd be interested
in hearing some more details from him. Over.
252 12 36 20 SPT Okay. I'll give you a low-priority answer right
now. I hadn't been aware of any SL-2 stuff still
laying around, but the sock question has managed
to get solved in about the following way: I only
had 12 per package, as I recall, 28-day package,
which is either - sl ghtly less than one every
2 days. But A1 brought up an extra big supply in
this command module resupply that was done there
in the last month or so before la_ach. So I
borrowed a few from him and - permanent loan -
and that, p us Just not changing socks every day,
has now left me in the state of having one per day.
So there's no more problem involved. As far as
extra clothes is concerned, the only thing that I
personally have found that I was short on was
socks. And I'd like to make sure - I'd recommend
to the ensuing crew that they add on only that one
item, if they're going to add on anything. And
that is Just to _a_e sure they, fr_n the s art,
have enough for a change of socks every morning.
That's all.
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252 12 37 23 CC Okay. I unde staud you feel it's nec ssary to use
a fresh pair everyday?
SPT Not necessary. It's J st more comfortable stud
convenientand desirable.
CC Okay. We copy. Thank you.
PLT The thing is, Bruce, your feet get pretty sweaty
in these canvas kind of shoes with rubber soles
and -especially when you're riding the bike, you
have a sweaty pair of socks.
CC Yes, sure. I was not trying to give you the third
degre . I was Just trying to get some words
establis ing the fact that it was probably desir-
able to provide a pair of socks a day.
PLT Yes, I understand, Bruce. I was Just trying to
give you a little more information as to how they
get that way, and it's Just not unusual. I guess
if you ere ca the ground, under the same conditions,
you'd- at least I'd want a clean pair everyday.
It's kind of like going to the gym, you know, and
using the same pair of socks every day. And it
doesn't take more than 1 day to get them in pretty
bad shape.
CC Roger. Out.
252 12 42 59 PLT Are you still there, Bruce?
CC Yes, indeed.
PLT Okay. Here's one thing I don't understand - I
notice that we're going to terminate this M557
this afternoon. And then we're going to let the
thing Just sit there and cool it until tommorow,
and then we're going to start all over again. And
it seems like we're wasting time there. We're not
going to get a l these l0 sets of specimens com-
ple edbythe time we leave. So I wonder if the
planners could think about cycling in a new set
of specimens this afternoon when we terminate the
ones that are in there now, so we can get them
going end then have them done by tc_orrow.
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252 12 43 _4 CC Let me put that one in work for you. And we do
have a teleprinter message up there that deals
with the
su
bject. Let
m
e check it.
PLT I got a message last night that told me Just to
terminate the one that's in there now, and then
do a few steps, and let it sit there idle until
tomorrow some time.
CC Okay. That's right, Jack. The thing asks you
to determine the approx_m-te time to vent one-half
of a torr and all that. That is ou_ intent right
now. But let's take an action item and see if
there's anthing we can do with your request.
252 12 _4 37 PLT Okay. I don't think it's going to take too long
to vent down and we're not going to get through
all the i0 sets of specimens, I guess. And it
seems to me that this is such a valuable experi-
ment that if we were to use them all up and Jerry
were to bring up some _ore, it would take very
little command module space to bring some more
u
p i
n
comp
a
ri
son
t
o
t
h
e re
s
ult
s
t
ha
t we get fr
om
them.
CC Okay, Jack. We copy all that. We got 30 seconds
to LOS here at the real Vanguard. Next station
contact in about i0 minutes at the real Canary
at 12:55. Over.
252 12 _5 21 PLT Okay, see you there, Bruce.
252 12 55 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Madrid
for approximately 13 minutes. We'll be dumping
the dat
a
v
o
ice tape reco der
o
ver Madrid. Standing
_ by for the PLT.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
252 12 55 55 CC Okay, Jack. In reference to your question on
M557, what we want to do today is go ahead and
find out how long it takes the thing to vent down
to 0.5 times lO to the minus 3 torr. And then,
prior to going to sleep tonight - separate item -
you can go ahead and open up and let it vent down.
And what we're doing is - the second sample that
you'll run through this thing is the first time
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that we operate the furnace in the active control
cooldown mode. And they want to start the second
sample
ea
rly tom
o
rr
o
w mor
n
i
n
g s
o
that we ca
n
watch
the cooldown while you're still awake. And if
anything comes up, that way we won't have to wake
you up in the middle of the night to go chase the
experiment. Following the second run, why we'll
press through them as rapidly as we can. And we're
negotiating right now for return stowage space and
the things of that sort to see how m_uy we can
get worked into the Flight Plan. Over.
252 12 57 01 PLT Okay, that sounds like a good plan. And as far
as return stowage goes,, it shouldn't be a problem
because these are pretty small packages, as you
kn
o
w
.
CC That's right. We copy that, but it's still
something that has to be worked.
PLT Right. And for the folks on the gr und, in put-
ting these three ca tridges in it - into the -
cartridges into the furnace, l've devised a plan
which they ought to know about. And, if you re-
member, there are three places to insert these
cartridges. If you put the vent cap at 12 o'clock
and face the little furnace, there's a - one slot
at i o'clock, one at 6, and one at ii o'clock.
And l've taken to putting the lowest numbered one
at the i o'clock, the second highest number - the
middle number at the 6 o'clock one, and the high-
est numbered o e at the Ii o'clock one. Such that
if there's any - ever auy questions about one of
those slots not working or working differently
than the rest of them, they'll know which of the
specimens was in which - which slot. So they work
in increasing numbers from i o'clock through 6
to ii.
252 12 58 15 CC Okay, thank you, Jack. That's a real good plan.
And if there i any problem, it will be a great
help in troubleshooting. Out.
CDR And, Bruce, would you ask the Flight Director to
assure the SPT there's nothing personal in his
scheduling the SPT for two showers today?
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CC WEll, we'll look into that. The Silver Team
Flight Director here is mumbling something about
it being time to be relieved by the next team
Flight Director since, its 8 o'clock Houston time,
but we'll see if we can find out whether it was
personal or not.
CDR Sounds like a copout down there to me.
252 1259 h9 CO Okay, we've resolved all that, Alan. And I assume
that,
e
xerci
s
ing your authority a
s
comm
an
di
n
g
officer, why you'll go along with u_ on this. The
housekeeping 7 Juliett scheduled for 00:45 for
the SPT is the cleanup of the shower. Over.
CDR Roger.
252 13 08 03 CO Skylab, H uston; i minute to LOS; G_,m, at 3h.
PLT Good morning, H_-k. And I was looking at the
Sun. We got a couple of prominences that weren't
r
e
p
o
rted o
n
t
he pa
d
.
Th
e
re
's
o
ne
f
ai
r
l
y g
o
o
d
o
ne
down around 120 at 190 of course, and there's
another, a little smaller but significant, at 060.
252 13 08 h2 CC Roger, we copy, Jack. ThRnk you.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
252 13 34 28 CC Skylab, Hou6ton through Guam fo 6 minutes.
252 13 B8 26 CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to get a question answered
here. We - You did part of your TV inventory
yesterds_y, 21minutes of VTR usage, and we're
tentatively planning to schedule the second seg-
ment for tomorrow with a clean VT . Does that
meet with your approval?
CDR Sure does. I might be able to get in SO minutes
or I might have an additional l0 minutes o so
for some other time.
252 1B B8 55 CC Okay. We copy.
h
252 13 B9 58 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll
be coming up on Honeysuckle at 45.
252 13 45 15 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
4-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hank, can you set up a phone call to my family
_" tonight for me?
C Okay. Put it in work.
CDR And, say, we've got the rest of the numbers on '
these EREP si es. Wonder what's the last number
of sites you had. Then I'll read the rest.
CC Our la t one was 27.
252 13 45 51 CDR Okay. Just a second. Oka_v, 28 is Mexico earth-
quake area; 29 is Maria Teresa Reef; 30, Alice
Springs; 31, Tonga Submarine Volcano; 32 is
Great Barrier Reef; 33 is Southern California;
35, Italy. Got a lot of pictures there recently;
B6 is Lake Ontario; B7 is the Great Plains; 38 is
Big Horn Mountains; B9 is Connecticut River Basin;
40, Spain. Got some good ones there. I think
we've gotten plenty in that area; 41, North
Australia. We don't know when to keep taking
them and not. We've taken a lot of Spain and
Italy, and we're not sure that you want us to keep
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shooting our film up on those, but rather save
them for some of these others. 42, East Malaysia;
46, West alaysia.
252 13 47 09 CC Roger. We copy, A1. And we may have copied
s
o
mething wr
o
ng. I'd like t
o
go beck t
o
item lb.
We've got two lh's southwest New Mexico and
Chihuahua, Mexico.
CDR Well, we - What we had was 13 for southwest New
Mexico, 14 for Chihuahua, Mexico.
CC Was Veracruz 12, then?
CDR Yes. Now there' one of them here that we had to
go for an A. Let me fi
n
d it and I'll straighten -
I think I know what the problem is, if I can Just
find it.
CC I think that was 9. We have 9-A for BaJa, California.
CDR Yes, that's it. All the rest - we think we Just
skipped one.
CC Okay. We got it.
CDR We don't know whether to Just eep sh - It always -
It seems that the
s
ame targets are - are visible
all the time. So we end up shooting a lot of those
and not too mAuy of some of these others And
we're wondering if you want us to keep shooting
those of which we have _-ybe, five or six or seven
or eight, like we certainly do of Italy, or you
want us to quit doing that a d work on some of
these others, even tho gh we may never get the
others?
CC Okay. We'll try to get you an answer on that.
252 13 48 32 CDR Okay. No hurry. We got Italy real well today,
and took a couple of Spain. And Just good weather
over the Med today, so we got some real good
pictures.
252 13 49 O0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're a out 40 seconds from
LOS. We'll be coming up on the Canaries at 33.
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CDR I was noticing, looking at the nomaly reports for
today, that they're still concerned about the flow
in that duct from the AM back he e. And if they
got
a
ny troubleshooting proced
u
res, this
m
ight b
e
a good day for us to look down the duct or what-
ever they got on their minds. It doesn't look
like anything could get in there, but m_ybe it
could.
CC Okay. EGIL'sworking on a plan for that, I think,
or they're - they're trying to come up with some-
thing.
! 252 14 33 44 CC Skylab, Houston through Canary and Madrid for
1 3 minutes .
PLT Okay, Hank. And Owen and I would like you to have
us - have you set up calls to our families this
evening, also. And one other thing is, like to
have somebody call over to the Harris County Youth
Village and the the boys in my Sunday School
Class there that I'm thinking about them this
morning. Okay?
CC Okay. We'll work on that, Jack.
CDR And what time do you recommend that I do that
TV inventory? In other words, is it available
now, or is there a certain specific time you
want me to do it?
CC We'll be scheduling that for tomorrow, A1.
CDR Okay, so I shouldn't plan to do any TV inventory
today. Is that correct?
CC Th
a
t's correct.
252 14 3_-36 CDR Okeydoke.
252 14 40 07 CC PLT, Houston. For info, I didn't get it up to you.
We had a subfaint flare around 12:50 in that
new active region 24, and we've now updated the
flare probability to 510 for that region.
252 i_ 40 24 PLT Okay. I oticed it's about the brightest thing
there so far and the PMEC has been fluctuating a
little bit, but not too much. So it's not giving
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us a whole lot at the moment, but like you say,
it might. We'll keep w_tching it.
252 lh 45 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll
be coming up on Carnarvon at 13.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
252 15 13 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Carnarvon and
Honey - Honeysuckle for 15 - 15 minutes. Make
that l_ mintues.
CDR Okay.
252 15 14 14 CC And, Skylab, Houston. Whenever someone's free,
we'd like to swap our 150 PSI N2, REGs again on
panel 225 to OPEN, REG A, and CLOSE; REG B,
whenever it's convenient.
CDR How about right now?
CC Okay. That'll be fine.
SPT Say, Hank, could you confirm that the TV is re-
wound and available for ur use now?
CC We're discussing that now, Jack.
SPT Okay. That was wen calling. And I don't really
need it now. I Just wanted to make
s
ur
e
that
whenever we got around to doing that TV, that it
was ready; there's no hurry.
CC Okay, Owen. We - We'll be in good shape with that
by the time we get ready for TV-54, if that's
what your question's about.
SPT Yes. I was thinking I might have a chance to
start it early, but I didn't want to do it until
I'd checked with you and it sounds like I better
w
a
it until I get th
e
word from you.
CC Okay. We don't have quite a full VTR ready for
you. If you do it on time, we'll have the full
30 minutes available for you. If you - if you
do it earlier, you - we won't have a full re-
corder for you. I think we've only got about
23 mintues remaining now.
SPT Okay. That's fine. There's plenty things for
me t do until thattimecomes.
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CC
S
kyl
a
b, H
o
ust
o
n. I
n a
nswer t
o
t
h
e que
s
ti
o
n the
CDR h
ad
e
a
rli
e
r
on
t
h
e
ha
ndh
e
l
d
phot
os
, w
h
at we're
doing is each day on the details, we're scheduling
those that .we think would be good for that day.
However, we would like to rely on your good Judg-
ment in - in - also in taking the photos. If you
see one of the sites that is wide open and the
weather's good, go ahead and take it. However,
we - as CDR hinted too, we don't want to overkill
the thing, either.
CDR Okay. Understand.
CDR
S
ay, Ha
n
k, m
a
ybe
s
omeb
od
y down there knows his
history fairly well. We were looking out the
window as we whistled over Switzerland awhile ago,
and a discussion came up as to how Hannibal got
from Spain to Italy. And one field of thought
was that he went over to Switzerland, near Geneva,
and then cut through the Alps that way. The other
one was that he didn't go up that far north - that
he'd cut through, sort of along the - not along
the coast, but only about I00 miles inland, right
directly into Italy. Does anybody know he answer
to that ?
252 15 18 _5 @C
W
e'll check ar
ou
nd.
CDR We thought maybe he might have gone south of Turin
into Italy from there. But we didn't know.
CC I don't know which way he went, but as I recall,
it's the same route that Napoleon used going over
into Italy.
CDR Okay. Maybe somebody can look that one up. Now
he came from
F
r
a
nce, he c
o
uld've come either way.
He c
o
uld've c
o
me the s
o
uthern r
o
ute
o
r he c
o
uld've
kind of detoured right adjacent to Switzerland
and over the norther routes. Whichever - what -
Reason we were wondering is w looked down in
there, and it looked like there wa a nice route
through the Alps from Geneva, that it looked like
there was al - There's a road there and it looked
like wide area, natural roadway almost all the
way. Where it didn't look that way over towards
the southerly route.
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C o o e o e o o
FAD on that one. They suggested Swissalr.
_R Those elepb-_ts won't fit. Well, maybe they
would in a 747; I don't know.
252 15 23 46 CC Skylab, for info, active region 24 produced a
subnormal at 14:50. It m_xed out a out 14:56.
CDR Okay.
SPT Which active region, Hank?
CC Roger. Active region - new active region 24.
That's a - a pretty interesting region, ther .
In its relationship with active region 19, we
might be getting ready to get some big things out
of those two groups. They look like they're pretty
close together and interacting.
SPT Sounds good. All we need now is a little more
a
ctivity, it's been
s
o quiet in the l
a
st few weeks.
CDR Like bringing two slugs of uranium together, huh?
252 15 24 _2 CC Yes, hat's probably a pretty good analogy.
252 15 28 12 CC Skylab, Houston; I minute to LOS. We'll come up
on MLA at 01.
252 16 01 _5 CC Skyl b, Houston, through MLA and Bermuda for
10-1/2 min tes.
C_R Okay. I noticed we got I_-K on our housekeeping
list today, and I don't have one of those listed
in my housekeeping book.
CC We'll check it.
CDR I got a 7-K for checking out the temps of the gyros.
MCC I don't have that on mine -
CC We may have _ad a - a misprint on your Flight
Plan there, A1. We indicate it should be
a
7-K,
a 14 Echo, a 14 Hotel, and a 28 Mike.
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CDR May be; let me see now. I got a S-K, a 14 Ech ,
and a 14-K. You thi_k - and then a 20 Mike. What
did you say that 14-K ought to be?
CC Wow! ou missed all the way. The housekeeping
should be 7 Kilo, 1 Echo, 14 Hotel, and 28 Mike.
What - what is your message number there, Al?
CDR Oops! Well, maybe I'm - Let me look.
CDR Says 4401A3.
CC Those items should have been on the second page,
and the second page should be an Alfa 2.
CDR Just a second. Let me get this started again and
I'll be with you.
CDR Okay. I took a look at Owen's and his is a little
bit different than mine. He's got 7-K, 14-E, 14-H.
Mine says 14-K, and then it says - Mine says 20-M
and Owen's says 28-M, but everything else is the
same. So omehow I get sent the wrong pad or
something.
CC Okay - -
CDR Everything else, the off-duty time and all that
other business is the same.
CC Well, Owen 's pad is correct.
CDR First time this has ever happened that we know of.
Maybe I never caught - Maybe I've been doing
some hou ekeeping - MJ_vbe that accounts for that
one time we didn't change the charcoal canister.
We got to talking about it and asked you and you
mentioned that we did it a week ago. Not to you,
someone else. And, man, I couldn't figure out
where it came up. So that's strange. I've also
noticed that my - Well, the only difference is
the 20 - 14-M. I go_ l_-K and owen's got 14-H.
252 16 07 _5 CC And understand Owen has 28-M and that is correct.
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CDR Yes. The next to the last one on his is 14-H and
mine is i_- 0kay. ThAn_ you. I see where m_
problem is. My left half of my '_I"didn't print
and the right half did and it's next to the pa-
renthesis and so it made a K. Okeydoke. I'ii
whistle up there and do I_-H in a few_minutes.
CC Okay. And let me - let me verify now that you
say you got a 20-M rather than 28M?
CDR I Just didn't say the right words. In fact, we've
already done it. But we got it running right; I
Just didn't say the right word.
CC Okay. And for i fo, we'll be crubbi g EREP 1
this afternoon. The - the weather Just won't
cooperate.
CDR Okay.
CC And the only changes require to the pad is de-
lete any reference to a back-to-back pass. And
on the VT/S run, we've told you not to use the
DAC, but we'
d
like to le
a
ve th
a
t to your optio
n
.
You can go ahead and use it.
CDR Okay. We're going to use it, then.
CC CDR, Houston. We have an addition o your
maneuver pad, t_t_13message.
CDR You call, Hank?
CC Roger; for the CDR.
CDR Go ahe
a
d then, Hank.
CC Okay. On your maneuver pad, in the remarks, there,
we say we will give you a TACS inhibit time if
EREP 19 is scrubbed. And since it's scrubbed, we
got the time for you if you're ready to copy.
CDR Just a second, Jack's getting his pad. He - It
really belonged to him; I gave it to him. The
_T/8 man does the maneuvers.
CC 0kay.
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252 16 ll 27 CDR He's getting it out.
9
252 16 ii 39 PLT Which pad number is it, H nk?
CC Okay, 4413"Alfa. That's the first maneuver pad
for the EBEP 18.
PLT Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. Down the li - Down the middle of the pad,
there's a TACS inhibit time and in the remarks,
we tell you we'll give you new one if we scrub 19,
and the new time is 252:21:_9, zip, zip.
252 16 12 05 PLT Okay. I got it. Thank you.
252 16 12 08 CC And we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll be
coming up on Madrid at 16.
252 16 16 02 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for l0 minutes.
And for infor_ tion, there's a urge in progress
out of active region lO, over on the we t limb.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. I have all of your private
phone calls set up for this evening.
PLT ThA_ you, Han_
CC Whenever you're free to copy the sites, Just give
me a buz .
CDR Okay. What you got for the CDR?
CC Okay. G1,amat O :15.
CDR Thank you.
PLT Go ahead for Jack, H,n_.
CC Okay, Jack. Honeysuckle at 21:53.
PLT 21:53. ThAnk you.
SPT Okay. I'll take mine, too.
CC Carnarvon at 01:02.
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SPT Thank you.
CC And, Skylab, for info, we're training your re-
placements here today. We got a whole MDCR full
of folks.
CDR Who'd you s
a
y wa
s
t
h
ere, H
a
n
k
?
CC We're running a fllm with Jerry's crew today and
I was Just saying that we got a full MOCR. Got
two team_ in here.
252 16 18 54 CDR I bet you do. I got an extra 12 minutes. I'll
go over a d look at that surge. Does the backroom
have any desires on what they'd like me to run
w en I get there?
CC Stand by i.
CDR I doubt you can see it.
CC Say again, AI.
CDR You can see something above the limb right there.
l'm not sure you can't see it move. l'm going
to have to look at it a little bit more.
252 16 22 24 @C CDR, Houston. We'd like for you to run shopping
list item n,,_ber 2 on active region i0. Omit 54.
And the exposure time for the two 82B exposures
are 40 seconds.
CDR Okay. That's J st where I was, as a matter of
fact. Thanks.
CDR You said 40 seconds?
252 16 22' 53 CC Roger; 40.
252 16 23 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS ; Carnarvon
at 49.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
252 16 48 4i CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon, Honeysuckle,
15minutes.
CDR Okay. I could give you the temps of the rate
gyros, if you like them.
CC Go ahead.
252 16 49 09 CDR Okay. By the way, the - we've changed the air flow
up there slightly be narrowing the duct opening
a
s opposed -youknow, adjusting it to
na
rro
w
inste
a
d of wide bec
a
u
s
e it wa
s
getting f
a
irly ool
to operate the ATM panel. So you might note some
changes in the temps here. X-5, 978; X-6, 959;
Y-5, 985; Y-6, 94h; Z-5, 1015; Z-6, 1004.
C We copy.
CC And while we're on the subject, CDR, the e is a
message 4442 on board for rate gyro six-pack temp
measurements all over the whole package. And in
regard to three of those measurements, number l,
number 4, and number 7 as c
a
lled out in that pad,
we're advised that they may take longer than the
1 minute to stablize, and we Just wanted to - to
make you aware of that. It may take up to 3 min-
•utes, they think, for the temps to stabilize out.
We want - And those particular measurements, we
want to be very sure that we have a good stable
temperature on measurements number l, 4, and 7 on
the pad.
CC CDR, Houston. Did you copy in regard to the
six-pace mea - measurements?
CDR I copied the i, 4, 7 and replied that didn'
appear to make thermal sense to us since it - We
though that the delay was in the sensor as op-
posed to the box.
CC The rationale behind the - the request, A1, was
that - that we - we _we realize that the delay
is in the sensor, but the steps l, 4, and 7 start
you on a - a series of similar temperatures. And
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the thinking was that once on the first measure-
ment in each group, that once th probe got to
that temperature, that the others ought go go a
little faster.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Since we're only doing one EREP
today, houseke ping 84L-1 will not be required.
Later on, we will probably give you an OCV (?)
adjustment.
252 16 55 34 CDR Okay. We'll be ready.
252 17 03 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS; Texas
at 35.
252 17 35 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're stateside for 14-1/2 minutes.
And we'll be dumping the recorder this site.
PLT Okay, Hank. And we Just thought of two things that
Jerry might ought to think abo t bringing up. One
we seem to need around here is a whetstone to keep
our knives sharp. Another thing is something to
clean the smudges off the windows with; water Just
doesn't do the trick. After awhile, why, you can
get a handprint or something on it and Just smear
it around .
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR And another question: I noticed there's a sensi-
tometry advance on the pad for our REP today.
Is this the first time we've used this load of
film?
CC That 's affirmative.
C And, also, CDR, the - Since it is a new set of
film, you might be aware of the possibility of
getting some real lights until the f_Im gets all
tightened up.
CC And _ SPT, Houston. We have your Flight Plan to
do the T50 - TV-54 for your magnetic torques
demo on the next nightside pass. And we're
considering icalling up the elevision circuits
so that this can be used on nationwide TV tonight,
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nd we'd need to know if you think you'll get to
it. We'll only be able to dump the first 8 minutes
of the tape in time for use tonight. And so it
would be best not to start the VTRuntil you have"
your magnets all set up.
SPT Okay. Yes, I can get at it. And don't want to
mislead you about what t e demonstration is. It's
not the magnetic torques demonstration that is
in the Flight Plan, but a demonstration of magnetic
effects with the small magnets, so make sure that's
understood. And I can get at it if you like. And
one other comment. Just before sunrise, we had a
fairly good aurora down in the Astraliaa zone
looking to the - to the south out STS window
number 3. The color was tending to be yellowish-
_ brown, apparently had a little more red in it
than some of the other auroras.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT And we have some photographs of it, too, of course.
CC And, SPT, as a remin er, we need a NuZ update.
SPT I thank you. I had it on my mind, but I forgot it
when we got to talking there.
252 17 3!;ll CC And, Skylab, Houston. We did a little research
here on Hannibal. And with the help of Dr. James
A. Tinsley, Head of University of Houston's History
Department, we contacted Dr. Robert Geisberg,
Professor in the University of Houston - Houston
History Department, and also Dr. Katherine Drew,
who's chairman of the Rice University History
Department. And they provided the following
information: They said that - which pass Hannibal
took from France to Italy has never been clearly
identified by historians. The most probable
locations for the crossing of the Alps by Hannibal
in 218-217 B.C. were the Little Saint Bernard Pass
which is at 7178-foot altitude, and the Col de
Montgenevre Pass - I suppose that's the way you
say that, I'm not sure - And it's 6089 feet. And
both of those passes go into the upper courses of
the Po River system. Most hi torians tend to
believe it was the latter, he Col e Montgenever
Pass, hich is about 50 miles west-southwest of
of Turin, and 95 miles south-southeastof Geneva.
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SPT That's very interesting, Hank. We'll have to
check our m_ps since those two paths are not
imme
d
iately obvious_ to
m
e at a
n
y r
a
te. A
n
d there
was [sic] several very good valleys or passes
through the mountains there that were looking at.
And we'll see if we can identify those two
aternatives on our - on our chart.
CC Okay. I can give you he coordinates for those
passes if that'll help
SPT Not at least for the moment. Let us take a look
at the map again, and if we have another question
maybe call you ban
k
. A
nd
I
a
ppreciate all the
extra research done there. Don't feel quite
so badly about not having it on the tip of m_ tongue
after the effort youseemed to have gone through
to dig the informationout.
CC And I was wrong about Napoleon. He used the Great
Saint Bernard Pass.
SPT What time is that r al-tlme dump you were interested
in, Hank?
CC Stand by 1.
CC SPT, Houston. We would be dumping that on the
next stateside p ss which will be coming up at
about 19:10.
SPT Maybe I didn't understand wheth r you not [sic]
you wanted it on tape before 19:10 or you wanted
to do it real time without putting it on the tape.
CC Negative. We want to get it on the VTR but we -
we would only be able to dump about the first
8 minutes of it on the next stateside. See, we
have to get it d
o
wn so the news can edit it.
252 17 _3 32 SPT Okay. And you want it before then 19:10. Okay,
I think I can make it.
CC If - You know, if you do it on schedule we'll be
fat.
SPT Okay. And I'ii remember to try to compress it.
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S Ho on. h e o d
settings for you for - prior to EREP.
CDR Go ahead. Do you want us to put those in there
now?
252 17 45 02 CC Anytime prior to EREP. And be sure you mark the
original settings before you move them. And we
wa
nt to turn REF ADJU
S
T BU
S
l, if you can estimate
this, 19 degrees clockwise and BUS 2, 18 degrees
clockwise.
252 17 45 27 CDR We can do it. And we'll go do it right now.
252 17 49 07 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Madrid at 54.
CDR Okay, Hank. They're both adjusted. EGIL might
have noticed that I overshot on 2 and put it at
19 first, but I put it back to 18.
CC Okay. Thank you. He
sa
id he noticed that.
252 17 54 04 CC Skylab, Houston through Madrid for 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR I was Jus looking over this EREP down-link VOX
connection. As you know, we've got two dots there,
kind of an orange one and kind of a - We've got
four total, but one of them is sort of orange;
the other one is sort of violet. And it tells
us to use a red dot, which is right next to them
when they've got the J 11mbers of the connectors.
I wonder which one the red one is they're thinking
of.
CC We'll check it.
CDR It's either J-3 or J-2. That might be a good
t ing to always put on the pad because they're
w itten right there and those two colors are
"pert near" the same.
CC J-2 should be the red one.
CDR Tw
o
,
o
keyd
o
ke
.
T
h
at's kind
o
f t
h o
range
o
ne
.
CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to run another CBRM
c eck on n11mber 18. You think you can get that
started this rev?
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252 17 56 33 CDR Okay, will do. 18, and you want us to check the
reg first and then we'll de - turn off the charger
at nightfall.
CC Roger. If'you'll check the regs prior to sunset
this pass, which is about 7-1/2 minutes from now,
a
n
d then Just follow your checklist. And some
time after sunset, we'll turn the reg off and
we'll try to have some times up for you here. The
note C E?_ time will be 20:13 Zulu.
CDR Okay. And I Just checked the reg a_d it checks
good.
CC Okay. And the sunset for step 1 is at 18:0_.
And sunrise for step 3 will be 18:40.
SPT Are you recording ATMTV now? Are you ready for
it, Hank?
252 17 57 31 CC We're ready for it. And you need to get your
switch to MDNITOR.
SPT Just went.
CC CDR, Houston. The reason we're doing another one
of these t ings is that the data we gotyesterday
on CBRM lO showed a capa ity a little lower than
we
h
ad exp cte d . And
so
w - we want to get a
third - That was our third data point on bat lO,
and we w
a
nt to get anoth
e
r
da
ta - third point
here on 18 and see what it does. And we're still
looking at it.
252 17 59 51 CDR Okay.
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SKYIAB AIR-TO-GEOLUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
252 18 00 55 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Carnarvon
at 29.
252 18 28 34 SPT - - explain it. If I put out two of these as
closely as I can together and then perturb it
with
a
third m
a
gnet, you'll see th
a
t they begin
to spin, principally about the long axis. There
I can make it spin about an axis perpendicular to
the rods. But for the most part, they end up
spinning about the minimum inertia axis. Like that.
You'll see it spins about the long axis. Now,
alternatively, when I put three out here and align
it with the vi w and then perturb it - Have to
bring th m back in where I can view it more
carefully.
252 18 29 19 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 4-1/2 minutes,
and we hear you recording or something there, Owen.
SPT Okay. I think, HAn_, we have channels A and B
t ed together already, and so I'm Just completing
the oice part of the VTR tape right now. So
you'll probably continue to hear me, but it'll
be on the _'I'_.
CC Okay.
SPT - - three magnets, we see that the principal oscil-
l
a
tion turns out to be in a plane perpendicular to
the plane of those three magnets. Okay, we'll
look one more time at the period of oscillation
here for a single magnet.
252 18 30 13 SPT And then when we connect the two magnets together,
endwise, the period is much longer. And we can
extend that even to three - three rods if we like.
And there the period is very clear and can be
-_ measured rather accurately. And it's worth the
calculation to find out whether or not you can
c_npute how strong the Earth's field is up here
at the altitude of Skylab, or you can - if you
already know that, you can get the inertia of these
rods that we're using as our little compass Now
I'ii try this perturbation of magnets that we
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were looking at a moment ago. And whe_ we put
out two of the rods, we know that they aren't
going to align with the Earth's field very
strongly; we can perturb them with a third magnet.
An
d
when we do, they te
nd
to oscill
a
te about the
long - they tend to rotate about the long axis of
this pair of magnets. However, when we couple
them with a third _-gnet, so we put the three
out here together in sort of a flat configuration,
they, of course, llne up with the Earth's field,
right off. And we try to perturb them with a
third magnet, which we - or with a fourth magnet,
which we can do; they end up producing a flat
s
pin. And the expl
an
atio
n
for that i
s s
o
m
ethi
n
g
that l'm not aware of, and that was a puzzle to
me when I first saw it here the other day. And
perhaps you can talk that over in your science
classes and figure out a good explanation.
252 18 32 30 SPT Yes. Hello, Hank. You still with me there?
CC Roger.
SPT Okay. We've got about 8 or i0 minutes o the VTR
here, and we'll rewi
n
d it, if you like, or you
can do it
on
t
he
gr
o
u
n
d, and - y
ou
're r
e
ady t
o
dump.
CC Are you going to put any more on it, (>wen?
SPT No, I think I've sort of condensed it down o the
point where it's ready to be dumped.
252 18 33 05 CC Okay. Why don't you go head and give us a rewind
then. And we're about a minute from LOS; we ay
have us a short pass through Honeysu kle here at
40. If we don't get that, then we'll be at Texas
at lO past the hour.
SPT Okay. Then I guess you're going to dump it over
the next CONUS pass, right?
CC That 's - that 's affirmative.
SPT 0kay. Fine.
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252 18 33 31 CDR Okay, Hank, we' e Just started the charger check
on 18. I Just turned off the charger and also
tur
n
ed off - put the VTR i
n
rewi
n
d, so it'
s
rewinding right now.
CC Okay. Thank you, A1.
252 18 40 09 CDR CDR out. That's for EREP.
252 18 40 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you for about
a minute and a half through Honeysuckle.
PLT Okay, Hank. How do you like the volts and
Z,LV m-neuver?
CC That looks good to us.
PLT Thank you.
252 18 40 52 SPT Hello, Hank. The film cassette CIl02 in Nikon 03
is now up to frame 63, and I'd like to get it
changed so that we can catch the aurora on the
next pass. Just missed a couple of good shots of
the aurora here due to that TV program, and I
think w
e s
hould h
a
ve an
o
ther
g
o
o
d view of it
the next rev. If you can give me a new chaugeout,
I '11 change the film.
CC Okay, that was 102 in Nikon 2?
SPT It was the Nikon 03 - -
CC 03.
SPT - - it's CII02.
252 18 41 31 PLT Say, Hank, I noticed that we're going right over
Lansing, Michigan, which is one of our sites, and
since the weather is bad there that's why we're
not doing one, is that correct?
CC That 's affirmative.
PLT Thank you.
252 19 09 47 PLT - - ... in a coastal stratus cross cloud, ...
stratus clouds, nice flat thi g. Just see a few
little blue channels i
n
it, very f
a n
tly blu
e
.
Y Okay, let's get off of that one.
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252 19 i0 12 CC Skylab, we're -_king you for 16 minutes stateside.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay. Th re's some more coastal stratus.
252 19 l0 21 CDR A-2 is 93 percent, B-_ was 98, C-1 m,v was 87.
PLT I'm on my secOnd group of co - coastal stratus
clouds. Picked the point.
252 19 ll 08 CDR READY is out. READY is on again, we go out at
ll:32. And we 're going to record A-1, A-2, B-1,
and C-I - C-4.
PLT Okay, we're coming down through 15, which is
where we're getting the good data.
252 19 ll 36 CDR Okay, READY out. A-l, 54; A-2, 93; B-l, 45; C-4,
98. 93 A to STANDBY; MODE to 1. 12:36, we got
to go 192 MODE to READY.
PLT I got you some coastal stratus; I'll try to find
some more.
PLT There's some more coastal stratus for you.
252 19 ]2 36 CDR Okay, 192 Just went MODE, READY.
B_T ...
252 19 12 45 CDR AUTO, 12:49. MODE, AUTO. 13 down-link box to 3.
25, 13:00, dOwn-link box to 3.
252 19 13 00 CDR MARK. Down-l_nk box went to 3. READY light out,
13:14. Do the ... Down-link box, 13:2h to 5.
PLT Okay, space fans. We Just crossed the tip of
BaJa. We're coming up over Mexico. Over the Big
Bend country. You're at the Bend of the Rio Grande.
And then we're coming up over - Just north of
Fort Worth-Dallas, up over St. Louis, Detroit, and
up throu h Canada.
252 19 13 50 CDR Okay. Switch position 7 on the down-link box.
We have two real lights in the 190 and that's
a 5 and 6, but we're not wnrried about them.
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at 14 :30.
PLT Okay. And hang on to it for a minute and 20 seconds.
252 19 ll_ 12 CDR MARK. Down-link box at twel - position 9 now.
_T Some - some uniform site with clouds, I guess is
what they're looking for. Think we ought to
try it here
CDR Okay. 32,3,h,5,6 -
252 19 14 37 CDR MODE, CHECK on 192. 190 is MODE, STANDBY ; FRAME, 7.
PLT Okay. We're going to pick that hole in the clouds
right there.
252 19 14 47 CDR INTERVA//)METER i0, 15 minutes; 193 , ON.
PLT Big 0., there's an airfield down there. I don't
know where it is.
252 19 15 O1 CDR MARK. 193 A, ON. C, 20; MODE, SINGLE on 190.
PLT I'm going to pick a uniform brown site to track
at the moment, and then later om I'll pick a
uniform green site. Very near some city, and I
don't know what it is. But it's got an airfield.
252 19 15 20 CDR MARK. SINGLE.
PLT I'm going through gimbal 30, and I want somebody
to tell me where that city is.
252 19 15 28 PLT MARK. GIMBAL' up 30.... Tell me what that city
is. I know exactly where we're tracking. I'm
tracking that brown field at the moment, a brown
im_ form site.
CDR 15:40 -
252 19 15 hl CDR MARK. Okay, record A-2 and C-h; A-2, 92 ; C-4, 99
or 98; hard to tell; C, 46; 192, MODE, READY.
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PLT Got a hole in the clouds. That's what we're
shooting through. Okay. I tracked them. I move
up here a little bit and get a green site. Nice-
looking. There's a green site. Okay, l'm tracking
the green site now, Houston. l'm
n
ow on the green
one. We're going through 20 - minus 20, that is.
Okay, there, we're off it. Okay, 7:20 for the
next. Up to h5 to find a thunderstorm.
252 19 16 46 CD MARK. MODE, READY at 192. SINGLE on 190.
PLT Yes, and the weather ain't much good down there,
Hank.
CC Sounds good.
PLT Huh?
CC You say it's nb good?
PLT Not much good. No, like - Just like you said, - -
CDR SINGLE, 1 ...
PLT - - weather =11 ac oss the track.
CDR We think.
PLT Few holes here and there.
CDR 17:20, another single. Another single.
252 19 17 2h CDR 17:20; MODE, CHECK.
PLT Or I don't - don't see a thunde storm. Look around
here a little bit.
252 19 17 31 CDR 17:32. MODE, SINGLE. That's it. Another single.
MODE, AUTO at 18: 23. Okay.
PLT I don't see a thunderstorm, Hank.
%-
CC We copy.
PLT Got a lot of high cirrus. Might be one under there
somewhere, and can't see much of the ... We'll
keep looking. We've got another couple of minutes
to look - it says here.
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252 19 18 24 CDR Okay. MO E, AUTO.
252 19 18 39 CDR FILM ADVANCE MALFUNCTION lights 5 and 6 remain on.
A]] the others are out.
CC PLT, our best guess is you may have been looking
at Abilene.
PLT Okay, tb_.n_ yoU.
CDR STANDBY at 19.
CDR Stand by.
252 19 19 02 CDR S to STANDBY and R to STANDBY. Everything's
ready. 19 :30, READY sha - Should be out.
PLT Okay, and Lansing is clear, and I got the site.
CC Good show.
CDR ... 19 ... --
PLT I said the heck with the thunderstorm, if you don't
mind. We're trans - or tracking site 535. No
question about it.
252 19 19 26 CDR 190. 19:30, READY out.
PLT I got the slip around the bigger scale than that.
CDR 19 :50. 192 MODE, READY.
PLT We got - still got a - 15 gimbals to go until we
get to zero. I got the DAC going.
252 19 19 _9 CDR ... MODE, READY. MODE, READY.
PLT It's all the way in.
CDR 190 to STANDBY and FRAMES ... - -
PLT And we're taking data.
CDR VAL(_l_ER, 20.
PLT Had to hunt around a little, but I found it.
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CDR 20 ...
PLT Found my old hometown of Grand Ra ids, first, and
ran down the. highway.
252 19 20 08 CDR 20:53 is 190 MODE, AUTO.
PLT S y "hello" to all the fo ks at the university of -
Michigan State University. Lansing, the capital
of my home state. Michigan tate University is
second big - second-best school in the big 10.
252 19 20 27 CDR 190 MODE to -
PLT Home of the Spartans. Fighting Spartans have only
been bitten by fighting wolverines at the
University of Michi an. Okay. Let me see if I can
find you a thunderstorm now, H,nk.
CC Okay.
CDR -- ... 20:53.
PLT ... up Lake Ontario at the moment but there's no
... here. I've never seen thunderstorms there at
all. I'd rather have Lansing anyway. Wouldn't
you? That's _ guys best, better.
252 19 20 54 CDR MODE, AUTO on 190; 191 is REF, 2. Record A-2 and
C-4. I think I can do that.
CDR A is ready.
PLT Thunderstorms are all d ssip
a
ted at end of cover ...
CDR But I'll take Lansing any day, Hank.
CDR 21:30 is 190 SHUTTE SPEED, MEDIUM.
PLT Okay, Z-LV is what time? 34. You got all kinds
of time.
252 19 21 31 CDR SHUTTER SPEED gone to MED UM. 21:52 MODE to STANDBY.
PLT How' d you like a little data on one of these lakes
up here? Kind of a - some data on one of these lakes,
then l'd know what one it is. Taking data on a lake
right now, Hank. And t at's minus 26.
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CDR Okay, stand by - -
PLT Swathing it now.
CDR - - on 192.
SPT Should be Ontario.
CDR 22 :40 - -
PLT Okay, we took so
m
e data on Lake Ontario, there,
Hank.
252 19 22 02 CDR 22:40; READY out.
PLT Let me swing up here and see if I can find anything
else to take some data on. Copying, Hank?
CC Say again, Jack?
PLT We Just took some data on Lake Ontario.
CC Roger. We copy.
PLT I'm going to take some data on the uniform green
areas. Whoops' I ran out of gimbals. I can't
do that. Find something else here.
252 19 22 41 CDR 190 to STANDBY.
P_T Aw beck' All I see is clouds. Anyway, I'll take
you some data on cirrus clouds. I'm at gimbal
angle 45 and coming down, right now, on some cirrus
clouds, Hank. That's Just for the - have somebody
mark the time. That was 23 minutes.
CC Copy.
PLT And think l'm about where the area is and where
it appears on the data. I guess we're going to
miss hu ting season this year, Hank. And this is
kind of the thought - the best thing that mAZes
up for it. Just to hunt around for extra VTS sites.
CC Roger.
PLT You better - you better shoot me some of those
doves down at Vero this year. Okay?
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CC If th y're left there.
PLT Say "hello" to our old buddy, Don Trimson [?]. Okay.
CC Will do.
PLT Okay, I took you some - I still got time. I'm
going to do some data on clear water. Okay, they
were -
252 19 2_ 13 PLT MARK. We're at gimbal 5, taking data on clear
water.
CDR The Atlantic Ocean.
PLT Yes.
252 19 2h 23 CDR Think, we're not sure. S, ON; R, ON; and A, OFF.
25-
PLT All this time the DAC is off. There is no
documentation as you requested. But I J st want
you g_ys to know what's going on this S191, so that •
you'll be able to interpret the data. We're still
on blue water.
PLT First college footb_11 games yesterday, huh, Hank?
252 19 25 01 CDR S, ON; R, ON; A, OFF.
CC Right, they had a few of them. I guess Nebraska -
UCLA was the big one.
PLT Yes, I heard .... they sure wait a long time to
go Z- V. Okay, I'm done taking data on blue
water. But I'll take it - like here.
252 19 25 28 CC Okay, we're about 1 minute frc_ LOS and we'll be
coming up on Madrid at S1 with the recorder dump.
MS Okay.
PLT Taking sc_e more data on stratus over the Atlantic
here, Hank. Start now. Be there - oh, I'd say
there's stratus. Gimbal 36, cc_ing down. ,Yes,
they're a wavy stratus, see them pretty good now.
They've got a lot of vri_les in them.
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CDR Say, H.nk. Does the _ officer see any reason .
to take out the agazine on these back-to-back
passes on the ETC?
SPT N
o
backrt
o
-back.
PLT Back-to-back cancelled.
252 19 26 34 CDR You read me, 0.? He's departed for Madrid. He's
making a fast trip to Madrid to meet us there.
252 1
9
26 59 PLT Okay, for the recor
d
this is the VTS operator
S
191
.
W
e're taking data on a stratus over the Atl
a
ntic.
It's a very lazy pattern - -
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SEY AB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
252 19 30 52 PLT - - data over the Atlantic Just ... in the water -
blue water down there. Nothing different. Not
enough to get any data, but at least you can
calibrate our instrument a little it. Up to
gimbal i0. Since we were over Abilene back there,
we'll look that up.
CC Skylab, Houston. We didn't see any AUTO CAL on
the 1
9
1
.
Di
d
you get o
n
e of those?
CDR Sure did.
CC Copy.
SPT Give you another one if you want it.
P_T I had the DATA pushbutton depressed part of that
time, Hank. Should we redo it?
CC Stand by I.
f
PLT Say again.
CC Stand by.
PLT Okay.
252 19 31 34 PLT Taking data over the Atlantic and the blue water.
We've taken a bunch of different kinds of clouds,
a cumulus buildup, a couple stratus layers with
waffle - weave patterns in them, linear features
in them. Okay, - -
252 19 31 49 PLT MARK. That's the end of that.
LT And now we're going to take some more data in this
high thin cirrus .... we're taking data in the
cirrus.
252 19 32 06 PLT MARK. It's almost sunset.
CC That AUTO CAL was okay.
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PLT Okay. All right, it looks - the dat isn't too
much good because it's the wrong Sun angle, but
we'll take it anyway.
CDR TAPE RECORDER was ON. They must be dumping.
Ok
a
y .... - -
PLT They 're ...
CDR Dumping the tape recorder, or has it Just reached
the end of its roll?
CC It's a data voice dump.
CDR Okay.
PLT No, right in the middle of a voice pass.
CDR 33 :50. .
PLT 19 ..•
252 19 32 43 SPT Hank, that was 71 frames for the EREP officer on
the ETC. And I notice there's no stow on my
schedule. Do you want to leave that in the window
until tomorrow?
CREW (Chuckling)
PLT We got a freebie on that one.
CDR Yes, it was a great one.
SPT Hello, Hank. Did you read my last?
CC That's affirmative. We wer checking, Owen, and
we do want to leave it in the window.
SPT Thank you.
PLT How do you like the load time for the maueuver
back to SI, HAn_?
CC It looks good to us.
PLT Okay. We're standing by, ready to go.
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I got my eye on the switch.
252 19 33 53 CDR R, OFF; S, OFF; R, OFF. You're getting ready to
start the SI maneuver.
PLT Yes, sir. Three seconds.
CDR And I'm goin to ... switch to OFF.
PLT Now mine.
CDR EHEP, STOP.
CC 0kay.
CDR That's it.
PLT No mibs. No mibs in and no mibs out.
CDR They will now dump this tape recorder.
CDR Download it, offload it and all that other. Okay.
Voice reco d B-7. B-7 is B1 percent. 192 DOOR
to CLOSE. Close and latch 190 window. Can you
latch it on that side, Jack?
PLT Yes, sir. Hank, on that Lansing site, I picked a -
There's several different fields in that area,
and I picked the biggest one as a request and it
was on the south ide of the site. I'd say it
was the southwest side of the site. And it was
a dark green field.
CC We copy.
252 19 34 59 PLT For the groundtruth people. What the heck are
they growing down there that's green this time
of the year? Alfalfa, maybe? Maybe it was that
guy's hayfield. Might have been a hayfield, Hank.
PLT Of course this is only September. The corn ought
to be - I don't ihink the corn's probably green
anymore .... his wheat is in by now. We're on
our way. The next thing is TACS INHIBIT at 21:49.
2 49,I copyonthe TACSINHIBI ,Hank.
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CC That's affirmutive.
252 19 36 14 PLT Okay. Got my little plus or minus 2-minute timer.
CDR End of tape_
CDR Another AUTO CAL on 191. Then I wait for POWER,
OFF in 2 minutes and 26 seconds.
PLT Okay. I'ii see what _=-_ wants me to do with this
VTS business.
PLT Black out there now. Wow. Okay. Zero zero on the
gimbals.
252 19 37 47 CDR Hank, on this new procedure for turning off 190
and then one where we give her an AUTO CAL and
then 2 minutes and 26 seconds later go to POWER,
OFF. Is that .2/26 Critical or could it he 2/30
or 40?
CC Stand by i. I'ii get you a answer on that.
PLT It's supposed to be right on the money. But, I
think it's - -
CDR Th
a
t's what I think.
B
ut I
d
o
n
't think their
counter's good.
PLT - - 4 - 4 seconds or so off.
CDR I think it's only for - during storage, during
the last time we do it. That's why I was wondering.
PLT No, it's supposed to be that amount of time every
time.
CDR Every time, huh?
PLT Every blinking time. Right.
252 19 B8 23 CC CDR, that has to be done on time, because that's
what parking that ..., I think.
CDR That's kind of what I was wondering." We'll get
it. Approaching 2 minutes right now. 2/26, we're
going to park it.
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CDR Fifteen of it.
PLT You get - you're supposed to get a READY light
when it 's done.
252 19 39 01 CDR MARK. No, you don't.
PLT Oh, that's right.
CDR Just when it _nished.
CDR Okay, and completed. And we turned that off. I
noticed I cycled the POWER switch on 190 before
I did the four frames, and 5 and 6 still came on.
So, apparently, the e 's still something a little
strange there. We'll count the counters and see
how they did.
252 19 39 21 CC Okay. And we're about i minute from LOS. We'll
b coming up on Honeysuckle at 7. And for the
SPT, he can use Charlie India 104 for that Nikon.
And from the f_Im reports we've had the previous
days, we think that 103 was the one that was on
there.
SPT Okay. I'II check to mRke sure. We might have
not located ... 104's t e new one.
252 19 40 06 CC That's in drawer Hotel, incidentally.
252 20 17 37 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for 4-1 /2 min-
u es. And I have a - somethi g for the PLT.
PLT Go ahead, H_nlr.
CC Okay, when you finish up your J0P 6, step 2, here,
we're suggesting that you do some observations on
active region 24. And what we'd like for you to
do is, if it's okay with you, is to go to the
teleprinter fail J0P and do JO_ 2A, step-4 and
7. And I have some data here for you for those
JOPs when
e
ver it's conv nient for you to copy.
PLT Okay, l t me get this one going first, please.
CC Okay, I'll stand by for you.
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252 20 18 27 CC And for the CDR, or SPT, or whoeve 's free, we'd
like to return the REG ADJUST pots to the pre-EREP
setting.
SPT I think A1 's on his way up there, Hank. And while
Jack's waiting, let me mention a couple of things.
First of all, I Just did a misread. It was C10 -
CI103 in there. CI10h's now loaded in Nikon 03,
and we have an excellent southern aurora right
now. I've been getting a fair number of handheld
shots. Particularly this last pass, it was par-
ticularly outstanding. Greenish at low altitude,
shading into reds at the higher altitudes up around
200 - 250 kilometers. A lot of structures seen
in the arc, and vertical rays - a lot of structure.
I wonder if this wouldn't be a good time to at
least consider putting in the AMS and the S063
adapter and getting some horizon shots - while
we are in this period of high auroral probability
due to the flares that occurred a day and a half
or 2 days ago. Over.
CC Okay, we'll put that in the hopper.
252 20 19 29 SPT Okay, it'll have to be done fairly promptly, like,
probably sometime til - still this evening, if
not first thing in the morning, if e're going
to have a good chance at it.
CC And when it's convenient, PLT, we'd like to get
a readout on BAT 18 for correlation with the
telemetry. BAT VOLTS on 18.
CDR About 30 volts, and last night it came down to
about 28.1 and then the Sun came up. So that's
going to kick it off 5 or l0 minutes into the
next night.
CC Copy.
CC Skylab, Hou - -
PLT Hey, H_n_. I've got J0P 2 Alfa. I have it in
front of me, here.
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252 20 21 1
6
CC Okay,
on s
t
e
p 4 w
e
want to omit 82A
,
82
3
, and
5
4. On
s
t
e
p 7, emit 82A and
5
_. And t
he e
xpo
s
ur
es
for 82B are i0
s
eco
n
d
s
and 40 seco
n
ds
.
O
n 8
055
we want MIRROR, AUTO RASTER D_-I'ECTORSI, 2, 3, 4,
6, and 5, GRATING 2, 4, 3, 6.
PLT Okay, I understand you want me to run a building -
step 4 and a step 7. Is that corre t?
CC That 's affirmative.
PLT Okay, and omit 82A and B and 5_, and uthen c_it
82A an
d
5_
on
step 7.
CC hat' corr ct, and did you - did you copy the
exposures and the S055 data?
PLT Roger. i0 short, 40 short - i through 6, and
2_36.
CC That's affirmative. And we're Just about LOS.
We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 46.
PLT Okay, on t
h
e VT -
h
ow _many mi
n
utes you got yet?
CC We're Just about ready to go LOS.
252 20 22 51 PLT Okay, I'll t_l_ to you at Goldstone.
252 20 _5 52 CC Skylab, Houston, through Goldstone for 9-1 /2 min-
utes.
PLT Okay, H_, wanted to comment on VTS pad. No,
I didn t see that Toronto and St. Ls_rence S away
request until after I got done and started putting
my paperwork away, and that's because it showed
up on the remarks of - at the end of the Flight
Plan. Now anything like that ought to be on
the VTS operator's pads. And that way they won't
miss it. Over.
CC Okay, we copy.
CC PLT, Houston. We can't find w ere you're referring
to &bout the St. Lawrence Seaway?
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CC Okay, we got it now. It's right on the Flight
Plan itself. That's a bad place fo it.
PLT Say again, Hank.
CC Okay, I see where you're talking aboutnow.
252 20 48 17 PLT Yes, that's a place you don't ordinarily look for
VTS stuff. And It's really the same kind of -
exactly the same kind of data that appears on the
VTS pads for every other site we got. So I think
that's where it ought to he. That w_y we'll see
it.
CC Okay, now the - this ATOM's ... is per CDR's re-
quest, to put the sites on the pad the night be-
fore. Why it did not appear in the pass itself,
I don't know.
PLT Yes, I agree that's a good idea to have the sites
in there. However, it Just got overlooked and -
when it didn't appear on the VTS pad, I guess the
assumption was it was no longer a good one or
something like that.
252 20 49 i0 CC Okay, we dropped that one out on weather, Jack.
And I - Apparently, the weather did clear enough
for you to see it. But what we do is we send the
Flight Plan up, of course - like this evening,
we're sending one up and on it will be the sites
we think we're going to get tomorrow. Then over-
night - We find - If the weather has changed, we
_ may not put those in the detail pads.
PLT Okay, H-n_. I understand now. We don't want to
change that idea of putting the sites in the pads
before. That gives us a chance to research the
some, although I didn't do that last night because
I was Just too busy. But I understand how that
got dropped off now from weather, although I'm
not sure how the weather was in that area. So it's
Just misunderstanding about the point that the -
you canceled it overnight.
CC Roger.
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252 20 50 00 PLT I recognized that if you had wanted it on today,
you would have put it on the VTS pad then. So
everything is squared away like it was before I
said anything. So forget it, okay?
CC Okay, will do. And on the M518, control box,
we'd like to get t e C RTRIAGE T_P to HOT, 1.
PLT HOT,1.
CC And if you remember, SET, could you tell us what
the frame count wound p on ETC.
SPT Just a minute. 71, and I did call it down on the
channel A. I guess you didn't get it.
CC Okay, thank you.
252 20 51 09 CC And, CDR, Houston. During the EREP pass there,
did you happen to notice if - you said you had
a couple of miles on the stations 5 and 6. Did
i appear that the f_Im was dvancing in those
two cassettes, two cameras?
PLT Yes, sir. We checked them all afterwards. They
all said the same number of frames, Hank. S it
l oks like it's still unsmooth a little bit. Prob-
ably it'll - next time we drag it out, it'll be
better.
CC Okay, thank you. And in answer to SPT 's query
about doing the S063 on the orizon, we would
prefer not to do that because we're down to Just
a few frames of film remaining
SPT I as thinking of that, too. We could use the
CI f_Im in a CI camera.
CC Okay, we'll see how that goes through.
SPT ... CI.
252 20 52 14 CC And I have a general question in regard to the
battery lifetime on our digital thermometers.
We'd like to know what your technique i in taking
the readings with the thermometer. In other words,
how long and how m_ny times is the red pushbutton
depressed per measurement?
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CDR Okay, Hank. You got me Just when I was doing it
right behind the rate gyro pack. The - we punch -
we push it against the wall - the sensor bulb
against the wall, wait about 30 seconds, then
punch the button, hold the button down for l0 or
15 seconds while you watch the numbers. See if
the numbers have stabilized - Are they going up
or down or what they're doing. If they're stabi-
lized, then that's bout it. And then you take
the number and go to the next. If they're not,
you turn the button off and w_it for another
30 seconds and turn it on and check it again.
And if you w_nt to get increased accuracy, and
I don't think you really do, looks to me like
that the controlling thing for an accuracy is
getting that little end flat or having a flat
piece of me al you could push it against. But
you can go along and use the same technique.
q
252 20 53 52 CC The reason we're asking this question, A1, is
we're - we're told that the battery life is
approximately 20 m_nutes. And we re Just trying
to get a hand on the technique that the three of
you are using, on these measurements, so we can
get a guess at about how much battery life we've
used up.
CDR Here's a question for you. What happens when the
battery's used up? Does the light go out, or
does it give erratic readings or what?
CC Th light goes out.
252 20 54 21 CDR The light's not out yet, so everything's okay.
And my guess is that we've put 20 minutes almost
on at least one of them or maybe the two of them
together. So we don't, you know, we haven't been
making an attempt to Just use one instead of the
other and or anything else. They look like they're
working okay. I know that doesn't help somebody
trying to figure it out but we can start using
the same one all the time, if you want, we can keep
track of the time, if you want, but of course up
_ to now we haven't any more than we do the other
batteries we've got.
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PLT Hank, the 55 - 55 AUTO - MIRROR, AUTO RASTER or
MIBROR, LINE SCAN on 24:36?
CC MIRROR, AUTO RASTER.
PLT Ok
a
y, th
a
t's
w
h
a
t
w
e're giving them, t
ha
nks.
252 20 55 18 SPT And, Hank, would you ask Corollary to think about
the use of that CI film, please.
CC Okay, we're putting that in the - in the mill,
Owen.
252 20 55 29 CC And we're about to go LOS, and we'll be coming
up on Bermuda in 3 minutes.
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252 20 59 03 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda now, for 5 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 4 minutes.
252 21 00 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Bermuda for
3-1/2minutes now.
CC SPT, Houston. We're working the CI film request,
and we'd like to know if you need any tilt and
rotation help.
252 21 01 22 SPT Yes, I expect it would be a good idea to know
what they should be. I'd appreciate ust sort of
a general pad. If you can't get a pad, why then
we'll get along without it. But any other informa-
tion about it would be helpful, but tilt and rota-
tion is not - really a necessity. I can hunt
around until I find it.
CC Okay. And which window will you use?
SPT I love to use the SAL. What I was tailing about
was setting up for the horizon using the AMS S063
adaptor.
CC We copy.
SPT I can get all the handheld stiff from STS window
number 3.
CC We copy.
252 21 03 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS; Canaries
at 08.
SPT Okay. We'll see you at Canaries, Hank.
252 21 09 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Canary for
8minutes.
PLT Hello there, Bob. Welcome back.
CC Oh, it's good to be back. If Owen's still
listening, regarding what Hank wastelling him
on doing S063 with the AMS, of course, he is GO
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on that. One item we'd like to mention, that we
make - got to m_e sure that the AMS gets retracted
prior to you initiating that 518 vent, Jack.
PLT What time is that?
CC Well, we've got it scheduled at around, oh, about
22:30 or so. But it's strictly a non-time-critical
thing. So y!a l - -
252 21 l0 31 SPT Okay. It's not clear I'm going to be able to do
that. I've got the next ATM pass. And the best
opportunity is going to be Just before this next
sunrise, whic is only, I guess, 30 minutes or so
away. So I'll see what our schedule looks like
here. I'm a little doubtful that I can get it
done that fast. It might also be that the Earth's
rotation to the eastward is taking us away from
the auroral _one now. And the only way to get
nother equally good shot would be to wait until
tomorrow. But I'll take a look at it with the
other fellows here and we'll see what we can to.
CC Okay, Owen, thank you.
252 21 16 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you again over Honeysuckle at 21:53.
We'll be doing a data voice recorder dump there.
Also, Jack, we have your phone call set up for
Honeysuckle. Antenna - start out left and then
switch to right during the pass. And also,
Skylab, we're doing the CBRM 18 test. We antici-
pate getting the t_S_baek during this night p ss.
You might keep an eye out for it for us.
CDR We're standing there watching it right Just this
second.
CC Figured you were, A1.
CDR It's down to 28. It ought to kick off here in a
few minutes.
PLT Say, Bob, is that phone call this next Honeysuckle
pass?
CC That'saffirm.
252 21 17 27 PLT And what time i that again, please?
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CC 21:53•
252 21 17 32 PLT Okay. 21:53. And we replaced the desiccants in
the S190. .We've done that Just about every time
w 've made a pass, for the EREP guys.
CC Okay. Th,nk you, Jack.
252 21 53 18 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Honeysuckle for 9 minutes.
_CDR Okay, Bob. We've got a couple little subflares
going there in active region 24. And we're giving
our MIRROR, LINE SCAN to 55, and giving a SINGLE l,
3, and 5 SHORT to 56, and giving 82 a couple of
10-second exposures.
CC Okay, A1. And e show that we've got CBRM battery 18
back on.
CDR That's a fact. And it went off at 21:19.
CC 21:19, Roger.
f
CDR And the voltage was Just slightly less than
28 volts.
252 21 54 15 SPT I'll bring you p to date on this ... operation
her , Robert. We did get the ETC camera out,
and AMS in, and the S063 hardware all mounted
and the doors open and everything, in time to
reach the southern aurora zone Just before that.
But as it turns out, all the aurora is - was on
the plus-Z side of the spacecraft, and the AMS
could n t reach it. So we took the - the same
Nikon camera back up to the STS number 3 window
and, I think, got some excellent handheld photo-
graphs. It was the most extensive aurora that
we've seen. Must of lasted for a full i0 minutes
of spacecraft's travel - mostly greenish. As we
neared the sunrise terminator, it turned at higher
altitude more reddish, and brown at the higher
altitudes. Many cham - much variability in the
arc structure and all the other thin6s that I've
mentioned before on the other aurora's were visable.
Over.
252 21 55 12 CC Okay, 0wen. We copied that. Suspected you were
bac there doing something like that, since A1
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was working the ATM. And one question we have for
you regarding your science demo, since you only
had an opportunity to get a short amount of time
on th
a
t, did you de
s
ire any further time - TV - on
the VTR for that today?
SPT No, I don't think so. I sort of condensed things
a little bit but on the other hand to do any more
would probably Just e tend - repeat of what I
said before. If you wanted something, for say,
school instruction or something like that, it could
be done bett r and spread out a little bit more.
If you're only interested in something for released
to TV stations, they probably don't want very much
anyway. Over.
252 21 56 02 CC Okay, we copy that. We were Just trying to find
out your druthers. Thank you.
SPT Yes.You might ask Fred Koons or PAO what they
think in terms of anymore of it. If they want any
more, why of course, there are a few other things
that could be done. And you might ask them what
generally thought - what - what they wanted, whether
or not they wanted something more extensive or
is this adequate.
CC Okay, we'll do that.
SPT Bob Parker might have a comment on it, also.
CC Okay, I'ii get him to comment on it when he comes
on later.
25 21 57 19 SPT We're Just in the process of getting the S063
hardware restowed and the AMS b ck out of the
window, s
o
518 can go off as normal.
CC Okay, Owen, thank you.
CDR These little ubflares are starting to die out now.
CC Copy, A1.
252 21 57 52 _DR I don't think we've got the rise. By the
time of effective sunrise, it looked like it
peaked. I got on it during the peak, and it Just
gradually coasted off.
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CC Roger.
CDR There were about six or so little bright points
scattered along 24 there. You know, 24 has sort
of a - like two quarter Moons crossed and they
were Just kind of spread up each of th quarter
Moons ; sort of an X shape. Gave good indication
on the UV M0N and also the X-ray scope.
CC 0keydoke.
252 21 59 03 CDR I think I'ii give them a MIRROR, AUTO RASTER a nd
then go over and start doing the J0P 6 here.
CC Okay, we copy that.
CDR I finished the rate gyro 6-pack temp measurement,
due later on, and sent them down on channel A.
CC Roger, copy. You have completed them, AI?
_CDR Yes. Completed them about 15 minutes ago. Did
them last day pass.
CC Okay, thought you might have been doing that.
252 22 01 36 CC And Skylab, Houston; we're i minute from LOS
We'll see you again over Hawaii at 22:13, 22:13.
nd, A1, you can go ahead and inhibit TACS with
switches and then the software t your convenience,
soon as you can get to it?
CDR Okay, how about right now?
CC That 's fine.
252 22 02 13 CDR Okay, that did it.
CC Thank you, sir.
CDR Thanks for reminding us.
252 22 12 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Hawaii for
9-1/2 minutes.
SPT Okay, Robert.
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CC Say, Owen. Since you're changing things around,
pulling out the AMS, putting in the ETC, sad so
forth, we're Just getting ready to up-link you a
message for tomorrow morning's. Africa pass, and
ETC will require filter 5.
SPT Okay. What time does that run come off?
CC Early. POWER, ON time for the camera is 10:35.
SPT Okay. I'ii get it set up before I go to bed
tonight sad put it back in the window so all I
have to do is the ETC ops tomorrow, and of course,
you'll be waking us up early.
CC Roger.
252 22 13 42 CDR And we're Just - we got the AMS inside, but we're
venting it sad letting it warm up for a while.
CC Okay. I'm sure Karl appreciates that.
CDR What else is new down there, Bob?
CC Not much. I'm watch ng these guys practive how
to rendezvous for the next missio .
CDR How they doing?
CC Oh, Richard Truly i Just sitting here not doing
anything, so it doesn't look like they're too
active.
CDR Probably haven't gotten any data from the CM ...
is why.
CC You hit the nail on the head. So what else is
new?
CDR That's right. What else is going on in the world?
What's going on in the space program these days?
52 22 14 48 CDR What's Conrad doing for work? What's going on
around the office?
CC Well, Pete spends A.11 of his time out on t e
banquet tour, right now. Think he's trying to
work in some time to - to do that reentry run you
equested. Looks like he's soaking up a lot - -
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CDR Good, that's good.
CC Loo s like he's soaking up a lot of sunshine
on these banquet tours.
CDR Good. He always makes the best of things. The -
Ye
s
, he'
s
n
o
t supp
o
sed to run th
a
t thing unt
i
l
w
e
find out when we're going to enter; whether it's
60 or 65 or 70 or what. And then, also, when they
get _L11the trajectory figured out and all that
business, so he really runs the timeline right on
the line.
CC Roger. Well, that - that is the intent and he, of
course, is Just - was try ng to look at what they
had procedurewise set up for you.
CDR Hey, that's great
.
Ho
w
's Phil Shaffer these days?
252 22 15 43 CC Phil's his usual Jolly self.
CDR What 's Don doing?
CC Don's Just sitting here listening to you. Keeping
all - keeping all that crew squared away. We're
sitting here trying to think up things to keep
you busy.
CDR I figured (laughter) - I figured y'all are working
a lot harder right now than we are, trying to think
up things. And we've been thinking this for about
3 weeks. That's why we haven't pressed you too
hard.
SPT We gave you a little help on that last flap on the
SAL.
CC Kept you running back and forth there, huh?
252 22 16 20 SPT Yes, taking stuff out and putting it in and then
taking the camera eventually back up to the STS
window where we had it to begin with.
CC Figured since it's supposed to be your day off,
you'd like to sit down and read a goo book.
CDR You don't train 2-1/2 years to read a good book.
- I'ii tell you that.
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CC Roger that.
CDR I kn
ow
y
o
u guy
s
don't
s
p
e
nd y
o
ur nights t
h
ere
either to have us up here reading a good book.
CC Yes, but we get to leave every once in a while.
252 22 16 53 CDR You've been on leave for about 2 months now.
CC You're right (laughter).
CC And, AI, we do have all your Flight Plans
onhoard now.
CDR Okay then, we'll go up and read them over.
CC This Africa pass I mentioned to 0wen awhile ago is
the one we originally set up for this morning
and ended up scrubbing, and you can have the
details on the reports n the Flight Plan there.
We're busily seurying to get up the pads concerning
that pass so you'll have a chance to look them
over tonight.
CDR Okay.
252 22 18 03 CDR Where we coming t rough right now, Bob?
CC Through Hawaii.
CDR We were trying to figure out what those islands
were. Now we Just figured it out.
CC They've really got me fouled up today, since we're
s
itti
n
g her
e
i
n
thi
s
SIM. Our little orbital
m
ap
up there, of course, i
s
being us
e
d for the SI
M
world. So if I get - if I lose - saying where
you're at a few times, please bear with me.
CC Puddy will keep me squared away though.
252 22 19 09 CDR Say we read a11 those quantities they asked us to
record, during the ERE pass. I also _Tote them
on a sheet of paper. Pl_nning to throw the sheet
of paper away imless there's some reason not to.
CC Let's check with ER
E
P right
n
ow.
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252 22 21 08 CC A1, on those EREP readings, it seems that we
did have some dropouts on the comm during your
pass, so w did not get all of them, and we really
don' t have. time to copy them right now. We'll
have Goldstone coming up here in - at 22:24, and
we're 1 minute from LOS now.
CDR Well, I can give them to you now and go put them
on A - I mean, give them to you later, put them
on A, whichever you like.
CC Strictly your druthers.
CDR I'll go put it on A, that's pr
o
bably wher
e
they
ought to go. They're not that critical.
CC Okay. Thank you.
252 22 24 _8 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS once more through
Goldstone for 7 minutes.
CDR Okay. That EREP information's on A.
252 22 25 22 CC Thank you, A1.
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S YLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
252 22 31 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. See
you again in about 5 minutes over Bermuda at
22:36, 22:36.
PLT Okay, Bob.
252 22 36 _h CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS for 8 minutes th ough
Bermuda. And for the CDR. That little b
i
t of
subflare, as he was talking about earlier or
reported, that was an M-1. ctnally, the peak
had occurred prior to you having orbital sunrise,
though.
CDR I'ii be darn; that's great. I picked up the latter
half of it and got it going down, so there may
be some data there for 82 and 56 and 55.
CC Roger.
252 22 38 42 CC CDR, Houston. Earlier to ay, you had mentioned
adjusting that MDA air diffuser that flows on
the ATM C&D there. Could you give us the approx-
imate time on that, please?
CDR Boy, that's going to be tough. I'd say between 1
and 2 weeks ago. It's got two positions. Well,
it's got a position NARROW and then a WIDE and
then anywhere in between. When it started getting
rather chilly up there, I adjusted it one day
from the WIDE to the NARRO
W
so it woul
d
n't blow
on the back of our necks since we stood there in
front of the ATM panel. But I didn't think it
was significant enough to give you a - a buzz
on it.
CC Okay; understand. I guess we had thought today
that - that maybe you had adjusted it today, but
that was incorr ct.
CDR No, this w
a
s
a
bout a week and a h
a
lf ago.
CC Okay.
CDR But I mentioned it today because we were taking
temperatures again.
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CC Okay. Thank you, A1.
252 22 43 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. See
you a gain over Canary at 22:46, 22:46.
PLT Okay, Bob. And we're venting down the M512
chamber in ...
CC Copy that, Jack. Thank you.
252 22 46 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S once more through
Canary for 6-1/2 minutes.
252 22 50 05 SPT Hello, Bob. When are you going o start these
science conferences?
CC We're getting ready to start it now.
SPT Okay, I'ii st@y o f channel A then.
SPT Say, Bob, have you had a phone call for me at -
Oh, yes, that's right, 01:02.
CC That 's affirmative.
SPT Two hours ah ad of _ schedule here.
CC 0keydoke. l've got you for about another minute
and a half, and then we're going to drop out for a
minute, pick up over Ascension, and I'ii go ahead
and turn it over to Dave Bohlin at that time.
SPT Fine.
PLT You still there, Bob?
CC That's affirmative. Got you for 1 more minute.
PLT Okay. The 512 chamber vented down in about
9 minutes to 0.5 times 10-3 torr, and I'm Just
going to put the bulkhead vent valve in VENT now.
CC Okay; fine.
252 22 52 32 CC Okay. We're getti
n
g ready to go over the
h
ill
in about 30 seconds. We'll have you again in
about a minute _and a half, and I'll give you a
call there.
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252 22 55 51 MCC A1, Jack, and 0wen, can you read me? This is
Dave Bohlin.
CDR Loud a d clear.
SPT Hi, Dave.
.MCC Okay.
SPT Glad to hear from you, Dave, and we're all
standing by.
MCC Okay; fine. Now we'll start right down on the
agenda coll_mU that we up-linkedunless you would
like to bring up some other subject first. What's
your druthers?
CDR No, we've looked at the agenda. That's a good
place to start. Why d n't you go right ahead.
MCC Okay; fine. The flare that we observed - Let's
go in reverse order. The big one that you caught
on Friday certainly was a big one. It was actua]ly
a sequence of four flares in a row. Unfortunately,
you were in the night side during all four of the
peaks. And when you came off at sunrise, you
were about 21 minutes past t e peak of an X-1 flare.
And that's when you started the ATM operations.
At that time, the X-1 flare was about its 1/
power decay point. The other phenomena associated
with that was from Can
a
ry. They reported no less
than a total shortwave fadeout and a 75-degree
phase shift at the very low-frequency wavelength.
So Owen, you'll probably be interested in that
one. By the way, this whole flare complex was
preceded by a great deal of active filament
phonomena along the neutral line filament in this
active region 9. And this is a fairly common
occurance. If you can remember from crew training,
Sarah Smith, o Sarah Martin, as you may have
known her, from Lockheed Observatory, likes to
talk about this phenomen
a
of the neutral line
filament becoming quite active. A lot of surging
material back and forth along the filament - In
this case, it also became _a_ker and thicker, and
then the flares started one after another with the
peaks about 5 or 6 minutes apart. There was also
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quite a bit of radioactivity type 2, 3, and 4
bursts. There was also a proton event but not
a particularly strong one. The proton level now
at the Eart_ has returned to ab
o
ut its normal
background level. Oksy, - -
252 22 57 56 SPT Must have have been an awfUl lot of work on the
night side then, because we didn't see much of
any of that on the preceding day orbit.
MCC That's right. It ali happened - -
SPT Oh, I remember now. We were asleep; that's the
reason.
MCC That's right. It all happened - The activity
started right as you were going into sunset, and
all the peaks occurred on the dark side, unfortu-
nately. However - -
SPT On the preceding rev was still - We were asleep.
We hadn't woken up for the morning yet, as I
recall.
MCC I see. Okay, Just - The Harvard people _-,_ediately
went to work
a
nd tried to pull out some of their
data. Unfortunately, on short term like this,
they always have their problems, but what they
have gotten out so far looks very very good, and
they're extremely excited about it. Many of the
counters saturated, and it's making it a little
tedious to analyze the data, they say, but they
are making progress. They see obvious major dif-
ferences in the time behavior of all the various
lines in the MIRROR, LINES SCAN. The density
they see in the transition zone is surprisingly
lower than - in this flare - than a C-5 flare of -
a couple of d
a
ys ago or so. And they infer this
from the carbon 3 and oxygen 4 line ratios.
252 22 59 07 SPT Now let me Just make one questio about the
procedures that you may be aware of. T e last
couple of flares, I stayed on the initial point
for 15 minutes or so, but then even though the 82B
slit was properly aligned, I did step the 55 mirror
a few steps to get on a brighter portion of the
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flaring region. I wonder if they've raised any
comments about whether or not that was preferred,
satisfactory, or undesirable.
CC Well, we can certainly - We copy that, and we'll
have the Harvard people study that and relate back
to you by pad messages J st as soon as we can on
that, okay?
CDR Okay, Dave.
MCC Right. Let me go ahead here. I see ;this pass
is - is disappearing and I want to get on to a
couple of other things. There's a program coming
up tomorrow on alphaing waves. Now I do 't know
whether you got much on - on waves like this in
your training. What we're tal ing about is the
magnetohydrodynamic wave that - the transverse
wave that - -
SPT Understand.
MCC Right.
SPT We u derstand.
252 2B O0 07 MCC Right, okay. And the way they want you to try
to study this is do three consecutive orbits of a
shopping list lB. This is mainly for the coro a-
graph to operate, and they'll be in a continuous
mode for all thr e of these cycles. The first on,
Oven, you're scheduled up and the next two, I
believe, A1 has. And Just a word on these waves.
They travel at a speed of about B solar radi per
hour, if they exist. We don't know if they exist.
The wavelength is about B solar radi, and the
densi y fluctuation is maybe l0 percent. So they're
fair - subtle type of phenomena to see in real
time, but there's a good chance that it would be
excited, especially with a bit active region on
the limb. Okay - -
SPT Okay, we'll be looking for that, and if we have
any questions about the procedure, we'll call
down about it, Dave.
252 2B O0 55 MCC Okay_ fine. And it's pretty well spelled out
on the pad. I don't think there really should
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be any trouble there. A little tidbit from S056,
which is very relevant right now. They've been
looking through SL-2 photographs, and they tell
me that they have seen several examples of sympa-
thetic flares and active region interaction. On
the 16th of June, in the first mis ion, there was
a class M-3 flare which occurred, and a very short
time later, it triggered another smaller subflare
7 minutes later in a nearby active region. And
several hours later, they were able to see that
these things were connected by a loop structure
in soft X-rays. I very much suspec_ _you might see
somethin lik this in the LUV MONITOR as well.
SPT Well, we've seen it _Imost continuously in the
XUV MONITOR for the last 2 weeks. That - Probably
your down-link shows also; connecting the active
regions along the same latitude line or all the
way across th_ wide range of longitude.
MCC Great.
MCC Going LOS, shortly. Carnarvon at 23:28.
MCC Okay, Owen, I'd like to say one thing In that
XUV MON, we know you've mentioned a number of
these subtle phenomena. We don't normally - Lot
of times, we don't see these on the link that
we get on the ground because of the bandwidth
limitation of that S-band transmitter. So any
verbal description you can give us like that
really helps out.
SPT Okay ; good point.
252 23 02 15 MCC Okay, Just a real quicky on the Ellerman bomb
thing. They definitaly have seen what they think
s an Ellerman bomb and they see it in the tran-
sition zone and in the coronal lines, and there'll
be more on that later. I'll see you at the next
pass.
SPT Okay, Dave.
252 23 28 28 MCC A1, Jack, and Owen, can you copy?
SPT Okay, we've got you now, Dave. Go ahead.
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MUC Okay, fine. I'd like to go onto an item here
that wasn't on the agenda list. It came up
Just yesterday as being a fairly important one.
Has to do with the film budget for t e rest of
the mission. I'll start out with S052. Basically,
they have no problem right now. They're budget-
ing about 280 frames a day, of which 200 are for
syn ptic. And they can run through to the end
of the mission without any problem. By all
menns, take advantage of all the coronal tran-
sients that you might see. The alphaing wave
program for tomorrow will use about 330 frames
in those three orbits, but that's budgeted.
S054, as you've proba ly noticed'by the pads, is
dropping out of all operations including flares
Now that's important. They are down to a point
now where all they've got left is strictly re-
served for the synoptic programs only; that's
S054. Okay, S.056. Right now they're using about
300 frames a day, and that would give them 4 to
5 days of film left at the current rate, assnm_ng
no flares. Now the important thing here is that
when their frame counter reads zero, it" turns out
that they have a film reserve that would normally
be used for calibration of their camera film.
But they tell me that they do not need this
film for calibration and that you should continue
to run the S056 camera after it reaches zero
on your film counter. And the ground will advise
you when - if you are in danger of actually run-
ning the camera out.
252 23 30 07 SPT Okay, I understand there's about i000 to 1 200
frames after it goes to zero, and I tho ght we'd
probably Just reset the FRAMES REMAINING. And
then you'd let it count down another 1000, but
why don't you ask Jim what he wants to do? I
Just - I'd rather reset it and then let it count
down than I would Just let it sit on zero for the
whole time and not know.
MC-C No, you could res t it. I think that's be
perfectly acceptabl . Adn Jim is copying this,
and if he doesn't agree, why, he can - We'll
relay a message up, but that sounds like a good
method to d , Owen.
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SPT Okay, and so I'd - It's the same thing for 54,
incidentally. And theirs - They've got about
1000 more than the frame counter shows. And if
they want to reset it any time, why, Just estab-
lish the best time to reset it and we will.
MCC Okay. We copy that, and we'll see if they have
any change in plan. But, right now, they say
drop out of everything including flares except
whenever they're scheduled on the pad.
SPT Now that's a separate point. I knovthat we're
out of everything except the synoptic, but they
have more frames than their counter show, I
believe.
MCC That's correct. 56. No. Okay, 82A. We are
low on film there. We have - The film reserve
right now is _ust sufficient for the scheduled
sYnaptics. That's about four frames a day.
However, the PI feels that flares are still very
important; especially, if there's a possibility
of catching a flare rise. So if you can catch
a flare rise, by all means; go ahead and run the
82A instrument even if t means running the
camera out. Otherwise, we'll budget through on
synoptic for that one. 82B is about the same kind
of category. We're low on film, but we feel
that the current state of solar activity warrants
running it on the activity as is scheduled and
as you fellows see that - that targets of oppor-
tunity present themselves. If for some reason
we run out of film before the end of the mission,
then it'll Just be out of f_]m In - -
252 23 32 04 SPT Okay, understand. I had question on H-alpha.
It looks to e like it ought to be about time to
go back to one frame per minute AUTO on H-alpha.
MCC Okay. We copy that, and we can certainly check
on tha to see if that's a good plan.
SPT Whenever you're ready, let's go on back Just to
save us the convenience of not having to do a
MANUAL every time we think of it.
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MCC Copy that. Okay, let me touch on operations here
for Just a few minutes. The S055 m_xirasters -
They've retrieved now several of these from the
computer, and they really look good. The point-
ings have be n good, and they've been able to
piece them together and get a good look at a
large-scale portion of the solar disks there.
So that has proven o be a very good program.
The S082B minilimb scan program, which you should
now have in hand and also the building block
exposure changes - I'd like to take the opportu-
nity Just to clarify - -
SPT You're cutting out there, Dave.
MCC - - the reason for those.
SPT Say again, Bob?
252 23 33 06 MCC Okay, I'd like to clarify why the 82B minilimb
scan and building lock exposures were - were
changed. I think you probably realize that we're
getting rid of the exposures there that are
either too short or too long in the normal AUTO
step - -
SPT ... We understand it.
MCC Okay, fine. Just want to mal_e sure there's no
question. The science is Just as good. We're
Just not taking the frames tha won't do any good.
SPT Sure ; understand. Just saving the film and
making use of the best ones. And the new pro-
cedure that you se t up for that new mini - mini-
limb scan there I think look real g od, and look
like since you've had a hance to - from your
photos - earlier photographs establish what
exposures you really need, and it looks like
that's the way to opt_mlze their value.
MCC That s affirm. We've looked back at the SL-2 and
picked out the best exposures, and that's what
we're using. Okay, on the XUV MONITOR, we're
very excited, Owen, about your comments and
anything you can give us further on this in the
way of voice tapes certainly are appreciated.
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In particular, we're - we're very excited about
i o h a ho
up before you see the P_Es - PMEC counter rising.
And, tell m@_, can you say now or could you put
in tape later, whether you - this is a very common
thing. Do you see it all the time or Just some
of the time?
252 23 34 24 SPT Well, I wouldn't want to say that the PMEC hasn't
at least started to rise. It may have started,
but we certainly see these fall points very early
in the flare and sub flare, well before it reaches
its peaks. And I - I think that the XUV MON
is probably as early an indication as is anything.
And one other thing of - of interest that relates
to the altitude at which the - the region is - is
flaring is particularly on this last flare. You'll
notice from the H-alpha photographs when you
eventually see it, that the - I've pointed
slightly toward the limb of the brightest line
in H-alphs, And this is because the S055 detec-
tors peak up distinctly several arc seconds
limbward of the - of the brightest H-alpha region,
indicati g the higher altitude for the XUV
radiation. And I - I will try to put something
together in a little more detail on the time
evolution of those brigh spots, but my - my
strongest impression is only of their ery
small size and the fact that they stand out so
much more clea ly above any of the normal plage
activity on the XUV MON. Now, when they start,
it's really very noticeable and very early.
252 23 35 _l MCC Okay. We copy that. And we're very happy to
hear those rem rks. Let me push on here to the
scheduling of JOP 13 which you've asked about.
We've had difficulty scheduling it so far
because of the unavailability of targets and
darkside passes and the system constraints
in the sunside passes, that's the charging
of the batteries. However, we do have it tenta-
tively scheduled right now for mission day 52.
That's a week from tomorrow, darkside pass for
SCO-X 1. And, in addition, the Harvard people
have been looking at a list of ultraviolet targets
from the Copernicus satellite and so they're
• going to try very hard to work in an ultraviolet
target yet before the mission is - is over.
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SFT I should think that 'd certainly be worthwhile.
I do remember some of the arguments relative to
cross calibrating between night sources and
solar sources with same detectors and so on.
And seems to be a very unique opportunity that'll
be mi sed if we don't give it at least- one
or two tries.
MCC Copy that, and we're trying to get it on the
schedule now. Okay, I'll - I'd like to say a
few words here about the state of solar activity
in future operations. As you are well aware,
better than we, perhaps, the activity last week
has been the best and most dynamic we've had.
And that, combined with the rather quiet Sun we
had at fi st in the mission has allowed us to
complete, essentially, every JOP in the list.
There's - there's not one right now that we aren't
doing pretty well on except, possibly, the flash
phase of the flare, which is the hardest thing
to catch, of course. The XUV MONITOR, of course,
reveals a very quiet east limb, and we anticipate
having a very quiet Sun as soon as this stuff
goes over the limb. The new active region,
which has emerged has got a reversed polarity,
as I think you've been told, and we may see some
flares on that. The point here is that we want
to capitalize on this - this activity while
it exists.
252 23 B7 38 SPT Okay, and I'm more convinced than ever that
the way that - to really catch these things
early, is to allow plenty of observing time,
and which, basically, you're loitering around
the most probable region; so that, as soon as
it happens, you're really - have done a little
bit of previous groundwork on it and are ready
to hop right o the spot where the activity shows
up.
N_C Right.
CC Okay. We are about BO seconds from LOS. We'll
have you again over Hawaii at 23:51, for Story.
We'd - would app eciate it if you'd turn CBRM 18
REG ON, please. A d, also, teleprinter paper's
getting kind of low.
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Okay. CBEM REG 18 and teleprinter paper, Bob.
252 23 38 17 MCC Say, one last word, guys. We really - the
ATM PIs are very excited about you operations and
thankS.
252 23 51 27 SPT Hello there, Story.
CC Skylab, A0S throug Hawaii for 5 minutes.
SPT Okay, Story. We got you.
CC How are you all doing today?
SPT We're doing great. What's new in the medical
world?
CC Okay, he e we go. To start with, we'd like to
thank you very much for the instrumented PT that
you've gotten_ You've gotten us a lot of differ-
ent data, different parts of the curve, and also
some - some new stuff we haven't looked at all.
We're real interested in that and we are looking
at the data down here.
SPT Okay. Now, do you mean this stuff that Jack did
on - after a 171 or are you looking at jus the
normal bicycle ergometer or what?
CC Okay. Let me look at the - talk about the
three things that each one of you did and - and
a little bit about the physiology that we saw.
Owen, your mode l, mode 2, and then mode l,
you picked us up on the significance you - on
mode 2, you confirmed how we thought mode 2
would operate there. We had lost an arlier
mode l, mode 2 mode 2, mode 1 run. So you put
that to bed for us.
252 23 52 42 SPT Okay.
CC And on Jack's run, where he went 220 watts for
about 20 minutes, that was interesting data and
if, without any steps in there, we could start
looking, and especially at that high work level,
we could look for something such that you
might see with fatigue, especially since it was
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done after a previous MI71. And what you might
expect to see with fatigue is a little decrease
in efficiency, where for a constant amount of
work, you'dsee an increase in heart rate,
an increase in oxygen consumption, and a decrease
in the - and an increase in the production of
carbon dioxide. Also, with that constant level
of work, we can also see how long it takes the
system to get geared up and - and reach an
equilibrium. In Jack's case, it was about 3 to
4 minutes that his heart rate reache an equili-
brium and likewise for the oxygen consumption.
It reached about a li - 2.6 liters at 3-i/2 min-
utes, and the carbon dioxide was 2.3 liters. So
he reached equilibrium at about
3
-1/2 minutes
there. In terms of looking at fatigue, we
saw very little. Actually, the last 5 minutes
of that 20-minute run, the heart rate dropped
from 154 down to 150, but the 02 consumption
did go. I reached an equilibrium for about
15 minutes at 2.7. It got up to 2.9 at the
end. And the carbon dioxide, which had reached
2.6 liters, it peaked out at about 2.7.
252 23 5_ ii SPT Okay. Understand all that. And looks like if
you're going to have to fatigue Jack, you going
to have to work a little harder than 220.
PLT I can't tell if that's good or bad, Story. What's
it all mean?
CC You know it means good. I don't have to tell
you that.
SPT Well, it also means that the 5-minute selection
for your work - different work levels on 171
looks to be a good choice.
CC It's pretty good. It takes Just about 5 minutes
to - to reach the - the equilibrium at that
step. That 's a good point, (>wen.
SPY Go ahead.
252 23 54 43 CC And, AI, on his run; he did 5 minutes at three
different work levels, but he st rted out at
1_5 watts, and then he went 5 minutes, 170, and
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5 minutes at 195. His usual third run is at
145, aud I plotted these three runs in terms of
heart rate. I plotted them and indeed we get a
straight-line curve, so he pushed his curve way
on out there in terms of - of level of work, so
that extends his curve and it gives us some brand
new data that we didn't have before.
SPT Okay. Now we're up with you.
CC Okay. And I got one question on that. I don't
believe, looking at this data that - that A1
had the mouthpiece in. We didn't get any MA data.
Could you verify that?
CDR I had the mouthpiece in for a long time. When
we quit the 171 and reset it for that run, some-
thing happened; we're not sure what. And we
recorded that ,on channel A. And I breathed into
it for 15 minutes and - and the data as complet-
ly fouled up, so we just took it out and forgot
it. But we attempted to do it, but it just
didn't work out.
CC Okay, A1, we were Just wondering if you had an
explanation for that. We really weren't expect-
ing any MA data anyway, because during the
exercise, of course, it's not the most pleasant
thing in the world to wear a mouthpiece, but
we're very happy to get it. And even though
we didn t get the MA data, plotting your work
versus heart rate, you got a straight-line
curve way on out. You pushed your curve on
out. That 's good, A1.
CDR Thank you. W at you ne d to do is have somebody
pad us up the procedures that we need to follow
so that we can finish a 171 and go through the
cals at the end and then start up again and still
be in, you know, not have lost cabin air and all
that other business. Somewhere the ball was
dropped in there.
252 23 56 32 CC Okay. We'll take a look at that. We think
probably all you need to do is just leave the
MA as it is and just get your reset and your
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your appropriate time or whatever protocol you
like to pick.
CDR Okay. Well, Just send it, we'll do it, because
somehow we've lost it.
MCC Okay, but we've still got excellent data there.
You heart rate did peak out at 180, which is
about - about as high as anyone gets their heart
an optimal amount of exercise. Okay, and you're
getting a lot of good stuff there and I - I - I
even hesitate to give you any suggestions on
what to do. You - You've chosen such good
protocols, but a possible idea would be for
after an M171 run, for the observer who's down
there to have brought down the Mark I device,
say, and for him to simply change out the mouth-
pieces. The Qbserver could get on the MA, and
simply crank out his usual Mark I protocol
and see what type of oxygen consumption that
requires.
SPT Okay. Understand that, Story. That 's a g od
way to do it without any extra equipment to be
done - to be set up.
252 23 57 45 CDR Okay. Now, we've looked at that, Story. We've
looked at taking the stuff upstairs, ru ning the
hoses up there. And it might be simpler,
because we've got that thing bolted to the floor
up there. Also, I've noticed that everybody
exercises and they end up ulling the thing
above their head which is too short for the
ceiling. And there's no place to bolt it down to.
We'll have to work on that a bit.
CC Yes, I don't want to suggest too much, you're
doing so well, but - but ideas like that, you
migh give some fru - fruitful data. Maybe the
Mark II or the exergym or something like that
Just to look at oxygen consumption. Well, we're
about 30 seconds to LOS here. And we'll pick you
up over Goldstone in 7 minutes and continue with
the body mass and structure.
SPT Bill Thornton happy with all the 172 data, yet?
252 23 58 39 CC Okay. That's coming up next.
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SPT Okay. (Chuckle
CC And he is happy, but he - he's got some more
ideas.
SPT I was afraid of that. Bill's always got lots
of good, new ideas.
CC Okay. Let me just hit you with some simple
questions going over the hill here. In terms of
temperature measurements you've made with the
mass measuring devices, have you used the neat
probe all along? As opposed to the - -
SPT Yes, that's the one that I've used. When I've -
When I've logged it, that's the one I've emplo e .
CC Okay.
SPT I also have never found any change.
CC Okay. Bill appreciates the repeatability
studies you've done, where you made five measure-
ments and get out and Jump back in and take five
more. It tells him so ething about what the
restraint system is doing.
SPT Now, we can suggest some mods to it, I think,
when we get back, or even on channel A, because
ther is some room for improvement there.
CC Okay. And the studies you've already done
show an absolute accut - accuracy within about
a quarter to a half a pound. Meaning that that
amount - you could be running that high due to
flop. Any ki d of motion inside the device will
cause a high reading.
253 00 00 03 SPT Yes, we think it may be a little bit better than
a quarter of a pound.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
253 00 0!3 33 CC Skylab, AOS Goldstone, 5 minutes.
253 00 0!3 36 SPT Okay there, Story.
CC Owen, on the accuracy of the BMMD, now when I ave
mentioned a quarter to a half of a pound, I meant
if you w re to put a rigid body weighing your sa e
amount in there as opposed to a slightly flexible
body restrained with straps that the contribution
due to a little bit of motion like that may be a
quarter to a half of a pound. Bill's confident
that he's got the accuracy to repeatability down
to 0.1 of a pound now.
253 00 015 02 SPT Okay, that's Just about what we were saying up here.
We were discussing it between Hawaii and Goldstone.
And we think we can get it to about plus or minus
two digits in the fourth place, and our calculations
indicate that's Just about a tenth of a pound if
we've done it right.
CC Okay, now looking at that device as a measure of
insensible loss, we did discuss insensible loss at
the last science conference, and it's a tough thing
to get at. If you want to get it absolutely pre-
cisely, you kind of have to wear a cellophane suit
and a mouthpiece all day, which of course we can't
do. Now, in terms of the - I got a co-,,ent that
comes next week. In terms of a -
25
3
00 015 _0 SPT Jack already said he
w
ant
s
us to try
i
t.
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CC Okay. In - in terms of what we did see, you re-
corded three studies between 0.2 and 0.6 pounds.
Now when I did a theoretical calculation to come
up with a reasonable value for a 7-hour sleep
period, taking a look at your intake and output,
I calculated 0.5 pounds. So it comes in there
pretty close considering the - the 0.1 accuracy of
the de ice.
25
3
00
0
5
0
8
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PT Yes, I - I'l
l
try that ag
a
in, t
oo.
I'm n
o
t to
o
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happy about that one measurement that was only
0.2. Maybe I wan't sufficiently careful. I'ii try
it again, too.
CC Now, on the ground the average person loses about,
oh, 1200 cc. That's spread halfway between, say
600 cc due to respiration, and another 600 cc due
to inperceptible sweat. And I calulated, based on
your 2500 cubic calories a day and also about an
insensible loss taking your output f om your input
to be about a 1000 cc and drawing a proportion
between using about 70 calories an hour during your
sleep in proportioning it out, I came out to losing
about 0.5 pounds during a sleep period. So it's
pretty close.
253 00 05 50 SPT Okay, sounds fine. I'm glad they're coming ut that
closely.
CC And some other things Bill is inter sted in, that
is a couple more zero measurements. If some morning
when you get weighed, if you could Just run some
zero measurements and shoot those down on the
Evening Status Report, he'd appreciate it.
SPT Sure, that's the kind of requests we like.
253 O0 06 12 CC Okay, and one othere thing is - is even a zero mass
device during and - and - and after a dump.
SPT Okay. My guess is that you c n't even tell it when
there is a GG d mp underway. Do you have any in-
dication that think - that suggests you can?
CC No, I don't think we've got that evidence, Owen.
And of course it depends somew at on - on how large
a dump it is.
SPT Well, they've all, of course, been pretty small -
pick a 2.5 degrees some - 2 or 5 deg ees somewhere
around there. But we'll give that a try. And
I'll bet there's just no indication at all, and we
can maybe take that out of the next guy's protocol.
253 00 06 53 CC Okay, and if you don't have anything else on that,
I'll move on to a few things on M171.
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SPT Let 's go on.
253 00 07 00 CC They would appreciate getting a ma heart rate
during your PT. Now anytime your instrumented, of
course, they're - they're able to get that, and
we've seen a bunch of them already. So they are
interested in that data, though.
SPT Okay. Now that's - You don' get that ampli-
seismograph down, do you?
CC No, we don't get that, Owen.
SPT Okay. When you say you're interested in the rate,
do you just mean what the number is, or a verbal
reporting of how high it got during the exercise,
or what were you asking for?
CC Yes, Just one.number, a peak heart rate.
SPT Okay, I think all of us probably pretty well know
those right now because we see them every day when
we ride the bicycle. I co ld almost tell you mine
after 20 minutes of work at each of a variety of
power levels. But we'll try to record those, and
I was interested in what data you do get down during
our normal ergometry. Apparently, you see workload.
I don't know whether or not you see total watt- intues.
253 O0 08 O0 CC No, we don't see total watt-minutes.
SPT Only power, apparently.
CC And in rpm, too, of course.
SPT Okay, thank you.
253 O0 08 lO CC And I think, on channel A, you may still have some
questions on why the V dot 02 is running low up
there.
SPT No, I understand there is a 6-1/2 up correction on
02 dot, and I think there was a 2 or 3 percent down
on C02 dot. And I do understand it - what the effect
is on our cue, of course, so I don't - there was a
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question in m_ mind about what our cue card is
written in. Our cue card mentions that 02 dot
correction, but it doesn't say whether it is or is
not inserted in the table. But that's sort of a
minor point at this time.
253 O0 08 43 CC Yes, I looked at that, too, and I think that is
inserted in the cue card. That is what you should
expect.
SPT So, those nt_nbers on the cue card are what we should
be reading on the - on the instrument.
CC Let me get a qui k verificatio o th t.
253 00 08 57 SPT Now that's the way I had interpreted it anyway, and
then there's a correction made once it gets on the
grotmd.
CC Yes, we think th t cue card is true, Owen, and if
it's not true, I'll - I'll get that up to you.
SPT Okay.
CC And the re
a
son for that difference is that the
nonlinearity in the - the mass spects analysis of
nitrogen. And it has been proven out. And so that
6.5 percent and the 2 percent of the CO2 that was
derived from running the flight b
a
ckup instrument
in the 5-psi chamber.
SPT Okay.
253 00 09 35 CC And I've got about 30 seconds to LOS here. As far
as the Skylab 2 data goes, I'd just like to say
that we are taking a look at that. We've dis-
cussed it in the past, but any new t ings that ome
up, I will get it to you.
253 00 09 47 SPT Okay, fine, Story.
253 00 09 50 CC And we're about 30 seconds to LOS here. We'll
see you over Bermuda with Bob Parker; be dumping
the tape recorders there.
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253 00 15 12 CC Skylab, Skylab, Houston.
253 00 15 16 SPT Go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay. Got a few c rollary goodies for you here,
and I'd like to start out with a couple of comments
on SOb3. First of all, everybody was very pleased
with the observations of the aurora, particularly
the night you got aurora at both poles. thought
that was outstanding. I think also you've been
told already that there's a good chance of some
aurora tonight from that big flare yesterday.
SPT We've already - have you - are you up to date with
what we've seen on auroras tonight already?
MCC Right, right. I saw that comment about down there
in the south already.
253 00 15 h4 SPT Okay. We've seen the best ones that - he most
extensive on Just this last orbit. And as a matter
of fact, i I can break away here before sunrise,
I bet we can go get a handful of more pictures.
253 00 15 54 MCC Okay. Outstanding. A couple of comments on that
S063 solar inertial pass that we had you doing 2
or 3 days ago. I don't know whether that was
explained to you or not, but those are with - in
coordination with underflights by a B-57 and a U-2,
respectively. They were looking at pollution in
the lower stratosphere caused by SST type vehicles
and looking into the ecological aspects of those
things.
253 00 16 18 SPT Okay. All of the explanation was not there, but
we did understand there were underflights, and
I did not see any contrails, but I was busy on
tracking.
MCC Okay. Let me talk now a fair bit about some, what I
call, new visual observation ideas. Partly because
we realized that having 30 some sites was Just
breaking the system partly - both as far as you
were concered; even more so as far as we were
concerened here on the ground, processing data and
having meaningful questions, and all that are con-
cerned. We'vdelineated the list down right now
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to a list of one, in terms of a very extensive
workup on the Salt Lake City area. The reason for
doing this is not that we have an awful lot of
questions that need to be answered here. In par-
ticular, in fact, we do - we're doing it because
one, we have the groundtruth, and two, you happen
to have a good VTS map on board. So we're sending
up tonight or tomorrow - I think it's in the it's
being reviewed now, so it probably ought to come
up tonight - a whole series of questions about
different aspects of the Salt Lake City area. The
question really is, what can you see, how many small
features can you see, and particularly for the
small features, how much detail an you see them -
in them, and what sort of features allow you to
discriminate them? Things like air fields, cities,
mining areas, roads, lakes, the whole gamut of things
in various sizes and in various amounts of detail.
And in particular, as I say, we're not - you're
going after nnknown scientific data which we don't
have before. We have the groundtruth. We're
interested in what sort of hings are reasonable,
and on - what sort of data are useful on board as
well, for the Skylab 4 crew. Over.
253 00 17 59 CDR Great idea. That way - what you plan to do then,
is every pass that we get a chance, we'll - we'll
work the Salt Lake Ci y area. We'll learn it, and
then these other s tes, e'll work also, but we'll
do that mostly for photographs or what?
MCC That's affirm. And we have right now - One of the
reasons we picked Salt Lake is we have something
like 12 passes left over that this mission. And
there's no way you can get through this list in any
one pass, and so you'll get a chance to work it
again and again, and as time goes on, you may learn
to recognize the features and see things you couldn't
see the first time. So it's this sort of aspect
we're trying to get at one or - one site or perhaps
another one later on to Just see exactly what man -
what his capabiliti s are able to do both visually
and also with the binoculars.
253 00 18 45 CDR Outstanding idea. Say, we've noticed one thing
about those stabilized binoculars. Their focus
changes all the time. If you get them set for
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your eyes and come back in a couple of hours, they
don't work any more. You have to go to a different
place. So that's a problem with those stabilized
binoculars. We really can't figure out why that's
doing that, either. It doesn't appear to be the
same on the other two; they - they work okay.
253 00 19 08 MCC Okay. That' an interesting piece of dat a. The -
another comment on S183: we're going to in the
next week or two be running a few observations -
few more observations with the S183 instrument
itself. And when we do this, each time we do it,
we will be sp cifying a particular DAC to use.
And the troubleshooting which we're continuing here,
we'd like to - eventnally when we get the film
back, h
a
ve it on a - a number like 4 or 5 DAC, so
we can, if po sible, delineate the problem. Right
now it looks like the problem may be in the DAC
that was used on Skylab l, too, but we don't have
a good feel for that, and that's why we're asking
you to use a number of different DAC on these pads
as they come up. And we're probably - looking like
we'll probably get four or five in the rest of the
mission. On diffe ent DACs. Over.
253 00 19 53 CDR Okay, good. I noticed it was on a broad view for
this next week, and we're looking forward to doing
it.
MCC Okay. And I might Just comment that the star
fields we'll be looking at will be scientifically
valid star fields if this data does turn out to be
good.
CDR Okay.
253 00 20 06 MCC Okay. 0wen, we know you worked with the m-gnets
today. I guess - I also might comnent th
a
t I myself
thought that that water demonstration you had last
week was outstanding. And a tremendous bit of
yankee ingenuity there or Oklahoman ingenuity with
that piece of thread holding the drops in place.
That's Just great. Do you have any plans on the
airplane or the pendulum? How are those going,
or have you written those off? Over.
253 O0 20 32 SPT Well, the airplane we haven't worked up the courage
to try yet; and the pendulum, I'll tell you, has
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so many different modes of oscillation that you
probably haven't thought about, a very - a nodding
mode that's damped heavily I would exp ct in one g,
is a predominant mode up here, and I might Just
show you what it oscillates like. I don't know
how to interpret it or how to make it behave the
way it's supposed to behave. And if you'd like to
take 5 minutes to see how it really does, I'll
put that on the TV some time.
MCC I think that would be intere ting, myself.
253 00 21 00 SPT Okay, we might schedule 5 minutes or so for that,
and as soon as I get our aerodynamic specialist
up here to fold an airplane, why we could show ou
that.
MCC Okay, excellent. Okay, now we've got something for
Jack to do when he's wearing that cellophane suit
and a mask is some more TO02. How do you eact to
that ?
253 O0 21 20 SPT Going to zip the suit up, can tell you.
MCC (Laughter)
PLT Looking forward to it, Bob.
253 O0 21 24 MCC Okay, let me talk to you a biabout TO02. irst
of all, as you've probably well aware, you've now
spent about 18 hours working on T002. Premission
requirements for T002 were 14 hours. Everybody
is over - over what they were planning premission.
But I - I point that out - the fact that TO02, re-
gardless, has been approved for something like
14 hours, which in itself was quite a bit of time.
In terms of FOs, we now count you as having completed
26 of the scheduled 3_ in the MRD. Of the eight
remaining, six of these are Moon stars. And I
might say someth
i
ng about ho
w
the way - how we've
been scheduling these FOs. Right now an FO was -
For T002, they were planned to be spread through-
out the mission, and they got bunched up also. An
FO, as per the checklist, is really only a 15-mark
occurrence, and it turns o t that we scheduled
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something like 30 minutes as opposed to the
15 minutes that were really needed. We did that
Just because we had the time and we didn't want to
push anybody, or ou know, we - we had the time,
we felt we could do it.
253 O0 22 36 CC We're about 1 minute from LOS. Carnarvon's at
01:03, and, Owen, that's your phone call. Left
antenna and switch to right in the middle of it,
and I'll let Bob continue talking.
PLT Okay, thank y u, Bob.
253 00 22 h9 MCC Okay, and as a result of that, Jack, because we
scheduled for 30 min tes, you went ahead and worked
for 30 minutes, which is absolutely commendable.
And that meant you were getting 20 or 50 occasion
marks instead of the 15 that were really required.
However, since the MRO on the progra was really
set up to see how these things change during time -
the effect of weightlessness, those things don't
really meet the objectives as they were per - as
they we e stated. Over.
253 00 23 18 PLT Okay, well I didn't understand that, and my objec-
tive was to get as m,ny marks as I could during
a pass, so that we could count, say for two ses-
sions instead of one. In the future then, I'll
do 15 and go do something else.
253 00 23 29 MCC Okay. We were also, at the present time, now
going to start scheduling those that we do have left
for 15 minutes instead of 30, so that you won't
get, you know, eased into that situation in the
first place. You might say, that as you guys
realize, TO02 is an extremely low-priority exper-
iment, and had this been a mission like Skylab 1/2
or had we had problems along the way and time had
been tight, it certainly would not have gotten the
attention that it's gotten. But the time has been
available, and so for that reason, we have sched-
uled it in.
253 00 30 14 CC Hello, Skylab. I knew that map was going to foul
me up. We've got you through Ascension for 9 min-
utes.
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253 00 30 20 S T You're not there. It's only your imagination.
CC That's what I thought. Since we're not here - -
SPT We're waiting for 01:30.
CC (Laughter) Right. I'll let Bob go ahead and con-
tinue talking here.
253 00 30 32 MCC Okay, Jack, I think we went over the hill just as
I was finishing there, and if you g t any comments
about T002, why don't you pick up there, and I
don't really have too much more to talk about to-
day. So if you have any comments, you've - feel
free to ta]k on and ask questions. Over.
253 00 30 47 PLT Oh. I don't ave nothing to say. I'll Jus t do
them when you schedule them, and I probably won't
get near as m_Lny marks.
253 00 30 55 MCC Okay. As I s y, we only have, I think, six or
eight remaining, and they will be spread out, and
we will schedule them for the shorter period of
time. And if you have no further comments, I'll
let it get dark. You can look at the aurora or
you can ask questions or I'll turn you back over
to Crip.
253 00 31 24 SPT Well we got about i0 more minutes before there's
a good aurora, but I'm up here by the window right
now.
253 00 31 31 MCC Okay. I thank you, men, and I' l talk to you next
week.
CDR Okay. Thank you, Bob. We're looking forward to
that information on Salt Lake City. We were Just
trying to look up and see if we had any photographs
of it. We saw some maps in our EREP; you think
we have photographs somewhere.
MCC No. I think, as far as I know, you have that VTS
map of the Salt Lake City area, and th t's it that
I know of.
PLT Yes, Bob, all we got in my package is the map of
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the Salt Lake City area, and then there's an ERTS
photo of the Bonneville Salt Flats, but that's
pretty small compared to the rest of the area.
MCC Right. And I think the thing will be keyed to a
VTS map, is - is my recollection of the pad. It
should be co ing up tonight. 220A, I believe.
220A.
253 00 32 12 CDR Okay. Yo might want to think about another site
that we got some good photographs and maps of, so
that we can learn the difference between those two
sorts of things looking down. And pick something
like Africa where we're not generally in an earth -
EREP mode or something, and we can Just whistle
down there and look out the window. Africa has
been real good lately. I don't know how - what's
going to happen the next couple of weeks, but some
of those places like Casa Blanca or Gibraltar or
some of those are us ally e l clear.
253 00 32 h3 MCC Okay. We'll get with that. And you should get
that pad up tonight.
253 00 3'-57 CC And, A1, for that African pass we got coming up
tomorrow, the Flight Plan we gave you did not give
you an ascending node for your slider m_p. I can
give you one verbally if you'd like it.
253 00 3!3i0 CDR Good idea. Just a second.
253 00 3.3 32 CDR Okay. Go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay. It's h.6 degrees west at 10:36 Zulu.
CDR Thanks.
CDR ATM didn't finish theirs earlier. Are they still
around?
CC I- I'ii check and see if he's still around. I was
under the impression that he had finished it up.
We' ii check.
253 00 3_ 13 CDR Okay. We alway seemed to be rushed at ATM, pos-
sibly because we do do a lot f - there's a lot
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f people reducing that da a real time, and maybe
we ought to try to somehow get that a little bit
longer.
CC Okay. We'll see if we can work that in. You guys
got any specific questions or anything right now
that we can get - we can work with the back room?
253 00 34 51 CDR None other than - I'm hoping they're going to
send up a pad with all that information on about
how we should - th ir recommendations for how we
should handle the remaining film. We heard it to-
day and Owen remembers it, and Jack and I sometimes
do, and if we get it written down, we can really
do a better Job. But I know we've got some infor-
mation on it, but the additional word they gave us
today.
253 00 35 26 CC On 56, I think they mentioned that they were going
to take advantage of the extra film that they have
after the counter goes to zero. And we were going
to check and certainly don't see any problem with
resetting the counter for that on you. Owen men-
tioned that he thought 54 also had some, and that
is incorrect. That is not true.
CDR Okay.
CC When it - -
253 00 35 53 SPT I was thinking there was more than 6000 in there.
Just my mistake.
CC No, Owen, actually when it gets down to 200, you
are out of film.
SPT Okay. F ne. Thanks for correcting me.
253 O0 36 ll CC Okay. And one item we might like to find out from
you. It was mentioned about several instruments
that we're normally going to omit, and we've been
putting those down in your schedule pad, of course,
for - for each one. And we're wondering if we Just
couldn't summarize that since it seems like it's
quite a bit of repeating over and over and over.
Either, you know, at the end of the pad in remarks
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or some way like that, Just to keep from using
up so much paper.
253 O0 36 55 SPT Now what - Could you give me an example of the
sort of thing you want to abbreviate. A1 tends to
think that they could be omitted, whereas, I was
tending to think that it doesn't hurt to have them
show up there so we don't forget them. But maybe
there are some general statements that you have
in mind that I wouldn't tend to forget.
253 00 3i"17 CC Okay. An example would be right - on right now,
you've been told not to use 54 except for the syn-
optic. And, of course, we've been putting down
every time on each build ng block that it's nor-
mel ly i cluded to mit it, except for that synoptic.
SPT Yes. But it's a question of what is or is not syn-
optic, and th_n sometimes you'll schedule a par-
ticular building block in a J0P that is really
either serving double purpose or really some other
JOP. And it's the question of what is or is not
synopt c. To me it's not always clear. Usually
it's clear, but not necessarily.
253 00 37 53 CC Well, if there is any chance of confusing it at
all, we certainly would rather do it the way that
we're doing it.
CDR I'll tell you what you could try for a day or so,
Bob. See if it worked out. If there's something
that should be omitted for tha particular pad,
just write it right at the first, like you do
sometimes saying, "Don't repoint in multiple build-
ing block 10 ," or something. Say write it first.
Omit 82A, B, and 54 this day pass. And anything
extra, Just put within it. And I think that would
be a workable solution.
253 00 36 27 CC Okay. We copy that. We'll - we'll take a look at
it. It'll - It's not going to be, of course, ap-
plicable to your pads tomorrow, because we got
those built. But we'll see if we can work some-
thing out that might make it a little bit better
for the following day.
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253 00 38 38 CDR Okay. I think that we can try a couple of ways
up here that you all come up with. I don't think
we'll have any trouble abidi g by them, and then
we'll - after we've tried a couple, we'll let you
know what looks like - seems to be the best.
2 3 00 38 52 CC Okay.
253 00 39 7 CC One tem. We've got about 1 minute to LOS, and
that real Carnarvon pass that I was talking about
will be coming up next at 01:30. Can you give
us an idea how your Polaroid film usage is going?
About how much more you've got? nd how much you've
used up?
253 00 39 37 SPT Okay. We reported earlier, Bob, that we thought
we would e entially have it all used, and I think
we're actually not using it quite that fast now.
I don't know exactly how many packages we've used,
but I think that it's about five. I've also found
that a couple of packs, after the tape has been
removed from the battery, slipped them in and
they do not function in the camera. Now, I've
cleaned the electrodes with a wipe, not with al-
cohol, and then reinserted it, and it still did
not function. So I'm assuming that this is a
deficiency in the battery pack, and it's not some-
thing in the - inside the camera because the next
load will normally work. But I think we've used
up about, oh, five; and maybe another one or two
of them have been found inoperative. So that
leaves about half at this point.
253 00 40 15 CC Okay. Your African pads are on board. Going over
the hill.
253 01 03 16 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S through Carnarvon for
l0 minutes .
253 01 03 24 PLT Okay, Bob. We've digressed from the plan a little
bit here. We got - turned the thing on, and we
got super erruptive prominence going. Okay, and
it's near the active region that's going around
the limb, active region 9, I believe.
CDR Th t thing is so big that you can see it on
H-alpha 2 when it's zoomed out.
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CC Copy that.
253 01 03 h8 PLT You can also see the dynamics in real time, by Just
sitting here watching it. You can see it changing
very perceptively. It's the first t ing I've ever
seen move on the Sun.
253 01 Oh 01 CC Roger.
CDR Zoomed out, it's righ on the limb. Zoomed out,
the thing is about half an inch long and a sixteenth
of an inch wide. And by wide - it's about as wide
as a pencil lead, half an inch long, Just laying
on the limb of the Sun. If you get a closeu of
it, you can see that one end of it is emanating
out of it, normal to the Sun's periphery - limb.
And then it kind of flatt ns out. It's almost like
a waterfall. _And it comes then down, and then after
it leaves that area, it travels about a hundred
seconds - mske that - m_ke that 200 arc seconds,
and then kind of flares out away from the Sun's
disk.
253 01 04 59 CC Okay, A1. Are you going for a coronal transient
guideline?
CDR We 're working on what 's known as hydrogen-alpha,
crew-detected transient event. And that's where we
are at the moment.
CC 0keydoke.
CDR We're following the moving material.
253 01 05 18 PLT What we're doing is giving Milligan an ACTIVE l,
LONG at the moment and MIRROR AUTO RASTER for
56. And 82B, we're giving him some pictures,
but they're Just 40 and 20 SHORT. We'll give him
something different if he likes it. 82A, we haven't
given him anything.
CC 0keydoke.
253 Ol 05 36 PLT Or 54.
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CDR Most incredible thing I've seen since I've been
up here as far as goings-on on the Sun.
CC 0keydoke. Sounds exciting.
CDR It's big.
253 01 06 47 CDR Wonder if 82A wants us to give him a shot of it?
CC Negative, A1.
CDR Yes, we kind of thought so.
CDR How about 54; what's he thinking these days?
253 01 07 08 C He doesn't want to participate either.
CDR Okay.
253 01 07 22 CC AI, one item. To get 52 in, we would like you to
do a step 2 before you go to step 3.
CDR Will do. When would like us to go to Sun center?
Looks like we could stay here forever, or we could
stay here for as long as you think's reasonable.
253 01 08 08 CC A1, 82B says he's got enough, too. He doesn't
particularly care o shoot up anymore.
CDR Okay. I'll tell you it makes those - too bad he
doesn't want some sort of limb scan because he's
got the opportunity of - of a - of a few months
here or something. Okay. When do you want to go
to Sun center?
253 O1 08 2 CC We're checking on that right now, A1. Stand by.
CDR Okay.
253 01 08 38 CDR The only thing we got run ing is 56, so - and 55;
we can go after the ACTIVE l, LONG.
PLT That's when we're going to go, Bob. We're going
to wait until ACTIVE l, LONG and the MIRROR AUTO
RASTER are over and then we're go ng.
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CC That's satisfactory.
253 O1 ll 21 CC A1, 56 apparently is hung up again. When you fin-
ish that one raster on 55, you can go ahead and
go to Sun center.
CDR Okay, we're thinking about it. It's nearly
finished.
253 01 12 20 CC Okay, Skylab. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll have
you again at GnAm at 01:15, and that's Just about
3 minutes away. A1, you were set up for your phone
call there. Do you want to go ahead and keep it,
or do you want me to shove it until later.
CDR I'll go ahead and keep it. 0wen will be back.
And Jack and 0wen will work the problem.
253 01 121 37 CC Okay. And that's VHF right for you on the antenna.
253 01 12 42 CDR Okay, th nks.
CDR Nothing seems to show on the white light corona-
graph. It may not have gotten out far enough yet.
253 01 13 41 CC Copy that.
253 01 16 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through G,lam for
l0 minutes.
253 Ol 16 32 PLT Okay. We're doing a modified building block 16.
253 01 17 54 CC And, CDR, Houston. If - we're - have been unable
to raise you on VHF; we're standing by for the
phone call.
253 01 18 05 PLT Okay, Al's down there. I don't know if he's talk-
ing or not.
CC Copy.
PLT I hear him telling Houston he's reading them, al-
though I don't know if they're hearing him. I
don't think they're hearing A1.
253 01 18 43 CC Owen, are you on the panel yet?
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253 01 18 49 CC Jack, how do you read?
SPT Okay, Bob, I'm on the panel. A1 reports that he's
reading Houston VHF loud and clear, but they cannot
hear him. And Jack's still at the panel.
CC Okay, I'll work that. I think he probably copied
it. Since you reported that 52 is - It wasn't
observable on 5 yet, we would recommend if ou've
started that step 2, to go ahead and truncate it
and go into the limb scan, shopping list item 19
and use your Judgement where to point.
SPT Okay, understand. And we'll take another look at
the corona, and then if we don't see anything, pick
up on 19.
253 01 19 30 CC We are - we're sitting here, of course, without
any ground-base information one way or the other
to - to help you out.
SPT That sounds like a real good idea and we'll sort
of keep our eye on the corona occasionally. I see
we've got 30 minutes here left, but probably take
one other look, and then see if we do see some
coming out beyond i-1/2 solar radii. So we'll
follow those guidelines. That sounds like a good
idea, and we'll see how - how it looks up here.
253 01 19 58 CC 0keydoke.
253 O1 20 45 PLT Say, Bob. I assume you want that shopping list 19
over the prominence we're looking at as opposed
to active region 10, which was called out earlier.
CC That 's affirmative, Jack.
253 01 25 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll
see you again at Goldstone at 01: l. That's about
17 minutes away, and we'll be sta ding by for the
evening status report there.
253 01 25 24 PLT Okay.
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S YLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
253 01 42 03 CC Skylab, Ho ston. AOS through Goldstone,
16-1/2 minutes.
SPT 0kay, Bob.
CC And we're standing by for TV down-link whenever
you can provide it for us.
PLT Okay, understand you got real time, huh?
CC Affirm. We'll get it down to the site real time,
but it won t go on the VTR. We'll see it later.
PLT Okay, it's sitting on H-alpha 1 right now.
CC Coming down good.
253 01 43 46 CDR Is this a good place for the evening status
report?
CC That's a great place for it.
CDR How long we got?
CC Oh, 14-1/2 minutes.
253 01 43 55 CDR I hope I can cover it in time. Here we go.
Urine: 142; 160; 180. Drinking water: 5925;
9778; 6h21. BMMD: On this BMMD I called down
on channel A, I ate, and I remembered that as
soon as I ate that I hadn't weighed. So I went
up 81qdweighed _mmediately in the proper clothes,
so all they've got to do is subtract off exactly
what I ate, plus one squirt of water. So I put
that down on channel A and there - They shouldn't
have any trouble. But here's the numbers: 6.289,
6.288, 6.285; 5.967, 5.968, 5.969; 6.946, 6.949,
6.949. Exercise: CDR, 0; SPT, 2/31/5030,
320Mark I, 60 A's, 30 B's, 30 D's; PLT, 1/05/0607,
2/36/87o6,B/20/Mark I, 50 A, 20 B, 20 D, 20
backbends. No medication. Sleep: 6-1/2/G, 7/G,
6-1/2G. Here comes the food log: CDR, four salts,
add pineapple; SPT, five salts, plus - add
four salts to yesterday's menu. Al o add peanuts
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to today. PLT, zero salts, one grape drink,
one but er cookies, one lemon drop. Okay, photo
log: I'll get that. EREP, VTS, track l,
CLO 3 [sic], 37. 35 millimeter: CI104, 18;
CX31, 21. 70-millimeter: CX26, 099. ETC:
BW02, 071. EREP set, Z: 8123; 7460; 8336; 8330;
1873; 9191. Drawer A: no change. Okay, Flight
Plan tomorrow looks like a good one. Are you
going to have a good position, by the way, to
give us a wake-up call tomorrow?
CC That's affirmative. We do. We've got one set
up about 10:14.
2 3 01 46 43 CDR Perfect. Okay. Shopping list: no shopping
llst i ems accomplished that you don't know
about. No inoperable eq ipment that's new. Un-
scheduled stowage item location change: We
moved some wires from 729 to the waste management
compartment. We moved five red towels from D-418,
I think it is, to the waste management compartment.
Let me check to make sure it's hl8.
2 3 O1 47 25 CDR That is correct, and that's the end of the night
report. Any questions?
CC I don' believe so, A1. We're checking; just
stand by.
CC A1, apparently we don't really have any more
questions. It looks like a good report. And,
Jack, are you or 0wen available?
CDR You bet. Jack's working - oh, well, I think
he just finished. All of us are available. What's
on your mind?
253 01 _8 52 CC Okay, Just wanted to tell Owen, on his pass for
next rev at the ATM, we ould like to have the
H-alpha 1 back to MANUAL Just to conserve a
little film. And we would like to pick up that
building block 1 that - that we left. And since
we've already done shopping list item 19, of
course, that's not necessary.
SPT Okay, underst nd. Just about what we'd planned.
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CC Also, your - the VTR is all cleaned off, rewound,
and it's yours if you need it.
SPT Have anything in mind?
CC 0nly item we had is, we have scheduled, of course,
that inventory thing for - for A1 tomorrow, if
he wanted to start picking up on that a little
bit earlier, that's - would be satisfactory.
SPT Okay, I'll - sure he heard you.
253 01 50 52 CC And, Skylab, you might have noticed we're doing
a data voice recorder dump here at MLA.
253 01 51 16 CC Jack, could you give us an idea of how much of
that Minilimb scan, shopping list item 19, that
you were able to do?
PLT Yes, I went over to the area where we saw the
surge-erupted prominence and got pointed, and we
got at least two GRATING SCANS at the limb and
plus 2 and plus 4 steps with the mirrow, and I
got - for 56, I got a three - four or five LONG
exposures. They were all between 8 and i0 seconds.
The first one was 10, the last two were 8. And
82B, I got him pointed at 0, 2, 4, 8, 20. Let
me check that a minute. All right, excuse me, I
meant minutes for those long exposures on 56. And
the 82B got pointed at 0, plus 4, plus 8, and
plus 20. Only thing was, we had o cut down our
exposures a little bit in order to work that many
points in, but we tried to do it by using the
same proportions that they had for the SHORT and
LONGs. The only one we didn't get was the minus
4 arc secs from the limb.
CC Okay, that sounds good, Jack. We didn't want that
minus 4 anyway.
PLT I didn't think you did.
CC Okay, and one other item. We would like to ter-
minate that battery 6 char e down on 509 as late
as practical tonight. Prior to the charge ter-
mination, any time, we would like to get a readout
ofthechargercurrent.
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3
01 5
3
26 PLT Okay, t
h
at's pretty easy.
S
tand by. A1 reports
half an amp.
CC Roger. 0.5 amps.
PLT And we'll take it off and charge it before next
pass.
CC Okay, very good. For Owen, on th t S054 frame
count, I think maybe I've got an answer as to
why - some confusion while ago as to how much
frames it had after it cour_ted down. The S054
fra
m
e count
i
s presently real count. The frame
count
w
as reset after the magazine installation
when some 990 frames had been used. When the
frame count reads 200, no more film should be
expended, as damage to the film could occur.
SPT Okay, I hadn't known about that reset on the
S054. I guess it was done while I wasn't
around the panel. I didn't know about it, so
that - A1 Just said he did it. So that accounts
for the other frames that I was expecting.
CC Okeydoke. And, Owen, another item. Is the S063
visib
l
e c
a
mer
a
working correctly now?
253 O1 54 39 SPT Well, I've been using that camera all day, but in
a manual mode. And I have not connected it up
with a timer and - and done it electrically again .
So I guess I cannot verify that the battery is up
and everything is working electrically, although
there is n problem with any of the mechanical
performance.
253 01 55 07 CC Okay, if you do have a chance to check it out
electric
a
lly, we would appreciate the word on it.
SPT Okay, I'll - I'll do that tomorrow. I actually
had thought that I could Dress the button on that
motor drive ring and get it to work electrically,
but I guess I can't do that. And I'll h ve to
hook the timer up to it.
PLT One big item we don't want to leave off tonight,
Crip. The workshop temperature ambient gag is
reading 72 degrees.
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CC Mustn't forget about that.
SPT A1 suggests that I should have rotated that
motor ring to drive to N ingle, and then it
would have kicked off electrically. So I'll try
it that way, or with the timer, tomorrow before
any S063 runs.
CC Okay; copy that.
253 O1 56 54 CC For CDR, we're of course sitting here with a few
more sites tonight and no - no big busy activity.
We're wondering if there is anything that well,
actually for any of you, that - that we owe you
or you'd like to talk about that we could take
advantage f the time.
PLT Yes, now that we know all about M518 and - Why
don't we turn the heat on?
PLT Maybe you need to get it up to SOAK temperature
before everybody goes to bed.
CC Okay, we'll see if we can get you a good an wer
on that one.
SPT Just a comment, Bob. I appreciate the quick
response from the corollary room on giving us a GO
to get that S063 apparatus installed, even though
it turned out to be on the wrong side of the space-
craft. Glad to have the opportunity to give it a
try and sure took some quick thinking and
puzzling to make sure it was satisfactory.
CC Okay. Sorry it turned out to be on the wrong
side of the spacecraft. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Carnarvon pass next at 02:41, and that's
your meal conference.
CDR Okay, Crip. I can't think of _nyth ng right now.
We've cleaned up a lot of loose ends on this day
off, and we'll try to think about that, though, if
the situation comes up again.
253 01 58 33 CC Okay, we've been considering putting together
maybe a little story about some of the trouble-
- shootingitemswe feel thatwe need to get done
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between now and end of mission, and we might
talk to you about that some time, if you're
interested.
253 01 58 42 CDR You bet, that's a good idea. The sooner you get
the here, the better, because we're going to
have time to work on them. That's a good ques-
tion. You all satisfied with that probe? Or do
you want us to keep working on it? Looks like
we've done the things you mentioned, but we still
haven't solved the problem.
CC That's one of the items.
CDR Okay. That's enough, no doubt.
953 01 59 01 CC Love those. Over the hill.
253 02 46 26 CC Okay, Skylab, _got you back here for about a
minute and a half. And we're going to have you
at Guam at 02:56. We'd like to know what you
put on the VTR for us, if you could tell us.
PLT A1 is putting the information for Jerry on the
TV, at the moment.
CC Okay. And we copy that we filled up the VTR° Is
that an adequate amount of time for the inventory,
or are you going to need some more time for that?
PLT He's going to need some more time, because he's
not finished down there yet, Bob.
CC Okay. I believe we've got some more scheduled for
him tomorrow, so we'll probably be able to finish
it up theu.
253 02 47 16 PLT And we came around the sunny side, ..° over to a
little flare that's goi g on and rang the bell
and got up to about 730 or 40. And we're on
BERYLLIUM 2 at about 3700.
CC Roger.
PLT And the IIC was up around 160.
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CC We're - We're - We're getting ready to go over
the hill here.
PLT Okay. Trouble is, we got it at the top again.
We didn't get the rise.
CC Roger.
CDR Say, Bob, I was on the comm. Did you get the
word we were using the VTR?
CC Roger. We - And it's full right now. It's not
available for you to use anymore.
CDR Okay, it's finished, and my guess is I've got
probably another 20 minutes to go, to finish the
Job, maybe 30. If we had a full one, we could
do it for sure.
253 02 48 24 CC We'll work on that.
253 02 55 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Guam for
5 minutes.
253 02 55 53 SPT Okay. That' our MASTER ALARM. We're Just
changing - -
CDR Solids trap.
SPT - - solids traps over here. We haven't told you
very much about this flare. Jack mentioned a
little bit. But it was a reasonably nice flare,
and the XUV signature is still one very small
pinpoint on the XUV MON, and it has an unusual,
rather dark halo around it. There is a dark
region, perhaps, oh, 30 arc seconds -Maybe up
to an arc minute - more likely 30 arc seconds in
dia - in radius - No, I think that's diameter -
around the small bright spot, which is very dark
in XUV, and then the bright plage beyon that.
The signature on the XUV MON, as I indicated, is
principally this one bright spot, quite different
in - in H-alpha. It shows a lot of wiggles and
kinks and lines along the neutra lines in H-alpha
but not in the XUV MON. Now we're still consi -
continuing in flare operations for several of the
instruments. We've not yet done the J0P l, A and
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B - or building blocks I, A and B. And I'm wonder-
ing if the backroom has any suggestion of whether
or not they can do any of it wh le unattended or
if they'd like for me to stay up and finish it
before I turn in tonight.
CC We're looking into that, 0wen. And regarding
that active prominence that we saw earlier, it -
according to our Carnarvon data, it went out to
about 0.05 solar radii, and it looks pretty good
for 82B to get tha limb scan of it.
PLT Hey, this flare we're up there working on started
goind down; now it's going back up. And we
caught it on the new spot, same active region on
the rise again. And so we're taking data in the
modified flare mode.
CC Okay. And we also copy and agree with you, Jack.
It does look like it's coming up again.
PLT Okay. Now we're only giving 82B 10-second
exposures every once in a while We'd be more
generous if we got the okay down there.
25B 02 59 06 CC Ok y. Understand 82B is getting 10-second exposure.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
253 02 59 53 CDR Never in our wildest dreams did we ever imagine
we'd have that much action on the Sun as we've
had in the last month.
CC Yes, old man Sun's really been cooperative
here with us lately. And we're about - -
CDR It's been incredible. Every time that something
like this has happened we said, wel], that's
about it, and it Just won't stop perking. Like
today, we've had three big events already. It's
just fantastic how this Sun's cooperating.
CC Yes, you're right about that. And, Jack, it's
your discretion on 82B exposures. We're about
B0 seconds fro LOS. We've got a - a Goldstone
pass upcoming at 03:18, and we'll be doing a
data voice recorder dump there. I normally
will not give you a call at Goldstone. I'll
try to get an answer for you regarding this -
those s ynoptics.
CDR kay. Give us a call when you get there.
CC Roger. Understand you w nt a call at Goldstone.
PLT And we missed the handheld on Borneo because it
was clobbered with clouds.
CC Copy.
CDR Also, one thing you asked if we wanted to talk
about - We kind of wanted to talk about what
your thinking was down there about these film -
these - the tape and the film we brought out
of the plenum the other day.
CC Okay. We - we copy that.
253 03 03_21 CC See you at Goldstone at 03:18.
253 03 18 40 CC Skylab, we're AOS through Goldstone, and we've
got you for about 15 minutes on this stateside
pass.
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SPT Okay, be wi h you in just a minute.
CC Okay. No sweat. We copied that we had two
M-1 flares previously and pretty sure that you
got the rise on that second one.
SPT Okay.
253 03 19 52 SPT Okay, over on that second one now. This is
apparently active region 24; I believe that's
the correct number. It's the new one there that
we didn't have listed on the SAP. And the second
one was another portion of the northern segment
of active region 24. There are two segments.
I'll call them the northern and southern segments.
And the second portion of the northern segment
began to brighten. We noticed it on both the XUV
MON and the H-alpha, but really noticed it
first this time on H-alpha. And went over there
and picked it up and caught a good part of the
rise. 56 keeps hanging up, but I think we kept
it going all right for at least most of that.
As had 56 or 55 going properly in MIRROR LINE
SCAN at this time; we've been giving 82B
10-second exposures. Now, I just now moved over
to another bright point in the southern region,
which is starting - it started to brighten in
H-alpha, but which did not have an XUV MON
signature as yet, in hopes that perhaps we could
catch it even earlier in the rise. Now apparently,
I just moved over there a couple of minutes ago,
nothing has begun t increase there, and we've
only got 2 minutes left, so we'll not see anything
again here for 30 minutes. Now the other rather-
interesting thing, at least one other interesting
thing - on the XUV _DN, there is a very dark
region between the northern and southern segments
of active region 2h. There's a very definite
cavity which - from which all the brightness is
excluded between the norther_, and southern halves.
I probably should have taken an 82 alfa exposure
early in the game, which I did not do. It would
have been nice to have seen what it looked like
there, although, of course, we' l have some
X-ray photographs. And that looks like it's
going to be about all we can do on this particular
orbit. But I am standingby to pick up the _
synoptic stuff at the beginning of the, or during
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the next orbit. You mentioned two class M's.
I presume _hat shows the Vela ?] class, and
you've already got the information back there
from the X-ray signature. Is that correct? Over.
253 03 2:[56 CC That's - that's affirm, Owen. We did get the
Vel - satel ite with the X-ray signatures indi-
cating M-I 's.
SPT Okay. It looks real good. It's - the H-alpha
and the eck - XUV MON signatures are really quite
different. The H-alpha you may have seen down
there by now. I - on the other hand, you probably
haven't because it's night time locally. It - In
the nor hern segment was composed of a great many,
let's say six or eight different small bright
points. We were on the brightest of these for
both of the two flares, but there were ndoubtedly
a number of bright points contributing. However,
on the XUV MON, there was only a single bright
point in each case, and it was very small right
at the limit of resolution that our scope and the
XUV M0N has. So I can't say which has the lead
time, which was the earliest, but their appearance
was defi itely quite different. Over.
CC Okay, Owen. That - that was an excellent summary.
And regarding the synoptic, we do not want you to
go ahead and stay up for that next rev. We'd
just as soon you would go ahead and sack out,
since you're goi g to have to get up early tomor-
row morning.
253 03 23 06 SPT Understand. What do - you all can't roll -
What would you like - What configuration would you
like for me to leave the panel in? And I really
wouldn't ob ect to staying up for a half hour
and see the first part of it or even the whole
thing if you'd l ke. But if you don't want that,
how would you like for me to _eave the panel in
terms of roll and the pointing?
CDR I don't think we're going to have any problem
with fatigue, and we can take it comp time.
After all, Owen's a civilian, ou know.
CC Roger. Understand, A1.
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253 03 24 39 CC Owen, since you're being so cooperative, if you
could get us the building block 2 at the first
portion of the next rev, with a roll of minus
4800, it would be very much appreciated.
SPT Nothing to it. Is that all? If I'm going to,
you know, stay up, why, I might as well give you
anyt ing you really want.
CC Owen, the Flight Director says he's doing fliofloos
trying to observe all the ground rules, and it's
strictly your option. If you can get the synoptic
in then, I guess that would be appreciated also.
SPT Okay. Th t'll be fine. We'll manage to get that
done, and I'll Just take it easy in the morning
and not get up until l0 o' clock.
CC Roger. Get - get to get up early on your day
off, so it's - I guess tomorrow's a workday,
you'll get up a little bit earlier.
SPT Why not? Why not?
253 03 25 56 CC I did have a few items if the CDR is listening
regarding his troubleshooting stuff I spoke to
him about earlier. And I could Just sort of
run down it in about 30 seconds here, I think,
cover most of them.
SPT He couldn't thin of going to sleep with all
this fun and games going on up here.
CC I didn't think so. Just to run down them quickly.
We're talking about flushing the secondary refrig-
eration subsystem, and we would not do that until
we got into the deactivation timeline so that
we'll make ure we don't harm any of the blood/
urine samples. We're going ahead and do some
more ATM battery capacity checks like we were
doing today. We're talking about prepping TV
camera serial number 3002 for returning home.
We're talking about checking out that dump probe
heater that we - we mentioned earlier. I guess
a couple of the items that is - we're talking
about right now, or one, since we really can't
figure out what the heck's wrong with it, is
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to - to reinstall it and do a dump an see whether
it works or not. Another one is to try and figure
out if we can come up with some way of checking
out that heater to make sure it's working inside.
And be interested in hearing any comments you
might have on that one.
253 03 27 i0 CDR We can check it out inside without burning
ourselves, I think, quite easily. We can mount
it - universal mount if need be, and turn it on,
and use our temperature probe here that has got
about an 8-inch end on it and measure it, you
know, close to it or touch it o whatever else
they may think would be right, using the probe.
I don't think we'd have any trouble. We also
got a vise we can put it in. So we've got - we
could very easily check it out for you.
CC We'll take that in - under advisement and get
back with you on it. For the EVA, we're talking
about dusting off that spec on S052 and also pull-
ing the ramp on H-alpha 2.
l
CDR Okay, sounds good.
253 03 27 53 CC Also, we're talking about changing out the airlock
module recorder number 2 with one of the spares.
CDR Okay. That's a 15-minute job.
CC And really, that- that pretty much covers the -
the special things that we see that we need to
get done between now and end of mission. Regard-
ing the - the film question you had earlier; our
indication right now is that that 190 film is
all sort of stuck together, and we're actually
afr id of hurting the 190A unit if we stick
it in.
253 03 28 29 CDR Why don't we take one of the rolls apart and
check it for you and see how it looks? Take it
out and do it by hand and look at it.
CC That's an excellent idea.
253 03 29 29 CC And now regarding that S019 film canister you've
broughtout; I guess rightnow we Just don'tthink
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that that's any good at all. It had its earlier
problems. It's spent all of this time out of
the - out of the film vault, so the radiation's
pretty much, we're sure, gotten it by now.
CDR Okay. How abo t the ETC film?
CC Well, it supposedly had the same problem that
the 190A had, and we're not really sure that
there's anything that we ca do to - to verify
that - that it doesn't have the problem.
CDR In other words, Just taking out a roll and not
reeling and sealing it, looking at it, being
familiar with film to begin with, it's not
possible to look at it and say hey, this stuff
works great or it sticks together, huh?
CC Well, stand by on that. I think we need to get
a - get a better answer on it. I'm really - if
we can - Do you think that you can look at the -
the ETC film and make that kind of. an evaluation?
CDR Definitely. I think I can look at both the films,
make the evaluation. The two rolls we look at
will be lost. But then, the - we might realize
that the others are acceptable. Certainly,
because we've handled the film up here that's
brand new coming in, so we know how it looks.
And we can certainly compare that with what
we're using in the EREP right now - for flexi-
bility, tracking, stickiness, anything else
that the ground can think of. But I'm sure
we can tell whether it was going to stick and
hurt the equipment, for sure.
253 03 BI 0_ CC Okay. Is - You - you've got a GO from us to
take a look at that, too.
CDR Okay. We'll think about that, and we've also
got force gages up here. We could even put
them on the end and measure the - the strength
it _akes to unroll it or anything like that.
There's a lot of gear up here for doing that
sort of thing.
CC Roger; copy.
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CC Okay. We got about a minute and 45 seconds
with - before we go over the hill. Next pass is
at Vanguard, 03:44. I'll go ahead and cut off
for here for tonight and we'll - we'll be talk-
ing to you tomorrow.
CDR Okay. I gather hat there's not going to be
more troubleshooting on this duct. Is that
correct?
CC Are you talking about on the condensate dump on
the DELTA-P thing?
CDR No, I'm talking about th air ducts from the
2 mol sieve back to the OWS - those fans we
changed the other day.
253 03 32 29 CC Sorry, I misunderstood you. Duct. The transfer
duct flow is the one that's still erratic and
indicating a little bit low. The heat exchanger
flow is - is good now - that - when you cleaned
that thing off, that solved that problem. We
I reallysuspectthatallwe'vegotis justa
transducer problem on that transfer duct, but
we - we don't have any way of proving it one
way or the other.
CDR Okay. Sounds good. Just wondered what your
thinking was o it. I guess you're happy now
with the condensate system because it seems
to have quit leaking. I - I hope we can break
this thing down at the end with minimum connec-
tors - disconnections. I'm sure you're thinking
that pretty hard, too.
CC Yes, we concur with that. Regarding that duct
thing, we thought about the intervalometer,
but we concluded that it Just doesn't - doesn't
measure high enough.
CDR Okay.
CC I'd say velometer - not intervalometer, sorry.
CDR Okay. See you all tomorrow.
CC Good night, guys.
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CC Appreciate it if you could re - -
253 03 33 36 CDR We promise to be in bed by that time ...
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
253 l0 14 51 CC Good morning, Skylab; A0S through the Vanguard
for l0 minutes.
PLT Morning, Story.
CC Morning.
PLT Weather look good for this first EREP?
CC Yes, sir.
PLT Very good.
CC And a friendly reminder to everyone. That PSA
and plus IMSS that's on your Flight Plan, that's
crew sampling, so don't brush your teeth and
also avoid washing ear canals and feet. If you
do that in the morning, don't wash those areas
prior to getting the sample.
PLT You got me just in time. I was just about to
get my feet ashed.
253 l0 16 04 CC By who?
PLT My imagination.
253 l0 19 23 CC Jack, let me know when you get to the ATM panel.
PLT I'm there.
CC Okay. We'd like a NuZ update by 10:22, and I've
got an update on your Sun. No flares have been
reported since 05:00 Zulu. Active regions 19,
2 , and 09 now have ne r equal flare probabili-
ties. Flares in active region 15 are occurring
sympathetically with flares in active region 24.
Prominence 53 is active, the slight prominence
a tivity at 07 on the limb.
PLT Okay.
253 lO 21 02 CC And, Jack, when you an work it in, the frame
count on the ATM please.
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253 l0 23 8 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We'll see you
over Ascensi n, _ minutes. Be dumping the data
voice recorders then. We see the Nu Z update;
looks good.
CDR This is an SI. Is it not, Story?
CC We got about 20 seconds. Could you say again,
Al?
CDR This is a SI EREP pass, is it not ; solar inertial
EREP?
CC That 's affirmative.
253 l0 24 46 C And while I got you, don't use any more than
ll minutes on the YTR. You'll be erasing some
previous recordings, A1.
253 l0 27 33 CC Skylab, AOS Ascension, l0 minutes.
PLT Ok
a
y, Story. Here's the fr
a
me count. H-alpha
is 5_32; M lligan is lll3; Tousey A is 39;
Tousey B, 232; MacQueen is 3076; and Vaiana,
Krieger is 1921.
CC Okay. Thanks, Jack.
PLT Now let's see. Do we have any other open items
you want us to work on
CC Could you say again, please?
PLT Was that all the info you wanted?
CC Yes; that's fine.
PLT Okay.
CC Jack, was that frame count pIior to your start-
ing the ATM ops this morning?
PLT Say again, please.
CC Was the frame count prior to your starting the
ATM ops this morning?
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PLT Oh, I had Just started - just started JOP 6
and hadn't gotten too far nto it.
CC Okay.
P T I've got it recorded from last night up here.
PLT Sto y, I can give you the fram count as of -
at the end of operations last night, if you
prefer.
CC Yes that'd be helpful.
PLT Okay. H-alpha's 5435; 56 is lll6_ 82A is 39;
82B is 232; 52 is 3095; and 54 is 1929.
CC Thanks.
253 i0 34 07 CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead, Story.
CC 0wen, the Flight Plan's not very clear, but the
MSS along with PSA, IMSS 3. And it's on
page 32-18, IMSS checklist.
SPT Okay. Thank you. I think we have it all out
and ready to go, actually. We don't have the
bottles out yet but if I have any questions
I'll give yo a call.
CC Thought that was the case.
SPT Thank you.
253 l0 37 09 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. Good luck in
your study of the African drought. We'll see
you in abo t B5 minutes over Guam at ll:ll.
SPT 0kay, Story.
235 lO 37 46 SPT Got a lot of cloud cover so far, but it may be
more clear once we hit the coast.
253 l0 37 53 CC Okay.
253 ll 12 17 CC Skylab, AOS Guam 9 minutes.
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SPT Hello, Story. Glad you mentioned that on the
IMSS numbers. According to my Flight Plan, the
only thing listed specifically is my IMSS, at
about 12:30 _. And, apparently, the other IMSS
is for all three crewmembers starting at ii:00
or a little after with the IMSS 3 for each of
us. Is that correct?
CC That's affirmative, Owen.
SPT Okay, Story, we'll do it. Thank you.
CC And for your information, the - the air sample
is performed later, on around mission day 58.
SPT Okay, fine. And for the EREP officer, let me
check the frames again. 79 frames were used.
That'n from the prime magazine, of course.
CC Could you repeat that please, Owen?
253 ii 13 21 SPT 79 frames were used from the prime mag. ETC ops.
CC Okay, thanks.
253 ii 20 20 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and 30 minutes
to the Vanguard.
CDR We did some talking with Bob last night about
this film, this ETC film a d the EREP film
that we brough up from Pete's bag downstairs.
And the concern was that it might be sticky or
it might not be acceptable to run through the
1R0. And we finally ecided last night, I
think, that it would be okay if I opened it up
and looked at one roll and see if it was sticky,
cracked, and all that business, both ETC and
EREP. I want to make sure that' still okay
today, and I would like you to recommend which
roll, and then I'll do it sometime today and
that way you'll be aware of what the state is
of those film canisters.
CC Okay, A1, I'll get you an answer on that. And
on your M092/MITI coming up, you will need a
vital capacity cal on that one. And you only do
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that o e once; the other ones you take a measure-
ment. And it's Just that first one you take a
cal.
CDR Okay.
CC And you'll need that - -
PLT Story, now?
CC Yes, we're going over the hill. Give it a try.
PLT Okay, I noticed last night or - or yesterday I
was six and one-half packs short on salt. And
I started to say something, and I noticed they
didn't prescribe any for me this morning, salt
pills, and I'm wondering why. And I'm wonder-
ing whether they want me -
253 ll 22 02 CC Okay, we got it.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
253 ii 51 51 CC Skylab, A0S the Vanguard, i0 minutes.
PLT Okay, Story.
CC And, J ck, I've got an answer on your salt.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, yesterday, even if you took zero salts,
you'd still be at the minimun amount of salt,
so no supplement would have been prescribed
for today.
PLT Okay, we've been t_]king ver after I mentioned
it to you, and I guess we made a decision to
take some supplemental salt pills if we don't
use up all our salt during the day; and we'll
report them.
CC Okay; and that's true for, I guess, about every
menu cycle you've got. Even with no salt, you're
r ght at the - salt mi imum.
PLT Okay; thank you for looking that up, Story.
CDR Story, we were talking - th rule that came up
was that one salt pill equals two salt packs,
and that's what we've be n using for several
days. But my subjective opinion is, there is a
l t more salt that actually gets nside you
f om that one salt pill than ever gets inside
you from those two salt packs. And I'm not
sure that maybe one salt pill, the amount that
g ts inside you, isn't about three or four times
more than two salt packs. That's Just a sub-
j ctive feeling I've got from - from looking at
the amount of salt that squirts food and so forth.
CC Okay; copy Alan. Out of curiosity, was that
the ATM EVENT TIMER that went off in the back-
ground?
253 ll 52 19 CDR You got good ears. _ I Just ran that 220 LONG on
82A.
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CC Okay; in the next 7 minutes, I've got a couple
of t ings for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC O your Flight Plan, delete the EREP tapeload
at 21:03.
CDR Okay; we got a brand new tape on there
CC That's affirmative. And some time at your con-
venience, not now, you're running the ATM with
the nemostat that's s_m_ng air at the rate gyro
six-pack. Using your own Judgement, could you
adjust that to maximize the cooling on the six-
pack?
25B ii 55 12 CDR Sure can. We can even put up a little baffle
on it out of mardboard, if you like.
25B ll 55 20 CC Okay, they - they've been creeping up gradually.
Oh, they've come up about 5 or 6 degrees on the
average.
CDR Let us - I'll Just adjust it now, and then we'll
do some thinking about how we might baffle it
over there and cool it better. We didn't know
it was a problem.
CC It's nowhere near a problem yet; we're Just
watching them come up gradually.
CDR May be more a function of beta angle on th t
side of the vehicle than it is the air; I don't
know.
CC Okay.
CDR We're ge ting a lot more reflected Earth now, so
it's possible that that's the reason they're
getting warmer.
CC Okay.
253 12 00 47 C Jack, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
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CC We should have got it to you a little sooner,
but on EREP pass numbe 19, that's a nadir swath;
so don't bother to do any homework on the targets
we listed on the S_mmary Flight Plan.
PLT Okay, Weather cooperative down there?
CC Last I heard it was. And we're a minute from
LOS. I'll let you know. I'll let you know over
Madrid in about 16 minutes.
PLT Okay, if the nadir swath doesn't interrupt it,
I'll probably take a look at the weather in
Houston and see if I can get something, anyway.
So anywhere I've got a site, I'll robably do a
little hunting.
253 12 01 _8 CC Okay.
253 12 09 14 CC Skylab, AOS Ascension, 3 minutes.
CC And if that was Jack, the weather al ng EREP 19
is averagi g between 0 and 7/10 coverage with
an average somewhere around _/10.
PLT Okay. Thank you. Does that nadir swath take
place during the time I'd - I'd like to be
looking for some Houston sites?
CC I'll have to get you an answer on that one.
PLT Maybe it'd be a good idea, if there's a good
possibility of getting some Houston sites to
give me some track ng angles.
CC Okay. And while I've got you, the Friendswood
Musta gs came through Friday night.
PLT Good. They'll probably have nother good team
this year. That's one thing about the folks in
Friendswood. They all get out and pull for the
high school footbal team and other sports as
well. • A lot of community spirit for the high
school.
CC Yes, sir.
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253 12 ll 30 CDR Wonder if 56 is hel_ up on FIL ER 4?
CC Say again, AI.
CDR I was wondering if 56 was held up, but t finally
• shifted over to FILTER 5. Everything's okay.
Thank you, Story.
CC Roger.
253 12 ll 9 CC And, Skylab, we're about 20 seconds to LOS.
We'll see you over Madrid in 5 minutes.
253 12 17 16 CC Skyl b, AOS Madrid, 6 minutes.
253 12 20 13 CC Jack, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Story.
CC In terms o tracking sites, Jack, we don't think
you can help us an awful lot. We're pretty far
east of the track that those sites lie in and
also, with the weather we've got, we're presen ly
planning to run a na - nadir swath on the cumulus
clouds over land during that pass.
253 12 20 h0 PLT Okay. Maybe I've got my slider set up wrong. I
got it going about 50 miles north of Hous on.
PLT I'll plan to get the clouds in unless something
changes. In the meantime, you can - if the wea-
ther does change between now and then, why,
don't hesitate to send us up some - some coordi-
nates because we can react with Just a couple
of minutes .
CC Okay Thank you.
253 12 22 17 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. e'll see you
over Guam in 25 minutes _ be dumping the tape
recorder there.
253 12 h9 h_ CC Skylab, AOS Guam, 7 minutes.
CC You all will he glad to hear that as far as the
ground troops go, it's all down hill from here.
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SPT What do you mean, Story?
CC Okay. We thought you'd ask. And yes erday, we
passed the halfway mark.
SPT Let's see; that will put us up here for about
90 days. Is that what you're getting at?
CC Between you and the next crew.
SPT Roger. I understand. And I've completed IMSS 3
now. And there's one deviation I would like
to report; Just want to make sure that that was
okay. On the wet and dry swabs, which were done
for these crew samples, I took the wet s.ud dry
swabs from the first wet and dry swab package
I came across. And it turns out the dry came
actually from. a culture transport box, and the
wet from an environmental surface sample box.
In looking at the other little slots to pull
these swabs out of for crew body samples, I
think the swabs are essentially identical, but
they are already into the culture media. And
I would like to report that and get Just for my
on verification that these swabs were satisfac-
tory for the purpose that I used them. Over.
CC Okay, we'll get with you, Owen.
253 12 52 "_3 CC A1, Houston.
SPT He can't hear you. He's up in the dome area no .
CC Okay. We were seeing the VIDEO switch in TV,
and we thought if A1 put s me ATM on the VTR, we
expected to see it in MON 1 or 2.
SPT Okay, we 'ii switch it over.
SPT We doubt that putting anything on the VTR right
now, so we'll switch it before we do.
CC Okay, good.
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PLT We already put the Sun on the VTR, Story.
And we did it in V - in MON i and MON 2, and
we switched back to TV.
CC Ok
a
y; good, Jack.
253 12 56 28 CC Skylab, 30 seconds to LOS. See you over Honey-
suckle in 6 minutes.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
253 13 03 02 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS Honeysuckle for
3 minutes.
SPT Good morning to you, Dick, and hello to your team.
CC Hi there, Owen. We - Our team was in here yester-
day, but we were working with Jerry Carr's crew
running a s m over there. We ra a - some launch
sims and also some rendezvous; and we didn't get
to talk to you, but we were in here all day. But
a good morning to you; we're glad to be back on
days - working with y u.
SPT Well, I'm glad to hear from you fellows again. I
guess you're getting those other fellows all tuned
up and ready'to go.
CC Yes, sir; we sure are.
SPT They've probably been that way for 6 months.
CC Yes, they're itching.
253 13 05 33 CC Skylab, we're h5 seconds from LOS. Texas is
coming up at 18:26. Correction - -
S T Okay, Dick.
CC Correction - -
SPT And I put the M562 into the oven, and it was put
in a 13:00 and the temperature at the time of
start was 19 degrees centigrade. Apparently,
TM-1 reads out hot l; I'll change it if you re-
quest. Accordin to my calculations, the heat
upsoak and the cooldo_-n ought to terminate at
10:48 tomorrow morning. And so we ought to be
able to have the fli ht planners throw another
one in on the fire about ll tomorrow.
CC Roger; c py. And I made a wrong call, there. The
next station is Canary at 13:h9, 13:49.
SPT Okay, see you there.
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253 13 06 27 CC Okay.
253 13 h9 29 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S anary and Madrid for
14 minutes,
PLT R ger, Dick.
CC And I got a couple of notes or you guys. One,
for - in answer to Owen's question about the
swabs, we're real happy with the swabs he used on
IMSS this morning; and the sample should turn out
okay. And secondly, on the VTR, the INCO reports
that there's about 5 minutes remaining unused at
the end of the VTR that you guys are welcome to
use anytime in the next couple of revs. We ar
e
going to start into our dump cycle stateside a
couple of revs from now, and I'll let you know
when that 's coming up.
PLT Okay, Dick. Thank you, and we'll figure out how's
the best way to use it.
CC Okay. It's yours if you want it.
253 13 50 15 SPT Oh, we'll use it one way or the other. We can
a
lw
a
ys put a litle ATM stuff on there.
CC Yes, or wiggle the wil - Wilberforce pendulum.
SPT I've been pressed on that. I think Bob Parker is
interested in seeing that thing nod back and forth,
and we'll do that; probably not on this 5-minute
segment. Well, let's see. I could do it maybe
between ATM revs. We'll see.
CC Roger. Understand. I was sitting here last night
when Bob was talking to you about that; a d it - it
seemed to me that if it isn't reacting the way
we thought it was, it probably would be a good thing
to get some TV o .
SPT Yes, that's a good point.
253 13 51 55 CC Skylab, Houst n. One more comment on the VTR. I
was a little bit confused there. The 5-mimute -
There is 5 minutes on the tape. However, it is
the - it is not at the end of t
a
pe, so there is
some of your TV stuff from yesterday sitting behind
that 5 minutes. So if you do use it, time ourself
and don't run over that period of time.
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SPT Understand, Dick. Thanks for the clarification.
Otherwise, w might very well have done that.
CC Roger.
CDR Dick, I noticed in our Flight Plan this morning
for Jack, we've got this vital capacity measure.
But I'm not sure that Story didn't say something
about vital capacity cal. Now, do we have both
of them or Just one?
CC Stand by.
253 13 53 43 SPT An just a comment for the ATM room, Dick. I was
just comparing a WLC photograph that I've made the
last few minutes with one taken last night at
01:20 Zulu, and I'm not sure but what there might
have been some transient visible last night about
01:20 in the .white light coronagraph. And we were
taking a good many WLC photos there, and so if it's
if it was in progress, it will be visible on their
prints. I remember Jack and I were talking about
this - sort of a dark region over about ll0 Theta,
and dicided that it probably was not a transient,
b t I'm not so sure now but what it was. It
certainly differs from the appearan e of the corona
this morning, and it's worth making a special
note of to take a look at on the photographs.
253 13 54 35 CC Okay, Owen. We noted that. Thank you ver much.
CC Skylab, Houston. In your - in answer to your
question about the M092/171, we - we do want to
do a calibration and a measurement on the first
M092/171 run this morning. That's the one on the
PLT. We only want to do a measurement on the second
run this afternoon, which is - the subject is SPT.
Over.
CDR Okay. Understand. We'll do it.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're 1 minut from LOS. -
Cararvon at lh:31.
253 14 02 50 SPT Okay.
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SKYIAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
253 14 30 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle for 14 minutes.
SPT Say again. Do you have a message for us, Dick.
CC Negative, Owen. Go ahead.
SPT I just didn't hear your call, and I was Just
checking to make sure that you didn't have any-
thing for us. That's all from here.
CC Roger. We've got you for 14 minutes. Standing by.
253 14 38 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're showing about a 95 percent
momentum level. We'd like for one of you guys to
enable the TACS h rdware and software.
CC Skylab, Houston. I don't know if you copied my
last transmission. We'd like somebody to enable
TACS hardware and software. We're seeing a high
moment um.
CDR Okay. We got an ACS MALF, and we came up here
and enabled it. It's done.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds, LOS at
Honeysuckle; Bermuda at 15:21. And we'd like to
leave the TACS enabled. We do see the momentum
coming down, however.
SPT Okay, that sounds fine. We did have an ACS MALF
caution there. And we also, apparently, got a
transient RAPID Delta-P. I don't know if it is
associated with the LBNP in some way or not. But
the altimeter showed no change, and there - it is
not on at the moment.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you. We'll look at the data.
253 14 h5 01 SPT Okay.
253 15 20 51 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Bermuda for 8 minutes.
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SPT Roger.
CDR We 'we had several caution alarms here on ACS MALF.
And momentum Just seems to be out of shake.
CC Roger, AI. We've counted 5 mibs since we aw you
last, and we were Just discussing it. The way our
numbers look, it looks like you started the M092
vent right in the middle of the window, if our
reconstruction of it is right. And we're sitting
down here puzzled as to why the momen um is - is
high.
CDR Agree with you i00 percent. I Just went down and
checked the - all our vents. We don't have any-
thing else venting, and we don't have any low
cabin press. We can't figure it out either, unless
the dump didn't - for some reason, didn't go right
last night.
CC Well, we're talking about it now, AI. And if we -
When we come up with anything, we'll get right back
to you.
CDR Okay, we're going back to 171, but everything seems
to be okay up here. We can't - Jack's checking the
5 18 there.
CC Okay, that's - -
253 15 22 ii CDR It looks okay, too. Everything we have looks good.
CC Okay, that's a good idea to check the vents, and
let us know if you happen o find anything.
PLT Dick, the 518 is - bulkhead vent valve was in
VENT, which is a small orifice, and the pressures
in the chamber's reading 0.3 times i0 to the minus
3 torrs. Doesn't seem like that thing could do it.
I can't hear any lea ing arotu_d it or anything like
that.
CC Roger, Jack; understand.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS Bermuda.
I'll give you a call in about 4 minutes at Madrid.
253 15 27 38 SPT Roger.
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253 15 32 10 CC Skylab, Houston. We're - Got you at Madrid for
8 minutes. We'd like you to stay off the DAS,
Owen, so we can give you a nav update in preparation
for the EREP pass.
SPT You got it.
CC Okay.
CC And also, Skylab, I forgot to warn you, but we 're
going to be dumping the data recorder here at
Madrid.
CDR Okay. We're running 171 at the moment.
CC Roger.
253 15 36 24 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
253 15 B8 :[6 CC Skylab, Houston. We've been watching the momentum
dump samples, and the last couple of samples have
been showing a high momentum. However, they have
been consistent with each other, which tells us
that the vent, whatever it was that has caused the
high momentum, probably has stopped now. We would
like to leave the TACS enabled throughout this
upcoming dump - momentum dump period. The only
thing that we've been tossing around here that might
have caused such a thing would be if we had a -
when we did the MO92 vent, possibly had a poor seal
on the LBNPD, although our data doesn't indicate
that. And we were wondering if you had any comment
on it. Over.
CDR When we first started, we had a poor seal. e
tightened it up. That was when first vented, let's
say. As far as we know, it was good after that.
It was one of our thoughts, too; but I don't think
SO .
CC Okay, A1. At any rate, we'd like to leave TACS
enabled throughout this dump period. We're - We're
about a minute from LOS at Madrid. We're going to
pick you up at Carnarvon at 16:05.
CDR Well, we're still puzzling over that first one we
got. As you know, it was - Just about the time we
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got up to the panel, we got a RAPID DELTA-P, also.
But nothing showed a RAPID DELTA-P. None of our
altimeters - I mean, our rated climb indicators or
anything else.
CC Roger, A1. One other thing, the EGIL has been
showing us a plot that shows cabin pressure. And
app
a
rently,
a
bout the same time we did - Our
initial indications, at least, are th t we had
very slight decrease in cabin pressure during this
same time. However, it seems also to have stopped
now. At any rate, we'll take a close look when
we get to Carnarvon, and you guys can look in the
interim, and we'll see if we can figure this thing
out.
CDR Okay. And how long was that cabin pressure decreas-
ing? For the full 15 minutes of he LBNP, of Just
a little while?
253 15 40 36 CC A1, the indications were more like over an hour.
However, they're very gross and really k_nd of
down in the noise level, and you have to really
think - look at the data and think about it to
get that kind of an indication.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
253 16 05 L9 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Carnarvon and Honeysuckle,
15 minutes.
253 16 06 _3 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Carnarvon, Hone suckle,
lh minutes .
253 16 07 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon. And be
advised that when we hand over to Honeysuckle
here in Just a few minutes, we're going to be
rewinding the VTR, and from then on, we'll have
itina dumpmode.
SPT Okay, Dick. But they ...
CC Roger, Owen. You were very broken up there. What
I was saying was that we are AOS at Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle for the next 13 minutes. And we'll e
rewinding the VTR at Honeysuckle, and so it will
not be available for your use then since it will
be in a dump mode.
SPT Roger. And - that will be fine.
253 16 08 i_9 CC Okay.
253 16 19 39 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute and a half
from LOS. We're going to pick you up at Texas at
16:51. Two things I'd like a reminder - to remind
Owen. On this next ATM schedule, we've got a
Nu Z update we need to get in in order to Be set
up for the ER P. And also, for Jack, we're
watching you riding the bicycle, Jack, and we
think you might be pushing some of the ergometer
restraints and Just wanted you - to caution you
about that.
253 16 20 09 SPT Pushing the - pushing the ergometer constraints,
you mean the number of watts per hour and so on?
CC That's affirmative.
SPT Okay, I'm sure he's checking it. We'll - if he
didn't hear you, I'll remind him again.
CC Okay, 0wen. We Just wanted to make sure that,
you know, he kept it in mind.
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253 16 20 30 SPT Okay.
253 16 51 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S stateside or about
15 minutes. We intend to power down the wall
heaters here by conlm_nd, Just for your information;
and also, we're standing by for ATM TV down-link.
PLT Okay.
253 16 52 h3 PLT Okay, Dick, and the TV down-link will be coming
your way momentarily.
CC Roger.
CC And, SPT; Houston. Like to verify that you
accomplished the NU Z update.
253 16 53 13 CDR He thinks he f rgot it, but he's going go try
to get it nov. Is the star still available?
CC That's affirmative. But w need to hustle.
t's - we're getting close to t e occultation
time.
CC Skylab, Houston. We still got about 8 or
9 minutes left of time in which to get the update.
CDR Th y're up there right now, Dick.
CC Oka •
CDR Thanks for r minding him.
CC Okay, real fine.
253 16 55 08 CC CDR, Houston. It sounds like you're able to
listen to the comm. I had one note I wanted to
pass up to y u. You know we've been chasing this
problem in the N2 REGs in which we've seen a slow
decrease in pressure when we had the REGs on
the line, and we went to the business of swapping
the regs out every 5 days or so. Turns out the
last time that you switched us over to N2 REG
Alfa, the pressure coming through that REG, now,
appears to be holding up pretty well. So we're
f
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going to discontinue the - he 5-day swap in
the REGs until we can watch this REG for a while
and look at the rate at which it degrades. Over.
CDR Good idea.
CC Okay. And one other th
l
ng, A1, that
w
e
w
ere -
Our spies down here looking at the data during
M092 and 171 run noticed that the bicycle was
being used during the time that we were doing
M092. And we were Just - wanted to ask you -
We weren't sure whether or not it was you on the
bike or Owen, but if it was you, we were Just
going to ask you if - You know, in your opinion,
you felt like you could adequately monitor
the M092 run, you know, while you were doing
that.
253 16 56 19 CDR Definitely because you're looking - that was
me - and you're looking right at the gages,
and also, the head of the PLT happen to be by
your left shoulder, so I think it's t e perfect
time to do it.
253 16 56 _-_9 CC Roger that. Thank you.
CDR Yes, we've been doing that for some time.
CC I figured that.
SPT Can ASCO give me any clue on where to look? I've
gone all the way around the listed coordinat es.
CC Stand by, Owen.
253 16 57 16 CC SPT, Houston. We're slightly out of attitude
due to some of these vent ng problems that we've
been having. We think it might help to decrease
the outer gimbal; th
a
t is, go more positive to
a n11mher like 1247.
253 16 58 13 PLT Say, Dick, the subject is M518 experiment, and
we got M562 in there cooking off. And I've
got a table, page 9-2, in my book. I've been
trying to monitor the times that we ought to
start SOAK and end SOAK aud start COOLDOWN on
the temperatures, the max temperature, and all
that. None of them look like my book. Everything
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happens earlier, and the temperatures are differ-
ent. And I think that maybe either the logic isn't
working the way it's supposed to or it's got
a big tolerance on it or else there's some new
data that I don't have on board. And I wonder
if we could figure out which it is.
CC Roger, Jack. And let me break in here. We need
to go ahead and start the ATM TV down-link because
we're going to have LOS MLA in about 4 minutes.
And we will be thinking about that. I guess
my first thought is you might Jot down some
of the differences, if you haven't already,
to give us an idea. I am looking at that page
in the book.
PLT Okay. Well on the one we got in there now,
the max temperature was lower. And I can't
stand right there and watch when the thing
changes from one cycle to another; but I Just
noticed that everything happens earlier than i
expected it should. Because every time I go
up there and check it, why, it's already in
the cycle that I - I think that it ought to
be getting into about that time. And it's,
you know, considerably earlier lots of times.
CC Okay, Jack. We'll be thinking about it, and
if you have to - if you happen to notice when
you're doing, you know, any of the upcomin runs
and, you know, andy information on times that
you think might help us, Just Jot them down
and et us know.
PLT Yes, I thought maybe there was Just some up -
update to the logic boxes in there, and maybe
we need some new data on that page of the check-
list. But if that's all it is, you know, I'd
like to have it.
CC Okay, that's a good point. We'll talk about it.
C R How do you like that star? It's a little bit
off from the pad, but it's probably the right
one.
25B 17 00 ll CC Okay. Thank you, A1.
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253 17 00 13 CDR See what you think, though, before I leave.
CC ()kay.
253 17 00 52 CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, affirmative
we like that star, and you can go ahead about
you business. Thank you much.
CDR Okay. We're going to close the shutter. Let
me give you another couple of thoughts on
riding the bike during 91 - 92/171. I think
you're in a good position to monitor the equip-
ment. And you're also in a good position to
monitor the occupant of the 92 can. I think,
also, that we're in an interesting position now.
Everybody is breezing through pretty fast on
all of these 92's. And maybe when you first
get up here, you're going to want to stand there
and look at his eyeballs, but right now, we're -
we're - seem to be pretty well stabilized. In
fact, everybody seems to be improving.
CC Okay, AI. Thank you much.
253 17 05 12 CC Skylab, Hous on. We're 1 minute to LOS. Madrid
at 17:10, and we're going to dump the data
recorder at Madrid.
253 17 05 22 PLT Okay, Dick.
253 17 l0 24 CC Skylab, Houston; A0S Madrid, 7 minutes.
253 17 l0 31 PLT Roger; Dick.
253 17 16 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS; pick
you up at Carnarvon at 17:45. And the momentum
is gett ng real squared away; looks like we'll
be GO for EREP today.
SPT Sounds good, Dick.
253 17 17 03 CC Roger.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
253 17 hh 3h CC Skylab, Houston. Carvarvon for 5 minutes.
PLT Ok
a
y, Dick.
CDR Say, Dick, I was looking at the sites that I have
for EREP, which is 197, and I have about five or
six sites in that area. I wonder if they would
like me to shoot 190 at the same time 197.
CC Stand by.
CDR Yes, similar tD the way we did Phoenix the other
day;
w
e got th
r
ee sites in that pass. This looks
a little bit easier to do because they're both
right in line. It ought to be easier to pick up
both of them.
CC Roger, AI. Stand by, please.
253 17 h7 05 CC And, Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, there's a mes-
sage in the teleprinter for you.
253 17 51 13 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS
at Carnarvon. We're going to drop out for about
or 5 minutes and then have a very short pass at
Honeysuckle. And for the CDR, as lo g - A1, as
long as you can, get 197 and don't compromise that
site, it looks to us like it might be possible to
go ahead and get 190 in addition to that. And so
that would be our advice. Get 190 also, but not
at the expense of 197. Over.
CDR Okay, that makes sense. What I'l do is shoot 197 -
point at 197 first, get the data through about
l0 deg ees and then I'll see if I can swing back and
pick up the other; if I can't, well
w
e c
a
n't; and
if I can,
w
ell I
w
ill.
CC Okay, A1, and the times are in the pad for the data
take, and that looks like a good plan to us.
CDR Okay, and that way we'll be sure to get the lake,
and we'll get the other if we can. We - we may
pass over it so fast that I can't get the gimbals
back, but that's the way it goes.
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253 17 52 16 CC Understand.
253 17 56 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We got you for about a 1-minute
pass here at Honeysuckle. We're going to see you
again at -
CDR Where did he go? And 192 Just went MODE, CHECK, on
voice
a
nd record D-6. D-6 is 56 percent, 56 percent;
within limits. CDR out. That's for EREP.
PLT How do you like the Z-LV load, Dick?
CC Say again?
PLT How do you like the load for the Z-LV to maneuver?
CC Roger. Stand by; we're looking at it. We're about
30 seconds from LOS here at Honeysuckle. Texas
is coming up at 18:
2
6. And stand by on th
a
t. And
we like the load, Jack.
PLT Thank you.
253 17 57 45 CDR Thanks. He loaded it himself.
253 18 26 01 PLT MARK. Okay. We Just went to VTS AUTO CAL. I'm
going to record C-1 m,Y when it comes p. Right
now, it's running at 86 percent. Keep watching it;
27:20 is the position time. There's a C-1 now;
it's down around the 84, but we'll wait.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're standing by at stateside
for 16 min tes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CDR C-1 max has been 86 percent. It s now dwelling
down around 83, but it'll probably come back up.
CC Okay.
CDR A-2
w
as out of limits at 9
2
percent; still there.
D-h is 98 percen .
CDR D-2 is 86 percent, which is a little high. And
D-3 is 85 percent, which is a little high. And
those are the four that are a little bit different.
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CC Roger.
253 18 27 "18 CDR Okay, the READY light's back on in 193A; 27:58,
I'm going to STANDBY on A.
253 18 28 00 CDR Good. The READY's out. Going to STANDBY now - on
S, and go to STANDBY on R; D-1 has dropped down
to about 15 percent at the moment ; 191, READY, on
at this time; REFERENCE, 6. Standing by for 29:33.
253 18 29 34 CDR MODE, AUTO, 190.
PLT Cloudy, all right.
CDR Thank you. Is it socked in, Jack?
PLT Yes. Just a second.
253 18 31 01 CDR MARK. 92 to READY.
PLT Okay. We're track ng cumulus clouds over land.
253 18 31 21 CDR MARK. S, ON; R, ON; 32:50 coming up. Take a little
while ....
PLT Goes on at 31 - 32:21. 30 something.
CDR Okay.
PLT Then we ought to be over Houston precisely at - -
CDR 2:50
PLT 31:30 - -
CDR Didn't get any film advance malfunction lights - -
PLT - 32 --
CDR - - this time, which is good; apparently, all that's
settled down.
PLT Yes. It's clobbered over Houston. However -
trying to pick off a few sites there, Houston, but -
doesn't look like it's any good anywhere.
253 18 32 08 CC Roger. We concur with that. It's clobbered over
Houston today.
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PLT Yes. It's clobb red down around Corpus, too. I
tried to get some of that around Harlingen and
Brownsville - nothing.
PLT Okay. We're still tracking cumulus clouds. High
cirrus - lot of haze. Now I wonder, how's the
winda - weather up in Indiana, gang?
253 18 32 51 CDR MARK. 92 to STANDBY.
PLT How's the weather around Louis ille? Anybody know?
CC Roger. Stand by 1.
PLT Be at 33 in Greenville [?]. Agh, it's clobbered
there, too. Can't see nothing on the ground.
CDR Must be cloudy
a
ll the way across the southeast.
PLT Yes, it is. Doggone it. Well, e're getting the
cumulus clouds ; there's no doubt about that. We
ought to be over Louisville about 34. Oh, it's
going to be bad, I think. There's the Ohio River.
253 18 33 55 CC PLT, Houston. The weather around Louisville, you
ought to be getting - it ought to be pretty clear
up there.
PLT Pretty clobbered is what it is. We're over
Louisville now, I think. It's broken to over.
Doggone it all. I want to pick off something.
253 18 34 21 CDR Okay. READY's out on 190. We're back to STANDBY.
And we're going frames 06. - where we are right
now. They were going to - They were going to put
06 on here, but they only put 6. 37:33. The next
we're at MODE, AUTO.
PLT 15 and 8 is 21 is 3%. It's getting worse.
CC And, CDR; Houston. While you got a minute here to
rest before your next thing comes up, a couple of
reminders. On the maneuver pad, be su e when you
come out of here to load the new Tau, and, also,
there's a T CS inhibit that's listed in there, but
the GMT is after the second EREP pass. You want
to make sure and leave TACS enabled between the
two passes.
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CDR Sounds like a good idea. Thank you, Dick, fo
the reminder.
CC Okay. And if you'll let us have the DAS, we're
going to clear the alert light from the star tracker
shutter.
253 18 35 L PLT Wait i, please.
CC Okay.
CDR Wait 1 - wait, he's - -
CC Okay.
PLT Okay how do you like the maneuver time?
CC Stand by.
CC PLT, Houston. We - we like that new maueuver time.
PLT Okay. Tell you what we're going to do. We're going
to track a site at Lake - Lake Erie or Lake Ontario.
Let me - I'll get a reading on it - Lake Erie. If
you don't mi d?
CC Okay, we like that.
253 18 36 00 PLT And we're do ng it right now. We' e track - tracking
the site now, Lake Erie. There isn't any - there's
no clouds up here. How about a metropolitan area?
CC Okay, have at it, Jack. And, PLT, Houston. I
assume we can have the DAS for a second.
PLT It's your DAS, if you like the load. Okay, I'm
homed in on Cleveland. I'm taking data right over
Cleveland now; th t's our big city for today.
Uniform area over Cleveland. Okay, right over the
city.
CC Okay, good.
PLT Now
.
PLT Don't take a different place on the city. I'll
run the DAC now.
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253 18 37 01 PLT Another place over Cleveland. We've got to
move off of Cleveland. Okay, we're taking another
place in Lake Erie. Okay, we're moving off of
that. We're going in over Buffalo. Okay, we're
taking data on Buffalo, Houston.
CC Roger, Jack.
253 18 37 34 CDR MARK. 190 MODE, AUTO.
PLT Next we're going to move up to Lake Ontario; we're
going to take some data on that. Okay, we're going
to swath it up Lake Ontario.
CDR Swathing it, huh?
PLT Okay, we're taking a swath up Lake Ontario, staying
clear of clouds. Enough of that. I didn't have
the DAC on for that, so you'll want to make a log
of that so you'll know what the data says.
CC Okay.
253 18 38 32 CDR INTERVALOMETER l0 to 38:30. RANGE 6h on A. 64.
Standing by for READY out at 39.
PLT What time is the maneuver time, Al?
CDR Maneuver time is 18:h5, which is about 7 minutes
from now, or 6 minutes from now.
PLT Okay.
CDR READY out at 39, should be. Coming up 3 seconds.
39:06, S, STANDBY and R, STANDBY.
PLT Okay, we're taking some more data now.
253 18 39 07 CDR MARK. S, STANDBY; R, STANDBY; A, mode 2; R, OFF;
39:26 is A, ON; 5, 6.
253 18 39 28 CDR A is ON; 90 MODE, STAND Y.
PLT Okay, I think we're taking data - -
CDR 39:40, 191 REF 2.
PLT - - on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; I'm not sure.
See where that island is there.
r-
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CDR 39 :h0.
PLT Can't - can't swing over far enough to get it.
253 18 39 41 CDR MARK. We'
r
e going to R
E
V
2
o
n
191. hl is VTS
AUTO
C
AL. We've got plenty o time fo
r
th
a
t.
PLT ... gone, Dick?
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, there - that last point we took some data
was on the Gulf of St Lawrence, in the north part
of it.
CC Roger, Jack.
PLT We over Newfoundland, 0.?
SPT L t me check.
PLT Yes, go ahead. I've got h minute , yet.
CDR Okay, that was it.
253 18 hi 23 PLT Well, Houston, we got the cumulus clouds over land,
and that's all we could see until we got up in the
Ohio area. We got Clevel
a
d, an
d w
e got Buff
a
lo,
and then we got some Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and
Gulf of St. Lawrence.
CC Roger, Jack. I was following down the pad. I'm
not sure I copied that you went VTS AUTO CAL at
hl minutes You m_ ght confirm that.
PLT We did.
CC Okay.
PLT Yes, we had - A1 got it.
CC Okay. Thank you.
PLT Yes, sir.
CDR Thank you for the remind but we did it.
PLT Yes; keep reminding us.
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CC Okay, guys, we're about 45 seconds from LOS. We're
going to drop out about 5 minutes, and I'ii call
you at Madrid.
CDR Okay.
PLT See you there, Dick.
CC Okay.
PLT Well, that's that for the kid. Get back over here
and tend to my knitting.
CDR Got a maneuver in about a minute. Maneuver in
exactly 1 minute. Got the time loaded because
you Just did it, so that's good.
CC CDR, Houston. The READY on light, 191, is 43:40;
the maneuver time is 45. That's about 2 minutes
from now.
CDR Yes, you're right; 45. Thank you.
CC Okay.
CDR It's written up there. You're right, thanks.
253 18 43 18 CDR READY on 43:40. Okay.
253 18 47 41 CC Skylab, Houston. Madrid for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay.
SPT A d there are 45 frames used on the ETC there, Dick.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank yo_.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're going to be dumping
the data recorder here at Madrid.
CDR Okay.
CDR Standing by for 226.
CDR Okay, an at that time I'm going to go 191 POWER,
OFF.
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253 18 49 ii CDR MARK. That's it, 226. Okay, 190 POWER, OFF.
Leave on 192. Turn the COOLER, OFF, on 191. You
agree with that, don't you, Dick?
CC Stand by.
CDR Be sure that we don't turn off something we're
going to need. All right.
CDR Done them all through 190.
SPT ...
CDR Yes. Exactly what you do. Okay, we'll get -
SPT ...
CDR I'll turn off. No, 192 is on.
253 18 50 09 CDR SCAT POWER, OFF. ALTIMETER POWER, OFF. POWER,
OFF. We'll Just hold up on COOLER, OFF, for a
minute and make sure that that's right.
CC Yes, please do, Al. We're still tal ing a out
that. Hang on.
CDR Yes, we normally do, but we don't want to take a
chance.
PLT Why don't you do that?
253 18 50 57 CC CDR, Houston. In between these passes, 191 should
go OFF, but the 192 COOLER should remain ON.
CDR Okay. Now we - you mean - We're talking - we
know 192 should be ON; we're thin ing about the
191 COOLER. According to our checklist, it goes
off for back-to-back and only the 92 stays ON.
CC Roger. Roger, A1. That's correct. 190 - -
CDR Okay.
CC 191 COOLER should go OFF.
CDR It Just went OFF. Okay, thanks.
CC Roger.
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253 18 53 22 CC Skylah, Houston. We've still got about 3 minutes
left here at Madrid. And I had a couple of thing
I wanted to ask you about before we left Madrid.
We've got about a 45-minute LOS.
PLT Okay, go ahead, Dick.
CC R ger, Jack. One is for you; we're trying to do
some detective work on this vent we had a while ago.
And one of the things that - since it was so closely
related to that LBNPDvent and that terminate, we
were wondering if it was possible if you broke the
seal on -, the waste seal, prior to getting the
vent valve closed?
PLT No, we didn't. We didn't break it prior to that.
We had a MASTER ALARM ab ut that time, _nd A1 went
to look to see what was going on with that, and
0wen came down and turned the LBNP off with 5 minutes
to go, as - as usual. And at that time, I was
snuggley tucked in.
CC Okay, thank you uch.
253 18 54 26 PLT Yes, sir.
CC Another thing_ be advised we are going to update -
give some updates - get some updates up to you on
the M518 checklist on those times. And the other
question we had was, after the NuZ update that we
got prior to this EREP pass, we noticed that the
star tracker door came open at the next sunrise.
Ans we were wondering if possibly you did not man-
ually close it, and whether or not it was closed
by the computer? ver.
PLT I don't know. 0., are you on the headset?
CC I tell you what, Jack. That's not a time-critical
it - item, so if he's not, don't bug him. We're
comes up at 19:34.
PLT Okay. Do you want me to do anything to the star
tracker? Of course, everything's barber pole at
the moment.
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CC Negative, Jack. It's okay as it is. You can
leave it go.
PLT Okay. I'llask 0. about that other question.
CC Okay, no problem.
253 18 55 23 PLT Thank you.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
253 19 33 42 PLT Go off the air for a while now, but we'll be back.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got a short pass here at
Honeysuckle; about 2 minutes.
SPT Hello, Dick. I didn t hear your earlier call.
And about the star tracker, I may not have closed
the door. I don't remember for sure, but since
I don't remember specificall closing it, it's
probable that I did not close it after that other
Nu z update. Over.
CC Okay, Owen. I think that most likely is probably
what happened, because the activity we saw with
respect to the door after that, that would've
explained it, and I think we're going to go with
that.
SPT O ay. Was there any - Is there any - any current
problem with the star tracker?
CC Negative. It's all squared away now and in good
shape.
SPT Roger.
253 19 34 4h CDR Dick, let me mention a couple of possible improve-
ments in EREP pads here.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, first one is, we always have trained where
the VTS operator does the maneuver. And I've
noticed Just recently, the last 2 or 3 days, the
pads have been coming to the C&D for that specific
maneuver, to the fellow that's operating the C&D
at that time. So we ould do it, the C&D man,
but he has a lot more work to do. So you might
mention that to REP and ask them to start putting
the pad with the VTS man at that time.
CC Okay, A1; copy. We'll do that.
253 19 35 22 CDR Roger. That's the maneuver pad. Now, another one
is, I don' think we're gett ng these different things
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on at the right time for you - these different
components. And the reason is, we got times all
over the - the pieces of paper. For example, let
me tell you the EREP times I've got on my detail
pad. EREP POWER, BUS l, ON, 17:09; EREP C&D,
17:24; EREP VTS, 19:01. Now if I look at my EREP
pad, it's got, "Begin prep at 17:20," which doesn't
rhyme with either of those others, and then it has,
'_Warm-up at 17:35," which isn't like any of the
others. So I got five times there and - and the
question comes to your mind there, as you get ready
to do this, '%Fnich time do I do wh t?" So may I
make a suggestion? Let's put on the EREP pad,
itself, the time that we do everything on the
EREP. For example, the very first i em should
be - On EREP pad, should be EREP, BUS l, ON and
whatever time they want that done. BUS l, ON/191
POWER, ON. They can abbreviate it, but put that
as the first time - -
253 19 36 35 CC Roger. CDR, Houston. We're - CDR, Houston. We're
going LOS, and we'll pick up at Goldstone. I'll
give you a call there.
CDR ... We'll get to it.
CC Roger. And the Goldstone A0S time, A1, is 20:0 2.
253 19 36 57 CDR Okay.
253 20 01 2 PLT MARK. 194 to MANUAL.
253 20 01 26 PLT SCAT, BAD, STANDBY. Okay. Stratus.
CDR Stratocumulus.
PLT Okay, here we go.
253 20 02 00 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY. Two seconds.
253 20 02 04 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
PLT 02:12, 193, OFF.
PLT R, OFF: A, ON. Stand by.
253 20 02 12 PLT MARK. RAD, OFF; ALTIMETER, ON. 193, POLAR h is
done, and I'm standin by for a 191, READY light.
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253 20 02 26 CC And, Skylab, Houston. We got you A0S at Goldstone
for 9 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick.
CDR All right.
CDR Things are going smoothly.
CC Very good.
CDR Got some coastal stratus clouds. So if they don't
go away in the next minute, we'll get them.
PLT Okay The down-llnk box is configured; you sho uld
be getting data.
CDR 58, we're looking for.
CDR 03:40.
253 20 03 I_6 PLT MARK. S191, READY on, right on time. 05:12 next.
A lot of standing around this pass.
CC It'll pick up.
PLT Good. Good.
CDR Okay, we got some coastal stratus. I'll zoom in
and take some short - -
PLT Okay. You're right on them.
CDR The IMC is controlling a little bit.
PLT Where are we going today? Coming to hit the coast
right over San Diego. Come a little south of Vegas,
Grand Junction, north of Denver, over Minneapolis,
and up over Lake Superior into Canada.
253 20 Oh 39 CDR Letting it glide every once in a while. I'ii pick
out a new part of the cloud and try there. Okay.
Good place. About i0 seconds of data or so there.
Let's move to a different one. Pretty stratified,
so - and uniform. 21, we're looking for it.
253 20 05 01 PLT Ok
a
y, going to pick up
a
t 05:1
2
here. Hanging on
at STANDBY.
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CDR 21, we're looking for.
253 20 05 12 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER and RAD to STANDBY. SCAT, ON;
RAD, ON.
CDR That's it. Okay. Let's go back out and zoom out
and get set at 45 - -
PLT Here we are. Go MODE, READY on 192 here.
CDR - - 1 and 62.
PLT I'm going to get the tape burner going in a minute.
CDR 45, i, and 62.
PLT I got a Charlie 8 that says we've got a lot of
tape. That's what it says, anyway.
CDR Okay, we're looking out ahead 1 and left, 62.
253 20 05 47 LT MARK. 192, MODE to READY. MALF light on recorder;
it's off. And the TAPE MOT] ON light is on. It's
all working good. Stand by for a 190 to AUTO.
CDR The time I'm looking for is - -
253 20 05 55 PLT MARK. 190 to AUTO. 193, POLAR i. Okay, here
we are standing around again.
CDR - - 14 ... Okay, he e's something we recognize - -
PLT 06 :12.
CDR There's the lake; we got all the targets in sight.
We'll get them.
PLT SCAT, STANDBY ; RAD, STANDBY.
CDR Camera's ON...
PLT Never misses ; never misses. There we go.
253 20 06 12 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY. Two seconds.
253 20 06 14 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
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CDR We're on the lake, and we got it.
PLT 193 is ANGLE, - -
CDR We're taking data at the moment.
PLT - - PITCH, 30.
253 20 06 2h PLT 193, SCAT, ON.
CDR We're going to take data on ii0, and then we're
going to o - -
253 20 06 26 PLT RAD, ON; 93, ALTIMETER, OFF. Stand by for 8 minutes.
Oooh, a whole minute and a half.
253 20 06 33 CDR Take it and let's try a different part of the lake.
We're at angle 33 right now. Everything looks
good. That one the other day, it stood out llke
this. We are on - Nice Job, EREP; you're pointed
right at it. Taking data by the bunch. We'll
let it go to plus 10. Going to be fast and furious.
Set? Okay, let's go rain mag. Go IMC off, so I
can travel back down here. Okay, we got this hill;
we got it again. Hey, we're in busi ess. Okay,
we got that site we said we'd get. We're on it
right now. 130.
PLT Sock it to them, A1.
253 20 07 27 CDR Got it, babe. Getting all sorts of good data on
it right now. Going to unlock here n a minute.
Go down to a negative 22. When it unlocks, I'll
see if I can get that one over by Boulder.
PLT Standing by for 192 to CHECK - -
CDR Okay. Coming back, we'll ry to get one over h re
by Boulder. Let's go. Okay, we got another site.
I'll tell you the number of it later. Now, we
couldn't get it; we lost IMC there.
253 20 08 01 PLT MARK. 192 to CHECK. TAPE MOTION light off; ack
on. SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM. That's where she
goes. 08:30. Oh.
CDR Get out ahead and see if we can get that one in
Denver. Okay. That's as high as we can get, but
the weather is getting awful bad.
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253 20 08 17 PLT SCAT, RAD, to STANDBY. Well, they didn't giv
it to you. That's the way to get them there, A1.
08:30, going by.
CDR Going to have to zoom in a little bit. The
weather's - -
253 20 08 30 PLT MARK. SCAT, STANDBY. Two seconds.
253 20 08 32 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
CDR Could be ... - -
253 20 08 36 PLT 193 ANGLE back to zero. We can do that. 08:45,
SCAT, HAD, ON. Standing by here.
253 20 08 45 PLT MARK. SCAT, ON.
253 20 08 47 PLT MARK. RAD, ON.
CDR Bunch of clouds down there.
253 20 08 50 PLT Now switch position to OFF. Okay, we've given
her an OFF on the down-link box. Now I lost my
place. Where was I? Here I am - right here.
Waiting for l0 minutes, (whistle) whole minutes.
CC That's sounded real good, A1. The EREP officer
and I Just sorry we weren't out in Vegas looking
up at you doing that.
CDR Yes, I know what you mean. (Chuckle) You'd be
sleeping about his time, thought.
CDR Have to make it a night pass. It's clobbered in
Colorado. I was hoping to get Dillon Reservoir,
bu can't even see the mountains.
253 20 09 39 CC Roger; understand.
253 20 09 43 CDR Bad news there. Okay, that EREP maneuver is
20:18. We got a long time. I'll just fool around
here a minute.
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PLT Might be able to see Minneapolis or Lake Supe ior
or something. Okay, here we go. MODE to READY.
25B 20 i0 01 PLT MARK. 192, MODE to READY. MALF light on and off;
TAPE MOTION ligh back on. Now - 11:42 (whistle).
CDR That's the way it goes.
PLT I got time to go down and get a can of apricots.
CDR You'd think we're up there - -
PLT I know somebody who'd like those apri ots we got -
big Phil over there.
CDR Well, l've got Pierre Res - No, Or - O-A-H-E
Reservoir there.
253 20 l0 34 PLT You know what's on the bill of fare at the club
tonight, Dick?
CC What's th
a
t?
PLT Steak and ice cream on the bill of fare at the
club tonight. Rest night at the club.
CC Well, you've earned it today.
CDR B-Y-0-I-C, though.
PLT (Laugh) They don't know what that is.
CDR They don't, huh?
PLT Uh-uh.
CDR They can figure it out, I bet.
PLT If they think about it for a while.
CDR Okay. I'm going to get - go back and get ready
for this maneuver, Jack. We don't want to be
late. How does the time look to you, Dick
PLT Tape burner is running and running and running.
CC Roger ; say again, please.
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253 20 ll 19 CDR How does the maneuver time look? I loaded 18 minutes
awhile ago.
CC Okay. We'll look. And we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. I'll call you back at Bermuda in about
3 minutes .
CDR Okay.
CC An - -
CDR Dick? - -
CC And we like the maneuver time.
CDR Okey oke. Good.
PLT You going to miss all the action, Dick.
CC Story of my life.
PL Never give up. Never give up.
253 20 ll 43 PLT MARK. We're at CHECK - STANDBY, rather, on 192.
And now we're going SCAT to STANDBY.
253 20 ll 50 PLT MARK. And RAD to STANDBY.
253 20 ll 52 PLT MARK. Two seconds later. Okay. Now 190. You
got to do something around Washington.
253 20 15 00 PLT MARK. POLAR 4 on 19B. Stand by for MODE to AUTO
on 90.
PLT Makes you feel good, doesn't it?
CC Skylab, Houston. We r back with you; Bermuda
for 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick. We're still milll.ug around.
CDR Okay, Dick.
253 20 15 33 PLT MARK. 190 to AUTO.
PLT Standby for that READY light. Taking pictures
over the ocean, I'll bet you.
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PLT Pictures over the clouds over the ocean.
253 20 16 i_i PLT MARK. 191 READY light on. MODE to MANUAL on 19h.
Done. Okay.
253 20 16 48 CDR Coast is clear all the way down to the Carolinas
from here, Dick. You can see Cape Cod, Boston,
New York, Norfolk, all the w
a
y down to the Carolinas.
CC Roger.
PLT Ke's looking out the window when he's supposed to
be working.
253 20 17 139 PLT READY light on, on 190. MODE to STANDBY. Okay,
there we are.
PLT RAD next.
253 20 17 55 PLT MARK. PAD to'STANDBY.
253 20 18 00 PLT MARK. 20:18, EREP, STOP.
CDR Okay. We're on the way to SI.
CC Okay, A1.
CDB Okay.
PLT EREP post. I'm voice recording Bravo 7 to be
30 percent there, Houston. S192, DOOR, CLOSE.
One whole minute to close that oor. Close the
190 window.
CDR And the second site we got was 190 Houston.
CC Roger, A1. Copy.
253 20 18 55 PLT Okay. 190 is closed and latched. We're going
off RECORD. This is the end of the EREP pass
number 20, all you EREP fans. End of message.
Okay. DOOR CLOSE light has got to come on here,
Dick.
CC Guys, we're about 1 minute from LOS. Madrid's
coming up at 20:24.
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PLT Okay.
253 20 19 20 PLT MARK. The 192 DOOR is CLOSED. And I'll guess
we'll just _o off the hekdset here, if you don't
mind, and get powered down from EREP. Thank you,
Dick.
CC Okay. I'll give you a call at Madrid.
253 20 19 32 PLT Okay.
253 20 25 22 CC Skylab, Houston. Madrid for 8 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick. I used 62 frames on the ETC that
time. I let it run a little longer on the end than
listed on the pad, since I was Just going to run
out the film anyway. And still had to run out
about 40 frames at the end of that, before the
END OF FILM light came on. nd that depletes
this spare magazine.
CC Okay, Owen. Thank you.
PLT And, Dick, measure on the tape, I got -
1-15/16 inches is empty on the takeup reel,
and 1-5/16 inches empty on the supply reel.
CC Okay; thank you.
253 20 26 58 CC And, Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, reference to
your questions awhile ago and sugges ions about
improving the EREP C&D pad, what we would propose
doing, and we'd start doing it tonight for your
tomorrow's pad, would be to take all the EREP-related
items that presently are on your detail - various
details pads and - and repeat them. We - we would
leave the details pads exactly as they are; however,
we would put all the - At the start or at the end
of EREP C&D pad, whichever is appropriate we would
list all those time-critical items in a row, that
had to do with that day's EREP pass. Over.
CDR Sounds like a good idea. And Just list them sort
of in chronological order there, so that when you
pick up the pad and read the first number, you
know when you read that number t show up at that
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time. Then you can start the ball rolling there,
and you can look for the next number down and show
up at that time and do the next thing.
CC Okay, we wiil do that. We are going to leave the
detail pads the same, though, because we imagine
that there might be some cases where an item might
slip in between one of the early switch changes
in the actual start of the EREP prep. And in
that event, we'd like to have it on the details,
also.
CDR That's a good idea. And it's also - it's also
possible to slip something in between passes.
There's a lot of dead time between these two passes,
too. Okay.
253 20 28 27 CC Roger.
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KYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
253 20 31 h9 CC Skylab, Houston. I got one c,-.._enthere on the
Sun for 0wen who's going to be at the ATM at the
next daylight pass. At 19:00 Zulu, Mauna Loa - I
believe that prominence 53 is erupting. And they
were using a 10-angstrom bandpass in H-alpha, and
the top was at about one-tenth of a solar radii.
Over.
253 20 32 13 SPT Okay, prominence 53, you say. Thank you.
CC That 's affirmative.
253 20 32 37 CDR I notice that you've got me, theoretically, loading
EREP tape T-12 into TR-1. Do you really want me
to do that?
253 20 32 48 CC Roger. We're checking again on it, A1. We're
1 minute fram LOS. Honeysuckle is coming up - up
at 21:09, an we're going to dump the data recorder
there. And we'll get an answer right bac to you.
CDR Okay. And I'm doing 509-G, and the bat tested okay,
but I've sent it down on channel A.
CC Okay.
253 20 34 Oh CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, negative; we do not
want you to do that EREP tape change.
253 20 34 21 CDR Okay; sounds good to us.
CC Roger. And apparently he didn't - He rogered i
but didn't mark it out on his details.
253 20 3h 36 CDR ... it.
253 21 09 _8 CC Good afternoon, Skylab. We're AOS thro gh Honey-
suckle for 9 minutes.
SPT Hello there, Robert. How are you today?
CC Pretty good, sir. Is the Sun quite as exciting
as itwas esterdayevening?
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SPT Oh it's always exciting. Maybe not quite as
much as last night. And I wonder if you could
verify with the backroom that prominence 53 is the
one on the west limb.
CC Checking.
CC That's affirmativ@, Owen. It should be down at
about 140.
SPT Thank you.
253 21 ll 47 CC Skylab, we are doing a data voice recorder dump
at this pass.
253 21 15 52 CC Owen, when you get a chance, would you mind looking
at panel 202 and verify for us that the circuit
breaker for the CAUTION and WARNING SYST_N SENSORS,
_MERGENCY 2 i_ CLOSED?
SPT Just a moment.
253 21 16 54 SPT On the CAUTION and WARNING, 1 and 2 are CLOSED.
And both EMERGENCIES.
CC Okay, 1 and 2 are closed. The reason we had asked
is that earlier today when we got that RAPID DELTA-P,
we only saw i.
SPT Okay.
253 21 18 04 CC Skylab, ouston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See
you again in ll minutes over Hawaii at 21:29, 21:29.
253 21 29 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Hawaii for
9 minutes. And we didn't get our data voice
recorder dump in last time, so w 'll be doing it
this pass.
PLT Okay, Bob.
253 21 30 08 CC And, Owen, we don't show that you've got 52 goi g.
It's kind of down there buried in your pad, and it
should be 52 on MODE, CONTINUOUS.
SPT I was Just taking a look at it on my TV monitor
right now, and just about to switch to CONTINUOUS.
I will in a moment.
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CC Okeydoke.
253 21 30 9 SPT Bob, info for the back ATM science room. I did
take a look at prc_inence 53 on the west limb at
the beginning of this orbit, and the configuration
was fairly diffe ent fram that when we worked on
it about three orbits ago. So I did put it over
on the right-hand limb and took one 20 s cond
82B exposure, partial MIRROR AUTO RASTE , and
few 56 SHORT - SHORT exposures on the prominence -
on the - pr_ninence 53. And then went back to Sun
center and picked up with the normal plan. That
caused me to have to reduce the planned 27-minute
I exposuresto abouti0 minutes for S056. One other
thing I wanted to c_ent on. There does appear
to be a possible new emerging flux region over near
the east limb at about 280.9 radii. It's got a
noticeable signature on the XUV MON. It's only
H-alpha signature is a rather bright spot in the
network. But it does have a small H-alpha signa-
ture as well as a somewhat more noticeable XUV
signature. And it might be interesting to try
to pi k up some early work on that in the next
couple or three orbits. Over.
• CC We copied that. And we'll get scme confirmation
and get some word back to you.
SPT Okay ; thank you.
253 21 37 58 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute fr_n LOS. See you
again in 3 minutes over Goldstone at 21:& .
253 21 38 05 SPT Okay, Bob.
253 21 41 50 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS through Goldstone for 7 minutes.
CC Owen, for your information, NOAA is unable to
confirm that new emerging flu region that you
reported at 280.9.
SPT Roger. I didn't really imagine they'd be able to
see it. About the only signature they can see on
the ground, or at least with H-alpha, is Jus a
small bright spot, which is more or less - doesn't
look very unusual. It's only in the XUV tha you
can really see that it's - the signature is much
more substantial. I took an E - an XUV photograph,
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and it - it really stands out over on the east
limb at about nine-tenths radius. And we'll just
have to see if it continues to develop; and if
there's any. spare time, it would be, I think, use-
ful to go over and do a bright spot shopping list
item or something like that on it.
CC Copy.
CDR You can sure see the forest fires from up here,
up north-northwest of San Francisco.
CC Roger. They've been having some problems with
that out there. They - Understand they stand out J
ery well.
CDR Boy, they stand out beautifully. I think, with
a map, you could put Xs right on every spot that
the smoke' coming from and report it back to the
ground pre ty simply. And make - and you'd be
sure that you got all of them, too because you
sure got th synoptic view up here. You wouldn't
have to worry about smoke getting i your way from
seeing some other burning object further back.
Really can see it well.
253 21 h4 h2 SPT Hey, Bob, it might also be worth noting the near
absence of the bright spots, which we found so
prominent all over the Sun's disk before the
activity began increasing here about 3 weeks ago.
There is really almost no bright EUV [sic] spots
visible on the disk at lonKtitudes towards the
east of active region 19 until we get clear over
to this new emerging flux region, if that s what
it develops into, about nine-tenths of a radius on
the east limb.
CC Copy. So it - it, apparently, from what you are
saying, it - The bright spots are not anywhere in
the longtitudes associated with the activity?
253 21 _5 24 SPT At this point, I don't see them associated at the
longitudes where there is activity or trailing the
longtitudes all the way from the active longitudes
clear over to the east limb. The first bright spot
that really stands out is this one th t I Just called
the EFR. It may not develop, but that's the only
other bright spot I see, really, on the disk.
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CC Copy.
253 21 46 07 CC C_en, on this 52 study of the alphaing wave prog am,
the continuity is very important, and we do waut
to keep that going. So we're really not wanting
any other observations except if you - if you feel
y u - you want to get them in, they - they should
be right at the beginning or right at the end.
SPT Okay, good point. And that was only on S052 that
you were so concerned about the continuity?
CC I_t me verify that.
CC Yes, Owen. That's affirmative. It's 52 that is
designed to continuity.
$PT Okay, that's my mistake there. I Just appreciate
that. I'm glad you brought it to my attention.
And I'll make sure that we stay in the CONTINUOUS
MODE. Thanks a lot.
CC 0keydoke.
253 21 47 23 CC Okay, Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS. W 'll
pick you up again over Bermuda in about 5 minutes
at 21:52, 21:52.
253 21 47 57 CC And as we're going over the hill, all of your Flight
Plans are on board.
253 21 52 26 CC Skylab, we're with you once more for 8 minutes
through Bermuda.
253 21 59 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. See
y u again in 2 minutes over Canary. And, CDR,
y u might be interested. We've got the - all
the stuff off the VTR. It's rewound, available
for your use in case you wanted to get to that
TV invento y any - any time carly.
253 21 59 37 CDR Okay, good. Thanks.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TR NSCRIPTION
253 22 13 00 CC Hello, Skylab. We finally got back with you.
We're through Ascension for 5 minutes. And
little mistake on our part, we did
n
ot have the
Canary pass awhile ago.
PLT Okay, Bob.
SPT Say, Bob. When - When's your next AOS after
CC Okay, we've got you again through Carnarvon at
22:45, 22:45. That's about - -
SPT Okay, 22:45, we'll have something for you there,
I expect, Bob.
CC Roger. And - by - by the way, we got a calcium-K
photograph in, and it's verified that new
emerging flux region that you were talking about.
SPT Okay. I thought it might. I thought, probably,
all we had immediately available was the H-alpha,
but it is sort of interesting that the calcium
does show it up to where, perhaps it wasn't so
obvious in H-alp a. And it certainly is quite
obvious in the XUV.
CC Okeydoke.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See
you again at Carnarvon, 22:44, in about
27minutes.
253 22 17 19 SPT Okay, Bob. Fine.
253 22 44 37 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon, 5 minutes.
SC Egad, I don't see how the boys m,nage to get
rid of the feedback between these speakers.
Hello, Houston? This is Skylab. Are you read-
ing me dow there? Hello, Houston. Are you
reading Skylab?
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CC Skylab, this is Houston. I heard you all right,
but I had a little difficulty recognizing your
voice. Who we got on the line here?
SC Oh, Houston. Roger. Well, I haven't talked
with you for a while. Isn't hat you down there,
Bob? This is Helen, here in Skylab. The boys
hadn't had a home cooked meal in so long, I
thought I'd Just bring one up. Over.
CC Roger, Skylab. I - I think somebody's got to
be pulling my leg. Helen, is that - is that
really you? Where
a
re you?
SC Bob, gosh, Just a few orbits ago, we were look-
ing down on the forest fires in California.
You know, the smoke sure does cover a lot of
territory. And, oh, Bob, the sunrises are Just
beautiful. Uli-oh, uh-oh. I have to cut
off now. I see the boys are floating up toward
the command module, and I'm not supposed to be
tasking to you. See you later, Bob.
CC Bye bye,
253 22 46 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We have you scheduled to
inhibit TACS here. Due to the ittle problem
we had earlier today in momentum not being
quite in the nominal configuration, we'd like
to hold up on that for a while.
CDR Okay.
SPT Didn't hear anybody on that voice loop up there,
did you, Al?
253 22 47 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll
have you again in about a minute and a half over
Honeysuckle.
253 22 _9 49 CC Skylab, Houston_ We're AOS through Honeysuckle
for 4-1/2 minutes. Hope you guys aren't getting
lonesome.
SPT Oh, a good home-cooked meal sure tastes good
now and then.
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253 22 53 I_4 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
We'll see you again over Hawaii in 14 minutes,
and we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump.
That's at 23:08, 23:08.
253 23 08 21 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Hawaii 8 minutes. And
we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump.
253 23 08 53 CC CDR, if you have some time, we want to put a
little 02 into the bird, and if you can go to
panel 255 and hit the AM FILL switch - PRIMARY
switch to OPEN and the 02 FILL PRIMARY swi ch i
to OPEN, als , please.
CDR Oks_/, complete.
CC Thank you.
253 23 i0 35 SPT Hello, Bob, tl_e electric drive on Nikon Ol seems
to be working satisfactorily today, l've taken
everal photo raphs with it, and it all drives
normally.
CC Okay, Owen, appreciate hearing that. Thank
you.
253 23 15 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll
see you again over Goldstone in 4-1/2 minutes
at 23:20, 23:20.
253 23 20 0h CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Goldstone, 5 minutes.
253 23 24 22 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute u til LOS. See you
again over Bermuda in about 5 minutes, at
23: 29, 23: 29.
253 23 29 45 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Bermuda, i0 minutes.
253 23 34 36 CC CDB, Houston. If you're about to finish up your
work there at the Aq}4 C&D, we've been puzzling
down here over the little problem you had today
with the CMG SAT and the RAPID DELTA-P. And we
were wondering if you could give us - enlighten
us a little bit on where about - wh t transpired
about that time.
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253 23 35 4 CDR Okay, Jack had been - went into the 92 on
schedule. We noticed when he first started
being pumped down, he was leaking ... not too
bad. We continued to pump down; we got
until about 3minutes to go on the 50-millimeter,
which is the last step in the 92. And we got
a caution and warning; I zipped up there real
quick and saw it was ACS, punched it off, went
up to the panel, got another caution and
warning right then, which was RAPID ELTA-P.
Punched that off, looked at the al - the
rate of climb; it was nominal. Pressure
was nominal. So I said, well, it must - some-
how it must have gotten tripped when I punched
the button. But that didn't make sense
either. All I could imagine, even later on,
is maybe my other hand, which was holding the
guards, tripped the TEST switch for Just a
second but not enough to hrow it on, because
it's still off, but Just enough to activate
it. Still haven't figured that one out. And
the ACS light was on, so we looked at that
and determined the CMGs were not in the
position they should be - they - 90 percent.
And the ground was available at that time
and they recommended that we activate the
TACS, both switches and in the computer,
which we did. And then we had multiple ACSs.
About every 2 or 3 minutes, we'd have another
one as it fired amib to hold the attitude.
And we don't - still don't think we had a
leak, and we're a little bit puzzled. The
only thing we could figure out - 8nd it
won't set too well down there - was somehow the
dump was scheduled at the wrong time. That's
all we could figure out about the thing,
because we don't think it was leaking. And
we don't know maybe - we went around and
checked all our other vents. Bruce, we're
mystified, too.
253 23 37 27 CC Okay, now we agree with that - You were
right in the - in the window when you - when
you started the thing. And the window was
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correct; we reverlfied that. And it is possible
that the LBNPD vent was enough to do - to
cause the CMGs to saturate, but it was
definitely not enough to cause the RAPID DELTA-P.
And we were Just trying to get some more
information, trying to find out if there was
a possibility that any othe thing might
have been venting overboard at the time.
And I guess, from what you've told us, you -
you're not aware of anything.
253 23 38 01 CDR No, we went around and checked them all.
Plus the rate of climb, see, indicate a -
which pegs long before that happens; or at
le
a
st,
wi
ll be off zero. It's off zero all
of the time, But off a little mark we've
made on it, would have to occur. It was
Just as happy as could be. I'm still
conv nced, myself, th t the RAPID DELTA-P was
somehow erroneous either by some relay - when
I punched the MASTER ALARM off triggered it ;
now don't a k me how that could occur; or my
other hand might have been on the guard there,
and actually somehow hit the TEST portion of
it, but - but didn't turn it on, if you know
what I mean. Hit it enough so that it
triggered the test, but did not turn the
switch on. Now that might be borne out be-
cause I think - Dick Truly made the comment
that it only tripped one part of the caution
nd warning.
CC That is affirmative.
CDR 0kay, well, that kind of makes you believe
that that's possible. It's certainly
possible to hit those switches when you're
in a hurry. You use one hand to hold onto
the guard, and the ot er to push on the
button.
253 23 39 13 CC Okay, we - we appreciate that bit of infor-
matlon, A1. We'll sit here and continue to
ponder it. We're about 30 seconds from LOS
now. And we'll see you again over Ascension
at about 6-1/2 minutes from now at 23:46,
23:46. Thank you very much.
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CDR
O
k
a
y. D
o
y
o
u t
h
ink y
o
u've g
o
t figured
o
ut,
then, the - the cause of the CMGs being out
of position is Just the normal dump or maybe
a slightly extended dump?
CC Slightly extended dump probably looks llke
the problem.
CDR It - the - be too much leak around the body
or something?
CC That 's affirm. That - that could have -
that could have given us what we saw today.
253 23 39 56 CDR Sure possible.
253 23 h6 49 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension l0 minutes.
253 23 55 h5 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you again over Carnarvon in 23 min-
utes. And that's at 00:19, 00:19.
254 00 19 15 CC
S
kylab, H
o
uston. A0
S
C
a
rnarvon l0 minut
e
s.
CDR I temporarily stopped the 02 flow because I
noticed we were up to 3.6 PP02, and I seem to
recall that's what we usually went to, but I
didn't know. I did that at 00:13, and I'm
standing by to either turn it back on or
hold right there.
CC Stand by l, A1. We were going to ask you to
terminate it here.
254 00 20 21 CC A1, we'd appreciate it if you go ahead and
turn that back on. I 'm sorry; I should have
told you awhile ago. One of the items -
We're going to build it up to about 3.9 and
Just preconditioning for T020 run.
CDR Okay, we got it back on again.
CC Okeydoke, and we'll give you a call wh n to
turn it off.
CC And, CDR; Houston. At your convenience, you
can inhibit TACS.
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CDR Okay. I'ii do it right now.
25_ 00 21 32 CDR Okay, that Just got it.
CC And we copy; it's inhibi ed.
CDR I came up here and practiced ptmching the
MASTER ALARM in a hurry. And it turns out
the place where the RAPID DELTA-P test switch
is is Just perfect for catching it with your
finger as you hold on there to punch the
MASTER ALARM. So I'd say that probably clears
that one up.
CC I think - I think you've convinced us all,
A1.
CDR I think what could have possibly happened
after I ca e up there and tried it a c uple
of ti es is it may be that when I grabbed
it there on that guard, it tripped it. It
probably went to 1 or 2 or wherever, went
probably to 1 and then when I re - reset it
without even thinking about i . You know,
I - sort of llke you do if you throw a switch
you don't mean, sometimes you Just put it
back without giving it additional thought
since we were trying to work a different
problem. And the caution and warning on
that doesn't come on for a little - ther 's
a little delay. So I didn't recall it, as
I was over here working the problem when the
other one went on.
25_ 00 22 46 CC Roger that; appreciate that info.
CDR How does the dump vent with Owen look?
CC We'll check it.
254 00 24 ll CDR They're finished. I Just wondered what kind
of pulse you got out of that one.
CC Roger. I guess we were thinking that perhaps
what caused the problem earlier was - was -
understand that you had some problem when you
were putting Jack in initially, and then you
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reseated it. It - it almost appe
a
red that
the momentum got biased at that - that initial
point and not during the run.
CDR Okay, that sort of makes sense because that's
the only leak that we heard, and also you
feel those leaks. As - as it's slipping by
your body the buy that's in it usually senses
it 1...ediately, you know, and tucks it in and
tightens it up, and you know that yourself
from the chamber. It's kind of hard to get
a leak you're not aware of.
CC Roger; concur on that. A d it looks good for
Owen right now.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We 're 1 minute from LOS. See
you again over Guam in 4 minutes at 00:33, 00:BB.
254 00 28 38 CDR Okay.
254
00 3
4 06 CC
S
kylab, H
o
ust
o
n. A0S thr
o
ugh Guam f
o
r 8 mi
n
-
utes. And, Jack, we're not copying any
blood pressure on - on Owen - Owen right now.
orrection, I guess I've got that turned
around; we're not copying it on Jack.
CDR Okay; that's right.
CDR I guess they can't read me. Go ahead and
tell them.
SPT That's okay, Bob. We're Just doing a vital
capacity check prior to starting the 171 run.
CC Ah so, Owen. Thank you.
254 00 38 03 PLT Are you getting blood pressure now, Bob?
CC Stand by. That's affirmative. We do have
it. Thank you very much.
PLT Okay. We Just started the run. We took a
break in there to get recalibrated.
CC Okay; thank you, Jack.
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254 00 41 ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll have you again over Goldstone in 17 mln-
utes at 00:58. And, A1, if you could go
ahead and terminate that 02 FILL for us please.
02 FILL PRIMARY switch to COMMAND and AM FILL
PRIMARY switch to COMMAND.
CDR Complete.
CC Thank y
o
u, sir.
CDR I get about 3.7 PP02 indicated at the moment.
254 00 41 46 CC Roger. We're showing 3.8 to 3.9 right now.
25h 00 58 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Goldstone
for 6 minutes.
CDR How does the weather look for EREP tomorrow,
Bob ?
CC Well, we're already going to have to - to
scrub one of them. Track 30 is - is not any
good. And if I could interject here - Jack,
I'd appreciate if you'd check Owen's electrodes.
Our data is getting a little bit erratic.
CDR Interested in any UV MON down-link?
PLT All his electrodes are in good shape, Bob.
We're going t
o
do a VCG - electocheck here
in
a
minute, then he's g
o
ing to go and do
some PT, wired up.
25h 01 00 09 CC Okay, I'm sure the medics appreciate that.
CDR Bob, did you want any UV down-link? You
didn't mention it at 37, so I didn't know.
I had it selected but I didn't give you any
integration.
CC Sorry
a
bout that. We were receiving it - Well,
stand by.
CC A1, we would appreciate some XUV MON.
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254 01 00 59 CDR Okay.
CC CDR, for your informa ion on the weather, I
guess it looks we can get in five of the manda-
tory Spanish and southern France targets,
with the weather being 0.h to 0.7 general. A
few places it is broken to overcast. And
on the last track that we'll be doing, track 31,
it looks like we can get in 13 of the - of the
sites.
CDR Okay, good.
CC And I think Jack will be happy to know that
we can conclude the OWS temps after tonight.
You can put your li tle digital thermometer
away. We've concluded we have enough. For
information, we've be n indicating according
to our stuff _own here, you've been getting
readings about 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit lower
tbRu the - what we have. And they've been
ranging from anywhere from half a degree up
to 2 degrees difference, but we're - we're
satisfied with what we've been doing.
254 01 03 ll CDR Good.
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254 01 03 15 CC Going to take away one of your highlights of the
day I'm sure.
254 01 03 39 CDR Not in the same category as that flare that we
saw one day, for sure.
CC I can understand that. We're going to drop -
drop out here in about a minute, and we'll have
you again shortly thereafter, over Texas.
CDR Okay. But it beats nothing, and we don't mind
doing it because there's probably a lot of these
other things that we can check up here to make
sure that your instrumentation is all you ho e
it is.
CC Okeydoke. You opened yourself wide open. (Chuckle)
CDR That's what we're here for.
PLT Crip, one critical item I didn't read down yet.
It's the temperature on that ambient crew com-
partment gage. It's reading between 72 and 73,
so I'd say that's pretty close to 72.5, wouldn't
you?
CC That's very good. Use the HP35 for that?
PLT No, I had Owen do it in the back of it.
CC Okeydoke. (Chuckle)
254 01 05 29 CC Skylab, we're back with you for about i0 minutes
here. And that was a VCG problem th t we had
while ago on - with data only, so your electrodes
are good.
CDR Okay.
PLT 0. Says he's glad to hear that. He checked that
good there at the end of the 171. Only thing we
had a little problem with was with the isolation,
but we figure everything's still working oka .
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CC We concur. The way - way, Owen's twisting on
that bicycle, there, I know he's going to beat
me when he gets back. I haven't had a chance
to run; all I do is sit on the console here all
the time.
CDR Boy, you all do put in so e long hours, I'll say
that. You're right; you probably don't. He sure
does. I tell you we've exercised more up here
than we ever did before flight.
CDR I don't think there's any way to get that sort
of free time before flight, and up here, you got
to do it to survive. You got three things you
got to do: you got to exercise good; you got to
eat meals pretty uch of time, and eat them all;
and then you got to make sure that you get sleep.
And we've been kind of putting those as the
highest priority items of anything we do.
25h 01 06 hl CC Funny y u should mention that. That' a good -
You're a good straight man, A1. One of the things
we wanted to talk to you about a little bit
tonight, was sleep. As you're aware of, we're
going to have to readjust your time a little bit
for reentry. Right now, the other readjustment
requires 4 hours, and we'd kind of like to get
your feelings as to the way you would like to do
it.
25h O1 07 03 CDR We'd like to c ast along at the exact schedule
we're on right now ntil the day we have to do
the 4 hours, and then we'll get up 4 hours early
and do it.
CC We copied that. And we'll put it into the mill
hat way.
CDR Yes, it's a lot harder to shift your circadian
rhythm aro nd an hour or two than it is to Just
take the - bite the bullet and go ahead and to
do it. We've found that we have a tough time
going to bed early up here. We usually stay up
and chat or we end up doing something until about
3:30 or 3:45 every night. Even if we don't have
something to do, we're stirring around doing
something. And then along about ll in the morning,
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we wake up. So I have a feeling if we Just tried
to turn around for a week or something, we'd Just
- we'd end up either getting up early or late or
going to bed early or late, and really start
missing sleep. Where this way, we only miss
hours and, actually, never miss it, as you know.
CC Roger. Copy that. One of the proposals that have
been put forth here was a gradual changeover.
Doing it in an hour, you know, and then skipping
a few days and doing another hour and so forth
and-
CDR We'd be a hundred percent against that one.
CC Copy.
254 01 08 22 PLT We're Just going over an area of widespread thun-
derstorm activity right now. There's lots of
cells down there and, of course, it's _a_k. And
when you look down, you can see four or five of
those are lit. All - least four or five at one
time are there, and they Just keep flashing all
over. Keeping that many lit at one time is Just
like a string of firecrackers going off.
CC Scar s me and I'm fearless. Looks like you're
coming over Georgia or somewhere around there,
right now.
CDR I'll tell you one thing I've noticed, Bob, up
here. And I don't think it's parochial, either.
I believe we've seen some of the wildest thunder-
storms and biggest ones over the U.S. I don't
know whether it generates them down there from
something or not. But a lot of these other areas
we've been over Just don't seem to produce the
large storms. It may Just be chance, but it's
something I'd noticed
a
couple of weeks ago, over
the last month.
254 01 09 19 PLT I think it's all those rockets you're shooting
off, Bob.
254 01 09 25 CC (Laughter) You've mentioned that before, Jack.
We're getting ready to do a data voice record r
dump here through Bermuda.
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CC While I got you guys talking, I might as well go
ahead and ask one of my evening questions here.
We've t_ked a little bit about eating meals
regularly. Rita had some questions. She's get-
ting ready to prepare the spice kit for SL-h.
And you've mentioned before that you've had some
problems with the way you're using your - Well,
not being able to dispense the items properly,
like the Tabasco won't come out, some of the
pepper floats around. And we were wondering if
you had found a good method of dispensing those
items in ze o g, and have you got say changes
that you would recommen for SL-h?
254 01 l0 37 CC We got a handover problem here. tand by.
25h 01 ll 03 CC Okay. We're back with you. Did you hear my
complete question?
25h O1 ll 27 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you once more.
Did you manage to copy my question about dispens-
ing the spice items?
CDR Yes, we've been thinking about that one, not only
now, but for the last month or so. Let me tell
you a couple of things that don't work. Just a
plain Jar with a sprinkle cap on it doesn't work,
shaker type. That doesn't do the Job. You open
the lid, and it's all floating inside there
between the lid and the top of the shaker, so
that gets all over. If you try to shake it, it
doesn't work. Now suspending it in liquid if
you could do that sad get enough strength in it
and not put them in ittle bags, but put them in
something like these plastic mustard carriers,
mustard dispensers that you know about or the
things that have maynonnaise in them, you know,
these big plastic things where you squeeze and
it would come out, that would be good. But l'm
worried about - It might turn out like this
salt - where you squirt all sorts of things on
your food, and you don't get a heck of a lot of
salt in th re. And I don't know if you could
suspend pepper and some of these other things
that way. Now something like horseradish would
probably lend itself to that or something like
Tabasco would be good in there. That would be a
dispenser for Tabasco. Now they might have to
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put it in a little - fill it up at 5 psi and then
- and then bottle it at 5 psi in the chamber over
there, and then seal it. And then send it up so
that it won't squirt all over the first time you
open it. I don't think that would be much trouble.
254 01 1
3
0
2
CDR Another thing th
a
t
w
orks fairly
w
ell, but n
o
t
as
good as having a squirter like that, is we got
pepper in metal cans. And you can sometimes
squirt the pepper out of the metal cans by squeez-
ing the sides, Just as yo can on Earth. But
the trouble is, the pepper hasn't got much mass,
so some of it hits the food, but a lot of it Just
floats around. Now it seems to me that if we can
come up with, m-ybe, some sort of dispenser that
had plastic sides with a littler spout on it,
similar, once again, to the mustard thing, maybe,
exce
p
t without it being in susp
e
n
s
ion, and had
Just a little nozzle, that you might be able to
squeeze it and squirt it on the food. Jack has
an idea that might work. He suggests something
like a perfume atomizer, except you don't pull
out liquid. You somehow have a little bulb that
you squeeze and it squirts past the top and makes
the materials come out. Now I don't think this
would be too ha d to simulate on Earth. All you
got to do is get a full something and turn it
upside down. If it falls out, it's n
o
good. But
once it's u
p
side down, if you could squirt it out
or something like that, then it probably would
work in zero g.
254 01 lh 21 CC Okay. I think we got all of that. What about
something like the hot sauce in the Jar itself?
Is that - can you dispense that ok y?
CDR I'm sorry. I was carryin on two conversations.
Go ahead.
CC Sorry, Al. I was asking, what about the hot sauce
in the liquid form in the Jar? Is that - can you
dispense that or is that difficult, also?
DR It's the most - it's the easiest thing to dispense
because it's got a small orifice, and you can tap
the bottom, but you still lose about 50 percent
of it. So that ought to be in a squeeze bottle,
too. We shouldn't come up here with glass bottles
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or glass Jars with shakers. We should try to get
some method of squirting whatever it is out of
the can; either suspend it in a liquid or Just by
itself. And I think - I think maybe pepper could
be done by itself, and, certainly, Ta asco could
be squirted out quite easily.
CC Okay. We copy that. And I also gather, from what
you have said there, that you don't think regular
table salt in individual shakers would work.
254 01 15 23 CDR No, but I definitely think table salt in a squirter
would work. And I don't mean liquid, Just - Well,
it's going to be a problem with salt, I guess,
because - because it can lump up and clump up.
So you may have to have some little device on it
where you can kind of squeeze it and break it up,
and then squirt it out. Or if they're going to
suspend it in a brine - in water and make a brine,
like they do - we have now in our salt, don't put
it in these little envelope . Put them in about
five great big squeeze bottles with little bitty
spouts, and then you can squirt as much as you
want, and it 'll be reasonable. Half the trouble
now, your food sometimes gets cold by the time
you get these sauces on it because it takes so
long to dispense them.
254 01 16 04 CC Okay. We copied all that, and I'm sure Rita
appreciates that - those words. We're about 40 -
30 seconds from LOS, and we'll see you again over
Carnarvon in 41 minutes from now. And that's at
01: 57, 01: 57.
CDR Okay, and Jack didn't get a word in edgewise, so
He mi ht have something to say. He was the one
talking about the atomizer, a woman's perfume type
dispenser. And, also, (>wen may have something
to say, and so we may talk with you about it when
we get to the next site.
254 01 16 34 CC Appreciate talking about it there. f we haven't
got enough time, you can also put something on
channel A for us
254 01 56 43 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnar on, 7 minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob we're hearing you.
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cc Say again, Skylab.
PLT Roger. We're here, Robert. (Music)
CC Oh, it sounds so sweet.
254 01 57 50 PLT We got the Nuz update. I hope you like it. (Music)
CC We'll take a look at it.
PLT Okay. (Music)
CC Nuz looks good.
PLT Okeydoke.
254 01 59 h9 CC Jack, when you get a moment free, there, at the
ATM, I'd llke to t ll you about small Job we'd
l ke you to do at your convenience.
PLT Okay, go ahead right now, Bob.
CC Okay, we've been having some telemetry problems
with the tool sieve B, inlet C02. And what we'd
like to do is put on the spare inplate, which is
stowed in 20 , which s Just - All you have to do
is to remove the C02 detector inplate, blue, in
mol sieve B, take the filters off that are in
there, and insert the filters in the spare inplate,
and then put it on with the spare inplate. And
you ight put a piece of red tape onto that one
that - the inplate that you take off and stow it
in 202.
PLT Okay, so you think it's an inpla e problem, huh?
I'll ease that out.
CC Well, we think it might be leaking around the se al
where it screws on.
PLT Okay, now that' s mol sieve B, right?
CC That 's affirmative.
CC That's only inlet.
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254 02 01 04 PLT You know, it might be, because I can see a little
gap in there, although when I tighten down pretty
tight, it doesn't do much to tighten it down any
more. It makes it harder to get off. That's what
it does.
CC (Chuckle) I wouldn't - didn't think anything was
hard for you to get off, Jack.
254 02 01 55 PLT You guys are all right. Let me tell you what hap-
pened. A little O-ring in there popped up when
the things were changed out yesterday. And it
caused a little gap in there. And it didn't pop
up very much, but Just a little bit. And I
reseated it, and screwed it down again, and it
looks like it's in fair now. Why don't you take
a look at your TM and see if that did the Job?
If not, I' l swap it out like you said.
254 02 02 19 CC We copy that, and we'll take a look at it. As the
- I think maybe the EGIL's got one up on you there,
Marine.
PLT Ah, I think he's re_lly been running way ahead all
the time, anyway.
CC Jack, while I'm talking to you, we're getting ready
to send you up a message, tonight, that has you
modify one of the - of the old LSUs. And it's
an attempt to make a sort of a lightweight, flexible
umbilical to use with the T020 run we got up-coming.
We're actually scheduling you to do that modifica-
tion day after tomorrow. However, you can take
cn - ta_e a Ioo_ at the pad and - and give us any
comments on it that you - that you might - Plus,
if you ha e a chance, it might give you a chance
to get started at it early.
254 02 03 1 PLT Okay.
254 02 03 37 CC P53 is looking active, Jack. You might want to
keep an eye on that. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We're going to have you again at Guam at
02:11, 02:11. And we'll be standing by for the
the evening status report there.
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P T Okay. Have the ATM guys check wit
h
t
h
eir stations,
and see if t
h
ey're
s
eei
n
g anyt
h
ing i
n
the c
o
ro
n
a.
I see - what I see appea s not to be some nice
straight rays on the corona, but appears that
there's a supergian loop. And have them look at
it and see if there's anything unusual.
CC Can you give me a location on that?
254 02 04 17 PLT Yes, it's at 6 o'clo k on my scope, there. I'm
roll bias 4800. It's 5 o'clock on my scope.
254 02 04 24 CC 5 o'clock.
254 02 iI i8 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through G am, 6 minutes.
And we're standing by for the evening status report.
254 02 ll 29 SPT Okay, Bob. You might have to wait a minute.
CC Okay, O., thank you.
PLT The coronal feature we were looking at there Bob,
was the west-northwest. And Owen and I both looked
at it, and it might Just be a couple of helmlet
streamers sort of arched into each other. But
we thought it'd be interesting to hav you folks
look at it too. We've been taking pictures of it
all along, Just with a normal JOP 6.
254 02 12 ll CC Okay, we copied that. And - and we're taking a
look at it. We're trying to get hal - hold of
Mauna Loa now.
254 02 12 50 CC Jack, if you could, could you tell us - We saw
some 82B photographs while ago that - that we
didn't have scheduled, and we were wondering what
your exposure time was on those?
PLT Yes, our pad came up a little garbl d on that,
and I got the - the l0 and 40 from the J0P 2-D
below and the line transmitted three times. And
I gave them l0 to the 40, SHORT, on the minus
48 - hour roll. Go way to the side.
254 02 13 8 CDR Okay. We have a little night report here for you.
CC We're re dy. Shoot it at us, A1.
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254 02 13 35 CDR Okay. Urine: 232, 175, 170. Number i for the
first time. Drinking water gun: 5961, 9811,
6455. BMMD: 6.268, 6.268, 6.265; 5.937, 5.936,
5.932; 6.953, 6.950, 6.954. Exercise: CDR,
213616041, 110610541, 31151Mark I, 31101Mark II,
3/05/Mark III. SPT now, 2/15/2700, 3/25/Mark I,
60, A; 60, B; 60, D. And in addition to that
2/5/2700 [sic] on him, he did a 171. PLT,
2/36/8136, 1/05/0614, 3/20/Mark I, 50, A; 20, B;
20, D; and 20 backbends. Medication: none.
Sleep: 6/G, 5/G, 6/G.
254 02 15 02 CDR Food log: CDR, seven salt packs and four salt
pills. No deviation in food. SPT, two salts,
add butter cookies, peanut butter, peach ambrosia,
and lemonade. Sounds like he's got four meals a
day going to me. PLT, six salt packs, two sa t
pills, one butter cookies, one peaches and substi-
tute a veal and two lemonades for tuna and bread.
254 02 15 43 CDR I'll give you a photo log right now. VTS track,
15 A, CL03, 45. Now that's going to throw a little
hooker into some of their data down there, because
we've been reading that magazine wrong. It's got
four marks on it, and we thought they were each
25 percent. But it turns out that the empty
doesn't have a mark by it, but that's zero, so -
and that's the indication for CL3, 45. And I
think, by looking at the marks on there, they can
see what the others ere. It's all been VTS, so
it's all counted the same thing, anyway.
254 02 16 23 CDR Next one, VTS track 16A, CL03, 40. Okay,
35-millimeter: CX32, 43, CIl04, - that 104, 22.
70-millimeter: CX26, 117; ETC: CT08, 0 BW02,
107. And then, Owen's got a note here that says:
"That film did run to depletion." EREP: set, B;
8176; 7513; 8389; 8383; 1926; 9244. Drawer A:
no change.
254 02 17 08 CC Break, break. We're going to go LOS. We'll have
you at Goldstone at 02: 35, and that 'll be med
conference.
CDR Okay, we'll give you the rest later.
254 02 17 19 CC Keep talking.
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254 02 17 24 CDR Okay, we don't have that much more. Flight Plan
looks good for tomorrow. We hope - we're sorry
to hear that EREP's canceled; hope we have
something to do in its stead. Shopping list
accomplishment: 21 mi - minutes of PT. M171 to
STDN by the Pilot. And also, 21 minutes by the
SPT. So we hope we gave you some good dope today.
Inoperable equipment: nothing new. Unscheduled
stowage item location change: five ... towels
from B418 to WMC, six blue and six white towels
from the same place - -
254 02 17 59 CC Going over the hill.
254 02 18 01 CDR Okay, that's the end of it anywa . We Just barely
made it.
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254 02 43 57 CC Hello, Skylab. I got you back for about
5-1/2 minutes. And got several questions I'd
like to run over with you.
SPT Would you like a frame count in real time here,
Bob?
CC Affirm.
SPT Okay, H-alpha i, 5377_ Milligan, 929_ Tousey, A, 35;
Tousey B, 197; MacQueen, 2641; and Vaiana and
Krieger, 1827.
CC Okay; copy that. Appreciate it.
SPT Sorry about those two frames on 82B.
CC No sweat. And we need roll at minus 4800 for
close out.
SPT Roger, I'm Just powering the thing down now,
and I'd like the guys back there to take a look
at it when I'm all done.
CC Okay, will do. For your information, we - Com-
puter burped on us, and so we've got two S019
messages up there. No sweat, they're Jus%
duplicates.
SPT O ay, we'll do them both.
254 02 44 54 CC (Chuckle)
.
Okeydoke. We'd like to know if A1
completed his TV inventory; we got - got a full
VTR and we're dumping it.
CDH You bet. It's complete.
CC Okay, mad understand you do not need any more
time for that.
CDR That's right. There may be some duplications
there from last night, because I wasn't sure
when I ran out, but I think hat'll
d
o the Job.
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CC Okay, very good. And for Owen, l'd like to
find out, since we've got an ATM pas for him
that starts right off at ll:O0, he can either
set his little timer to wake up or the closes
that we can give him a call would be 1 :30.
SPT I'll set my timer for about 10:50.
CC Very good. Figured that would be the best way
to do it° And Jack - -
$PT I'll set my tim r, Bob.
25_ 02 _5 41 CC Copy. Jack, one item I need to run down a few
things on your Flight Plan and modify them
slightly. For everybody, you notice that we
did cancel that EREP 22.
25_ 02 _6 O1 PLT Got it.
CC Okay. If you've got your details there, Jack,
the thing that we need to do is to move the
tape change ar und a little bit for you. If
you'll add in the no EREP t 21:38 to do a EREP
tape.
PLT I got that, too, Bob.
CC O ay, on your s1-,mAry at 22:00, you've got that
housekeeping scheduled the e. That's where
your EREP tape will be. And on the no EREP, it
has an EREP tape called out at 20:00. Want to
scrub that. Just ma_e it housekeeping.
PLT Okay, I understand. _ Just swap those around.
CC Okay, very good. Rould like to know - we were
looking over some transcripts, and we'd like to
know if you're using any soap other - are you
using Neutrogena or the Miranol (?) when you're
taking a shower?
PLT No, we use the soap in the tube when we take a
shower, and I guess that's the second One you
mentioned, isn't it?
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C That's affirm, that's the Miranol, the one that's
in the tube. We were a little bit confused by
reading one of your transcripts, talking about
how you wer_ cle
a
ni
n
g your hair. And
s
inc
e
you
can't use aaything other than Miranol in the
shower, because it would tend to clog up that
hydrophobic filter we got in there.
254 02 47 38 PLT Right. Well, we are using Neutro ena to wash
our hair, but the catch is that we don't do it
in the shower.
CC Yes. Roger. I guess we gathered that and
sounded a little bit difficult to do, but under-
stand that's what you are doing.
CDR Right. We Just take a complete washrag bath in
here almost every night.
CC Okay, copy that. We'd like to know if you per-
formed the modification that was sent up earlier
oh the WMC foot restraints; and if so was it
satisfactory?
CDR You still there, Bob?
CC That's affirm.
CC Did you copy my last, I asked about t e - -
CDR Was that the end of the question?
CC Skylab, I cou dn't copy your last. Did you
copy mine - question about the WMC foot re-
straints - -
CDR Apparently we got up-link problems, and maybe
some down-link, I'm not sure. Just a moment.
254 02 I_908 CC S ylab, if ou read, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. I'm going to go ahead and say good
night to you here. The next pa s s at 03:00
at Vanguard if you need us for any reason. You
might be interested to know that HAnk Aaron
Just hit his number 710, 37th for this season.
/
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254 02 49 26 PLT That's great.
SPT And I got the vents closed. I hope everybody
likes it.
CC Looks good.
CDR See you all tomorrow.
254 02 49 38 CC Roger, dodger.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTIONS
254 ii 07 37 CC Morning, Skylab. A0S Vanguard for ii minutes.
SPT Okay, Story, how are you today? And I'll give
you a little down-link Aq_4 TV.
CC Okay; we're beautiful today. And we'd like that
down-link on theVTR - instead of down-link.
We'll be able to get it back here faster. And
we'd like a little XUV and hite light.
SPT Okay, and how much time do you want on the VTR?
CC Just 3 minutes is all we've got.
254 ll 08 05 SPT Okay, giving you 3 minutes, starting right now.
CC And your solar update at 07:00 Zulu, active
region 2h, produced an M-1 flare.
BPT Why don't you wait a minute, okay?
CC Okay.
254 ii 12 03 SPT Okay, you've got it on tape, and please go ahead
with your updates, Story.
CC Okay, we see your Nuz update; that looks good.
At 07:00 Zulu, active region 24 produced an M-I
flare followed by a type 2 burst, indicating
probable coronel transiet. Minor surge of activity
over departing active region 09, and active
region 0 - i0. Prominence 53 remains active. New
acti e region 25, as 280 at 0.8 is stable and
spotless with a flare probability of zero for all
classes.
SPT Okay, thank you.
254 ll 12 46 CC And have you cut up the maneuver pads yet?
SPT Jack Just took them downstairs. I don't know
where they distributed at this point; I don't have
them.
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PLT' I've got them, Story.
CC Okay, Jack, I need to give Owne a comment on his
lunar cal 1Sad.
SPT If you're in no hurry, I'ii waite a little bit, I
want to get going on the ATM here, Story.
CC Okay. Jack, I got a couple comments for you.
PLT Okay, Just a second, Story. I'm still cutting
these things up.
254 ll 13 28 CC Okay.
254 ll 17 08 PLT Okay, Story, go ahead. I got all these pads here
somewhere now.
CC Okay; a little change to your Flight Plan. I don't
think you have it; you may have it already. And
that's the EREP tape load at 19:50. Don't do it
then; moye it downstream until after the EREP pass
number 23.
PLT kay, I got it. Th_nk y u.
CC Okay, and just a reminder. After your VTS TV-2 9,
the switch to the DAC for the lunar cal.
SPT Okay.
CC And that's it.
254 ll 18 18 CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS and 3 minutes to
Ascension.
254 ll 22 25 CC Skylab, AOS Ascension 7 minutes.
254 ll 28 37 CC Skylab, a minute to LOS and 5 minutes to Madrid.
254 ll 34 18 CC Skylab, AOS.Madrid 5 minutes.
254 ll 39 36 CC Skylab, we're going LOS here. See you over Guam
in 25 minutes. Be dumping the tape recorder there.
254 12 05 49 CC Skylab, AOS Guam 8"minutes.
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CREW [Click-click]
CC Who's that?
PLT That's a voice from out of this world.
CC Okay. I've got a change to your maneuver pad
number 23, if you've got t right there, Jack.
PLT I got it right here, but it's buried under all
the paper. So I'll have to - Let me dig it out.
CC Oka .
PLT I found it. It was right on the bottom. Go ahead.
CC Okay. It's a maneuver time back to SI.
CC Instead of a _0021, put down a 50031. That s
25 minutes. And are you all aware that ERE 22
is cancelled due to weather?
PLT Yes, sir. We knew that.
254 12 07 24 CC Okay.
254 12 12 15 CC Owen, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC O en, now regarding your maneuver pad for the lunar
cal, it is clear, but the operation's a little
different than you're use to, so I Just wanted to
go over it with you. We'd like to see the maneuver
immediately after going to ATT HOLD CMG - right
after going there. So if you'll Just load the
maneuver time and load the aneuver except for
the last ENTER, then hit ATT HOLD C - -
SPT Okay. Okay.
CC Okay?
SPT Right. Thank you.
CC And we're a minute from LOS. We'll see you over
Honeysuckle in 7 minutes.
I
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254 12 13 46 PLT Okay, Story.
254 12 20 45 CC Skylab, AOS Honey suckle, 2 minutes.
254 12 22 20 CC And, Skylab, we're going LOS here. See you over
the Vanguard in 25 minutes at 12:46.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
254 12 46 42 CC Skylab, AOS the Vanguard for 5 mlnutes. And if
you are not using it, we'd like the DAS for a
momentum dump inhibit and a momentum bias.
SPT You've got the DAS, Story.
CC Okay. An , for your information, we will be bias
in Y o
n
minus
3
5 p
e
rcent.
CC We're taking that bias out Jack.
PLT Okay.
254 12 48 51 PLT Story, could you tell me when the DAS is mine
again, please?
CC Say again.
PLT Roger. Can you tell me wh
e
n l've got the DAS
back?
CC Okay, we'll let you know.
254 12 50 i0 CDR Okay, we've gone RECORD and we're going to read
off this information on the MONITOR switches for
the ground. And here we go. We're on A-2. A-2
is reading 59 percent, and that's okay. Incredible.
Okay, A-3 is 8 - 86. That's GO. A-4, 72; that's
GO. A-5, 66; that's GO. A-6 is zero. That's GO.
The end of th
a
t o
n
e. B: B-2 is 56
,
GO. B-
3
, 76
;
and that's GO. B-4, 71; that's GO. B-5, 74; and
that's GO. B-6, 51; and that's GO. B-7, 31; and
that's GO. B-8, about i; and that's GO. B-9 is
58; and that's GO. They all passed. C-2, 44; GO.
C-3, 79;G0. C-4, 71; GO. C-5, 83; GO.
CC Skylab, w 're about 20 seconds from LOS. See you
over Canaries in 13 minutes at 13:05. We had a
data dropout taking that bias out. We'd like you
to do a terminate, that's a 52040.
CDR Okay,
w
e're going t
o
d
o
it.
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PLT Okay, it's done, and I nderstand the DAS is
mine to go ahead and enable TACS and get the
m_neuver loaded.
CDR ...
CC Yes, that's fine. Just do the terminate and press
on .
254 12 52 l0 CDR C-7 - C-6 was 46 percent, as I mentioned - correc-
tion - 47 percent; that's GO. C-7 is 51 percent;
and that's GO. They are all passing so ar this
morning. Good warmup. D-2, 44 percent; that's
GO
.
D-
3
, 44 percent; GO. Oh, I'm reading the wrong
number. D-2, 86 percent, and that's not GO.
254 13 05 32 CC Skylab, Housto . We're AOS Canary and Madrid.
Standing by for 15 - 14 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. Everything is going smoothly. We're
standing by to get the EREP nder way.
PLT Morning, Dick.
CC Good morning.
PLT Good morning to the boss there, too.
254 13 05 59 CDR R is OFF and EREP is START. Just per planned.
193, A is ON. 06:15, MODE to SINGLE. Go_ it,
Just like they say. S194, MODE, MANUAL, Just like
they say. 06:30, VTS, AUTO CAL. Okay. AUTO CAL
on that one.
PLT How's the weather in Spain and France, central
Europe today? Do you know, ick?
C Stand by 1. We were Just looking at a map. I'll
get right back to you.
PLT Yes, sir. Thank you.
CC Jack, the prediction is 0.4 to 0.7 cloud cov r.
We think it's probably going to be closer to 0.4.
Looking good.
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PLT Very good. Thank you.
254 1 (17 07 CDR Outstanding. 07:15 is MODE, SINGLE again. Okay.
SINGLE.
CC And, Skylab, a reminder, you can load the new
tau [?] any time you want to now, for the next
maneuver, if you'd like.
CDR Good id a.
PLT I'll do that right now. Thank you for reminding
me, Dick.
254 13 07 54 PLT It's in there. How do you like it?
CC Looks good to us, Jack.
PLT Well, thank you. Saves us a few mibs. A mib
saver. I think the kid will turn the TV on
over here, and then I'll give you a holler when I
need the VTR.
CC Roger.
CDR All right. I'll give you the VTR at your request.
08:35, on SINGLE.
254 iB 08 23 PLT Video is on, the switch is in TV. Don't touch that
s itch there, O. Okay. We got some TV on the
monitor.
CDR Okay. There's a SINGLE on 190. READY on 191 at
0 :10. Let's watch.
PLT Few spots in that optical terrain. Decided they're
not in the big lens for the camera, because they
don't show up when you take the camera off.
254 13 09 l0 CDR Okay, IR, ON, going to 6. 09:22, we go to A to
STANDBY and RANGE, 63.
254 13 09 22 CDR MARK. 63, done. 37, and A, ON.
254 1
3
09
3
7 CDR MARK. A is ON.
09
:45, MODE, SINGLE.
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254 13 09 45 CDR MARK. MODE, SINGLE. Put the VTR on in a few
moments. Whenever you say, I'm going to give
it to you.
PLT Very well.
CDR 10:45. 10:45, another MODE, SINGLE. 10:30, you
want the VTR on, according to your suggestion.
That's when I'm going to put it on.
PLT Wish you'd do that.
CDR Okay. 10:22.
PLT Okay. Couple of rousing nadir swaths.
254 13 l0 30 CDR Okay. VTR is ON, right now.
PLT kay. Thank you. And we're starting a nadir
swath here.
CDR 10:4 , MODE, SINGLE.
PLT Okay, space fans. This is Skylab. And we're
giving you a little tour of Europe today. We're
taking some data on weather systems; formations
of cold fronts, and low pressure systems for future
use of long-range weather forecasting, primarily.
And then we're going to take some data over the
Swiss Alps. We're going to hit the European coast
at Lisbon. We'll then be traveling up over Spain,
crossing the Pyrenees Just a few miles from the
Bay of Biscay, over Lyons, France; Geneva,
Switzerland; Zurich; Just south f Munich; Vienna;
and then we'll be turning our instruments off as
we continue on. And the data that we're taking
today, is divided up into its spectral frequencies
and analyzed. They have the capability ... we
can track an object less than m quarter of a mile
square. We can track a farmer's field. We can
track a city block. We can track lakes. Ne have
very good resolution with thls telescope. At the
moment, it's in it's minimum zoom position, that
is as far away as possible. You see a reticle on
your scope - or on your picture. The center of
that reticle or the open space of the reticle
represents one-quarter of a mile.
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CDR By R NGE, 65•
25h 13 13 06 LT I'd s y we're now coming up on the coastline.
I see the coast at Lisbon. See Lisbon down there.
Zoom in on it for you a little bit. There's Lisbon,
you can see the airfield. Now we'll zoom back out.
Crossing the land of Spain. Say buenos dias to
all our amigos in Spain. Now you can see rivers
and lakes down there. You can actually see various
fields, plots of ground that are farmed. You can -
you can see wooded areas. Okay here's a little
lake coming up, we'll Just kind of zoom in on this
a little better. Then we have the capability of
stopping our machine, taking a lo
o
k at th
a
t lake,
if we want to and tracking it, as I'm doing now.
We're moving across the ground at h miles a second.
But, still I'm tracking that lake with no diffi-
culty. Hold my cros hairs right on that lake
without any trouble. Now we'll pick it up again.
Back to business here. Zoom ba k and forward.
We can look 45 to 50 degrees head of our track
over the ground. Now we're about to cross the
Pyrenees. Looking down at the ground below, you
can see what it looks like to travel across the
Earth at 4 miles a second.
PLT See the major geological features there. Many
linear features of mountain regions across the
Pyrenees from Spain into France.
25h 13 15 41 PLT We're taking data on all that territory down there.
There is an interesting little lake with something
in it. Let's take a look at that. Zoom in on it.
That lake has got some sort of breakwaters in it
or bridges in it that show up very clearly in our
reticle. You can see the farmers' fields over
here, all the plots of ground. There is one right
there. We can track that one right there. That's
a quarter of a mile square; we can keep our instru-
ments right on it. Okay, let's get back to busi-
ness here. Zoom ahead a little bit. Now we'll
zoom way out ahead and see what's coming up ahead
of us. Well, we're going to get a little bit of
weather it looks llke. Now we're looking way ahea
of us, 53 degrees ahead of our position over the
ground. And then we'll swing back to take data
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straight down, which is what we want to do,
momentarily. And now we're looking directly
below us. Crossing into the Alps.
254 13 17 30 PLT And we're taking a look at Switzerland now, very
mountainous terrain. You can see the clouds
above the Alps down there, and you can see rivers
cutting their way through the mountains. The data
that we take with this instrument is used in
Earth resources study where we look at agricul-
ture, forestry, water, resources, pollution, geol-
ogy, mineralology.
254 1B 18 OB CDR I'm turning the VTR off, unless you want it on.
PLT Just let it go.
CDR Can't hear. Let it run, or what?
PLT Let it run for a little while, yet.
CDR All right, will do.
254 13 18 1B CC Skylab, Houston. We're abut a minute and 20 sec-
onds from LOS, Madrid. I'll pick you up over
Honeysuckle at 1B:5B. You'll be looking at the
Moon then. We're looking forward to getting the
TV from this pass. One final remin er for Jack,
be sure to swap out the DAC for the TV for the
lunar cal. See you at Honeysuckle.
PLT Okay, I'll do that, Dick. Th nk you. And as I
was saying, what we do with this data is to use
it for the more efficient man - m_nagement and
utilization of our Earth resources. This data,
combine with that from unmanned satellites will-
future permit us to do that to a greater and
greater extent. So we're going to sign off now
and turn off our instruments.
CDR You've got a m_neu er in 5 seconds - -
PLT ... Skylab.
CDH You got a maneuver.
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254 13 18 58 PLT Okay. Turn off the VTR, please.
SPT Eighteen frames for the EREP officer down there,
Dick; 18 on the ETC.
CC Okay.
254 13 19 06 PLT Okay, we're in SI.
PLT Okay, thank you for reminding me.
CDR You bet.
PLT I got a little long-winded there, as usual.
CDR Okay, voice record D-7. I don't know if we -
hmm, let me look. Might Just keep going. I'm
not sklre.
PLT Time to put it away.
254 13 19 44 CDR Now we've got to come down on -
254 13 53 29 PLT Okay, we're going to initiate our VTS work now.
53:30 and the DAC is running. And we're going to
go 5 above the limb. We're reading a minus 1 right
now. So we'll go to 4 UP.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're standing by at Honeysuckle
for 7 minutes. We're dumping the data tape re-
corder here at Honeysuckle. I'm standing by.
PLT 0kay.
CDR Okay.
PLT And the way I understand this 7-point sequence
which I'm starting right now is that you want the
modified, as on the pad, as opposed t the stand
a
rd
in the book. You don't want the standard in the
book at all, or fo you want that in addition?
PLT Okay -
254 13 54 14 PLT DATA MARK We're 5 angles above - 5 degrees above
the limb.
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CC PLT, Houston. Use the pad we sent up to you.
PLT Okay, that's instead of, as opposed in of - in
addition to?
CC Roger. That replaces what's in the book. Use
the pad only.
PLT Okay, we've got her 0.5 degrees above the limb.
Now we're 2-1/2 spaces on the limb.
CDR Go ahead.
254 13 54 49 PLT Okay. Now we're going to slew upward and go to
ALIGN, ON; it'll work better. Okay, ata plus -
push button is down, and we're slewing up to the
limb. Goes across the limb.
254 13 55 03 PLT M RK. Data pushhutton, off. Continue up; then
stop. We come back. Slewing back down. At the
limb.
254 13 55 14 PLT MARK. We gc 2-1/2 below. Okay, we'll do that
one more time. Okay, we start our slew.
Pushbutton.
254 13 55 24 PLT MARK. Start to slew 2-1/2 down. Crossing the
limb.
254 13 55 29 PLT MARK. Data pushbutton, OFF. Sl w to 2-1 /2 UP.
Okay, we stop and come back. Stand by for a
MARK.
254 13 55 37 PLT MARK. We're on the limb. And we're slewing to
2-1/2 DOWN. Okay, that's done twice. Now we
go to the right limb. Same thing. And we measure
exactly 2-1/2 as we start out at the limb here.
J One, 2, 2-1/2. Okay, right limb. Pushbutton,
down; we slew to the right.
254 13 56 06 PLT MARK. Off the limb. Going back now.
254 13 56 13 PLT MARK. On the limb; 2-1/2.
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254 13 56 15 CDR S to STAND BY.
PLT Do it one more time.
254 13 56 18 CDR INTRACK CONTIG; POLARIZATION, i.
254 13 56 24 PLT Slewing.
254 13 56 32 PLT MARK .... coming back. Across the limb. MARK,
2-1/2. Okay, we did each one of those 2-1/2 times,
Dick. Now we're going to go to 5 gimbals - angles
below the limb. We're starting at a minus 2,
so we're going down to a minus 7. There we are,
7. Push the pushbutton. Ten seconds. Now we've
got 3 and - -
254 13 57 01 CDR S, ON and R, ON.
254 13 5__ 13 PLT Okay, now we'll go back to the Moon and - get
some data on those maria you requested. The
first one is Tranquilitus [sic] - Tranquillitatis
at 230 to half a radius - half a radius.
254 13 57 35 PLT MARK. There it is right there. We're tracking
it.
254 13 57 49 PLT I see the Moon Jump every time the DAC clicks.
CDR Down, down.
PLT Okay, that takes care of Tranquillitatus.Now
we g over to Serenitatis.
[
254 13 58 01 CDR S, OFF and R, OFF. CROSSTRACK, NONCONTIGUOUS.
254 13 58 08 PLT Okay, we're tracking Serenitatis. Data pushbutton
is down.
254 13 58 13 CDR 05. 58:15 right there. S, ON and E, ON. 94
MODE MANUAL. Done. Standing by for 58:30, which
is comi g up in a minute.
254 13 58 25 PLT The Moon is moving every time the DAC goes off.
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CDR 191, REF, 2. 191, REF, 2.
254 13 58 31 PLT Let's Jiggle the optics. Okay, now we're going
over to Procellarum. Nine o'clock, 4/5 of the
radius. Tycho right in there. We'll - -
254 13 58 40 CDR ... at 59:15.
254 13 58 41 PLT - - we'll miss Tycho for this. Okay, there's - -
254 13 58 43 PLT MARK. Ten seconds. Just for the heck of it, I'm
going to put Tycho right in the middle of the
field of view after this. See what he looks
like.
254 13 59 02 PLT MARK. Data pushbutton, OFF. Procellarum. Now
we'll put Tycho in there Tycho goes right in the
cross here, now, Houston.
254 13 59 12 CC Roger.
PLT Just for - just for the heck of it.
CDR B - S, OFF R, OFF.
PLT Say, what's that big crater down there, Al? Is
that Copernicus?
254 13 59 22 CDR Could be. I don't - I don't know which way you
want .. 59:30.
PLT Okay. I want to go over there just for the heck
of it.
CDR It's up in the opposite quadrant that - -
254 13 59 28 PLT Yes. It should be - Tycho is.
254 13 59 31 CDR Okay, AUTO CAL Started.
PLT Okay, we're - we've got AUTO CAL. I don't k ow
if we're taking data or not. But I'm looking at
Copernicus. Got him right in the field of view.
254 13 59 40 CDR 91, 14:02 T.
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PLT Gct the pipper on him as they say in the - in
trade (laughter).
254 13 59 47 CD Don't talk about that trade.
254 13 59 50 PLT Okay.
254 13 59 56 PLT The pipper on the target, Dick, as they used to say
back there in A-4's.
254 14 O0 00 CC F-8's too.
254 14 00 02 PLT And F-8's, yes (laughter). Okay, we've got that.
Anything else you want done with the VTS?
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
254 14 00 19 PLT I'll go down and give you another 5 - 5 below.
CC Roger, Jack - -
PLT Get this in the right sequence.
CC Roger, Jack. I was Just going to ask you f you
ihad done that step 5, that's 7.5 degrees below
disk, on the pad, prior to turning the DAC off.
PLT Yes, I did that prior to going back and I'm track-
ing the mare. I wanted to get all that sequence
complete. But in order to keep it in the sequence
you've got on the pad, we'll do it again. We're
doing it right now; and it's done. Okay, and
we'llgettheDACoffnow.
CC Okay. Skylab, Houston. We're satisfied _ith tha
on the VT - on the VTS work. We're 30 seconds from
LOS; Bermuda at 14:37.
PLT Okay. We got an END OF FILM light in there some-
where. I don't know exactly where it came on, but
it is on now. And it's not reading any where near
empty.
CDR Owen couldn't load a maneuver time of 50008, so we
went ahead and loaded 50010.
PLT Couldn't find that 8 button, huh? Doggone it!
Still looking around for that some more. I tell
you what we ought to do is draw a little square
on the panel next to 7 there and we'll call it 8.
CDR Okay.
254 l_ 01 36 PLT Okay, now. If he performs ...
254 l_ 36 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Bermuda for 7 minutes,
and we'd like to have the DAB, please. We need to
enable momentum dumps, and we'r going to set
momentum bias to zero.
PLT Okay, fine, ichard. And the DAS if yours.
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CC Roger. And, Sk lab, while that - those two EREP
passes are fresh on your mind, we had a couple of
questions that we wanted to ask; and I'll go ahead
and tell you what both of them are. And sometime
du - during this pass, you can get us an answer.
One is the comment that Jack made about the Jiggle
in the VTS caused by the DAC is the first time
that we'd heard that; and we were wondering if it
was the first time you'd noticed it and - and how
bad that was or what kind of magnitude that Jiggle
was. Second thing was, how was the pointing error
after the maneuver going into the EREP cal? Did
you have to use a contingency maneuver? Over.
4
PLT That's a negative, Dick. We didn't have to use
them - the contingencymaneuver - the pointing was
perfect. I was reading 8 up and zero eft/right,
and it was even better than the last time. So
there was no maneuver required, and that was good
work. Regarding the DAC, this is the first time
that I had noticed it, although I would not say
that it had not occurred before. Most f the time,
as you know, you're tracking over the ground, and
you wouldn't notice that Jiggle. But since the
Moon was stationary and it's a very bright object
in a black background, it's more noticeable and
it made a very good - a very slight vibration
whenever the DAC went off. It's hard to quantify
it. it's just enough to notice but not enough to
measure quantatively.
254 14 ]8 45 CC Okay, Jack; thank you very much And we apologize
about that maneuver entry that was 50008. It turns
out the team last night was reviewing that entry
just about the same time that Crip talked to Helen
on the air-to-ground and - and maybe that's how it
happened.
SPT Tha 's a reasonable explanation down there, Dick,
and all we did was get a good chuckle out of it,
anyway.
CC Roger.
PLT We're going to draw another button on that panel
there, next to 7; we're going to put 8 in the
middle of it.
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CC Okay. We'll start using that one.
PLT 0wen takes us two pictures instead of one.
CC Roger.
254 14 39 32 CDR What do - What do you want the IMC set on next
time?
CC Stand by.
254 14 40 D7 CC Skylab, Houston. The DA$ is yours.
CDR Dick, what setting do you w_nt for the IMC for the
next EREP run?
CC Roger; it's a setting of 16.0.
CDR Thank you.
254 14 43 25 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from LOS.
We're going to drop out for a couple of minutes.
'll call you at Canary.
254 14 45 58 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary and Madrid for
ll minutes.
CC PLT, Houston. When you get a chance.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Roger. Two thing for you, Jack. One is we're
going to be sending up a message to you probably
on this pass to - with some new times - new heatup
times for the M518 experiment. And essentially,
what it shows is there's a - We went back to
Marshall yesterday afternoon; and they gave us
some - a - a range of times for each of those. And
it turns out they think that probably the heatups
are going a little faster than _om - normal because
the bus voltage is a little higher than they were
when we predic - than we predicted them when we
made that SL-2 checklist. But at any rate, those
times are coming up. And for 566, which you're
going to do this morning, the range of times for
heatups is 3.3 to 4.8 hours, for your information.
Second thing that I had was - is we wanted somebody
q
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to get us some good pictures, some photographs of
the trash airlock interlock and the - the turn
buckle, and the torsion spring that's located on
the trash airlock rod between the lid lock handle
arms. e want to - and we thought that today
during this - in this no-EREP-altern te time,
there's a good bit of open housekeeping for you
since we moved that EREP tape down a little bit
later, and maybe you could do it. And if you need
the , i've got some camera information for you in
order to take the pictures if you'd like to jot
it down.
254 14 48 51 PLT Yes, go ahead, Dick.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Skylab, Houston. That squeal was so bad, I didn't
copy. Go ahead.
PLT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. We'd like to use the Nikon 03 camera with
the flash. Flash setting of range i, f/stop of
f/8, shutter speed of 1/60, and lens of 55-milli-
meter/f/1.2. Over.
PLT Okay; understand. You want some still pictures.
And understand the camera and all that. Will you
say again the specific items?
254 14 50 06 CC Okay. What we're interested in is - is the damage
that you've seen in the bending of that little rod.
Specifically want - we want the bent trash airlock
interlock turn buckle, and the torsion spring
that's located on the trash airlock rod that's -
that goes between the lid lock handle and that
interlock. And I guess if there's any other thing
that you - that you can see better than us that we
didn't ask for with - that might help us out to
fly up some new piece of equipment to fix it up
for Jerry's crew, use your own Judgment and get
pictt_es of that. Over.
PLT Okay, we'll do, Dick. Thank you.
25414 50_4 CC Great.Thankyou.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS.
Carnarvon's coming up at 15:22.
254 lh 56 18 PLT ()kay.
254 15 21 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon and Honey-
suckle for 16 minutes.
PLT ()kay,Dick.
SPT Did you call, Houston?
CC ] was just telling us - telling you, Owen, that
we're standing by here at Carnarvon and Honey-
suckle for 15 minutes.
SPT ()kay,fine.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. When we hand over to
Honeysuckle, which is going to happen in about
9 minutes, we're going to rewind the VTR to start
dumping it. So it'll be ours for a while.
SPT Okay. I don't think we have any use for it com_ug
up here.
CC Okay.
SPT We're all Just chugging away on schedule. Jack is
down below me doing TO02, and, Al's over in the
N_rk I, and I'm still on the ETC.
CC Okay. Thanks for letting us know.
CC And, Skylab, Houston; for the PLT. We did get
up that pad that changed the M518 checklist. It
isn't mandatory for Jack's run with 566 this morn-
ing, but if he'd like to stick it in there prior,
it' s in the teleprinter.
PLT Okay, Dick, thank you. I'll take a look at it
before I ...
2541524 04 CC Okay.
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SKYLABAIR-T0-GROUNDVOICE TRANSCRIPTION
254 15 35 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute and a
half from LOS. We're going to see you at MIA
at 16:09. And for ths SPT; you're going to be
set ling down at the ATM panel here shortly.
And the first thing on your agenda up there, it
says to perform a Nuz update, and ASCO advises
me that the outer gimbal - ou'll probably have
more luck with an outer gimbal of minus 1200 -
vice what's written on the pad. Over.
SPT Dick, all I got was the "use minus 1200 on the
outer gimbal." I didn't get the first part of
your transmission to me. Over.
254 15 36 32 CC Okay. I just said, Owen, that when you get up
to the ATM, the first thing on your agenda is to
perform a NuZ update, and an outer gimbal of
minus 1200 ought to work better than what's
listed on the star tracker pad. Over.
SPT Okay. Thank you. I'm Just now photographing
the southern aurora from up near the ATM panel.
That's the reaso I couldn't hear you to begin
with.
254 15 36 52 CC Roger. Is it pretty?
SPT It's interesting. It's a little fu ther away
on this pass. It's a little too early. I
think the next pass will be better, but you can
see the arc very clearly curving around - across
the various longitudes. And it's a rather bright
curving feature rather unlike any of the rest
that we've seen before.
254 15 37 16 CC Roger. It sounds nice, and I'll give you a call
at Merritt Island.
254 16 08 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS MIA and Bermuda for
1 3 minutes.
254 16 09 09 CDR Say, Dick, I was looking over my S019 pad and
sort of wondering if that was plus 0.8 that was
written on there; it didn't have a sign.
I
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CC That's affirmative, A1. It was plus.
CDR It looks like we can get handheld site number 6
here. Wetll get it right now.
254 16 09 36 CC Great.
254 16 l0 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We need the DAS to inhibit
momentum dumps. Also, we would like to verify
that you got a good NuZ update. We think you
did. And we do want to inhibit TACS, also.
CDR Oby - Owen says he did.
CC Great.
254 16 ll 15 CC Skylab, Houston. If you'll go ahead and confirm
the DAS to ours, then we'll let you inhibit TACS
and - hardware and software after we get through
commanding.
CDR Okay. How about saying that - just a second,
Owen is headed up there right now. We've got
him in midflight.
CC Okay. We're standing by. No problem. We got
lots of time.
254 16 ll &0 CDR Okay, he's standing by. He'll wait until you're
finished.
CC Okay. We'll let you know.
254 16 12 30 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours, and you can
go ahead and inhibit T CS.
SPT Okay, Dick; thank you.
CC Roger.
254 16 17 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to hand over to
Bermuda in about a minute. And when we get
there, we're going to dump the data recorder.
CDR Funny, I thought we were just over the island
of Bermuda right then.
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254 16 17 57 CC Well, you are, but MLA had got long arms, and
we're Just handing over from MLA now.
254 16 18 05 DR Okay, a couple of questions, Dick. I got a pad
up this morning about modifying a LCU for T020.
Are you going to schedule me to do that tomorrow,
because I can probably get to it today?
254 16 18 17 CC Well, we - it was on the schedule to be put on
there for tomorrow. Stand by 1.
254 16 18 22 CDR Okay, same question for that day 56 transfers.
I'll probably get to those today, too if you
were planning - We don't want to get too far
ahead here.
CC Roger, A1. Stand by on th t one, please.
254 16 21 00 CC CDR, Houston. In answer to your question on the
modification of the LSU, we were going to sche-
dule that right at the tail end of your day to-
morrow. So if you get a chance to do it today,
it's not going to mess us up too bad; we can
figure out how to fill that in. And we're a
little bit confused about the - the stowage
transfers. We originally, I think on our fore-
cast, showed those transfer for tomorrow. How-
ever, now we had not planned to schedule you for
any transfers either today or tomorrow. We did
have the SPT scheduled, I think, for day 46
transfers oday. Over.
254 16 21 36 CDR That's the ones I was thinking of. And he called
down on the intercom and said he was sch duled
for it. And I'll go ahead and get those today.
254 16 21 4h CC Okay, great. We're about a minute from LOS. We -
I'll call you at Madrid at 16:26.
254 16 27 ii CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Madrid for 7 minutes.
254 16 28 02 CC SkYlab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for 6 minutes.
254 16 28 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for about
5 minutes.
254 16 29 17 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Madrid, 5 minutes.
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SPT Okay, Dick. Our persistent image scope has
been on the blink here for a couple of days now
since we had to change those batteries. It
appears that the power switch which has three
positions, OFF - see what the second one's
called here, Just a minute - it's called ON,
and the third one is IR. In the ON position,
it really shows IR and it also does in the IR
position, and we could not get it to show the
normal persistent i_m_ge. And I, therefore,
think I ought to try to take this switch apart
and see if I can't get it straightened out
because it's not much value to us now. If you
can provide any clues or have any objection to
taking it apart, why please let me know.
254 16 30 13 CC Roger, Owen. We copied that. Then let us think
about it; we'll get bacM to you.
254 16 30 16 SPT Okay.
254 16 33 28 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS at
Madrid. I'll call you at Carnarvon at 17:00.
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Time: 254:17:00 to 254:18:33
Page i of 9 _529
SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
254 17 0O 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Carnarvon for
14 minutes.
254 17 00 34 PLT Okay, Dick We're Just up here eating our
pea soup and asparagus root.
CC Roger that. And I lied. We only got you for
8 minutes, and then we're going to drop out
a couple of minutes; and Honeysuckle then.
Also, we'd like the DAS so that we can reenable
the momentum dt_np.
254 17 O0 55 PLT Okay, you got the DAS. And I got 518 cooking
again. And I noticed something different
about that last set of three that I took
out that's different than the first set that
I put in and the set that's in there now.
I noticed all thre of them, you could shake
them a little bit and feel something rattling
around inside. Now, they are probably built
that way, but the other six aren't like that,
so I Just thought I would mention that for the
record.
254 17 01 23 CC Okay; thank you.
254 17 01 37 CDR And, Dick, I'm up here running S 1 9 now.
W put back on cassette number 5 - or f lm
canister 5, which-ever is the good word. We
haven't run it since the first of the mission.
And I'm noticing that the handle operates
very smoothly, without a lot of friction,
whereas 3 did not. Now I can't - neither can
Jack - neither of us can remember whether
that's the way it operated at the first of
the mission or not. You might Just mention
that to Carl or Wally and maybe they can -
maybe they remem er that this was a nice
smooth one and that 3 was a high-friction one.
It looks like, from looking at the bottom of
the canister, that everything's w rking well;
but it sure has a different feel than canister
3, which we've been using for the last month.
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254 17 02 23 CC Oka , AI, we'll call over there and see if
we can find somebody that fiddled wlth those
during tests_ and maybe we can help you out.
CDR Okay, because l'd sure hate to think that -
that we were free-wheeling this thing. We're
operating it correctly, in the same way as
the others, Just - Just feels awfully soft
when you go S ET into the place - the
position that you use to pick up the film,
SHUTTER, OPEN.
25h 17 02 50 CC Okay, A1 Thank you. And the DAS is yours.
CDR Okay. And that's called SLIDE RETRACTED,
where you pick up the other film.
254 17 02 58 CC Roger.
254 17 08 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about B0 seconds
from LOS. I'll give you a call at Honeysuckle
in 4 minutes.
254 17 l0 58 CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for lO - for
about a minute and a half.
254 17 ll B9 CDR Also, Dick. I wondered what the new time was
that you wanted me o turn ON the 191 POWER
switch - BUS 1 switch, inasmuchas we cancelled
EREP 22, or whatever the number is.
CC We'll check and get right back with you, A1.
CDR Okay. With - Just with that one time, I
can do the rest.
254 17 12 02 CC Okay.
254 17 12 17 CC CDE, Houston. The time is 19:_4.
CDR ... (static)
254 17 12 42 CC Skylab, Houston. We're real low elevation,
and I didn't copy your last. But the time
for the power - the EREP BUS l, Slgl POWER,
ON is 19:44.
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CDR Roger, Dick. It was on the pad, and I didn't
even see it.
254 17 13 01 CC Roger.
254 17 42 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for
16 minutes.
SPT Roger Dick.
CC And, Skylab, I've got that one note for you
here. There is a weak tropical depression
that is standing off the Texas coast Just off
Palacios, and it's causing some rain down south
of Houston, and a little bit up here, also.
An
d
you're going to pass Just about over it
at a time of 17:47, which is about 4 m_nutes
from now. Just thought you might want to
look out the window and take a look at it.
It - it does have a fairly well formed view
on the satellite photo that - that I'm looking
at here. It - It should be Just slightly
north of your - or north-west, I guess, of
your groundtrack as you pass over at 17:47.
Over.
254 17 43 47 CDR Okay. Thank you, Dick; we'll look out the
window.
CC Roger.
CDR That's a good call. It's right there right
now. Even got a little slight counterclockwise
drift to it. The wisps of clouds that are at
the periphery are sort of curved back and to
the right as they move out - out rd, s op
posed to left inward. Same thing, but Just
looking at it in a different way.
254 17 44 20 C Roger, A1. As a matter of fact, we were Just
commenting here that it - it - it looks a
little more well formed, or more classically
formed than Delia did, actually. But, actually,
it's very weak and not expected to build up
and cause a lot of problems here in Texas,
but it is causing some rain.
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254 17 44 38 CDR Yes. Well, what it looks like at closer in-
spection here, it looks like about a fifth of
Delia; just sort of a fifth of a quadrant there.
And it's sort of slightly curved. It's from
the center _nd then out. And it's like some-
body took away the other four-fifths of the
storm. And in there, there's Just scattered
cumulus clouds out in front over Palacios and
the like. There's one nice thunderstorm ap-
proaching the coast there, but most of the
cirrus that yo_ described is offshore still.
254 17 45 C7 CC Roger,
254 17 45 I0 CDR It doesn't look bed up to - t wards Houston.
It looks like you got scattered clouds up there.
254 17 45 17 CC Well, it's been a while since we've been
outdoors to see. It was raiz_ng a little bit
when we came 5o work. this morning.
SPT I presume you've got _q down-link now, Dick.
254 17 45 29 CC That's affirm, 0wen.
CDR I dor_'tt ink I'm looking at the right storm.
I'm looking at one here next to Mexico. We'll
have to wait until we get up towards Houston.
254 17 45 _2 CC Roger. I think you may be right.
CDR Yes, we're Just cossing- crossing Central
America and Mexico here.
CC Yes, I - I think you're right, 1. But you
should be getting to it in Just a couple of
minutes.
254 17 46 l0 CDR Well, in case you're interested in that other
storm, I gave you a description of it.
254 17 46 29 CDR Okay, you're right. Now we got a nice counter-
clockwise flow here. It's a very small one,
but it's right over the coast.
CC Roger. Well, that was a terrifi description,
the first time anyway. We'll Just use that for
both of them.
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CDR That's a good idea. This is the other four-
fifths, I think.
CC ...
CDR The only quadrant that's missing is towards
the western - southwestern quadrant. The
rest is there, although the diameter is - looks
to be maybe only 50 miles or so in diameter.
CC Roger.
254 17 47 17 CDR It's funny; right at the head, they all seem
to have one nice little big thunderstorm,
and the rest of it_ I guess, is hidden by the
stratus.
CDR It looks ike a spiral galaxy from up here
I 254 17 50 09 SPT Hello, Dick.
CC Go ahead.
l
i SPT Hello,Houston.
i
CC Skylab, Houston. Go ahead.
SPT There is one thing I mean to bring up with
you earlier. Apparently at the end of last
sunset, the 82 Alfa door did not close. And
the barber pole n it is white at this time.
°
And I couldnot get it to close when I put the
switch to OFF. Now I believe the wavelength
flag will cycle when I close the door, nd
I'll give that a try again here if you like.
But I presume you're running on one motor
now, and I'll either let you give it a try
or pick up on the door mal function procedure;
either way you prefer. Over.
CC Okay, (>wen. Stand by please.
254 17 51 02 CC 0wen, we'd prefer that you'd go ahead and
do the MAL. Over.
SPT O ay.
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SPT Oksy, we have enabled at the moment and ...
CC Skylab, Houston, You caught us right in the
middle of a handover. I didn't get that; say
again, please.
SPT I just wanted to check to see whether that
was a primary or secondary motor that we
were using t the present time.
CC We're on the primary, Owen.
S T Thank you.
254 17 52 42 CC Skylab, Houston, for Owen. We're looking
at the down-link of - of the X-ray, and we
see it increasing. Just thought you might be
aware of that.
SPT Okay. Th nks for pointing it out.
CC Roger.
254 17 54 37 CDR Can see all m_ EREP sites up the east coast
there.
CC Roger.
CDR The ones around Long Island.
CC Roger.
CDR Nice and clear there.
PLT Say, Dick, one of the - other thing about
EREP I need to pass on ...
CC PLT, Houston. Sorry, I didn't copy that.
Say again, please.
PLT Okay, we're fixing the speakers. Just a
minute.
PLT One EREP thing: we changed desiccants
again today. Seems like you got to change
them o_ztevery 2 or 3 days. They turn very -
very pale blue in a short time.
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CC Roger, Jack.
PLT One other thing about finding ERE? sites with
the VTS that I've had on my mind, but never
mentioned to anybody is this, in relation to
clouds. Turns out that if you've got scattered
clouds, naturally, that reduces your chances
of picking up your sites_ but it's not only
because of the clouds, it's because of the
cloud that - the shadow that the cloud makes
on the ground. So your site Just doesn't
show up near as well when it's not got as
much illumination on it. So if you've got
scattered clouds, that's almost as - as bad
as some worse cloud coverage from not only
the cloud's standpoint, but also the shadow
that the cloud makes on your site.
CC Roger, Jack.
25_ 17 57 h5 PLT And, Dick, one other thing I'd like to find
out is, how many T002-1 slghtings do we have
yet to perform to fill all the squares in
T002-1?
CC Okay, Jack. I'll find out for you. Stand by.
254 17 58 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS
Bermuda. We're going to pick you up at
Madrid at 18:04.
SPT Okay, Dick. And something to think about on
these doors: I've cycled through that twice
now. After inhibiting both motors and then
reenabling PRIMARY, the door talkback goes
barber pole _mmediately. Now, I suspect
I'd ought to try to open it rather than close
it the way the malfunction proc dure says.
When I tried to close it, it Just went white
again, the same way it was before. Whereas,
it looks likes if I tried to open it, it
might function correctly. I do have a barber
pole showing now. Over.
CC Owen, our suggestion is - is to try to - go
through it and try to close it once more. If
it still doesn't work, go ahead and do what
you suggested.
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SPT Okay. Thanks.
254 17 59 18 CC Roger.
254 18 03 50 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Madrid for 7 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick. And the 82 door s open now,
and I went through the procedure again -
through the two blocks; and when I got to
block 3 in the malfunction procedures, I
issued the CLOSE on th second time through.
And the door flag Just went white again.
So on our third time through, when I got to
block 3, I issu d the door OPEN instead, and
the door opened on up and it appears to be
normal right now. I've got a READY light
and the proper flag.
CC Roger, Owen. We're not sure we Lmderstand
that right away, but looks like _Te're in good
shape for now.
SPT Okay. Add one more in the same group, that's
me.
254 18 04 38 CC Roger, that. And for Jack, after you do the
T002-1 today, you'll be all through with
that - with the dash l's, which I'm sure is
good news to you. For information, you have
five more dash 2's to do. Over.
CC Sky!ab_ Houston. I got two notes here on -
that have - have to do with operations on
that ATM coi1sole. First is for Owen, we'd
recommend that you on't change the ATM point-
ing between your observations at the end of
the - thiz dayJight cycle and the - and those
beginning with A-l, at the start of the 18:50
Zulu cycle. Since they should remain the
ame, might save A1 a little time. And the
second thing is, is that there's a NU z update
isted in the schedule pad at the start of
the 18:50 cycle that we do not want to do.
We're going to delay that about a rev. I'll
be getting up - getting back up to you later
with a new NuZ time. And the reason for the
delay is the cancellation of that EREP pass i
the middle.
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CDR Understand. I'ii Just mark it out on our
ATM schedule. And since we're Sun centered
both times, so I think we can get back to the
same point without any problems.
CC Roger.
254 18 08 41 SPT Hello, Houston. Are you still with us?
CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.
SPT Okay, I Just terminated the 52 continuous as
per ATM schedule. Took a quick look at it
i hereandgot a verynicelooptransient
i _mder_ay out on the west limb. It's now out
to about, oh, I would say 2-1/2 solar radii,
and it's got a very nice loop structure.
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you.
254 18 09 36 CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS. Honeysuckle
comes up at 18:50.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
254 18 50 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're Honeysuckle for a minute
and a half.
CC And, Skylab, I've got one note for the CDR. I
realize it's right at sunrise for you, but this
is a short pass. Based on Owen's report of that
transient for this daylight cycle, we'd like for
you to perform three S052 EXTENDED STANDARD modes
during this cycle. This will prevent further
observations of that transient. Do not repoint
for these observations.
CDH Understand.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS at Honeysuckle. We'll see you at Goldstone
at 19: 18.
254 18 52!l0 PLT Okay, Dick, I Just gave them another T002-1, as
requested in the no EREP Flight Plan.
254 19 18 h CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for ll min-
utes.
CDR Okay, Dick, and we're running along in the
EXTENDED STANDARD.
CC Okay, A1. I had a couple of notes I wanted to
get up to you. First of all, at sunrise at - on
your next daylight cycle, we'd like to get a
NuZ update. That time is about 22:03. You might
want to jot that down on your ATM schedule pad.
And lso for you, as a response on the SO19 film
canisters, we've talked to several different
sources; there was nothing in tests, and on the
bench that made us think that those two canisters
were going to be different. And as long as -
essentially, we think that - as long as the f_]m
hatch was open when you were trying to do that
during the operation, that probably there's
nothing wrong with the two. Over.
254 19 19 5h CDR Yes, the hatch was open.
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CC Okay. I guess, at this point, there's not much
els
e
that we can check. But we really don't think
anything's wrong with it. Over.
CDR Sounds good. I was trying to see if we were going
t be on the ATM next daylight pass. I guess we're
on the ATM day - daylight, pass after next.
CC Roger. I - that' s affirm. Stand by 1.
CDR We can always bri g it up. I don't - Tell _e the
time again, and we'll see what time we maneuver.
We cam alw
a
ys bring it up and get back. Z-LV
maneuver's 20: 29.
252 19 20 59 CC Roger, A1. That was my mistake. I'd written
down the wrong time, and I associated it with the
ATM pads. The time that we want the Nuz update
is 20:22. Over. And that is right at a sunrise
period, 20: 22.
CDR Okay.
CC O ay, real fine.
254 19 21 41 CDR Just got a question to think about. I notice,
when looking over this procedure for modifying
the umbilical number 013, that we're deservicing
both PCUs. Then what are we going to do with
those two PCUs?
254 19 22 01 CC Stand by 1.
CDR And another question, while you're working that
one. We had a fitting on TEST PORT 6 in the CSM,
panel 352, for purposes of dumping some of the
water out of the waste ta k into our tanks down
in OWS. Now - I think that fulfilled its need.
So a few minutes ago, I took t_at out and put
the plug back in that was in there for launch
and rendezvous. I'm wondering what I should do
with that fitting. Is that a throwaway item or
should it be returned to the OWS water kit?
C Okay, A1, we'll get the answer back to you on
that one, also.
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254 19 23 37 CDR By the way, the door is still acting the same
way. The only way we can get it to operate is
to disable both motors and then enable the
primary motor. And then the act of enabling the
primary motor somehow resets the logic, it looks
to us like. And wherever the door happens to be
at that time, either opened or closed - I have
a feeling it s either one or the other, although
it doesn't indicate it - then the talkback
_mmedi tely goes barber pole or gray. It doesn't
wait like it's cycling there. It acts like
it's already there. It's just waiting for s me
sort of logic to allow it to say so.
CC Roger. CDR. Let us talk about that one a second.
CDR Okay, so we're still on primary motor. I suspect
that this night we'll get a white, and then to
get it open again next time, we'll have to
disable them both, even though secondary's dis-
abled, and then enable the primary.
CC Roger.
CDR And I'm giving S056 three 15-minute exposures
on frames - or - correction - filters 3, 4, and 5.
CC Roger, AI.
254 19 27 46 CC CDR, Houston. After this daylight cycle, if
you'll leave the door as it is, we think that
while you're running your EREP - and we'll
have a good bit of time with you not on the ATM
panel - we're probably going to do some trouble-
shooting by coEm_nd. Over.
CDR Good idea.
CC Okay.
254 19 29 23 C Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds from
an LOS. We're going to drop out for a minute,
and I'll call you at Bermuda.
254 19 30 46 CC Skylab, Houston. We got ou back at Bermuda
for 5 minutes.
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CC Sky ab, Houston. We've still got about
3-1/2 minutes here at Bermuda. I've got a note
here on the - the NRL persistence scope for 0wen
and also a note for Jack.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, first of all, on - on your request to take
apart the scope. We brought one over here from
the trainer and we did - and I took it - the switch
apart. But it turns out that the IR ligh- lamp
was removed from that little scope and when - it
was being prepared to fly, so we don't think what
you're seeing when you go to the ON and IR posi-
tions is any kind of an IR thing. What we think
possibly might happen, you might clear us up on
this, is that the - if the batteries are _y down,
you might be seeing Just a green phosphor but
seeing no e_bancement. So one thing that - before
you take it apart, you might replace the batteries
and try it again. If you've already done that, or
if after you replace the batteries you don't have
any change, we don't see anything to be harmed by
taking it apart. I did take this one apart, 0wen,
and there were several little screws, little
washers; and once I got into the switch itself,
it was - the switch was kind of sealed, so you
By end u finding something floating around in
there, perhaps causing a short. But we don't see
anything to be harmed by going a ead and trouble-
shooting it. Over.
254 19 33 57 SPT Okay, we'll try that. Now it used to be, before
we replaced the batteries the first time, we could
see a different sort of image between the ON and
the IR position. And so that led me to believe
that there was some IR response that was at least
different from the visible persiste t _m_ge response.
And now, we get exactly the same sort of an image.
It looks, in away, like a TV raster in which the
vertical sync is slipping. You can see sort of
horizontal lines moving up and down a bit. And it
Just does not 10ok like the good persistent image
should, so we will replace the batteriesagain and
then if that doesn't work, I'ii probably look at
it inside.
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254 19 34 48 PLT And what did you have for me, Dick?
254 19 34 50 CC Roger, PLT. Just a second. And, Owen, one other
thing. The rewiring that was done in that, Just
for your infoi_mation, should have resulted in the
ON and the IR positions doing exactly the same
thing.
SPT Well, I can guarantee it didn't look .that way, and
for the first 6 weeks of operation, we had a dif-
ferent display between ON and IR.
CC Okay. We're about _5 seconds from LOS. Madrid
is coming up at 19:41, and we're going to dump
the data recorder there. The note that I had for
Jack, we were wondering if you might have time
today, Jack, for purposes of calib ation of TM
data with your onboard readouts on M518. We'd
like for you, sometime, to cycle the cartridge
temperature switch through all four positions and
retu n it to HOT-1 and log the results of that
either on the voice tape or send it down to us
real time.
PLT Okay. You want that with the time hack, right?
CC I'm sorry, the squeal - I didn't h_ar that, Jack.
PLT R ger. You want it with the time hack?
CC That 's affirmative.
254 19 36 04 SPT One other word for the ATM room, Dick. A1 and I
took a look at the WLC display Just before starting
the extended standard at the beginning of this
orbit, and the top of the loop was already off our
visible scope, although we believe we can see the
two extens ons of that loop where it comes back
and inters cts the occulting disk. And so it's
moving out more rapidly than most that we've seen.
Must have been a couple solar radii, a couple -
yes, a couple of solar radii for half hour or
something like that.
CC Roger, Owen. Thank you.
254 19 41 21 CC Skyla , Houston. AOS Madrid for 8-1 /2 minutes.
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CC And, Skylab, we're dumping the data tape recorder
here at Madrid.
254 19 46 08 CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR. In answer to your
question about the PCUs; the messages - the message
them. And as far as fu - future use, we are going
to use the PCUs on the upcoming EVA, but it should
not require reservicing, as long as we do conduct
that EVA as we now plan. Over.
CDR Well, I don't understand - I'm still trying to
puzzle out why we're deservicing both of them.
CC Roger, A1. We're deservicing them so that they
won't freeze during the EVA. Over.
CDR I don't get it. Those are the two we wear, aren't
they?
CDR We're not planning to use water cooling on the EVA?
Is that the game?
CC Well, what we're talking about, A1, is where - and
we're working up procedures to do a gas-cooled EVA
rather than using the water loops. And, if, in
fact, that turns out to be the way we do the EVA,
we won't have to reservice them.
CC We're - and Phil reminds me we still have a good
bit of evaluation and stuff to do here before we
commit to that, so obviously we haven't made that
decision, and that's the reason we can't tell you
right now whether or not the PCU's got to be re-
serviced or not. In event we do it as planned,
we'll be all set, and we won't have to touch them
again.
CDR Okay, then we'll get out a couple of new LSUs, is
that the name of the game?
CC Stand by, A1.
254 19 48 13 PLT Say, Dick, I just made some readings n our friend,
518. These were 3 minutes ago, and COLD-1 or -
COLD-1 and COLD-2 are both reading 99 degrees, and
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the HOT-I and HOT-2 both reading 84 - 3 degrees,
and according to my calculations, with your latest
update as o this morning, this kind of specimen
puts the SOA_ period well ahead of the time that
they hould of, and they're not up to the temper-
ature that they should be.
CC Roger, PLT. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're getting close to LOS at
Ma rid. Canary's going to come up at 18:42 And,
A1, I'll get you an answer on the LSUs when we
get down there.
CC I'm sorry, the - I gave you wrong there. The
Honeysuckle pass is coming up at 20:26.
CDR Okay. We got 191 on, on time, so it's .
254 19 50 18 CC Okay, A1.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
254 20 27 34 CC Skylab, Housto ; A0S Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
CDR Couple of items, Dick. tarte to work on vent-
ing those hoses down, or one hose down and two
PCUs. 310 houses LSU number 9. So that's the
one we're venting down now instead of 13, which
must be in the other sphere. And that's one.
Two, I noticed that there's not a heck of a lot
of vacuum being pulled on the depress fitting,
deservice fitting or whatever it's called, with
the water deservicing hose, as I deservice
these. So I'm Just kind of wondering in my own
mind if we're really getting all the water out
of the hose in the PCUs in a 7-minute vent.
CC Roger, CDR. While we get an an wer back to you
to start doing this commanding to troubleshoot
ATM.
CDR You've got the DAS. Oh yes, I meant to mention
that. I got the star Nu z update and closed the
shutter at 22, and then 1 got 52 running along
with 55.
CC Okay.
254 20 29 12 CC Skylab, Houston. Two things: one, the - that
waste water transfer QD that was used up in the
command module ought to go back to M151. And
secondly, I've got a couple of notes as to our
plans for LSU use during the EVA, if you have
time to list n to that about 30 seconds or
a min te.
DR Go ahead.
CC Okay. Assuming that we do a water-cooled EVA
from this point, here's what we'll have to do.
We'll have to get a new LSU from the trays above
the dome lockers and service that, and then we'll
have to reservice the two PCUs. Now we don't
think that this is what we're going to end up do-
ing. We think we probably will do a gas-cooled
EVA. In that event, what e're going to have to do
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is to get a new dry LSU to replace serial
number 9 that you're working on today; and
secondly, we're going to ave to get a second
new dry LSU to replace the wet LSU that's now
stowed in MB10. Over.
254 20 30 14 CDR Okay, understand. And I'm hoping somebody's
taking a real hard look at the ventdown time
o those PCUs. It could conceivably be that
that little fitting I'm using, the depress
fitting, Just doesn't pass as much air as the
one down on Earth. Maybe it's clogged a little
bit or something. I put a little bubble over
the top of it of liquid, spit mainly, to see
for the little bubble of spit to move down and
touch the screen, probably about 8 seconds.
254 20 30 48 CC Okay, A1. We are thinking about that one.
CDR And the distance between the bubble and the
spit at the start was about three-tenths of an
inch.
CC Roger.
CDR (Laughter) I got it wrong. The bubble and the
screen, three-tenths of an inch.
CC Roger.
254 20 31 25 PLT Say, Dick, regarding the back usage for EREP,
it turns out that we had less film in this last
magazine than we thought. And we got END OF
FILM light this morning with about 30 percent
remaining on the counter. So I had to go and
get a new magazine. I got CL4. And that's
the last one, and I hope that's he one you
wanted me to use. If not, why, let me know,
and I'll get a d fferent one.
CC Roger, Jack. That is the correct one. That's
okay.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
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PLT And I notice that 518 is in its cool-down cycle
n w, which is ahead of the numbers I got. It
apparently knows what it's doing. It's Just
that I don't have the -all the dope up here.
CC Roger, Jack.
254 20 33 02 PLT Say, Dick, maybe one of the guys down there in
the trenches could tell e the first Earth
depression angle from this altitude. Is it
20 degrees, something like that?
CC I'm sorry, Jack. I didn't copy the question.
Say again, please.
PLT I'm trying to find out the depression angle for
the horizon. I think it's around 20 degrees,
but I'm not sure.
CC That is affirm. About 20 degrees, Jack. And,
Skylab, we're going LOS, Honeysuckle, Hawaii's
coming up in about 13 minutes. I'll give you a
call there.
254 20 33 38 PLT Okay, Dick.
25h 20 46 58 CDR That's you.
CDR Okay, this is the CDR, and I think I'll Just
read you the information contained on these
dials, A, B, C, and D. 2, 60 percent, GO.
3, 86 percent, GO. 4, 71 percent GO.
5, 66 percent, GO. 6, zero, GO. Just 1 second.
254 20 47 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Hawaii for about
7-1/2 minutes. Standing by. One thing we'd
like to do while - if you haven't alresdy done
it, is to go ahead and secure that LSU deservic-
ing until after the EREP - unt_! we get our-
selves pulled together and can give you a
straight answer on that ti e.
CDR It's secured, We've emptied both PCUs. We've
don 7 minutes on both PCU's and, apparently,
then the umbilical is empty; or it should be,
according to the procedures. And we're down to
the stage where we would start taking off the
cover.
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CC Okay, A1, we'll get back with you. Understand
the deservicing is secured ow, and that puts
us in good shape --
CDR Complete.
CC Okay, great.
CDR Secured and complete. Okay. But I'm still
wondering about it. Ok y, back to 6. No, we
Just gave A6, s let's go to B. B-2 is
56 percent, and that's GO. B-3 is 77 percent,
and that's GO. B-_ is 71 percent, and that's
GO. B-5 is 7_ percent, and that's GO. B-6
is 51 percent and GO. B-7, 31 percent and GO.
B-8, 1 percent and GO; B-9, 58 percent and GO.
So those are all good. C-2 is _4 percent, GO;
C 3 is 89 percent and that's okay because we
got our little'box - diagnostic down-link unit
box in. Okay, C-_ is 71 percent; that's GO.
C-5 is 83 percent; that's GO. C-6, _6 percent;
that's GO. C-7 is 5_ percent, and that's GO.
Okey doke, those are all good. D 2, 86 percent,
and that's GO because of the down-link box.
D-3, 85 percent; that's GO for the down-link
box. D-_, 72 percent; that's GO, anomaly.
D-5, l_ percent; th t's GO. D-6, 57 per ent,
and that's GO. So everything is GO because we
got the down-link box, and that's allowing some
of them o deviate. C-7, as you notice, is
less than 80. So everything is good the e.
190 MODE, READY. 192 MODE READY and DOOR
coming OPEN. Okeydoke.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. While we got a break
here, we're looking at the momentum time - I
mean the maneuver time you got loaded; it looks
good.
CDR Thank you.
25_ 20 51 ll CDR O ay, there's the HEADY light on 192 and a MODE,
CHECK. HEATER SWITCH light is OFF; that's the
other two's are pressed in. Pre-op configura-
tion, TH, ON; READY light, on. 92, ON; READY,
OUT; CHECK; DOOR, OPEN. 91, ON; READY, on;
COOLER, ON; DOOR, OPEN. 90 is 0N; READY is out;
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STANDBY; MEDIUM; and DOOR is OPEN. We see
that it is OPEN. 93, R, STANDBY; READY, out;
93, S, OFF; READY, out. 93, A, OFF; READY, out.
And 94, ON; READY, on. So pre-ops configuration's
checked. We're standing by for 20:55:30.
254 20 52 l0 CDR Twelve into TR-1. Okay, think we can do that.
Hey, Dick, tell me again the number of that
place to put the adapter out of the CSM that I
called about. Number that went into C-6.
SPT M151?
CC That's right, A1, M151.
CDR Okay, I had it written down and forgot. I was
working on that other.
CC Okay.
DR Got it.
254 20 53 25 CDR What - what does EGIL think of the Delta-P now
on his waste tank where the water went? Does
it - did it go down in an amount that he feels
is equivalent to the amount of water in two PCUs
and one hose. One hose going both directions
on two hose lengths?
CC Al, we're going to have to get back to you on
that. And we did see a drop, and it recovered
a little bit. We're talking about that. We'll
probably - After this EREP pass, we'll probably
have ourselves pulled together, and we'll tell
you where to go from here. Over.
CDR Okay, no trouble. I think - and correct me if
I'm wrong. It looks to me like continuing on
with the procedure does not bother the hoses or
anything else. We Just start taking the cover
off, and that's pretty straightforward. Doesn't
affect anything.
CC Roger. Understand.
CDR Okay.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're about h5 seconds f om
LOS. Goldstone coming up at 20:57.
CDR Okay. We'll try to be on time.
PLT Smart guy, huh?
CDR No, nobody likes a smart guy. 20:55:30.
25h 20 55 30 CDR S to STANDBY; A to STANDBY.
25h 20 57 59 CDR How's it look out there, Jack, weatherwise?
PLT It's all cloudy right now.
CDR Okay.
SPT ...
CDR Clear when we hit the coast, huh? Good.
CDR Where we headed across? Oh, up north. Okay,
no wonder it's a short pass. Okay. Probably
get some pix of those forest fires down there.
PLT That's what I'm trying to home in on ...
PLT I'm locked on a forest fire.
CDR I'll be darned. Good. I don't start taking
data here for another 15 seconds or so.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're standing by at Goldstone.
254 20 59 01 CDR MARK. Okay, we just st rted taking a little
EREP START in a MODE MANUAL on 194.
CC Good - -
PLT I'm locked on a forest fire here, Dick. I
think I'll take you a little data on it.
CC Roger.
PLT Got two of them.
25_ 20 59 24 CDR MARK. MODE, AUTO.
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PLT Both in northern California. Very easy to
pick out.
254 20 59 30 CDR MARK. S, 0N and R, ON.
PLT Very easy to pick out these forest fires.
254 20 59 42 CDR 59:42. 190, intervalometer, 10.
CDR MARK. Int rvalometer, lO.
254 20 59 49 CDR MARK. MODE, READY.
PLT l'm taking some data of the smoke.
CDR 04.
PLT Now l'm taking ome data just upwind of the
smoke. In the trees.
CDR 114, intervalometer, 20.
254 21 00 14 CDR Intervalometer, 20.
PLT O ay, we're past that area.
254 21 00 28 CDR 92, STANDBY. 40 is AUTO CAL.
CDR Lean under, you here?
PLT Get her?
254 21 00 40 CDR _P_K. AUTO CAL.
PLT And I took you a little forest fire data there,
in northern California. Right in the smoke
line and then upwind of it, in the green trees.
Show you the difference, in case anybody's
interested. I would think they would be.
254 21 00 59 CDR Worked out 190, 01:20. Okay, standby for
READY out on 01:20.
PLT That's a - -
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CDR 90 READY, out.
254 21 01 19 CDR 19, 20. READY, out, Just as advertised.
254 21 01 26 CDR S to STANDBY. R to STANDBY. R, OFF. Beyond
it.
254 21 01 51 CDR A's ON. 190's to STANDBY. Frames 28, 28.
Intervalometer, 10. 193, X-TRACK CONTIGUOUS.
Angle, minus 15. Roll, minus 15; first time
I've seen that. And POLE, m
in
us
i.
Okay
02:36, we go 1R0 MODE, SINGLE. R minus 15.
0kay, that's what I have.
254 21 02 36 CDR MARK. MODE, SINGLE.
PLT Okay, e'll go looking for Winnipeg.
254 21 02 5 CDR MARK. MODE, SINGLE.
CDR READY, on at 03:20, it says here.
PLT 4:26 and go REFERENCE 6. I think I can do it.
Maybe.
PLT We're coming within a few miles of J_m_s _y
this time. We're really up north. You don't
realize how far north you really are.
254 21 03 20 CDR Okay, READY light, on on schedule. REFERENCE, 6
on schedule. Down-link BOX switched to posi-
tion OFF at 4. All right. We'll do that.
PLT Here's that big spot we always see out the
CDR La da dum, diddle dee dee.
CC Skylab, we're 1 minute to LOS Goldstone. We're
going to drop out for about 5. I'll call you
at Bermuda.
CDR Okay.
CDR Down-link BOX, OFF, Just a second.
254 21 04 00 CDR MARK. Down-link BOX, OFF.
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PLT There's Winnipeg. I got it. I see Winnipeg.
CDR 26 it said, huh?
PLT Well, - well, we're there now. We're at 04:21.
254 21 0L 43 CDR MARK. MODE, AUTO on 190.
254 21 09 00 CC Skylab, we're standing by at Bermuda for
7 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick. Things have gone well. I haven't
had any FILM ADVANCEMALFUNCTION lights indi-
cati g that we're out of film yet. And it's
almost time for us to stop.
SPT 27 frames on the ETC, Dick.
CC _natwas that; 27, Owen?
CDR Stand by.
SPT Affirmative.
CC Okay.
254 21 09 22 CDR MODE to STANDBY on 190.
PLT There's one.
254 21 09 24 CDR First one Just came on. Rig t on time,
number 3.
PLT MALF light on 3.
CDR 191, 09:30.
PLT Want to change out this tape this time, huh,
EREP?
254 21 09 32 CDR EREP to STOP. That's it.
PLT About how much you figure's on there?
CDR Do ta e recorder depletion. Do tape 190 mag
depletion. Do EREP tape load. D-12 into TR-1.
Will do it.
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PLT Okay, Dick. I got Winnipeg with no problem, and
I picked the uniform site east of town. It was
a dark-colored site. There were many brown
ones and many green ones or dark ones. So I
figured something was growing there, so I homed
in on it. I don't know, I think maybe they're
doing some aerosol studies, so I figured the
wind was from the west, and we'd do better by
getting the site east of town. Then I tracked
that own through about minus 15 degrees, and
then I came back and put it right over the city
for a few seconds.
254 21 l0 16 CDR And let me give you a B-7 while we're here.
B-7, 31 percent, and DOOR coming CLOSED.
Close and latch 190 window. Going off record.
254 21 l0 4_ PLT Give you a little data on Lake Superior after
it was all sai'd and done there, Dick.
CC Okay.
254 21 ll 0B CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. We'll pick
you up at Canary at 21:18.
PLT Okay. I'll tell you about it later.
CC Roger.
254 21 ll 23 CC Roger. Sorry about that, gu_s. I've still
got you here at Bermuda for about 5 minutes.
254 21 ll 28 PLT Okay. As I was saying, in looking out the win-
dow in going over Lake Michigan, today, I
noticed something that I didn't notice through
the eyepiece Maybe it was the Sun angle or
something. But it looked to me like I could
see sediment stre_m.q and so fort
h
in Lake Mich-
igan, something I di n't recognize was there.
Maybe the sun angle is Just right, but I wasn't
able to get a picture of it, either. But maybe
if we look for it again, we will. But I don't
know what's going on in the lakes down there,
but I hadn't recognized that as being a charac-
teristic of that lake and Just thought, perhaps,
somebody might be able to make something out of
that. Looks like some deep blue holes and then
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some sediments around the edges of them in vari-
ous places all up and down the lake fro the
south to north. Ah, heck, we're over open
water, now. There's nothing to look at.
254 21 15 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. The
next station that we've got is Honeysuckle at
22:03. We're going to dump the data recorder
at H neysuckle. And we would like for you to
stand by right where you are on that T020 LSU
special proc dure. Over.
254 21 15 40 CDR Okay. We'll go into hold on it right now.
254 21 15 42 CC Okay, A1. We'd appreciate that. We've - The
reason we aren't having this next Canary pass,
is we - it's been scheduled for another satel-
lite support, and we'll see you at Honeysuckle.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOZCE TRANSCRIPTION
254 22 03 25 CC Good afternoon, Skyla . This is Houston; AOS
through Honeysuckle for 7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Hello, Crip.
CC Howdy, howdy. And we'll be doing a data voice
recorder dump here. You guys, apparently, had a
good EREP day.
CDR Well, we didn't have any 191 sites, but we got
in a couple of passes.
CC Roger that. Understand I was trying to have you
put an eight in the DAS last ni ht.
CDR Well, 0wen claims you can use two fingers. Jack
wants to draw an eight on the panel here so he
can punch it just for fun.
CC Might try that.
CDR You ought to five us one once in awhile; we give
you about 15 a day.
CC Roger. I tell you, pads for three EREP passes
are kind of overwhe]m_ng.
CDR I bet they are.
CDR Working together they seem to come out okay,
though, don't they?
CC Roger that.
254 22 04 45 CC Say, A1, I wonder if you'd verify for us on
panel 216 that we've got that VENT VALVE in OFF?
CDR I sure will. Give me 316 and I'll check.
SPT Hello, Robert.
CC Howdy, howdy.
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SPT I'm going to try to get that feedback out of the
way. That completes the fourth sequence of auroral
photographs down in the southern auroral zone.
The activity on the Sun has really sparked up the
activity down south here; probably, up north, al o.
We were just up there at the right time of the
day to see it, or the right time of the night to
s e it. And some really very pretty dis lays
that, I think, I've got on film now.
CC Very good. I'm sure the Packers will be glad to
hear that.
54 22 05 B9 SPT One other rather interesting thing about it. The
color is important because of the molecules gen-
erating the light. And the arcs tend to be of a
reddish hue toward the lower portion of the arc
in the yellow, and then a greenish hue in the
higher altitudes of the arc. So that was - has
been observed now on two or three of the passes.
And it seems to be, at least, a general charac-
teristic of the aurora t day.
CC Very good. We copy that.
254 22 06 09 CDR I checked it. And it was CLOSED.
CC Roger. Understand. It was in the OFF position.
CDR Yes, I think it says V NT and CLOSED or something
like that.
CC No, no. We're talking about the one that's - says
PRIMARY, OFF, SECONDARY.
CC Right at - -
CDR I never touched that valve at all.
CC Okay. It is in the OFF position now. Is that
affirm?
254 22 16 41 CDR That's affirm. According to the procedures as I
remember them, it didn't tell us to use that valve
at all. I ga - I assume the water was going into
the holding tank.
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CC That's affirm. It should be in the OFF position.
CDR That's where it is.
CDR Are you - You're wondering why it's built up a
little bit, huh? So am I.
CC No. We were still debating to understand why
we're holding a good DELTA-P on the condensate
to verify that we actually know where the -
where the leak is. What did you say was in the
CLOSED posi ion awhile ago?
CDR Oh, on 316, wh n I dumped the - emptied the hose,
you know, on the two PCUs to get ready to strip
doe that one hose. That's where you went the
water through and air, and it goes into the
holding tank. And I came up and looked at this
tank to see how it was doing as I was venting,
and I noticed it was - actually went down below
4 psi. It's back up higher now. I assume that the
:holdingtank suckedit back up a littlebit.
CC Roger that. Okay. That's good.
254 22 08 13 CC And, A1, for your information and for everybody's
informs ti n on the ATM panel, now, we - while
you were doing that last EREP pass, we w nt
through the malf on the 82A door, and we're now
operating with both primary and secondary motors
on. We could not get it to close on a single
motor - motor, either the pr_m_y or the secondary.
25_ 22 08 35 CDR Okay.
254 22 l0 02 CDR I was looking at my schedule pad for ATM, an I
noticed that at 24, I think it is, you had me do
active region 9. Active region 9 - I gather_
you Just want me to go to the limb and find the
brightest UV area and call tha active region 9?
Because I suspect it's around the limb at the
moment.
CC Try to get you an answer on that A1, before we
go LOS. We're about 30 seconds, now, from LOS;
Hawaii at 22:24, 22:24. And that's - -
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254 22 I0 32 CDR Okay.
254 22 l0 33 CC And that's affir ative. Go over there and get
the brightest spot you can find.
254 22 23 15 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Hawaii, 9 minutes.
254 22 25 ll PLT Say, Bob, I've got some rate gyro temperatures
for you, housekeeping something or other, if
you want to copy.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Okay. X-5 was 92.5. X-6, 91.3. Yankee 5 was
91.1, and 6 was 89.3. Zulu 5 was 92.4, and 6
was 8 - 89.2.
CC Okay. e copy those, Jack. hank you.
PLT You bet.
CC A1, I know you're busy there at the ATM panel.
When you get a moment, we've got a little idea
that might help us check out that problem with
deservicing the water in the LSU.
CDR Okay, I've got a few moments here. We're in the
MIRROR, AUTO RASTER, and it's only on minus 5_.
Go ahead.
CC Okay. What we'd like you to do is to replace the
water deservicing adapter with the wardroom purge
fitt ng on that water servicing umbilical. And
then go ahead and open up the - VACUUM SOURCE on
316 to see if you can get flow there.
CDR Excellent idea. You want all the umbilicals and
everything hooked up Just as it was before except
replace that one fitting?
CC That's affirm. There's a check valve in there
that might be hanging up.
CDR Okay. Sure possible. Will do.
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254 22 27 15 CC And, A1, one other idea. If that one does not
work, you can disconnect the water servicing
umbilical from the LSU and try to find something
where you can depress the inlet fitting on the
blue end of the LSU, and see if you can get flow
like that.
254 22 27 33 CDR Okay. Have hem check to make sure that there's
no little rubber washer. I id that one time
when we were troubleshooting our condensate
system and got a little rubber washer in trouble.
So I had - I had to disassemble a val.ve and put
it back together. So you might want to check
that.
254 22 28 17 CC A1, it doesn't really make any difference on that
one since we're not going to - be using that any
more.
CDR Okay.
254 22 31 40 CC Skvlab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. See
you again in about 4 minutes over Goldstone
at 22:35. And your Flight Plan's on board,
CDR Okay. We're Just looking at them. Thank you,
Bob.
254 22 35 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Goldstone
6 minutes.
254 22 40 30 CC Skylab, Houston; LOS in 1 minute. We'll see you
again over Bermuda at 22:46. That's about 5 min-
utes away.
254 22 45 52 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Bermuda for
l0 minutes .
CDR Okay.
254 22 46 47 SPT Hello, Bob. I reinstalled tat persistent image
scope. Was Just a change of batteries and a
cleaning of the contacts. These cleaned contacts
did improve the noiselike appearance that the
scope had earlier in the day and for the last
couple of days. But, still, the image is dif-
ferent than it was before. The focus is all
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right because you can focus on the electronic
cross-hairs sharply. But for some reason, when
you release the INTEGRATE switch on, for example,
the XUV MON, the image doesn't Just pop out at
you like it has done in the first 6 weeks. And
it's also not possible to see a good image of
anything very bright like the - an H-alph display.
It's as if the phosphor might have changed the
character or something like that. And I'm at a
loss to explain how it might have happened Just
all of a sudden a couple of days ago. ny of
your folks have any clues as to what ight provoke
those sorts of symtoms, we_d appreciate hearing
about it.
CC O ay, (>wen. Understand that c eaning the contacts
did help it, but it's still not the same status
it was or ginally.
SPT It eliminated that problem of noise appearing on
the scope more or less like bright horizontal lines
appe ring. That was, apparently, Just the battery
contact before. Byt the problem with the lack of
sharp image and the fact that it didn't pop right
out when you releae the INTEGRATE switch, but was
instead, a little more fuzzy and slow to generate,
it did not change that character at all. And
that's the one that's quite different from what
it was in the fir t 6 weeks.
CC Okay, we copy that. We'll see if we can get some-
body on it.
254 22 48 37 SPT Bob, AI was Just noticing that when we get the
image too bright; for example, when we turn the
brightness up, then those horizontal bright lines
still appear. So it's as if - still relates to
the fact that its response to a bright imag or
to any image, for that matter, seems to be quite
different than it was before.
CC Okay; we copy that.
254 22 55 01 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll
see you again at Ascension in about 7 minutes
at 23:02, 23:02.
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CDR Say, Bob, I Just connect d up the wardroom depress
fitting, and it turns out that puts pretty good
suction on the line. So, apparently, it did dump
it out, even though it did it very slowly.
254 22 55 34 CC Well, it could have been that the other line was
clogging up and not flowing. Did you allow it
to flow for a pretty good period of time with the
wardroom purge on?
254 22 55 _2 CDR No, if you'd giv me a time, I would do it. I
Just want to run down our holding tank. Just
give me a time, and I'll let it run that length
of time,
CDR We used 7 minutes on the small one, but I was
afraid to leave it for 7 minutes on this o e.
The ordinate area looks to be about - in area,
about four times as great.
CC Let me give you a time over Ascension.
254 22 56 07 CDR Okay, no hurry. We got it connected out in the
wardroom. Dump it first and dump the other one
second.
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254 23 03 43 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Ascension
for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Bob.
CC And, A1, we kind of recommend about 4 minutes
flow time on that thing to make sure that
we've got the water out. If you could do it
through this site so we could watch our
condensate tank DELTA-P, we would appreciate
it.
CDR You got 4 minutes now?
CC Oh, yes, we've got pl
e
nty of time here now.
We've got about 8-1/2 minutes left.
CDR I'll give you 4 fast, right now.
CC Roger.
254 23 01_ 50 CDR Dump is in progress. Did you get that call?
C Roger, A1. Thank you. We're looking at the
DELTA-P now.
C R Okay, I watched it awhile ago when I did
about a minute's worth, and I noticed that it
didn't seem to effect it much. I'l do 3
minutes worth and that'll give me a minute to
change the other one and, then I can dump the
other for 4 for you.
CC That sounds good.
CDR Ma not need _ on the other, because by then,
we'll know that this line is nic and clean.
CC Okay.
254 23 09 12 CDR Okay, I dumped the first one 3 minutes and
20 seconds, because I dumped it about a minute
earlier. And I'm now in the process of dump-
ing the second one.
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CC We copy, A1.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS. And A1, you can go ahead and terminate
that - that dump right now. We're convinced
that the lines are cleaned out. You've got a
GO to continue on with that LSU rood.
CDR Okay. And I Just finished this 3-m nute
20-second dump on number 2.
254 23 12 38 CC Okay, that's fine. It looks good to us right
now. Our next pass is at 23:35 over Carnarvon.
That's about 23 minutes away, and we'll be
standing by for the evening status report there.
254 23 38 Oh CC
Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Carnarvon 7 minutes,
standing by for evening status.
CDR Okay. Here it comes. Urine: 174; 145; 182.
Drinking water: 6002; 9871; 6487. BMMD: 6.240,
6.239, 6.240; 5.939, 5.942, 5.940; 6.967,
6.968, 6.969. Exercise: 2/36/544 . That
includes the 171 run I'm going to make later
tonight. 1/05/0500, 3/15/Mark I, 3/10/Mark II,
3/05/Mark III. SPT: 2/30/5200, 2/30/Mark I,
60, A; 60, B; 60, D. PLT: 1/05/0621, 2/35/8674,
3/20/Mark I, 50, A; 20, B; 20, D; and 20 back-
bends. No medication. Sleep: 7/G, 7/G, 6-1/2/G.
Food log: CDR, one salt, and add one lemonnade.
SPT, no salt. Jam was missing from prepracked
(laughter) - Jam was massing from prepacked
food, and he couldn't find any in overage, so
he Just had to skip it. Add butter cookies,
bread, peanut butter, and grape drink for the
SPT. PLT, three salts, add one pear, two salt
pills, one tea with lemon and sugar, and one
lemon drop. Okay. Here comes the photo:
M487-hE, CI58, 60, CI53; VTS, track 26A, CL03,
00; VTS, track 31A, CL04, 90. 35-millimeter:
CII03, 45; CX32, 23. 70-millimeter: CX26, 124.
ETC: CT08, 054, a total of three operations.
EREP, U, 8797,0990, 8515, 7896,9666, 8568.
Drawer A: A-l, 07, CI58, 60, CI53. And no
change in the rest. Okay. Flight Plan
deviations: nothing new there, everything went
well. Shopping list accomplishments: four sets
of - No, four sets of auroral photos by the SPT.
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We should have been outtin_ those down all
along, because he's been getting those sorts
of photos every day, by a bunch. Inoperable
equipment is the PLT's portable timer. It's
setting on free wheels. He's going to take a
little more information on it. Unscheduled
stowage item location change: two full urine
sample bag racks from D-426 to the waste
management compartment. One full half sample
urine bag rack from the same place. Four
peanut butters from 598 or 4 - excuse me, 5h8
to the wardroom. That's it.
254 23 42 47 CC Okay, A1; we copy that. Got a couple of
questions here I'd like - like to ask you
about. One of them I was trying to ask last
night Just as we were going over the hill,
a
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the shoes with the -triangle shoes, th t is.
We wondered if you did it, mud if so, was it
sat is factory?
254 23 43 16 CDR We did it to the wardroom one, and it's
satisfactory; doesn't look too grand, but
it seems to do the Job. And we have not
done it to any other items, Just because
we're Just not doing it. That's all. We
• could do it.
CC Well, okay, we're Just trying find - You did
it to - to all three sets in the wardroom;
is that correct?
CDR No, no. Jack didn't want his done. So he
didn't do it. Let me look at Owen's. 0wen
oesn't use his, period, so his is - Just mine.
Apparently, Jack Just did ine. He - He put
them in and I Just asked the guys if the
wanted them or not.
CC Okay. Very good. We copy that. Got a few
questions on the stabilized binocs. You've
mentioned about them getting out of focus. Is
it the individual eyepiece diopter focusing
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ring that gets out of focus, or is it the
distance focus knob?
CDR Individual diopters. Every time you put
them on, you have a new diopter setting. And
for a while, and you pick them up again, and
put them up to your eyes, then you'v got to
reset them. The big problem is, to set them,
you've got to get them stabilized and get a
good target, which Just isn't dirt, but
something like a city, or a beach or something.
By the time you get them focused, whatever
you were going to look at is gone. So we
don't use them that mu h because of this
focusing problem.
254 2B 44 39 CC Okay. I guess the one item I had here - I
do 't know if it'll really help or not - It says
that the 20-power setting, the focus ring
should be moved to infinity, and after that
they really should hold a focus. If you - If
you haven't tried it like that, you might
give that a try.
CDR Well now, the focus ring - Is that that little
rou d black knob there that you turn counter-
clockwise or clockwise to adjust the focus?
CC A1, I'm not really positive about that.
We'll check it. We're going to go LOS here,
shortly. And we'll see you over Guam at 23 50.
And that's about 5 minutes from now.
CDR Okay. And I think those are very useful
items, if we could Just get them where we
could keep them focused. We wouldn't mind
looking inside them if there's some way to
fix the problem.
254 23 4 37 CC Okay. We'll see if - We've got an expert
on those around.
254 23 51 00 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam, 7 minutes.
CC And for the CDR, one - one question on the
photo status. On B5-millimeter, you reported
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CII03. We think that should have been 10h.
Can you verify that for us, please?
SPT Just a minute, please, Bob. We'll check.
CC Thank you, Owen.
SPT Bob, that should have been 104 on the
CI camera. You're right. Thank you. And we
did get a couple of photos Just a moment ago
of the Arafura Sea Carpentaria Gulf area.
Actually, the northeast coast of Australia
where there's apparently a rather severe
drought. We could see a number of dust storms
blowing
a
cross the plains there,
a
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a
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a number of fires. Over.
CC Okay, copied that, Owen. Thank you very
much. One qu stion, if Jack is li tening,
there. On that M566 SOAK temp, we've noted,
as well as he did, that it was about 2_ degrees
below that expected, and we'd appreciate it
if he could give us he SOAK temp setting
currently on the - on that potentiometer.
25h 23 53 17 PLT The SOAK temp on the potentiometer is Just
llke on page 9-2 of the checklist, which is
855, Bob.
254 23 53 24 CC Copy, 855. And another general item for
everybody, we noticed during that TV inventory
that A1 gave us, that you have quite a few
of your con,, cables connected into the SIAs,
and the - and you've also complained about
having to set the vol_nes up pretty high to
hear them And we've also had that feedback
problem in some of our family comm. It so
happens that that is still putting a load on
- on the system, even when it's selected to
OFF, so it may help us out if we disconnect
as many of those as possible.
CDR We'll do it. I never would have guessed
that one, Bob.
CC Okeydoke.
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CDR We'll run disconnect them _11, right this
minute, a a matter of fact.
CDR Anoth r question. Did you notice anything
else along those lines, Bob, where maybe
we're operating a little bit different that
looks worthwhile changing.
254 23 55 09 CC I don't believe we've had a - a chance to
make up a - a real thorough survey of that.
There was a very interesting film, from the
portions of it that we've seen, though, and
we will certainly do that to see if anything
else would cause any problems. But I don't
believe we've seen anything of that nature
that - that we could say about it now.
SPT Okay, they're all disconnected.
CC Very good. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS shortly.
We'll have you again over at Texas at -
correction, over Goldstone at 00:14. Jack,
would you check your exposure with your
positio on that - that - on 19 that you're
doing right now?
CC Roger. At plus 4, you should be at 240.
PLT I Just gave them a 240 at plus 4, Bob.
254 23 58 40 CC Roger. Thank you.
255 00 14 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS across the States
for abou l minutes.
PLT Okay, Bob. On that call back there, I was
in the process of giving 82B an extra frame,
which I didn't mean to do but I had it inadver-
tently. Now, it's stepped down to plus 8.
So I let it run and give them another 240 short,
and I picked up from there, so they got one
extra frame.
CC Okay, we copy that. We didn't know exactly
what was going on. That was the reason for
the call.
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PLT I appreciate our calling but I had Just
encountered it before you mentioned it.
CC And, Skylab,. Houston. I have a comment here
that I think originally came perhaps from A1.
He was talking about the M - _U m intenance
kit, and he said something about needing some
more needles or something of that nature. And
we wondered if he knew that there was a second
layer to that kit that did have needles and
thre d in it?
CDR I saw something the other day with a bunch of
thread, but I didn't see the needles. I'll go
look again. It probably is on a second layer
down there, Bob.
CC Roger; it might help you out with things like
sewing up that bag, and so forth, that you men-
tioned.
CDR Okay, thanks.
255 00 17 52 CDR I got that umbilical about half apart, Bob. I'll
tell you, it sure puts out a lot of little beta
particles when you take it apart.
CC Copy that. Hope that doesn't cause too much of
a problem.
CDR So do I. I think probably it'll get taken up
on the screen up there in the dome because it
seems to catch things that size, but I Just kind
of been wo dering. It's a idea to modify this
so that we could look at 0 and 509. Whoever
thought of the idea came up with a good one.
CC Okay, was hoping that we'd cure some of those
dynamic problems that you've been having.
CDR Maybe it will, because I was looking at the hose
inside, and it's very, very small.
CC Say, A1, Flight Director here came up with an
idea that might help you out on that. You might
try running some of the - the neutral tape or
s me other kind of tape along that and try cutting
on that, to hold the particles.
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CDR That's not a bad idea. I'Ii give it a try.
255 00 19 30 CC Could I ask you a question about - When you
refer to neutral tape, there's some confusion
down here as to exactly what it is. Is it the
- is it the si ver or - or al_m4uium kind of
tape, or is it the cellophane tape?
255 00 19 43 CDR It's th t silver, - The reason we call it that
is that's what they c,ll it out in all the
checklists. We kind of wondered why it was
neutral. The only way we could figure it out
is somehow maybe the alpha over epsilons win
or something on it, and so they said it't
neutral. But it's nice and silver.
CC Yes, okay, well that's - the same thing was
puzzling us, but we Just wanted to m ke sure
we were all talking about the same thing.
255 00 21 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We dropped out there on a
handover to Texas. And we're back with you
for about 12 minutes.
CC Jack, I don't think we ever reported to you
today, but when you re - reseated that O-ring
on the inlet mol sieve B for PPC02, it
a
pp
a
rent-
ly solved ur telemetry problem. We appreciate
it very much, and we're probably going to be
scheduling a calibration for th t - that partic-
ular sensor a little bit later on.
PLT Okay, well, thank you for pointing it out. I
Just happened to look under there, and sure
enough that was the problem. Just have to
m
a
ke sure th y don't come out when you take th
a
t
off. They tend to be a little smaller than the
goove, and that one slipped out.
255 00 22 26 CC Yes, act - actually, you didn't do it when you
out it on. That problem's been with us since
the start of Skylab ll.
255 00 26 02 CC Jack, if you'd select WHITE LIGHT display down
there on the XUV SLIT, we'd appreciate it. Got
the mirror up against the slots right now.
PLT Okay. Thank yo u for calling that one up.
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C R Say, Bob, we're going to start the vent for 92
on the last part of the window.
CC A1, I couldn't copy th t. You said you were
going to do the vent at the last part of the
window?
CDR That's affirmative. That wsy we'll have the
ms_ximum time between eating snf still he in the
window.
CC Okay. Sounds good.
PLT Okay, Bob, instea of making the postw rk on
channel A, I'll give it to you in real time.
The ATM rev started at 23:33, came off as
advertised, got everything done, and did it llke
you wanted except for giving 82B one extra expo-
sure in there.
CC Okay; copy.
PLT S056 got behind of him a little bit. He got a
12 second, a 9 seco d and a 9 second, 3, h, 5,
in LONG 3, _, 5, L NG.
255 00 21330 CC Roger that, Jack.
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255 O0 32 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll
see you again in _0 minutes over Carnarvon at
Ol:13, Ol:13. And, for your information, if you
happen to check it, your condensate tank DELTA-P
s now at about 3.6, which is down from what it
was, of course. However, it's holding steady and
there's no problem with it. It Just went down
when we were dumping the water.
PLT Would you like us to dump the holding tank tonight,
B_?
CC Negative. Negative. We want to keep that holding
tank Just like it is.
255 00 32 55 PLT Okay.
255 Ol 12 32 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon, i0 minutes.
SPT Okay, Bob.
SPT Bob, I'm Just now setting up with A1 on the 171
run, going through the MA checks. We Just completed
the M092, and we did cut off 2 minutes early at
the 50-millimeters.
CC Copy.
CC Jack, we may have had a little bit of problem on
our last up-link on the teleprinter for the film
thread p d. If you get a moment, we'd appreciate
it if you'd check it and make sure that it looks
okay. And if you got the end-of-message part.
PLT Okay. I heard you knocking on the teleprinter.
I'll look in about 2 minutes, Bob.
255 Ol 17 32 PLT Yes, Bob. We got the whole message loud and clear
with no mi takes, no interruptions.
CC Thank you, Jack. We'll go ahead and proceed with
the rest of them then.
PLT Okeydoke.
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PLT And tell the 82B guy who's back there now, that
I won't shoot up any more of his film tonight.
CC Okay. We copy that.
PLT Just want to help him relax.
CC Skylab, Houston. We 're 1 minute from LOS. See
you again in about 5 minutes over Guam. That's
01: 26, 01: 26.
255 01 21 59 PLT Okay.
255 01 27 03 CC Sk lab, Houston. We're A0S through Guam for
9 minutes .
PLT Okay, Bob. And I've got some TV down-link sched-
uled here. Are you ready to take it?
CC We're ready for it. Standing by.
PLT Okay. I won't be able to tour you around the Sun
tonight because we're in the middle of a Sun center
program, but I can give you some white light coro-
nagraph and some XUV.
CC Okeydokey.
255 O1 28 46 CC Skylab, you might be interested to know your f_i-
lies are - have cc_e over tonight and are sitting
in the VIP room back here, looking on at what's
going on in this busy room. And one thing I can
say about Helen, she certainly travels around fast.
SPT You might tell her we sure appreciated that dinner
the other n ght, too. It was really good.
CC Roger.
PLT Now I know who really does all the work down there.
Right?
CC You're right.
PLT Did the ki s come along with them, Bob?
CC That's affirm, Jack.
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PLT Well, good. Give them all a wave for us.
CC Roger.
255 01 31 ll PLT You can tell them we had a good day up here today.
We got two EREP passes in and some medical work.
And we've all been working on the ATM today. Plus
doing a lot of other miscellaneous odd Jobs, and
eat real good, and in about an hour and a half we'll
be hitting the sack.
CC Roger. Just a - another normal day in the ife
of Skylab. Roger. You guys are al ays doing good
work.
PLT You know, the people that would r ally enjoy it up
here are the kids. Boy, they'd have a ball floating
around up here, and Just - there's Just nothing
like it. And - they'd be able to do every stunt
they ever - ever dreamed of.
CC Roger that. They've even having a ball in the VIP
room.
PLT They haven't torn the place down yet, have they?
CC It still looks somewhat intact.
P T Tell them they better have their fun now, because
when the old man gets back, he's going to sit on
them.
CC Uh oh.
P T They know he's pretty easy, though.
CC We suspected that all along.
255 01 _%h 2_ CC Jack, you guys had mentioned earlier that you were
getting short of the neutral tape, and we'd like
to find out whether that was the 3/h inch, 2 inch,
or both. We're 1 minute from LOS, now. We'll see
you again about 17 minutes over Goldstone at 01:51.
PLT Okay, we'll see you th re at 01:S1 too, Bob. And
as far as the tape goes, one of our wide rolls is
getting down, although we did find another roll
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the other day in the tool box on the upper shelf.
So the narrow tape is okay, but the wide tape has
got about one roll gone.
255 01 35 03 CC Copy that.
255 01 50 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS across the States for
about 12 minutes.
SPT Hello, Bob, you there?
CC That's affirm. We got you for - we got you for
actually 15 minutes there.
SPT Gee, that's a bit more than I can use. I was
wondering if we could delay that reed conference
at 02:17 until the next pass. I'm g ing to be
sort of busy here at 02:17. I'm not going t be
thr ugh with A1 here, I don't think. I wonder if -
What's the next AOS after that?
CC The next one is n t until _Imost 03:28, almost
03:30.
SPT Okay. Let's see. Why don't we hook up with you
for a few minutes at 02:17? And then switch over
to the reed conference? That be all right? I wanted
to - if we can get through with A1 here, I'll give
you a call first. Straight to the CAP COMM and
the the reed conference after that. That be all
right?
CC Okay, sounds okay. We'll work it that w y.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Bob.
25 01 53 01 CC 0wen, we've lost our diastolic on down-link. Are
you reading that on board?
SC ...
SPT No, as a matter of fact, it - the last cycle it
did read a number when I wasn't there. It read 5,
for example, so it's not making any sense right
now.
C Okay, copy.
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PLT Say, Bob, are you getting any TV at the moment?
Or could you set up or it?
CC Stand by, Jack.
PLT The reason I'm asking is because I'm pointing at
the - above active region 9 with H-alpha, and I
noticed a - a brightening about 100 arc seconds
off the limb. And I don't know if it's telescopic
reflections or nd - perhaps we got something going
on out there that is sort of detached from the
limb, or we Just can't see all of it. It's scme-
thing I've never seen before.
CC We're - we're setting it up now, such that we can
get it.
PLT We've been taking a whole lot of 52 data, so you
probably got some of it if it's the real thing.
255 01 56 19 CC 0keydoke.
255 01 57 13 CC Okay, Jack, we're standing by for any TV you want
to give down to us.
PLT Okay, I got MON - MON 1 hooked up right now. And -
and another thing about it is that it rolls when
the - when the Sun rolls.
255 01 58 18 PLT I'm getting a DETECTOR 3 and a DETECTOR 1 signature
on it. It's not very bright, but it's going up
around 100 in the REFERENCE position.
CC That's DETECTOR 3 that's going up 100?
PLT Yes, DETECTOR 3. Flashed over 100 every once and
a while. I gave it a little MIRROR, LINE SCAN.
PLT And a little H-alpha.
CC Okay, Jack, we're looking in real time at your
TV down-link in H-alpha right now. I'm not sure
we see exactly what you're pointing out.
PLT Okay, I got the CROSS HAIR right on it. And let
me give you a H-alpha 2, and you can see where
it is, in relation to everything else. There's
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H-alpha 2, and then I 'Ii give you H-alpha i back.
And maybe you don't have the resolution to see it,
or maybe it's Just a ghost, but I'm still picking
up sc_e signature off it. And it's right under
the CROS HAIR on H,alpha 1.
CC Okay, I'm - understand that people got a picture
I have - that are seein it. We are seeing what
you're t_Iking about.
PLT Well, what do you recomend we do with it? Do
you think 82B wants any of it?
CC We're getting ready to go sunset here. I'm afraid
we don't have the time to do anything with it.
PLT You're right.
255 02 00 56 CC Jack, we're pondering what that was. One item
we would like - we still got 6 minutes, so any time
it's convenient, we would li e to get the frame
count down.
PLT Okay, give it to you right now. H-alpha has got
5304. Old friend, Jim Milligan, has got 776, and
Tousey A has got 31. And I hope we till got some
friends in Tousey B there; he's got 172. And Bob
MacQueen has got 2199, and Vaiana and Krieger' s
got 125. Ed Reeves got all --
CC 54 cut out there on a handover, Jack.
PLT 1725, BOb.
CC Jack, you mentioned a couple of times - There's
no sweat on those two 82B photographs.
PLT I now, I Just - they'll never lose their sense
of hu or.
CC Roger.
255 02 02 14 PLT We'll never miss any data. We might get a little
hit more than they want sometimes, though.
255 02 02 19 CC That's the right attitude. Hey, one item I guess
l'd like y'all to ponder. I know the other guys
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are down there running. But, tomorrow morning,
you got an EREP fairly early, and I'm not really
sure whether you want to get an early getup call
or not. I've got an AOS from 10:46 to 10:56, and
the next time I have you is ll:21. Do you want
to call prior to ll:00, or you want to set your
timers or wh
a
t?
PLT You mean it's going to be 4 minutes early, huh?
SPT Hey, Bob. A1 Just suggested that we set the timers,
instead, down here.
CC Roger. You'll set the timers. Thank you. So we'll
give you a - first call that we'll t-Sk to you will
be at ll:21 over Guam.
SPT Okay. What time is the EREP o s?
CC About 11:25 is the first time I think CDR is
scheduled to start the VTS activities.
255 02 03 20 PLT Okay. We - We can do that easily then.
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S YLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
255 02 05 12 PLT Okay, Bob. How do the troops in the backroom like
the panel? We got her put to bed, I think.
CC Okay. We'll take a look at it.
255 02 05 32 CC Panel looks good to Us, Jack.
PLT Thank you.
CC YOU guys work so late at night, I never get a
chance to tell you the news any more. Which there
hasn't been very much of, anyhow. Which, every-
body says down here, I can't do properly, anyhow.
P T Go ahead and practice your reading a while.
CC I'll try it, I never was good at that, even back
in the first grade. I've only got a minute until
LOS, though.
CC Vanguard is going to be at 02:17, as you got noted.
That's about ll minutes from now. And we'll go
ahead and set you up to talk - to us first, and
then we'll turn you over to the doc a second. One
item of interest to you while you're going over
the hill, your African TV cenes were carried on
national television news at 5:30 this evening,
And former heavyweight champion Muhammad All wiped
out the stain of a broken Jaw and an upset loss to
Ken Norton 5-1/2 months ago by scoring a split
decision over the former Marine muscleman in a
12-round rematch, last night, to put himself right
back in the title picture.
PLT Took it easy on him, huh?
255 02 07 23 CC Mauna Loa confirms that observation you made, Jack.
And it doesn't appear to be moving, Just sitting
there.
LT Say again, Bob. I didn't get all that transmission.
255 02 07 3_ CC The observatory at Mauna Loa confirmed the obser-
vation you had above active region 9. It appears
to Just be sitting there and not moving.
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255 02 07 49 PLT Okay. What is it, they suppose? Some sort of a -
part of a loop structure, the rest not being visi-
ble? It,s probably part of a structure that's
connected to the Sun, isn't it?
255 02 07 59 CC I don't think we've got a good answer on that yet.
We'll try to get one for you. We're getting ready
to go over the hil here.
255 02 18 02 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard.
CC Skylab, we have you - total pass time is about
7 minutes. We'll go ah ad and get our conversation
out of the road as rapidly as possible, so I c n
turn you over to the physician.
MS (Singing: Happy Birthday. )
CC You guys are so sweet.
CDR We're having a big party up here. Wish you could
Join us.
CC Me, too. Thank you very much. And one item before
I - -
CDR Okay. Well, we'll hoist a few for you while we're
here.
CC Oh, how sweet it is. I don't know if you know it,
but they just brought out a big cake, so I can
share in it, too. Too bad you guys can't have any.
CDR If you put it in a csn, we can have it. (Laughter)
CC (Laughter) Roger that. I'll tell you what. This
is a much better place than where I spent my last
birthday. I was locked up over in the can in
building 7.
CDR I remember that.
CC Yes. (Laughter) Don't we all. I guess one item,
here, before I turn you back over to the doctor,
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is - to make the most of the time. I appreciate
the happy birthday and, I guess, the bit of news
I need to convey now is probably something you're
not overly glad to hear. Regarding your question
on extending the mission, they've bounced that up
to the top and back down and examined it thoroughly.
There were a lot of pros and cons, but they did
make a final decision on it today. And the deci-
sion was that _t would - was not to extend the
mission.
CDR Okay. When did they finally decide that?
CC This afternoon.
CDR Okay, thanks.
CC Okay. Sorry to convey that on a good-night call.
I'll go ahead and wish you good night now. And
thanks fo the happy birthday greetings. And I'll
turn you over to the - to Paul.
CDR You bet.
255 02 20 51 CC Good night, guys.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOIC
E
TRANS
C
RIPTION
255 ii 21 h2 CC Good morning, Skylab. Got you through Guam
for 9 minutes. Be dumping the tape recorders
here.
CDR Okay.
255 ll 26 09 PLT Good morning, Dick.
CC It's Story with you for about another hour
and a half.
PLT Okay, Story. Sorry, I thought I heard Dick's
voice, Just passing throu h the room, here.
Want the EREP guys to verify what set they
want on the FMC.
CC We'll get right with you, Jack.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CC And while I got you, for your information,
the attenuator adjustment on 192 from the
EDDU data; it looks good. And also the A-2
and C-h, from the data we get down here,
they look within tolerance. But since it is
erratic, we'd llke you to keep recording that.
PLT Ok
a
y,
w
'll keep you up to date on it. And
as I rec
a
ll,
w
hen A1 r
a
n it yest
e
rd
a
y, it
sounded like the numbers all came out okay,
though. Up here, that is.
CC Okay. And on the FMC, that's 16.0.
PLT Okay. That's where it's been, Just wanted
to make sure it was okay.
255 ll 29 21 CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Yes, Story.
CC Owen, you may not be the best one to do it,
but we do need a NuZ update prior to the Z-LV
pass and sometime after the end of the dump. So
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it looks like about 12:00 will be a good
time to g t that.
SPT Okay, I'll work it in.
SPT Are we go ng to be in contact at 12:00, Story?
CC No, we won't. We're about a minute from LOS
now. And the next station is Vanguard about
30 minutes from now. That'll be at 12:01.
SPT Why don't you give me a call at 12:01; I'll
put it in right then.
255 ll 30 18 CC Okay, we'll do it.
END OF TAPE
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
PLT Okay, space fans, this is Jack on channel A. And
the subject is EREP. This is the EREP n,_mher 24,
and we' v got things powered up here now and - -
255 12 02 08 CC Skylab, A0S over the Vanguard for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay. We have you a start, and how do you llke
it?
CC We re looking at it. And if you don't need to
voice record right here, we did not get finished -
finish out dump the last pass; if we could have -
dump the tape recorders here a couple minutes.
CDR Have at it.
CC NuZ update looks good.
255 12 03 03 CDR Okay. SHUTTER closed
CC Thank you.
255 12 03 09 CDR TACS has been enabled.
CC We're seeing it.
CDR Going to put in a maneuver time now, and you can
see how it looks t you. 7 minutes.
CDR Okay.
255 12 03 42 CC That's verified, A1.
255 12 08 53 PLT Turned on.
255 12 09 l0 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. We're through
dumping the tape recorders. We'll see you over
Canaries in 12 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story.
PLT Okay, Story.
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CC And we're readingyou loud and clear on VOX.
PLT Okay; real good. And for the world that wants
t know, Delta 6 is re ding 7 percent.
CC Copy.
SPT Okay. Let me give you some PRD readings; 374
for the PLT - Jack, 374.
255 12 09 55 PLT Sounds like a fair n11m_er.
255 12 21 26 PLT MARK° 192 DOOR is OPEN.
CDR ... here, we're getting it anyway.
PLT Yes, that's right. That's the way to look at it.
CC We're reading yoaloud and clear, Skylab. Canaries
and Madrid in 14 minutes.
255 12 21 46 PLT Okay. We're going to do the pre-operate config-
uration. T minus 3, it is coming up. Here we
are, pre-op configuration. Tape recorder POWER,
ON; READY light on; 192 POWER ON. READY light
is out; the MODEs are CHECK; the DOOR i OPEN; 191
POWER is ON; the READY light is on. The COOLER
in ON, and the door is always open on 191. 190,
the POWER is ON; READY light is out. We're in
STANDBY. And the door is open because the light's
coming through the window, and I can hear the
camera shutters _'orking.
255 12 22 23 PLT 193 RAD is OFF; the SCAT is OFF; ALTIMETER is in
STANDBY. 194 POWER is ON, the READY light is on.
Might make one comment on the checklist on the
w rmup section. Under 193, ours ays 193 RAD
POWER to STANDBY, which - I crossed out the word
RAD this morning because the pad said 193A. And
I think 193 ught to say, B pad, for which experi-
ment, and then POWER to STANDBY. Because this
Morning, it's the altimeter as opposed to the
radiometer. Okay, where are we here? We're ready
to go. Standing by for 25. Now we got to stand
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with our hands in our pockets for another min-
ute and 45. See if you can find that barber
shop down there in Seville, O. - Big A1.
CDR All right, I've got it pinpointed; I know Just
what street to look on.
PLT Is that barber still in Seville, Story?
CDR Story wouldn't know. Could ask the Crip.
CC Thanks a lot.
255 12 23 44 CDR (Laughter) Takes one to know one, they say. Okay,
Seville, we're going to make it near Seville.
We'll come Just to the right of Madrid, Just to
the left of Valencia, and Just to the right -
left of Barcelona. And then we'll be in Andorra,
over the Pyrenees, into Marseilles. We'll stay
there a little while, maybe a minute or two, and
then try to make it thro g Milan. Be a short
trip, a little quicker than Hannibal did it, but
we ain't got any elephants with us either, so
we're in good shape. We could put a couple down
in the workshop. Might be an interesting experi-
ment instead of the spider next time.
255 12 24 26 PLT If O. keeps eating all that chow, we're going to
have an elephant in the workshop.
CDR Okay, 28:47, that's one of our favorite times;
roughly 4 minutes from now.
255 12 24 38 PLT Let's look over the READY verify again; high, low,
high. CALIBRATION, 9; REFERENCE, 2; SHUTTER SPk_N_,
MEDIUM; FRAMES, 2, 3--
CDR Seville, I think that's where Columbus left from -
lived. Or did he live in - -
255 12 24 47 PLT - - INTERVAL, 10; MODE 5 - -
CDR - - maybe he did; I can't remember.
255 12 24 54 PLT Rate, 60. Auto B.
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CDR I think old Columbus left from Spain. He either
left from there or came back to there.
PLT Here we go, standing by now.
255 12 25 00 PLT MARK. EREP START. Malf light ON and OFF. TAPE
MOTION light is on.
CDR Okay. We're ... MLA ... Canaries - -
255 12 25 06 PLT 25:06, AUTO CAL.
CDR I can see the dogs down there.
255 12 25 08 PLT MARK. I'm AUTO CALing you.
CDR All right.
255 12 25 l0 PLT 193A, is coming on. 194 to MANUAL. Okay. All
that's done. Now what?
SPT Good idea. What else are w going over?
CDR Saragossa. We'll pass Saragossa.
CDR Oh, boy. 28:47. Wonder how accurate EREP is
today. Wonder how their computers work. They
don't have an HP35 down there, so they may be a
little off.
PLT You down there, 0.?
SPT Yes.
PLT Got the door open?
SPT Yes.
PLT Okay.
CDR Not talking much today.
SPT No.
CDR (Laughter) He's conserving it.
PLT That's why that's there, O.
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255 12 26 26 CDR 28:47. Two minutes, 20 seconds.
PLT Short pass. I wonder if all these count as
passes.
CDR Think that there's any chance that Z-LV - switch
is a pass. Okay. There's some nice clouds down
there. Scatter d- scattered to clear. No coas-
tal stratus at the moment.
255 12 27 18 CDR Camera on at 28:47. Okay. I think I can do that.
255 12 27 21 PLT You'll recoginze Milan by all the big spaghetti
fields around it.
CDR I know, I've been - think it's about harvest time,
isn't it?
PLT I don't know. It looked like harvest time in the
workshop last night; spaghetti with that _imhilical
all torn up.
CDR You should have seen that umbilical in the work-
shop, Houston, when we got it all apart last night.
That whole thing has three hoses, and a tether,
and then a big bag of wires.
CC I can imagine.
255 12 27 46 PLT MARK.
CC Did you get the Job done?
CDR We got it done except for - We haven't finished
taping it up. We got it apart. It sure is a lot
better_ I think it's going to make 509 and G-20
much better flying. It's very limber and shouldn't
ive much of a tether force. It'll give some.
Any - Even stri g does up here, I've noticed.
CDR And 47. Takes a long ime - -
255 12 28 13 PLT Okay. We're in REF 6. We h ve bean since 27:46.
CDR Got some good clouds. There's a little stratus
coming in.
255 12 28 18 PLT 19BA to STANDBY. 28:47, we're going t go to - -
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255 12 28 23 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
CDR Okay. We're coming up on the coast. 28 - -
255 12 30 01 CDR We're back on again. Minus l0 that's it. Let's
pull back out. And let's turn that off and that
off and go to the next one, which is 31:37, 45.
45 up and left 0.6. Okay. We got overcast skies
now.
PLT Standing by for MODE to READY.
255 12 30 33 CDR 31:37, that's a minute away.
PLT Get the tape burner going.
CDR Skies are clearin_ uP a little bit. Getting
rea y to go across the Med iterranean and then
into Marseilles.
255 12 30 47 PLT MARK. MODE READY on 192.
255 12 30 50 CDR 31:37. Coming up maybe.
255 12 30 58 PLT AUTO on 1
9
0. Okay.
33
:20 next.
255 12 31 04 CDR 31:37, about 32 seconds from now. Marseilles.
We're going to get you, Marseilles, if you're clear.
255 12 31 19 PLT We had a short interrupt on the altimeter dated
at 28:45 there, Story; and I got her back on
and running.
CDR Okay. I think we're approaching Marseilles.
eem to be ov rflying everything tod y. Okay,
that's it. Run that in. Let's see if we can
see; there's the city of Marseilles. Let's try
site - There's a nice site. It's a little bit
northeast; there's another nice site. I think
that'll be good Okay, let's track right there.
PLT Way to get them, there, A1.
CDR It's a nice field, it's green, and we'll track
it to minus l0 again. Guess they're not going
long; I keep wanting them to stop on the coast,
and they go to the middle of to
w
n, so I gu
e
ss
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that'snotbad. I zoomedoutrighton. Okay.
We're still tracking at plus 15. We're tracking
to minus 10. Everything looks good. Okay. We're
now minus i. 7, 8, 9, i0.
255 12 32 56 CDR Okay. Time is 32:56. 32:56, I think - I can't
make 33 if that one goes, 33:39 which is zero
and left 8.4.
PLT Standing by for 32:20 here, for ALTIMETER, ON - -
CDR Zero, left 8.5.
PLT STANDBY, rather.
CDR 5, 6, 7, 8. Oh. It's going to be clouds. We
ant to do this at 33:39.
255 12 33 20 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
CDR 33:39.
PLT Standing by to go to REF 2 here.
CDR We're looking for Milan, 33:39, zero, left, 8.4.
PLT 191, REF 2.
255 12 33 B9 CDR MARK. Okay we're on. Let's zoom in and see what
we see.
255 12 33 42 PLT MARK. REF 2 on 191.
CDR Okay. Now at ... here - -
PLT 190 INTERVAL to 16.
CDR - - we're having trouble seeing if we've found a
town. Scan around a little bit. We could be on
the town and not know it, i 's so hazy.
255 12 33 55 PLT MARK. INTERVAL to 16.
CDR There's an airport, so we know we're near town
somewhere.
255 12 34 01 PLT MARK. MODE, STANDBY on 192.
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CDR ... out here and take it, but it's very hazy,
and I don't know if we'll even be able to see the
pictures. I'll go near the airport. We'll take
it right on - Didn't get it. Okay, didn't get
it; talk d too long. The end of it. Okay, I've
got to do an SI maneuver at 12:35.
255 12 3h 43 PLT MARK. AUTO CAL. READY light OUT on 190 and
we'll put that in STANDBY. 36:20 next.
255 12 35 26 CC Skylab, we're 30 seconds to LOS. Your maneuver's
looking good. We'll see you over Honeysuckle in
35 minutes. We'll be dumping the tape recorders
there and that's at 13:09.
PLT Okay, Story. We'll see you there. Standing by
to shut her down.
255 13 l0 08 CC Good morning, Skylab, Houston. We got you at
Honeysuckle for 7-1/2 minutes.
SPT Good morning, Dick.
CC Good morning.
CC And, Skylab, I assume you guys are getting squared
away from having done the EREP pass you Just did.
And I've got a whole passel of notes that - to
talk to various people about t is morning, none
of which have gone up because of your preps for
the EREP. The first one that I have is the solar
update for the SPT.
SPT Go ahead there, Dick.
CC Okay. No flares were observed in the past 12
hours, 0wen. New active region 25 is no longer
visible in either H-alpha or in calcium. A promi-
nence activity continues near 10/1.0. And ctive
regions 19 and 24 continue to be the most likely
flare producers. Over.
SPT Okay. Understand. And I'ii take a look for 25
on the XUV MON when we get it cranked up and Just
see if we can still see it there.
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CC Okay, fine. The next couple of things that I
have are for a couple of corollary things that
Jack is going to be doing today.
PLT Okay, Dick. I'm listening.
CC Okay, Jack. Two things. First, on the M518 opera-
tions. Apparently that oven - or at least there's
a possibility we think, that that oven is running
about 20 degrees cooler than it should, per the
pot setting. And we want to do a little trouble-
shooting on it. So for day - today's operations
on M564, we'd like you to use a SOP temperature
of 915 instead of the 895 on the pad. And the
other thing that I had for you was we copied your
comment on T662-2 where you used filter 1.6 instead
of 1.0 due to the Moon brightness, and we think
_t'd be okay for you to do that again today. Over.
PLT Okay. In other words, you think it's okay to
select the filter that seems best at the time.
I was a little concerned about that in that I
thought maybe the PI wanted the data with a cer-
tain kind of filter, and apparently you're answer-
ing that question by saying select whatever one
is necessary. If that correct?
CC That' s affirmative, Jack. Select whichever one
you think will be best for the signtings and press
on from there.
255 13 13 06 PLT Okay. Thank you.
CC Okay. The last - I got two other things for the
CDR. The first is a question about a repor that
you gave last night, A1, on Mh87. We're a little
bit confused as to which of the M_87's were
accomplished yesterday. We had a _ Alfa and a
h Foxtrot that were scheduled, and you reported
a 4 Echo. Was that in addition - Did you get all
three of them done? Or, if not, could you square
us away on that one? Over.
SPT I did the one of the eating of the meal. I've
forgotten which Alfa numeric that is.
PLT The way that we summarized it - by saying this,
Dick. We got all three of the 48V requests for
photos. Two of them were from yesterday, a trash
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i
airlock and eating a meal, and one was from a
couple days before when w wanted to vacuum the
screen, we were Just waiting for it to get dirty.
So we got all three of those in, and two of them
we got done after the film log had gone in it,
and so they didn't get on last night's film update.
But we did get them done.
CC Okay. Good show. Thank you very much. Two more
notes and then I'll be through. You may have
already found - found this one, A1. But there was
an S183 cue card change that went up last night,
and I _ust wanted to remind you about that one
prior to the S183 ops today. And secondly, I
understand that the team that followed us last
evening requested that you disconnect any CCU's
which were connected to speaker box s, but not
being used, to remove some of the channel load-
ing. And we were wondering after you did this,
did you tel any difference in SA - SIA volumes
required on either chan- channel? And have you
had any better luck with the squeal? Over.
PLT A1 incorporated the S183 checklist update and
we haven't noticed anything different on the come
boxes as a result of unplugging the CCUs, Dick.
CC Okay. Real fine. Thanks for bearing with us
for a few minutes here. We still got about 3 min-
utes left at Honeysuckle, and I'm standing by.
255 13 15 21 PLT Okay. Thank you.
255 13 16 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Bermuda
comes up at 13:5_.
CC Skylab, if you're still with us, next site will
be Canary at l_:01. Bermuda's very low eleva-
tion. See you at Canary.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
255 14 Ol 05 CC Skylab, Houston; Canary and Madrid for 12 minutes.
SPT Okay, Richard.
255 14 03 07 CC SPT, Houston. I've got a request for you for a
change in this daylight cycle operation, from the
backroom.
SPT Go ahead, Dick.
CC Roger, Owen. They suggest on these two building
block 10's that are scheduled on there for active
region 15, instead of doing them on active
region 15, doing them - do them on the cloud-like
prominence that's located at 10/1.0. Over.
SPT Okay. I didn't see that prominence but I'll go
look for it and then change the target accordingly.
Thank y u.
CC Okay. And, SPT, Houston. If we can have the DAS,
we'll inhibit momentum dump.
SPT Okay, the DAS is yours.
CC Roger.
255 14 04 36 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
SPT Okay, it's not entirely clear what you meant there,
Dick, since there are two building block lO's sort
of spaced to give a - a 5 by l0 augmented picture.
Did they want both building block 10's done on
the one prominence, or did they want a couple of
them adjacent to each other?
CC Stand by.
CC .(>wen,the backroom says they'd li e them both done
on the prominence. Over.
SPT Thank you.
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255 14 06 06 CC nd, PLT, Houston. When you have a minute, we've
got a question, while iZ's fresh on your mind, from
the EREP officer about that last EREP pass. Over.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, at a time on the pad, I think, of about
28:h5, you reported or we heard you say that you
had a short interrupt on the altimeter, and you
got it back on. The question is, what was the
interrupt? Did - did the altimeter go to OFF and
back to ON or just ON later? Over.
255 14 06 34 PLT No, I interrupted it. I read the 29:45 as a 28:45
since it was right after 28:37, and I turned it
off. Then I recognized I'd turned it off mis-
takenly, and I turned it back on.
255 14 06 48 CC Okay, that answers it. Thank you very much.
255 14 08 32 CC PLT, Houston. Like to get back to the same subject
of the altimeter again, we're still a little bit
confused. At 28:45, when you did throw the
switch, did you throw it to STANDBY and back to ON,
or OFF and back to ON? Over.
PLT I put it to STANDBY, for s veral seconds, and then
back to ON.
255 14 08 52 CC Okay, Jack. Thank you very much.
255 14 ll 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.
Carnarvon comes up at 14:38.
CDR Boy, we're getting some fabulous handheld photos
of Germany. It's cl ar as a bell.
255 14 ll 54 CC Great!
255 14 39 0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle.
SPT Roger, Dick.
255 14 39 47 CC SPT, Houston. I've got some more suggestions for
this next daylight cycle for you on the ATM, and
you're going to need a pencil and a piece of paper
to copy them down. Over.
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SPT Just happen to have it in hand, right now. Go
ahead.
CC Okay, Owen, turns out that we see something kind
of unusual, and that is that this prominence that -
we told you about a while ago is as bright as it is
so far off the limb. And this change will provide
an opportunity to observe some of this condensations
of coronal material as they fall back towards the
surface. So what we'd like to suggest is that
inste d of the operations that are listed on your
pad for the 15:03 daylight cycle, that you accom-
plish the following: first of all, on S055, we'd
like you to perform one MIRROR AUTO ASTER and
that's for all detectors at each of he follow ng
gratings and mechanical reference: 0102, 0130,
0302, 0528, and 0868. Have you got that so far?
SPT I'm with you.
CC Okay. In S056, we'd like you to perform three
10-minute exposures at FILTERS 3, 4, and 5. And
in S082 Bravo, we'd like you to perform two tim
exposures, a WAVE SHORT for i0 minutes and a WAVE
LONG for 5 minutes. The rest of this - if you get
through with that, (>wen, and you have any spare
time in this daylight cycle, you can use it as you
see fit. Either go back to what's listed on the -
on the pad prior to making this change, or if you
see something that you think is better, do that.
Over.
SPT Okay. Tha is pretty close to what was scheduled,
anyway; at least, the suggested item. And the other
th ng that l'd like to ask is the following: The
signature in H-alpha is not very clear. There is
a bit of a prominence near active region 1519. And
that's what I wa using on the last orbit. I would
like the best coordinates they have got on the
ground, w ich I'll look at carefully to see if they
agree with the prominence I have got. It's just
to assist in the pointing, because it - that H-alpha
signature is just not very distinct.
CC Okay. Stand by l, Owen.
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SPT Of course, l've already got i00 at i radius. If
that's the best, why, I'ii get along with that.
But I thought, perhaps, they had something a little
more precise.
255 14 42 59 CC Owen, the backroom says that on that last time,
on S055, you were square on the target. So what-
ever you were using there is - is the best.
255 14 43 08 SPT Okay. Now l'll give them a little info on that
last run. I did overlap two exposures on S055
because I thought my first - first MIRROR AUTO
RASTER was not quite centered well, and so I went
up precisely 3 arc minutes. And so from what
you've told me, I assume that the last MIRROR AUTO
RASTER is the one they thought was the best point-
ing, and that's where I'll be.
CC Okay. Let me check one more time. Thank you.
CC Owen, Houston. They say that the first one - your
first pointing was better than the second. So you
ought to go back to the first one that you took.
Over.
SPT Okay. That's great. Boy, they're really watching
the telemetry down there closely, and I'm impressed
that they were able to pull that out as quickly
as they were. Sometime you can tell me how they
managed to develop - not just develop, but to scan
that picture as quickly as they did. So I have all
those coordinates, and I'll be at the first point-
ing, which was RIGHT 941 and DOWN 200, as I recall,
with a ROLL of zero, and that's where I'ii be.
CC Okay, Owen. Very good.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. If you can give us the DAS,
we'll enable momentum dump.
CDH You got it. Can we talk for a minute about this
183 a second, Dick?
CC Roger. We got the DAS, and go ahead.
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255 lh 4h 35 CDR Okay. Now it's in process right now, running a
1260-second exposure. And the thing that puzzles
me everytime I run the thing, with this being the
s cond time, is whether or not that D C is really
opening the shutter at the right time. There's
s rt of a click inside the 183 equipment, and it
sounds like, maybe, the DAC shutter's open. What
l'd like to do after his last exposure, which is
the one I'm on now, is take the DAC - Well, advance
i for 2 seconds for 24 frames per second - they'd
like to do that because that puts it away from the
_wo exposures we made - take the DAC off, look at
the front end, set up on knob 1 about a 20-second
exposure, turn it on, and look. Look right in
there at the shutter to see if the thing is really
working like it should, because t doesn't look
like it's possible to tell just from listening or
anything. So you don't really know if it's working.
That's one question. The next o e is, I noticed
the pad tells the time stars are available. I
assume, this may be wrong, that they want us to
(_it before sunrise. If that's true, then they
need to change this availability time to the
time, the little window times, where we can get in
_md still have the - still ave the full exposure.
255 14 46 02 CDR In other - In other words, for the second one,
instead of having an availabili y time of 14:35
to 15:00, which l'm sure, if y u added 15:00 to
the 12:60, you'd get past sunrise. That window
should be like 12:35 to 12:37 or whatever the size
is that allows you to do the job. Otherwise, you
r ally don't know when to knock off. Maybe you
could go after sunrise, I don't know.
CC Okay, AI. Stand by just a second, please. And,
Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours.
255 14 46 40 SPT Ckay.
255 14 47 47 CC CDR, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from LOS at
Carnarvon. We're going to drop out for just a few
seconds, and I'l call you again at Honeysuckle.
In answer to your questions, it looks like - we
thi k it's a good idea to do what you said on the
DAC. You can go ahead with that as you outlined it.
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And the second, the 15:00 that you see in the pad
is the sunrise time. And you - the exposures for
$183 should be complete prior to that time. So if
you started them at on the window opened, for
example, at 14:35, they would be complete well
ahead of that 15:00 time. Over.
CDR Okay, I thin I catch on now.
CC Other words, as I understand it, A1, there's no
pad given to you in that second time. That
available time that - the second time after
available, there, is actuall the sunrise time.
And we want to be finished with the 183 exposures
at that time. There's no pad in that number.
255 14 49 20 CC CDR, Houston. I guess I talked through the LOS
there _self. What I was saying was, in the
available time there for S183, that second time
has no pad in it. In other words, that is the
sunrise time, and you should be complete with the
exposures at that time.
CDR Okay; understand.
CC Okay, AI.
255 14 49 50 PLT And, Dick, just for info, we've got M564 cooking
and changed the soak temp box to 915, as you
suggested this morning.
CC Okay, PLT; thank you.
255 14 52 49 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. We're
going to pick you up at MLA at 15:27. And one
reminder for Owen; since we're changing the ATM
schedule pad, I don't want you to forget that we
need a NuZ update at sunrise at about 15:03 or
so. And a suggested outer gimbal is minus ll70.
Over.
SPT That's minus llT0 at 15:03. Roger.
CC Okay.
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CDR We were look - we were looking at the longitude
on my ascending pass here for EREP 25, it's
written 897. We suspect it ought to be something
like 1135 or something like that.
255 14 53 34 CC Stand by.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
255 15 27 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S and Ber uda for
ll minutes .
SPT Okay, Dick. And Just for the ATM room there,
since I was already in RATING 0, I've subtracted
102 from all of those grating settings, and I
was doing it all in optical reference.
CC Roger, Owen. Copy.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, we Just
were too close to LOS there for me to get an
answer back on slider map, but the number on
the Flight Plan - you've probably already
figured this out - but the number on your
Flight Plan is correct. 89.7, the hooke is -
is it's for one rev earlier than y ur - it's
for the rev - rev prior to the EREP pass and
the reason that the guys set it up that way was
because the pass actually starts below the
equat r, so if you set it up actually the rev
later, you wouldn't have the track for the en-
tire pass. Over.
255 15 12916 SPT Okay, he got it.
CC Okay.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. Be advised, we're -
right now we're tracking you through M rritt
Island. We are having some equipment problems
0 at Bermuda,so we're going to hang on to - w 're
going to hold you here at Merritt Island track-
ing as long as we can. That's going to be
about another 4 minutes or so. And we may los
voice when we go over to Bermuda.
SPT Okay, understand. And we've been sort of look-
ing ahead on the ATM schedule to see when we
were going to use 82 Alpfa. And if we didn't
have an 82 Alpfa operation, we've been leaving
the door closed. We - you might want to ask
the fellows in the ATM room to think about the
possibility of el_minating 82 Alpda OPEN from
our normal - setup procedures and start putting
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it on the ATM schedule for those revs when
82 Alpfa is going to be used. We did it that
way in training and it worked fairly well, and
it might save extra cycles with the double
motor on 82A.
255 15 B0 56 CC Okay_ Owen. We'll certainly think about that.
Thanks for the input.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute to
handover to Bermuda. We think we've got the
problem fixed. We're going to ha_d over there.
If we don't have - f it doesn't work out okay,
we'll switch back to MLA.
SPT Okay, and youmight ask 82B what they think of
these 5- and 10- minute exposures, 18 arc sec-
onds off the limb. I thought that might be
about the bright - the best place for a fairly
bright prominence and those exposure lengths,
and see if they concur.
CC Roger, O_en. And also we will be dumping t e
data recorder at Bermuda.
SPT Sounds fine.
255 15 BB 40 CC Okay.
255 15 B6 27 CC SPT, Houston. In answer to your question, the
exposure lengths are okay they - we think.
However, the 15 arc seconds off the limb is
a little close. We think it ought to be about
a tenth of a solar radii or about 100 arc seconds
off the limb. And for your information, Ramey
Just reported that another brighter blob app ared
about twice as far. In other words, about 0.2 of
a solar radii above the limb. Over. So we - hav-
ing continuing activity.
SPT Okay. Sounds good. However, I think to have
pointed that far off the limb for the 82B ex-
posures - could have been quite different from
our usual procedures and if they should want
_e to point that faroff, I'd appreciate them
letting me know about it. So these exposures
were taken as I said in 18. And a 100 arc seconds
would have, of course, been far beyond what I
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could've maintained pointing with - with the
limb scan equipment on 82B. So we'll see how -
see how they come out at this point.
CC Okay, 0wen. Thank you.
255 15 37 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We're abou 1 minute from LOS.
Madr d at 15:42.
255 15 43 33 CC Skylab, Houston. Madrid for 7 minutes.
DR Roger.
CDR Say, Dick, this morning when we did the PR-1
and the stow 1 for 183, we didn't use transporter
A-2 - A-2 - c rrection A-5, because it Just
didn't work right. We had trouble threading
it this morn ng. So I _renta ad and used the
transporter that's in A-3.
CC Okay, A1, I copied that. You used the one out
of A-3 because A-5 didn't work very wel .
CDR That's right, and we haven't had a chance to
troubleshoot it yet, but essentially it Just
wasn't - it was grinding up film; it wouldn't
seem to transport it right.
CC Okay, thank you.
CDR We'll roubleshoot it and give you more infor-
mation on that later. Those two items are com-
plete, by the way, an also, the configuration
of the hose for T20 is complete.
CC Okay, thank you, A1.
255 15 46 27 CDR We used that neutral tape and it really looks
like a nice job because the ends are closed off
with this sort of silver-looking tape. and it
looks like it was almost built that way on the
ground.
CC Well, very good. Maybe you'll have a good
chance to get a Job doing that when you get
home.
CDR Funny, I was thinking that as I did it.
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CC Roger.
255 15 47 37 SPT Dick, for the ATM room. There is one particu-
larly bright streamer at about 080 Theta, Just
north of the west limb. And I don't know if
that's associated with the transient that' s
been reported or not. It - of course, it was
described, but I'm giving $052 some exposures
for the last l0 minutes of the orbit here.
CC Okay, Owen; thank you.
CC And, Owen, Houston. We'd suggest you go to
white light on S082B.
SPT Thank you.
CC Roger.
CC And, Owen, Houston. One mo e input. To save
some film, we'd like to terminate the FAST SCAN
and do one STANDARD PATROL. Over.
SPT Roger. That's what I was going to do here, give
them about two revs through the FAST SCAN and
go to STANDARD. Th
a
nk you.
CC Okay, real fine.
CC Skylab, Hous - -
SP And we - -
CC - - Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS;
Carnarvon comes up at 16:16. Go ahead.
SPT I was Just going to report, we are getting a
few RF bursts, as well; so it could be that
that's associated with the transient.
255 15 h9 37 CC Roger.
255 16 16 06 CC Skylab, Houston. Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Dick.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We wanted to pass up one
caution note to you on this upcoming maneuver.
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Turns out that the monentum dump terminate time
is just about - less than a minute before the
scheduled maneu er start time, so when you do
go to start the maneuver, make darn sure that
you've checked and the dump has already
terminated.
CDR Okay. Do we have to wait until the end of the
dump to load the time or can we load the time
in right now?
255 16 17 18 CC You can go ahea and load the time now, A1. And
we can look at it.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. We'd like the maneuver time.
255 16 20 59 PLT Say, Dick. On that transporter number 7, we
had the problem on this morning, I think there
is still some film stuck in it and it Just never
did come out and - it - ripped up in one or
two places inside. And so I'm going to have to
figure out a w_y to f sh it out and I'll do
that, and I had to pull some of it through the
frame - where - through the platen area. But
what I did was, I took the full roll off and
put it in the suggested place, or the next place
in llne. And then in order to use the next
transporter which I think is number 5. It also -
I had a full reel on it, so I took it off and
put it in the next slot. That's Just for pur-
p ses of bookkeeping. And I put the - the -
400-foot reel that we're suppose to use on
transporter 7 on the - the backup transporter.
CC Okay, Jack. Thank you. The only confusion I
have is, A1 said that the problem was the
transporter that was in A-5. Was hat correct?
PLT No It's the transporter I was supposed to
load this morning, whichever one that was.
CC Roger.
PLT Here's the straight word, Dick. Transporter
number 5 is the bad one. It's in A-2. Trans-
porter number 6 is the on that was used.
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CC Okay, check. Thank you.
255 16 2_ ll CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS
Carnarvon. We're going to drop out for a
couple of minutes. I'll call you at Ho eysuckle.
255 16 26 30 CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 4 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS
Honeysuckle; Texas comes up at 16:59.
SPT Okay, Dick. We'll be there.
255 16 29 55 CC Great.
255 16 30 53 PLT ... and I knew it.
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SKYLAB A R-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
255 16 58 51 CDR Come on, Mexico City - -
255 16 58 54 P T MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
CDR - - 50 sec nds.
PLT Now we're going to ALTI}_TER, ON, again. How
about that? 9:08.
CDR Clouds again.
PLT l'll turn those clouds off, Just minute, all
right? STAND BY.
255 16 59 08 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER_ ON; clouds, off.
CDR No.
PLT That didn't work, huh?
CDR Uh-huh.
PLT Shucks.
Ir
CC 7 y it aga n, Jack; it might work.
PLT Oh, oh, they're listening.
CDR We found the EREP s_itch is the cloud simulator.
CC Roger.
PLT There they are.
255 16 59 30 CDR They're talking to us through Mexico City.
PLT You know what they're serving at the club tonight,
Dick? Same old - -
CC Roger - roger that.
PLT - - same old things Cake and ice cream.
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CDR Okay, here's the - something.
PLT Okay, we got to tend to our knitting, no _oofing
off here.
CDR All right, 145 at 45. We're going to be there.
There's a lot of ocean down there, Jack. Getting
ready to cross the coast in about 20 seconds.
PLT I noticed th t for the last 40 days; there's a
lot of ocean down there. Everywhere you look it's
ocean and clouds.
PLT Okay, l'm standing by for a READY on.
CDR Okay, I'ii give you a mark as we cross the coast.
PLT Then we're going to REF 6, and I got it in _v hot
little hand, right here.
CDR Okay. Zoom in a bit and see if I got something
in sight. Yes, it's a nice little snug harbor
down there .... - -
PLT I ran off Alfa 2 and Charlie 4 awhile ago, space
fans.
CDR Not on the charts.
PLT It was - Alfa'2 is 4041 now, and Charlie 4 is 71.
Looks like they're doing real g od,
DR 00:35. I'm going to be in ... - -
255 7 O0 40 PLT MARK. At 39, we got a RFgiDY light on S191 and we
are in REFERENCE 6 now. Okay, now 01:57. A whole
minute and i0 seconds with nothing to do except
to pick up this little box here and examine it for
position 4.
CDR O ay, l'm looking around for Mexico City, wh ch
is - -
PLT We got two TV switches - -
CDR - - due in about 20 seconds.
PLT - - on Mexico City, huh?
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CDR Yes. Got scattered clouds. And there's Mexico
City, I think. No, doesn't look like it on second
thought.
PLT Buenas dias, a_igos.
CDR Maybe down there somewhere is a metropolitan
area. Yes. No, thereVs a big river.
SPT I can see it easily out the window here.
CDR Okay.
PLT Smart guy. Open your door.
255 17 Ol 34 CDR Okay, time's 01:34. 01:45 is whe I go D_ and
we'll - -
PLT Okay, standing by.
CDR - - hit the water. We're approaching the water.
Okay, we're gett ng sights 01:45. That's it.
255 17 Ol h6 CDR MARK. We're on. We'll zoom in. Goin_ to take
the marks right in nadir.
PLT Okay, here we go. Jackrs got an ac ion.
CDR Hurry up nadir a little bit.
255 17 O_ 58 PLT NOW, position 4 on the down-link box. Okay, I
got 02:27 to wait for.
CDR Three sites at nadir, and then we go for a
thunderstorm.
PLT Okay.
CDR The sea is drifting pretty good today.
PLT 02:27 coming up. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. Be nice
to that altimeter today.
CDR c)kay.
PLT I treated them wrong there once. stand by.
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55 17 02 28 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER is in STANDBY, the _©DE is
now in 2.
CDR Okay - -
PLT Okay, 192.
CDR I'm starting to take marks on this piece of water
down here.
255 17 02 40 PLT MARK. MODE, READY, on 192. Okay, we're going to
goAUTO here pretty quick.
CDR At least the cloud is ,.. - -
255 17 02 44 PLT MARK. MODE, AUTO, on 190.
CDR - - you can hardly see ... same piece of - -
PLT 93A.
255 17 02 51 PLT MARK. ALTI ETER, ON. Okay, now weVre standing
a ound here. Doublecheck all the things - -
CDR 3, 2, l, O. Okay, let's find another one. There's
another piece right there, taking marks on it.
PLT Okay. et me give y u a little tour.
CDR It's up a little higher.
PLT We came up over Mexico City, we're going to cross
just south of New Orleans over Mobile, Montgomery,
Atlanta, Charlotte, Roanoke, Richmond, Washington,
Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and up
over Nova Scotia. There's the tour.
255 17 03 22 CC All aboard.
CDR Okay, we're tracking it through nadir.
PLT (Laughter).
CDR Doing okay. Letts go up to the next one.
PLT Very good, very good, Dick.
CDR Okay.
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PLT Flight Director aboard this morning?
CC Yes, that's affirm.
PLT Yes. Find that ..., I bet you.
CDR ()kay,here's another one. Okay let's go for another
one. Let's give them the full treatment here.
PLT Threat them right, A1, over here.
CDR Right. Give them an e tra site or two. Now let
me - -
PLT 03:54 ... - -
CDR See when I've got to be on the next one. 04:25,
time now 03:50. We're not going to get that far - -
255 17 03 55 PLT NfJkRK. INTERVALS to 20. Okay, we're going to
CHECK here. Stand by.
255 17 04 01 PLT _'3A_RK.ODE to CHECK on 192 - -
CDR Okay, we're tracking it right thro gh; it's a
very nice spot for you.
PLT The tape burner is off. Turn off that tape burner.
CDR Okay, l'm going up to 04:45. O ay, we're going to
45 up.
PLT Go get them there, eagle eye.
CDR I don't see a y thunderstorms. We're supposed to
track one Well, we'll just have to wait and see
i£ we come across one about 04:45. If not, I'ii
just kind of keep muttering along. Okay.
PLT Give them a little soft shoe there, AI.
CDR 04:45, we're 45 up. We're left right 4; let's
get back in line. Okay? Be at 04:41, we don't
have any thunderstorms, l'm just going to let it
kind of coast along here as long as I can until
we find a thunderstorm.
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PLT How many EREP passes are we making, including this
one, Dick? I lost track.
255 17 04 55 CC Well, this one is number 25.
CDE Now we've -
255 17 05 00 PLT MARK. MODE to READY on 192.
CDR l'm going to go out ahead and look to see if we
see any thunderstorms.
PLT 190 is going back to i0 here, in a moment.
CDR Okay, now there's one over there. Lets use it, it's
a huge one. Hey that's got a nice buffer on it.
255 17 05 ii PLT MARK. INTERVAL's to i0 on 190.
CDR Okay, we're taki g thunderstorm data right now.
PLT ... in a moment.
CDR - - We'll take it as best we can.
PLT That's the way. Stay right on the ball,
CDR Okay, now, the next one I got to get at 08:24, so
I don't want to miss that one.
255 17 05 25 PLT MARK, MODE to - SHUTTER SPEED to FAST on 90.
Oops, and I'ii get the tape burner off here in a
minute. Y s, I know, Dick; I think that includes
the ones we cancelled though, so -
CC Well, we cancelled one, so this is the 24th one
that you've gotten, so far.
PLT Okay, thank you. Keep the ball rolling, this is
fun.
CDR Okay.
255 17 05 46 PLT MARK MODE to CHECK. MARK there.
CDR ... I see a big bright spot too to take. There's
a clear area right next to the thunderstorm.
PLT Okay. Stand by for ALTIMETER and RAD to STANDBY ....
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CDR There's no ample top for the recuest of the
experimenter, but that's - we just can't do any-
thin6 about that. Well, we can't hold it because
it's too far off course. Let's get one closer to
the middle, if we can find one. Let's use this
one; you can just change targets. And we're way
off to the right - -
255 17 06 ii PLT _RK. ALTIMETER STANDBY.
CDR - - that's why we can't hold this -
255 17 06 13 PLT RAD to STANDBY.
CDR But we got this one okay.
PLT Switching SCAT and RAD, ON. Okay, I can do that.
CDR 16 sides [?], 222; that's about the end of the
game.
255 17 06 22 PLT ARK. SCAT's ON and -
255 17 06 24 PLT MARK. - the RAD is ON. 06:24, INTERVALs to 20.
CDR 08:24 is what I got to worry about. We're getting
a good buffer. Good buffer.
255 17 06 35 PLT M_K K. INTERVALS to 20 on 190.
CDR Good buffer.
PLT POLAR, h, on 193.
C R Now the clear area next to it is go ng to be over
the ground, so we're just going to have to live with
that.
25 17 06 43 PLT _[RK. POLAR, 4 on 193.
CDR Okay, it's minus 10; I'll move ahead.
PLT 193A is MODE 1.
CDR Minus 10, it is; I'll move ahead to a clear area.
There's one right -
PLT Stand by.
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255 17 06 54 PLT MARK. SHUT2ER SPEED to MEDIUM.
CDR Right there. Okay.
PLT Number 4, SCAT, RAD to STANDBY.
CDR Take data. Take data right there.
255 17 07 05 PLT MARK. SCA to STANDBY; 2-second delay.
CDR ...- -
255 17 07 08 PLT _RK. RAD to STANDBY
CDR Okay, 08:24 is what Im worried about.
PLT Okay, now we're getting SCAT, OFF, and the RAD,
OFF. 07:30 - -
CDR That s it, okay. We finished that job. Let's go
out to 45 UP and 2 0 RIGHT.
CDR 45 UP, 2.0 RIGHT.
255 17 07 31 PLT MARK. INTERVALS to i0 on 190. DOWN-LINK switch
position to OFF.
CDR Okay. Now the time we want to get - -
PLT That's a no-eomm position.
DR - - is 07:37.
255 17 07 40 PL OFF.
CDR Now we want to get 08:24. We use DAC on this one,
don't we, Dick?
CC Stand by.
CDR l'm going to go that filter_ that orange filter
shows up water real good. Chesapeake Bay. 07:54
there, I want 08:24.
PLT How's the weat er?
CDR Scattered, not bad. Little hazy, but that's
okay.
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PLT Got it in the bag. He's got it in the bag. That
a boy.
CDR 45 to 08:24. 08:24 is almost here. I think that's
(_esapeake Bay down there.
PLT We've got a lot of EREP to do yet because we've
got a lot of 191 sites - -
255 17 08 20 CDR Camera's on.
PLT - - we got to get. We've got to get them all
before we quit.
CDR 08:24. That's it. I'm zooming in.
CC (',DR,ouston. I'm told to use the DAC on the
last site.
255 17 08 32 PLT C,atter, ON.
CDR Okay, I've got it running.
CC Okay.
PLT Thank you, Dick. Thank you very muc .
CDE I'm lo king for chlorophyll bloom in Chesapeake
Bay. I see nothing new, Just a kind of light - -
PLT Camera light.
255 17 08 41 PLT IV3kRK. ALTIMETER, N.
CDR - - light blue, nothing special that could give
you a clue that you had chlorophyll. There's a
ship down there. I'm looking around.
PLT Put it right down the smokestack.
CDR We're 27 degrees UP still; we still got time,
I'm looking all around.
255 17 09 01 PLT MARK. MODE to READY on 192.
CDR See no blooms. See no even discolored water
through here. Loo ing around, still data is being
taken.
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PLT Just can't quit - can't quit thinking of that
thing as a bomb site. Just like a bomb site.
CDR And looking around.
PLT 09:24, we're going SLOW.
CDR I see no chlorophyll blooms. I haven't taken any
data yet.
255 17 09 24 PLT MARK. MODE to SLOW.
CDR There's the nadir.
PLT SHUTTER SPEED, SLOW, I mean. Got my tongue wrapped
around my left molar.
CDR I think we did it. We're way past it. Didn't
take any data. Still out. We had the right place,
but no chlorophyll.
PLT Oh, it's taking data; you just didn't have the
button down.
CDR 09:42 and I need 449 and LEFT 5.7. 449.
255 17 09 46 PLT MARK. SHUTTER SPEED in MEDIUM. He was on it
there, Houston, it was just that he didn't ut
the data button down.
CDR LEFT 5.7.
CC Okay.
CDR We're going to get Block Island, too. There's
Block Island, baby, we got yo .
PLT That a boy, I knew you would do it.
CDR Z om in.
PLT See what I told you.
CDR Put on the camera - -
PLT Okay, Alfa 2 - -
CDR - - and go LOW.
PLT - - is reading 53 percent. Charlie 4 is - -
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CDR Okay, we're getting that data.
PLT - - 71 percent. There you are.
CDR I've got you, Block Island; don't go away.
PLT Good day or hunting; not 191 sites
CDR We could hit two; we could hi that site number -
PLT Get him.
CDR 630 if we want.
PLT Knock them dead.
CDR When we go through i0, we'll go back and get 630,
if we can go back that far. Got Block Island
made. l'm going to try to get 630 if we can after
this, but it's behind us.
255 17 i0 142 PLT Remember to flip your switch - -
CDR We're - I - -
PLT - - down at high rate.
CDR - - I -l've got to let this go through zero here.
We've got lots of data.
PLT Okay, l'm coming up on REF 2.
CDR Okay. It's coming out, going to center. Let's
go back down and find it. There it is. We got
it.
PLT That a boy.
CDR If we can get in on it, we got it made.
PLT Put your finger on the button. That a boy.
CDR Okay, we've got. We've got 630 - -
255 17 ii 01 PLT MARK. REF 2.
CDR - - ... that just left. We only got it a little
while though, Dick.
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CC Okay.
PLT That was it.
CDR Got you the alternate and an extra.
PLT That's the way.
CDR l'm not sure we got 5 seconds worth of 630,
though.
255 17 ii 16 PLT MARK. STANDBY on 192.
CDR Got the right place. May have ot 3 or 4 seconds
worth.
255 17 ii 21 PLT MARK. READY out on 190. That was darn close,
i second. Okay, darn close. 0nly i second off
on that 190 READY light. Change all those intervals
that's for sure.
CDR There's Cape Cod; that sure shows up pretty.
PLT Okay, 12 minutes. I wonder when we're going to
get a little action there.
CDR ... this EREP.
CDR Nobody's there.
CC I'll go up there.
PLT Deserted island.
CDR Yes. Nice and pretty today.
PLT (Laughter) Yes, there's the place to go; there
isn't anybody there. Don't pass the word, though.
CC I won't
255 17 12 00 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, STANDBY. MODE is going over to
5, right now; RANGE is 60 and 3. That's set.
Okay, 12:18; ALTIMETER's coming ON.
CDR There's Nova Scotia. We got Nova Scotia.
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PLT _DDE 5. 263 doublecheck.
CDR Now let's see if we can find Halifax. Might be
interesting.
255 17 12 19 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. Okay, we're going to get
a SINGLE on 190 now. Stand by.
255 17 12 27 PLT MARK. Single frame on 190. There's AUTO CAL.
CDR There's Halifax right there. AUTO CAL.
PLT I'm going to cal you here.
CDR Go. Go.
255 17 12 33 PLT MARK. AUTO CAL. Maneuver in 2-1/2 minutes.
CDR That's the end of the game. l'm going back to
mibs and I got to get ready for the Sl maneuver,
which is going to come off here.
CDE How do you like the maneuver time that's in there,
Dick?
255 17 13 08 CC We like it, AI. Looks good.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay. We're reading a MODE, SINGLE, on 190 here.
255 17 13 27 PLT MARK. MODE, SINGLE. We got t.
PLT W_th all this time to stand around here, my fingers
get itchy on these switches.
255 17 14 CO PLT MARK. MODE to MANUAL on 19h. We got one more
SINGLE coming u here.
PLT I notice that - in looking over my shoulder here
that 518 is in its oak cycle now, Dick. It just
got that way in the last little while. And it's
on 915 degrees which is what we're hoping for.
So we may have the secret on that.
CC Well, good. I hope so.
255 17 14 44 PLT MARK. Yes. MODE SINGLE, there we go. Yes.
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CC Guys, we're about 45 seconds from LOS. We'll pick
you up at Madrid at 17:20, and we're going to dump
the data recorder at Madrid.
PLT Okay. The cold - the cold thermal covering is a
little - -
CDR Get ready for SI.
PLT Made 82 degrees on the cold end of that M560
something or other.
CC Roger.
255 17 15 12 PLT MARK. There we are, READY light on. By golly,
look at that. Right on time. That was on 191.
Now we've got a couple more actions to do here.
Yes, on M564 t e low temperature's 82 degrees.
CC Roger, Jack. I copied that.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Dick.
255 17 15 44 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY and EREP is going to
STOP.
255 17 15 47 PLT MARK. EREP is at STOP. Coolant valve, in FLOW.
Delete 190 film advance. Okay. We can do all
that. We're going to power this thing down now,
Dick.
CC Alright . See you in Madrid.
PLT Yes, sir. And thank you very much. Give old Big
Red a swift kick n the pants th re for me, will
you?
255 17 16 l0 CC I'll do that, if he doesn't break my arm.
255 17 20 03 CC Skylab, Hosuton. Madrid for ll minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Madrid for l0 minutes.
SPT Okay, Dick. We just got everything shut down.
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CC Okay. And while you were L - LOS, we were talking
about how m ny to al EREP passes you - you'll have.
And it looks like with consumables and flight plan-
ning and everything going together, you'll probably
end up with around 40 passes or so. Maybe a little
bit more. So that says you got about 20 more to
go.
PLT Good. That's great. We're glad to hear that.
We want to use up all of the tape and the film
and do it as most efficiently as we can. And we'd
also like to pick up - pick off all these VTS
sites hat we've been working on for so long, if
we can.
255 17 22 00 CC Roger. It's a lot of fun working with you guys.
You're obviously enjoying these EREPs and I, for
one, really enjoy working them with yo . I got
one not here for A1. There's a long string of
paper that we're putting in the teleprinter that
are a series of messages that are some final -
or some checklist changes to support the entry.
I'd like to pass on a couple of comments to him.
These aren't the result of us finding mistakes in
the ones we've already sent up to you, AI. But
they primarily result from two or three things.
One is a little bit of cleanup but mainly the
incorporation of using the docked DAP for coasting
operations with some different gains in there.
And al o, we've included that the - which I th nk
is the last message in the stream, a message that's
called a study guide, which sort of leads you
thr ugh a good bit of the rationale of how the
entry's going to go - which you can peruse at your
convenience. And we'd suggest that you might take
some time this afternoon in that period of time
that's blocked off for TO20 I_U modification,
which you've already accomplished, and enter
these checklist changes in your various books.
And then when we have the entry minus 5 days
systems checks, we're going to be prepared and
have the right people here to review the whole
set of books with you on the air-to-ground, if -
if that's going to be required. Over.
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C R Okay. Sounds like a good idea. We've been thinking
about those things for the last couple of days,
and one of us - just a second, I'm - I'm - I'll
be back in a minute.
CC Okay.
255 17 24 51 CDR We've been thinking about that for a little bit.
I spent a couple of hours up here one night going
through each and every switch and procedure from
close-out through landing to make sure that I
kind of knew what the plan was at the moment.
And it sort of all makes sense to me at the moment.
I've got about five question marks written in
there. We can talk about - I just figured I'd
wait until we got closer and then talked about
them. So I'll go through this rationale - I'm glad
you included that. - and try to put those changes
in late today, and then we'll sort of think about
t. Then we want to block off a couple of hours
where Owen and Jack and I can get in here and
run through it a couple of times, touching all the
switches for entry. We'd probably like to do
that about 4 or 5 days prior to entry, or less.
CC Roger, A1. I think it would be a good idea for
you to go ahead and put this new set of little
things in and soak that up for a while. For your
inform tion on the - on that day that's about,
oh, it's entry minus 5-day checks, we've got
3-1/2 hours blocked off for the actual systems
checks themselves, which I think you'll probably
o. And then a couple of yours blocked off there
after - following that with all three guys to do
exactly what you were thinking about. So I
think we're in pretty good shape.
CDR Concur. Say, I just started up the CM-7 checks.
Everything looks good. Let me read to you the
temps on the CSM quad, starting with 4B.
CC Okay.
255 17 26 31 CDR 1.7, 1.9, 1.5, 2.2, 2.0, 1.3.
CC Okay, A1. I got those.
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CDR Okay. Thank you. We'll come back and check this
place out in an hour.
CC All righty.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS from Madrid.
We're going to pick you up at Honeysuckle at 18:06.
CDR Tell EREP that if it looks like we've got two or
three sites in an area, give us the first one on
the pad. That way we got a fighting chance to be
longer on the other couple. Bec use it looks
like up in that area, up in the Phoenix area and
up in the Boulder area, we ought to be able to
get a bunch of sites. And that also includes the
run-in on Boulder. There's about fiv sites on
the run-in we could pick up.
255 17 27 29 CC Roger, AI. Copy.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
255 18 06 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle, Just
in time to tell you we're 1 minute from LOS, and
Goldstone comes up at 18:35. Over.
PLT ()kay,Dick.
255 18 07 24 CC And a reminder for the SPT. The - at 18:10, we
need a Nu Z update.
SPT ()kay, I was thinking about giving it to you right
n OW •
255 18 07 36 CC Well, all righty, and we think the pad angles are
good. Or at least the angles I gave you awhile
ago are good. Matter of fact, let me correct that.
The pad angles are better this time, Owen.
255 18 35 20 PLT You there, Dick?
255 18 35 30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for
1 8 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick, one thing we've run out of is film in
the Hasselblad. I was wondering what magazine you
recommended as a replaceme t and where it's located,
please.
CC Okay, we'll get back to you, Jack.
FLT Thank you.
CC And, Skylab, for the CDR. Earlier thi morning,
you know, we were talking about that DAC problem
you thought you might be having during S183, and
we never heard any more about it due to the business
with the EREP. We were wondering how that came out.
CDR Forgot to report that, Dick. I checked it out and
it checked out okay. So it looks like we've been
getting good pictures.
CC Okay, thank you, A1.
255 18 36 24 PLT On our Hasselblad, Dick, we're up over 150 frames.
Now if there's any more on there - I know the
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magazine says 150, but sometimes there's a few
extras, why, we'll go ahead and shoot them up. But
we don't know how far we're going to go before we
run out of film.
CC Understand.
255 18 38 06 CC PLT, Houston. We'd like you to use magazine CX27.
It's in drawer Bravo, in the back of the drawer.
And we think you probably do have a few more frames
on that one - on the magazine you have now, maybe
up to 170.
PLT Okay, thank you, Dick.
CC Roger.
255 18 39 51 SPT Hello, Dick, you with me?
CC Yes, sir; go ahead.
SPT Okay, two items for the ATM. First one on the
orbit preceding the EREP pass, say about 3 hours
ago, we were cycling t e H-alpha manually, from
OFF to MANUAL and back. And for several operations,
it became intermittent. You could press it to
MANUAL and the ready ight would never switch to
OPERATE, and the frames remaining would not count
down. You could still take frames by goi g to
AUTO, in which case it would take a normal frame
rate. This orbit - it's all working fine again,
but there is something either a little bit funny
at the switch or the poles that's attached to it.
It was intermittent but now it's working fine. And
I j st completed this S055 DETECTOR 5 test - they -
checked all 3 detectors four times. And on the
second test of DETECTOR 5, there was one little
flurry of crosstalk where the DETECTOR number I,
which I was monitoring just to get the count up.
It was about 20 seconds into the second test on
DETECTOR number 5. None of the other checks
showed any crosstalk during the procedure, o I
think that completes the check as requested. And
if there's any other questions, you might let me
know about it now while there's a little observing
time. Over.
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255 18 41 ii CC Okay_ Owen, let us glance back at the message and
see if we have any more questions. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. That satisfies us on that S055
test. And be advised, we're configured for ATM TV.
CDR Roger.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. It's 4 or 5 more days before
;you're going to get another film status but we
thought you'd be interested in k owing that CX27
magazine on that Hasselblad is the last Hasselblad
magazine for you.
J
PLT ()kay, understand we got a few frames left on the
one we brought up with the command module. Right?
CC That's affirm, Jack.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
255 18 43 48 PLT Okay, Dick, I'm at the window trying to get a look
at the Great Plains for this handheld ph to, but
the whole Great Plains area is covered by - by
a kind of widespread cloud system.
CC Roger; copy. Too bad that cloud button doesn't
work.
255 18 44 06 PLT Yes, well, we're not at the panel now. I guess
we should have been up there.
CC Roger.
255 18 51 25 CC Skylab, Houst n. We're i minute from LOS at
Bermuda. I'll call you in about 5 minutes at
Madrid.
255 18 57 07 CC Skylab, Housto . AOS Madrid for 9 minutes.
CC kylab, Houston. Madrid for 8 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC Roger.
CC kylab, Houston. Be advised we're having some
machine problems and we have no spacecraft d ta
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at the moment. So we're not sure as to whether
or not we're going to maintain voice through this
pass or not. We still have about 5 minutes left
and l'm standing by. No response required.
255 19 02 10 SPT Dick, I did a four-limb oalignment on day 252,
I guess that'd be 3 days ago. I wonder if the
ATM P s are planning to remand that information.
I noticed it's again on the schedule for the
orbit. Over.
CC Stand by, Owen please.
CC SPT, Houston. Be advised we did get the data from
that other four-limb coalign you did the other day.
But - but we did purposely schedule one today and
we do want one as scheduled on the next rev.
SPT Fine. Thank you.
CC Okay.
255 19 06 24 CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS Madrid. Honey-
suckle at 19:43 and we're going to dump the data
recorder at Honeysuckle.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
255 19 42 56 CC Skylab, Houston. Honeysuckle for 6 minu es.
PLT Roger.
PLT Say, Dick, could you please have someone set up
a call to my family this evening?
CC Roger. That was Jack, wasn't it?
PLT Affirmative, Dick.
CC Sure will.
PLT Thanks a lot.
CDR Same thing for me, Dick. This is Alan.
CC Okay.
255 19 44 00 CC And, Skylab, Houston. We'd be plea ed to watch
you load the maneuver time if you want to for the
next maneuver. This Honeysuckle pass is really
the last chance we'd have a chance to look at it.
PLT Okay. l'll get it, Dick.
PLT How do you like that time, Dick?
CC Looks good to us, Jack. Thank you.
PLT Okay. Thank you. I'll load the rest later.
CC Oh, okay.
255 19 48 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS. Hawaii
comes up at - up at 20:01.
CC knd, Skylab, Houston. We didn't get the data
recorder completely dumped at Honeysuckle, so
we're going to continue the dump when we get
to Hawaii.
255 19 49 26 CDR Okay. This is the CDR; 20 minutes has elapsed.
Since I did keep much ... - -
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255 20 03 30 CDR 20:07, we're standing by for a little STANDBY.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got you at Hawaii for about
7 minutes, and we see the new maneuver time
loaded, and it looks good to us.
PLT Thanks, Dick.
CDE Okay. Everything looks good here.
CDR Command module checks went okay, by the way, on
C M - 7 .
CC Roger.
CDR Put in the changes to the Entry Checklist a
few minutes ago. They look a little complicated,
but I'Ii have to read it. Also read the blurb
you sent up, and that's a good thing. I'ii have
to digest it awhile.
255 20 04 17 CC Okay, AI; good.
CDR Concur with your comments about sending up
additional information for quad A or C failure,
or both. That's a good thought. We've been
wondering about that one, too, but we figured
you'd get around to it.
CC Roger, A1.
255 20 04 37 CDR 20:07.
PLT Water, water everywhere.
255 20 04 48 CC And, AI, Phil points out to me that the field
that you're going to be getting on 3 or 4 quads
failed will be a complete time line and checklist,
so that should put you in good shape.
CDR You bet, if I can figure up - i guess it's a
bit paste-in thing, huh?
CC Well, I haven't seen it yet myself, but it'll
be coming up shortly We'll be reviewing it
down here before we send it.
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255 20 0:514 CDR Okay. Sounds like a big stick-in with our scotch
tape, but that's okay.
PLT Which you ain't got much of any more ... - -
255 20 05 23 CDR We haven't had time to really peruse it too much.
Ask him do we do the burn in docked DAP or do
we switch over to undocked just before the burn.
That was one that was puzzling me a little hit.
I get - wait, I take that back. It must be he
undocked, because he mentioned that - they
mentioned in there that if you tried to ullage
without the undocked, you'd pitch up.
255 20 05 48 CC That's affirmative, AI. It is undocked.
CDR Okay. So that mesns you go undocked before you
undock, and that's the way it is forever. Or
maybe you do it immediately after undocking;
I don't know.
CC Well, it's bef re the burn, and you - and you
do; that's right. And after - after you go to
the undocked, it's THC for yaw.
255 20 06 09 CDR That's right. And you're undocked all the way
from undocking. You do all the maneuvers undocked
and everything else. Okay, we got h5 seconds to
go here before we go into this little pad l've
got before me.
PLT Well, today we're going to hit the coast just
about a i00 miles north of - or ess than that,
about 30 miles north of San Francisco. Coming
up over the mountains north of Reno and heading
over Cody. Name ing a bell htere, Dick?
255 20 06 48 CC Sure does.
PLT Over Bismarck - Bismarck, North Dakota, and just
north of Lake Superior and up through Canada.
One bit sight.
255 20 07 02 CDR A, STANDBY; R, OFF.
PLT But you've already got one. Get them again.
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CDR Okay, they want to see if it's changed with the
season. 10:09 is th next event for me. How
ab out you, Jack ?
255 20 07 21 PLT lh minutes.
CDR One other thing I didn't exactly understand
was - we're still goi g to be doing the burn at
the same attitude relative to the horizon that
we've always been doing them, that's heads down;
and I didn't exactly understand why the comments
about YAW right to Oh5 instead o the old way.
255 20 08 O0 CDR EREP, START at 10:09.
CC AI, that's due to some - the fact that we're
land - going to land on the other side of the -
the side of the footprint closer to the land
mass and also some new aerodynamics work that
we have. And we want to make sure that we've
jettisoned the service module in the direction
opposite, of course, to the way that you're going
to fly. And the way the checklist is written,
it does m ke an option there where we can send
you up a pad for YAW left or right. Also, the
other question is you- after you undock, you
fly around with the docked DAP until just before
the burn; and then at a certain place in there,
you go to the undocked and then you stay there
all the way down to splash.
255 20 08 56 DR Say again the one point you change to the
undocked. I'm still a little puzzled on that
one.
255 20 09 ii CDR Fly around docked until sometime, probably
after the burn. Entry.
CC Okay, A1, we got a little bit for your next
switch throwing. You will ndock in the docked
DAP.
255 20 09 29 CDR Okay.
CC And then you'll stay there until just before
the burn. Then you will go - and then you will
go to the undocked DAP, and then you will remain
there for the rest of the mission.
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CDE Okay. In other wor s, I do the burn in the
undocked DAP.
255 20 09 45 CC That's correct.
CDR I thought there was a note down there that said
you can't ullage if you do that; you'd lose it's
pitch. I got to go read that again. It probably
says - it probably says you can't u lage in
docked. Well, let me get back to this Job.
255 20 _0 01 CC Okay.
CDR Thank you for talking about it. I'll - makes it
a little bit clearer. Okay, EREP, STAI_ in
4 seconds.
255 20 _0 l0 CDR EREP is starting. I got to give you an AUTO CAL
in a minute. Like right now. AUTO CAL's on
time.
PLT ...
CDR MODE MANUAL. That s a good one. A is ON. And
record A-2 and C-4. Okay. A-2 is 1 percent.
C-4 is 7. Y'all have that? I'm not writing it
down. I'm just recording it. A-2 moves around.
Now A-2 had been dow as low as 49, now it,s 53,
coming down to 49 again.
255 20 _0 46 CC And Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. I'll call
you at Goldstone at 20:ll. That's about - Just
a couple of minutes from now.
CDR Okay. We 'll be there.
CDR Bring Owen with us.
CC Good.
PLT How's your door, 07 Are you there - you there,
07
255 20 l 07 CDR Opening the door. I wonder if he did.
255 20 12 55 CDR READY, on; REFERENCE, 6. Okay, you're READY, on,
in 191, Jack.
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255 20 13 16 PLT Okay. There, we got some clouds in the field of
view. We're going to do a nadir swath over them,
for a while here, until 15 minutes. Then we're
going to pull up and hit Black - Black Desert
or Smoke Creek Desert. A little tracking.
255 20 13 49 CDR Good.
PLT Good. Here is a cloud canopy.
255 20 lh 01 CDR S to STANDBY. The A to STANDBY and MODE 1.
PLT Yes, we're still tracking those clouds. They're
a l ttle heavier now. These are heavier clouds
than we were tracking before. I'm going to go
UP, 45 and LEFT, h
255 20 14 20 CDR A to STANDBY and MODE i.
CC Roger, AI; and I'm ba k with you guys. Standing
by.
PLT Okay. We got some good- -
CDR All right.
PLT - - cloud coverdown here that we're covering
now, Dick.
CC Roger.
255 20 14 35 CDR A's on.
255 20 15 01 PLT Okay, there we are. 15, UP; and LEFT, 4. Got
a good entry point.
255 20 15 17 CDR 92 in READY. Thing is running along. Okay at
43, we got to go AUTO.
PLT I got the desert site already, and we're not
there. Okay.
255 20 15 28 C R 15:43.
PLT The lineup on it. here's Pyramid Lake. They
said the time was 46.
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255 20 15 4h CDB MARK. MODE AUTO.
PLT Nice shot, Houston. Put us in there. Honey
Lake doesn't show up very well because it's
all brown. It's about the same as the terrain.
But Pyramid Lake is a very distinct aqua color.
Uniform area in this dry lake bed is what w 're
getting right now.
255 20 16 15 CC Roger, Jack.
PLT Looking at the first one, which is the Smoke
Creek Desert. We're going to move up and pick
another one in a little while. This is a uniform
site, as uniform as I ca find.
255 20 16 35 CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK light config - A LIMETER UNLOCK
light has been on a inordinate amount of time
this run for some reason. Just - Just went
out. Just came on again.
255 20 16 44 CC Rog - Roger.
CDR Don't know why.
PLT Okay, there - we're coming through zero now.
I'ii move up to another place. Now, we'll give
it a little more. We're not sure how this
thing runs - -
255 20 17 O1 CDR REFERENCE, 2 on 191. Let me give you A-2 and
C-&. A-2 is 50 percent. C-4 is 71 percent.
kay, goo enough.
PLT Let's take some data around in here now. We're
on the Black Rock Desert now, Dick. Picking
a uniform site. It's a little bigger, I guess.
I'd h ve to say that the site - sites are more
uniform in the Smoke Creek Desert than they are
in the - this one.
255 20 17 35 CC Roger, Jack. I'm looking at the picture of it.
I wish I was looking at it through the scope.
CDR We do, too. We wish we could crowd all of us
in here. Get us all up here, about 15 a flight.
Now I'm in INTERVAI_METER, 20. And I want
to be A to STANDBY.
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255 20 17 54 CDR A to STANDBY; R to STANDBY. Stand by for 18:06.
255 20 18 06 CDR 18:06; 192 MODE to STANDBY. That's it.
255 20 18 08 CDR 2's in STANDBY. S is ON; R is ON. Standing
by for an auto cal at 18:25. I can't see there.
255 20 18 25 PLT I got you.
CDR TV box was not on. You weren't getting that
down-link box. Let's put it on right now.
PLT Now we're looking at Yellowstone Land- Lake.
CDR Waits Let's don't. No.
PLT Got a nice shot of Yellowstone Lake here. I
caught some of the nicest trout out of that
lake a few years back.
255 20 18 54 SPT Bragging again.
PLT Aw, they just didn't want to leave me alone.
I - Each time I got m_ hook out of the water,
they leaped off and tried to get in my bucket.
0nly way I could save them was to leave.
SPT Why'd you leave?
255 20 19 15 PLT Had my limit.
255 20 19 19 CDR Thirty. 190 is out and shut down at the moment.
255 20 19 34 PLT They're biggies, too. They were about - AI,
what if I told you they were 16 inches? Would
you believe they were 16 inches?
255 20 19 46 CDR 20, 30.
255 20 19 57 PLT l'm getting you another site right now. You
ain't going to believe this. But l'm getting
you that site by Swan Lake.
255 20 20 06 CC Good show.
PLT I didn't think we could reach over that far
but we are - over clear to 21 - 22 gimbals.
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Oa - Oahe Reservoir. Well, now we're moving
off it. C n't get any more of it. We've got
it d wn to 26 forward. And there's a little
town of Mobridge right down there. Mobridge,
North [sic] Dakota. Long story behind that.
255 20 20 33 CDR I'm back.
PLT There's - -
CDR tand by there. On S and R to, STANDBY.
255 20 2D 37 PLT There's Mobridge.
CC And, Skylab, we're going to drop out here from
Goldstone in about 30 seconds or so. I'ii call
you again at Bermuda about - in about 4 minutes.
CDR S, ON; and R, ON.
PLT How about that.
CDR Not bad.
255 20 21 06 CDR 91, ON. POL-I on 93. 21:54. Okay.
255 20 25 00 PLT Here we go. That's it.
CDR Good.
PLT Another mibless maneuver by the good guys on
the ground.
255 20 25 08 CDR STANDBY and R to STANDBY. EREP to STOP. That's
it. Do tape measurement ; I think I can do that.
Maybe.
CDR Tape measurement. Bonk!
CDR Plenty of tape left.
CDR ne and one quarter.
CDR l-l/4 inches.
255 20 26 05 CDR Okay, let's record B-7. B-7, 31 percent, Just
as it was before.
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255 20 6 i0 CDR Here com s 92 DOOR coming CLOSED; 90 window,
latch. Would you care to latch that when I
close it, J ck?
PLT Yes.
CDR Okay, just a second, it will be closed.
255 20 26 22 CDR All right, it's closed.
255 20 26 28 PLT Latched.
CDR All right, I'll turn off the RECORD switch.
PLT And that's about it.
255 20 26 41 CDR Okay, let me run those MAGS for you a little
bit.
255 20 26 45 CDR 190 MODE to AUTO; READY light ON; FRAME, 04.
Int ervalometer -
255 20 27 54 CC Skylab, Houston. We' e back with you at
Bermuda. And we had a little keyhole here,
but we're out of that now. And I've got you
about 3-1/2 minutes.
255 20 28 l0 PLT Okay, Dick. We're going back on another mibless
maneuver and getting her powered down.
CC Okay.
255 20 28 20 PLT And on the desert sites, I was about half zoomed
in when - when I was taking data, except right
at the end. But the desert's big enough so that
I don't think that I was pointed ofl_ of it be-
cause of the misalignment in the optics.
255 20 28 38 CC Roger.
PLT And then in fishing around there, looking down-
stream, I came across the Missouri River, and I
scanned down it until I got to the Oshe Reservoir.
And I homed in on the big field between the Oahe
Reservoir and Swan Lake, which is another one
of my sites, and it was a gimbal angle clear
over to the right. And we were no longer able
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to hold it after the UP gimbal got past about
25 or 26. I think I called it out, but after
it got to there, why we Just didn't have
enough right gimbal to hang onto it. So we
weren't able to track it through zero.
255 20 29 16 CC Roger, Jack.
255 20 30 01 CC Skylab, Houston. Couple of things for you.
First of all, sorry we didn't help you catch
that EDU down-link problem there a little bit
earlier. We did want to verify what position
the ED - DU - correction, the EREP down switch
was during the EREP pass and where it is now.
255 20 30 hO CDR Dick, we had it at 4, and then right at the
time it said turn it off, when I turned it off,
I realized I hadn't turned the switch on over
here, although everything was connected. So
it's now in OFF.
255 20 30 51 CC Roger, AI. What switch are you referring to
that did not go on?
CDR The one called TELEVISION POWER.
255 20 31 00 CC Okay, A1. Thank you very much. And we're about
30 seconds from LOS. I'll call you at Canary
at - in about 3 or 4 minutes from now. One
note, we also wanted to remind Owen and Jack
on these HK70 Yankees that are scheduled later,
we expect CBRM 5 will barber pole first, so we'd
suggest leaving the monitor switch - the swit h
selected to CBRM 5, except when you desire some
monitoring, CBRM 10.
255 20 31 36 PLT Okay, Dick.
255 20 34 53 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Canary, 9 minutes.
CDR Say, Dick, the way we might not make a mistake
on that again, is on the pre-op configura ion
check, have that the last item; down-link box,
position 4; TV switch ON.
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255 20 35 47 CC Roger, AI. I think that's a good suggestion.
Matter of fact, we were Just pouring, you know,
through the pads and the prep cue cards a d
so forth and trying to see how we could have
helped you out there.
255 20 37 29 CC Skylab, Houston, for the SPT. It looks like
CBR - it l oks like battery number 5 is not
going to recharge complete_v p ior to this
upcoming sunset, so we'd like to change the -
swap around and do the HKT0 Yankee on CBRM i0
first, and then later Jack can do the same
procedure on CBRM 5. And that reverses the
comment a min ago - I did a second ago. This
means that l0 will probably barber pole first,
so we'd suggest leaving the switch on lO, except
when you have to monitor 5, if that occurs later.
Over.
255 20 38 05 SPT Okay, I'ii start it on i0 then.
CC Good show; thank you.
255 20 39 35 SPT Hello, Dick. Are you there?
CC Yes, sir; sure am. Go ahead.
SPT Simple question. Will you explain to me why
the reg volt flag was barber pole in daytime
and gray at night?
255 20 39 53 CC Owen, we cut out there right in the midd e of
that. Ask your question again, please.
SPT Okay, I guess it's a simple question. But why
does that reg volt flag stay barber pole by day
and it goes gray when it came night?
CC Okay, we'll think of an answer. I'll get right
back to you, Owen.
255 20 41 17 CC 0wen, Houston. Do you have CBRM 17 selected now?
SPT Negative. I've got i0 selected right now, but
I dialed in several others on either side of
it, and they all showed the barber pole during
the ends of the daytime period and then they
switched to gray when it turned night.
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255 20 _l 42 CC Okay, Owen; thank you. We - we'll get back
with you.
255 20 [3 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds from
LOS. Honeysuckle comes up at 21:19. And, 0wen,
we're still think ng about that question and
when we can explain it well to you.
255 20 _3 48 SPT Okay.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
255 21 ]-935 CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle,
8-1/2minutes.
CC SPT, Houston. Regard to the question on the
barber pole on the BATs, what positi n was the
POWER SYSTEM'monitor switch on panel 130 n?
Was it i - in OFF, or BUS i, or BUS 27
SPT No. I was looking at REG at the time.
CC Okay. Had it been in OFF, BUS 1 or BUS 2,
then we might have expected that since we have
this anomalous operation on CBRM 17, in which
we have a short in the daytime that goes away
at night. However, if we're either in REG or
BAT, when that - we're getting the barber pole,
day, and going away at night, then we're going
to have to look at it a little more.
SPT Okay. It's there right now also. I just
switched from BAT to REG. And it shows barber
pole in the REG volts.
SPT For example, I can look at BEG ll, and it shows
barber pole right now.
CC Roger. We copy.
CC SPT, Houston. If it's convenient, could you
give us a BAT VOLT r a ing on BAT l0 for a telem-
etry comparison?
255 21 22 &8 SPT BAT VOLT is reading 31.1.
CC Roger; copy. Thank you, 0wen.
CC SPT, Houston. Just to gi e us another data
point, is your POWER SYST_ALERT light ON?
SPT I've got a BAT CHARGE _T_RT light.
CC Roger. We copy.
SPT But no POWER SYSTEM
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SPT On all REGULATORS, all the way to i through 12,
I've got a barber pole on REG volts, right now.
255 21 24 23 CC Roger. We copy.
255 21 27 ll CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Hawaii at 39.
255 21 40 09 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for
8-1/2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank.
255 21 40 35 CC SPT, Houst n. Whenever it's convenient, we'd
like to get a TACS, INHIBIT.
PLT Okay.
SPT Okay, Hank. Do you want bo h the hardware and
software, is that right?
CC That 's affirmative.
SPT Okay. I'll do that.
CC Skylab, Houston. For a little info here, a
little while back, one of you, I don't recall
which, adjusted the attenuator settings on the
S192. We've finally gotten the data back and
analyzed it from our down-link and the new
settings are - are doing the jo . We've got
a much better signal. We really appreciate
your good work there.
PLT Okay. A1 did that, Hank, and we're glad it's
coming down better. I looked at the alignment
today; I took a quick look at it. Didn't touch
it at all but it was reading 82 and 66 on the
VISIBLE and 44 on the - on the THERMAL. Now,
I understand from that that the problem was
in the THERMAL. Would that attenuator adjust-
ment take care of the thermal channel?
CC This was on VISIBLE channels 4 and 5, I think.
PLT Okay. Well, how s the thermal channel doing?
I understood that in the past it wasn't quite
up to snuff and there was some question of what
to do about it.
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CC Okay, Jack. We still have got problems with
the thermal channels. We - We're still dis-
cussing on what to do about it. There has been
some talk of maybe even bringing that cooler
back and trying to adjust the the mal on the
g ound and taking it back up on Jerry's flight.
PLT I see. Okay. Thank you.
255 21 45 26 CC CDR, Houston. No need to acknowledge during
your PT there, but we are tentatively setting
up your private call for 03:08, which is little
past your bedtime, if that's all ight with
you, but it looked like that was the only time
we could work it in there.
255 21 47 52 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS, Goldstone at
51.
255 21 51 45 CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for 6 minutes.
255 21 55 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We show BAT 5 is fully
c arged now, and we ll be ready to start the
REG check on that CBP_M this rev, in fact the
REG check you can do prior to this sunset,
which is about 6 minutes from now.
255 21 56 14 SPT What did you say the last? You say it is
required prior this sunset? Is that what you
said, Hank?
CC Right. If we - We would ike to start the
housekeeping 70-Y on BAT 5 at - prior - this -
this pass, which means that the REG check,
which is done in daylight, is - should be done
just prior to this sunset.
255 21 36 31 SPT Understand.
255 21 56 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Bermuda at 02 and
we'll be dumping the recorder.
255 22 02 23 PLT Hank, did you want us to start working on
CBRM BAT number l0 now?
CC I think we've already supposed to started 10,
haven't we?
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PLT Okay. You want 5 now. That's right.
CC Right, we want to get 5. We - we didn't get
to start 5, you recall, because it w - didn't
have a full charge on it.
CC What we did was we reversed th m in the - in
the - in - in or er. We were going to do 5
and then O, but because of the state of charge
on 5, we started with 10. Was the phone call
time okay with the CDR, at 03:08?
CC Okay; good show.
C R Couldn't hear you. I was up there exercising.
CC And, Skylab, on - on CBRM lO, we start our con-
tinuous in - continuous monitoring 5 mi utes
prior to the next sunrise.
PLT Okay, Hank.
PLT Okay, Hank. I cycled RUG 5 OFF and then back
ON, and it works okay.
CC Okay; we copy. Good show.
CC Skylab, Houston. About 4 days ago on EREP 18,
we got some intermittent data from the down-
ink box, and then on the next day, on EREP 19,
when you changed from the red dot to the blue
dot connectors, everything sort of cleared up.
And we were wondering if you noticed anything
funny about that red dot connector. I believe
it was the CDR who made that connection, I'm
not sure.
- PLT What was it that got bet er when e did that,
Hank?
CC Okay. We - we - we hooked the EDU or the down-
ink box into the red dot and I remember A1 had
some trouble identifying what was red, and the
data we got that day was intermittent. Then
the next day on EREP 19, we changed from the
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red dot to the blue dot connector. I'm not
sure which one that is - J-3 or one of them in
there, and the - the intermittent condition was
no longer present. And guess our general
question, if you can remember was, did you
notice anything funny about the connections on
the red dot, and was it hard to connect up or
anything like that?
255 22 09 II PLT No, the connection w nt very well. And I _id_'t
notice anything unusual about the connectors
at all, Hank.
CC Okay. We copy. And, Jack, in regard to your
request for a private phone call, it looks like
we're going to have little trouble working
that in this evening. There just doesn't seem
to be a hole for it. There is a - a hole along
about your suppertime, however, your spouse is
picking up your son from football practice and
didn't think she'd be there.
PLT Okay. How about somewhere between 24:30 and
01:30?
b 255 22 l0 22 CC That's a possibility, but can you break away
from the M092?
I 255 22 l0 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.
We'll be coming up on Ascension at 19.
255 22 18 46 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension l0 minutes.
255 22 23 17 CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Yes, sir. Go ahead.
CC In regard to your request again for the phone
call, the time we were looking at was in that
area - about 00:42, and I talked to Gratia and -
and she wasn't sure when she'd have to pick the
boy up, so I told her I'd check with her later
this evening. So w at we are targeting for
right now is Guam at $2-R, the following state-
side pass. You have to be through in time to
start monitering the CBRM's at - at 16 past
the hour.
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PLT Okay. l'm sure if I'm not available we can find
somebody to take over for a few minutes on
that.
CC Okay. So we're going to try to set it up for
somewhere in that time period and I'll try to
have word for you later on this evening.
PLT Okay. Well, if it doesn't turn out to work
out for her, why we'll Just do it tomorrow
night. But what time was that again, Han ?
CC Okay, the - the site we'd like to do it at is
Guam at 00:42. That will give you a 10-minute
pass, and if we can't get it in there we'll
get it on the following stateside, which starts
at 01 :07 •
255 22 24 35 PLT Okay, real good. Thank you, Hank.
255 22 28 18 CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Carnarvon at
52.
PLT See you there, Hank.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
255 22 51 59 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
CDR Okay, Hank.
255 22 54 36 CC CDR, Houston. We'd like to get the FINE SUN S NSOR
BIAS switch to the in position.
CDR So would I. Thanks for mentioning it.
255 23 00 13 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS; Guam at 07.
PLT Okay, Hank.
CDR Hank, I noticed my little pad tells me to go to -
find active regions 24 and 15. l'm kind of wonder-
ing about 15, I think it's gone; adiosed.
CC Roger. I believe it probably is. It should have
gone around the corner, shouldn't it?
CDR All I can see is - is 24 right on the limb and
19 behind it. So l'm just kind of wondering how
l'm going to point at - at 15. Maybe they want
me to just point on the limb in the general vici-
nity and take a few 82B's; although that doesn't
exactly make sense, I ca sure do it.
CC Okay. We'll get you an answer at Guam.
255 23 01 40 CDR Okay.
255 23 06 59 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 6-1 /2 minutes.
CC And, CDR, in answer to your question, we'd like
for you to do the last two building block 10's
on active region 24 instead of 15. And if - if
24 is not on the limb or right on the limb, we'd
like for you to do one of those building blocks
pointed precisely at the limb.
CDR Okay, understand.
255 23 08 17 CC Skylab, Houston. You might be inte ested. We
Just got another update in on Fredo, and he's
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continuing to show improvement. His progress is
slow, as it is in any of the burn cases, but all
burned areas are healing up nicely, and he has
no serious problem at this time. Looks like now
that there will - will be some skin grafting re-
q ired on the inner portions of his thighs, but
t is won't be done for another couple of weeks
yet. He's up walking around, although he's doing
a little slowly, and they allow him to have visitors
now in the evening.
CDR Hey, real great !
PLT Glad to hear that, Hank. Whenever you talk to him
or somebody goes down there, why, be sure to let
him know we're thinking about him.
CC Okay, we sure will.
CDR And thanks for giving us the update.
255 23 12 35 CC $kylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll
be coming up on Goldstone at 31.
55 23 30 12 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 6 minutes.
255 23 35 08 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll
have a short dropout and pick up again at MLA
at 37.
255 2 37 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're back with you through MLA
and Bermuda for 12 minutes.
CDR Okay. We got finished a little early. I did that
one on the limb, and now l'm doing one on the other
active region. And 19. And l'm giving the MIRROR,
AUTO RASTER a 766 again. Looks like we had a
little time for that. And giving a 7-minute expo-
sure to 56 on filter 5.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR I guess that 766 is the number they like.
CC Roger. We copy. And we'd like to get a readout
on bat 5 voltage for - for correlation with tele etry.
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CDR 31.5.
255 23 38 39 CC Roger. We copy. And as a reminder, we'll be
wanting to monitor bat i0 during this night side
coming up.
CDR It's on my mind, and it's reading about 30.2.
CC Understand. 30 2.
CDR We're going to be able to give an 8-minute expo-
sure to 56, instead of that 7. So we'll give that
a go.
25 23 46 24 PLT You there, Hank?
CC Roger. Another 3 mi utes.
PLT Okay, I don't know how important it is or not.
We had trouble with one of our transporters earlier
in the day, and we got it back in operation now.
That's transporter 5, and l've got it loaded with
C161, and we'll report that on the film log tonight.
CC C161. Roge . Copy.
PLT C161.
CDR For y ur information, Hank, the voltage now on the
bat 5 is 28.4. So it - we probably got about
25 minutes here or something.
CC Roger. EGIL expects it to drop off this pass;
and also, don't forget, we want to pick up on the
5 minutes prior to sunrise with checking bat 5.
CDR Yes. I'Ii just stay here and watch it.
CDR Tell EGIL we won't let it out of our sight.
CC Fife [?] says you got about i0 minutes left on
bat I0. That's his prediction.
255 23 48 40 CC Skylab, Houston. On minute to LOS; Ascension
at 58.
255 23 58 52 CC Bkylab, Houston throug Ascension for 5-1 /2 minutes.
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CDR Okay, we lost that bat about 8 minutes, so that's
not a bad guess by EGIL.
CC Roger; did - -
CDR 356.
CC Okay, did you get a barber pole, or it just get
to 27?
CDR Barber pole. They always go at about - just a
smidgeon under 28 volts.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR Right now 5 is about 28.2, so it may not have
long to go either.
CC And, for the PLT, your private corm is set up for
Guam at 00:42.
PLT Thank you very much, Hank, and I appreciate - I
appreciate your working that one.
256 00 00 07 CC No problem. Glad to do it.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Carnarvon at 28.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
256 O0 03 20 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Carnarvon
at 28.
256 00 28 46 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for
10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
256 00 32 58 CDR The battery number 5 didn't quite kick off. It
was dow to about 28.1 or less when sunrise
occurred.
CC Roger. We copy. EGIL says about 5 minutes more
on that one.
CDR It's possible. Also, while we were waiting to
get started our shopping lists, a standard mode
for 52 and a 5-minute exposure on 5 , filter 3.
256 00 3_ 38 Roger. We copy.
256 00 3_ 33 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds from LOS.
We'll be coming up on Guam at 42 with a data
recorder dump. And a reminder for the PLT, this
is his private comm.
256 00 42 35 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9-1/2 minut s.
CDR Roger.
CDR And, Houston, Jack's reading them, but they're
not reading him at all.
CC Okay. We'll check it out.
CC Skylab, Houston. We suggest the left antenna.
Now, I don't know hether that'll help it or not,
but that ought - That's the best one.
CDR He's tried left and right. He hears them great.
So the antennas seem to be working.
CDR Okay. They're - they're checking into it now, AI.
I don't know what else we can do.
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CDR Nothing. It's not atypical. Sometimes it just
work - works perfect, and sometimes it's a little
bit rough. I suspicion [sic] that sometimes the
down-link comes down to the - to the ground and
just somehow doesn't get back to Houston for a
little while.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've checked everything down
here. Everything looks normal.
PLT Hello, Hank. How do you read?
CC Okay. Read you loud and clear.
PLT Okay. The VHF isn't coming through, l'm hearing
them with lots of noise, and they're not hearing
me.
CC Okay. I - I don't know what to tell you at this
point. We've checked out the ground stations
sure you've already rechecked your configuration
on board there. What we might do is configure for
this next stateside and give it a go there if
that's all right. We can try it again.
PLT Okay. That's all righ with me, if it'll work out
with you guys.
CC Okay. I think we can handle that okay. And we'll -
And Goldstone will be at 01:07. nd we'll pass
that to Gratia.
PLT Okay. That'll be fine, Hank. I appreciate it
very much. Thank you.
CDR And, Hank looking at the Flight Plan tomorrow,
I s e one problem. That's with Owen there, SPT.
There's no way he can get that postsleep activities,
MII0, hemoglobin, and specific gravity done in
2 hours.
CC We copy.
CDR My guess for him to do that would be at least
3. It just takes that long.
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CC Looks like we may have had a l ttle goof there in
the Flight Plan.
256 00 48 36 CDR Maybe they can fly that ATM out of there and let
him have that whole time in there to do the post-
leep ll0, hemog obin, and all of that other, right
in there.
CC Okay. We'll work it.
CDR Got it.
256 00 49 34 CC PLT, Houston. The site, Guam, reported that they
received no down-link whatsoever on VHF. So we
may have a problem with the spacecraft.
256 O0 51 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS; Gold-
stone at 07.
CDR All right. Jack's talking to somebody in there.
256 00 51 32 CC Okay. I guess they're trying to check it out.
They redid some reconfiguring at the site. And
we were hoping to get it ironed out here before
stateside. Maybe they've got it licked now.
256 O1 07 19 CC Skylab, Houston stateside or 17 minutes.
256 01 15 07 PLT Hey, Hank, somehow we lost the down-link on the
VHF in the handover.
CC You - you lost the down-link in the handover.
Copy.
CC Okay. We're checking it now, Jack.
CDR Hey, I'll be watching the BAT for Jack, so no
strain there.
256 O1 18 35 CC Okay. Thank you, A1.
256 O1 23 33 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS; Vanguard
at 34 with the Evening Status.
256 01 23 40 CDR Okay. And BAT - CBRM 5, just barber poled, so I
put ON a CHARGER took OFF the REG.
CC We copy.
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CC We copy.
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SKYLAB A R-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
256 01 34 23 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 6 minutes.
Standing by for the Evening Status.
CDR Ready to look for our little evening report?
CC Ready to copy.
256 01 5 25 CDR Okay. Here it comes, ll7 - No, I think that's
ll2, excuse me; 130; 205.
256 01 35 50 CDR Let's start again, ll2; 130; 205. 6024; 9917;
6512. 6.252, 6.252, 6.250; 5.957, 5.956, 5.959;
6.949, 6.951, 6.951. 2/35/5041, 3/15/Mark I,
3/10/Mark II, 3/05/Mark III. The SPT was not
scheduled, and he's not going to do his exercise
until after the 171 run which occurs in Just a
little while. So he'll probably report late.
PLT, 1/05/0603, 2/35/8681, 3/20/Mark I, 50, A;
20, B; 20, D; and 20 backbends. No medication.
Sleep: 6 1/2/G, 6/G, 6/G. Here comes the food
log. CDR, eight salts, plus two salt pills, plus
a lemonade, SPT, four salts, add grape drink,
butter cookies, peaches, PLT, four salts, add
butter cookies, grapes, and lemon drops, substi-
tute pork and potatoes and applesauce for tuna
and bread. Here comes the photo log: Mh87-_A
and M48-7 - I didn't do that right. M487-hF,
CI58, 45, CI53; we did those last night, but too
late to report. S183, UA02, 88; S183 PR-1 for
M151; CI60, 70, CI52; S183 FT-1 for M151. CI60,
41, C152; VTS, track hi-A, 43-A, and 45-A, CLO4,
80. Here comes the 35-millimeter: CI10h, 60;
CX32, 00. 70-millimeter: CX26, 160. ETC: CT08,
104. EREP, set B: 8275, 7612, 8488, 8482, 2025,
934_. Drawer A: A-I, no change; A-2, 05, CI61,
99, CIS_; A-3, 06, CI60, &l, CI52. Flight Plan
deviations: none. Tomorrow's Flight Plan looks
good with that one exception I mentioned earlier.
Owen can't get that work done that fast; no way.
SPT, sh - on the shopping list accomplishments: °
SPT, he did a zero mass calibration of both SMMD
and the BMMD while the spacecraft was maneuvering
and in SI. We're trying to put together - put to
bed that statement you can't work these items
when - unless you're in S . So he did a lot of
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extra work there. Four sets of oral - auroral
photos, handh ld. Inoperable equipment: nothing.
Jack fixed the - the transporter that wasn't
working. Unscheduled - And it's fixed - was to
remove the film from it. Unscheduled - the torn
film. Unscheduled stowage item location change:
wet wipes from 742 to 768, two portable timer
batteries from M-202 to timer. And in one, port-
able timer tone battery from M02 - M202 to timer.
Just a minute.
256 01 _0 22 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from
LOS. If we lose out here, we'll be coming up on
Goldstone at 02:44 with your medical conference.
CDR Okay. That's a total of three tone timer bat-
teries. We didn't use any timer ones, just the
tone generator batteries for the timer. And one
can blue washcloths from 737 to the WMC and that's
it.
CC Okay. We got it, and there will also be a re-
corder dump at Goldstone. We're about an hour
and 3 minutes away from Goldstone.
PLT Looks like the private comm worked out well finally
there, Hank.
CC Okay; good show.
256 02 51 06 CC Skylab, Houston. We got you now for another
minutes.
SPT Go ahead there, Hank.
PLT Hey, Hank, you been getting my TV down-link?
CC You sending something down now?
PLT Yes, I got a TV down-link on my schedule here,
so I didn't get a chance to talk with you because
of the med conference, but I've been sen ing it
down anyway.
CC Okay. We're getting it. Looks good.
PLT Good.
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CC And for info, we co_m_nded REG l0 back ON.
E PLT Okay. I didn'tnoticeif the whole CBRM number
5 was out when I came up here or not. But it's
not working right now. Oh, I got three yellow
lights.
CC Okay. We've noticed a funny down here, too, that
didn't charged up, and we're puzzling over it.
PLT Say, Hank, how about the frames remaining?
C Ready to copy.
256 02 52 28 PLT Okay. H-alpha, 5242; Jim Milligan, 668; Dr. Tousey
A., 27; Dr. Tousey B, 156; Bob MacQueen, 19h6_
Vaiana and Krieger, 1615.
CC We copy. On the Evening Status Report, you said
you got some wipes out of 742, to move - moved
them to 758. Should you have meant 7hl or -
742, we thir_k, is FDF locker.
256 02 53 32 CC PLT, Houston. We're going to be commanding the
CBRM 5 to try to get it back on the line.
CC Did ou copy, PLT?
256 02 54 01 PLT Roger, Hank. The REG light is still lit, and
you got the CHARGER and the BATTERY lights OFF.
And now say again your question about that locker.
CC Okay. In the Evening Status Report, you read
down that you removed some wet wipes from locker
•742. That, we think, is the flight data file
locker. Should - would - Did you really mean
741, or w ich locker was it?
PLT I think you got the wrong number, but I'll go
down and look. Just a second.
CDR 741, yes.
256 02 54 31 CC Okay. Thank you.
256 02 54 40 CC We got about 4 minutes left on this pass. How
about a q ick rundown on the late news?
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CDR Good idea, Hank.
CC Okay. We'll get on with it here. Chile's new
ruling military Junta has begun rounding up sup-
porters of President Salvadore Allende, who re-
portedly committed suicide after a coup end d
his attempt to bring socialism to his country.
Allende's oost - ouster on Tuesday followed weeks
of unrest created by the Marxist President's
refusal to ome to terms with the country's
moderate and conservative majority. For the
first time, the Nixon aam_nistrat on has invited
key members of Congress to help draft the Federal
Budget. A proposal by a budget director Roy L.
Ash, that a series of meetings be held with Senate
leaders on next year's budget was quickly accepted
by the Senators. Weary North Carolina - north
Call - California firefighters reinforced their
lines today as the region's last three actived
fires slowly died. Skylab news centered around
yesterday's EREP passes and manufacturing in
space. Th two developers of a flying automobile
have been killed in the flaming crash of their
craft only minutes after takeoff in Oxnard, Cali-
fornia. K own as the "Flying Pinto," a combination
of a Ford Pinto auto and a Cessna airplane, the
prototype plunged to Earth about a mile from
Ventura County Airport late Tuesday afternoon.
And in sports, the Houston Astros put 26 men on
base through nine innings, including ll on hits,
but only two of those runners cotuld score. Then
the Astros got two runs in the 10th without a hit
last night to whi_ San Diego 4 to 2 and slava_e a
split of the two-game series. Following his spilt
decision over Ken Norton Monday night, Muhamed
All said he wants only two major fights: against
Joe Frazier and George Foreman, in that order.
And finally in sports, Coach Tom Landry, picked
Roger Staubach as the prime quarterback for the
Cowboys. Craig Morton will be traded.
256 02 56 41 SPT Say, Hank, would you add one thing to the exer-
cise report for me? Ad on some 2/30/4500, please.
CC Roger; we copy.
PLT And I got the ATM put to bed, maybe the boys in
the backroom could take a look at it, Hank.
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CC Okay, we'll take a look.
CDR And what time is my private comm, Hank?
CC Okay, AI, that's coming up at Vanguard, the next
station, at 03:08. And we're about a minute from
LOS now. Unless you want different, we plan to -
to give you a wakeup about 17 after the normal
wakeup time tomorrow morning.
CDR Okay. We're still puzzling over what we're going
to do about Owen not being able to do all that
work in a copule of hours.
CC Okay that's all squared away. We're - we're
changed - We've changed the ATM schedule pad
and it'll be coming up reflecting the correct
ATM actvities. And it essentially gets rid of
the pass Owen has.
CDR Exc llent. Because I think that'll make every-
thing run smoother tomorrow.
CC Okay. The ATM panel looks good.
PLT Thank you, Hank.
CC We'll say good night to you now. I'll talk to
you tomorrow.
CDR Good night, Hank. Enjoyed working with your
team today.
256 02 58 26 PLT Good night, Hank.
CC Good night.
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REST PERIOD - NO CO_£ONICATIONS
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REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATION
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
256 07 XX XX CDR SIEVE FLOW.
CC Skylab, we got you through Hawa i for 3 minutes.
CC Skylab, we got you for 2 minutes.
CDR Just had a SIEVE FLOW CAUTION and WARNING. We
went up and checked it out; punched it off. It
was kind of an intermittent and - or temporary,
and then turned off both SIEVE FLOW CAUTION and
WARNING.
CC Okay, that's fine. I guess we should have re-
mined you to get that earlier; sorry.
CC Not your fault. Should we be turning - leaving
them on during the day an_ turning them off at
night? I can put it on my checklist. I didn't
know we were supposed to be.
CC We recommend inhibiting those, day and night, A1.
256 07 37 52 CDR I don't know why we got them on then. Okay,
they're both inhibited now; and we're going back
to bed. Thanks for comming up.
256 07 38 04 CC Okay, see you in the morning.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
256 ll 18 14 CC Morning, Skylab; A0S the Vanguard for 9 minutes.
CDR Good morning, Story; we're on our way.
CC Okay. Now, we've got a little bit of Flight
Planning change to do here because tape
recorder 3 has got some problems, as far as
handling M093 data goes. It's - it's been
dropping out on us.
SPT Something we can remember, or have we got to
wait until we got our Flight Plan?
256 ll 18 53 CC No, I'm ab ut to give it to you right now.
We'd like Jack to replace AM tape recorder
number 3 per a general message that you got
up there now, 4834. It's called general
message, AM tape recorder.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, Story, I'll do it. When do you want
that done? Is that on the Flight Plan or
what?
CC It's not on the Flight Plan. We need it
done prior to an MO92/M093 run, in which you're
the subj ect.
PLT Okay.
CC Owen, Houston.
CDR He's listening; go ahead.
CC Okay. This Flight Plan change, get him to
cancel all his ATM prior to his ETC ops.
CDR Okay; he's got that.
CC Okay. And, A1, I got something for you.
CDR o ahead.
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CC Due to that tape recorder failure, we lost
M093 data on Owen yesterday, and we're
thinking we've canceled his ATM ops. We'd
like to work an M093 in on him between the
M092 on Jack and Jack's M093. You're the
observer there, and you can stick him right
in there in the middle, if possible.
CDR In other words, run Jack a 92, then run Owen
a 93, and then run Jack a 93?
CC Yes, that's what we were thinking about.
CDR We can do it.
CC And if you're ready to copy, l've got just
a few hints on - on things to look at while
ou're doing that.
CDR Okay, you'd better hold on that one; I don't
have any pieces of paper.
SPT Say, Story, did you say you got my 92, but
ot the 93. Is that right?
CC That's affirmative. There's a subframe 3
failur on that tape recorder; the 92 data
is fine.
256 ii 22 04 CC And, AI, we need a NuZ update.
256 ii 26 38 CC Skylab, we see a good NuZ update. Going -
LOS in a minute. See you over Canaries in
i0 minutes; be dumping the recorders there.
CC Skylab, we will not be dumping the tape
recorders there. We'll wait until you get
them changed out.
256 ii 38 00 CC Skylah, AOS Canaries and Madrid, 14 minutes.
C R Okay, we're putting a little WLC and a little
XUV MON syncs on the VTR.
CC Okay. In the next 12 minutes, let me know
when you got a coup e of minutes to copy a
couple of things down.
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PLT Okay, S ory, the tape recorder's been changed
out, and I'm ready to make the appropriate
selections per your direction. The number of
hours on the failed tape recorder are 1070.
CC Okay. Thanks, Jack.
CC And, Jack, we've got a INSTRUMENTATION panel
204 configuration for you, when you're ready.
CDR Go ahead. I'll do it.
256 ll 42 48 CC RECORDER 1 to EXPERIMENT VOICE - EXPERIMENT 1
VOICE. That's recorder l, EXPERIMENT 1 VOICE.
CDR Okay; keep going.
CC RECORDER 2, DATA VOICE ; and RECORDER 3,
EXPERIMENT 2.
256 ll 43 14 CDR Okay; they're all there.
CC Roger.
CDR And standing by to opy your notes.
256 ll 43 22 CC Okay. On cycling Owen through the M093,
remind him, if possible, to finish his eating
prior to an hour starting riding the bike.
And some switch positions to look out for
when he starts doing his M093, be sure to
SELECT the SUBJECT, that will be 2, for him.
And also to put his VCG GAIN positions in.
And, of course, when you run Jack, get his
SUBJEC and VCG GAIN positions in. And
we'll need - need high CALS on both sides of
both MO93s. Get high CALS on both sides of
both of them.
CDR I haven't looked at t e schedule right in
there. Is the reason for sandwiching in -
in between the runs there and let Just - just
letting Jack float around for 17 minutes is
because Owen's got to be somewhere then at
the end of that, or what?
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CC If we didn't do it this way, we'd have to
schedule, you know, a complete run again on
- on an ther day. Owen doe h ve an ETC ops
coming up at about, oh, 14:30 or so. And if
you get behind on running this, w 'll schedule
your canister align that you got coming up at
about 15:00, we'll schedule that some other day.
And I've got a couple of more things for you,
a change to your detail pad.
CDR Okay; go ahead.
256 ll 4 54 CC Insert at 18:23 EREP POWER, BUS l, ON; S191
POWER, ON.
CDR Okay.
CC And during the housekeeping period you got at
about 15:15, you may want to look over some
T020 checklist changes we sent up last night.
CDR Okay, good.
256 ll 45 40 CC And you can leave the MOL SI VE FLOW - the
CAUTION and WARNINGS, leave them both INHIBITED
night and day.
CDR Not a bad idea.
CC And one other hing, if you get ahead on
running your M092, if you'd like to start
that vent earl er, we could force a dump
sample at about 13:21 over Madrid; but we'll
be speaking with you then.
CDR Okay.
CC And that's it. Thank you.
CDR Thank you, Story.
256 ll 49 32 CDR Is 54 running?
CC That's affirmative.
CDR Bet it isn't running right. I Just started
it and it didn't start. No frames were taken.
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and it's Just hanging around on that one frame.
Something is a little funny there. Maybe it
got hung up or tried a double run and - I'm
not really sure what it's doing.
CDR May need a new start.
CC Okay. We copy, A1.
CDR Let me know what they think in the backroom.
CC We're showing - We're showing it running
do n here.
CDR Okay, we'll let it run, and we'll see what
happens.
CC Okay, and that CBRM 5 malfunction. We think
that's a short across the charger between
the SAS and the battery. That's what's got
the charger regulator battery off line.
CDR I'll be darned. Too bad; okay.
CC But we can get SAS power during the day out
of it, but charging the battery up, once it
reaches a certain voltage, it comes off line.
CDR They think it had anything to do with that
tes we pulled on it yesterday?
CC We're not sure about that yet, AI.
256 Ii 51 27 CDR Yes, well, we got the bat back, you know.
We did the up-here part right, we think.
Did we get the reg on on time and everything?
256 ll 51 42 CC We think you did it right during the test, A1.
We're about l0 seconds from LOS here. We'll
see you over Hon ysuckle, 35 minutes at 12:26.
CDR I'm going to restart 54; it hasn't taken a
frame since we been talking.
CC 0kay, it looks g od down here. It's on the
last exposure right now.
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CDR Okay, then it didn't take it's first ones or
something. Something was weird. We'll let
it go.
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SKYLAB A R-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
i 256 12 27 21 CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
CDR Okay.
256 12 3L 03 CC Skylab. We're a minute from LOS. We'll
see you over the Canaries in 45 minutes at
13: 16.
CDR Okay, I didn't get those two building block 2F's
done on the end of my orbit bec use I went
back and did another 54, filter 2, and I'm
going to get those on sometime during this
next orbit, since nobody will be using it.
CC Stand by 1.
CC Okay, copy, A1. We'll get with you over
Canary.
256 12 31 55 CDR Okay, what I think h ppened is that first
one did a double cycle and then I looked at
it in the middle of the second cycle, thought
it had stopped, but it had not. It was on
a long exposure and that's why I ent back
and did 2 over because I don't think we ever
got short exposures on 2.
CC That's exactly right, A1.
256 12 32 19 CDR It's got them now.
256 13 16 06 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and
Madrid for 13 minutes. We'll be dumping the
data voice tape recorder over Madrid. Out.
256 13 17 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and
Madrid for 12 minutes. We'll be dumping the
data voice tape recorder over Madrid. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce, good morning.
CC Hey, good morning, Jack. I've got a pile of
miscellaneous mission notes here when any of
'all feel free to listen.
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CDR Okay, shoot with the miscellaneous mission notes.
256 13 18 06 CC Okay, first bullet comes right for the Commander
with his name on it. Relative to the canister
fine Sun sensor, acquisition Sun sensor
alignment scheduled for you later on today at
14:50. We would like to delete the callout
switch to fine Sun sensor secondary at the
top of page 2-17 in the Systems Checklist and
Data Book for the ATM. It is our plan to
check out the secondary FSS if and when we
need it. Over.
CDR I understand. Will comply.
256 13 18 46 CC Okay, the sleep period SAP update, no flares
today. Flare probabilities on active region
19 and 24 are down to 7/1/0, which actually
looks pretty high still for the small ones.
New feature you've got are active region 26
ability of 200, prominence 72, 270 degrees
at 1.0, and prominence 73, 220 at 1.0. Over.
CDR Roger.
CC And if - is anyone up at the ATM panel right
now, like maybe the SPT?
256 13 19 49 SPT No, we're down in the wardroom at the moment.
Do you need someone up there?
CC Okay, no rush. Next time somebody goes up
there, we'd like you to check the S052 THERMAL
POWER switch. The instrument looks like it's
cooling down. It's a fairly slow phenomenon,
so there is no great rush, but we would like
to check on it.
SPT Roger.
CC A d for the PLT, got a change to the M559
pot setting if you want to write it down.
For the M559 soak temp pot setting, it should
be 995 instead of 985. Over.
256 13 20 33 PLT Okay, 995. Thank you.
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CDR The THERMAL switch that was OFF is now ON.
CC Okay, thank you, AI.
256 13 20 45 CDR And we finished the two JOP 2F's this morning,
this Sun pass that we gave standard of 52.
And then we're going to power it back down.
CC Okay.
CC And with respect to the BMMD and SMMD zero
mass readings, you wanted us to let you
know when we got the data on dump. We have it
and we also relay thanks from the PI for get-
ting this data. Over.
256 13 21 32 PLT Thanks, Bruce. 'll throw my stuff away.
CC And I guess that about wraps up the file of
miscellaneous mission notes for right now.
We'll talk to you later.
256 13 22 55 CC Skylab, Houston, now coming to you through
Madrid where we will be dumping the data
v ice tape recorder. Out.
256 13 27 58 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS
at Madrid. Next station contact in 28 minutes
through Carnarvon at 13:57. Over.
256 13 28 08 CDR Okay.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
256 13 56 43 CC Skylab. This is Houston through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle Creek for 13 minutes. ut.
256 14 08 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute and 30 seconds
until LOS at Honeysuckle Creek. Next station
contact in 35 minutes through Merritt Island at
14:43. We notice that you seem to be running a
few minutes behind schedule on M092. We'd like to
remind the SPT that he has a solar inertial EREP
data take scheduled to start at 14:47 Z. We'd
like to get his M093 in before lunch if you can
work it. If not, however be fine after lunch.
The only constraint we have is that 1 hour must
elapse between finishing your meal and running
M093. Over.
256 14 09 13 SPT Okay. Understand all that. I just got my medical
gear put away. I'm starting my breakfast right now,
and I'll probably get that eaten in time to get
that solar inertial EREP and that puts that 93
later, obviously.
256 14 09 24 CC Roger. We copy.
256 14 4[3 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island and
Bermuda for 12 minutes. Over.
CDR Hello, there.
256 14 43 34 CC Hello, Alan. Prior to the EREP pass, we would
like to get you to inhibit on panel 207, the
BATTERY CHARGE LOW, number 3 switch. And then
after the EREP pass, we will call you to reenable
it. The reason for this is that the primary amp-
hour integrator is lagging on PCG 3, and we don't
want you to get an unnecessary caution and warning.
Secondary is in a l ttle better shape, but it's
lagging, also. We will inhibit the depth of dis-
charge cutoff if it looks like the depth of
discharge limit, as indicated on the amp-hour me er,
will be reached during the pass. Over.
C R Understand. Thanks, Bruce.
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CC Roger. Out.
256 14 44 26 CDR And we finished with Jack, and now I'm starting on
the panel with the - the canister alignment check.
CC Roger, we copy.
256 14 51 04 SPT Hello, Houston. How do you read?
C Loud and clear. Go ahead.
256 14 51 07 SPT Okay, I just finished that ETC pass. And am I
correct that that was supposed to be a swath
across Dominican Republic?
CC Skylab, this is H uston. The area of interest is
right after crossing the Dominican Republic. It's
an area of seaweed in the Sargasso Sea. And it
would probably be more appropriate to describe it
as being - going by Bermuda. Over.
256 14 51 56 SPT Okay, that's what it looked like. I was afraid
that the time had been incorrect be ause we were
beyond the is and before the photogra hy began.
And I wanted to make sure that there had not been
a slip-up on that point. One other little item I
just noticed here when I got the pad update last
night. And that is that it appears that we are
going to be passing over the beautiful city of
Enid, Oklahoma, along about 17:58 in another - few
revs here. And I was wondering if the EREP officer
has time or if it's convenient for him to give m
a more precise time of when we'll be passing the
closest approach to Enid. Over.
CC Okay. And would you spell that city, please, (>wen.
SPT Well there's a long story about that spelling, but
CC Okay. And that's in Oklahoma, is that right?
256 14 52 50 SPT The EREP officer knows all those facts down there,
Bruce. He'll help you out.
CC Okay. We'll see if we can locate it on the map,
Owen. And it's a minute and 50 seconds to LOS
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here at Bermuda. Next station contact in 5 minutes
through Madrid. And we'll be dumping the data
voice tape recorder at Madrid. Over.
SPT You're really asking for a lot of irate mail down
there, Bruce, but just so it's all addressed to you.
CC No, I'm just pulling your leg, Owen. I'm sure the
Chamber of Commerce will appreciate it.
256 14 53 22 SPT (Laughter) Okay.
256 14 58 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for 8 minutes.
We will be dumping the data voice tape recorder
at this site. And for the SPT, if you've completed
the ETC load, we wonder if it would be possible for
you to get the M093 run in prior to your ATM run
scheduled to commence at about 15:50. Over.
SPT Yes, Bruce, I'm Just now working on the load.
256 14 59 15 CC Okay, we're not - we're not meaning to bug you. I
guess we had just gotten the impression when you
talked about the pass last time that it was all
wrapped up, and you were working on the load then.
SPT No, I just finished the ops and came down to give
you a call about it. There were 21 frames used.
CC 0kay, 21; we copy.
CDR We'll get in that 93 the first blank spot we got.
CC Roger; out.
256 14 59 38 CDR Okay, now, this canister alignment - I did it
twice. Let me give you the times on the second
one since l'm apparently supposed to give them to
yo , because it was the better of the two.
CC Okay.
256 14 59 49 CDR I started at zero at 23:30. I stopped at plus
5400 at 22:40, waited 30 seconds, then I stopped
at minus 5400 at 20:55, 20:55, and I waited 30
seconds, then I arrived back at zero at 19:40.
Then at 19:10, I went to solar inertial and l'm
still there.
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SKYLAB A_IR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
256 15 00 24 CC Okay, and those are minutes and seconds you're
giving us. Is that correct?
CDR hat's affirmative. It requested information
from the DAYLIGHT REMAINING counter.
CC Okay, I copy, in minutes and seconds.
CDR And it says, report recorded times to STDN at
earliest o portunity. I'm now going to - back
to EXPERIMENT POINTING where it'll then be in
the normal configuration.
256 15 00 52 CC Okay. And would you open the FINE SUN SENSOR
DOORS, please?
CDR Normally, when you go to XPERIMENT, they do;
and darn if they didn't. But you had me
worried for a minute.
CC CDR, Houston. Over.
25 15 1 48 CDR Go ahead.
CC Yes, sir. You're a hundred-percent c rrect
in that when you select EXPERIMENT POINTING,
it does open the FINE SUN SENSOR DOOR. How-
ever, while the door is opening you have
about a 15-second period where the canister
is in EXPERIMENT POINTING hut has no reference,
and the fine Sun sensor wedges h ve a tendency
%o drive. We've had a glitch or two in the
past on this subject. And what we'd ike
you to do prior to operating ATM next time
for data taking, is to go through the wedge
rezeroing procedure, if you would, please.
Over.
CDR Okay, you're right. Let me do it right now.
CC Roger.
CDR And it looks like we did rezero them because I
.just zeroed the roll and checked the center of
the 52 and it's about 30.2 which is about nominal.
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CC Roger; we copy. Thank you.
CC PLT, Houston. Over.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Roger, Jack. We're experiencing some difficulties
with the VTR dump. And I wonder if you could
verify that during your performance of TV-4
this morning, you did have a good picture on
the monitor. Over.
256 15 05 45 PLT That's affirmative; we ha a good picture.
256 15 05 48 CC Okay, thank you. And we have i minute until
LOS here a Madrid. Ne t station contact in
25 minutes through Carnarvon at 15:31. Out.
CDR Okay. And we just installed the calibration
cartridge, mol sieve B.
CC We copy. Thank you.
256 15 32 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for
9-1/2 minutes. Out.
CC SPT, Houston. Over.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger, Owen. Are you up by the ATM panel now?
SPT Negative.
CC Is anybody up there?
SPT Negative; but we can get there.
CC Okay. Next to it, we need to verify that the
TV input station, panel 133, POWER SYSTEM switch
is in the OFF position. We're having trouble
still, dumping the video tape recorder. Over.
SPT Okay. Standby.
SPT Okay, Bruce. TVPOWER on panel 133 is and has
been OFF. And for information, l'm just now
instrumenting for i -_ for 93. Over.
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CC Roger. We copy.
SPT Anythi g else you want checked while I'm
up here?
CC Negative.
SPT Okay.
CC And for the PLT, Houston.
CDR He's on the bike and can't hear; go ahead.
CC Okay, never mind. I'll catch him later.
CDR Also, we checked the position of the other
TV power cables and they're OFF.
CC I understand; all the other TV inp t stations
are OFF. Thank you very much.
CDR Only thing that I see that's just a little
bit different than normal is we left the
down-linkbox wire in the television power
station 133 although the power's OFF. We do
that every once in a while when we got EREP
c ming up.
CC Roger. We copy. It's our belief that that
should not make any difference. However, for
yo r information, the problem that we've
encountered is that on dumping the VTR, the
ATM video came down beautifully and at the
point where you should have switched over to
the portable camera, the signal changed to
one that could not be demodula edin terms
either of television signal or of the EDDU (?)
signal and we're trying to track down what
the situation is on that. We'll keep you posted.
CDR Okay. I sure hope it isn't that switch
although we've got a spare panel, I think, or
something. Okay. Too bad, because we put -
not only put the blood draw in there, but we
put the hemoglobin punch and looking through
the hemoglobin mete in there - meter on there
for yours, too.
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256 15 44 35 CC And for the SPT, I have your time overhead Enid
whenyou'rereadyto copy.
SPT I don't have a pencil right now, Bruce. Could
we get you a little later on? I'd appreciate
it.
CC Certainly.
SPT Thank you.
256 15 45 ll SPT Sounds like you managed to find it, anyway.
256 15 46 lO CC Skylab, this is Houston. Thirty seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 29 minutes
through Corpus Christi at 16:15. Out.
256 16 15 54 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Texas and
Bermuda for 17 minutes. Out.
CDR Okay. You want a lit le TV down-link?
CC Roger. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, I'll give you a little XUV MON. I'm
pointed off the Sun here, but maybe it'll be
acceptable. I don't want to move because I'm
getting ready to run a mirror, AUTO RASTER at
a different GRATING setting and I want to make
sure I'm in the same place.
CC PLT, Houston. When you have a minute, I have
a request for you.
PLT Okay, ruce. Go ahead now.
256 16 18 15 CC Okay; on your maneuver pad for ER P pass 27
coming up here, we would like you to do the
TACS ENABLE and to load the maneuver time for
the maneuver to Z-LV at 17:20 vic 17:32, if
you would. This is so we can erify it in
the computer via a down-link over Honeysuckle.
Over.
CDR Tell me what it is now and I'll load it ow.
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PLT Okay, 17:20, Bruce; thank you.
CC CDR, Houston. We Just as soon hold off and do
it at 17:20. Over.
CDR Okay with me. Why, though?
CC Well, the - the procedure we've been following
is to have the TACS inhibited except when we're
getting ready to do a maneuver or EVA. And
we're about an hour and a half prior to maneuver
and we don't see any particular point in leading
it by another hour over the half hour or so that
we have built in at 17:20. Over.
CDR No, I wasn't - I wasn't thinking of TACS. No -
No question there. I was Just thinking if you
wanted the maneuver time set in, l'd Just put
it in for you now. No trouble, let's stick with
your procedure _
CC Okay; 17:20 it is.
PLT Hey, Bruce, could you give me that time for cross-
ing Big E.
CC Okay, at 17:59:02 will be your closest point of
approach; that's 17:59:02. And you'll be nearly
overhead, that is, at an 88-degree elevation
angle with respect to Enid. And the spacecraft
will pass sl ghtly south of town. You re going
overhead 18 seconds prior to the end of the ETC
ops, so if the cloud cover permits, you'll prob-
ably get some pictures of the old homestead there.
256 16 20 29 SPT Oh, very good. I was hoping that it would fit
into that block on the schedule and that's very
nice that it does. Thank you very much, Bruce,
and the EREP officer down there for checking
it out.
CC Roger.
CDR Me and 0wen just completed M093.
CC Okay, thank you.
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PLT Looks like there's a little tropical storm
brewing off the Coast of New Orleans there, Bruce.
CC We'll check with weather on that, Jack. Right
now it doesn't seem that we've heard about it.
PLT It s got a classic counterclockwise pattern to
it.
256 16 25 12 CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Roger. We verify that there is a - a cyclonic
circulation pattern over there by ew Orleans.
This is the remains of the tropical storm that
was around Palacios about 3 days ago - tropic l
depression, that is. And it has no name to it,
but the pattern itself is better developed than
was Delia's. Maximum surface winds seem to be
around 5 knots. Over.
PLT Oh, thanks a lot. It looks just like a classic
development, and I'm glad it's not doing much
of anything.
CC Roger.
PLT It seemed to have the classic hig_-level pattern,
but it di_z%'thave the b g nucleus of - f storm
clouds associated within the middle.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Do we have somebody
who could be free for a minute to run a portable
TV camera t st for us over this station? Over.
PLT What do you need done, Bruce?
256 16 27 23 CC Okay. We need to take the portable TV camera
and connect it up to TV input station 1B3 which
currently has the EDDU plugged into it, I believe.
Then the MDA VIDEO SELECT switch on 132 to TV,
TV input station 133 POWER, ON. Verify you have
a good picture on the monitor and we'll tell you
when to shut it off. Over.
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PLT Okay.
PLT There you are, Bruce. How did you l ke the
picture of the Big 07
CC Say again?
PLR We've got i cranked up.
CC Okay. Thank you. You got a good picture on the
monitor?
PLT Yes, the back lighting isn't much good, but let
me shine it down in the workshop.
CC No, o, no. What I mean is, from a technical
standpoint, you got a raster, and you got a
recognizable picture, and all that stuff on the
monitor?
256 16 29 05 PLT Yes; it's a good picture, Bruce.
256 16 31 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.
Next station contract [sic] - contact is Madrid
in 5 minutes, at 16:36. We will be dumping the
data voice tape recorder at Madrid. And th TV
picture which we're receivi g down here is no
good. At the present time, we'd like to leave
the TV camera hooked up and operating through
133 until some time in the Madrid pass. We'll
give you a call on it. Over.
256 1 31 31 CDR The only thing, we changed the power cable. So
if you don't get it, let us know. We'll change
out the power cable real quick.
CC Let's see, when did you change the power cable
last?
CDR Changed it Just before the EREP run because it's
now on our down-link box.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
256 16 31 56 CC Okay, we'll talk to you over Madrid. If you got
the other one handy, you might be standing by
with it.
(DR We've got it handy; we're standing by with it.
CC Roger. Go ahead and change it out now, A1. We'll
look at it at Madrid when we get you. Over.
256 16 36 ;_l CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid in 7-1 /2
for 7-1/2 minutes. We will be dumping the data
voice tape recorder at this site. Over.
CC And understand you're configured with the TV camera
with an lternate power cable at this time. Is
that correct?
SPT That's correct.
CDR And when you dump that recorder, how about having
somebody look and make sure that we've got Jack's
M093. We did a 92 and then _mme iately did a 93.
CC Okay, Skylab. We now have good video, so would
you take that cable which you Just took off and
strangle it in red tape for the time being and put
it somewhere out of the _ay? You might give us
the serial number on it also, when you get a
chance.
CDR Okay. We might also want to check it and see if
it's good enough to work with the down-link, and
if we can use it as a permanent down-link, we won't
have to be moving the other cable around.
CC A negativ . On the ground here, we have found that
the channel ii and channel 1 data, which we got
down through EDDU just the other day was bad, and
they were telling us that that w_s because you
guys hadn't turned the input station on, and we
think right now that it's because of that cable.
We think it's completely bad on the - the signal
part of the cable.
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CDR Okay. Now we've turned that down-linkbox on
every time but the last pass yesterday. And we
did not have the box on then.
CC Okay; we copy. You might - Not right now - but
you might think back and see if you can recall
any other applications where this cable was used.
But just get it out of the system right now.
CDR Okay. I'm looking for the serial number on it.
And I m not having a lot of luck.
CC And, CDR, Houston. Was this cable that we're
calling bad, the cable that was used between the
EDDU and the TV input station on the first EREP
pass y sterday? Over.
CDR I don't know the answer to that one. Owen - Jack
says no.
CC Okay. Well, tl_t may not have solved our pro lem
then. But I guess for right now, w 'll consider
it bad and put it out to one side.
CDR Okay. And I can't find any serial number; here's
one, 3002.
CC Beautiful. Thank you.
CDR And we're turning off this TV set, then.
256 16 39 57 CC Stand by, please. Okay. Roger; go ahead and
secure the TV.
256 16 42 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 40 minutes through
Honeysuckle at 17:22. And that' l be a fairly
short pass, a little over a minute. And we'll be
verifying the TACS ENABLED and maneuver time
loaded during that contact. Out.
256 17 22 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for
1 minute. Next station contact in 30 minutes
through Goldstone at 17:52. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. How do you like the time load for
the maneuvers?
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CC Boger. It's GO, both the TACS hardware/software
and the maneuver ime. A quick question for you.
Did the cable used to give good V come from the
EDDU installation? Over.
PLT Yes - Yes, it did, Bruce. The first one wms the
one we had on the TV; the second one was the one
we had on the EDDU.
CC Okay; we copy. Thank you.
256 17 51 55 CDR I'm not going to sk them about the doors since
they were slightly offended yesterday. No, I'm
not, either. Sorry I mentioned it.
CC Skylab, this is Hou ton.
CDR Houston, faded in and out.
256 17 52 l_ CC Skylab, this is Houston through Go dstone,
Corpus Christi, and Bermuda for approximately
16 minutes. Out.
CDR Sou ds like a nice trip.
256 17 52 40 CDR 17:53. Everything's working well, Bruce.
CC I'm glad to hear that.
256 17 53 01 CDR MARK. EREP is STARTING. S to STAND BY, and 9_,
MODE, MANUAL.
PLT We got our problem with the VTS, Bruce.
CC Tell us about it.
PLT Oh, there we go. We're okay now. I thought she
was hung up, but she's not.
CC Roger. Out.
256 17 53 25 CDR VTS CAL on the way.
256 17 53 :I CDR R is ON.
256 17 53 _8 CDR 5"_- 53. 19 MODE, AUTO.
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256 17 5B 54 CDR MODE, AUTO on 190. I'm going to record A-2 and
C-4 in just a second for your benefi . Okay,
A-2 is 47 percent, climbing. C-4 is 71 percent.
Everything is okay.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR All right. By the way, Just to make things simple,
and we've got plenty of time, from now on out let's
don't have a begin prep time. We'll Just begin
prep at the same time we start warmups. We got
plenty of time to do it. So we'll have a turn-on
time and then begin prep/warmup time. And that'll
simplify your thinking down there and it'll
simplify ours. We're able to do it pretty easily
that way.
CC Okay. I gu2ss t1_t now that you've been through
it twenty-some-odd times, you're getting the
hang of it.
CDR Pretty much so. And also the equipment seems
reliable. We haven't had to allow much time to
troubleshoot anything. And I think maybe a good
thing for S1-4 is when they get here, they just
start -
CC Okay, you cut out after "Just start." Be careful
how you talk about the equipment.
CDR Okay, yes. No, never'
256 17 55 14 CDR 193 R to STANDBY. Just a minute. 55:52.
256 17 55 26 PLT There goes White Sands. I ought to take some
data on White Sands for you. There's that lava
Bruce?
CC Stand by.
CC Roger, Jack. If you see you can get it, let's
do it.
PLT Okay. We got it.
CDR He can get it.
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CC You're still in AUTO CAL, though, aren't you?
256 17 55 53 CDR R to STANDBY. Yes, we are. PITCH, 40. But it'll
be off in a mi ute. It'll be off at 56:04. Time
now is 56:02. Okay, there he is. I_ll give him
reference 6 even. How does that surprise you_
Now he's taking data on reference 6. 56:h0.
PLT A1, it's a little off t the left too far.
256 17 56 19 CDR ON and R ON.
PLT I'll give you some of the sand pil , though.
... in the sand pile for Bruce.
256 17 56 41 CDR S ON and R ON. I thought imaybe this afternoon on
my run I'd not only give him Mono Lake, I might
give him a little Walker Lake, too. EREP might
like that, I don't know.
PLT I notice they're awful easy to get along with.
256 17 57 08 PLT 58:33 I ought to see Tuttle Reservoir, but I
think it's going to be under the clouds.
CDR Okay, that's a minute and a half from now, Jack,
as you well know.
PLT Yes, nuts_ Going to be under the clouds - -
CDR Going to INTERVALOMETER l0 in a few moments.
PLT I was going to pick off Tuttle eservoir for you,
space fans. But looks like we're Just hitting that
front.
256 17 57 _ll CDR INTERVALOMETER lO.
PLT We'll, we're going to get our frontal clouds -
nadir swath pretty good. At 58:33 I figured out.
256 17 57 h7 CDR MODE, READY on 192. Everything's moving along.
PLT And at 58 and a quarter ... - -
CDR And at 58, A to STANDBY when the time comes;
93, POL 4.
r
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256 17 58 01 CDR A to STANDBY. 93 to P0L 4. That's not right.
256 17 58 13 CDR ANGLE, PITCH, zero. I got her. 58:30. Okay.
I'm going to record A-2 and C-4 for you again.
58:30.
PLT It looks like frontal clouds it's going to be,
Bruce.
CC Roger.
256 17 58 31 CDR Okay. A-2, 52. C-L, 71.
PLT ...
256 17 58 40 CDR It's dropping now. A-2's now around 21. Behaving
like it normally does.
256 17 58 50 PLT ... a little hot for you today, hut no cooperation
here with the weather.
CC Owen's big moment is coming up here in about
3 seconds .
CDR I hope the weather's good.
256 17 59 03 CC MARK. Overh ad Enid.
PLT Scattered clouds.
CDR Good.
CDR 193 enter - -
PLT There's a hole in the clouds.
CDR Just a momen .
PLT 0wen, that's Vance Air Force Base, you lucky dog,
O.
256 17 59 17 CDR Okay. STANDBY. R STANDBY, S ON. R ON. Okay,
we've done it. Ready out on 190 at 59:30.
PLT 0., there's a hole in the clouds right over Enid.
CDR Enid does it again.
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256 17 59 31 CDR Okay, READY out.
PLT We've got a lot of fans down there.
256 17 59 34 CDR 59:40 is 190 mode, STANDBY.
PLT Oh, that guy has all the luck.
CDR He needs it.
PLT He's a lucky guy.
256 17 59 41 CDR STANDBY frames 04. INTERV LOMETER, 20. Standing
by for 18:00 and 30.
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SKYLAB AIE-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
256 18 00 17 PLT Okay, it says I've got to slew up there to pick
up the big lake. We've still got some frontal
clouds here though. Let me see if I can delay
it a little bit.
PLT .....
256 18 00 32 CDR Okay, POLARIZATION, 3.
PLT Well, there's Lake Michigan all right.
256 18 00 39 CDR POLARIZATION, 2.
PLT It's nea ly clobbered with clouds. Maybe I can
find a hole in there somewhere.
256 18 00 _8 CDR ]POLARIZATION, i.
256 18 00 5h CDR 90 is MODE, AUTO.
256 18 01 00 CDR Right on.
PLT (3kay,we're taking data on Lake Michigan. We got
a hole in the cloud. It's a litt e hazy, but
acceptable, with high cirrus with a few - high
broken cirrus, I'd call it.
256 18 01 21 CDR S to STANDBY; R to STANDBY; S, ON. Standing by
for 01:h7, at which time we go S, STANDBY again
and A, ON.
PLT Give me all the tough targets.
PLT E - -
256 18 O1 48 CDR S to STANDBY; A to ON.
PLT Enid, Oklahoma: Used to be famous for the -
being the home of the Grand National Quail Hunt.
Now, that's got to take second place to the
Big 0. there.
256 18 02 02 CDR Two minutes. READY, out; MODE, to STANDBY;
FRAMES to 6.
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PLT Favorite son.
CDR This didn't put the zero in there again. We'll
live through it, though. How 91 point ... 5.
256 18 02 ii PLT Okay, we're going down through minus 15 on the
gimbals on Lake Michigan. Yo know what we're
doing now.
256 18 02 20 CDR MODE, STANDBY on 92.
PLT Right ...
CDR 02:2_ is 55, OFF and R, OFF.
256 18 02 26 CDR That's it. S, OFF; R, OFF. 02:36, SHUTTER
SPEED, MEDIUM,
256 18 02 37 CDR SHUTTER SPEED, MEDIUM - MEDIUM.
PLT Lansing loo s clobbered, space fans. Hi, over
there.
256 18 02 45 CC Sorry about that, Jack.
PLT Yes. Well. Guess I'm going to have to Just sneak
a peak around here and find out what else I can
find. Going up over Lake Huron and Georgian Bay.
256 18 03 ll C R I have 't got much running. In fact, we got
zilch running. 191 is doing it. Whatever
you're ... - -
PLT Georgian Bay; we're passing Georgian Bay. Lots
of clouds.
256 18 03 33 CC You got 19 - 193-A on, don't you, Al?
CDR Oh, yes; that's right. I see it down there; it
is on.
PLT 20 plus 17 ... - -
CDR Altimetering alo g here. You're right; t ank you
very much.
PLT At 06, we ought to be over - -
_ r
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256 18 03 46 CDR Also, 194 is on
CDR Roger.
256 18 03 50 CDR Well, we got three of them, and the tape re-
corder's on. i, 2, 3, h.
256 19 03 56 SPT 29 frames on the ETC, Bruce.
CC Okay, (>wen; we copy.
256 18 Oh 02 CDR 28 o them were Enid.
256 18 Oh 06 PLT What a lucky guy.
CDR What a guy.
256 18 Oh 08 PLT You should have seen - you should h ve seen the
cloud pattern around Enid.
256 18 0h 12 CC I guess we'll tell the Dhoto lab to lay out
anothe stock of 16 X 20 print paper.
CDR That's right. How mauy citizens are there? 05:28.
PLT We've turned on the anticloud switch for you
:right on time there, O.
256 18 0& 26 SPT Sure appreciate that.
PLT I knew you'd like it.
256 18 0h 28 CDR Altimeter went off. Standing by for 05:28, which
is a minute from now. Altimeter is unlocked
for some reason. May have finished its move.
256 18 05 02 CDR 05:28.
PLT Okay, you wanted some data in the Gulf of
St. Lawrence the other day, and now's the time
you're going to get it. Whoops.
256 18 05 14 CDR There's some water there now, Jack. Bombed
that one.
256 18 05 18 CDR Okay, altimeter is still unlocked, but maybe
that's the way it works about this time.
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PLT Okay, I'm not going to take sny pictures of
this because it's not ready to photograph - -
256 18 05 25 CDR A to STANDBY; 5, 6, 7, 8, 05:28. Mode to 5, - -.
PLT If you guys will now mark your data, I'm looking
at the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
256 18 05 33 CDR - - RANGE, 65. 06:10, is A going to be ON.
PLT And when I get to zero, I'm going to nadir
swath.
CDR Nadir swath.
256 18 05 53 PLT S y, Bruce, is anybody in the backroom keeping
track of all the extra data we're getting so
that they can correlate it, or is it just was-
ted energy on our part?
256 18 06 01 CC o, it's very useful. Just keep describing it,
and tell us what you're getting. And we're
recording the voice and the data; we'll corre-
late it later.
PLT Okay, very good. And at the moment, we're ...
Gulf of St. Lawrence. And it's at zero, so I'm
going nadir swath right now.
256 18 06 22 CC Did the CDR get 193-A on at 06:107
CDR You better believe it, but thanks for asking.
I've got - -
CC Yes, my general philosophy is just to - not to
say anything here, because I - everytime I do, I
interrupt you.
256 18 06 36 CDR No - no, you don't.... - -
PLT Cloud - clouds are over the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
CDR Keep us - keep us honest, Jerry. I got it on.
256 18 06 h4 PLT No, that's a good idea, Bruce. Keep us - keep
us straight here. Okay, we're going over inter-
mittent clouds and water at the moment. We're
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going to get some clear water here, quickly.
I'm going to swath a little bit to the right.
256 18 06 58 CDR ()kay.
FLT Now we're into clear water.
256 18 07 07 PLT How do you like the maneuver time back to solar
inertial, Bruce?
CC We like that.
256 18 07 14 PLT Little bit of clouds now; mark. Okay, now
we're going to hit land. Stand by.
256 18 07 22 PLT _L_RK. We're over land and clouds. Land and
clouds.
256 18 07 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 5 minutes through Madrid
at 18:13, where we'll dump the data voice tape
recorder. And did you get 193-A locked back
ON when you turned it ON again? Or, excuse me,
the ALTIMETER.
CDR Yes, that's affirmative. It appeared to have
gone through a sequence and then Just retired.
And then when I put it ON, the READY light
came on, and the altimeter slowly unlocked, and
it's been - I mean fully locked up, and it's
been flickering every once and a
w
hile. Pres-
ently locked .
256 18 08 07 PLT Still over land and clouds.
CDR At 08:33, we got to go MODE, AUTO.
PLT Hey, we're coming into water again. Stand by.
256 18 08 16 PLT MARK. We're over water. Our up/down is zero;
our - we got 15 to the right end. Fifteen angles
to the - 15 degrees in angle to the right.
Those angles come in degrees.
256 18 08 3h CDR Okay, we just turned MODE, AUTO on the S1 90.
PLT Stand by time is 13.
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CDR Yes, I'm watching it for you; you got
4-1/2 minutes.
CDR 09:26 is A to STANDBY.
256 16 08 48 PLT Check. Okay, we're in the Atlantic now. We're
taking data over the Atlantic. And we're com-
ing up on some scattered clouds here, now.
And I'm going to take my finge off it.
256 18 09 03 PLT MARK. We're over some cirrus .....
256 18 09 05 CC Okay, we're losing you now.
CDR/PLT Okay.
256 18 09 09 CDR See you in Bermuda.
256 18 09 l0 PLT MARK. We're off the stra us and have blue
water.
256 18 09 ll CC At Madrid.
256 18 09 12 CDR Well, we'll stop by Bermuda and ...
PLT Ol@.
256 18 09 18 PLT MARK. We're .., stratus clouds ...
256 18 09 19 CDR ... Standby.
256 18 13 26 CDR 31 percent, same as it always is. 192 DOOR
coming CLOSED, and I'm going OFF, RECORD.
256 18 13 35 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for
9 minutes, and we'll be dumping the ata voice
tape recorder this site. Been asked to pass to
you a comment that your running commentary here
on the EREP pass is the closest thing we've
encountered so far to the - the voice traffic
and commentary that we were getting on the lunar
landings on Apollo Program. Over.
256 18 14 04 PLT Roger. Thank you, Bruce. I hope you don't mind
it. I thought it might help on the data. And
the only thing is, we don't want to land.
J
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256 18 14 :L3 CC No, indeed. We - we encourage the - the com-
mentary_ and yes, you don't want to land.
You've still got a few days left up there.
256 18 16 1.6 CDR And Bruce, we're going to be turning off every-
thing but the 192 POWER here in a f w seconds.
256 18 16 36 CC Okay, we copy that, Alan.
256 18 17 35 CC And, CDR, this is Houston. We've got a GO
from EREP for you to do Walker Lake and Mono
Lake next pass, if you like.
256 18 17 L2 CDR Okay. Okay, I'll give it a go.
256 18 18 06 CDR ey, I've got to turn this 191 OFF here in a
second, Jack. Twenty-six. That's it. 191 is
OFF, and POWER is OFF; the COOLER is OFF.
Everything is OFF but 92. And everything else
is fine. Okeydoke, Jack. You've got - you
can do that TAPE RECORDER.
256 18 21 513 CC Skylab, this is Hous on. One minute to LOS.
Next station con act in 38 minutes through
Honeysuckle at 18:59. Out.
256 18 22 C3 PLT See you there, Bruce.
256 18 59 57 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
Creek for 6 minutes. And we see you've already
got the maneuver time loaded in for the EREP
maneuver number 28 Z-LV. It l oks good to us.
Over.
256 19 00 27 SPT Okay, Bruce.
CC And, for your information, tape recorde
number 3, which was replaced this morning, has
been dumped successfully twice by us. And it's
looking very good to us down here.
256 19 01 l0 CC And, Skylab, this is Houston. It looks to us
like you may have omitted - or be a minute or
so late on the last Nuz update, which was
scheduled for 19:00 Z.
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256 19 01 33 SPT Thanks, Bruce. We'll get it.
256 19 02 09 PLT How do you like that, Bruce?
PLT We're going to leave that in.
256 19 02 22 CC Skylab, Houston. I looks good to us. Thank
you.
256 19 04 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 16 minutes through
Hawaii at 19:20. Out.
256 19 2o 48 sc . . .
256 19 20 55 PLT READY light's on on 194 .... Check ...
pre-operation configuration complete; standing
by to do the - pre-operate ... 3; 1 minute and
40 seconds.
256 19 21 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for
4-1/2 minutes. We see you're in he second
Z-LV maneuver. And the maneuver time that you
loaded subsequently looks good to us. Over.
PLT Thank you, Bruce.
CC And, for your information, we believe that TV-4
this morning was a total loss because of the -
the cable problem with the TV camera. And
we'll look into trying to reschedul it some-
time later in the mission.
256 19 21 57 PLT All right; thank you. I guess we don't have
but one other time.
CC That's correct.
256 19 22 08 PLT Man, they were good pics, too; you really"
missed it. You should have been here.
256 19 22 16 CC Yes, I've been saying that for a long time, Jack.
PLT I know t, and that's what I was thinking, Bruce.
I sure hope it ain't too long.
256 19 22 37 PLT Okay, 19:23 and standing by.
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256 19 22 54 PLT SCAT and ALTIMETER to STANDBY; so here we go.
Standing by on that.
256 19 23 01 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.
256 19 23 04 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY. Now we got to
stand around for 3 minutes and h8 seconds.
256 19 23 h6 CC CDR, Houston. On the last pass when the alti-
meter unlocked, did the READY light go out?
Over.
CDR Yes.
CC Understand yes, affirmative. Over.
256 19 24 D3 CDR That's affirm; yes.
256 19 24 128 CDR (Laughter) Got to remember that each site has
two parts to it. This last site had two sites,
but I - you do this track this n the lake and
swath across for 10. Then I go to Walker,
track it until it gets to 5, and then get out
and get this granite outcropping. Efficiency
would be past 5, though, see, because I do a
nadir swath 1 at zero. So that means when I
get this, it's already got to be behind us.
PLT Huh, that cuts the nadir swath short.
256 19 25 01 CDR That nadir swath ... lO-second nadir swath.
If I could mske it a 5-second nadir swath, it'd
be a lot better. Well, we'll do it right. We
missed the second one; we'll probably get it,
but I don't know if we'll be able to - -
256 19 25 -_4 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 45 seconds to LOS.
Next station contact in about 4 minutes through
Goldstone at 19:28. And for the CDR, we don't
mean to be pestering you, but did the ALTIMETER
READY light go out at the same time as the
UNLOCK light came on? That is, were they coin-
cident al? Over.
256 19 25 "12 CDR I do not know. I looked down and noticed that
the UNLOCK light was on. I looked over and
noticed the READY light was out. They could have
occurred in either sequence.
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256 19 25 43 CC Okay; thank you.
256 19 26 19 PLT A1, I can pick that side up at 36 minutes and
track it down to zero, which is right where you
need to be for your nadir swath. At 37:08.
256 19 26 31 CDR I don't want to - I don't think we ought to tr ...
256 19 27 54 PLT I'm going to get you an AUTO CAL h re in a
moment.
CDR Okay.
256 19 28 01 PLT MARK. AUTO CAL. READY light goes out. Okay,
Alfa 1 is reading 65 percent, and Bravo 1 is
60 percent - on a slow search, it looks like
to me.
256 19 28 18 CDR What's going on on your pad between - let's
see, you're going to - you'd be between
35:40 and 37:087
PLT Yes.
256 19 28 27 CDR And you'd ma e the - you'd get special 5. You
got to - we'd - is that right? You got to track
clouds and - both the anvils and the main
clouds. We ought to switch permanently right
then, if we're going to switch. I think we
could do it if we switched permanently.
256 19 28 46 PLT You think so?
CDR Now, what kind of - -
PLT If it's all clouds there, why there's no sense
in even looking.
CDR Well, then you can do the clouds. You'd have
to do the cl uds in this nadir swath.
256 19 28 56 PLT I haven't briefed myself well enough on what
you've got to do.
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CDR You point at the clouds and take data. And
then when it gets down to the zilch, you
switch over to another place - you know, try
the anvil tops. You could special ... special l,
special 5. What time does this go? 31:46.
Time now is 29.
256 19 29 23 PLT 29:50. I need a decision - -
CDR Tracking column. Acquire anvil top of cloud
until you get to 10. Five seconds of data.
Select a clear area near clouds. They don't
want you to check clear in the area; they want
you to get a regular cloud near it.
256 19 29 38 PLT Okay, Charlie 1 is around 90 percent, and it's
getting higher. It's around 90 to 95 percent.
Alfa 1 is 50, Alfa - Bravo 1 is 50 to 55 percent.
And Charlie 1 is right around 94 percent right
now. Alfa l, Bravo 1 right around 50 percent.
So - -
256 19 30 00 CDR What have you got that on at 35:40?
256 19 30 05 PLT Uh, 35:40. I'm waiting for 30 seconds at that
point.
CDR Your next ACQ is 35:30?
256 19 30 13 PLT Yes, right in here somewhere.
256 19 30 14 CDR You got READY, out; MODE, STANDBY; and then
37:06 is your next ACQ. We could swath right
there, No, you don't. You got a 36:10.
256 19 30 22 _LT Wait a minute, let me look. 30:28.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRAN CRIPTION
256 19 30 32 PLT Okay, there's READY out on the ALTI ETER at 3 2.
Record A-I and B-I. A- is 56 percent and B-I
is 58 percent. And we already recorded Charlie i.
256 19 30 ]49 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Goldstone, Bermuda fo r
about 8 minutes.
CDR What'd he say?
SPT Goldstone, Bermuda.
PLT Okay, ALTIMETER was put in STANDBY.
CDR 31:h9 is what we're looking for.
256 19 31 Ol PLT REF 6 is set.
CDR 31:h6.
PLT Alfa 2 and Charlie h, I recorded as follows,
Bruce. Alfa 2 is h0 percent and Charlie h is
70 perc nt.
CDR 31:h6. LEFT, h6; LEFT, 2.9. Bl:h6.
256 19 31 _7 PLT And I was a little late on getting MODE to
_JTO on 190.
CDR Okay, we got the target in sight, right now.
PLT Atta boy.
CDR Put the camera on. We've go the site in
sight. I'll punc it right in there; go right
B
PLT Okay, standing by for a SCAT, ON and RAD, ON.
CDR Zoom in on it. 0kay, we're now taking data.
CDR Camera and data. I've got to watch this until
i0 degree when I'm going to go - -
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256 19 31 57 PLT SCAT is ON and the RAD is ON.
CDR - - ... around the lake.
PLT 32:16, next. The tape burner s going on.
CDR . . . We're right on the island. We're getting
great data. Nice lineup by EREP. Right on the
center of the island. Right on the top, I
guess. Looking for l0 degrees. We're now
at 30 - -
256 19 32 17 PLT MARK. MODE, READY for 192. The MALF light
was on and the off. TAPE MOTION light's back
on. POLAR 4.
CDR We're at 25 de rees. Everything's going just
dandy.
PLT Standing by for SCAT and RAD to STANDBY.
CDR 16 degrees, we're at right now.
CDR ll:10. Okay, we're now taking data on the
lake. Taking data on the lake right next to
the island. Stan by for a - -
256 19 32 50 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY 2 seconds.
CDR Okay - -
256 19 32 52 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
CDR l, 2,
3
, h, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
PLT 33 :l0
CDR Okay, let's se if we can get it. Walker Lake's
right there. We got W_Iker Lake inert. Run
in and get it.
256 19 33 ll PLT MARK. ALTIMETER's ON.
CDR Okay. We're taking data on - -
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256 19 33 lh PLT SCAT's OFF; RAD's OFF. 33:50, next.
CDR - - the lake. We'll take 5 seconds with i, 2,
3, 4, 5. Now we got to zoom out and go see if
we can find that outcrop. There's the outcrop,
if we can get there in time. here it is ; right
there. Okay, we've got the outcrop. And we're
taking data on it.
PLT Standing by for INTERVALS to i0 on 190.
CDR Okay, we've got good data on both. Okay, let's
go to zero, CAMERA, OFF. Let's go to zero.
16, 15, 5 h, 3, --
256 19 33 51 PLT _[ARK. INTERVAL's to l0 on 190. 34, next.
CDR Zero, LEFT, RIGHT, zero. A d we're supposed to
start the swath at 34:09.
PLT Okay.
CDR We got it made. We'll get the swath in.
PLT Alfa 2 is reading 52 percent. Charlie 4
is reading 71 percent.
CDR Okay. We're in the nadir swath, cutting across
to Salt Lake, so we got them all. Everything
is working Just right.
PLT Standing by for 36:10.
256 19 34 17 CDR X-TRACK ANGLE, zero; UP and DOWN, zero. We're
right on. There's Salt Lake; see the split
in the lake colors. Passed over the northwest
corner.
256 19 34 29 CDR MARK. We're over the eastern edge of the lake
now. We're proceeding out towards the mountain.
We continu this one with no DAC until 34:38,
34:38. That was just a few seconds ago. Okay.
Let's go to the next one. 35:06, same thing.
That's a pretty lake down there. 35:06. Okay.
I'm watch ng the DATA mark button. I did not
have the DATA mark button depressed during the
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nadir swath previously, but we had a nice nadir
swath So you can Just relate it to the time.
We were right on.....
PLT Standing by for 36:10.
CDR Okay. It's going to go off at 35:40. 35:40, this
one goes off. Got some good weather, Jack.
PLT I bet you that one is open.
256 19 35 32 CDR Want to give it a go, if we can. 35:40. 38,
39, 40. Okay. That's it.
PLT Right there? Pencil mark.
PLT You've a pencil mark?
CDR 35:56, 35:56. I g t to do 36:10, right?
256 19 36 04 PLT Yes.
256 19 36 05 CDR Okay, 36:10. MODE TO STANDBY, 36:10, 92 to STANDBY.
It is. READY, out at 36:50.
CDR MODE to STANDBY when READY is out.
256 19 36 33 CC One minute to LOS through Goldstone. Talk to you
through Bermuda in about 4 minutes. Out.
CDR Okay.
PLT I'm tracking a cloud.
CDR Okay. You want to start tracking a cloud at 37:08,
which is another 15 seconds or so from now, Jack.
If you don't get it, start tracking an anvil top
at 37:08 at 45 degrees LEFT, zero.
CDR READY, out. Going to STANDBY. Okay, 37:06. A to
STANDBY. Need any more instructions?
PLT No, I don't.
CDR Three more seconds, she should be at 45 degrees.
Okay, there's 37:08.
PLT Okay.
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CDR Okay, I've gone A, STANDBY, MODE to 5, RANGE to 67.
PLT Okay, I'm hunting for an anvil top, but I don't
see one.
CDR Try to find one somewhere. 190 SHUTTER SPEED,
MEDIUM. 37:30. Okay.
256 19 37 31 CDR SHUTTER SPEED, MEDIUM_ FRAME , 0, h. Intervalo-
meter, i . 38:03, 190 MODE, AUTO.
PLT I don't see a thunderstorm anywhere, AI.
CDR Too clear, huh?
PLT Yes.
CDR ...
256 19 h0 59 CDR There's clouds, but none of them have - one of
them are cumulus clouds.
PLT No.
CDR They're little bitty puffy things.
CDR Can't even get clouds when you want them.
256 19 41 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda fo 6
minutes. Out.
CDR Ok y, everything went okay. We weren't able to
find any thunderstorms around so that we could do
the special 05. There's some, kind of what I'd
call a strato-cu or alto-cu down there, ut they're
all very small puffy clouds. I've been looking
for the last h or 5 minutes and there just isn't
any around. Owen looked out the wardroom window
and couldn't find any either. Just don't have
any big funnel clouds for us today. I may see
some before it's over. So if I do, I'll take
the data on the time.
CC Roger. Out.
PLT If it hadn't been for a few clouds, we would have
pulled off the neatest EREP stunt so far, Bruce.
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CC We heard you swapping places. We weren't sure
exactly what it was you were setting up for, though.
PLT Right in between the nadir swaths, it turns out
that the 0ahe Reservoir site that I have - supposed
to fall into view. And I got down there and I
got the Oahe Reservoir. And the picture of that
reservoir in my book, looks like a dragon with
front legs and back legs. And the front legs
were open, but the back legs where the site is
where covered with clouds, unfortunately.
CC Sorry to hear that. But it sounds like you're
really hustling up there.
CDR (Laughter) It would have been a good - good -
show.
PLT It's kind of like close air support, Bruce.
(Laughter)
256 19 42 42 CDR 43:34. MARK.
PLT Take them out and get them.
CDR 43:34 - -
CC ... kill
PLT (Laughter)
CDR _3:34, we'll get a few sites here.
PLT Okay. Let's hang in there, now. 43:19, coming up.
CDR Okay. Still no cumulus, but we're zero, zero now
for this last nadir swatch.
PLT Let me double check. No, still no ...
CDR However, still 8 more minutes to hunt before SI.
256 19 43 04 PLT SHUTTER SPEED is SLOW. The F AMES are in 0, 8,
and the INTERVALS are in 20. We're ready to go
into AUTO at 43:19.
CDR 43:3h.
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256 19 43 20 PLT MARK. A TO on 190.
PLT Oh, rats! We're coming to the end of this.
256 19 43 35 CDR - - nadir swath. Found out you don't push the
button, anyway. couldn't remember. You Just
swath it. We're swathing at zero, zero, zero.
We're over some cirrus clouds.
PLT That Oahe Reservoir is giving me a fit. I almost
got it yesterday when it ran out of film.
PLT I had it right on, but we couldn't trak it through
zero because we ran out of right gimbal.
CDR Walker Lake, we got both the lake and the
outcropping.
PLT Way to go.
CC Roger. We copied all that.
CDR Okay. 44:14, 45:33 is what we need. The cam ra
r nning, we're getting a lot of cirrus clouds
down there. We see the water, now, every - I'd
say it's 95 percent covered at the moment, h5:33.
There now, we've broken out of the clouds. We're
seeing about 50 percent coverage. This is some
more st rati-cu[mulus ].
CDR No thunderbumps anywhere. The land, again, looks
like ....
256 19 45 08 PLT That's the first t me i've had a nadir lineup
here that I can remember.
CDR 45: •..
PLT Noticed that A-1 and B-1 move more slowly than
they do in simulator. That's the square search
or eve -decreasing square search. They move more
slowly - -
CDR And we're nearing the end. We're at scattered
clouds, scattered small. Now approaching the
bay, I bet. Okay, that's the end of that one.
Now, I'm going to zoom out ahead and see if we
can pick up some - -
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256 19 45 40 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON.
CDR - - Any sort of bumpers out here. There's
some stratus .
256 19 45 47 PLT MARK. READY light out on 190. Stand by.
PLT 49:03. ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
CDR More stratus. You can get all the stratus
data you want, but I'm not ... - -
PLT 49:03, That's a half a day from now.
CDR I've got to go back, and 53 is SI.
PLT 53 is your big number.
CDR Okay, how's SI maneuver time look to you?
Probably good.
CC Looks good to us when we saw you coming
over the hill to start with.
CDR Oh, yes, I remember now. Okay.
CDR Got lots of stratus.
256 19 46 29 CC One minute to LOS. Next station contact
in 4 minutes through Canary at 19:50.
CDR Okay.
256 19 46 54 SPT Hey, Bruce, 34 frames, 34 on the ETC.
PLT
47.
256 19 46 58 CC We copy, Owen.
CDR Six minutes to go. You running?
PLT Yes.
CDR Okay, we're doing it over the ocean there.
The ALTIMETER 's running.
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PLT And you're running, too.
CDR Yes. I'm looking around for a thunderstorm,
but don't have any. Noneto be had.
256 19 47 i_5 CDR I wish that would c me on.
256 19 50 i_6 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary for
l0 minutes. Out.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
PLT Still running.
256 19 52 01 PLT MARK. 194, MANUAL.
256 19 52 27 PLT Are you there, Bruce?
CC Yes, sir. Still here.
PLT O ay. I've noticed that on the AUTO CAL that
we do after - just before we shut thin s down,
takes about 2 minutes and 38 se onds as about
- as opposed to 2, 26.
256 19 52 !_2 PLT MARK. That we got the AUTO CAL light on now.
CC Isn't it normally 2, 40.
PLT Yes, but they say wait 2, 26 on our little
checklist change, and that's what's got me
puzzled ... .
CC Hey, okay. Jack, that is to - I believe that's
to allow you to shut the power off with the
calibration capping shutter in place instead
of closing the door.
256 19 53 08 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, STANDBY and go to stop.
PLT Yes, I always wait until the light comes on -
Just to make sure everything is working all
right and so forth. And it takes 2, 40, not
2, 26. And, perhaps the time wasn't until
light on, anywa .
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CC Hey, Jack, what we're trying to do is to get
you to push the button, and precisely 2 minutes
and 26 seconds after you push the button, put
the 191 POWER switch OFF. This is before the
auto cal sequence is complete.
PLT Okay. Well, then l've been doing it wrong.
I - AI says he's been doing it your way,
and l've been thinking that that was a
minimum as opposed to an exact time.
256 19 53 55 CC No, this is when you're shutting down $191,
like at the end of the run here, we want to
interrupt the thing in mid-cycle so that the
calibration cover or hemisphere is over the
sensor and stays there, so that in between
runs the thing is protected since you can't
close the 191 door.
PLT Okay, I guess I didn't read the checklist
change that way; perhaps, A1 did. I read it -
it just says wait 2 minutes and 26 and then
turn the POWER, OFF. And I thought that that
was not time-critical thing, but since it
is, I'll make that little notation and I'll
do it properly from now.on. And I appreciate
you calling it to my attention. I'm glad
I brought it up because, otherwise, I probably
would have just kept on making sure I waited
at least 2, 26 and then POWER, OFF sometime
thereafter. But I'll do it right on the money
here from here on out.
CC Okeydoke.
256 19 54 51 PLT I'm glad we found that out, Br ce. And B-7,
Just for the record, is reading 30 to 31
percent. That's Bravo 7.
CC Roger. We copy.
256 19 55 02 PLT And the DOOR is coming to CLOSE on 192.
Window is coming closed and -
256 19 59 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute until LOS
here at Canary. Next station contact in 36
minutes through Honeysuckle Creek at 20:35 where
we will be dumping the data voice tape recorder.
Out.
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256 20 35 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle
Creek for 9 minutes, and we will be dumping
the data voice tape recorder at this site.
Over.
256 20 35 53 CC Skylab, this is Houston through H neysuckle
Creek for 9 minutes, dumping data voice tape
recorder at this site. Over.
CDR Okay. You might take a look at our momentum.
We think that we Just fied a mib.
SPT And we had an ATM MALF momentarily, Just as
you were giving us a call.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Roger. We confirm a
mib. We saw only one firing. We believe
that your momentum is at its peak right now;
it will be going down. So Just hang in there
and it should work out all right. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
CC And for the CDR.
CDR Gc ahead.
CC Roger. We've come up with the procedures
for sh fting your circadian rhythm_ around
prior to launch. These entail shifting your
schedule 2 hours early, that is with a 2-hour
early wakeup, commencing with mission day 52
and then an addit onal 2 hours commencing on
mission day 5h. So you wind up with your day
shifted h hours early. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC And we're going to do it both times, here,
by taking the 2 hours out of your sleep. The
intent of shifting you over is to avoid masking
any effects or to avoid creating any additional
effects on the biomed data after recovery due
to possible circadian rhythm upsets. Over.
256 20 37 3!) CDR Okay. We understand their thinking. And
I assume, then, we'll be getting to bed 2
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hours earlier the night before. Is that
correct?
256 20 37 h8 CC That is incorrect. Over.
CDE See if you can convince the Flight Planners
to make it correct. I don't think we're
going to hustle around on - Right now, we're
getting about 7-1/2 h urs sleep. So I don't
think we're going to do too well on 5-1/2
hours sleep.
CC Okay. The input I'm getting here is that if
you guys will promise to go to bed 2 hours
early, we'll put it in the schedule. If you
don't think you're going to actually get
turned in 2 hours early, we'd ike to go
ahead and schedule stuff there. Over.
CC I guess it's a credibility probl m here.
256 20 38 37 CDR I'll tell you what. I think - I think - we
ought to end the work day 2 hours earlier on
those 2 days preceding those two. So we have
the time available to go to bed, if we feel
like it.
CC Okay. We'll do that, Alan. An - I'm - Just
trying to c ean up a couple of items here.
For the SPT, we have S063 scheduled for tomorrow.
What is the status with the NK01, Nikon electric
camera? Does it work properly electrically
now? Over.
SPT As far a I can tell, it does work properly.
CC Okay. Thank you. And for the PLT, on the
star/Moon sightings for T002, we're wondering
if you think you'll still be able to see the
Moon on mission day h9, which is tomorrow,
from our plots on the wardroom window and all
that? It seems sort of m_ginal. We think
you're probably in a better position to estimate.
Over.
PLT Well, I'ii agree that I probably am in a
pretty good position to do that, Bruce. And
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the Moon happens to be out there right now,
and if I were to have to do it right now, I
think I could do it. So I think I could
probably d it tomorrow.
CC Okay, our plan is to schedule star/Moon sight-
ings up to day 0, incl_mive, and to assist
in our - Okay, I got h t, I'm sorry. That's
it. Thank you.
PL It look like to me this must be our last
opportunity to do that. And I'm wondering how
many of those star/Moon sessions we got to do
yet.
256 20 4y 38 CC PLT, Houston. We have two more star /Moon
sessions scheduled, following those scheduled
for tomorrow. I can't get a real firm
input right now on when they'll be in the Flight
Plan. Over.
256 20 40 55 PLT Okay. It looks like if we can't get them
tomorrow or the next day, we probably won't
get a hance to, then, if the Moon won't be
in an able position. So maybe we ought
to either try to get two session_ in one or
count two in one, as we've - done that m_uy
in t e past. Now I got a little word to
relay to you about EREP. Number 1 point is
that we change the dessiccants today. Number
2 point, in doing the tape measurement, I
got 2-13/32 inches of space remaining on the
takeup reel and 31/32 inches of space remaining
on the supply reel.
256 20 hi 36 CC That was 2-13/32 on takeup and 31/32 on the
supply?
256 20 41 49 PLT I guess you cut out there for a minute, Bruce.
We got 2-13/32 inches of space remaining on
the takeup and 31/32 space remaining on the
supply.
CC Okay. That's empty space measured radially
inward from the outside part of the reel?
PLT Yes, sir.
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CC Beautiful. And, also, for you, later on
today, we've got this EV-3 cooling experiment.
And since the M518 is using panel ll5 high-
power accessory outlet, you'll need to connect
two high-power accessory cables together in
series to panel 402 and run it up there in
the MDA to connect to the suit drying blower
to keep you cool. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. I was going to mention that to
you. I'd like to suggest something else, if
I could. We're running short of these cables,
and how a out if we were to take the one that's
connected to the VTR right now and plug into
that one? That one's running down to he dome.
CC Let us put you off on that until the nex_
station and let us kick it around here. We're
currently a minute and 30 seconds until LOS.
Our next station contact is in 12 minutes
through Hawaii at 20:55. Over.
256 20 h3 30 CC PLT, Houston. With respect to your suggestion,
the VTR is intended to be - being dumped through
stateside sites during the period in question for
the EV-3 cooling experiment. Over.
PLT Okay. I'll try to - I guess I can round up
a couple more hlgh-powered cables. I see one
here, and there's another one around somewhere.
CC Yes, if you're going to scrounge them up,
there's probably one on the shower.
PLT We used that one. It's - well, it's hooked
up now to the centrifuge and one to the ETC.
I see them both.
256 20 _h 08 CC Okay. See you over Hawaii.
256 20 55 30 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for
9 minutes. Out.
256 20 55 52 PLT Say, Bruce, we ave a little difficulty finding
one of the DAC magazines. CI69 is not in I-5.
It is empty.
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CC Stand by on that, please.
PLT Okay.
256 20 57 ()4 CC PLT, Houston. You can us CI70 in I-6, and
we'll track th problem. Over.
256 20 57 L6 CDR Okay.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
256 20 59 57 CC PLT, Houston.
PLT ,3oahead, Bruce.
PLT Yes, Jack, in checki g our records, the last time
that C169 was used, and it was used about 50 per-
cent, was on your previous run of TO20. It's one
of the 140-foot magazines, and we're wondering if
perhaps you could have left it in the maneuvering
uni_ inste
a
d of r
e
turning it to 1-5 a th
a
t time.
Over.
PLT No, we didn't do that] I checked that, too, and
I had r placed the DAC back in the DAC locker and
so there's - that maneuvering unit is empty as
far as f_]m goes.
PLT We found it in I-lO, Bruce.
CC Say again. PLT, Houston.
PLT We found the missing film in I-lO, as opposed to
the other location.
256 21 03 25 CC Roger; we copy.
256 21 03 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute and 20 sec-
onds to LOS here at Hawaii. Next station contact
in about 3 minutes through Goldstone at 21:07.
Out.
256 21 07 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for
8 minutes. Out.
256 21 13 14 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Bermuda at 18.
SPT Sounds like you have to go to w rk, Hank.
CC Yes. It's about that time. Go get a little licks.
CC FLT, Houston. As we 're going over the hill here,
we'd like to suggest you use CI70 for your TO20
run. It's a full mag and use the 69 as a spare
or reserve. If you use 69 to start with, we're
afraid you'll run out about halfway through the
rllrl.
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SPT He said okay.
256 21 14 22 CC Copy.
256 21 18 05 SPT Hank, I don't know whether you remember; we've
had some discussion recently about the performance
of our persistent image scope.
256 21 18 35 CC Skylab, we're with you through Bermuda for
8-1/2 minutes.
SPT I don't know whether you remember or not; we've
had some discussion over the last few days about
the performance of this persistent image scope.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
SPT I wish I could say I fixed it, which I didn't do,
but somehow or other it fixed itself. We've a]]
played with it from time to time and changed the
batteries. And I never took the switch apart,
but for some reason, it's decided to behave in
the way it has behaved before. I can't help but
think that if there is an explanation that is
reasonable, the - seems to be most probable that
that phosphor has changed its characteristics or
something llke that. But it now behaves in the
way it was behaving in the early part of the mis-
sion. And we can get a good image and make good
use f it.
CC We copy that, but we - we hardly know what to say
in response to it.
SPT I hardly know how to tell you.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, there's a possibility
we may get a few TACS firings here in the next
few minutes. We're going into this dump with a
pretty high momentum state.
256 21 20 15 SPT Roger. It does look pretty high.
256 21 26 3_ CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS; Canaries
at 28.
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256 21 29 06 CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries for 7 minutes.
PLT Roger.
256 21 35 00 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS here
at Canaries. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at
i0. We were scheduled for Ascension this pass;
however, the S-band h s been given over to ALSEP
support. We will be monitoring duplex Bravo up
until 25, if you need us.
256 22 09 16 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
for 9 minutes.
256 2217 h6 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Gua m at 24.
256 22 24 41 CC Skylab, Houston; we're through Guam for 2 minutes.
256 22 26 2B CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about 2 minutes left
on this pass through Guam.
CDR Okay, Hank.
CC And whenever it's convenient, we need to get a
teleprinter paper change this evening, prior to
up-linking the detail pads. Prior to changing
out the paper, we'd like for you to check and
make sure we do have the Flight Plan and the
three details on board.
SPT Okay. They've already been sent up; is that
correct?
CC That's affirmative.
256 22 26 52 SPT Just am inure and I'ii let you - I'ii tell you
what the last message was.
256 22 27 40 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about to go LO - LOS here
in about 30 seconds. Next tation is a very
sho t pass at Hawaii, 35.
SPT Okay. And our last message is the Flight Plan,
4901-Alfa 3.
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CC Roger. We copy. And you should have them all on
board. So you're clear to change the paper a y
time.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
256 22 35 27 CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 2 minutes.
256 22 37 25 CC Skylab, Houston; 30 seconds to LOS. Goldstone
at 47.
256 22 46 08 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 5 minutes.
256 22 50 47 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute from LOS. We'll be
picking up with MLA and Bermuda at 54. A
n
d we'll
be dumping the recorder at Bermuda at 55.
256 22 51 02 PLT Boger.
256 22 53 59 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Bermuda and Mi -
MLA for l0 minutes.
256 23 04 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll
be coming up cn Ascension at 14.
256 23 05 33 SPT Hello, Hank.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I J st set up the good television, so-called good
one, to try to record some of this TO20 OPS, and
I get no picture on my monitor. The line scans
do come on, and it will show Just a uniform gray
scan. Now what I thought of - Just about - the
process - I am in the process of changing monitors
right now, and I'm wondering if you can tell
whether or not we're getting a good do
w
n-link
wideo signal. Ove .
256 23 06 ,36 CC We're Just about to go LOS now. We'll try to talk
about it again here at Ascension.
256 23 06 12 SPT Okay.
256 2B 14 38 CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension fo_ _-112 miz
5-1/2 minutes.
256 23 14 53 CC SPT, Houston. How are you coming with the TV?
SPT Okay, Hank. I'm down in the dome area now
recording these guys. I switched monitors. The
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other monitor does work, so it looks like the
first monitor is - malfunctioned. This is the
monitor that's intermittent, so we're still
working on it and I'll be off the comm now for a
little bit while I'm recording these guys.
256 23 15 20 CC Okay. So it does look like we're getting good
TV now. Good show.
2 6 23 16 54 CC SPT, no need to acknowledge. The Ascension site
on the TV.
2 6 23 19 14 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
Carnarvon at 45.
256 23 45 00 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for l0 inutes.
256 23 45 05 SPT Roger, Hank.
SPT We've put the intere ting part of TO20 on to the
VTR now.
256 23 45 19 CC Roger; we copy. And Owen, you made a r_mArk
while ago about the monitor having been intermittent
that sort of puzzled us. Could you elaborate
on that a little bit?
256 23 45 31 SPT Yes, Hank. Just hold the line a minute. I'll
talk to you in a minute,
256 23 45 49 SPT Hank, A1 wants to put sc_e more on the _'i'_and -
so don't rewind it or anything, and we'll finish
up with - How much time have we got on it now?
256 23 46 05 CC There's 15-1/ minutes r_Eaining.
SPT Okay. It'll be fine. And let's see, about the
intermittent. The monitor picture interrupts
occasionally. It apparently is a power interrup-
tion, b cause the whole picture collapses into either
black or horizontal lines and then will pop back
in again. And I thought this had been noted and
mentioned to you before. But it's the monitor that
we had not used very often because of that fact.
We had it over on the bad - over on the bad
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Vidicon, And that's the one that I put onto the
good Vidicon as I was talking to you 3 minutes
ago. And it functioned all right, whereas, the
other Vidicon gave only a gray background. Over,
256 23 46 53 CC Roger. We copy, It appears that you did have a
raster on the other monitor, but no picture. Is
that correct?
256 23 46 59 SPT Exactly correct.
256 23 47 16 CC And in regard to the exercises coming up here with
the - the EV-3 cooling_ and the T020 sui ed run
you're doing, the CWGs should be dried the same
as the LCGs. And dry only one at a time and
temporarily stow the second one in D-422. After
drying, the CWDs - Gs should be restowed in the
sleep compartment.
256 23 47 41 SPT Maybe you could call that up again a little later
in case we don't remembe it, That'd be all
right?
CC Fine.
256 23 _8 hl CC SPT, Houston. No need to acknowledge, but we were
Just brainstorming here a little bit about this
monitor thing, and we're kind of toying around
with the idea that it may be related to the bad
TV cable we uncovered today.
256 23 49 01 SPT Well, I don't see how, You mean one caused the
other one, or that there is only one failure
that's producing both? If it's the lat er that
you mean, we've got the cable over on the other
Vidicon where it's not being used, But yet this
one was showing intermittent Just a few minutes
go on the good Vidicon. So it looks to me like.•
it's probably two things, nnless you're thinking
about one of them causing the other, in which ease,
I don't see how it could have happened, Over
256 23 49 27 CC Oh, okay; I understand now. We had heard you say
while ago that it was - that the monitor was
working all right now. And we didn' know that
it was still cutting up.
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256 23 49 38 SPT Oh, sorry; I - I'm afraid I didn't make that very
clear. Yes it did _terrupt on me a couple of
times today while we were recording. But then
it pops right back in again. And so it's still
acting up.
256 23 49 50 CC Roger; we copy.
256 23 49 55 SPT Okay, I'm going to be knocking off ATM 0PS here
for a while so I can go down and make some more
TV.
256 23 50 00 CC Okay.
256 23 54 39 CC Skylab, Houston. e're 1 minute from LOS. Guam
at 58.
256 23 58 17 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for l0 minutes.
256 23 58 37 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam, l0 minutes.
257 00 00 24 CC SPT, Houston. Guam is configured for the XUV MON
down-link. And, as a reminder, your VIDEO switch
is in TV.
257 O0 00 34 SPT Just switched now. Thank you for the reminder.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUN VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
257 O0 04 44 CC SPT, Houston. If you would, leas , when you're
through with the VTR, we'd like to get you to
initiate a rewind so that we can start dumping,
this stateside coming up.
SPT Okay. I'll initiate it right now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 inute from LOS. We'll
be coming up on Goldstone at 24. Be dumping the
recorder over Texas at 28, and also like to remind
you we'll be set up for the evening status report
on this stateside.
CC The evening stat s repo t.
SPT Gee, I don't thing it's going to be ready. Those
two (chuckle) fellows are still down there flying T
double - T020 and haven't had any supper, haven't
got any put together yet. So it's going to be
awhile, I expect, before it's ready.
257 O0 08 02 CC Okay. We'll just play it by ear.
257 O0 23 _6 CC Skylab, Houston. We're stateside for
13-1/2 m nutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Are you t rough with the VTR?
SPT I've rewound it for you, Hank. I pressed REWIND
when you asked the other time.
CC Okay. I guess we - we must have a problem here
with our telemetry. We're showing that it didn't
rewind, it - and I guess we're a little confused.
SPT Okay. Let me press it again and see if it will
rewind this time.
CC Stand by. Stand by.
CC We're going to try a command from the ground and
see what that does to it, Owen.
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SPT Okay.
i
257 00 26 55 SPT Hello, Hank. Just found the problem here. I
should have hit the motor switch on before REWIND,
and I just pressed the REWIND switch along. And
that doesn't rewind it, I guess, without the motor
on first.
CC That's affirm. You have to have the HEADWHEEL
MOTOR, ON.
SPT Okay. That's why it didn't rewind then.
CDR Hank, you still there?
CC Roger. For another i0-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay. Jack and I just got finished with T20.
There's no way, I don't think - I suspect - that
he can do that suit evaluation tonight. It's
just running late. It just takes a long time to
get rigged out for 20. You get the suit on and
everything easy, but getting all hose extra
straps on and getting them balanced and getting
it all checked out is - it's just a time-consuming
operation.
CC Roger. We copy.
CDR I would recommend that you just reschedule that
for tomorrow or the day after tomorrow or some-
thing like that. He just can't do it now. Th re's
no way he can pull it off.
CC We'll reschedule.
257 00 30 51 CDR Okay. A couple of words about T20, but I'll
debrief it on the air. That harness to the suit
holds you on the T20 very tight, but you're Just
strapped on the thing. You're - you're - strapped
in there and your legs are tied down tight. And
that's strapped on your back and our bottom.
And you're in this pressurized suit, and you're
really sort of in a semi-helpless situation. If
you had to be pointed right at the target, some-
times you could make it, but once you're there,
you can't turn around and the straps over your
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shoulders keep your arms from coming together ;
so you can't really manipulate your body too
well with your hands. And, also, your CG is now
moved way down to real low, and so that makes it
doubly di ficult, and, of course, working in the
gloves is - is a problem, and we even used IVA
gloves as opposed to EVA. When you're operating
with a system that doesn't have 6 degrees of
freedom, you're Just out of luck. That's about
it. You can't even get from the donning station
out to the center of the workshop and stop. It's
that simple. Now we knew that all along, before
we brought it up here. It s just doubly obvious
when you get up here in 6 de rees of freedom and
in a suit, just how sort of helpless you are in
there. It's really a problem. If Jack would
set me up sort of in the right position, you
know, like the plan, I could flY to the other
side, but I'd have to wait until he came and got
me and put me back. And you know you don't want
to have a system like that. So it's - think it's
good to evaluate it, but I don't think yo 'd ever
want to fly it for real. It's really - you're
just kind of hanging on to the front end, is
what it amounts to.
CC How did the stripped LSU compare with maneuvering
with just the SOP?
257 00 32 50 CDR _%lat's a good - good - question. Lot bette r,
lot better. But, without the comm, you're sort
of out of - out of business also. My recommenda-
tion for Jerry would be that they take one of
those other LSUs, the other one that we're going
to dispense with up here, figure out which comm -
Which wires are the comm wires, strip everything
out but the 02 and the comm wire or wires - I
don't know how many there are, let's say there
are two - and then tether those, maybe every 5
feet. But don't try to cover them or anything,
Just - Just you know, tie them to the 02 umbilical
so they don't provide any stiffness, but they're
still there. Because trying to operate in that
suit when you can't see anywhere but forward and
a little bit up and left and right, is extremely
difficult. I think, also, more time has got to
be spent trying to figure out how the - and he's
r
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trying to stabilize himself and hold you and
run the camera, and no comm. It's a pretty tough
go, and I'm not - there's just a lot of problems
when you don't have any control. There's - he's
trying to control himself and you, and you have
no control and that's just - there's the problem
in a nutshell. And with that REG on and th suit
and everything, you weigh about 400 pounds. And
although the weight is no problem, it's the mass,
and it's hard to get a handle on you. It's just
real world problems up here. Some of them showed
on the air bearing, and showed some up on the -
the 6 degree of freedom, but it's even - I think
it's even more difficult than we had extrapolated.
257 00 34 24 CC Roger; we copy, A1. That's a pr tty good de-
scription. There's general question here: Did
the stripped LSU rotate or twist when you pres-
surized it prior to connecting it to the PCU?
CDR No, I tried that. I pressurized it and tried to
shake it out and everything, and it seemed happy
in any number of positions. I honestly could
not - did not feel that the LSU was hindering me
or movin me any at all. I always felt like most
of the problems encountered were as a result of
cross coupling in the control system, because
there's a lot of that in there with the suit. And
with just the lack of 6 degrees of freedom, you've
got no way to correct an error. If you acciden-
tally translate a little bit too much in Y or X,
you've had it, because you ain't got no Y - as
the expression goes, you ain't got no Y or X cor-
rection. Sort of an inherent deficie cy of that
sort of a system.
CC I guess, A1, that - could you comment? I think
you already answered part of it, but on comparing
the suited maneuvering with the unsuited
_neuvering.
257 00 35 55 CDR Well, I thought the suited was a little more dif-
ficult, from the point of view of - that you don't
have the feel in your feet with the suit on, bu
I don't think that's the problem. I think the
thing you find out when you're in the suit is sort
of how helpless you are there. YouVre strapped
into that baby, and you're - every control is down
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by your feet. Your arms are free, but you - you -
it's a little bit like being on the hood of a car,
and it s oing forward. You're kind of - you're
there, boy, and it's in motion, and maybe you can
control it a little bit. Maybe - may - I'll give
you an even better example: maybe it's like sit-
ting on the b ck of a convertible and trying to
drive the car with your feet. You can't get to
the brakes fast. And you can't get to the clutch,
and you're kind of hanging out there. You got
your hands free, and you'd like to feel like, in
a real-world situation, that you'd have some cir-
cuit breakers there that you could throw in case
you got a stuck thruster. And you think of a
lot of things that you'd need your hands for.
You'd like to have a - an on/off switch near your
hands. You do in - on a little toggle there.
You'd like to have - I don't know_ when we fly
E - these things EVA, which I'm sure we're going
to not this one, but something - some sort of
maneuvering unit - you're going to have to have
a simple set; you're going to have to have circuit
breakers for your - each thruster, you're going
to have to have isolation valves for each set.
You know, sort of like we do on the command module.
So that if you do have a failure, you can - you
can get around it. Here, if you had any failure,
you're out of business. And the minute you say,
"Well, let's take one of these and th n put a
bunch of circuit breakers and things around where
you can get them with your hands," you say, "Okay,
then, let's Just put the controls up there;" be-
cause that's the way, over the years, e've found
cars and bikes and tricycles, wagons, sleds - you
name it - everything that you can think of you
use with your hands, because you've got dexterity
and capability that you Just don't have with your
feet. I think it's worth looking at, and I'm
glad we brought his thing up. But it's even more
impressive to me after today's operation, how
sort of out in the wind you are here with this
thing under you and on your back. You're - you're
awful vulnerable there operating with your feet.
And going outsi e with something like that would
be interesting. First of all, you'd have to have
omebody strap you in it completely. Once you're
in it, you're sort of in it. And you'd be - you'd
be awful vulnerable, going from one place to
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another, where you're not with something in your
hands, with a controller and translation and - and
- the like.
257 00 38 hl CC Roger, A1. We - we - thank you very much. That
was a good - good
- snw._A?'y.
CDR Well, a lot of it - I think a lot of it is - is -
intuitive. And a lot of it is thinking back to
problems like we had with our command module,
coming up here. If you had one of those with
this maneuver ng unit, you're finished ; that 's it.
If you're on the way somewhere, adios. Okay,
with something with hand controllers with 4 degrees
of freedom and with some circuit breakers a d
things like that - that we're going to have to
build into a system like this - then you got a
chance. You can figure out a way to isolate
something, and then instead of flying forward,
fly sideways, because those thrusters are good.
Here, you've got no sideways; you've got no for-
ward. All you've got's up and down. If those
thrusters ar gone, you're - that's it. So -
Just - I think it's kind of a little philosophical
about the whole thing. And you're really going
to have all 6 degrees. You're going to have to
have isolation capability and kind of intuitive
control, instead of memorized - in - control, if
you know what I mean.
257 00 39 5h CDR I used this r_m_k when I was flying it unsuited.
My son's got a unicycle at home, and - I - I can
ride his little unicycle a few feet. He can ride
it a long way. But he doesn't take it anywhere,
and he just doesn't - it's Just something - it's
something I think probably was a good thing to
evaluate back in the first era of bicycles and
wheeled vehicles. But I don't think we'll ever
be in the space program where we can't afford
the weight of a 6-degree vehicle. It Just - we've
passed those days.
257 00 40 27 CC Roger, Al. We're about l0 seconds from LOS. We'll
be coming up for a very short pass at G11srnan
hour from now at 01:40.
CDR Okay. We'll try to get that nightly report for
you there.
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CC Okay. And then, also, the following stateside
at 02:00. Part of that will be your med conference,
too. Maybe we can work the rest of it in there,
if we don't get it all at Guam.
257 00 40 54 CDR Sounds good.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSC IPTION
257 01 39 42 CC Skyl
a
b,
H
ouston. We'r
e
through Guam for
a
couple of minutes here, and we're standing by
for what hit of the evening status we can get.
SPT Okay. Stand by a minute, Hank.
257 O1 40 07 CDR Okay. Here it comes. Oh, and let me give you
the - the film log first, because that usu-_!!y
seems to be something that everybody wants to
hear first. I'll give you the other later. Okay.
EREP/VTS, CL04, 70; T20, CI60, 19, CI52_ T020/FC_J,
CI69, 50; T020/FCMU CI70, 00. 35-millimeter:
CI105, 04; CX33, 57. C - 70-millimeter: CX27,
004. ETC, got three of them here, CT08, 021
IR02, 029; CT09, 034. EREP, set D: 8354, 7691,
8567, 8561, 2104, 9423. Drawer A configuration:
The only change is A-B, 06, CI60, 19, CI52.
Still there?
257 01 41 33 CC Roger. We copy that, AI. And we're about
15 seconds from LOS now. Why don't we pick the
rest of it up stateside. And part of that pass
will be reed - med conference.
CDR Sounds good and we'll be stand ng by to do it.
CC Okay. And we're coming up on Goldstone on the
hour.
CDR Okay. Thanks, Hank.
257 02 00 36 CC Skylab, Houston. We're stateside for
14-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay. Owen's up there changing the teleprinter pap
paper at the monent.
CC Hey, good show. You beat us to it. We were
going to have to ask you to do that pretty quick.
CDR Okay. Let me read the rest.
CC Okay. We're ready to copy.
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CDR Urine: 190, 155, 190; 6064, 9964, 6540;
BMMD: 6.2- whoops, 6.223, 6.223; 5.220; 5.946,
5.948, 5.950; 6.951, 6.950. 6.953. Exercise: CDR"s
getting ready to exercise in a few minutes, so
he'll call you later. SPT, 2 -well, let me tell
you what he's going to do. I know what he's go-
ing to do anyway. He dQes the same old thing.
Here you go: 2/35/50_i; 3/15/Mark I; 3/10/Mark II;
3/05/Mark III. Okay, here's the SPT: 2/23/3900;
3/15/Mark I; 30, A; 30, B; 30, D. PLT, 1/05/0610;
3/20/Mark I; 50, A; 20, B; 20, D; 20 backbends.
No medication. Sleep: 6/F, 6/F, 6/G. Food log
I - I'll read. CDR, seven salts and three salt
pills ; SPT, substitute spaghetti instead of pork
loin, add peanut butter and grape drink ; PLT,
four salt packs, add one grape and one butter
cookie. I read the photo log. Flight Plan
deviations: we did everythi g except EV-3 cool
which y'all are going to reschedule. Shopping
list accomplishments: nothing I know of at
the moment, inoperable equipment: nothing new.
Unscheduled stowage item location change: Noth-
ing. I've got a couple comments though. One:
when I got re_dy to prep the PCU with the SOP,
I was depressurized at the time; and I was going
to bring up the pressure with the SOP. The SOP
took a long, long time before it ever brought it
up. In fact, I finall had to go from FLOW from
IVA to OFF. Then it brought the pressure up and
once it did, it wo l hold it. Now I think that's
normal, but I'd like to have that verified. That
indeed the SOP, with 6000 pounds, will not bring
the suit up. Now the normal 02 flow from the
spacecraft brings it up in ab ut l0 or 15 seconds,
Or something like that. But it looked like this
would never have done it. Now I may I didn't
wait over a minute. I kept thinking I was hav ng
a leak, but was not.
CC We copy.
257 02 04 08 CDR Okay. Let me mention - Are you a]] start ng to
think about our day off, 3 days from now?
CC Okay. If you've got any input for us now, AI,
go ahead.
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CDR Okay. I thought maybe you'd llke it today because
I t ought you'd be planning it tomorrow. Okay.
On Owen, he needs the TV for several things, let
me tell you what they are. He needs about l0 min-
utes on the TV for this Wilberforce pendulum.
He needs l0 minutes for the fish, we got a btmch
of fish in here now. And he needs - needs l0 m_n-
utes for a medical demo for when we use the closeup
lens and he shows our throats and our eyes and
ears and things like that. And maybe we understand
a littl it - they - they'll not only see us in
real-live color but they may get some insights
into what might be done by television. Next, he
needs another 2 or 3 hours of science activities
because he wants to finish up all these science
things that he's working on, see if they're good
for TV. Next, we'd like to, if possible - this
has nothing to do with off-duty - let me finish
the off-duty then. We'd like to perform as many
EREPs as can be done on the day off and fill in
the rest of he time with ATM. So it'll be EREP
and ATM. Now, one other request that we have,
and we'd like to know if you're planning to finish
all the tr ubleshooting by entry minus 5 days.
In ther words, if you got anything to do with
this probe, we hope you give it to us soon so we
can do it. We'd llke to, if possible, get all
that out of the way by entry minus 5 days so that
all w_ got to concentrate on is learning the entry
real well and getting stowage organized and get-
ting all the last minute things cleaned up. And
we'd - if there's anything like that, Just throw
it in the day off, too, and we'll work on that.
257 02 06 19 CC Okay. We got all that, A1, and we'll sure cr_k
it in the system.
CDR Okay. Thank you.
257 02 07 12 CC We got a few minutes here left before the med
conference, AI; and while we're doing that, I'd
like t get you an answer to a question you had
in regard to the effect of move maneuvers on the
MMDs. And - and you did some measurements yester-
day to check that out, and first off Bill would
like t thank you very much for the data. It was
real good. He says there is a very - a very small
detectable effect on the calibrations but it
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would be a negligible effect on ordinary measure-
ments. If possible, he would like for you to do
your cals with maneuvers inhibited. If you can't
do that, all he needs is the rates.
CDR Okay. Understand completely.
CC If it's convenient, we'd like to get a readout
on the M518 CART IDGE TEMP on HOT 1.
PLT Yes, Hank. I looked at it a little while ago;
and it was 1005. And right now it's oscillating
between 1007 and 1008. So it looks like we got -
the guys down there got the right pot settings
figured out now.
257 02 08 36 CC Okay. It stands between 1007 and 1008, and we're
bout 30 seconds from handover. And that'll be
your med conference.
2 7 02 25 26 CC Skylab, Houston. We're with you through Vanguard
for l0 minutes.
SPT Roger, Hank.
CC And to answer, we think - answer the CDR's ques-
tion in regard to his pressurizing earlier. We
think that probably the long time to pressurize
using the SOP is probably normal. The manifold
or regulating pressure in the SOP is 30 psi, while
that from the umbilical is 100 psi. And so, we're
not surprised that it would take well in excess
of a minute to - to , to do the Job.
CDR Okay; understand. It might be a good procedure
maybe, then for Jerry when he does it up here for
509/T20, to pressurize with the umbilical, then
ake it off, and maintain pressure with the SOP_
and that way he'll have a longer time on the SOP.
CC Roger. We copy.
257 02 26 52 CC Skylab, Houst n. We'd like to inhibit the
MPCs and the roll.
CDR Okay. And your teleprinter test message looks
ike it came through all right.
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CC Okay. Thank you. And understand you've given
us some new paper?
CDR That's right.
CC And if we could have the DAS a little bit, we'll
command SI.
SPT You got it.
CC And to repeat a comment I made earlier before you
were through with TO20, the CWGs should be dried
the same as the LCGs. We dry only one at a time
and temporarily stow the second one in D-422.
After drying, the CWGs should be restowed in the
sleep compartment.
SPT Okay. Thank you for repeating that for us, Hank.
PLT Hank, the rest of the ATM panel look okay?
CC We'll check it.
257 02 28 37 CC Skylab, Houston. e're going to be bringing
home one of the PPCO2 sensors - filters. And we'd
like to ask if you can remember which one of the
- the filters you took out of the mol sieve A
inlet sensor. What we'd like to do is get this
thing back and look for the presence of Coolanol.
SPT All the ones that were taken out had red tape on
them.
CC Okay. Maybe - it may be difficult for you to,
at this time, now go back and fi d out. The one -
We wanted one in particular, and that was the one
that came out of the mol sieve A PPCO 2 inlet
sensor. You did that on mission day _3.
SPT No, there's not much way to do that, Hank.
They're all marked with red tape, and they all
look alike.
CC Okay. I was afraid of that.
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257 02 29 41 SPT We generally work from one end of the box to the
other in taking out new ones and putting in the
old ones. So I can bring the last s x or eight
back I suppose, but I couldn't identify which is
which.
CC Okay.
257 02 31 45 CC Skylab, Houston. You probably have already done
it correctly, but th cue card you're using had
the wrong stowage location for the SOPs. What
we really wanted you to do was put them back
where you got the .
PLT For the what, Hank?
CC The SOP.
•PLT Okay.
CC PLT, on the ATM console, only one switch needs
to be moved. We need the X-RAY IMAGE on S054 to
OFF. And we're ready for frames remaining, if
it' s convenient.
257 02 32 53 PLT Okay. Here they are, Hank. H-alpha is 5191;
and Millige_n's got 561; Doctor Tousey's got 23
and 1_3; Bob MacQueen's got 1734; and V iana and
Krieger, they have 1482.
CC We copy. And how would you like a little news
here, before we sign off?
PLT Yes. That'd be fine, Hank.
CC Okay. Highlight in news tonight was that the
Skylab astronauts received medical clearance
today to complete their record-maker - making
59-day orbital Journey. The crew's health and
spirits are excellent. Their body weight has
been relatively constant since mission day 5.
Astronaut Char es Conrad said in Madison, Wisconsin,
today, "It's just a matter of time before there
will be women in space." President Nixon may
ask Congress for a temporary l0 percent increase
in federal income tax rates, with the money to
be refunded to taxpayers later in a forced sav-
ings plan intended to cool the economy, the White
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House said today. Israeli and Syrian war planes
wheeled over Syria's Mediterranean coast today
in two dogfights that marked the biggest Middle
East aerial battle since the '67 6-day war. The
Israeli Air Force said it shot down 13 Migs, 21
fighters, and lost one of its own Phantoms but
rescued the pilot. Syria claimed its air force
shot down fove Israeli Jets and l st eight Migs.
Billie Jean King has been ill, but officials say
today she will be ready by next week to face
Bobby Riggs in their $i00,000 winner-take-all
tennis match in the Astrodome. The House passed
legislation today to lift the local television
they are sold out 72 hours in advance. The Senate
passed similar legislation last week. Blackouts
may be lifted in some cities Sunday on the open-
ing games of th '73 NFL season. With the strike
deadline on y one day away, the United Auto Workers
said Thursday that Chrysler Corporation had not
made a new economic proposal, but added, "it
better happen soon. " General Augusto Pinochet
Maramdio[sic], an artillery officer, was named
President of the four-man Junta in Chile today,
and he swore in a 10-man cabinet ccmposed mostly
of military officers. Chile has broken diplomatic
relations with Cuba. And back on the investi-
gation scene, a federal grand Jury resumed its
probe of alleged political corruption in Maryland
amid unprecedented security restrictio s. And
I guess we're only a few seconds here from LOS.
We'll e saying good night to you, and we'll give
you a call over Madrid tomorrow at ll:O0.
PLT Okay. Thanks a lot, Hank. Good night. We'll
see you tomorrow.
257 02 35 _7 CC ll right.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
257 ii 02 52 CC Good morning, Skylab; AOS Madrid for 4 minutes.
SPT Good morning, Story.
CC And this is your friendly Flight Plan changer
with you again this morning.
SPT Okay, Story, I'm ready to copy. Do you have any
for me?
CC No, I don't need to get any real details to you
at this time. I Just wanted to let you know,
that we cancelled EREP number 30, that's your
second pass. Our first estimation looked like
about 150 pound-seconds of TACS; that's why we
cancelled it, so you'll be on the alternate
Flight Plan between 18:00 and 21:00.
SPT Okay, cancel 30.
CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. See you over
Guam in 25 minutes at 11:32.
257 ii 07 00 SPT Okay.
257 ii 13346 CC Skylab, AOS Guam, 5 minutes.
CDR Okay, Story.
CC And, A1, I've got a change to your Flight Plan
there.
CDR Ready to copy.
CC On the alternate Flight Plan, there, why don't
you swap the PT and eating? Eat at 18:00, and
do the PT at 20:00. That'll get you eating a
little bit earlier.
CDR Okay, they were trying to separate my food from
my M092 by a couple of hours, but maybe we can
make it. I'll - I'll fit it in there somehow.
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CC Okay. We're just thinking of swapping out your
PT with your eating. But you're right, that's
the purpose - is to get the eating at least
2 hours away f om M092.
CDR Okay, I'll - I'll make sure that it's 2 hours
away.
257 ll 35 00 CC Okay. We are scheduling a couple of medicals,
92/M171s, pretty late tomorrow evening. There is
no ay we could get around that. The day after
that is going to be your day off, and we're not
scheduling medicals on the day off. The day
after that, we're running a JOP 13 and two
EREPs and another M092. And because of the large
maneuver for JOP 13 and the two EREPs, we couldn't
get an M092/171 done on that day, another one.
CDR That 's good.
CC And that's all I've got for you. I've got a
small change for 0wen.
SPT Okay. Go ahead, Story.
CC Owen, delete housekeeping 8_L-1 and 84L-2; delete
both of those.
SPT I can handle that one.
257 ll 36 15 CC Okay, we'll let you get to work now, nd an update
to your solar activity: active region 19 produced
a C-2 flare at 2:33 Zulu and a C-3 flare at 03:07
Zulu. Active region 26 is fully on the east disk,
but no activity reported.
SPT Did you call 27? Is that what you said?
CC That was 26.
SPT Okay, 26 on the east limb; fine.
PLT Say, Story, I didn't get all my exercise turned
in last night. Could you copy some, please? I
rode the bike for 35 minutes, and the watts were
8651.
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CC Got it.
PLT Thank you.
257 ll 38 17 CC Skylab, we're a minute from LOS. 5 minutes from
Ho neysuckl e.
257 ll 4h 22 CC Skylab, AOS Honeysuckle, 4 minutes.
CDR Say, Story, you can put that 92/171 on our day
off if you want. If it keeps things from getting
s rewed up as far as the medical sequence is
concerned, we don't mind.
CC Okay. It's good to have that informRtion. At
present, we've got two runs there tomorrow, but
thanks.
CC And no need to acknowledge, but for your information
we are running two JOP 13's; one on day 52 and one
o day 53.
PLT That's a good start there, Story.
CC Say again, please.
PLT That's a good start.
CC Okay, we think so.
257 ll 47 37 CC Skylab, we're a minute to LOS and 45 minutes to
Canaries at 12:32.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
257 12 32 l0 CC Skylab, AOS Canaries and Madrid for 13 minutes.
We'll be dumping the tape recorders at Madrid
at 12:35. And, Jack, we need the DAS for dump
inhibit.
PLT You got it, Story.
CC Okay.
CC Jack, the DAS is yours. We're seeing a good NuZ
update. And could you verify that you closed the
shutter manually?
PLT That's affirmative, Story; I closed it manually.
CC Thanks.
257 12 38 22 CDR Story, just completed the water reservoir check,
and they're all up.
CC Thanks.
CC Jack, 54 is in a double sequence; we'd like a
STOP there. We saw the same problem yesterday.
CC And it's looking good now.
PLT Okay, thank you for ... that one.
PLT You there, Story?
CC Yes, sir, another minute and a half.
257 12 44 05 PLT Okay, I received a message this morning, a general
one about boots, shoes and hat sort of thing,
and I had reported that one of mine had t rn out.
And I think it was misunderstood that it was one of
of the soft boots. The boot that tore out was
my triangle shoe boot, and I been holding it
together with tape. The other question was "does
anybody use those stretch whateve you call them,
for in place of th triangles?" The answer is,
"A1 tried them and thought them to be not
suitable." And I lo ked at them but didn't try
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them and decided that the triangles would be a
lot better. So we're not using those; we're
using the triangles.
CC Okay.
CDR The reason they're not as good as the others,
Story, is because they're not passive. You can
go somewhere and hold yourself in, readily, as
long as you keep your mind on it. But the
minute you start concentrating on a pad, one of
your shoes or the both of them come out and you
float away. So it's - the triangles, if you
once get them in, and they're adjusted right, you
can then concentrate on the Job and don't have
to worry about holding your feet in place.
259 12 45 19 CC Okay, thanks, A1. We're going LOS here. We'll
see you over Carnarvon at 1B:12.
2 7 1B 12 40 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and
Honeysuc le for 14 min tes. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
CC And Skylab, we would ike you to stay off the DAS
for a moment so that we may enable momentum dump,
and also we'd like you to comm_nd the star tracker
shutter closed again. It doesn't seem to have
closed. The Nuz that you've got in is good. Over.
CDR Okay. Just w nt closed, and you're right, it's
been stalled in AUTO.
257 13 14 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston. The dump enable command
has been sent. The DAS is yours. Out.
257 13 25 B1 CC Skylab, this is Houston, 1 minute and 20 seconds
until LOS. Next station contact in 35 minutes
hrough Merriott Island at 14:00 Z. Out.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
257 14 00 25 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island
for 5 minutes. We will be dumping t e data voice
tape recorder next station at Madrid. We will not
h ve you through Bermuda this pass due to Bermuda's
supporting the Earth Resources Technology Satel-
lite. Over.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.
Next station contact will be in 9-1/2 minutes
through Madrid at 14:14. Out.
257 14 04 48 PLT Okay, Bruce; see you there.
257 14 15 18 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for
7-1/2 minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice
tape recorder here. Out.
CDR Got an int resting thing going on on the limb.
I'm down here pointing at active region 19. And
the limb was nice and smooth for a while. And
right now it's starting to bulge out right at
&ctive region 19. And I can even see a little
white, - white bump starting to form. And I can't
see it move, but it's certainly bigger than it
was a couple of minutes ago. I'm just observing
it, taking H-alpha frames because I'm doing this
off-the-limb work on shopping list item nin - 17 -
not 17 - 19.
CC We copy, A1. Keep an eye on it.
CDR Yes, it's kind of like it's building a prominence
or something, only it seems to be more - not as
diffused as a prominence - prominence.
257 14 17 Oh CDE Now it's starting to make a little arch. I
can sort of see a little arch, if I use my
imagination.
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CDR I think I'll Just put H-alpha to four frames
per minute here and let it run for a While. And
I'm taking 82B data right now, 7 arc seco ds
off the limb, so I may be right in the midst
of it.
257 14 22 06 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 25-1/2 inutes through
Carnarvon at 14:48. Over.
CDR Okay. And this really is turning into a beauty.
It's - I think it's going to make some sort of
an arch prominence or something. My guess is
we Just got a surge that occurred. I happened
to be ideally pointed because of doing this [
shopping list item 19 where I'm right in the
center of the whole surge. I've got two parts
of arches, one on either side of the center line
there. And we were just finishing up 19, so we
didn't give the class GR TING 3 SCAN to 55 but
rather, Owen suggested that - -
CC Skylab, Houston. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. On the GRATING, we'd like to be in
MECHANICAL REFERENCE, POSITION 102. Over.
CDR We 'll put you there, then.
257 14 22 59 CC Thank you, talk to you over Australia.
257 14 47 h7 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle for 15-1/2 minutes. And I've got
a question or two for you regarding valve con-
figurations. Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce; go ahead.
CC Okay, for about the past 8 hours or so, we've
noticed a cabin pressure decrease corresponding
to a leak rate of approximately 0.1 psi in 6 hours.
We'd like you to close or verify closed the panel
831 WATER DUMP valve, panel 706 WATER DUMP valve,
818 URINE DUMP valve, and tell us what the position
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of your WASTE PROCESSOR VACUUM VENT valve is,
i please.Over.
CDR Okay.
257 lh 58 23 CC CDR, this is Houston. Five minutes left this pass
through Honeysuckle. Has anyone had a chance
to check on those dump valves y t? Over.
SPT A1 says affirm, and he'll talk to you about it
when he can get a chance here.
257 IL 58 38 CC Okay. No rush.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
257 15 01 43 CDR Are you still there?
CC Still here for a minute and a half, Alan; go.
CDR Okay, here's the - This is funny; never heard of
this one before. I e t in there and all the valves
were closed except, obviously, the WASTE PROCESSOR.
So I said I'll check all the doors to the waste
processor. And the bottom two doors that I put in
the - the desiccant for the suit that I wore yes-
terday weren't sealed - right, although everything
was done right. So I looked at them and pulled out
the - the desiccant; it worked great. Put in the
desiccant; it wouldn't work. All I cam figure out
is _ if the desiccant happens to be a l ttle bit
wide, it pushes the plate down; and if the plate's
down, it won't pressurize, although I never heard
of this event. So I fooled around with the bott_n
one and got it in there and closed the door and it
worked. But the next one up, I tried eight different
times putting it in there and then I tried another
one. Each time, when it was fully in there, the
plate was depressed, and it wouldn't - it wouldn't
pressurize. If I'd take it out of there, it worked
great. So that's where the 02 was leaking, but I'm
still mystified as to exactly why. And I guess I'm
going to have to go around and hunt some desiccants
that are skinnier or something.
CC We have 14 seconds to LOS. Let us take t at for
action; and thank you for the info. We'll see you
over Corpus Christi at 15:33 in about half an hour.
Over.
257 15 03 15 CDR Okay And it's not the length that's the problem,
it's the width. Because you have to put them in
there sideways and - so that they can fold on their
little hinge line. And if they're too wide, when
you put about 2 or 3 sections in, that's it.
257 15 03 28 CC Roger; I understand. I've taken quite a bit of
time trying to cram those things in myself.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
257 15 33 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Corpus Christi,
Merritt Island, and Bermuda for lh-1/2 minutes.
For the PLT, due to weather conditions, we have
made some changes toy our EREP
2
9 and VT
S
p
a
d.
These
w
ere sufficientlynumerous that we are
resending the VTS pad up to you. It should be
coming up during this stateside pass. Over.
PLT Okay, I'll be looking for it, Bruce. And how's
the weather around Louisville, by the way?
CC Stand by.
257 15 32 hl CDR And we Just started J0P 2C, step 6 on 19. And
w
e're getting some data
a
djacent to the XUV
active region there on the limb.
CC Roger. We opy.
257 15 32 56 CDR 82B is in AUTO.
257 15 37 29 CC PLT, Houston. Your revised VTS p d is on board
at this time. Out.
257 15 hl 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston. For the PLT, Louisville
weather is currently running about 8 to l0 tenths.
Forecast to be that, or overcast, when you come
by it next pass. Over.
PLT Okay, thank you very much, Bruce.
CC Yes. We've got a front that Just passed through
there. And looking up here at the map, you
might be interested in knowing that as you pas
the Cape, you're on revolutio 1776.
PLT Well, that's
a
very historic number.
257 15 _2 22 CC Certainly is.
257 15 h7 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS here
at Bermuda. Next stat on co tact in 5 minutes
through Madrid at 15 53 where we will be dumping
the data voice tape recorder. Out.
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257 15 52 39 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for
7-1/2 minutes, dumping the data voice tape recorder.
Out.
257 15 53 41 CDR I've got a question on this building block 14 I'm
doing, Bruce. Just before sunset, let's say at
ESS, I wonder if that's when I go STOP, and then
go HOLD, and then go NORMAL? Or I go HOLD, then
NORMAL, then STOP?
CC We'll be right back to you on that, A1.
CC A1, no STOP is required. All you need to do is
go HOLD and then NORMAL. Over.
CDR Okay. At ef ective sunset, I'm going to go HOLD
and then NORMA .
CC Roger.
257 15 54 35 CC And, CDR, we showed an EREP BUS powerup at 15:49
in your detail pad. Over.
CC That and the S191 POWER, ON.
257 15 54 53 CDR Ok y.
257 15 59 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston; h5 seconds to LOS.
Next station contact, Carnarvon in 28 minutes at
16:27. And for the CDR, on your S082B operation,
if it doesn't time out prior to - if it doesn't
time out prior to the end of the pass, you need
to hit the STOP switch, then HOLD and NORMAL.
We saw, when you starte_ it, it looks like it
will time out to us. So the HOLD and NORMAL
should be all that's required. And for the PLT,
Update on the Louisville weather. Looks like
forecast for 2000 broken, 4000 overcast, 4 miles
in haze. Over.
257 16 28 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for
4-1/2 minutes. Out.
257 16 31 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS, Car-
narvon. Next station contact in 2-1/2 minutes
through Honeysuckle at 16:38. And for the CDR,
the cabin pressure is stabilized, now, following
your corrective action on the fecal dryers.
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CDR Okay, I went up and tried a couple more of those
desiccants, and finally found one that was small
enough so I could get it in and close the door and
cause the suction to take place.
CC Okay, so you now have t_o fecal dryers loa_ed -_th
desiccants under vacuum. Is that correct?
CDR That's right. And those were the two - the bottom
two - that we always used. And those were the two
that provided the leak over the last evening.
CC Roger. We opy.
CC We'll get back to you at Honeysuckle here. Under-
stand that one desiccant that you remov d is still
in a damp r 1 configuration. Is that cor ect?
CDR Not really, t's Just holding things down ....
desiccants up here. So I Just put it back in the
extra pile, and got one out of the extra pile.
We've got plenty enough for all our suits.
257 16 33 06 CC Okay. We're having trouble reading you now. Let
me get back to you over Honeysuckle.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
i
257 16 h9 45 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for
about 1 minute. We need to - Like to remind you
that we have a Nuz up ate due at 16:42. And for
the SPT, since we're operating on the alternate
Flight Plan here with the second EREP pass can-
eled, you do need to get S063 stowed right after
its operation on track 29, about 18:00, so S019
an be installed by the CDR right - right after-
wards. Over.
SPT Happy to do it.
CC And 9 seconds to LOS here. Next station contact
in 20-1/2 - 29 minutes through Corpus Christi at
17:08.
PLT How do you like the maneuver load, 0.? Bruce?
CC We like the maneuver load. We see you've got
a star, but we're still in the dump maneuver.
PLT Yes, I know. We aren't there yet.
257 16 50 40 CC Okay.
257 17 08 31 CDR You'll grow out of it if you mature.
CC Okay, A1, and we've got you here through Corpus
Christi a d Bermuda for about the next 15 minutes.
Over.
CDR Okay. We're just charging along. Everything looks
good.
CC For your information, we show that correct maneuver
time loaded.
CDR Good news.
PLT Glad to hear that, Bruce. We're Just conver -
conversa ionalizing [sic] that we're look ng for-
ward to this EREP pass by going to up gimbal 53.
Are you there, Bruce?
CC Roger. Do your own thing (laughter).
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PLT Okay, I wanted to give you the tour this morning
(laughter).
i
257 17 09 13 PLT We're hitting the coast, Just south - at the tip
of BaJa, coming across Mexico and the Big Bend.
Crossing the hometown of many famous people,
namely, Fort Worth, St. Louis, Toledo, Detroit,
Toronto, Montreal, up ov r the north rn tip of
Maine and across Newfotmdland.
CC Yes, I guess you missed Azusa and Cucamonga
this pass.
PLT Wait ; let me look down here.
CDR We'll pick it up along with Big E (laughter).
PLT I'll put them - Right. I'll put them on the
map - -
257 17 09 43 CDR READY, on, REFERENCE, 6.
PLT - - right next to Enid here, Bruce.
CDR (Laughter)
PLT I got a dot right there now.
257 17 09 50 CDR Down-link box goes to 5 in lO seconds now, so - -
PLT Think they cot ldwaste a nadir swath on it?
CDR Never waste a nadir swath.
257 17 l0 00 CDR Okay, 10. Down-link box at 5.
PLT Looking forward to seeing Mexico, gimbal angle 53.
257 17 lO 09 CDR Okay, ll. I'm watching for ll; 19BA, ON.
PLT We're crossing the coast Just where I told you.
These guys are right on - -
CDR Are they?
PLT - - These guys don't miss.
CDR Either that or the map s wrong. We don't know
which. Okay, ll. 193-A, ON; I'm waiting.
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PLT Still cr1_mmyweather in Louisville, I suppose.
257 17 lO 31 CC Yes, sir.
PLT Thinking of taking a little hunting trip this
morning, but I guess I'll Just get our nadir
swath of the cloud
s
.
PLT If I can get that cloud switch to work, we'd be
in g od shape.
257 17 ll 00 CDR 93A is ON.
PLT Attaboy.
257 17 ll 06 CDR S to STANDBY.
PLT 14:02 ...
CDR 82B looks like its logic is now correct.
CC Roger; we copy.
CDR Or does it loo like the logic is corre t? I
cycled them again after daylight this t
i
me to
make sure they got nice and tidy.
CDR 92 MODE, READY at 12, okay? Noon. Nobody
getting lunch. 12 minutes. Okay.
257 17 12 00 CDR Okay, MODE, READY on 192.
CDR TAPE MOTION is working.
257 17 12 13 CDR 90 is ON now. 12:13. Must be over a good site
now, Jack.
PLT (Laughter) I was Just looking around down there.
CDR Reason I wondered is because I've ot the 92
cranking away.
PLT The tape burner is r_nning.
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257 17 12 42 SPT Okay, we'll be taking ome S063 photos here in
about 3 minutes. First frame number on the UV
camera is 7, and it's 43 on the VISIBLE.
PLT I supposeyou'll want to talk right on channel A,
huh, 0.?
SPT Oh, I'm over on channel - Yes, A; that's a good
place to talk.
PLT Okay.
CDR Wondered what you were doing down there. Okay,
13:30 coming u . I got to go MODE, CHECK when
it comes up.
SPT First filter's 2700 angstroms.
CDR 8, 9 - -
257 17 13 30 CDR MARK. MODE, CHECK. Okay, we're standing by for
14:50 now.
PLT Okay, we're coming over some scattered weather.
Scattered clouds, that is. Big highway from
somewhere to somewhere.
CDR If that were in Houston, you wouldn't know it to
be true.
PLT No.
257 17 14 02 PLT MARK. We're just entering some weather.
CDR ...
257 17 14 04 PLT First site at 14:02 for the nadir swath; zero
zero and I'm watching it closely. I just happen
to know that I'm going to e over ... Island at
17:12. What city that is? There's a biggy, it
must be ...
257 17 14 51 CDR A, STANDBY; R, STANDBY, and down-link to OFF.
PLT That was Dallas Forth Worth we just passed there, O.
CDR Okay. The only double city we've passed I've
noticed.
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PLT Yes.
CDR 15:15.
LT They realiy had the ... there.
CDR S, ON and R, ON. Okeydoke, we'll do that.
257 17 15 16 CDR S, ON and R, ON at 16:16.
PLT Atta boy.
PLT There is Cucamonga. Cucamonga.
PLT We're over a cloud, no question about that.
Even I can recognize it from here. I looks like
it's kind of stratified. For the benefit of the
folks on the ground there who are eeping track
of the types cf clouds that we're taking data on.
I don't see any build-ups, is what I'm getting
at, very few broken spaces. Bingo, there's your
broken space, and it's gone again.
257 17 16 18 CDR 92 is in READY. ecord A-2 and C-4. A-2 right
now is 27 percent and climbing. C-4 is 71 percent
and steady. Okay, that ought to do it. 16:50.
PLT Still cloudy. Confound it.
257 17 16 45 SPT Stand by for a UV mark.
257 17 16 49 CDR 16:50. S o STANDBY, R to STANDBY.
257 7 16 5 SPT MARK.
CDR INTRACK CONTIGUOUS. C, zero. S, ON; R, ON.
Okay, we're Just cooling it again.
SPT We're out to VISIBLE.
PLT We're over the Mississippi now.
257 17 17 07 CDR SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM.
257 17 17 08 SPT MARK. The second UV, right there.
CDR Must be crossing Mississippi, you say, Jack?
.r
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PLT We should have.
257 17 17 19 CDR Rad receiver has got a MALF light, and a rad scat
GIMBAL. I wonder where that rad receiver has got
a MALF light. 17:26, SHUTTER SPEED, MEDIUM.
PLT Okay, we're done taking data.
257 17 17 32 CDR 17:32, MODE to CHECK. That's done. We've still
got a rad RECEIVER light on.
SPT Okay, we've got our first two UV plus VISIBLE.
We've switched to 1/2-second exposures for the
next set.
257 17 17 50 CDR 18:0h is S, STANDBY and R, STANDBY.
257 17 17 54 PLT Okay, I'm just kind of hunting around with the
VTS right now, and the nadir swath is finished.
257 17 18 07 CDR R to STANDBY, 18:16 - -
SPT We've got abo t a minute to wait.
CDR A, ON; R, OFF.
PLT We should be over - -
257 17 18 16 CDR A, ON; R, OFF.
PLT - - past Monroe Reservoir, beside Lansing.
257 17 18 23 CDR Valometer to 10.
PLT Now Lansing is clob ered, also. And back in
zero now.
CDR And we're tracking the tar et.
PLT Hope to see Hamilton at 19:20. It better clear up.
257 17 19 07 SPT MARK. UV.
PLT I've got the map in my hand here. Right at the
west end of Lake Ontario.
257 17 19 16 CDR Intervalometer i0, Jack - -
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257 17 19 17 SPT MARK. The second UV.
257 :L719 20 SPT MARK. The VISIBLE.
CDR Go MODE, READY at 36.
PLT Sorry about Hamilton, space fans. The place is
clobbered with clouds. Try the next one.
Montreal, at 20:42.
257 17 20 36 CDR Okay, MODE, READY.
PLT You can just barely see a little bit of Lake On-
tario down there.
257 17 20 52 PLT Lots of clouds. High cirrus. Low stratus.
SPT Okay, we've switched back to 2700 angstrom, we've
got our timer set to 2 seconds, got our arm set
to 2 seconds, our MOTOR DRIVE switch set to T,
and the time on top of the camera set to T.
Cocking the VISIBLE and we're cocking the UV.
PLT Range angle zero. Looks like to me it's a little
bit smidgen to the right of course, but not much.
We ain't going to see Montreal either, space fans.
There's where it ought to be. It ain't there.
PLT Clobbered over Montreal, too, Bruce. Rat fink ...
CC Roger. Out.
PLT 25:16 over - no, 26:45 over Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Over the Gulf of St. Lawrence. I have 56 seconds
of that; I ought to be able to see it.
257 17 21 24 CDR Intervalometer, 20.
PLT And there's that little spin a - -
257 17 21 33 SPT Okay, we're tracking for our third UV pair.
Okay, we're going to maybe get something over the
Gulf of St Lawrence.
PLT We want that at 23:45. I've got the Gulf of
St. Lawrence; I'm going to move the pipper a
little bit, though.
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CDR Nice going, Jack.
257 17 21 51 SPT MARK. The first UV. Switching filters.
257 17 21 56 CDR Okay, 56. Stand by. S to STANDBY; MODE to 5,
RANGE to 60 - -
257 17 22 00 SPT MARK. The other UV at ... - -
CDR At 24, 190, SLOW.
SPT - - Got them both on the same target.
PLT Okay, I got the pipper on - -
CC And that was A to STANDBY, A1.
CDR What?
CC That was 19BA to STANDBY at 21:56.
CDR That's what I did. That's just what I did. I'll
tell you what I did do though, I went SHUTTER
SPEED to SLOW at 22, and then I put it back to
M DI[_4. It's 24 that I go SHUTTER SP_._D, SLOW.
PLT Okay, I m looking at a point - -
CDR I hope it didn't bother any of the exposures.
PLT Here we go. Nadir swath over the Gulf of
St. Lawrence. We started at a point at the -
just at the bottom of the Gaspe - G-A-S-P-E
Peninsula. Little bay down there, started right
on the mouth of the bay. I had to move a little
bit to the - got - got two gimbal angles to the
left, Bruce, because I want to stay out of the
clouds.
257 17 22 55 SPT Okay, we're switched to our last UV exposure;
2700 angstroms, 8 seconds.
PLT Nice con down there. But right now we're hit-
ting high cirrus.
SPT Still have a minute to go.
CDR ... 24.
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PLT Just going south of Anacost Island. Anacosti
Island. Going to swing a little bit more out
to the north, 8 gimbal angles left. We're in
line with the Anacosti Island, staying clear
of the clouds by moving the pipper around, Bruce.
Managed to keep it on the water.
C Roger, hang in there.
CDR 24 - -
PLT Going right a little bit, I want to get
Newfoundland.
PLT Okay, stand by I'm going to give you a mark when
we hit Ne foundland.
257 17 23 43 PLT MARK, we're over - coming over Newfoundl nd now,
which has parallel rows of scattered clouds.
Okay, I'm going to line it up on a clear area;
3 gimbal - Couple gimbal angles to the right.
Now it's clear of clouds over there.
CDR SHUTTER SPW_, SLOW.
SPT Tracking for UV.
CC 1 minute to LOS. Next station contact over
adrid at 17:29. We'llbe dumping the data
voice tape recorder. Out.
257 17 24 12 SPT MARK.
CDR Okay.
PLT Thank you for info - -
SPT - - VISIBLE.
CDR ... is going to be MODE, CHECK on 192. READY
out at 2_:30, hopefully.
PLT Oh, the VTS came up and hit me in the eye. Okay,
now we're off the coast of Newfoundland, gang.
We're over the water.
257 17 2 31 CDR READY out; MODE, STANDBY, FRAME, 05. At 25:40,
e're going to go A, ON.
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PLT We're over th big pond right now.
PLT Tau [?] maneuver tim , 17:29. Plenty of time.
I'm going to get a lemon drop out.
257 17 25 20 PLT Now we should be nadir swathing again. We're
coming up on clouds. Now I'll give you a mark
when we hit the edge of the cloud layers.
Stand by.
257 17 25 31 PLT MARK. Okay, now we're over clouds over water.
NOW, - -
257 17 29 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston through adrid for
9 minutes. Dumping data voice tape recorder;
for the CDR. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
PLT Okay, we're still talking on it, but I guess we
don't need to. We had another mibless maneuver.
We're on our way, O., - Bruce.
CC Okay. Standing by for the CDR.
CDR Go ahead, I'm listening.
CC Roger. Prior to EREP, STOP, we'd like you to
check out the RAD/SCAT in the following manner:
RAD to STANDBY for at least 1 second, then RAD
and SCAT both on at once. And record Alfa 9,
Bravo 9, Charlie 9, and then SCAT, STANDBY;
RAD, STANDBY. Over.
CDR I wish I was smart enough to remember that. Un-
fortunately, it doesn't happen that I am. Just
a second and I'll write it down.
CC No, A1, I'll talk you along. RAD, STANDBY.
CDR Okay, just a second. I'm not finished yet with
this 191. Have you got a fewminutes?
CC Yes. We can probably do it before EREP, STOP.
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CDR Okay, just a minute. We're going to have the
READY on in Just a second, and then I'll be ready
to follow your sequence and tell you what I see.
PLT You've got a problem with - with him, Bruce?
257 ]-7 30 56 CDR Yes, RAD RECEIVER MALF light came on, when they
were both on. Okay, the READY is on, and that's
the end of it. Okay, tell me what you'd like
now. The first thing you want is R, STANDBY,
right?
CC Roger.
CDR R, STANDBY, nothing new. Okay.
CC Okay, RAD and SCAT both ON.
CDR Okay, S is ON, READY light; R is ON, READY light.
CC Okay, record Alfa 9, Bravo 9, and Charlie 9. Or
tell me.
257 -[7 31 20 CDR Okay, here they come. Alfa 9 is about _ percent;
Bravo 9 is about 58 percent; Charlie 9 is about -
it's kind of hopping between plus 2 and minus
full scale low, which is about minus 2.
PLT And we've got SCAT TRANSMITTER light on, and
that came on after a while. The RAD/SCAT
GIMBAL was intermittent.
257 [7 31 52 CDR SCAT TRANSMITTER light sta - stayed on all the
time.
257 17 31 56 CC I don't - I don't understand the Carlie 9 reading.
Give that one to me again, please?
CDR Charlie 9, okay, now - now it's plus 3 percent,
now it's minus 2 percent, now it's plus 3 per-
cent, now it's minus 2.
CC Hey, it only reads from zero to lO0, doesn't it?
PLT Yes, but it's off scale low.
CDR Okay, take your choice.
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PLT Plus to off scale low, Bruce.
CC Okay, we copy. Go ahead in RAD and SCAT to
STANDBY, and fini h up. Thank you.
CDR Okay, RAD to STANDBY, SCAT to STANDBY. Anything
else?
CC That's it, EREP, STOP.
257 17 32 33 CDR EREP, STOP.
CC And for the SPT.
PLT I don't understand. Didn't do that yesterday,
did it?
CDR No, didn't do it yesterday. It's got some problem,
I guess. Do tape measurement. I think I can do
that after I read my - -
CC SPT, Houston.
257 17 32 56 CDR Voice record B-7. Okay, B-7 is 31 percent, same
as it always is. 92 DOOR to CLOSE.
SPT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Roger, Owen. During your S063 stowage operation
here, since this is the last time hat S063 w ll
be run o this mission, we would like to get a
general description of the S 63 window for clean-
liness, and the S063 filters for cleanliness, irregu-
larities in the surface, and pin holes. Over.
SPT Okay, you want that right now?
CC Put - Put it on the tape recorder. You're going
through the stowage operation right now, though,
I believe.
SPT Bruce, you're cutting in and out.
CC Okay, I may be getting cut off by V0X, I'm not
sure.
CDR Shouldn't be, it's not simplex.
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CC Okay, how are you reading now, Owen?
SPT No, I think you're right. I think it's VOX
triggering cut off upsta rs. So why don't we
wait u til Madrid or something like that, what-
ever the next station is. And I understand you
want a check on all the filters and window, and
I'll put that on channel A.
257 17 34 06 CC Roger. That's all we needed and we are over
Madrid.
SPT Okay.
PLT Okay I've got the VOX off now, Bruce.
257 17 34 18 CC Okay.
257 17 34 30 CC And also, for he SPT, we're wondering if you've
put all of the science demo television that you
intend to put on the VTR, on there yet? And
could you tell us - -
SPT I put on there the Wilberforce pendulum and a -
anoth r look at our little fish. We have about, oh,
12 to 15 of them now. And I did not intend -
nor did I put, obviously, anything on about the
airplanes today. W 're going to have to do some
folding and some work on that before we're ready,
if we get it done on the day off.
CC Okay, so - everything that's going to go on there
today is already on there.
SPT Everything's on that I intended to put on there
today, yes. I guess that was your question.
CC And which portion of this tape do you think
would be of the most interest for news broadcast?
We ve got only - -
SPT Are you still with us, Bruce?
CC Yes, I am. Which portion of the tape do you think
would be of the greatest interest for a news
broadcast? We have only a limited site coverage
for dumping, and we're trying to get about 8 min-
utes worth of it down here. Over.
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CC SPT, Houston. I seem to be reading everybody
else in the cluster okay. Could it be your box
or your headset? Over.
CC Stand by. We're going to drop the up-link and
reacquire. It may be our problem, after all.
Out.
257 17 B6 20 CC SPT, Houston. How do you read now?
SPT Loud and clear n w, Bruce.
CC Okay, what we were trying to ask is, which
segment of the tape do you think would be of the
most interest for a news broadcast? We have
limited site opportunities for dumping the TV.
We can get about 8 minutes of it down in the
immediate future. We'd like to pick the most
interesting 8 minutes to dump. Over.
SPT How much did I put on? Was it 15 or so? Or
how much was on there?
CC Roger. 15.6.
SPT Well, my guess is, the last part, which is -
shows our little m1_m_chog minnows swimming
around, along with a few of the unhatched eggs.
The first half I showed of the pendulum; the
last half, the little fish.
CC We copy. Thank you.
257 17 37 52 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute until LOS.
Next station contact in 38 minutes through
Honeysuckle Creek at 18:16 Z. Out.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
257 18 16 19 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ho eysuckle for
2-1/2 minutes. Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce.
CC You- -
SPT - - What's the ... word on that 1937
CC We're still working it. Whenyou reported the
malf light, we noticed some irregularities in the
data coming down on the EDDU; and we're trying to
piece all that together. Incidentally, a question
we have for the CDR; was the RAD RECE_ MALF light
on cont nuously during the pass, or while it was
operating? Or did it come on Just the second
time you turned the gear on there at about 17:007
Over.
257 18 17 00 CDR It came - came on there when I reported it, Bruce.
It had been off until that point; and once it came
on, it stayed on.
CC Okay, we copy that. And while we're talking to
you, A1, what we'd like to do on this desiccant
that was causing the problems in the dryer, is
put a piece of red tape or something like that on
it to mark it for identification, and then go ahead
and store it there in D-h2h, I believe the locker
is, with the rest of the spares. Over.
CDR Okay. Actually I tried three of them before I
found one that works. So there's a couple there
that are bad, and I'll put tape around them.
257 12 17 3 CC Roger; we copy. For the SPT, we'd like to find
out the serial numbers of the TV monitor, and of
the monitor to television camera cable that were
used during the TV-53. Over.
SPT Okay, there are - what we think are our two good
ones. Did it come down badly?
CC No, the TV came down Just fine.
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SPT Okay, I'll go give you the numbers on them.
257 18 18 06 CC Okay, why don't you make a note of them, or put
them on the tape recorder. We got 30 seconds to
LOS here. Next station contact in 26 minutes
through Goldstone at 18:h4. And it's the monitor
and the cable that goes between the monitor and
the TV that we're looking for. And with respect
to your reference to the something-or-other
ml......chog, we looked in the stowage list and we
find that you're flying Fundulus heteroclitus on
board. Over.
SPT Well, that's what I meant to say, but somehow or
other it slips my mind Just when I got to the
descriptive part, and so I thought m_michog would
fill in Just as well.
CC Roger, we concur.
PLT And, Bruce, I got some prominences over on the
west limb that were reported on the pad this
morning no doubt associated with those active
regions that are going out of sight.
257 18 18 57 CC Okay. A little bit of an update in new active
region designation, active region 27 on the east
limb with spots at 280 1.0. Small surges peaked
out at 15:20 Z. Over.
PLT Okay, prominence 27?
CC Active region 27 coming over the east limb.
PLT Oh, all right, I misunderstood you. I'll go take
a look at it.
CC I'm not necessarily implying, go take a look at
it. I'm Just updating you on th SAP.
PLT Thanks, I'll probably take a look at it anyway.
CC Roger.
PLT And the prominences I was reporting there, I meant
to say west limb. I don't know if I did or not,
but that's where they were.
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CC You sure - you did say west limb. I realize this
thing I'm telling you about is on the opposite
side.
257 18 20 04 PLT Right. I guess that's left when the north's at
the top, right?
CC Right. Left with the north at the top is east.
PLT Right, I'd like to get the guy that did that.
CC When you do, give him a lick for m_, too, okay?
PLT Wonder if his name was Cor igan?
CDR I think it was Galileo.
257 18 4_ 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for
7 minutes. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce, glad to see you back.
CC Ok y. And we will be dumping the data voice tape
recorder here. I thin we held off doing it over
Madrid since that was the tail end of your EREP
pass, and I called it up erroneously.
PLT Okay.
SPT Bruce the serial number on the monitor I used was
1021. The serial number on the cable which con-
nects the monitor to the camera is 3005. And I
did notice intermittent operation again this
morning.
CC We copy that, Owen. Thank you.
257 18 46 27 CC PLT, Houston. If you'd stay off the DAS for a
second, we will inhibit momentum dump for you.
PLT Thank you, Bruce. It's yours.
CC Roger.
257 18 49 17 SPT Bruce, just looking down on Stanford there,
scattered clouds down below.
CC Say again about the scattered clouds, Owen?
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SPT I'm looking down on Stanford right there, your
old stomping grounds out there; it's scattered
clouds.
CC Yes, your old stomping grounds too. Can you see
the linear accellerator or anything like that?
PLT No, we're a little too far south to see it by eye,
but I have seen it. For example, yesterday,
didn't have a chance to mention it, we were too
busy with other things, but I could see the - the
straight line where the linear accellerator goes
doE.
CC Beautiful. And for your information, we're dump-
ing TV-5B into the Control center right now. And
we're watching you, somewhat delayed in time,
operating the Wilberforce pendulum.
SPT Okay. I expect that's at the tail end of it there,
then, and you'll see the fish on the end of that.
CC More than likely.
257 18 53 2_ CC Skylab, Houston, B0 seco ds to LOS here at
Goldstone. The DAS is yours. Next station con-
tact will be Bermuda at 18:57 in about 4 minutes.
Out.
SPT Okay. Bruce, see you there. Thank you.
257 18 57 14 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for ap-
proximately B minutes. Out.
SPT Bruce. One thing I've been meaning, for a couple
of days, to mention to you again. You've asked
a couple of times about the use of the view find-
er with the 300-millimeter lens. And I think our
answers up to this point have not been too en-
couraging on that point. But it seems to me the
more I use it, the more I do see through that
300-millimeter lens. And that it is a pretty
good device for picking up small features or iden-
tify ng small features that were only guesses by
naked eye. And I think that it does rival bino-
culars for that sort of use. Of course it's not
stabilized but if you, say, brace your arm or
something so there's not too much jitter. I think
it's a very useful thing for magnified images.
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CC Okay. Thank you, Owen. Good input.
PLT Something sort of interesting that I haven't ob-
served too much on the Sun, Bruce, is something
I see right now on the - on the limb near active
region 19, where we're doing this building block
19 - shopping list item 19. And that is that
there are several gaps in the limb brightening.
And normally you'd see that as one continuous and
uniform brightening areas - brightened area with
a few prominences. But I can see definite gaps -
three or four of them in the H-alpha 1 at max
magnification of that area.
CC We copy. Sounds in eresting.
257 19 01 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute until LOS.
Next station contact in 6 minutes through Canary
Islands at 19 :07. Out.
257 19 07 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary for 8 min-
utes. Out.
PLT Did I hear you call, Bruce?
CC Roger, Owen; [sic]. We're right here comin to
you through Canary Islands.
I PLT Okay,this is Jack, Bruce. I want to clearup
something that I didn't name properly earlier.
I was talking about the H-alpha, an I erroneously
called the area I was talking about limb bright-
e ings. It should be called, more properly I
think, the ring of spicules that you can see be-
tween the white light limb and the edge of the
H-alpha. And it's that ring of spicules that
has the gaps in it. A d it appears as though a
c oss section through a plage area or an active
region, Just kind of wipes out those spicules in
areas. And so, the gaps are in the spicules above
the white light limb.
257 19 08 31 CC Roger, we copy that. And Just for edification,
what is that in the ba kground that was m_king
the noise that was varying in speed? Are you
turning a fan on or off?
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PLT No, I wasn't turning anything on and off, Bruce.
Probably the rate gyros. They do a lot of humm-
ing back here, and that's the thing that makes
the most noise up here in the MDA when EREP is
not running.
CC Okay. The only reason I asked you, it sounds like
there were varying speeds, you know, the frequency
or the pitch of the - of the hum as varying.
Maybe it's Just on the down-link.
PLT That's a relatively constant hum. You can hear
very slight variati ns in it, but you got good
ears to pick it up.
CC Okay and we copy your amplifying remarks about
the gaps in the ring of spicules.
SC (Music).
257 19 l0 24 CC There goes that noise again, Jack. Did you hear
it this time?
PLT Yes, did you hear that vibration?
CC Yes. Is that what you were telling me is the rate
gyros?
PLT No, I Just wanted to see if your ear was good
enough to pick that up, too.
CC My ear isn't very good, but it was good enough to
pick that up.
257 19 14 _5 CC Skylab, this is Houston, 30 seconds to LOS. Next
station contact in 36 minutes through Honeysuckle
at 19:51. Out.
257 19 14 57 PLT Okay Bruce, we'll see you there. Thank you.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
257 19 51 h5 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for
9 minutes. We'll be dumping the date voice tape
recorder at the next site, Hawai . Out.
CDR Okay, Bruce.
SPT Hey, Bruce. I wonder if you'd set up a phone
call with the wife and the family for me tonight?
0wen, here.
CC Okay. Will do tha , Owen.
257 19 53 15 CC Skylab, Houston. We need the DAS for a moment
in order to enable momentum dump.
PLT You got it, Bruce.
257 19 54 03 CC And, Skylab, this is Houston. We're through with
enable. The DAS is yours. Out.
257 19 58 59 CC Skylab, this is Houston. A minute and l0 seco ds
to LOS. Next station contact in 12-1/2 minutes
through Hawai at 20:ll. Out.
257 20 ll 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for 9 min-
utes. Out.
257 20 19 54 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. Next
station contact in 3 minutes through Goldstone
at 20:23. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce, and it says here you want some real-
time TV of the Sun.
257 2C 20 12 CC Roger.
257 2C 23 15 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for
7 minutes. Out.
257 20 23 28 PLT Okay, Bruce. How are you receiving the white
light coronagraph?
CC Stand by. We're checking on that.
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257 20 24 50 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're receiving the TV
satisfactorily at Goldstone. They're recording
it there. We have been having some co puter
problems at that site due to a failure of the air
conditionin system. But keep it coming down, and
we'll record it there and ship it in later Over.
PLT Okay. It looks llke 56 is hung up. It's the
third time it's hung up on this pass.
CC Roger, Jack. We confirm that.
PLT The other two times it hung up was Just a plain
old SIN LE FRAME 1 and 3 SHORT, and I had to
reinitiate it.
CC Roger.
257 20 29 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS
through Goldstone. Next station contact in
5 minutes, Bermuda, at 20:3h. Out.
257 20 34 43 CC Skylab, this is Houston; with you through Bermuda
for 8 minutes and 20 seconds. Out.
257 20 34 50 PLT Okay, Bruce.
257 20 42 04 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 2 minutes through the
Canary Islands at 20:44. Out.
257 20 44 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary and Ascen-
sion for about 15 minutes. Out.
257 20 45 13 PLT Hey, Bruce, here's something for the - the what-
it 's-worth department. I 've - I know we 've
changed the center of the MIRROR AUTO RASTER to
933 as opposed to 932. And in the last two bright
points that I've pointed at, the maximized detec-
tor, I've had to slide the H-alpha off to the
left, Just a little bit, in order to get the
detector maximized. Or if I put H-alpha right on
the bri ht spot, then I have to step the MIRROR
one step to the left to get it maximized. Now I
don't know if the H-alpha signature is going to
be bright in the same point as the 55 signature,
but that's Just an observation for the record.
0ver.
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CC Roger. We cepy. Thank you, Jack.
257 20 50 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.
Next station, in 2 minutes and a half, is
Ascension. Out.
CDR Okay, Bruce, we'll see you at Ascension.
257 20 50 52 CC Roger.
257 20 53 27 CC Skylab, this is Houston; with you through Ascen-
sion for 7-1/2 minutes.
257 20 51342 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for
7 minutes. For the CDR. Over.
PLT Go ahead; he's listening.
CC Okay. In our flight planning efforts for tomorrow,
we attempt d to squeeze in our long EREP pass.
That is, one starting down over New Zealand and
winding up over North America, here. And we Just
found out that we can't afford it, from our TACS
budget problem. So we're, essentially, starting
back at square zero again. And the Flight Plan
and the details will be about 4 to 5 hours late
coming up this evening, but we're going to try
to get them to you before you go to bed. Over.
CDR Sounds good, Bruce.
257 20 54 35 CDR How many pound-seconds of TACS did it take?
CC It was somewhere ver 100 pound-seconds, A1. But
the problem is that we were facing a high proba-
bility of a reset, which would have been on the
order of about 500 pound-seconds. And we didn't
feel we could afford that for one EREP pass, over.
CC I concur. I Just sort of wondered what kind of
numbers a long pass like that would incur. Thank
you.
257 20 59 53 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. Next
station contact in half an hour, 31 minutes through
Honeysuckle. Excuse me; through Carnarvon at 21:26.
And for the PT, we're tentatively setting up your
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phone call this evening for the Merritt Island -
MLA pass at 23:47 to 23:57. We're still trying
to get an antenna analysis and site coverage run
on it. When we do, we'll advise you further.
Over.
257 21 00 27 SPT Okay, Bruce. Thank you very much.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
257 21 27 06 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle
for 8-1/2 minutes.
SPT Welcome, Hank.
CC Good evening.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS. We'll be
coming up on Hawaii at 50.
257 21 35 09 PLT See you there, Hank.
257 21 510l0 CC Skyl b, Houston. We're about 20 seconds from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 02.
CC That was an awful short pass. What I really mean
to say is we're with you here for - for about
l0 minutes.
CDR We kind of wondered.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Hank.
257 21 52 20 CC We've been noticing that the S056 camera is now
hanging up in a SINGLE FRAME mode. And this hadn't
happened before. And the increased load on the
film-drive stepping motor could ca se a single-
point failure in the S056. And the PI feels that
we should severely restrict the S056 operations
to insure that we still have the instrument for
SL-4. So what we'd like to do is use S056 only
in JOP 6, building block l, and then only in the
SINGLE FRAME, LONG; and do that for the rest of
our mission. However, right now, we'd like for
you to go ahead and shut it down now on - on this
pass and allow the camera motor to cool down and
the pressure to build back up in the camera. And
I'm sure you know how to do that. What we want
to do is get the AIRL CK, CLOSED, CLOSE the DOOR,
and get the CAMERA POW_, OFF.
PLT Okay. W ll do.
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257 21 53 27 CC And also, for the remainder of the mission, to
best utilize our film on H-alpha i, we would like
to go to normal operation, which is one frame per
minute, from now on. And the only time we'll
change out of that is for FLARE mode when we go
to four frames per minute.
PLT Okay. It's running in AUTO i at the moment. And
they've got the AIRLOCK, CLOSED, the DOOR, CLOSED,
and the CAMERA POWER, OFF on 56. And I'd like you
to be more specific on what SINGLE FRAMES you want
in the LONG mode in J0P 6, building block 1.
CC Okay. I - I misread that to you, Jack. What we'll
do is operate only in the JOP 6, building block l's,
and also we'll do SINGLE FRAME, LONG mode.
257 21 54 36 PLT Okay. So the way I understand it is, you want the
SINGLE FRAME, LONGS when they come up in the shop-
ping list items. And also in the building
block l's where it asks for an ACTIVE l LONG,
he's happy with our procedures to do SINGLE FRAME l,
3, 5, SHORT and let it go at that.
CC Roger. Just as it calls for in the building blocks.
PLT Okay. Well, the building block's have been call ng
for an ACTIVE l, LONG. In order to save film
we've been giving them SINGLE FRAMES l, 3, and 5.
Now we could go to ACTIVE l, LONG as a standard
procedure, if he wishes.
CC Okay. We - We'll - -
257 21 55 15 PLT i tr ed an ACTIVE l, LONG - Go ahead.
CC Let - let us take a look at that. We're discuss-
ing it here with - in the backroomwith ATOM. And
then we'll try to get an answer back to you at
Goldston . And we are coming up on LOS. And
Goldstone will be com ng up at 02.
257 21 55 30 PLT kay.
257 22 02 29 C Skylab, Houston. We're with you through Goldstone
for 5 minutes.
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PLT Okay, Hank.
CC And, Jack, to answer your question here, the -
the backroom boys would like to run the S056 and
the JOP 6, building block l, per the pad.
PLT Okay, per the pad. We'll look at the pad, do
whatever it says, and if it says nothing, we'll
give them an ACTIVE l, LONG.
P T I tried an ACTIVE l, LONG Just a little while ago.
I has going to give them one runthrough on this
whole rev to cover all of these JOP 2 Foxes and -
because I thought he hadn't had one for a long,
long time, and might want one. And it ran through
the sequence of filters two or three times; then
it hung up on FILTER 5 again.
257 22 05 ll CC PLT, Houston. We're a little puzzled by your
remark there, about the ACTIVE l, LONG in the
JOP 6 there. It calls for a PATROL, NORMAL, LONG,
and SHORT, and we're a little puzzled by your
c mment there.
PLT I was not referring to JOP 6. Perhaps I misquote
myself. I was talking about the building block l0
that we're doing here in the 2 Foxtrots. And it
calls for ACTIVE l, LONGs and I was going to give
him an ACTIVE l, LONG in the first runthrough on
building block 10, but it wouldn't go past
FILTER 5 the second and third time around.
CC Okay, we copy then.
257 22 06 27 CC And Skylab, Just to - to make it perfectly clear
here, we are not going to run S056 any more today.
And we will get back with you later today on how
we want to shut it down for the night.
LT Okay, we'll leave it as is. I presume the door's
going to open, come around to next sunrise, and
then we'll Just close it again. Right?
CC Well Just go ahead and let it - do - do it's
thing, and then we'll be all right.
PLT Okay.
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257 22 07 00 CC And we're about 40 seconds from OS. We'll be
coming right back with Bermuda at ll, and we'll
have a data recorde dump there.
257 22 ll 32 CC Skylab, Houston; through Bermuda for lO-1 /2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have a - a general comment
for all three of you. Occasionally, GNS has a
little trouble tracking down the RG 6-pack temp.
So we'd appreciate very much if, when you put
those temps onto the tap , that you'd add GNS to
the address.
PLT Okay. I put the last set on yesterday, I think,
Hank. And if he hasn't got the last set, why I
got them right here before me; I can read them
real-time.
CC Okay. We did get the ones from yesterday.
PLT Okay. And I guess I erroneously sent them to EGIL.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute f om LOS. Ascen-
sion at 29.
2 7 22 21 20 PLT Okay, Hank.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRI TION
257 22 29 48 CC Houston, through Ascension for 8-1 /2 minutes.
CC And for the PLT, we have a change to your details.
PLT Okay.
CC So that we can better utilize the time r_maining
to run through our M518 series of experiments,
at 00:40 today, you have M561 scheduled. We'd
like to change that to M563 ops. And set the soak
temperature pot to 960 instead of 950.
PLT Okay, I understand. That's M563, and the tempera-
ture will be 960. Is that right, Hank?
CC That'saffirmative.
257 22 30 45 PLT Okay. Thank you for that change.
257 22 37 35 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute from LOS; Carnarvon
at 01.
257 23 01 20 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 10-i /2 min-
utes.
PLT Okay, Hank.
257 23 01437 CC Skylab, Houston. Did we get a full protocol on
the CDR?
SPT That's affirmative; the best one yet.
CC Good show.
257 23 07 33 CC Skylab, Houston. Whenever it's convenient, we'd
like to know, did you clean your entertainment
tape recorder, according to the pad we sent up,
and how is it working now?
PLT We cleaned it, Hank,. and it seems to be working
pretty well now
CC Okay. That's good news.
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257 23 ii 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're almost LOS. We'll be
coming up on Guam at 14.
257 23 15 59 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for another
8-1/2 minutes.
257 23 16 08 PLT Okay, Hank.
257 23 23 48 CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS. We'll
be coming up on Goldstone at h0.
257 23 23 56 PLT Okay, Hank. Thank you. We'll see you there.
257 23 40 26 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone and MLA for
16-1/2 minutes. And we'll be dumping the data
recorder over MLA at 47. And a reminder for the
SPT. Your priva e phone call is set up for MLA
at 46. And you'll probably use antennas RIGHT
then LEFT. And the last part of that may be a
little wo_-m_ but do the best you can.
257 23 40 52 SFT Okay. Thank you.
257 23 41 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're unable to locate on our
dump tapes the tape measurements you did on the
EREP tape today. And we kind of need that data
to make our plans for tomorrow.
CDR Th answer 's 1 inch.
CC Roger. We copy.
257 23 42 41 CDR I can give you most of the nightly report, if you'd
like it right now. I didn't see it on my schedule.
I can give you everything but the photo pad.
CC Stand by l, A1. Let's get everybody ready.
CDR Okay.
257 23 43 42 CC Okay, A1. Ev rybody's ready to copy.
CDR Okay. 082, 120, 198; 6094, 9998, 6556; 6.235,
6.235, 6.245; 5.946, 5.948, 5.946; 6.942, 6.943,
6.945. Exercise: CDR hasn't done his yet, but
he'll tell you what it'll be. 2/35/5041;
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3/lO/Mar I; 3/05/Mark II; 3/05/Mark III.
SPT: 2/17/3000; 2/12/2000; 3/25/Mark I; 60, A;
60, B; 60, D. PLT: 2/05/0621. He hasn't done
a lot - some of his yet. He'll call you back on
that, but let me ell you some more that he's done:
3/20/Mar I; 50 A; 20 B; 20 D; 20 backbends.
No medication. Sleep: 7 G, 7 G, 6-1/2 G.
Food log: CDR, four salts plus three salt pills,
add one lemonade. SPT, zero salts, omit asparagus
and tuna, add pork and potatoes, add peanut butter.
Pilot, four salt cubes; that's salt packs. Add
one lemon drop, one salt pill, one butter cookies,
one grape drink, one pears. Substitute peanuts
and peach am rosia for tuna and bread. Photo
log, we'll give you later. Flight Plan, we're
standing by to see it. Shopping list accomplish-
ments, nothing new. Inoperable equipment, we -
one penlight; we got out another penlight and
discarded the old one. Unscheduled stowage item
location change, two TO02 batteries from W-740
to the sextant. Little note on here from Jack
that says, day 20 and day 40. Maybe he meant he
didn't report it on day 20, one of them. I don't
know how many the TO - 002 has. Let me ask him.
257 23 46 48 CDR Okay, I Just checked with Jack, and he says there's
two batteries gone. One he replaced about day 20
and one about day 40. So he just wanted to make
sure you knew there were two gone.
CC Okay. We copy.
CDR Okay, that's it. Any ques ions, Hank?
CC No questions. And I guess the only thing remain-
ing is the film report.
CDR And we'll get you that Just as soon as we can.
257 23 49'42 CC Skylab, Houston. _GIL noticed some funnies
yesterday in the OWS heat exchanger gas flow, and
was wondering if anybody was doing any work with
the 0WS heat exchanger just before or during your
T020 run yesterday.
CDR No, we didn't do anything to the heat exchanger,
but, you know, we turned off some fans and things
down here in the workshop.
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CC We copy.
CDR Without those fans, I would suspect it somehow
reflects back up there on the load on the heat
exchanger.
257 23 53 27 CC Skylab, Houston; if we have someone free, we
would like to get back normal configuration on
our cabin pressure control valves. We're back
down to a pretty much normal pressure now.
257 23 55 33 CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy regarding the
RELIEF VALVES?
CDR No. Go ahead, Hank. Excuse me. What do you -
what's on your mind?
CC Okay, whenever it's convenient, what we'd like
to do is, on panel 300 and 391; t at's MDA and,
I think, aft RELIEF ALVES, we'd like to make sure
t ose are OPEN and verify that panel 313 EELIEF
VALVE is closed. I'm sure it is. I think that's
the one that goes outside. And on panel 225, we'd
l ke to get the N 2 SOLENOID SELECTOR V LVE to
PRIMARY. And then verify in the command module
t at on panel 325, both or our CABIN PRE SURE
RELIEF VALVE levers are in NORMAL position.
What we're trying to do is get back to a normal
configuration since our cabin pressure's pretty
much normal again after the TO20 runs.
CDR So you want the command module ones in NORMAL as
opposed to CLOSED. 0keydoke. And I copied the
rest.
257 23 56 33 CC Okay, and we're about 30 seconds from LOS. nd
we'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 39 past the
next hour.
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Time: 258:00:00 to 258:01:30
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
258 00 39 49 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 6-1 /2 minutes.
And if we could have the DAS for a minute, we'll
command the momentum inhibit.
CDR You got it. How do you like the star?
CC Looks good. You're clear to close the shutter.
CC And, CDR, Houston. We passed you some - while not
bad poop, but not in - not exactly correct accord-
ing to the checklist awhile ago. Those two cabin
relief pressure valves you questioned in the
command module should indeed be closed to agree
with the checklist. EGIL says he'll t_e
2 lashes and he'll get those at shift change.
258 00 40 52 CDR Okay, well, that means we've still got about
500 coming if we subtract his off ours. Here's
a question: I notice that my next event down here
is shopping list item 13, which is 56. Do you
want me to just forget that and go do some other
shopping list, and if so, have you got a sugge -
tion? If not, I'ii fi ure something out.
CC Since you asked, a - a type 4 radio source has
been reported by Culgoara Observatory from down
under, and we'd like for you to look at the WLC TV
a d see if you see anything unusual above the
northwest limb. It should be about at 060. And
if you do see a coronal transient there of some
s rt, we'd like to replace shopping list item 13
With an S052 EXTENDED STANDARD. Otherwise, we'd
like to replace it with the following operations:
Repeat the last building block l0 of t e last
orbit you did, since it was run entirely below the
400 kilometer limit, and then do shopping list
item 9 on filament 57. Use an 8-minute exposure
for the 82B.
258 00 42 07 CDR I - I - say that once again. I got part of it.
CC Okay, I know I went a little fast for you. I Just
want to give you a s1_mmary of it. We want you to
look for the transient at 060 and see if there is
one. If there is a transient there, we'd like for
you to do - instead of the shopping list item 13,
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Just do an S052 EXTENDED STANDARD. Now, if there
is no transient, we want to go back to your previous
pass and do the last building block i0 over again,
since it was run below the h00 kilometer limit.
And then after you finish that, shopping list
item 9 on filament 57, and a - an 8-minute exposure
for the 82B.
CDR Okay, now is this the JOP - building block i0 2-F
that's right above this - this flare?
CC On the last rev, the cycle beginning at 23:01,
there was a series of JOP 2-F's, building block 10s.
All we want you to do is run that last one again.
And then when you finish that, do the shopping
list item 9 on the filament 57.
258 00 43 41 CDR Okay, I was trying to find out if it was my last i0
or the last rev i0. You just answered the question.
Thanks.
CDR And, Hank, I guess I never reported back to you -
and, by the way, I Just closed the two in the
"cow,,and module. I closed the valve in the STS, -
or opened it, I left the one closed in t e lock
compartment, and I opened the one in the aft
compartment.
CC Okay, that sounds good. Thank you, AI.
258 00 45 22 CDE As soon as this 52 STANDARD's over, then I'll take
a look at the WLC, and go f om there. So if it's
going on right now, we're getting the data.
258 00 45 31 CC We copy. And we're about 1 minute from LOS. We'll
be coming up on Guam at 54.
CDR You said this burst is over on the west limb some-
where, is that correct?
CC Roger; 060, northwest limb.
CDR Well that's good, because the roll is Just right
for them now then.
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258 00 54 21 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 5 minutes.
CDR kay, Hank. I took a look at the corona. It
looked like there was a possible disturbance down
in that a ea, but it looks like the top of the
bubble is already out beyoud the limit of my scope,
although if I look down at the bottom, I can see
curved streamers going out. So my feeling is we
probably did have a visible. It was probably
picked up on earlier 52's, the one I was doing
beforehand. It may be the one in the previous
orbit, I'm not sure. But I'm now in EXTENDED
STANDARD and I assume that you want me to restart
the EXTENDED STANDARD when this one stops in about
12 to 13 inutes.
CC Roger. That's affirmative.
CDR Okay.
258 00 55 14 CC And also, A1, we see the S082 doors are closed.
Did you close those? 82A.
CDR Yes. I took the pictures and closed the doors.
CC Okay. We copy. We just wanted to affirm that.
CDR I can open them up if you like. Say again.
CC That - that's good, like they are now.
PLT Say, Hank, you want some -
PLT Say, Hank; could you copy down some more exercise,
please?
CC Okay. Go ahead.
PLT Okay. For the PLT it's number - sorry about that.
It's a number 2, 35 minutes, 867&. Over.
CC Roger. We copy.
Goldstone at 17.
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258 01 16 59 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone, Texas, a d
MLA for 15 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to clear up a little
something we - we got on the evening status report.
Yesterday, the pilot's water gun, or we - we
copied 6.564 and today, we copied 6.556, which is
a lower number, and we re a little confused.
CDR We'll just have to check our last couple of read-
ings and see how they fit. I'm sure we can figure
it out.
CC Okay. Whenever you get to it. Thank you, A1.
CDR Okay. Jack's headed down there right now. He
may be able to check it out.
PLT Yesterday's was 6.540, Hank.
258 01 18 16 CC Okay. We copied that wrong. It should have
been 40, yesterday?
PLT Yes, sir.
CDR I probably read it wrong, Hank.
CC And, for the SPT. We copied on c annel A, yester-
day, that there were two frames of the BV16 film
remaining for the S063. And we concur that the
timer was at fault and we're in the process of
trying to work up a - a malf procedure for you.
We would like to hang on to those two frames and
we'll schedu e those for use later.
SPT Okay, Hank. Thought you might feel that way.
PLT Hank, I've got the photo log. You ready to copy?
CC Okay. We're ready.
258 01 20 51 PLT Okay. Day 257, no 16-millimeter was used.
35-millimeter: Bravo Victor 16, 02; Charlie
India 105, 06; Charlie X-ray 33, 36. 70-millimeter:
Charlie X-ray 27, 019. EREP, set Victor; 8414,
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7751, 8627, 8621, 2164, 9484. And I noticed that
number six there took one more frame than all the
others took. There's no change to the drawer A
configuration.
CC Okay. We copy. Thank you, Jack.
PLT Okay. I'd like to make one other request. I
don't know if we made this in the past or not.
But we'd like to know what camera ettings we
ought to use with the 75 - or the 35 and 70 to
take pictures of cities at night, with CX and CI
film both.
CC Okay. We'll work it.
258 01 22 06 PLT Thank you.
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TAG Tape 258-02/T-600
Time: 258:01:30 to 258:03:00
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
258 Ol 31 16 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS. We'll be
be coming up on Vanguard at 41 and we'll be
dumping the recorder.
P T Say, Hank, if you dump the recorders, you're
going to be du ping S019 with it.
CC Say again, Jack. There was a loud squeal.
PLT Yes. l'm right in the middle of a S019. If you
dump it, why, you're going to dump all the marks.
CC Okay. We'll check it.
CC We'll - We'll tell you what we're going to do at
Vanguard. We won't dump until we're sure we've
got you covere .
258 01 32 18 PLT Okay. Thank you, Hank.
258 01 41 51 CC Skylab, Houston. We're through Vanguard for
lO minutes .
CC And, PLT, we'll be redesignating recorders so
you won't lose any S019 data. And if we could
have the DAS, we'll enable momentum dump.
PLT Okay, thank you. You've got the DAS, and thank
you for keeping my data intact. Karl Henize
thanks you, too.
CC Roger. Glad to be of service.
CC PLT, Houston. We've done some checking on this
cities-at-night photography, and we find
that CI and CX is much too slow to o the job
and we don't have any black and white film left.
258 O1 43 O0 SPT Hello, Hank. We talked with Bruce about this
earlier, and we believe that there is a way,
in the developing process, to push the CI film
to ASA 500. And, for example, we are doing that
sort of thing now for the faint auroral photog-
raphy. And I think that's the intent of Jack's
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question. If we pushed the Cl film to a higher
ASA, what is the appropriate settings in that
case?
CC Okay we'll check that. l'd - l'm pretty sure
that you can push it up around 400 - 420. We'll
check it out.
SPT Right. That's our understanding also.
258 Ol 45 26 CC Skylah, Houston. Just a little reminder. During
the next stateside pass, you're scheduled for some
XUV MON TV down-link. And that's during the med
conference, so we don't be able to talk to you.
And the VIDEO switch is now i TV.
SPT Okay, Hank. I'ii try to remember that.
CDR Hank, are you still there?
CC Roger, we have another 5 minutes.
CDR Roger. Cancel the exercise I report this evening. .
I mentioned I was going to do it later. I think
I will not do it later and get to bed early. See
you later.
CC Okay, I understand you're turning in now.
CC Skyl b, Houston. Would you like to listen to a
minute or so of news here?
SPT Yes, go ahead.
258 01 48 39 CC Okay, I think in the business they call his slow
news day. It looks what I read up to you yester-
day. They're still having at it down in Chile.
The armed forces have battled the leftist workers
in downtown Santi go early today in a drive to
crush sporadic but persistent opposition to the
military coup against the late President Salvador
Allende. Machine gun and rifle fire broke out at
midnight with bullets smashing through the windows
of buildings near the presidential pallace. In
southeast Asia, the Vientiane government and the
Co_B-.mist Pathet Lao signed a political peace
agreement today, aking them partners in another
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Souvanna Phollms, who will head the coalition, said
he hoped the new government would meet before
October 10th. The massive Israeli air battle with
Syrian aircraft off the Med coast, that I told
you about the last night, was seen here as a swift
response by Tel Aviv to Ara consideration of a
rene al of eastern front activity.
258 01 49 40 CC In Salmon Arm, British Columbia, the firefighters
were winning their battles today to control a
12,000-acre forest fir that has destroyed more
than 20 homes, scores of farm buildings and killed
hundreds of cattle. The Skylab news today centered
around the okay you were given to complete your
59-day mission. Following a press conference with
Dr. Royce Hawkins, the wire services quoted him as
saying "the Skylab 3 astronauts are in better
condition than ex - than expected." And in sports,
the Los Angeles Dodgers officially put the Astros
out of the running for a pennant yesterday by
beating them S to 6. Here in Houston, interest is
heightening in the September 20th tennis match
between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King in the
Astrodome. That's about all we've got this
evening.
SPT Thanks, Hank.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We're about I minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 02:54.
And that is the med conference. And also, we're
going to try to get you the last couple of minutes
of that pass and get our frames remaining from
the - on the ATM.
258 01 51 14 CC The sunset there, I think, is about 4 minutes before
that pass is over.
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Time: 258:03:00 to 2 8:10:30
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258 03 O0 57 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about a minute left.
PLT Okay, here's the frames remaining, Hank. H-alpha
is 4891; S056 is 468; 82A is 18; 82B is 109; 52
is 1456, and 54 is 1350.
CC Roger. We copy. And we want you to use the
normal closeout procedure on S056. And we would
also like to verify, on panel 225, that the N2
SOLENOID SELECT VALVE is in PRIMARY.
258 03 01 35 PLT It's in PRIMARY, and we'll get it to NORMAL.
Thank you .
258 03 01 41 CC And we're about 30 seconds from LOS, and we'll say
good night to you. Get a good night's rest. We'll
talk to you tomorrow.
PLT Okay. Thanks to you and your team for everything,
and have a good night yourself.
258 03 01 52 CC Thank you, sir.
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S YLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
258 ii Oi 33 (Music: "Paralyzed")
CC Good morning, Skylab. The cri son te m's back
with you.
SPT Okay, Bo . I didn't know you had a recording
there of Marines doing close-or er drill.
CC We wer just playing back what - what A1 was
talking about on T020 the other day.
SPT Was. That's about right.
CC Or maybe that was Jack talking about T002, I'm
not sure. We only got you for about a minute
and a half left here. We're not going to talk
to you again until over Canary at about 11:48.
So you can get a lit le bit more rest, or A1 can
go up and go to work.
258 ll 03 39 PLT Go ahead. We're working.
CC I was afraid of that. You guys are really enthu-
siastic. We've got - only got 1 minute until LOS.
We'll - we'll see you again at Canary at 11:48.
CDR Who's got the early ATM? We didn't get a schedule
last night, I don't think. We've probably got
them on board. We Just haven't read them yet.
CC Roger. It - it's all on board. Should be up there
in the teleprinter.
CDR Okay.
CC And it's for - the first one is - is for AI.
258 ii 04 26 CDR Okay, I'll get them.
258 ii 48 34 CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S through Canary for
13 minutes. And we'll be doing a data voice
recorder dump during the later part of this pass.
CDR Okay, Bob. And I got your star there, and I also
put that XUV MON on VTR.
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CC Okay, AI. Thank you very much. And we need the
DAS for a moment to inhibit momentum dump, please,
sir.
CDR You've got it. And also, I've noticed the pad
calls on these coronal holes JOPs to use the pre-
cise pad coordinates as opposed to looking on the
UV MON. So that's my intention to do that.
CC Okay, very good. That's what they - what they
desire. And if you'd like, I can give you the
SAP update now.
CDR Okay, go head.
258 ll 49 23 CC Okay, P58 has been moderately active with a pos-
sible minor eruptive prom - eruptive at 08:18
Zulu. The e has been minor motion in P76. New
active region 28 at 26/1.0, and its forecast or
flare probability is 000, which is not much.
Regions have all been quiet, but active region 26
does show minor growth characteristics.
CDR Okay, thank you, Bob.
CC Okay, and the DAS belongs to you once more.
CC And if somebody is - got a little time, I wo ld
like to do some Flight Plan updates and also to
make a maneuver time change, which goes th ough
several pads today for th t second EREP maneuver.
CDR Okay, go ahead.
258 ll 50 36 CC Okay, on - do you have the - the EREP pads and
maneuver pads available there to you, Al?
CDR I've got some of them. Which one are you think-
ing of?
CC Okay, this is the - for the second maneuver. And
you should have the maneuver pad, I believe, on
that one, for maneuver - EREP number 32. And we
want to change the maneuver time on that, which
is currently 14 - Stand by I.
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CC It's currently 14 minutes long and we want to
change it to 24. So that means your - your entry
is 50,030 with 24 minutes. And we want to change
the GMT to 17:36 vice 46.
258 I 51 8 CDR Okay, let me see if I've got it right. It'll be
a 52,030 and then a 50,030 - with 24 minutes.
Then the GMT of that is 258:17:36:00.
CC That is correct. And if you have your VTS pad for
that one a so, EREP 32 VTS, l'd like to change
that start time in there for the Z-LV maneuver.
CDR Okay, I'ii change it right now.
CC Okay, that's 1 :36, of course. And would also
like to make sure that gets into Jack's pad for
when to start the Z-LV maneuver at 17:36 - on
his C&D pad.
CDR Okay, we'll make sure he gets it.
CC Very good.
CDR Anything else?
258 ii 52!43 CC Well, the other item I had here is for 0wen. I
would like to add an MI51 on his ETC prep at 14:35.
CDR He'll be glad to hear that. I hope he's listening.
CC If he's not, I'ii -l'll - we'll call up again
and change it. Would also like to - We're going
to try to get final capacities on both Owen and
Jack today when they are doing their runs. So if
you might note on your details Just a vital capa-
city at 21:03 when you're running Owen there,
please.
CDR All right.
258 ll 53 40 CC A1, I've also got something for you just - you
can listen to. We heard your druthers about get-
ting all of our troubleshooting items out of the
road prior to the - the last 5 days of the mis-
sion, which certainly makes sense, and we go a-
long with it. However, we've got one exception
we'd like to tell you about. And hat is in our
battery degradation test. Currently, we - -
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CDR You Just dropped out, Bob.
CC Okay, am I back with you again?
CDR Right. You Just got back.
258 ll 54 09 CC Sorry about that. We had a handover I didn't
get notification on. On the druthers you had
about not doing any troubleshooting during the
last 5 days of the mission, we go along with you
on that wholeheartedly; however, we've got one
exception we'd like to make, and that is on the
battery degradation test. We - we're trying to
get that - an idea of what the battery is doing
spread out throughout the mission as late as
possible. Currently, on day 260, a couple of
days from now, we're going o be doing airlock
module batteries 1 and 8. And on day 26h, we're
going to be doing CBRMs number l0 and 7. And
then the one that goes into the day 5 - the 5
days is on day 266, we want to do CBRMs number 2
and 8. And we hope that you'll go along with
that exception.
258 ll 55 09 CDR Roger. Sure will. It was Just an attempt - and
I k ew you were thinking about it down there,
also. I think one of the problems we had during
activation was while we were trying to stick to
that tight time line, we were in the midst of a
bunch of troubleshooting, and it - it really made
it tough. And what I was hoping to avoid was not
do the same thing again because we'd once again
go into a tight tlme line on this deactivation.
And if we start troubleshooting there, too, we're
going to bend that time line out of shape. I
knew you all were concerned about it, but we'd
been thinking about it.
258 ll 55 42 CC Okay, real fine. I believe we're all talki g the
same language in that regards. Had one other
item, and this is - this may be to help you lo k
or check out that problem you'd mentioned with
the trash airlock being a little bit tough to get
down. The one thing that we've come up with here
on the ground that they'd seen on the backup unit
is there's a - a little torsion spring that's lo-
cated on a couple of Teflon blocks right up where
the handle of the trash airlock goes up over the
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lip of the lid. And, if you could visually inspect
those sometimes and verify that that torsion spring
is in a slot which is - you can see through a hole
in the top Teflon block, just to make sure it's in
its proper location an hasn't slipped out, that
would probably give us a better handle on maybe
what that problem is.
258 ii 56 42 CDR Okay, I'ii - I'ii look at it this morning. My
feeling is it's that the seal - I don't know; I'll -
let me look at that. It takes quite a bit of force
to get that lid down. We - we use an extra person
now to stand on it and push down. He has to push
down pretty doggone hard to get that seal made and
that's, of course, the way it's been the whole time.
CC Yes
CDR I get the feeling that it's Just the design of the
seal.
258 ii 57 09 CC Okay, well that was our initial feelings, also, f
course. Pete has reported the same thing. H w-
ever, we got the impression that you were - you
were saying that it was getting a little bit more
difficult to do than it had been originally. So we
suspected that that might have been a possible
cause; that is, the spring.
CDR o, I guess I didn't mean to say that. What - I
had been using a different technique. I can still
use that same technique now, but l'm not sure that
that technique didn't eventually result in that
b nt strut or rod that we have on there. I can -
It's not any harder to do, I Just think it's a lit-
tle more prudent to do it this two-man way until we
get a new rod, although it looks like everything
would still work the old way.
258 ii 57 54 CC Okay, real fine. You might, if you get a cha ce,
just to take a look at that spring, that's all.
CDR Okay, will do. Thanks, Bob.
SPT Say, Bob, I have copied those changes to my Flight
Plan that you mentioned a minute ago. And last
night, I was putting my channel A recording on,
between about 03:15 and 03:25, and telecom, I
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guess, starting dumping a tape ecorder someplace
in the middle, I don't know exactly when. Is it
easy to check to tell me what time the dump started
last night, about - between 03:15 and 03:25?
CC We'll - we'll check it out for you. Owen, let me
verify that you did get that we had 151 on the ETC
prep at 14:35
258 ii 58 41 SPT I think I've got an ET - a 151 pad, don't I?
Photo pad.
CC Yes.
S T Say again.
CC That's affirmative. It is - it is on the photo
pad that you got.
SPT That's what I thought. So I'v got it on the
Flight Plan now.
CC Okay. And if you would also add on your details
about wanting to get that vital capacity for both
you and Jack, which means that we need it do n at
21:03, wh n you're the subject, and at 00:09, when
Jack is he ubject, in your details, I'd appreci-
ate it.
PLT We've got hat down, Bob. Thank you.
258 ll 59 6 CC Okay, Jack, and if you'd also not it in yours, I'd
appreciate it.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCR PTION
258 ii 59 34 CDR Okay, Bob, I Just whistled down to the the trash
airlock and inspected it again. The spring is in
the Teflon box. I 's not the handle that's dif-
ficult to get over the lid when the lid is down.
As long as the lid's down, it's quite simple to
get the handle over. The problem arises - and I
expect at the back - when the seal that's in the
seal - touches right at the back, meaning i 's
then starting to compress near the back, near the
hinge line. Okay, then it's push - tough to push
down from that point, which means the front end
is open now about 3/8 of an inch all the way down
to the lid's down. And I assume that's the way
it's built so that you get a good seal there.
Now, it may be that that combination rubbermetal
seal that's in the lid, that serves as the seal,
could be lubricated or something. We haven't at-
tempted it because it didn't s em to increase in
severe - difficulty in pushing down, hut - but it
may be that if somebody - if I lubricated i in
some way - and you might want to look at that -
then it would be easier. But I don't hold a lot
of hopes for it, but that seems to be the problem.
It's the lid moving down and not the lock or any-
thing else.
CC Okay, AI. We appreciate you checking that for us,
and think we understand the problem. We'll look
into the lubrication suggestion. In answer to
Owen's question, we did a dump from 03:20 to 03:25
last night.
SPT Okay, thank you, Bob.
258 12 01 12 CC Okay, we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We'll see
you again over Carnarvon in 28 minutes; that's at
12:29, 12:29.
CDR Might also ment on to the ATM folks back there,
that we - at a couple of times, it's been diffi-
cult to put the debriefing on from the run immedi-
ately afterwards because SO19 began immediately.
So we've had to sometimes delay that to the next
rev or later, but we eventually get it on there.
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It's just not always possible to get it on im-
mediately after, the way e're working S019 right
now.
CC Copy that.
258 12 29 44 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Carnarvon for
14 minutes. And, O. - Owen, for your information,
regarding your concern about the voice ecording
you were doing last night about 03:15 - 03:25, we
did get all of that voice down and recorded through
some gymnastics that we went through down here.
SPT Amazing. How did you manage to do that, since
there must have been about 5 minutes when the re-
corder light was out.
CC They redesignated the recorders on you.
SPT Does that turn off the light when they do that?
258 12 30 40 CC They're checking that. I understand anytime you're
dumping, the light's off, and so it would appear
to you that it wasn't being recorded during that
period.
SPT Oh, I understand. That's great. In fact, since
we've had that problem a couple of other times, it
would seem to be maybe a good norma procedure, if
it can be done. But sort of late to be figuring
that out now, I guess, but sounds like a good idea.
Thank you.
CC And if anybody's up in the vicinity of the ATM
C&D, we do need the DAS for a couple of minutes
here to re-enable dump.
CDR You got it.
CC Thank you, sir.
258 12 32 08 CC And for the PLT; Jack, you don't happen to be up
in the vicinity of the MDA STS area, do you?
CDR No, but we can do something for you up there.
Doesn't take 5 seconds to get there.
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CC Okay. The other day, 0wen ran a little test for
us on the PPC02 on M0L sieve B inlet to get our
sensor calibrated and unfortunately the thing has
dropped off again like it was the other day when -
when Jack discovered that the o-ring was popped
out on the cap. And we would like him to inspect
it and find out for us whether the o-ring has pop-
ped out again and let us know. And I guess what
we're thinking about doing is putting on the spare
cap which in M-202.
CDR Okay. He's in his suit. I'll go check it.
258 12 37 30 CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS belongs to you once more.
could give you a little comment we had regarding
y ur pendulum operation. I guess we had to - had
to agree with everything that you had to say about
it. And we had a slight suggestion, if you wanted
to try it.
SPT Could you wait Just a mi ute, Bob?
CC Yes, no hurry at all.
258 12 39 29 SPT Okay, Bob. I was Just helping Jack zip up his
suit there. And, all said, I would ppreciate any
suggestions that you might have on anything dif-
ferent to do with that pendulum.
CC Okay. I guess the only suggestion we had that -
the best mode for release at the start is probably,
with just a very slight extension, no rotation, and
with one end held stationary. And if that proves
to b any more stable, you might go to releasing
both ends after Just a slight extension.
SPT Okay. I guess all of the ones on that tape prob
ably didn't start from a slight compression. But
that sounds like a good idea. And the next time
I'm doing any TV, with 5 minutes on the end, I'll
do that. And, any other thoughts that you or Bob
Parker or others might have, why just let me know,
and we'll try that, too.
CC Okay, that - that was a Parker special.
SPT Okay, very good.
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258 12 40 34 SPT One comment for Bob, I didn't - I haven't had
much of any time to try to adjust the weights,
in and out, to vary the inertia n the - o the
end of masses. And I assume that he had it ad-
justed pretty close on - in one-g before launch.
If he has any other thoughts about the adjustment
of those masses, or the little screws there, I'd
appreciate those.
CC Okay. We'll feed that through. In fact, he's
probably listening.
CC And he says that they are adjusted properly.
At least, the best - the best we know how.
258 12 42 47 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll
see you again in about, oh, 48 min tes over Madrid.
We don't have the upcoming Bermuda pass. And
that's going to be at about 13:30. And assume
Bruce will ha e you then, so good day.
SPT Okay. Thank you, Bob.
PLT Thanks, a lot for the nice, smooth get-up call
too. I felt like I was right back in boot camp.
CC We'll see if we can find another one that good for
you, Jack.
258 13 30 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for 8-1 /2
minutes. We'll be du ping the data voice tape
recorder next station, which is arnarvon. Over.
SPT Roger, Bruce.
CC And for the PLT there, I got a comment or two on
your EREP pass coming up this morning. EREP 31,
which is the first one with the CDR as C&D opera
tor, we'll be operating S193 in the altimeter mode,
only, which we have reason to believe is function-
ing quite satisfactorily. EREP 32, where the PLT
is on the C&D panel, you may notice that they've
got some apparently unusual operations with 193.
hat we're trying to do is to check it out in the
RAD/SCAT and the comb nation modes in various sub-
modes of operationto determine what the problem
may be with the hardware. And I think this will,
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perhaps, answer any questions that might come up
as to what sort of data we're actually taking.
What we're taking is troubleshooting data. Over.
258 13 31 56 PLT kay, Bruce. We'll be glad to do it for you.
And I was wondering what the thought down there
is on the status of that piece of equipment at
the moment.
CC W ll, we've been looking at the real-time data
that we got back on the EDDU, and it's still not -
still not very sat sfying, although we haven't
completed the analysis on it. We're going to
pretty well give EREP 32 over, or that part of it
that's associated with 193, over to trouble-
shooting and some data gathering. So if you'd
give us the word anytime the malfunction lights
come on and things of this sort, why, we'll get
a lot of insight into how the equipment is oper-
ating in addition to getting data on the sites as
we go by. Over.
PLT Okay. W 'll be sure to do that, Bruce. And has
this been a - a problem that we've seen coming
up? Has it been a gradual degradation? Or did
that Just happen all of a sudden yesterday?
CC It just happened all of sudden there yesterday.
258 13 32 57 PLT Okay. My malfunction procedures say it's some-
thing to do with the cal operation, and that it
possibly will degrade the d ta, but not neces-
sarily. Is that still a good malf rocedure or
is something more drastically wrong?
CC Well, if you're looking at the same set of malfs
as I was yesterday, that little two-block pro-
cedure, that's pretty much your malf during the
past. That i , you know, you press on, you keep
going, and you take data, and we expect it may
be degraded, but in the analysis phase, which
we're going through down here between passes,
we're not sure, in detai yet, exactly what the
problem is. But we're trying to figure it out.
Over.
PLT Okay. I understand. Thanks a lot, Bruce.
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CC And when you or somebody else get a chance, we've
got a regulator open-circuit voltage-adjust pro-
cedure for you here up on panel 206. Over.
PLT Okay. Stand by 1. I'm Just in the process of
changing building blocks.
258 13 34 00 CC Okay. It's not urgent, Just so long as we get to
it sometime before EREP.
2 8 13 34 06 CDR Bruce, I was putting in that change into the M 92
observer's card concer ing this test number 2, and
they indicate something about recorders off and
that's when you make the test. I assume that's
after M092's completed; if ou turn the recorders
off, that that test could take place that's re-
quired.
258 13 34 29 CC Let me check on that for you, AI.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
258 13 3L 19 CDR They indicate something about recorders, off, and
that's when you make the test. I assume that's
after M092's complete and you turn the reco ders
off that that test could ake place if it's re-
quired.
CC Let me check on that for you, AI.
CC CDR, Houston. In reference to the M092 blood flow
check, message number 33, you're correct. It can
be run any time as convenient, after M092 is com-
plete. The intent was that you go ahead and run
a no mal M092, and then while the guy is still
there in the can, you can go ahead and - and run
this before he gets out. The recorder is started
on ninet - on line 19, and it's stopped on line
32, I believe. So it's a self-contained procedure.
Over.
CDR Okay, Bruce. Thanks. We're getting some good
handheld photos of Germany rig t now. Better than
the ones we took yesterday. So it'll - EREP, I
think, will be happy about these.
CC Ach, zer gut.
PLT Say, Bruce. I'm standing up here by the ATM,
running this with a suit on and with this blower
unit hooked up.
CC How does it feel? Keeping you cool or not hacking
it?
PLT Yes, I think it'll probably do the job. It was a
little bit interesting at first because I didn't
think of it as being a suction device. But the
blower unit inlet, of course, is like a vacuum
cleaner; and instead of blowing air, it sucks it
in, and so it collapses the suit around you. And
I thoug t maybe it wasn't getting very good flow.
So I turned it off fo a hile, and I noticed that
I was getting some flow because with it off, I
started to heat up. And we also went down and got
the vacuum - the blower unit out of the suit drying
unit to hook it up to the outlet side so it would
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blow air instead of sucking it, and thinking that
this might be even better. And I don't think that
that was an efficient - as the - as efficient an
operatio as the - in terms of cooling, as the
suction device is, because I seem to build up a
little heat load. So it looks like the - the set-
up that you recommended is the best one. And com-
munications - wise, I just got a headset plugged
into he SIA with a - a comm carrier on. It's not
ooked to the suit; it's Just like we'd use it for
EREP or any other operation with a CCU out of a -
out of a headset - or out of a SIA.
258 13 38 44 CC Okay. We copy that, Jack. We looked at both
modes of operation in the suit, also, and came up
with the one that we recommended. We got about
15 seconds to LOS. Next station contact in 25
minutes through Carnarvon at 14:04. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
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SKYL_ AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
258 l_ 03 36 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for ii
minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice tape re-
corder here. And I'd like to talk to CDR a sec-
ond.
CDR He's right here.
CC Okay. I think I got my messages tangled u_ last
pass on that M092 test. The answer that ! gave
you was specifically addressed to M092 test i;
however, the general comments are the same for
test 2. That is, do it after M092 is completed
in the right sequence n your cue card. And we
will schedule, specifically, on the flight plans,
both test i and test 2. They are not to be per-
formed unless we schedule them. Over.
CDR Okay, I understand that now. One thing puzzled
me a little bit this morning on the cue card -
M092 cue card change. It had "continued" at the
top. Well, I didn't have any part before that
that it could be continued from, and it only ad-
dressed itself to the change - the test 2. Now,
if there is a similar thing for test i, or a mes-
sage before the one that said "continued," then
we did not receive it this morning.
CC No, AI, M092 observer paten[thesis] continued
paren[thesis] is the name of that page of the cue
card. Over.
CDR That's a fact. You're right. I've got you now,
thanks.
CC Yes, one side is M092 observer, and the other side
is M092 observer continued.
CDR I remember. That's come up a couple of other
times; thanks.
CC Okay, and - a d - the reason that we don't want
you to perform this test 2 unless we schedule it
is because of the fact that it vents gas overboard,
also, and we want to be in a position to accommo-
date the momentum buildup from the vent. Over.
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CDR Okay; understand.
CC And for the PLT, if he's handy, I've got a com-
ment on the maneuver pad.
CDR He's - let me - Call him later. He's presently
working on reinstalling the blower and every-
thing. He'll give you a call.
CC Okay. We'll do that.
CDR Bruce, we did cycle SUS i PUMPs, PRIMARY and
SECONDARY, for 5 minutes, and that worked okay.
All the CAUTION and WARNING checks, RAPID DELTA-P,
and the FIRE c ecks worked all right, also. I'm
getting ready to take the temp of the rate gyros
at the moment.
258 14 07 35 CC Roger; we copy.
258 14 17 42 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Two minutes to LOS here
at Honeysuckle. Next station contact in 32 minutes
through Corpus Christi at 14:50, with a couple of
comments here for the PLT. Over.
PLT Go ahe d, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jack. One item we'd like to remind you
that there's a Nu Z update scheduled in your ATM
schedule pad at 14:29. That's about ii minutes
from now. And in your EREP 31 maneuver pad, let
me Just read it through for you and if you have
questions, we can hear it again at Corpus Christi.
The maneuver time at your loading is 17 minutes,
and we expect that the g avity gradient dump will
be completed 37 seconds before the scheduled time
to begin the maneuver. So what we'd like you to
do i verify that the MOMENTUM DUMP, AUTO GRAVITY
GRADIENT talkback has, in fact, turned gray before
initiating the maneuver to Z-LV. If it has not
yet turned gray, indicating compl tion of the
dump, hold off on starting your maneuver, do not
change the maneuver time, and go ahead and ini-
tiate it when the talkback does go gray. Over.
PLT Okay, understand all that, Bruce. Thank you.
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CC Roger. We'll talk to you over Texas.
PLT Got anything more?
CC Just this open circuit, voltage adjust. We're
about to go over the horizon, though, so I'll
talk to you there.
PLT Okay.
CDR If you're still there, ...
CC We can't read you, A1, you're going down in the
mud here.
258 14 2(905 CDR Okay.
258 14 50 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Texas and Bermuda
for 13-1/2 minutes, for the PLT. Over.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay. We eed a couple of things up there in the
airlock module at the present time. We'd like to
inhibit the PCG 3 BAT CHARGE LOW input and we'd
also like to adjust the open circuit voltage on
BUS 1 and BUS 2. Over.
PLT Okay. We got it inhibited. Now give me the
adjustment.
CC Okay. BUS l, REG ADJUST pot - l0 degrees clock-
wise; BUS 2, 15 degrees clockwise. Over.
PLT Okay. Ten and 15 clockwise. Thank you.
CC Roger That's l0 degrees and 15 degrees.
PLT Roger. That's what I copied.
CC And, Jack, for your information, the values to
which you Just finished setting the REGADJUST
pots will be considered to be new, original set-
tings. That is, we'll not return to the old set-
tings, and we'll stay with these until further
notice. Our intent here is to Jack up the per-
centage of the load being carried by the airlock
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module system in relation to the ATM, as result of
of the CBRM 5 being left offline. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. That's good. I've got a suggestion.
Why don't you take a look at them, and make sure
they're exactly right before you mark them. In
which case I'll erase the old marks and establish
the new ones and give you a call.
CC Okay, We're looking. It'll probably take us a rev
or two to determine that that's what we want - rev
or two after the EREP. And while we got you here,
with respect to the EV-3 cooling scheme, do you
feel that that configuration will be adequate for
3 t 4 hours of operation?
PLT I think it's marginal, but adequate.
CC Okay. And which blower unit was utilized on the
section end of the thing? Over.
PLT The one on the shower.
CC And did you encounter any problems taping or un-
taping the wrist vent ports? Over.
PLT No, I found that there were four of them and I
taped three of them.
258 14 54 B3 CC Okay. We copy. Thank you.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
258 15 04 36 CC Skylab, his is Houston coming up on LOS here at
Bermuda. Next station contact in 4 minutes through
Madrid at 15:08. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
258 15 08 5h CC Skylab, this is Houston thr ugh Madrid for 7-1 /2
minutes. When the CDR is finished up with his
PT, we'd like to give him a few comments on what
to look for during the second EREP run today.
Over.
PLT Okay, he got it, Bruce. He'll give you a call
later.
258 15 09 19 CC Roger. Out.
258 15 15 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. Next
station contact in 27 minutes through Carnarvon at
15:h3. Out.
258 15 43 14 CC Skylab, this is Houston through C rnarvon for
5-1/2 minutes; for the PLT and CDR, when you have
a minute. Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce. We're both listening.
CC Okay, AI. For you, during the second EREP run,
if you ve looked at your VTS pad, we're asking
you to look out the window between 18:06:30 and
18:10 to observe the S193 antenna. And I'd like
to describe the movements that you should see in
the two different modes on that antenna. Over.
CDR Okay. Which win - I Just - I don't have my pad
here right now, but go ahead. I'll remember.
CC Okay. It's window i, I think was your quest on.
But the first part of the block of operations that
you're to be observing out the window and the last
part are the IN-TRACK CONTIGUOUS mode. And the
motion that we're looking for on the antenna is
that it should be centered in ROLL and in PITCH;
it should Jump up, that is, Jum forward about
48 degrees - pitch forward in a space of about
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1 second. And then it should scan back down rel-
ati ely slowly to zero degrees. We're looking at
the nadir over a period of 3 or 4 seconds. In the
second and third parts, the CROSS-TRAC CONTIGUOUS,
we've got it set up so that the reference position
is zero degrees PITCH and zero degrees ROLL_ and
incidentally, the antenna should return to 00 be-
tween modes; that is, wh n it's not operating.
In CROSS-TRACK CONTINGUOUS, the basic motion should
be a plus- o minus-12-degrees left/right move-
ment. That is, from 12 degrees right to 12 degrees
left and then back again. At the end f each
sweep, the PITCH should Jump up about 1 degree and
then angle down slightly as it goes o the other
side, and ROLL, Jump up again, making sort of an
x-shaped or bow-tie motion, which gives you the
image motion compensation associated with this
CROSS-TRACK CONTIGUOUS mode. Over.
CDR Okay; understand.
CC And we'll be over Goldstone during this procedure,
so if you have any questions on the anticipated
antenna movement, why, we'll be - be happy to dis-
cuss them with you at the time. We're looking,
par icularly, to see if there's any sort of Jerky
or sticking operation also in the movement of the
antenna. For the PLT, the first part of the S193
operations in the second EREP pass is an ALTIMETER
MODE 1. And this has been intentionally set with
the altimeter gage too low. We expect an abort on
it. And we're trying to check the altimeter fre-
quency synthesizer. So you needn't be concerned
that it doesn't seem to operate normally on that
one. The second block is a RAD/SCAT CROSS-TRACK
CONTIGUOUS. The operation in that was good prior
to the malf light in - in - in IN-TRACK CONTIGUOUS
mode yesterday. The rest of it - it picks up with
the troubleshooting. Over.
258 15 46 56 PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you.
CC And for your prep remarks on the EREP 32 C&D pad,
I ve got a couple of changes to the remarks if
you happen to have your pad handy.
PLT I have it right here. Go ahead.
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CC Okay. Under prep remarks, you read down to about
the llth - about the 12th line. It says, "during
S193A operation, 18:58:50 to 18:02 - Excuse me,
17:58:50 to 18:02." That should read 17:58:18 to
18:02. The voice record altimeter READY light ON,
and delete the 17:59:00. Then it oes, "time of
steady st te altimeter UNLOCK light ON and altim-
eter READY light OFF." And delete the whole last
parenthetical statement. That is, delete the
statement that reads, "Should occur - should occur
16 seconds after altimeter READY light ON." Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Tha 's done. Thank you.
CC Okay. That about brings us up to date. Sorry to
interrupt your operations here.
PLT No problem. Apparently the weather in Houston and
up around Louisville is still no good. Is that
right?
CC That's affirmative, Jack.
PLT Too bad. Thank you.
PLT I got a question on my last nadir swath, that's
special 01, clouds and cold air and 4057. And I'm
w ndering if they'd like to delete the DAC in that,
also.
258 15 48 48 CC Stand by. We'll ask.
258 15 49 02 CC Okay. Going LOS here at Carnarvon. We'll see you
over - over Honeysuckle in 2 or 3 minutes.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Answering your question
on that o e, Jack, yes, we do want DAC photography.
We have no other cameras running during that time,
and we need the data for identification.
258 15 55 12 CC Skylab, this is Houston back with you through Hon-
eysuckle for about a minute and a half. Go ahead.
Over. For the PLT, in reference to your question
about the nadir swath clouds and cold air, e do
n ed to have the DAC running since no other cameras
a e running, and that's our only ay of telling
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what it is you've been gathering data on through
191. Over.
PLT Okay, that's all I wanted to know, and I'll be
sure that it's running. And how do you like the
maneuver time and load for Z-LV?
CC Roger. We see the TACS enabled, hardware and
software, and we like the maneuver time and load
that you've got in. Over.
258 15 55 57 PLT Okay, thank you. We're standing to maneuver in
about 5 minutes.
258 15 56 00 CC Roger. And 30 seconds to LOS. Next station con-
tact in 29 minutes through Corpus Christi. Out.
258 16 24 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston. AOS through Texas and
Bermuda for 16 minutes. We like the maneuver time
that you have loaded coming out. And for the PLT,
on your first VTS site, site 460 is NO GO due to
weather. We request you do the special 01 nadir
swath starting at 30:32. Over.
PLT Wilco.
PLT Okay, approaching the coast of Mexico. Our tour
today takes us up over Houston, Shreveport, Memphis,
Louisville, Cincinnati, Columbus, Pittsburgh - -
Maine, and into Newfoundland.
258 16 25 46 CDR Mark.
PLT - - straight center
SPT Where's Monterrey?
CC Roger. Tickets please, ickets. All aboard.
CDR (Chuckle) No standing in the aisles. No floating
in the aisles.
PLT Hold your hat, and don't stand up.
PLT NO GO, huh? Doggone it.
CDR 26:45 we're standing by for - -
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PLT I figure we ought to have Houston in the 45-degree
mark at 29:41. Partly clouds over Houston. And
it's cloudy over Mexico today, too.
258 16 26 46 CDR MODE, AUTO.
PLT The whole world is covered with clouds. Somewhere
the Sun is shining, Bruce.
258 16 26 53 CDR S to STAND - A to STANDBY.
PLT Somewhere the people shout. There is no Joy in
258 16 27 01 CDR VTS to AUTO CAL.
PLT The weather has struck out.
PLT Hey, Bruce, there is something that is not clear
to me on some of these city sites. The special
07 says to put the pipper on a uniform area next
to the city, is the way I interpret it, like a
big field or a big woods. But I'm kind of won-
dering if maybe they want t on the city.
CC Stand by.
258 16 28 15 CDR Okay, MODE to STANDBY. SHUTTER SPEED to MEDIUM.
FRAMES to 32, one of our favorite numbers. And
INTERVALOMETER to 10. 29:30; A, ON.
CC PLT, this is Houston; reference your question.
We're looking for any uniform field or area near
the city, but not a builtup, not a portion of the
builtup area of the city. What we're tryin to
do is acquire radiation-type data from natural
features filtered through the atmosphere around
the city. Over.
258 16 28 59 PLT All right, I got you. Thank you vary much, Bruce.
CC Uh-hum.
PLT I wonder if they would take some data around Padre
Island if I was able to give it to them. It looks
like I'm going to run out of gimbal angles. I got
the site at - not Padre, but down by Brownsville.
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CC Roger.
PLT I'm going to run out of gimbal angles.
258 16 29 31 CDR MARK. A is ON.
PLT Yes, I am.
CDR 91, when do we go to reference 6? 92 MODE,
READY, in a moment.
PLT Okay, I'm getting one - -
258 16 30 00 CDR MODE, READY.
PLT - - of those sites through Padre Island. Twenty-
two degrees to the right, however.
258 16 30 12 CDR MODE, AUTO on 190. Record A-2 and C-4. A-2,
42 percent; C-4 is 71 percent - 42; 74. Correc-
tion. Now it's 40; now it's 41; 74. Okay, I'll
read A-2 again. They move around a lot. 9, 71.
31 coming up. Now it's 44 and 71. Always been
71. I said 74 once but didn't mean to; 54 er-
cent right now on A-2. MODE to CHECK and READY
at 32:02. So, I'll wait until 32:02 and put it
back in READY.
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258 16 31 17 CDR A-2 is now 47 C-4 is 71.
PLT Okay. I got three sites in the HATS area, Bruce.
I'll tell you what they are later. I got them
right around Houston.
CC Okay, we show you're in your nadir swath right
now.
CDR 32:02. 192 MODE, READY. Stand by.
PLT Oh, I thought ou'd like to have some sites around
Houston if I could get them. There's no weather
down there to nadir swath on at the moment.
CC Okay.
CDR 32:02. 192 MODE, READY.
SPT Bruce, just looking at Clear Lake and the Johnson
Center by naked eye.
CC Oh, beautiful.
SPT Pick it out very clearly. I see they've done a
lot of land clearing over towards Baytown, but it
wasn't there when we came up 2 months ago.
CC Okay. Does Clear Lake look any clearer from up
t ere than it does from down here?
SPT Just about the same; no change.
SPT All of it was much improved when I looked through
the 300-millimeter lens.
CC Roger; we copy.
258 16 33 00 CDR INTERVALOMETER, 20.
CDR MODE, STANDBY.
258 16 33 43 CDR Stand by. MODE, 5, RANGE, 63. Okay. Standing
by for 37:40. Big blank.
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PLT Tracking a site near Pittsburgh, Hank - Bruce.
CC Roger.
PLT Maine wooded site. There aren't too many uniform
sites in that area, it turns out.
CC Okay, hang in there. And for your information,
tracks 1 and ll on S192 are coming through loud
and clear now. Our data problem seems to have
cleared up.
PLT Sure am glad to hear that.
258 16 37 08 PLT Okay, Bruce. Let me tell you that I got you some
data on sites 430, 435, and 440 in the Houston
area.
CC Okay, 430, 435, and 440 in HATS.
PLT Right.
CC Beautiful.
PLT And I got s me down around Brownsville, too. I'll
have to look at my book to tell you what it was.
I almost got some in Louisville, but couldn't get
onto it soon enough.
CC O ay.
CDR A's on.
PLT And I got Pittsburgh, east of town.
258 16 37 50 CDR READY out on 90. MODE, STANDBY. SHUTTER SPEED,
FAST. FRAME 10, 10. And INTERVALOMETER, 10.
Hmm, consistent.
PLT We had a bad angle off down at Brownsville_ but
maybe that won't affect the data too much.
PLT Okay, ruce. I got site 305 North.
CC Right now, or down at Brownsville?
PLT No, down at Brownsville.
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CC Thank you.
PLT Yes, sir. I couldn't quite get 308; it had some
clouds over it, and 314 was too far to the right.
We had that before, anyway.
258 16 39 i0 PLT I darn near got 447, but we ran out of angle
258 16 40 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 5-1/2 minutes through
Madrid at 16:46. And we'll be dumping the data
voice tape recorder there. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce.
PLT Okay, 40:57. Here we go.
258 16 40 51 CDR MODE is AUTO.
PLT Well, we got them four sites, we didn't get them
before, AI.
CDR Uh-huh.
PLT Plus Pittsburgh and a couple of nadir swaths.
CDR Sounds like you got a good one there at Na -
Brownsville, too.
PLT Yes, I picked off one of them. Kind of out in
right field, though.
258 16 41 32 CDR Okay. A, 65. All right. A is in STANDBY, RANGE
is 65. Standing by for 190 to go out at 42:26.
Then we go MODE, STANDBY when it does. Still
taking pic ures; I heard one go.
PLT Taking every i0 seconds, I guess.
SPT ... from down here ...
CDR Excuse me, Jack. Watch under you there a minute?
258 16 46 00 CDR VTS, AUTO CAL.
258 16 46 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston with you through Madrid
for 8-1/2 minutes. And you can expect an occa-
sional TACS firing and a couple of mibs here
shortly. Over.
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PLT Okay.
CDR Okay. We Just got - Why don't you turn off the A
Is that the ACS, Jack?
PLT ACS MALF.
CDR Why don't you flip that ACS switch OFF? Othe r-
wise, we're going to get them all the time, here.
PLT Okay. Is that CMG SAT? It m st be. Okay. Got
that OFF.
258 16 46 42 CDR Okay. We Just had a CAUTION and WARNING.
PLT Okay. DAC, OFF.
CC Roger. And we're going to dump your data voice
tape recorder.
SPT Okay, Bruce. We had 5 minutes over the ocean
there. A total of 83 frames on the ETC, and I
was wondering if the objective might have been
the Gulf Stream or something like that for so
much water photography.
CDR On -
258 16 47 42 CDR A to STANDBY.
SPT Hello, Houston. Are you with us?
258 16 47 51 CDR MODE, MANUAL.
CC Yes, sir, Owen.
SPT Did you get my question?
SPT Okay, thank you.
CDR DAC's going to be maneuvering in 35 seconds or so.
PLT Right.
CDR You got the time in, so that's good.
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PLT e're all ready to go.
CDR Okay, and I'm standing by for 191 READY light ON.
PLT Got my eye on the switch.
258 16 48 41 CDR And it just came on.
PLT [ ]...
258 16 48 42 CDR EREP's to STOP. That completes that one. I'll
go change out the tape recorder after I do some
of these other things.
SPT Just another comment, Bruce. It sort of looked
like there might have been a substantial low
pressure area off to the southwest of Houston a
couple h ndred miles with a good deal of cloudi-
ness associated with it. Thought that might have
produced a front that moved through in the last
24 hours, because the weather around Houston was
as clear as a bell. Probably better visibility
than I recall having seen from up here. Over.
CDR And I'm recording B-7, which is 31 percent, whic
is nothing new.
CC For the SPT; you're correct in your analysis of
the weather situation. A front did move through
here about 24 hours ago. And with respect to
our question on the ETC ops: the objective of
the pass was to study cloud formations over the
North Atlantic waters, and we did intend to take
that many frames o - out over the ocean. Over.
258 16 49 45 SPT Okay, fine. Thank you. There were more - prob-
ably scattered clouds over most of it - occasion-
ally broken, but there'll be some clouds, but not
an awful lot.
258 16 49 56 CC Roger. We copy.
258 16 54 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One m nute to LOS.
Next station contact in B8 minutes through Honey-
suckle Creek at 17:32. Out.
CDR ...
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CC If you were calling us, A1, we didn't copy.
PLT Say again, Bruce.
CC I said that if you were calling us after m LOS
call, we didn't copy you. I gue s it was just
a random V0X keying. Over.
PLT Yes, that was probably it. We haven't recon -
reconfigured it yet.
258 17 32 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle Creek
for a minute and a half. We're looking at your
maneuver time as loaded, and it looks good to us.
And of course, TACS is still enabled fro the
last time. For the P T, we have a change to
your C&D operate pad. Over.
CDR Okay, he's right here.
CC Okay, on the C&D operate pad at 09:5_, S190
SHUTTER SPEED, SLOW, we want to delete the SHUT-
TER SPEED, SLOW, and leave it as it was for the
remainder of the pass. I believe tha 's in MED-
IUM. Over.
258 17 33 35 PLT Okay, at 09:5_, delete SHUTTER SPEED, SLOW.
258 17 33 _0 CC Roger. We got 1 minute to LOS. Next station
contact in 27 minutes through Goldstone at 18:00
Z. Out.
CDR Okay, and it looks like I've got a long blank
space since - from site 170, until I do that nadir
swath. How about asking EREP to give me the 45-
degree time and angle and all that on site 300 up
in Denver. Even though it's probably cloudy up
here, it's worth working on it, I guess.
CC Okay, we'll have that for you over Goldstone.
CDR Okay.
CDR And we'll be maneuvering in about a minute and
30 seconds .
CC oger. And, A1, I believe we have you scheduled
o be watching the 193 antenna through its motions
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during that period of time you're referring to.
Over.
CDR Didn't look like it to me. Let me check on this
again.
CC Okay, we'll work - -
CDR I don't have my pad right here - -
CC - - it at this end, too.
CDR - - and l'm going to go to - Wait here. I no-
ticed I was observing that during the time l'm
doing the nadir swath.
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PLT Still reading 35 percent.
CDR Scattered cumulus.
CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for
9-1/2 min tes. We do not see the new, correct
manuever time loaded in the ATMDC.
CDR Let's put it in there then. Good idea.
CC And for - for the CD - -
CDR I agree. I agree w-ithyou. Don't say any more.
52030, ENTER. How's that? And 50020; how's that?
5 0020, ENTER.
258 18 01 12 PLT Okay, 191 READY light is ON.
CDR How's that look to you?
PLT Alfa 2 is 55 percent. Charlie 4 is 71 percent,
Bruce.
CDR And we are going to get a stratus cloud bank.
CC Okay, we like the maneuver time. And f r the CDR,
I've got the angles for site 300.
CDR I think you were right, though, I can't make it.
I was wrong. Let me get this, though.
PLT Say, Bruce - -
CDR I've got - I'm going to have to wait a little
bit - -
PLT 193 ALTIMETER, when I put the power from STANDBY
t ON, the READY light came n immediately and
the UNLOCK light has been on steady every since.
T e READY light has since gone out, but didn't
catch the time at which it went out.
CDR Okay, we're taking stratus cloud bank right now.
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CC Okay, I believe that's what we're expecting.
PLT Okay, and Charlie i, I recorded on the voice tape
is reading 35 percent.
CC Roger.
CDR Stratus cloud bank; we got it.
PLT Is that good or bad?
CC That's acceptable, Jack.
258 18 02 17 PLT Okay. I'm standing by for 02:40. 193 ALTIMETER,
READY light is OFF; ALTIMETER, UNLOCK -UNLOCK
light is ON. Okay, let's go on. We got the
do_nlink box powered up and working. Stand by here.
258 18 02 35 CDR Going to move her d wn to a different point on the
clouds now, just for fun. Thirteen degr es up,
we're in good shape.
258 18 02 40 PLT MARK. REF 6. A to STANDBY.
CDR Tracking a stratus cloud bank; working just like
you planned .
258 18 02 50 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, STANDBY; RANGE is now 6 and 5.
193 RAD is going to STANDBY.
CDR Minus 3; get-over here, I'll take a cloud.
258 18 03 00 PLT MARK. To STANDBY. Now I'll jump over here.
04: 17's next.
CDR Okay, that looks good.
PLT Okay, the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light is out, Bruce.
CDR Move up and get a little bit more. l've got to
get this target at 0_:06; time now, 03:15. Okay,
I'll get a little more data for you here, Bruce.
PLT Must have gone out when I went to STANDBY. Okay,
what's next? 04:17.
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CDR Little more data right here. Okay, now let's go
to 0h:06. Camera, OFF; h5, up; right, hl0. That's
it, right there. See where it picks it up. Right,
hl0, let's see ho_ it fits. Okay, I want to do
this on time, which is Oh:06. Okay, we're _ettin_
the Salton Sea right now. We re passing through
it; we're beyond it. MODE 6. Okay, now let's
zoom in and see where it goes. oom in; it move
right down to the center of the Salton Sea. Not
bad. Okay, we're ust going to - -
258 18 0_ 18 PLT MARK. 190 to AUTO.
CDR In fact, there' a little po lution in the middle
of the Salton Sea these days.
258 18 Oh 2h PLT MARK. 192, READY.
CDR I want to point at it - -
PLT The TAPE MOTION light was off and back on.
CDR - - pointing to a nice blue part of the sea. Nice
blue part of the sea is getting the data right at
the moment.
PLT All 9's here pretty soon. Four 9's, that's pretty
good.
CDR Looking good; we're just tracking along here.
We're plus 9 degrees. We're Just going to keep
oing, at least to minus l0 .... a good spot at
the lake.
PLT Okay, here we - standing by -
258 18 05 ll PLT MARK. SCAT READY, READY light - or ON - READY
light, ON. RAD, ON; READY light, ON. I Just
got a RAD/SCAT inter - intermittent RAD/SCAT
GIMBAL lights, but the rest of the lights are
off, Bruce. And I give you - Alfa 9 is 2 percent.
Bravo 9 is 56 to 57 percent.
CDR Minus ... Different part of the lake.
258 18 D5 38 PLT Charlie 9 is off-scale low, oscilating up to
2 percent. And Delta 9 is hanging in around
18 and 19 percent; it's moving Just a little bit.
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258 18 05 52 CDR Get set up for this nadir swath here, and then go
watch out the window for you.
PLT Any questions?
CC Negative. Sounds good. Keep going.
PLT Okay.
CDR Okay, now what I've got to do is go - -
258 18 06 03 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY. Two-second delay.
258 18 06 06 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
PLT Okay. INTERVALS to lO in a minute.
CDR It says 18:06:30. Start watching. 18:06:30, I'm
watching.
258 18 06 15 PLT MARK. INTERVALOMETER to l0 on 190.
CDR There's my Boulder sites loud and clear.
PLT Okay. We're going to IN-TRACK - -
CDR 93 not moving at the moment.
PLT IN-TRACK CONTIGUOUS, A1.
CDR All right. I'll watch it.
PLT SCAT, ON and RAD, ON.
258 18 06 26 PLT SCAT, ON; READY light. RAD, ON; READY light.
CDR Okay, now it's - it's - nodding back; now it's
nodding up. And it kind of bounces off and then
back.
PLT Okay. Alfa 9 is reading - -
CDR Up - back, with kind of a pause in the middle.
PLT - - 3 to 4 percent.
CDR It does 't appear to be going either le t or right.
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PLT I don't know w at you wan on Bravo zero. Oh,
Bravo 0. Okay.
CDR Okay. It's pulled down, now it's pulled up - -
PLT Bravo ero is oscillating.
C R Now in the middle, and then back. Pull up and
kind of hits the stops and bounces - -
PLT Charlie 9 is off-scale low up to 3 percent.
C R Up, now in the middle and back.
PLT I got to do something else with that.
CDR Up, middle - -
258 18 07 03 PLT MARK.
CDR - - back.
PLT MEDIUM on 190.
C R Up, middle, back.
PLT 35 HIGH and about at i0 percent LOW.
CDR Up, middle, back.
258 18 07 13 PLT SCAT to STANDBY.
CDR Up, middle, back.
258 18 0rr16 PLT Two seconds delay. RAD to STANDBY. Okay, CROSS-
TRACK CONTIGUOUS, A1.
CDR Okay, now it's looking ahead.
258 18 07 22 PLT And the SCAT is ON. READY light is ON. No other
lights.
CDR Now it's starting to nod. It's kind of holding over
to the right.
PLT A-9 is 3 percent.
CDR Way to the right.
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PLT Bravo 9 is 56 percent. Delta 9 is 19 percent.
I got a - no other malf lights except intermittent
RAD/SCAT GIMBAL lights.
CDR What it seems to do is, it doesn't seem to scan
LEFT and RIGHT. It's over to the right, and it's
nodding up and down.
258 18 07 51 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY.
CDR Now it's coming back to the center.
PLT RAD is ON.
CDR Now it's gone to the right. nd it's just kind
of staying there nodding up and down eve y once in
a while. Like it Just went up. It goes up in a
smooth track and then smoothly back to where it
was.
CC Understand it's noddin up and down now, too?
CDR Yes, right now. It's nodding up and down.
258 18 08 09 PLT Okay, READY light out on 190, and we're in
STANDBY.
CDR It's staying over to the right and nodding up and
down. Up, stop.
PLT Let me give you Bravo 9.
CDR Up, stop.
PLT Let me read to them, A1. Bravo 9 is 57. Charlie
is off scale low and J_imping up to 1 percent some-
times. Delta 9 is 17 to 18 percent. I got no
malf lights except intermittent RAD/SCAT GIMBAL
light.
CDR What it looks like it's doing is - It's not doing
a perfect up and down. It goes up straight - to
the - it looks like, the max leading it can go;
and then it kind of swings to the left and down,
but it only swings by a couple of degrees.
CC Okay, but in X-TC, it ought to be at zero PITCH.
And it ought to be going back and forth, left/right.
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CDR It's not. It's - -
258 18 08 52 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY.
CDR Now it's Just - it Just went back to the center
and - -
PLT Okay. We're IN-TRACK CONTIGUOUS, A1.
CDR - - ...
CDR It's sort of like in stow position.
258 18 08 58 PLT SCAT is ON. The RAD is ON. Record A-9 to be - -
CDR Mo ed up slightly, then down.
PLT - - between zero and now 4 percent on A-9.
CDR Up again and hits the stop hard and then comes
back and hits the stop.
PLT Bravo zero is oscillating between 10, 25, 35 - -
CDR Boy, it really bangs the stops. Boing!
PLT i0, 25, 35.
CDR Bong! Boy, it really socks it! Nothing ... about
this operation.
PLT Charlie 9 is off-scale low to 2 percent.
CDR Yes. Up; it hits the stop hard and - -
258 18 09 2 PLT Okay. I got a SCAT TRANSMITTER light ON.
CDR - - ... ON.
258 18 09 31 CDR MARK.
258 18 09 32 PLT SCAT TRANSM TTER light is ON, RAD /SCAT GIMBAL is
intermittent.
CDR No LEFT and RIGHT at all.
CC It shouldn't have LEFT and RIGHT in this MODE.
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CDR Yes. It sure isn't - -
258 18 09 42 PLT MARK. SCAT to STANDBY. T o seconds -
2 8 18 09 44 PLT MARK. RAD TO STANDBY. Okay, we're going cross-
TRACK CONTIGUOUS, AI.
CDR All right. I'm watching.
PLT Okay. 9:54, we got to get the down off.
258 18 09 55 PLT MARK. Down-link off. S190 and up, FRAMES 15;
i and 5, INTERVALS to 20.
258 18 i0 06 CC Ten seconds to LOS. See you over Bermuda in about
3 minutes. Out.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, standing by to get the RAD ON again. CROSS-
TRACK CONTINUOUS [sic ] - CROSS-TRACK CONTIGUOUS.
258 18 i0 19 PLT MARK. RAD is ON. 192 is getting ready to go to
STANDBY.
258 18 i0 29 PLT MARK. 192 to STANDBY.
258 18 13 12 CC Skylab, Houston_ back with you through Bermuda.
CDR Maybe this thing is not supposed to go very far
in ROLL, Bruce.
CC Okay, it should be centered in ROLL and - -
CDR A kind of a two-phased motion. Let me describe it
to you again. First it - Let's assume we start
somewhere, right? Not starting in the center,
starting with it pitched - pointed to the right.
It pitches up and then back to where it was. Then
it kind of moves to the right slowly. And then
right at the end of the motion, which is about
i0 degrees - it's hard to tell from here - It
pitches up and sort of swings, then, back to where
it started the first time. S it's a pitch up and
down, then it moves slowly to the right, and then
up and over back to the starting point. And then
up, down, then over to the right slowly, then up
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and a ound to the starting point. And I'll give
you a mark when it reaches the starting point
each time, and you can get the cycle.
258 18 14 04 CDR MARK. That's start.
258 18 14 08 CDR ARK. It's in start again. I'll describe it again.
Okay? Pitch up, move right, up and around. Pitc
up, down, move to the right, around, and initial
point. Up, down, right, and up and around. Up,
down - -
CC By up and ar - CDR, Houston.
CDR Yes.
CC By up and around, do you mean that it's now
moving to the left?
CDR Yes. Well, it's always to the right, but it then
moves back to its starting position. Its total
roll travel - It's going to be hard to gu ss from
here, you're looking at a funny angle - is 3 degrees
or 5 degrees or something like that. It do sn't
go back and forth llke I visualized it would. It
never comes past the center line, and it always
seems to work in awfully small circles, but it
could be a big circle on the ground, of course.
CC Okay. Would you say that the angle, when it
changes in PITCH, is about one-third of the angle
through which it moves in ROLL or some other ratio?
258 18 15 09 CDR That's a good question. I would say that in ROLL,
it moves a little bit less than it does in PITCH.
PITCH, my guess would be 4 to 5 degrees. In ROLL,
my guess w uld be, now that you mention it, some-
thing less than that. Bu you can't tell from
this angle, Bruce. You'r not getting -you're
not on one of the axes; you're sort of looking at
it-off to the corner. And it's all covered with
insulated material, and you can't see the gimbals
too well, so it's tough to separate one from the
other. But it's always to t e right of where the
stow position is, which I assume must be the
c e nt er.
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CC Roger. We've got a keyhole coming up here. We'll
be back in a minute.
CDR Okay, I'm going to haul it back to the nadir swath
place.
2 8 18 16 08 CDR It sure doesn't act like I t ought it was going
to, Jack. It never goes over to the left. Maybe
it's Just - -
258 18 16 14 PLT MARK. READY light ON on 190. We're in STANDBY.
CDR 18:15.
CC Okay. I don't think the keyhole is going to affect
The thing should be moving through a total ROLL
angle of about 23-1/2 degrees.
CDR Not even close.
CC And the PITCH angle ought to be on the order of a
degree or two.
CDR Th t's about right. They are both operating on a
degree then. That would be my guess. It's hard
to tell.
CC Okay. And how about the - commenting, once again,
on the IN-TRACK CONTIGUOUS mode. We copy that
it moves out fairly rapidly and bounces off the
stop, and then sweeps dow properly.
CDR It moves out, bounces against the stop, hard,
comes back to the center and pauses, then it moves
abruptly towards the back and bounce off it, less -
less hard. But, still, it isn't th kind of thing
you'd - It isn't like any tracking antenna I've
ever seen operate. It looks like the parts would
wear out. But maybe this is just different.
CC I suspect that you would be hard-pressed to design
one that w uld do that job.
CDR That's right. And I'll tell you, it shakes the
struts that it's mounted on. You - When it hits
the stops, either way, it shakes the insulation
and the struts themselves. So it gives them a
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pretty good zap. Okay, we're ready to do this
nadir swath, so we're watching it right now. We're
getting some clouds coming, so we may have some
good information. We're at MIN MAG, which is what
you like. i8:15 to 21:58. This is going to take
a few frames.
CC CDR, Houston. On the IN-TRACK CONTIGUOUS mode,
does the antenna ever pitch farther aft than the
zero-degree position? Over.
CDR You mean - this is - the one that _s up and down?
258 18 ]8 22 PL MARK. AUTO CAL.
CC Yes, sir.
CDR No - yes, it goes all the way to both stops. It
goes to front stop, hits it hard - -
258 18 ]8 30 PLT MARK. RAD to STANDBY. ALTIMETE , ON. READY light
is ON on the ALTIMETER.
CDR - - ... It pauses at the middle a second or so,
and it moves to the back position, hard.
PLT RAD, OFF.
CDR Then it goes to the front position hard. It looks
like it m ves through its full PITCH range in
this IN-TRACK CONTIGUOUS, except it' s a very
•abrupt ...
258 18 ]8 51 PLT MARK._ ALTIMETER UNLOCK light, ON.
CC Okay.
CDR Now it looks like it's stowed in zero, by the way.
CC But it was going farther aft than the zero stow
position?
CDR Yes. It's going back until it's - back to about
an equal distance back - -
258 18 9 06 PLT MARK. READY light out on 193. 193 ALTIMETER, the
READY light just went out without doing anything.
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CDR Okay. And we're still running this nadir swath;
it's looking llke it's okay.
258 18 19 23 CC Okay. Well, as you go swathing over the horizon
here, we'll see you at Madrid at 18:23, which is
about 4 minutes from now. Out.
CDR Yes an I noticed t at - -
258 18 23 i0 PLT Go off on the recorder. This is the end of EREP 32
for the EREP people. Thank you for standing by
for this message.
CC Roger. This has bee a recorded announcement from
Mission Control. Would you tell us what the posi-
tion for the RAD/SCAT antenna is at the present
time? Out.
CDR It's what I would call the 00 position, in that
it looks like it's pointing down towards the
Earth about 40 gra - 45 degrees from the X-axis.
It looks like it's along the center line, and it's
motionless.
PLT Can I give you any monitor readings, Bruce?
258 18 24 00 CC CDR, Houston. Did you say 45 degrees from the
X-axis, or along the X-axis?
CDR Oh, about - It's hard to guess from here, but it's
- it's hat I'd consider the stow position, which
I - it looks to me like about 45 degrees down from
the plus axis, the plus X-axis, towards the plus
Z-axis; but it may be 35 or some number like that.
CC Oh, okay. You mean it's - it's pointed radially
outward from the center line of the vehicle?
CDR That's right; towards the center of the Earth. In
other words, it looks like that's probably a place
you'd pick to park it; it looks centered up.
CC Yes, you'd call 00 if we put the words in your
mouth.
CDR Even if you didn't, I would.
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CC Okay, thank you. And for the PLT, we don't have
any specific questions for you at this time. We
may want to come back in a site or two and talk
to you both about the EREP problems here.
LT Okay, Bruce. Do they appear to be interrelated?
I mean the SCATTEROMETER transmitter and the -
and the antenna out there, or are hey separate
problems?
CC We don't know yet, but we suspect they are. It
apparently is some sort of a problem in the logic
control box for the - the whole unit. Over.
PLT Okay, and I - this - I guess this is only the
second time this showed up, isn't it? Or was it
sho ing something like this on the down-link
before?
CC To the best of our knowledge, this is the first
time - the second time that it's shown up, yester-
day being the first.
PLT Yes, okay. I had never noticed anything prior to
this time that would lead me to believe it wasn't
working right, and I was wondering if this kind
of snucked [sic] - snuck up on us or hit us all
of a sudden, or what. And apparently it just hit
us all of a sudden yesterday, huh?
CC Yes, indeed.
SPT 77 frames for the ETC.
PLT Okay, we'll go on and power down, now, with your
permission.
CC Roger. Proceed as planned.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Bruce.
SPT Get the frames there, Bruce?
258 18 25 58 CC Yes I did, 0wen. Thank you. And for the CDR: We
did get the angles and everything on VTS site 300
for you, hut the weather was billed as being
10/10's, or 500 overcast in fog, so we didn't see
too muc point in interrupting you. Over.
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CDR Thank you, Bruce, I was wrong. I went back and
checked my times, and I'd written down the wrong
time for looking out the window. As you pointed
out, I'd had to look out the wi dow then, so that's
what I did.
CC Yes, I think the confusion arose from putting
18 hours in on the VTS pad and ha ing on 18-minute
block later on on the C - C&D pad - Or 18 minutes
on that nadir swath.
CDR You figured it out.
258 18 27 09 CC Thirty seconds to handover here to Canary. And
we think that the last TACS firings have occurred,
so we'd like to make sure you REENABLE the CMG SAT
on your CAUTION and WARNING INHIBIT panel. And
we will be dumping the data voice tape recorder
at Honeysuckle. Over.
258 18 31 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS through
Canary. Next station contact in 37 minutes through
Honeysuckle Creek at 9:08.
258 19 08 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for
9 minutes. And we'll be dumping the data voice
tape recorder here. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Thank you.
258 19 16 27 CC Skylab, this is ouston. One minute to LOS. Next
station contact in ll minutes through Hawaii at
19:28. Out.
PLT Right. See you in Hawaii.
CC Aloha.
258 19 28 31 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for 8 min-
utes and 50 seconds; for the PLT. Over.
CC Or the SPT.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger. Owen. We've observed S052 standard modes
being performed in shopping list item 17 instead
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of the requested truncated fast scan. In order to
minimize film usage we request that the truncated
fast scan be used for shopping list 17. That takes
three frames instead of 12, and supplements the
synoptic. Over.
SPT Just a minute.
PLT What did you have for me, Bruce?
CC Jack, we asked this morning, when Crip was on, if
you'd replace the mol sieve B, PPCO 2 inlet sensor
end cap, blue, with the spare end cap out of
locker M202. And we're wondering if you had gotten
around to it yet, because we haven't seen any
change in the telemetry.
PLT Okay. He didn't ask me to change it; he asked me
to go up there and check it again like I did the
other day, and I'll do that right now.
SPT Bruce, is that a new change or is tha something
had been sent up before, about using the abbre-
viated fast scan instead the standard?
258 19 33 04 CC I believe that had been sent up before, Owen.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
258 19 30 07 SPT Okay. That's something that somehow or other I
guess we didn't understand because the shopping
list item indicates that we could do a standard
if we have t least 5 minutes. And I'ii change
that shopping list item if tha 's the way the
backroom prefers. I'ii make that little notation
on it that - to knock out the standard and do the
fast scan anyway.
SPT Bruce, about 5 minutes ago, I noticed one thing that
I hadn't seen before, and that's on S054. It
failed to accept a start command, twice, on both
a 250- econd SINGLE and a 64-second SINGLE. I
recycled it a third time, and it accepted it all
right, and it's been running since. But I hadn't
noticed it fail to accept the start before.
CC Okay, we copy, 0wen.
258 19 32 21 SPT And, Bruce, we're still leaving S0 6 CAMERA POWER,
OFF wit the airlock closed and awaiting any change
of intent fr m the backroom on that. I presume
that's the configuration they want. They, I pre-
su e, are also seeing that on telemetry.
258 19 33 34 PLT Okay, Bruce. That was MOL SIEVE, B, PPCO2 wasn't
it?
CC Yes, it was, Jack.
PLT The blue one, right?
CC The blue one.
PLT Okay, I stuck it off. And the other night, we
were having - Crip said they were having trouble
with it all through the last mission. The other
night, I went over and looked at it, and the 0-ring
had popped out, and it was leaking through t e
O-ring, so I just tightened it down and - just
right now, l've taken it off and inspected the
0-rings, kind of dusted them off a little bit and
screwed the lid back down ag in, making sure the
O-rings are in their seat. Would you ike to
look at it for a little while, or have me put the
other cap on right now?
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CC We - we'll go ahead and look at it for a while
here, Jack. Did you notice anything out of order
with the O-ring seating? Over.
PLT No, I didn't. You really can't tell until you
raise it up a little bit. The O-rings pop out
very readily. They're - they don't have a good
grove to fit in, so as soon as you take the top
off, why, the O-rings tend to pop ut. I noticed
some gelatinous material stuck to the O-rings, and
I kind of cleaned that off a little bit, put them
back in to see how they'd work. Now I'd like to
know how they're doing, if you can tell right now.
CC Okay.
258 19 35 05 CC Okay, Jack. We are seeing some improvement on it
right now. I guess the terminology down here is
that it's now at least halfway believable. Why
don't you Just leave it like it is, and we'll get
back to you later if we need any futher work?
PLT Okay. It looks like it's maybe screwed down a
little more flush than it was before, but it was
a - a lot better t is time when I looked at it
than it was a couple of days ago.
CC Roger.
SPT Now, Bruce, I'd appreciate it if you'd ask the
82B and 55 personnel if, based upon the last two
four-limb coalignments, if they like column 33 as
well as they do column 32, for the SLIT CENTER.
And let me know what their conclusion on that i .
CC Okay. We'll do that.
CC We got 1 minute to LOS here. Next station contact
in 3 minutes and 30 seconds, Go dstone at 19:hO.'
And we are happy with 33, as well as 32, for Owen.
258 19 36 31 SPT Okay. I prefer 32 up here, myself, and I think
Jack found the same thing on a point the other day.
If they're Just as happy with 32, I'll switch it
back. Otherwise, I'll leave it 33.
CC Okay.
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PLT Still there, Bruce?
CC Go ahead, Jack.
PLT Okay, I put M563 out to cool this morning - last
ight before I went to bed, at 01:56. The cool
temperature to start was - -
258 19 37 42 CC Losing you.
258 19 40 47 CC Skylab, this is Houston; through Goldstone for
6 minutes. For the SPT.
SPT Just a minute, Bruce.
CC And for Jack, we copied M563 on at 01:56 Z, and
then you faded out as we went over the hill.
PLT Yes, the rest of it was the COLD 1 temperature was
22 gre - 22 degrees centigrade, and the PRESSURE
t the start was reading on the 0.05 mark. And
the experiment before that was 559; I didn't re-
port that, I don't think. We got that on the
cooler on day 256 at 20:51, TEMPERATURE was t e
same, and the PRESSURE was a 0.1 mark.
CC Okay; copy. M563 at 01:56 Z; COLD 1 was 22 cen-
tigrade; PRESSURE at the start was 0.05; experi-
ment 559 was day 256, 20:51; 0.1 PRESSURE and
22 degrees C. Over.
PLT That's affirm. If you need any more of them,
got them all written down.
CC I think we're okay.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
258 19 40 15 CC Okay, Owen. On the subject of S056, we passed up
a message last evening at 22:00 Z. We said, ba-
sically, it's requested that S056 camera be shut
down with airlock closed for the rest of the mission
ay 49. This will allow camera motor to cool down
and pressure to build up in camera. S056 planners
have been instructed to restrict future kylab
S056 ops to JOP 6, building block l's and to
single frame long exposures for the rest of mission.
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The camera is not hanging up in single frame mode.
This has not happened before, and the increased
load on the film drive stepping loader could cause
single point failure in S056. Therefore, we're
severely restricting the ops in SL-3 to insure
they will have the capability for the ext mission.
So the configuration you've got it in right now
is okay, and we will - stand by. And we're stand-
ing by for ATM TV down-link per the schedule pad.
SPT Okay, you got the TV now, and we did have that -
we do have that message on the board. I've got
it on the panel here, but we also understood that
we were to shut it down, which we did, and then
not power it up for even JOP 6 and so on until we
talked with you on the ground about it. So I guess,
for example, on the JOP 6 that I just did a little
while ago, if I understood the message you just
read, we should have been doing $056. Let me cor-
rect that; I see now that 56 has been speciflally
omitted on the schedule. But had it not been omit-
ted on the schedule, then I presume e would have
been expected to do it.
258 19 44 02 CC Okay. We concur that in the JOP 6 that you've just
finished, 56 should not have been operated. But
there was an earlier pass this morning where we
had intended that it be run.
258 19 44 15 SPT I see. Okay. We'll try to re - we'll remember
to include it on JOP 6's unless it is specifically
mentioned to be omitted, the way the one that I
just passed and did omit it, was specifically
called out.
CC Roger.
CDR I think the hangup came though, Bruce, because they
told us yesterday that they'd give us additional
instr ctions, not to use it until we got them.
And we talked about that this morning, and since
we hadn't any additional instructions, we decided
to just wait until we heard fr m y'all, which we're
doing now.
CC Okay. That's no problem. That's fine with us.
The status we're in right now is, I guess, unless
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you're instructed to omit it, you can expect to
operate on Ja - JOP 6, building block i. And where
we want single frame longs, we'll write them in.
CDR Okay, we'll start doing that. Thanks, Bruce.
258 19 45 16 CC And, again for Owen. We confirm your interpretation
of the way the S052 shows up in item 17 of the shop-
ping list. And right now, we're examining our pos-
ture on whether we want to change that item or not.
SPT Okay. l've already marked out the standard or mine,
so please let me - on our - on our heet up there.
So let me know if you want to change what we've got.
CC Wilco. One minute until LOS. Next station contact
in 5 minutes through Bermuda at 19:51. Out.
PLT Here's one for you Bruce. You seem to be the guy
who comes up with the good amera settings, and
we've been wondering what camera settings we should
use with CI film to take pictured of cities at night,
say with a 35-millimeter.
CC Okay. Let us work on that one.
258 19 46 16 PLT Thank you.
258 19 50 57 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for
7-1/2 minutes. Out.
PLT Hey, Bruce, we just got a clear shot of Hudson B_y.
It's about the first we've had that we could see
up in the Hudson Bay to 150 to 200 miles up around
Churchill, Canada.
CC Beautiful. You take any pictures?
PLT Oh, yes, we got some pictures of that.
PLT Took all the clouds off of Hudson Bay and laid them
over th U.S. to ay, I noticed.
CC Roger.
258 19 51430 CC PLT, Houston. With respect to y u r M563, and as-
soc ated experiments, we'd like to get the rest of
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the data that y u have written down, either l_ve
or put on the channel A voice recorder. We're
par icularly interested in the hot temperaturen
associated with the specimens. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. l've got some of them, and some of'
them I don't have, because I don't really have a
opportunity to go up there and monitor them all
the time. But when I am much in that area, why
I look at them and jot them down. And some of'
them I have and some of them I don't. If you
want me to do - go up there a specific time, I hope
you'll have them put it into details, and I'll be
glad to do that.
CC No requirement on that, Jack.
PLT Okay. I'm kind of wondering how much of th_s
we're ge ting on TM. I don't know what their spe-
cific readouts are.
258 19 56 16 CC PLT, Houston. There is no requirement for reading
these temperatures either at a specified time, or
periodically. We were interested in that, perhaps,
if you had recorded some of them at specific times,
we could use them for comparison with our telemetry
data, since we think that we're getting a few de-
gr es difference between the two se s of readings.
And we believe yours to be more accurate.
PLT Okay. Let me collect together the ones I've got,
Bruce. And I'll let you know.
CC Okay.
258 19 57 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. Next
station contact in 2 minut s through Canary Isla ds
at 20:00. Out.
258 20 O1 07 CC Skylab, this is Houston, through Canary and Ascen-
sion with you for 15 minutes. And in the useful
bits of conversational knowledge and facts to amaze
and confound the world, today at 14:49 Z, both the
SPT and PLT surpassed Pete Conrad's total acc umu-
lated flight time of _9 days 4 hours plus, thus
securing for themselves the joint p ssession of
the number 2 position in total manned space time,
first up behind your leader. Over.
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SPT Well, nice to hear, Bruce. If you can't be num-
ber i, I guess it's just about as good to be num-
ber 2 and 3.
CC Roger. If you're going to be number 2, you better
try harder.
SPT Jack and I are.
CC I thought E = IR.
PLT I don't feel any different, Bruce. But, I'll tell
you, our friend Pete's got an enviable record and
one that's pretty darn tough to beat. It's just
a long haul.
CC No, I'm not disparaging Pete. We're Just keeping
track of the total accumulated minutes here.
PLT Right. I understand.
CC Ought to be good for a party of some sort when you
get back.
PLT Yes, we'll probably break out the orange juice and
the ice cream tonight, or something like that.
258 2[,02 45 LT I've got a few of those maximum temperature read-
ings on the M518 experiment, and I'ii read you the
ones I have. Number 563, which is in there now,
by the way, is reading 969 to 970. And it's sec-
ond thermocouple is reading right in the same
neighborhood, about 2 degrees lower. And number 566
got up to 843 degrees, and number 562 got up
to 781. And we changed the ... setting on 559,
and the anticipated readout was 1005. I didn't
write one down for that, but I remember, or I re-
call that it was real close to that, if not being
right on.
CC Okay, Jack. We copy those. Thank you very much.
PLT Yes, sir.
CC And for the SPT. In the waning moments of this
daylight pass, with respect to shopping list
item 17, we would like to change that to be no more
than 2 minutes in FAST SCAN MODE of operation and
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delete the performed STANDARD MODE of 5 minutes
available as you've already done. Over.
258 20 05 43 SFT Fine, Bruce. That's taken care of. Thank you.
258 20 06 04 CDR How many waning moments ha e we left?
CC Dayligh , 2 minutes and 33 seconds, and contact
through Canary and Ascension, i0 minutes. Over.
CDR Let me mention something. I just went through
permanent general message number 32, which talks
about the TV cable checkout. And I found step 5,
where we're supposed to see the continuity of the
internal wire, the center wire of the coax to be
zero, namely, it's open. The resistance is infi-
nite. Then number 7, which wants to know the re-
sistance of the shield, I found to be half an ohm;
which seems to make sense. And the resistance
between the shield and the center wire, is open.
So that makes sense too. So it looks like we've
got an open on the center wire of the coax. I'd
be more than happy to undo the plugs in each end
and look for obvious problems where that wire con-
nects into the plugs.
CC Okay. Let me see if I got this right. On perma-
nent GM 32, step 5, you measured zero, or infinity.
Over.
CDR Infinity. Here it indicates a big 1. And that's
it.
CC All right, but I'm not sure I understand you.
You're on the 20 - 200 ohm range, and it's reading
i.
CDR It reads 1 when it's open. Nothing's touching
now and it's reading 1.
CC What does it read when you short the probes
together?
CDR Zero. It's - it's a digital meter, and I guess it
doesn't have a little i finity on it.
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CC Okay, we'll take your word for it. Infinity on the
center conductor, a half ohm on the shield, and
open between the two.
258 20 08 04 DR Yes. That's another 1.
CDR But I'll say one thing, it's a flashing l, so may-
be that means something different.
CC All right. Now you hit the right words. A flash-
ing 1. And we appreciate your attention to this
message; owever, you've Just blown our Flight Plan
for tomorrow. We're going to have to put something
else in in place of it.
258 20 08 35 CDR That's okay. What you should do right now is give
me a go ahead to look at the back of these plugs
and see how they're doing. We might fix this.
CC We'd like to hold off on that for right now, AI.
CDR Okay. That may be a little tougher than I thought
because I notice they've got epoxy on the screws,
at least on the n that fits in the TV connecto
and on the other - both ends. So there's going to
be some epoxy removing before we can go to the
next step.
CC Okay. Just for my ow curiosity, what's that noise
in the background that sounds like deep breathing
or a crosscut saw being pulled back and forth?
PLT Deep breathing.
CDR Jack Lousma pulling on the Mark I exerciser.
CC Okay. Thank you.
258 20 i0 39 SPT Back with us, Bruce?
CC Still here.
SPT Okay, there was a dropout there a couple of minutes -
about a minute and a half ago. I want to talk
about EREP for just a minute. On the first pass,
I presume also on the second pas , you were taking
lots o photographs over the water, apparently for
certain cloud studies that you wanted to make. I
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wanted to suggest the possibility that if there
are certain bjectives like, either stratus clouds
or cumulonimbus or various sorts of large patterns
that you are looking for we might consider mo_mt-
ing the S063 visible mount in the wardroom window.
And I can put a little Nikon on it to use it as a
viewfinder, since that's bore sided with the
minus-Z axis. It would be a simple matter to just
wait until a right sort of target was in the field
of view or approaching the field of view of the
camera in the wardroom wimdow, and, then simply
turn the ETC on. Now you might let the EREP peo-
ple think about that and see whe her or not they
think they could either save any film, or increase
the probability of getting the target they were
looking for, by doing it in this manner. Over.
CC We'll do that. It's a very good suggestion. We'll
get back to ycu on it.
258 20 ii 5h CDR Another item. When we got finished with EREP while
go, we decided we wo ld clean the platens with
water, which we did, and the platens are nice and
clean now.
CC Roger.
CC Were they noticeable dirty when you cleaned _em?
Or what - what prompted you? Could you see par-
ticles of emulsion and, you know, were they all
equally dirty?
258 20 12 23 CDR It was the same thing that had been reported by
Paul, that there was sort of streaking on the
plat n not - not critical streaking, but certainly
visible. And, apparently, th y had cleaned them
with that ovice solution or whatever it is, Ora-
vice, and had a lot of problems. So I just - We
had not cleaned them. We had mentioned them a
couple of times, and then we just decided that
maybe if we used water, we could probably shine
them up real good. So we used some water and
cleaned them up, an they look unscratched and
unmarked_ and they're just like new.
CC Beautiful. Thank you.
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CDR So I'd recommend that we clean them periodically
then with ju t plain water and use - we have to
dry them awful fast because they'll - they dry
very quic , and if they do it's - they make spots.
So you have to get them on and then dry them off
with that pa er, whatever you call it, lens paper.
CC Roger.
258 20 IL 03 CDR Also, Bruce, if you have any othe troubleshooting
procedures, today looks like a good day to do it.
I've got some free time at the moment. And it
looks like I'll have some free time later on this
evening. So if you got arcf more work on that probe,
or anything like that, let me know, and this is a
good time for us to work on them.
CC Okay, AI, we copy. W don't have anything in h nd
right now. Tomor ow, we are scheduling a check on
one of the TV mini-monitor and the - the cable
associated with it. I expect that message w ll
be up later on this evening, but it hasn't been
r viewed yet.
258 20 15 20 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. Next
station contact in 28 minutes through Carnarvon
at - make that through Honeysuckle at 20:47.
Out.
258 20 48 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for
5-1/2 minutes. And for the PLT.
PLT Yes, go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay. With respect to this photography of cities
at night with the CI film, the story is that the
ASA rating, the speed of the CI f_lm is 500. The
2485 film, which was planned to be used for this
type of thing, had a speed of 4000 so, to get
comparable exposures, you're going to have to use
eight times as long an exposure. And the recom-
mendation we have s that we're - we're not en-
thusiastic about the results that you'll probably
get using CI film at night. However, if you want
t use a few frames, we suggest that you take a
sequence of exposures that rund about like
4 seconds and 1 second - excuse me, 4 seconds and
a half of second and a fifthteenth of a second
and - and see what that do s for you. Over.
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PLT Okay, we'll give that a try on just a few points.
And then I guess one other request that I failed
to mention, which I should have, is that we would
like to also use the 35 on sunrise and sunset,
take a couple of sequences of that, and we're
kind of wondering what the exposure setting ought
to be for that, if it's anywhere near the DAC or
if it's different.
CC Okay, I didn't - Didn't we send you up a message
on sunrise, sunset a while back? Or was that
moonrise, moonset?
258 20 50 33 PLT Those s1_mmaries, I believe_ were for the DAC only,
and I'm not sure that the CI film in the DAC and
the CI and 35 millimeter film are the same.
PLT As a matter of fact, I have that message right
in my hip pocket here. And the lO0-millimeter
and 300-millimeter, you suggested were for Moon
photos. For sunrise/sunset, we're using the DAC,
so I guess there's one spot we don't have in there,
and that's 35-millimeter for still photos on the
sunrise/sunset.
CC Okay, the CI film, of course, is the same, whether
it's 16-millimeter or 35-millimeter. We don't
have the message in our hand right now regarding
the CI f_Im for sunrise/sunset on the DAC, but
the exposure should be comparable. Let us go
ahead and check into that one and get back to you
on it. Over.
258 20 51 45 PLT Okay, I've got 1250 at F/ll and F/16, depending
on where the Sun is, and I wonder if that is also
true for the CX film, that the exterior and - cn
this DAC and 35 are the same. And the
lO0-millimeter, by the way.
CC Okay, is --
258 20 52 44 CC SPT, Houston. We see that the TACS is still
enabled, both in the hardware and the software.
We need to d sable both places there. Over.
SPT Okay. Jack's up at the panel now. So I expect
he'll get it.
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CC Okay.
PLT Okay. I had my timer set, but it didn't go off.
I guess I must have bumped the little lever in my
pocket.
258 20 53 06 CC Okay, 1 minute until LOS. Next station contact
in 13 minutes through Hawaii at 21:06. And for
th PLT, right now we'd like to plan on taking
the sunris /sunse photos with the DAC only.
We'll have some rationale for you on that a little
bit later. I think it's probably concerned with
the fact that the significant thing here is the
motion coming up nd coming down, as opposed to
trying to catch a dim red disk of the Sun o some-
thing on a still shot. Over.
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Time: 258:21:00 to 258:22:30
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
258 21 06 48 CC Sk lab, this is Houston through Hawaii for 8 minutes,
and for the PLT. Over.
PLT Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay. Sometime this evening, Jack, we need to
get PCG 3 BATT CHARGE LOW input to the caution
and warning system reena led. And are you on
the ATM panel now? Is that correct?
PLT Yes. That's ENABLED.
CC Okay, and then on page 0 Bravo of the ATM J0P
Summary Sheets, that is, the shopping list, what
we'd like to do on shopping list item 17 is have
you all run it as it came from the print shop;
i.e. one sequence of fast SCAN taking 43 seconds
and approximately 3 frames whenever you run
item 17, deleting all pen-and- nk changes to that.
Over.
PLT Okay. We'll do 43 seconds. Our pen-and-inks
tells us no more than 2 minutes of FAST SCAN and
do the standard MODE if 5 minutes is available.
So I'ii scratch all that out. "All after anytime
at Su n center".
CC Right. We're deleting both of those pen-and-ink
comments.
PLT Okay. Understand.
CC And with respect to the sunrise/sunset photos, as
requested, we'd like to use the DAC since the res-
ponsible parties are interested in the sequence of
events that occur during the process of sunrise
and sunset. If you want to take some additional
still photos on your own hook, the same expo-
equals CX70 millimeter and CX35. Right?
I film. If you're using one that has CX film
in it, you want to open the lens up by 2-1/2 stops
to account for the slower speed of CX. CX has an
ASA of 64, and the CI is being processed at about
ASA 320 to 500, depending on our - our frame -
by - frame basis. Over.
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258 21 08 52 PLT Okay, I've got the CX settings for the DAC film
for sunrise sunset. And I take it that CX DAC
equals CXTO millimeter and CX35. Right?
CC Yes, sir. It's all the same, just different
widths and different perfo ations.
258 21 09 09 PLT Okay. That's good info. Thank you very much.
And I noticed that ou old buddies Vaiana and
Krieger there with S054 are tossing in the game
with a bunch of exposures, here, in thi rev.
Do they really want to repeat this M3OP, 256 a
se ond time?
258 21 09 29 CC That's affirmative, Jack. And the info we g t
from photo lab is that the SL-2 crew took a couple
of pictures of Madrid at night on the CI film,
and it turned out fairly well except for the fact
that the image was a little bit blurred. So I
guess the - the big thing you've got to concen-
trate on, here, is tracking the target and avoid-
ing _m_ge motion on these longer time exposures.
Over.
PLT Okay, today is the 300, or was that with the 35
or 55?
CC I an't answer that right offhand. I exp - I
don't know. I expect it was with the 55. The
300 has a much smaller aperture, and you probably
wouldn't be able to get enough light through.
PLT Okay. I think with the 300 we get a lot mo e
blurry, too. That's why I asked.
CC Yes, indeed. I guess reco_endation would be the
55-millimeter; he normal lens that's on there,
and wide open.
258 21 lO 26 PLT Okay, that's a good recommendation. Thanks a lot
for all the info.
258 21 lO 53 PLT Bruce, we' e got two revs coming up on ATM that
primarily use S056 as shopping list items. And
since S056 is kind of out of the ballgame for a
little while or sitting on the sidelines, momen-
tarily, it may even be well to have the backroom
back there make up some new shopping list items
for the next two revs.
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258 21 ii 24 PLT Ot erwi e, we'll probably go over on the GRATING,
AUTO SCAN and AUTO RASTER and MIRROR, LINE SCAN
to active regions and so forth. And l've noticed
some - another bright plage appearing in H-alpha 2.
I haven't had a chance to look at it _ et,
closely - and H-alpha i, but it's coming in right
behind active region 26 at about 260. And l'm not
sure that anybody read that up on the morning update
or not, but it's not on our activity pad.
258 21 12 22 CC Hey, Jack. On the ATM schedule pad, shopping
list item 13, those are the SINGLE-FRAME exposures
that we told you we would be scheduling specific-
ally for S056. So we'd like to run it as scheduled.
Over.
PLT Okay, thank you. I wasn't sure that we hadn't
not groundruled that out already. But I'ii go
ahead and do it as sch duled.
258 21 12 45 CC No, that's one of the - That and the J0P 6 on the
synoptic pass in the morning are the two times
when we do want to operate it.
PLT Okay, l've got the JOP 6 where they didn't have
it on the SINGLE FRAMES. But's that's exactly
where it'll be. Thanks a lot.
258 21 13 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through
Goldstone at 21:18. Out.
258 21 18 04 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for 5-1 /2
minutes.
PLT ello, Hank.
CC Hello there.
258 21 19 06 PLT Say, Hank, I just recorded that it looks like
there's a new active region. It heads - in area
of - coming around the east limb behind active
region 26. And that may not be new information,
but I adn't heard it before. But the other
thing I noticed is that as I recall, there was
a fairly well-developed filament on the north
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side of active region 26 this morning, which is
not there now. I don't see any sign of it at
all. And I believe there was a fairly good-sized
one there earlier today.
CC Roger. We'll check it out, Jack.
258 21 20 42 CC Jack, that new active region, I think, is going
to be active region 28, and has a - a flare pro-
bability of 200. And we're checking on that
filament.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
258 21 22 42 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. Bermuda at 27,
and we'll dump the recorder there.
PLT Okay.
258 21 23 53 CDR We got Owen in the can, and we're waiting until
we get the window before we go the rest of the
way.
CC Okay. We copy.
258 21 24 Ol SPT Just fits.
258 21 27 40 CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 10-1 /2 minutes.
258 21 28 16 PLT Okay, Hank.
258 21 29 Ol PLT Hank, I don't know what time it occurred, but
within the last hour, the M518 experiment that's
in there has gone from its soak to its cooldown
cycle. And in the past, l've kind of put my hand
back there where the heat sync is behind the -
behind the work chamber, and noted that it was
only lukewarm. And it was - If you were drinking
coffee out of a cup that warm, why, you would say
it was too cold. But this one's been in there
quite a long time, and it's the soak temperature
that got pretty warm. And I just put my hand
back there, and if you're drinking ca - coffee
out of that cup, you'd say it was too dar hot to
handle, I think. So the temperature back there,
you can feel it. And sometimes, it's just luke-
warm, but other times, when it soaks a long time,
why, it's going to be pretty hot.
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CC Roger; we copy.
258 21 _7 17 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute until LOS. Ascension
at 44.
PLT See you there, Hank.
258 21 45 01 CC Skylab, Houston through As ension for 9 minutes.
258 21 53 02 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute to LOS. We'll be
coming up on Carnarvon at 17.
PLT Okay, Hank.
!
258 22 17 39 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank.
258 22 2!603 CC Skylab, Houston; i minute from LOS. Guam at 31.
PLT Okay, Hank. You may notice something on S055.
When you throw in all of the d tectors, like I
h ve them now for a MIRROR, UTO RASTER, they
all momentarily light the SCAN SPECT light, and
then it goes out except for DETECTORS 5 and 6. And
I was wondering if they're working normally?
CC We'll check it out.
258 22 26 47 PLT Well of course, DETECTORS i and 2 don't light
it, but 3 through 6 - 3 through 7 - I thought,
should. Although I haven't really played - paid
close attention to it. All l've noticed is that,
at the moment, they don't.
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Time: 258:22:30 to 258:24:00
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRA SCRIPTION
258 22 31 06 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 8-1 /2 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank.
CC And, PLT, could you clarify the last transmission
you made? We're - we're tryin to sort it out
down here and I don't think we got it straight
on - on which detectors were lighting the ALERT
light.
PLT Okay. I probably didn't mske myself clear. When
I put the MODE switch to AUTO RASTER in GRATING
POSITION all zeros, I started putting on the
DETECTOR. And 1 and 2 don't normally light the
SCAN SPEC light, but 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 usually
light it momentarily, if you're in a MIRROR mode.
I noticed this time that only 3, 4, and 7 lit it
momentarily; 5 and 6 did not. And I was wondering
if they're working normally or if that's just
the - the way that they have worked in the past
and I haven't noticed.
258 22 32 09 CC Okay. We got it straight now, Jack, and we'll
see if we can dig up an answer.
PLT Okay. Sorry it wasn't more clear the first time.
PLT I'm running the MIRROR, AUTO RASTER in all zeros
and with all detectors at the moment as you notice.
CC We copy.
PLT So, I thought you might have some data.
258 22 37 48 CC Jack, we've been talking to the observatories
and that fil - filament that you noted indeed
has took off. It has blue shifted which means
it's coming out toward us. So you're absolutely
correct, that thing has lifted off.
PLT kay. I wish we'd been here to see it go.
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258 22 38 55 CC Skylab, Houston. We' e about 1 minute to LOS.
We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 57. And,
Jack, did you happen to note anything on the WLC
about l0 minutes ago?
PLT No, I sure didn't notice anything unusual, Hank.
I looked it over quite carefully. I think that
just a minute. I'm working on an expe iment t
here. The answer to your question is no, and
I looke at it for a while. I could - I've got
the door open. I guess I could power it up and
take another look right now.
CC Okay. If you wa t to take a look, hat would
be fine. And we'll talk to you stateside a d
see what you saw.
258 22 56 49 CC Skylab, Houston. Stateside for 17 minutes.
PLT Okay, Hank.
CC And, Jack, to answer you question about the
ALERT light you were getting there. We would
not expect to see an AL_T light on DETECTORS 5
and 6. The electronics are different in that
unit - those detectors when they are on the
others. With l, 2, 3, 4, and 7, because of the
way electronics is designed, we - it would be
possible to get the ALERT light as you're doing.
However, we are a little surprised t at you have
been seeing them on DETECTO S 5 and 6. Five and
6 look perfectly normal to us, other than the
tripout problem that we're always getting there
with 5.
PLT Okay. I'm glad to hear that. I didn't know
that little fact. I have not been getting the
ALERT light flicker on 5 and . Number 5, for
some time, during the end of the last rev, was
working quite well. And earlier in this rev, i
was, too. And I'm just starting to get SCAN SPECT
li ht from it again. So, I know it's working
even though it's - not too well. h nk you, a
lot for that answer, Hank.
258 22 58 32 PLT And, I looked at the white light coronagraph
quite closely again, and I didn't notice anything
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unusual that wasn't there earlier in the rev, at
which time I hadn't even got a picture of the
corona. I noticed at about 250, that we have sort
of a bright streamer beginning, although it doesn't
appear to be changing and doesn't appear to look
much different than any other normal streamer.
Before coming to the present pointing position,
however, I did take another FAST SCAN for 43 sec-
onds and I will take one - one more at about
5 minutes remaining in the o bit, unless you suggest
otherwise. And that should cover som of the
action that might be going on in the corona. I
finished with the request for this rev early. And
what I've done is to go over and cen er the auto
raster between active region 26 and 28. And I'm
giving it the MIRROR, AUTO RASTER for that whole
area, getting both active regions at once.
CC PLT, Houston. We copy that. And we concut it's -
with you to do another S052 run there.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
258 23 00 24 CC And just so we got it straight here on this -
DETECTORS 5 and 6. Did I understand you to say
that you had been getting, occasionally, the
SCAN SPEC ALERT light flicker on 5 and 6, and
then it quit doing it and it just started back
again?
P T No, it has never occurred, to my knowledge. And
I have never seen it. That's why I asked the
question, because I thought I should, like I did
on 3, h, and 7. But I have never seen it come
on when I put the detectors on. And it doesn't
nOW.
CC And - and you say, you are getting the flicker on
PLT No, I never have. And I'm not now. And that's
why I asked th question, because I thought I
s ould, like the ot er detectors. But no, I h ve
not seen it and - and I'm not getting it now.
258 23 01 13 CC" Okay. We copy. I think we've got it now, Jack.
PLT Okay, Hank.
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258 23 02 18 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from a
1-minute LOS.
258 23 03 48 CC Skylab, we're back with you. We've got about
l0 minutes left in this pass.
PLT Okay.
258 23 13 19 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll
be coming up on Carnarvon at 55 with a recorder
dump.
258 23 13 29 CDR Okay Hank.
258 23 54 32 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 7 minutes.
END OF TAPE
TAG Tape 259-01/T-612
Time: 259:00:00 to 259:01:30
Page
1
of 4 /3895
SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
259 O0 01 24 CC Skylab, we're about 20 seconds rom LOS. We'll
be coming up on Guam at 09.
259 O0 09 27 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Hous on. We're through Guam for 6 minutes.
CC And, CDR, whenever you get a break at t e panel
there, we d like to, on pa el 26, adjust REG
1 ADJUST, BUS 2 pot, 5 degrees clockwise.
CDR Okay. That's complete.
fCC Thank you, sir. The last one wedid, it wasn't
quite enough.
CDR Oks_v.
259 O 14 56 CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS; Goldstone
at 33.
259 00 32 54 CC Skylab, Houston through the stateside station for
15 minutes.
CDR Need a lit le dow -link, Hank?
CC Stand by and we'll see if we're configured.
CDR Okay. It had it on the schedule at i0. I
just 'ii be standing by whenever you're ready.
259 00 34 l0 CC Okay, we - we won't be ready for that for a
couple more minutes, AI. We - we have it set up
for Texas, which - we have an AOS there about 37.
CDR Okay, I'ii just cool it until we get there.
259 00 138 37 CC CDR, Houston. We're ready for your down-link
anytime.
CDR Okay. Here comes a little integrated X V MON.
CDR Here's another series.
CC We copy.
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259 00 40 ii CDR That's two series. Did you want anything else?
CC Okay. That ought to do it, AI. Thanks a lot.
CDR You're welcome.
CDR If you're going to be here another - looks like
about another minute, I can give you some white
light coronagraph of - We'll be finished up with
this pointing.
259 00 41 47 CC Okay. Well, give us a little of that WLC, and
then maybe a little H-alpha zoomed all he way
out, so we can see if the filament's still there.
CDR All right.
CC Stand by a minute, A1.
DR Say again.
CC Okay, we've already turned the FM transmitter off.
I guess we can't get it now. We can turn it on
if we can hold on here. It'll take a 90 90-second
warmup.
CDR Okay. Well, why don't you turn it on and I'll
whistle on over and give it to you. All of it's
finished. I just finished shopping list item 19,
and so I'm going over there.
259 00 43 37 CDR We'll give you the best roll we can get.
CC Okay, CDR. We're warmed up again and ready for
it.
CDR Okay. My lit le WLC isn't warm yet but it's
almost.
CDR Okay, you're getting it. I'll do a little roll
for you in a minute.
CDR You'll notice that the corona has sort of a nice
little glow to it down there. Are you seeing
this real-time?
CC That's affirmative.
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CDR Well, we talked about this a the first of the
orbit. The - if you'll notice down there at
4 o'clock, it's got a nice big helmet in between
two little streamers and then there's a dark
place - a hole right in the middle of that glow
at about 2 radianses [sic] from the center and
1/2 from the occu ting disk. And that aark area
has not moved nor has the definition of that
area become significantly different. It looks
unusual but it doesn't seem to be doing anything
dynamic. I'll roll it for you. You still
there, Hank?
CC That's affirm tive.
259 00 46 06 CDR Here's H-alpha-2; and we're about 40 seconds
from suns_ so I'll let you look at that, then
turn off the rest.
CC Okay.
CDR Now let me move down a little bit to where you
want to look.
259 00 46 46 CDR There's a closeup. That's it!
CC Okay, thank you, A1.
259 00 47 13 CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 58. And w 're
scheduled for the Evening Status Report there.
259 O0 59 44 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 8 minutes.
Standing by f r evening status.
259 O1 00 13 CDR 175, 147, 16 - 160; 6126; 0055; 6594. 6.241,
6.248, 6.240; 5.946, 5.949, 5.947; 6.948, 6.950,
6.9 five 0, (chuckle) - that's 6.950.
CDR: 2/33/5 41, 3/15/Mark I, 3/10/Mark II,
3/05/Mark III; SPT: 2/25/4150, 3/20/Mark I,
30, A; 30, B; 30, D; pl s a 171; PLT: 1/05/0604.
He's not finished his exercise at he moment; and
in fact, he's getting ready to do some on 171 in
a little while, so we'll report it. 320Mark I,
50, A; 20, B; 20, D; and 20 backbends. No medi-
cation. Sleep: 8/G, 7/G, and 6-1/2G. Food log:
CDR: two salt pills, plus one lemonade; SPT: no
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salts, add 2 ounces of water, peanuts, grape
drink, snd peanut butter; Pilot: three salts,
add four salt pil s, and one lemon drop. We'll
give you the photo log later when we finish the
photos here. Flight plan deviation: nothing; it
c me off real well. And we'd like tomorrow's
schedule with the exception of a couple of items
we've done. I think several of us have done
487-2D, and for example, I think I have. And
also we've finished that TV cable checkout. And
that's scheduled tomorrow, and I know it was too
late to change, but maybe they can come up with
some - you can come up with some possible sub-
stitute items. Shopping list accomplishments:
TV cable checkout; complete, with an open notice
•n _ne _oax cen_er ±ine. we cleaned S190 platen.
Inoperable equipment: nothing new. And unsched-
uled stowage item change: nothing new.
259 01 03 05 CC Okay, A1. The - the - On the schedule tomorrow,
that's checkout on the TV monitor and cable. It's
not the same one you aid toGay.
C R Oh, excellent. Well, as soon as that gets up,
we'll do it. Good.
CC CDR, Houston. Do you recall when you did the
487-2 Delta?
CDR Hold on a second. I'll check to make sure that
was the right one.
259 01 04 31 CDR Sorry. We have not done 487-2 Delta. I did the
individual one instead of the round table. We'll
work on this one, also.
C Okay. Thank you, A1.
CDR It's my - my fault. Well, I did it without being
scheduled, and I thought since this ca e up that
maybe that was it. We'll get this done tomorrow.
259 O1 06 50 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.
We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 02:10, a
little over an hour from now, and that'l be the
med conference.
259 01 07 05 CDR Okay, Hank, We'll be waiting. Thanks.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
259 02 17 04 CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you for 5-1 /2 more
minutes.
CDR Let me give you the frames remaining.
CC Go ahead.
CDR H-alpha, 4408; 56, 441; 82A, 14; 82B, 95;
52, 1291; 54, ll81.
CC We copy. And we're also standing by for the
photo log, if you got that rounded up yet.
259 02 17 37 CDR Jack probably does. He may read it down. Let
me give you one other piece of information. I
was looking out window number - 3 in the STS a
few moment ago, looking at - as the Sun was
down, I was kind of looking at the poles that
we deployed early in the mission. As you may
recall, these poles have ll smaller poles hooked
together. When they were ooked together by
pushing in against a spring, rotating, and then
coming out against the same spring, then they
bayoneted locked. Then we ad a screw fittin that
lock-locked it, and then we had a little rubber
grommet that bumped up against the screw; the
nut actually, it looked like. It was a knurled
sleeve, the second one out on the one closest to
the plus - correction, minus-Y axis. The little
rubber grommet looks like it's moved back by
about 2 inches, and the lock-lock has moved off
to it's fully unseated position. However, the
pole is intact, and everything is Just dandy.
Now my suspicion as to the reason is this. Those
little rubber grommets are molded. And they have
a certain position they llke to be to - you
know, they like a certain part of their cross
sec nd to be interior and a certain part to be
exterior because of the molding. My suspicion is
lock where it wasn't that case; and so finally,
lock where it wasn't that case; and so finally,
with this thermal cycling, all of a sudden, it
Just kind of Jumped back to where it's natural
interior diameter, which was larger, is the right
diameter. And I Just wanted to let you know.
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And there's probably some others out there we
just can't see that have done the same thing.
CC Roger. We copy. It sounds - That's pretty
interesting.
259 02 19 38 CDR It does. I couldn't believe my eyes. I've been
looking out there for a couple of months, and
I've looked at the poles, and they weren't
moving. And all of a sudden, today, it's just
popped out. And my suspicion is it's no - that
it 's not a problem. But I think, maybe, some
testing and thinking ought to be done about it.
The reason I believe that to be true is the
original design had no lock-locks or washers.
We requested the lock-locks and had them put
on; we requested the washers and had them put
on. Also, the poles are continually under tension
through th s two tiedowns. So my suspicion is,
even if they didn't have a spring-loaded b yonet,
they couldn't get away; but somebody wiser than
myself is going to have to do some thinking
about hat one.
259 02 20 40 CC SPT, can you listen in?
SPT Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay. Earlier today, I think it was you that
reported an anomaly with the S05 not starting up
when the - it should have. And we've got all the
MDRS data back and taken a look at it, and it
shows that we ran two consecutive 256 exposures.
And looking at it, we also saw, during the econd
one, that the filter was changed during the run.
Now what we suspect happened is that - that you
set your auxiliary timer an forgot to change the
C&D exposure setting from 256 to 64, which would
account for the instrument not starting when you
tried to get your second exposure going there.
SPT I think that's a possibility. If it had been in
a long exposure or in a - on a run when I thought
it had already stopped, then I could have tried
to restart it, and it wouldn't start. And I
think that's probably the be t explanation for
how it happened. And if I'd have stopped first
and then tried to restart it and then - then it
wouldn't start, that would have been a real mal-
function. But I think you've, probably, pinned it
down.
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CC Okay. A d we're - we're about I minute from LOS
now. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 34.
259 02 22 12 CDR And I assume the ATM back - the backroom likes
the ATM; it's all powered down.
CC Okay. We'll give you the final word at the
Vanguard, A1.
259 02 22 28 CDR Okay, and the 56 DOOR is CLOSED, and the POWER
is ON. And I ass_n_e that' how they want -
Is that correct?
CC We wanted the DOOR OPEN and the POWER OFF, onto
normal closeout on that, A1.
CDR Okay, somebody's got to - I'll have to talk to
so eone here.
CC Okay, what we are doing is turning the CAMERA
POWER OFF - OFF and leaving the DOOR OPEN for
X-REA data.
259 02 23 08 CDR Okay. We got it.
259 02 35 27 CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard - Vanguard for
l0 minutes.
CDR We got a film report, if you'd like it, Hank.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Okay, 16-millimeter, Hank. First activity was
sunset. CI60, 16, CI52; ETC prep on M - for M171,
CI61, 61, CI54; VTS track 31 and 32, CLO4, 45.
M151 for M092/171, CI59, 05, CI57; M151 for M092
and 71, CI56, 18, CI44. 35-millimeter: CIl05,
21; CX33, 23; CX27, 034. I 02, this is ETC. IR02,
160. By the way, the CX27 was for a T0-millimeter.
EREP set Victor is do e for, but the settings are
8578; 7915; 8791; 8785; 2328; and 9648. Drawer A:
A-l, transporter 07, CI58, 45, CI53; Alfa 4 is 03,
CI59, 05, CI57. Back of the drawer is CI56, 18,
CI44. That's transporter 2, I believe.
259 02 37 48 SPT Hello, Hank?
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CC Roger; we copy. And if we can get the DAS, we're
going to c mman SI.
SPT Okay, you've got the DAS; and we'd like, in
addition to that food log that A1 read down to
orange drink to my meals for the day.
CC Okay. Will do.
S T Thank you.
CC And on the panel closeout, we wou d like to - on
S055, have the lines st pped to 33. And also,
we'd like to verify that the NIGH INTERLOCK
OVERRIDES are in NORM_4_ and the MAIN HIGH VOLTAGE
is ENABLE.
SPT Okay, understand. An did you mean the line or
the column to 33
CC We want the step - mirror step to 33.
SPT Okay, there is both a row and a column. We can
step it in two directions, and I was wondering -
Normally, we put it on line 25, and column 33.
I thought, perhaps, that was what you meant.
CC Okay, ATOM says that's the column he want.
SPT Okay, fine. Thank you there, ATOM.
PLT You didn't get all of my exercise, Hank. I'm
not finished yet. I don't know if I'll do any
more or not because it's getting kind of late.
CC Okay.
259 02 39 16 PLT Maybe I'll read it down tomorrow, okay?
259 02 39 25 CC All righty. And, SPT, in answer to your suggestion
the cloud photograph, the MRD does require
that these photos be taken either ith the S190
or the ETC. And we're in a much better film po-
sition on the ETC so we chose to use that.
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SPT I guess, maybe, my suggestion wasn't made clear.
What I was trying to get at was we could put this
Nikon in the window to tell us when we had the
appropriate targer in the field of view of the
ETC. And then when we saw, for example, clouds
coming, if that' what the objective of the pass
was, we could - I could Just float up about 6 feet
above my head and turn the ETC to OPERATE - or to
AUTO. And I was only using the Nikon to determine
when the ETC was pointed at an appropriate target.
Over.
CC Okay, we understand now. We'll put that in the
hopper.
CDE Okay, now say again, Hank, about this NIGHT
INTERLOCK?
CC Okay, we can't see those on telemetry, A1. We
Just want to verify that they're in NORMAL. And
also, that the MAIN HIGH voltage is ENABLE.
259 02 40 hl CDR Sure is. Everything is like y u said. Okay.
Powering it down again.
CC Okay. Good show. Thank you, A1.
259 02 40 53 CC Sometime, during the evening, we sent up a pad
reference and a cue card change for the M092
observer. It was to do the M092 test number 2.
And since that time, we've not ced that we did
have an omission in the pad, and I wo
n
der if we
could read the correction to that now.
CDR Probably could. It's in the book. Let me go
get the book.
259 02 kl 38 CC This was on the observer's cue card, M092 -
observer cue card.
259 02 42 lO CDR Go ahead, Hank.
CC Okay, down the line, there, you'll see after
MAIN VACUUM VALVE OPEN then BE - RECORDER EX-
PERIMENT 1 ON. Eight after that, we'd like to
insert CALIBRATE aut - to AUTO.
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259 02 42 57 CDR That's a new one on us.
CC What - what we're trying tp do there is get the
leg-band cal data on the recorder.
CDR We're trying to remember which switch has the
CAL to AUTO on i .
CDR We never throw it. You want us to start using
that one, huh?
CC That 's affirmative.
259 02 43 30 CDR What happened to the same old way of putting on
both recorders, like we do for everything else?
259 02 43 43 CDR Why don't we go into hold on t is one, and let
you think it over tonight. And we'll be glad
to do it in AUTO, but it's different than anything
else we've done, and so I'm su picious of it, Just
on that grounds alone. Not that we don't want
to, but something 's funny.
CC Okay, I - Biomed's discussing it. We don't have
time to talk it over and get it up to you to-
night, A1. We will do that. We'll take the sug-
gestion a d get you a final answer on it tomorrow.
A couple of quick questions, here, before we sign
off. For our M518 planning, can you comment on
how long it takes for the - for - to do the termi-
nation in ops. In others words, is it still tak-
ing approximately 9 minutes for the chamber to
vent to 10_3 torr?
PLT Yes, it takes about that long. And it do sn't
take very long to do the ops and the termination.
About the amount of time you've allowed for, is
about r ght.
CC Okay; we copy.
259 02 44 46 CC And we've notived on the tape once that you've
commented on the lack of hand old - holddowu
restraints for use at the wardroom table when
m_.king changes to the checklists. Now in the
entertainment kit over there, there's some
magnetic card deck and card handholders
L
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that - you might be able to fashion in some form
to - to hold those checklists down. We wondered if
you'd tried those or thought of trying them.
PLT We haven't thought of them, but we will. And if
we can't use them for that, the big O. can probab-
ly think up a science demonstration (Chuckle).
CC Roger; we copy. And we're Just about to go LOB.
We'll say goodnight to you, now, and give you a
call in the morning.
PLT Okay. Thank you, Hank. And thank you and your
team for all your good work today.
CDR And how about, Hank, not calling us tomorrow
morning until we put 10,000 on the DAS. Is that
okay?
CC Okay, we'll _o it that.
CDR Okay, that'll let Jack get up and do his ATM while
the rest of us snooze.
259 02 45 49 PLT Nothing has changed ...
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REST PERIOD - NO COMMUNICATIONS
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
259 ll 52 l0 SPT Hello there, Houston. When are you fellows
going to wake up down there?
CC Good morning, we were letting you sleep in. We
understand after the rousing music yesterday you
didn't want to be bothered oday.
SPT We've just been working away up there for no
telling how long, Bill, just waiting for you guys
to finally take a look at our spacecraft for us
down there and come up on the radios.
CC Okay, we're standing - we're standing by here.
We'll be around for about 7 minutes.
SPT Okay, I figured you'd be swamped in numbers by
now, Bill.
CC No, been pushing little HP pretty hard, and listen,
I sure appreciate it. There's a lot of good
stuff that came out. Story's going to talk to
you at the science conference on a couple of the
things there, and on some of the things we wanted
you to run. There are a couple of messages here
for you, if you're ready to opy.
259 ll 53 08 SPT Go right ahead, William.
259 ll 53 16 SPT Go ahead, Bill.
CC Okay, the solar activity update: Activity has
been low; two suBflares have been observed;
one subfaint in AR-26; one subnormal in AR-27_
no X-rays were seen with either flare; a new
r gion AR-30, FPO/O/O has emerged near 26/0.2;
P-58 and P-76 have be n moderately ac ive.
SPT Okay, we've got it. And I do remember noticing
o e yesterday which I called down on channel A
Over the northwest quadrant, not where you called
it out. I don't know whether it's develope_ any
o er the night or not, but apparently not since
you haven't called it up as a new active region.
G ahead; what else have you got?
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CC Okay, this was he answer - This was for the
CDR in answer to the question on M092, cue card
change 2, that's teleDrinter message 5032B,
M092, test number 2. And the reason for the AUTO
CAL is that it simply gives a shorter cal se-
quence. It can be a MANUA CAL if you prefer it
that way; there's no great difference. Normally
we use a MANUAL CAL for the data processing
purposes. Since we'll crank this one through
by hand, a short cal will be fine for it.
259 ll 55 l0 CDR Okay, Bill, it didn't make any difference to us.
We just wanted to make sure that with this little
procedure that was cranked in, that looked like
a good thing, wasn't deviating too far from the
nominal accidentally. So if that's on purpose,
we're game. Thanks.
CC Okay, Story is going to be talking about these
two procedures this afternoon, also; won't bother
with them now. We'll discuss them before we get
on to them really.
PLT Say, Bill, this is Jack. My exercise didn't get
completely reported last night because it wasn't
finished. Are you ready to copy a little?
CC Yes, Jack. We're standing by; go ahead.
259 ll 56 06 PLT I did a number 2 for 36/8172. And I need to have
a tea with lemon and sugar dded to my y sterday's
food log. I neglected to report that.
CC We copy, Jack. Thank you.
P T Okay, thank you, Bill. And how's everything up
the creek?
CC Hey, it's raining but nothing too hard, and the
creek has stayed down this time, Jack, and every-
thing's going well and so forth; healthy and happy.
P T Good news ; thank you.
SPT I thought maybe you'd been burning Jack's firewood
by now.
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CC Neg tive.
259 ii 56 58 SPT Say, one other thing I should report. Last night
I went in to take a few pictures of Anita's
latest effort, and it turned out that Anita's no
longer living. I don't know whether it's because
of - I expect it's because of inadequate food.
I don't know that she ever ate any of those little
pieces of filet that we pu i to the web there or
not. I have replaced the water, I guess, twice
since I put her into the cage, but somehow or
other she didn't make it through the last couple
of days, someplace along in that interval. Now
what I intend to do is to collect this last
web that she spun, and then we can bring that
back anyway. And my principal question is
whether or not it's better to leave Arabella in
the vial for the last week here - and of course,
I'm going to be giving her some more water
today - or whether to release her back into the
cage for the last week, whether tnat'd oe more
satisfactory for keeping her healthy? o you
raight get your people to think about whether or
not to lea e things as they or to put Arabella
back into the cage. Over.
CC ()kay,we will do. Say, we need the DAS here for
a minute. And I hope you're coming up with some
sort of suitable memorial service there.
SPT I think we've just completed the memorial ser-
vices, Bill (chuckle). And you - Why don't you
take the DAS for 2 minutes?
CC W 're enabling dump here, at the moment, on the
DAS.
259 ll 58 54 CC ()kay,and the DAS is yours now; and we'll have
you at Canary at 12:44.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
259 12 44 hO CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for ii minutes.
CDR Okay.
CDR Bill, you still there?
CC Yes, I'm still here, A1.
CDR Would you check with the medical folks - find
out what - I wanted to ride that bike today for
a little hit longer than an hour; about - I
wanted to ride it about 93 minutes. And find
o t what power level I could do it for 93 minutes.
My gue s is it'll probably be lO0, but if they
s id 50, that would Be okay.
CC Wilco.
259 12 47 2h CC And, Skylab, have a message for the SPT, if he
has any time or henever it's convenient.
PLT First part of your r nsmissions are cutting out,
B ll. We don't know who you're calling.
CC Okay. Have a message for the SPT whenever it's
convenient for him.
CDR Say, Bill, I was looking at the limits we had up
here, and I notice it says you can go 1 hour for
12,000 watts, which would be 200 atts, or you
can go 2-1/2 hours - 22,500 watts. And in note 2
says, "Do not exceed 1 hour continuous that op-
eration." And note 3 says, "When 1 hour contin-
u us operation at 200 watts or greater is antici-
pated." I'd like to go the 93 minutes at some
lower level that wouldn't bother the machine.
CC Okay, they're scrambling through their stuff right
now, A1. And we'll get you an answe in Just a
minute. Sounds like it might be good time to get
a big sweat sample.
259 12 h8 54 CDR Well, I want to - I want to ride t once around
the world, Just to do it. And I guess the thing
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to do is ride it at a low level. I don't think
I could do it much over a 100; that would be a
bunch of watts. Bunch of watt minutes. You
could do it; I don't think I can.
CC Hey, A1, that sounds good. But remember, it's
going to be those legs that you got to walk on
when you get back.
259 12 50 21 CC A1, could you take a message for the SPT?
CDR Sure, go ahead.
CC It was my fault, but there was a bad instruction
on the BMMD urine measuring thing, and I simply
underestimated your people's ingenuity. I didn't
imagine that you could get all three bag tied
on at once. And it should have been one bag
at the time. There should're been a step to
remove the bag and then replace it with another
bag and then go on through measuring each bag
separately that way. That was the intent. And
as I say, I underestim ted your ingenuity.
SPT Aren't you happy with the way - happy enough
with the way it was done, though, Bill?
CC Yes. The nt_nbers look good. They look very good,
Owen.
SPT Okay, I'll talk to you about it in Just a inute.
259 12 54 52 CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC As long as you stay below 150 watts on the bike,
there'll be no problem, A1.
CDR You can cothnton that. Thanks.
CC (Chuckle) We copy.
SPT Okay, Bill, I guess I interpreted the instruc-
tions to mean ... as you can tell ...
CC Are you're still there? We lost you, SPT, on
that one.
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259 14 07 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island
for l0 minutes. Out.
SPT Roger, Bruce. And I'm standing by to do the D-4
calibration, anytime you're ready.
CC We're ready. Let her rip.
SPT Okay. I guess you're looking at this in real
time; is that correct?
CC Negative. We have a simulation going on down
here in the Control Center today, so most of the
• displays are tied up with that.
SPT Okay. Do you want this inform tion on the VTR
then or - -
CC No, no. No, no.
SPT - - are they receivi g it on the ground instead
of the VTR?
CC No, no. Keep it coming per the Flight Plan. I
was just answering what I thought was your ques-
tion; i.e. we are not viewing it directly in the
Control Center, but we will be recording it at -
on the ground.
SPT Oh, yes, you did answer it correctly. I was just
wanting to doublecheck to make sure I understood
it right.
259 14 03 22 CDR Also, Bruce, I just went through the monitor
cable checkout, and the problem is obviously
within cable number - serial number 3005, pin
number 10.
CC Okay. e copy that the problem is in the cable,
serial number 3005. And does that imp - that
mean that you got both monitors to work satis-
CDR That's right, and they wouldn't work. I could
make then work intermittently by moving P-10
around, either monitor.
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CC Okay. And it - I thought you said pin 10. It's
the P-10 area of the cable that's intermittent.
CDR That's - That's right. The plug 10, I guess
would be a better word.
CC Okay. Thank you. In the absence of further
direction, I assume that you can take a great
big piece of red tape and put it around cable
005 and set it off to one side some place.
Probably, the same place you put the intermittent
TV camera power cable.
CDR That's a fact. I'll just hook it up to the in-
termittent - nonintermittent TV camera, and then
it does 't work, period. So they're all hooked
together.
CC (Laugh) Okay.
259 14 09 53 CDR We put something on the VTS a few minutes ago
with some dart throwing that looked like a pretty
good thing, but our rendition of it wasn't that
great. If you want it redone, let us know and
we'll do it. I think it'll be interesting for
the networks.
259 14 i0 lO CC Okay. Let us see if we can get it do wn here and
have a look. We'll get back to you later oday.
SPT Bruce, can you tell us how much time is left on
the VTR, and if you intend to dump the tape before
the 19:30 TV that's on the schedule?
CC Yes, we do. And 21.1 minutes are on the VTR,
giving you a little less than 9 minutes remaining.
SPT Okay. When do you plan to do the dump? I think
maybe we're through with it now. I don't have
anything else until 19:30.
SPT l've checked withal and Jack, and they're through
with it, also. So_ y u wanted to dump it, we'll
be through until later today.
CC Okay, Owen, we'll get going on that right now.
In order to get good high quality video dumped
down, we're still restricted to Texas/Goldstone-
type passes, And it looks like they will take
r
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us up until shortly before 19:30 Z to get it
dumped down. Over.
SPT Roger.
259 14 13 07 CC And, SPT, this is Houston. When you have a second,
we received a report from the CDR this morning
that the H-alpha 2 television pict re was coming
in and out; and that as a consequence, he secured
it. We noticed you've got it operating now, and
wonder if it's working in satisfactory fashion.
Over.
SPT That was Jack, I think. And yes; the answer is,
we got it back to normal. It was the same symptom
that has been exhibited from time to time.
CC Did you do anything particular to get it back to
normal, like kick it or beat on it, cr it just
happened?
SPT Yes, but the procedure's somewhat more gentle than
that. All you need to do is zoom H-alpha 2 in
and out a little ways, and then it'll quit this.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC Owen, in checking ba k on that, the word I get
is that when you turn it on, either it can be
left for about 15 minutes and the automatic gain
control circuits will warm up by themselves, or
in fact, as you point out, if you oom into max-
imummagnification, the circuit will heat up more
rapidly and give you the same result. Over.
SPT Roger. We were familiar with that. It just,
apparently turned out that Jack hadn't experienced
it before, so he hadn't been familiar with that.
But we've seen i here, and we - we all know how
to correct it now.
CC Okay.
259 14 15 40 SPT I was just wondering about active region 29, which
is one of the new ones that showed up. I reported
it yesterday, and it's been assigned a name today.
It's de initely developed over the ourse of the
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last 24 hours, particularly in the XUV. It's
now developed sort of a loop on the XUV MONITOR,
extending out towards the west limb. And I plan
to spend at least a part of my shopping list time
studying that. Also, it does look like we've got
some more activity coming over the east limb. So
it's just too bad we don't have a couple of more
weeks and another roll of ATM film up here. And
I - I might very well have another couple of weeks
of very good active Sun.
CC Okay. I find, in my notes here, a statement to
the effect that the current plan is not to extend
the mission. And we're 45 seconds from LOS at
Merritt Island. Next station contact in 8 min tes
through Madrid at 14:25. Over.
SPT That's funny how that note never seemed to get
sent to the spacecraft, but we'll take it under
consideration.
CC We l, we'll have to check back on that. I think
it's gone up a - a few times before. And how did
you spell that city in Oklahoma again?
SPT You know, you're giving old big E so much pub-
licity here, they might even invite you up for
the Grand NationalQuail Hunt this y ar.
CC (Laughter) Yes, they'd probably have "me" for
dinner.
259 14 17 09 SPT No, there's no old duck on the menu. It's al
quail and pheasant.
259 14 25 01 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for 7-1 /2
7-1/2 minutes. Standing by for the SPT and his
star tracker test. Over.
SPT Okay, it'll be coming up in just a moment.
259 14 30 05 SPT Well, it doesn't look too good for Altair. Does
has telemetry any better gimbal angles to think
of?
CC Negative, Owen. We're right on, on NuZ and these
angles are confirmed as valid. If you can't get
it, go ahead on and try Antares. And, incident-
ally, I gave you some bum dope earlier; these
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stars are not in support of the JOP 13 for tomor-
row morning, but ar in support of the following
JOP 13, that is, the second one. Over.
SPT Okay, thank you. And how much time do we have
remaining here?
CC A little over 2 minutes.
SPT Okay, I better go on to Antares then.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. Forty-five seconds to
LOS. Next station contact in 26 minutes, through
Carnarvon at 1_:58, where we'll be dumping the
data voice tape recorde .
SPT Okay, didn't like Antares eit er on the first
sweep through. I'll take a couple of more passes.
CC Okay, Owen, as you go over the hill here, we're
going to lose contact with you, but we'd like
you to go back and try Altair again and then try
Antares as long as either the window is open -
which is about another 17 minutes - or until you
feel certain that neither one of them can be
acquired to support a JOP 13. Over.
259 14 32 52 SPT Wilco.
259 lh 57 55 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for
about 8 minutes. Over.
CC And for the SPT, we see the STAR TRACKER, SHUTTER,
OPEN at this time, in the middle of the dump, and
we'd like to get it cl sed.
SPT Okay. I had forgotten about the dump. I was
still trying to lock on to Altair and - and
Antares. But, of course, it wouldn't have -
naturally it wouldn't work because of the dump.
I'll close it now.
CC Okay. Did you have any success in locking onto
either one of those stars? Over.
SPT Negative. I was hopeful we'd have a little more
luck here at night, but of course with this dump
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ENABLED, why there would 't be any chance to do
that. There is another chanc to do it at night
when the GG DUMP is INHIBITED, say before we
start a Z-LV o something like that. It might be
worth another ry. Although I haven't noticed
any difference in performance between day and
night.
CC I don't think it's worth any further effort on
this particular combination of stars. We've had
some conversation in the control room since I
last talked to you, and it may be possible to re-
compute the maneuver for a different roll about
the Z-axis and go with a different pair of stars
that are a little brighter. And I suspect we're
going to be working along those lines. Over.
SPT Okay. That sounds great. Okay, I'll go ahead
and re-enable the Nu Z update.
259 14 59 40 CC Okay. In reference your uestion last night for
INCO, about the tape recorder dump that inter-
rupted your message to the people at Goddard, the
data voice tape recorder was dumped commencing
at 03:20 plus 30 Z, until 03:25 plus 19. So we
estimate that approximately the last 5 minutes
of your message was interrupted. Over.
SPT Okay. Understand that, Bruce. Now, somehow or
other, I got a message yesterday that indicated
that by some other - Oh, yes, I remember now.
They said they switched tape recorders and that,
therefore, he whole message had actually been
received even though the tape recorder light went
out. Now does that make sense to you today?
CC Stand by, please.
259 15 01 49 CC SPT, Houston. We're going to look for that in-
formation. We're not certain the exact configura-
tion that the system was in when you were making
you message to Goddard. If you - If it's a high
priority thing or there's any rush about it, pro-
bably the best thing to do would be to re-record
it and let us take it from there. Over.
259 15 02 13 SPT Okay. It was just a sort of a lengthy one. I
had talked along for almost about i0 minutes
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there. So I hated to spend the time to re-record
that unless it was necessary. Now, I - I did want
to get an answer to that problem, if they had
some comments, before the end of the mission. So
there was some priority associated with it. I
remember the wording that was used yesterday,
and they said they had redesignated tape recorders,
if that makes it any more clear. And I hadn't
been aware that - that would turn out the tape
recorder light. But yesterday was when the mes-
sage came up that the whole thing that I'd sent
down on channel A had been received.
CC Roger. We're looking into that. We will be
dumping the data voice tape rec rder this pass,
and we're looking for the CDR for a minute, please.
SPT Okay, he can read you down in the wardroom.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. During your first EREP run today, EREP 33,
on the C&D pad, we would like to get some addi-
tional monitor meter readings. If you've got
your pad out, I can tell you wher and what we
want.
CDR kay. Let me get it. I's right up by EREP. Hold
on .
CDR Go ahead.
259 15 04 13 CC Okay, Alan. At time of 15:40:36 - that's 40:36 -
we'd like to get monitor readings on Alfa l,
Bravo l, Charlie 1. And if Alfa 1 and Bravo 1
are not on scale, we would like Bravo zero and
Delta 9 instead. Over.
CC Copy, CDR?
CDR Roger. I was Just writing it down. So that's
time 53:40.
CC Right. 15:40:36. On your pad it'll be 40:36.
And at time of 46:00, w would like to get readings
on Alfa l, and Bravo l, with the same alternate
Bravo zero, Delta 9, if they're not on scale. Over.
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CDR Just a minute. I didn't put that down in the
right place On my pad, it would read 40:36.
Is that correct for th first one?
CC That's correct.
CC MPC ROLL and CONTROL switges - switches to
INHIBIT when someone gets a chance to the ATM
panel, please.
CDR Did it. Okay, now I got the one just then, the
first one, which you said, 40:36. Now give me
CC Okay. That's 46:00. We want readings again
on lfa i and Bravo i, with Bravo zero and
Delta 9 as the alternates if the former are not
on scale.
259 15 06 46 CDR Problem is, I had trouble finding the time by
the time you'd given the message. Now let me see
if l've got it right. 46:00's the time. We look
at Alfa i and Bra o i again. If they're not on
scale, we give you Bravo zero and Delta 9 again,
or it's two different ones?
CC That's correct. And there are two times involved,
40:36 and 46:00. Okay - -
CDR Got it.
259 15 07 15 CC Okay, 15 seconds until LOS. Next station contact
in about 8 minutes - about 4 minutes. Honeysuckle
Creek at 15:11. We'll call you there.
259 15 09 36 CC S ylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for
about a minute and a half. A couple of quick
comments for the upcoming EREP pass. For the
SPT, we would like you to delete the last ETC
photo sequence at 16:02. We'll cover it with the
191 DAC photos. Over.
SPT Just a minute.
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259 15 l0 05 CC And for the CDR, a couple of more comments with
respect to S193A. We're particularly interested
today in hearing if the READY light goes out at
any time when it should not, or if the ALTIMETER
UNLOCK light comes on at any time during the
operation of SIgBA. For your information, the
193A READY light should come on when you put
193A to ON, and stay on until the end of the
mode. If you - We're going LOS here, it sounds
like. We'll see you over Corpus Christi at
15:41, 15_i at Corpus Christi.
259 15 ii 27 CC Skylab, Houston. Back again through Honeysuckle.
We see the TACS enabled, maneuver time loaded,
and they are both good. Over.
SPT Okay, that's fine, Bruce. And I've deleted
everything after the power OFF at 15 - 56:08 on
my pad.
CC Ro er. And is the CDR copying my comments about
the READY and UNLOCK lights on 193A?
SPT Affirmative.
259 15 12 43 CC Skylab, Houston; going LOS again. We'll see you
through Corpus Christi at 15:41 or in about
29 minutes or so.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-CROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
259 15 41 03 CDR B-0 is 9. D-9 is - 8.
259 15 41 29 CDR Looking for 41:46 for a MODE SINGLE. I'll turn
the POWER OFF and recycle these cameras, okay?
41:h6, MODE SINGLE coming up.
259 15 l_l46 CDR MARK. We gave it one.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. With you for about
16 minu es through Texas and Bermuda. Out.
CDR 42:40, we're standing by for a READY ON. Okay,
A-l, 39 percent; B-l, 44 percent; C-l, 4 percent;
and I've read B-0, which was 9; and D-9, which
was 8, anyhow.
CC Okay, thank you.
259 15 42 42 CDR Okay.
CDR READY, ON; REFERENCE, 6.
259 15 42 52 CDR A to STANDBY.
259 15 43 01 CDR 43, SHUTTER SPEED, MEDIL_. Read A-2 and C-4.
A-2 is 55; C-4 is 71.
259 15 43 ii CDR 193A to MODE i; RANGE, 61. Standing by for
43:30. Malfunction light to FILM MALFUNCTION
on camera 6, but, of course, it counted off
correctly while ago.
259 15 43 30 CDR MODE, AUTO on 190.
259 15 43 39 CDR MODE to READY on 192. TAPE RECORDER looks good.
ALTIMETER UNLOCK LIGHT i not on.
259 15 44 l0 CDR MODE to CHECK.
259 15 44 38 CC And Skylab, Houston. We've looked at the
maneuver time you have loaded; looks good to us.
PLT Thank you, Bruce.
259 15 45 00 CDR READY out on 190. Stand y; for FRAMES, 40.
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Standing by for 46, when I'ii read something to
you. I'm cycling the power on 190. Okay.
PLT Okay, I got the first site.
CDR Standing by for A-I readout - -
PLT l'm tracking the first site, Bruce.
PLT Scattered clouds down there.
PLT P05S, we got right on the pipper. Green vegetation
along the river bank. Okay, now we're going up
to - beach
5 4 percent.
PLT Tracking the beach, Bruce.
CDR B-0 is i0 percent; D-9 is 8 percent.
CC Roger; we copy. Thank you.
CDR Okay. Last of the readouts.
PLT Okay, now we got the third. We're in the backup
sight, Laguna Mare A, [sic] Laguna Madre. Getting
a little bit of the breskers offshore
259 15 46 45 PLT Okay, that's it. We got it, Bruce.
CC Good show, Jack.
PLT First site today.
CDR Sure is right.
259 15 46 54 PLT Okay, looks like it's nadir swath time coming
up - at 4 :40.
259 15 47 09 CDR 90 to AUTO.
PLT Why don't you take some data at Cowtrap Lake? 0_ay,
I'k taking data at - Oops, we just had to leave it.
We're going back to nadir swath, now, when the time
comes.
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259 15 47 34 CDR 47:45 is A ON.
259 15 47 43 PLT 0aky, we're nadir swathing.
259 15 47 _5 CDR A is ON.
PLT Not many clou s over land, Bruce.
259 15 48 09 CDR ALTI_4ETER UNLOCK light is on. No other lights
except the FILM MALFUNCTION 6. 48:20 MODE to READY.
92 is in READY.
PLT Okay, we didn't get any cumulus clouds over land.
They Just weren't there, Bruce.
CDR ALTIMETER, still unlocked.
PLT That's -
259 15 48 37 PLT MARK. End of the nadir swath.
CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK remains unlock.
259 15 14932 CC And for CDR, is the READY light on the ALTIMETER
still on?
CDR The READY's off.
CC Did it go off at the same time the UNLOCK light
came on?
CDR I didn't, I didn't - Just a second, Bruce. I got
something going.
25 15 49 48 CDR OKay, intervalometer, i0. didn't catch i , Bruce.
I don't know.
CC Okay.
CDR The minute I turned A ON, the light -
259 15 50 19 CDR Okay, we're now in CHECK on 92.
CC Be with you now through Bermuda. Next time you
operate the altimeter in a few minutes, here, we'd
like you to pay particular attention to both of those
lig ts, if the UNLOCK light comes on.
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CDR Will do, will do, Bruce. Sorry.
CC How about another A-I, B-I reading?
CDR Okay, how about one? How about A-I being 39.5, and
B-I being 44. Going to STANDBY here in a
second- or two.
259 15 51 15 CDR Okay, STANDBY right now. Now, I'm going to come
back on at 51:30. Both are off. Both lights are
off. And I'll have 45 seconds to watch them.
PLT I thi k I got Delaware Bay.
CDR It's -
259 15 51 30 CDR MARK. It's on. READY light's on. UNLOCK light
is out.
PLT I think I've got Dela are Bay here, Bruce. Taking
some data on the flatlands. When it gets to zero,
we'll nadir swath across Delawa e Bay.
259 15 51 48 CDR ALTIMETER UNLIGHT [sic] light is on. READY light
is still on. So both lights are on at the moment.
That's the way, sort of, I remember that the little
READY stayed on all the time, anyhow. Alti - now
the READY Just went out. ALTIMETER UNLOCK's still
on.
CDR Still the same.
259 15 52 17 CDR Okay, READY. I'm in READY for 90 - 192.
259 15 52 27 CDR READY out; ALTIMETER UNLOCKED. I must have gone
through a sequence, I guess.
259 15 52 38 CDR How far off track were you for Delaware, Jack?
PLT Oh, about 20 to the right. Okay, nOw another
nadir swath at 03:19. Got - Find the site. Okay,
Bruce, I got a site there; 615A, I got that one, too.
CC We copy.
PLT Kind of hazy down there, but I can see it.
PLT And I got a little nadir on 425, too. Not as much
as I w nted because I had to get off.
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CC Roger, Jack.
PLT So in s1,_mary, we got 305 south, 308, 307, 314.
CDR Going to 20.
PLT A little bit on 425, and a good one on 615 Alfa.
Standing by for a swath; it's a long ways off.
And we got that nadir swath at 47:40. Although
there weren't clouds down there, Just a few
little puffy scattered things now and then, and
we got t em, anyway.
259 15 54 28 PLT Maneuver at 16:08. Long time.
CC Request another A-I, B-I when you get a chance,
Al.
259 15 54 34 CDR All right. I will in just a few seconds. A-1
is 39, and B-1 is 44. Okay, we go READY, or
CHECK, I'm sorry.
259 15 54 47 CDR CHECK on 192. Standing by for A to STANDBY again.
259 15 55 O0 CDR to STANDBY, MODE to 5; RANGE, 65. Okay, we
ot that. I'll watch A when it comes on here
again and tell you what's new. A-l, B-1. A-1
is about 46; B-l's about 53, ight now. 55:30,
standing by for it.
259 15 55 30 CDR A's ON. READY is on. ALTIMETER UNLOCK, out.
PLT Six - and 18 minutes. Now we're out over the blue.
259 1 55 49 CDR ALTIMETER UNLOCK, on; READY, on. ALTIMETER UN-
LOCK and READY continue o . When I call d
it, that's when it came on; right then.
259 15 56 12 CDR READY, out on 193. ALTIMETER UNLOCK on, still.
Same s quence at last time. A-l, 40; B-l, 44.
259 15 56 27 CDR READY light out on 190; MODE, STANDBY, SHUTTER
SPEED, SLOW, FRAMES, 03.
CDR Going to blow too much there, are we?
CDR A-I, 40 percent; B-I, 44 percent.
SPT Sixty-one frames on the ETC.
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CC Roger, Owen; 61 frames on the ETC. One minute
to LOS. Next station contact through Madrid in
5 minutes at 16:02. Out.
CDR 01@. 01@, amigo. Adios. Standing by for 59:50.
PLT Good hunting today.
CDR Sounded like it.
PLT Right on. Not bad weather down there at all.
CDR The altimeter doesn't seem to be working, it goes
through a kind of a sequence, and then it unlocks
and that's it.
CC We think - we think it never locks on, A1. We're
reaching the same conclusion, though.
CDR That's what I mean -Right, it Just hops around
for a while, and then finally, it says that's it.
PLT Got the right altitude in ther, eh?
CDR Well, I've -
CC Yes, it looks good to us.
CDR Yes.
PLT I know you do. I just thought it seemed like a
little short, the numbers. But -
CDR 59:50.
259 16 02 23 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid, with you
for 6-1/2 minutes. You may get a TACS fired
CDR Okay, we're going to go inhibit that caution and
warning, then.
CC Okay.
259 16 02 55 CDR Oka , it's inhibited. Yes, we appreciate knowing
about those; it saves excitement in the end, there,
right in the middle of when we're trying to do this.
259 16 03 20 PLT MARK. DAC, on.
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259 16 03 30 PLT Okay, there's scattered clouds down there. Some
big ones and some little ones. Underneath that
s lots of blue.water. Every once in a while,
we hit some clouds. And then every once in a
while, again, we hit some water - you might expect.
Looks like the clouds are getting a little more
predominate.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. For your information on 193, the angles
A-I and B-I should be 56 and 57. That's corres-
sponding to minus 0.6 degrees and minus 0.7 degrees.
These are not correlating with the - the coarse
angles that you've been reading us off B-0 and
D-9; and we also see the antenna wandering. So
that Just lets you know what we think the status
of the antenna drive is for the altimeter. Over.
CDR Sounds kind of grim.
CC Yes, it does. And after you all start the
maneuver back to SI, here, t 16:08, I believe,
we'd like you to enter the maneuver time for the
next Z-LV maneuver as rapidly as is convenient
so we can watch it before we o over the hill.
e've only got about a minute - or a minute a d
a qu rter between s arting a maneuver back to
SI and LOS here at Madrid.
259 16 04 51 CDR I'll give Jac my pad, and he can do it right
after he goes.
CC Okay.
CDR There is the m d. And it's a 37 - 34-minute
maneuver time - 42 lockup.
PLT Okay.
CC That's Charlie.
CDR No, everything's okay. We'll do it for you.
Keep us out of trouble.
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259 16 05 07 PLT 651. We're nadir swathing. Now we're getti g
some good cloud coverage. Just what we're after
Looks like mostly high stuff, kind of whispy
cirrus, only it's fairly _mmense. And there's
some scattered, small cumulus clouds underneath
them.
259 16 05 38 CDR MODE READY on 92.
PLT We're almost ut of DAC here, Bruce.
CC Roger. We copy. I don't know what we can do
about it in the middle of a pass, though.
PLT Well, I'm thinking about it for the next pass.
Actually, it ays it's got h0 percent, but the
last one ran out about 30. And I don't tru t
that little measuring device too much. Last
time it was 9ull, it didn't read full either.
259 16 06 17 CDR MODE, AUTO.
PLT Okay, 651 coming up here. Got some cons down
there we t ok data across, too. Oh my goodness!
We're coming over land.
259 16 06 45 CDR STANDBY on 92.
PLT Boy, look at the cons down there. Wonder if
that's Ireland?
259 16 06 51 CDR REFERENCE, 2.
259 16 06 52 PLT MARK. DAC, OFF.
CDR READY, out in 7 minutes, it says here.
PLT Couldn't have been. We must be v r France al-
ready.
259 16 07 06 CDR MODE, MANUAL. 07:50, I've got to do a VTS AUTO
CAL.
PLT Be my guest.
CDR And you've got about 50 seconds to maneuver.
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PLT Yes, I'm going to - going to - -
CDR Keep floa ing there.
PLT - - amble on back in this direction.
CDR 07:50.
PLT Getting ready to punch the SI button.
CDR Tha England we just passed over?
PLT I think it's France.
CDR No, the water's too wide. I wonder what i_ was?
PLT Well, on the map there, it looks like it was
France; maybe it's somewhere else.
PLT Okay, eight coming up.
259 16 0T 51 CDR A AUTO CAL.
CDR Got an SI maneuver coming off in seconds.
259 16 03 00 PLT 8, 9, SI.
259 16 08 O1 PLT MARK. No mibs.
CDR No mibs;
PLT Okay, now Bruce wants to look at thi . Maneuver
time: CLEAR, 52030; Check, ENT R/in; CLEAR,
50042; check, ENTER/in; CLEAR.
PLT How do you like that, Bruce?
299 16 08 30 CC Okay, maneuver time you've loaded is good. We're
about 40 seconds to LOS. Next station contact
is Honeysuckle at 16:48 in about 40 minutes.
And if you run out of DAC film next pass, CX08,
Charlie X-ray 08 out of India 8, is the magazine
to use. I suggest that, perhaps, y u want to
put it in your pocket and have it on hand, any-
way during the run so you can swap out if you
need to. Over.
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259 16 08 56 PLT Yes, sir. That's a good idea, Bruce; thank you.
India 8 for CX08.
CC Roger; out. And in passing, for the SPT, as we
go over the hill, we believe that we have his
entire conversation regarding the message to
Goddard. What they did is they brought up one
of the experiment tape recorders and got the
voice on it; it was dumped down later. We're
trying to track it down and piece it together.
SPT Okay, thank you, Bruce.
259 16 09 23 CC And in that case, the REA Y light would have
gone out because you did not change the
designation. _
259 16 48 46 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for
a minute and a half. We see you've st rted the
Z-LV maneuver and the m neuver time you've
oaded looks g od. Over.
259 16 49 12 PLT Okay, Bruce; we copy. Thanks.
CC Okay, Jack. And for you, since you're going to
be operating the C&D panel this pass, we've got
a couple of comm nts, if you're ready to copy.
PLT Well, let me get my pad.
CC Okay, we have 1 minute to LOS. Next station
contact is in 28 minutes through Goldstone at
17:17.
CC For the CDR.
PLT Okay, Bruce, go ahead.
CC O ay, Jack, we're going to operate S193 altimeter
as scheduled on the pad this pass. Periodically,
while it's running, we'd like to get two sets of
readouts. The sets areAlfa l, Delta 9, and
Charlie zero. Second set: Bravo l, Bravo zero,
and Delta zero. We'd like to get the readings
as a set for time correlation between the angle
on fine and coarse and the torque or motor
currents. Over.
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16 50 20 PLT Okay, Alfa i, Delta 9, Charlie zero; Bravo i,
Bravo zero, Delta zero. Right?
CC Roger. And for the SPT, the times are off by
2 hours in your ETC pad. We figured you could
probably handle that okay anyway. Standing by
for the CDR.
CDR Okay, standing by for you.
CC Yes, if you ha e to change over to CX08 magazine
during your VTS run today we want to change the
shutter speed to 1/60th; that's 1/60. Over.
CDR Okay, understand.
CC And I think we're losing you now. We'll talk
to you over Goldstone. Out.
259 16 51 00 CDR Okay.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
259 17 17 01 PLT MARK. AUTO CAL. Charlie h. Alfa 2 is
50 percent. Charlie 4 is 71 percent.
CC Sk lab, Houst n.
259 17 17 22 PLT READY, the READY light is out on the ALTIMETER
- 193 ALTIMETER. The READY light's out I notice.
I didn't know exactly when it went out. It is
out now.
259 17 17 33 CC Skylab, Houston. With you for about 17 minutes
- or about 9 minutes through Corpus Christi and
Goldstone. And if CDR has a minute, could he
peak outside and see what the position of the
193 A - Alt - 193 antenna is?
CDR He most certainly can. He can go to window 1.
259 17 17 49 PLT Okay. 1R3, ALTIMETER, I put ON. The READY
light and ALTIMETER lock - UNLOCKED light came
on together, Bruce. And subsequen ly, I don't
know exactly what time the READY light went
out. And Alfa l, at the moment, is reading
39 percent. Delta 9 is reading 7 percent.
Charlie 0 is 2 p rcent.
259 17 18 13 CDR I would say the altimeter's centered in roll,
and pointed 45 degrees down from the X-axis to-
wards the plus Y - or correction, plus - or
minus Z, that is. So it's the same thing I
called the stowed position the other day.
259 17 18 30 PLT And Br vo l, for your info, is reading 4h percent.
Bravo 0 is reading 57 percent, and Delta 0 is
reading off-scale low.
CDR Did you copy, Bruce?
CC Yes, I did, A1. We're not sure we understand
you. Is it pointed out along the minus Z-axis?
Over.
CDR It's pointed part way that way. It's halfway
between the minus Z and the plus X.
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CC So it's pointed sort of - at its forward limit.
CDR I don't - I don't know. Because the other day,
when it would move forward, it moved much
closer to the X-axis.
CC Okay. We copy. But it's about _5 degrees
forward of the min s Z.
CDR That's exactly right. Once again, you said it
right.
259 17 19 20 CC It's not a matter of right. I'm Just trying to
make sure we understand what we re saying to
each other.
CDR No, that's what I mean. That's precisely what
I mean. We communicated.
PLT Okay, we ought to get a 191 READY light here
moment ar ily.
259 7 19 39 PLT MARK. It's on.
CDR We're now crossing Baja California. Okay.
259 17 19 h3 CDR MARK. There's the coastline. We can look
down - -
259 17 19 46 PLT MARK - -
CC Okay.
PLT - - ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
CC And, CDR, it should have been pointing right
motion in the antenna?
CDR None. It's stationary; as if it were parked.
PLT Okay, we're going to go to ALTIMETER, ON in a
minute here.
CDR We're now crossing - -
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259 17 20 01 PLT MARK - -
CDR - - the upper ... of BaJa ...
PLT - - ALTIMETER, ON. I got a READY light, and
the UNLOCK light is out now, Bruce.
CDR I gather we couldn't get any true sites at
Phoenix. Is that the lastest word?
CC That 's affirmative.
259 17 20 14 PLT MARK. MODE to AUTO on 190.
CDR Okay. Well, i was under the - it would've
been awfully close, - -
PLT Stand by.
CDR - - anyway. So I'll Just look out and watch
them - -
259 17 20 21 PLT MARK.
CDR - - and go after the ...
PLT MODE to READY on 192. Record Alfa 2 and
Charlie 4.
CDR We're now in Mexico again, gentlemen.
259 17 20 27 PLT TAPE MOTION light is doing it's right thing.
CDR In Just a mnment we'll be out of Mexico and in
New Mexico.
PLT Alfa 2 is 4_ percent, which is a little bit low.
CDR Phoenix is clear. I can see sites by the bunch.
PLT Charlie 4 is 70 percent.
CDR I will refrain from taking them, though.
PLT Charlie 4 is 70 percent.
CDR Phoenix is clear.
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PLT And that's good for Chsrlie 4.
CDR Be a good day to get some sites, but I guess,
we can't get them. We Just passed over the
first site. I think it's number - -
PLT Are you ready for another set of readouts,
Bruce?
CDR - - 240.
CC Go, Jack.
259 17 21 00 PLT Okay. I want to give you Alfa 1 to be 39 percent;
Delta 9 to be 7 percent; Charlie 0 is reading
2 percent; Bravo 1 s 4h percent; Bravo 0 is
l0 percent; and Delta 0 is off-scale low.
Okay, 21:46 my next -
CDR We're looking for ... here.
PLT Get the tape burner off here.
259 17 21 37 PLT And 193A is riJnning with the READY light off and
un - the ALTIMETER UNLOCK light on now, Bruce.
CDR Looking for 22:50.
259 17 21 46 PLT MARK. MODE to CHECK on 192.
CDR One minute from now, we're going to be in the
right place.
PLT TAPE MOTION light did its right thing.
CDR We've got scattered clouds, scattered to broken.
PLT How are you doing down there, Big 0.?
SPT Great.
PLT Got your door open?
SPT Natch [sic].
PLT Attaboy.
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CDR 22:50 is what we're looking for. Move in a
little b t. I don't like to be full back right
now It's hard to see anything down there full
back. We're looking for 22:50.
PLT Okay, that's pretty soon, A1, 25 seconds.
CDR Okay. Scattered to broken clouds. It's going
to be a tossup ...
PLT I'll hit the cloud switch for you.
CDR Okay.
PLT Zap.
CDR I see the mountains coming up. 240 I've got it
in sight right now.
CC PLT, this is Houston. Request 193, A to OFF
and leave it OFF.
259 17 22 49 PLT Okay, it's OFF. And I'll leave it OFF, no more
readings.
CDR Okay, we got the site. And we're now going to
take some data in a minute.
PLT INTERVALS to l0 in a minute there.
CDR We are right in the center of the site.
PLT That's the way to hit it, A1 baby, right in
the sandpile.
CDR Right in the sandpile.
PLT Yes. Right in the snoot.
CDR Somebody must be taking groundtruths down there.
259 17 23 l0 PLT MARK. INTERVALS to i0. We're going to go to
READY again with this little switch right here.
CDR And we're 32 up. I'm going to find the most
uniform place. Just hold it Sight here.
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259 17 23 26 PLT MARK. MODE to READY.
CDR And that's a very interesting place.
PLT MALF light on the recorder, TAPE MOTION light
back on. Boy, I thought t was going to stay
off there for a minute.
CDR Twenty degrees out ...
PLT Okay, do you want me to get the ALTIMETER to
STANDBY and ON. Right?
CC Negative. ALTIMETER to OFF.
259 17 23 39 PLT It's off and left off. And next motion is 192.
Okay?
CDR We're taking multiple datas [sic].
CDR Get her -
PLT - - down toward the end.
CDR We're right over ... - -
PLT Just a little bit of Jittering when you've got
the tape burner _mning.
259 17 24 04 CDR A minus l0 degrees now. Everything's running
along Just perfect. Minus 15. Then it's 20.
Minus 26. That's it. CAMERA, OFF. We didn't
run out of film. Got the site. Everything else
is okay. And I've got to mmke this thing at 29.
That's just a little time to get rganized.
You all seem o like the - -
PLT Standing by for STANDBY on 192.
CDR - - time so we won't worry about that one.
259 17 24 52 PLT MARK. STANDBY on 192. Okay, standing by for
INTERVALS, 20.
259 17 25 09 PLT MARK. INTERVALS to 20 on 190.
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CDR I'ii go over and check the old antenna again
for you while we wait.
PLT Say Bruce, in doing the warmups on the 194, I
put the switch to STANDBY instead of all the
05, and I put in on ON that time - at that time,
and then I waited around for the READY light
to come on before I did a MODE to MANUAL. And
it came on after its normal start time and so
I did a MODE MANUAL. And so it started taking
data after its calibrate, Just a little bit later
than is in the pad. So When that 19_ guy looks
at his data, that's what happened.
CC Roger, Jack. Hey, STANDBY and ON on that
particular experiment are exactly the s_me. It
makes no difference.
PLT All right, just t e light wasn't on. I did a
MANUAL on the right time. And so it's working
okay then.
CDR Also, I just checked the old antenna, and it's
still in the - what we call the stowed position
up here; _5 degrees forward of the plus-Z, -
correction, minus-Z.
CC Okay, we copy t at, A1.
PLT I remember that ittle piece of data now,
Bruce. T ank you for bringing that to my
attention.
CDR Refreshing your mind. Want clouds, you're
getting them. I'll say that for you.
259 17 27 09 CDR Two minutes, I've got to go into the SI MODE.
PLT Right.
CDR You' e f_liar with the SI MODE?
CC Okay, about B0 seconds to a 1-minute dropout.
Handing over to Bermuda.
PLT All right.
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259 17 27 31 PLT MARK. 190 READY light out right on time.
And we're at STANDBY. 27:50, skip. 28, next.
CDR 27:50, that was it. We don't have to worry;
we got a maneuver coming off at 29.
259 17 28 01 PLT MARK, REF, 2 on 191. 19h, MODE to MANUAL.
CDR The last one may have run out at a different
time, Jack, because we were misreading It.
Remember how we were misreading them by
20 percent?
PLT What was that, Al?
CDR These DAC films?
PLT Did it run out?
CDR No.
259 17 28 50 PLT MARK. AUTO CAL.
Sl_f ...
CDR I think he's not in contact, Big 0.
CDR ... you're cc_ing back.
CC Send your message.
CDR How about the message: we're headed for SI?
CC Beautiful.
PLT Do recorder depleton.
PLT Do we have any more 190 film to load up here,
Bruce?
CC Let me check on that for you.
CC PLT, on the 190 film, negative. We are on the
last s t of film.
PLT Ooh, boy.
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CC Wh do you say that?
PLT I was afraid of that.
CC Are we out?
PLT No, but we've m_de two passes with it.
CC Okay, well, that's - Yes, we're a_are of that;
and we're worrying about that problem down here.
PLT I thought you were. I Just wanted to make sure
that I hadn't overlooked some that's laying
around somewhere. That was consistent with
my inventory as well.
CC Roger. And I guess we're standing by for a
eport from the SPT on how many ETC frames he
took.
259 17 30 16 SPT 40.
CC Thank you, 0wen. And for your information, the
last EREP tape recorder tape load will be done
this afternoon, also. Over.
PLT That's the ast one, huh?
CC Yes, sir.
PLT Boy.
CC Hey, but also, we've got a a virgin tape on the
other tape recorder, which we will try to use in
s equenc e.
PLT And you're sure that's the only other one we got,
huh?
CC Well, after you've changed it out this afternoon,
you should have two recor ers, each loaded with
tape.
PLT Okay.
259 17 31 02 PLT Okay, I'm waiting for a READY light on 191 to
terminate AUTO CAL; 2 minutes and 3 seconds.
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259 17 31 29 PLT MARK. Two seconds early on it. Okay, but that's
all right. And we're going to go to STOP now
and then we're going to run this beauty out.
Now - the post checklist says to do this:
voice recorder B-7 to my friend, Bruce, down
there. And that is reading 31 percent. DOOR
CLOSED. W it for the light. We're going to
close this here 190 window. You will latch it
when I get it closed, please. It's latched -
it's closed and now it's latched. Very well.
Door switch U_'F. Thank you, EHEP _'olks, for
listening to all this.
259 17 32 ll PLT And then we're going to go off the headset,
Bruce. But don't fail to give us a call.
259 17 33 00 CC Okay, Jack. And we thank you for running the
equipment up there; and in fact, all of you for
running the EREP passes so that we can (
a
) lis-
ten, and (b) get the dat
a
down here.
SPT ...
259 17 33 15 CC Yes, we had a dropout there for a keyhole at
Bermuda. We're back with you now. We'll be
dumping the data voice tape recorder at Madrid.
LOS in about 1 inute. Madri at 17:39. which
is 6 minutes from now.
259 17 39 29 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for 9
minutes, dumping the data voice tape recorder.
Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce. It's all yours. Two items one
on business. Was looking up in the - with a
flashlight up through the 190 cameras today.
And you can see up in there through four of the
filters, two of them are too dark to see. But
I noticed on some of the inner lenses, that -
perhaps it's something you already knew all about.
But it looks like there's a whole lots little,
very fine particles or imperfections or something
in the - in the lenses on the ones that I was
able to see. And I don't know how to describe
it to you other than that. It looks like lots
of little dust particles way inside near the
capping shutters, but it could be in the glass
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in the lens, too, I suppose, so I just thought
I'd pass that along for info. And one other
nonbusiness item is I'd like to place a call to
my wife and family this evening, please. And
the same for A1 Bean.
259 17 40 37 CC Okay. Could you tell us which camera stations
were associated with the observed dust particles
and stuff?
PLT All of them except for the two filters I couldn't
see through, but I'll go and take a look to make
sure which ones those are. ut I'm guessing
that if I took the filters off of those and looked
in, that I would see a lot of that in there, too.
I did take one filter off to see - just to verify
that it wasn't on the outside lens where it could
be brushed away, and sure enough, it wasn't. It
was - appeared to be on the interior.
CC Okay. We copy and understand you'd like a phone
call and the CDR, also. Is that - -
PLT Say again.
CC Understand phone call for the PLT and for the
CDR.
PLT That s affirm, Bruce. And we're checking the
Big O. right now.
SPT Looks like I got a lot of time tonight, Bruce.
So go ahead and see if there's an open pass for
me, also.
CC Okay. And I guess you're probably getting ready
to eat lunch. And while you're at it, we'd like
to serve you up a little "b,lmhle pie," here,
with respect to your - the problem with the tape
recorders. As it turns out, we did not get the
last 5 minutes of your conversation put on the
tape recorder intended for the folks up at Goddard.
What happened is that you came into he range of
a site while you were recording, nd we should've
sent a data voice recorder stop command, noticed
that the recorder had not stopped, and gathered
from this that you were recording on that unit,
and then designated - turned on the EXPERIMENT i
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recorder, which also records voice, while we were
dumping the data voice recorder. We did not do
that. We just commanded a dump on the data voice
recorder and discovered that after the dump was
completed that you'd been ecording on it. So
we lost that 5 minutes of the information you were
putting on, but your understanding of the way the
system works, that we should've started another one,
is perfectly correct. Over.
259 17 42 47 SPT Okay. It's Just that I don't remember what I had
on t the beginning to the end. I'll Just try to
repeat most of that again. Thank you, Bruce.
CC Okay. The last stuff that we got runs something
li e this: "And then the blue layer, and the
whitish layer above that, and then bla k. I don't
seam to have it on this sheet of paper, but atmany
times I felt as me_uy as three or four of these
white-blue transitions above the first tra sition
from boring into the white. And so these fans, as
near as I can tell, it - most of those are - are.
And they look very much like that photograph that
you provided us with. Now we stopped see ng, and
if when you look around to your right, say during
the light scattering" - end of tape.
SP Okay. I know what I was doing at that point. I'll
repeat that latter part. Thank you.
259 17 43 34 CC Okay. Sorry about that.
25
9
17 46 l0 CDR Are you in experiment pointing?
259 17 47 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1-1/2 minutes to LOS.
Next station contact is through Honeysuckle -
through Honeysuckle Creek at 18:24. And for the
PLT, we noticed by telemetry that the COOL light
on the M518 facility has come on. At your con-
venience, if you can go -I_ad and atart M561 early,
it would probably help us out. Over.
PLT Okay, I think there must be a little disparity with
the tel
e
metry then, Bruce. I'm watching the tem-
perature. The amber light is on, but the first
COOL light is not yet on, which comes around about
46 or 47, and it's sitting at 49. And since you've
given me the option to do that, I will go ahead
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and make that change as soon as the first COOL
light ccmes which will, I'm sure, a little earlier
than we had planned. Thank you.
259 17 47 55 CC Okay, thank you.
259 18 24 41 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for
6 minutes. Out.
259 18 24 53 PLT Roger, Bruce.
259 18 28 55 PLT Say, Bruce, Just before t e end of the la t rev
fter EREP, we turned on monitor 1 on the ATM
panel and noticed that the image was oscillating
slightly and you could see horizontal lines in it.
And so we turned it back off and thought we'd
give it a rest. And I just turned it on now to
tart using it on our present ATM pass and it's
oing the same thing. And I was wondering if
anybody's got a little information on that down
there, or have a suggestion as to what we might
do to correct it.
CC Roger. You're looking at H-alpha?
PLT Yes, I'm looking at H-alpha 1. If you look on at -
if you look at it on the right scope where it
appears normally and every other display on
monitor 1 does the same thing, emhibits the sa-_
characteristics.
259 18 29 45 CC Okay, are you seeing apparently a full raster
with a little irregularity or Just a line across
the middle?
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259 18 2!) 53 PLT No, it's a fu l raster and it looks like lots of
little black streaks sweepi g across there at a
very fast rate. You can distinguish the Sun very
readily, however, although the - the image of the
Sun - it appears as though you're looking at the
Sun from on the ground. It looks as if the seeing
is bad, I guess you might say. It oscillates and
vibrates just a little bit. And then this
oscillation-vibr tion is particularly noticeable
about the periphery, as opposed to the center.
It - It com s n and out a little bit very rapidly.
CC Break, break. Skylab, this is Houston. Roger.
Secure MONITOR 1 until we get back to you. We
got 25 seconds to LOS. Next stati n contact
through Hawaii at 18:45, where we'll be standing
by to start the science conference; subject: AT .
Over.
PLT Okay, MON 1 secured. Thank you.
259 18 33 48 CC Roger.
259 18 46 24 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for
7 minutes. Standing by for the CDR and the SPT
on the ATM science conference. And I got Dr. Jim
Underwood of S056 down here to whom I will turn
it over now. Over.
SPT Okay, fine. And let's hear from you, Jim; and
Jack's in on this conference too, Bruce.
CC Yes, well, we don't want to distract him too much
from the ATM.
CDR Well, at the present rate of experiment production,
I think he can handle both jobs.
MCC Hi, Owen. On - The first item on the agenda is
questions from you. The backroom is copying, so
if you've got any questions, why don't you let me
have them. And then we'll have a chance to think
about them until Goldstone. Over.
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SPT Okay there, mate. Be happy to do that. And about
the only question I might have would relate to
your own experiment, there, Jim. Do you think
there's been any potential high temperatures
involved in your filter cycling motors there to
cause any damage to it? Or do you think that -
think that things are going to be safe enough for
the next flight? And also, looking at the agenda,
I think that item number 4 can probably be fairly
short, unless it pertains to our next week's
activity. And item number 5 on the pictures for
return, I think we'll try to bring back all of the
good ones since there really aren't all that many.
Over.
259 18 47 45 MCC Okay. Well, let me take the S056 item first. I
was going to get to that during the film budget,
but I'll treat it straight off; 56 has plenty of
film left, of course, but we're unable to use it
because the hangups are getting worse. We think
what's happening is that during the modes where the
film is being rapidly transported, like in the
active modes, it kind of winds up like a spring
until the force becomes to great for the motor to
move it, and the camera hangs up. This happens
because the film is drying out, and it gets a bit
stiff. And also, there's a clock in there which
is giving a little bit too much friction. We find -
we think that we find if the camera is allowed to
rest, the film relaxes and begins o unwind. A d
eventually, it's possible to move it again. Clos-
ing the airlock door lets the h11m_dity bui d up
and accelerates the process of relaxing the film.
For this r ason, we've decided to un only in
building block l's and shopping list items using
the SINGLE FRAME mode for the rest of this mission.
This way, the film gets plenty of time to est
between the exposures. We felt that the continual
reinitiating the camera during the ACTIVE 1 modes,
when we had a hangup, would give excess motor h at
and then might possibly eventually result in a
single point frame failure. But I don't think
that running in the building block l's and in t e
SINGLE FRAME modes poses any real hazard to the
instrument. Over. Is that adequate?
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259 18 49 08 SPT Yes, that - at least a good part of it. Now, in
building block l, do you mean only in JOP 6, build-
ing block l, or any time J0P 6 comes along? Would
a building block 2 also be appropriate? Or - I'd
appreciate if maybe on the teleprinter you'd be a
little more specific about just when you do want
it to run. And in the shopping list items. Also,
the way you've described t, it sounds like we
might be better off to be closing the airlock
door more frequently, and also to replace any of
the automatic modes by manual sequence in which e
cycle in the direction of 1 through 6, and not
backwards, so to av id the extra stepping. Do
either of those alternatives assist in any way?
Over.
MCC Well, we get the - we got the J0P 6. It's just
building block l's we want to run, and we don't
want to run any of the building block 2' s. We can
get this synoptic data from the shopping list
items, and we're particularly thinking about shopping
list items 13 and 19, the mini-limb scan. I don't
think if we run - if we run the - only building
block l's and the shopping list items, there will
be no ACTIVE modes. There's be PATROL modes and
I think i those patrol modes where you run PATROL
LONG at the beginning and the end of the day, and
PATROL MEDIUM - PATROL ORMAL and PATROL SHORT,
the film has time enough to rest, such that this
r laxing process would take place. And I don't
think there's any hazard. S I think if we run
building block l's as scheduled, that we'll be
okay.
SPT Okay. That sounds fine, Jim. And does it also
m an that the next camera is essentia ly a new
ballgame, and it could start out and be good for
the whole one; Just the way load number 2 was?
MCC That's affirmative. The camera - the cameras that
tes ed the most. And we e pect that the reload
should operate - the next camera as the least
testing, and sho ld operate better than any previous
camera. Over.
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SPT That sounds very good. Okay, that's about the
only question I ave. Maybe AI or Jack has some-
thing to ask.
MCC Go ahead, Jack.
SPT Why don't you pick up the next agenda, Jim?
259 18 51 15 MCC Okay. The next - the next thing on the agenda
was the _-limb coalignments, and I just wanted to
clear up some of the confusion that apparently
occurred on that. The first - there were tw
4-limb coalignments scheduled earlier this week.
The first one seemed to indicate there had been
a change of more than 5 arc seconds in the FINE
SUN SENSOR BIAS. And we wanted to verify this
and possibly identify a cause, if there was one,
because the FINE SUN SENSOR had been stable pre-
viously. There is no real worry about the experiment
as of - about this, because there was no significant
change in the relative alignment among the instru-
ments. However, when you did the second 4-limb
coalignment, the 82 engineers seem to think that
you left FINE SUN SENSOR BIAS switch in the IN
position during the second coalignment on day 255.
However, they figured out a way to verify that
there was, in fact, a 5 arc-second FINE SUN SENSOR
shift, and the cause is not yet known. They told
me not to worry about it because the 82 people
have all the data that they need. The 55 is happy,
too, and there is no change in relative alignments;
so essentially - you - you can consider that one
is - that they're happy right now.
259 18 52 27 SPT Okay, understand all of that. And I could very
well have left that bias switch in on the last one.
And the only other th ng that I'm a little puzzled
about, I'd pr fer to be on 0932 instead of 0933.
And if your alignment numbers look down - look
down there as if that's equally satisfactory, I'd
like to switch bac . I think we're biased a little
bit toward the 33 number on the basis of the way
the alignment procedures are written. And they re
based upon the 55 mirror triggering at about a
I0 or 15 percent ill1-,_nation point. And it's a
small detail, but I think 0932 is a little better.
Over.
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MCC Yes, it's okay to switch back. Right.
CC And we've got 30 seconds till LOS. Goldstone
in 3-1/2 minutes at 18:56, and I'll let Jim Just
keepl on talking here.
MCC Okay, the second-
PLT Go ahead, Jim.
MCC The next item is the flare indicators and the -
the 54 people, especially, wanted to - were very
interested in the remarks you made abou the flare
bright -the prefla e brightenings in H-alpha and
XUV MON. They're of great interest down here.
As Owen knows, Donnally at Boulder thinks EUV
precursor to a flare is frequently indicated on
some of the SFB [?] data. And 54 thinks that they
may have observed similar precursors on X-rays
on SL-2. And they are interesting, scientifically,
and also from the point of view of making an effi-
cient flare alarm system. So there is a couple of
questions that we'd like to ask regarding these -
so that we can perhaps train the S -4 crew to -
to look for these and help m__ke our flare detection
more efficient. And these questions are as follows.
O ay. It's coming up to LOS, I'll continue at
Goldstone, Owen.
259 18 54 03 PLT Okay, we still read all of that and - -
259 18 56 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for
7 minutes. How do you read?
CDR Loud and clear, Bruce. Let's go ahead, there, Jim.
MCC Okay. To continue with - -
PLT Bruce, do you still want the TV down-link?
CC Negative. Cancel the TV down-link over Goldstone.
We're still trying to dump the video tape recorder.
Out.
PLT Okay, thank you.
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MCC To continue wit the questions about the flare
precursors, we'd like to know if the brightenings
seem to occur before every flare or Just before
some of them. And if - if they don't occur before
every flare, about what percentage of flares have
precursors? And - -
SPT There's really no way for us to answer that well,
Jim, because there are many of them that we just
don't observe early enough. And just because you
didn't see it doesn't mean it wasn't there; it may
be that you weren't looking or were distracted by
the XU - the X-ray increase, or radio noise burst,
or your other activities at the panel. And so Just
because we didn't see it oesn't mean it wasn't
there. And I was trying, in the last couple of
minutes here, to think of a - really the best way
to establish their relative timing, and I don't
see any good way to do it unless there is a lot
more observing time available when there is a
high flare probability. And of course, that's
hard to Justify when we only have a very limited
number of observing hours. But unless you're
really standing around in - near the active regions,
or at least surveying the whole disk with nothing
to do but look for these initial phases, I don't
think we're goin to get an accurate answer to
that question. Over.
MCC Okay, I - I copy that. The other question is do
you get any brightenings which are a false alarm?
n fact, did you get the brightenings which re
not followed by a flare? Over.
SPT I would say negative. Anything th t we've
identified as really these very small but very
bright points in XUV, has always been a subflare
or larger.
MCC And the last question is the , do these brighten-
ings - do they merge into the flare, or do they
die away before it? Is it continuous or does it -
kind of discontinuous process? Over.
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SPT The one that I have seen will start as a small
bright point and then the lage ar und that point
will get brighter. But it'll be some time before
that bright point itself fades down away. And
although the plage surrounding it will get brighter,
it'll never come up to intensity of that bright
point, and it'll also usually be the brightest point
in H-alpha. But there's much more contrast in
XUV than there is in H-alpha. And the - It doesn't
just - Just merge together; it really is a distinct
point surrou ded by the brighter plage and brighter
activity. Over.
259 18 59 08 MCC Okay, thanks, Owen. I think that information will
be really useful for working out a flare program
for the next mission there. The next item is the
film budgets, and I'll start with 52; 52 is getting
a bit low on film. They have about 180 frames per
day left for the rest of the mission. General
message which is 5036A has been sent up, and this
requests that the continuous patrol be truncated
after 5 minutes in building block l; 52 is c tting
down on their usage of building block 2 in favor
of shopping list item 17. And they feel that way
the - the way the JOP is written on the J0P
S,..._ry S_eets, which is a truncated f st scan
taking 43 seconds, is an excellent way to fill in
the Sy optic program at a cost of only three or
four frames per performance. The combined trunca-
tion of building block l's and the use of shopping
list 17 will leave plenty of f_Sm for calibrations,
JOP 7, and coronal transients, should any occur.
SPT Okay, we understand that. And if there are
any changes to our building blocks or - or JOP S1-,m,_y
Sheets, why, we'll get those by teleprinter, I'm
sure °
MCC Okay, with regard to coronal transients, they're
very interested in seeing how the corona restruct ures
itself after the passage of
a
transient. And they're
very appreciative of your efforts in observing on
every orbit after a transient. They feel sure
you've got them some good data because the Skylab 2
data shows that the corona undergoes major reorgani-
zation after transients. One question that
Jack Gosling and the guys from 52 had was they're
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interested in this dark space that A1 saw between
the helmet streamers yesterday. Is there any more
comments on - on - on that that you can let us
have? They'd like to know how long - how long it
was and how long it lasted, whether you saw it fade
away or anything like tha .
CDR Jack saw it on the previous orbit. I saw it on
the next orbit and called him up and asked him to
look at the shape because the corona didn't - It
had a shape that I felt was unusual. He looked at
it and said it was the same. He pointed out the
dark spot. I looked at it at the end of the orbit
and it was the same dark spot and then next orbit
is the orbit we tasked about it. And I looked at it at
the end of the orbit. It was still there. And
I believe that was the last time I was on it. It
was a strange one and it just seem to stay at the
bright from abou l-l/2 radiuses out to about B,
and then after that it - it faded away. I mean
the - the envelope of white surrounding the dark.
259 19 O1 3_ PLT This is Jack talking. It was difficult to dis-
tinguish it from just the bent helmet streamer,
although it wa_ very m_ginal as to whether or
not it was anything of significance. And what we -
what I did on the first orbit there was to give you
three fast scans; one at the beginning, one in the
middle, and one at the end of the orbit And it
was about that time, I think that Hank called up
and wonder d if we'd seen anything in the past
lO minutes in the corona. And that was the nly
thing that I could call to - that I could think of
might be different, although it was so marginal
that I thought it could have been my imagination.
B t I felt we had it pretty well covered with the
photography that we took and then, like A1 says,
he watched it hereafter.
259 19 02 22 MCC Okay tbanks, gents. I'm sure the S - the 52 guys
will be interested in what you've told them there.
Now go on with the f_Im budget to 5h; 54 is, as
you know, low on film and they're operating only in
the synoptic and certain selected JOPs. They're
also keeping some film for calibration. They're
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trying to fill out their synoptic program a bit
with extra building block 2's. As for S082, 82 -
82B fdlm is being mainly used for the mini -
mini-limb scans and a Just - -
259 19 02 55 CC Thirty seconds until LOS. Our next station contact
4-1/2 minutes, Bermuda at 19:07.
SPT Okay, I think we're up to date on the film on 82
there, Jim. It's so low now we can see pretty
well where we're headed.
MCC Okay, I was just going to give ou a little bit
of the science that they've been getting. T ey
see interesting pectra of the chromospheric
inhomogeneities about 12 arc seconds above the
limb and the mini-limb scan is a short way they've
come up with to get data over different regions on
the limb. And 82B people are very pleased about
the way the mini-limb scan program is going on
shopping list items in general. Okay, let's move
on to XUV MONITOR artifacts. I'll guess you -
you've fully discovered these for yourself but
there are two artifacts of blemishes on the monitor.
Okay, that's it.
259 19 07 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for 7 min-
utes. We've got a 1-minute keyhole 2 minutes into
the pass. And I'll give it back to Jim.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
MCC Okay. We're up to XUV MONITOR artifacts. And as
I said, we've got two artifacts that we've d s-
covered on the monitor. One, you should be able
to see, appears at about 170 degrees, 0.6 solar
radius. It's a bright spot. It's about 5 arc
minutes in diameter and it could be possibly mis-
taken for a plage if you didn't know it was there.
There's also a dart spot, which we can see on the
integrated X[[_ MON, but which you might not be
able to see. This one's at 250 degrees, 0.9 solar
radius. It's quite possible that there may be
others which we haven't picked up and some may
appear as time - time goes on. They'll tay with -
they'll- they'l-
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CC Keep going.
MCC - - stay with the canister when you roll, of
course, and that way you can distinguish them
from real solar fea ures. We're in the keyhole?
SPT O ay, we've got you. Go ahead.
MCC Okay, do you - Do you - Are you - you familiar
with what I'm talking about? Those artifacts,
have you picked them up?
SPT No, as a matter of fact, I wouldn't have identi-
fied them. And I'll take another look the next
time we're up there.
MCC Okay, that's - We'll go on the 55 results. They've
got some pretty interesting results from sunspots
and flares. Sunspot observations: 55 observations
of sunspot in active region 12 on mission day 41
gave some real interesting results which we can
s_mm_ize as follows: The li - the lines and
continual which are formed below l05 degrees
Kelvin; they're dark in the spots, while the
surrounding plage is bright. In - the - the lines
I'm talking about include the lines of carbon 2
and carbon 3 in the Lyman co tinuum. The lines
which have formed in the transition region, such
as oxygen 6 at 1032, and neon 7 at 465 angstroms,
they're bright in the spot with oxygen sprouting
from the inte ior of the spot. And the coronal
lines like magnesium lO at 625 and silicon 12,
they're dark in the spots and the arches sprout
from the edge of the spot. And these lines f
course, the coronal lines, are formed at tempera-
tures over a million dgrees. And there's a sun-
spot brightening. The - This is one JOP you did
on your own there, Owen. They got some interesting
results on that. There were some short term
brightenings near the sunspot in active region 12
on mission day hl. We ga e them l0 minutes of MLS
in line 9, about 50 minutes from the center of
sunspot, and it shows very small scale on less
than 5 arc-second brightenings, a factor two above
the ambient for periods of 30 to 40 seconds. The
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brightenings occur simultaneously in oxygen 6,
1032, which is formed around 3 times l05 degrees
Kelvin; carbon, 3977 angstrom, which is formed
around 9 times lO 4 degrees Kelvin; and oxygen 4
at 554, which is around 2 times lO 5 Kelvin. The
brightenings are not periodic and hey seem to be
too far from the sunspots to be umbral flashes.
There are only two brightenings within the lO-minute
observing period. No brightenings are observed in
c
a
rbon 2, 13
3
6, Lyman alpha, Lyman continuum or
magnesium 10. Clearly more observ - observations
and analyses are needed - -
259 19 l0 48 CC You're letting up on it.
MCC At this point, I'd like to relay a message from 55.
They say that if you do muf - MIRROR LINE SCAN to
give them at least lO minutes of - I beg your
pardon. If you give them MIRROR LINE SCAN, min-
utes of MIR OR LINE SCAN is - is not really very
useful, they'd prefer to have a truncated raster.
If you have longer than 5 minutes, like 5 to
i0 m_uutes, a MIRROR T_TNE SCAN is much more useful
and fo a longer period. That way they get con-
t inuity. Over.
S T Okay. I understand that and w_'ll have to spend
little time digesting all that you've given us
when we get back, so go ahead to the next one.
MCC Okay. The next is the flare which occurred in
active region 09 on mission day 40. It was ob-
served by the science pilot during cycle 609 and
610. The intensities in oxygen 6 at 1032 and
oxygon - carbon 3,977, was sufficiently high to
cause overflows in the DETECTORS 3 and 4. During
the brightest phase of these observations, I saw
horizontal velocities of ab ut - horizontal motions
of about lO arc seconds and velocities of the order
of 60 kilometers per second. They need to do more
analysis on that before we can give meaningful con-
clusions, they say
.
And there was the - a C-6 flare
on mission day 38 and they see real rapid changes
in the loop structures in that, in the oxygen 6 and
1032 line and the carbon 3 line. And the two ras-
ters that they did on that were separated by about
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16 minutes. And finally, they have an item here
on spicules. Time variations of about 2 - of the
order of 2 minutes for the appearance of -
disappearance of really smAll-scale, about 10-arc-
second features, suggest rising a d falling spicul um
material in helium above the limb. I guess that's
all on 55 results. Have you got any comments on
that, Owen? Over.
259 19 12 53 SPT No. I thin that's all fine. And we might have
a chance to do some more on bright spots, that
sort of thing in this last week because S055, of
course, we'll be concentrating on since there's
no f_]m limit there. And so we'll keep all that
in mind as we work this last week here. The spicule
business, I think we'll have to talk about after
we get back. Why don't you go ahead then.
259 19 13 17 CC One minute until LOS. Canary at 1 9:16.
MCC What - what comments did you have on items fo -
item 4 there, Owen?
SPT Okay. I - I don't thing we need to talk much about
item 4 unless it's something that pertains to our
last weeks' observat on here. Go ahead.
MCC Well, I think - if we - if you don't want us to
ts]k about item h, that essentially does it except
for the Polaroid pictures. We just wanted you to
pick out the ones you thought were going to be
useful, so that w could use them for determining
the quality of the monitors and the subtlety of
features and changes which you can detect. Have
you any other items you might find interesting,
and which the SL-4 crew might find interesting.
So, if you could let us - -
SPT We'll have all that back that's any good
MCC Okay. I guess that's all, 0wen. I'll hand
you back to CAP COMM.
CDR I got a question. What do you anticipate we're
going to do with 52 on the EVA, as far as removing
that glint? And are we going to do anything with
any of the doors?
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259 19 34 lh MCC They can answer that - Flight Director says they
can answer that one. So I'll turn you over to him.
CC Okay, A1. Right now our plan is not to do any-
t ing with the doors, but we'll have furthe up-
date for you on that. And we're working the S052
problem
CDR Okay.
SPT Glad to talk with you, Jim, and tell the rest of
the fellows ther hello.
MCC Okay, thanks Owen.
SPT Don't press too much weight.
259 19 16 45 CC Skylab, AOS Canaries for 9 minutes.
SPT Hello th
e
re, Story. Go ahead.
CC Okay, on the BMMD urine measurement, we did intend
just to use one bag at a time on that.
SPT That's what Bill said this morning. Now I had the
impression that the protocol that I used was
equally satisfactory. Was tha too optimistic, or
not?
CC Did you put all three bags in one thing, O
v
en?
SPT That's right; one, and then added another one,
and then added the third, and did it just the
w y the u -link message read, I believe.
CC Okay, it may be if there's no slop in the bags,
it certainly ought to turn out all right. What
our intent was was one bag at a time, restrained
in the box and to get each bag. What you've done,
it'll probably be fine.
SPT Okay, I could see no greater increase in the
scatter - the DD standard deviation I would guess
is still about the same either w y. So I don't
think there was much sloshing.
CC Okay. And have you all had a chance to look nver
the - the blood flow experiment yet? That's
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pumping the blood pressure cup up on the leg to
30 millimeters?
SPT We've looked at it; we've not tried it.
CC Okay. And we're going to schedule that later.
And the principle involved is that the blood
pressure cuff stops all venous outflow until the
venous pressure gets up to 30 millimeters. And
we can take a look at the flow into the leg.
That'll be a measurement of blood flow into the
leg; its change in volume.
259 19 18 15 SPT Okay. I'ii be happy to give it a try.
CC And on the muscle ontraction there, we'd like
to m_e that isometric to avoid as much movement
as possible. Just tense the leg without any
ankle movement at all and this will give us an
idea of the effectiveness of the muscle pumps
which are pumping blood out of the leg.
SPT I was noticing it only said 2 or 3 seconds. Are
you sure that's enough to get something meas r-
able of if it's not anything noticeable, would
you want it, say, a longer period?
CC No that's plenty; 2 seconds will be - be fine.
SPT Okay.
CC And a couple of more questions on the BMMD here.
On the last cal, I've got a question. Did you
use two 6-inch strips? Were both those put on
the first food tray?
SPT That's correct. It was Just the way I read it
on the tape - interpreted - should be inte preted
literally. The first tray had tape already on it
so I just left it there and then was no more tape
added to the rest. Of course, the tape remained
on the first tray.
CC Okay, and did you use two clips on each food tray?
SPT That's affirmative.
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CC Okay, fine. Any more repeatability-type measure-
ments, or insensible loss, or zero masses will be
appreciated by Bill.
SPT Okay, fine.
CC Okay, moving on to SL-2 data. You've got most of
that already. I'll Just get you up to speed on
some things we haven't discussed before. They did
sho a loss of calcium, phosphorus, nitrogen, and
potassium, very similar to what you'd see during
bed rest. The M078, that's a bone densitometry,
surprisingly didn't show any significant losses
of bone density at all, and they'll be very
interested in - in seeing what you all show.
SPT Okay, we hope it's the same.
CC And, in terms of the force velocity curves that
Bill generated with his IBEX [?], there's no change
at all with the arms in flexion or extension; no
change in flexion of the legs, but a 30 percent
decrease in extension of the legs.
SPT I se . I don't know how to interpret that, but
I guess Bill does.
CC My interpretation is that you're probably pulling
up with the legs on the ergometer quite a bit, and
that - that way you're protecting the flexion
muscles. He doesn't agree with me, though.
SPT I think that's a real good point. As a matter of
fact, A1 is the one who first, I think, developed
the technique of ankling, or whatever you call
torquing on the upstroke. And I thinkthat's in
a large measure responsible for our improved work-
load up here. On the - in one G, you - at least
I never, being it's unprofessional, never put any
torquing on the upstroke. But here we have to,
for several reasons. And I thinkthat could very
well be Just exactly what you say.
259 19 21 00 CC Okay, and M151 that we haven't de - discussed
before - it got some very interesting data on
SL-2. It showed that almost every task, the first
time you run it, it took a lot more time. The
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second time you ran it - and most of those occurred
right on around mission d y 7 to l0 - the second
time it it - closely approached, or go slightly
ahead of preflight times. Andusually all tasks,
by the time that they were done for the third time,
it was a little more rapid than preflight.
SPT That sounds reasonable.
CC And there were a few things, like putting VCG
sensors on - you all probably found that out
yourself - they took about three times longer the
first time, and they never really did get to
preflight because of lack of restraints to the
observer. And that, of course, is due to the
WMC foot restraints, and I think you've probably
found the same thing.
SPT My guess is our times are about the same, because
the observer, at least the way I do it, I keep one
foot on the outsi e in the wardroom, and I think
it goes Just about the same speed, myself.
CDR I'll tell you another thing we found out. You can
get those tapes better - those little sponges
better, if you don't try to treat all of them the
same. By that, I mean, don't say, from now on
out I'm going to blot all of them, or I'm going to
put them in wet, or whatever. The technique we've
been using, and had real good luck with lately,
is to put the sponge in, and then before you take
off the cover off the stoma [?] seal is to push down
on it with your finger and ju t almost to the leve -
level with the little seat. And as stuff squirts
out, it squirts out on top of the protector. You
can clear it off, and then when you put it on
your body, it doesn't squirt that stuff out all
over you, yet it doesn't take away excessive
moisture from the sponge. It's sort of a closed-
loop check, and it's been working real well.
CC Okay. Thanks, A1. And one more comment on M151.
The inflight data is a lot regular [sic] or a lot
more smoother [sic] than the - the preflight data
in which many more interruptions and that sort of
thing occurred.
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PLT Okay.
CDR My guess is we're getting a lot faster than pre-
flight, just because we do it every 3 days instead
of once every 3 weeks.
259 19 23 14 CC Yes, that's an - another ex ellent point. And
another bit of data you can add to that if you -
if you - using your watch; if you got some transient
times to and fr m different places in the workshop,
like from the wardroom to the comm_nd module and
like - and that, that would be very much appreciated.
CDR Wardroom to command module is 15 seconds, mA×
speed.
CC Okay, copy. And that's, of course, about four or
five times faster than was estimated preflight.
259 19 23 42 PLT Yes, but that is m_x speed, remember.
CDR I would say that - I'll measure Some typical ones,
but one of the things that's also aided us up here
is we get around so much faster than - than you'd
think. To any - to find a stowage item and to
get back and forth, you really can move out.
CC Okay. If you could time some of those, for sort
of a nominal transit, that would be good, and
some of the other distances, too, like experi-
ment compartment to MDA and the like.
CDR Will do it.
CC Okay. A quick SlTmmary f where you all stand
here today. Your weights, of course, have been
stable since about mission day lO. In fact,
they've really turned up a little bit now, and
you're eating enough to hold them right there.
SPT Okay. We - we watch that every day, of course.
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CDR My feeling is, Story, if - if they wanted us to,
we could Just gain like crazy up here, or lose.
You're sort of in a balanced condition; you
can eat more. I'm hungry sometimes and I Just
don't eat because I know I'm not suppose to
gain weight.
CC Okay. And people are happy Just with what you're
doing right now.
259 19 24 50 PLT Okay.
259 19 24 51 CC And we're 1 minute to LOS. We'll pick you up
over Honeysuckle at 20:01; be dumping t e tape
recorders there. And I'll keep talking.
SPT Hey, Story, how about the reflex velocitie ?
Have you had a chance to look at that yet? _
CC Owen, I haven't reduced the data, but you carried
it off perfectly. You - you did - as - as good
as you could, and if the data can be reduced,
it will be.
SPT Okay, that's all I need to kno . Thank you.
CC Your mean calf girth went down about 6 percent
the first l0 days, and in about 2 weeks it was
down to 7 to 7-1/2 percent and it hasn't changed
since then.
SPT Which is that?
CC That's the - the leg measurement. The calf girth.
CC Okay, ine.
CC Could you make some re - Could you respond some
to any kinesthetic responses you get to the M0927
Does it in any way represent a tilt to you?
259 19 25 47 SPT No, I don't - I've never noticed any impression
like that at all, but, incidently, we've been
more or less logging the calf circumferences, as
we do our 92's and it looks to me like we're
still on a - on our steady down trend.
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CC Okay. We're not showing that down here.
SPT That's a puzzle. We keep writing them right
on the side of the LBNP and all these numbers
are still decreasing.
CC Okay. Let me take a look at that. In s_,mmary,
o the M092, everything is - is pretty stable
there. We think all the aborts that we have
were either due to things like dehydration or -
or complicated by motion sickness or secondary
to discomfort on the saddle.
SPT Yes, we agree. That was a long time ago now,
except for one, which is the meal interference,
s actually our heart rates look the lowest that
we've seen for the whole flight, to me.
259 19 _!6h5 CC Yes, you're actually improving there. And
we're going over the hill. I'll see you at
Honeysuckle.
SPT Okay.
259 20 01 50 CC Skylab. AOS Honeysuckle for 8 minutes.
CDR Speak up.
CC Okay. Finishing up with M092. If possible, we'd
like you to stay away from that vent - stay
a ay from that at least 2 hours after eating.
SPT We agree.
CC Okay. And in Sl_m_ary, your responses to the
LBNP are slightly better than the SL-2 crew.
SPT Looks to u like our response to the LBNP is
down very close to the ground-level baseline, or
if not, even a little bit better in a few c ses.
CC That's correct. It's right there. And could
you comment on any subjective responses to the
M092 that you notice that were different from
the preflight?
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SPT Well, in my own case, I can always tell that
there's a shortage of blood in my upper torso
up her in zero-g, which is something I never
noticed on the ground. As a matter of fact,
I really - really could feel nothing unusual
at all on ground-level tests. And even though
the blood pressure response and the heart rate
is nearly the same up here, I can always feel a
subjective sensation that there's a shortage of
blood in my upper torso, particularly around the
head and arms and things. And that sensation
I had not experienced preflight.
CC Okay. And as I remember, A1 - A1 made about the
same comments.
CDR Yes. Pretty much the same. I've noticed on the
times that I had to abandon the run before we
finished, each time I felt like I was hot in
the shoulders and the head, a little tingling
in the arms. And when I saw it coming, I
wiggled my toes a little bit and tried to reject
it, but didn't have any luck. It Just continued
to mount until the time t at I decided it was
too far gone to try to hold it any longer. Now,
my opinion of the last problem was - was Just
running hard all day long a d got to the end of
the day and Just didn't have a lot of reserve
left. Because the last run we had, a couple of
days ago was a piece of cake, and I didn't even
feel the tingling or anything. So, I don't know.
I think you're a little bit more on the edge of
a problem up here than you ever are on Earth, and
I'm not sure exactly why.
CC I think that's a good point, A1. We also thought
that fati ue had a part to play in that one.
259 20 04 33 CDR I think it was bigger than the food, frankly.
CC Okay. And moving on to M171. You been following
that data as well as we have. We've noticed no
reduction in your efficiency. And all the plots
of 02 versus heart rate and the like; they've
all actually been improving during fligh , and
you're right about at preflight levels.
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SPT Okay. You say there has been no increase in
mechanical efficiency?
CC No. We're seeing - The mechanical efficiency
is right about the same, Owen.
259 20 05 06 SPT Okay. That does surprise me a little bit. I
wouldn't think our 02 dot would actually improve,
but maybe it is.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
259 20 05 15 CC The only thing we have seen as I mentioned last
week, was a slight hyperventilation at - at - at
rest. A slight hyperventilation.
SPT I think that was 12 weeks ago, wasn't it, Story?
And we h
a
ve, at least in my own c
a
se, concentrated
on slower and more deep breathing, an that does
lower the heart rate a little bit. That's about
the only thing that I can see that makes any
change, by breathing more deeply.
CC Okay. And that's a good idea, and I'll take a
SPT Okay. Go ahead.
CC Your vital capacity measurements turned ut very
well. We think they're very close to the labora-
tory data that we have. Have you any comments on
running that procedure?
SPT No, it's a very simple thing to do. It doesn't
waste any time because it's Just about a 60-
second interru tion during the normal 171 prep.
And as ar as the protocol is concerned - or the
pr
o
- pr
o
cedure is no pr
o
ble
m
. The results, I
think, if anything, mine were maybe either at or
a few percent above the ground-level tests. And
I think Jack and Al's were vet close, although
I don't rw_ember their preflight vital capacities.
259 20 06 27 CC Okay. And in s_immary,your M171 data, you're a
lot closer to preflight norms than the SL-2 crew
was.
SPT Rog r.
CC The M09
3
, there's no significant clinical changes
noted on that. The M131, as you know, you've got
higher thresholds on the MS test, and you're doing
a little better on the OGI than the SL-2 did.
259 20 06 5 SPT Okay, so we do have higher thresholds, you say,
on OGI?
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GC No, that's on the MS.
259 20 06 57 SPT Oh, yes, way up on the MS. But before, you'd
mentioned lower thresholds on the OGI while my
impression had been either the same or a little
bit higher. But, I guess, you've got all the
data to look at down there.
CC And on the M133, Owen, you're showing decreased
stages in 3 and 4, and you're spending increased
amounts in stage . Could you make any comments
on subjective quality of your sleep? I know in
the _ning st tus report, you've been showing
good sleep every night.
SPT Just that. I'm really im ressed with how well
you can sleep up here. I think that I'm getting
about the same amou t of sleep that I get on the
ground, 7 hours or so. An_ you can probably tell
the total down there even better than I can sub-
jectively. But the quality, I - I'm really
pleased with. Last night, I slept right through
until Jack woke up, and then I went back to sleep
and dozed another half hou after he got up. And
the night before, it was about 7 hours straight
without waking up. And I - I'm really impressed
with how pleasant it is to sleep here. I find
that I want to sort of restrain myself. I've
always been sleeping under those straps, and with
that much restraint, why, it feels very
comfortable, very normal, and very sound.
CC Okay, good. In general, on postflight predic-
tions, we think you're doing a lot better than
the SL-2 crew, and as far all our numbers go, the
M092 and the M171 and that sort of thing. And
we're very optimistic about how you're going to
do when you get home.
259 20 08 29 SPT So are we, Story. And we're sort of planning on
the protocol on the ground to conform with that.
CC Yes, sir. And after you get on the water, you
might Just stay in the couches a short while and
get your inner ear used to the one g.
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SPT Right. We at least don' anticipate any readjust-
ment similar to the adjustment from one g to zero.
I assume that you - you don't either.
259 20 08 58 CC No, sir. And we're i minute to LOS. We'll pick
you up over Hawaii about 13 minutes at 20:22.
This will pr bably be the last med science con-
ference since you'll be in deactivation on next
Sunday. But the biomed science people do wish to
thank you very much for your expertise in the con-
duct of their experiments, your extreme responsive-
ness, and for your inflight observations and com-
ments, and for all the additional data that you
got us running extra experiments, and your
instrumented TP.
259 20 09 25 SPT Okay, we appreciate those comments, and we've
still got a week to get more, which we'll be try-
ing to do here. And did you see any of that med
TV that was sent down earlier today?
CC No, si ; we haven't seen it et.
SPT Okay, if - if you do take a look at it, if you
have any comments about either additional things
or ways to improve, why, we can still get some of
that in during this last week, also.
CC Okay, thanks again.
259 20 09 54 CDR Thank you, Story.
259 20 l0 ll SPT And I tell you, I - Are you still there?
259 20 2:2 56 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for 8
minutes. Over.
PLT Roger.
CC And for the SPT, with respect to Anita. We request
that Anita be placed in her vial, that is vial 2,
and leave Arabella in her vial. And with respect
to permanent general message 14A, we can delete
steps l, 2, and 4, and continue to feed Arabella
per step 3. We'l also put this in the SPT
details and prepare for return of both spiders
per step 5. Over.
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SPT Okay, I've got the picture.
259 20 23 59 PLT Bruce, we started ops on the M561 at 20:26. The
cold water temperature to start was 23 degrees
centigrade, and the pressure was 0.2.
CC We copy, Jack; thank you.
PLT Yes, sir.
SPT Say, Bruce, have you dumped to VTR, yet?
CC It's clean; you've got a complete tape to work
with.
SPT Okay, I'm not sure how much we'll have for it.
I - i 's going to be a while before I can get
anything collected together, but we just wanted
CC Right, it's all yours.
SPT Have you seen th stuff that came down?
CC Not here in the Control Center, yet.
SPT Okay, I was interested in some sort of a med
comment about that stuff, as I mentioned to Story
last time.
CC Yes, I was here monitoring when Dr. Frank Musgrave
was on.
SPT Oh, I remember him, yes. Fra k S. Musgrave.
CC Roger. Franklin S . from Denver.
259 20 26 00 CDR I've got a world record attempt going here, Bruce.
CC Yes, I heard you're trying to pedal yourself
around the world.
CDR Hard to do with no wheels.
SPT Jack and I were thinking of waiting until later
in the week and taking 1 second off of his time.
CC Hey, for an FAI record, it's got to be at least
l0 percent.
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CDR Hey, that's good. They've been giving me a hard
time. Outstanding, Bruce. T_enty minutes to go.
SPT I don't recognize that agency anyway for these
sorts of records.
259 20 26 40 CC Well, we were going to ask the commander what
class and type he was competing under, but we
fo - thought better of that.
CDR No, there's nobody in this class but us.
CDR One thing t at's made this bike riding lot le -
easier lately is I moved the clip over here, and
I'm reading one of my books when I'm biking along.
So it makes the 30 minutes or 20 minute , or
whatever it is, pass pretty fast.
CC Roger.
CC It's nice when you don't have to watch out for
the stop lights and the traffic.
CDR We haven't run into the MSS [sic] yet.
259 20 30 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next
station contact in about 3 minutes through
Goldstone at 20:34.
259 20 34 04 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for 6
minutes. Out.
259 20 34 32 CC And for the PLT. We wonder if you could give us
a time check on the watch or reference you were
using to start M561. You called down that it had
been started at 20:26. And at that time, our time
here on the ground was 20:24. And telemetry
backing up indicates that it probably started
around 20:20, so we think there may be about a
6-minute discrepancy. Over.
PLT Okay, Just a minute, Bruce, I'll check it.
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259 20 35 43 PLT Well, that's the way I read it on my watch, Bruce,
and my _atch is right on the mission timer. So -
pick any time in there you like. I think it was
20:26, but if it's a - a couple of minutes off,
perhaps that'll be a better time to use.
CC Okay. We're showing 20:36.
259 20 36 01 CC MARK.
PLT Yes, that's what l've got.
259 20 36 08 CC Okay, thank you.
259 20 39 02 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. Ne t
station contact is Bermuda at 20:44. Out.
259 20 39 ii PLT Okay, Bruc . See you there.
259 20 44 l0 CC Skylab this is Houston through Bermuda for l0
minutes. Out.
259 20 49 34 CC Skylab, this is Houston with phone call informati n.
Over.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. It's some bad news and some good news. And
guess since you answered up first, Jack, I haven't
been able to get ahold of Gratia by telephone in
about the past half an hour. We're going to con-
tinue trying. And - we're looking at the Texas
pass that starts about 23:54 for you - if we -
when we get a hold of her, when she comes back to
the phone. Over.
PLT Okay. And if she doesn't, why just try later on.
I'll talk to her just before I hit the s ck, if
that's okay because I'm sure she'll be home pretty
soon.
CC Oh, yes. We've been working the antenna covera e
problem in the site availability for a while since
yo - you called, so I'm sure I'd just caught her
while she was out for a minute. nd for the com-
mander, we've got him set up at 21:34 through Car-
narvon, starting out on the LEFT antenna for just a
couple of minutes and then switching over to the
RIGHT. Over.
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CDR Thanks, Bruce.
259 20 50 51 CC That's in about 40 minutes, and that is confirmed.
And for the SPT, we've got him set up through Guam
at 23:25, LEFT antenna all the way, and that's also
confirmed. Over.
SPT 23:25, Bruce. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CDR Say, I was wondering, Bruce. We had housekeeping
12B on our schedule today, and we can't find it.
CC Your schedule or 12B?
CDR We can't find 12B in the book, so we can go do it.
We've done the rest.
CC Okay stand by. You may have a "gotcha" there.
259 20 !3317 CC Skyl b, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. Next
station contact through Ascension in about 6 min-
utes at 21:00. And housekeeping 12B has to do
with OWS heat exchanger fans. We concur; we don't
have it in our SWS Systems Checklist, but we're
trying to track it down for you. Over.
CDR Probably a general message. I did it anyway. I -
By the way, I told them I'd check it next time I
did it, which has been about 2 weeks. And they
weren't too dirty, but I would suggest a 2-week
interval on that.
C Roger. We copy.
CC Okay, A1. We're talking about getting in there on
the heat exchanger vanes and checking those, also,
not Just the inlets. Over.
CDR I did. I took every fan out, used the brush, got
every bit of the dust I could off all four inlet
vanes today.
259 20 54 16 CC Okay, thank you very much. Out.
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259 21 00 49 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Ascension for ll
minutes. Out.
259 21 04 41 CC I'm trying to -
259 21 08 14 CC CDR, Houston. Over.
PLT He's busy with the TV show right now, Bruce.
Could he talk later?
CC Yes. We can catch it later.
PLT Okay.
259 21 l0 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. Next
station contact in 24 minutes through Carnarvon at
21:33, with a phone call for the CDR at that
station.
PLT Ok y, Bruc .
CC Okay, subnormal flare in active region 26. We'd
like you to take a look at it next pass, if you
have the opportunity, with the white light c rona-
graph. Over.
PLT Sure will, Bruce.
CC It's moving out towards active region 28.
PLT Okay, I'll Just do a FAST SCAN for 43 seconds when
I get there. Okay?
259 21 ll 45 CC Yes, indeed, Jack. That will be fine.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIP ION
259 21 34 14 CC Skylab, Houston through Carnarvon for 9-1 /2 minutes.
PLT Hello there, Hank.
CC Good evening.
CC PLT, Houston. Is the CDR working on his private
call?
SPT He Just got set up.
SPT Hank, A1 says he's hearing Houston loud and clear,
but they're not reading him.
CC Copy. I'll check with the COMM TECH.
CC PLT, Houston. Would you confirm the CDR is in
DUpT.k_ Bravo?
PLT He's confirmedto be in DUPT.EXBravo.
CC Roger. Copy.
PLT And, Ha_k, I'm looking at the white light corona-
graph, and, in the general region of the corona
in which you might see something emanating from
active region 26. And we've got a real sharp,
distinct ray in that area. However, I don't see
any globs of materia or any unusual shapes for
the brightening and I'm getting ready to do a
FAST SCAN. I'll do more if they wish.
CC Roger. We copy. And we'll see if they want
anything else.
PLT Okay, Hank. A1 says that he's hearing the ground
very well, but they're Just not reading him.
CC Okay. And at this point, I don't know what else
we can do. We - we're verifying that we are not
receiving any down-link at all from the - from
the vehicle and on t_e U -VHF.
CC And, PLT, Houston. The ATOM would like to do
- whatis scheduledon the pad afteryou do this
FAST SCAN.
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PLT • Right. Thank you, Hank.
CC CDR, Houston. If you read, we'd done a little
change in configuration at the site. Would you
try a down-link again, please?
CC CDR, Houston. If you read, we - we might try
SIMPLEX Alfa. Just take your VHF AM over to
SIMPLEX Alfa and we'll see if that'll work.
CC PLT, Houston. How do you read?
PLT Five square, Hank.
259 21 41 57 CC Okay. We were Just checking. We're still at
S-band.
PLT Okay. Al's still not having any luck.
CDR Say, Hank, I hear them and have heard them for
5 or 6 minutes; they Just can't hear me. Some-
thing's wrong with the down-link.
CC Roger, A1. And we're Just sitting here scratching
our heads. We - we suggested you try A1 - SIMPLEX
Alfa and that didn't work. We're monitoring both
down-link frequencies and we 're absolutely not
getting a down link, and we're not sure yet why.
We'll smoke it over here and see if we can come
up with a plan. We're going to have to or nobo y's
going to get a call. And maybe we can reschedule
later this evening; I'm not sure. I'll look for
some more sites.
259 21 43 05 CDR Okay. It's been my experience up here that that
it - it's - The problem is somehow getting the
thing to go from like Carnarvon to Houston, and
not anywhere else. We - As far as I can remember
for the last month or two, we've never had a
pro lem anywhere up here.
259 21 43 29 CC It's - it's not a line problem. The site itself
verified they were getting no down-link. And
we're about 15 seconds from LOS now, A1. We'll
be coming up on Goldstone at 13.
CDR I'll Just leave - Somebody's got a com_ to make
now; I'll Just leave the VHF set up.
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CC Okay.
CDR Okay.
259 22 12 45 CC Skylab, Houston through Goldsto e for 5 minutes.
CC And, CDR, we're - we're set up to try again on
the call here at Goldstone.
CDR That's great. I'll hustle right back up there.
CC And, CD , if we don't have any luck, we'd like to
verify yo r configuration and go through some
troubleshooting here, and see if we can't sort
this thing out.
PLT He's floating up there right now, Hank.
PLT I've done something I Just noticed was wrong.
I w nt through CANISTER ROLL of 5400 instead of
EXPERIMENT ROLL. I had rolled it around and
neglected to put the switch back in EXPERIMENT.
So, we're taking it at about 7h50 as opposed
r to5400.
CC Roger. We copy.
PLT And I'm hoping that the ATOM can buythe data.
CC Okay, we'll buy that, Jack, and Just stay where
you are.
CC And, Jack, for the CDH, what we'd like for him
to do is confirm his private comm cue card
configuration. And if he still has no Joy in
that, we'd like for him go into TC MAL - MAL 4.
And I don't know whether that's going to get us
anywhere or not, but it looks like to me it leads
into an antenna problem and I don't believe that.
PLT Excuse me, Hank. I was not able to listen to your
last transmission. Were you calling me?
C Roger. I had a message for A1. He's up trying
to set up t is comm again. If he has no luck
right off the bat, we'd like for him to reverlfy
his private comm configuration. I dontt know
whether he uses the headset or the speaker box up
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there. He might, after he verifies configuration,
switch over to the other system, whichever it may
be. Yf that doesn't work, go _nto the MAL on
page 11-4 of the CSM MALF, it s TC number h, loss
of VKF cow,, with STDN, although l'm not so sure
that's going to lead him anywhere.
PLT Okay. I Just went in there and double checked
for him and he's got the right configurations
a
ll
set up, so it looks like he ought to do the MAL,
huh?
CDR Do you hear me down there, H_nk?
CC Roger. I'm reading you, A .
259 22 17 01 CDR Hello, Hank; CDR. How do you he r?
CC CDR, I'm reading you loud and clear.
CDR Roger. Everything is set up Just perfect. I Just
is on, and obviously everything else is on, or I
couldn't talk to you.
CC Okay, we might - Stand by 1.
CC CDR, have you been copying the ground on VHF?
CDR I've heard them over Carnarvon and here, loud and
clear. They Just don't hear me at all. I've
tried both antennas and had Jack come down here
and check the comm. And chomm [sic] is set up
Just right.
CC Okay, what we want to try to do then, according to
the MAL is configure STDN for a VHM - F A&B SIMPLEX.
So if you'll set up a SIMPLEX B, we'll see if
that 'll work.
CDR Okay, we're going to go A and B SIMPLEX right now.
Okay, I'm still talking to you on S-band.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay. lets work im a little bit. Hello, Houston,
CDR on SIMPLEX A and B.
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CDR Houston, Skylab; SIMPLEX A and B.
CC Give them another call, A1.
CDR Houston, Skylab; SIMPI.EX A and B. How do you
hear?
CDR Hello, Houston. On SIMPLEX Bravo, how do you hear?
CDR Hello, Houston; Skylab on SIMPLEX Alfa and Bravo.
How do you hear? We hear them calling up SIMPLEX
Bravo, Hank. But that's about it.
259 22 19 00 CC Okay, the only other thing in the MAL is to play
ith the antennas and it leads to a block that
says antenna degradation. And I'm not so sure I
believe that. We're about to go LOS. We'll be
picking in another minute at Texas.
CDR Hello, Hank.
CC Hello there; reading you loud and clear. We're
Just trying to figure out what's going on here now
withthething. It'skindof- it'shardforus
to believe, we've lost both transmitters ou of
this bird.
CDR I don't believe it myself because we ve had comm
problems before and it's never ever been the
transmitter.
CC A1, which - which mode are you using now? Are you
using the headset or the speaker box?
CDR I'm using the headset now to talk to you, so
obviously it should talk to them. The fact that
I can hear them indicates that I've got a receiver.
Also I'm on SIMPLEX Alfa and Bravo at the moment.
I tried the commbox several times, by the way.
I'll try it now just to show you that we've got
con - We've got continuity everywhere but down.
Okay, how do you read me on the commbox?
259 22 20 22 CC Reading you loud and clear, Al.
CDR Read you the same. Now we got one possibility
that we can try Just for fun_ I can connect up this
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headset to another co-,, panel real quick and see
how - if we can reach them on VHF that way.
CC Okay, why don't we give it a go, A1. See what
happens.
CDR Okay, hold on.
CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Hello there.
CDR Okay, I wasn't able to contact you through that
other comm panel.
CC Okay, which one did you use, Al?
CDR Tried to use 6. It may not be possible to do it
through 6. That's why I didn't worry about t
too much.
CC Okay, I'm not sure right off myself either.
CDR Lost the VHF up-link now.
CC Okay. We were copying some down-link then on
VHF 2597, AI.
CDR You copying it right now? Why don't you - -
CC Affirmative.
CDR We l, I'm still (chuckle) configured the same old
way again - still SIMPLEX A and SIMPLEX B. I
don't ... up-link but I must have good down-link
at the moment.
CC Okay, we'll get the site to give you a call, A1,
on V_.
259 22 23 li CDR Okay. Do you want me to stay SIMPLEX A and B?
CC Let's stay right where we are for the time being,
until we get this sorted out.
CDR Okay.
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CC CDR, Houston. I don't know what's happened then.
d d
and apparently you!re not getting any up-link.
We'd like to go back to the normal cue card
configuration now.
CDR Okay, I'm now in DUPLEX B. Standing by. Hello,
Houston, I'm in DUPLEX B, how do you hear? Hello,
Houston, I'm in DUPLEX B, how do you hear?
CC Okay, the sites re - have to reconfigure now.
We're doing that now, A1.
CDR Okay, I hear their up-link starting to come in
now. I nev r got any up-link sounds, A and B
SIMPLEX.
CC CDR, Houston, how do you read?
CDR Oh, I read you loud and clear.
CC Okay. Were you getting the VHF okay?
CD No. HeardnothingonVHF.
CDR Sounds like somebody's trying to key, what I hear
is kind of - the static quits, but no modulation.
CDR Hello, Houston, Skylab. How do you read VHF?
CC Okay, A1. We're copying a down-link, but appar-
ently we can't get up now.
CDR My guess if you all (chuckle) - There's only one
line between the center and these VHF sites maybe.
We got a choice, we can either go up or down.
CC This is unbelievable. First we can't get up and
now we can't get down.
CDR Maybe there's some sort of relay in our spacecraft
that's supposed to switch back and forth and
doesn't do it.
PLT Say, Hank, how was the S0527 Like another FAST
SCAN in 43 seconds?
CC We're checking.
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PLT _'_ _eing the same thing up here that I vas
seeing at the beginning of the rev.
CC kay, Jack, give us another one.
CC CDR, Houston. We want to try something else here.
If - i you'll set up for SIMPT._ Alfa and wait
1 minute until we get our sites reconfigured and
we'll call you.
259 22 28 58 CDR Okay, I'm now timing a minute.
CC CDR, Houston on SIMPLEX Alfa. How do you read?
CC CDR, Houston. How do you read?
CC kylab, Houston on VHF 8IMPT.kT(Alfa. How do you
read?
259 22 31 27 CDR Read you loud and clear, SIMPLEX Alfa. How me?
259 22 31 30 CC Okay, A1, reading you loud and clear now. And
we're about to go LOS (chuckle). We'll be
coming up (laughter) on Car arvon at ll.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUNDV01CE TRANSCRIPTION
259 23 ll 27 CC Skylab, Houston through Cal - Carn arvon for
9-1/2 minutes. And, CDR, we'd llke for you to go
ahead and do a NuZ update this pass, so that we
don't have to do it at 00:45 and you can go out -
go ahead, then, and close that - the panel when-
ever you're through with this pass.
CDR Okay.
CC And if we could have the DAS, we'll also be inhib-
itingmomentumdump.
CDR You've got the DAS.
CC And, SPT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead, Hank. He's listening.
CC Okay, is - either he or you, will one of you be
r
free to help us do a little more troubleshooting
on the VHF?
PLT Yes, I'll do it, Hank, in about 5 minutes.
CC Okay, we are presently configured for SIMPLEX
Bravo, so whenever you get up there, we want to
do a voice check on SIMPLEX Bravo. I'll be Broad-
casting on simo so you can turn the S-band off
and we'll see how it goes. Tell me when you're
ready.
PLT Okay, I'm going up now.
CC And while he's going up there, CDR, we'd like to
reschedule the TV down-linkthat we - we missed
earlier. We lost the TV; the one that was done
at Goldstone at 18:58. We'd like to do it over
Texas at 23:54.
CDR Okay.
CC And in that down-link, we'd - So you can be
thinking
a
bout it, w 'd like to get 2 minutes of
H-alpha 1 on MONITOR 1.
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CDR Okay, we'll get her out.
PLT Say, Hank, was S052 happy with the D-_ calibration
that we did earlier todd?
CC Okay, we're checking now, Jack.
PLT Hello, Houston. How do you read on the SIMPLEX
Bravo?
CC PLT, Houston. Reading you loud and clear.
PLT Okay, hearing you the same, Hank, or the LEFT
antenna; let me try the RIGHT.
PLT Okay, Hank. What do you want me to do?
CC Okay, PLT. We're reading you loud and clear. Now
we'd like to go over to DUPLEX Bravo. Give us a
chance to reconfigure the site, and we'll do a
comm check on DUPLEX Bravo, thenormal private comm
configuration.
259 23 14 37 PLT Okay. How long will that be, Hank?
CC That'll take us a couple of minutes to get recon-
figured, Jack.
PLT Okay, I'm going to DUPLEX Bravo now.
CC And, CDR, the DAS is yours.
PLT ... transmits, Hank. Maybe they're configur d
already.
CC Okay, PLT. How do you read me on DUPLEX Bravo?
I'm broadcasting simo.
PLT Five square, Hank, how me?
CC Okay, reading you loud and clear. Looks like we -
Whatever the probl_nwe had went away; and so we'll
be all set up for the PT's phone call at Guam, the
next station, at 25.
PLT Roger, 25. Thank you. I'll Just leave it like
it is.
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CC Ok y, Jack. A d I still haven't been able to
get a hold of Gratia. So if - if I don't get
hold of her by time we come up on stateside, how
bout I let the CDR talk on that pass, rather
than you.
PLT Yes, I didn't have any time planned anyway. Just
let A1 go ahead and talk. And - on the next pass,
anyway; and - and - if there's still an opportunity
after they get finished, why, I'll take it if
Gratia' s home.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, we have a good update. You're clear to close
the shutter.
CC PLT, Houston. You still up in the command module?
CDR ...
PLT What can I do for you, Hank?
" CC Well, we're Just sitting here talking about it.
The only thing that we didn't check on that comm
check was the constant key, like you use in the
private com_. Would you be willing to go back,
and let's Just check constant key and see if it -
something's not happening t ere tha 's blocking
us out.
PLT Yes, I'll be right there.
PLT How do you hear me in constant key, Hank?
CC Okay, reading y u loud and clear, Jack.
PLT Okay, I got a lot more background noise right now
than had bef re. It was a real clean transmis-
sion, but now I'm hearing myself talk and back-
ground noise when I'm not talking.
CC Okay, the same thing happens down here.
PLT Okay, so I guess the constant key deal works okay,
then, huh?
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259 2B 18 BO CC That's affirmative. I think everything has been
all set up for the comm call.
PLT Okay, thanks a lot, Hank, for working it out.
And I'll Just leave it like it is.
PLT Are you still there, Hank?
CC Roger. Over.
PLT Say, we don't a ways get that echo. Half the time
you get it and half the time you don't. It's -
it's not desirable, of course, but I'm kind of
wondering what the configuration difference is down
there between getting the echo and, on the other
hand, having a nice, clean kind of conversation.
CC Were you using the speaker box or the - or the -
heads et ?
PLT I've always used the headset. And half the time
you get the echo and half the time you don't.
CC What it sounds like is that the up-link is being
turned around and sent right back at _ou. You're
doing a closed-loop comm, Which sort of drives
you out of your gourd when you're trying to talk;
you hear yourself a fraction of a second later.
259 23 20 04 PLT Yes, that's what it does. And there must be a way
around it, because it's not like that but part of
the time.
259 23 20 25 CC We'll check into it. And we're about 45 seconds
from LOS. We'll be coming up on Guam at 25 for
the SPT's private call. And I was wondering if
it'd be convenient, Jack, for you to give us the
Evening Status, since we missed that over the last
stateside, at Guam.
PLT You want that rig t now, Hank?
CC Negative. We're Just about LOS. But I was wonder-
ing if y u could get - have it ready some time
during the Guam pass, which is coming up from 25
to 34, and read it down while O_en is doing his
private comm.
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PLT Sure, be ready any time.
CC Okay, we'll see you at Guam, then, in a few
minutes.
259 23 25 45 CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 8 minutes.
CDR Okay.
SC (Music: The Yellow Rose of Texas)
CC Well, I hate to cut out "The Yellow Rose" there,
but we're all standing by for the Evening Status.
PLT Well, that's the first part of t.
CC Sounds good.
259 23 26 48 PLT Okay, here we go. Urine volume: 105, 177, 180.
Water gun: 6153; 0092; 6616. BMMD: 6.249,
6.247, 6.253; 5.947, 5.946, 5.948; 6.940, 6.940,
6.943. Exercise: CDR, 2/95/8641, wow, 95; he
pedaled around the world. SPT, 2/15/2630; PLT,
2/05/0656. PLT got 3 for 20/Mark I: 50 A, 20 B,
20 D, 20 backbends. And, by the way, the CDR
set a new - or set the original record and that
will probably stand for a lo g, long time, of
pedaling a bicycle clear around the world, with
no wheels. Sleep: CDR, 8 good; 7 good; 6-1/2
good. Flight Pla deviations: Stand by.
259 23 28 40 PLT Okay. On Flight Plan deviations, Hank, we omitted
T002 - Correction; T003-7, which was supposed to
be taken before and after shower, because nobody
took a shower. Shopping list accomplishments:
SPT took a sweat sample after exercise. Un-
scheduled stowage items: We got three grape
drinks from locker 562 to the wardroom Okay.
Menu deviations: CDR, salt packs, seven, plus
four pills - four salt pills; SPT used three salt
packs, and biscuits, peanut butter, and grape
drink; PLT used four salt packs, and one butter
cookie, and three salt pills, substitute veal and
two lemonades for tuna nd bread.
PLT Did you get all tha , Hank?
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CC Roger. We copy. And I guess that's all of it
but the photo log.
PLT Okay, here it is. Day 259, 16-millimeter: EREP/
VTS, track 33 and 34 was on CLO4, 35 percent re-
maining; 69 was activity crew exercise, CI61, 20,
CI54. 35-millimeter: CX33, 00; CI105, 37.
70-milli eter: CX27, 054. ETC was CT09, 101.
EREP: set, whiskey: 8922, lll5, 8641, 8020,
9790, 8693. Drawer A: Location Alfa 2 was the
on y change. Transporter 05, CI61, 20, CI54.
That's it. Any questions:
CC No questions. Thank you a lot, Jack.
PLT Okay, I got some exercise to do yet; I'll either
report it later this evening or tomorrow.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, can you listen up a bit?
CDR Sure, Dick [sic]. Go ahead.
259 23 31 _3 CC Okay. In a swer to your question on the house-
keeping 12 Bravo, we Just sorted that out now.
What we did, we sent you up a change to the cue
card, Flight Plan to checklist correlations. And
it's on there, but we didn't change the checklist.
And I guess we probably should've changed it,
even though there' s - there' s no procedure other
than that 12B which Just says vacuum clean the
heat exchanger vanes. And we should have added
it to the list and the checklist, also.
CDR Oklay [sic], we'll write that in, and call it
vacuum clean - What do you call it? Heat exchanger
vanes or how would you - I've forgot en. We
don' use the Flight Plan to checklist correlation
because we know where they are in the book. That's
Just an aid to help you find the right book. So
we Just g right to the book.
CC Okay it's vacuum clean OWS heat exchanger vanes.
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259 21332 34 CDR Okay, we'll write them in.
259 21333 33 CC And, Skylab, we're about 40 seconds frem LOS.
We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 49. And the
CDR's phone call will be set up for Texas at 54.
And congratulations to the CDR on his new world's
record.
CDR Okay, thank you.
259 23 49 36 CC Skylab, Houston stateside for ll minutes.
CDR Okay, Just let me know when you're ready for the
down-link.
CC Okay, and we - I sort o goofed up there a little
bit, A1. I wonder if you could get maybe Jack to
relieve you th re on the console for - for your
private corm coming up here at 54.
CDR Okay, they'll - they'll come up.
CC Okay, AI. We won't be ready for the down-link
until 23 :5_.
CDR Okay. I'll tell you what's been happening on 56.
56 has been hanging up every ime in FILTER - in
FILTER _. It seems to go along until it gets to
4, then it hangs up. It did that in NORMAL and
it did it in L NG. And so I've gone back and
take SINGLE FRAMES of 5 and 6 in NORMAL, 5 and 6
in LONG. Six Just finished in LONG. Then I'm
going to do a SHORT. So maybe items something
that has to do with FILTER 4. I know it doesn't
sound like the rest of the explanation, but it
seems to always be hung up in that one.
CC We copy.
CDR It's obviously causing the time line to slip a
little bit, too, here, while we wait for it to
get - try to get unhung.
CDR ...
CC Skylab, Houston. We're ready - configured for the
TV down-link.
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CDR Okay, should be getting it. I've got it set for
MON 2. And whenever you're ready, I'ii turn on
MON 1 right now.
CC Okay.
CDR Whenever you're locked up, I'll go switch to
MON l, and then turn it on and you can watch it
power up.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to get some XUVMON
integration on MONITOR 2. And after we get that,
we'll - like to go over and power up MONITOR 1
where we can look at it and give us some H-alpha 1.
SPT Okay, you're getting it now.
SPT Okay, I'm going to switch you over to MON 1 and
power it up as soon as I put you over.
CC Okay; we copy.
CDR How you hear, Hank?
259 23 56 46 CC Reading you loud and clear.
CDR I hear the COMMTECHs, Texas and Houston, talking
to each other. They call me, but they don't
hear me. We have not touched this comm since
Owen talked on it.
CC I don't believe it.
CDR Fact of life.
SPT Are you receiving real-time video now, Hank?
CC That's Affirmative.
SPT Okay. Now, you should be looking at H-alpha 1.
I have H-alpha 1 displayed on both MON 1 and MON 2.
And MON 1 now exh bits a little bit of that noise,
but very little, as Jack was describing earlier.
But I - There's a difference - a substant al
difference between the ppearance on M0N 1 and
M0N 2 in brightness. I got the contrast all the
way up on MON 1 and MON 2, I've got the brightness
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all the way up on MON i, but the image is still
relatively dim, while the brightness on _N 2 is
down at about 3, even though the appearance on
the two scopes is the same. So I guess this is
something new that we have not seen before.
The apparent very low level of brightness on
MON 1 is something that's Just - Just happened.
CC For the CDR, we verify Texas has lost its VHF
transmitter.
CDR Okay, I understand (chuckle). That explains why
I don't hear anything from them any more.
CC I can't believe this is happening.
CDR I can't either, but that's the way it goes.
Usually, it's about 1 *** It'll recover in about,
you know, 3 or _ minutes, all of a sudden it all
starts work ng. But Sust never did tonight. It
d d - it did - What was that site that Owen talked
through?
CC Guam
CDR Guam?
SPT Now the brightness on MON 1 is increasing.
Apparently it Just took a long time to - for the
tube to get warmed up. And it does exhibit a
little bit of extra noise and Jumpiness that
MONITOR 1 does not have, but brightne s lev l is
still increasing. In fact, it' s comparable with
M0N 2 now. As you can see, there's nothing ab-
normal about the brightness level on MON 1.
CDR ... My wife's at home. Tell her we - sorry we
couldn't get together. We'll try for her next ...
CC SPT, Houston. I have an answer to the question
you had the other day, regarding the ex ension
on the magn sium _0 line at 625 angstroms.
SPT It couldn't be the fact that gravity gradient
dump began to slip in, did it? Go ahead with the
answer.
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260 00 O0 59 CC Okay. Th - the radiation shorter than about
700 angstroms is absorbed by the atomic oxygen,
while the longer avelengths, usually seen on the
detectors 1 and 3, are absorbed by molecular
oxygen. And, as you recall, the density scale
h
e
ight of atomic oxygen is twice that of molecular
oxygen. The atomic oxygen extends much higher in
the atmosphere than molecular oxygen does. At
sunset the short avelength radiation is absorbed
SPT Okay; understand. Thank you. Now, are - are you
still looking at the H-alpha 1 video, or did you
get a good look at it a minute ago?
260 O0 O1 40 CC We got a good look at it. And I wonder if you
could show us the same thing now on MO ITOR 2.
SPT Okay, you're looking at i on MONITOR 2, and, at
this point, you'll probably be unable to distinguish
any difference. Because there's almost no differ-
ence up here. The brightness levels are the same;
the contrast levels are the same. There is a small
amount of extra - it appears to be sort of a white
snowy superimposed on the H-alpha 1 - or monitor 1
picture. But it's really a negligible difference
at this point, and their performance is essentially
the same.
SPT It certainly wasn't this good, though, when Jack
called - called down the earlier reports. I came
up and took a look at it, also, and there was very
definitely a contraction and oscillation on the
MON 1 scope that was not present on MON 2.
CC Okay, we copy, Owen. And we thank you very much.
And you're clear to terminate the down-link.
SPT Okay. And how about the use of MON i now? Should
we go ahead and use it normally?
CC Okay, we'll get back to you with that, Owen.
SPT Okay.
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CDR Hank, I didn't know if you got my ca]]a few
moments ago. How about calling Sue and explaining
what happened, and tell them we'll try tomorrow
night. Just one of those things.
CC Okay, I'm real sorry, AI.
CDR Not your f ult. Somewhere in the lines are acting
funny. I'm not sure where.
260 00 0_.12 CC Yes, we - we got a site probl_n. We did determine
we were getting down-link from the bird, and we
couldn't get it back to Houston.
260 00 04 59 CC Skylab Houston. We're about 1 minute from LOS.
We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 15, and that's
your med conference.
CDR Okay, thanks, Hank.
CC And at Vanguard,for infor,we'll be doing a -
commanding a dump enable.
CDR Okay.
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Time: 260:00:30 to 260:08:30
Page 1 of _4003
S YLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
260 01 30 24 CC Skylab, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Sorry to bother you after your bedtime here, but
we've been - been di cussing this MONITOR 1 thing
here for quite a while now; and we're worried
about the power supply. And to stop worrying,
at least tonight about it, we'd like to turn M0N
1 off.
PLT Okay, I'll go up and do it.
CC And, PLT, while you're there, would you give us
a status of the H-alpha-2 talkback? The door
talkback.
__ PLT Yes. It s hite. And I've got the MON i off.
CC Okay, thank you. And we have indications that
doo 's kind of a hung up in between. We won't
worry about it tonight; we can work that tomorrow.
PLT I'll cycle it once if you want.
CC Okay. That's one of those we'd have to DAS the
p
o
wer on and off. We'd r
a
ther not mess with it
t n ght, Jack. We can get that to_row and run
a mal on it.
260 01 31 42 PLT Okay, thanks a lot, Hank. W@'re all Just hitting
the sack right now. In fact, I'm about the last
one.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
260 09 20 05 MCC Good morning, Skylab, this is Mother Earth. I'm
Just calling to tell you how afu_iously I 'm await-
ing your recovery. I wish the rest of the mis-
sion the very best of success. And by the way,
please give Sister Moon my regards since she was
such a lovely sight last night (laughter). You
boys take care of yourselves, and remember I'm
watching you. Have a nice day. All my love,
Mother. (Music: Come Saturday Morning)
260 09 22 l0 CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS through Guam for
8 minutes .
PLT Say again, Mothe .
SPT Thank you, Mother.
CDR That'sthewaytowakeup.
CC I thought that was a little nicer than what we
did to you the other day.
PLT I guess that's the way they wake up in the Air
Force boot camp, huh?
CC Don't know about the Air Force.
PLT You there, Bob?
CC That's affirmative. We've got you for about 3
minutes.
PLT I see you got us up before daylight today.
CC Well, I thought you Marines were used to that.
PLT Yes. We're night fighters.
260 09 _8 29 PLT Hey, Bob, could you play the first part of that
wakeup message over again? We kind of slept through
part of it.
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260 09 28 46 CC We'll see if we c n do that for you. We've got
abo t a minute until LOS. We'll see you again
over the Vanguard at 10:O0. And that's about
31 minutes from now.
PLT Okay, thank you, Bob. See you there.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCEIPTION
260 l0 0C,30 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through the Vanguard
for 8-1/2 minutes.
\
CC And, Owen, we copy that the H-alpha-2 door is
open now. All we did last night was take the
secondary motor off, inhibit it, and put it back
on. nd copy that you got it open.
SPT That's right. It opened automatically with the
sunrise signal. I didn't do it manual y. So
we're still leaving MONITOR 1 OFF now, incident y.
Is that your druthers?
260 l0 01 08 CC You can turn it on any time you want. And, Owen,
we'd appreciate a ATM frames remaining, if you
w uld give it to us, please. We did not get it
las night, nor could be find it on channel A.
SPT Okay. I did notice that H-alpha-1 was - let me
see here, Just a minute. Yes, we left H-alpha-1
in AUTO. I don't know whether it was taking pic-
tures all night or not. 3995, 40h, 10, 81, lll6,
1025. Over.
CC Okay, we copied that. And I've got a SAP up-date
for you if you would like it.
SPT Go ahead.
260 l0 01 52 CC Okay. Activity has remained low. The last flare
was less than a Charlie 1 subflare in active re-
gion 26 at 01:45. Small spots have appeared in
the trailer of active region 27. All other
regions are stable. 0nly limb activity was small
infrequent searches on the east limb at 280/1.0,
which may be associated with old active region 08,
which is due back late today.
260 l0 02 33 SPT Okay. Not much to chang on the SAP here, I guess.
I Just turned MONITOR l, ON.
CC 0keydoke, that's fine. And if Jack or CDR is
available,I've got a few FlightPlan changesthat
I'd like to voice up t you, please.
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CDR Wel , we're right here.
CC Very good. If we could start off - most of these,
I think, are associated with PLT's plan. It's on
the snmmary plan. If you have it available, I'd
like to change the order of a few items.
PLT Let her rip, Bob.
260 l0 03 17 CC Okay. At the period around 10:30 there, where
you have an M07_ cal, we'd like to place that just
general housekeeping, and to move it. And the
reason is, th t it's in conflict with the urine
stuff that Al's going to be doing. And on down
further, you have a - at 13:00, a general house-
keeping. We want your housekeeping 80 Romeo to
start there at 13:00 vice 13:30. And then at
13:30, we want you to do the M074 cal. Okay, and
a little bi% further down on the pad, for the EREP
36, which is about 23:30, we've got you and A1
turned around. CDR is supposed to do the VTS, and
PLT the C&D.
PLT Okay, we got that. And I guess we got everything
on the EREP except for the maneuver pad for EREP
3 6 .
260 lO 0_ 33 CC Okay, we'll - we'll look into that. It was sup-
posed to have been up-linked, and on your details.
If you want to make those changes, they basically
were the same ones I gave you, Jack. On - on
yours, you can change that housekeeping 80 Romeo
to 13:00. And note that at 23:32, you've got the
C&D. And for CDR, the only change is at 23:32, to
note that he has the - the VTS. And, Jack, if
you've got the S183 pad, I need to give you a
time change on it.
PLT Okay, go ahead, B b.
260 l0 05 17 CC Okay, where it says 17:10, do the 183 p ep, that
should be at 18:03, 18:03.
PLT Okay, got all of that. Is there any more?
CC Let me see if I got a l of my paper work straight
here. Okay, I've got one other item We gave
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you a recorder-look that A1 is going to do tod ay,
and we put in the - the wrong serial number for
the recorder If - if he's got that one handy,
the recorder that we want to do that look on is
serial number 28. And that's the one that failed
on us last. Serial number 30 is the one that
you're going to be pulling out today, Jack.
PLT Okay, we understand that, Bob.
CC Okay, and I believe that's got our pad squared
away, e hope.
PLT Okay. I got some exercise to record that I didn't
turn in last night.
CC Okay, I'm standing by to copy.
260 lO 06 B1 PLT Okay, that was a number 1 for B5 minutes, 8565.
CC Okay,we copythat.
PLT I got th t wrong. That's a number 2, lower body.
CC Copy, number 2.
260 i0 06 5B SPT Crip, while he's on the subject, also add mine.
It was B/15/Mark I, BO, A's; BO, B's; and SO,
C 's. Over.
CC Okay. Copy that, Owen.
CDR Those guys are keeping me awake with their
exercise while I'm trying to s_ep.
CC Sounds like Bill Thornton. He did the same th ng
to me.
CDR Things are out of control.
SPT Either that or finally getting organized.
260 lO 07 38 CC Skylab, Houston. We reverifled that that maneuver
pad 36 is supposed to be on board. If you would
take another look around, we'd appreciate it. If
_ it's - you haven't got it when we see you at
_ nary, we'll send it back to you.
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PLT Okay, Bob. And there's one other mistake in my
exercise last night. I had 5 minutes for 656,
and there was a mistake, and they reported it as -
as lower body instead of upper body.
CC Okay. Copy that, Jack.
260 l0 08 17 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS. We'll
see you again over Canary in about 12 minutes at
i0:20, i0:20.
PLT See you later, Bob.
260 i0 21 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS through Canary for
13 minutes. And can yo tell us whether you
found that maneuver pad for EREP 36?
PLT Well, we haven't looked hard enough, yet. We'll
come down in t e first load we brought down. Let
me go look.
CC We got another one en route to you,
SPT No. There's nothing new in the teleprinter; so
we'll have to catch your update - your up-link
here, Bob.
CC Couldn't quite copy that, Owen. We are up-linking
a new one.
SPT That's right. I see - I hear it coming up. I
see it's coming in right now, so we'll have to
use it. There was nothing else new prior to this.
CC Okay. Copy that. Owen, know you're busy there
at the p nel. If - if you got a moment, I'd kind
of like to talk to you about this JOP 13, and why -
why it wasn't done today.
SPT Okay, go ahead.
260 l0 22 28 CC Okay. The probl m was in all of our computer
runs we've made down here, we kept running into
getting firings and getting on gimbal stops during
the actual data take; and subsequent to the actual
JOP 13, we were getting resets. Plus that, we
were in a p etty bad momentum state. And it ended
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up that it cost us in excess of 500 pound-seconds
of TACS, and it Just didn't look like a good thing
to go ahead and press in that - that configura-
tion. Right now, we're looking at day 55; and it's
our intent to do our best to get it scheduled
there. And we're to the point of sacrificing
other items that might be planned on being sched-
uled. However, due to our current momentum pro-
file, which is primarily due to the Beta angle,
it is going to cost quite a bit of TACS. And
we're looking at it now and trying to get it
squared away.
SPT Okay. Sounds like you're working at it as hard as
you can and nothing else we can do. I guess, we're
really pinned in because of the stars, too. Must
require a maneuver that - I take it it's out at a
pretty bad angle to produce all those bad mnmentum
effects and so, it looks like you're doing the
best you can down there. We thank you very much.
C Okay, Owen. We're working on it, and the guys are
really trying real hard.
SPT Roger.
260 l0 2_ ll CC And, Skylab, Houston. For CDR and PLT, we're sor-
ry about the problems we had on VHF with your
phone calls last night and assume tha you would
like us to go ahead and try those again this
evening.
PLT Yes, sir, for both of us, please.
CC Okay. ope that it will work a little bit better
this time.
CDR Did you ever find out what was wrong?
CC Unfortunately, AI, we're not really positive what
was wrong.
CDR I thin that's why we have consistent problems.
It's because we never really nail down, after the
fact, what was wrong. It's usually - somebody
says, well, let's check the spacecraft,et cetera;
and we honestly haven't had a mistake. We got
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about six swi - switches to throw up there. And
any time we have a problem, we go through the lit-
tle old checklists. And there's no mistakes -
we haven't had a mistake up here in a month.
Yet, consistently, we have problems on the ground.
And my feeling is, somewhere, since we don't have
them with other comm systems, somewhere we're
not back-tracking and following through to find
out what's wrong and then fixing that one thing.
I think it's been a shame the way this private
comm has gone, as far as ability to consistently
get VHF_because we don't ever have any trouble
with the VHFwhen we're needing it for rendez-
vous or anything. It's Just these Rind of turn
ups for private comm. We Just never can get it
through.
260 l0 25 _2 CC We copy, A1. Understand your feelings and can
certainly appreciate them. We'll see if we can't
do better.
CDR Yes. I'm - I'm not distrubed because we're in-
convenienced. We got plenty of time. But I
Just think it's an unprofessional way to operate
the space business.
CC Copy that.
260 l0 32 30 CC CDR, Houston. One item I'd like to make sure that
there's no confusion on. On your s,_mmary flight
_lan down there for EREP 36 data take, do you have
that handy?
PLT You mean the VTS pad for it, Bob?
CC No. Actually - actually that's he reason I don't
think there's going to be any problem. But on the
s,_m
m
ary flight plan, you know, where we normally
list, in the little blocks, the data take time?
It listed it starting at 00:22. We're actually
going to have EREP start at 00:19, and that's
Just to handle a VTS cal, and I Just mention it
here. I don't - don't think there'll be any
prob em in it, but Just to make sure you know what
we're doing.
PLT Okay. Thank you.
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260 i0 33 20 CC And, Skylab. We're about i minute from LOS.
Have you again over Honeysuckle in 35 minutes at
ll:08. We'll be doing a data voice recorder
dump. I'm assuming Bruce will have you by there,
so I'll say good morning to you and talk to you
tomorrow.
PLT Okay. Thanks for hearing us out. We'll see you
tomorrow, Bob.
260 l0 33 39 CC Roger dodger.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 260:11:06 to 260:12:30
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SKYLAB AIR TO GROUND _OICE TRANSCRIPTION
260 11 08 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for
7-1/2 minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice
tape recorder here. Out.
260 ll 15 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston. 35 seconds until LOS.
Next station contact in h4 minutes through Canary
at 11:59. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce. That was a pretty short pass. Good
morning.
CC Say again, please?
PLT I said, good morning. hat was a pretty short
pass. I think this is the first I've hearg from
you.
CC Okay. Well, we better check. I g veyou an AOS
call with something like 9- 7-1/2minutes or so.
And - maybe you didn't hear it.
PLT Yes, maybe I Just didn't hear it. I did hear quite
a bit of static on the speaker, though. So I
thought maybe we were having co-,, problems.
CC Okay, we'll check it out down here
260 ll 16 23 SPT I know no one else hear it either, Jack, so -
260 ll 59 17 CC Skyl b, this is Houston through Canary Islands
for 5 minutes. Out.
260 ll 59 59 PLT Say, Bruce, has the tape recorder number 30 failed?
Is that why you want it changed?
260 12 O0 2 CC PLT, Houston. Negative. Tape recorder serial
number 30 is still operative. It does, however,
have l_00 hours accumulated operating time. We
Just want to change it out at this stage to maxi-
mize our hance of having four good operating tape
recorders through the un anned period. Over.
PLT Okay. Well, I hadn't heard anything about it, and
I _idn't know whether to put red tape on it or not.
So it's not failed, and I will not put red tape on
it. Thank you.
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CC No, you might p t gray tape on it or something,
and mark it as last backup.
260 12 02 08 CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Yes. Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Yes, Jack. Looking at the time on the VTR, we
show only 3.4 minutes of ecord time, up only
nine-tenths of a minute from last pass. We're
wondering if that's ATM data, or if you've had
some problems running TV-16. Over.
PLT That was a prett quick shave, wasn't it? No, we
haven't been able to get the TV-16 done yet, so
we're delaying that, and it's not on the VTR yet.
CC Okay; understand.
260 12 04 31 CC Skylab, Houston; now coming to you through Madrid
for an additional 7 minutes. Out.
260 12 l0 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. Next
station contact in 26 minutes through Carnarvon at
12:S6 where we'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder. Out.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
260 12 36 52 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Carnarvon for
l0 minutes. And we'll be dumping the data voice
tape recorder here. Out.
SPT Say, Bruce, back
a
t 12:12 Zulu, we had a rather
strong 6-centimeter radio noise burst on board.
I did check the corona as soon as possible there-
after, and did a short FAST SCAN for S052, al-
though there was nothing visible in the corona
at that time. I wonder if the ground has any
confirming evidence? Over.
CC Okay, we'll check on that, Owen.
260 12 36104 CC SPT, Houston. Roger; we're checking on that.
We'll get back to you when we have an answer.
Over.
SPT Okay, Bruce.
260 12 39 2_ CC And, SPT, while you're talk - we're talking to you
here, we realize its night now, but what's the
status of AT MONITOR number l? Over.
SPT MO ITOR 1 is working in top shape. There is nary
a Jitter. And the display is per ectly normal
in all respects.
CC Okay; we copy. And do you - do you have any feel
or any idea as to what was causing the roblem?
SPT Only be a couple of guesses. It did first show
up right after the EREP operation yesterday. And,
perhaps, there was some sort of a thermal transient
that was altering the sleep circuitry in the moni-
tor. Inasnmch as I believe the SYNC GEN provides
the sync signals for both monitors, and it did not
show up on MONITOR 2, I'd say eliminate that. And
downstream o that comes the sleep circuitry and
MONITOR i, so I assume that it was semething as-
sociated with Just that circuitry. And my guess is
maybe a thermal problem or something like that.
Over.
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260 12 40 28 CC Roger; we concur ith that.
260 12 42 39 CC SPT, Houston. From Canary Island, we get the re-
port that they observed a 30-megahertz burst, a
fairly small one, at about the same time that you
reported observing the 6-centimeter burst. Over.
260 12 42 55 SPT Okay. Of cours , the 30-megahertz occurs a lot
more frequently than the centimeter burst. But
it was a pretty substantial on ; my guess is
500 flux unit or so. And I thought it might
have been associated wi h a coronal transient,
but we'll Just take another look at the beg nning
of the next orbit.
CC Understand; but there's nothing reported in
6-centimeters from Canary. And you're right, it
is a pretty small one.
260 12 43 24 SPT Okay; thank you.
260 12 46 33 CC Skylab, this is Houston; coming up on a about a
45-second dropout as we hand over to Honeysuckle.
I'll call you there.
260 12 48 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston coming to you through the
courtesy of Honeysuckle Creek for 4 minutes. Out.
260 12 51 21 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. Next
station contact is in 34 minutes hrough Merritt
Island at 13:26. Out.
260 13 27 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Merritt Island
for l0 minutes. And for your information, we've
checked the Nuz update over and it looks good to
us. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce. And I replaced the tape recorder.
And in doing so, I had to reconfigure the recorder
switches. And I'm standing by to put them wherever
you want them, according to the checklist.
CC Okay, J ck. What we'd like to get is RECORDER 1
to EXPERIMENT 1 and VOICE and the RECORDER 2 to
OFF and RECORDER 3 to DATA VOICE. Over.
260 13 28 ll CC And for the SPT, we'd like the DAS for a minute
to inhibit momentum for the EREP.
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260 13 28 26 _SPT You have it.
PLT Okay. I put number i on EXPERIMENT i, VOICE.
Number 2 is OFF and number 3 is DATA VOICE. Is
that right?
CC Roger. Thank you.
PLT And it's in COMMAND
CC Okay, Owen. The DAS is yours.
260 13 2!) 18 CC PLT, Houston. We got a change to the configura-
tion there.
PLT Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. What we would like to wind up with is
RECORDER 1 being EXPERIMENT 1 and VOICE, RECORDER 2
k being DATA VOICE, and RECORDER 3 being EXPERIMENT 2.
Over.
PLT Okay. You'll cut out on the first one, but the -
you said number 2 in DATA VOICE and number 3 in
EXPERIMENT 2. Must be the other one was EXPERIMENT
l, huh?
CC Roger. That's the configuration we're looking for.
And I guess you need to wind up with us back in
COMMAND, also.
SPT Okay, Bruce. We're currently g tting more pretty
good size 6-centimeter radio noise burst. You
might check that out again.
CC Okay, Owen. Will do.
260 13 30 32 CDR And, Bruce, I assume that you really want me to
shoot the Sargasso Sea out window 1 or - window i.
One or 2 looked like the best to me.
CC Roger, Alan. That's fine with us
260 13 31 02 CDR Ask EREP whether the place he wants specifically
with this 300-millimeter lens is straight down or
totheleftofourcourse?
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260 13 31 25 CC ee, the area we're looking for is UP and down
track from Bermuda, pretty much straight down.
And gues you have to take as many shots as you
feel appropriate to blanket the area. If you see
a boat down there that has "Wood's Hole" written
on the stern, you might get a couple shots right
around it.
CDR Okay. We've never seen any Sargassum, but we may
see the boat. I'll take a quick look.
260 13 33 49 CC For the SPT, we are not seeing anything on the
ground that's correlatable with the 6-centimeter
observations you are making. Keep us posted on
what you observe. We're beginning to think that
maybe you've got a problem n the reception equip-
ment up there. Over.
SPT Okay. But it looks to me like it's behaving
normally because after a couple of bursts there,
it dropped back down to normal level, and it be-
haves normally at night. And so my guess is there
really have been a couple 6-centimeter bursts.
But we'll see.
CC Roger. Out.
260 13 35 34 CDR Say, Bruce. We had to tape this Sargasso Sea
with a Hasselblad because Just as I got ready to
take the picture, the Has - the Nikon decided it
was out of film.
CC Roger. We copy.
260 13 36 22 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS. Next
station contact in 4-1/2 minutes through Madrid
at 13:41. Out.
260 13 41 13 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for 7-1 /2
minutes. Out.
260 13 48 01 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute until LOS.
Next station contact in 26 minutes through
Carnaz_on at i)4:14. Out.
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260 14 13 16 CC Skylab, this is Houston throu h Carnarvon for
9-1/2 minutes. Over. Okay. We verify the
maneuver time you have loaded; looks good. We
d n't see TACS ENABLED yet; we realize we're a
little early. And I've got a couple of words
on the 193 altimeter est today for the PLT, if
you're interested .
PLT Here I am and I'm interested.
CC Okay. If you've looked at our C&D pad, you
have noticed that with great skill nd cunning,
we've scheduled S193 perations again today
after we secured them yesterday. What's dif-
ferent about today is that we'll e passing over
Wallops Island, and there will be a transponder
operating on the ground measuring the output of
the 193 altimeter transmitter and attempting to
turn it around _-ith enough signal strength to
give 193A a lockon, even though the antenna is
not pointed down at the nadir. Concurrent with
this, we'll be acquiring altimeter down-link
data out of the EDDU. Our intent is to verify
the functioning of the altimeter transmitter
and also the receiver and the data-handling
functions. And we're considering the possibility
of, during one of the EVAs on SL-4, attempting
to manually reposition the antenna and insert
the launch locks to regain its operation. There-
fore, as you may have noted, we're asking you to
give us status on the ready lights and a couple
of meter readouts while 19BA is running today.
Over.
PLT Yes, sir. I've noticed that and I'll sure do it.
And you're sure you wouldn't like us to go out
there and kick that once or twice?
CC Negative. What we're trying - What we need to
do, really, is to take a little time and get
maturity in the procedure and run it around the
management level before we commit to something
like that. And since we're not going to be
operating the EREPpackage during the _nmanned
period, it doesn't seem to be any great rush to
- getitdone.Over.
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PLT Okay Sounds like you came up with a readymade
answer there, Bruce. And we thank you for that
information and we hope that this vorks out _ll,
We'll make the readings at the right ime. And
is there any•more word on - on the nature of the
problem?
260 14 16 53 CC Okay. We need the DAS for a moment to enable
momentum dump. And there's no further word of
the nature of the problem; we hope we'll be able
to give you some after we get the data back from
this pass.
PLT Okay. SO it sounds like at the moment that it's
probable that the altimeter electronic transmitter
and reciever still wasn't _orking. It's Just
that the gimbal drive is not working properly.
Is that correct?
CC We don't know.
PLT Okay, Bruce. Sounds like your mike is stuck open,
but I got a little information here on our experi-
ment; that's M561. Got to S0C temperature last
night on hot 1 of 1002; and on hot 2, it was
reading 997. And that was at 00:50; and I don't
know exactly what time I switched over, but at
that time, it was in SOC. Over.
CC Okay. Thank you very much. And the DAS is yours;
we're through with it. For the SPT, si ce you
collected a sweat sample yesterday, we request
that you not collect the sample schedule on the
Flight Plan for today, on mission day 52; and we
will schedule another one later in the mission.
Over.
SPT Rog - Roger. In other words, this is a no-sweat
day. Right, Bruce?
SPT ...
CC You took the words right out of mymouth, In
fact, we had them in the Flight Plan f r yester-
day, but we took them - We thought better of it
and took them out. And I'm not sure you copied,
Jack. You mentioned you thought my mike was
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stuck open. What I was saying on 193 is that
we don't know what the status is on the elec-
tronics, and we're trying to find that out.
PLT I see. Is there any knowledge as to whether or
not the altimeter problem is coupled with the
SCAT/RAD problem?
CC Right. We think they're interrelated because
it's, of course, the same box, the same setup
that drives the antenna in both cases. And
we're pursuing the problem by running this test
over Wallops today.
PLT Real good. lad to hear it and hope it works
o t well. Thank you, Bruce.
CC And we show the TACS ENABLED in the hardware and
software and looks like you're all set for the
pass.
CDR You got it right. And does EREP want us to pick
up any of those other targets up there, too, if
w have t e opportunity, like 630A, 620, 635?
And, if so, which ones does he like the best?
CC Stand by, please.
260 lh 20 23 CDR Everybody's circadian rhythm seems to have turned
around by 2 hours.
CC Yes, we noticed that down here, too.
CDR Watch our smoke today.
CC Okay. Just don't give off too much UV, or
that'll trip t e fire detectors.
CDR Okay.
260 14 22 45 CDR Hey, Bruce, you all are attempting to get a
family co m set up for Jack and I tonight aren't
you?
CC That's affirmative.
260 14 22 53 CDR Thank you.
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260 14 22 57 CC One minute to LOS. Next station contact in
l-l/2 minutes through Honeysuckle. Out.
260 14 25 03 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for
4 minutes. We'll be dumping the data voice tape
recorder next st tion which is Corpus Christi.
Out.
SPT Say, Bruce, are you going to be on the day shift
tomorrow?
CC Let's say I'll be working the same hours tomorrow
that I am today. Over.
SPT Yes. That's what I was asking about. I - I
didn't think you'd want to change shifts right
here when we were coming up on another oppor-
tunity to c llect data over that garden spot
of the Southwest up northwest of us there.
CC Where is that?
SPT You know, your fav rite locality, Big E.
CC Oh, up there in Okla. I'll spe l it for you:
Oregon, Kansas, ouisiana, Arkansas. Over.
SPT You're homing in on it pretty well. You know,
you're giving that little locality so much good
publicity, it wouldn't surprise me at all if the
city council up there would even want to make
you an honorary citizen.
CC Say, Owen, we've been copying all your trans-
missions but there is a little confusion down
here in the Control Center. The reason I spelled
it out last time is that we're not sure whether
you mean Enid, Mississippi, or Enid, Montana.
Over.
CC And for the CDR. Over.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Yes, sir; if you can get them - Stand by, and
you might check and make sure the SPT received
our last communication.
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CDR He did. He's still reverberating from the shock.
CC Okay, Alan, here we go again. If you can get
them, the sites we'd like to have are 630, that's
630, 625, and 635, in that order. Over.
260 14 28 47 CDR Okay, I might be able to get one of them because
they're all sort of in the same area, but I'll -
I'll look for 630. If it's not there, I'll go
for 25. Thanks.
260 lh 28 57 CC Yes. Hey - Look we're responding to your request
to tell you what we'd like to get. None of them
are required. Just whatever you can get is gravy.
And we've got Just a couple of seconds to LOS.
Next station contact is 28 minutes in your pass
through Corpus Christi at 14:58. Out.
260 14 29 15 CDR Okay, we Just went Z-LV.
- CC Roger. We confirm it.
260 14 57 09 PLT Time: Alfa 1 is 48 percent.
PLT Is 55 percent.
CDR Bun hes of clouds.
PLT Bravo zero is i0 percent. Charlie zero is
2 percent. Delta 9 is 8 percent. Delta zero is
o f-scale low. Okay. 58:52 next.
CC Skylab, this is Houston with you through the
stateside pass. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce. We're off and running.
CC We like t e maneuver time you've got loaded.
CDR You like it, huh?
CC We like it.
CDR We thought you'd like it. That's why we put it
in there. Thanks for catching it the other day.
- Okay. It says time, 17 minutes. 52030 and 50021.
Seventeen minutes is what you see, huh?
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PLT I'll put it in again, just to show you.
CDR We put them in two or three times. 15:27. How
late is that after my pass? 15:27. Plenty late.
Way after it ended.
CC Skylab, this is Hou ton. We were telling you that
the maneuver time you had previously loaded is
good. The one that you Just loaded again is
also good. They're both 17 minutes. Out.
260 14 58 53 PLT MARK. READY LIGHT ON. Okay. For 191 - -
CDR Just - just redoing it.
260 14 59 00 PLT REFERENCE is to 6. 953 next.
CDR Standing by for a swath.
PLT Okay. Now, Bruce wants to know exactly when
the ALTIMETER READY LIGHT is ON, and we get a
stea y ALTIMETER UNLOCK and when the READY LIGHT
goes OFF. Okay.
CDR What a life those fellows have in Mission Control.
They've got it made down there. We're up here
sweating, eating those steaks. They're getting
to do all - -
260 14 59 38 PLT Yes.
CDR - - sorts of fun things
d
own there.
PLT Ice cream.
CDR That's right.
CC Hey, FAO, could I have another Jelly doughnut,
please?
CDR Yes. Flight Director takes care of him. Probably
going to buy him dinner tonight again.
PLT (Laughter)
CDR I would if I were Flight Director.
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260 lh 59 54 PLT MARK. MODE to AUTO on 190. Okay. Down to
position 5. On the time -
260 15 00 01 PLT MARK. Position 5 on the down-link box.
PLT Yes, I could use a couple of enchiladas, Bruce.
A hambu ger and a milkshake would be great.
CDR It would.
PLT But we'll suffer through it.
PLT Whistle over there to the Monterey House, sca rf
down some of that Mexican chow. (Laug ter)
CDR Mexican food. You bet.
P T Oh, boy. Only another - -
CDR Five weeks to go.
PLT Only a month to go, Big A1. (Laughter)
CDR Well, forget it. We're passing over land.
PLT Incredible.
CC Strange you should notice that.
PLT (Chuckle) At this early in the morning?
CDR Not a lot you can tell at min zoom when you're
not hunting for something that's big, I'll tell
you. If you're not hunting for a bay, or a city,
or something like that - or a road, you're - At
min zoom, you don't see a lot, or big sand pile,
or something.
PLT When I get back, I'm going to tell them how to
design the left-hand operation on that VTS.
CDR Think you're qualified?
PLT Yes, maybe I will be in another week.
CDR Ten more EREPs to go. This is number 1 of 10.
L
Nadir swath. Zero, zero ; that' s where we are.
We've got 30 minutes to get to the next one.
That'll be simple enough.
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260 15 01 43 PLT Knock them dead there today, A1.
CDR Got them on the reeling [?]. Wonder what we're
going to do when this l0 minutes of data at
45 degrees - the special 10. I've been trying
to figure that one out. I didn't know we could
get data very good up that far ahead.
PLT So we're finding out. Maybe that's it. That's
the check.
CDR Over the water again.
PLT Coming up through the Gulf. I'd bet - -
CDR Yes, the Gulf. Yes, if I were the Flight Director,
I'd take the crew for a nice dinner every time
we got a solar flare or good EREP pass.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Yes, go ahead.
260 15 02 39 CC You're looking at a description of special 10.
It has you 45 degrees up, IMC, ON, DAC, ON, select
uniform site near designated target. At point,
magnificati n max, and then track it to at least
l0 degrees downtrack. Over.
CDR It doesn't say that, see. What it says here -
That's what I'm wondering. It says, "Acquire
Ch sapeake Bay at 45 degrees." Okay, I can do
that. Now it says, "Trac for l0 seconds."
Okay. "Then return to the special site, 615."
I must be reading it wrong.
PLT Here. Oppsie daisy.
CC Roger, A1. You're reading it correctly, and what
we want you to do is acquire it, track it for
about l0 seconds, and then due to the proximity
of target 615, we figure you have to break
off there and try and acquire 615 and get data
on it. Over.
CDR Okay. That sounds good. I'm still wondering
what they hope to get at 45 degrees off
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Chesapeake Bay, that's the thing that puzzled me
a little bit. But it's okay; it's Just a general-
interest thing.
PLT Got something to do with the angle of rarefaction
as it goes off to the - -
CDR Imaginary.
PLT - - plane at minus infinity. That's it.
Remember that one?
CDR Yes.
PLT Remember that briefing? Okay. Here we go to
l0 in a minute.
CDR Nadir swath is nearby. Five ...
260 15 04 ll PLT MARK. INTERVALS to 10. And we're going to get
the tape burner on.
260 15 04 16 PLT MARK. MODE to READY.
CDR Less than a minute away to the swath.
PLT Record Alfa 2 and Charlie 4. Tape motion light
is doing right. Just like what we want to see.
Okay. Alfa 2 is 51 percent, Charlie 4 is 70 per-
cent. I seem to read them a lot.
260 15 0L 34 CDR But he has a need to know.
PLT Seven minutes next. Boy, a lot of hands-in-the-
pocket routine this morning. Okay.
CDR 04:43, I've got a few seconds. 05:08;
We're still over t e Gulf. We're approaching
the coast of Florida, I think. Yes, we are -
no, no. Yes, Florida, Just below Alabama.
PLT That's a boy! He always knows where he's at.
CDR Yes, I used to land there; there's Tynda]] and
those places. 05:08, CAMERA's on. Turned it on
a little bit early. Okay, we're nadir swathing
- and we Justran into some overcastclouds. Then
you go to 622, Jack. Nadir swath now entered
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the clear area. That was J st a small, localized
overcast area; didn't look like a t understorm.
We're clear, now we're going to scattered. We're
looking for 06:22.
PLT Put it on them, A1. Put it on them.
CDR Yes, I got it right on them. A lot of them there.
06:22. This is going to make history, this one.
How's your circadian rhythm?
PLT Going in circles.
CDR Ok y.
PLT You know what that means?
CDR Uh-uh.
PLT Makes you want to go to bed as soon as you get up.
(La ug ht er )
260 15 06 07 CDR 06:22, we're there.
PLT Yesh, you have that problem up here, too.
CDR 06:22.
PLT I don't think I've got up yet. I feel pretty good.
CDR Yes, 06:17. We've got 5 seconds of swathing.
PLT Okay, get off of that swath and get on the site.
CDR I've had it with swathing.
PLT Go man.
CDR Okay.
CDR Four - be 5.6 and left 0.01.
PLT Let's pick up this real stuff.
260 15 06 31 CDR 45.6 is right there, left 0.1, and I think so, and
it's 6.52.
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PLT They can see it down there. They got their fingers
in their ears saying, "Oh, no. Here those gu s
go again." Why don't - -
DDR It's a little cloudy down there.
PLT - - they keep their big mouths shut.
CC You're oh so right.
PLT (Laughter) Never lose your sense of humor.
260 15 06 50 CDR 06:52, we're going to go on time.
260 15 06 54 CDR Okay, we Just went on time, now we're going to
zoomln. 06:52 - -
PLT Wait until it gets in the press he says he thinks -
I'm not thinking.
260 15 07 01 PLT MARK. MODE to CHECK. You thought I was going to
miss that one, didn't you?
CDR Well, it's cloudy. I can't see anything. Just
l ok around.
LT Alfa 2 and Charlie 4 are behaving the same as they
were and ... --
CDR If I didn't know better I'd think I was doping off.
We've got it. We've got something.
LT We're really wearing out this tape. I hope the
tape lasts.
CDR Let's try to get a different filter. That won't
work. Okay, now I think we've got Chesapeake Bay.
It's so hazy I can't tell, Bruce. I'll take so e
data on it right now. Now I'm going to go back to
the shore line, but I can't make out any, I can't
make out - it enough to know what I've got here.
PLT Wait until I say -
260 15 07 40 PLT MARK. MODE to READY.
CDR It s possible.
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PLT Okay, we're going to get the ALTIMETER, ON and
I'm going to watch.
CDR That's sort of sc_ething. It could conceivably
be the wet lands. This is ... - -
260 15 07 51 PLT MARK. ALTIMETER, ON. I've got a steady HEADY
light and a steady ALTIMETER light - UNLOCK light
_mmediately when I put the - -
CDR - - retrac the ...
260 15 07 59 PLT - - switch to HIGH, Bruce. Now the UNLOCK light
is out. UNLOCK light went out. Okay, you want
Bravo 9. I got about a - -
260 15 08 07 CDR IMC's, OFF. We Just went her off.
PLT - - 30 seconds to get all of this. Let me talk
to them.
CDR Okay.
260 15 08 ll PLT Bravo 9 is reading 57 to 58 percent, 57.5. Charlie 1
is reading 96 percent and climbing gradually.
Charlie 0 - Charlie 1 is now off scale high.
Charlie 0 is readi g 2 percent. Delt 0 is off
scale low. The UNLOCK light is on steady again.
I didn't see when it came on, but I did call it
when t came off. I was reading th d als when
UNLOCK light came on.
CDR Okay. We 've got these other targets.
260 15 08 43 PLT The READY light is out.
CDR What we've got right now is the targets you wanted
next, whichever - I don't remember the name of it,
but we've got it. We've got it right foresighted.
260 15 08 55 PLT MARK. MODE to CHECK. Altimeter READY light is
out. And the UNLOCK light is still on. Record
A-1.
CDR Now I'm going to be - -
PLT Record A-1.
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CDR - - I'm right - approaching minus i0. I've got
to go to a different place.
260 15 09 07 PLT Let me t_Ik to them. A-1 is 40 percent. Bravo 1
is 44 percent. Bravo 0 is l0 percent. Delta 9
is 7 ercent. Did you get all of that, Bruce?
CC Got it all, Jack.
CDR Okay. We got Block Island - we got both f them.
I'll tell you the number of the other one in a
few minutes.
260 15 09 3h PLT The UNLOCK light is still on. The RE ADY light is
out, Bruce, on 193 . Something happened to those
lights. Are you there?
CC I 'm here.
PLT Something happened to those lights while I was
__ readingthe dial. I could 'twatch them both at
the same time. And I think I recorded their off
and on, but not the exact times.
CC That's o ay. I think we're getting the data we
need.
PLT That a boy. That's what we want to hear.
CDR kay, that was it.
PLT 190 next.
CDR What we got was 630A and Block Island, which is
640A.
260 15 l0 07 PLT READY light is on on the 190. We're in STANDBY,
the SHUTTER SPEED is SLOW. The FRAMES are 1 and 1.
The INTERVALS are 20. What's next?
CDR I don't know.
PLT Eleven.
CDR I don't know but I got to go stand by the computer
in case we ... - -
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260 15 i0 20 PLT Same status on 193A, Bruce. ALTIMETER l ght is
out. The UNLOCK light is on. I can give you some
readings again, if you want. We got time. 39 per-
cent for A-1. Bravo 1 is 4_ percent. Bravo 0 is
l0 percent. Delta 9, 7 percent. Where were we?
Eleven minutes coming up. The UNLOCK light is on
and the RE DY lighZ is off on 193A. And -
260 15 ll 01 PLT MARK. We're STANDBY. UNLOCK light is off. Okay,
down switch position off, down-link box is off,
gang.
260 15 ll 08 PLT 193 RAD is OFF. 193 ALTIMETER is OFF. ll:30,
next. Did you get them?
CDR Got them both.
PLT Attaboy.
CDR But - -
PLT You get the wetlands?
CDR I couldn't tell. I think so from looking at the
map. You couldn't see it.
260 15 ll 31 PLT MARK. EREP, STOP.
CDR It was so hazy that all I could tell was the
water, and then I could see a couple of points.
CC Okay. Good show. And our friendly Flight Director
down here says that he'd be happy to buy you all
a dinner if you can get him out of the Mission
Cont ol during S ylab h sometime.
CDR No, we want him to buy you dinner. Everybody -
dinner down there. Dinner for the Mission Control,
dinner for the whole team.
PLT That's right.
CDR You know, the Flight Directors are wealthy.
PLT Look at the Job they've done.
CC Okay.
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PLT They are.
CC We'll go along with that, but he's shaking his head.
PLT (Laughter) We knew you'd buy ... that.
CDR We don't need dinner.
PLT That's hO votes against one. We won.
260 15 12 14 PLT Who's your Flight Director, Bruce? Is that Hutch?
CC That it is. Good old Neil Hutchinson.
PLT Good old Hutch.
CDR He'll do it.
PLT Running the show again. Tell him to hang in there.
Hamburger and a milk shake and some enchiladas
will be Just fine, Hutch. Ed Fendell on there
_- today?
CC Negative. He's not on this shift.
PLT ()kay. He'd want lox and bagels and salami. I know
Ed. I ... saw him working Mission Control before.
CDR h0A. Getting ready for the next pass.
PLT 79 degrees on M-5 - -
CDR Nice Job of - -
PLT - - 61.
CDR - - pointing by EREP, by the way.
PLT Those guys never miss.
CDR I would never have seen that - that 's right. That 's
going to be my advice when I get back home. Is
if you don't know anything, go on the time and
don't move that little baby until you know scmething,
or else Just ake the data right there. Because
you're probabl going to be on.
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260 15 13 23 CC Okay. TIOA
nl
_you. We've got 50 seconds to LOS.
Next station contact in 5 minutes through Madrid
at 15:18. Out.
PLT Okay. We're going to turn this thing on in a
little while and tear up some more tape with S192,
Bruce.
CDR So, watch out.
CC Roger, King of the road.
PLT They get the message. (Laughter) It's new week.
CDR ...
PLT We're off and running. Yesterday was a drag,
Bruce. It was a real blJ,_mer. We didn't work hard
enough.
CDR Got to have something to do up here. It's getting
a little bit slow.
CC Well, we figured that for a day off we pretty well
packed your time line. Maybe we can do better with
the SL-4 crew, if you want to rec . ......nd that.
CDR Well, they're going to have to find their own thing.
But I'll tell you. The time line looks packed.
A lot of times it isn't, because sometimes the
squares are real big for a small Job, and vice
versa. And yesterday, for some reason, we Just
ended up with big squares and the - and the pad
looked like we had a lot, ut we really didn't.
We were - we're spending a lot of little - -
PLT No. I - I mean - It was a good Flight Plan, Bruce.
It's Just that we got through and had ... of time.
CDR Got through in good shape.
PLT Got a few extra obs ...
260 15 14 41 CC Okeydoke. See ou at Madrid.
260 15 18 41 CC Skylab, this is Ho ston through Madrid for 7 min-
utes. Out.
PLT Okay, we're still here, Bruce.
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PLT Where's the maneuver pad?
PLT Hear from - hear anything from Wallops there,
Bruce ?
260 15 19 h3 CC Not yet, Jack. Stand by.
260 15 21 16 PLT 22:40 coming up. Do after this - -
PLT Okay, I've got to get ready to get with it again.
260 15 22 24 PLT Okay, RECORDER is back ON. We're back with EREP 35
again. We're going to complete this run.
Standing by for EREP, start.
260 15 22 41 PLT MARK. EREP, START. Okay. Getting ready for MODE
to AUTO. 53. FRAMES ll, INTERVALS 20, setup -
260 15 22 54 PLT MARK. MODE to AUTO on 190. Standing by MODE to
READY.
- 260 15 23 00 PLT MARK. MODE to REA Y on 192. TAPE MOTION light's
working properly. Where &re we over, AI? What
are we taking data over? O., where are we?
CC Looks like you're over France.
PLT Okay, good. Check the grapes down there.
PLT That noise is me chewing lemon drops, Bruce.
CC Okay, Jack. Be careful you don't break your teeth
on them or Owen is liable to have some on-the-Job
training with the IMSS kit.
PLT Uh uh. He 's too dangerous, I know him.
SPT That's okay by me.
260 15 23 51 PLT MODE to CHECK. That's why we all took that train-
ing. It motivates us all to stay well.
PLT The big O. isn't going to work on me until he lets
me trim his mustache.
CDR We'll have some good data on those cb's you were
lookingfortheotherday.
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260 15 24 47 PLT MARK. MDDE, READY on 192. TAPE MOTION light back
on .
260 15 2h 57 CC 45 seconds to LOS. Next station contact is through
Honeysuckle in _0 minutes at 16:04. Out.
PLT Okay, Bruce, see you there. Thank you.
PLT Let's hear it for the Fight [sic] Director. Every-
body stand up and give him a yell down there.
CDR The Fight [sic] Director.
CC And now you hear the sound of silence.
PLT Boy, he's going to get you guys.
CC Out.
260 15 25 36 PLT I heard them all laughing down there. You can't
fool me. Even I could hear that.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
260 16 05 28 CC Skylab, this is Houston; AOS and 45 seconds to
LOS. Short pass here at Honeysuckle. Two
quick messages, one for the SPT. You may want
to turn off the fire sensors when you run S063
here in a couple of minutes, back on when you
finish, We're looking - -
SPT That ts already done.
CC Okay. And for the CDR, NOAA reports a type h
radio burst starting at 15:20 Z. It has
decreased and started back up. We'd like you
to observe on the WLC TV before running shopping
list item 17 at 16:17 Z. Next station contact
in 28 minutes through Goldstone at 16:3h. Over.
SPT Okay. We got th - that info about the type
burst. Didn't they ever see those earlier ones
that I reported to you?
CC That's negative, O_en. And that was panel 529
SENSORS 1 and 2 and 530 SENSOR 1.
260 16 06128 SPT I already got them. And better check the rece vers.
260 16 33 39 cC Skylab, th s is Houston through Goldstone for
8 minutes. Over.
260 16 3!358 CDR Say, Bruce, took a look at he corona when I
first came up, and it appears that the west
limb has undergone some considerable reorgani-
zation since Owen looked at it earlier, several
hours earlier. Namely, part of the streamers,
the bright part that was up when the roll was
zero, th - that would be along about 3:30 or
2, at the bottom of that group up there, has
been sort of hacked away; it's missing. And an
extra streamer or two has been added down at the
to 5 position, a ray or two. So, apparently,
there may be something going on in that - be-
tween those two areas, which would m_e t 3 to
3:30; it's not visible to the naked eye on the
_ scope. Owen suggestswe do an EXTENDEDSTANDARD
for J0P 8, which we're now doing. And it's probably
got another 3 or so minutes to go. I'm not sure.
r_
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We're taking some long exposures on 56, shopping
list item sev - 18; I think it's 18. 13, shop-
ping list item 13 things. But I wondered if
there was anything you'd like me to do?
CC We're - -
CDR I'm kind of wondering if we should run another
EXTENDED STANDARD after this one ends, which it
Just did a second ago.
CC CDR, Houston. Negative on the additional run of
EXTENDED STANDARD. We'd like you to wind up
what you've got going here in progress when it
times out, and then go to the building block l0
as scheduled in the pad. Over.
CDR We'll sure do it. And I'm now looking at the
UV MON - correction, the WLC again. And sure
enough, those rays are even better defined.
The ones that were formerly at 4 o'clock, which
I've rotated now to 5 o'clock, and the ones that
were occupying the 2 o'clo k position, now it's
about the 3:30 are - sim - are a little it
different than they were earlier. So just as
soon as it times out which will be about
5 minutes and 54 seconds, then I'll press on
with buildi g block 10.
260 16 36 38 CC Okay, we copy. And getting back to the more
mundane questions of getting you all home again. •
We've got a question. When you were down in the
plenum a couple of days ago, would you categorize
the plenum as being full, or is there room for
more plenum bags down there? Over.
260 16 36 55 CDR I wo1_d categorize it room or more plenum bags;
there's plenty of space down there. I'd, also,
for - thinking on Jerry's flight, I think there's
plenty of room to go down there and string some
other string or something to suspend plenum
bags around in other places where we presently
even haven't planned. So there's a lot of room
down there. And the bags float nicely in a clear
area. And so there's Just all sorts of possibil-
ities down there.
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CC Okay, and talking about the time line that's in
the front of the Deactivation Checklist, what
we would like to do is rather than go through
and pen and ink a bunch of changes in time
there in the checklist, is that on mis ion d y 59,
when you get up, we'd like you to set your
watches ahead by 4 hours even, and tha 'll put
you on the time line for day 59. And when you
turn in that evening, you can set them back
2 hours for a net gain of 2. And that'll put
you in sync with the published times for mission
day 60, up until the point where you transistion
to phase-elapsed time in the co mand module, but
that's Phil Shaffer's Job. Over.
CDR I would say that sounds very agreeable to us.
We'd like to do it that - Just that way. Could
you tell me, now, a couple of things about that,
as long as we're discussing it? One, is the
Mission Control going to run a simulation with
this exacttimewith VanceBrandbeforewe do
it for real?
260 16 38 _5 CC Okay A1. The answer to that one is that we
have anticipated you, and we ran it yesterday.
We used your checklist, all the trajectory
stuff, and, in fact, the SL-3 backup crew with
Vance. We figured that since yesterday was
your day off, there wouldn't be anything much
going on over here in the control center, so we
brought the other team in and doubled up. Over.
CDR Y u're way ahead of us. That's real great. I
ass me that it came out pretty near like - or
nominal, with all the checklist changes we've
had so far?
CC Right. And it went very nicely.
CDR Excellent. That's one thing that's bothered me
a little bit ; I Just wondered. When we actually
make the entry burn, where is the orkshop rela-
tive to our field of view? In other words, is
it down below us, above us, right in front of
us; where is - where is it? By that, I don't
mean its position. I mean relativeto where
we're pointing.
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260 16 40 28 CC We're working that one, A1. We've got the
data here; we're Just trying to get it in a
form where I can convey it to you verbally.
260 16 40 36 CDR Okay, what I was thinking of was - what kind of
command module centered coordinates - -
CC Right. We understand.
CDR - - ,.. plus X.
CC Roger. We understand.
CDR Okay.
CDR A couple of other items you might be interested
in for sure.
CC Stand by a minute, A1.
CDR Get the com_ box here.
260 16 41 09 CDR - - and that is, what is the present time between
closeout and undocking, and the time between
undocking and the burn, the burn and entry inter-
face, and what's the length of the burn? We
kind of calculate it's going to be about an
18-second burn up here, but we didn't k ow.
CC Okay, how about running through those again in
sequence, and we'll pick up working on the atti-
tude in a few minutes. Over.
CDR Okay. Time from tunnel close-out, that 's when
we finish the check and take our suits off - and
right - no, I don't know if we take our s its
off then, but finish the check, take our helmets
and gloves off, and the undocking t me; and
what's the time between undocking and the burn;
what's the time between the burn and entry
interface - -
CC Okay, you're looking for the time from tunnel
close-out to undocking, the time from undocking
to the entry burn, and the time from the burn
to entry interface. Is that right?
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CDR That 's affirm.
CC Okay, we'll have those for you in a minute or
SO .
260 16 42 22 CDR Okay, no hurry.
260 16 4__;1 CC Okay, CDR, Houston. On the attitude situation,
at the time of the burn, we expect you to be
approximately one nautical mile ahead of the
workshop and two-tenths of a mile below it.
You'll be, of course, facing back towards it,
but pitch down about 15 degrees from local
horizontal. And since you'll roll upsi e down,
the closest description would be that the
workshop is somewhere down in the direction of
your feet or the plus-Z axis. It won't be
visible in the window. When you thrust, it'll
be sort of a - a skewed thrust vector, which
will not take you back toward the workshop,
but would take you - if you followed that path,
it would tend to take you underneath it and
behind it. Of course, orbital mechanics will
come into the situation. Over.
CDR Okay, that's good news .... we're thinking
about -
260 16 4_ 42 CC And we're getting the times for you now.
260 16 48 04 CC CDR, Houston.
260 16 48 19 CC CDR, this is Houston. Over.
260 16 4,005 CDR How do you hear now, Bruce?
CC Okay, A1. First item: we'd like to get you
to run some shopping list 7 Sun centered, not
to interfere wit the schedul d ATM operati ns,
and pick up a lit le data on that corona, reor-
ganization you were commenti g on. In response
to your qu stions regarding time intervals,
the approximate time between scheduled tunnel
closeout and undocking is 6 hours. Time from
undocking to the entry burn is an hour and
48minutes;that's1 plus_8. Andthetime
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from the burn to entry interface is
26 minutes. Over.
CDR That's a pretty good time line. I - We ought
to be able to do that one.
CC Yes, what we - -
CDR Th re's a question for you. In other words,
they want me to take 52 right now, and open up
and take data?
CC Okay, we do not want to interrupt the ATM
schedule. If you're in a position where you're
un centered and can take data, why, go ahead.
CDR Okay. Well I'll tell you where I am, per the
pad, I'm at stop 80 and REF minus 5. So I
don't know whether they - what - what they'd
like for me to do from that position.
CC Nothing, A1. And wait until you're Sun centered.
Over.
CDR Okay, that'll be towards the e d of the pass,
and I'll sure do it. Thanks, Bruce.
260 16 50 37 CC Roger. That'll be fine. And we're going over
the hill he e. Next station contact in
5 minutes through Madrid at 16:55. And we'll
talk to you there.
260 16 55 5_ CC Skylab, this is Houston through Madrid for
9 minutes. Over.
CC And, for the CDR, if you could tell us without
going down there and looking, we'd like to know
how m_ny plenum bags are presently in the
plenum, and whether or not they're deployed in
accordance with the instructions in the Activa-
tions Checklist for locating these thing . Over.
CDR They are deployed correctly I don't know how
many, Bruce. We've reported each one. And it
would be no trouble - Sometime when I got
15 minutes, I can pull off the lid and look.
But I don't know. Seven, maybe; I - I hate to
guess, because I don't rem_ber.
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CC Okay, A1, we take you up on that. Sometime,
in the next day or so, when you have a few min-
utes, take a peek. The reason that we're con-
cerned about it is that it's significant that
the limit do n there is seven due to considera-
tions of air circulation. And we'd like to
make sure we're not getting the plenum over-
crowed and cut off he ventilation. Over.
PLT Say, Bruce - -
CDR Also, they might want to res nc some of those
res - constraints. We got all sorts of circu-
lation down there, and my guess is that you
could put quite a bit more and you wouldn't
affect the circulation. There's a ce tain
amount of circulation, and you could move with
that rule, or, if the going gets tough, you
might want to Just say, well, one more isn't
going to make any di ference. And it probably
isn'tbecausewe got prettygood airflowdown
there. In fact, when you take off the cover,
it kind of pops out.
CC Roger; we copy.
LT Say, Bruce, I put most of those bags down there,
and I think there's eight f them down there
instead of seven. Yes, I think there's four in
each size. And the picture on page 3-11 should
tell you pretty much how they're located, but
we had to put, I think, about three or four of
them down there.
CC Okay; we copy. Thank you.
PLT But they're all located between -There's four
between duct 3 in the access cover, and then
four more between duct 1 and duct 2.
260 16 58 32 CC Okay; thank you.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
260 16 59 B4 CC And, CDR, this is Houston. In response to Jack'
description of how many bags are down there and
where they are stowed, I think we cancel out your
inspection task; and we'll take it from there.
CDR Okay.
260 17 00 14 CDR Also, Bruce, has there been any thought on un-
docking - to giving it, let's say a oot per
second up or so, so that we end up being able
to photograph the twin pole sunshade as we back
away?
CC Negative. Out.
260 17 00 36 CDR Okay, I wondered. I knew we didn't have anything
but X-translation, but I didn t know what thoughts
we given on that.
CC And the word l'm getting back here now is that
you're undocking at local midnight, so you wouldn't
be able to view the workshop, anyway. Over.
CDR Okay, thanks. That makes sense.
260 17 02 59 CDR Looks like a good time. We'll ease down to Sun
center, take the data, and then return to this
point.
CC Roger. We copy.
260 17 04 05 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 45 seconds to LOS. Next
station contact in 37 minutes through Honeysuckle
at 17:41. Out.
260 17 41 38 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Honeysuckle for
5-1/2 minutes, with some info for the EREPers.
260 17 41 56 PLT Go ahead, Bruce. We're listeni g.
CC Roger. Wallops Island reports that they did
acquire the signal on S193 from your transmitter,
andwereableto do so andturnit aroundfor
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about 8 seconds during your pa s. Your report
of the NLOCK light out i first proper ocer -
operation of the microwave portions of the
altimeter, we'll have to wait for the arrival
of data tapes fr_n MIA to go any further in
assessing the validity of the data handling
electronics. _he meter readouts for gimbal
monitoring on board appear to be invalid. Over.
PLT Okay, Bruce, thank you fo that report. At
least, it sounds like we got part of it working.
Right ?
CC Roger. Maybe there's hope for SL-4.
260 17 42 59 CDR Hey, Bruce, there's one thing I noticed. I'm
scheduled for 92, test 1 and 2. Test 2, we got
a checklist change for a message. Test l, we
just got a message. Should we plan to use the
message or is - was there a change that we did
not receive? Our message is ex - explanatory,
so no need, but Just trying to check.
CC Okay, just the message on test l, as you pointed
out. Test 2 changed your cue card, I believe.
260 17 43 28 CDR Okay, we got them.
260 17 46 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston. One minute to LOS.
Next station contact in 15-1/2 minutes through
Hawaii at 18:02. Out.
260 17 46 42 PLT Okay, Bruce.
260 18 02 09 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Hawaii for
7 minutes. Out.
260 18 04 32 CC Skylab, this is Houston. We'd like to get the
DAS for a minute so we can inhibit momentum dump.
Over.
PLT You have it, Bruce.
260 18 04 44 CC Roger. Th_.nk you.
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260 18 08 47 CC Skylab, this is Houston. Thirty seconds to LOS.
Next station contact in l-l/2 minutes through
Golds one at 18:lO. Out.
260 18 31 lO CC Skylab, this is Houston through Goldstone for the
next 8 minutes. Standing by for the CDR. Over.
CDR Go ahead, Bruce.
CC Okay, Alan, a quick question. Did you do the air -
airlock module tape recorder look procedure this
morning ? Over.
260 18 ll 34 CDR I'll tell you what. It took so doggone long to do
.. that BMMD urine thing that I didn'tget to do it.
I've got it sut up now. I've got the lights on it
I've got the camera pointing that way; and I'm plan-
ning to do it Just as soon as I can get to it, which
is about right now.
CC Okay, no problem. We're Just trying to X in the
squares on the Flight Plan down here so we can
keep up with your progress through it. With
respect to the phone calls for this evening, we
have you tentatively set up through Merritt Island
at 23:13, but have not been able to definitely
confirm it with you wife, yet. We have the PLT
tentatively set up through GIIAm at 22"14. same
c_mment with respect to confirmation.
CDR Okay, my wife's teaching school, so she will not
be h_ne until around 3:30 or so, Bruce.
CC Roger. I left a message with the maid, and she's
supposed to be home about 5.
CDR Okay.
CC And the receding pass through each of these
stations, Merritt Island and Guam, we're setting
up for a VHF comm check through the site, up to
you. And to implement that, we've got a couple
of switches we'd like you to throw at your con-
venience in the next hour os so up in the command
module. Over.
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CDR How about right now?
260 18 12 56 CC Okay. Panel 3, we want VHF AM, B to DUPLEX.
CDR Okay, what else? Are - _hose are the two?
CC Negative. One more.
260 18 13 17 CC And on panel 9, we'd like to get VHF, T /R switched
to T/R.
CDR Okay, I think I understand your thinking, and
will do.
CC And what we'll do on that is configure through
the site. And we'll just give you a call on the
air-to-ground on VHF, and you can Roger us through
the normal speaker boxes. And we'll log it as
complete or unset or whatever it is.
CDR Okay, that sounds like a good way to go. I'll
go up there and make that change right now.
260 18 13 44 CC And after we complete this, we've got about an
hour or so between the checks, and we're remind
you we need to undo this configuration before
private c_mm, especially, the panel 9 one. Over.
260 18 13 54 CDR I understand completely. But we're going to
operate on DUPI,EX B again. Is that correct?
CC So far as I know.
260 18 14 01 CDR Okay, thank you.
260 18 19 O0 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 45 econds until LOS.
Next station contact in l_-l/2 minutes through
Bermuda at 18 23. Out.
260 18 26 _ C Skylab, this is Houston through Bermuda for 3 min-
utes. Out.
260 18 29 00 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next
station contact, 3-1/2 minutes through Canary
sland at 18:32. Out.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
260 18 32 51 CC Skylab, this is Houston through Canary for 9 min-
utes and 45 seconds. Out.
260 18 41 48 CC Skylab, this is Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Next
station contact through Honeysuckle in 36 minutes
at 19:17 where we will be dumping the data voice
tape recorder, Out.
260 19 17 44 CC Skylab, Housto . WeWre AOS Honeysuckle for
9 minutes. And if you'll let us have the DAS,
we'll enable momentum dump.
CDR You've got it.
CC Okay.
260 19 18 24 CDR Say, Dick, how are you doing?
CC Real fine. And you guys?
CDR Couldn t be better. Say, I just ran the so-called
tape recorder look procedure, and think we fixed
this tape recorder. What has occured, I think,
was the tape came off the two capstans and the
two idlers that position the tape in front of the
playback head. I took it apart - or disassembled
it, cleaned everything up in it; none of it was
dirty, incidently. The pinch belt was in good
shape; it was not broken like the others.
Reassembled the tape on the two capstans and the
two idlers, adjusted the tension in the inch
belt, and put it all back togeth r. Now the
procedure only called for me to - do - two things
that - caused me not to do two things that I did
when I removed it. One, they did not want me to -
The heat shield and heat shield screws, they
asked me not to reinstall; I did not do that.
Then they only asked me to install two sc ews on
the cover that covers the whole business, which -
that's what I did. But essentially, my guess is
that the tape recorder is working. If it's not
working, I'll bet you, and we ought to maybe, put
-- it inandgiveita go, andifit isn'twe, can
take this belt off and put it on the other tape
recorders that failed because of pinch belt drive
problem.
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260 19 20 01 CC Roger, A1. I copied all of that. And I guess,
we'll think about it a little bit and maybe try
tape recorder again. It sounds real good; glad
that belt hasn't broken.
CDR You bet. Okay. See you later.
260 19 20 14 CC The other thing, A1, while you're close to the
phone, on the subject of plenum bags, we've done
a little homework here, during the day, and we
definitely can stow more plenum bags down in the
plenum. And we're looking at a plan to help you
out, and we'll get it up to you well in advance
of deactivation so that you'll know exactly where
to put the bags down in the plenum so we won't
disturb the airflow. Over.
260 19 20 38 CDR Okay, good show.
260 19 20 55 CDR You know, I'll bet three or four times a day when
I'm working in this workshop, I think about some
of the tings that you did, when you were following
this thing, that's made it a lot more pleasant to
live up here, There must be literally thousands
of improvements that could be traced back to
Dick Truly that we enjoy everyday, everything from
the head to the - some of these little fittings on
the side of the tool boxes or something. It's
really fantastic. This thing is - is made for
convenience.
CC Th nk you, A1. Appreciate it.
(Music)
260 19 22 I0 CC Sounds like y'all got that tape recorder fixed.
PLT Say again, Dick.
CC I was just commenting that it's obvious that you
got one of those music-producing tape recorders
fixed.
PLT I thought you guys were piping that in from the
ground.
CC Roger.
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260 19.22 58 PLT Say, Dic , I notice the RECORD light went out,
if you guys are dumping sometime during the time
that I was talking about S183. I don't know
exactly where it is, so maybe you could tell me
that my recorder was still working or tell me
where that I left off.
CC Okay, Jack. Stand by a second.
PLT Thank you.
260 19 23 39 CC PLT, Houston. We did - We have been dumping the
data tape recorder. We have not completed the
dump yet, and we started the dump, INCO says,
right at the AOS of this pass, which I would
estimate to be about 4-1/2 to 5 minutes ago.
PLT Okay; thank you, Dick. I'll repeat some of the
stuff that I put on the recorder about S183. I
remember most of it.
260 19 24 0 CC Okay, sorry about - -
PLT I notice my EXPERIMENT 1 RECORDER light is still
ON, which is a good deal.
CC Roger.
260 19 25 45 CC Skylab, Houston, For your information, the data
recorder dump is complete. WeVre about 1 minute
from Honeysuckle. Hawaii is com ng up at 19:38.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
PLT And I want to second what 1 said about your good
efforts on getting the Skylab shipshape to begin
with, and also the efforts of the people that
worked with you.
260 19 26 l0 CC Rog r. Thank you very much.
260 19 40 35 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for 7 minutes.
260 19 41 01 CDR D ck, we want to verify something, and that is
that we do both test 2 and 1 after 92.
CC Standby.
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CDR I couldn't hear you.
CC The answer to your question, A1, is affirmative.
We do want test 2 and 1 after M092.
CDR Okay, thanks.
CC Roger.
260 19 44 37 CC Skylab, Houston. Since this M092 is going to have
two vents associated with it, we think we_d just
as soon enable he TACS, both hardware and soft-
ware. We'd like you to do this for us. And if
you coul@ do it while we're here at Hawaii, we got
you for another 2 minutes and 20 seconds, we'd
sure appreciate it.
PLT Okay, Dick, I'll work on that now.
CC Okay, thank you.
260 19 45 20 PLT How does it look?
CC Looks real good. Thank you very much.
PLT Yes, sir.
260 19 46 05 CC Skylab, Houston, we're 1 minute from LOS. I'll
call you in 4 minutes at Goldstone.
PLT See you there, Dick.
260 19 _6 13 CC Okay.
260 19 49 52 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Goldstone for 6 minutes.
PLT Ok y, Dick.
260 19 52 06 PLT Say, Dick, you know, we were Just talking about
the thing we like most about these new hours is
that you get to go to bed early and there's a
lot more daylight.
260 19 52 21 CC It - Somehow it doesn't work exactly that way
down here.
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260 19 !3431 PLT That is eastern Washington and Canada up there by
the U.S. border.
260 19 !3439 CC Roger.
260 19 !5515 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from LOS.
We're going to have about a 5-min te break, and
I'ii give you a call at Bermuda. And for your
information, our TM shows that M561 has reached
its cool temp. And so f it is more convenient
to you, before you get to the scheduled Flight
Plan time, Jack, at about 1:30 or so, to start
the M560, you're welcome. We're not rushin you
to do that, but anytime from now on is okay with
US.
PLT Okay, thank you for watching that. IVd just as
soon start it early and that's what I'll do, within
the next half hour, Dick.
260 19 !3549 CC Okay.
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SKYLAB AIR-T0-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTION
260 20 01 08 CC Skylab, Houston. A0S Bermuda for 9 minutes.
260 20 09 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds from
LOS at Bermuda. We're going to drop out Just
a couple of minutes, and I'll give you a call
at - at Canary Islan s.
PLT Okay, Dick.
260 2C 12 05 CC Skylab, Hou ton; we're AOS Canary and Ascension
for the next 15-1/2 minutes. And info for the
PLT, I - I Just talked to Gratia at home and
we're all set up for that phone call. And we'll
check out the comm for the _mm pass when we
come around this rev.
PLT Okay, this will be a check before our conversa-
tion. Is that correct?
CC That's affirmative, Jack. The che k will be at
G_,_ this pass, and then your call is at 22:41
Zulu. And that's the next rev.
PLT Okay, thank you, Dick.
CC Okay.
PLT And, by the way, that tape recorder that I re-
placed this morning It had a reading on it
of 1510 hours. Over.
260 20 13 09 CC 1510. Thank you.
260 20 20 53 CC PLT, Houston. Before you get too far away from
the ATM panel, if I haven't already let you get
away, the - We see the S056 shutter still open
on the instrument. You might take care of that
for us.
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PLT The DOOR is CLOSED. he CAMERA AIRLOCK wa put
to CLOSE, and CAMERA POWER was put to OFF, and
that was all. After I had a READY light, I had
a FRAME DECREASE after the LONG EXPOSURE. I
had - I went to START and then STOP and decreased
it again by l, but what I'll do if you request
is to turn the POWER back ON and cycle the START
switch again, if you suggest that.
CC Roger. We think if you turn the POWER, ON and
then issue a STOP and then POWER back OFF, it
ought to hack it for us.
PLT Okay, now Dick. Maybe that's something they'd
like to research on their instrument because
fter the last LONG EXPOSURE, I went CAMERA
POWER, ON and it decreased to 380. And then
I went to ST RT for a couple of seconds and
then STOP, and it decreased to 379. And perhap
after the - the decrease to 379, the shutter
was slow in closing. And it may give them
a little bit of information for troubleshooting.
But I'll do as you say and see what happens this
time.
CC Roger, Jack.
PLT Okay, as soon as I went to CAMERA POWER, ON that
time, it Jumped down to 378; so I don't know
what their sequence is in there, but we did get
a FRAMES R_WAINING decrease; and is the shutter
closed now?
CC Roger, Jack. The shutter is closed now; and we
think that's a normal operation, so we're happy
here on the ground. Also, Jack, I've got one
correction to the EREP 36, C&D p d, for you to
make some time prior to that pass. We've still
got about 4 minutes left here at Ascension, if
it 's convenient.
260 20 23 28 PLT Okay, Dick; go ahead. I'm staring at it right
now.
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CC Okay, down there at time of 28:06 for S192,
you'll see it says MODE, STANDBY. We'd like
to change that to say MODE, CHECK.
PLT CHECK, I got it.
CC Okay, thank you.
PLT Thank you.
PLT You still there, Dick?
CC Yes, sir; go ahead.
260 20 26 20 PLT Yes, do you have any different pot settings for
M5187 Oh, I got it here: tamp, 560 and it's ...
t 665. It's Just down a little further than
I was looking. Thank you.
260 20 26 34 CC Okay. If you're squared away then, I'll forget
chasing that. We're about a minute from LOS
at Ascension. Carnarvon comes up at 20: 50.
PLT Okay.
260 20 50 27 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ca narvon for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Carnarvon for 8 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick, we're here. Thank you.
CC Okay.
260 20 57 45 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 2 minutes from
LOS. We're going to have acquisition at Guam
at 21:05. And, Jack, I think one thing that
Bruce did not pass up to you in preparation
for the VHF test at G_,Am is - is that we need
to be on the right antenna.
PLT Okay, right antenna. And what time was that
again, Dick?
CC Oh, it's coming up in Just about 7 or 8 minutes
at 21:05. And I'll - When I transmit to you,
he way we'redoingthis, I'iibe transmitting
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to you o VHF onl . So if you hear me, that'll
confirm that; and then we'll copy your VHF
down-link and that'll confirm a good loop.
PLT Okay, and I think I'v got an extra line here on
my pad, and that's J0P 12 Dog I got 82B
down for four exposures, but I've ot a skip
there. So I'm guessing they only want three.
a 10, a 40, and a 240. Is t at correct?
CC Stand by l, please.
CC Jack, what we want is a 10, a 40, and 240. That's
what my pad says and - But that's what we want:
10, a 40, and a 240.
PLT Okay, thanks. I got a repeated line. I got
two 40's in there, but I crossed one of them
out.
CC Roger.
PLT And, Dick, I put M560 on t e cooker at 20:53.
Cold 1 tempera ure was 22 degrees centigrade
and the pressure was 0.2.
CC Okay, Jack. Thank you very much.
PLT You bet.
260 21 06 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for 6 minutes.
I'm making this transmission on S-band.
If you can hear it okay, I'll give you a call
on VHF.
PLT Stand by i, Dick.
260 21 ll 16 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until LOS.
I'll call you at Goldstone at 21:29. And Jack,
there was one thing I missed, and I'm sorry;
I had it written down and didn't see it. For
the test at MLA we need to be in left antenna.
Other than that, we're in good configuration.
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PLT Okay, Dick. And say again what time that's
coming up?
CC The MLA site comes up at 21:35; and that's
immediately following Goldstone, which is coming
up next. I'll remind you again.
PLT Okay, thank you for left antenna.
CC Okay.
260 21 29 17 CC B ylab, Houston. AOS Goldstone for 5 minutes.
PLT Okay, Dick, we're still here. And is S056 still
operating or is it hung on filter 2?
CC Stand by.
CC PLT, Houston; SO56 is hung up.
PLT Okay, thank you.
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260 ZL 30 20 CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to restart SO56
one time. If it hangs up again, we'll probably
Just terminate it.
PLT Okay, I was just looking through my reference
detail on 56 and I was thinking of taking them
manually.
CC Roger, Jack. If that's not too much trouble to
you and you have the time, we'd like that.
PLT The way I read it here is - What he need is
filter 2, 88 seconds; then 162, 186, 176, and
3.2. Is that right?
CC Stand by l, please; let me look it up.
- CC PLT. Houston. R adingyou off all the filters
and in the exposure times probably is a little
complicated, and we'd be Just as happy if you
did a shopping list 13 for filters 3, 4, and 5.
That's on SO fif - -
PLT Okay I think I got them written down here,
Dick. I foundthem and I'ii run it off.
CC Okay. I do have - I do have the numbers
written down here, also, if you would like to
confirm them.
260 21 34 i0 PLT I already got filter 2 taken but 3, _, 5,
and 6 go 162, 186, 176, and 3.2.
about 15 seconds from LOS. We're going to drop
out about a minute or so and I'll give you a
call at - at Texas.
PLT Okay.
260 21 36 24 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS, MLA for ii minutes. I'm
tra smitting on S-band. If you hear this okay,
I'iigiveyoua callonVHFonly.
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PLT Okay. Reading you loud and clear, Dick. Let
me run this exposure. I'ii set up the next one
and be right with you.
CC Roger. And lef antenna is the - is the correct
antenna. I'm still on S-band. Let me know when
you have the time, Jack, and I'll give you
another call.
PLT Okay, it'll be about 20 seconds.
CC Okay, no hurry.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're prepared to receive
ATM TV down-link also, here at MLA.
PLT Okay, Dick, how do you read on duplex Bravo?
CC PLT, Houston. Read you loud and clear. How do
you read me? And I'd like to hear you again.
Go ahead.
PLT Okay. I'm hearing you 5-square w th no echo,
and the TV down-link ought to be up pretty soon
with the white light coronagraph.
CC Okay, real fine. I hear you loud and clear also;
I am going to go back to S-band for the remainder
of this pass, however, Jack, because - for
his pass, the left antenna, I'm told, is going
to get kind of ratty comm toward the tail end.
However, for Al's - Al's pass - it - It should
be a good one all the way through. So I think
we have a good check and I'm going back to
S-band. Thank you very much.
PLT Okay, real good. You want me to leave this set
up the way it is, switchwise?
CC Negative, I don't - I'd like you to go before
you leave up there, I'd like you to go VHF TR
to OFF on panel R, and on panel 3, go VHF AM
Bravo to OFF and then when it comes time for the
phone calls, just go right by the cue card and
it should be set up properly.
PLT Okay,on panel9, VHF TR OFF, right?
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CC That' affirmative. And panel 3, VHF AM Bravo
OFF.
PLT Okay.
260 _ 42 55 PLT That's about it for the TV down-link, Dick. I
can't drive it around because I'm taking pictures.
CC Roger, Jack, thank you.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. In about 30 seconds,
we're going to han- hand over from Merritt
Island to Bermuda, and we're going to dump the
data recorder at Bermuda.
260 _ 43 42 PLT Okay.
260 21 47 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS.
Ascension comes up at 21:56, about l0 minutes
from now.
- PLT Okay, let me giveyou the FRAMES R_AINING
then, Dick. H-alpha is 3567; 56 is 360; 82A
is 6; 82B is 73; 52 is 950; and 54 is 859.
CC Okay, Jack, I got that. Thank you very much.
260 _ 57 07 CC Skylab, Houston; AOS A cension for 6 minutes.
260 22 02 l0 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from LOS.
Carnarvon at 22:27.
260 ',2227 28 CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon for l0 minutes.
SPT Roger, Dick.
CC And, Skylab, be advised; I've - I did confirm
for A1 on his phone call and it is set up.
Jack's s the next site. I'll be reminding you
of both of those. And I've got a couple of
eve ing questions and with all th EREPs and
Evening Status and so forth, I thought prehaps
we might get a couple of them out of the way.
I had one for Owen and one also for Jack.
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PLT Let me ask you one, Dick. Do you want us to
maintain the configuration where we're in VHF
to TR on panel 9 for subsequent comm?
CC Stand by 1.
CC PLT, Houston. Nagative. We want you to - That
was strictly for the test, and we want you to
go straight by the private comm cue card.
PLT Okay, thank you. And then go ahead with the
question.
CC Okay, Jack. The other day I think Hank - I was
reading the transcript, and I th nk Hank was
talking to you about the PPC02 sensors - filters
that we asked you about. And the one we were
interested in was out of the mol - one of the
mol sieves that you took out on mission day 4 .
And in reading the transcripts, it' implied
that there was - that you guys are stacking them
in the container in a certain order. And we
were wondering if you could figure out the last
two sensors that you put in there, if you can.
We were considering going to CCB and perhaps
flying home both of them. And if you cannot
figure out the last two that went into that
stowage, we'd like to know that.
PLT No, I don't think so, Dick. I can probably
figure out the last - was this PPCO2 in or out?
I could figure out the last four or the last
eight, I suppose. The last four ins and the
last eight outs. But there could be no way of -
of knowing which one exactly it was. It just
turns out that we're ge ting all of the - the
old ones and putting them on one end and getting
the new ones in the middle, and as we work
towards the other end, why, we just put the
used one back in the slot we Just got the new
ones out of. But there's no way of knowing
which one is which.
CC Okay, stand by Just a second, please.
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260 2:_ B0 4_ CC PLT, Houston. I guess what we'd ask you to
do, then, is if you can figure out the last
four of the ins - If you'd mark them in a
special way, at least we'll have it narrowed
down to that. And if we decide to bring them
home, at least we'll still have that option,
if that's possible for you to do. The - the
other question that I had, I wanted to talk to
- I guess it's Oven, perhaps you, l'm not sure.
On this - It has to do with the UV camera
problems that we've been having.
SPT Yes, that's for me. Go ahead, Dick.
CC Okay. I've got a number of things written down
here, Owen, and so why don't I Just ive you the
gist of what the whole thing is, and perhaps
you can clear me up as to where you stand.
First of all, we had a problem that you reported
on mission day _9. And, for your information,
the shutter will not cock until a full frame of
filmhas advanced.And ifthebatteryis low,
it will advance either slow or not at all. We
were wondering if you tried to operate the UV
camera in automatic after all the f_]m was
exposed today. And if you didn't, the suggestion
is here - is - is that you try that, and if it
doesn't work correctly, you might try changing
the batteries _-lth in - with Nikon 01. Be
advised, also, that we have a - a camera timer
S063 mal procedure that's on a teleprinter mes-
ssage that we have not fired up to you. And that's
available, if you'd like us to send it up. So
why don't you just let me know what the status is.
SPT Okay. I don't think I'll need that, but I'll
tell you what I did. I'm inclined to think
that it was just at the end of the film roll.
When I - I tried to advance it, it would neither
advance manually nor would the motor drive it.
And so I - could also not press off or fire the
exposure. So I rewound the film off the cassette
into the original cassette and restowed it, as
I mentioned in the down-link voice tape, which
I guess you have. And after it was clear, then
I did operate the camera in every mode I could
-_ think of, singletimes,continuou ,and it all
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works perfectly. And so it looks to me like
even though I had _3 frames set, when it got
to _2, it was out of f_]_. Now, that could be.
I perh - I might've used an extra frame at the
beginning somehow; perhaps in putting the spool
on, I rolled it, say, a little further than
average, or something like that, and took up
one extra frame that way. Although, I wouldn't
have imagined that those cassettes were measured
so accurately that there wasn't room for an
extra frame or two on the end. But I've just
assumed that it was the end of the reel. And
it rewound norm_lly, and after the film was out,
the camera operated in all modes normally.
CC Okay, 0wen; thanks much. And sounds like it's
- may be working okay, now.
260 22 33 45 SPT As near as I can tell, it's functioning
correctly.
CC Okay. We've still got about 4 minutes left here
at Carnarvon; I'm not sure exactly what you
guys are up to now. We do have several things
later on this evening. I do have a few items
of news, I might - though I might pass up here.
It's a little early in the evening for the news,
but I thought you might like to hear them.
SPT Why don't you go ahead and take it, Dick.
CC Okay. The United Auto Workers Union has
reached a tentative agreement on a new contract
with the Chrysler Corporation. And a strike
by about ll2,000 workers began on Friday and
possibly will be over very shortly. In Lakewood,
Colo - Colorado, sextuplets - four boys and
two girls were born late Sunday to a lady and
are doing real fine up here. The - Bombs have
exploded in Northern Ireland and Britain, and
guerrilla Sympathizers demonstrated in Du lin
as the Prime Ministers of Britain and the Irish
Republic conferred on attempts to end strife in
Northern Ireland. News stories about Skylab
continue to report the mission just as it is,
and that's as a scientific bonanza. The details
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on preparations for return of the crew, both
on the ground and in space are being reported
in quite a bit of detail. And, as a matter of
fact, I'm - We're looking on the TV screen here
at the recorvery ship that is presently steam-
ing eastward out of Hawaii, and as t e days goes
[sic] on, it'll end up at the end of mission
site, to the southwest of San Diego. On the - -
CDR How is she rolling, Dick?
CC Say again.
CDR How is she rolling? How is she rolling, Dick?
CC Very slightly. She's steady as a rock.
PLT Very ood. (Laughter)
CC On the sports scene, the Houston Astros, Sunday,
_ defeated Los Angeles, 6-2. The Joi - the
Oilers didn't make out quite so well; the Gaints
beat them 3_ to l_. On the college scene, the
University of Houston beat Rice, 2h to 6, I
think the score was. And Michigan beat Iowa,
31 to 7.
SPT Okay, Dick. You- You know we've got our
personal physician - our crew physician out
there, Dr. Paul Buchanan, on that ship. And
I don't think he's got his sea legs yet, and so
we gave him some good advice before he left.
And that was to be sure and take along a
little handbag full of scop/Dex, to make
sure he got accommiodate and adjusted to the
new environment well.
260 22 36 17 CC I'm - I'm sure he sure appreciated that advice
coming from you guys.
SPT He even asked us whether or not we would
recommend any head movements, and we thought
only after al symptoms had disappeared would
that be appropriate.
CC Roger that.
PLT Did you say 41 to 7 Michigan over Iowa?
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CC It was 31 to 7, Jack.
PLT Okay, that's still good enough. Looks like the
Wolverines sharpened up their teeth this year
and clipped the wings off the Seahawk.
CC Yes.
CDH How's the Longhorns doing?
260 22 36 47 CC They didn't play. I checked, AI, and they
didn't play yesterday; I guess their first
game is scheduled for next Saturday.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute from
LOS at Carnarvon. Guam comes up at 22:)41. And
Jack. that's where your phone call s set up,
so I'll give y'all a call at Guam.
CDR Okay, and I put an extra something on there for
biomedtodayon thebikerun.
CC Say again; I didn't copy that. And, also, one
thing for Jack. You should start off on the left
antenna, Jack, and then swi ch to the right
antenna. And, A1, say again, please.
CDR I said I put a lot on there for biomed on the
end of that - 171 run.
CC Okay, real fine. We've warned him and he'll
be looking for it.
260 22 41 i0 CC Skylab, Houston. Guam for 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Guam for 9 minutes. And I
Jus_ talked to COMM TECH, and he was - He made
one call and just got a noise bu st down, and
he wanted me to confirm that you had received
his up-link.
PLT Hello, Dick, this is Jack. I'm reading the
COMM TECH loud and clear on VHF; he's not
hearing me.
CC Okay. Letmetalktohim. -_
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PLT Kello, Dick. This is Jack. How do you read?
CC I read you loud and clear. How me?
PLT I'm hearing you 5-sq_,s_eS-band, but we got the
same problem: a lot of background noi e, and
I'm hearing the COMM TECH and my wife, but
nobody's hearing me.
CC Roger Understand. We're working on it.
Stand by, please.
PLT Okay, I'll go back to VHF.
CC And, S ylab, Houston. For Jack, we'd like to
verify you on left antenna.
CDR He's on left.
PLT Dick, I'm on left. I believe that's where he
_ toldmetobe.
CC That's right. The word that I have from the
NC0, Jack, was to start on the left and you
probably would have to shift to the right some-
time during the pass. I can check again with
COMM TECH right now.
PLT I tried them both; and I'm going to give up
here, another minute, "until I get it squared
away.
CC Okay.
LT Dick, I'm still trying. It's the same problem.
I hear the COMM TECHS talking between Guam
and Houston, and I c n hear the GlI_ COMM TECH,
also, but he can't hear me, either.
CC Roger, Jack. Copy. I'm not sure what to say
right now. We're hustling to try to get it
fixed. We orob - we - Looks like we may - We
still got ab ut h minutes left here at Guam,
and I'm sure we'll go ahead and try to get the
MLA pass for A1; and perhaps set this up later.
If - if it's no Joy all the way.
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PLT Okay, Dick. And now Gusm is reading me, but
Houston isn't. And 'm hearing both of them.
260 22 47 24 CC Roger; understand.
PLT Dick, how many more minutes we got in this pass?
CC We got 2-1/2 minutes, Jack.
PLT Okay. Tell them I'm going off the line, here.
They can w rk it out somehow else.
CC Okay, Jack. We'll - Sorry about that. We'll
- If we can get ourselves squared away here,
we - And we will, we'll set it up for a later
pass.
PLT Okay, Dick. That'll be fine. Thank you very
mue h.
260 22 48 42 CC Thank you, sir.
260 22 49 56 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
Goldstone is coming up at 23:06, and I'll be
standing by there to get the Evening Status
Report.
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SKYLAB AIR-TO-GROUND VOICE TRANSCRIPTI N
260 23 06 15 CC Skyl b, Houston; stateside for 17 minutes.
CDR Okay.
CC Roger. I hear about half of a cutout conver-
sation there, but I didn't catch it.
CDR You ready for the old nightly report?
CC Yes, sir, I sure am. Go ahead.
CDR 093, 105, 168; 6167; 0121; 6640; 6.239, 6.241,
6.237; 5.954, 5.957, 5.954; 6.950, 6.951, 6.954.
CC Roger.
CDR Exercise: CDR, 2/35/5041, 3/15/Mark I, 3/10/Mark
II, 3/05/Mark III; SPT, will give you the informa-
tion later; PLT, let him give you the information
later because he's on the bike, too. Everybody's
exercising at the moment. Medication: CDR, one
Seconal last -
CC Okay.
CDR One Seconal last night. Sleep: CDR, 6-1/2 G.
SPT, 6-1/2 G. PLT, 6 G. How about a little
food log? Okay?
CC Okay; go ahead.
CDR CDR, salt packs, one-ha f, and one - add one
lemonade; SPT, two salt packs, add peanuts and
butter cookies; PLT, four salt packs, add one
lemon drops, one butter cookies, and one peaches.
CC Okay.
260 23 08 21 CDR Here comes the photo pad: M516 tape recorder
change, CI60, 04, CI52; BMMD/SMMD, CI61, 00, CI54;
M151/S183 prep, CI58, 13, CI53; M516 tape recorder
repair, C120, 05, C159; S183, UA02, 86; M151/S183
-- stow, C156, 03, C144. 35-millimeter: CII05, 39;
!'
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CX34, 54. 70-millimeter: CX27, 073. ETC:
CT09, 051. EREP, Set, W: 8989; 1182; 8708; 8087;
9857; 876 . Drawer A configuration: 07, CI58,
13, CI53.
CC Roger.
CDR 05, CI61, 00, CI54; 06, CI60, 04, CI52; 03, CI 20,
05, CI59. Backup, that's the back of the drawer:
02, CI56, 03, CI44.
CC Roger, A1. Got it.
260 23 l0 24 CDR Just looking at Denver and the Rocky Mountains.
They don't look so big up here. They sure do
down there. Okay, here we go: light Plan
deviations: completed medical inventory re-
quested by message 4605. I guess that really
should be a shopping list item. We haven't
looked at our Flight Plan tomorrow. I don't know
if they're aboard or not. And unscheduled stowage
item location change : now this is some drinks
from Jerry Cart's crew chow, so I wanted to be
sure to get it down; also, sent him a message
on channel A today. 562-F lemonade, from can
15-1, 16-2, 17-1, 8-19-1, and 21-1. So there
were essentially six lemonades removed from his
food, and he's going to have to bring those up.
260 23 ll 18 CC Roger, AI. And I show us about a minute or so
from handing over from Goldstone to MIA, so
you might secure this or let one of the other
guys read me the rest of it or - or I can catch
it later and whiz up to the - -
CDR ...- -
CC - - command module.
CDR - - will do.
CC Okay.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. I forgot to warn you, but
we're going to dump the data tape recorder at
MIA.
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SPT Okay, I don't think anybody's using it now, Dick.
And I think A1 read you all the info that you
needed and that he had, didn't he?
CC I think we were Just about to the end of it,
0wen. I just w nted to make sure that I warned
him in time for him to get up there and see if
we could have any better luck on his phone call
than Jack did. And so if there is anything mo e
that you want to pass down, feel free. We've
still got about lO minutes left in this stateside
pass.
SPT Okay. No, I think that catches everything.
CC Okay.
260 23 22 31 CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS. Vanguard
at 23:33.
PLT Okay, Dick.
260 23 33 41 CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for 5 inutes.
CDR Okay, we had very good comm on that one Dick.
Thanks.
CC Okay, A1. I'm sorry the thing didn't work out
for Jack. We have - About the only pass that we
have left that's possible to set up again, and
I'd suggest we try it, is a Vanguard pass at
01:07; that's Just about 5 or lO minutes after
your EREP. And the INCO Just told me that - that
the - that one may be a little bit noisy, but
I'd su - I just talked to - to home and I'd
suggest we go ahead and try that one. That's
01 : 07.
PLT Okay, Dick. I'ii give it a try. And I'ii plan
to do that at 01:07. And l've got something
that I didn't get reported because I didn't
have it done. Stowage-wise, I moved six blue
towels from dome locker 418 to the waste man_age-
ment compartment, and I got som exercise. Let
me get it.
CC Okay.
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PLT It's number 2 for 35/8684.
CC I'm sorry. You better - You cut out. Y u better
say that one again on the exercise, please.
PLT Okay, that was a number 2 type, and that's
35 minutes, 8684. And thank you for setting up
the co_m; I appreciate it.
CC Okay, I hope it works out. And if it doesn't,
I guess we'll catch you tomorrow, Jack. Also,
as long as I'm talking here, this is the last
chance we'll have to remind you that we're - need
to be sure to get a NuZ update. And the the -
the time is at 00:02. It - and it's on the ATM
schedule pad, but the - that daylight cycle isn't
scheduled for anybody, so I thoug t it might be a
little bit of a trap for you; 00:02 is the time
for Nu z update.
PLT Thank you, Dick.
CC And also, I think MONITOR 1 is still ON up there
and you can - When _you go up there to do la Nu z
update, you can turn off that monitor.
PLT Okay, would you like us to make that a part of
our powerd wn checklist, now, to turn off MON 1
as well as MON 2?
CC Roger, Jack. We thought that was on the check-
list, and I'll - I'll check it right a ay. But
yes, we - It ought to be on the powerdown check-
list to ecure both monitors.
PLT No, it's only MON 2 at the moment, but after you
check it out, why we'll include it as a pen-and-
ink change, if that's what you want done.
260 23 36 22 SPT Dick, you might check to make sure it doesn't
affect your ability to down-link TV during the
night.
260 23 36 28 CC Roger, Owen. Yes, don't make a checklist change.
We'll - we'll check it out and get squared away.
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260 23 38 37 CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS. Goldstone comes up at 00:42. And we do
have the med conference scheduled at Goldstone
that I think it's been arranged that 0wen was
going to do for us. Also, we'll give you a
"gotcha" on that powerdo n. We were thinking
about the powerdo_m for EREP cue card that does
have MON 1 on it, but your pad said powerdown
for unattended. So it was powered down - The
C&D was closed out properly. I'll give you a
call at Goldstone.
PLT So you still want MON l, OFF. Right?
CC That's affirmative. We do want MON l, OFF.
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