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CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Canary for

the next 7 minutes.
SC Okay.
SC Hey, Dick.
CC Go ahead.
SC That amp-hour integrator circuit breaker
is closed. Why did you ask if it was open?
CC Stand by i
SC Well, I assume that maybe your valves
went to zero on that, but ours are reading good up here. All the
amp-hour meters except number 8, which I reset for you, but It looks
good on board.
CC Roger. Number 8 was the only one that
we saw reset to zero, and we just wanted you to check it for us.
SC I thought you wanted me to check number 7.
CC Negative. Maybe I said it wrong. It was
8 we wanted.
SC Yeah. Well, it's closed now. You remember
I reported that the first day or so that I inadvertently opened
that circuit breaker.
CC Roger. Understand. It's in the configura-

tion we wanted now, Paul.
SC Okay. Looks like you guys got a pretty good
charge on number 7 yesterday.
CC Yes, sir; i00 percent.
SC I saw that. You want to believe the
secondary instead of the primary.
CC That's affirmative. That's what we did.
SC Houston, SPT. I've got a couple of
medical questions for you.
CC Go ahead.
SC Okay. Number i; you sent me a pad for
a M133 temp check tonight. Now I have two questions about that.
One; in general, I'd llke to be reminded how many total repeti-
tions of M133 are in this flight. The spacing is a little blt
heavier here than I thought it was going to be. Number 2; the
temp check looks as if it's the same thing I did the first night
out. Here's a temp from the sleep compartment, report on its
condition and find out that it didn't hack it. I wonder if you're
really interested in doing it over again, and this losing another
its day of data.
CC Roger, Joe. Stand by.
SC Okay. And while you're working on that
one, we also received a message to reduce the top workloads in
our M171. And I realize th_ I ma_e a_ s_eech several days ago
about the heat and the Ine_clency up h_re. The temperature has since
dropped to essentially normal. And we've acllmatlzed to it perfectly.
We're (garble) learning how to rlde the bike, although we haven't
seen giving you the MI71 corrected numbers. Nothing's come back
up to us yet from the ground. And I'd llke to see it. Our new data
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on board indicates that the decreases might be too much, especially

in the case of the SPT and the CDR. The PLT is probably okay
because the higher the workload, the greater the zero g factor
becomes. But we'd like to counter recommend to our MI71 PI friends.
that Pete go to 140 instead of 125. And that I go to 170 instead of
155. We can finish the protocol there, and I think they'll get more
data if we're a little above our 75 percent work rate than if we're
definitely below it. Over.
CC Roger, Joe. Understand. Why don't you
let us consider that one and we'll get back to you.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds
from LOS near Canary. We're going to see you at Honeysuckle at
13:11.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Space station
Skylab has gone over the hill from Canary Island and Madrid
Tracking Station. Next station in 35 minutes will be Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. The calculated average ambient temperature in
the Skylab space station, this morning is 76.5 degrees Fahrenheit
getting more comfortable every day. The electrical power situa-
tion remains unchanged with charger battery and regulator modules
numbers 3 and 15 still off llne. Current state of charge, average
battery state of charge is 71.2 percent, on the 16 batteries
functioning properly. Back in 34 minutes for the Honeysuckle
pass. 12:37 Greenwich mean time this is Skylab Control.
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SL-II MC-501/I
f-_ Time: 08:10 CDT
6/4/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 13:10 Greenwich

mean time. About 50 seconds now from acquisition at Honey-
suckle. Standing by for the Honeysuckle pass, which is about
9-1/2 minutes long; Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Honeysuckle
for the next 9 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
SC Hey, Dick. Ask the EREP guys if I have to
turn the EREP COOLER to FLOW for this 192 checkout. Will
you, please?
CC Affirmative. I will.
CC And, Skylab, while we're getting that answer,
I've got a couple of answers on a couple of questions for -
that Joe asked. First of all, on the M133 scheduling for this
mission, we've already accomplished four runs of it. We've
got nine more to go, for a total of thirteen. And originally
prior to flying this flight, we had scheduled fifteen; so after
this run that's coming up this evening, I think, we will start
going to alternate days. And the total for the mission will
be 13. Also, on the question of the sleep cap, what we're
Just trying to ascertain is whether or not those sleep caps
that were launched down in $913 - or that sleep compartment
locker are any good or not because if they are not, we prob-
ably are going to have to fly up another package on the com-
mand module. And the - about the only difference in this
particular procedure is is that we would like to go through the
caps and get a very good check on them before using them, and
so we will not lose the night's data. Out.
SC Okay, Houston. What happened the first
night was that I extracted the cap from 913 and it's appearance
wasn't right. The electrode sponges were soft, and as if
they had some gas in them. By putting the cap on, the sponges
were a lltte drier than normal, but I did get a good checkout.
I got six green lights. And by morning the six green lights
had disappeared enough to apparently destroy much of that
night's data. And it's just that - I was just questioning
whether the PI wants to run that risk again because that's
probably what'll happen. I have an alternate suggestion,
which is that I try and doctor the sponges before I put them
on by inserting KY Jelly or Vaseline or something from the
IMSS and - to try and make them last.
CC Roger, Joe. No, we don't particularly
want you to have to use jelly or doctor them up. We'd prefer
to go ahead and use the Skylab III caps before having to do
that.
SC Okay. There is a definite difference in

appearance and moisture content between the two groups of
caps. And we already know that.
CC Roger. I understand.
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SC Okay, and I'Ii go it one more night and

see what happens.
CC Okay. Thank you, sir. And in answer
to the PLT's question: affirmative. We would llke to go
to FLOW on EREP COOLER in order to do that S192 alignment check.
SC Okay.
SC Oh no, for their information, Dick -
For their information, the four large thumbscrews I did
check during verification; they were all tight. The four
small thumbscrews that hold the heat exchanger plate on,
I could get - you know, just a little bit of a turn less
than an eighth of a turn. They were not really tight llke the
big ones were though.
CC I understand.
SC (Garble) EREP (garble) is everything I
expected it to be as far as difficulty in moving it.
SC And the comment does not require a reply,
Houston.
CC Roger.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. One more comment
about the EREP today. During the EREP prep, we'd appreciate
it if you'd check the - measure the tape remaining on tape
recorder number 2. And assuming that you have - you have at
least 1-1/8 inch tape remaining, tape recorder 2 is GO for
EREP data take today. In the event you have less than 1-1/8
inches remaining, switch over to tape recorder number i, and
it's already loaded, and use that for the data take.
SC Okay, we'll take a look right now.
CC Okay.
SC It's going to be close. I'm not sure,
but I think we may have enough.
SC Yeah, I'm going to get a tape to get the
measure.
CC Okay. We think you should, too, Pete.
But we just wan_ to make sure.
SC And the S183 is off and running on time.
CC Roger.
SC Houston, how would you go for an inch and
a quarter?
CC Roger. We're at GO with that. Thank you
much. And, Skylab; Houston. We're about 45 seconds from
LOS. We're going to see you at Hawaii at 13:31, and he
advised we are going to dump the data tape recorder at Hawaii.
mean time. Next station - Hawaii in 9 minutes. Later on
in the morning, the Skylab crew will conduct Earth resources
experiment package survey run n,_, er 4 for ,this mission,

along groundtrack 19. And a fairly extensilve list of task
and sites, specific discipline task and locations have been
lined out for the Skylab crew this morning. In the first
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category, the so-called targets of opportunity are for

gathering data for local and other government agencies for
river, coastal erosion_ seepage around dams, for example,
marine ecology; how it's affected by coastal interface;
land use and the local water table in several locations
across the country: Powder River Basin in Wyoming and Montana,
the Mississippi River, northeast Alabama, Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands, the Platte River, Omaha, Nebraska, Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, and Lincoln, Nebraska. In the geological
category, associated with this, will be scanned and photo-
graphed soil erosion and volcanic activity, faults, infor-
mation gathered for potential mineral exploration in highway
engineering in Wyoming, in general, and then specifically in
the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming and Montana. The sea surface
state in the North Atlantic toward the end of the pass will
be surveyed by the EREP instrumentation. Then the Skylab
altimeter will be calibrated with part of the run after the
Atlantic shoreline is crossed. In the 500 series of task
sites, which are mainly related to meteorology, cloud heights
and various types of clouds will he photographed and an at-
tempt made to relate these cloud heights to specific weather
systems over the continental United States. The 600 series
of task sites for today are aimed toward gathering data
on coastal geology, specifically the location of gravel
deposits, survey of marine life distribution, and evaluating
the Earth resources survey instrumentation for oceanic survey
work, such as water depths, survey of coastal wetlands and
marshs for the ecological impact significance. The specific
sites are Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands offshore platforms
or shelves, and the coastline of South Carolina and Georgia.
Moving on into the 700 series of tasks - these are primarily
hardware development and evaluation of the performance of
remote sensing techniques and instrumentation. Specific
sites are the Puerto Rican trench, Black Hills of South Dakota,
and the Omaha, Nebraska region. And the 800 series, which
looks at the ecological affects of strip mining and evaluates
remote sensing as a technique for measuring changes in urban
populations since the most recent United States census in
1970. And the specific sites for this series are Holt County,
Nebraska; the so-called Indiana test site, where the strip
mining is involved; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Atlanta, Georgia.
We're 3 minutes away from Hawaii acqnisiton; so why don't
we just stay up for acquisition from that site. And since
the gap between Hawaii and Goldstone is rather brief, we'll
just stay up all the way across the States on this particular
orbit, which is number 301. At 13:28, standing by for Hawaii
and stateside; this Skylab Control.
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Time: 08:28 CDT
6/4/73
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 9 minutes.

CC SPT, Houston.
SC Go ahead.
CC We have a one time message here on the
caution and warning. We're going to turn down the canister
fluid loop for power conservation. Prior to this we want
you on panel 207 to PUMP DELTA-P, OFF. COOLANT TEMPERATURE,
OFF. HEATER TEMPERATURE, OFF.
SC On 207 you want to inhibit DELTA-P,
COOLANT TEMP and HEATER TEMP. Is that right?
CC That's it; on caution and warning AM 207
panel.
SC Roger, Houston. And will this affect
ATM operations at all this morning?
CC Negative.
SC How long are you going to leave the loop
down?
CC It'll be down approximately 2 hours.
SPT, your message was delivered and appreciated and acknowledged.
SC Okay. Houston how much time you got?
CC About 7 minutes.
SC Okay. I just want to make clear that
I'm in a process of doing the - for the EREP guys - in the
process of doing their 192 alignment. This is the third time we
have done all these procedures, and I just want us to be
sure that they realize that messing with that stinking visible
focus ring may cause us to lose the whole ball of wax.
We'll go ahead and we'll try it as described here. I got
another question. Sometime today we'd like maybe a little
discussion on the nadir aligned. Pete and I have noticed that we
haven't done a nadir align yet, and we Just wondering what's
the rationale behind not trying another one.
CC We copy that.
CC Paul, this was really chewed over yester-
day on the ground and it was felt that this alignment was
absolutely necessary on both thermal and visible.
SC Well, I assumed that it was. I'm
not complaining about doing it, I'm Just saying that there's
nothing different in this procedure that we haven't tried
already. But we'll - we'll her it whack.
CC We copied that last one, Paul.
CC PLT, reference your _uestion on the Hassel-
blad film drive; the motor drive simply _ops. In other
words, you can't get any advance. When you reach the end
of the film, the signal may be either red or white.
SC Okay. Thank you, Bill.
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CC And, Paul_ they were curious as to whether

you were having any difficulty with the counter on the
Hasselblad.
SC Yeah, it stoped counting at about 22,
which we reported at the time.
CC We copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're still
estimating the change-of-shift press conference at approximately
8:45 in the Houston News Center. We'll take down the air-
ground circuit during that period and accumulate recorded
conversation for delayed playback. LOS Hawaii in 3 minutes.
Skylab Control standing by.
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6/4/73
CC Skylab, we're going LOS. We'll have

you at Goldstone at 13:42.
CC AOS, Goldstone 8 minutes.
SC Roger.
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SL-II MC-504/1
Time: 08:49 CDT
6/4/73
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS - LOS in approximately

30 seconds. Bermuda 13:54.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Estimating start
of the change of shift press conference with Flight Director,
Chuck Lewis, in approximately 5 minutes. He has just left the
Control Center and is in route to the news room. 13:52,
standing by. Still have about 8 minutes or 9 minutes remaining
in this stateside pass as soon as Bermuda acquires. We'll
close down the line after Bermuda LOS and tape the Madrid
Canary conversations for delayed playback after the press conference.
13:53, Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 8 minutes.
SC The numbers for the EREP guys are about
ready to copy.
CC We're standing by, Paul. Go.
SC Okay. The meter readings after the 30-minute
warm up: Bravo 3 was 83, Charlie 3 was 88, Delta 3 was 85,
Charlie 5, according to our dope, is in the middle of out of
tolerance at 40, Delta 5 is 13, Delta 6 is 40.
CC Copy.
SC Okay. Now another thing. I came back
turned the align switch on. The align ready light does not
come on. lwent back to the panel, opened the door, gotta ready
light closed the door, got the door closed, came back here and the
align ready light was on.
CC Copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The change of
shift press conference with Flight Director, Chuck Lewis, will
begin momentarily in the Houston News Room. We'll take down
the alr-ground circuit at this time, and tape for delayed
playback, the Canary Island and Ascension passes of the Skylab
space station. At 14:01 Greenwich mean time_ this is Skylab
Control, out.
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6/4/73

mean time. During the change-of-shift press conference, we
had the Skylab pass over the Canary Island and Ascension Island
tracking stations. And have accumulated slightly over 3 min-
utes of air-to-ground tape recording, which we will play back
at this time. And then come up again in 18 minutes from now
for the Carnarvon and Honeysuckle traeklng stations. Roll tape.
CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute; Canary, 14:03.
SC Well, I found it, Houston. I got to hand
it to you. What's I'm still working on it - What were the
preflights values of thermal alignments, please?
CC Stand by.
SC Just sing them out. I'ii be back down
on it and I won't answer you.
CC Copy.
CC PLT, Houston. The preflight thermal was
65; 65 percent.
SC Okay. The best I can get out of this
is 45. Now we got the same problem with the focus. Let me
read some knob settings to you. I'ii be back in half a minute.
CC Copy.
SC Okay, Houston. The settings are X 0.530;
g 0.510. And the focus is back all the way out, until it begins
to stop. The meter indications, when I adjust X and Z, indi-
cate a good focus. And as soon as I move it very far at all_
and l'm talking ahout 0.002, for instance_ the value does start
to drop. Now I got the same problem in focusing it. As soon
as I turn the focus ring back in toward the detector, I almost
lost it a couple of times there, and it's Just a flat deflection.
I can get a higher reading on it by pushing down; that is, into
the case on that focus rlng_ but it just won't stay.
CC We copy that, Paul.
SC Okay, I'm going to press on then and try
the visible alignment again, as prescribed here.
CC Copy.
SC Can I get a couple of words? I Just happened
to notice that twitch when I caught it, because you can see
where the focus is now. It was quite a bit out of focus with
that ring only backed on backed out three-quarters of a turn.
And we could very well - easily - what we obviously did was
miss it before in our searches.
CC Copy.
CC Skylab, LOS 1 minute; Carnarvon 14:46.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That concludes
playback of the Canary Island, Ascension Island tracking pass
on revolution 302. It'll be up again in 15 minutes for Car-
narvon and Honeysuckle Creek, Australia_ tracking stations.
Currently, the Skylab space station is in an orbit measuring
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231.6 nautical miles at perigee by 241 nautical miles at apogee.

Period of orbit - 1 hour 33 minutes ii seconds. At 14:31
Greenwich mean time; returning in 14 minutes, Skylab Control.
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Time: 09:45 CDT
6/4/73
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 9 minutes.

CC Skylab, Houston. The power load has
been less than expected this morning, and because of that, we
have not powered down the coolant loop and do not presently
plan to do that. This status changes, we will notify you.
PAO This is Skylab Control; presently the
ATM batteries are showing average state of charge and 87.5 per-
cent total capacity. And as mentioned by Cap Com, Bill Thornton,
the coolant loop is being left on because of - sort of surplus
of power, if one can call it surplus in this mission. 14:51,
standing by for the remainder of the Honeysuckle pass, Skylab
Control.
CC Skylah, we're going LOS in about 30 seconds.
We will see you at Hawaii at 15:09. Also, we will be dumping
the tape recorder at that time.
SC Okay, Houston.
SC Okay, Houston; be advised in the
process of attempting to tweak up the visible alinement of
S192, which there is no way you can do without putting loads
on that whole assembly, I've lost the thermal alinement. I've
gone back and starting this procedure over again to see if
I can find it.
CC We copy that.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We apparently
have had loss of signal from the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia,
tracking station. 12 minutes now to Hawaii. Pilot, Paul Weitz,
commenting that he was having some difficulty doing the S192
alinement in preparations for the EREP pass later on today.
That he was going to attempt another alinement. II minutes
to Hawaii pass, the final pass of the morning over this
station. At 14:58 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
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6/4/73

mean time. 50 seconds away from predicted acquisition at
Hawaii as the Skylab space station comes over the horizon.
It'll be in view of Hawaii for about 6 minutes and after about
a 5-minute gap, will be picked up again by Goldstone for
fairly solid stateside tracking pass_ Goldstone, Texas,
Mila, and, Bermuda. Now nearing the end of revolution 302 and
the start of revolution 303. We have AOS at Hawaii, standing
by for alr-ground communications.
SC Hello, Houston.
CC Go ahead, Skylab.
SC Okay, this is the SPT. Are y'all
ready for me to inhibit the TACS this morning?
CC That's affirmative, Joe.
SC Okay, that'll be in work momentarily.
Meanwhile, I'd like to tell you about some progress we've
made in riding the bicycle, so you can pass it along to the
MI71 CI.
CC Okay.
SC For their consideration in determining
our protocal, we have discovered - we have made an amazing
-- breakthrough, that the - Stand by one. That if you run the
bicycle with no restraints at all, you can almost achieve your
ground work protocol. And we'd very much llke to let the
Pls get - for the Pls to let us run one more MITI protocol at
our nominal rate to see what happens. Over.
CC We copy that, Joe. How far are you
having to lean forward? Wan you say a bit about your technique?
SC Okay. We'll, there's three things to
do with your hands. Obviously there going to take up part of
the strain. One is to put them on the pedals, - I mean on the
handlebars.
CC Okay.
SC Ideally, the handlebars would be longer
than they are now and would kind of sweep down around you so
you could grab them in the right place. Another is to grab
the center adjustment strap between your legs and hold on to
that. And a third way is to put your hands on the overhead
and push. And if you alternate those 3, you use different arm
and shoulder muscles, and it's really pretty good.
SC Hey, Bill?
CC Go ahead.
SC I Just ran my flight protocol block
5 minutes of 175 for a total of 20 minutes, and at the end of
run, I had a 151 heart rate. And it's much closer to ride
the bike on the ground. It's -'i_'s sO much better it's
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unbelievable. That restraint really is just a hindrance

to you, and we've had to use different buckles in riding it.
When you're riding holding on to the handlebars, you're more
closely approximating running rather than riding a bicycle.
When you ride holding on to the strap with the strap pulled
down, it's sort of like if yon see a cowboy get on a bronc.
That's the way you're holding yourself on there. Ah bareback
bronc, and when you ride it that way, that uses the muscles
in your legs the absolute closest to the way it is to riding
a bike in ig on the ground. And when you put your hands over
your head you get you can adjust your body back and forth to
achieve something inbetween running and riding on the ground.
CC Thank you very much.
CC Hold off on the TACS inhibit until
after the EREP pass, Skylab.
SC Okay, will do. And another little
note on the bicycle, Bill. We did a little inflight main-
tenance this morning. With the onborn lubricant, we lubricated
the squeaky pedals.
CC Copy that also. How do you feel that
a restraint - an over-the-shoulder restraint would work? Do
you think this would be more effective - a relatively fixed one
that was well padded? Not straps.
SC Oh, it'd be worth a try, Bill. But
based on the shoulder restraint we have, the big problem
with it is that it interferes with respiration. And the
waist restraint interferes with leg motion and circulation.
CC We copy that, Joe, and thank you
very much.
SC Aye-aye.
SC Hey, I think Joe hit the right (garble)
there when he said a set of handlebars that sweep further
back around you, sort of out and around your sides, where you
can close your arms along the vector that your riding the
bike and pedaling it at, which means that you're doing - We're
obviously expending work through our arms that's showing up
in the data, and that's why they're cutting our data back down,
in my mind, besides the restraint harness being a hindrance,
because you've got to hold yourself down somewhere, so
you are expending energy through your arms which is showing
up - not showing up in the bike work.
CC Copy that, Pete.
SC But you sure expend the least doing
it the way Joe Just described, _
CC And we'_ pass_ thi_ on and get you
a word back. And we're going LOS here in about a minute.
We'll see you at Goldstone at 15:22.
SC Roger.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Space station

Skylab now in a gap between Hawaii loss of signal and
Goldstone acquisition of signal. We'll leave the circuit
up for the next 4 minutes during this gap, and continue
on through the stateside pass. At 15:17 Greenwich mean time,
Skylab Control.
SC Roger.
SC Houston, you got nothing else right now.
Let me give the EREP guys a couple words on this alignment
j azz .
CC They're pretty interested. Go ahead, Paul.
SC Apparently, as you try to make these adjust-
ments, which are tight, the visible align adjustments cannot
make without deflecting the cooler in the optical (garble).
But apparently what happens over a period of 5 to 10 minutes
then with the vibration of the pump is that is the thing settles
back. Now I'd lost the thermal, I started the search procedure,
(garble) the pad over again, found it again; I got 42 to 45
percent back. That's what's going to stay. I'm trying to get
a nice focus on the visible. I'd blown the whole stinking
invisible and it was down to nothing on the right, and 30 on the
left. And while I was finding the thermal again, I looked back
to visible and it was back up to 80 on the left. So it's all
kind of a mystery. The machine seems to run itself; it gives
you an alignment if it wants to. Right now I'm using the drink
it up and go away for 3 minutes routine and hopefully we'll have
some fairly good readings for this EREP today.
CC Copy that.
SC Houston_ SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SC I haven't got a ready light this morning on
the white light coronagraph. And I'm not sure why. Would you
ask your people to look at it, please?
CC Wilco.
CC ATM says your discriminator is still
firing, and you need to go a bit more Sun center, Joe.
SC Okay.
SC Is the scale (garble)
SC You there, Houston?
CC We're standing by.
SC Okay, it's SPT with another ATM question.
On the unattended operations, when we power down, you guys want
the EVA auto door switch %n storage or in inhibit? I'm not
clear on that point.
CC Joe, want to leave that in inhibit.
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SC Okay, we'll change the cue card.

SC (Music)
CC 1'11 take it.
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CC I take it that is Conrad and his

wardroom ensemble.
SC Boo, Bill. You can do better than
that. This is identify the music contest. We'll give
a steak dinner to the first person who can identify that
composition.
CC Stop the music.
SC Let me ask you one more ATM question,
Houston, on H-alpha i.
CC We're going LOS here, Joe. I'ii pick
you up
again in a few minutes.
SC (garble) INTERLOCK switch is OVERRIDE,
momentarily. Over.
PAO This is Skylab Control. A brief gap
here between Goldstone loss of signal and Mila acquisition
of signal; about a minute away from reacqulrlng. Science
Pilot, Joe Kerwin, the long-hair music fan aboard the Skylab
crew, was playing a cassette tape recording of Sergel Rachmoninoff's
variations on a theme by Paganini, of Paganini; and a sort
of musical recognition quiz for the ground. 15:30, standing
by; 40 seconds to acquisition through Mila. Skylab Control.
CC SPT, Houston.
SC Go ahead.
CC Joe, you were going over the hill on
that last transmission and if that was about the H-ALPHA NIGHT
INTERLOCK switch, leave it on OVERRIDE.
SC It was and thank you very much.
SC Hello, Houston. I got an alignment
back (garble). I refuse to try to tweak it anymore. I don't
want another 45 minutes of mental agony.
CC We copy that, Paul, and we're in
complete agreement down here.
SC Okay, let me give you the numbers on
this now. Stand by.
SC The thermal reads about 45, and let
me give you the micrometer settings, which are different.
The micrometer settings are now 5156 correction, 515Z and
530X.
CC Copy.
SC The visible readings are 90 percent
on the left scale, 52 percent on the right.
CC Copy.
SC Can't you guys do something about
arranging better weather on the east coast? We haven't gotten
a good shot of that yet.
CC We're working on that one, Pete.
As you know, Texas sends most of its clouds over there.
SC We Just saw an interesting weather
phenomena up here - air traffic control phenomena. Right over
, ,.|
SL-II MC-509/2
Time: 10:28 CDT, 11:15:28 GMT
6/4/73
Lake Superior the_e must be a climb corridor out of one of the

major cities there. There were six parallel (garble) all strung
out side by side that obviously come up on some departure route,
and the clouds were such that the clouds remained, and you could
tell by the - went through the cloud how old it was wlth relation
to the next one. You could probably know the airplane spacing
and figure out how fast the clouds spread.
CC Yeah. We copy, Pete.
CC Pete, did you ever happen to see
anything of that tropical depression that we pointed out off
Mexico a day or so ago?
SC Yeah, we did, but it didn't look llke
it amounted to too much at the time.
CC Copy.
CC SPT, Houston.
SC Go ahead.
CC We have an update to the cal rock on
the pass at 18:24.
SC Stand by i.
SC Go ahead.
CC Put the XUV SLIT BIAS switch IN and
point to the following coordinates: roll, minus 10800; down,
minus 135; right, plus 150. This will probably position the
HCO raster and other grading scans for the first three orbits
of cal rock observations. And this change is because of a
shift in the area of observations of the (garble) regions.
SC Roger. Okay, how is the cal rock
getting along? Is it on schedule?
CC It's on schedule for 17:00Z lift-off,
Joe.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. Ascension at
15:48.
SC Bye.
END OF TAPE
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SL-II MC-510/I
Time: 10:40 CDT, 11:15:40 GMT
6/4/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal

through Bermuda; final Ascension Island pass of the morning
and for thq next several orbits. In about 6 minutes, acquisition
at Ascension. Skylab space station now at the start of revo-
lution 305. 15:42 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control; still
on the air for the upcoming Ascension Island pass.
END OF TAPE
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/-" Time: 10:47 CDT
6/4/73
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS, 9 minutes.

SC Roger.
CC And, Skylab; we'll be dumping the tape
recorder over Carnarvon, your next pass.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute; Carnarvon, 16:20.
SC Roger.
CC And have you had any luck on the primary
fine Sun sensor so far.
SC Haven't tried it yet, Bill.
CC Copy.
PAO This is Skyla5 Control; 15:59 Greenwich
mean time. Lose of signal through the Ascension Island tracking
station in the South Atlantic. Next station coming up,
Carnarvon in 20 minutes, Carnarvon, Australia. And Guam and
then the upcoming stateside pass will be the data take
period, starting at 12:04 central daylight time, running
through 12:16, for Earth resources pass number 4 of this
mission. 20 minutes to Carnarvon. At 16:00 Greenwich mean
time, Skylab Control; out.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC512/I
Time: 11:19 CDT, 11:16:19 GMT
6/4/73

mean time. Acquisition at Carnarvon, Australia, in 40 seconds
approximately; probably a little sooner than that. The crew
of Skylab space station presently involved in preparing for
the Earth resources survey pass which starts at 12:04 central
daylight. We have acquisition data coming in from all vehicles.
So at this time we'll stand by for the Carnarvon and Guam pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon, i0 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
SC Hey, Bill.
CC Go ahead.
SC I could have put this on B channel, but
they just started dumping a recorder. Pass to the followon
crews, will you. I've - the slip to soft boots, the sllpons
with the zippers up the sides. I've worn mine about 3 or
4 days and you tend to try to polk your toes in things and
under things and that_ and I've about torn the toe off. The
whole toe is worn out. So, if they think they want to wear
them, they'll probably have to bring some extra ones up.
CC We copy that.
SC Hey, Houston, CDR.
_-- CC Go, CDR.
SC See something was going down the crack
here, check something out for me. No - that's not right
either. Oh, never mind I found it. Forget it.
CC Okay, Pete.
CC SPT, Houston.
SC Yes, sir.
CC Your H-Alpha i camera appears to be
still running.
SC Oh, yeah. Okay.
SC Did that do it, Houston?
CC We'll be with yon in Just a second, Joe.
We're looking.
SC Okay. It looks like we have turn the
auto switch off every darkside. I'm going to have to
sit down and write a new sunside prep and powerdown cue
card.
CC We concur with that, Pete - er, Joe.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, LOS in i minute; Guam, 16:34.
SC Houston, CDR.
CC Go CDR.
SC Okay. During sensitometry advance we had
mall lights on cameras 3 and 4. And they did advance, in fact,
SL-II MC512/2
Time: 11:19 CDT, 11:16:19 GMT
6/4/73
40 frame counts. But to doublecheck, we took them off,

brought the film back, put them back on again and then run
the film, in fact, does advance. Put them back on, we only
had one (static).
PAO This is Skylah Control; 16:32 Greenwich
mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-513/I
Time: 11:33 CDT
6/4/73

mean time. A brief gap here between Carnarvon and Guam.
Skylab commander, Pete Conrad, describing to the ground some
troubleshooting he was going through on some of the SI90A
multispectral camera film transports. He had two cameras
of the array that were not giving him ready lights. And as
he went over the hill and he was describing to CAP COM, Bill
Thornton, the steps he had taken to correct this malfunction
in preparation for the upcoming Earth resources data survey
across the Midwest of the United States and on down through
the Georgia and South Carolina coast, and Puerto Rico and
Virgin Islands. Standing by for Guam.
CC AOS for i0 minutes. And, CDR, we lost you
as you were talking over the hill that time.
SC Houston, CDR.
CC Are you calling, Skylab?
SC Roger, Houston. How do you read the CDR?
CC You're loud and clear now, Pete. Go ahead.
SC Okay, C7 is only 28. Do you want me to
turn the cooler on or not?
CC Stand by half.
CC Pete, they want you to turn the cooler on.
Turn the cooler on.
SC Roger.
CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute; Goldstone at 16:59°
from the Guam Island tracking station. Currently, the power
usage aboard Skylab space station is standing around 3700 watts_
as the crew prepares for the Earth resources data take across
the continental United States. Average battery state of charge -
68.9 percent; and the space station just came into daylight,
so that number will be going up as the solar array wings on
the ATM begin feeding electrical power into the charger battery
regulator modules, and building the batteries back up. Thirteen
minutes to acquisition at Goldstone and the stateside pass for
groundtrack 19 and Earth resources survey pass number 4 in this
Skylab II mission. At 16:46 Greenwich mean time; back in
13 minutes, Skylab Control.
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SL-II MC-514/I
Time: 11:59 CDT, 11:16:59 GMT
6/4/73

mean time, about a minute away from acquisition through Gold-
stone. Coming up now on the Earth resources data survey for
the day. Beginning up around the Powder River basin in
Wyoming and Montana and ending - -
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for approximately
16 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston. How do you read?
CDR.
CC You're loud and clear, sir.
SC Okay, we're on VOX as EREP operator.
PAO - - and ending around the Virgin
Islands in Puerto Rico. Cloud cover ranges about 0.4 to 0.7
cloud cover along most of the track and 0.8 to complete cloud
cover in northeastern Missouri and western Tennessee. And 8
to 0.8 to complete in the Puerto Rico area.
PAO Skylab crew in the voice actuated
VOX mode on the intercom as they get set up to begin the
Earth resources data pass. We should hear them go down through
the checklist as they activate each of the experiments and
cameras through the entire 12 minutes of this pass.
SC ALTIMETER to STANDBY. I give it to
you 01:40. I need an AUTO CAL.
SC 01:30, EREP system START. Stand by for
AUTO CAL.
SC MARK. AUTO CAL.
SC We'll be passing my two (garble) in about
30 seconds on the right?
SC Definitely.
SC Yeah.
SC Okay, MARK. $92 mode READY. (Garble) mode,
AUTO. (Garble) ON. SCAT's ON.
SC I've had camera 3 mall light, and I get
an intermittent RAD/SCAT gimbal light.
SC MARK. 193 polarization 4.
SC MARK. SCAT. Stand by.
SC MARK. RAD. Stand by. Cross track contiguous;
X cross track contiguous.
SC MARK. RAD OFF. SCAT OFF.
END OF TAPE
f-_ SL-II MCbI5/I
Time: 12:08 CDT, 11:17:08 GMT
6/4/73
SC MARK. SCAT, STANDBY. MARK. RAD STANDBY.

In track contiguous. MARK. RAD, ON; SCAT, ON. MARK. S192,
Check. 84 MODE, MANUAL, monitors CI. It's reading 17. And 20,
I'll read it. MARK. 10:20 C1 to read 17. MARK. SCAT, STANDBY,
10:40. MARK. RAD, STANDBY 10:42. ALTIMETER ON; 11:10, C1
reads 91. MARK. 11:55, C1 reads 88. (Garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control. We have cen-
formation that the Harvard College Observatory Calibration
Rocket was launched on time at 12:00 neon central daylight
time from White Sands Missle Range.
SC 14:05 Cl went eff-seale, i00 percent.
It's coming back on at 99 95. S194 to check. Our mode,
MANUAL- excuse me 14:50, we're standing by for altimeter
standby.
SC Go over anyhow, Paul. And a_ intermittent
blinking malf light on 194. 192 mode, READY; ALTIMETER is
ON; and, Joe, you're standing by 16:30 to go FI.
SC How would I get a blinking tape motion
light? Yeah. It don't - no - yes, sorry. Yeah, I got a
blinking tape motion light. In high speed, 192 is running.
The interval is about oh, 3 or 4 seconds, off. On for
about (garble) 20.
CC Skylab, Houston; LOS in 1 minute.
Carnarvon at 17:58.
SC Okay.
SC 192 mode, STANDBY. 16:36, S190, ready
light's out Altimeter to STANDBY, AUTO CAL. I got it.
93 Red, OFF; SCAT OFF; 193A, OFF; 194, OFF.
PAO This is Skylab Control; loss of signal
as the crew of Skylab completed today's Earth Resources
Experiment Package S, over the Continental United States,
portions of the Western Atlantic, along the Sea Board and
over Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands. Skylab space station
starting revolution 304. Next station in 40 minutes
Carnarvon, Australia. At 17:18 Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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SL-II MC-516/I
_ Time: 12:58 CDT, 11:17:58 GMT
6/4/73

mean time. Less than a minute now away from acquisition at
the Carnarvon, Australia tracking station. We understand that
although the calibration rocket of the Harvard College Observatory
was launched on time, that for some reason it failed to fulfill
its mission and as we understand it, was destroyed by the range
safety officer at Whitesands. We have no further
details at this time. The CAP COM will relay this up to the
crew very shortly.
SC Hello, Houston.
CC SPT, Houston.
SC Go ahead.
CC They lost the cal rock, and so you need
to go to the no cal ro£k pads; that's 11:29, the beginning time
on that.
SC Okay, I've got it. I'm sorry.

CC Okay, and they'll hold for the next
four passes. There were problems -
SC Roger.
CC - - There apparently were steering
problems in the rocket. It was destroyed.
SC Okay, Bill.
CC By the way, the ATM data has looked
very good today.
SC Good.
CC Skylab, that was not just for today.
It's a quick look at S055/52 XUV monitor; says they're all
obtaining first rate solar data and will make a significant
improvement on solar physics.
SC Good deal. We'll do the best we can
from here on out.
SC Okay. Now get to your message. What
are you leading up to?
CC They say they like what you're doing.
Just keep it up. Yon couldn't possibly be getting a little
paranoid after this morning's procedure, could you?
SC You're not talking about that fourth
guy that wanders in out of the 191 alignment box, are you?
CC What do you call him, Pete?
SC The other two guys are convinced I'm off
my trolley. They say I even like the bicycle now.
CC Sounds dangerous. By the way, Paul,
and anyone else who was involved in that 192 this morning,
the work was greatly appreciated here and also at - from a
first look, it appears to have been worth the effort.
SC Okay. Wellr,,_lmust say, I was - as you
probably guessed, I was convinced we weren't going to make any
money, but we sure did.
SL-II MC-516/2
Time: 12:58 CDT, 11:17:58 GMT
6/4/73
SC Also, Bill tell the EREP guys that on

the - right after the A record - B record, there's a very impor-
tant message for them.
CC Copy.
SC It's my way of saying I screwed up,
and I'm embarrased to tell you over the open loop.
CC Copy.
SC Hey, also, time to put another message
on B channel for them to base - to the EREP pads for us that'll
preclude any more happenings such as what happened, and - Because
this checklist is just about unusable up here. It's got lines
through it. It's got latest updates crossed out for the
latest updates, and we are going to give up on the checklist.
Paul and I are going to sit down and write a card in about
an hour, and we'll make some recommendations through some
things on the on the pads that are good last minute checks
to make sure that we've got everything done. Okay?
CC We copy, Pete. Bruce says there are
some blank cue cards in the data file.
SC Yes, we've already dug them out.
CC Apropos your statement about Pete
liking the bicycle more. Are all of you finding any increased
interest in the bicycle?
SC That's a negative.
CC (Laughter) Copy.
SC I'm going to race old Paul. Six weeks
after he's back, they'll call him butterball again.
CC Copy. We'll be LOS in a minute. We'll
have you again at Guam at 18:13.
mean time. Loss of signal for the final Carnarvon tracking
station pass of the afternoon, coming up on Guam also for the
final pass this afternoon over that station. Skylab space
station now over the Republic of Indonesia. Ittll cross over
the Philippine Island chain as it sweeps northeastward on the
latter part of revolution number 304. We'll stay up llve for
this gap of 4-1/2 minutes between Carnarvon and Guam. At
18:08, standing by; Skylab Control.
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SL-II MC-517/I
Time: 13:11 CDT, 11:18:11 GMT
6/4/73

SC Roger.
CC We're going LOS. We'll see you at Goldstone
at 18:36.
SC Roger, Houston. Good bye.
mean time. Loss of signal for the final pass over the Guam
Island station of this afternoon. Acquisition at Goldstone
for a stateside pass; one of two remaining this afternoon
before the orbit moves out into the Pacific on the descending
node; 15 minutes to Goldstone. At 18:21 Greenwich mean time,
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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SL-II MC-518/I
Time: 13:34 CDT, 11:18:34 GMT
6/4/73

mean time. Some 50 seconds away from acquisition at Goldstone
for the final pass of the afternoon in which the Skylab space
station is directly over the continental United States. The
succeeding revolution will be tracked by Texas and Goldstone,
but it will pass somewhat offshore in the Pacific Ocean on
the descending track going to the southeast. We have acquisi-
tion through Goldstone of Skylab. We'll stand by for re-
sumption of alr-to-ground communications. The crew, at this
time, are in the midst of a meal period, noon meal, and may
not have a whole lot to say. Skylab Control standing - -
CC AOS for approximately 20 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC And, PLT. We have a message for you.
SC Go ahead.
CC The ergometer restraints raised some
questions this morning among the biomedical people. And
they would like, this afternoon, for you to run the PLT's
M093 with ESS, that's panel 623, EXPERIMENT ACTIVATE switch
in the MI71 position.
SC Okay. You want the regular M093
protocol and checklist, but just run the ESS in 1717
CC They also want the blood pressure
cuff left on through M093 and place the CUFF INFLATE switch to
START at the beginning of the 93 run and leave it there. Use
the your method of restraint, the one that yon found optimum.
They're looking atthe affects on the VCG and BPMS data.
SC Well, I figured that. I haven't
tried this no restraint bit, as yet, but I'ii try it this
afternoon.
CC We copy, Paul. Don't hurt yourself.
SC I'll try not to. All right, you want
the full 93 protocol and checklist; just put the ESS in the
171.
CC That's right. And leave the blood pressure
cuff on during that time, and have the switch activated for it.
SC Okay.
SC Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR,
SC Housekeeping 7 Bravo - 7 Bravo-3,
7 Bravo-4. Yuk_ Complete.
CC We 4opy. Complete. (Laughter)
SC Pete, there was guessing down here the
last time you had to pull t_a_ dut'y_,
SC On my day off.
SC Skylab, Houston; CDR.
CC We're still here. Go ahead.
SC Okay. Standing by for your EGIL stuff.
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Time: 13:34 CDT, 11:18:35 GMT
6/4/73
CC We're standing by.

SC Okay. I'ii grab it.
SC Hey, Houston. Ah (garble) OWS here is
CONTROL 2 CB, CLOSED, and it's staying CLOSED.
CC We copy. Closed and staying closed.
SC Now, I noticed right next to it they
had OWS radiant heaters i through 5 CB as OPEN. Did you know
that?
CC We'll check, Pete.
CC They're aware of it, Pete. That's okay.
CC SPT, Houston.
SC Go ahead.
CC It appears that you're in ACTIVE REGION,
18. They'd like this pass run in QUIET REGION, 3.
SC Stand by.
SC Okay. Tell them I'ii move. I initially
went to the (garble) they asked for, and in looking for good
cells, I moved back down across Sun center.
CC We copy. No problem.
SC Houston, CDR. The (garble) bottle tess
decay PORTION has been activated and we now have the 4 BOTTLE
VALVE is OPEN, and the 2 BOTTLE VALVE is open.
CC Copy.
CC Pete, we're ready for you on your pad.
On panel 200 the MDA OWS HEATERS CONTROL 2, circuit breaker,
OPEN. We're ready for you to perform that.
SC Okay. St' s open.
CC And we're going LOS here in about
1 minute. We'll have you Vanguard at 19:02.
SC Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC519/I
Time: 13:53 CDT, 11:18:53 GHT
6/4/73

mean time. Loss of signal through the Texas tracking station.
Skylab space station presently over the Ismas of Panama.
Starting revolution number 305. Next station in 9 minutes
will be the Vanguard tracking ship for the first pass of
the afternoon. From Vanguard to on around to the next
station will be Goldstone. Almost an hour, a little over
an hour actually_ betweeu Vanguard and Goldstone. Returning
in 8 minutes for the Vanguard tracking ship pass. At 18:53,
Skylab Control.
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_ SL-II MC-520/I
Time: 14:00 CDT, 11:19:00 GMT
6/4/73

mean time. About a minute and half away from acquisition at
the tracking ship Vanguard. As the Skylab space station is
now crossing into the northern portion of Argentina into central
South American continent. Flight Director, Don Puddy, at the
present time reviewing the - one of the initial cuts at tomor-
row's Flight Plan, which includes Earth Resources Experiment
Package number 5, survey track, survey along track number 34D.
Apparently we have acquisition through Vanguard. We'll stand
by to monitor the conversation through this station.
SC Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
SC I'm about ready to go ahead with EIGL-4
CC Copy. We're standing by.
SC Okay, Houston. The OWS block 2 breakers
stayed closed.
CC We copy that, and ground agrees.
SC Okay. That was from panel 613.
CC SPT. Houston.
SC Go ahead.
CC We'd like for you to inhibit TACS per pro-
cedure, at your convenience.
SC Aye aye.
SC Okay, Houston; bus - C&W bus i, low volt,
said TV closed and stayed closed - gone ahead and closed 2.
CC Copy.
SC Okay, it stayed closed, also. Going to 16:14
for the H. Make it H20, not HSF bus 2, waste management H20 -
no, heater's to right. H20 - heater closed, then opened.
CC Copy.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC521/I
Time: 14:06 CDT, 11:19:06 GMT
6/4/73
SC Okay, we closed it, Houston. And it

stayed closed, and nothing happened to C&W bus 1 low volts
or C&W bus 2 low volts. They both stayed closed also. And
614 HSS bus 2 waste management compartment, H20 heater closed,
is now open.
CC We copy that.
SC And while EGIL is looking at that Houston,
I'd like you to verify the configuration that I left the
circuit breaker panel in the command module in, panel 226. Are
you ready to copy?
CC We're standing by. Go ahead.
SC Okay, the cryo H2 heater, i MAIN A,
2 MAIN B. Circuit breakers, both of them are closed. The
H2 heaters, i00 watt, i MAIN A, 2 MAIN B. Both are closed.
H20 heater 50 watt, i MAIN B, 2 MAIN A, are bo_h open. I
mean 02 heater 50 watt.
CC That's the desired configuration, Pete.
SC Okay, very good.
SC I just wanted to make sure because it
said H2 heater 1 MAIN A closed, and that one was already
closed. The rest of them were in the right configuration.
CC Copy.
SC And I'm standing by for your GO on
panel 207.
CC You're GO on that, Pete.
SC Okay.
SC Okay, Houston. They're both in ENABLE
and that took care of the light.
CC We copy, Pete.
CC We're going LOS here about 1 minute.
CC We'll have you again at Vanguard at
21:48.
SC 21:48, huh? Bye bye for a while.
CC Belay that.
mean time. Our next station acquisition is Goldstone in
1 hour and 2 minutes. The CAP COM looked at the wrong
table apparently and gave the next Vanguard pass as being
the next point of contact for the crew. But by the time
he got it sorted all out, why - he - the space station had
gone over the hill from Vanguard. Hence the comment from
Conrad, bye bye for quite some time. One hour and 1 minute to
Goldstone. At 19:12 Greenwich mean time, Skylah Control.
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SL-II MC-522/I
_ Time: 15:12 CDT, 11:20:12 GMT
6/4/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich

mean time, 20:12. Skylab space station is presently about
to enter the acquisition of the Goldstone tracking station
for lengthy stateside pass of approximately 12 minutes. Fol-
lowing the EREP pass on the last revolution, on revolution
304, the EGIL reported to Flight Director, Don Puddy, that
we had 16 completes, 16 completes meaning that the 16 CBRMs,
charger battery regulator modules, did come back on line at
the return to social inertial - solar inertial attitude fol-
lowing the EREP pass. We will hold the line up now for any
conversation between the Cap Com, Dr. Bill Thornton, and the
Skyla5 crew.
SC Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
SC When you got somebody in the LBNP,
can you ride the bike, in the bike, in the exercise mode?
CC Stand by half.
SC Say again.
CC That's affirm.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab_ we're - Goldstone is configured
to receive XUV monitor TV for the next 7 minutes.
END OF TAPE
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SL-II MC-523/I
Time: 15:17 CDT, 11:20:17 GMT
6/4/73
CC SPT, Houston. We notice you're

still in the portable TV position. You have about 2-1/2 more
minutes coverage.
SC (Garble)
SC Give me a 635.
CC Skylab, we're going to LOS in i minute;
Vanguard at 20:40.
PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean
time 25 hours 59 minutes. The recent pass over Goldstone and
Texas brought very little conversation from the Skylab crew.
However, Commander Conrad did ask the ground, Dr. Bill
Thornton, the Cap Com, requested whether you could ride
the bicycle ergometer when someone is in the lower body
negative pressure device. The ground said that's affirmative.
What Commander Conrad was referring to, the fact that Pilot
Paul Weltz was in the lower body negative pressure device,
experiment M092, which is designed to establish the course
of cardiovascular deeonditioning changes caused by the
zero g environment. The LBNP is used to stimulate the effect
of gravity in space. The device is a cylindrical tank with a
waist seal, which encloses the crewman's legs and lower body
and simulates the presence of gravity on the circulatory
system by applying a slight suction to the lower body. As
Pilot Weitz is in the M092 experiment, this will be followed
by the M095, the vectorcardiogram experiment. Meanwhile,
Science Pilot, Joseph Kerwin, is at the ATM C&D panel, the
control and display panel of the Apollo telescope mount. As
the spacecraft nears the end of its 305th revolution, we will
have acquisition at Vanguard in 12 minutes. This is Skylab
Control at 20 hours 27 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-524/I
Time: 15:39 CDT 11:20:39 GMT
6/4/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich

mean time 20 hours 38 minutes. We anticipate acquisition
of the Skylab space station as it crosses into the sphere
of the Vanguard tracking station. We will hold the line
up for any conversation between Capcom Dr. William Thornton
and the Skylab crew.
CC Skylab Houston. AOS for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger Houston.
CDR We're watching the biomed data and
we've got Paul just about ready to start his run (garble)
93.
CC We're watching it Pete.
PLT Houston, are you there?
CC We're still here, go ahead.
SPT This is SPT. We're back on the pri-
mary fine Sun sensor.
CC Copy SPT.
SPT Just drove the thing straight up,
about a - a half a radius up to (garble) she turned around
and started coming back in.
CC Copy. And Skylab we will be LOS in
about a minute. We will see yon in Hawaii at 21:48 yet. And
a couple of questions. Did you have any problems cleaning
the solonoid vent screens? Also the tape recorder will be
dumped over Hawaii on the next pass.
CDR Answer is negative.
CC Copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich
mean time 20 hours 49 minutes. On the recent pass over
the Vanguard tracking station, Commander Conrad reported that
Pilot Paul Weitz was ready to start the M093 experiment, the
vectorcardlagram experiment. This experiment is performed
on each of the astronauts every 3 days during the mission.
The experiment consists of the astronaut riding the bicycle-
ergometer, and he is set up with a set of 8 electrodes,
which are attached to his - his body. And this records
the heart rate, temperature, etc. during the bicylce-ergometer
run. Next acquisition is over the Hawaii tracking station
in 58 minutes from now. As the space station starts its
200th, 300th, excuse me, 307th revolution of the Earth,
this is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 20 hours 50 min-
utes. _., ,
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Time: 16:11 CDT, 11:21:11 GMT
6/4/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean

time 21 minutes - pardon me. Greenwich mean time 21 hours
ii minutes. It has been announced by Dr. William C. Schneider,
Director of the Skylab Program, NASA Headquarters that an EVA
will be scheduled no earlier than Thursday, June 7th for the
purpose of deploying the solar panels. The statement following
Mr. Schneider's review of the subject at Marshall Space Flight
Center follows: A comprehensive review was held today at
the Marshall Space Flight Center to examine the possibility
of an EVA to deploy the stuck solar array on the Skylab work-
shop. In addition to the senior Skylab officials and techni-
cal personnel, the following were present: Deputy Administra-
tor, Dr. George Lowe, Dale Myers, Center Directors Dr. Knrt
Debus, Dr. Christopher Kraft and Dr. Roeeo PEtrone. The current
and projective status of electrical power situation was re-
viewed as well as its effect on the conduct of the mission.
It was shown that without electrical power augmentation, the
experimentation on current Skylab mission would continue to
be curtailed and constrained, and that for the next two mis-
sions, the 56-day duration probably would not be possible.
The proposed EVA procedures were explained and described by
Astronaut Russell Schwelckart, who had helped develop the
techniques in the Marshall Space Flight Center Neutral Buoyancy
Facility. They were demonstrated to be feasible and relatively
straightforward and no unusual safety hazzard was found. Energy
sources, dynamics and possible debris hazzards were analyzed.
It was concluded that the planned EVA was comparable to the
normal Skylab EVA and that the potential gain outweighed the
risks involved. Therefore an EVA has been scheduled for no
earlier than Thursday, June 7th for the purpose of deploying
the stuck solar panels. Details will be developed in the next
few days. Dr. William C. Schneider will be available for a
press conference in the news room in building i at the Johnson
Space Center no earlier than 7:00 p.m. central daylight time.
This concludes the announcement from Mission Control Center.
Next AOS will be over Hawaii in 34 minutes.
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Time: 16:46 CDT, 11:21:46 GMT
6/4/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

21 hours 46 minutes with live air-to-ground over Hawaii.
PLT Okay, for whatever it's worth, after we
finished the MO-93 and our new free form style of riding the
bicycle, I rode my standard preflight protocol at the end of
the second step, that is after i0 minutes, my heart rate was
130. At the end of the third step, after 15 minutes, my heart
rate was 153.
CC We copy that Paul, thank you.
CC Paul, while we're on that subject, the
biomeds here want you to go in the unrestrained mode in the
future on 171, that's all crewmen.
PLT I really think - today's the first day I
tried it out, Bill and during the 9S part, I was really
you know, trying different positions, so I probably got my
heart rate up a little higher. I don't even know what I've
been running on that, but suprisingly it's a revelation. It
really is to me, this being my first time, that it's so much
easier than strapping yourself down. You're fighting the
straps as much as you're working the bicycle I think with all
those - that paraphernalia you've got on.
CC Okay, we copy, Paul. Was there anything
in particular about the straps that were giving you trouble?
PLT Well, I'd say yes. In forcing myself down
on the seat, I felt that I really had to pull down on that
front restraint, the one that's got the parachute cone on it,
and in so doing that the bottom edge of that weight belt dug
into my leg just about the femoral artery there and I felt
that it was Interferring with good circulation to the leg.
Plus the shoulder straps down tight interferes with respiration.
CC Copy, Paul. Thank you.
CDR Hey, Houston. I got a mystery for you.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
CDR I was just cruising through the middle of
the OWS and I came across a DAC, that's a Delta Alfa Charlie
fuse floating and so I just got a search throughout the vehicle -
all four cameras that are out, rest of the cameras that are
stowed and the DAC fuse supply and they're all accounted for.
So, my question is, and it may have been reported, it maybe
not rreported, I think somebody must have dropped one in
the vehicle during tests and it's just finally made its way
out. At least I hope so, or we've got a pregnant DAC fuse
around here that's not fessing up.
CC Hey, Pete is that the only loose item you
found?
CDR Well we've found lot's of loose items, but

f this is the only one I can't account for where it came from.
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CC We copy. Hey, Pete we're changing - the

blood drawing has been changed from 156 to 157. Now, we have
a stowage message ready if yon want it, but if you llke, you
just go ahead and handle the stowage yourself. If you need
the message give us a call.
CDR Stowage message for blood drawing?
CC This is for stowage of the blood in the
urine sample return container.
CDR No_ we're in good shape on that. We don't
need it.
CC Pete, are there any specific Nikon problems?

CDR The counter failed to work on the Nikon - wait
a minute, I got it right here.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC We're configured at Hawaii for XUV TV moni-
toring.
SPT Hawaii. Is that where we are now?
CC That's affirm.
SPT Okay.
CDR The Nikon 0-i, the upper film counter failed
at 22 on the last roll of film and so far it's working on the
new roll of film, but we're only up to five pictures on it.
By the way, that is ZI-34 - well you'll get it on the film
report tonight and we're using it out the window and 160
CC We copy, Pete.
CDR But that's the only Nikon problem I
know of. We had the base problems but that was very briefly
on the Hasselblad.
CC Yes, we copied that
CDR It was recycling and it
CDR Go ahead.
CC We copied the Hasselblad copy. We copied
a Hasselblad problem earlier.
CDR Roger, now we've got a new magazine on there
and again it's started to count over again and we'll see what
happens.
CC We copy, Pete.
CC Skylab, Houston, LOS in one minute. We'll
see you at Vanguard 22:16 and SPT if you would close the SO-52
door at the end of your ATM activities since you're a bit
off Sun center.
SPT All right.
time 21 hours 55 minutes. In the present pass over Hawaii
Pilot Paul Weltz discussed with Cap Com Dr. William Thornton
how much easie r it is to ride the bicycle ergometer without
using the restTaint straps provided. He said it's suprislngly
j_
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easier to ride without having the straps on. Heretofore the

straps were used and the crew had complained in the difficulty
in riding the bicycle ergometer. Commander Conrad reported
a slight mystery to the ground. He found a DAC fuse, data
acquisition camera fuse floating in the workshop. He says -
he said it probably was dropped during fabrication and it's
just turned up. This is Skylab Control at 21 hours 56 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Our next acquisition will be over the
Vanguard tracking station in 20 minutes.
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SL-II MC-527/I
Time: 17:13 CDT ii:22:13 GMT
6/4/73

mean time 22 hours 13 minutes. As the Skylab space station
approaches the Vanguard tracking station. The crew has
approximately 4 hours and 45 minutes remaining in their
llth day in the Skylab space station, with dinner and 2
more hours worth of work at the Apollo Telescope Mount
control and display panel. We will pick up any live air
to ground at this time.
CC Skylab Houston. AOS for lO minutes.
PLT (garble) Houston.
CC And we will be dumping a tape re-
corder over Hawaii on this upcoming pass.
CC CDR Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC At your convenience, we'd like
the MOL SIEVE B FAN ON.
CDR Okay. It's ON.
CC Copy.
CC Skylab Houston, AOS in i minute.
Correction, LOS in 1 minute. Hawaii at 23:23.
SPT Roger dodger, Houston.
mean time 22 hours 26 minutes. We have had loss of signal
of the Skylab space station as it passed over the Vanguard
tracking station. The only conversation between Capcom
Dr. Bill Thornton and the crew was concerning asking the
crew to turn on the MOL SIEVE FAN B. The MOL SIEVEs are de-
vices located in the airloek module, which removes carbon
dioxide and water from the Skylab atmosphere. Next acquisi-
tion will be over Hawaii in 56 minutes. This is Skylab
Control, Greenwich mean time 22 hours 27 minutes.
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mean time 23 hours 21 minutes, as the Skylab space station
approaches the Hawaii tracking station on its 307th revolu-
tion. We'll hold the line up for air to ground conversa-
tion with Capcom Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab Houston, through Hawaii for
10-1/2 minutes.
CDR Henry, you old rascal. How was the
week?
CC Hello there. How's it been?
CDR We missed you.
CDR Hey Henry, I've got a question for
you.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Are we going EVA?
CC Well, I've got a little word for you
too. They had a big old meeting here today, and the out
come was that we're going to do one, and it will come no
earlier than Thursday.
CDR Okay that's good. We've got a pro-
posal for you for that then. We've been having a great
j- deal of discussion up here about our work load. And the
work load that you have us at right now is an extremely sat-
isfactory one. And as a matter of fact, it's quite relaxed
and it is what we like. It's what we would recommend for
the 56 day mission. And it is I think on our flight es-
sential enough to get data done and some of these experi-
ments done, and seeing we're going to lose another day going
EVA, we would like to propose that you continue our work
schedule as is on our 2 days off. In that we don't want the
days off now, we have enough time to ourselves in the even-
'ing that we can relax. We're managing to stay on top of
everything and occasionally get ahead. And so we would
llke to run EREP on those days off and ATM or however the
schedule works or any other things that you have. Just
run this particular type work load you've got us on now
right on through the end of the mission. How does that go?
CC Okay guys, we'll feed that in the
hopper and see how it comes out.
CDR Okay, I want ya'll to understand that
I'm not proposing this in the manner that it applies to
the 56 day flight. I think the time llne that we're on
right now is great for 56 days, but you have got to give
those guys a day off every once in a while. Now we've had
1 day off. We've been on this light, relatively light load
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that we can stay ahead of problems and everything. And we

think breaking the monotony with an extra EVA is good for
us. We would like to give our remaining 2 days off to the
experiments.
CC I know they're rooting for you there.
We' ii feed that in and get you an answer back Pete.
CDR Very good, thank you.
CC And for info, on this pass we're
going to be bringing up secondary coolant loop, and pri-
mary coolant loop, and you'll probably get a caution and warning.
And also we'll be bringing the third gyro on each axis
for redundancy management so we can mark the drift.
CDR Good.
CC And Pete, for info, Rusty is going
to be in at about 02:30 over Guam for a little chat about
the EVA.
CDR Good.
CDR We got it.
CC Roger.
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Time: 18:28 CDT, 11:23:28 GMT
6/4/73

from LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 55 and it looks
like M0-92 vent shoved us out of plane again and in all likelihood
the star tracker will not acquire again and we'll be wanting
you to bring it up.
SPT Okay.
23 hours 33 minutes. As the spacecraft passed over the Hawaii
tracking station Commander Conrad asked Capcom Hank Harts-
field - Astronaut Hank Hartsfield is a member of the Skylab
support team - He asked them whether or not the crew would
be going EVA. Hartsfield replied yes, there was a plan to
go on Thursday. Conrad also relayed to the ground the good
work schedule that they've been working under for the last
several days and he proposed that, since they will have an
EVA, he proposed that the crew forego their two scheduled
days off for the remainder of the mission to play catch-up,
do some EREP and some other experiments. Hartsfield replied
by saying, "we will feed it into the hopper." Astronaut Harts-
field also advised the crew that Astronaut Rusty Schweickart,
who is backup Skylab Commander for Skylab 2, that he will
talk to the crew in approximately two hours on a pass over
Guam on the 309th revolution. At Greenwich mean time 23
hours 35 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-II MC-530/I
Time: 18:52 CDT, 11:23:52 GMT
6/4/73

time 23 hours 52 minutes as the Skylab space station approaches
the Vanguard tracking station. We expect to have conversation
with Cap Com Hank Hartsfleld and the crew as the crew begins
their pre-sleep activities. With Science Pilot Joseph Kerwin
scheduled to spend another hour on the control and display
panel of the Apollo telescope mount and Pilot Paul Weitz
scheduled to spend another 55 hours - 55 minutes on the C&D
panel later this evening. We'll leave the line up for any
air-to-ground with the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for 7-1/2
minutes.
PLT Rog, Houston. We'll be with you in a
minute.
CC Okay. For the SPT, we're taking a look
at this new Z thing and we decided that it'd probably be
better not to chase it, so don't bring in the star tracker
and we'll let the momentum settle out and let Paul do it when
he goes up for his shift.
SPT Okay.
CDR Hey, Hank are you there?
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, the answer to your questions. Number
one due to the increase in cabin air 02 percent during M-171
protocol, request you verify make-up 02 N2 as being inhibited
during M-171 run and that is a fact. We've been turning off
the cabin reg everytime.
CC Roger, copy.
CDR Okay, advise that the monitor was receiving
power and yes the brightness and contrast were turned up
during the TV camera problem. The camera was operating
perfectly normally was being set up when I say being set
up, its location was being determined at the time and it was
running showing a good picture and it just quit running. Now,
the monitor that was on that camera has been tested on a
good camera and the monitor is fine, the cables are fine,
there are no bent pins, it Just doesn't run. How did I
determine the color wheel was not turning when the power was
on? I took the lens off and looked in there, and secondly
you can also hear it. (garble) jam in the bad camera is power
connectors for bent pins or pushed-back pins and there are
none.
CDR And the answer to question number six was
yes, the contamination flowed over the OWS what that does is
drag down the ice cryst_l in it.
SPT (Ga_ble) okay and we'll catch up on some
of the other questions.
SPT I'm trying to find my place.
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SPT Okay. Are you able to use the XUV monitor?

To determine roll, yes2 by integrating, not exactly the way we
were in training but we are using it that way. To locate bright
spots, no. Because we can't point to one and you know, go
there continuously integrating and the basic picture is much
too faint. So, coronal holds same thing, you really can't
see them and a flare, we decided that to use the XUV mine
as a flare detection tool, the flare has to be bright enough
to show without requiring integration. Since we haven't
had any flares we don't know whether that's true yet or not,
we hope it is. Okay, question number eight. What is looks
like looking in H-alpha-i as we come around the terminator
is that first of all the image of the Sun moves up and to
the left about one solar radius or maybe a little more and
then it kind of flashes and goes out as you disappear behind
the darkside.
CC We copy.
SPT And that's all I've got.
PLT Okay, and number nine, Henry was they want
to know the estimate for rolling it around by hand to make sure it
doesn't have too much set also. Well you probably don't know
that either. I would say I would estimate that amount was
ten frames plus the 40 frames for sensitometry advanced plus one
frame to make sure that in fact it was (garble) film plus four
frames normal, whatever that adds up to.
CC Roger, copy.
PLT Number i0, negative.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT We'd like you to verify the number of
pills you can just read the five digit numbers if SAO can
find them for somebody - mineral supplements that we were
supposed to take this morning, we'd like to verify that we
had it right.
CC Okay, we're about i0 seconds from LOS.
We'll have that for you at the next pass which will he over
Vanguard again about an hour and a half at 01:33.
SPT Okay.
time 00:03 minutes. On the previous pass over the Vanguard
tracking station, Commander Conrad discussed with Hank
Hartsfield Cap Com the difficulties they had earlier with
the TV camera. The next pass will be over the Vanguard station
in one hour and 42 minutes - no one hour and 29 minutes
excuse that one hour add 29 minutes from now. Change-of-
shift briefing wlth Flight Direhtor Don Puddy is scheduled
to start in the news room in building 1 momentarily. This
is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time 00:03 minutes.
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Time: 19:07 CDT 12:00:07 GMT
6/4/73

mean time 00:07 minutes. William C. Schneider, Skylab Pro-
gram Director, Flight Director Don P_ddy, and Dr. John
Zeiglschmid, Skylab Flight Surgeon will begin a press con-
ference in the Building i News Room immediately.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 20:30 CDT, 12:01:30 GMT
6/4/73
PAO This is Skylab Control_ Greenwich mean

time one hour 30 minutes. Skylab space station coming into
acquisition at the Vanguard tracking station. We'll leave
the llne up for conversations between Cap Com Hank Hartsfield
and the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for nine
minutes and we'll be dumping the data recorder.
CDR Roger, Houston. Are you ready for the
evening status report?
CC Roger, go ahead.
CDR While you're taking that I'd like you
to work one for us. We were looking at the M-151-1 meal
prep photo requirement that's on the shopping list and won-
dered if you wanted that done. We have time to do that this
evening and we have a film magazine that we could use for it.
So, how about checking that for us. Seeing it's the meal prep and
we don't do much prepping these days, but, so I had the ques-
tion as to whether you wanted us to do that or not.
CC Okay, we'll work it.
CDR Okay, the CDR ate everything, plus two
butter cookies. Whoo. The SPT ate everything. And the PLT
ate everything except his coffee with sugar, snack item 62,
and he had five optional salts. The CDR had his two optional
salts. The SPT none.
CDR And the photo log day 155 - 16 millimeter
S-183 - UA-0383 (garble) is not applicable; M-151 f/183 stow
one CIO-5 76 CIO-I; EREP %q_O-I and Paul put that away today,
he says the magazine has 80 percent on it, although I reported
76 percent yesterday a_d he swears I can't read it right.
35 millimeter: CI-34 frame counts 05, CI-26 the frame counted
31, CX-05 is completely taken and in its place CXO-6 has
six frames taken and is on the Hasselblad. EREP set O, 1
is 6610, two is 5946, three is 6820, four is 6817, five is
0358, six is 7677. The drawer A configuration A-I is X-PORTER 02
CIO-5 76, CIO-I. A-2 is X-PORTER 0-3, CIO-3 19 MT-10. A-3
is transporter 0-4 CIO-4 30 percent. MTO-I floating is 05
CI-25 100 percent, M T-II. We recommend if you want M-5
M-151-1 that use A-2 transporter 0-3 with 19 percent. There
were no deviations to the flight plan today that you don't
know about, nor were there any changes in £he stowage that
you don't know about and no equipment that you don't know
about, inoperative. And on tomorrow's flight plan I have
one recommended minor change to tomorrow's flight plan. Are
you ready for that?
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, just a second let me get it. For the
SPT at 19:45 to 20:00 or whenever he starts his TV-19
set up.
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CDR 19:45 to 20:00 or whenever he

starts his TVI9 set up. Make that PHPT and down at the
bottom 22 to 23 50 make that the MI71 CAL cempletely.
I also believe you left a piece out of mine, that 2145 I
think you have an SOl9 clean up for me, I found it buried
in the details. I assume that is correct. If not we can
straighten it out on tomorrow's flight plan. And that's
about it.
CDR New, I've got one ether thing. One
small bit on the EREP tape TV 12, it happens to be tape
recorder 2. So, instead of the TVI2 book, fortunately we
looked at it tonight and we have taken our own set up into
consideration to give you tape 2. And I passed that little
bit on, the guys on the ground should have recognized that
one and given us a little more time, because the set up
with the work. Fortunately we found it tonight.
CDR And then the other thing is, are you
still there?
CC Roger.
CDR The SPT says he doesn't want to be
working ATM while he's listening to the EVA review tomorrow
night.
CC That seems reasonable.
CDR Yeah.
CC CDR Houston, the film for the MISI
will be A3 transporter 04.
CDR Okay, A3 04. Do you want the 30 per-
cent, okay, I see it calls for 29 percent but I doubt very
seriously if we'll take that much, we don't de that much
food prep these days.
CC Roger and I have - -
CDR Will do.
CC I have the mineral supplements that
Jee requested a while age.
SPT Okay, fire away.
CC Okay. CDR is all balls. SPT is i0,000.
And PLT is three balls 20.
SPT Okay.
CC I have a general question. Is the
ice spot on the wardroom window still the same size, about
the size of a dime?
CDR Yes, a little bit bigger than a dime,
about the size of a nickel.
CC Roger, does it seem to be growing?
CDR Well, we got into a discussion about
that and they have,grown a little bit from its original
state, but I think it is pretty stable.
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CC And one more item for you. When

Rusty talks to you tonight at 02:30, he would like for
you to have the (garble) cue card available so he can reference
locations on the workshop.
CDR Okay. We're going to have to look
for that one. We think we can find it.
SPT Houston SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT The PLT says he's got an ATM pass
coming up but the no cal rock his ATM schedule didn't have
a 01:55 pass. So we don't have a pad.
CC That's the same cal rocker (garble) so
go ahead and do the one it calls for there. And we're about
25 seconds from LOS. Ascension will be coming up at 46
and I think you have got your med conference there.
SPT Okay, we will if I can find it.
CC That's the 02:09 pass.
mean time 1 hour 43 minutes. As the Skylab space station
passes over Vanguard, the next pass will be over Ascension.
In the Mission Control Center tonight is Donald K. Slayton,
Director of Flight Crew Operations and Rusty Schweickart,
backup Commander for Skylab II. Astronaut Schwelekart is
scheduled to talk to the crew and discuss the preliminary
plans for the EVA, which is now set no earlier than
Thursday. This discussion will come over the Guam tracking
station in 46 minutes from now and that will be a 9 minute
pass. We will leave the line up for any possible discussions
over the Ascension tracking station.
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PAO The Skylab space station has gone

over the hill. We've had loss of signal at the Ascension
station. Skylab is on rev 309 at the present time, crossing
Nigeria on the continent of Africa. We expect to hear
from the crew again at the Guam tracking station in approx-
imately half an hour, and at that time, there will be some
instructions passed up to them in connection with the up
coming EVA. At i hour 59 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
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time two hours 27 minutes. We will have acquisition of the
Guam tracking station momentarily, as we await discussions
with Rusty Schweickart, backup Commander for Skylab 2 mission,
who will discuss with the crew the procedures that he has
developed in the neutral buoyancy facility at the Marshall
Space Flight Center on the activities to free the solar wing
on the orbital workshop. We will hold the line up for any
llve conversation.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam 9-1/2 minutes.
SC Hi, Houston.
CC Okay, I got a few quickies before Rusty
talks with you. We concur with swapping the N-171 cal with
the PT and PH for the SPT, but let's caution you on your PT,
no running around the ring lockers or disturbing the vehicle
while SO-19 is in progress. And on the SPT pad, his
detail pad, then if he wants to he can _hange the - where it -
M-171 MA cal to 22:00 and we're going to give him a little
more time on the ATM. Instead of starting at 01:05 on his last
pass there, we'll start that at 01:37 and thattll be on
the ATM pad when it comes up.
SC Okay.
CC Okay, since the TV-12 is set up to do
tape recorder-i and the light is not proper for tape recorder
2, scrub TV-12.
CDH No way Hank, it's just the other way
around. It was for TV for tape-i and it's all set up to
do tape-2.
CC Okay, while that one's being discussed
I got your pass times for in the morning. We have Honey-
suckle from 10:52 to 54 and the next pass is Goldstone 11:20
to 11:30.
CDR Okay, we'll wake ourselves up.
SPT Skylab, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I left a message for Dr. Ross on B channel
at 02:10.
CC Roger, copy.
CDR Also, Hank. I understand that they're
not getting the evening status report thatVs on B channel.
Can you confirm that? If that is the case, then I've
wasted every evening putting it on B channel, I'd just
as soon give it to you over the air on A channel with the
rest of the evening status report.
CC We'll check that one out, and Pete I under-
stand that you're all set up to do TV-12 on tape recorder-2
change-out?
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CDR That's right. That's right, it was the

- book is for tape recorder-i and we set it up for 2 because
2 was the one will be changed out.
CC Okay, we'll just press ahead as planned
then.
CDR Yeah. I was Just saying that it's a good
thing we went up early because we discovered, you know_ one
that we had different tape recorders to change out, that was
number one, and that we had the time to set it up tonight.
CC Okay, we have 6-1/2 minutes left and Rusty
wants to speak with you a bit.
SPT Okay, Hank the only thing on that TV is
I'd llke at least to go ahead and start a little early if
I get a chance. I'll make sure to be done with it before
my ATM pass.
CC Roger.
MCC Hello, there.
CDR Go.
MCC It's EVA arm wave tonight. What I'd like to
do is give you kind of an introduction of what we're got
coming up in the next few days, and get your comments on it.
And what we'd like to do is let you know the sequence of
events. Tonight on the teleprinter we got coming up to yon
three different messages. One of them is an inventory of
the parts that we're recommending for the EVA. Second set
is assembly instructions, sort of a Heath kit kind of put-it-
together thing, and the third thing that's coming up is the
sort of EVA procedures - EV-I do this, EV-2 do that. And that
will be coming up tonight while you're sleeping so you can
review that tomorrow whenever you get a chance. And tomorrow
evening we've got a Q&A session and some more detail inform-
ation scheduled on about a 1-hour pass or a 1-hour sec-
tion of time, two passes tomorrow evening. So, we'll be ready
for your questions on that kind of thing when you get a chance
to review the stuff that's coming up tonight. Okay, that's
Tuesday, then on Wednesday morning right now, we're tentatively
planning to give you about - something on the order of three
hours for getting all the stuff together and trying it out
there inside the workshop. You have a pretty good zero-g
simulator up there and we figured it'd probably be nice to
try it all out and distances are just about the inside of
the dome, as you can imagine, so that we figure a lot of this
stuff you can put together and play with. And if we got it
scheduled in the morning, we got a chance on TV you can hold
it up and say is this what you meant, or we think this is
better or whatever.
CDR Okay.
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MCC Okay, then Wednesday evening we want to

try and perform the EVA on Thursday fairly early, so we got
good coverage over the range and so in light of that we're
trying to work it out so we can give you about an hour and
a half or so Wednesday evening to do as much of the EVA prep
that night so as to shorten the prep time on Thursday morning.
Now, in -
CDR Okay.
MCC Okay now - if any time in between now and then
you guys feel, for whatever reason, yon think you need more time,
just let us know and Friday's okay, too. There's no big
(garble) on getting off on Thursday.
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MCC - - for whatever reason. If you

think you need more time, just let us know and Friday is
okay too. There is no big (garble) on getting off on Thurs-
day.
CDR Okay.
SCHWEICKART Okay, here let me give you now, this
is sort of as I say an arm'wave reason of the kind of thing
we're looking at and you can review the stuff coming up to-
night in light of this and then let's go into it in detail
tomorrow. So here we go. What we've got basically Pete
after working a lot of stuff in the water tank here with
the gear you've got onboard there and looking at all the
good photos that you took is we'll kind of break it into
3 parts. One is setting up an EV trail to get down there
and do the job. The second part is cutting the strap or getting
rid of the strap. And the third part is raising the beam.
If PJ got out the SAS, the SWS and SAS map there, I can talk
a little bit from that. Did you get a hold of that thing?
CDR Yes we did.
SCHWEICKART Okay. Let's get our coordinatr system
straight so that you guys can refer to it in the future and
we'll know where you're talking about. The upper left hand
corner, I figure starts at 1.0 and AO so we can bring it
down in tenths from there. So the upper right hand corner
then is i0.0 and A0. Okay, what we plan on doing is getting
EV2 up by the discone antenna with 5 poles, with the cable
cutters on one end and the mushroom on the other end. And
that means you've got to lengthen the rope and we've got the
details coming up to you on that. The discone antennae is
located at about 8.5 and B0. In other words 45 degrees
between minus Y and minus Z up there right on the edge of
the FAS. So you're reaching down and grabbing a hold of
the debris with the cable cutters and you clamp onto some
of the debris, preferably onto the strap you want to
cut, and you clamp it that way and after you comes an EV
trail. You don't go ahead and cut it you just clamp it.
That then forms a trail down there. EVI goes down the trail
and hooks up a line, which we're calling the beam erection
tether, to the bottom end of the number i vent module. We'll
talk a little more of the details about that tomorrow, but
you hook the line onto the bottom end of the vent module
and that runs straight back up the beam and hooks on to the
DA truss, there is a discone antennae A-frame crossmember
up there that's right in line with it_ and you take the
tension up on that and you've got a tether all the way
back to the A-frame. Okay, the preferred method of cutting
f
that we can see now after working with all the tools, is
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you've got it hooked onto the strap to go ahead and pull

with the cable cutters and cut through the strap. If for
whatever reason you guys don't like that, we've got the
pry bar out there with you, you can either pry it off or
you can use the bone saw, either one. Okay, after you get
the beam cut, the idea is for EV i to move back just
aft of the beam hinge and stand up, you've got that tether
now with all the slack out of it that runs right back along
the beam, you stand up just after the beam hinge and you
become a gin pole. You just stand up and lift up on the
rope and you can get a devil of a lot of tension in it,
you put a good hinge (garble) around the beam and you're
up on top of it, and the beam comes, you break the bracket
on the actuator damper and up comes the beam. That's a
general thing. We'll hope to see you a little later. We've
got 14 seconds to LOS.
CDR Okay. I hope you don't pull too
hard or you're going to get swatted like a fly swatter.
SCHWEICKART No, we've done it a lot Pete, and
it's kind of fun as a matter of fact. You'll enjoy watching
it come up.
CDR Okay.
SCHWEICKART Adios.
CDR Adios.
SCHWEICKART See you in the morning.
CDR Rog.
mean time 2 hours 39 minutes. The pass over Guam had astro-
naut Rusty Schwelckart discussing with the Skylab crew the
procedures to be carried out in performing, releasing the
orbital workshop solar array. The procedures are being
passed up tonight on the teleprinter while the crew is alseep
and they are expected to review them tomorrow. Then tomorrow
they will discuss it with the ground and have a - tomorrow
evening have a question and answer session and then on Thurs-
day morning they are scheduled to have three more hours of
getting the material together, laying it out in the workshop,
and using the television camera to transmit to the ground.
Then again Wednesday evening they are scheduled to do 1-1/2
hours of EVA prep to give them more time for the EVA Thursday
morning. The crew has been bid goodnlght as they passed
over the Guam tracking station. This is Skylab Control at
2 hours 41 minutes.
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time two hours 46 minutes. The llth day of Skylab mission
Monday, June 4th has been described as another successful
day of science activities. The decision was made today by
William C. Schneider, Director of Skylab Program Office, that
an EVA will be performed - will be attempted on Thursday
to repair the stuck solar panel on the orbital workshop.
Earlier this evening Rusty Schweickart, backup Commander
for Skylab 2 mission, discussed with the crew the procedures
that will be followed to free this stuck solar panel. He
told the crew that tonight the inventory parts for the EVA
assembly instructions and EVA procedures would be passed up
on the teleprinter. Tuesday the crew will spend some time
discussing the procedures with the ground. And on Wednesday
another three hours will be spent by the crew in assembling
the various parts to be used in the EVA. Tuesday, June 5th,
will be another day of scientific activity aboard the Skylab
space station with EREP pass number five and MO-92 and M-171
experiments. M0-92 subject will be Commander Pete Conrad
this experiment is performed three times during the Skylab
mission - pardon me MO-92 is performed every three days
on each crewman throughout the mission. M-171 is performed
five times throughout the mission. The fifth EREP pass sche-
duled for tomorrow will be accomplished during a 318th revo-
lution as the Skylab space station passes over the northeast
corner of Nevada and crosses over Utah, Colorado, New Mexico,
and Texas. Scientists are particularly interested in the
Houston area test site, HATS, as it is referred to in the
mission control center. There are 12 tests sites within the
HATS area, which covers nearly 20 counties in the Gulf Coast
area. Tomorrow's EREP will also provide data for an Oshkosh,
Wisconsin high school student, Joe B. Zmolek. Zmolek
is one of 25 U.S. high school students whose experiment has
been selected to fly aboard Skylab. His experiment ED-II
atmospheric heat absorption will use data gathered during
EREP passes. More than 30 sites are scheduled to be covered
during the 12-minute 2800 mile pass which starts in Nevada
and ends in the Gulf of Mexico, just above the Yucatan Penin-
sula. At Greenwich mean time two hours and 48 minutes as
the Skylab space station nears the end of its 309th revolu-
tion, the crew is bedding down for the night. Public Affairs
console will close down. The next report will be at 6:00 a.m.
central daylight time, Tuesday, June 5th. This is Skylab
Control, Greenwich mean time two hours 49 minutes.
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mean time, 50 seconds to acquisition at Goldstone tracking
station for what will probably be wakeup time for the crew
of the Skylab space station. Another busy day again for the
crew of Skylab with several medical experiments scheduled for
today's flight plan and Earth resources survey run number 5
along ground track 34. Also several runs of the telescope
mount solar physics experiments. We'll stand by now as the
spacecraft comes across the states during the end of revolu-
tion 314.
CC Skylab, Houston; we've got you state-
side for 12 minutes.
SC Very great.
CC And be advised that sometime during this
pass we're going to he dumping the data recorder.
SC Okay.
CC Skylah, Houston; be adivsed we're going
to command the primary coolant loop OFF, part of our normal
morning powerdown procedures.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're going to have a
short break and we'll pick you up in Bermuda.
SC Okay.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS again in Bermuda

SC Good work.
CC How about that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS.
We're going to see you at Madrid at 11:43.
SC Roger, Houston.
PAO This is Skylab Control. A brief gap here
between Bermuda and Madrid as the space station crosses the
North Atlantic. The crew rather quiet so far this morning
as they go about their postsleep activities of getting break-
fast. Telemetry from Madrid is showing a 70.6 percent state
of charge on the ATM batteries at this time.
CC Houston, we're AOS at Madrid for the next
9 minutes. And be advised about 1 minute or a minute and a half
into the pass, we will have a keyhole about 45 seconds long.
SC Okay.
SC Hey, Richard. You got any news down there
this morning? We don't know what's going on.
CC Let me see if I can drum up what's going
on in the world for you all.
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SC Hey, Richard, you got any news down

there this morning? We don't know what's going on.
CC Let me see if I can drum up what's going
on in the world for you all.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're out of keyhole
at Madrid. We've still got about 5 minutes left in the pass.
And one thing, just like every day since you guys have taken
off, you're on the front page. And today there's an article
on the front page of the morning paper, that your space walk
has been given an okay. And a pretty long column and you might
be interested to know that over on our bulletin board is a
congratulatory message from some members of Congress to NASA,
about the way we've handled this mission so far. Also I've got
a couple of notes for the CDR this morning. First one is in
reference to the conversation, I guess, you had, Pete, last
evening just before bed about the fact that some of the comments
that you have been putting on Channel B on medical status data
hadn't been getting to the right people. Please be advised
that this was a mix-up. The data is indeed in the MOCR and we
had a breakdown in communication, which we have rectified. Your
recorded data has been excellent. And we'd appreciate it if
you'd keep recording the data on Channel B. We have got it to
the right people and we'll continue to do so.
SC Way we go, Dick.
CC And one more item for the CDR, on his
Flight Plan today, is very minor. On the S009 item on the
Flight Plan, it says S009 SET. It should say S009 INITIATE,
which will send you to the proper page in the checklist for
what we want to accomplish this morning.
SC Roger. Copy that, Dick.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute
from LOS. We're going to see you down at Honeysuckle at
12:28.
SC Rog. 12:28.
through the Madrid Tracking Station; Honeysuckle Creek, Australia,
in 34 minutes. At 11:53 Greenwich mean time; Skylab Control;
out.
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PAO This is SKylab Control; 12:27 Greenwich

mean time. 50 seconds away from acquisition at Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. Looking at a weather map for today's
earth resources pass coming diagonally across the Western
United States from the Oregon Coast and out the Texas
Gulf Coast, shows a 0 to .3 cloud cover over most of the
area except the Gulf Coast Region where the cloud cover
becomes .8 to full cloud cover. There's a low pressure
trough running almost parallel to the Gulf Coast of Texas,
a couple hundred miles inland that's causing the cloudiness,
and a couple of high pressure areas.
CC -- for 9 minutes.
SC Roger, Dick. What I'd like to do if I
get a chance, is start this TV 12 a little early today.
I just want a ratification - the PTE is ready for it.
CC Roger. Stand by one.
CC Skylab, Houston. We concur. If you're
ready to go ahead with the T_ 12, it's okay with us.
SC Okay. It'll be a while but I just wanted
to make sure.
CC I understand. Anytime you get to it.
SC Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston, one update on your
solar activity pad that we've already sent up, filament numher
70 has dissipated and the second point is that new region
prominence 73 at 280 degrees and 1.0 has been moderately active.
SC Okay, Dick. I think that's the prominence
we channel B'ed you last night.
CC Roger.
SC Yeah. We were fooling around the Sun --
SC We weren't fooling around. We were
observing.
SC And "Scientific" noticed the prominence and
we noticed a brightening in XUV mon in that area, and wondered if
there was an active region due to return at that point.
CC Roger. Understand. And sometime prior
to EREP, I've got one minor correction to the EREP operate
pad that belongs to the CDR this morning. But we got a while
so any one of these passes when you got it in your hand,
I'ii be glad to read it up to you.
SC Go ahead and read it, Dick. I'ii - I'ii
copy it in the interlude.
CC Okay, it's about - it's over in operate
column oh, a little more than half way down and at a time -
just below the time of 1801 plus 17. And over there in the
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right where it says mode-ITNC, I want to delete L/R. That's

the only change.
SC Got it.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised that here
at Honeysuckle we're going to start a series of commands
to configure the bird 2 rate gyros per axis for the day.
SC Roger, Dick.
SC And Houston, I don't need an answer this
time, but something - I notice you're forecasting .4 clouds
cover in the Houston area today for that EREP site. And I
can't see ony of the advertised ones_ is there any reason
I shouldn't go after another one?
SC Hello Houston, Skylab.
CC Go ahead, PLT.
SC Did you get my last on the VTS site?
CC Affirm, Paul. And I've got an answer
for you. Incidentaly the cloud coverage predicted, a
little bit worse than what we read up to you. Right now it's
quite possible that it might be in places, .7 up to an overcast.
However, the answer to your question is; certainly if you -
assuming that you take into consideration upcoming sites ahead
of you, and you get a chance to go to an alternate, go ahead.
SC Okay.
CC And be advised, we're about 45 seconds
from LOS. We're going to see you at Hawaii at 12:48.
SC Righty, dighty.
PAO This is Skylah Control. Loss of signal
through the Honeysuckle Creek- Australia tracking station.
Part of the air-to-ground communications during the
Honeysuckle Creek pass concerned the cloud cover toward the
end of the Continental United States portion of today's
earth resources experiment package survey. The fifth for
the Skylab mission. This fifth survey is of the surface
and atmosphere of the Earth; begins at 12:57 p.m. Central
daylight time. And ends at 1:09 p.m. Following ground
track 34, the earth resources experiment package pass
begins in Southeast Oregon, crosses Nevada, Utah, Colorado,
New Mexico, Texas, Gulf of Mexico, and ends in the Caribbean
Sea just north of the canal zone. Data will be gathered for
a period of 12 minutes. During today's EREP pass the S190 B
earth terrain camera will be used for the first time. The
camera will be operated by Science Pilot, Dr. Joseph Kerwin,
and uses a single 18 inch focal lenght lens with 5 inch wide
film. The camera is designed to use high resolution color
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film. And can provide detailed resolution photographs of

objects as small as 38 feet. Robin I. Welch, of the Earth
Satellite Corporation, Berkeley, California, will use data
from today's pass over the Colorado Plateau in developing
a uniform legend and procedure for the mapping and classifi-
cation of the natural resources on a global basis. Data gained
for Dr. J. R. Eagleman, of The Center for Research, at the
University of Kansas, will be used in determining the techni-
ques and procedures required to use microwave data for the
identification of available moisture, either in the soil or
in snow packs. And to evaluate the microwave system, providing
management and scheduling instruments for determining the
availability of water for agriculture and potential for flood
forecasting. Photo interpretation of the SI90A, SI90B, and
S192 imagery will be used by Dr. Keenan Lee, of the Colorado
School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, for mapping geological
features in Western Colorado. Dr. Lee also will study S191
data to determine the effects of atmospheric attenuation on
rocks spectra. S190 and S192 imagery will be studied visually
and by means of densitometry and additive color viewing to
identify the fracture patterns_ offset of formations, rock
color differences, and vegetation patterns. Color features
identified with no mineral deposits and other areas that seem
to contain features diagnostic of mineral deposits, which
are not now known to contain economic deposits. This experi-
ment is being carried out for Dr. Mead Leroy Jensen, Director
of Laboratory of Isotope Geology, at the University of Utah.
Information will be acquired on areas in Nevada and Utah.
Dr. V. R. Baker, department of Geological Sciences, University
of T_xas, will use data to perform the stream network analysis
of the Guadaloupe and Colorado River basins in Texas, assuming_
of course, that this cloud cover mentioned on the air ground
during the Honeysuckle pass doesn't get worse, if it could get
worse. Scientists from the Johnson Space Center will be
interested in data from today's pass for study in connection
with the Houston Area Test Site Project. Dr. C. L. Korb is
interested in using data for mapping the absolute sea surface
temperature, correlating this measurement with chlorophyl con-
centration, known fishing areas, and ocean currents. Dr. Thomas
L. Barnett will use data to develop methods to permit operation
satellites to collect their own correction data, which are com-
parison of mathemathical inv_,:_sbon tO e_t$act temperature in
W ° " " _
ater vapor vertical dlstrlb_tion profiies _ from °
radlances used
to calculate attentuatlon effects in atmospheric windows
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spectra of targets taken at two or more angles to yield gross

and atmospheric effects directly. That's got to be one
sentence. Let's jump down to the next sentence, okay? Evalua-
tion of the application of EREP sensors to land classification
in the Houston area is the purpose of information being
gathered for Dr. R. Bryan Erb. Several other principal
investigators are interested in information being gathered
in todays pass for other related research projects. Three
minutes from AOS Hawaii. 12:44 Greenwich mean time. We'll
leave the circuit up for Hawaii. A brief break between
Hawaii and the states during the end of revolution 315.
Skylah Control standing by.
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PAO We have acquisition at Hawaii. Standing

by for CAP COM Dick Truly's resumption of air-to-ground
communications with the Skylab Space Station crew.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii
for 9 minutes.
SC Hello.
SC Hey, Dick. There was one message in
the odds and ends about any items that appear to be deteriorating
and should be returned on SL-2 or be resupplied on SL-3.
We don't have anything deteriorating that's worth returning.
We mentioned the shoes, which - PJ's are beginning to come
apart, because you don't wear your triangle shoes all the time.
You tend to stick the other ones in the floor for a hold. It
kind of wears them out in a hurry. But the only other item
that I know of that we've had some trouble with is we - we had
trouble with one astro pin, and in the process of trying to
replace it with another one from another place, we destroyed
the second one. And - So we have two handles up here to that
astro pin's missing out of them. In the event that AI and
those guys want to, they should bring two spare astro pins to
fit handles along. However, we've found very little
use for the handles. We haven't used them at all.
CC Roger, Pete. Understand. I think
the purpose of that was _ust a - you know, get you to kind of
thinking about it so if there are some things that yon run
into that you think we ought to think about flying up there,
we hear about them as soon as possible, so we can, you know,
do our planning.
SC Yeah. We'll sure tell you about it.
But right now I can't think of any.
CC Okay.
SC Hank, there is one thing that PJ just
mentioned. We're - I think our usage of grey tape is probably
higher than they expected. And I would suspect, somewhere
along the line, somebody would want to bring some more grey
tape.
CC Roger. That doesn't surprise me.
SC Yeah. We use it for virtually anything
you can think of. And we're using it at pretty high rate.
CC Okay. Thank you much. We'll pass
these on and anymore you think of as you go along.
SC Right _@w. Jo_ _nd I - this is our
first chance to study this _A_st_f_._!_ re here looking at
it.
CC Roger. Okay. Well, we thought we'd
pass it up to you and let you brouse over it today. And then
you can think about it a little bit, and we can talk about
it this evening or, for that matter, any time you get a chance.
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But I'm sure that Rusty will plan on being here this evening,
when we've got it scheduled for a couple of passes to talk
about.
CC And Skylab; Houston. One note from
the GNS on RATE GYRO number Y3 in some observations we made
last evening. He noticed that the output of GYRO Y3 oscillates
at about 3 cycles per second when the wheel is inhibited.
But the output looks good as long as the wheel is enabled,
and so we've elected to leave it powered and enabled. Over.
SC Okay.
CC And we'll keep you posted if that
changes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute
to LOS. We got a real short break and see you in Ooldstone
on the hour.
SC Okay.
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mean time. About 2 minutes gap here between Hawaii and Goldstone
acquisition on rev 315. But it'll stay up across the States and
on through to Canary and Ascension. Since there are such small
gaps between stations at these altitudes that Skylab is flying,
the station overlaps are much greater than at the I00 mile orbit
that was flown in earlier programs. 12:59 Greenwich time; standing
by, Skylab Control.
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CC Skylah, Houston; AOS for 6 minutes.

We have losC comm over Goldstone.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, the tape recorder will be dumped
at =he next pass over Canary coming up.
SC (Garble) Houston.
CC Go ahead, Skylab.
SC Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SC Okay, in this morning's department of
odds and ends, we've got two new medical breakthroughs to
report, both mouth sounds and snoring are just as loud in
zero-g as they are in 1.
CC We copy that, Joe, and did you hear any
TACS firings last?
SC Well. No. We hear TACS firing just after
passing into sunset and Just after coming out again in the
day and they're curiously metallic sounds as though something
were expanding and contracting outside.
CC Okay, we copy that.
SC Yeah, Houston. There's one spot thatVs
obviously gotten one piece of metal that does some popping and
shortly after going into darkness it lets go and sounds an
awful lot like a TACS, but it isn't and when we have the TACS
inhibited sure enough it continues to make it's voice - Just
does it like Joe says, "once in and once out" does firing
twice.
CC We copy that, Pete.
CC Pete, do you think that the sounds you
reported the other evening could possibly have been the same
sounds?
SC Yes sir, I do. It's very similar to a
TACS firing and that's what was confusing you and me both
because it sounds an awful lot like a TACS. What it sounds
like is a muffled shotgun going off, is what it sounds like
when the TACS fires. Go to zips. Go different but it's a
different location and depending on where the TACS - which
TACS fired you get a different sound also, but I think I was
confusing this obvious thermal expansion and contraction of
something as the TACS firing.
CC Okay, and we're going LOS here. We'll
have you at Canary at 13:20. Apropos Joe's first transmission,
their are other sounds that you have to watch out for that in
SMEAT we could have confused with TACS.
SC Hold steady (static).
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CC High in Skylab, we're AOS again for 9 min-

utes.
SC Roger, Houston.
SC Dance, Houston; S009 is off on time.
CC We eopy_ Pete.
CC Skylab, if you called, we're standing by.
SC Yeah, I can't get any power on the VTR.
Have you got any ideas?
CC Stand by.
SC Hello, Houston; Skylab. You there?
CC We're still here.
SC I say I cannot get power to the video
tape recorder. Have you got any ideas - quickly?
CC Stand by 1/2.
CC To get power to that, you have to have
the power outlet ON. That's the accessory high power which is
115. Also the circuit breaker on panel 202 ON and MAIN VTR
POWER ON.
CC And we're showing your MAIN VTR POWER
OFF at the moment.
SC Okay, we got it. Sloppy housekeeping -
We had used the vacuum cleaner up forward yesterday on that
outlet, and I have to take one for that because I did not plug
the VTR back in.
CC We copy.
SC So I guess you didn't try to dump them
last night, huh?
CC Aah, we didn't get a dump last night.
SC Is there enough tape on here to do this
TV this morning, Bill?
CC Supposed to be, but stand by 1/2. You've
got 30 minutes.
SC Well, I'ii go ahead and run it. We either
reach the end of the tape or we'll get it on. I may have to -
I'Ii be glad to run it again for you, because I boo-booed.
CC Paul, you're supposed to have enough.
You have 30 minutes.
CC And be advised we have completed un-
attended OPS and are closing the fine Sun-sensor door.
SC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in i minute;
Goldstone - Correction: Carnarvon 14:03.
SC All right.
mean time. Twenty-five m_nu_es to Carnarvon, next station.
However, a very low elevatlo!n angle - !only 2.3 degrees above
the horizon at Carnarvon. Honeysuckle, lapping over Carnarvon,
SL-II MC545/2
Time: 08:19 CDT, 12:13:19 GMT
615173
almost 20 degrees elevation. The following is a statement by

Skylab Program Director William C. Schneider at NASA Headquarters,
regarding the possible extension of Skylab-II mission. The
statement is as follows. "As part of the comprehensive ex-
amination of all alternatives to relievin_ the Skylab power
management problem and maximizing the scientific return from
the program_ an alternative of extending the first manned
mission from 28 to 38 days was reviewed. The review has re-
suited in a conclusio_ that there is no justification for any
extension of the mission at this time. Skylab continues with
a duration for the first manned mission of up to 28 days,
Infllght medical data continues to be gathered during this
mission and has revealed absolutely no inflight medical con-
cern. All crew physiological responses are as expected, as
has been reported in the daily bulletins. The crew has con-
sistently reported no difficulty and this has been confirmed
by the telemetry data." Twenty-three minutes to Carnarvon and
Honeysuckle. At 13:39 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control out.
END OF TAPE
ei::, . !. [
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SL-II MC-546/I
Time: 09:02 CDT, 12:14:02 GMT
6/5/73

mean time. Fifty seconds away from acquisition through the
Honeysuckle Creek and the portion of the Carnarvon Tracking
Station. Flight Director Chuck Lewis is leaving the Control
Center at this time enroute to the Houston News Center for
change-of-shlft briefing. This will be followed at i0:00 a.m.
with Dr. Royce Hawkins, with a briefing on the status of medical
experiments and crew medical reactions in the mission up to this
time. We're AOS through Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. We'll stand
by for resumption of air-ground.
PAO Skylab Control. The average air
ambient temperature in Skylab Space Station this morning is
reported to be 76 degrees Fahrenheit, coming down slowly.
Eight minutes remaining in Honeysuckle and Carnarvon Tracking
Station passes. The change-of-shift press briefing will begin
within the next 5 minutes or so, as soon as Chuck Lewis arrives
at the Houston News Center. Standing by for the remainder of
Honeysuckle pass, Skylab Control.
SC Houston, Skylab. You've got a key down.
CC Thank you.
CC We copy.
CC Skylab, if you're calling, Houston
standing_.
SC Negative.
PAO _ This is Skylab Control. The change-of-
shift press briefing will begin momentarily with Flight Director
Chuck Lewis in the Houston News Room. We will take down
the air-to-ground circuit at this time and tape record any
further conversations between the crew of Skylab and the
spacecraft communicator in this Honeysuckle pass and the
upcoming Hawaii pass. At 14:11 Greenwich mean time, Skylab
Control out.
END OF TAPE
_ SL-II MC547/I
Time: 09:36 CDT, 12:14:36 GMT
6/5/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 14:37 coming up

on stateside pass. We'll delay playback of the Honeysuckle
and Hawaii passes until after LOS or until after the press
conference, which ever comes first at i0 o'clock.
SC Do you read me?
CC That's affirm.
SC Okay (garble) for one you'll notice
where you can see the dip with the little piece of prominence
still attached (garble) directly above it is this piece that
appears to be departing the Sun. I'ii move the disk off the
tube a little bit so that you can see a little better.
CC Copy.
CC PLT, the TV is being received on the
ground at the site but it isn't coming realtime to Houston.
And we appreciate your comments though.
SC Okay, if that's enough I'ii get on with
this downlink.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, Paul. Understand that we'd still
be interested in your comments because we'll be seeing it a
short time later.
SC Yes sir, understand.
CC Skylab, one minute LOS; Bermuda at 14:47.
Also we will be dumping the tape recorder at Carnarvon.
SC Okay be advised that TV 12 on there is
about i0 to 12 minutes, Bill.
CC We copy, Paul.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for approximately
ii minutes.
SC Oh, it's a long one, huh?
CC That's affirm.
SC Now for the ATM people I couldn't make
out any libration clouds. I think our picture is a little
too poor quality to be able to see them although we'll sure
keep trying.
CC We copy.
END OF TAPE
-_ 54811
Time: 09:49 CDT, 12:14:49 GMT
6_5_73
SC Hello, Houston. You there?

CC Yeah, we're standing by.
SC Okay, I've got a quick question on this
first job we're doing - the pad says 82A auto 1 long which
I assumed meant both places in the building block. I just
looked it up. I see it takes 28 minutes - do you want me to
enter up the one that's running now, go ahead and do my roll
and pick it up again?
CC Stand by 1/2.
CC PLT, Houston. That's a long wavelength
of a 7.1 minute exposure.
SC Okay.
CC PLT, grounds termination on time here.
SC Okay, thank you.
CC SPT, Houston.
SC Go ahead, Houston.
CC CDR might be advised that the Cubs haven't
been doing very well recently.
SC Roger, Bill, understand.
SC We figured as much.
CC We'll be LOS in about a minute; coming
up on Ascension in about 8 minutes. And we want you to delay
the MITI run until reaching Ascension.
SC You're throwing our whole time line off.
SC Houston, we've got other things scheduled.
I'm afraid we're going to have to press on but well, listen
tell me what time Ascension is.
CC Ascension is 15:04.
SC Oh, well, hell that's only 5 minutes from
now.

mean time; loss of signal through Bermuda at the end of that
stateside pass at the outset of revolution 317; we have
2 minutes and 45 seconds of recorded air-to-ground that was
picked up during the last Honeysuckle and Hawaii pass during
the time the Change of Shift Conference was underway. We'll
play that back during this gap before Ascension. AOS at
Ascension in about 5 minutes. Let's roll that tape and then
go live again with Ascension.
END OF TAPE
SL-II 549/1
Time: 09:59 CDT, 12:14:59 GMT
6/5/73
PAO Let's r011 that tape and then go live

again with Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute;
Hawaii at 14:25. And, PLT, we would like you to go AUTO on the
star tracker.
SC Okay, you want AUTO right now, huh?
CC That's affirm.
SC You guys do good work.
CC Copy.
CC SPT, Houston. We may have a ground problem
here, but if you would verify that on panel 617 INSTRUMENTATION
MODE SELECT is at B (static).
SC Go ahead.
CC SPT, verify 617 INSTRUMENT MODE SELECT B°
SC (garble) LOS?
CC That's affirm.
SC Houston, Skylab.
CC Go, Skylab.
SC Okay, these two tape recorder switches looked
llke they were at Bravo, but they were at Charlie. They have
to approach them from A, or else they don't read right for
(garble).
CC We copy that.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in about a minute.
We'll have you at Goldstone at 14:38. And, SPT, since the
instrumentation recorder switch was off there at the beginning,
they lost CAL; so if you'd do at least a 25-second CAL
before shutting down the recorder on this one - per the checklist,
please, sir.
SC I started the whole procedure over again,
Houston.
CC Copy that.
SC Hello, Houston; Skylab. You there?
CC We're still here. Go, Paul.
SC Okay. For information, the prominence is
2801 and, compared to last night, is departing the surface of
the Sun. It no longer appears to be attached and is oh, I'd
say 0.05 solar radii above the wire the H-alpha llft.
CC We copy that.
PAO This is Skylab Control with (garble)
playback of the Honeysuckle and Hawaii pass. Two minutes
to Ascension, and there has been a half hour delay in the
start of the Medical Briefing with Dr. Royce Hawkins in the
Houston News Center. It's now scheduled for 10:30 a.m. -
no earlier than 10:30 a.m. central daylight time. Minute and a
half away from Ascension _eland pass, _ich will last approxi-
mately 10 minutes. Skylab Control, at 15:02, standing by.
END OF TAPE
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,f-_ Time: 10:03 CDT, 12:15:03 GMT
615173
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS for 9 minutes.

SC Roger.
SC Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
SC At their convenience sometime I'd like
to talk to Dr. Kraft private.
CC Wilco.
CC SPT, Houston.
SC Stand by.
CC They want you to proceed per the pad -
repeat per the pad on MI71.
SC Roger.
SC Understand that means we are to use the
140 workload for the CDR.
CC Joe, you can use either the 125 or the
155 - it's your option.
CC That's on the third level.
SC Oh, it's our option. Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in about 1-i/2
minute. We'll see you at Carnarvon at 15:37.
SC Roger, how did your data look?
-- CC It's looking good.
SC Okay.
SC Houston, you still there?
CC We still have you.
SC That figures. Quit plugging carona-
graph will you. I was running it continuous and all of a sudden
I have a ready light.
CC Copy.
SC And, we've got about a minute to look; I've
got to get on with this align.
CC Copy.
mean time. Loss of signal through Ascension Island. Presently
the science pilot and commander operating the M092 lower
body negative pressure experiment and the associated experi-
ment metabollic activity, MI71; while the pilot Paul Weitz
is making the first Apollo telescope mount solar observatory
run of the day. 20 minutes to acquisition at Carnarvon,
Australia; and at 15:16 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE :'_

SL-II MC-551/I
Time: 10:35 CDT, 12:15:35 GMT
6/5/73

mean time, about 2 minutes away from acquisition at the
Carnarvon, Australia, Tracking Station. There goes the
warbler in the control room, here, to alert controllers that
we're 2 minutes away. Currently, state of charge of the ATM
batteries running about 70 percent. Average for the 16 of
18 batteries still on line. Air temperatures in the workshop
are hanging in around 76 degrees Fahrenheit. Orbital measure-
ments 231.7 nautical at perigee by 241.4 at apogee. Period:
1 hour 33 minutes 22 seconds. During the most recent station
pass over Ascension Island, Skylab Commander Pete Conrad asked
for a private conversation with the Johnson Space Center
Director, Christopher C. Kraft, Jr. We have no definite word
when that will take place, But after it's conclusion, the
summary of that private conversation will be read over this
broadcast line. A medical briefing with Dr. Royce Hawkins
is scheduled to begin within the next several minutes in the
newsroom. Any air-ground will be recorded for delayed playback
after the medical briefing on experiment status. Standing by
for Carnarvon acquisition - -
CC AOS for I0 minutes.
SC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control, we've received
word that Dr. Hawkins briefing on medical status will be
delayed indefinitely and rescheduled with as much advanced
notice, as possible. Up llve for Carnarvon pass.
SC PLT, Houston.
SC Go ahead.
CC The power situation has improved here.
It looks as if we can get some better data by longer warmup
times, so at 16:00 we want C&D power ON and S191 power ON.
That last one is per EREP procedure 6-1.
CC All right the PLT copies that.
CC Okay,
CC Skylab; LOS in one minute. Guam 15:51
AOS. CDR your request will be honored during the Guam pass.
SC Roger.
mean time. We've had loss of signal through the Carnarvon
Australia Tracking Station. We're three minutes away from
the Guam Island Tracking Station. However, this will be
the private conversation requested by Skylkb Commander
Pete Conrad, with Johnson Space Center Director, Christopher
C. Kraft Jr. Therefore, we'll be back live for the stateside
pass at Goldstone in about 28 minutes. At 15:48 Greenwich mean
time; Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC552/I
Time: 11:15 CDT, 12:16:15 GMT
6/5/73

mean time. About 50 seconds to acquisitlon at Goldstone
for a fairly solid stateside pass.
CC PLT, Houston.
CC PLT, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. This is a reminder to
power down C&D panel power while doing the tape recorder
switch over.
CC SPT, this is a reminder that the H-alpha
camera has to be turned on manually.
SC Houston_ CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
SC Okay. The EREP prep pad, y'all asked for
K5 film reading, which has 25 magazine on it, and it reads
8337. Over.
CC Copy.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC 553/ i
Time: 11:27 CDT, 12:16:27 GMT
6/5/73
SC Houston_ SPT. You there?

CC Go, SPT.
SC Okay. I'm observing something interesting
we haven't seen before and I'd like you guys to look at it.
My experiment row indication is decreasing at about a, yon
know, normal roll-rate roll. Now, the canister is not rolling.
The canister roll isn't changing - out the window the canister
isn't moving, and the TV display is steady. Like yon guys to
look and advise on that.
CC Joe, the startracker is apparently locked
up on something odd, and we'll have to go manually here.
We're coming up with some numbers for you.
SC Ho, ho.
SC Very good. Our orbital (garble) is now
36 degrees.
CC Copy. And we'll be dumping the tape
recorder at MILA at 16:24.
SC Roger.
SC My startracker pad still good?
CC Negative, Joe. Your pad's no good. We're
trying to work up some numbers.
SC (garble) I'd rather have something
fairly (garble) before the computer tries to dump all that
false momentum, or something.
CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. The numbers are for the
inner gimbal, minus 8; outer gimbal, plus 1084. Inner
gimbal minus 8 and outer plus 1084. That's minus 8 for
the inner.
SC Got it. Is that our friend astronaut?
CC Affirm.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS in
about 30 seconds, and we'll have you again at 17:15.
SC Roger.
CC That's Carnarvon, 17:15.
SC Okay, and we got the star, Houston.
CC Copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control; as the air ground
circuit gets scratchy it means we've had loss of signal
as the space station Skylab goes over the horizon from
Bermuda. Next station, Carnarvon in 39 minutes. The private
conversation requested by Pete Conrad was held over the
Guam Island station during the middle part of the last
revolution with Johson Space Center Director Christopher
C. Kraft. A summary of that private conversation will be
forth coming. No estimate at. t_i_ t'ime, t_ _ - At 16:36
Greenwich mean time, with 38 minutes to go to next station
at Carnarvon, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-554/I
,_--_ Time: 12:13 CDT, 12:17:13 GMT
615173

mean time. Some 40 seconds away from Carnarvon acquisition.
Midway through Earth orbit number 3lB. Final Carnarvon pass
of the day. And a brief pause and across Guam again for the
final time today - -
CC AOS 9 minutes.
SC Hello.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 9 minutes
and we have some EREP messages here.
SC Okay. Stand by for one minute, please
Houston, on that.
CC Wilco.
CC On S194 you may get a momentary mal-
function light, while calibrating. If the eal source is not
within limits, it may stay on. No action's required.
SC Roger.
CC On SI9A (sic), malfunction light may come
on any camera during the run and no action's required on that.
You also may have malfunction light on the tape recorder for
5 seconds as it comes up to speed, again no action is required.
SC Okay. We understand all those.
SC (garble) that's 190 (garble) We had
no maf light.
CC Copy.
SC Hello, Houston. We've got a configuration
question for you.
CC GO, Skylab.
SC Notice on panel 225. On the 5 psi
the ATM and the LPG reservoirs. We got one REG open and one
closed. We're pretty sure it's not right. What configuration
do you want on that?
CC Stand by.
CC PLT, Houston.
CC Both RE GS should be open on panel
225.
SC Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're going to LOS in about
4 or 5 seconds. We'll see you at Guam at 17:29.
from Carnarvon. About a 6 minute gap across the Philippine
Sea to the start of Guam acquisition. It was at the last Guam
pass that the private conversation requested by Pete Conrad
was held. As mentioned earlier,.la _um_.ry of this private
conversation will be forth comi_: t 17_5 _tanding by for
Guam in 3 minutes; Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
_ SL-II MC555/I
Time: 12:29 CDT, 12:17:29 GMT
6/5/73

SC Roger, Houston.
SC Houston, SPT.
CC Go SPT.
SC Okay. We're going to reenable TACS for
this DOV maneuver, and I was wondering about reenabling CMG
AUTO RESET. That was not in any of the checklist updates that
you sent us. Is it desirable or not? Over.
CC Do not reenable the CMG RESET. Joe,
do not reenable the CMG RESET.
SC Okay.
CC And we do agree with reenabling the
TACS, of course.
SC Okay.
SC Houston, I've got one other word for plan-
ning on future passes. And I think you gave more time for
that operator number 2 between getting the star tracker locked
on and getting over to the VTS. Today there's only a minute and
a half - a minute and 40 seconds from star tracker walk-on to
first right acquisition, l'd appreciate it if that would -
could be a little longer in the future.
f CC We copy, and we'll take care of it.
SC Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston.
SC Go ahead.
CC We want to put the S054 filter to i and
then STORAGE.
SC Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SC My power down for unattended checklist
said that S052 - to put the alined scales - to push the times
ahead. We would prefer to leave it at times i. Is that okay
with them?
CC Stand by, Joe.
SC Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
SC (Static) Roger. Do you know when the tele-
printer gets another line, (static) or does one (garble)? (Garble).
CC CDR, you're squealing. We can't read you.
SC Okay (static) teleprinter (static)
CC CDR, you are unreadable.
SC (Garble) (static)
CC Tell him (garble).
CC Pete, we're unable to copy anything ex-
cept something about a teleprinter.
SC Roger, Houston. Bow's this?
CC You're loud and clear on that, Pete.
Go ahead.
SC Okay, thank you.
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Time: 12:29 CDT, 12:17:29 GMT
6/5/73
SC Can you tell when the teleprinter has

sent the same line twice?
CC Stand by, CDR.
CC And, SPT, your question - the answer to
your question is affirmative.
SC Thank you.
CC CDR, we cannot tell if it sent two lines.
SC Okay (garble) mode of interest (static)
(loud background noise).
SC My line (garble) (static)
CC Pete, it's virtually impossible to copy
you. We're going LOS here, and we'll have you at Goldstone at
17:53. We understand you're having difficulties with
double printing on the teleprinter.
from Guam Island Station. Some fairly bad communications there
with the speaker box that Commander Pete Conrad was attempting
to talk through; apparently concerning teleprinter stuttering.
Fourteen minutes to stateside pass through - starting with
Goldstone. And the fifth Earth resources survey of the mission,
starting at 12:57 central daylight and ending at 1:09 p.m.,
begins in southeast Oregon, across Nevada, Utah, Colorado,
New Mexico, Texas, Gulf of Mexico and the Carribean Sea to
just north of the canal zone. However, the Gulf Coast region
has a fairly heavy cloud cover, and some of the targets on this
EREP pass will likely be obscured or lost altogether. During
today's EREP survey, the SI90B, Earth terrain camera, will be
fired up for the first time and operated by Science Pilot
Joe Kerwin. The crew of Skylab usually (at least the oper-
ators on the EREP equipment and sensors, cameras) are on voice
actuated intercom so that the ground is able to follow their
checklist of turning on and off the EREP experiments. Goldstone
in 12 minutes. At 17:40 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-556/I
Time: 12:52 CDT, 12:17:52 GET
6/5/73

mean time. Fifty-five seconds to AOS Goldstone. We'll
probably hear the crew come over the horizon in voice
actuated intercom mode as they go through the Earth resources
package checklist. Today, the groundtrack 34 pass has some
37 task site combinations and 6 targets for the S191 infrared
spectrometer.
SC Roger, Houston. How do you read CDR on
VOX?
CC You're loud and clear, sir.
SC Okay. We're standing by to start the pass.
CC Copy.
SC And_ Houston, we have verified that we
are in the P REOPERATE configuration. The S192 door OPEN;
91 door is open; S190 window OPEN. The tape recorder power
is ON in accordance with the commander and PLT's (garble)
EREP cue card.
CC We copy, CDR.
SC MARK (garble). 54, I need an AUTO CAL.
MARK 54 AUTO CAL.
SC For your information, Houston, Bravo 7 is
75 percent and dropping.
CC Copy.
SC MARK SCAT STANDBY.
SC You read me?
SC Yeah, loud and clear.
SC MARK S194 MODE MANUAL.
SC Oooh. (Garble) wide open today.
SC No - no READY light on S191.
SC MARK S192 MODE READY. MARK 190 to AUTO.
ETC, AUTO.
SC 190B AUTO. And (garble).
SC (Garble) SCAT's ON.
SC I got green lights on everything hut S191.
SC Even you could have found --
SC STANDBY. RAD STANDBY. INTRACK CONTIGUOUS.
RAD's ON; SCAT's ON. Getting occasional RAD SCAT gimbal light,
which is normal.
SC SCAT, STANDBY; RAD, STANDBY; CROSS TRACK,
CONTIGUOUS.
SC 50 30.
SC RAD's ON; SCAT's ON.
SC SCAT, STANDBY; RAD, STANDBY; MODE, IN-
TRACK CONTIGUOUS; POLARIZATION, 5 (garble).
CC Pete, that MODE should be NON-CONTIGUOUS.
NON-CONTIGUOUS.
SC It's in the right place. I said it
P wrong - RAD, ON; SCAT, ON. It's INTRACK, NON-CONTIGUOUS. I
had the switch right, but said it wrong. I can't pronounce
big words.
CC Copy.
SL-II MC-556/2
Time: 12:52 CDT, 12:17:52 GET
6/5/73
SC MARK S192 STANDBY; Bravo 7 reads: 72

percent. Standing by for 8, plus 50.
SC Hey, S190B shows you feet is now at i00.
SC Burn across Florida?
SC No, in Texas - Houston.
SC (Garble)?
SC No.
SC Okay.
SC There it is, right here.
SC Oh, yeah.
SC Okay, Houston. Only got one of the
Houston sites; that was out in the water at 445 - I meant
415 and 420.
CC We copy, Paul.
SC Kind of got started on the nadir track a
little late, about 04:10. At 05:20 we started crossing land.
At 05:53 we're back over the water.
SC And your 191 information on this one,
Houston, we'll try and connect. We're passing over some
fair weather cue over the water on this slot.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in about 4 or
5 seconds. Vanguard at 18:19.
SC Roger. Tape recorder. At 7:28, we passed
over land; at 7:35, we're back over water.
SC MARK SCAT STANDBY, RAD STANDBY, ETC to
STANDBY. MARK.
SC Roger.
SC VTS AUTO CAL, please.
SC Yes. Turn the ETC to frame counters 119.
SC Frame count is 119. Okay.
SC And also, Joe, it goes in the photo log,
I think.
SC Yeah. Thank you.

SC (Garble) 906 MODE MANUAL 090 (garble).
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've been LOS
for about 4 or 5 minutes here. And our next station is
Vanguard in 7 minutes. At 18:12 Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC557/I
Time: 13:18 CDT, 12:18:18 GMT
615173

mean time. 50 seconds to acquisition at the tracking ship
Vanguard. And then there will be a gap of about an hour
and 4 minutes before next station, Goldstone. Stand by now
for the first Vanguard pass of the afternoon. Skylab Control
standing by.
SC Roger.
SC Hey, Houston, we just got a S191 ready
light.
CC Copy. Can we get an approximate time
on that light?
SC Yeah, it was about a minute ago.
SC About 18:19, at which time Bravo 7 was
reading 43. We left it on a little longer to see if we'd
get a light. And what happened was once they got below about
70 percent - (garble) Once the detector tip got down about
65 you could actually see the needle move. That pointer was
really on - really moving on down. As I say, once it got
to 43 at the time indicated, then we got a ready light.
CC Copy.
SC Houston, you still there?
CC We're still with you, Pete. Go.
SC Okay, also be advised, we hedged a little
more on 191 cooler. We turned it on about about 2 minutes
earlier than the pad called for you. You want to - yeah,
we're trying to figure something out, taking that into account
too.
CC We copy.
CC Skylab. You're going LOS in a minute.
Goldstone at 19:30.
mean time. An hour and 2 minutes to Goldstone tracking
station, next contact with the ground with the and the
Skylab space station. State of charge on the batteries,
currently as of the Vanguard tracking ship pass, 69 percent
of total capacity. Apparently successful earth resources
survey run over the Continental United States, portions
of Central America. Back again in i hour for Goldstone and
the stateside pass. At 18:29, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
r
SL-II MC558/I
._-_ Time: 13:50 CDT, 12:19:50 GMT
6/5/73

mean time. Still 39 minutes or so, away from acquisition
at Goldstone. The following is a summary of the private
conversation held earlier today with the crew of Skylab. At
the request of spacecraft commander Conrad, a private
conversation was conducted during the Guam pass between
15:51 and 15:58 Greenwich mean time, on Tuesday June 5.
Present for the conversation was Skylab Program Director
William C. Schneider, Johnson Space Center Director
Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, Jr., Donald K. Slayton, JSC Director
of Flight Crew Operations, and Dr. - Dr. Royce Hawkins,
Deputy Director of Live Sciences at Johnson Space Center,
and Donald Puddy, Flight Director. The conversation was
also monitored by public affairs office personnel. The
purpose of the conversation was Conrad's desire to discuss
with management some interpretations of medical data
previously covered with the crew by the flight surgeons.
Conrad said he was upset because in his opinion, medical
personnel were overly concerned about some data indicating
premature ventriccular contractions (PVCs) that had been ob-
served earlier in the mission during the M171 ergometer medi-
cal experiment on Conrad in the high heat environment of the
spacecraft at the time. Conrad had exhibited some premature
ventricular contractions during the highest level of the
ergometer exercise. At the time, medical personnel diagnosed
the condition as something that was consistent with a
normal physiological response to the workload and environment
that existed. They felt it was of no immediate concern.
As a prelude to the EVA plan for Thursday, medical personnel
and NASA management felt it would be prudent to confirm
the earlier diagnosis of normal response and schedule a
second MI71 exercise with Conrad for today. Instructions
concerning the experiment received by the crew last night,
lead Conrad to believe that the medical personnel were
overly concerned about the condition. Conrad asked Dr. Kraft
for clarification of the medical situation as it was under-
stood on the ground. Reasons for the medical protocol
were described by Dr. Kraft. Conrad and Scientist Astronaut
Joe Kerwin, the physician onboard, responded by noting that
their own evaluation was that the crew - the health of the
crew was excellent, both in terms of how Conrad personally
felt and as far as Dr. Kerwin's medical diagnosis was concerned.
They further said that they wa_ed t_ maintain as much
exercise as possible to keep themselves i;E the best condition
for reentry and post flight adjustments. Dr. Kraft expressed
regret that the crew misunderstood the information provided
by medical personnel, and had received the implication that
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the ground personnel were overly concerned about their

health. Kraft reported that the ground confirmed that
the crew was in fact considered to be in excellent health.
Conrad replied that he felt better about the situation
and had wanted to hear this directly from Dr. Kraft. "We're
in super shape," Kerwin added. At 3 p.m. in the Houston
News Center, a medical represenative will hold forth for
a medical briefing. That's 3 p.m. central daylight time,
about an hour from now in the Houston News Center. At 18:55
Greenwich mean time, 34 minutes from Goldstone, this is
Skylab Control.
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mean time. Two and a half minutes now away from acquisition
at Goldstone, an offshore pass out in the Pacific, 300 or
400 miles, missing the coast of California and Baja Call-
fornia on revolution 320. Doesn't cross land until the
coast of Chile in South America. Standing by for the final
continental U.S. station's pass. There goes the warbler,
warning flight controllers of acquisition within 2 minutes.
At 19:28 and standing by, Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for i0 minutes.
CC CDR, Houston.
CC CDR, Houston.
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CC Skylab, we'll be dumping the tape recorder

in a few minutes over Texas.
SC Houst on _ CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
SC Okay, would you look at the status of
PTRF 5?
CC Wilco.
SC Never mind it; I took care of it I guess.
I came up here and tried the (garble). Now, never mind
(garble). It is on and - I'm - not exactly sure what's
going on. Looks all right.
CC Okay. And CDR we have some information
for startracker reacquire after solar inertial.
SC Go ahead.
CC Inner gimble is minus 8; outer gimble
is plus 1324.
SC That's right. You were cut out. Was
that first one minus 0008.
CC That's affirmative.
SC And plus 1324.
CC And CDR, CBRM 5 looks good to us. It
just hasn't tripped back just before it went into night.
SC Okay.
SC Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
SC That star is still good from - I've got six
pads, I don't know which one's which. Day 35 to night 07.
CC Pete, apparently we didn't get all
your message. Would you say again?
SC I was just verifying that that stan
good time was still as the original pad this morning, that's in
respect to when it's available.
CC Pete, that pad is good and we're going
LOS here in 1 minute. Vanguard at 19:56.
SC Roger, Houston.
time 19 hours 45 minutes. We've had the last stateside pass
for the day as the spacecraft nears the end of it's 320th
revolution. Next pass will be over Vanguard in ii minutes.
This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 19 hours 45 minutes.
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PAO 19 hours 55 minutes. We have acquisition

at the Vanguard Tracking Station for a 7-1/2 minute pass.
We'll hold the line up for conversation between CAPCOM Dr. William
Thornton and the Skylab crew.
SC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston.
SC Go ahead.
CC After a great deal of digging here in the
history of the teleprinter, it appears that llne 21 on the
EREP pad was repeated. And it appears that it can be repeated
up to three times, and they say that a line will never be deleted.
And it's pretty difficult though to get the history of Just
what has happened.
SC Okay, I think it's more just that you have
thoughts of the other crew's, and they goes through those pads
very carefully for double and triple same entries, because if you
haven't gone through it and you're running on the time line, it's
real easy to trip up over that. (Garble) idea (garble) in ten
seconds it's going to (garble).
CC We copy Joe Pete.
CC And just for information, Pete, we've got
a complete on CBRM 5.
SC Roger.
CC PLT, Houston.
CC Just a reminder before we begin SO19 OPS.
We need a loekon on the star.
SC Okay, I'ii see if I can find it for you.
CC Copy.
CC Skylab, LOS in i minute; Hawaii at 21:04.
SC Roger.
time 20 hours 5 minutes. We've had loss of signal over the
Vanguard Tracking Station with the next acquisition of a sig-
nal over Hawaii in i hour from now. On the previous stateside
pass, Commander Conrad alerted to the ground that he had a
BATTERY CHARGE light on number 5 CBRM. However, on this pass
he was advised that battery 5 is okay, and everything looks
good. This is Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 20 hours
5 minutes. There will be a press conference in the News Room
of building 1 with Dr. Royce Hawkins, Deputy Director of Life
Sciences at the Johnson Space Center. This is Skylab Control;
20 hours 6 minutes.
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time 21 hours two minutes. We anticipate acquisition of
signal from the Skylab space station as it passes over the
Hawaii tracking station on it's 320th revolution. We have
Cap Com Dr. William Story, and also at the Cap Com console
this afternoon is Rusty Sehweickart, Astronaut Rusty Schweiekart.
We'll leave the line up for any live conversation.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS six minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And Skylab, we'll be dumping the recorder
over Vanguard.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CDR Do you have the TV, Houston?
CC Stand by.
CC That's affirm, Pete.
CDR What you guys sending up in the teleprinter?
It's swashing and dancing at my feet.
CC Pete that' s okay as long as it's only the
teleprinter.
CDR Okay, I've got a question for you on the
ATM. I didn't get any SO54 filter information for building
block 13, so I assume you just want to run filter i twice.
Is that correct?
CC Stand by.
CC Pete, we think you should be in building
block 23 which has the information.
CC If you should be in 13, in 13, why then
alternate between filters i and 3.
CDR I think you're right, I read it wrong.
I'm in13 (garble)
CC We copy.
CC We're going LOS and we'll see you at the
Vanguard.
CDR Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control, 21 hours Ii minutes
We have lost signal, Skylab space station with the tracking
station at Hawaii. Our next acquisition will be at the Van-
guard tracking station 21 minutes from now. Science Pilot
Joseph Kerwin is currently performing the M-131 human vesti-
bular function experiment. This is one of the two neuro-
physiology experiments Doctor Kerwin is conducting during
the flight. He is the only one wearing the 133 sleep cap, sleep
monitoring experiment. Pilot Paul Weitz is observing as
Dr. Kerwin rides the rotating litter chair. Commander Conrad
is at the C&D panel of the Apollo telescope mount. With
acquisition at Vanguard in 20 minutes, this is Skylab Control,
Greenwich mean time 21 hours 12 minutes.
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PAO This is Skylab control, 21 hours 30

minutes. We expect acquisition of signal over the Vanguard
tracking station as the Skylab vehicle concludes its 320th
revolution. Capcom is Dr. William Thornton.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS i0 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Pete, we'd like for you to confirm for
us that the teleprinter is still legible, and behaving
normally.
CDR (garble).
CDR Looks good to me, Bill.
CC Say again.
CC PLT, we're not receiving TV at
Vanguard.
PLT Hey, you're getting it now. Seems the TV 19
is OGI only, and we were done with that, so here comes a
little MS.
CC Yeah, we're getting it now.
PLT We (garble) away. We just tripped out the
chair. We're waiting for a fault light to reset.
CC Copy.
PLT (garble) is ii set of head movements without
interruption in the middle of one symptoms, which is quite a
bit more than you've got on the ground.
CC We copy that.
CC We will be LOS in one minute. Hawaii
at 22:39.
mean time 21 hours 43 minutes. We have had loss of signal
at the Vanguard tracking station. Pilot Paul Weitz was
describing to the ground a series of tests that Joseph
Kerwin was undergoing on the MI31 experiment, the vestibular
function test. Science Pilot Kerwin was performing the
motion sensitivity mode where he sits in the rotating
chair, and does a series of prearranged head movements
and Weitz reported that Kerwin had completed Ii sets of
head motions without any symptoms. Quite a bit more than
he has done on the ground. The head movements are continued
until either a present value is reached on the response
or 30 head movements series are completed. And at this
point Science Pilot Kerwin had completed Ii of them. At
Greenwich mean time 21 hours 44 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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PAO This is Skylab Control, 22 hours

37 minutes Greenwich mean time. We expect acquisition of
the Skylab space station in approximately 1 minute over
the Hawaii tracking station for a pass of 10 minutes in
duration. Capcom Dr. William Thornton is on the console
this afternoon. We anticipate long discussions tonight with
Rusty Schweickart, backup Commander for Skylab II with
the Skylab crew to go over EVA details planned now for
Thursday, June 7th. We'll hold the line up for conversation.
CC Skylab Houston. AOS i0 minutes.
CDR Hi Houston.
CC CDR, Houston. We have a change on
the ATM schedule pad for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC At 22:22 lines 15, 16 and 17 left,
delete. Those lines are "go to auto sequence hold PRI to
ESS."
CDR I'm not sure I understood you Houston.
I don't see that on my pad.
CC Pete, that's at the bottom of the
pad you're on now. And simply delete "go to auto sequence
s hold PRI to ESS."
CDR Oh, okay I'm with you. I thought
you were up at the top.
CDR Let me know when you have the XUV MON.
CC Copy. And we have TV now Pete.
CDR Okay, coming at you (garble).
CDR Say Bill_ I have a request to Houston.
CC Go ahead Pete.
CDR We don't normally look at the tele-
printer after we pick up the messages in the morning unless
you tell us there is a message there. And we missed message
1226 Alfa 033 general message MI71 today on account of that,
because we had picked up our messages and because we had
such a busy morning nobody was paying any attention to the
teleprinter. Unless you're thinking about it, you don't
even hear it run. And it's my request that any time you
send a message up during the day, would you please tell us
about it by voice at the first opportunity. Otherwise we're
liable to miss it.
CC Wi_ pete.. _, ..
CDR Tha_s it. Yeah_ one of the things
you asked me on the teleprinter, it wasn't until the last pass,
that I bothered even looking (garble) teleprinter nor did
anybody else today.
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CC Skylab, Houston. The tape recorder will

be dumped over Vandenberg on your next pass. And also_ we
want the VTR POWER OFF at your convenience. We'll be going
LOS in I minute. Vanguard at 23:11.
CDR Roger, Houston, that's the VTR POWER is OFF.
CC Canberra, voice control, by the way.
PAO This is Skylab Control 22 hours 50 minutes
Greenwich mean time. As the Skylab space station passes over
Hawaii, which will be the final - next to the final pass for
the day. The next pass one hour from now will be a brief 50
second pass. Next acquisition will be over the Vanguard track-
ing station. As the crew prepares their evening meals of -
Pilot Weitz will be having filet mignon with strawberries and
ice cream. Commander Conrad will have prime ribs of beef with
potato salad and Science Pilot Kerwin will be having filet
mignon with green beans and pears. Scheduled on successive
passes later this evening over Vanguard_ Ascension, and Guam,
we anticipate conversations between the Skylab crew and Cap
Com in going over the procedures for the proposed EVA on Thurs-
day. Next acquisition over Vanguard in 20 minutes from now.
This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time 22 minutes 51
minutes.
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time 23 hours 9 minutes. As Skylab will - expected to come
into acquisition of the Vanguard tracking station. We will
leave the line up for conversation between Cap Com Hank Harts-
field and the Skylah crew.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard 8-1/2
minutes.
CDR Hello there, Henry. How are you tonight?
CC Okay, how about yourself?
CDR Super good.
CDR What's going on in the world? We haven't
got any news to speak of.
CC Well, it's the same old thing as when you
left.
CDR That's good.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about one minute
from LOS. We'll have a real short pass at Hawaii at 23. If
we miss that one, we'll he back here at Vanguard at 49.
CDR Okay.
time 23 hours 19 minutes. We have loss of signal at the
Vanguard tracking station. Next acquisition will be over
Hawaii one hour and 2 minutes from now. When the spacecraft
passes over the Vanguard tracking station again in one
hour and 29 minutes, it is anticipated they will have approxi-
mately 45 minutes in discussing with the ground review
of the proposed EVA for Thursday morning June 7th. At Greenwich
mean time 23 hours 20 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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PAn This is Skylab Control. Greenwich

mean time 23 hours 37 minutes. We have a report following
the review of onboard data of Commander Pete Conrad's MITI
activity today. The Ml71 metabolic ergometer experiment
was successfully accomplished today by spacecraft Commander,
Pete Conrad. Dr. Royce Hawkins, Deputy Director, Johnson
Space Center Life Science Director, and Dr. Robert L. Johnson
JSC cardiologist and Principle Investigator for Mo92 exper-
iment report Conrad's test today revealed normal cardio-
vascular activity without any of the premature ventrlcular
contractions seen on Conrad's previous MITI exercise con-
ducted on May 29th. Today's Ml71 experiment was conducted
at the same work load as Conrad's preflight baseline measure-
ments and previous inflight tests. The Ml71 experiment in-
volved 5 minutes at each of 3 work levels with a recovery
period of 5 minutes following the maximum work level.
Dr. Hawkins and Dr. Johnson are quoted as saying "We see
nothing of medical nature that would preclude Commander
from performing the planned EVA on Thursday." This is
the end of the medical statement. At Greenwich mean time
23 hours 38 minutes.
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mean time 23 hours 59 minutes. Flight Director Don Puddy,
Flight Director of the Silver Team, is en route to the
Building 1 News Room for a change of shift briefing to
start at 7:00 p. m. central daylight time. This is
Skylab Control 23 hours 59 minutes.
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mean time 00:44 minutes. During the change of shift brief-
ing with Flight Director Don Puddy, we had a pass over the
Hawaii tracking station, a very brief pass for 56 seconds.
We'll play that tape and during this LOS period, astronaut
Rusty Schweickart has been describing to the flight con-
trollers in the Mission Control Center a TV clip of oper-
ations he and Ed Gibson performed in the neutral buoyancy
facility at the Marshall Space Flight Center on the various
modes of the EVA to be carried out by the Skylab crew on
Thursday. We'll bring up that Hawaii pass and stand by
for discussions between Rusty Schweickart and the crew
on the EVA review scheduled to begin at the Vanguard pass.
CC Skylab Houston through Hawaii for
a minute or BO.
CDR Roger Houston.
CC Skylab Houston. The clock shows
about i0 seconds from LOS. Vanguard will be next 49 for
a data recorder dump.
CDR Roger, Roger.
CC And we'll have some EVA words there
- tOO.
CDR Okay, we've got a whole bunch of

gear laid out here already.
PAO This is Skylab Control with aequsi-
tion at Vanguard shortly. We'll hold the line up for a
i0 minute pass over Vanguard.
CC Skylab Houston at Vanguard. How do you
read?
CDR Okay, Roger.
CDR Well, Rusty we've assembled all the
bits and pieces and we do have a few questions. Have you
got anything for us first?
SCHWEICKART Okay, we're ready for your questions
and we've got some additional data for you. Let me just
say that Ed Gibson has been honchoing most of the hardware
assembly and that kind of stuff, so he's here to answer
those questions.
CDR Okay, we finally figured out the
brass rod trick. And our question is, how far from the
mushroom down the pole do you rig it?
MCC Okay, just above the locking nut
you need it right down near the end, and that way you've
got enough slack in the line to put it over your head if you
want to, that is run the llne over your helmet behind you,
and you can still cinch it down to the line, to the end
of the pole.
CDR You lost me there.
L
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MCC Pete, I think your question was how

far do you put that double prong tool from the mushroom. Is
that your question?
CDR That's the question.
MCC Yeah. That you can put right down next
to the mushroom, as long as you've got the - on the rod and
you need the double prongs away from the mushroom so that
you can put the rope underneath it and use that as a - wedge
your rope underneath it and use it as a clete. The whole
objective there is just to find a way of securing that rope
taut once you're out there.
CDR Okay, the rope is attached to the
clippers.
MCC That's right so you're going to take
and tape one rope, the one coming down from the cutters so
you know which one to pull on. Once you get out there and
hook it over the strap and pull it taut, then you want to
have it stay tight while EV i goes down the five poles. So
the objective there is to have something right close to
the mushroom which you can wrap the rope around and have
a little friction locking device for the rope, just like a
elete.
CDR Okay, now we took the hose clamp off
the thing and it's barely going to make it. Ours may not
be quite the same as yours, and it didn't have enough serrations
in it to screw it, I don't think, all the way tight. We'll
get it as tight as we can. And then you've got the 2 prongs
are perpendicular to the pole with the attached ends pointed
towards the mushroom. Is that correct?
MCC That's right. The attached end towards
the mushroom. And you've got several options there to make
it tighter. You can wrap a little tape around it or some
of that safety wire. Probably tape would do it, give you
a little extra circumference there and it would just tighten
down on the clamp.
CDR Okay.
MCC And also if that does not look as
though it's tight enough Pete, if you look on the regulator
on the M092, right - the big black hose coming off the back of
the regulator, there's a smaller hose clamp there and you might
want to look at using that one.
CDR Okay.
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MCC -hose coming of the back of the reg-

ulator, there's a smaller hose clamp there and you might
want to look at using that one.
CDR Okay. Joe's got one for you.
SPT Well, yes, when you add the 24
feet to the clipper rope, are we running an endless rope
down to the crewman end of the pole, or just one rope?
MCC No, you're running an endless rope,
but your option is to where you want to cut it. All you
really need though is something which will reach down to
the mushroom and it's your choice as to whether once you're
out there, you want to loop the rope over you and behind
you, or whether you just want to keep it right out all
out in front of you. We gave you an extra 4 feet there
from what you'd really need if you just added i0 foot with
the pole. I think you may want to assemble that gear and
figure out exactly how you're going to use it, make those
lengths fit what you want. We gave you what we felt was
the maximum you could ever use.
SPT I'd like to hear a very brief discription
of your technique. EVA and assembling the pole and handling
the rope and a little curious what after the work site.
MCC Okay, I'ii tell you what. We got some
things here which we'd like to amplify. Our description -
Rusty's got a whole host of things here to give you a general
idea of some of the things not included in the pad, and I'd
like to just start at A and B and amplify some of those items
rather quickly, and then Rusty will hit the details of the
EVA procedures himself.
SPT GO.
MCC Okay, first to let you know what the
schedule is, as you see on the pad you got, we got a EVA
sim tomorrow morning. The main objective of that is to
assemble the parts, cut and tie the ropes. After you get
all of that done and assembled, you can maneuver them
around in there, hook it to the floor grid from the aft
compartment of the airlock, you know, to simulate grabbing
something 25 feet away. And we've got two real time TV
capabilities there plus the VTR and if you got a pencil,
I'ii give you the AOS on the real time TV.
SPT Go ahead.
MCC Those - Okay 15:33 to 15:49 and on
the next rev you got 17:10 to 17:26. At that time you
should - we're picking up real time TV and you can show
us anything you got a question on or uncertainty about.
Show us a better idea you came up with or whatever. In
_ any case you can show us what you got, and we'll be glad
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to answer any questions.

CDR Okay, we've got all the gear assembled
in the experiment upper area right now. And we were just
in the process of putting it together and talking it over.
Go ahead.
MCC Okay, on Wednesday evening, then, yon
got, as I say, you got 3 hours tomorrow morning for fooling
around, then Wednesday evening we're doing most of the EVA
prep that we can do, in order to shorten the prep on Thursday
morning.
CDR (garble)
MCC Okay, also, of course, tomorrow morn-
ing after you get a look at the use of this stuff we would
like your evaluation on it, and if there's any reason that
you feel you'd like to have a longer time, like run it on Friday
or something, just let us know and that's within the scheme
of things.
CDR Okay.
MCC The nominal plan, however on Wednesday
evening you'd be prepping for the EVA and stowing the air-
lock, positioning the suits and the ALSA and all that.
On Thursday morning, we have a normal wakeup time. We got
about 2 hours and 50 minutes for final prep. And then
we've got schedule blocked out four hours to the EVA.
The plan is to open the hatch at sunset, which then gives
you on the order of 30 minutes to do the initial work in the
lighted area, in the FAS and around the FAS and around the
discone antenna. This then will give us a maximum capability
for going down the side of the workshop and getting the SAS
beam up during the full daylight pass. So the nominal hatch
open on the EVA will be Thursday morning, 15:37 Zulu. Okay,
we also have some additional EVA tasks which we have not
talked about yet, but which I know you're aware of. They
number 4. The first one is to pin open the S054 door so
that we can go back to a nominal operation on the auto
door. The second one is to retrieve and replace the SO82A
film. That will be low priority, that is, we will do that
only if everything else goes okay and you feel that you're
in good enough shape to go on out and do that, but we do
have plans to go ahead and stow the S082A film in the aft
compartments so that you can go on down to the Sun end and
take care of that.
SPT What's wrong with the 82A film?
MCC Okay, this is the 82A which has some
indication of the camera not working at this time, and they
would like to replace the 82A magazine.
SPT Oh, well that's the first we heard of
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that, Rusty, Okay.

MCC Okay, this is related to your con-
tinuous operate light. The third - and the frame counter -
The third item is to observe and do some television of the
parasol geometry and condition, and also the SAS panels
after the beam is up. We will therefore be planning to in-
clude the television camera and a 30 foot cable in the lock
compartment and again, following the sucessful SAS beam
deployment, we'll go down and take a look at the good job
you did. Okay, and the fourth one, which is a relatively
minor one, is to get a good look at the CSM quad A and Pete, we're
working out the geometry, but it looks as though you can do
that from the FAS foot restraints, just looking right through
the trusses.
CDR What's the matter with Quad A?
MCC The temperatures appear to be running
anomanously high on it. And we're at this moment 18 seconds
from LOS at Vanguard, and we'll see you again at Ascension
here. Standby I'ii give you the time. Okay it'll be 03 at
Ascension.
CDR 03 at Ascension. One of the questions I
"_-- want answered is where this pin is on the antenna?
MCC Okay, fine. We_ll give you the descrip-
tion of that.
CDR Okay.
time 00:59 minutes. Astronaut Rusty Schweickart describing
to Commander Pete Conrad the assembly procedures necessary
to put the EVA gear together for the proposed EVA on Thursday.
to repair the orbital workshop solar array panel. Astronaut
Schweickart told the crew they would have two live passes
on Wednesday, during which time the crew can show the ground
the assembled gear and answer any further questions. These
passes will be at 10:33 a. m. on Thursday morning, and 12:10
noon. (garble) that. That's 10:33 a.m. Wednesday and 12:10
p. m. central daylight time, Wednesday. We have another
pass over Ascension in approximately 2 minutes. We'll
hold the line up for that pass.
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CC Skylab, Houston at Ascension.

SPT Okay, Houston. Rusty are you ready for
your 30 seconds? I want to pass on that Paul has had a apparent
failure of his urine separator to perform properly. It
does not develop any suction in the receiver, and in the absence
of further clues and he plans to change out the separator. Now,
go ahead.
CC Okay, we got that and before we start on
the EVA, let me give you a star tracker pad.
SPT (Garble)
CC Okay, the star is - -
CC Okay, are you ready to copy the star tracker
pad?
SPT Yep.
CC Okay, the star is Achernar. And it's 52012,
50,000. It's available day 40 plus 00 to night 0900; outer
gimbal is plus 1422; inner gimbal plus 0007; and that's valid
day 157 0000 to i000.
SPT (Garble)
CC Okay, you got it?
z-- CC Okay.
SPT (Garble)
CC Okay, here we go. If you - let me just
tell you what's coming up quickly tonight. We're sending up
additional data related to the prep and post, related to the
ATM configuration and re-configuration afterward. You recognize
that we are now not on day-26 where we configured just to a
POWER DOWN, but we will be reconfiguring after the EVA to normal
operation, so that means a change in the checklist, there. We'll
be drying the LCG's instead of trashing them. We are planning
to use the aft airlock compartment - that is, using the OWS
hatch and therefore the things that were struck from the check-
list which relegated us only to the lock compartment, will be
rescinded and you'll see that. And we'll also have some additional
procedures for Paul to read for EV-3 to read to perform the
S054 door opening. The 82-A change-out and television that I men-
tioned. And Ed would like to go ahead with some of the assembly
details here on the equipment.
MCC Okay, just a note before we start on this.
You may have noticed that all throughout the procedures is
a not a consistent level of detail. And what we've done is
specify the detail when we feel it'd save you time and effort
outside. The important on the see judgements such as umbilical
management, avoidance of sharp edges, or avoidances of S-IVB
skin damage, we've not attempted to detail. We'd like your
feelings also, afterwards on what level of detail you'd like
for the extra four tasks which we've specified. We can give
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you a good level of detail on the teleprinters if you feel you

need it.
CDR Ed, if you want this whole thing
from one end to the other. Or if you're going to (garble)
MCC Yeah, we've worked it from one end to the
other. I've worked it twice in the water and Rusty's gone
through it three times.
SC I'm talking about doing S082-B and looking
at the quad and so forth and so on, and put all of this TV
and this stuff in the airlock. It sounds to me like we're
getting Fibber McGee and Molly's closet in there, but that's
a (garble)
MCC No, we'll have a - Scott's been working that
end ofit and says it can be done if you open up the aft airloek.
SPT Go ahead with your procedural notes there.
MCC Okay, on item A. The length of those ropes.
We've allowed some time for not some extra space in there for
knot tying, and I suggest what yon do is figure out functionally
what each one of those ropes is going to do and run yourself
a little C-square, S-square to fit it to how you really want
to operate it. Down there on item five we call off six five-foot
f EVA sail rods, that's five rods we'll actually use. We've got
one backup. We have three SEVA rods left and two extra sail
rods, so we're not digging into the double pole sunshade rods.
However, we're going to bring all five of those back in, so
we'll still have them left. Item 17, SEVA shepherd hook. That's
not mentioned anywhere from here on out and the EVA is strickly
as a backup to the cutters. In case we have problems hooking the
cutters over a strap and securing a good translation path down
to the strap, we can use the shepherd hook and you have to
retract the five rods, get down to the airlock, get the shepherd
hook, put it on, and then run it along the - underneath the
beam and you'll pick up about once every foot and a half, a loca-
tion that'll hold. However, you'd have to keep tension on the pole
at that point because otherwise you'd lose it.
SPT How would you keep tension on the pole?
MCC Well, EV-2 has to hold tension on the pole
all the way. We don't recommend that but it is a backup method
in case you have problems, with the cutter method.
SPT What is EV-2's security?
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GIBSON We don't recommend that, hut it is

a backup method in case you have problems with the cutter
method.
SPT What if EV 2 secures the near
end of the pole under the normal circumstances?
GIBSON We've got a waist tehter put on there
which has got the large Apollo hook between the mushroom
and the double prong tool, and the other end with the small
Apollo hook fits down into that same pin at the base of the
discone antennae. That pin was used to held a - to hold the
top part of the discone antennae during launch. When you approach
that area you will notice the pin down on your lower right
if you have the discone antennae going up straight from
your foot to your head. In other words if your head is
up no your axis is along the discone antennae and your head
pointed towards the end of it, you'll notice right in the
FAS reef ring, about a foot and a half down, a small pin.
It's about one of the only things you've got around that you
can tether on.
SPT Okay, can we use the discone antennae
as a handhold?
J
GIBSON You can, you can put something like -
4 foot up - about 40 pounds or so.
SCHWEIKART That's a factor of safety too, at
that point.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay, other straps or restraints. You
may want to come up with other ways of bundling loose rope
for ingress. We've not tried to call that out. You can
either use bungees , straps or even take out tape if you
desire. Spares, it's your choice as to whether you want
to take out more than one extra rod, an extra pinch bar, or
extra tape.
SPT Okay.
MCC Okay, in the assembly of the gear,
there is two major pieces of hardware, the cutter, you
should have 5 poles, and a BET. Item i, we put the tape on
the jaw in order to protect the skin of the SIVB as you're
sliding that down there. Item 2, the two prong pole, the
tool, I think we've discussed using that as a cinching tool.
Item 3, it's your choice as to how you put those sail
rods together. Rusty and I used it like you use tape and
put it together like a hamel belt. However, seeing that
you folks will he putting that back into the airlock and
then having to go back out again, we recommend that you
use bungees or springs or some other method which will
allow you to repack it on ingress and keep it all tied down
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tight.
SPT Are you talking about the rope that's
on the cutter?
MCC We're talking about the EVA sall rods
at that point, and how you bundle those and keep them
secured and you know bundled in the airlock before you go
out. It will look real good.
SPT Okay. Press on.
MCC Okay. Item 4, the assembly of the
BET. You'll have to - that 6 foot rope you should allow it
to slide through the 32-foot rope so that the load is distributed
equally on the 6 foot rope. You may want to tie knots around 6
inches or so on each side of the center of the 6 foot rope.
That gives you an ease of handling, that is the 6 foot rope
won't slide through one way or the other all the way. And
it also prevents large changes of length if a small hook
slips out while you are putting tension on the BET. That's
your own discretion.
SPT Okay, we understand all that.
MCC Okay we're coming up to 20 minutes,
20 seconds to LOS. Do you have any questions before we go
over the hill?
SPT I'm curious what position the two of
you took when you put the rod together?
MCC Okay Joe, we're going to have to hit
that tomorrow during the 3 hour period. You've got Guam
at 49 coming up with the evening status report. We'll see
you tomorrow morning.
SPT Roger.
mean time i hour 13 minutes. Over the Ascension pass just
concluded, astronaut Ed Gibson, backup Science Pilot for
Skylab II, went over the assembly instructions for the var-
ious tools the Skylab crew will use to help deploy the stuck
solar wing panel of the orbital workshop. He reminded the
crew other procedures will have to be changed at the close
of the EVA. EVA procedures onboard the spacecraft for day
26 of the mission that would have been a normal EVA to re-
trieve film from the Apollo telescope mount. At the close
of that EVA certain portions of the crew equipment would
have been disposed of in the trash airlock. Since the crew
will have to go EVA another time to retrieve the Apollo
Telescope film, they will dry the LCG, the liquid cool gar-
ment the crew will wear when they go out into space atmos-
phere again. So, on 2 successive passes over Vanguard and
Ascension, a total of 19 minutes of assembly instructions
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the Skylab space repair crew will get ready for another
day of activity discussing with Rusty Schweiekart and Ed
Gibson tomorrow morning further details on the EVA. Next
pass over Guam in 34 minutes. This is Skylab Control. Green-
wich mean time i hour 14 minutes.
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time i hour 27 minutes. In the previous Ascension pass
the crew was asked to - one of the extra details they were
asked to do during the EVA was to take a look at Quad-A. Quad-
A is the service reaction control system on the service module
and Quad-A is one of four quads on the vehicle. And they
could make a visual inspection by standing up in the FAS EVA
station. FAS is the fixed alrlock shroud in the airlock module.
Quad-A is currently about 20 degrees higher than normal. Nor-
mally the quad is registering at about 60 degrees, in the mid-
sixties. Current readings show it at about in the mid-80's.
The crew will he asked to make a visual inspection at the
close of the EVA. At Mission Control Center, Skylab Control,
this is Greenwich mean time 1 hour 28 minutes. Next acquisi-
tion over the Guam tracking station in 20 minutes. Skylab
Control 1 hour 28 minutes.
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PAO - Guam Island tracking station. During

this pass is the standard scheduled evening status report by
Commander Pete Conrad. The report consists of the meals the
crew ate for the day and also the crew will answer questions
passed up to them by teleprinter from the flight controllers
here at Mission Control Center. We'll hold the line up for
air-to-ground conversations with the Skylab crew.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for seven
minutes.
SC Hello.
CDR Hello, Henry we're up to urine separators
EVA gear (garble) just a second and I'll give you the evening
status report.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, Hank, the CDR ate everything plus
two butter cookies plus eight optional salts.
CC Skylab, for info we're going to be com-
manding - or swapping the mission timers in the ATM DC so we
can update timer B. It seems to be drifting.
CDR Okay.
CDR The SPT didn't eat his catsup with break-
/ fast because it's spoiled and he ate everything else except
item (garble) on the snack, orange drink. He had a total DELTA
H20 of plus one and no optional salts. The PLT ate everything
today except item 62 under snacks, coffee with sugar. He had
seven optional salts. Okay the photo log for day 166. We had an
MIbI-I with CIOH - excuse me - CIO4, 23, MTOI. Nowj transporter 04
jammed during the MI51-1 and we finished that on transporter
02. And transporter 02 for the MI51-1 is CIO5 with now 60
remaining, CIOI. EREP we had a BH01, 80; and the MI31-1 SPT
was a CIO3 and we ran her out SFI0 and it's empty; 35 millimeter
we had a CI3405, a CI2631; 70 millimeter CX06 10; the ETC 119
EREP set Oscar 6707, 6043, 6918, 6914, 0455, 7774, and our
configuration of drawer A is 02 CIO5 60 CIOI; A-2 is an 03
ZIO3 00 MTI0; A-3 is an 04 CIO4 25 Mike Tango 01. And Mike
Tango 01 transporter 04 is the one that's Jammed. Floating
is transporter 05 C125 i00 percent MTII. We had no deviations
from the flight plan. The stowage is changed considerably
in that we have all that EVA gear spread out on topside and
we're in a fixed state of flux at the moment. And the
inoperable piece of equipment which we are working on is the
PLT urine separator and we're in the process of changing the
filter a£ this time.
': CC Roger, did you run the malf procedure on
that?
CDR What malf procedure?
CC Roger, that's (garble) waste for number six.
/ CDR Say again.
CC Waste six.
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CC Okay, we've got a few other things for you.

Just so you're not surprised, we're going to he upliuking tonight
a POWER-DOWN procedure for the EVA to minimize the power con-
sumption during the EVA. And we'd like to apologize for the
S082-A thing we hit you with tonight. That's sort of been
working behind the lines here and I guess we were kind of wait-
ing until we had a full storage. It seems that the combination
of the frames remaining not working and the OPERATE light on
all the time We thought that the camera was working, all the
indications were good, but somebody tracked down a single point
failure where you'd have all those indications and the camera
wouldn't be working so we thought that the safest thing to do
would he to change it out while we're out on the EVA. Also
just so we can kind of update you here, we've got a system
status in work and what we're going to do is uplink as soon
as possible a complete picture of all the systems in here.
Things we think you ought to know. And also, one more item,
the AM coolant loop, you know we've been bringing up the primary
loop every night, well, it seems that we've reached a point
where this is not doing any good so we're going to operate
on the secondary loop tonight and with automatic switchover
ENABLE. And that will be to conserve power.
CDR Okay. I gathered because we're at zero-beta
that we've gotten to our lowest thermal conditions, is that
correct?
CC We don't think that's it. I think we've
just about reached thermal equilibrium, Pete, is what the
story is there on the coolant loop.
CDR Gee, you wouldn't think it'd take it this
long for the vehicle to stabilize.
CDR Okay, now, as beta angle goes back up you
think it's going to stay at this temperature?
CDR Pay us no mind. Let us know later.
CDR Still there, Houston?
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about one minute
to LOS. Vanguard's coming up at 26:00 for your medical conference.
CDR Okay.
CC Pete, before we lose out here, the general
concensus here is that we're going to get a little cooler as
the beta goes up because it looks like you'll be radiating
more to space rather than to the Earth with a high albedo.
CDR Caught me in midstream. I thought you'd left
and I was halfway between here and there. Rog. thank you.
CDR Are you still there, Houston?
CDR Okay, systems housekeeping CM-4 is complete.
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Fuel cells did purge.

CC Roger, copy.
time one hour 57 minutes. We've had loss of siena1 over the
Guam Island tracking station. Next pass will be over Vanguard
in 28 minutes. During the previous pass Cap Com, Hank Harts-
field discussed with the crew the change-out of the SO82-A
camera. This came as a surprise to Commander Conrad earlier
on the last pass when they advised him he would have to do
that work during the EVA, but it turns out that the frame counter
on the S082-A and the signal light on the camera have all been
not performing properly, so the ground is taking the position,
change the camera out completely while the crew is outside.
This is one of the tasks which would have been accomplished
on day 26 during a normal EVA. Skylab Control at one hour
58 minutes with next pass over Vanguard in 27 minutes.
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mean time 2 hours 24 minutes, anticipating acquisition
over the Vanguard tracking station, for one of the final
AOS's for the crew tonight. Next pass will be over
Ascension, at which time the crew will more than likely
bid goodnight for the day. We'll hold the line up in the
event of conversation between Capcom, Hank Hartsfield and
the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got 5 more minutes
with you.
PLT Okay, Henry. We got the urine drawer
fixed. After we fixed it, we read the malf procedures and
decided we pretty much did the right thing, and we fixed it
by changing the filter, so it's back in operation and I
put it on B channel, but the stowage people should scratch
one urine filter from dome 448, I think it was.
CC Roger, copy.
CC Paul, which filter was that you re-
placed? Was that the fecal filter there, or was that the
one that's in the separator cell.
PLT No, that's the urine separator filter,
Hank.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, we've got a quickie for you. I
was wondering if you'd consider doing a solar inertial EREP
pass tomorrow with a hurricane that's off the west coast
of Mexico now. What we'd do is use the SPT and PLT with
S193 only and the Nikon with a 300 millimeter lens. And
this would take about 5 minutes at 18:57 tomorrow. The
S193, of course, would have to be warmed up for 15 minutes
before this time.
CDR Sure, be glad to.
CC Roger, we'll crank that into the flight
plan then, as a small Delta.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
to LOS. We'll be coming up on Ascension at 40.
CDR Okay, see you there.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Two hours
39 minutes, Greenwich mean time. We have just lost signal
over the Vanguard '_racking s_at_on, with acquisition at
Ascension momentarily.
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CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension,

7-1/2 minutes.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Skylab, Houston. Our apologles for
the evening questions. We've been busy working the EVA
stuff that's gotta go up tomorrow and we haven't got them
ready yet. We'll get them up as soon as we can, and you
can put them on Channel B at your leisure.
SPT Okay, no sweat. As a matter of fact,
Henry, we're probably going to sleep in tomorrow, because
what Pete wants to do is make sure that we get this gear
together and that we understand how it operates and talk
over the procedures a little bit. So, rather than tackle
that first thing in the morning, we're gonna make sure
we got it squared away tonight, and if that means going
to bed late, we'll get up late.
CC Roger.
SPT How about giving the station pass times
til about 11:30 to 13:00 tomorrow, will you, _ease?
CC Okay, I -
PLT Have you got those?
CC I can get them shortly.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're mulling over
what you Just said there_ you know, we've got a pretty
good block of time set up tomorrow morning to go through
this thing with all the EVA guys. A lot of those guys have
already gone home and I wouldn't be able to support tonight.
We'd llke to do as much of it as possible during the block
of 3 hours we've got tomorrow morning.
PLT We're gonna do it then, Hank. We just
want to make sure that we have straight in our minds what's
going on, so that we can ask more meaningful questions in
the morning. We didn't want to talk to anybody else any
more tonight.
CC Oh, okay, copy, and those -
CC Okay, and those times tomorrow. We
have a pass at Madrid right at - Madrid and Canary's right
at ii:00, and Honeysuckle is the next one at 11:45.
PLT Yeah, okay. If we get up after that
just look for a (garble)
CC Wilco.
MCC Skylab, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
MCC Yeah. Are you guys gonna cut some
rope tonight?
SPT That's what we're doing right now.
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MCC Wait a minute. Let me give you a

clue on that. You may have already discovered, when you
cut that TBI, it begins to fray very, very rapidly on the
end. The people in crew systems discovered that if you
wrap where you want to cut with tape and then cut through
the tape, it stays very nice and neat and that'll help
you a great deal.
PLT (garble) all kinds of help, Hank, but
I've asked these other guys, but we got figured it out.
Thank you, anyway.
MCC Okay.
PLT (garble)
MCC (garble)
MCC If you got anything else you want to
know, just ask the question. We got a few minutes,
PLT Okay.
SPT Hey, Rusty, IVd still like to hear
you describe briefly, in what direction and what manner
you put the pole together.
MCC Okay, EV i gets out into the FAS, and
you begin to assemble the pole, starting with the mushroom
end first. Yourve already got the mushroom on one of the
poles and you start that one out. You put four poles or
all five poles together and then you put the cutter on the end
of the fifth pole. And EV i passes it in exactly the
same direction we do erecting the MSSC sail. That is you
pass it right down parallel to the double handrail. You
have to be a little bit careful in that you don't have
EV 2 out there. But once you get it put together, you put
it on the temporary stowage hook there - you have to the
scissor mechanism on the cutter on the temporary stowage
hook, and it stays in place very nicely and it can't hurt
anything out there.
SPT Okay. Does he pay line as he _es
then?
MCC That's negative. When EV 2 moves up
to the A-frame by the discone antenna and EV 1 passes it
back up to him, he then begins to pay out line.
MCC Okay, I probably dropped out there,
Skylab. Where did we leave you?
SPT You left me on my way up to the A-
frame.
NCC Okay. After you get to the A-frame,
EV 1 begins to pass it cutter-end first up through the
trusses to you, and as'the starts tO put it up through the
trusses, he begins to deploy the clothesline around it at
that point, so that when it comes up past you, Joe, you'll
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have the pole and the two lines running down. And when EV i
gets to the first pole, he cinches the line around the two
pronged tool so that when it gets up to you, it's all one
piece.
SPT Okay, thank you. Very good, and I
don't have any more questions right at the moment, Rusty.
MCC Okay.
SPT We've got that pole rigged here in the
OWS and we're clutched up tieing the knots to it right
now.
MCC Okay, fine. Let me say one other
thing, since you're tieing knots. When you tie the 32 foot
PBI rope on to the 6 foot rope, the bridle -
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SCHWEIKART Let me say one other thing since you're

tying knots. When you tie the 32 foot PBI rope onto the
6 foot rope, the bridle, we're suggesting you use a bow in
there to allow it to slip through rather than a slip knot.
And we suggest that you make the loop in the bow quite
small so that in case one of the hooks lets go at the
bottom of the of the vent module - that it can't slip through
that knot and release all that energy.
SPT Roger, Pete understands.
MCC Okay. And if you've got time to
listen Joe, let me tell you the technique about cutting
with those cutters on the end of that long pole.
SPT Please go ahead.
MCC Okay, when yon get to cutting the
strap, and we'll talk a little more about the detailed pro-
cedure tomorrow, but when you get to cutting the strap,
we found that once you've got the cutters cinched around
what you want to cut, that you really don_t need to compress
the pole. That is yon don't need to pull the rope and
push the pole. You can simply hold on to the rope and
pull it, so that you are actually pulling on what you are
cutting. Do you understand what I mean?
SPT Yeah, we understand that. There is
another question. Have you tried this technique of partly
biting into something (garble) on a stable end point for
our EVA trail?
MCC Yes sir, and it works very very well,

and until we decided to try that, we were really flailing
around very badly out there. Dick Gordon came to mind
more than once.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab Houston. We're about 30 sec-
onds from LOS. We'll be here if you need us. We'll say
good night now. Just a couple of seconds ago we picked up
what looks like maybe some problems with CBRM 17. We're going
to keep an eye on it. We hope we don't have to wake you
up for it. We'll be looking for a i0,000 on the DAS in
the morning and we will not call you.
SPT Roger that Houston, and good night
all.
mean time 2 hours 59 minutes. As we have loss of signal
over the Madrid tracking station. We heard Capcom Hank
Hartsfield advise the crew there seems to be a problem with
CBRM 17. That's Charger,Battery Regulator Module number 17,
which is presently producing 4 amps less than all the other
/
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CBRMs on board. And the regulator output is also 4 amps less.

The crew, the flight controllers will look at it during the
next pass over Guam. And at 3 hours Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.
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time three hours 22 minutes. We are approaching the Guam
Island tracking station for a nine minute 34 second pass.
We will leave the llne up for any possible conversations be-
tween Cap Com Hank Harstfield and the Skylab crew.
PAO This is Skylab Control_ Greenwich mean
time three hours 34 minutes. As the Skylab space station
crossed over the Guam Island tracking station on it's 324th
revolution. Apparently the crew is bedded down for the evening.
There was no conversation between the Skylah space station
and Mission Control Center. We have the daily medical bulletin
from Dr. Charles Ross, Skylab Flight Surgeon. Following a
medical conference with the crew on the Ascension pass on the
previous revolution_ and the report is as follows: The Skylab
crew has no medical problems which precludes making an EVA
on Thursday. They continue to eat and take fluid well. The
crew has had sufficient time to maintain their personal ex-
ercise programs. The Science Pilot has reported some intermi-
tent malf wakefulness because of the sleep cap which he wears
when he performs the M-133 sleep experiment. Today's activi-
ties included 3-1/2 hours of Apollo telescope operations, the fifth
EREP pass which began at the Idaho-Nevada border, crossed
the Rocky Mountains, down across Texas, the Gulf Coast and
into Mexico. Discussions were had with the crew today between
Rusty Schweickart and Ed Gibson, backup crew members for
Skylab 2, concerning assembly and fabrication of the tools
necessary to do the EVA on Thursday morning. Wednesday's
program - Wednesday's flight plan has several hours scheduled
for EVA simulations in the morning with two TV passes possible
tomorrow. And the EVA sims are scheduled to last approximately
four hours. For sky-watchers in the Houston area, tomorrow
morning June 6th, the spacecraft will be visible, skies per-
mitting at 5:39 a.m. on a pass from west to north. It will
be visible for four minutes and 14 seconds at an elevation
of 15 degrees. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean
time three hours 37 minutes. The next report will be 6:00
a.m. central daylight time June 6th. Skylab Control signing
off at Greenwich mean time three hours 37 minutes.
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mean time 3 hours 47 minutes. Clarification on the CBM
problem, which was discussed on the last Madrid Canary pass.
CBRM number 17 was showing approximately 4 amps less on
a regulator output as compared to the other 16 CBRMs that
are on board working at this time. CBRM 3 and CBRM 15 have
been out for the last several days. And the latest status
is CBRM 17 shows 4 amps less than the other CBRMs. Flight
controllers in the Mission Control Center will continue to
monitor this particular CBRM throughout the night. There
is no plans at this time to wake the crew up or further
discussions on this problem. At Greenwich mean time 3 hours
48 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 06:44 CDT, 13:11:44 GMT
6/6/73

mean time; 50 seconds from acquisition at Honeysuckle Creek
on revolution 329 of the Skylab space station. We'll stand
by now for possible eallup by the spacecraft communicator,
Dick Truly, to the Skylab crew.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That was a
rather quiet pass. Nothing but line noise on the Honeysuckle
Tracking Station pass. They didn't call us and we didn't
call them. Crew getting an extra amount of shuteye this
morning. There are ii minutes to Hawaii. And we'll come up
again over that station and the following stateside pass at
11:55 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
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SL-II MC-581/I
Time: 07:05 CDT, 13:12:05 GMT
6/6/73

mean time. Fifty seconds from acquisition of the first
Hawaii Tracking Station pass this morning. If no air-to-
ground conversation takes place during the Hawaii pass, there
is only a brief gap between Hawaii and Goldstone - less than
3 minutes. Therefore, we'll leave the line up across the
States. And the start of today's activities involving pre-
parations and a simulation - inflight simulation of the EVA
tomorrow to free the solar array panel. Standing by for
Hawaii stateside pass; at 12:06, this is Skylab Control.
PAO Loss of signal, Hawaii; acquisition of
signal, Goldstone in 2 minutes. Continuing to stand by for
upcoming stateside pass, end of revolution 329 and start of
revolution of 330, Skylab Control standing by.
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Time: 07:15 CDT, 13:12:15 GMT
6/6/73
CC Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston we see the i0,000 do
not ENTER. Go ahead.
SC Morning.
CC Good morning. How ya'll doing this
morning?
SC Well, I'm doing pretty good. The rest
of the guys are still in the sack a little bit. I wanted to
give you a status report on what we got done last night also
I have a scan spec light here. I wonder (garble).
CC Roger, stand by just second, Pete.
CC CDR, Houston. For about the last hour
or so we've been having some problems with S055 high voltage
and the ATM officer is checking now to see if that's what
caused the light. If you want to go ahead with other stuff,
go ahead.
SC Okay. Give you a status of where we got
last night - we went to bed about an hour and a half late. But
we completely built the EVA pole and we have completely built
the DET. And I have one question on the DET when we get to it
this morning but I just wanted to let you know where we were.
z- And then what we're going to work on right after (garble) up
here (garble) nd (garble) one area that bothers me a little
bit because most of what we have to work with is either (garble).
Well, we have a fair amount to bags (garble) we took the bags
off the (garble) sail and everything. I think we're going to
have a little surveying of ourselves this morning to find out
which way we might go.
CC Roger, CDR. Be advised there is a lot
of background noise and I'm not sure I copied all that. Also
Rusty and the EVA people are going to he in a little bit
later this morning to prepare for ya'll's SIM so rather than
repeat that now you might just hold it until they can hear it
directly and try to help you answer the questions.
SC Okay, very good. We're up and about now
and we hope to stay on the original schedule and we're getting
ready to do MII0.
CC Roger, Pete. While I've got you on the
phone there's a couple of changes that I'd like to make to
the PLT and SPT details
pads, please.
SC Okay, you caught me in my pajamas and
I don't have anything to write with. Let me go down below
and I'll be right back.
CC Well, I'll tell you what, one thing real
quickly there is a bunch of stuff on the SPT details that has
to do with doing the MII0 photography, the TV-4 real time and
we'd like to put that all on the VTR.
f- SC Okay. You want to put it on the VTR.
We have the TV set up. And we were expecting to do it on the
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VTR so we'll --
CC Rog, due to ya'll sleeping in a little

bit late it just turns out to be a little bit better squared
away to let you go ahead and put it on VTR and we'll dump it
later.
SC Okay, what time were the dumps?
CC Well, actually we're in one of them right
now so we thought it'd just be easier to go ahead and let you
when you get to it just use the VTR and then we wouldn't have
to coordinate.
SC Okay, we'll put it on the VTR to dump.
CC Okay.
SC What else you got, Dick?
CC Okay, on the PLT details I guess last
night before ya'll went to bed they talked about this hurricane
and taking a look in solar inertial at a little bit of EREP.
We've uplinked two general messages. One for the PLT on the
EREP, S193, so we'd like to add to the PLT's detail pads at
18:40 "EREP SI OPERATE for a pad." And for the friendly SPT
we'd like to add - at 18:43 that's now in his details pad, just
delete the item that says PCU removal and change that to read EREP
photos which is also supported by a pad we uplinked during
the evening. And just a reminder to you guys, you know, that
to get that PCU out of locker D422 is something that takes a
little bit of time and we figured ya'll could do that during
the EVA pre prep of this afternoon. That's on the Flight Plan.
SC Okay.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 07:25 CDT, 13:12:25 GMT
6/6/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Bermuda

for the next 7 minutes. Be adivsed we're not going to do
any more unattended (garble) daylight cycles; so we're putting
the bird back in solar inertial mode. We are also closing
the fine sensor - Sun sensor doors these normal operations.
Also be advised that SCAN SPEC light was caused by some
high voltage trip-offs in SO55. We've been working that
problem just for about the last hour or so, and we'd like to
look at the data before we work it - before we turn it on
again. So on any ATM operations from here, do not operate
SO55 until further notice, and we'll let you know how our
data looking goes.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to be LOS
in about i minute. We're going to see you at Canary at 12:36,
just a couple of minutes dropout.
SC Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-584/I
Time: 07:35 CDT, 13:12:35 GMT
6/6/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back at Canary;

got you for 9 minutes.
SC Read you, (garble).
CC And Skylab, Houston. A couple of more
things; the ENCO just reported a few secon - a few minutes
ago that he's got a low paper indication on the teleprinter.
So sometime today, if one of you guys get a chance, we'd
appreciate if you'd change the roll of paper. Also, I've
got a solar activity update that I ought to pass on to the
CDR sometime before he does his ATM pass this morning, assum-
ing that you do get squared away up there in time for him
to do that pass.
SC Okay. Give it to me then.
CC Stand by just a second.
CC Roger. I'ii give you the solar activity
in just a second, Joe. Be advised we're also now configuring
the rate gyros in our normal two gyros up per axis, and this is
normal commanding at the start of the day. On the solar activity,
we've got active surge regions in SEI3 and NEI6, and those
active surge regions continue. Old active region 08 is due
back at SEI3 at about 20:00 Zulu today. An eruptive prominence
on the limb to about 0.08 solar radii occurred at NEI6 at about
07:35 this morning. And we have a possibly new developing region
at 13/0.2, and that was also a few hours ago at about 07:00. One
more advisory: active regions 24, 27, and 28 now have spots in
them.
SC Looks like an epidemic of measles is
coming on. Stand by.
SC Dick, apparently you're not using arc meters
on these things, and we were we were agreed we were going to
use arc meter coordinates for all solar features. Would you ask
the guys to translate those into arc meters for us, please?
CC Go ahead.
SC Try (garble), 13s and the NEI6s and so forth.
CC Rog. I certainly will, Joe. Stand by.
SC Thank you.
CC And Skylab; Houston. I've got the correc-
tions to that goof up we made on reading up the coordinates on
the solar activity update.
SC Okay. Let's go.
CC Okay. The active surge regions that
are still continuing are the 260 at a radius of 1.0 and at
28.0, also on the limb at 1.0. The old active region that's
due back is on the li_h 260 at 1.10J And the erruptive prominence
that occurred out to the 0.08 solar radii was at 280 at 1.0.
SC Thank you very much.
-- CC Roger.
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to LOS. We're going to drop out for a couple of minutes and
then have a short 2 or 3 minute pass at Ascension.
SC Okay.
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Time: 07:46 CDT, 13:12:46 GMT
6/6/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension

SC Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We're going to see you at Honeysuckle at 13:22.
PAO This is Skylah Control. Loss of signal
through Ascension Island - very brief pass. And Carnarvon
in 28 minutes is the next station coming up, as the Skylab
Space Station crew gets geared up for the day's activities,
which include an onboard simulation in coordination with the
ground of tomorrow's EVA, to attempt to free the solar panel.
They have three solar astronomy passes today with the Apollo
telescope mount. And at 15:52 Greenwich mean time, 29 minutes
to Carnarvon, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-586/I
Time: 08:21 CDT, 13:13:21 GMT
6/6/73

mean time. Fifty seconds to acquisition through Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia. At the last tracking site, over Acension, the
average state of charge on the ATM batteries, 71.5 percent.
One of the regulators, number 17, still a little bit under
power as far as amp hours and our amps that it's carrying.
We should be in acquisition now through Honeysuckle. We'll
stand by for resumption of communications.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over
Honeysuckle for the next 8 minutes.
SC Roger.
CC And we didn't get our gyro reconfigura-
tion complete. We were still doing X-axis; so we'll need you
to stay off the DAS for a minute or so. And you might want to
put your X-axis rate gyro monitor in i and 2, because that will
be the configuration.
SC Okay. We will when we go up there,
Houston. We're eating breakfast right now.
CC Roger.
SC MII0 is on the VTR, whenever they can
strip it, Crip.
CC Roger. Understand. You've got it on
the VTR.
SC Hey, what's going on in the world down
there? Anybody got a morning paper around?
CC I'ii see if I can get some news for
you. It's kind of - -
SC We'd appreciate it. We haven't heard
much in the last week.
CC You're the guys that have got all the
news going.
CC Houston had its annual rain storm last
night.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to
LOS. We'll have you again at Hawaii at 13:43, 13:43. No
joy on the news. Everybody's getting up so early, there isn't
anybody seeing the newpaper. Tell you what. We'll try to
find one such that we can read you some news with your dinner
tonight.
SC Okay. How about passing it up, too, Crip.
We'd kind of like to hearing some morning news. Pete's wanted
the (garble) time.
CC Rog. _e tried that for a while, but
the news has been so bad, or so boring, there hasn't been
anything worthwhile passing up to you. I guess about the
only thing going on is still Watergate and you guys.
SC Well, keep us posted on how we're doing,
will you?
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6/6/73
CC Okay.
from Honeysuckle. Eleven minutes to Hawaii.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC5 87/I
Time: 08:32 CDT, 13:13:32 GMT
6/6/73
PAO Up coming on the video, on TV monitors in

the News Room, will be a television tape lasting approximately
ii minutes of some of the simulations that have been done on the
EVA procedures in the tank, the water tank at Huntsville, at
Marshall Space Flight Center. We'll be back in ii minutes for
the Hawaii pass. At 13:31 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control.
VIDEO REPLAY OF EVA SIMULATION
IN MSFC NEUTRAL BUOYANCY SIMULATOR
(AUDIO UNINTELLIGIBLE)
END OF TAPE
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SL-II MC588/1
Time: 08:40 CDT, 13:13:40 GMT
6/6/73
SC (garble)
mean time. Acquisition Hawaii in about 40 seconds.
SC (garble)
SC DisregaTd.
CC Okay.
SC Hey, Crip, disregard the disregard.
CC Roger.
SC On general message 2, one of the questions
was "Do we " - I guess question 2 of the general message.
Do we agree with the leading light ii, 12, and 13, of the
ZLV maneuver pad? I assume that that is the fine maneuver
tweet to the - back to FI (garble). Is that right?
CC Let me clarify that for you. Stand by
one.
SC Hey, Crip. If nobody's got anything else
we'll give you the real time answers to the questions.
CC Okay. That first question you did have,
that was correct. All they were talking about was the
fine tweeks for the solar inertial mode.
SC Yeah, okay. Are you ready for some
answers? You got the questions?
CC Roge. Won't you go ahead.
SC Okay, number i, tape recorder 2 (A) about
the tape motion light. Yes, to me it did seem characteristic
of speed (garble). They kind of, as I mentioned when it
happened, flickered on and off then would go off for a while,
come back on and then stay on for a while. And off flickered
which gradually turned to on flickers, if you understand what
I mean, and it would light back on again.
CC Okay.
SC It was intermittent through the 60 (garble)
operation, as a matter of fact, did not occur during the -
the speed up part of the tape.
CC Did not occur when you speeded it up?
SC That's right. During the speed change
the light went out and it came right back on and stayed
on for a while. It was after it had been running for a while
that I noticed the light flickered.
CC Okay.
SC When I changed the tape yesterday, I
did not notice any difference between the areas for the
two passes. Number 2 on the DOP maneuver pads if (garble)
lines ii, 12, and 13 are. Yes I agree with deleting them.
CC Okay.
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Time: 08:40 CDT, 13:13:40 GMT
6/6/73
SC If they're going to be zero forever.

Even if they're not, as long as they're at zero I think you
can leave them off.
CC Okay.
SC Number 3, that was the one time in
(garble); they never came on again.
CC Roge.
SC I don't understand the second part of
the question. It says, did the light appear during OFF.
(Garble) running a continous mode is considered OFF, and
that's when it come on. I don't really understand it.
You got a quick clarification on that part of the question,
Crip?
CC Let's see if I can get EREP for correction -
Adam to clarify that.
SC Okay, and I only noticed it in the end
of the third part to that question. It was when I was
changing building blocks. I don't know if that mode stopped
or not. I don't recall - I didn't consciously look at the
sequence complete talkhack and I'm afraid I can't tell
_. you what its status was.
CC Okay, but it was one time only and
it did occur when you were in the continuous mode?
SC That's right.
CC Okay.
SC Number 4. The nice thing about centering
that white light coronagraph on the TV is that it changes the
roll. So for that roll, yeah, up to (garble) right 24 was a
good number but as soon as you roll off they change.
SC I used right 20 and up I0 in a couple
of rolls.
SC Yeah, you use a different thing. If
we're going to use this technique I think the operator,
Crip, is just going to have to go and he's going to have
to tweak it up on the TV, switch back if he's still got a
ready light. I think we'll soon determine the boundary of
the ready light which are about 25 on the times i scale.
CC Okay, understand the changes with roll
and the boundary is about 25.
SC Yeah, that's where you can't get the ready
light anymore.
CC Understand.
BC Number 5 is - I guess we haven't been
placing a coalignment data on Channel B. I ran one yesterday
or the day before, whenever, and nothlng's changed since
the first coalignment. All it amounts to is the check.
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Time: 08:40 CDT, 13:13:40 GMT
6/6/73
At least Pete and I. Let me check with Joe.

SC Okay, the only changes that have occurred
is when the friendly expert SPT has run them and he has
recorded that date on Channel B. The ones that the CDR
and PLT have run are - there have been no changes, they
just been checked.
SC Okay.
SC Okay, the last question. They're pretty
simple I'ii tell you what the cue cards mean is nothing
but and what we've done is we have left the EREP checklist
and are using the summary time line, as I mentioned on
Channel B on page 1-1. There is a double check after we
do it fast for in the middle of it we go back and check the
checklist. But yon can not follow the flow of what you're
doing in that checklist so we're using a summary timeline.
And our cue card is basically the T-10 item under operator
i on that summary.
SC And Crip, I have mounted a DS card
on the center of the panel which has four items on it:
S192 door open, S191 door open, S190 door open, and tape
recorder power ON, because these were the ones that are
buried throught the cutup checklist as it is now. And as
you know, we missed one of those the other day, and I have
that mounted right in the middle of the C&D console.
CC Rodger, understand. PoweT on on 92,
91, and 193, and the tape recorder ON.
SC No, no. Door, door open.
CC I'm sorry.
SC 192 door, 191 door, 190 door and tape
recorder power ON. Where are you?
CC Roger. And we're about 30 seconds
to LOS, and we'll see you again at Goldstone at 13:54.
SC Okay, and on the other general message
on question number i we'll try and tighten both switches
on panel 617. We haven't gotten to that yet. And we have
done question number 4. We have revoked the TCF logic CB's
on panel 614. Okay.
CC Okay, and we were happy with Paul's
answer on question 3 on the evening questions.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. LOS Hawaii.
Goldstone coming up in 2 minutes. Our estimate right now
for change of shift press briefing with Flight Director
Chuck Lewis, who will be accompied today by Sy Liebergott
who is the electrical environmental all the other things
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6/6/73
that go into make up the acronym EGIL. Estimate is for

about the next i0 or 15 minutes in the Houston News Room.
Coming up in the next couple of minutes will be a downlink
of the video tape - onboard video tape play back of the
TV4 pass which has to do with the MII0 blood analysis.
This is delayed VTR dump taken some time ago aboard the
spacecaft this morning. About a minute away now from
acquisition at Goldstone. To repeat, Chuck Lewis, Flight
Director, and Sy Liebergott, EGIL, estimate change of shift
press conference in i0 or 15 minutes as soon as we chase
them out of the control room. We'll probably take down
the stateside pass if it's still underway when they arrive
in the News Room and record for delayed playback after
the press conference. Skylab Control at 13:53 standing
by.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC589/I
Time: 08:54 CDT, 13:13:54 GMT
6/6/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We have you again over

Goldstone now for the next 6 minutes.
SC Hey, Crip, I'm going to power down the
teleprinter to change the paper.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston. I don't know whether
you're aware of it or not, but we've been having some problems
with CBRM 17. And there's not really anything physically for
you guys to do, but I was going to give you an update on its
status if you'd like to listen.
SC Yeah, go ahead.
CC Okay, on 17 the REG output is no more
than two-thirds of it's normal output during the day, but it
reaches full output about 12 minutes after sunset. The battery's
reaching charge complete in normal time. We think the prob-
lem is possibly a shorted PEG output transistor. We had the
same problem on day 144. It disappeared in about i0 hours.
This problem began on day 157 at about 2:55 this morning.
I guess really what this means is that wetre going to be down
some more power for your EVA tomorrow.
/-- SC Roger, understand.
SC Hey, Crip, what's the number one if you
attempted to tighten the loop and instrumentation system mode
switch saddle 617? We tried, and they've got some kind of
lock nut on them. We don't want to force them; so we'll leave
them the way they are.
CC Roger.
SC Go out and tighten that lock nut.
CC Okay.
CC We're getting a chance to look at that
TV you recorded for us this morning. Pete's got his arm out
right now ready to get the needle stuck in.
SC Yeah, watch the eyes.
CC (Laughter) Did they go white?
SC And, Crlp, you don't want us to operate
in 55 at all this morning, right?
CC That's affirm. Not until we give you
a GO on it. We're going to lose you for just a few seconds
here, and we'll get you at Mila at 14:03.
SC Okay.
END OF TAPE
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SL-II MC590/I
Time: 09:30 CDT, 13:14:03 GMT
6/6/73
PAO Skylah Control, 14:04 Greenwich mean

time. We'll take down the broadcast line at this time for
the Change of Shift Press Conference with Flight Director
Chuck Lewis and EGIL Sy Liebergot in the Houston News Room.
We'll playback on a delayed basis any air-to-ground that
takes place during the remainder of this stateside pass and
the upcoming Canary Island and Ascension pass. Skylah Control,
14:04; out.
END OF TAPE
f SL-II MC591/I
Time: 09:32 CDT, 13:14:32 GMT
6/6/73

mean time. Skylab space station just passed over the hill
from the Ascension Island Tracking Station on revolution 331;
21 minutes to acquisition at Carnarvon, Australia. In a short
time there will be a replay or guess I should say a playback
of video tape that was made at Marshall Space Flight Center,
Skylab backup Commander Rusty Schwelckart going through
some of the EVA procedures in the water tank down there in
the neutral buoyancy simulator. And we have about half of
the previous stateside pass and the Canary-Ascenslon pass on -
4 minutes total on tape for delayed playback, now that the
Change of Shift Press Conference is over. So during this gap
between Ascension and Carnarvon let's listen to the audio
tape from air ground; and for those in the Houston area, news
persons in the Houston area, the water tank video tapes. Roll
tapes.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS over MILA for
the next i0 minutes - for the next i0 minutes. And Pete if
you've got a chance to listen I've got a little more details
on some of that SAF information I gave you this morning.
SC Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay. We have given that one region
coming over the limb at 28 - at 1.0 number active region 31
and a leader sun spot is in view, with a small surge in
progress.
SC Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SC I'm not going to do M487-480 this morning.
I don't have time. Could you schedule that later in the flight.
CC Roger, understand the gate 47 - 480.
SC Okay, Houston teleprinter paper is
changed, and for information the diameter of this paper remain-
ing was 7/8 inch.
CC Roger, understand 7/8 inch and it is
changed out, thank you.
SC Houston.
CC Go.
SC I've got to see someone to operate 55. My
pad is no good for JOP 7, paragraph i, is that correct? You
don't want to run that?
CC Stand by, pretty sure that's correct.
CC Pete_ they checked out the high voltage
and they'd like you to go ahead and use 55 as called for right
after the roll in building block i.
CC Skylab,:_O_ton-we'Lre' going to be LOS
in about 30 seconds. We ii have you again at Ascension at
14:21 - 14:21 and we'll be doing the data dump at that pass.
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Time: 09:32 CDT, 13:14:32 GMT
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SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over Ascension
for the next i0 minutes and we'll be doing the recorder dump.
SC Okay.
SC Houston, you there?
CC Affirm, go ahead, Paul.
SC Hey, we realized last night that we're
not sure what the status of the fire sensor control panel is
supposed to be. They've all been on button 2 - most all of
them - the last 4 or 5 days, whenever that message was sent
up. Is that the intent or is the intent to swap the fire
sensor control panel to bus 2 when CAUTION AND WARNING is
powered down during the day, CAUTION AND WARNING i?
CC Our intent is to leave them on bus 2 all
the time so you won't have to be running back and forth
changing them.
SC I love you Howard C. Griffith.
(Music)
CC Pete that sounds mighty sweet. We've got
an indication right now that we do not have 82A in AUTO i
NORMAL and we would like it that way, please sir.
SC Ah ha. 82A up here is in that AUTO i
NORMAL, wavelengths ON.
CC Okay.
SC Now, let me give it I gave it a start,
maybe it didn't start. How's that look?
CC That looks good to us now.
SC Maybe I gave her a start - maybe I didn't
I - operating light (garble).
CC Understand you had an operate light?
SC 82A has an operate light all the time
and the frame counter is stuck at 182 which has been that way
for the last --
CC Yeah, okay. Sorry about that. Forgot
about it.
SC Well, I did too because I haven't had
that much time on the ATM here.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until
LOS. We'll see you again over CRO at 14:54 - 14:54.
SC Roger, Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control, that completes
the playback of the delayed alr-to-ground recorded during the
Change of Shift Press Con_erence._ 15. minutes away from
Carnarvon acquisition. The EVA team of flight _ontrollers
here in the Control Center headed up by Milt Windler is all
in the process of watching the playback of the underwater
simulation run at Marshall Space Flight Center in the neutral
f bouyancy simulator by Rusty Schweickart, backup Skylab commander.
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6/6/73
And later today there will be a simulation - two way simulation

between the crew of Skylab and the Flight Controllers here
going over the EVA procedures. 14 minutes to Carnarvon and
at 14:40 Greenwich mean time; Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC592/I
Time: 09:53 CDT, 13:14:53 GMT
6/6/73

mean time. 50 seconds to acquisition at Carnarvon with
a short gap between Carnarvon and Guam of about 6 minutes.
The video tape playback of Rusty Schweickart's exercise in
the netural buoyancy simulator has been discontinued here
in the control room for a short period here until we have
an LOS at Guam. Up coming on the stateside pass Rusty will
discuss with the crew, probably starting here at Carnarvon,
the checkout and run through of the so called EVA sim on
getting equipment ready. And we'll have llve TV hopefully
during the stateside pass of the EVA - -
CC - -over Carnarvon for i0 minutes.
CC Skylah, Houston. Over Carnarvon for
about 9-1/2 minutes.
SC Roger. Hold it, Rusty. I got a questio n
for you. Why - Is there any reason we can't use the
one way reefing block on the BET also next to the big hook?
SC We've looked at that Pete and it does
not look as though that would take the load. You're talking
about the - thing plane that was originally designed for
the SEVA sail deployment.
SC Yes.
CC Okay, it does not appear that that will
take the kind of loads that we need to put into that line,
therefore we wanted to just tie it on to the apex hook.
SC Okay, understand. I thought that that
was probably the reason.
CC Okay, what we'd like to do here in the
next few hours is to handle any questions you have and
with the total EVA we got a lot of information that we
plan on passing up to you. However, we'd like first to
handle any questions which you might have on the assembly
of the gear, the hardware itself.
SC Well, we have assembled the pole. As a
matter of fact it's still all put together in here. We have
lengthened the rope, we've assembled the pole, we have the horns
on it, the brass horns and l've made the BET. The only thing
I'm going to have to do is take the briefing block off
it. I just left that there to see whether it could be
used or not. And I think that what we're going to spend
the next couple of hours doing is making up these packages.
I guess if I have any questions at all it's mainly concerned
with the general statement package for EVA deploy, and that
leaves a lot to the imagination. And I think we're going
to look around in there and think that over for a while.
We've been talking about it but we haven't done any packaging
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yet.
CC Okay, you're entirely right. That does
leave a lot to the imagination and we figure you guys got
a lot of that. What we meant of course, is to essentially
package the ropes in such a way that you - you do the
equivalent of what Mike Bennett does over there with
the clothes line packages. But obviously you're going to
have to S the lines back and forth and put tape probably
around each end or maybe just around the middle in such
a way that as you string out the thing is going down the
EV trail, that it'll deploy nicely.
SC Yes, I wish they'd put more of my
rubber bands in here than we have, cause rubber bands
would have been ideal, I don't think we have enough
rubber bands.
CC We did it, Pete, in the water tank using
the gray tape and put a strip of tape around each end of
an S - as we S the thing back and forth and put a piece of
tape around each end and it tended to deploy quite nicely.
We really did not up end with any problems with it in the
water.
CC Pete, you want to make sure also that
when you put those ears on the tape when you fold the
tape back over on itself, you make those ears plenty large.
What looks good without a glove on looks pretty small
with the glove.
SC Yeah, I understand that.
CC Okay, and if you're ready, Pete, we
can start on some of the detail information regarding the
EVA operation itself.
SC Okay, I'm ready to copy.
CC Okay, first there's one piece of tele-
printer update that hasn't come up yet and this is the
additional EVA procedures which will cover you before the
remove and re - retrieve and replace on the S082A, the -
other ATM operations on the sun end, the TV operation and
that kind of thing. That will be coming up to you as soon
as we can get it all verified and checked out here. It
should be up sometime within the next few hours.
SC Okay.
CC Okay, to give you an idea of what you're
going to see or what we think you're going to see when
you get down there next to the beam I'd like to just
refresh your memory on what that longitudi_al splice looks
like. The splice itself is madg_u p of ! _ide from the
meteoriod skin, is made up of two pieces of metal. One of them
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is a - an angle which is made of 7075 T6 aluminum. And

that's a 1 and a quarter by 3 quarter by 063 angle. The
long leg of that angle, the one _nd a quarter_ is against
the meteoroid skin with the angle - that is a long leg pointing
toward the meteoroid - or rather toward the beam. The
SC Rusty, was the long leg attached to
the meteroid shield or was it attached the angle next to
it?
CC The long leg is attached to the meteoroid
shield itself and points toward the beam. The 3/4
inch leg then comes perpendicular to the meteoroid shield.
The skin comes up against that and then there's a doubler
plate which is 3 quarter inch by .125. And that's 6061
T6 aluminum, and those two 3 quarter inch legs are then
bolted together. Now -
SC Okay, we understand.
CC Okay, now the bolts that go through
those - that 3 quarter inch flange are pointed away from
the beam. That is the bolt heads are towards the beam
and the thread sticks through and they protrude a considerable
amount up to a half an inch beyond the nuts on the - they
go up against the doubler plate there. And we think that
what happened was that that angle as it ripped off - as
the meteoroid shield ripped off, was rotated 270 degrees and
that the threads are sticking into the sides of the beam,
right up at the top.
SC Yeah, something is making it stick to
the beam, and that's probably it.
CC Okay, now the reason we wanted to describe
that is because from your verbal description and also the
the photo interpretation we've done from the inhaneed TV
it looks as though the 7075 aluminum bracket maybe missing
as that angle comes up across the - the beam. And then
right at the end it looks as though you've got both pieces
of metal there. What we mainly want to let you know is
that the doubler plate,, the 3 quarter by .125 6061 is
soft aluminum and is easier to cut than is the 7075.
SC Understand.
CC Okay, we also I don't know if you had
a chance to practice with the hone saw, but we've got
identified for you a piece of 7075 aluminum inside and
that was the launch support bracket. It's referred to in
the switch activation checklist page 3-29. It's the
bracket that held up the panel 612 for launch vibration.
That's a 1 and an 8th by 1 and an 8th 7075 T6 bracket and
feel free to cut through it. The only prenaution is that
vacu u_ , c caner J s_t_ing right on top of

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it so you don't end up with aluminum chips.

SC Okay.
SC Hey Rusty, I got one question on this
doubler.
CC Speak.
SC Is the doubler on the backside of the
meteoroid shield from the angle.
CC That's negative. Paul, if you'll lay
the meteoroid shield right up against the skin of the
vehicle, both - the seam is on top of it, that is On
outside of the meteoroid shield. Well, I think you got the
picture right?
SC Yes, I got that. But is the doubler
on the other side of the meteoroid or between the shield
and the angle?
CC Okay, starting from the left you have
the the 7075 angle. The skin coming from the left if you're
looking plus X up? The skin comes over and stops
at the edge of the 7075 angle. The skin coming from the
right comes over to it and raises toward you 90 degrees.
Up against the 3 quarter inch light the doubler is immediately
on the right side of that, and both of those then are on
the upper side of the others - that is the outside surface of
the meteoroid shield. By the way, we got 25 seconds to
LOS here, and we pick up Guam at 15:09.
SC Okay. I got a question then about the
about the vent module.
CC Okay, right. I got a description of
that for you. You can keep right on talking here, we can
listen to you any rate and know what your questions are
and we'll be ready for you over Guam.
SC Okay, my only concern is what hole are
you supposed to hook these hooks in. I was briefed before
we left and was told that those rectangular plates were
supposed to be blown off at liftoff and that then there would
be two round vent holes in the module. Is that so or not?
CC That's not so, but we don't really need
to worry about that because we don't use that part of it
to hook on the the deck.
SC That's all I wanted to make sure.
CC Okay.
SC Okay, I've got a couple of questions
for you to consider in your restraint. Number i, how
did EV2 restrain himself so he could find the pole initially,
and number 2, how does EV2 restrain hims@if while he is repositioning
(static)
PAO This is Skylab Control; 15:05. Brief
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gap here between Carnarvon and Guam. We'll leave the

circuit up for that gap. Some 4 minutes remaining for
resumption of the description by Skylab backup Commander
Rusty Schweickart of how the tools and materials available
to the Skylab crew can be adapted for tomorrow's EVA to get
the solar array panel out, the one remaining good panel
deployed. Three minutes to acquisition of Guam.
15:06 standing by, Skylab Control.
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CC Skylab, Houston at Guam.

SC Hey, Rusty. We don't understand what
we can practice on with the bone saw. That support under that
electrical panel is nothing but (garble), which is corrigated
and then curled up at the ends. We thought you said something
about 1-1/8 by 1-1/8 angle.
SCHWEICKART Okay, Paul. I haven't been able to
physically check this. My understanding is, page 3-29 of the
activation checklist, you remove an aluminum support bracket
that's a launch support bracket. And I don't know whether you
put it in the launch pin bag, or whether you screw it down to
plenum, or what. l've never done that, Paul, in activations;
so I'm not familar with it. But that's what I was told. We'll
get somebody to chase that down and let me press on here.
Actually, if you find any nice aluminum bracket that doesn't
seem as though it's terribly important, feel free. Just
make sure that it isn't carbon steel or something you're
trying on it.
SC Go ahead.
SCHWEICKART Okay. Let me try and work in Joe's
question as we get to that point. Pete, let me continue on the
strap what we expect to happen here when you cut through that,
First of all, our first choice on the cutting is to go ahead
and use the cutters with - on the long pole, with Joe pulling
on the rope and you out there on the end of the beam, tethered
to the BET at that time and having your left hand - That is, your
head is toward minus X, and your left hand would be holding
the cutter scissors. That helps to stabilize the cutters,
and, also, when it breaks through, it keeps the cutters from
flying up. Now what we expect to happen -andwe want to make
sure you keep your hands away from the strap at the time it
cuts through, because there is a chance that the torsion lengths
are still putting considerable tension on the meteoroid shield.
And we expect that when the strap is cut through, it may spring
out and then back underneath the beam to the extent of about
6 inches. Okay, the - _
SC The (garble).
SCHWEICKART Okay. That is a particular trap, Pete,
if you decide, for whatever reason, instead of cutting it to
pry it off. If you are going to pry the strap off, it tends -
we've done it a couple of times in the water tank, and it
tends to be very natural to hold on to the - on to the strap
with your left hand as you pry with your right hand. We feel
that holding the strap is your choice for positioning, but
when you go to pry, make sure you put your left hand on the
beam and not on the strap. Okay. After you cut the strap,
we expect, because of the fro zre_ _ampe_ s_t_atlon, that the beam
may rise, just due to the spring actu a___,
to _''" - may rise about
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4 degrees after the strap is cut and before you really put
any tension in the BET. So you want to be aware that it may
start to come up there right after the strap is cut. Also
recommendation after cutting the strap and when you get back
down there to play the human (garble) pole game, getting under the
BET to push up on it: we kind of recommend facing the end of
the beam rather than back toward the FAS so that you can get
a good view as the beam moves. And you can get a little bit
better sensing when the actuator damper bracket begins to
crack through. And it's quite important - I'Ii give you a little
more history later on the beam, but it's quite important that
when the bracket - when the beam first starts to give, and you
can feel it in the BET, you want to slack off so as not to
put any additional energy into the beam coming up. Pete, to
give you a report on the test results here, we've broken quite
a few brackets now. All of them tend to break at about the same
point. The cold ones break with a slightly greater force.
They tend to be a little bit stronger, but we're running on the
order of 160 to 190 pounds tension in the BET when the
bracket breaks through. That gives you an equivalent of about
90 to i00 pounds of compression in your legs. That is, that's
about what you're going to end up pushing up with for compression
in your legs when you get that kind of tension in the BET.
and when the bracket begins to give. Now the bracket, as was
reported by Don Dowdin earlier, does break in two different -
You break off one side of the bracket first and then the
other, and the first one is the one that takes most of the
effort. It breaks with the equivalent of about 19 pounds at
the end of the beam. That's about 170 pounds of tension in
the BET. And, then, the second one breaks with the equivalent
of about 12 pounds on the end of the beam, and that's down - I
don't know what the number is, but it's considerably below
what it takes to break the first one. So you can expect a
sort of two-stage release of tension as you're raising the beam.
Now the only - Okay, the only caution on it, Pete, is that
when you feel the first breakage there, we expect it to be
the bracket. However, there is still a possibility that the
1132 screw may go, and in that Case, you want to give it
time to come up by itself, because in that case the spring would
he pushing it all the way up, and you do end up with a relatively
healthy tip speed. The tip speed at latch at that point gets
up to about 2.7 feet per second, and that's no problem as far
as safety is concerned. The latch will take up to 3.4.
SC Okay.
SCHWEICKART But just for safety reasons, it's a
good idea, when you feel something break; to just stand back
and let it go. Okay. We've got LOS coming up in about 55
seconds. We're going to pick up Goldstone at 33 and we'll be
having real time TV available there. So anything you'd like
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to show us in the way of your assembled gear and point to

it and ask questions or, you know, a show-and-tell kind of
game here, going over the States, picking up at 33 at Goldstone.
SC Okay. 33 at Goldstone. We've got
the TV up and running now up above, and we'll show you what
we've got.
SCHWEICKKRT Okay. Now let me say that the VTR has
been rewound; you have about 15 minutes available to you. If
you want to put something on between now and Goldstone, it's
available. I think it would be most desirable, unless we have
a lot of TV, that we just do it real time. And it avoids
confusion on the VTR. But that is your choice, and just let
us know, coming up at Goldstone, whether we're going to go
real time or whether we should replay VTR.
SC Rusty, we'll go real time, because we
have everything assembled. And the only next thing is, by 17:00
we might have some stuff packaged. And that would be the
other thing we'd want you to look at. We'll show you what
we've got assembled, and that's about it for now. We've got
the major (garble) in a second.
SCHWEICKART Okay. Good. That's what we were hoping.
And I'ii have more reports, especially for Paul, on that detail
of what the vent module looks llke and where we hook the BET
on the end down there.
SC Okay. (Static, inaudible)
through the Guam station. Two fairly talkative passes there
at Carnarvon and Guam, as Rusty Schweickart_briefed the
crew on what to expect in their EVA tomorrow. And the crew
will turn on the TV camera for a live pass coming up on the
States in 15 minutes, at Goldstone back at that time. And at
15:18 Greenwich mean time, Skylab Control out.
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PA0 This is Skylab Control; 15:32 Greenwich

mean time; 50 minutes from acquisition through Bermuda. The
video picture beginning to come through from the Skylab space
station.
CC We've got you here at Goldstone for
a nice long pass; Goldstone, Texas, MILA.
SC Roger.
SC Roger.
CC Okay. We've got TV. It's a little
bit noisy yet., but we've got it now. So feel free to show
us anything you want. Hold it up in front of the camera.
SC How do you read, Rusty.
CC Okay. Read you now, Pete.
SC All right. I didn't like the idea of
(garble) wires (garble).
CC You're unreadable, Pete.
CC Yeah, that was a bit soft on it, Pete.
You may have to stick that thing down your throat to talk
to us.
SC Okay. (Inaudible)
CC Okay. We could read that you didn't
like the wire on the tension bar, and you've rigged up ah -
tape. The only thing that I can say, is that we used only
tape and no wire around the tension bar. 'We did
hold the wire loop you've got there secured very tightly and
not just the tape.
CC Yeah, Pete. That may get kind of
warm out there in which case it's going to lose its strength
and slide around a lot. Roy, Pete, on that pinch bar, also,
not included in the procedures is for you to - or EV 1 to take
that off of the BET before you start pulling up on it, even
if you don't use it. We'd like to have that done, just so
you don't have that extra mass setting out there on the BET.
CC We see the doctor getting into his
suit. We wonder if he's going to try and go out there today?
SC No. I wane to get a halfway feel, for
the typical feel of handling that 25-foot - never mind.
CC Okay. We think that's a good idea Joe.
CC Okay, Pete. We can see the - that
you've got the bridal rope there with a small Apollo hooks on
the end. You're bow in there, that looks Just right. That
looks good, Pete.
CC Okay. And since y_u, ha4 that, let
me at this time, just give you _ couple of words on where that
goes when you get down to the vent module. The vent module
itself - and Paul, you may have out that same SWS map diagram.
When you look at that, the vent modules that are shown on
SAS beam i, are actually upside down. They should look like
the ones on SAS beam 2. Now that's not terribly important
but the diagram is a little bit wrong there.
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SC We noticed that last night.

CC Okay. The trailing edge and, Pete,
let me see yeah, we got your look at the apex hook and that's
exactly what we're talking about. Let me only say that the
crew systems people have looked at the rope and the limiting
strength on that and they have come to the conclusion that
when the rope breaks - when they break it around 400 pounds
or so of tension, and it's - it gives at the notch. Usually
where the rope goes around an edge. Okay. That looks real
good, Pete.
CC Okay, Pete. Also on that you do
need some way of retaining that stop on the apex hook, so
it won't open up on you.
CC - - module Pete. And go to hook
on the bridal. The trailing edge of the vent module has
a slight fairing - a triangular fairing which brings it down
smoothly to the beam. That fairing is about 3 inches high,
the same height as the vent module, and it's about 6 inches
long. At the point where the lower corners of that fairing
come down to the surface of the beam, there are stress Telease
cutouts right down there, and you can hook the small Apollo
hooks into those small cutouts. They go in relatively
easily, however, the Apollo hook will not lock, that is the
jaws on the hook will not close. So what you need to do
is to coordinate that with Joe, so that when you put the
bridal into the aft portion of the vent module, you maintain
a slight tension yourself until Joe cinches down with
the apex hook on the other end. That takes out the tension.
Okay, we see you headed for a speaker box there, and we're
about 35 seconds from an LOS and we'll have about a one-minute
drop out until we pick you up at Texas.
SC Okay, Rusty. I need to have you tell
me about that - I understood that they weren't going to hold,
but I want you to describe the end of box again for me.
CC Okay, fine, I'ii do that, Gene.
While we've got just a few seconds here, we may go LOS while
I'm telling you this, but just for your information. The
damper - the actuator damper for the beam is still at minus
60 - minus 60 degrees, so that we do expect that you will
break the bracket. The dampers in the SAS panels are all
reading minus 40 degrees. And 1'11 have a few words about
the SAS panel deployment itself, because we do have a relatively
critical operation on that. And we're going LOS, now.
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CC Okay, we've got you again here at Texas,

Pete. If Paul has got that SWS map out, he can sort of sketch
this in also. The BET runs vertically down - it runs almost
down the middle of the beam. So if he wants to draw a vertical
line on that thing that goes almost down at 8.0, the bridle -
the intersection of the BET - of the long part of the BET with
the bridle occurs just about at the top of where the louvers
would be in the middle of the vent module. And the bridle then
goes down to the two lower corners, to the left and right
lower corners of the vent module. Now what youtve got there,
Pete, is essentially a single piece of aluminum that makes
up that aft fairing. And right down on the surface of the beam,
the extreme lower corners of the vent module have a small
cut-out there, just rounding, so that there are no sharp -
there aren't any high stress points on that piece of aluminum.
And I'd say you've got an opening which is about 1/2 inch to
3/4 of an inch high - an opening which is about 1/2 inch to
3/4 inch high and probably 1/4 inch wide. And the hook of the
small Apollo hooks there the hook portion of it will sllp
right into those. You have to sort of hold the hooks hori-
zontal, if you're looking at that map_ and slide it in. And
-- then when you take up tension, the hooks will stay in those slots.
SC (Garble) - yeah, I did not use tether hooks.
I used the two tether hooks off the other end of the Apollo sail.
CC Okay, those are also the small Apollo
tether hooks, right?
SC Right, as best as I can tell. I'ii go com-
pare (garble).
CC Okay, that's fine. They'll take the
stress. I'm sure that they're the same Apollo hooks and under-
stand you just wanted to save the wrist tethers. That's Just
fine.
SC Yeah.
CC One thing that will help you with those
hooks, Pete, is to make sure that they - if the springs are
functional so that they are spring-loaded closed, because they'll
help hold it into the hole before you draw up tight on the
BET.
SC Understand that. Tell me another thing.

Just how do you get yourself under the BET?
CC Okay, after you - first of all, when you
go down - we're going to talk a little about the details
of going down there. But what you do, Pet_, once you're
ready to cut through the str_i, 9ou £_klelybur - the Apollo waist
tether and hook it to your right wrist, and you take the big
end of it and hook it to the 32-foot section of the BET rope
that is above the intersection with the bridle.
SC Roger.
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CC And after the beam is free, what you do

is using that rope as a trail, you just move back above the
hinge llne and Just work your way underneath the llne. It's
not that tight. There's really no problem. And as soon as you
get underneath it, as you begin to raise up, you put compression
on yourself. And so it's quite natural to he able to stand
up, and the rope holds you down nicely against the beam fairing.
SC Okay.
SC You can't (garble) the discone antenna if
you are looking at minus X (garble). The discone antenna is on
the right about 9 inches away sitting in an angle channel,
isn't it?
CC That's very good, Pete. It is about
9 inches to the right, and it's oriented parallel co the FAS
separation wing there. Now --
SC Okay, we can see it from the window - the
STS window.
CC Ah, that's great. We never even thought
about that. There is one caution that we want to give to
Joe and that is that he wants to tether his long tether -
it's hooked to his chest at that point, and then the discone
antenna itself becomes one of the things he could use for his
stabilization as he trys to lay the cutters down alongside
the beam. Now, just for your information, you can put 40 pounds
of force 4 feet up from the bottom of the discone antenna,
and that'll give you a factor of safety of 2 on that. A pre-
caution though is that at the base of the diseone antenna, there
are two COAX connectors which provide the signal path down
inside, and - Joe wants to be careful not to mash those connectors.
SC I' ii just say it now. The A frame that you're
referring to is the two (garble) members that the discone antenna
tray is mounted on, is it not?
CC That's exactly right. The dlscone antenna
tray is mounted at the minus-X end on a cross member that goes
between two of the DA trusses, and that's what the apex hook
goes over. And the end of that - the end of that cross member
is directly in line with the SAS beam so it causes the BET to
lay right down on the center llne of the beam just right.
SC Now, wait a minute. Say that again.
Let it go.
CC Okay, if Paul's got his diagram out, and
he draws in the DA trusses - okay, youtve got the diagram
right in front of you. The two DA trusses - one of them comes
out of the FAS ring at about 7.6 and DO, and the other one
comes out at about 9.2 in DO. And they go respectively up
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to 8.0 and A0 and 8.8 and A0. The trapezoid up there with
those two DA trusses.
SC Okay, now that's the one that's got the
discone antenna tray. That's also the one we could see
from the window.
CC Okay, right. The cross member goes between
those two trusses, and it's located 6 feet off the FAS ring.
That would be on the diagram horizontal line at about A2.
SC Okay. Rusty, where do I put my feet?
CC Stand by just a second, Joe. Pete, the left
hand end, looking at the diagram with plus X up - the left hand
end of that cross member then is directly in line with the SAS
beam, and that is where you hook the apex up.
SC Okay. (Garble) we can see all that
out the STS window.
CC Yeah, that's great. We never even thought
about that, and that's better than any diagram we've got. Now,
Joe, what you do is when you first get up there on the A-frame,
you'll tether the long - your 6-foot tether that's hooked to your
chest to that pen at the base of the discone antenna, and that
becomes your prime tether point. You can get from the FAS beam,
f rather from the FAS, then the discone antenna all the way back to
the A-frame without ever disconnecting that tether. It allows you
good freedom for getting back and forth. Now what you do when you're
trying to lay the cutters down the side is you tend to use the edge
of the FAS ring, watching out for those COAX connectors for your
feet, and you can wrap your left arm around the discone antenna
itself. And of course it's a lot easier - should be a lot easier
than in the water tank where you're fighting all the drag and
buoyancy. And you should be able to place the cutters right down
alongside the beam.
SC Are you guys standing up along the radial
axis?
CC That's affirmative when you're hooking
on the cutters.
SC Okay.
CC When Joe goes - after you get the bridle
hooked up, the BET hooked up, and you're ready to actually cut,
what Joe wants to do there - we found a cutting technique where
what Joe does is lay down along the rods, face down to the
workshop, and hooks his toes over the FAS ring. In other words,
his toes are draped over the FAS, and he's laying down along the
outside of the FAS. And all he does is pull on the rope that
causes the cutters to cut. He doesn't have to worry about
putting compression in the rod, in othe_ words; just pull on
the cutter side of the rope. '_.
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SC Okay, about those connectors. It's obvious

that there's a risk that they'll be damaged or broken off, and
that's something we're just going to have to accept.
CC Right. We recognize that, and all weqre
asking for is reasonable prudence on your part, Mr. SPT.
SC Right. And in that evolution and also
in the evolution of repositioning the scissors and so forth,
we'll just have to wait and see when we get out there whether
we have adequate restraints to do the job. We're pull_ng on
that clothesline. It sounds like you need to be a little
negatively buoyant, and I'm not sure we can manage.
CC Negative. When your toe is hooked over
the FAS ring there, Joe, and you're holding on to the rope,
it just pulls you out straight, right along, and you should
be able to put quite a bit of tension on that rope. And Pete
will be holding the other end of it, and he'll be holding the
scissors on the cutter, and that'll stabilize it when it cuts
through the aluminum.
SC It's not so much a matter of getting
into a position as it is maintaining it while you're exerting
forces.
CC Joe, I think you can do that quite easily
if you just make a slight V out of your body. If you'_e got your
toes down and your head on the vehicle and you make a slight
V, when you pull on that rope, that's going to put you right
down tight - right next to the vehicle.
SC Okay.
CC At that point3 let me just mention the
technique for hooking it over the - that we've found works
best for hooking it over the aluminum strap. And that is when
Joe lays the cutters down the beam to have the body of - the
cutting edge up against the beam and just sort of slide it
down the side of the beam until you hit the strap. And then
bring it out and over the strap so that the cutters are just
on the other side. And then you pull back, and as the cutters
ramp up over with the jaws open - first of all you want to
make sure the jaws are all the way open. But then as you come
back toward you, the cutters will fall right over the strap,
and then you can sort of give it a slight push and pull and make
sure that it is there. And then clamp down on the jaws.
SC Rusty, you're still maintaining that he's
going to find the best place to get a bite on the strap on
the side of the beam fairing, right? Rather is it on the
top?
CC Yes, that's what it appears from our
photo analysis, Pete, but you know you'll have to make a
judgment on that when you get out there. But we think that
you probably should cut it,twithout _r_ygq,uestion, below the

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point at which the bolt heads are dug into the beam. And we
think that the side where you reported that it was bowed out
2 to 3 inches should probably be the best place to put
the cutters over it.
SC Yeah, because it's darn near flat across
the top. I - you know, Paul could barely get the little pointed
prongs under it.
CC Right. We've been doing all our work
down on the side of the beam, just about the middle there, half-
way up to the top of the beam. And it tends to hook on rela-
tively easy. And once you've got it clamped, it makes a very
nice pole going down there. By the way, we've got l0 seconds
to LOS here at Bermuda, and we'll be picking you up over Ascen-
sion at 01.
SC Okay, we've got some more work to do.
CC Okay. And at that point, Pete, I want
to talk about some timing here - the day-night cycles and
that kind of thing and a few constraints regarding lighting.
SC Okay.
mean time. Loss of signal through Bermuda for a rather lengthy
discussion there between both Ed Gibson and Rusty Schweickart
in the Control Center and the Skylab crew, going over all the
nuts and bolts details of arranging and building up the equip-
ment on board Skylah for tomorrow's EVA. Next station in
7 minutes little over 7 minutes for Ascension Island Track-
ing Station pass. And after loss of signal at Ascension at
approximately 11:08 or ii:I0 central daylight time in the
Houston News Room, Dr. Royce Hawkins and selected principal
investigators will hold a briefing on medical experiments
status. That's at Ascension loss of signal, which will be
in about 15 minutes. Dr. Royce Hawkins and selected medical
experiment principal investigators. Back in 7 minutes.
At 15:54 Greenwich mean time, Skylah Control.
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PAO This is Skylab, Control; 16:00 Greenwich

mean time. 50 seconds away from Ascension Island. A very
brief pass of only 5 minutes duration. Elevation angle only
3 degrees above the horizon. Final Ascension Island pass in
the morning and for several revs until the ascending node
moves farther westward. The start of revolution 332, we're
stand by for resumption of air-to-ground communications and
after Ascension loss of signal, the medical experiments, status
briefing will take place in the Houston Newsroom with Dr.
Royce Hawkins and selected principal investigators.
SC (garble))
CC Hello, there again sky troops, we're
back again at Ascension.
SC Go ahead.
CC Okay. Just a couple of things on my list
here that l'm looking at that I missed. For Pete, as I say the
expected happening is that the bracket will break when you raise
up on the BET there. And the studies all show that the expected
tip-speed of the beam coming up, is going to be something less
that 1 foot per second. If you work all that out, that says
that isn't going to get up and latched until about 1 minute
after you break it, so the thing doesn't really snap right
--- up at you. So, you don't want to be too anxious. Just pull
it and watch it come up slowly and you may, in fact, have to
help it up, if the friction is higher than the good troops
here on the ground have computed.
MCC One point for yon there, Joe. If that
does give you a fair amount of time for umbilical management of
EV-I.
CC Okay. Pete, the other thing I want
to mention to you was that after the SAS beam comes up and
latched, the actuator dampers on the SAS panels themselves
are about 40 degrees, and that's minus 40 degrees. We
expect that they will come down - All of them will begin to
come down and lock. The deployment of those panels is expected
to take about i0 minutes, until they get fully down. Now,
the important factor in all of that, is that if the beam
comes up, but the panels do not come down, we need to make a
maneuver fairly soon, in order to get sunlight on the
beams so that the actuator dampers will heat up. Conversely
if we do not maneuver, if the beam comes up and the panels do
not deploy, the actuator dampers will begin to cool off rather
rapidly which means that it will take even longer to heat them
up. So, we have a maneuver planned, and standing by for about
oh I'd have to get the detailed timing, it's about a rev after
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you pull the beam up, maybe a little less. And let us know
if they do not come down, within I0 minutes, or if they're
not on their way down, and we'll probably maneuver about 45-degrees
plus Xtoward the Sun, to get sunlight on the top of that beam.
SC Okay. I suspect that we might not get
the beam deployed, assuming that we do, until the second day
period.
CC Right. I'll talk to you about timing
on that. It looks like we've got a minute and 45. Let me
just start on that and say that all of the planning here is
to get you at a point, about 15:37, tomorrow morning, just
a little less than 24 hours now, where you open up the E_A hatch
to start the EVA at Sunset. This gives you about - -
SC Okay. We understand that Rusty. l've
got another question.
CC Go ahead.
SC When the pole is deployed, how tight
was it possible for human hand to cinch it up - at my end? And
after the strap is cut, does the pole then become useless as a handhold
for Pete?
SC Okay. I would guess, Ed didn't say it,
_ hut I guess he put probably 20 to 25 or 30 pounds of tension
in the llne just to cinch it up to make it a hand hold
at the beginning. After the strap is cut, that's affirmative.
What we recommend on that is to swing the cutter back up almost
180 degrees and lay it toward plus X to get it out of the way
when the beam comes up, so there's no question that it might
snag on anything. Fete has his way to get back up there
using the BET. He's going to be directly under it and as
soon as he snaps the thing, you just slowly make your way
back up to the pass.
SC You'll be coming to the BET at that
point, Joe.
SC Yeah. I understand that. I foresee
him having a little trouble getting up onto the rope and I
also foresee him having a little trouble repositioning the
jaws, if he has to. But we'll _ust have to work it.
SC Okay, Joe. We'll talk about that at
Carnarvon at 31. We're now essentially LOS.
SC Bye-by.
mean time. Loss of signal through Ascension Island tracking
station. 24 minutes to Carnarvon. The medical experiment
status briefing in the Houston Newsroom will begin as soon
as the participants show up arable, new_ro_._ I understand they're
on station in the newsroom at t_s' time. "Any ground station
passes that take place during the medical experiments briefing
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will be taped for delayed playback. It'll probably have

live television again on the next stateside pass in as much
as the landlines are still least, at 16:07 Greenwich mean
time; 23 minutes away from Carnarvon acquisition, Skylab
Control; out.
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mean time. We join the conversation in progress over the
Guam Island Track Station; and we'll play back the previous
Carnarvon Station after Vanguard loss of signal.
CC And then tape the keeper so that it stays -
you make sure that it stays on that truss.
SPT Can he put the tape on the - on the hook
somewhere?
CC Yeah - What we were thinking, Joe, was for -
in the prep, all you do is take a piece of tape that's 2 or
3 inches long and stick it to the side of it - of the apex
hook. And then when you hook it over the truss out there_ you
just pull off that tape and wrap it around the keeper so that
it stays in the closed position.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, and then after EV 2 has got the cutters
way down there and hooked on to - on to the debris, you then
want to - you know, on the mushroom end you've got the adjust-
able waist tether - there the old Apollo waist tether - and after
you've got the far end hooked up, you synch down all the way
on that waist tether, and that makes the hand rail going down,
which is quite close to the skin, and it makes it very nice
for transporting down there.
$PT Understand.
CC Okay, when EV I swings over, to position
himself on the on the handrail going down, what we're recom-
mending is that you end up with your belly - EV 1 would put
himself on that handrail with his belly toward the workshop
and his legs away from the beam; that is, further around
toward minus-Z. And that way you go down with your left
shoulder toward mlnus-X and the BET is hooked to your right
wrist and trails out behind you and EV 2 guides the umbilical
and the BET behind him.
$PT Understand.
CC Okay, so in other words, you go sideways,
moving to your left down - the EV i will go sideways, moving
to his left, down the handrail. And as he gets down into the
area of the beam, he's got a very nice view there - almost
parallel to the underside of the beam, and you can take a
pretty good look at the situation there with the meteoroid shield.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, now when EV 1 - Oh, by the way, I
forgot an important point. Before you start down the beam,
as soon as you got - as soon as you got hold of the handrail,
what we're recommending is hooking up the large hook that's
on the waist tether on the left wrist of EV i, hook the large
hook over the cutter reds and just push it down ahead of you.
That is, it slips over the rods and it'll go past the joints,
and that way, _?u're tethered to the rod all the way down.
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SPT Okay.
CC Okay, now when you get down to the end,
in order to get you all the way down to the good working
area, what we're recommending is when you get to the end of
the rods, to take the waist tether off the rod and hook it
on to the cutter scissor mechanism. That'll allow you to
get all the way down as far as you want to go to look at the
area, and also to help you hook on the BET to the aft end of
the vent module.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, and then the next thing is after you've
got the BET hooked on to the vent module, and, Joe, after
you've taken up the slack out of the BET, then what Pete wants
to do is take that tether and hook it to the BET itself. Then
your - that's sort of your final tethering point down there,
once you've taken the slack out of the BET.
SPT Yeah, I understand, Doc. He's going to
be using the BET as his handle goes back up, too. Right?
CC That's correct, Joe.
SPT Is he going to have some trouble with roll
control? You can'treally set any torque on a rope.
CC That's right. The way I found, Joe, is
just go down hand-over-hand; when you get to the point you
want on the rope, don't worry about attitude control. When
yon get to the point you want - and by the way, you'll be
pulling his umbilical end to keep the slack out of it when
he does that, you'll - you get yourself belly down to the beam
up at that end, and you don't there isn't any real debris
or anything up there that'a a worry that much about, at least
that we can see. And all you do then is start lifting up
on the rope and it'll force you right down against the top
of the beam, and it's really not too difficult at all. I
was actually positively buoyant at that time, and, neverthe-
less, had very little difficulty in getting under the BET.
SC Okay.
CC That SI3G white paint they've got out there
has got a pretty high coefficient of friction, and it's pretty
easy to work with. When we were in the water, we were working
on slick aluminum; and still pulled it off.
SPT Okay.
CC Then after the beam breaks free, we have
one caution there. As the beam rotates up; the mechanism does
form an opening there between the moving part of the beam
and the fixed part of the beam - the fairing up at the top.
It sort of opens up and then closes again as it comes up to
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the full latch. Sort of llke a clam shell opening and closing.
And so after you break it loose and it starts to come up, you'll
probably want to retreat back up to the FAS ring and watch it
come the rest of the way up from there. If it needs some help,
you're in a fine place to go ahead and - mounting the A-frame
just go ahead and pull in on the BET to help it lock up.
SPT Okay. We won't put our finger in there.
CC That's probably a good idea, too.
PLT Okay, Rusty, is that little hinge door -
is that on the high side or the low side of the hinge llne?
CC Okay, the door that's open, Paul, is on
the moving side. It's on the low side; the latch itself is
on the high side - just the little thing that the hook hooks
over.
PLT Now, the hinge is angled from - it moves
in the plus-X direction as a component. Is it on the more
plus-X end of the hinge line or the more minus-X end of the
hinge line?
CC Yeah, it's on the low side. The Sun side
over there.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay, we've got 35 seconds to LOS here at
Guam, and we'll be picking up Goldstone with TV again at 10 -
17:10. And we'd like to - we do have some stuff on the video
tape recorder from this morning's MII0; and depending on what
you'd like to show us, we would llke to see your stowage and
stuff, but when you're not going to show us something on TV,
why don't you let us know and we'll dump it, and we can inter-
rupt the dump any time to come back to real time.
CDR Rusty, we don't have any stowage to show
you, and we're starting to work that now, and I don't think
we'll have a lot of TV to show you on the next pass here, so
go ahead and dump the dern thing.
CC Okay, I'ii tell you what. We'll come up
dumping it. Just let us know when you want you want to
switch to real time.
SC Okay, well, when you're done dumping, switch
to real time (garble) camera. Hey, I just made it a deploy-
ment of the BET, and I think I have that worked out.
I'm using the little bag off the side of the JSC sail that
contained the whole thing. And I'ii put (garble). You know
what I'm talking about.
• CC Okay; sounds fine.
mean time. Loss of signal through Guam. We have ii minutes
of tape that was aceummulated during the Carnarvon pass and early
portion of this Guam pass while the Medical Briefing was underway.
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Let's roll that tape and then go live lot Goldstone and the
upcoming stateside pass.
CC Okay_ Sky troops, we've got you over Carnarvon
for i0 minutes, and Ed's got some cutting techniques for Joe.
SPT All right. Tell the deft surgeon's
fingers are proceed.
CC Okay, Joe. The easiest - quickest way to
get through the metal, even though it seems a little frustrating
as you do it_ is to give a steady pull on the line for around
2 to 3 seconds. It takes a little while for the rope and the
linkage to all respond and for the cutter jaw to creep through
the metal. Then just relax and then have another go at it
and another 5 or 6 seconds, hold it for 2 or 3 seconds and
if Pete's down there at the other end he might even want to
move the cutter around a little bit so it can work its way
through. You really don't have any feeling when you're
pulling that rope that it is going through yet no sensation
whatsoever so it seems a little frustrating. Pete might be
able to see the progress of the Jaws through the metal down
there and tell you what's going on but all you've got to do is
just have patience amd keep pulling for 2 or 3 seconds hack
off and then just keep it up that's the easiest way and all
of a sudden you'll snap you right through. We've gone through -
l've gone through it twice in the water and I tried one time
standing up with my axis of my body parallel to the discone
antenna and that's a pretty inefficient way because you really
can't apply much force for a period of time before you
just pull yourself right on down the - towards the beam. The
best way as we point out was to hook your toes over and you
can get a whale of a lot of force like that. It's kind of
like chinning yourself on a rope.
SPT Could you use a lot of force?
CC With my toes over, I could use a whale of
a lot of force. Yeah, I was estimating I was putting in maybe
a i00 to maybe 120 pounds or so and I might have been able
to put more on it if I'd really made a little larger V out of
my body in order to keep my toes underneath the SAS.
SPT Okay, about how many pulls did it take?
CC Okay, using the technique of putting my
feet underneath the FAS I never went end to end on that one.
I finished off a cut which I had started with the old tech-
nique and it took around two pulis once I got my
feet, my toes by the FAS. One word on when you first hook it
on, you don't want to try to go through it there. It only
takes maybe 30 40 pounds of pull for - just to cinch it up
and make it snug. If for some reason you do cut through or
even if you can't go down that L on the strap at all just find you
another piece of debris and hook it on there. All we need is to
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secure that other ending anyway you can.

SPT Yeah, well that's why I asked how many
pulls it took to cut it. I wanted to have a feel for how hard
I can dig in that first time.
CC Okay. I'd be surprised if you went through
in two or three seconds pulling with maybe 50 to 60 pounds.
I suspect you're going to have to do that half a dozen to a
dozen times.
SPT Okay, fair enough. Let me ask you this,
based on your most accurate knowledge, how much extra length
is there in that pole? How much am I going to have over my
shoulder?
CC Joe, you're asking how much rope you're
going to have left over from the mushroom on - is that correct?
SPT No. That's a matter of how I rig it. I'm
asking how much pull I've got left let's say from the edge
of the FAS on - in other words how much more pull do we have
than we need?
CC Okay, you've got Just about a foot or so.
It extends just a little bit over the ring of the FAS.
CC Joe let me point out that you can control that
to a certain extent because the strap angles up across the beam. If
you hook on to the bottom edge of it -it's closer to you - you'll
have more hanging over the FAS if you hook on nearer the top you'll
have more. Right about the middle of it from the photos you've
got about a foot back of the FAS ring now.
SPT Okay.
CC If you're thinking of using the mushroom,
Joe, I tried that and found it a little hit hard because you
only find yourself torquing your body right around the mushroom
itself and never really being able to get a good secure hold
on it. There is no way you can keep from torquing your body
about the center of the mushroom when you're pulling.
SPT I believe that. I was thinking about
where that little elect was going to be in reference to my
precious little head.
CC Yeah, that's in fact that'll be back down
there by your feet or so at that point.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay and for Pete let me say a couple more
words about the timing here. We are planning at the present
time to have not just the EVA lights on but also the docking
lights and there is a docking light about plus Y and - let me look
at it - at minus Z and minus Y on the FAS ring and we feel that
those should light the area out there near the A-frame. So what
that'll do is enable you to get to the point where Joe is
ready to lay the pole down alongside the beam. At that point
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we're saying why don't you halt there and wait for sunrise.
Now if the docking lights are either unnecessary and we can
turn them off to save power or you're ready - you're already
in position and it's still prior to sunrise we'd like to go
ahead and turn off the docking lights. Also, if for whatever
reason it takes longer than the day pass to cut through the
strap and get the beam raised, we would like you to return to
the lit area, that is back toward the FAS, normal EVA work
pass - during the night pass. Now, since we have some activities
down at the front end pinning the 54 door open and changing
out the 82A film you may Just want to, in case of that situa-
tion, you may just want to do that during that might pass
rather than just cooling it. But that's your choice. We do
have four hours and there's plenty of time to do it all.
SPT Roger, understand. I guess there will be
some details about 82A on the teleprinter. That's pretty
low on our priority list. The 54 thing I take it is just a
matter of unpinning, opening and making sure that it locks
open, is that right?
CC That's correct. The 54 door will
already be open, it's a matter of unpinning and opening it another
I0 degrees up against the stop and then lifting that little
latch that holds the door open, Joe.
SPT Okay are you going to teleprlnt a proper
roll for that?
CC Right. What we're doing - that is going
to be on the pad and all we do to it is go to minus 120 degrees
on the canister roll during the prep. That's essentially the
normal attitude for the 82A replacement, Joe, you should see
essentially a normal front end when you get down there.
SPT Okay, that's nice. Okay, and we understand
about the lighting.
CC Okay, let me just tell you what our whiff
experience has been over the neutral buoyancy tank. We ran
the whole exercise end to end took an hour 37 minutes from
hatch open to hatch closed. That included perhaps i0 to 15
minutes in the middle of the run taken out for buoyancy prob-
lems, reweighting and that kind of thing. And also we lost
some time because we cut through the straps three different
ways rather than Just using the first way that worked. So we
feel that you will be able to de the preps and get in posi-
tion to lay the beam down with plenty of time before sunrise
and then we feel you'll be able to do the strap cutting and
the beam raising well before the next sunrise or sunset rather,
but as I say we do have four hours so there's lots of time
and the main thing is remember Dick Gordon (garble) -
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SPT Yeah, you mlght find that our attitude

differs a little bit from yours in the water tank. We're going
to have to take care at every step to watch where the umbilicals
are, and where the tethers are and to keep our options open. I
rather expect and I'd like to be pleasantly surprised that it
may take us two day periods to get all this done.
CC Right, we have prepared for that, Joe.
And we don't expect that it will but you guys are the judge
and the best thing in the world is to go slow and do Just
what you said.
SPT That's right. I guess we'll know better
when we see it but our initial impression is that we've got
a 50-50 chance of pulling it off and even if we don't we'll
have a fine reconnaissance for you and some real good words
on techniques and possibilities for another try later on.
CC Right, that's j_st the way we figure it
except we'll give you a higher prohability. And we're about
30 seconds from LOS. We've got Guam coming up at 45 and we
would like to talk to you sometime about techniques on handling
the - where to put the umbilicals and the tethers and that
kind of thing.
SPT Okay, we'll be here.
CC Okay, Pete, now I have one word for you
on maybe the best location to put those vise grips on the
PCU.
CC Okay, Skylab, Houston back again over Guam
for something like l0 minutes.
CDR Okay.
SPT Talk umbilicals.
CC Okay, Joe, when you guys first get out EVI
in the foot restraints and you take the BET out and stow it
there on $7 handrail, assemble the tethers and all that,
your EV pass will be - we have passed this up but you can
rememher it - F9 and FII, the two short handholds up in front
of the hatch that we've never used and from there you go
along that - the silver tape MOL SIEVE vent duct that goes -
that runs right along the MDA there and you Just hand over
hand there underneath the DA trusses, you know, right along
the MDA until you get to the area of the A-frame and you just
push yourself up. It's about a 5 foot reach. And you just
go from there directly to the A-frame. In other words, your
umbilical comes along the MDA through the trusses and then
up to the A-frame. EVI will take the same path. And also
when you pass the poles from the FAS; when EVI passes the
cutter up to you he also does that through the trusses - that
is up underneath the trusses and when you get hold of it there
you'll run it out you'll receive it and run it out to the
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mushroom almost parallel to the discone antenna.

SPT (garble)
CC Okay, (garble) one point on that when you
do first get out there you do want to tether yourself as op-
posed to mounting the A-frame. You can stand on that A-frame
once you've got the tether in place and one thing we sure
learned from the water is that we_ve got real luxury in the
way we've designed the ATM film retrieval with all the good
foot restraints, once you don't have those things you've really
got to tie yourself down well and do it early, and do it
religiously.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is -
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PAO This is Skylab Control. That concludes

the playback of tape accumulated over the Carnarvon and a
portion of the Guam pass earlier in this revolution. The
2-minute warning warbler has gone off in the control room,
for acquisition at Goldstone. And as I gather the situation
on television, the earlier VTR recording of the MII0 blood
sampling TV-4 will be played back first and then possibly the
crew will switch back the - to the live TV camera. And we're
about a minute away now from acquisition of Goldstone. And
we'll stay up live through Mila loss of signal on rev 333.
CC Hello, sky troops, we've got you
through Goldstone for 16 minutes.
CC Screwing up your courage_ Pete?
SC We're here_ guys. We're just screwing
around, getting fixed up.
SC Okay. Do you have any good words?
Speak.
CC You want to listen while you do scurry
around there?
SC Yes, sir.
CC Okay, Pete. There are 2 other things
which we'll be mentioning, reminding you of tomorrow - just
2 things while you're out there, we want you to take a look
at, not be going anywhere, but just look at them. One, I've
already mentioned which is QUAD A on the CSM. And that's
because the temperatures are running a little bit high and we Just
want your comments on whether there is any discoloration or
anything of that kind around it. The other one, you might,
want - PJ knows where it is, hut you might want to look at
it on that SWS map, and that is while you're down there in
the region of the SAS beam we'd like to have you look over at
the forward umbilical connection point, which is just above the
OPS tunnel. What we're doing there, is just looking at it to
see whether or not there's any debris in that umbilical connection
point. If we have to do anything on Skylab III and IV in a way
of plugging in any auxiliary electrical stuff, the guys are
looking at using that forward umbilical point to do so.
So, it's just a matter of looking at it - taking a look at it and
say it does or doesn't have any debris around it.
SC Okay.
CC And as I say, we'll remind you of that
tomorrow, we just didn't want to surprise you with it.
SC Rog.
CC And I think that we've just about
completed the everything we wanted to make sure and
talk with you on the data. I guess Ed's got one more, but
- I think we can sort of sit back and use the ._est of the pass
/ here, aside from your seurring around, we can use the air- to-
ground just to answer any questions either on technique or
hardware or whatever you've got remaining.
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CC One thing for you, Pete. The

folks down here have looked at the optimal place to put vice
grips on a flange for the PCU, and recommend right above the
red 1 low flow. That gives you no obstruction on the controls
and also from our standpoint, gives you no obstruction while
you are moving around EVA.
SC Joe and I figured we'd put them on the
blue hose.
CC Okay. We really didn't have any use
for the those vice grips out there, Pete. We figured they
were just a pretty generally useful tool and that's the only
reason we included them on the list.
SC Yeah. We agree.
SC (garble)
SC He say's to tell you that's his tether
bag.
CC I'ii tell you what, Joe. I spoke just
a bit to early. INCO is back on the dump VTR, so hold on if
yon want to show us something.
SC Okay.
SC How long did it take you to put - -
CC Okay. As part of the prep here
(static) we've got is mounting the -
SC (Inaudible)
CC Say again.
CC Okay, Skylab. We're back in contact
now through MILA. The Texas antenna had a little runin with a
thunder stome last night and isn't tracking too well today.
Paul, you were asking some question there right at the end,
would you go ahead.
SC Been so long ago, I forgot.
SC _i, down there. It looks like a nice
day.
CC Yeah. It got kind of had, last night
though. Anybody up by the ATM C&D?
SC Negative.
CC Okay. We're in no rush for this, but
when somebody gets a chance up there, we'd like to read out
during a daylight side, that's when we've got the sun up,
REG volts and amps, BAT volts and amps, and BAT temp on
CBRM 17. You can call down for a reminder on that, if you'd
like, later.
SC Okay. I'ii get it for you in Just a
few minutes.
CC Okay. There's no bi E rush on that.
One other comment on the preps. We've looked at the TV -
setting up the TV down here for the EVA. And what we're
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recommending is mounting a monitor on the top of the TV camera

with the screen facing the lens. That is, say you're look-
ing at the screen and the lens. That way, I think the screne
will be out of the sunlight when you're facing the back toward
the parasol. And it looks to us as though you can mount the
universal hracket on either left or right shoe, whichever
seems to he the most convenient for you. And on X Y Z set-
tings, we don't have any. It looks like you guys are going
to be the best judge of where to point it. And for your
information we are back on real time TV and we've got Joe
working on his suit, there. And Pete, we've got your bag in
view there. As a matter of fact, that's a lot more clever
than we were in the water tank.
SC Oh, I remember what I was talking about.
Prep time; what's the accounted? What we put in on this
last night from starting - essentially gathering stuff up until
we'd pretty much got it together,not counting the refine-
ments that were made today, we've got about 10-man hours in
it, we figured.
CC Okay.
SC Where's the hurricane?
cc Stand by, Paul. We'll get that for
you.
SC I thought it was now, Rusty. Never mind.
CC It's still in the Pacific.
SC Oh, the hurricane's in the Pacific, now?
CC A Rose, by any other name.
SC Yeah.
CC Okay, Pete. We're seeing your vice
grips, they're hooked on. Can you tip it down just a little
bit? Okay. That's just exactly where we're recommending, right.
And you can sort of lay it back right up against your chest,
Pete. It keeps it from snagging.
CC Paul, it looks like it's about 12 north
and about IIO west, just a little bit east of that. Maybe 108 west.
SC Okay. What do you want on CBRM 17?
CC Okay. We'd like to have ah - -
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CC That may be 108 watts.

SC Okay, what do yon want on CBRS 17?
CC Okay, we'd like to have the reg volts
and amps, bat volts and amps, and bat temp.
SC Okay, reg volts is what apparently is
our standard no good values of 22-1/2 volts, plus 5 amps.
CC Okay.
SC Bat volts is 36, 36, bat amps is plus 7,
bat temp is 52, 52.
CC Okay, we got it. Thanks PJ.
CC Okay, and Pete, one thing we'd like you
tO do is think over what your situation is here and basically
what the task is and we'd like a recommendation from you
sometime say within the next 2 hours on - on what your status
is and what you're recommending as fat as going ahead with
it for tomorrow or Friday.
SC Well, listen Rusty there's no doubt in
my mine that the sooner we get it done the better off we
are because it's going to take us two or three days to
recoup. We've just about had the place cleaned up and in
shape and a nice routine going, and we just wiped that out
and demolished the place again. Unstowed everything and -
So I know we're going to be tired when we get done and I know we're
going to have to put the vehicle back in some semblance of shape.
And, of course, ya'll want to play with it a little bit if
we if we are successful. So we'll shoot for going tomorrow.
CC Okay. Understand that you feel that
you're GO for tomorrow. We do have EVA prep for tonight, so
if there is any difficulity in setting that up, just let us
know.
SC No, Joe (garble getting into the
suit, that's a piece of cake. We're Paul's putting the
changes in right now in a manner that we can recover from
the changes for the next EVA. And I just finished working
that tether bag and I'm going to go start the - continue with
the work toward EVA until our time period ends. On EVA we'll
go back to it tonight.
CC Okay, fine. The one pad we got to get
up to you aside from the unavoidable changes between now and
then, but the one we know we're going to send up to you is
the procedures for the 82A, the 54, and the TV. And that'll
be coming up on a pad and you can take a look at them.
Those are the kind of thing where Paul would be reading
EVI do this, EV2 do that.
SC Yes, well, let me Just caution you.
There is no doubt in my mine as you mentioned, that we
could get bombed like we did in Gemini Ii. And if we do a
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flailing around out there l'm sure that we can run out of gas
pretty easy. So I think you'd better figure if we're
unsuccessful in the first hour and a half, we're probably
not going to get the job done, and I hope we haven't worn
ourselves out to the point where we can't go ahead and do
82 with all other good things, but recognize that they are.
In my mind, the the low priority. The difficult task is to do this
beam and I'm afraid I - I'm probably not quite as optimistic
about it as you guys are. Of course_ you've done a lot more work on
it than we have, but we'll give her a go tomorrow. I - l'm
pretty sure we under - out the window. We're going back and
smoke them over again and talk about it some more. And I
think the biggest thing depends on Joe being able to get
the pole hooked onto something. There's number 1 and 2 either
cutting it or me cutting it or however that works. And I
hope there isn't something else holding it besides that strap.
CC Yes, sir, those are all - those other
things are all low priority, we recognize that. We're now
in LOS and be picking you up at 36.
SC (static)
• mean time. Loss of signal from the Mila tracking station.
An 8 minute gap to a brief pass along the northeastern segment
of the Vanguard tracking circle. Seven minutes total time
at Vanguard and then there's a long dry spell of about an
hour and 8 minutes before Goldstone. Again we missed Carnarvon
and Guam all together on this rev. Number 331 - 333 1 beg
your pardon. Back in 8 minutes with Vanguard tracking
ship. At 17:28, Skylab Control out.
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mean time. Acquisition of signal at Vanguard in about 40 seconds.
The warbler here in the Control Room running a little hit late,
at least in relation to the AOS clock. Seven minute pass here
over Vanguard - Vanguard Tracking Ship.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Vanguard
for the next 7 minutes. Did you have another question for Rusty?
SC No, not right now. I got a couple of
questions about the changes to the EVA checklist.
CC Roger.
SC Okay, on page 1.2-7 --
CC Go ahead.
SC -- I assume that the things in the pink
bracket that are crossed out, we now do. Except the things
that are not crossed out, which we cross out and don't do.
Is that right?
CC The things that are crossed out in
the pink brackets, you will do. Say again the last.
SC Never mind. I know what I said - that's
what I mean.
CC I hope you did.
SC On page 1.2-1, could - -
CC Stand by, Paul. On 1.2-7, the one that
you do not do is the one in the middle pink bracket - Remove
cap from ECS return dump, and stuff --
SC That's what I said, That was my last
second part.
CC Ah, good. Thank you. Go ahead with
the next page. What was it?
SC That's what I say. We do the ones that
are crossed out, except for the ones that aren't crossed out,
but we cross them out and then don't do them.
CC Yeah, we got you. Go ahead. What's
the next page.
SC 1.2-1.
CC 1.2-1. Go ahead.
SC I assume I go to SI and then add those
other switches, the rate gyro, the fine Sun-sensor, to that
block. Is that right? Under C&D panel config?
SC Okay, that brings me up to date. If
I have any more questions, I'ii ask you later.
CC Okay, we probably will have some modes
ourselves coming up that we know of now_ hut we're trying to
get them organized before W e let y_u know.
SC Okay. ' And I would like someone to
/ keep track of all these changes, so that we can go back
through and take them out. Because I assume that after this
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EVA, and before the normal (garble) EVA, we're going to

delete all the changes. Right?
CC Not all of them, because we probably,
if this works out, will be using the aft compartment. In
fact, let me say a word about that. You just reminded me of
something I did miss. We are planning to use the aft compart-
ment here. However, we do anticipate that we will still have
some leakage to it. We are setting limits on that, and just
for your information, in case we see the workshop pressure
coming down significantly, we may have to ask for you to get
back in and close the aft compartment hatch. Now we do not
anticipate that, but I Just want to let you know that we are
looking at the OWS pressure during the EVA.
SC Okay, now a counter proposal for that is
how about if we make a little flapper to go ove_ the equaliza-
tion valve inlet so that the pressure going up against the
hatch from the inside will feel it, but that they ought to
llft off, say, one little piece of gray tape from coming the
other way.
CC Stand by just i.
SC And we can make that out of cardboard
or a piece of flat mosite out of the ESS or almost anything.
CC Stand by just i.
SC Okay.
CC Okay, I assume, Paul, that you are
talking about the check val_es - not the equalization valve
in the (garble).
SC I think so. I'm talking about the only
two that we got access to from the inside.
CC Right. Stand by just 1.
CC Okay, if you can make them a flapper,
rather than put tape directly across them, that sounds pretty
good. The problem is that we will be raising the lock and
forward - and aft compartment pressure after the crew gets
in there, due to the PCUs flowing. And we did not want
to put tape across it for fear we would end up locking those
check valves from their normal relief function.
SC Yeah. What I mean is a piece of card-
board or mosite on there, taped loosely with tape so that
it'll be seated with pressure - bigger pressure on the in-
side. But anything coming in on it ought to unseat it - you
know, a couple of inches of water, or something like that.
CC Everybody here has got their thumb up.
Sounds good. Go ahead.
SC Okay.
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CC Okay, Paul, if you still read, we would

like to just let you know that we are not sure that it is, in
fact, leakage through the check valves. We think that's prob-
ably the case, but it could be leakage elsewhere. And this
will give us - if your little scheme works, it would give us
a good check to see whether it is.
SC Okay. And, Rusty, we're going to keep
working- We'll try and get everything - the important things
done on the Flight Plan today. But we may drop some of these
incidentals. I haven't really had a chance to look at it, but
as you well know, you may he able to do it in an hour on the
ground, but you've thrown a lot of changes at us, and we got
a lot of reeonfiguring to do here. And we' re trying to think
our way through it as we go and he a little bit slow, so that
we don't back ourselves into a corner. Okay?
CC Yeah, no sweat.
CC And, Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We won't have you again until Goldstone at 18:47 - till
an hour.
SC Okay.
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Time: 13:44 CDT 13:17:44 GMT
6/6/73
CC And for your information we will be

doing a data dump on that Goldstone pass.
PAO This is Skylab Control, 17:44, Greenwich
mean time. LOS of signal through tracking ship Vanguard.
Next station an hour and 2 minutes away, Goldstone. During
the stateside pass, earlier in _hls revolution, the crew
inquired about Hurricane Ava, and it's location. And dur-
ing this next sweep along the western seaboard of North
America and Mexico that they will have an opportunity to
look a little farther west at this hurricane. A rare com-
bination of events will allow Skylab astronauts to record
wind sea surface conditions produced by the season's
first hurricane, Ava. As a National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration C130 research aircraft flies through the
120 miles per hour winds. The hurricane, which formed in
the Pacific Ocean, west of Central America, is not directly
under the Skylab spacecraft and there will not he enough
time to permit a full scale Earth Resources pass today. A
full scale pass requires an attitude change to point the
EREP sensors at the surface of the Earth beneath the
spacestation, but two factors will permit EREP data to be
gathered for three separate scientific investigations with-
out reorienting Skylab. The hurricane is located just a
few hundred miles south of the place where the Sun is
directly over the spacestation, so the EREP sensors directly
opposite the Sun pointed solar telescope are very nearly
pointed directly at the Earth. In addition, though the eye
of the hurricane is several hundred miles to the southwest
of ground track 49, the microwave radiometer scatterometer
altimeter S193 is able to look nearly 300 miles to either
side, while the S193 scans the ocean, Science Pilot Dr.
Joseph Kerwin will make handheld photographs of
the hurricane out of the window, using a 70 millimeter
Hasselblad camera, with a 100 millimeter lens. The EREP
operations today will last only 5 minutes, with the S193
turned on as Skylab crosses the southernmost point of
Baja, California at 01:55:30 p. m. central daylight time,
and the pass completed in the Pacific Ocean due west of
the Panama Canal Zone at 02:00:30 p. m. Central daylight.
Skylab spacestation will pass nearest to hurricane Ava, which
is about 700 miles southwest of Acapulco at 01:58:20 p. m.
central daylight. Duncan Ross, a NOAA researcher, who leads
one of the three scientific teams interested in receiving
data from the hurricane pass is aboard the C130 hurricane
chaser. The aircraft, which took off from Elllngton Air
Force Base in Houston at nine this morning, assisted in
complementary data acquisition yesterday for the fifth EREP
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pass. The C130, which carries several scientific instruments

including a laser profilometer to record the heights of
waves, will land at Acapulco to refuel. The added
weight of fuel provides increased stability, so the plane
can fly into the eye of the hurricane. In addition to Mr.
Ross of NOAA's Atlantic Oceanagraphic and Meterological
Laboratories in Miami, principal investigators using
today's pass will include Dr. J.P. Hollinger of the U.S.
Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and Professor
Willard J. Pearson of New York University. The three
scientists and their supporting research teams are invest-
igating the relationship between winds, clouds, waveheights,
and other sea surface characteristics as part of the
oceanographic studies made possible by the first manned
Earth Resources laboratory in space. 17:49 Greenwich
mean time. Fifty-seven minutes, almost an hour to next
station pass, which will be Goldstone and hopefully we will
have some eyeball discriptions of hurricane Ava as Skylah
space station sweeps down the western coast of Mexico and
South America on revolution 334, the end of 333 and the
beginning of 334. 17:49 Zulu, this is Skylab Control out.
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mean time. Still about 5 minutes away from acquisition on
stateside pass and possible sighting of Hurricane Ava off shore
from Acapulco, Mexico. At 2:30 p.m. central daylight time this
afternoon, Skylab backup commander, Rusty Schweiekart, will
conduct a briefing for news persons on EVA procedures, running
over the EVA schedule for tomorrow. To repeat again: that's at
2:30 p.m., Houston News Room, small briefing room. Rusty
Schweickart, backup commander, will go over the EVA procedures
that have been worked out and discussed with the crew by
Schweickart during the day today. Back again in 4 minutes for
Geldstone-Texas pass, the final stateside pass of the day.
Skylab Control out.
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PAO This is Skylab Control, 18:45 Greenwich

mean time. A minute and a half away from acquisition at
Goldstone according to the AOS clock at any rate. 2:30 p.m.
Central Time, Rusty Schweickart who is Skylab backup
commander will hold a briefing on EVA procedures in the
Houston newsroom. Standing by to confirm acquisition of final
Goldstone pass of the afternoon. We do have acquisition
at Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are AOS ever the
states for the next 13 minutes. For the next 13 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
SC Is that, Houston, CDR out keeping
i0 alfas in work.
CC Roger,
CC And by the way, guys, we are doing a data
dump on the recorder this time.
SC Okay.
SC Okay, Houston. We just want to verify
you do want the amplified pictures of the wardroom window
and not the 190 windows, that right?
SC Okay.
SC Very well I'm going to take two and
try and get stereo. That (garble)?
CC Skylab, HouSton. I missed your last
second.
SC Alright, sorry Houston, I was talking
to the rest of the crew.
CC Oh, sorry about that.
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PLT - enormous spiral, Houston. It covers the

whole window. We won't be able to get it all on (garble)
CC I understand the spiral covers the whole
window.
PLT And it has a small, very well defined (garble)
eye. It's llke an artist's conception of a hurricane.
CC Rog. I understand a well defined eye.
PLT Earlier, you sent me your readings. Alfa 9 is
oscillating between 5 percent and 45 percent. Bravo 9 is hanging
in there at about 58. Then Charlle 9 is oscillating between
50 and 90. Now Alfa 9, even though it's oscillating, stays
at the lower end most of the time. And Charlie 9 stays at
the upper end.
CC Roger. Copy,Paul.
PLT Houston, we're not getting any of the clouds
associated with a hurricane on the PAD/SCAT. I think we're
over open water right now at the beta just on the very end
of it.
CC Okay, we copy.
CDR The eye in that thing is fantastic to look
at - it's completely almost open in the middle of it.
CC Roger.
CDR And you can see blue water in the center
of it and it must have a straight row of clouds that goes
clear up to 35,000 or 30,000 feet right on the sides of it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute until
LOS. We won't have you again until 19:13, 19:13.
PLT All right.
PAO This is Skylab Control 19:00 Greenwich
mean time, loss of signal through Texas. As the Skylab space
station overflew Hurricane Ava. As the crew spotted it from
the space station window they reported that it was an enormous
spiral that fills the whole window, hut it had a small well defined
eye. Pete Conrad came on the squawk box and said that the eye
was open enough to where you could see water all the way through
the eye with walls of clouds extending up around the perimeter
of the hurricane's eye from 30 to 35,000 feet in altitude
was his estimate. Eleven minutes to acquisition of signal
at tracking station - tracking ship Vanguard. And shortly
after Vanguard, a loss of signal at 2:30 central time. Skylab
backup Commander, Rusty Schweickart, will meet with news persons
in the Houston news room to conduct a briefing on tomorrow's
EVA - how it will he done - what tools will he used and will
include a replay of - a video tape made of Rusty and Ed Gibson
in the neutral buoyancy simulator at Marshall Space Flight
Center two or three days ago as he worked out procedures,
checked the feasihility of tomorrow's EVA. Back again in
I0 minutes for Vanguard. At 19:02, Skylab Control, out.
I-
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PAO This is Skylab Control 19:10 Greenwich

mean time. 2 minutes away from acquisition at Vanguard,
tracking ship Vanguard. Seven and a half minutes acquisition
time across Vanguard on this 334th Earth revolution. Next
station after Vanguard will be Hawaii in about an hour and
3 minutes after Vanguard LOS. Meantime Skylab backup
commander Rusty Schweickart will conduct a briefing in the
Houston newsroom on tomorrow's EVA at 2:30 p.m. Central
Daylight. Standing by now for - the tracking ship Vanguard
pass and further conversation between Bob Crippen CAP COM
and Skylab space station crew.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS over
Vanguard for the next 16 minutes.
CDR Roger, we must be going -
CC Sorry about that, wrong time on it -
it's for the next 7 minutes 7 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CDR Houston, we were hoping to get a good
shot of Buenos Aires, but that unfortunately it is just barely
under the edge of the clouds.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're i minute until
LOS and we won't see you again for about an hour at Hawaii
at 20:21 - 20:21.
CDR Aloha.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control, 19:21 Greenwich
mean time. Lose of signal as the space station went over the
horizon from tracking ship Vanguard on revolution 334, next
station an hour from now, Kawaii. About 6 minutes from now
at 2:30 Central Daylight Time, Skylab backup commander
Rusty Schwelekart will conduct a briefing on EVA procedures
and equipment for tomorrow's EVA to deploy the Solar array panel
on the side of the orbital workshop. The broadcast line will
be taken down during that briefing and any station passes
by Skylab will be recorded for delayed playback at the end
of the press conference. 58 minutes away from Hawaii at
19:22 Greenwich mean time. Skylab control, out.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 15:44 CDT, 13:20:44 GMT
6/6/73

time 20 hours 44 minutes as the spacecraft concludes its
334th revolution. We are expecting acquisition over the
Vanguard tracking station. During the press conference with
Astronaut Rusty Schweickart we had approximately one and a
half minutes of air-to-ground over the Hawaii station, during
which time Cap Com, Bob Crippen discussed with the crew a
telegram sent to the Mission Control Center by former Astro-
naut James Lovell, who congratulated Commander Conrad on
beating his record. The telegram read: "Congratulations on
beating my record. If you need help, I'll send a tugboat."
This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time 20 hours 45
minutes. We'll run that tape from Hawaii now, and then hold
UP for Vanguard.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. To conclude some of the problems
we've been having with the thing tripping off because of
the detectors - at the conclusion of this pass we would llke
you to put the SO55 MAIN HIGH VOLTAGE switch to OVERRIDE, and
then if we ever get any - things trip out well you will get the
light but the other detectors will keep running.
CDR Did you say the high voltage from ENABLE?
CDR There is what?
CC And Pete, I've got a telegram here for you.
I might as well read right now. It reads: "Congratulatlons
on beating my record. If you need assistance I'ii send you
a tugboat" Signed Jim Lovell.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're _one minute to LOS.
We'll have you again at Vanguard at 20:49, 20:49.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And Skylab, we will be doing a data dump
for the recorders over Vanguard.
CDR Okay, Houston and we just lost a Z-gyro.
CC Understand. Lost a Z-gyro.
CDR In redundancy management now.
CC Okay.
CDR Yes.
CDR (Garble)
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CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over Vanguard

for the next -
CDR Hi there Houston. Are you there?
CC Rog. We're here for about the next 9 minutes,
Pete.
CDR Okay. When are Z GYROS? Change his mind
again?
CC Apparently. We're taking a look at
it right now.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Skylab, Houston. We
had an indicator problem with Z-I. We're going to put -
but it apparently is gone now, and we're gonna put I and 2
back in control, and we're gonna go ahead and turn on 3,
so we can have it as a backup. God damn it.
SPT (laughter) You having a few problems
down there?
CC Look who's talking. Rog.
SC (garble)
CC Say again.
PLT Just wondered if you were there. They're
f dumping the tape recorder. Take three numbers for me, Bob,
will you?
CC Go ahead.
PLT Okay, on the MI71 on the SPT the
percent 02 is 72.10. 72.10. Percent water is 5.19,5.19.
Percent C02 is 1.92,1.92.
CC Rog. Copy.
CC PLT, Houston. If you've got a minute
now, you can, well, cancel my light.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We have sent
you some additional teleprinter pads regarding EVA. There
are two - Charlie two pages on it. The first is bad, dis-
regard.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute til
LOS. We'll see you again at Hawaii at 21:57, 21:57. We
have reconfigured the RATE GYROS.
CC Skylab, Houston. I don't know if you heard
my LOS call, but we're going LOS now, and we'll have you again at
Hawaii at 21:57, 21:57, and we have reconfigured the RATE
GYROS with 1 and 2, and we haven't got 3 up to speed
yet. We'll get that over Hawaii.
SC Okay. Fine.
time 20 hours and 59 minutes. On the previous pass over
Vanguard Capcom Bob Crippen discussed with the ground that the
problem with the RATE GYRO has - looks okay now. They put
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one and two back on line and will use number 3 as a backup.
There are three gyros in each axis. The CMG, the control
moment gyros subsystems provide three-axis attitude
control. There are nine RATE GYROs total in the vehicle.
The discussion earlier over Hawaii was concerning the fact
that Commander Pete Conrad had surpassed astronaut former
Astronaut Jim Lovell's record of 750 hours and 5 minutes
in space. Commander Conrad beat that record on June 3, at
12:17 a. m. central daylight time. Conrad now has four
missions under his belt. Former Astronaut Lovell had four,
Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8, and Apollo 13. Next acquisition
will be over the Hawaii tracking station in 56 minutes.
At Greenwich mean time 21 hours, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 16:55 CDT, 13:21:55 GMT
6/6/73

time 21 hours 55 minutes. We anticipate acquisition of signal
over the Hawaii tracking station as the Skylab crew is scheduled
to start EVA preparations this evening for an hour and a half for
Thursday morning's scheduled EVA to repair the solar panel
on the orbital workshop. We'll hold the line up live for
Cap Com Bob Crlppen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii for
the next five minutes.
SC Roger.
CDR I looked at those TV sketchy procedures
and I don't like them. I have the feeling that I would prefer
right now not even to mess with the TV, and if we try and do any-
thing at all it's get a camera outside. Maybe the 16 DAC or
something we're used to handling out there.
CC We've got Rusty standing by here, maybe
I can let him comment on that.
CDR Okay.
SCHWEICKART That's what you call passing the buck.
CDR Well, Igor to he honest with you Rusty, I don't
like them. You're asking us to go back in and hook up the
camera with the wires not hooked up and then you want to send
the thing out on the boom and get the wire and that wire is
Just terrible. We have a hard time messin_ around (garble)
that stuff in here. And I just think we're asking for trouble.
We're liable to lose the one TV camera we got left.
SCHWEICKART Okay, Pete. Let me tell you one reason
why that was requested by NASA. Hold on just a second.
CDR I know it gets the data to you the fastest
but - -
SCHWEICKART Stand by, Pete. We'll (garble)
CDR - I really don't like it.
CC CDR, Houston. Apparently we've - the star's
drifted off and we'd like to see if we could reacqulre that.
Let me see if I can get them to give you some good gimbal angle
for right now.
CC And Skylab, Houston, I did have some comments.
We are sending up your flight plans for tomorrow. Xou'll notice
- well it's not obvious in this one, but we are planning on
a couple of ATM passes in the pre-sleep. In fact the plan
is there now. Now, those ATM passes are going to be kind of
at your option. If you can't - don't feel like you can do them
well, we'll go ahead and do unattended OPS.
CDR What's this? Tomorrow night?
CC That's affirm.
CDR Okay.
CC Also, I guess I'd llke to - if you can copy
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down. I had a couple of items here for pad modifications

that we have sent you today.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay_ pad number 1317 Alpha, deals with
setting up the ATM the C&D for unattended operations post-
EVA. We would like you to add to that to set CANISTER ROLL
to plus 5400, that's plus 5400.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, and also, just as a verbal reminder,
in the C&D setup for EVA prep it has you make sure that all
the doors are closed. We do not want to close the S054 door
which is probably obvious to yon.
CDR Yeah.
CC Okey doke.
SPT Hey, Crip?
CC Go.
SPT That's 154 item roll was in the poet-EVA
panel reconfiguration for unattended OPS, is that right?
SPT Okay.
SPT Go ahead with the star tracker pad.
CC Okay. The star tracker gimbal angles we'd
like you to put in are: INNER GIMBAL ANGLE a plus 0029, and
OUTER a plus 1481.
SPT That's still friendly Achernar?
CC Yeah, that's affirmative.
MCC And Pete_ let me say just one thing on
the rationale here, and there's no question. If it looks
like when you get to do it_ that that cord is too hard to
handle or whatever, we use your own judgement on it. The
rationale behind it rather than a DAC is that with the TV
down-link we can get an assessment with the color quality
of the what the sail is doing and thereby make a better decision
of whether to put out another sail before you all come back.
Whereas with the DAC we'd have to bring it back with us.
CDR How much of it do you have to see, Rusty?
I can give you color TV of the sail from the command module
window. Of the orange.
SCHWEICKART Okay, let me pass that on up, Pete. That's
all I can tell you right now. I'ii take that higher and find
out what recommendation is.
CDR Okay. Man oh man, I tell we've been -
we're slowly getting behind the curve on tomorrow because
we're trying to rig the alrlock now, and boy try to stick a
TV camera in here with all that wiring and we got gray tape
all over everywhere and I'm not convinced half of it is going
to work, but we'll give her a go.
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SCHWEICKART Okay, look, as far as I'm concerned, if

there's any question whether it's going to work that's low
priority_ Forget it.
CC We're just about to go LOS and I'ii have
you at 28, 28.
time 22 hours 7 minutes. On the previous pass over the Hawaii
tracking station Commander Pete Conrad requested the ground
reconsider instructions to deploy the TV camera tomorrow during
the EVA. He questioned the he didn't like the procedures
and he said he felt more comfortable using the 16 millimeter
DAC camera. Next acquisition will be over the Vanguard tracking
station in 20 minutes. This is Skylab Control at 22 hours
and seven minutes.
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mean time 22 hours and 26 minutes. We have ac - we will
have acquisition at the Vanguard tracking station momentarily
The crew should be well into their evening pre-preparations
for tomorrow morning's scheduled EVA. Science Pilot Joseph
Kerwin should have concluded an M092 MI71 run, that's the
metabolic analyzer experiment, MI71 and the lower body
negative pressure device MO92. Will leave the line up for
conversation between CAP COMM Bob Crippen and the Skylab crew
over Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS over the
Vanguard for the next 8 minutes and we will be doing a
recorder dump.
CDR Roger, Bob.
CC And, Joe if you're listening some
good news for today, the medics have decided to insure that
you get a good nights sleep that you can scrub M133 for
tonight.
SC He says, "Yeah. Thank you."
CC He's trading that for some water
gun readings we're going to ask you for later.
SPT Okay.
CC CDR, this is Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, we want to - we were discussing
here want to make clear the position on this TV thing so
that you don't have anything hanging over your head. We'd like
to make sure yon understand that that's extremely low
priority on that EVA, that the whole Job is to get that
SAS wing up and if for whatever reason you decide not
to take that thing out there to look at the parasol or any-
thing else, that's just great, forget it. On the other hand,
if it's back there in the aft compartment and you get done
in time and you feel like trying it, that'd be swinging. If
on the other hand, tonight in setting up lock compartment,
air lock stowage, you decide it's too - too big a mess to
stow forget it tonight and it's gone. We got - we want
no pressure on you on it.
CDR Well, Rusty, my feeling that the it's gone
now because I don't want to mess with it for the following
reasons. We've decided not to handle the TV during
the EVA because it was such a mess to handle. Now you're asking
us to handle the thing when we've never tried it before. And I
feel e'll lose the camera, screw it up or do something wrong.
CC Okay, it's gone.
CDR _ Atta boy, now you're talking.
(garble) I don'_t _ven _ant _ mess with it. We're configuring
the EVA right now and we'_e 'only got one camera, we've never
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messed with it. That cable's a bear and I just think we're a lot
better off not messing with it at all. I'll give you some TV at
the command module window of the orange and hopefully fully zoomed
in you can get a good color comparison.
CC Okay, fine. Quit talking about it,
it's gone.
CDR Now I can go back to work.
CC We just want to let you know, we
probably will not send up a revised pad. As you're going
through them just delete all references to it unless you want us
to send up another pad with all that stuff deleted to make
i t clean. Your choice.
SPT We'll leave it go llke she is.
PAO This is Skyla5, Houston, we just sent
you up another teleprinter pad which is a slight mod to your
EVA Checklist.
CDR Very good.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute til

LOS. We'll see you again at Hawaii at 23:35, 23:35.
SPT Okay, Crlp. I got a question on this
last change to the EVA checklist that was sent up. For ex-
ample, we're just added opening the ILCA gears and turning
the ATM coolant pumps off. Then I remember - How we gonna take
care of closing those breakers and turning those pumps back
on?
CC Okay, we've got the coolant pump covered
to turn it back on, as you'll see and I guess we're gonna
give you a GO on that ILCA heater, depending on what our
power status is.
SPT Oh, yeah, I should have seen that. I
didn't read far enough, okay. All righty.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich mean
time 22 hours and 37 minutes. We have loss of signal at the
Vanguard tracking station. Capcom Bob Crlppen advised Science
Pilot Joseph Kerwin that he would not have to don the sleep
monitoring cap, the M133 experiment this evening. Commander
Conrad asked the ground and received permission to not use
the TV camera tomorrow to take pictures of the deployed
parasol. The ground is concerned about the color of the
parasol, and Commander Conrad said he could use the TV
through the Command Module window to give them pictures of
the parasol. Next acquisition will be Hawaii in 57 minutes
from now. This is Skylab Control at 22 hours 38 minutes.
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Time: 18:33 CDT 13:23:33 GMT
6/6/73

mean time 23 hours 33 minutes. We anticipate acquisition
of signal over the Hawaii tracking station with Capcom
astronaut Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Hawaii 6-1/2
minutes.
CDR Hello there Hank. How are you tonight?
CC Oh, pretty good. How did it go today?
CDR Well, we've got it all done so far,
we're gonna make the ATM pass. And Joe and I are doing as
much EV prep for tomorrow as we can do tonight, right now.
CC Okay, I guess sometime before the
evening's over, we'd like to tag up on just how far you
got, and where you think you're gonna pick up tomorrow
morning.
CDR Oh, I'd say right now_ Hank, we've got
the suits to the donning stage, the PCU's are out, because that
was gear that was basically moved around with some other
stuff and it was easy to do today while we were doing some
other things. We're just picking up the cue cards now, and
I think that we'll be in good position at about i - 02:00
or so to tell you where we are on the cue cards.
CC Okay, good show.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we're
commanding the GYROS into the sleep configuration.
CDR What happened to that Z GYRO today?
compensation go off again?
CC It was a momentary hard-over.
CDR That's interesting. We just give the
cluster (garble) a couple of good healthy (garble) down in the
TACs.
CC Roger.
CC Our data showed we got three firings.
CDR Yeah, that's what they got down here.
They got it around M092 (garble) Any explanation for the
momentary hard-over?
CC I guess we can't answer that, Pete.
Everybody down here is baffled by it. It's the second
time it's happened. And the GYRO seems perfectly normal
now and we got it back on the line.
CDR Same GYRO.
PLT Hey, Hank, I got a question for you
about general message 1326, which is the EVA procedures, tail
end.
CC Okay.
PLT .! We have two Charlie 2s and two
Charlie 3s. Crip mentioned _is before, but I didn't
have the message to look at then. The second Charlie 2
and the second Charlie 3 replace the first ones respectively.
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Is that right?
MCC Hey, we're going over that right now.
We'll get hack with you.
PLT Oh, you mean I shouldn't do too much
cutting and pasting yet, huh?
MCC Okay, the last Charlie 2 and the
last Charlie 3, the last two messages yon got are
valid. You may press on with cutting and pasting.
PLT Okay, thank yon, sir.
CC And Skylah, Houston. Info on your
evening questions are in the teleprinter.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
til LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 06.
PAO This is Skylah Control at Greenwixh
mean time 23 hours 42 minutes. We have loss of signal over
the Hawaii tracking station. And on this pass Capeom Hank
Hartsfield and astronaut Rusty Sehweickart discussed with
the crew the last procedure that they're going through
tonight prior to sleep period, preparing for the EVA to-
morrow morning. Pilot Paul Weltz was questioning, when he
- used the phrase LC, LC2, he's referring to changes which
went up on the teleprinter concerning EVA procedures for
tomorrow. On it's 336th revolution of the Earth, Skylab
will be have acquisition over the Vanguard tracking
station in approximately 22 minutes. Greenwich mean time
23 hours 43 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 18:45 CDT, 13:23:45 GMT
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time 23 hours 45 minutes. We anticipate a Change-of-shift
briefing in the building i news room in 15 minutes from now
7:00 p.m. central daylight time, with Milt Windler, Flight
Director of the maroon shlft. Here at Mission Control Center_
Nell Hutchinson and his silver team has taken over from the
maroon team. At Greenwich mean time, 23 hours 45 minutes_
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Time: 19:32 CDT, 14:00:32 GMT
6/6/73
PAO This is Skylab Control 00:32 minutes Green-

wich mean time. During the Change-of-shift briefing with
Flight Director Milt Windier, we had two successive passes
over Vanguard and Ascension. We will play that tape now.
Discussions were passed up to the crew concerning displays
on the ground now show that CBRM 17 is showing proper amps.
And indications are this CBRM is now safely back on line. We'll
bring up those two passes now. Our next live pass will be
in 31 minutes over Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard i0 minutes.
PLT Roger, are you ready for the evening status
report?
CC Stand by and let's see if they are ready
to copy. We had it scheduled for the next Vanguard, but let's
see if they're ready.
PLT Okay, if you're not, no sweat, we'll give
it to you then. If you're ready we got her.
CC Okay, we're ready to copy now.
PLT Stand by.
CC While we're standing by you might be interested
to know that Ava's got winds up to 130 knots now.
PLT Phew.
PLT Okay it's (garble) pick up here, Henry.
All I (garble) on the food. The SPT ate everything. He's
only had one extra can of butter cookies. CDR ate everything.
The PLT ate everything except one item - 75, bread, and a gallon
of water and minus one, optional salt 1.5. Okay the only pic-
tures we took today were some Hasselblad pictures and that's
(garble) C. No deviations from the flight plan that you don't
know about and no stowage changes.
PLT Got everything you wanted?
CC Stand by.
CC Okay, I guess that about does it for the
status report. The only other open item now is the questions
which we sent up to you awhile ago.
CC And PLT, I've got some gimbal alignments
for you for the star tracker.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, OUTER is a plus 1442, INNER plus 0032.
PLT Okay, I understand the INNER is plus 0032,
the OUTER is plus 1442.
CC Affirmative.
PLT When does that start, Henry?
PLT Is this the same as on the original pad
day 38 it starts?
CC Apparently the original pad and I guess you
can bring it up at sunrise. We're in a dump now.
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PLT Yeah.
CDR Have we still got you, Hank?
CC That's affirmative. A couple of more min-
utes.
CDR I'ii give you D156 stuff you asked for.
CDR Ready to copy?
CC Go ahead.
SC Hello.
CDR Okay, Alfa, CDR 200, SPT 130, PLT 340.
Bravo: CDR 3886, SPT 7182, PLT 3261. Charlie: CDR 6106,
6103, 6107; SPT 6656 6654 6647; PLT 6829 6831 6828. Delta:
CDR 2/15/15 - -
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CDR i0, 96831, 6828 Delta CDR 2/15/1500

SPT 2/15/2250 PLT 2/16/2600 1/04/0200 Echo CDR, none; SPT,
none; PLT, none. That's it.
CC Roger, thank you. We're about 35
seconds from LOS. We'll be coming up at Ascension at 21 for
the recorder dump.
CDR Bye.
PAO Skylab, Houston to Ascension 7-1/2
minutes. Skylab, Houston to Ascension 7 minutes.
CDR Are you ready for the questions?
CC Go ahead.
CDR No. 2 is yes, no. 3 we'll have to give
you later. No. 4 is 22 volt read - 22 volt reading on reg 17
and the answer I was reading (garble) what kind of line a
week or so ago. You're still confusing him with big
words. The answer to five is yes.
CC We won a bet on no. 2.
CDR Who won?
CC The friendly CAPCOM and flight director
won, and FAO lost.
CC PLT, Houston?
_ PLT What do you want?
CC Roger. The PLT, before you leave the
ATM tonight we'd like for him to get the reg volts and the
reg current on CBRM i. The reason we want this is to make
sure that your own volt meters are giving you the right
readings.
PLT All right. Stand by and we'll see now.
PLT Okay, Henry. CBRM 17 regulator is
reading 30 volts now. Hello, Houston, you there?
CC Roger, we're just talking about that,
that thing seems to work all right. After ten or fifteen
minutes of night time, it seems to come up to speed and do
its job and in the day time it just flat puts out a couple -
about half of what its supposed to (garble).
PLT Okay, I'ii try to remember to work
(garble) day passes to see how it works then. Yeah, it's
right up (garble) all of them, all but 15 are (garble) now.
CC Roger. Skylab, we're about i minute
from LOS, Guam will be coming up at 05.
CDR Hey, Henry, I want you to think about
us not inhibiting TACS tonight, I (garble) the gyro what
would happen had it happenned with the TACS off. Okay?
Think about it.
CC Okay, we have a story for that. I
think we have it all planned out, we'll tell you next time.
CDR Make it a good one.
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616173
PAO This is Skylab Control 0041 minutes.

We've had loss of signal over Ascension. The spacecraft
crosses over the Persian Gulf on its 337th revolution, we'll
have acquisition over Gu- Guam Island tracking station in
23 minutes. This is Skylab Control at 00:41 minutes.
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Time: 20:04 CDT 14:01:04 GMT
6/6/73
PAO Skylab Control i hour 4 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We expect acquisition of Skylab
over the Guam Island tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam 6 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CDR Hey, Hank, I got a little confusion
here. Where did you want me to get the S082A film from?
CC Stand by.
CDR And then what do you want us to do?
Load it in our cans?
CC While we're smoking that over, Pete,
I'ii give you an answer on that TACS thing. The (garble)
we had two previous hard-overs on the ZI. One was on day
154 and one was day 157, which is today, I guess, and we -
the reason we want TACS inhibited is that if the thing does
its hard-over, then ATMDC puts it in command and it'll
fire the TACS right off the bat and start moving the
vehicle out, then the (garble) bringing up Z-S, and when
it gets it on the line, it'll decide that one is the bummer
and then it'll fire or do whatever it is to get it back. If
f- we have it inhibited, the vehicle stays where it is, or if
the CMGs start moving - but we think that - we're pretty
sure that it will recognize that the failure and everything
will be under control before we get into CMG SAT and we
won't be wasting any TACS.
CDR Okay, I'll buy it.
SPT Hey, Hank, this is the SPT. How is
RATE GYRO 3 in C? Is it good? Because if it is, why don't
we go 2-3 and 3-i?
CC Stand by a minute.
SPT Yeah, but if we went 3-1, and we got
a dlscomparate, it'd go 3.
CC Okay, and in case you started there
Joe, they tell me that it will pick the lowest number GYRO,
so it would go to i.
SPT No, I don't think that's true. But
they're smarter than lam. Then of course if we went 2 and 3
we could stay away from i completely.
CDR Hey, Hank. Where are we right now?
CC Okay, you're over Guam.
CDR Okay.
CC Our plan is to go 2-3, but, we're, I
guess trying to get some data on 3.
SPT Okay.
CC That's the reason we want to get the
star-tracker up tonight, so we can calibrate 3, and then
r- tomorrow, I guess, we're planning to go 2-3.
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SCNWEICKART CDR, Houston.

CDR Go ahead.
MCC Yeah, Pete, message 1316 Alfa calls
out load number 2 out of film vault 141, MI41.
CDR Okay, very good. Paul put all our
checklist changes in, and I didntt want to have to go
back through all of the messages.
MCC Okay.
CDR Well, we've passed page i of the EVA
prep card except for doing the wetting of the visors. And
we're configuring LSUs and that sort of stuff now.
MCC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. For your info, we got
a general message 1414 on board. It's a systems reconfigur-
ation that has to be accomplished prior to the EVA. I suggest
if you get time you might hit it tonight, and save a little
time tomorrow.
CDR Okay, we sure hope this is the last
reconfiguration we get before tomorrow morning.
CC Okay, it's just a short one. It's
doing something with the REG adjust pots and on the
p_ recharge station.
PLT That's what Pete said.
CDR You got 500 guys down there keeping
three of us busy.
from LOS. Since we've already got the evening status
report out of the way, we got some news, if you want to
hear it at Vanguard, which is coming up at 43, and also
we're showing that TACS is still ENABLED.
PLT Okay, we were waiting for the discussion
before we inhibited it. See if the CDR liked that or not.
CC Roger. Copy.
PLT How is that?
CC That's the only way.
mean time i hour 12 minutes. As the spacecraft passed
over the Guam tracking station, Commander Conrad requested
information from the ground as to where he would get the
film for transfer tomorrow into the S082 experiment in the
Apollo telescope mount. This is one of the activities
scheduled during tomorrow's extravehicular activity out-
side the building - outside the vehicle, excuse me. Next
pass will be over_Vanguar_ 30_ minutes from now. Skylab
Control, Greenwich mean time i hour 12 minutes.
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Time: 20:41 CDT, 14:01:41 GMT
6/6/73

time 1 hour 41 minutes. As the Skylab space station completes
it's 337th revolution as it nears the Vanguard tracking station.
We expect CapCom Hank Hartsfield to read up the evening news
to the crew as the Skylah space station will start its 338th
revolution.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard for ii min-
utes.
PLT Hi there.
CC And so you don't get confused we goofed
up and sent you page 1 of the flight plan twice.
PLT Say again what you did?
CC Okay, we sent page 1 of the flight plan
twice.
CC (Garble) Belay that. We didn't send it twice
we just put it in the wrong order.
PLT You're forgiven.
PLT Okay, Houston, if you want a status report
on where we are, we're about to open the hatch. We figured
t_ have the EVA wrapped up in about an hour and a half.
CC A few people got up on that one.
PLT (Laughter)
MCC I'm glad I stayed awake.
PLT NO, seriously, we are at the place on page
3 on the cue card where it says OBM's and LCG knotting,
so we're going to pretty much wind it up there. We're going
to smoke through the rest of it and see if there's any little
details we could catch up on. And go through the EVA plan
one more time and eat our ice cream and strawberries.
MCC Sounds like preflight.
PLT Hey, Rusty, I can't find that (garble).
I remember seeing it that has the SO82 dope on it. Is there
anything else of interest on that one?
MCC Stand by.
SCHWEICKART Yes, PJ, it does have some other things on
it. Stand by just i.
PLT Okay.
CDR You know me, Rusty. I like to get things
done early and not work late.
CDR It's llke the night before Christmas up
here. The suits are hung by the fireplace with their LSU's in
place just waiting to go.
MCC Okay, Skylab. I'ii tell you what. It's
not too long a message, but it does have some other things
on it that deal with the prep and what we think we'll do here
is retransmit it to you here over Ascension which is coming
up in about 15 minutes.
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CDR What's the message numbers, Rusty?

SCHWEICKART It's 1316 Alfa and aside from what we
already talked up, Pete, most of it deals with Post and I
think the only thing in (garble) is getting the right film
magazine out of 141 there.
CDR And I got it (garble) and it's ready to go.
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Time: 20:47 CDT, 14:01:47 GMT
6/6/73
CC Skylab, Houston, we need a few things

cleaned up on the ATM panel.
CDR Shoot.
CC Okay, we need to get the H-alfa
camera OFF, and close the doors on H alfa i and 2, and the
S056 door CLOSED, and MPC INHIBIT.
CDR Okay, I was seeing how many of those you'd
pick up. You did pretty good.
CC And - -
CDR I think we've got a bat charge light.
CC The star trackers kicked off again and
we're getting some angles for you now. We need to reacquire.
CDR How come I have a bat charge light,
Houston?
CC Okay, star tracker angles are OUTER
1500, INNER is 0035. And the bat charge light on CBRM 13 is
no sweat; we just had the heaters on during the dark period
there.
CDR Hey, how come the heaters on the
night side made the bat charge light come on then?
CC I'ii get an answer.
CDR (garble)
CC Okay, what happened there was the
heaters were on during the day light so the bat didn't get
completely charged.
CDR Okay. Row much of a sweat is it,
for power tomorrow on EVA?
CDR Or to put it another way, I'd like a
briefing. I don't want to be hanging half way out the hatch
and have PJ start talking about battery chargers and PCG and
this that and the other thing without understanding whats going
on. Okay?
CC Okay. The EVA power down we sent you
up there - the things we're going to command off, total 1106
watts and we calculate for the EVA, you'll need 1012 watts
and that includes the VTR which we're scrubbing, so we
think we've got a real good margin.
CDR Okay. I won't scrub the VTR, you
know. You'd be surprised how much you can see from the inside.
And I think we'll put the camera up here and PJ can really give
you a good shot of Joe standing out there because that's the
wide open from this STS window.
CC Okay, we - that's a good idea, we got
the - the VTR schedule in that 1012 watts and we're about
LOS now, Pete. Vanguard will be coming up in - correction
Ascension coming up in 56 and that will be your med conference.
CDR Okay, see you later.
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Time: 20:55 CDT, 14:01:55 GMT
6/6/73

one hour 55 minutes. On the previous pass across Vanguard
tracking station Science Pilot Kerwin jokingly told the ground
we're about ready to open the hatch and we should have the
EVA over in about an hour and a half. His comments were
addressed to the fact that the crew is that well ahead on the EVA
preparations for tomorrow morning. When that remark came
down from Skylab space station, several of the flight control-
lers here in the Mission Control Center stood up and looked
around quite surprised. Commander Conrad mentioned that they
were ready with their equlpme_t for tomorrow morning. He
said the LSU's are by the fireplace ready to go. The LSU
is the Life Support Umbilical which is a 60-foot long umbilical
cord that the crew - through which the crew will receive their
oxygen and water supply for their liquid cooled garment that
they wear underneath their Apollo-type pressure suits for the
EVA. We now are entering the Ascension tracking station,
during which time Skylah Flight Surgeon, Dr. Charles Ross
will have the evening medical conference with the crew. At
Greenwich mean time one hour 56 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about 15 min-
utes left.
SPT Fifteen minutes?
CC Roger, we're picking up Canary and Madrid
here contiguous.
SPT Woo woo. Okay, let's hear the late show.
CC Hey, I could give you a little run down
on the power here you asked about just before LOS a while ago.
The actions you're taking there are essentially cutting all
the fans off and get all the lights in OWS, getting the
wardroom water heaters off and the ATM C&D coolant loop off and
one of the (garble) is POWER DOWN, and that totals out about
415 watts. Now_ just prior to the EVA what we're going to
do is command OFF the ATM experiment power and get rags
three and 15 off which are not outputting anyhow, get your
bat heater's off, power down experiment Pointing and the
real biggy there is switch the ATM - thermal control system
over to survival which saves us 466 watts. And all this comes
up to ii00. And then the things that are required for your
EVA - all your lights, SUS pumps, tape recorder, and con-
verter, the primary coolant loop, and LSU power comes out
to about 887 and then VTR is another 125 for a total of 1,012.
SPT Okay, we noticed that little note not to
use the food heaters for lunch tomorrow. I'll have you know
that we've only been using the food heaters for one food
each day and that's the evening frozen the meal.
- CC Roger, copy.
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SPT Now, Henry, let me make sure that the way

we're figuring on going tomorrow. And I don't know what happened
to that message I told Rusty I'm missing. We're going to basically
work from three books/pieces of paper. One of them
being the EVA cue cards, another being the EVA checklist, and
the third being that EVA procedure that was sent up here today
and yesterday - part of it was in that stuff yesterday. So
I assume that everything you're talking about is included in
either checklist changes, cue card changes, or in that procedure,
is that right?
SPT And I remember seeing that message, Rusty
and I don't know how it was thrown out of (garble).
CDR Hey, by the way, what are you planner types
planning for the day after tomorrow so that we could get this space-
craft put back in the right shape. Don't forget we got tools
and you know all that other Mickey Mouse sails are hanging
around and man, there's junk all over everywhere, so it's
not just the regular EVA post-operation. Copy that?
CC Roger, we've got people looking at that,
Pete, and they're - we hope to have a plan.
- CDR Okay, it is definitely going to take
us - I think we ought to have a 12-man hour three hour each -
no excuse me - nine manhour three hour each period in addition
to the normal post EVA OPS to put this spacecraft back in shape
because we've done torn it apart for the last two days.
CC Roger, we concur.
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Time: 21:04 CDT, 14:02:04 GMT
6/6/73
MCC Henry?
MCC Hey, CDR or troops up there. We'd
llke to say just a word about the lighting related to the power
here. If you get out there, especially if Joe gets up around
the discone antenna in the evening there when its dark, and
decides he does not need the docking lights, PJ could pull
the breakers. There are two breakers, they knock out the two
different lights that apply to that area, and we could
save power and would appreciate it if you don't need
those lights, Joe, to let PJ turn them off.
PLT Are the breakers labeled what, docking
light?
MCC Stand by, I'ii get the specific
label on the panel for you.
PLT I got another question while you're
doing that. Remember, you said something about a reconfiguration
of the STS panel tonight. I see that tomorrow night, but I dontt
see anything to do tonight yet.
MCC Okay, we got that one. The circuit
breakers for the docking light are on panel (garble).
PLT Hello, Houston, you still there?
MCC Roger.
PLT Maybe I'm confused, I have here a
message for (garble) I got a message number for you. 1414,
now is that to be performed tonight or tomorrow night?
MCC Roger, that has to be done prior to
the EVA. That's the one I was talking about earlier, that if
you could do, it's a real short one, you might do it tonight.
PLT Oh, okay. You can't ask me tomorrows
Flight Plan, and I thought I locked in right away on
presleep plan tomorrow night. (Laughter)
MCC Paul, the - we have two ways to turn
off the docking lights there's a switch on 207 which turns them
all off, or on 202 we got the circuit breakers which turn off
half the lights, each of them. And I'ii tell you right now which
one turns off which lights.
SPT He's en route to the MDA, Rusty, he'll call
you in
a minute.
PLT Okay, Rusty, I see the switch, the
docking light switch above the caution warning. Where
are the breakers, on what panel?
MCC 202.
PLT Okay, which one?
MCC Okay, it's next to the bottom row and it's
docking lights i and 2.
PLT, Oh, yeah, okay. I'm doing that power
.... down, wha_ever it is. The three configurations now, Hank.
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CC Roger. Copy.
PLT Okay, that made the AM batteries
6 and 7 start discharging (garble_
CC Roger, we're going to take those two BATS
off the line tonight to keep them up.
PLT Okay.
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Time: 21:10 CDT 14:02:10 GMT
6/6/73
CC Skylab, Houston. To fill you in a

little more on the power thing, the reason that we're doing
this REG adjust tonight is the plan is that if we get into
a bind and have to do the pitehup to 45 degrees for thermal
reasons, that to handle the loads we're gonna bring the
AM BATS on the line, and so we're all set up to do that
and command it from the ground.
PLT Okay.
SCHWEICKART And Skylab, Houston here, we - and as
I mentioned earlier had not thought about the view out the
STS window and if you can get a TV view out there, that
would be appreciated. We can pick up the real-tlme over
the states, which will be shortly after sunrise, and we_ll
give you a GO for use of a VTR if you want to try that also.
CDR I have thought of physically putting
the camera there, Rusty, but there's nothing behind
your head, and you can see the whole dipole antenna
to the base, below the base, and the A-Frame, all through
that window, and I'ii think you'll have excellent TV of Joe.
MCC Yeah, I think that would be a - very
educational here, and I think everyone would look forward to
seeing it, if it's no sweat.
CDR Okay, I went back up to look at
the sail again. There is no doubt about it that the
orange is beginning to fade. I would say that it's a nice
orangy-frost-gold now, if that is a good description. And
I think I can get the TV up there to where I can show you
about a 6 inch strip about 3 inches wide of it. In full
zoom, you might think about what that would do for color
resolution. And we can work that one later.
MCC Okay, fine. It just so happens I
have in my very hand at the moment a couple of samples of
the sail material here, which have been exposed to various
thermal cyclingp and let me ask you, with your description
if you might take a gander at the stationary end of the
LBNP for color comparison with what you just described to
me.
CDR I don't know. It's still much more
oranger than that, Rusty. That's a flat gold and this has
still got a lot of orange left in it, but it's - it looks
faded. That's what it looks like.
MCC Okay, fine, well it's between two of
them that we got here in our hands right now. So that does
give us some hack on it, thanks.
CDR Okay, give us a little more advance
warning if we're going to do a sail deployment, will you?
MCC I keep trying to get some, but l'm not
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having much luck.

from LOS. Be coming up on Guam at 40, and I do have some news
if you've got time to listen to it there, if not we'll do
it in the morning.
mean time 2 hours and 15 minutes. The previous several
passes had Commander Conrad, Science Pilot Kerwin, and
Pilot Paul Weitz discussing preparations for tomorrow's
EVA. Commander Conrad passed to the ground a suggestion
that they use the TV camera tomorrow by placing it at one
of the windows in the STS, the structural transition section,
which is between the airlonk module and the MDA, the multiple
docking adaptor. There are four windows, 8 by 12 inches, oval
windows spaced 90 degrees apart, on the outside of the STS.
Commander Conrad said that by placing the camera in one of
those windows, they might get a good picture of Science
Pilot Joe Kerwin as he passes out the equipment for the EVA.
At Greenwich mean time 2 hours and 17 minutes, this is
Skylab Control, with next acquisition at - over the Guam
Island tracking station in 23 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-621/I
Time: 21:38 CDT, 14:02:38 GMT
616/73

time two hours 38 minutes. We will have acquisition of the
Skylab space station over the Guam Island tracking station
momentarily. We'll hold the llne up for conversations. Probably
the last conversation with the crew tonight before they get
the good-night call from Cap Com Hank Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for I0 minutes.
PLT Hi.
CC PLT?
PLT Yeah?
CC Yeah, hey, PJ let me tell you about one
thing here that's come in late and just a warning for tomorrow.
If you've got message 1326 around which is the second part
of the EVA procedures that is the portion where you're changing
out the SO82-A film?
PLT Well, we just happen to be there, talking
it over. Let me - these message numbers don't really do anything for
us, Rusty. We don't file them by message number. We gotta
have a suhject. Yeah, I see how I missed that other card I
missed the - well anyway I made what I thought was most of
the changes and threw that other message away. I missed changing
the stowage compartment number though.
CC Okay, well the one I'm talking about now,
then, Paul is general message EVA additional.
PLT I'm looking at it Rusty, go ahead.
SCHWEICKART Okay. Down there where - after the magazine
is all replaced and you're up at panel 130 doing the film
checks there, the verifications?
PLT Yeah.
SCHWEICKART Okay, we found out late here, unfortunately,
that there may be a relay race logic problem which means that
when you - okay you go down about three lines there and you're step
and it says main power switch ON?
PLT I'm looking, wait a minute.
SCHWEICKART Okay, it's right after it says EV-3 and
you reset the film counter and then it says XUV SPECT MAIN
POWER switch ON and then it talks about the power doors.
PLT Yeah, okay i got it. (Garble) are you
getting to handling these things? You know, I got a 16-foot
message here and I'm trying to read from it. It's hard to
find things sometimes. But I've found that place, go ahead.
SCHWEICKART Okay, the problem here is that the door
is open - the outer door is open when you start this thing
and if you just turn the main power ON then there - it's pos-
sible that the logic race will be such that you will not get
a film decrement even though everything is okay. And the way
to fix that up is just before main power switch ON, go ahead
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and put the power door switch OFF and wait for the doors to
close. In other words, wait about 20 seconds and then go
right ahead with the main power switch ON et cetera.
PLT You're saying then that the power door's
power to the doors is independent of on the main power switch
position?
SCHWEICHKART Yeah, the main power position will affect both
doors, both the outer door, the thermal shield door and the inner
door. If you have the main power switch OFF the inner door
will remain closed but the thermal shield door will still open
and close when you hit the POWER DOOR switch.
PLT Okay, so just ahead of main power switch
ON you want me to say power doors OFF.
SCHWEICKART Right and then wait 20 seconds and then
press on with it just as written.
PLT Okay.
SCHWEICKART And I hope - I'd like to promise you that
that's the last change on anything we got here. And let me
try that just before we go to bed here.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. I've got a few news items
here. Are you too busy to listen or rather wait?
PLT No, take them up.
CC Okay, I'ii start off by saying on this day
in history, 1944 we landed in Normandy. President Nixon's
made several new appointments this week. Former Defense Secre-
tary, Melvin Laird has been made presidential counselor for
domestic affairs. Laird said that he will form close ties with
the heads of all the federal departments and agencies with
members of Congress and with the President. He will have cab-
inet status and will be a member of the National Security
Counsel. General Alexander Hague will retire from the Army to
become Nixon's assistant in charge of the White House staff.
Hague, as you recall, waas former assistant to Henry Kissinger
and has been acting as the White House Chief of Staff about
one month. Kansas City Police Chief, C.M. Kelley is expected
to become permanent Director of the FBI. Kelley's been in
his present job since 61 and is considered an innovator of
new police methods and techniques. Kelley was an FBI agent
for more than 20 years. Ronald Zeigler, White House - -
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Time: 21:46 CDT, 14:02:46 GMT
6/6/73
CC Kelly has been in his present job

since '61 and is considered an innovator of new police methods
and techniques. Kelly was an FBI agent for more than 20 years.
Ronald Zeigler, White House Press Secretary will become a
presidential assistant for communications in addition to keeping
his present duties.
MCC Okay, President Nixon will be near the
Cape Kennedy area Friday when he delivers a commencement
address at Florida Technological University. The new school
was founded in 1968 and will be graduating about 700 students.
Vice President Spiro Agnew spoke to U.S. Governors at the National
Governer's Conference Wednesday at Stateline, Nevada. Agnew
told the audience that he is " available for consultation,
available for counseling."
MCC In Paris, Henry Kissinger resumed secret
talks with Lee Duc Tho, solithuro member from Hanoi. The two
representatives are seeking ways to halt continued violations
of the cease-fire in Viet Nam. Congress was told by Deputy
Defense Secretary, William Clements that the Pentagon will
not order any more F-ill fighter bombers when the current
production run ends late next year. The Air Force will have
543 of the aircraft by that time.
MCC The Senate Watergate hearings continue
to be televised during the daytime hours. Wednesday's hearings
featured Hugh Sloan, Jr., former Republican Campaign Treasurer.
Sloan discussed the intricate business of receiving and handling
huge sums of money during the election campaign. He also
expressed his concern that the committee to re-elect the President
might be involved in the Watergate affair, but said he was
ignored by other officials. A bill has passed the House of
Representatives to raise the minimum wage from a $1.60 an hour
to $2.20 an hour next year. They will also extend coverage
to six million more American workers, including household
domestic workers. The bill now goes to the Senate.
CC I guess my wife's going to get a raise.
CC Wet weather in the mid-west caused by this
Spring's heavy flooding has delayed Spring crop planting.
Farmers and federal agricultural officials can't agree however,
whether delay will mean higher prices for consumers. Bridgette
Bardot announced that she will retire from film making. "I
have had enough" she was quoted as saying. Some baseball
scores from yesterday, National League - Philadelphia 4,
Houston nothing. Dodgers I0, Chicago I, Montreal 7, Atlanta
6, San Francisco 3, Pittsbur_.,tCiBn_inatti 6, New York 5,
Saint Louis 5 and San Diego 3_ an _h_ican League the
scores were 7 to 4, 9 to 2, 8 to 6, 5 to 4, and 5 to 2.
PLT (Garble) report.
SCHWEICKART Good night Henry.
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CC Goodnight Rusty.
SCHWEICKART Goodnight, Henry.
PLT Good day you all.
CDR Thank you, we appreciated that.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll see you in the morning.
CDR Okay, Hank you might make sure you give
us a holler (garble) we're up by ll:O0. What are the State's
passes (garble)? Have you got them?
CC You say you want a wake-up call in the
morning, Pete?
CDR Well, if you got one around" give us a holler.
Real good. We appreciate the good (garble) even though we have
been needling you. We'll give (garble)
CC And we just need to - one last message here
we need to INHIBIT the MOMENTUM DUMP on the next rev. We messed
up the (garble)
time two hours 51 minutes. The crew has closed out their
14th day in space as the Skylab space station passed over the
Guam tracking island - tracking station on rev 338. The crew
closed out the night by getting the daily news report from
Astronaut Rusty Schweickart and Hank Hartsfield. The daily
medical bulletin from Dr. Charles Ross, Skylab Flight Surgeon
is as follows: "The Skylab crew is in good physical condition
for tomorrow's EVA. The Science Pilot mentioned his complete
lack of symptoms while conducting vigorous head movements during
the MI31 protocol and the fact that none of the crew has ever
experienced any motion sickness. The crew's day tomorrow
begins at 6:00 a.m. Houston time. The EVA preparations will
run for about 3-i/2 to 4 hours. EVA hatch opening is scheduled
for 10:37 a.m. central daylight time. A four-hour EVA is
planned to accomplish five - four different activities: de-
ployment of the orbital workshop solar array panel, pin-
ning back the SO54 door in the Apollo telescope mount and
changing out the SO82 film magazine. The crew will be wearing
Apollo-type suits during the extravehicular activity. The
crew will be attached to the vehicle by means of a 60-foot
long tether in which lines are provided to carry water, electri-
cal power and oxygen. During the EVA, Dr. Kerwin, and Com-
mander Conrad will be hard-suited while inside the vehicle
in a pressurized portion of the vehicle, Pilot Paul Weitz
will be soft-suited. He will not be wearing helmet or gloves
during this exercise. He'll be in the pressurized portion
of what is referred to as the structural transition section,
a portion between the multiple docking adapter and the air-
lock module. Pilot Weitz will monitor systems inside the STS,
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and will also read out procedures to the other two crew mem-
bers as they perform the EVA. It's a possibility that the
TV camera will be put up at one of the windows of the STS.
There are four 8 by 12 inch oval windows spaced 90 degrees
apart on the outside of the structural transisition section,
and it's possible to get possible they may get a picture
of Science Pilot Kerwin exiting the spacecraft. For early
space-watchers in the Houston area, tomorrow morning at
5:39 a.m., Skylab space station will pass on a westerly,
west to north path over Houston. It will be visible for four
minutes and 14 seconds at an elevation of 15 degrees. At
Greenwich mean time two hours and 55 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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Time: 22:05 CDT 14:03:05 GMT
6/6/73

mean time 3 hours 5 minutes as the spacecraft is on it's
338th revolution of the Earth going over the South Pacific.
The crew has been bid good night for the evening by CAPCOM
Hank Hartsfield and Astronaut Rusty Schwelckart. The crew will
arise at 6 a.m. Houston time, Central Daylight time to
begin a big day of extravehicular activities. At 3 hours
6 minutes Greenwich mean time this concludes the reports
from the mission control center. The next report will be
Thursday morning at 6 a.m. Central Daylight time. This is
Skyla5 Control, Greenwich mean time 3 hours, 6 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-624/I
Time: 06:07 CDT, 14:11:01 GMT
6/7/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours i minute

Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for acquisition at -
of Skylab at the Honeysuckle Creek station in Australia. Ex-
pect to wake up the crew at that time, if they're not already
awake. Vehicle status has not changed over night. CBRMs 3
and 15 are still offline and number 17 still has a degraded
output 4 to 4-1/2 amps below what's expected. There was no
TACS gas usage over night. We'll stand by for the wakenp call.
CC Good morning, Skylab. This is Houston. We
got you at Honeysuckle for 5 minutes.
CC Hi there.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're starting our morning
chores on commanding. We're going back to solar inertia mode
and closing fine sensor doors.
SC How did the inertia go last night? (Garble).
CC Sorry, Joe. Didn't copy the question.
SC I'ii catch you later, I'm at a bad vex.
CC Okay, we're about i minute from LOS here.
We're going to see you at Rawaii at 11:23.
PAO This is Skylab Control; ii hours and 9 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal at Honeysuckle.
The Hawaii station will acquire in about 13-i/2 minutes. Entire
day today will be devoted to the extravehicular activity and
preparations for that activity and cleanup after the activity.
EVA designed to free the solar array wing in an attempt to improve
the electrical power situation on Skylab. Two Apollo telescope
mount activities may be performed later this evening by Joe
Kerwin, the science pilot, and Paul Weitz, the pilot. However,
other than that and a short break for housekeeping tasks, the
entire day will be devoted to the extravehicular activity. At
ii hours i0 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 06:22 CDT, 14:11:22 GMT
6/7/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 22

minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about to be acquired
at the Hawaii Station. Now on its 343rd revolution of the
Earth. We'll stand by for acquisition at Hawaii.
CC Hi there , Skylab; Houston. We got you
at Hawaii for 7 minutes.
SC Okay.
SC I say, Houston, how did the momentum go
last night? We did not inhibit. We found a star instead that
looked like we had a good Nz; so I'm interested in how things
came out.
CC Joe, that work you did on the startracker
fixed us up real fine, and we had no problems with momentum
throughout the evening.
SC Okay.
SC Say, Dick, there was a general message
sent up during the night or morning sometime, and one of them
was on the MOL SIEVE.
CC Roger.
SC The answer is yes.
CC Okay, thank you much.
SC And you might pass on to the ECS guys that
I inadvertently turned that thing off yesterday, and that's what
brought to mind the whole business about checking out the
primary timer. We need all kinds of word on what's supposed
to happen when you initially activate a timer. Well, I got
to playing with the secondary one yesterday, in the course
of putting it back on, and the secondary timer on MOL SIEVE A
worked like we always thought it would work. That is, regardless
of BED position, as soon as you turn on that timer, it immediately
vents A to adsorb and B to desorh.
CC Roger; copy.
SC And we heard they weren't supposed to work
llke that, but that one does. Even if it's already there,
it'll send a squirt of nitrogen through there and just
dump it right away. But it works llke we thought it didn't
anymore.
CC Hey, Paul, are you in secondary now?
SC That's affirm.
CC Okay.
CC Well, PLT, that's all kind of interesting.
The EGIL says that it tan happe_ the way you described. It will
not - He thinks though it _ill not necessarily happen that way
everytime. So possibly it's been just coincidence so far.
At any rate, we are going to schedule a - a good timer checkout
when we get to it.
SC Okay. Darn it, let's say that my data, or
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what I'm basing my remark on is the fact that I turned the

MOL SIEVE - I inadvertently turned it off, turned it back on,
and heard it dump the gas but not cycle. You know you can
hear - that thing gives you a big sigh in you_ face when it
cycles, and I didn't hear it do that. So I opened up the
cover and looked, and A was in adsorb, B was in desorb. And
I thought I said_ "Well, I wonder if I'm double stroking that
bed? So I'll hit it one time and see if it cycles." So I
turned the timer off, back on, and gave it a shot of air and
dumped it, and nothing happened to the BED indicators. They
stayed where they were. So I watched it, thinking about what
EGIL is going to say, for a minute or two, and then I turned
it off and back on_ and the same thing happened. It gave it
another shot of nitrogen, dumped it, and the BEDS stayed where
they were.
CC Roger; understand.
from LOS. We're going to have a short break. See you at
Goldstone at 11:31.
SC Roger, Dick.
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Time: 06:31 CDT, 14:11:31 GMT
6/7/73
CC Hello again, Skylab. This is Houston, and

we've got you for about the next 8 minutes.
SC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to have a
short break, and we'll see you at Bermuda.
SC Roger, Richard.
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Time: 06:42 CDT, 14:11:42 GMT
6/7/73
CC Hello again, Skylab. We're at Bermuda

SC Okay, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute to LOS.
We're going to see you at the Canary Islands at 11:53.
SC Roger_ Dick.
PAO This is Skylab Control; ii hours 51 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal at Bermuda.
There was no air-ground conversation during this pass over
the United States, other than the usual amenities at AOS and
LOS. We'll pick up Skylab at the Canary Island Station in
about a minute and a half. We'll continue to stand by for
that pass.
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Time: 06:52 CDT, 14:11:52 GMT
6/7/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Canary

for i0 minutes.
SC Roger, Dick. And we just passed over
an area that's almost like Meteorology for Naval Aviators textbook
pictures of developing cyclonic depressions. They got a tropical
depression out here about oh a couple of I00 miles behind us now?
CC Let me check with the weather man, Paul.
GC Skylab, Houston. There is a very large
low pressure center that you just passed over and it's about
a 43 degrees north. So it can hardly be a tropical depression,
but it is - it is a large low area. And that's probably
what you saw.
SC Yeah. It's loud and clear out there.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS at Canaries. You guys are still on a long descending
pass down the African Continent. And we're going to see you
at Honeysuckle at 12:38.
SC Roger, Dick.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 4 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab has passed out of range of the
Canary Station now. At acquisition of the spacecraft at Canaries,
the Pilot Paul Weltz reported sighting what he thought was a
classic textbook developing cyclonic depression just shortly
before AOS. Checked with the weather man; showed that there
is a large low pressure center in that area 42 degrees north.
He described it, however, as a plain old storm, nothing too
fancy. We'll next acquire Skylab at the Honeysuckle Creek_
Australia, Station in 33 minutes. It's about 1 minute after
the crew is scheduled to begin preparations for the upcoming
Extravehicular Ac£ivity. Those preparations scheduled to
begin at 15 hours, 37 minutes Greenwich mean time, or 7:37
I beg your pardon, those are scheduled to begi_ at 12:40
Greenwich mean time, or 7:40 central daylight time. Hatch
opening is scheduled at 15 hours, 37 minutes Greenwich mean
time or 10:37 central daylight time. At 12 hours 6 minutes
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SL-II MC629/I
Time: 07:37 CDT, 14:12:37 GMT
6/7/73

Greenwich mean time. We're about 1/2 minute away from acqui-
sition at Honeysuckle. EVA preparation is scheduled to start
12 hours 40 minutes. The maroon team has take_ over in the
Mission Operations Control Room. Flight Director is Milton
Windler. CAP COM Astronaut Bob Crippen and the backup crew
Commander Astronaut Russell Schweiekart is at the CAP COM con-
sole also. We'll stand by for the Honeysuckle pass.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We've got you
over Honeysuckle for about 8-1/2 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston. I'm ready to go ahead
with ATM C&D panel configuration procedure, okay?
CC Stand by.
SC And another thing, I want yon to verify
on the checklist on page 1.2-3 in the right hand corner that
was Xed out before - do you want me to close the OWS panel 2
valve or not?
CC Getting a reading on that, Paul. Hold on.
SC Okay.
CC Okay, that's an affirmative PJ.
rr SC On which one? On the N2 valve?
CC Yes sir, affirmative on the N2. What
was the other one?
SC I'm ready to do a "preps" with ATM C&D
panel configuration soon as you guys say it's okay.
CC Okay. You've got a GO on that, Paul.
SC You're easy to get along with this
morning. Thank you.
SC Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
SC Oh my God, is this Rusty?
SC You better give us - what's the earliest
time we can start, Rusty?
OC Okay, you've got a sunset at right around
14:10. Hold on, I'll get the exact time.
SC Okay. I'm not sure that we'll make that
but there's - we're - try to (garble) things and just kinda
how fast it goes, otherwise we'll cool it to the right time.
CC Okay, we understand. And we're sort of
semi-prepared for that. Let me give you an exact time here,
Pete. Okay, the prior sunset time is about 14:03.
CC And Pete for positive ID purposes we'd
like just a word of confirmation t_a_ yOu'_ll be playing the
role of EVI and that Dr. Kerwin Will be pl_ying the role of
EV2.
_ SC Say again Rusty. I was top side.
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CC Roger. Since we don't have any red

stripes around the arm we're just interested in being positive
that the player for EVI will be the commander and that the
player for EV2 will be the SPT. Is that correct?
SC That's Charlie.
CC Charlie Pete Conrad.
SC Okay, let me tell you where we are. I'm
doing the visors right now which is out of step and we're right
at "strip off the clothes, put on the biomed LCG's GO."
CC Okay, we're right with you on our check-
list here, thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Pete Conrad
reporting that he is at this time coating the helmet visors
with anti-fog compound and he and Joe Kerwin are preparing to
put on the biomedical sensors and the liquid cooled garment.
To clarify conversation between Conrad and Rusty Schweickart,
a few minutes ago there is a possibility the crew will be
ready and will open the hatch one sunset early. There is a
possibility that hatch opening time will be moved up to 14
hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean time or 9:03 central daylight
time. The regular hatch opening time is scheduled for 15:30.
CC Go ahead.
SC Okay, I Just want to double check, verify
Houston on S054. I can go ahead and turn the main power
switch OFF, the door will stay open, right?
SC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control. We're still holding
with the Flight Plan time for hatch opening of 15:37 Gmt or
10:37 central daylight time, with the possibility of a hatch
opening at 14:03 Gmt
or 9:03 central daylight time.
CC Okay, Skylab we've got about 30 seconds
left here at Honeysuckle; going to pick up Hawaii at 58.
SC Say again, Rusty.
CC Right, we've got about i0 seconds here
and we're going to plck you up at Hawaii at 58.
SC See you then.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 48
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal at
Honeysuckle on the 344th revolution. Hawaii will acquire in
about 10-1/2 minutes. Crew is in their EVA preparations at
this time. Pete Conrad reporting he was coating the visors
with the anti-fog compound. He and Joe Kerwin ready to don
the biomedical sensors and the liquid cooled garments. Regu-
lar hatch open time for this EVA, 15 hours 37 minutes Gmt.
That will be at sunset with the possibility that if the crew
stays ahead of the time line 'on the. E_A preparations and is
wl,
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ready to go 1 revolution early or i sunset early we would per-

mit them to open the hatch at 14 hours 3 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Four hours scheduled for this EVA. At 12 hours
49 minutes this is Skylab Control.
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_-_ Time: 07:57 CDT, 14:12:57 GMT
6/7/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 12 hours 57 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're less than a minute away from
acquisition at Hawaii; we'll stand by for that pass.
CC Okay, Skylab. We got you again at Hawaii
for about l0 minutes.
SC Okay.
CC Okay, Paul. You might want to expect the
PRIMARY COOLANT FLOW CAUTION AND WARNING here. EGIL's going
to be powering down the primary system. I beg your pardon,
they'll be powering it up, which will give you a C&W there
on PRIMARY COOLANT FLOW.
SC Okay.
CC And also_ PJ, for you up in your area,
we're going to be doing some commanding here. Specifically,
we're going to enable AUTO RESET, and we'd like you to stay
clear of the DAS. I don't think you have any operations there,
but we'd let you know that.
SC Okay.
CC PLT, give a call when you got a second.
SC Calling Rusty.
CC Yeah, okay. We got an indication here, PJ,
that the S054 main power and thermal power are still on. Is
that the case up there? We're looking at page 1.2-3, where
it calls for them both to be off.
SC Yeah, and I finished that (garble). Let me go
-- double check. All right?
CC Okay. Appreciate it.
SC No, both the switches are in the OFF position.
CC Okay, stand by Just i.
CC Okay, we may have a pulser problem there or
something, Paul. What we'd like you to do is go ahead and cycle
them both to ON, and then both back OFF again.
SC Okay. Task complete.
CC Okay, Paul. Stand by on that. It looks
like we may have a problem with the switch; we'll get back
with you.
SC Right. I'm going in the workshop.
CC Okay, PLT. We're going to go ahead and
command it from the ground here and see whether that gives
us positive indication at all.
SC Go ahead.
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SL-II MC631/I
Time: 08:06 CDT, 14:13:06 GMT
6/7/73
CC Okay, Skylab, we're about 40 seconds

from LOS here at Hawaii. We'll be picking you up at Goldstone
at 13:10. And Pete, the number you can stick in you bonnet
for sunset there acceptable for exiting the airlock, would
be 14:04. And if you want to get out a little earlier than
that you can, but we'd expect you'd probably cool your heels
waiting for sunrise, or you can get out up to about i0 minutes
after that time. And we think you'll still have plenty of
time to get everything done waiting for sunrise.
SC Okay, Rusty. I'm not sure we're going
to make that one, but I think we're probably going to cool
our heels an hour or so.
CC Okay, the schedule is up to you guys.
We're ready to support any way you want.
SC Thank you.
CC Okay, Skylab, we've got you again over
Goldstone this time for about 5-1/2 minutes.
SC Okay.
CC Okay, Skylab, we got about 20 seconds
here to LOS, and we'll be picking you up at about 21 at
Bermuda.
SC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control; 13 hours
17 minutes Greenwich mean time. LOS at Goldstone, about
3-1/2 minutes before acquisition at Bermuda. The S054
experiment, the x-ray spectographic telescope, is apparently
stuck on. We varified with telemetry at Goldstone that
that experiment is still operating. Switch is turned off
in the spacecraft and we tried to command it off from the
ground without success so far. Flight controllers will
continue to work that problem. Flight director, Milt Windler,
has asked for an assessment of the safety factors involved
during the EVA. This is the experiment in which Joe Kerwin
is scheduled to latch the door open on this telescope, with
the previous problem with this door being stuck. We do want
to get a assessment to determine whether there may be a safety
factor involved with doing the SO54 door latching. We do not
have an answer on that. We'll let you know as soon as we do
have one. Crew continuing EVA preparations and it will
be crew option as to when they open the hatch. Rusty Schweickart
advised them during the Goldstone pass that they could open
the hatch as early as 14 hour 4 minutes GMT. He advised
they might want to wait about I0 minutes after that time
however so they would not have too long a time to wait in
darkness prior to sunrise. Pete Conrad responded that he
wasn't sure they would be ready to go at that time. He was
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advised that the schedule is strictly up to the crew. Should

be acquiring at Bermuda in about 45 seconds. We'll standby
for communications there.
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SL-II MC-632/I
Time: 08:20 CDT, 14_13:20 GMT
6/7/73
CC Skylah, we've got you now over Bermuda.

We'll have you for about the next i0 minutes here.
SC Roger, Rusty. I want to confirm that
I - Another circuit breaker, which is left open it turns
out_ circuit breaker audio ZTU-A, - Is that - I want to
verify that it should be left open.
CC Okay. Stand by.
SC What I'm doing, I'm configuring the
(garble) in here, and I'm hooked into that add-on connector
in here. I'm on page 1.2-8.
CC Okay. Understand you're 1.2-8, and
we - that's affirmative on that circuit breaker. We do want
it left open. And since you're up in that area_ PJ, let me
ask you whether there's a possibility you've still got the
POWER SYSTEM STATUS LIGHTS on, on 206.
SC I didn't know what you meant for a minute,
(garble) Now I just looked at that once last night and turned
them back off. They've been off since.
CC Okay. Understand you've got the POWER
SYSTEM STATUS LIGHT off. And be advised that CB will stay
open, Paul, until after you've got yourself plugged into the
suit and everything hooked up, and then it goes closed.
SC Okay. Does that affect everybody's PCU?
I guess it does, huh?
SC Let me tell you why. Because if I'm
going to bounce around up here taking pictures and handling
the TV, and the command module window's a fairly good place,
I've been thinking of Just going on a headset. It's chilly
and 58 in the MDA, and as I remember, the only reason I'm on
the umbilical is for cooling. I think I can hack it in the
suit. Without cooling it's going to need the PCU in the
umbilical, and I was going to go around on the light weight.
CC Okay. Stand by, PJ; we'll take a look
at that and advise you on any configuration change you might
need.
SC Okay. Meanwhile, I'm going to prep.
CC Okay.
SC Hello, Houston. You still there?
CC Yes, sir. Go ahead.
SC Okay. We just lost a DELTA-P in our
condensate tank. I unhooked from the holding tank about i0 or
15 minutes ago. You got any quick good words?
CC Stand by.
CC Okay, we've got that in work. We'll get
back with you, PJ.
SC Okay. I just got the CAUTION AND WARNING,
_ and it's sitting on zero. It's 5 or 4-1/2, when I unplugged.
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CC Okay. We'll put that in the mill.

SC Okay, Houston. The status on that tank:
the WATER VALVE is in FILL, the PRESS VALVE is in CLOSED, and
the tank is empty.
CC Okay. Thanks. We got that.
CC Okay, PJ. We're going to be losing you
here in about i0 seconds at Bermuda. We'll pick you up again
at Canaries at 32. And we'll have some word for you on the
comm and also the condensate tank.
END OF TAPE
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S_-_- SL-II MC633/I
Time: 08:33 CDT, 14:13:33 GMT
6/7/73
CC Okay, Skylab, we've got you here at

Canaries for about the next - well, we got a long one here
at Canaries and Ascension for about 15 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control; 13 hours
34 minutes Greenwich meantime. Due to the possibility
of early hatch opening, there will be no change-of-shlft
news conference this morning. There will be no change-of-
shift news conference this morning because of the possibility
of early hatch opening.
CC Skylab, how do you read? (static)
CC Skylab, Houston in the blind here. It
looks like Canary's had a little trouble with their tracking
antenna. We're not reading you. We should be picking up
on Ascension in about another 3 or 4 minutes. We'll give
you a call there.
SC We read you, Rusty. How about that?
CC Okay, yeah. The signal sync came in
just that time. PJ, are you around? I've got Some words
for you.
SC He's donning his LCG. Have you got

something for him to do? Should he stop what he's doing or
what?
CC Let me - If he's listening, I can tell

him about the comm thing, and then we've got a condensate
tank procedure for him to run through. We think we got
a leaky QD on that line.
SC He's listening; go ahead.
SC Go, Rusty.
CC Okay, PJ. I'll tell you what - it
appears we've got a leaky QD on that panel 393 condensate
llne. And what we'd like you to do is to go ahead and remate
the QD's and disconnect them again. And make sure that we've
got the cap on the line there coming out of 393.
SC Houston, yeah, I'll try that. I'll go
check it, and the cap is on.
CC Okay, understand the cap is on. I guess
we would like you to recycle the QD there to try and seat
it and reaffirm that - put the cap back on after you're done.
On the comm lash-up, PJ, go ahead and use your long cable coming
out of 102 and hook the light weight right into that. And
after you hook it in, you ogn clos_ the.audio breaker on 200.
SC Okay. The audio breaker s already been closed.
CC Okay.
SC You mean the CCU breaker?
CC That's affirmative. After you get the
light weight hooked up, go ahead and close the CCU breaker.
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SC Okay. Well, I've got them all hooked up.

We've got three of them rigged up there; so I'll close that
thing next time I go up. (squeal)
CC Okay, and from what we can see, your comm
checks and all that should be completely normal in that con-
figuration.
S C Ok ay.
SC (Garble) Rusty (squeal) (garble).
CC Pete, I'm sorry; we were not able to read
any of that because there was a squeal.
SC Houston, Skylab.
CC Okay, we've got you at Ascension now.
We had a handover from Canary to Ascension. Go ahead.
SC Roger. We have a PRIMARY COOLANT LOW
CAUTI ON.
CC Roger. That's the one we called up before.
That was expected from - stand by.
SC Okay, that's a low temp, not a low flow.
CC Roger. Understand. We're checking it.
Hold on.
CC Okay, if any one is around panel 217 up
there, we would like you to go SUS 1 to BYPASS on panel 217.
SC Okay, SUS 1 to BYPASS on 217. That'll be
a couple of minutes. We've got to get PJ loose.
CC Okay, fine.
SC And it's important if you see any other
configuration changes, have them do them now, because we're all
going to be getting in or getting in suits and our LSU's in a
mln ut e.
CC Okay. Be advised as part of that conden-
sate tank problem, we are, as well as recycling the QD's, - we
are going to have to dump the condensate tank there prior to EVA.
So why don't you figure on doing that, and weIll let you know
if we need to do it immediately.
CC Okay, Joe, if you haven't already gotten
up there, why don't you go ahead and disregard that bypass on
SUS i. We'll just turn the PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP off and
handle it from here.
SC Wait a minute. Is that what you just
did? We Just had a warning llght.
SC No, I got it up here. Now what happened -
when I went to bypass there's something that started making
a lot of noise around the']Qg_rb_e) packages, and we just got an
EGA 1 warning light. " _ _ b_
CC Okay. We read. Stand by.
SC And you want me to go back to EG - NORMAL
or EGA on SUS i, right?
-- CC That's correct.
SC Okay. I went back to NORMAL. That bypass

sure makes a whole lot of noise. It squeals - it sounds like a
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high slow squeal, you know_ when it's going around, I guess.
I checked the QD. I reseated it. There was no evidence of
any water around the condensate tank QD. It's been reseated,
and the cap's back on.
CC Okay, Paul. I understand, and we'll get
with you here in just a second on whether we need to dump
the condensate tank. Hold on.
SC Well, it's empty now, Rusty.
CC Okay. Understand you're saying that it
is empty at this time.
SC It's empty, but there's no DELTA-P in it.
CC Okay, thanks. Stand by i.
CC PLT, when you say it's empty, you're look-
ing at the bladder. But could it have - be full of air? That's
what we suspect down here and that we would still have to dump
into the holding tank.
SC It's not going to pick up the condensates
during the EVA though as long as it's disconnected, right?
CC Stand by.
SC Houston, Skylab.
_- CC Go ahead.
SC The PLT reports that the bladder is at
the empty end of the tank. It ain't full of air.
CC Okay, understand that the bladder is on
the empty end, and therefore it is not full of air.
SC That's correct.
CC Okay, we're putting that into the g_ist
mill. Stand by.
SC Okay.
SC Okay, here's the status. I did not look
at the bladder before I disconnected the holding tank. Shortly
after - about 10 - 15 minutes after unhooking the holding
tank, we got the DELTA-P. I looked up. It was rapidly ap-
proaching zero at the time. I locked at the tank bladder.
The bladder is all the way at the empty end, and the DELTA-P
reads zero.
CC Okay, we read.
SC Houston, SPT. We want to know whether
to get the PLT into his suit or not. Are you going to have
action for him in a few minutes, do you think?
CC Okay. I'll tell you what. We've got about
2 minutes to LOS at Ascensio_:_ere,_and _w[_11 advise before that

2 minutes is up, okay? : "_
SC Good show.
CC Okay, here's the word. We got 30 - about
40 seconds to LOS, And PJ, before you get into the suit, we
f would like you to do, on page 2-40 of the SWS Systems Book,
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AM condensate tank dump. You'll be dumping overboard

rather than into the holding tank. We do need to get a
vacuum on the condensate removal system to do that (garble)
primary vent heaters are better than the secondary that are
called out there. And after completing that procedure, press
on with the suiting and the rest of the work.
SC Okay.
CC That's page 2-40, AM condensate tank
dump.
SC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control; 13 hours 49
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal at
Ascension. We'll next acquire at Carnarvon in about 22 minutes.
Just before LOS, at Ascension, we passed up a procedure to
put a delta pressure back into the condensate tank. This
delta pressure was lost several minutes ago during the pass.
You heard considerable conversation concerning it. The pro-
cedure passed up is designed to get the tank hack in proper
condition. And Flight Director Milt Windler has received the
word that the S054 problem will not constitute a safety
hazard for the crew during the EVA. I repeat, it is not a
safety problem. SO54 continues to operate. Crew is not
able to turn it off. And we've been unsuccessful commanding
it off on the ground. However, there is no safety problem
involved for Joe Kerwin when he goes up, toward the end of the
EVA, to pin open the hatch - the cover of that experiment.
We still have no positive indication whether the crew will
egress early or the Flight Plan time. That will be their
option. Flight Plan time for hatch opening: 15 hours 37 minutes
Greenwich mean time. However_ they could emerge as early as
14 hours 4 minutes. We're about 20 minutes away from AOS at
Carnarvon. We'll come back up shortly before that time.
At 13 hours 51 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC634/I
Time: 09:08 CDT, 14:14:08 GMT
6/7/73

Greenwich mean time. We're just under 3 minutes away from
acquisition at Carnarvon. There is a possibility that Conrad
and Kerwln could have the hatch open when we acquire, or they
may still be in preparations. Conrad's designation will be
EVI, Kerwin, EV2, Weitz EV3. Weitz has configured his communica-
tion so that he is free to roam somewhat throughout the vehicle
up to the command module for television shots out the window
there. He's also expected to take television pictures out
one of the STS windows, that's one of the windows in the
structural transition section of the airlock module. Although
it's volume is effectively that also of the multiple docking
adapter. That will be Weitz's primary station during the
EVA or he will be reading procedures to the crew, monitoring
their systems and the controls for the airlock module are
in that section. The communications configuration will be
EVI and EV2 on VOX, voice operated microphones. Weltz will
have to key his microphone for the ground to hear him. Conrad
and Kerwin will be able to hear him without his keying, however,
we will not hear him unless he keys. We'll stand by for the
Carnarvon pass. Scheduled AOS in about 30 seconds.
CC Okay, Skylab. Houston here over Carnarvon
for about 8-1/2 minutes. We see DELTA-P on the condensate tank
so that looks good. And for your information, we're dumping
the recorder here.
CC And Skylab, Houston, if you're reading,
we're seeing DELTA-P on the condensate. For your information,
we're dumping the recorder.
SC Okay. We got a problem with SUS i, Rusty.
It's not running smoothly.
CC Pete, l'm sorry, I did not read that. Under-
stood you had a problem with SUS i. We have some good words
on what we would recommend you do on that.
SC Go ahead.
CC Okay, first we'd like to have PJ varify
that even though he does not plan to use cooling that he
did perform the steps on 1.2-7 of the EVA checklist. That is,
hooking up the jumpers and that kind of thing up there on
panel 217.
SC He took the jumpers off.
CC I beg your pardon, yes, that he took
them off. Okay, but he did complete the steps on 2. - 1.2-7
as listed there.
SC If his LSU is plugged into a PCU which
it's plugged into 217?
CC Okay, fine, then what we recommend is down
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on panel 317 and 323 in the lock compartment, that we turn

both SUS 1 and SUS 2 pumps to OFF. Then on panel 317 the
commander switch his - in his water inputs from SUS i to
SUS 2. In other words, from the left side to the right
side of the panel. And then on 323 turn the pumps back to
PRIMARY.
SC Okay. Want to run both EVA's off of SUS 2.
SC Ok ay.
CC And since SUS 2 is working with no problems
we feel that that's perfectly acceptable. And PJ expressed
the opinion he did not need cooling. If for whatever
reason he feels he needs cooling during the EVA there in the
MDA, we recommend he go ahead and plug in to SUS i; try it
out, if he gets cooling fine. We expected some heat on the
loop will solve the problem but we're not sure. But he can
try it and if he doesn't get cooling he may be just a little
warm.
CC And Skylah, we're looking at the condensate
here and you have a GO for the EVA based on the condensate.
There's no problem with that.
CC Okay, Skylab, and we Just went around the
room a little bit here and it looks to us as though, with the
reconneetion you're doing now, that we're GO here for the
EVA. One advisory, we do still have power on on S054. That's
no problem. We just wanted to let you know and we'll be
handling it from the ground. We see no constraints on - on
your operationj no association with it.
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Time: 09:20 CDT, 14:14:20 GMT
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Greenwich mean time. We_ve had less of signal at Honeysuckle.
About 5 minutes away from acquisition of signal at Guam. We'll
keep the line up during this time. NASA Administrator Dr.
James Fletcher, Deputy Administrator Dr. George Low, and Associate
Administrator for Manned Space Flight, Dale Myers, are in the
viewing room awaiting the start of this EVA. Bill Schneider, the
Skylab Program Director from NASA Headquarters, and Kenneth
Kleinkneeht, the Johnson Space Center Skylab Program Manager,
are at the management consoles in the control room proper. And
we note that backup Science Pilot, Ed Gibson, and Director of
Flight Cooperations, Deke Slayton, have Joined the CAP COMs at
their console. Johnson's Space Center Director, Dr. Christopher
C. Kraft, is also in the control room at this time.
CC Okay, Skylab. We're with you again over
Guam for the next 5 or 6 minutes.
SC Okay, Rusty. Something you might he thinking
about is, I had that condensate tank to vacuum for a long time,
while I was getting into the suit. And the max Delta-P I ever
got on it was about i PSI. You might be thinking of that.
CC Okay. Understand. The max you ever got
-- there during that procedure was 1 PSI, and the only conse-
quence of that is that the dewpoint may be raising slightly dur-
ing the EVA, there in the MDA. And we see it as no sweat. No
pun intended either.
SC Understand. But it must be something
wrong, if I didn't get 5 PSI, instead of - if I got i instead
of 5, seems to me.
CC That's correct and we figure on going into
troubleshooting after the EVA to psych it out.
SC I'ii buy that.
PAO Skylah Control. We still see 5 pounds per
square inch pressure in the airlock. $o obviously the hatch
is not open yet. Paul Weitz will be suited during this EVA.
However, his suit will not be pressurized and he will not be
wearing gloves or helmet.
CC PLT, Houston.
SC The PLT is in the middle of checking out
his PCU, can I take the message?
CC Okay, yeah, Joe. I better go ahead and
get it up to you. We've got about 45 seconds here before LOS.
And we'll be picking up Goldstone at about 50. And we've
got a final configuration here on this condensate system. The
problem is that the humidity may be going up fairly fast if
we don't do something_
• • #__bout ,t it. So what we decided to do,
is Just leave it in _ v&cuum _Gde !and open it up to VACUUM.
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So what we'd like to do on 216 is take the pressure valve and

go to VACUUM on it. We'd like to take the H20 valve and go
to FILL. And we'd like to have the vent valve in PRIMARY,
and the vent heaters on PRIMARY. And that'll just keep a
vacuum on the back of the separators the whole EVA.
SC Pressure to VACUUM, H20 to FILL, vent
heaters to PRIMARY, and the vent valves to PRI.
CC You get an A on that one, sir.
SC That's your final word, right?
CC That is guaranteed final word.
SC Until Goldstone.
CC Right. And by the way, we're set up for
TV. If you get a chance and you'll probably want to switch your
input switch from the ATM over to TV for us.
SC Okay.
Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal at Guam.
Goldstone will acquire in 16 minutes. We've again reconfigured
the condensate tank, so that there will be no humidity problems
during the EVA. As we lost signal, we were still showing
pressure in the airlock. We've got about 5 minutes left in
darkness in this revolution, number 345. The Apollo telescope
mount television now being shown, was dumped earlier at the
Texas Station. At 14 hours 35 minutes this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 09:48 CDT, 14:14:48 GMT
6/7/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. We're two minutes away from
the next Skylab pass over the United States beginning at Gold-
stone. We are prepared to receive television during this
stateside pass if the crew desires to transmit. We'll stand
by now for acquisition at Goldstone.
SC psig. Paul, can yon time us for one
minute? Okay, Pete, it's going to be FLOW OFF, and then on
my mark, PRESS OFF and that starts the one minute, you ready?
SC No, no, God damn.
SC What's the matter?
SC Well, just a second.
SC Oh, you lost that thing, huh?
SC Well, I had to take it off. I couldn't
get to REG 2.
SC Oh, for Christ's sake.
SC I'm not sure this is
SC I want to take this with me.
SC Oh, (garble).
CC Hous - Skylab this is Houston. We've got
you for a long pass here over the states.
SC Okay. Let's go to - let's go flow to
I OFF, now.
SC Okay.
SC Let's go PRES to OFF and start your
one minute count, Paul.
SC Houston, are you reading EVI and 2.
CC Yes sir we are. We've got you loud and
clear and we see you're in the integrity checks.
SC That's correct.
SC Wellp I topped out at 39.
SC Okay, mark it from there. I didn't go
for 3.75. So punch (garble).
SC Okay, we're holding good. At least I am.
SC One minute,_it's PRESS to BOTH and then
flow to IVA.
CC Okay.
SC Okay, I get no decay. PRES to BOTH?
SC Okay grunt I've got flow.
SC You too?
SC Yeah. Okay.
SC All right. How was your decay?
SC At about a half.
SC About a half. Okay, we're in spec.
All right the cuff gage is stabl_ at 363.9. _ODE SELECT to
ABSOLUTE. Let's depressurize. And Rusty this diverter "clot
goober" is kind of a pain in the neck during checkout. I
p--
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have to partially tear it off to get at the valve.

CC Okay. You should be able to move it
right through the EDD there.
SC You should, but you can't.
CC Well, okay.
SC The other thing that's in my way Rusty is
I can't get into REG 2 with those pliers on there.
CC Okay. We would recommend either a quicky
other place or just forget them, Pete.
SC I think I'd llke to forget them.
SC How about in here. Let me tie them on one
spot on mine. (Garble) originally selected let me see if -
SC Rusty, are you reading PLT on the light
wave?
CC That's affirmative. You're coming through
five square, PJ.
SC Okay.
SC Hey, I was - I loose them - I loose them
they're not in the way.
SC Okay.
SC Say, PJ.
SC Yeah.
_ SC After you get the umbilical stowed you're
going to have to get S082B or A, bring it back there on the
stretch strap and just tether it in the aft block, dig?
SC Have got to crawl over it.
SC I'll get up into the MDA for you while
you do that. And Paul we're ready to go on your checklist.
Our cue card is all done.
SC Okay.
SC (Garble).
SC Okay.
s SC How thick are those two?
SC I don't know.
SC 13. Is mine the one you stow first?
SC Oh, yeah.
SC Okay.
SC You go up first. Think you might move
up while he stows.
SC That's DELTA-P you've got on that conden-
sate tank now.
CC Okay, we're showing about .87 on the
DELTA-P and we figure you're GO either way. We think that
it'll probably take a litle moisture out but it may not be
too efficient and w'll get with it after the EVA.
SC Okay.
SC I've got to do it. 180.
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SC Okay, that's not right.

SC Do 180 one more time.
SC There you go. Very good.
SC Okay, start working Joe. Okay.
SC Bill, I'm waiting for your GO to come in and
close the hatch.
SC Here I am.
SC Okay.
SC In the aft lock, Pete, not behind you.
SC Yeah.
SC Keep it in here. It's okay. We've all
ready it handled, Paul.
SC Well, let me see which way I can roll
here.
SC Let me get another handle on your umbil-
ical.
SC Okay.
SC All right. Let's sync umbilicals.
SC Okay that's clean.
SC The other thing is we've got to make sure
that aft lock door is loggered down good. Turn out the lights.
SC Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm going to close the
hatch first. I did.
PAO That's the hatch between the multiple
docking adapter and the airlock module, not the outside hatch.
SC The hedge handle is open. All right.
Yes. UNLOCK. CLOSE. It didn't, but I put it to LOCK. Now
It is in lock now and (garble) start down, okay? In works.
OFF. All right we'll work that right now. I will. I'ii
be standing. That's good.
SC Let me get this hatch right here. Right
here.
SC Super.
SC Okay, all my umbilicals in the aft lock
now, I think. What are you doing kid?
SC Well, we had to the aft airlock hatch
came loose once - just making sure the straps have got it
strapped down.
SC I don't need that floating around.
SC Okay.
SC Under my right arm.
SC All right. What'd I do, another 360
again? Need 180, Paul? Is that what I need to do?
SC Yeah_ you're in good shape now that's
exactly right, Pete.
SC What now?
SC One thing that's got to go back there is
82B - 82A, (keep getting it screwed up.)
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SC (Garble)
SC Looks fine, but it is fine.
SC All right, Pete can you speak for us here
with 82A?
SC Think you can.
SC Let me try this right here. That's about
as close to the floor as I can get.
SC Yeah, that's plenty. I'm half behind you
and he's got a good half of the hatch open.
SC Okay. Houston, do yon read?
SC Yeah, sure.
SC Tie it fairly close to the thing though.
Don't want to move it around too much. Guess, Houston, how
many minutes to sunset?
CC Okay, Pete, we're about 35-1/2 minutes from
sunset. We see some power - rather high power usage down
in the OWS. Can you verify that you turned all the lights
off down there?
SC Yes, all the switches were off panel 617
or whatever it is and the entry lights are off.
CC Okay, and do - -
SC Actually, I can't verify that visually
right now, Rusty.
CC Okay, and can you verify having turned
off the VCS duct fans?
SC No. Paul says he did not turn out the
VCS duct fans. Do you want them off?
CC Yeah.
SC You can -
CC Stand by just one.
SC You go down there and get them. That's
all right, we got time.
SC I'ii hang on to that, Paul, I've got it.
CC Okay. Disregard that. Do not go back
down into the OWS -
SC Paul is standing by to do so if you
want him to.
SC We've got time, Houston.
CC Okay if Paul can get past you there
and get the aft hatch open and get down and shut off the fans
and verify the lights.
SC Verify the lights. Okay he's on his
way.
SC Like_ne pressuze here now.
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CC Okay, Paul, if you read down there -

SC Paul doesn't read you yet. He's waiting
for pressure to equalize across that hedge.
CC Okay, fine. Perhaps you can relay
to him when he gets down there that we want the panel 614
circuit breaker, TCS duct 2 and 3 fans 8 of them OPEN.
SC Paul says that the pressure is higher
in the workshop side of the hedge. That's kind of screwy,
Rusty. Why is that?
CC Stand by. That does sound -
SC Or is it a discrepancy in our gages?
CC Joe, does Paul have the EVA checklist
in his hands?
SC No.
CC Okay, when he gets down there I'm pre-
pared to read the particular steps that we think were omitted
here. So will he be able to hear me on a SIA down there?
SC I expect so.
SC Still equalizing.
SC He still hears the pressure equalizing
through the valve.
SC Still equalizing?
SC Still equalizing?
CC Okay, we're reading 2/10 of a psi DELTA-P
with the lock slightly higher. He's probably hearing it go
the other way.
SC The lock is higher.
SC No, this way.
SC They say the lock is higher.
SC Well, he can find out in a hurry when
he opens the hatch, which he is about to do. (Laughter) We
got a little rapid DELTA-P there.
CC Okay, understand you got the hatch open.
SC Yeah, the hatch is open. He's going to
go shut off the warning com.
CC Did he run a Navy catapult down into the
experiment compartment?
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SC (Laughter) We got a little rapid DELTA P

there.
CC Okay. Understand you got the hatch open.
SC Yeah, the hatch is open. He's going to
go shut off the - the warning call.
CC Did he run a Navy cataput down into the
experiment compartment?
SC It's still in the airlock, Rusty.
SC No, the hatch did not blow open. You'll
have to ask him which way the DELTA P was, I couldn't tell
by looking.
CC Okay. We were just worried about a swing
shot there.
SC Yeah.
SC No, it just popped about a half an inch.
CC Okay. Let me know when he gets down there
and I' ii read these steps to him.
SC Rusty, I'm not going to hear yon down there.
What do you want me to do?
CC Okay, here you go, Paul. On 614, circuit
breakers TCS duct 2 and 3 fans, 8 of them OPEN.
SC Okay.
CC And also the CB HSS bus i wardroom water
heater, OPEN.
SC Okay.
CC And then on 613, CB lighting; 42 of them
OPEN.
SC Holy mackerel. All right.
CC Okay.
SC When I drop down to track in the checklist,
you'd better (garble) in it.
CC Okay.
SC No, I remember them talking about it last
night, and what they were going to power down, but I don't --
CC -- It never came up on paper.
SC I didn't read that part in the paper.
SC Not that it wasn't there.
SC Paul said you were right, it was slightly
higher in the airlock.
SC The pressure that is.
CC Okay....
CC Okay, _ a6d for your information, we still
have 30 minutes to sunset, so there's no sweat.
SC Yeah.
SC Okay.
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SC Wefre - we're taking our time. We got all

day.
CC How's the cooling feel, by the way?
SC Fine, two of us on --
SC Lucky we're smart enough to on SUS 2 at
the start.
SC What do you think happened to i? Did it
freeze up?
CC We're not really sure. We think it probably
needs a little hit of heat in the loop before we turn it on
but we've got a little procedure here for PJ in case he
wants some cooling.
SC He might want some cooling. It's pretty
warm with that suit on.
CC Roger. And we've got a procedure for
him. And we'll read that to him - in fact let us know -
probably we'll do it over Ascension. Everything should be
pretty well organized by that time. We're 1 minute until
LOS at this point, and we're going to pick up Ascension at
17.
SC Okay, he's turnlng everything out down there
-- right now. I can see down there.
CC Okay, fine.
SC Okay, I got DUCT 2, DUCT 3, the wardroom
water heater and I didn't count them_ but I got all the light
circuit breakers I could see.
CC Okay. Can't ask for more than that. Thanks
a lot.
SC Of course, now that they're all open and
can't see. Now the emergency light is still on. Get that up
here.
SC Up here and down there, Pete, it looks
like over to me.
SC Right now it looks to me like I'm looking
down. (laughter) That's cause Pete is looking over - -
SC Good old imagination; it certainly becomes
hook.
SC Besides that, he's climbing. (garble)
CC We got some people at Pensacola very
interested in that, Pete.
SC Well, u_'_a_d _oWn! _slstrictly a matter
of how yon want to do it. Ever# night'khe world goes by
so that you lay in the wardroom ceiling to get the world
right side up and when you come back in from looking at the
world right side up, - -
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SC You got a wardroom table growing --

SC You've got a wardroom table growing out
of the ceiling (static)
CC We'll pick up the continuing side of and
up - of up and down at Ascension here in a few minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control; 15 hours 9 minutes.
We've had loss of signal at Bermuda. We'll pick up Ascension
in about 7-1/2 minutes. Paul Weitz going back into the
orbital workshop along toward the end of this last pass to
turn off some lights and some fans and the wardroom water
heater. This will conserve 200 watts of power during the
EVA. Still have about 26-1/2 minutes of daylight remaining.
Skylah now in revolution 346. We'll come hack up a few minutes
prior to acquisition at Ascension. At 15 hours i0 minutes,
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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6/7/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. Two minutes away from acquisition
at Ascension Island. Flight Director Milton Windler will be
going around the Control Room getting a GO for hatch opening
after we acquire at Ascension.
SC All right. Now I depress how far?
SC All the - Okay.
CC Okay. Skylah, Houston. Wetve got you
for about 5-1/2 minutes here over Ascension.
SC Okay, Houston. The lock's on the way
down, 4.2 and dropping.
CC Roger. Understand.
SC Okay. My suit's hanging right in there
at 385.
SC It's ah - 375's what I've got.
SC There'll be some difference there (garble).
SC Houston, PLT. You might take a reading
on the MDA pressure, just for information, so you can check the
crew. They indicated it got up to about 53 to 54 in here before
we went DEPRESS.
CC Okay. We got it.
SC There's 2 in the lock, 385 on my suit.
SC Okay.
CC Okay. And Houston here. You're GO for a
hatch open anytime you get it down there. Systems are all
looking good.
SC - - the Hell did all this Junk come from?
SC Okay.
SC I've got the TV on. You got TV, Houston?
SC Houston, you may be interested in know-
ing that on the lock DUMP VALVE, a large block of ice is
growing, on the screen.
SC (Garble) is?
SC Yeah.
SC I couldn't figure out what it was.
CC That on the inside, Pete, or on the outside?
SC On the inside.
SC Must have been enough moisture in the
air, Rusty, that as it hit the screen, why must have been
super cooled; it froze. And it's a rather weird looking fellow.
That's what's making the lock take so long to dump down.
I'd say it cuts the -
SC Did you scrape at it with your finger?
SC No, it'S fla solld block. I guess I can.
Well, I don't want to.
SC I'm sure that helped (garble)
_- SC All - all - all - All I did was block it
more. I better leave well enough alone.
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CC How about breathing on it?

SC Well, I thought about that, but - -
SC Yeah, I'm showing 0.8 also.
SG It's blocked about two-thirds of the screen.
CC Okay. You've got a nice tool in there
called a pry bar you might want to poke at it with if it
does block it completely.
SC (Garble) it's star - it's started making
ice - -
SO It's in the pores of the screen, Rusty.
We'd have to break the screen in order to get it off.
SC I don't want to do that. There's debris
there and everything.
SC Leave well enough alone.
SC Okay.
CC And, PJ, if you've got a minute there,
while they're going down, sometime on panel 203, we'd like
to turn the ATM coolant loops loop pumps - all three of them
off. Like to have you verify that.
SC You know what's happened here. Our (garble)
is equal to what it'll take out now. It's holding about i/2 psi.
/ CC Okay. We're reading that, Pete.
SC (Garble).
SC You think we dare open the hatch at 1/2 psi?
SC No.
SC I hate to tear into my pry bar, Rusty.
I'm looking around for somthing else that I might use. My pry
bar is neatly packaged.
SC The only thing I can give you is the
brace - -
SC I got - I got something here.
SC (Garble)
SC You want to tickle it with the handle?
Oh, all right.
SC Something skinny to stick down in between
the mesh.
SC Okay, that's ah -
SC Getting something?
SC I got some of it.
SC What?
SC Okay. Yeah.
SC Are we over Houston?
CC Yes, go ahead, Pete.
SC Did you read that, Houston?
SC What's your last?
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SC Paul - Paul left the procedures (not that

we need them) down in the wardroom, neatly in his locker.
How about uplinking your TV procedures next station?
CC Okay. We'll do that.
SC You can wait most of it. We've got
it pretty well committed to memory.
CC Okay. We'll get the two messages up.
SC All right. Now we look like we're about
0.2. What do you read, PJ?
CC Okay. 0.3 is okay for opening the hatch,
Pete.
SC All right. Go.
CC Well, well done.
SC There goes the hatch. I'm gonna - -
SC Go ahead on the procedures, PJ.
CC Okay. We've got 20 seconds to LOS, and
we'll pick you up over Carnarvon at 47.
SC Okay.
SC Okay.
SC I'm there.
SC I'm reading about 35.
SC I'm just going. I have to take that
silly thing off and put it on again every time I move that.
It's okay, and l'm reading 3.45.
SC It's in both.
SC EVA norm on the full?
SC I got good pressure (garble) off.
PA0 This is Skylab Control; 15 hours 24 minutes
Greenwich mean time.
SC It missed (static, garble).
SC I hope it doesn't (garble).
SC No. (static)
PA0 This is Skylab Control: 15 hours 25 minutes
Greenwich mean time.- -
SC (Garble) (static)
PAO We had a late LOS at Ascension. We do
finally have LOS there. Next acquisition at Carnarvon in
22-1/2 minutes. There's about ii minutes of daylight left.
Crew was opening the hatch, opening the airlock hatch as we
lost them at Ascension. There are lights in the fixed airlock
shroud area. So they will be able to continue the work of
assembling the tools in that area and moving up to the
discone antenna area, upon on the edge of the MDA, directly
over the solar array wing. We would not expect them, however,
to go down to the beam area, the beam wing area, during the
darkness. There are no lights in that area. Copied the hatch
opening time as 15 hours 23 minutes 20 seconds Greenwich mean
jJ time. At 15 hours 27 minutes, this is Skylah Control.
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PAO This is $kylab Control; 15 hours 43 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're about 5 minutes away from acquisition
at Carnarvon and we've about 30 minutes of darkness remaining
for Skylab. The block of ice that formed on the dump valve
screen on the hatch is expected to discipate prior to the
end of the EVA. And it's not anticipated that it will cause
any problem for the crew. During this Carnarvon pass we will
probably also pass up a procedure to Paul Weitz. You've
heard considerable discussion about his SUS loop_ that's
the suit unbilical system loop. Temperature in that system
is a little bit low to permit it to operate properly. We'll
pass up a procedure to to bring up the temperature so that
he can utilize that system for cooling if he needs it. We
won't know where the crew is in their EVA procedures until
we have acquisition. Procedures do call for Pete Conrad to
get out of the hatch first, get himself in the foot restraints
in the shroud area. Then Joe Kerwin is to pass out the beam
extension tether which Conrad will stow on a handrail in
the shroud area. Then Joe Kerwin will pass out the sections
for the handle to the cable cutter. These are the same
rods that Paul Weitz used during the standup EVA shortly
_-_ after this crew rendezvoused with Skylab. The cable cutter
pole will be approximately 25 feet long. Will be assembled
by Conrad. Kerwin will then move from the shroud area up
to the base of the discone antenna using handrails and
the Apollo telescope mount truss to work his way up to this
area, tether himself to the base of the antenna, Conrad will
pass the cable cutters to him and then traverse up into the
same area bringing the beam extension tether with him. This
beam extension tether or BET as you will hear it called, is
about 34 feet long, not counting the hooks on each end. It's
a quarter inch diameter rope made of syntheie fibers. Very
tough, very strong; will not stretch. They're expected
to wait in this area for daylight prior to attaching the
cutters to the aluminum strap on the solar assembly wing
beam that they want to cut. And the cutter poles will be
used as a handrail for Pete Conrad to work his way down
to the beam area. We're about 30 seconds away from acquisition,
and we'll stand by for the first conversation.
SC Out here, you can see it's got that dis-
cone tray on it still.
SC He way up over.
SC Hey, I see it.
SC How far _gund can _yo_ see?
SC I can se4 most of £he _iscone tray. I
can't see the surface. And I can't see the discone itself,
it's too dark.
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SC I'm looking for the other discone. I

wonder where the hell that is. It's down here.
SC Where the hell's the world anyway?
CC Houston, we're right here. We're listening
loud and clear.
SC Oh, I didn't mean the world world, I
meant the clouds and Earth and sea world underneath.
CC Okay, would you like a little status.
CC Yes,sir, we would like a status.
SC We have 5 poles rigged swinging on the
hook. And we're just intrepidly peering around out here
deciding how far around Joe can get, in the dark. We have
not pulled umbilicals out. We're just cooling it. Now,
the pole assembly went super slick. We had a little - I
had a little juggling problem getting the last longie with
the tool on because I did it surprisingly enough by having
Joe hold on it in the airlock. We had it all the way in
the airloek and I found a way to snudge the pole out next to
the solar panel over to the ATM sun inside and just line
her up that way and pop her on. And as would be at zero G
you know those nuts do funny things. Most of them we had
checked them last night. We had backed off most of the locking
nuts but as you can guess that's what we did with them is
back them off. They went and unbacked too tight, so we had
to mess with those a little bit but she's all rigged and
ready to go hanging on the hook here. Also, let me tell you
the status to the outside. I have pulled the boom launch
locks on both booms, CC and CS. I have installed the CS
hook and we have loaded S082A into the first station receptical
and we're just standing by right now.
CC Okay. Is that the receptical in the
FAS, Peter? The one in the lock compartment.
SC It's no - the receptical's in the SAS.
It's stowed in the FAS right now.
CC Okay, you got a lot of time.
SC We're all configure to - to load it.
CC Okay.
SC I wanted to go load it and Pete wouldn't
let me.
SC Yeah_ Joe wanted to go load it, but

I decided we'd get off the checklist and we'd get all wrapped
around the axle doing that, and the primary thing is to
get this SAS panel out. So we're resting hanging outside.
I'm enjoying a lovely look at _e Moon. . "
CC Yeah, that (garble)
SC (Multiple speakers)
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SC See --
SC Well --
SC Go ahead, Paul.
SC Yeah, I'm ready to start working on getting
some cooling water, if you think you got a way.
CC Okay, PJ, we do have a way to do that
for you. Are you ready to copy?
SC No, I'm not. Can you Just tell me?
CC Yeah, okay, forget that. Are you ready
to listen?
SC Yeah.
CC All right.
SC I want to tell you something• First off
I can't get the SUS 2. If this includes the SUS 2, I can't reach
them.
CC Okay, we are not interested in having you
get the SUS 2. We'll be using SUS i. What we'd like to do
is confirm that - what you're going to be doing. You've got
the composite disconnect hooked UP to your PCU and that you'll
be plugging in and out of the PCU with the suit. That is,
you'll break that connection rather than than the composite.
E_
SC That's affirmative. That's what I've been
doing so far this morning. And I've - Let me tell you I've
been running this secondary pump for about 20 or 30 minutes,
and I been plugged into it for about i0 minutes so far, and
that's the status.
CC Okay, so I understand you are flowing
right now on secondary pump in SUS i. Is that correct?
SC I don't know if I'm flowing or not. If
it's flowing, it's not cold.
SC Hey, PJ.
CC Okay. PJ are you in BYPASS or EVA on the
flow?
SC I left it in EVA per your last instruction.
CC Okay, fine. And if you are - If you feel
that the flow is warm now, the next thing we recommend is
going over to panel 203. Going PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP to
INVERTER i, and PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP to PUMP A.
SC Okay. Can you tell if the pumps are
running down there?
CC Yes, sir, we can confirm that when you
turn them on.
SC No, I'm talking about this SUS pump. Can
you determine if SUS i secondary pump is running?
CC Stand by.
SC Hey, _ _hy_ _o_'t lyou kill some of the

lights to save power?
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SC We're all done working.

SC Oh, that's okay. Turn them all out.
CC Okay, PJ, we cannot because of the possible
instrumentation problem, we cannot confirm flow or DELTA-P on
secondary pump. What we recommend is going ahead and switching
SUS i pump to primary and - and see if you sense any difference
there. And when you get the primary running, or if - if you
feel the secondary pump is running, then go ahead and
activate the coolant loop when the flow gets warm for you.
SC Okay. Watch the timer then, I'm going to
switch it now.
CC Okay.
SC Oh, there's the Earth. How about that?
SC You found the Earth?
SC Yes, with the lights out, it's lovely.
SC What part of the world are we over?
CC You're over Western Australia, sir.
SC Western Australia. I see some large lights
out to my left, and if we're actually over Western Australia
and I'm looking eastward -
CC No.
SC Okay, primary SUS 1 pump is ON. Can you see
it? The thing that bothers me, Rusty, is when I turn that
pump on I don't get a caution and warning.
SC Want to look out, Joe?
SC Yeah, I'm looking out behind you. It's
okay.
SC Look, there's a half a moon - -
SC You can see the lights, you can see the
moon light on the clouds.
SC Oh, I can see the city.
SC Yeah, from horizon to horizon.
CC Hey, can you guys wait a minute so we can
get a word to Paul.
SC Yeah, go ahead.
CC Okay, Paul we would like you to go to
BYPASS on the flow there on the heat exchanger first if you
have not already done that, before you activate the coolant
loop.
SC Okay, will do when I get the primary pump
ON. Did you copy my thing about no caution and warning?
CC Understand you got no caution and warning
on it.
SC Yeah, either one. On SUS i, when you
turn on either the primary pump or the secondary pump we don't
get the EVA i whine. And I want primary pump now; I have not
activated the primary loop and l'm going to BYPASS now.
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CC Okay, and let us know about the noise and

also let us know whether you feel any sensation of cooling.
CC And Pete, for you, let me ask whether
the docking lights appear to light up the discone so you
can go on up there or not?
SC Well, I never got around that far. I can't
really tell.
SC The flood.
SC Oh, who turned on the flood - traction
light? Turn that off.
SC You go take another look?
SC Well, I can skinny around here if you'd
like to see the other side, Paul.
SC Just a second.
CC Pete, as a reminder here, on yomr next
station you going to want to pull 55 feet of EV I unbilical -
and put it behind you in the FAS. And then before Joe comes
out he wants to pull out into the air into the lock compart-
ment 35 feet of his umbilical.
SC Yeah, we understand.
SC I can see the - I can see the discone from
here perfectly.
SC Which one?
SC Mine, the one of interest. The one
SC Where are you?
SC I'm up here --
SC -- around the corner.
CC I see.
SC And the green docking light illuminates the
area fairly well. I think we can get started.
SC Okay.
CC (garble) lights it up well. You can turn -
PJ can turn off the other docking light and that'll save us
some power.
SC I don't understand.
CC Okay, Pete you got two circuit breakers over
on panel 202, the left hand end next to bottom row, and I'm
not sure which one turns off the green and which one turns
off the red --
SC That doesn't cut it.
CC -- and Joe can give you the answer.
SC Okay. All right, give me a holler, Joe.
l'm turning them off one at a time. Tell me when yon want.
SC Okay.
SC That's okay, leave the other one on.
SC No. That one. No, that's right. (laughter)
f Okay.
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SC Pete, I guess I'Ii get your umbilical out.

SC All right.
CC Okay, and troops we got about 45 seconds
to LOS at Carnarvon. We're going to be picking up Guam at 16:01
here which is just a couple of minutes. And I figure you're
going to press on up to the discone at this time. And PJ, how's
the cooling?
SC There is none, Rusty, yet. And when is the
first station with TV.
CC Okay, that's going to be Goldstone. It'll
be coming up at 16:27, so we'll let you know that at Guam.
SC All right, tell me where it's going.
SC It's going behind you.
SC Okay.
SC Here comes the big snake man.
CC And Pete, you got about 14 minutes before
sunrise, so you got lots of time there.
SC How far have you got to now?
SC 40.
SC (garble)
SC (laughter)
SC Holy Christmas.
SC 45, where's it all going? 50.
SC Gee, I wonder if there's anything it can
hang up on down there?
SC 55, (garble) for you, if there is.
SC (static)
PAO Skylab Control; 15 hours 59 minutes. We've
had LOS at Carnarvon. Two minutes away from acquisition of
signal at Guam. Pete Conrad reported the assembly of the
cable cutter pole went super slick. He's out in the shroud
area and the foot restraints. It appeared that Joe Kerwin
was standing in that hatch, still in the hatch area where
he can pull out the umbilical from the airloek which he's
doing now. Fifty-five feet of Conrad's umbilical, 35 feet
of his own.
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PAO - - which he's doing now - 55 feet of

Conrad's umbilical, 35 feet of his own. Obviously, they
were enjoying watching the world go by. Pete Conrad mentioned
he was also enjoying a lovely look at the Moon and the stars
and could see lights of cities as they passed over western
Australia. In fact, they chatted so much between them that
Rusty Schweickart had to break in so that he could continue
some procedures to Paul Weitz to fix up his umbilical. Twelve
minutes remaining in darkness and about 30 seconds away from
acquisition at Guam. We'll stand by.
SC Now I just hope that by screwing around,
we haven't made a loop where there was none before. (Garble)
SC (Garble) there was an apparent loop.
SC Huh?
SC Is this mine?
SC Yes.
SC Trying to figure out where it goes.
SC It goes (garble) round to your back and
in the (garble).
SC Go.
SC Here.
_ SC Yes. That's the next end of it.
SC Right here. Let me get it down.
SC Get it?
CC Okay, Skylab. This is Houston again.
Over Guam for about 8-1/2 minutes.
SC Okay. Roger.
SC Hey, you're going to get worn out doing
the things that require you to get there.
SC Do it.
SC Well, that's a big snarl down there. Hope
it all comes out right.
SC Now I suggest you take that loop in your
hand and put it up over your head.
SC Nope.
SC How did we do that?
SC Well
SC Huh?
SC I'm just checking it. Okay.
SC You all right?
SC Yeah. And it all goes behind.
SC You got your's?
SC Mine's in reasonable shape, I think. It's
all behind me.
SC Okay.
SC See how it strings out right now.
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CC Pete, just for information, we do have

you for about 8 minutes here. And we've got the procedures
in case you want anything on them.
SC Okay. Aren't yon going to up-link them?
CC Yes, sir, we are. And I'ii give you an
estimate on when they're going to be up there.
SC Okay.
SC Okay, Rusty. No Joy on the cooling yet.
CC Okay, Joe, Paul. The question is have
you activated the PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP on panel 203?
SC Rog, man.
SC Hey, Joe. I think you want to go to
(garble) left.
SC I'm deciding where the best handles are
right now.
SC You want to go to 1-pump Alfa, right?
SC Right. We want PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP
to INVERTER i, and we want PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP PUMPS-A ON.
SC All right
SC All right, yes. (Garble) fragile handles
here; they're beautiful.
_ SC Rusty must have known about them.
SC Re didn't tell us.
SC I hear a CAUTION AND WARNING, Paul?
CC All right, Joe. Are you going through
the trusses or up over the top? You should be going through - -
SC Through, through. I'm right on the
MDA surface.
CC Okay.
SC I'm looking at Paul through the window
right now. The other window, Paul. Hi there.
SC That's correct, isn't it, Rusty?
CC Yes. We should be right down. And
the nicest path we found was right along the mol sieve vent
duct. There's about 6 inches of diameter with a silver
(garble) --
SC Told you, I'm hanging onto a blue hand-
rail that's just forward to that.
CC Okay. Fine. We didn't hang- -
SC I've got one hand on the handrail, one
hand on the vent duct, and I'm looking at the discone antenna.
SC Did you see the pin?
SC (Garble) you. No, it's too dark at the
base. The base of the antenna is pretty dark.
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CC Okay, Joe
SC Paul. Paul.
CC The next thing you' ii Be doing when you
get enough light is to go up and hook your chest tether into
the pin at the base. And then retreat backward, behind you
there, to the A-frame.
SC Understand. And, Pete, I think I'Ii
delay that until sunrise. So I can - -
SC All right. Just a minute.
SC -- surely see what I'm doing.
SC Just a minute.
CC Okay. And for your information you've
got 7 minutes to sunrise.
SC Just a minute. Paul, why don't you shine
your flashlight out the window? You can illuminate the pin
in the lower end of the dlscone.
SC You should have a pin light in your suit.
I put it in.
SC Our friend, Scorpio, is right smack on
top of us.
SC In a big bowl of milk. Go ahead and
try it.
SC I'm afraid - It's shining at the base of
the antenna, but --
SC Move to the right just a little.
SC It's not good enough, Pete.
SC All right.
SC If I try to go out there, I'II block
his light.
SC Understand. Just cool it.
CC Pete, how's the rest of the lighting
down there in the SAS and down the EV trail?
SC Oh, we've got all the rest of the lights
out, and all- Oh, that's fine out there. Yeah, you can (garble)
broad daylight. We've got all the lights out except the lock.
Lights are on in the lock, and that's it. And that one docking
light.
CC Okay.
SC (Garble) do you have us over now?
SC (Garble)
SC Flying over some really well lit island. Must
be Guam.
CC Yeah, you're almost directly over Guam.
SC Yeah.
SC Hi there, Guam.
SC Hi there.
SC Hi, Guam. I'm looking the other way.
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SC Getting wild. Don't get (garble) up.

SC Oh, hey, Houston - -
CC Go ahead.
SC (Garble).
CC Say again, Paul.
SC I say for your information (garble) - -
SC All right, I'ii close my eyes, Pete.
SC No, I said don't get (garble), that's
all.
SC I'm just laying here sight seeing.
SC I can see your feet.
SC Yeah.
SC For information, I'm getting counts on
the PMEC, if that helps your insight for the problem any.
SC Oh, that's funny. I don't think so, but
I'm not sure. It has its own high voltage power supply.
SC Hello, Houston. Did you copy?
CC Go ahead; say it again.
SC I say on the X-ray SPECT PMEC, I'm getting
counts on it, for what that's worth. You'll be tracking down
your indications of main power still being on.
SC I'm looking at the ground.
CC Okay, fine. Thank you very much. Hey,
PJ. We're recommending - Which pump are you on? Whichever
one you're on, we'd recommend you to try to switch to the
other one. See if that gives you any cooling.
SC Okay. I'm on the primary. I'll go
back and try the secondary. I don't have any confidence
that either pump is running.
CC Okay. We'd like you to check the circuit
breakers. And stand by; I believe it's panel 202.
SC We've already found them, Rusty. They're
all closed.
CC Okay. Understand. All the breakers
are closed.
SC Yeah. All the SUS pump breakers are
closed.
SC Hey, this is the story of this bird.
Half of every piece of normal gear doesn't run right.
SC A pretty wonderful machine for all that.
SC You beteha.
SC That's what we're here to find out.
CC Okay, Pete, you've got about 3-1/2 minutes
here of night remaining. And at that point, you should be able
to press on, and Paul can turn out the other docking light
to save us that before sunrise.
SC Can probably turn it out now.
_ SC Care to (garble), Joe?
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SC No, no, I like it out. It'll make the

sunrise better.
SC Look at that sky.
CC And, Paul, if you're able, since you're
not getting any cooling, we would like to have you turn OFF
the PRIMARY COOLANT LOOP again. And I think we'd like to have
you go back to command.
SC You want me to go OFF and then command.
Is that right?
SC Okay. Let me give it a couple of minutes
n ow.
SC Hi, Joe. Here comes the sunrise.
SC That's the blackest black in the universe
up there.
SC Huh?
CC Okay. We'd also llke to check to make
sure that you've got your visors down for that.
SC Got the visors down, man. We' re ready.
SC Standing in the path, I'm going to see
sunrise upside down.
SC I can see it right side up on my end.
CC Okay. We've got about a minute to LOS
here at Guam. And we'll be picking up Goldstone, and we
wanted the TV ready at 27.
SC I can see the limb breaking in a big, big
crescent, about 180 degrees.
SC That's terrific, isn't it?
SC That star's blinking through the bottom
of it, like you've noticed before.
CC And for your - -
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CC And for your information, we will have

the pads going up as soon as we get Goldstone AOS at 16:27.
SC Roger that. Okay. Thank you.
SC Still there, Rusty?
CC Yes, we are.
SC SO82 went in there just out of sight.
It's so much simpler than the water tank, it's unbelievable.
CC Ah, roger. That's good news.
SC Oh, it's just old fascination.
It works just fine. And I will probably configure it for our
next EVA before I come back in.
CC Okay, that sounds swinging.
SC I'm going to cheek out all the booms
and everything else. I figured you guys might have something
else up your sleeve; so I'm trying to stay in front of you.
CC Sometimes that's hard to go since we
don't know which direction we're moving.
SC That's all right. We're covering that
(garble) (static)
PAO This is Skylah Control; 16 hours 12 min-
- utes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal at Guam.
Sunrise Just breaking at LOS - Pete Conrad reporting he was
seeing the sunrise upside down. Crew decided that they
would wait until daylight before moving out to the base of
the diseone antenna. They could not see the pin at the base
to which Joe Kerwin was to attach his chest tether. Paul Weitz
shined his flashlight out the window in the multiple docking
adapter toward the base of the antenna, hut there wasn't quite
enough light. When Kerwin reaches that point, Conrad will
hand him the cable cutter pole and then move up to that area
to join him. A few feet behind the antenna base is a
cross member between two - two of the trusses for the ATM,
which forms an A-frame. The pole will be tethered to that
area 9 and then Joe Kerwin will attempt to attach the jaws of
the cutter to the aluminum strap that we believe is holding
the solar array wing down and keeping it from deploying.
This first bite into the strap is merely to secure the pole
so that it may act as a hand rail for Pete Conrad to work his
way, hand over hand, down to that area, deploying the BET, the
tether rope, as he goes. He will attach a tether on his wrist
to the pole before he goes down to that area. When he reaches
the beam, he will hook the BET into a vent module on the beam.
At that end of the BET is a halter-like'devi_e with two
hooks on the end. He will hook both those hooks into the
vent module, and Joe Kerwin will take up the slack. Then Con-
rad will transfer his tether over to the BET and essentially
f- get up on top of the heam_ while he positions the cutters in
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the best location for attempting to cut the alnminum strap,

which is, we estimate, about 1-1/2 by 3/4 inches, and it is
63-thousandths of an inch thick, made of 7075 aluminum.
Joe Kerwin will pull a rope from his position, and he may be
hanging over the edge of the workshop - hanging by his toes,
essentially, to get himself in a better position to apply
some pressure on the rope, attempt to cut the strap. If the
cutters do not work, Pete Conrad has with him a pry bar which
he will try next to pry the strap loose, and he has a surgical
hone saw with which to attempt to cut the strap, if the pry
bar does not work. All three of these methods of freeing the
strap have worked in the water immersion facility at the
Marshall Space Flight Center. Once the strap is free, Conrad
will put the beam extension tether over his shoulder while
he's in a squatting position, back just inboard from the
hinge of the wing, and then stand up. This is expected to
deploy the wing. There - the automatic device to employ
the wing we can call the damping actuator. It contains
a spring, but it also contains oil. This oil is thought to
be frozen, and therefore it's not expected that the automatic
opening actuator will work. But it's believed that Conrad
can apply enough pressure against the BET to break the bracket
"_ that's holding the actuator, thereby freeing the wing. He
will move back toward the discone antenna area as the wing erects.
We're 7-1/2 minutes away from acquisition at Goldstone. We
have 51 minutes of daylight remaining. As you noted on the
Guam pass, Pete Conrad was able to see the Island of Guam as
they passed over, still in darkness. He gave them a friendly
greeting of "Hi there" and then acted the role of Guam to
return his greeting. We'll come back up a couple of minutes
prior to acquisition at Goldstone. At 16 hours 20 minutes
GMT, this is Skylab Control.
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minutes Greenwich mean time. We're 2 minmtes away from
acquisition at Goldstone. We will have television capability
during this stateside pass. It will be Paul Weitz's option
whether we get television. But we are ready to receive.
Got about 45 minutes of daylight remaining in this pass.
We'll stand by for first acquisition with the crew.
SC Yeah, it's sticking out, isn't it?
SC Isn't it though.
SC I can see it, too.
SC Let me kind of stand back here and see
if I can work that way. Yes, there is clearance. That's the
way I remembered it.
SC Yeah, darn, there's a lot of solar panels
further down though, isn't there?
SC Oh, yeah.
SC (Garble) solar panel further down though,
isn't there?
SC Oh, yeah.
SC You're in good shape there, Joe. Can
j-- you pull your feet --
PAO Television coming in now.
SC No, I don't want to pull my feet down.
I'm all right.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got you for about
17 minutes coming over the States.
SC Now let me tell him what's going on,
damn it.
SC Let me direct you, Joe. You can pull
the pole back.
SC I can't pull it back some. I can't get
over, you know.
SC We' re out there.
SC Wait a minute.
SC Hey, that's a beautiful place to cut it.
Right? See?
SC Yes.
SC Yeah, you're in the right area if you
could get through those wires. Just take your time. Okay,
Houston. We're out there. We have the debris in sight. There looks
like enough room to get the cutter, and I'm trying to help Joe
stabilize. And, Joe, you're way past it, it looks like.
SC I don't think I am.
SC Yes, you are. Come - come towards me.
SC I'm not past it.
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SC Now you've got - if you're going to

hook it down there, you are.
SC Well, you know what I'm going to have to
do that. Wait a minute. I might get enough out of it there.
See, I've got it tethered, and that prevents me from pulling
it back too damn far.
SC All right, you need to move the tether up.
SC Wait a minute.
SC You're still in front of it. I mean
it's down minus-X.
SC Okay. Yeah, you're right.
SC I'ii tell you when you're on it.
SC Houston, I'm going to try to get to
the command module with the TV and - so you can get a look at
the sail.
SC All right. Now wait --
CC We've got a way to get you some eomm here,
PJ. I mean pulling.
SC Joe?
SC Yeah?
SC You're battling the tether. (Garble)
- SC I know I am. I'm going to (garble).
SC Let's come back in here. Let's come
back in here. Just take it easy, and let me help you.
SC You're going to have to untether it, Pete.
SC Now that's my - tethered around my feet.
Right?
SC Yeah.
SC I got to turn around.
SC Okay, now it' s loose.
SC Where's my tether?
SC In front.
SC It's all right. It goes in front of
your feet, but it goes straight back into the airlock. You're
all right.
SC Yeah. Let me see if I can help you.
Now. You should just - ease it over towards me. All right,
wait.
SC (Garble)
SC No, the trouble is, I have to get it a
different way. All right. I got it off. It's the sole thing
holding the pole. Now just send it back towards me. Can you
do that?
SC What, the pole?
SC Yes.
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SC No, I don't want to do that, I don't think.

Let's - Why don't you help me (garble) I have it on.
SC Joe, you've got to have it tethered, and
I'ii let it slide out - It can slide out.
SC It's not tethered to what?
SC The pole. Let me get it in front of the --
SC What are you going to tether the pole to?
Oh, yourself, huh?
SC No. Now you --
SC Oh, the BET.
SC I just - no, damn it. I'ii tell you what
I want to do. Back --
SC What is that tether you've got on there?
SC That's the pole tether. Now, you should
just stay with me a minute. Come back with the pole. I'ii
tell you what we're going to do. We're going to get in the
right configuration --
SC We were in the right configuration --
SC No, we weren't. We were too short. You
couldn't slide your pole back. See? Now the tether will go
as far up the pole as you want it to. Did you retether it?
Yon follow me?
SC Whew_
SC I'ii tether it for you. Hold still. If
I can (garble). Can you hold the pole?
SC I've got the pole.
SC Okay. I'm going to hold on to the pole
and translate to the tether point. There.
SC Okay.
SC Be sure and lock it. It'll come apart in
a second and then out.
SC Okay, it's locked. Let me get back to
my - I need to get back. Push me back just so I can get (garble).
SC Wait a minute.
SC I'm on my way (garble).
SC Okay.
SC You got it. Now your assistance. Okay?
SC Okay. That might even help, if I reluctantly
have to confess.
S.C All right. Now just turn the pole nice
and fgarble) and can let her (garble).
SC Until you're holding that on there, it's
going to be a chore. God dang it. Wait a minute.
SC See the quarter of the sail, Houston?
CC Say again, PJ.
.J
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Time: 11:25 CDT, 14:16:25 GMT
6/7/73
SC Can you see the quarter of the sall -

the orange quarter?
CC Sta_d by. I think we can psyche it out.
We do have a good picture.
SC All right, let me come back a little.
Now we can go forward.
SC Oh, that's it. Now come up.
PAO This picture is through the command module
window.
SC You tie it.
CC Okay, we've got it, PJ.
SC Could you hold one foot
SC Yeah, you try it.
SC You that stable? If you could hold one
foot_ man, I could use both hands on this.
SC Wait.
SC Oh.
SC Let me hang on (garble) How's that?
SC That's pretty good. Now to get up under
the rubble there.
SC Wait a minute.
_- SC Make this come forward.
SC Tell me when you've got enough of the
sail, Houston. I'ii go back i_to the MDA.
CC We've got enough. Thank yon very much.
SC Okay.
SC Tired?
SC I'm not tired. I'm a little frustrated
because I have no place to secure myself here.
SC Houston, I've got a suggestion.
CC Okay, we're reading you. Understand
you're having trouble in maintaining your position in order
to hook it on the strap. Can you give us a little more detail?
We're hearing a lot of the conversation but we haven't got a
very good picture of it.
SC Well, let's Just cool it until we get
done. We're working the problem. Bunch of wires in the
way. God, that prevented you from getting it that time.
SC Un huh.
SC Trying to let it go, you know.
SC That's it. You've got it right there.
Pull back.
SC Can you by any possible means --
SC Oh, it came off.
SC I know it, but can you get hold of that
gray rope?
SC Gray rope?
./ SC _' The rope we marked.
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6/7/73
SC Yeah.
SC Wait a minute.
SC I'm going to have to - Well, unfortunately,
l've got myself tethered to the BET, to the deal right at the
moment. Take a rest. Okay. I've got the
SC You're pulling me around.
SC I've got the pole.
SC Take it easy.
SC Okay, now. The thing is - listen, help in
unhooking that rope back there.
SC Hey, how about - could yon -
SC Unhook it from the cleat. I want you
in a position to pull on the right rope while I'm holding it
in place. Cause I can't do both. Okay?
SC Just one second.
SC That would be the deal.
SC Okay, l've got the right rope.
SC That's the one.
CC Joe, just for your information, we oper-
ated on the opposite side of the discone from the one you're
r operating on. That is, we operated from the right hand side
of the discone. That may help you if you need more pole.
SC It's not a question of - pole -
SC It's not a question - l've got more than
enough pole, Rusty. It's a question of keeping my feet from
flying away so that I can not only reach the thing, but hold
it there.
CC Okay, the only thing I can say that
in the water tank we stood up almost parallel with the discone,
with our feet down by the base and used the discone as a handhold.
That helped us. You might want to try that.
SC Yeah, I'm doing that. It's not a handhold
I need, Rusty. It's a foothold.
CC Right. We put our feet right at the base of
the discone- -
SC That's where they are, Rusty.
CC Okay.
SC It's easy to get it in touch, but it's
impossible to get it to stay there.
SC Not impossible, just takes a little longer.
Th@t may, (garb le) speed it up.
scCC ' _See _ha_ l'm doing, l'm trying to - -
SC holding on to this rope right at the
moment .
SC No, no, I don't think so. Now. Whoops.

SC I'm giving you as much as I can give you.
SC Yeah.
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Time: 11:25 CDT, 14:16:25 GMT
6/7/73
SC All right. You're in good shape.

SC None of it, just a little hit come hack.
SC I think I'm on it.
SC No. I can tell you're in front of it;
you're still in front of it.
SC You'_e got to come towards me. Now you're
behind it at an angle, see.
SC Yeah, pull.
SC Now you're in front of it.
SC Now you're behind it, still behind it.
Got an excellent place to work, hut you're still behind it.
If you could just come over it right there, behind it - you're in
front of it again. (Garble).
SC You're still in front of it, yeah. Got
to go back behind it again.
SC Kow's that?
SC Now pull towards me. No, yon're not on
it. Are you?
SC No.
SC I'ii tell you, when you think you're on,
pull towards me, and that ought to pull it right to the base.
SC Uh, uh.
SC No, you're not on it yet.
SC It's pretty thick, Rusty.
SC That's the trouble. That's the trouble
right there.
CC Okay. Understand that. Is there any
other debris you can grab out there that's not as thick?
SC That's the very thing he's working on.
SC That's the trouble. The damn jaws aren't
far enough open.
SC Try closing it, Rusty. Right now.
SC Wait a minute. Hold it. That do it?
SC No. Mostly because it pulled off when
we were closing it.
SC Okay.
CC The only other thing we can think of,
Joe, is to make sure that they're fully opened before you try
to get it over. That'll give you the maximum chance.
SC Thank you. We're going to take it back
right now and reset it. Well, we may not have to take it
back. Let me pull on it and see if that'll reset.
SC You've got a piece of wire that time anyhow.
You were on it.
SC Yeah, I know it.
SC Oh, yeah. I sure am.
SC Let's - I wonder if we could - can we
tell if it's fully open? "_,i
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Time: 11:25 CDT, 14:16:25 GMT
6/7/73
SC It looks fully open.

SC Okay.
SC It sure does. Now. I've still got the
pull rope.
SC Okay.
SC Okay, let's go back to work.
SC Yeah, (garble) you to it.
SC Oh. Oh. Okay. Mostly because I'm in
position, and I don't want to - I'ii tell you, I'ii try it
(garble) now. Let me see
CC You know the best chance you have is as
close to the base of the SAS panel. That's where it's the
narrowest.
SC Is that right?
SC But there's a wire bundle there. I got
the pole.
SO Okay.
SC Am I all right now?
SC Yeah.
SC The pole is over (garble).
SC Okay.
-- SC (garble) they could be we're doing it.
CC Okay, Pete, just for your information,
you still got plenty of time here til sunset. You've got
Z9 minutes left.
SC Yeah, we're not sweating anything. I
tell you, Rusty, the strap is oriented in the worst - Joy - wait
a minute -
SC Want to get the (garble) again.
SC Okay, the strap happens to be oriented
in such a manner - even though it's not wide, it's presenting
its widest side to the cutters.
SC Okay.
SO I can't - -
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Time: 11:42 CDT, 14:16:42 GMT
6/7/73
SC Well, I can't see, Joe, although

I'll try, now that you changed positions.
SC Wait a minute. If I can bear against
it, do
you think I'd be all right?
SC I'm not in too bad a shape to steer
this pole myself. Keep - Here, now I got a hand on it,
son of a gun, myself, to steady it. How's that? I can
steady it --
SC Let's put it in.
SC That's right. First, you do the fore
aft and let me do the left right. Got to steer me, because
I can't see.
SC Yeah, wait a minute. I got a little
torque on my body that's holding that from coming the way
it wants to.
SC Well, that may be me.
SC No, it isn't you.
SC I tell you, Rusty, it looks llke if we
ever get it on the strap, we got it made. Because I can see
the rest of the meteorite panel, and most of it's underneath
and looks relatively clear.
CC Okay. If you can hook on anything at
all out there --
SC I understand --
SC Yeah, yeah, it's not oriented to do that,
and we understand.
CC Okay, and for your information, we're
about 30 seconds from LOS. And you got 26-i/2 minutes of
day left. And we're going to pick you up at Vanguard at 54;
that'll be after dark.
SC Where you going, Joe?
SC I can't stabilize myself on this side.
I just can't do it.
SC Yeah. Rest. I'ii tell you what, Joe.
Where's your umbilical with respect to mine? I see it.
SC (Garble) Let me try straddling it like
this.
SC Wait. We're getting umbilicals and
everything else all twisted up here.
SC Wait a minute; this may do it, right here.
SC Okay. You want the pole?
SC I got the pole.
SC Okays. You want me to still pull?
With full strength?
SC Uh huh.
SC All right, let me get in a position where
I can do that. I don't know.
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Time: 11:42 CDT, 14:16:42 GMT
6/7/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 16 hours 44 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. We've had LOS at the Merritt Island
Station. We will acquire again at the Vanguard Tracking Ship,
off the southeastern coast of South America, in about 9 min-
utes. Joe Kerwin having extreme difficulty trying to attach
the jaws of the cutter to the strap. Pete Conrad reporting
there is no other debris in the area to which they can attach
it, to allow him to get down into the area and assist in
getting the cutter on the strap. They were still continuing
to try as we had LOS. Pretty fair television out the MDA
window during this pass; also a shot out the command module
window, in which a corner of the orange sail could be seen.
Television of the EVA crewmen showed Joe Kerwin with his
legs flailing as he attempted to get the cutter on the strap.
Apparently, one of his biggest difficulties is he does not
have good foot restraints. You could see Pete Conrad holding
the A-frame; mushroom end of the cutter pole was visible.
And that bag that was tethered to the A-frame, floating,
contains the beam erection tether. During this pass during
this rather strenuous activity, the flight surgeon reports
that Pete Conrad's heart rates ranged between 100 and 110;
Joe Kerwln, 145 to 150. We'll come back up a few minutes
prior to AOS at Vanguard; that's about 7 minutes away. At
16 hours 47 minutes GMT, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
f--_ SL-II MC644/I
Time: 11:52 CDT, 14:16:52 GMT
6/7/73

Greenwich mean time. Two minutes away from the Vanguard.
Skylab just barely skirting the edge of Vanguard's range
during this pass, about a 5 minute pass, but at a very low
elevation angle. The maximum elevation 2.3 degrees. We'll
stand hy for first words from the crew and see how they're
making out.
PAO Seventeen minutes of daylight remaining.
We're i hour 30 minutes since hatch opening time.
SC (garble) There. Now.
SC Now, where are you?
SC and what I've done.
SC Huh?
SC Okay, well our umbilicals are free of each
other.
SC (garble). I want you to get back.
SC If I go out_ where's my umbilical with
respect to yours?
SC Inside of it, right where it ought to be.
SC All right, so I can go under, right?
SC Yes, sir.
SC Right now?
SC Yes, Paul.
CC Skylab, Houston, we've got you through
Vanguard here. Sounds like you got it hooked on somewhere.
SC Yes, we do and now all we're trying
to do is straighten out the umbilical mess before I go out.
CC Great.
SC I don't believe we'll have to move the cutter.
we got it in a dead center spot. All right, you ready?
SC Yep.
SC All right, now. I've got to go I got to get
oriented on this pole right. I got to go -
SC Now, you want to go with your feet out that
way, don't you?
SC Yes. I want you to grab a hold of the
pole now to stabilize it.
SC All right.
SC Got it?
SC On my way. Bye.
SC Good by.
CC And Paul, the messages are in the teleprinter
if you want to give them guidance.
SC Okay, you may have to feed some of my
umbilical out. You may have to tip my - -
SC Oh, boy.
SC Thanks, Rusty.
SC Wait a minute. However you fastened this
rope it sure is in there tight.
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Time: 11:52 CDT, 14:16:52 GMT
6/7/73
SC It's all right, Just let it come out.

SC Okay, it's coming out now.
SC Let it come over the end first. Let
it come over the end; don't pull it all loose, over the
end That's it, much room. That a boy. Bye.
SC Take your time, I want to feed this rope
behind you.
SC Hey, and are you -
SC l'm going to tighten the nuts on these
poles on the way up. Every single
SC Are they coming loose again already?
SC Every single one of them has backed off.
SC Isn't that incredible?
SC Yeah.
SC Hey, Pete.
SC Yeah.
SC You're starting out with your umbilical
under the pole.
SC All right.
SC (garble)
SC Stay where you are, Pete.
SC I got it.
SC Here. Here. Stay where you are.
SC Joe.
SC (garble) that tether under your unbilical.
SC God damn.
SC Say again.
SC Look, I wish you hadn't pulled that rope
out of the bag. Holy Christmas.
SC Listen, I gave it one tug and it all came.
SC Well.
SC Okay.
SC Okay. Oh, I'ii have to untether.
SC (garble)
SC tether.
SC No.
SC Okay.
SC Now, which is which?
SC This is the pole. It's the inside - -
SC All right.
SC That's the one.
SC But this one comes with no practice, man.
Now let it - -
SC that's right.
SC Let it come out - got to come out of the whole
dam thing. Hope it goes under.
SC It's got to.
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Time: 11:52 CDT, 14:16:52 GMT
6/7/73
SC Huh?
SC It must go under there.
SC All right.
SC Or we never could have gotten in
that box in the first place. Right.
SC Yes. All right now, am I free?
SC All right. Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
SC It's under the pole.
SC Yes. Okay, nDw go.
SC All right, bye.
SC Hello, Houston, you there?
SC Yes, sir. We got you for another 2-1/2
minutes.
SC Where is - where is the BET, Joe?
SC It's caught on - ho, ho, that's what
I was afraid of. It's all right.
SC Oh, that's the whole BET there, isn't it?
SC All right.
SC Okay.
SC Stay put.
CC Okay, we got you for two minutes, and then
r we're going to have about an hour dropout before we pick
yon up again at Goldstone. That'll be at 18:03.
SC Okay.
CC And you have about 13 minutes of daylight
left. And no big sweat.
SC Understand. Yeah, I'm watching it on
the pass - on the daynight thing, Rusty.
CC Okay, fine.
CC And Paul, if you want cooling, we recommend
you just disconnect from the food (garble) as your water (garble)
SC Joe.
SC Yes.
SC Umbilical is holding me up.
SC It is, hub?
SC I don't have any umbilical.
SC All right.
SC I got it. Ne_er mind.
SC It won't reach, Rusty. The umbilical is
flat not long enough to reach.
CC Okay, we're saying disconnect your comm
from the fuse box (garble)
SC No 9 it's still coming.
SC At the end of it already.
SC Good music.
SC Darn it.
CC Which side of the discone have you got
J'_ your umbilical?
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Time: 11:52 CDT, 14:16:52 GMT
6/7/73
SC On the right side facing aft the side

closest to the - to
the SAS panel
CC Okay, your umbilical is long enough, it's
probably snagging somewhere. Joe, you might want to take
a look at that back down there - -
SC I think it's all right, Rusty. He's
down there.
CC Okay.
SC It hung up, but it's all right.
CC Great, thank you.
SC I just cut it with my trusty boy scout
knife.
CC We're going to disregard that one.
SC Yeah, please do.
SC Gee, are you going to attach the other thing
SC first. Well, the trouble is - I don't
know how I did it but I got the BET thing in the wrong place.
I've got to get this BET thing under my umbilical.
SC Under your umbilical.
SC Hell, yes.
SC Oh, all right. I guess I better come out
and help you.
SC No, don't you move. Two of us out here
is plenty.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours Greenwich
mean time. We've had loss of signal at Vanguard. We won't
acquire again until we reach Geldstone i hour 3 minutes from
this time. We copied the time that Pete Conrad started down
the pole. Said his third goodby after two false starts. At
16 hours 57 minutes. And as we ended the pass Joe Kerwin
indicated that Conrad was down at the cutter end, and Conrad
then reported the - the BET, the beam extention tether, was
not in the right place. He had to pass it under his umbilical
before he could start attaching it. 8 hours of -
sorry, 8 minutes 45 seconds of daylight remaining. One hour
2 minutes to the next station, which will be Goldstone. And
this EVA has been underway i hour 38 minutes 3_ seconds. That's
since hatch opening. At 17 hours 2 minutes GMT, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
_, SL-II MC-645/I
Time: 12:31 CDT, 14:17:31 GMT
6/7/73

Greenwich mean time. Skylab is on its 347th revolution, at
this time passing just beyond range of the Carnazvon, Australia,
Station. We're 32 minutes away from acquiring the spacecraft
at the next tracking station, which will he Goldstone. The
crew has 14 minutes of darkness remaining in this revolution.
And it's been 2 hours 8 minutes since the hatch was opened for
this EVA. At 17 hours 32 minutes GMT, this is Skylah Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-646/I
Time: 12:48 CDT, 14:17:48 GMT
6/7/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours 48 minutes

Greenwich mean time. We're about 15 minutes away from acquisi-
tion at Goldstone. Skylab out over the Pacific Ocean now,
moving up onto its northern most reaches at 50 degrees north
latitude. It's been 2 hours and 26 minutes since the hatch
has been opened. Crew is in daylight now. 54 minutes of
daylight remaining. We don't know what has been transpiring,
naturally, and won't know until we get to Goldstone. During
the height of the activity in an attempt to secure the cable
cutters, Joe Kerwin's heart rate did reach a high of 150.
And the flight surgeons say his metabolic work load peaked
at 2000 British thermal units. They would not llke to see
a sustained period at those rates or at those workloads.
However they believe he has had sufficient time to rest,
particularly during the darkness, the night side of this
pass. We're 13 minutes away from AOS now. Wetll come back
up a couple of minutes prior to Goldstone acquisition.
At 17 hours 50 minutes GMT this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
I
SL-II MC-647/I
Time: 13:01 CDT, 14:18:01 GMT
6/7/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 18 hours i minute

Greenwich mean time. Two minutes away from Goldstone acquisi-
tion. Skylab will pass almost directly over the Goldstone Tracking
Station on this revolution. And then pass directly into
Texas acquisition before going LOS and going down across the
west Coast of South America. This, for all intence and
purposes, is the last stateside pass of the day. One more
acquisition at Goldstone, but that's very short. About
3-1/2 minutes. We're 2 hours 39 minutes since hatch opening.
And 41 minutes of daylight remains for the crew. We'll
stand by for first transmission and we are configuring on the
ground to receive television, with the crew ascending.
SC You are now free and clear.
SC They're all accordian except for the
(garble) edge. You see it?
SPT Yep.
SPT They're all accordian about evenly, too.
CDR Well, the two outboard ones are further out
to the very inboard ones.
SPT Let's tell Houston to fix our gyro before
we go.
CDR Yeah. Talking about stuff.
SCHWEICKART Hello, there we're listening to you.
You're coming in loud and clear. And we see SA$ amps.
CDR Yeah. Well let's take care of our C-gyro,
we ain't got any of them.
SCHWEICKART Okay. We're looking at it.
CDR All right. I'ii tell you where we are.
We've got the wing out and locked, the outboard panel and
the middle panel are about out the same amount, and the
third one is not quite. Now, Joe, I think before you come in,
you better take a look up there and make sure that third
one is clear and all the debris.
SPT That's really bugging me.
CDR All right. I can do that myself, right here,
if I can get there from here.
SCHWEICKART Okay, Pete. We don't understand, that
the outboard two were almost all the out the last time when you
looked - -
CDR No, no, no, no, no, no. They are further
out that the inboard ones.
SPT But none of them are out very far. All of
them are accordian evenly and the angles between them, look
to me, like about 20 degrees, Rusty. So they've got a good
long way to go.
SCHWEICKART Okay. Are they still moving? And how
long ago did you get them out?
SPT Set them out about 5 or 8 minutes ago.
And they're not still moving.
CDR Doesn't look to me like they're moving at
all. If they are, it's really super slow.
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Time: 13:01 CDT, 14:18:01 GMT
6/7/73
SPT I don't think they're moving. No

doubt in my mind. They're staying right where they are, for
the moment. Yon guys are going to bait them out, right?
SCHWEICKART That's the plan.
SPT Okay. I think you're going to have to
that, is what I'm saying.
CDR I'm trying to - -
SPT Go on down to the SAS, Pete. And let's
get going.
CDR No, I want Okay.
CDR Excuse me.
SC (Laughter).
SCHWEICKART Okay. Pete, can you tell us where you
are? Are you still out near the SAS wing? What's your
status there?
CDR I'm out (garble) headed for the SAS.
Right this instant, I'm almost - I'm in the SAS. And I'm
getting ready to pull in all my umbilical - Joe, can you see
my umbilical?
SPT Just a second. I was doing a 360 to
get mine in (garble) there.
_ CDR Yeah. Well I'm trying to - let me get
in here with my umbilical in the right place.
SPT I think I want to do it that way, right?
SC (Garble).
SCHWEICKART Joe, when you get a chance, give us a
status of the BET, where is it and how tight have you got
it, et cetera?
SPT The BET is between the panel and (garble) and
its rigged, Rusty. And it's as tight as I can get it, which isn't
terribly tight, because of the characteristics of the clete.
SCHWEICKART Okay. We - -
SPT It's also not terribly secure. Because
I don't have anything to secure it with. But it'll stay
there as long as nothing hits it, I guess.
SCHWEICKART Okay. Would you describe it as having
no slack in it, but not very much tension?
SPT That's correct.
SCHWEICKART Okay. That's exactly what we wanted.
Thank you.
SPT (Garble) all the time.
SC Hey, Rusty. Do you think we've got
another condensate tank Delta-P light. I'm going to go through
the dump procedures again.
SCHWEICKART Okay. And we would like for you to leave
it in the dump procedure, that is. We'd like you to leave it
in a vacuum - -
SPT Whoops.
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Time: 13:01 CDT, 14:18:01 GMT
617173
SCHWEICKART in a vacuum on that side.

SPT That's how it was when the light came on.
CC Okay. Thank yon.
CDR Yeah. Joe, hold it just a minute.
SPT Yeah.
CDR While I get these. I don't know whose
umhilica is whose, here.
SPT I'm trying to get down and help you.
And I'm hung, by the fact that I'm still tethered. (Laughter).
to the pin.
CDR Okay.
SPT So I think I'd like _o get this - -
CDR All right, now I'm going.
SPT Like to get this pole going in some
direction or other.
CDR All right. Now I've got mine all down.
Here, and putting it away. Okay. (garble) that. Now, where
is it?
SPT What?
CDR Oh, I'm Just looking for my umbilical.
SPT Oh. Easier to track another guys umbilical
than it is your own, you know it.
_ CDR Yeah. But unfortunately I've got your's
down here, too. And I don't know why.
SPT Just come along with.
CDR Huh?
SC It wants to come along with you when you
went down.
CDR It's hooked in me somehow, and heind my
feet and you, or something.
CDR Oh, no it isn't. Wait a minute. I see
it.
CDR All right, that's your's. Now all I
need to do is come over my head with it. I can't believe it.
We've got em in, without being tangled.
SC (Laughter).
SPT It's due to a i00 peycent skill, and
zero percent luck, right.
CDR Yeah. Okay.
CDR Now. I'm ready for you. All right -
SPT I'm a coming.
CDR Hand me the pole.
SPT I'ii get it a more favorable location
momentarily. I'm trying to manage
CDR You're flaying around with it.
SPT I know it.
SCHWEICKART Joe,this is Houston. If you've got a
look at it, was the inboard panel clear of debris? Or is
r it hangin_ up on it?
CDR Yes, yes.
SCHWEICKART Okay. Thank you.
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Time: 13:01 CDT, 14:18:01 GMT
6/7/73
CDR Best I could tell.

SPT Yeah, it's been that way.
CDR Always been that way.
SCHWEICKART Say again.
CDR Oh, we're talking to ourselves, Rouston.
SPT Wait a minute. I need to stop
right here, untether from the pin and get myself toward it.
CDR All right, take your time.
SPT Yep.
CDR We got the main job done.
SC_WEICKART And Joe, if you get a chance before you
leave the area, if you'll look at the connector on the top
of the AUX tunnels and see if there is any obvious debris
around it.
GDR No, it's clean -
SPT (Garble) onnector.
CDR It's clean.
SPT On top of the AUX tunnel, I cannot see
from where I am right here.
CDR There isn't anything out there but that
old piece of meteoroid shield that was underneath the wing.
SPT That's sure is what it looks like.
CDR Ed, you got -
SC From the angle I can get on it, it's
completely clean, your right, Pete.
CDR You guys called it pretty well. It's -
When I cut the strap it was under tension and it went about
2 feet. Then it stopped, then I had to break the ah -
SPT Oh, look at that.
CDR Whatchacallit. Look at what?
SPT Broke my foolish 6 foot tether here. More of
a henderance than a help, all of a sudden. As a matter of
fact, it you'll, well - I'd like to stuff it away some place.
Not quite sure what to do with it.
GDR What you doin, I'm holding on to the pole.
SPT You're holding on to it?
CDR Yes.
SPT Oh. Is it in a good position for you?
CDR Yes. Want me to get rid of it for you?
SPT Well, let's bring it on down.
CDR Okay. Keep coming.
SPT I have to roll it here.
CDR Okay.
SC To get the blades in the right configura-
tion again, to get by this pole.
CDR Yep.
SPT Okay. Coming?
CDR It's coming.
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SPT Keep her coming.

SPT You've got it now. It's out of my hands.
CDR I got it.
SCHWEICKART Okay. EV-I and 2. We're seeing a fairly
high Delta-T on the gas temperatures going through. We'd
like you to, if you can, to go ahead and increase your water
cooling.
SPT Increase or decrease?
SCHWEICKART Well, we'd like to see you taking more
out with the water_ and less out with the gas.
SPT Okay. Fine. I'll tell you what. I
powered down for the night, Busty. And Just haven't gotten
around to powering up again.
SCHWEICKART Okay. Fine, Joe.
SPT I just pushed it up.
CDR I felt rather comfortable, myself.
SPT And I'm getting cooling and it feels
very nice.
SPT That's good. They obviously commanded it
back on. Took care of the problem for us.
CDR Okay. The pole is tethered and you're
clear of ah - -
SPT All right. I am coming back.
CDR All right. Let me change your umbilical.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
SPT All right, I'm waiting. I have to get hold
of this hand rail.
CDR Your thing is hung up, up there.
SPT No it's not.
CDR Okay. I got it.
SPT It's under my foot, however, wait a minute.
CDR Let me get it here. You can stick it in here.
SPT Now, where's your's.
CDR Mine's in hack. It says back in the back.
SPT You want me to go in and stow your's
right now, before we do anything else? hat might not be a had idea,
Pete. We won't need it again.
CDR All right.
SPT Get it out of our way.
SPT Let me make it a little (garble) while you're
doing that.
SPT There we go.
CDR Watch the tool. Watch the tool.
CDR All right. That a boy. Now you're all
right. Hold it, hold it. Darn tools's in the way. Let me
get it out of your way. I don't want you to cut yourself on
it. Okay. Now. Go on in.
SPT As a matter of fact I'ii come in here
stow your umbilical, and then stow that tool.
CDR Then I'ii take it apart.
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SPT Yeah, we'll take it apart and put it

away.
CDR (garble) B2A
SPT We could probably do that at night.
CDR No sweat.
SPT Now -
CDR It's working.
SPT the umbilical.
CDR You've got your hand on it.
SPT Holy Mackerel, it's all the way out.
Clean out of the sphere.
CDR Okay. Are you ready?
SPT Before you go, let's undo it here.
CDR All right.
SPT (garble) with it coming so hard.
CDR Just take your time.
SPT Okay. That's the first time I've ever
seen one clean out of the sphere.
CDR Ah, Houston. Are you still there?
SCHWEICKART Yes, sir. We are. We've got the
C-gyros back on and we're going back to SI.
SPT Rusty, we did that job with about 3 feet
of umbilical to spare, and Pete.
SCHWEICKART Okay. And I understand you're not gone
out to the ATM yet.
CDR No.
SPT That's affirm.
CDR No, we just spent the night out there on
the solar panel.
SCHWEICKART Okay, before you go out there we would
like to ask Paul, to turn off the image disector and turn off
the photo multiplier on 54, to prevent any corona problems
when you're putting out gas out that end.
CDR You guy will make changes right to the
bloody end. (Laughter).
CC Right.
CDR While you have a moment, I an't guarantee
you that that third panel does not have solar shield under-
neath it, because I don't know where the solar shield went
to. You were correct. It did have force in it. From the number
one torsion rods. And it's possible it could have flapped
out there and hung up the inboard solar panel.
SCHWEICKART Did Joe get a look down the side just before
he left the discone antenna?
SPT Definitely did, sir. I saw no hangups what
so ever. I saw nothing above the level of the meteoroid
shield.
CDR Okay.
SPT Hanging up that sail. It - that blanket
should come out.
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CDR Okay. And I suspect that seeing the

(garble) right? Isn't that the coldest one?
SPT I don't know.
SCHWEICKART They were all about the same temperature,
Pete. But that may be a slightly colder. Okay, Pete,
just out of curiosity, did you cut through the strap or
pry it, or what did you do with it?
CDR Cut through it. And I'll tell you what -
Let me tell you what it was. It was where the meteoroid
shield had torn off of both sides of the angles, so that
we had two angles and a juggler with the bolts in it. We
had no flanges. Okay.
SCHWEICKART Okay. Understand. You had both flanges
until the 7075 angle.
SC No. - -
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CDR I'ii tell you what Let me tell you what

it was. It - it was the meteoroid shield had torn off of both
sides of the ankle, so that we had two ankles and the doubler
with the bolts in it, with no flanges. Okay?
CC Okay, understand you have both flanges
of the 7075 angle.
CDR No. Yeah, well, we had half of one flange,
half of the other flange and the doubler in the middle with
the bolt. And the bolt in fact the long end in fact there
was one little lousy single bolt in the bitter end. It had driven
far enough three - through to hold the strap. Everything else
was free.
CC Okay, we got i minute to LOS here at Texas,
and we'll be picking up Vanguard at 28, that's i0 minutes
from now.
CDR You're down to hold it, hold it. Don't
go any
further.
SC (garble)
SPT Ah, this is the most working EVA.
CDR (garble)
SPT ...stowing that darn umbilical.
CDR Rest while I take the pole apart.
SPT Okay.
CDR Okay. Have you got some place to strap
all that junk?
SPT I've got one long strip that will have
to do.
CDR Okay, now let's see. (garble)
CDR Going to pull the same stunt, I'ii take it
apart and put it in there. Okay?
SPT I'm going to digress myself with my 6 foot
tether.
CDR Here comes the tool.
SPT Just a minute. I ain't ready for it.
CDR Say, why don't I _ake the the tool head off?
SPT Yeah, that's a good idea at this point,
Rusty. I'd rather have it off.
CDR My name is Pete.
SPT (Laughter) Sure. I've really done it.
CDR What did you do?
SPT I called you Rusty.
PAO This Skylab Control, 18 hours 18 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal at Texas.
Tracking ship Vanguard will acquire in about 9 minutes. The
solar array wing is out, the bolt cutters successful in severing
that aluminum strap. The three solar cell panels on the - on
the wing not fully deployed, the - the inboard one less deployed than
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the other two. The plan is to initiate a maneuver with the

spacecraft - 45 degree pitch maneuver - to get that wing more into
the Sun, warm it up, and it's believed that the panels with
then deploy fully or at least more fully. The dampers on
those panels are thought to be frozen because of the very
low temperatures they've seen. EGIL saw amps coming from that
wing as soon as he got data on this pass. We don't have a
reading yet on how much power we're receiving. We'll
try to get that as soon as we can. We'll come back up again
just prior to the Vanguard pass. At 18 hours 20 minutes GMT,
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Time: 13:29 CDT, 14:18:25 GMT
6/7/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; 18 hours 25 min-

utes Greenwich mean time. 2-1/2 minutes away from acquisition
at Vanguard. When we had loss of signal at Texas the two
EVA crewmen Conrad and Kerwln were back in that fixed airlock
shroud area. They will disassemble the cutter pole and then
Joe Kerwin will go up to the work station on the Sun side of
the Apollo telescope mount to replace the magazine in the
S082A experiment - extreme ultraviolet coronal spectrohelio-
graph. This is the experiment that photographs the Sun in
selected ultraviolet wavelengths. Had a problem with that;
film appears to be hung up in the magazine at the present.
And he will latch open the door to the S054 experiment, the
X-ray spectrographic telescope experiment that takes X-ray
photographs of the solar disk and 5 spectral bands. This
door has presented a problem in the past so that it will be
permanently latched open. We're slightly less than a minute
away from acquisition. The crew opened the hatch 3 hours
4 minutes ago and they have 16 minutes daylight left. We'll
stand by for this Vanguard pass.
SCHWEICKART Okay, Skylab. Houston here. We've got
you for the next nine minutes and at your convenience we'd
r like a GO on the maneuver.
SPT Roger. You can go for the maneuver, and
Rusty did you copy my description of the sail?
SCHWEICKART Negative, sir. We Just picked you up
right now, so go ahead.
SPT Yeah, let me repeat that.
PLT It's on B channel, Joe. It's recorded
so they can get it later.
SPT All right. Let's press on then. Good.
CDR Coming out to you right now old Buddy.
SPT Stop it before it gets there because l'm
involved in getting back into my shoes, huh?
CDR yeah.
SPT Okay, I'm in the boots. Bring it on
out.
CDR Okay, it's clear. Your umbilical -
SPT Yes, nice and clear.
CDR Yes, it's on its way.
SPT There's a bit of problem at first, leaning
hack (laughter) towards the Earth.
CDR Say when.
SPT Keep it coming. Ready, when.
CDR Let me tell you something Joe.
SPT Yes.
CDR That handle? It's very stiff and it's
a very tight fit.
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SPT This one.

CDR Yes sir. So hang on.
SPT Okay.
CDR You may have to really wrinkle to get it
out.
SPT I've got it.
CDR Okay. Going to retract.
SPT Okay. Okay it didn't work. All right.
It's stowed.
CDR Lock it.
SPT I guess it's locked. All right, in work.
CDR I think I've got
SPT It's funny but I don't think so.
Bright out here. And the doors are marked on the real ATM.
CDR Need any more umbilical?
SPT No, I don't.
CDR Okay.
SCHWEICKART PLT, just a reminder. We did have one
pen and ink change there that didn't come up on the teleprinter -
SPT Oh boy, oh boy.
SCBWEICKART pads there for you.
SPT What a gorgeous view. Go ahead, Paul.
PLT What was it?
SCHWEICKART Okay, that was remember we want to close
the door and wait 20 seconds before you turn the main power
ON there on the checkout.
PLT Okay, you're going to have to tell me
as we go through it, I think.
SCHWEICKART Okay, just let me know.
CDR Hey, Rusty. What quads do you want me
to look into - quads that I can see from here and I'm not
even exactly sure where I am. l'm trying to figure that out
right now, what I'm looking at - what am I looking at?
PLT Let me get on with Joe then, Pete.
SPT Paul, Rusty, the SO54 door is closed
which surprises me. I thought it was open.
SC We did, too.
SPT Well it ain't.
SCHWEICKART Joe, go ahead and open it. Hit it open.
SPT Okay. Paul -
PLT What?
SPT Go ahead with your checklist.
PLT Okay.
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PLT Okay, you got the lid open?

SPT On 82A, no.
PLT Yes. Well, open the lid.
SPT All right. Unlocked. Open. Cocked.
PLT Okay. Take the new one out and put it in
a temporary stowage container.
SPT Complete.
PLT Can you open the sOg2A door, underneath
the launch lock, and move the move the locking handle to
release the magazine.
SPT Okay. Once again I have a problem with
the film door because the aperture door is closed.
SCHWEICKART Understand the 82A aperture door is
closed, Joe?
SPT Yes sir. Every aperture door in the
place is closed.
SCHWEICKART Okay, we do need to get that one open,
and we do not want you to unpin that one.
SPT All right, I understand that, but I
would like it open so I can get at the film.
SCHWEICKART Okay, that should be - P. J. should just
be able to have POWER DOORS to OPEN. Stand by just one.
SPT l'm clear, Paul.
PLT Yes, are we clear, Rusty?
SCHWEICKART Beg your pardon, say again.
PLT You want me to do it.
SCHWEICKART Negative, Stand by just I second.
Okay, the answer is GO. POWER DOORS to OPEN.
PLT Okay, POWER DOORS going OFF.
SCHWEICKART Negative, Sir. POWER DOORS ON.
SPT Okay, it's opening. Yes, it's opening.
That's fine, it's clear. Okay, I got the door open. It
interferes with S054 a little more than the trainer. And the
LAUNCH LOCK is to UNLOCK. Go ahead, Paul. Okay. Okay? That's
fine Whoops. Hey, that's got it. I think. Pesky thing. It's
in the can. The can is closed and locked and I'm going for the
new film.
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SPT All right, arrow to arrow, and 1'11

stick it in far enough to get it somewhat secured. Now I
will extend the handle. Okay, the handles out and locked.
Here we go. It didn't go very - you know, real firmly,
positively, but it appears to be in all the way. The white
flag is fully over it and I'm gonna bolt the lock handle
down. And it came in with a nice firm clunk. The flag's
there. Okay. Go ahead. Take six frames. Do
whatever you need to do.
CDR Wait, wait a minute. Have you pulled
the pin on the 54 door down there? Well, okay. All right, go
ahead.
CDR Listen, everything they do on the ATM
is chopped up, and I'm going to give them a little dissertation
after we get inside.
SCHWEICKART Okay now, Stand by now, Pete. P. J.
we're ready to give you that little MOD there, if you want
it now.
PLT Okay, let's have it.
SCHWEICKART Okay, you see where it says EV 3 panel
130?
_ PLT No. Why don't you tell me what to do?
SCHWEICKART Okay, on panel 130, you want to go
FILM RESET, SELECT XUV SPEC.
PLT Go ahead.
SCHWEICKART Okay, RESET switch to RESET.
PLT Okay, it reads 201.
SCHWEICKART Okay, that's just right. Okay, now
you want to go POWER DOORS to OFF, and wait 20 seconds and
Joe should see the door close.
SPT It's closing. It's fully closed.
SCHWEICKART Okay, P. J. you can now pick up.
And the checklist you've got there, that's your normal
message, With MAIN POWER switch ON, power doors talkback
white, and barber pole, on down the rest of the thing.
PLT Yeah I (garble) this last one out of
sequence Rusty, I gotta pick up where I am.
SPT Here eComes the terminator.
SCHEICKART Okay, be advised we will not be doing
the maneuver until Goldstone, next rev. We're going LOS
here, we're picking up Goldstone at 19:43.
PLT Okay. Okay.
CDR You guys get that ATM stuff squared
away. I can't see having two guys hanging out a hatch, and
they've got procedures are all screwed up.
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SCHWEICKART Rog.
CDR EVA procedures were in good shape, Rusty,
you guys did a good job, but I'm a little hacked at this
ATM Mickey Mouse.
SCRWEICKART Okay, just as we're going over the
hill, P.J. we do need you to go to SI here, to get us back
into configuration.
CDR You get his last, P. J.? Okay.
SPT Say again.
PAO This is Skylab Control 18 hours 39
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
at Vanguard. We do have a 1-minute pass at the Hawaii
station in 59 minutes. That will be followed by about a
3-1/2 minute pass at the Goldstone station. As we had LOS,
Joe Kerwln had successfully replaced the magazine of the
SO82A experiment, and had latched open the door of the
SO54 experiment. A preliminary assessment here in the
Control Center, based on first look at the solar array
wing, we believe that two of the solar panels are deployed
about 40 percent, one about 30 percent. I don't have any
power numbers yet, but EGIL believes that in the present
_ configuration of the panel, there is enough power to charge
all eight of the power conditioning group batteries in the
airlock module electrical power system. In the present
configuration there is enough power being produced from the
deployed solar wing to charge all eight batteries. We will
plan to do the 45 degree pitch maneuver during the Goldstone
pass, and let that wing hot-soak in the Sun to try to free
the actuators and get full deployment on the panels to
provide even more power. At 18 hours 41 minutes,
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6/7/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 19 hours 8 min-

utes Greenwich mean time, thirty minutes away from a short
1 minute pass at Hawaii. Here in the Control Center the
clock we've been using for EVA is continuing to count. It
shows 3 hours, 45 minutes since hatch opening. We would
expect though that the crew is back inside and has buttoned
up the hatch. They were essentially through with the EVA
when we had LOS at Vanguard. Remaining task were to break
down the cable cutter pole, stow the sections in the air-
lock module. And then ingress themselves while trying to
stuff their umbilicals back in the air-lock module which is
no small task in itself as you've heard. They've had problems
with the umbis umbilicals all day. So when we see them
at Hawaii, we'd certainly would expect them to back in the
spacecraft. Spacecraft is in darkness nowj 8 minutes
remaining in the night time for the crew. 28 minutes from
acquisition at Hawaii and 19 hours 10 minutes GMT, this is
Skylab Control
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6/7/73

time 19 hours 36 minutes. We will have acquisition over
the Hawaii tracking station in approximately 1 minute. This
will be a very brief pass of approximately 1 minute. We
will hear from the crew on a success of eloseout of =he -
closeout of the extravehicular activity.
CC Skylah Houston at Hawaii for just about
30 seconds.
CDR Okay Houston. Be advised that we had
another deactive gyro on us that we reconfigured
the gyro to and now we're having a MOL SIEVE flow problem. I'm
not exactly sure of what it is. We also got a secondary
coolant slope coolant loop tamp low. We shut that off and
turned on the primary loop.
SCHWEICKART Okay, we got that. Stand by Just one.
SCHWEICKART Do you have a redundancy management
enabled or disabled ou the C-axis?
CDR We are in rate gyro 2 only with RM
enabled. It was a 50036 Rusty.
SCHWEICKART Okay, stand by just one.
SPT We called up the gyro displays and gyro 1
was cycling from plus mini to minus mini.
_f SCHWEICKART Roger we like gyro 2, but stand by on the
RM.
SPT Okay.
CDR Okay, now the MOL SIEVE heat exchanger (garble)
temperature is reading 5 degrees. And the thing is making some
really weird noises there with the fans on.
SCHWEICKART Okay, on the rate gyro configuration,
we're going to commanding that from the ground, so we'll
take care of the redundancy management.
SPT What are you going to leave us in?
SCHWEICKART Okay, all we're going to do is inhibit
redundancy management. We like gyro 2 and we're going to
use it as a baseline and compensate 3 to it. And stand
by and I'ii give you some information about the maneuver.
CDR Okay_ and anybody that knows anything
about the MOL SIEVE, on MOL SIEVE A, the fan - - we powered
up the secondary fan, and after about 3 minutes operation
it started making a - an in and out - almost as if a flapper
valve is flapping back and forth, opening and closing. It
does it on both the primary and the secondary fans.
SCHWEICKART Okay, we read. Stand by.
SCHWEICKART It looks like what we're going to plan
to do here is maneuver at Goldstone, wetre going to try
to get that man@uver in at that time. Just stand by - -
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SCHWEICKART Okay, Skylab. How do you read?

PLT Loud and clear.
SCRWEICKART Okay. First thing - order of business
here. We need you to get this - the primary coolant loop
OFF, we'd like you to go to secondary coolant loop inverter
2, pump Bravo. Over.
CDR That's complete.
SCHWEICKART Roger. Understand, that's complete,
and stand by and I'ii give you some information on the
maneuver here.
CC Okay, the information on the GYRO status
and the maneuver is that we are running on g-2 and we're
gonna use that as a baseline. We're gonna compensate Z-3
to it after about a rev of data. And at that time we plan
to switch to 2 and 3 RM ENABLE. Now that'll take us about
a rev before we get there, so we'll run on SINGLE GYRO up
until that time. We will be starting maneuver - the maneuver
about now, and you can expect TACS firings because we are
saturated in that axis.
CDR Roger.
SCHWEICKART And we're working the problem on the
MOL SIEVE here and we should have some information for you
shortly.
SHWEICKART Okay, just for information. We do
think that Z-3 is okay, but its compensation is bad, so
after we get the compensation in, we think we'll have a
two-gyro situation about one rev from now or something.
CDR Okay, also, what's the nominal con-
figuration for the valves on the condensate tank when we're
hooked up to the holding tank?
SCHWEICKART Stand by i. And for your information, we're
working out a message where we can get you - where we can get you a
single pad which will modify your post-EVA that will take
care of the total configuration. And that should be coming
up here probably by Vanguard. In the meantime, Pete, we
got the good news part of this whole thing and that is, that
today for lunch you may have hot dogs instead of cold dogs.
CDR Roger.
SCNWEICKART Okay, and the configuration on the
condensate tank is FILL and CLOSE.
CDR I read that. We've got four (garble)
items to hook back up to a (garble), so that one's okay for
the moment. It looks to me like we've got something blocking
MOL SIEVE A. Can you hear it? The fan is(garble) just -
CC _. As a matter of fact, we can hear it.
Okay, what we're
_ : rec_m_e_ding_ for right now is MOL SIEVE A
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and B FANS OFF. We got about 30 seconds to LOS at

Goldstone, we'll pick you up Vanguard at 20:05.
CDR Okay.
SCHWEICKART And if we haven't lost you here yet,
quite, then we'd like to use your head on lights. We'd
like to have you minimize it here, until we get back in
solar inertial after a few revs, and just keep them to a
minimum, but whatever you want there.
CDR Okay.
SCHWEICKART Okay, and if you still read us, we
would like to have the OWS HEAT EXCHANGER FANS in the aft
compartment ON.
PLT We will Dave, as soon as I pick
up the checklist.
SCHWEICKART Okay, dandy.
mean time 19 hours 48 minutes. We've had loss of signal
over the Goldstone tracking station, with acquisition
scheduled in 16 minutes over Vanguard. During this brief
stateside pass, Commander Conrad discussed with the ground
the apparent noise being made by MOL fan - MOL SIEVE fan B.
f Mission Control Center, through astronaut Rusty Schweickart,
reccommended to turn both MOL SEIVE fans A and B off for
right now, and the ground will continue to look at it over
the Vanguard tracking station. The ground also advised
the crew that the Z-RATE GYRO looks good right now. Z-
RATE GYRO number 2 and they're getting ready to pass up the
commands to make the maneuver to put the vehicle in a 45
degree attitude to turn the newly deployed solar panels
toward the Sun. At Greenwich mean time 19 henrs 49
minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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time 20 hours, 4 minutes. We will have acquisition over the
Vanguard tracking station in approximately I minute. The
crew has been back inside the orbital workshop in the air-
lock area for approximately 1/2 a revolution. We anticipate
conversation with CAPCOM Rusty Schweickart and Bob Crippen
with the Skylah crew.
SCHWEICKART Skylab, Houston, we got you over the
Vanguard for about 10 minutes.
CDR Whoopy.
SCHWEICKART Okay, I got some good news for you. First
of all everybody down here is shaking hands and we wish we
could reach up there and shake yours. That was a dandy Job
and everybody was very pleased, and secondly If yom haven't
already gotten there we're saying press on with the normal post
EVA checklist down to page 3.1-8 where it says eat. Go ahead
and have a nice one and just cool it. We'll - we'll take
care of it from there on and get back up to you if we want
you to go past there. That is we do not want you to go into
the ATM reconfiguration.
CDR Okay, we - we - what have you got for us,
another EVA tomorrow?
SCHWEICKART Well, we're considering all kinds of things,
you know, people are expecting great things. You do a good
job - -
PLT Hey, Rusty, see I got - I got a couple words.
One is, in order to get the heat - OWS heat exchanger fans to
start up when in the OWS position, I had to come close those
logic breakers. Now they'll continue to run with the
breakers open, but I had to close the breakers to get them
started.
SCHWEICKART Okay, we copy. Thank you.
PLT Okay, now the other thing is a recommended
change to the EVA checklist is far into the EVA have somebody
turn off the fire sensors in the aft lock compartment or it
gives the PLT pitier-pat when both fire sensors go off when the
Sun shines in the locker compartment during the EVA.
SCHWEICKART Thank you, that - that - the choice is subtle,
we appreciate that one.
CDR Just one sensor, 2392-2, the one that is
sticking out and not looking back into the heat exchanger
gets reflected UV, I guess. Cause it sure _ent off right
after we popped into daylight. J_oel war-haifway
over the hill and I was halfway out of the air (garble)
alarm down there (garble)
SCHWEICKART Okay, thanks.
PLT Also, indications are we may have frozen
up the mol sieve, if such a thing is possible with the fan
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off the out temperature - temperature out indication is

gradually coming up. And that's - the fans, both primary
and secondary run. They both make the same strange noise
and they don't suck. As Pete says, it's like their blowing
into a blocked pipe which they may very well be. Now_ we got
a question, did we freeze the plates or did we dry them
out and will we have to fewer them, I don't expect answers
now, but those are things you guys ought to be thinking about.
SCHWEICKART Okay, we got that, thank you.
CDR We changed something else. When it first
came off and I got to looking at it, its dewpoint
with 32 and it has slowly crawled up to 44. Now, we have the
original air flow configuration back and that we've hooked
up the big duct between the OWS and we have our fan running,
blowing hot air on the heat exchanger and we're trying to
move some hot air up into the MDA because it's pretty darned
cold up there, now.
SCHWEICKART Okay. The only thing we may have to do
there is do some power down. So we'll let you know though
if we need to power any of that stuff off. We got - we're
in a bind here between getting things warm and keeping the
F- power down.
CDR Understand, and what's the matter with
CBRM number 3. I noticed it's all shut up. Did y'all do that?
SCHWEICKART Okay, we did that down here.
CDR How about telling us?
SCHWEICKART Okay, that's to keep the heaters off the
battery problem, there, we shut it down from here. There's
no sweat with that.
CDR Okay.
CC And, PLT, I wonder if we can have some
positive feedback, probably from Joe and Paul. Did the
frames decrement on SO82A, and was 54 door in fact pinned open
after you got done?
CDR Everything came out just the way it was
advertised, we took one picture and it decremented to
200. It went to an operate light and back to the green.
So, y'all had the problem figured out.
CC Fantastic.
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CDR - - it had decremented to 200. It went

to an operate light and back to a green. So ya'll have
the problem to figure out.
SCHWEICKART Fantastic.
CDR And Joe pinned the door, no sweat, it's
pinned open.
SCHWEICKART Okay, we suggest you have a very nice
lunch and maybe even a little siesta there. And we'll get
back to you.
CDR Okay, we've got a lot of cleaning up
to do. I think we'll start on that.
SCHWEICKART Okay, Skylab, Houston. We do have one
thing that does look mandatory here to get our momentum
back in shape. We need a nominal H cage of 52023 at 20:25,
and that is moderately time critical.
PLT Okay, nominal momentum H cage at 20:25.
SCHWEICKART That's affirmative, 52023.
SCHWEICKART Okay, Skylab, we've got about 1 minute
to LOS here at the Vanguard. We're going to pick up the
Hawaii at 21:14. And just for general information, we've
got something like 66 minutes of real time data on that
EVA. And the average metabolic for you people is 1080 and
for Joe, it was 1700. And Pete, I'd say we designed the
EVA the right way.
CDR Yeah, right.
CDR Yeah, Roger. When we have time this
afternoon, we'll debrief the EVA. I can tell you what
a difference it was between the water tank and up here. That's
why it took us longer.
SCHWEICKART You got the job done, we don't care.
CDR Well, we got the job done and only for
one reason, and that's because Joe asked for the end of the
double and long tether up and keep himself anchored. If
he hadn't been able to anchor himself we wouldn't been able
to do it. And I think the difference is that the (garble)
in the water between the pole and you, you're hanging on
makes a difference because I bet he keeps splashing around
(garble)
PAO This is Skylah Control. Greenwich mean
time 20 hours 16 minutes. We have had loss of signal at the
Vanguard tracking station. The crew has been advised to
just cool it according to astronaut Rusty Schweickart.
They've been told everyone down on the ground is shaking
hands. You did a dandy job, everybody is pleased. The
crew has been advised to eat lunch and take it easy, and
they will be talked to again as the spacecraft comes back over
Hawaii in 57 minutes. The assessment on the ground and
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as concurred in by Commander Conrad is the problem with the

MOLE SIEVE fans is likely that they froze up when the air-
lock module hatch opening was opened. Commander Conrad
reported the S082 film was successfully recovered, S054
door was pinned open successfully. And at this time Green-
wich mean time 20 hours 17 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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mean time 20 hours 27 minutes. Dr. Zeiglschmid reported
to Flight Director Milt Windier on the last pass that the
BTUs, the metabolic rate, in other words, the workload,
work rate produced by Commander Conrad and Science Pilot
Joseph Kerwin were as follows. Commander Conrad average
rate was 1,080 BTUs versus the Science Pilot 1700 BTUs.
This compares favorably to the workload that Commander
Conrad had during the Apollo 12 extra-vehicular-activity
on the moon. At the close of the EVA number i, when
Commander Conrad was ingressing the Lunar Module on the
lunar surface he had 1300 BTUs. When he ingressed on
EVA 2, he registered 1500 BUTs. Dr. Zeigleschmid reported
that the average of 1080, the average was 1,080 for the
EVA here today, and he had peaks as high as 1400 during the
several hours they spent outside the spacecraft. Preliminary
assessments on the ground show that the deployed solar array
panel is now producing between eight and nine hundred watts.
The maneuver was made, the pitchup, and assessment is now
that we will probably pitch down the vehicle as we pass
over the Hawaii tracking station in 45 minutes. At
Greenwich mean time 20 hours 29 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
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mean time 20 hours 35 minutes. William C. Schneider, Dir-
ector of the Skylab Program, Mr. Leeland Belew, Program
Manager from Marshall Space Flight Center, and Mr. Kenneth
Kleinknecht, Skylab Program Manager for the Johnson Spaee
Center are scheduled to begin a press conference in the
Building i News Room immediately. And Dr. Royce Hawkins
and Astronaut Rusty Schweiekart are in route from the Mission
Control Center to the press conference. We will take the
line down and during the Hawaii and play any air to ground
at the close of the press conference. Skylab Control at
Greenwich mean time 20 hours 36 minutes.
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time 21 hours 35 minutes, during the press conference con-
ducted in Building l,wehad a pass over the Hawaii tracking
station which ran about - approximately 7-i/2 minutes during
which time Commander Conrad discussed the procedures passed
up by Rusty Schweickart for the EVA, he said the procedures
were Just super. We'll play that tape now and hold the line
up for the pending Van - Vanguard pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Hawaii for the
next niner minutes and we should be dumping at data recorder
at this pass.
CDR Hello, Crip. Roger.
CC Rusty gave it back to me.
CDR Hurray, maybe we won't get so many changes.
PLT Hey, Crip, I'd like to do something about
these MOL SIEVES. I mean - the status right now is that, our outlet
temperatures come up. Apparently it was frozen. We didn't have the
line blocked in there due to freezing. I just went up and ran both
the PRIMARY and SECONDARY fans on MOL SIEVE A and it runs all right.
However, the present configuration is, as you probably know, is that
most MOL SIEVES are shut down right now. Both fans are off.
jz CC You got both - both fans off?
PLT Fans are off and both MOL SIEVES.
CC Roger. But uou did try the one and A?
PLT That's right and the seive flow light
does not come on anymore and it doesn't make that noise
anymore. As Pete said, I think it was the fan stalling out
as they were flowing into the - into a blocked pipe.
CC Stand by i on that, Paul.
CDR (Music) You can see we're settling to
a rather normal operation again.
CC Rog, sounds like we're right at home.
CDR Say, Crip, I would like to have your
pass on. (Music) Rusty, and those guys procedures as far
as getting that staff panel up works super including the
directions - make all the gear and everything. I was a little
disturbed with all the late ATM changes and I wish those
guys - research their subject matter a little more thoroughly
before they send it up so - because when you send up those
split-up pads, there's no way we can keep them by message
number. We got them going to the guy that they belong to and -
and message numbers to us are meaningless and gee things
were such a jumble, I was getting all nervous that something
was going to get goofed up. So if we do it again, I guess
my feeling is that if we say we're ready to go EVA the next
day and the ground says okay and then I assume their ready
_ to go the next day and that means everybody. If the ATM
guys need to dust up those procedures.
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CC Roger, we copied. Also, I guess you probably

realize that on that last one we sent you up there in a
hurry we got the pages scrambled around, and with that
was probably was confusing.
CDR And I tell you another thing, and it really
helps the next time we do something llke that. If you
ever decide that you got to make changes, I'd rather have
you send us one, clean, big, super long teleprinter message
that's in the proper order than what happened to us because
man, we had pages cut out and pieced together and we got lost
and there was no way we could handle that. Now, it's my
thinking, this morning would have been, first thing, is to put it
all together, send it up one big long string, so I'll be getting
the situation, bits and pieces of stuff, forget it. I'd
rather have you hold them and send it one great big long
message, we'll understand it quicker than the way it came
through last couple days.
CC Roger, we copy, Pete. While I've got
you here, we did have a question on the way to SAS panels
came ont. We'd like to know whether they jumped out to
about to where they ended up or did they Jump out and then
ease on out?
CDR (Laughter) I'm sorry you asked that question.
I was facing away from it, heaving with all my might and Joe
was also heaving with all his might when it let go and both
of us took off and by the time we got ourselves under control
and hack down and around the spacecraft some place again,
(garble)already out locked, so I can't answer that question
for you. By the time we got settled down and looked at it,
those panels were out as far as they were going to go at
the time. Now, the cords are out a lot further than they
were when it was folded, I want you to understand that, but
they did come out. All three of them came out and some degree
more than where they were folded along side the vehicle.
CC Okay, we copied that. Can you give us
an idea of a time estimate before you got a change to look
out after you pulled it?
CDR Oh, not too long, I guess 15, 20 seconds
and they come down to the extend that they were going to come
at that point, I guess.
CC Okay, copy that. Thank you.
CDR Do you have any any indication of - of
percent extention on the ground or you don't get that kind
of (garble) --
CC About 30 percent on I believe, on the inner
one and about 40 percent on the other two.
_-_ CDR Okay, there is no indication that they are
moving at all slowly or anything like that?
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CC Negative, it doesn't appear to be

maneuvering right - moving out right now. We at this state
that their frozen up,of course, and that's why we're sending
up this attitude trying to - trying to fall out a little
bit.
CDR Well we got another 14 days you can send
Rusty back to Huntsville and we'll be glad to goout and pull
those out for you.
CC I don't think we'd llke to sit with the
way it is for awhile and see what happens.
CDR Okay, that's all right with me.
CC And, PJ - regarding your MOL SIEVE
fans, we'd like to go ahead and leave them OFF until our
Vanguard pass. We are coming up at 21:44.
CC Skylab, Houston, we'd llke to leave the
MOL SIEVE fans OFF until our next pass at Vanguard and we'll
take a look at it then and make a decision about turning them
off if it still appears that that loops pretty cold. Also
we're going to initiate a small maneuver here which makes
up for - correction scrub my last - we will not he doing the
maneuver and we're about 30 seconds to LOS and we'll see you
again at Vanguard at 21:44 - 21:44.
PLT Okay, I understand. Do you want to leave
that fans off for awhile, yet, huh. What did you say was
pretty cold?
CC Rog. It's the secondary coolant loop that's
pretty cold on it, Paul.
PLT (garble) it seems to me would power up the
heat exchangers in the MOL SIEVE, it might help though, huh?
You guys know that, okay, we'll wait for you at Vanguard.
CC Okay, we'll Just - hold it where it is
right now and take a look at it at Vanguard.
PLT Yes, I noticed that we got a - mol - mol
lights on - -
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CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the Vanguard

about the next 9 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston. We have the CDR's suit
on suit drying and we assume that i0 hours is still a rea-
sonable time. And I guess at the end of that time we plan
to put the same dessicants back in too, unless we hear differ-
ent.
CC Joe, I missed you last there, would
you say again please?
SPT Right. At the end of the drying time,
we plan to put the same dessicants hack in unless we hear
different from you.
CC Okay, we copy. And I've got the PLT
available, I'd llke to give him some words on his MOL SIEVE.
SPT He's coming, he's coming.
PLT Go.
PLT Go ahead, Bob.
CC Okay, we'd llke you to go to panel 203
and turn the SIEVE A timer OFF. Then we'd like you to use
the T handle, panel 228. Place the ABSORB BED to DESORB.
We want them both on DESORB. And we want you to go panel 203
SIEVE A fan power switch to PRI, and after i hour panel 203
take the timer back to SECONDARY.
PLT Okay, so you want to leave, you want to
run the fans and leave the SIEVE open desorb for an hour.
CC That's affirm.
PLT Okay.
PLT Hey, Crip, do you want us to put the
dissicants in the vacuum dryers while we're drying the suits?
CC Joe, we don't want you to power any-
thing up on that suit drying until we give you a go because
of the attitude that we're holding. We don't have the power
for it.
SPT Understand that and we will hold the
blower. However, we're not going to heat the vacuum of it,
so I wondered if it would do any good Just to put the
dessicants in and treat them the way we do the feces?
SPT We could leave them in 24 hours each,
I guess.
CC Okay, I'm trying to get the word on
that for you, Joe.
SPT Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We're going to be
doing a small attitude maneuver here to get it squared away
per momentum and power, and we'd like you to stay off the
DAS for us for a while.
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SPT You bet.

CC Joe, on putting the dessicants in drawers
5 and 6, I guess we don't really see any problem with it.
You can go ahead and put them in there without power on that.
It might help. We would also like to verify that we did
get the EVA docking lights out.
SPT Roger.
SPT We're pretty sure we did, and Paul is going
to doublecheek the docking lights.
CC Okay.
SPT Did we do any good on temperatures?
CC Say again about temperatures.
SPT Did we do any good on panel temperatures?
CC They came up slightly.
CC Okay, Rog. Panel number i the outer
most is out to about 80 percent right now.
SPT Ho, ho.
CC Feel like you're flapping your wings?
SPT Yeah. We must be at a pretty good
angle then, huh, because the array amps don't show it. We are
only feeding batteries that are already charged right now.
CC Yeah, we've got you cocked up about
45 degrees so they are getting the normal Sun anyhow.
PLT Yeah, okay.
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CC 5 degrees so that they aren't get-

ting the normal Sun anyhow.
PLT Yeah, okay.
STP Hey, Crip. You say you wanted both
BEDS in DESORB or both BEDS in STORAGE? You said DESORB, right?
CC DESORB, affirmative.
SPT When the hour's up, how about letting
me play with the primary timer and see whether that's work-
ing or not?
CC Okay, I think we'd probably like to
save that for awhile.
SPT You don't trust me.
CC And is the CDR available for a question,
please.
CDR At your service.
CC Rog. Stand by one, Pete, but I guess
this is for whoever needs to monitor, but we passed you up
some procedures for post ZLV regarding monitoring the ATM
batteries, and we would like you to use those for us.
CDR You're talking about the ones if we
get six batteries off the line throw the BATS ON, and if
we get like BAT chargers or (garble) do so and so and so and
ff
SO.
CC Yes Sir, that's it.

CDR Okay, we have that prominantly dis-
played on the ATM console and if they start showing off the
line, we'll holler for help and do something.
CC Oh -
CDR The way I read that that was after we
went into nighttime. Is that correct? After you've been
out in the daytime?
CDR Hello.
CC Stand by one.
CC I'ii get an answer on that one for you
shortly, Pete. We are gonna go LOS here in about 1 minute
and we'll see you again at Hawaii at 22:51. And that mon-
itor is during the nighttime.
CDR Right. Right after we go into night,
we'll pick her up.
CC Roger, and for P. J. if you're listen-
ing. Still, please, on panel 207, we'd like to get REG I
and 2 POT ADJUST turned clockwise 15 degrees.
PLT Clockwise 15 degrees. You want to
put them all on the line, huh?
CC We're going to try to pick some of the
load with the OWS wings.
SPT Hey, we got PCG current. Hew about
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that? First time in 15 days.

CC That work paid off. And Skylab we need
a compensate at 22:22.
CC Skylab, Houston. Did you copy my
last?
mean time 21 hours 54 minutes. As the Skylab space station
passed over the Vanguard tracking ship a happy group of
Johnson Space Center management personnel headed by Dr.
Chris Kraft, watched the displays at the Mission
Control Center, as the wing number i slowly de-
ployed. It was 80 percent when the Skylab space station
began it's pass over Vanguard. It went from 80 to 90 percent
deployed in the wing number I, which is the outboard wing
of the 3 wing panel that was deployed today by the crew.
The other two panels, number 2 panel is presently 40 percent
deployed, and number 3 panel is 29 percent deployed. Science
Pilot Kerwin remarked to the ground during this pass. "We
finally got PCG current. First time in 14 days" PCG is
the power conditioning group of the orbital workshop power
supply, similar to the CBRMs of the ATM power supply. We've
_p had loss of signal over Vanguard tracking station. Our next
pass is over Hawaii in 55 minutes. This is Greenwich mean
time 21:55. This is Skylab Control.
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mean time 21 hours 59 minutes. Prior to the Vanguard pass
the spacecraft attitude was changed. It was put in 45
degree pltchup following the EVA. It has Seen lowered
slightly to 40 degrees. This means that the CSM portion
of the vehicle is facing 40 degrees up towards the Sun. We
will have acquisition at the Hawaii tracking station in 51
minutes. This is Skylab Control at Greenwich mean time
21 hours 59 minutes.
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time 22 hours 49 minutes. Acquisition at Hawaii tracking
station is expected momentarily. Capcom is still Astronaut
Bob Crlppen, who was the Commander of the Skylab support
crew which performed the Skylab medical experiment altitude
test last summer which went through all the medical protocol
and operated the medical experiments which are now being
used aboard Skylab. The crew should be still performing
post EVA activities and ending their day. We'll have live
air to ground. We'll leave the line up now.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii
PLT Hello, how are we doing?
CC Pretty good. Looks like you did get that
nominal H cage in, I called just as we're going over the hill.
I was worried about it.
PLT Yeah, we got it.
CC Very good. You guys do good work.
I've got some word on your primary coolant loops that I'd
llke to feed up to you.
FLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. It appears to us that TCV Bravo

has failed in the full cold position. And we do not want
you to activate the primary coolant loop. If the secondary
coolant loop caution and warning occurs, what we'd like
you todo is go set cool temp low, if that's the light yon
get togo to press on SECONDARY.
PLT Wait a minute, Bob, I didn't follow
that last. Say your last two sentences again.
PLT What do we do if we get a SECONDARY
coolant temp low light?
CC Just stay on the SECONDARY loop.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay. If you go to get a set cool flow
light we want you to go to INVERTER 3 PUMP Charlie.
PLT Okay. Now we got control of both loops
onboard. Do you want to leave it that way?
CC Rog, we'll leave it that way for right
now.
PLT Okay.
CC You might be interested to know that
section 1 of the SAS wing is out I00 percent now.
PLT Yeah_ we've got a visual verification
on that.
CC And section 3 has started to move.
PLT Yeah, let's hear it for section 3.
SPT Super.
-_ CDR Crip, there is a possibility that meteoroid
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panel could have damaged part of section 2, because that's

pretty well underneath where it tore off and passed under-
neath the panel.
CC Roger, we copy. And it has not moved
since we first observed it.
CDR Yeah, I've been looking at it and I
keeping thinking I see it osillating just a entsiest bit,
like it's trying but it's not moving. I can see number 3
completely and it's flat as a pancake out there. I can see
about the first 3 rows of number 2.
CC Okay.
SPT Hey, Bob, number 2, the middle section is
the one that split up and feed all APCGs, right?
CC Stand by one on that, Paul.
PLT Okay. I think, correct me if I'm wrong.
The inboard section feeds i through 4, the outboard feeds
5 through 8, and the middle one is split up to feed all S.
CC We don't have a ready answer for you
on that, we're checking it.
PLT Okay, no rush.
CDR Tell me about that coolant loop problem.
I didn't quite hear that, Bob.
CC Well, we think we've got a valve failed
in the full cold position. That's TCV Bravo failed in the
full cold.
CDR Is there anything we can do about it?
CC No, we're working on a procedure right
now. There's nothing you can do now.
CDR Okay, very good.
CC And Paul reguarding your question on
which PCG the SAS section - -
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CC Now, there is nothing you can do now.

CDR Okay, very good.
CC And Paul, regarding your question on which
TCGs the SAS sections feed, you are correct.
PLT Okay, thank you.
CDR They also be advised if we did
get a PPCO2 high light here a little while ago with
the sieve off with out taking any out and it's reading about
55 out.
CC About 55 out on C02.
CDR Yes.
PLT Yeah, but A's has been reading higher than
B the whole flight.
CC Okay, copy. And Pete, I've got a time
line question I'd like to ask you here, if you got a minute.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, not tomorrow but the day following
that, day 160 would you like to know whether you would consider
getting up i hour early so that we can swap out SO73 to put in the
ETC for EREP pass?
CDR Sure. Do they get up earlier or everybody?
_ CC It would be everybody.
CDR Now, if it's everybody, sure.
PLT Why ETC?
CDR That's provided you let us go to bed an hour
earlier the night before. S009 at 224021 or whatever it is.
CC Well, we got a summery time line and that
we should be shipping you this pass but it doesn't reflect
that, it just calls for you to stay up as late as you normally
do, so I guess we'll take a look at it.
CDR No, no I'm just pulling you're leg, Crip.
Hand it up, we'll do it.
CC You guys are you guys are too enthusiastic.
CDR We figure SL-III and SL-IV is going to owe
us a few more.
CC I think they are. They owe you quite a
bit right now.
PLT Hey, Crip, the CDR mentioning S009 job my
memory, guess what I missed?
CC Did you forget
CDR 009 - -
CC We'll let it go this time, Paul.
PLT No, go ahead and ship it up. I'ii get it
as soon as you get a new one figured out, ship it up.
CC Okay. By the way, you can go ahead and
go back to timer SECONDARY on MOL SIEVE A at this time.
PLT I was just on my way up, don't to it yet,
Pete.
CC Okay, I won't.
CDR Listen, Crip, the other thing is can you
give me an idea how many revs you going to run this way?
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CC Itll see if we can get hack for you on that,

Pete. We're going to go AOS here in just a few seconds, then
we'll see you again at Vanguard at 23 - 23.
CDR 23:23. Okay - -
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
22 hours and 59 minutes. We've lost the signal over Hawaii
tracking station. Command - CAPCOM Robert Crippin report to
the crew that the ground has confirmation that - that
section i of the solar - solar array panel on the workshop has
deployed 100 percent. Spacecraft Commander Conrad affirmed
that by saying visually that he could see the same thing up
there. Section 3 section 3 is the one that is deployed
i00 percent. Section 2 the middle panel is deployed presently
at 39 percent. And Section 3 the closest to the - closest
to the vehicle is deployed presently, only 32 percent. As
Skylab crosses over the South Pacific with acquisition
scheduled over Vanguard in 22 minutes, this Skylab Control
at Greenwich mean time 23 hours.
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PAO This is Skylab Control, 23 hours 3

minutes. To clarify the last announcement, wing number i,
the outboard wing, is the wing that is the section of the
wing that is fully deployed, 100 percent, wing number 2,
section number 2, is presently 40 percent deployed. Section
number 3, the closest to the inboard panel, is presently
31 percent deployed. We will have acquisition at Vanguard
tracking station in 18 minutes.
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6/7/73

time 23 hours 19 minutes. We will have acquisition of the
Skylab vehicle as it crosses the Vanguard tracking station.
In previous discussions over the Hawaii pass, the ground ad-
vised the crew that apparently there's a malfunction in the
coolant loop system aboard the spacecraft. Apparently there
is an open valve in the primary coolant loop, and what the
crew has been advised to do is shut off the primary pump
on the primary system. They are now using the backup, the
secondary coolant system, and will begin troubleshooting
the problem on the ground to pass up an operation to the
crew, hopefully to correct the problem in the primary loop.
We anticipate conversation with Capcom Hank Hartsfield, and
the Skylab crew.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam - through
Vanguard for 8 minutes.
CDR Hello, Houston.
CC Hello there, you guys did a great job
today.
SPT Well, we had a good time. Just been
monitoring the BPS up here, Hank, and from our onboard
displays, we got 12 charge completes during the night, but
all the battery voltages appear to be okay. Do you guys
agree?
CC Roger. We concur and we notice also,
that those sections of the SAS are still creeping out.
SPT Good. What are your latest percentages?
PLT Do you show any movement on section 2
now, the middle section, Hank?
CC That's affirmative. We're showing it
about halfway out and section 3 about 34 percent.
PLT How about that.
CC It looks like we're gonna want to stay
in this attitude for at least one more rev.
PLT Good show.
CDR We got a full state of charge on the -
looks like on the 4 battery, 5, 6, 7, and 8 on the AM slot.
CC Skylab, Houston. Have we got somebody
in the STS?
CDR No, but we can get somebody up there.
CC Okay. What we'd like to do is get the
RATE 2 ADJUST clockwise 15 degrees, and for info our power
does look good enough to stay here one more rev.
CDR Gonna stay here one more rev?
CC That's affirmative, at least
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CC Okay, what we'd like to do is get the

reg to adjust clockwise 15 degrees and for info our power
does look good enough to stay here one more rev.
CDR We're going to stay here one more rev?
CC That's affirmative, at least one more
rev. And we want reg 2 adjust clockwise 15 degrees.
CDR That's fine with us Hank. As long as
those panels keep coming out, we'll stay here as long as
you want.
CC Roger.
CDR What kind of a flight plan you got for
us tomorrow?
CC It should be in the teleprinter now Pete.
CDR Okay, I didn't get enough exercise today,
so I'm talking to you while riding the bicycle.
CC You're kidding.
CDR No, I'm not kidding.
CDR Only my arms and hands got a workout
out there. My legs didn't get any.
CC While you're on the subject there, what
did you cut the bolt with?
CDR We cut it with the cutter.
CDR See what happened was is we hauled in on
the cutter as hard as we could and nothing happened. So I
said well let me go out the pole and look and see what hap-
pened. And I got about 2/3 of the way out the pole and bango
it decided to let go all by itself and whango the thing
blew up, along with me the pole and the big BET.
CC That's a Roger.
CDR We had quite a wild ride when we broke
the strap too, or broke the damper both Joe and I
were even on the BET when it let go, and by the time we
came down from out whipperdills both of us (garble)
CC That must have been a good ride.
CDR I'm sorry we didn't have movies of it.
CDR You guys have a feeling we'll get off
free fully extended?
CC Roger, looks like they're going to go
all the way out Pete. We're confident they will.
CDR Hey, that's the best news I've had all
day. I thought really maybe that number 2 got damaged because
that's the one that has the stuff piled up underneath it.
PLT Number one on the popularity pole for
extra power is the head water heater.
CC Roger, copy.
CDR We have a head water heater and more
lights so we can stop living like the mole in Dick Tracy.
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CC Roger, we'll work on it.

SPT Also, how about having somebody think
about if we can use the wardroom window heater (garble) get
rid of our friendly ice spots.
CC Copy.
from LOS. Ascension will be coming up at 38. And at this
time wing - or section 2 is 60 percent and section 3 is 47
percent.
CDR Hey, that's great.
time 23 hours 32 minutes with loss of signal at the Vanguard
tracking station. The crew was passed up additional good news
as CAPCOM Hank Hartsfield told the crew that section 2 of the
orbital workshop wing is now 60 percent deployed and section
3 is 45 percent deployed. The crew was advised the ground is
of the opinion that all three seetions will be fully deployed
shortly. In the last rev, section 2 and 3 went out at least
15 to 20 percent more than they were when they last passed
over Vanguard. We will have acquisition at Ascension tracking
station in approximately 4 minutes. We'll leave the line up
for that pass and at 6:45 in the Building 1 newsroom we will
have Flight Director Milton Windier and the EGIL for the
change of shift briefing. Here at the Mission Control Center,
Flight Director Neil Hutchinson and his silver team is taking
over from Milt Windler's maroon team for the evening shift.
As the power problem is improving with deployment of the orbital
workshop solar array, Commander Conrad said "Looks like we can
turn more lights on and stop living like the mole in Dick
Traeey's comic strip." The vehicle will remain in its present
attitude at approximately 45 degrees pitch-up. Pitchup of
the CSM pointing upward toward the Sun. We anticipate acquisi-
tion at Canary. We'll leave the line up for any conversation.
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CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension 5-1/2

minutes.
PLT Hello, Houston.
CC And for info, we're going to do a Z-axis
maneuver of about minus i0 degrees to square away the momentum.
PLT Permission granted.
CC Thank you sir, and I also have a S009
pad for Paul.
PLT Come ahead with it.
CC Okay, the new reset time is 002306 and
period in the Beta the same. Period 120. Beta plus i.
PLT Okay. 002306.
SPT Hey, Henry, I have a question on the
condensate tank dump heater.
CC Okay, shoot.
SPT If the temperature gage reads operate
for one heater, is it gonna read operate for the other, or
do you switch detectors when you switch heaters?
SPT That's all right. I don't need an
answer now. I'm just wondering. The reason that was re-
ported as filled was because it was left on 20 minutes and
the temperature reading never came off the peg. I noticed
on the list of anomalies that if the sections of that heater
are still good, and I wonder if there isn't a way that we
can determine whether it's still good or not. Such as going
up and turning it on for awhile.
CC Okay. Let's see if we can get an ans-
wer on that.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay. I guess we think we can do that.
But, we would like to wait a little later to try it. Also I have
there was an omission in the Commander's details for this
evening and in presleep, we would like for him to do house-
keeping C and 2. That's the fuel cell purge.
SPT Okay. C and 2. That's both hydrogen
and oxygen. (garble)
CC We had a momentary dropout on voice.
That's just oxygen.
CC Skylab, Houston. I have a couple of
messages here for you. Is everybody listening up?
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
SPT Are you still there, Houston.
CC Roger. How do you read: We had a loss
of voice there I think.
SPT Yes, just for a minut 9. Well, the PLT is

shaving and the CDR went by and said "You've been a good boy
this week Paul, you can have the Command Module tonight."
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CC Roger. Copy. Everybody listening up?

PLT Yeah.
CC Okay, I got a message I'd like to read
up to you. It's to Skylah Commander Conrad. On behalf of
the American people, I congratulate and commend you and
your crew in your successful effort to repair the world's
first true space station. In the two weeks since you left
the Earth, you have more than fulfilled the profacy of your
parting words. "We can fix anything." All of us have new
courage now that man can work in space to control his
environment and improve his circumstances and exert his will,
even as he does on Earth. Signed, Richard Nixon.
CDR Then I'ii thank you from all of us.
CC I have another one that's to Skylab
Commander Conrad. My warmest personal congratulations to
you and your crew. We're all proud of your team, the NASA
team, and the whole aerospace team. I know I can speak for
citizens everywhere when I offer you our heartfelt best
wishes for the rest of your mission. Signed, Spiro T. Agnew.
CDR Well, thanks again.
CC And we're just about LOS. Guam will
be coming up at 22.
CDR Roger.
CC And reminder. Guam is your medical
conference.
time 23 hours 45 minutes. We have had loss of signal over
the Ascension tracking station. The previous pass highlighted
by two congratulatory messages. One from President Richard
Nixon, and the second from the Vice President Spiro T. Agnew.
During this last pass the section 2 and section 3 of the
orbital assembly solar array further deployed. Section 2
now stands at 79 percent deployed, section 3, 69 percent
deployed. We will now switch to the NASA news room in build-
ing i for a change of shift briefing, with Flight Director
Milt Windler. We'll hold the line bring the line back up
over Guam - no we won't either. We'll hold the line until
the change of shift briefing is concluded. This is Skylab
Control, 23 hours 46 minutes.
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Time: 18:51 CDT 14:23:51 GMT
6/7/73

time 23 hours 51 minutes. The previously scheduled change
of shift briefing with Flight Director Milt Windler has been
cancelled. There will be no change of shift briefing with
Flight Director Milt Windier, This is Skylab Control, Green-
wich mean time 23 hours 51 minutes.
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Time: 19:20 CDT 15:00:20 GMT
6/7/73

time 00:20 minutes. We will have acquisition, a brief pass
over the Guam Island tracking station shortly. This is the
regularly scheduled medical conference between the crew and
the flight surgeon. The flight surgeon on duty tonight is
Dr. Charles Ross. We will have a summary of that conversation
immediately following the pass. We'll hold the line up for
that pass in the event the crew does talk with the Capeom,
astronaut Hank Hartsfield.
PAO Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time oo:28
minutes. We've had loss of signal over the Guam Island track-
ing station. Flight Director Nell Hutchinson called attention
to his flight controllers. We have a hundred percent on all
sections of the solar panel number i deployed today by
Commander Pete Conrad and Science Pilot Joseph Kerwin. If
all PCGs, the power conditioning groups of the airlock module
through which the power from the solar array is passed through,
if all these PCGs come on line. We will have an additional
2,000 watts to the approximately 4,000 already being produced
as a result of the Apollo telescope mount solar array, which
was deployed on the first day of launch, and has been pro-
viding the necessary power since the crew arrived at the
Skylab space station on May 25th. Next acquisition over
Vanguard in 30 minutes. At Greenwich mean time 00:29 minutes,
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time 00:57 minutes. As Skylab approaches the Vanguard tracking
station on its 351st revolution of the Earth. We have Capcom
Hank Hartsfield scheduled to talk to the crew. We'll leave
the line up for any conversation.
CC Skylab, Houston. Through Vanguard 10-1/2
minutes.
SC (garble) would you believe that, all of
them.
CDR Yeah, but it's not like being (garble)
CC Roger, we concur. We're showing them all
three 100 percent, and we're starting to command you back to
solar inertial.
CDR Super-duper man (garble) charge up batteries
and batteries and all that sort of stuff.
CDR Yon there, Houston?
CC Roger, we're dropping in and out of comm
now.
PLT Okay, let me know when it's going to be
good for a while.
CC Okay, I think we got good comm now.
PLT Okay, Hank, on S009 I did not get a good
initiate on it, because that stinking thing is running wrong
again. And I should have remembered, but I didn't. I went to
RESET, left the power ON. As I'm sitting there, seconds before
I'm ready to do my big thing with it, it started opening, with
it in RESET. So I got a data point and if you want to send up
another RESET - relnitiate, I'ii do it for you. It went fully
open, did not fully open at - let me see what I was supposed
to do it. I was supposed to start it at 23:06. It got fully open
at 23:12.
CC Roger, copy.
PLT That's 00:23:12.
CC Okay, what we'd llke for you to do is close
the package, Paul, and try a RESET at 01:56:16.
CDR Okay, what did you say again? The time of
RESET, please Hank?
CC Roger, 01:56:16 and that's the initiate time.
CC And we'd like, of course, to get the package
closed at this time. And also, if I can get somebody up in
the STS, we've got a few switches we'd like to get reconfigured.
I think the easiest way is for me to just read them off, and
have you do them.
CDR Okay, we got somebody headed up that way
right now.
CDR _ank, if you've got a moment.
CC Go ahead.
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CDR Why don_t I give you all of the evening

status report except for meals because we haven't yet_ and we're
going to in a minute. We didn't eat until about 20:30, so
nobody is quite hungry yet. Well, let me give you the photo
stuff for today.
CC Go ahead.
CDR It's very little. We had no 16 millimeter.
We had 35 millimeter, C126 frame counts 31. C134 frame counts
20. ZX06 on the 70 millimeter frame count is 40. Let me give
you the (garble) status. AI is transporter 02, With Charlie
India, 05, 60 percent. Charlie India 01 is a take up A2, is 0 - -
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6/7/73
CDR Give you a door status. A-I is

3-1/4 02, with Charlie India 05; 60 percent. Charlie
India 01 is a take up. A-2 is 03 is the transporter.
Charlie India 06; 99 percent, Charlie India 03 is the take
up. A-3 is 04. Charlie India 04; has 25 percent remaining
on it. Mike Tango 01 is the take up. That reel is jammed
and we've got no instructions on it. We'd like to clear it.
A-4 has 05. PI 25; 100 percent. FTII on it, and that's
the film for today. You know what the flight plan was.
We're working 009. The stowage is per the checklist as far
as we have gotten. We're still holding on completly re-
configuring. We're also holding on powering up suit drying.
Which we need to get an input on, and we'd like to get
that on tonight if the bat situation looks good enough. And
stowage is pretty much as it should be. I can't think of
anything right now that we haven't either notified you about
on B channel or that is out of configuration.
SPT And the SPTs ready for switches.
CC Roger. Copy. The first one's on
panel 216, Joe. We'd like to get the VENT VALVE OFF, VENT
HEATERS OFF, and the CONDENSATE TANK PRESSURE VALVE CLSED.
That's on your condensate tank there.
SPT In work.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, on panel 203, under molecular
cells, we'd llke to get the SIEVE B fans to SECONDARY.
SPT It'll work.
SPT That's complete, and Henry, I should
point out that the condensate tank switches were all in the
called for position already.
CC Okay, thank you. These are just
verifies_ to know we're in the right mode. Okay, also on
panel 203, we want to get the PRIMARY and SECONDARY COOLANT
LOOP INVERTERS OFF - those two inverter switches off mom-
entarily, and then to COMMAND.
SPT OFF and then COMMAND, on both of them.
CC And you'll probably get a C & W when
you do that. Well, I guess maybe not, until we command
them on.
SPT That's complete.
CC Okay, on panel 200, Joe, the RAD
FLOW PRIMARY circuit breaker, we want CLOSED.
SPT RAD FLOW, FLOW PRIMARY.
CC And when you get that, back on panel
203, we'd like to get the RAD FLOW PRIMARY switch to
COMMAND.
SPT Circuit breaker is CLOSED. RAD FLOW
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PRIMARY is to COMMAND.
CC Okay, that does it. Thank you very
much, Joe.
SPT And for your information the RAD FLOW
secondary breaker is open with the switch in normal.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC And for CDR, your film prep pad for
tomorrow is going to have your information on the jammed
transporter.
CDR Okay, very good. No sweat. And we are
on our way back to solar inertial. Is that what you're
telling me?
CC That is affirmative, and we plan to
crank up the suit dry as soon as we're back
in solar inertial and we'll tell you about that at Ascension.
CDR Okay. And I also assume that sometime
tonight we - you're gonna command all the AM stuff here on
the BAT and so forth? Hey, we'll be around for awhile.
We'll be glad to - Just so we klnda keep up with what's
going on.
CC Okay, we got them all on except PCGs
i and 2 and we're gonna have an update for you on the power
system here, before you go to bed.
CDR Okay. And you got BAT A over on
REG BUS i, huh?
CC That is affirmative.
CDR Okay. I'ii be interested to see how
everything charges when we whip back into SI this pass.
CC Yeah, so will we.
CDR Okay. Now, therroretically with aft
to forward (garble), will that handle the whole workshop
load or not?
CC I guess at this point we're not exactly
sure how we're going to even out, in other words, we're
going to be even-steven with the ATM or I think possibly
we may still he transfering a little power from the ATM
side.
CDR Oh, really? You mean even if we fully
powered up.
CC That's right and we're about LOS now.
We should be getting Ascension here in a few minutes at 13.
CDR Okay, see you then. Bye-Bye.
PAO Skylab Control. Greenwich mean time
i hour ii minutes. As Skylab passed over Vanguard tracking
station, we anticipate acquisition of signal over Ascension
in approximately 2 minutes. During this pass Capcom Hank
Hartsfield was discussing with the crew the return to solar
inertial attitude. This is the fundamental flight attitude
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for the Skylab vehicle. It's been on that 45 degree pitch-

up attitude for the last several hours. This was placed in
that attitude after the EVA, and it's returned to solar
inertial attitude presently. Commander Conrad mentioned
they haven't began their evening meal yet. They ate late
ecause of the EVA and he said we're not quite hungary yet.
Scheduled for the fare this evening for Commander Conrad is
turkey with rice soup, prime ribs of beef, pineapple and
orange drink. For Science Pilot Kerwin, he's scheduled to
eat shrimp, prime ribs of beef9 tomatoes, mashed potatoes,
and butterscotch pudding. And Pilot Weitz is - has for his
meal filet mignon, macaroni, tomatoes, and apple sauce with
an orange drink. The crew was informed that the deployed
orbital workshop solar array panel is producing power, pre-
sently displays on the ground indicate that the PCGs are
producing approximately 900 watts of power into the vehicle.
If everything goes well, the - we have air to ground now.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're looking at the

Y 2 gyro. (garble) and RM is taking care of it. We're
still maneuvering back to Sl, shouldn't take any action on
your part.
CC Skylab, Houston. How do you read?
PLT Not too bad.
CC Okay, I think we had a little comm
problem there for a minute. Did you copy my message on
the Y2 gyro?
PLT Yes, sir.
CC Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. When do you think you all
are going to get around to eating dinner?
CDR We're starting right now.
CC Okay.
CDR Tell the Surgeon not to worry. We will
get our circadiam rhythm.
CC Roger, copy.
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CC CDR, Houston. How do you feel about

running that last ATM pass tonight? The synoptic?
CDR Yes, affirmative, okay, good. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, Henry, you still there?
CC Roger.
CDR We were instructed by the - you're aware
of the ATM panel configuration, right? We have not done
anything to it since the EVA.
CC That's affirmative, and we're looking
at that. We got to power it up according to that message
you have there 13:17 Alpha, where a couple of little
changes since we turned the X-ray spec down during the EVA.
And I guess we're looking at the power situation and we
think we can hack it.
PLT Okay. I don't know what 13:17 Alpha
was, but that was the one that said put on page C-12? No,
what did it say to do with the change - with the message.
(garble) said somewhere, right? (Laughter)
CC Well, it's got the panel reconfiguration
for unattended OPS after EVA. Really brings it all back up.
PLT Yeah, but I meant if (garble) some of
f the message I think. What did the message tell me to do
with those changes?
CC Says put them as page Charlie 12 oF
your ATM experiment checklist and data book.
PLT That's what I wanted to know. That's
where it is then. Okay, thank you.
CC And the only addition to that, Paul,
is to bring the X-ray spec power up. And in addition to
the switches it calls for in the checklist, you got to turn
your photomultiplier ENABLE and ENABLE to image dissector.
PLT Okay.
CC We're about 30 seconds from LOS. We
did not get the ATM thermal loop on, but you're clear to
run this pass without the thermal loop. And we're all
squared away in solar inertial. We should fix ourselves up
when we get the Sun again. And Guam will be coming up at
57.
SPT Okay, what time did that pass start,
Henry?
CC Okay, it starts about 8 minutes and
45 seconds from now.
SPT Okay.
CC And as a reminder, we commanded 82A
OFF from the ground.
PLT Okay, what Joe meant was when did the
ATM pass start?
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CC It starts at 01:39.
PLT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. As the Skylab
space station begins its 352nd revolution of the Earth,
we've lost signal at Ascension. Acquisition of signal will
again be over Guam, Guam Island tracking station in 32 minutes.
The crew is settling down to their evening meal, with one
more scheduled ATM pass for the evening with pilot Paul Weitz
serving time on the console, the C&D panel control and
display panel of the Apollo telescope mount. At Greenwich
mean time i hour 24 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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time i hour 32 minutes. As the spacecraft crosses the
Mediterranean on its 352nd revolution, we have a summary of
the medical conference which was conducted between Dr. Charles
Ross, Skylab Flight Surgeon, and the crew over the previous
Guam pass. The daily medical bulletin is as follows: The
Skylab crew feels in good condition, followlng today's EVA.
The Commander decided toperform his regular exercise protocol
several hours after the EVA, since he felt that he did not
receive lower extremity exercise. The EVA data which was
received revealed that the science pilot, Dr. Joseph Kerwin
worked for substantial periods of time in excess of 2,000 Btus
per hour. He had a mean heart rate of ll8 beats per minute.
The Commander, Charles Conrad, had a peak work rate of 1780
Btus per hour, and a mean heartrate of 96 beats per minute.
Next acquisition of signal will be over the Guam Island track-
ing station at 20 - in 23 minutes from now. At Greenwich mean
time I hour 33 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 20:36 CDT 15:01:56 GMT
6/7/73

mean time i hour 56 minutes. Acquisition of the Guam Island
tracking station is expected momentarily with Capcom Hank
Hartsfield. We'll hold the line up for conversation.
PLT Houston, Skylab. Are you there?
CC Roger. Go ahead.
PLT Okay. I'm at the ATM panel trying to
(garble) two and power up and 6 and power up all at the same
time. Your checklist didn't get me there, but I think I'm
almost there. There's two anomalies, the XUV spec door
talkback is white, and remains so, whether I hit the power
door switch to open or shut. And the S054 door talkback is
white, and I have no READY or OPERATE lights on the experiment.
And I kind of thought I'd be able to get normal operating
lights on the experiment now that we've pinned the door open.
I'd like you to enlighten me on both of those.
CC Roger.
CC Okay, let me get with you guys then on
a problem we've been watching here, which is the secondary
coolant loop. The thing got very cool during your operations
and we can't seem to get the devil warmed back up and if it
doesn't get back up over the switchover limit, we may be in a
little trouble. What we're trying to do now is to - What
we're going to do is turn the loop completely off and let
the cold flex absorb a little heat. Try a thermal shock,
see if we can get the temperature up above the switehover limit.
As you know, the primary loops we can't use because of the
stuck valve that we told you about earlier. What we're
looking into now is what critical items that are on the loop
that maybe we can turn off tonight so that we don't have to
be waking you up, and then we can handle the situation by
commands.
PLT Okay, understand.
CC And if for some reason or other we lose
our command capability and don't get it turned back on at
Canary's or somewhere, we're gonna turn it off now. We'd
like for you to go back up and turn on the inverter 3 secon-
dary loop.
PLT I didn't understand that last one, Hank.
You want us to do that in any case or just yet.
CC Okay, if we do not tell you prior to
LOS here at Guam that we have turned the loop back on, we
would like you to do it at LOS, on inverter 3.
PLT (garble) 3 Charlie, right?
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, for info, we're reconfiguring
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the GYROS right now for sleep.

PLT Roger.
CDR Hey, how does CBRM 5 look to you, Hank?
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CC Okay, that does look a little low to

us, but we think it's still okay. We just got back into
solar inertial.
CDR I got a BAT charge indication
on that one?
CC Say again.
CDR I got a barber pole BAT charge on that
one.
CC EGIL says it ought to go awayhere pretty
S oon.
CDR Okay, I'll watch it.
CC PLT or CDR, either one of you available
to conference some startraeker information?
SPT You bet, like to.
CC Okay. If we got the bird locked on the
Sun here, we gotta bring the startracker up and the gimble angles
are outer 1600, inner 0068. Now, when you bring that up, if
yon don't acquire the star, we're gonna have to do a little
search here. And we keep the inner gimble constant at plus
0068, and swing the outer gimble at steps of 200 arc minutes
of 1600 through 2600.
f SPT Okay, Hank, we've been doing that for
two weeks.
CC Okay, you know how to do it then, and
starrise is at 148 and starset's at 252.
SPT I assume it's (garble) and the gimble
angles you gave me were plus. Is that right?
SPT Have you guys looked at the 82A doors,
or - both of them indicate open?
CC Okay, on the 82A, we commanded that off
today, Joe. So what's gonna happen there, you're going to
have to take the power off and then back on again to cycle
the pulser.
SPT (garble) I wish you people would tell
me what configuration we're in. How about 54?
CC We lost our command capability, Joe. We're
gonna have to have somebody bring that coolant loop up.
SPT You got a preferred time?
CC Inverter 3 pump Charlie and we're about
15 seconds from LOS. We'll be coming up on Vanguard at 37.
SPT What time do you want it on? Right now?
SPT Okay.
time 2 hours 8 minutes. On the previous pass o_er the Guam
tracking station, Capcom Hank Hartsfield explained to the
crew what steps could be taken to correct the anomaly in the
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coolant loop on board the spacecraft. The primary coolant

loop has a stuck valve as reported earlier this evening,
and the crew was asked to turn off the secondary coolant
loop for a few minutes, and just as we lost signal at the
Guam station, the crew was asked to turn it baek on. Flight
controllers will continue to look at the coolant loop here
on the ground. And we have next acquisition at Vanguard in
27 minutes.
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Time: 21:33 CDT 15:02:33 GMT
6/7/73

time 2 hours 33 minutes. Anticipated acquisition over the
Vanguard tracking station. The problem with the coolant
loop aboard the spacecraft airlock module coolant loop, which
has been discussed for the last several hours, between Capcom
and the Skylab crew. The problem simply - the primary loop
has a stuck valve in the cold position. The secondary
coolant loop has just basically gotten too cold as a result
of the power down phase of the mission during the EVA system
power down many instruments, many critical items were turned
off to conserve power and as a result the coolant loop sys-
tem got too cold. For the last pass an attempt was made to
turn off the secondary coolant loop was turned off in order
to try to warm it up and give it a shock to get the system
back on line. However, this was determined on ground looking
at telemetry that this would not solve the problem. So
the situation is now, that the ground is looking at turning
critical items off, that are cooled by the coolant loop.
Such critical items as transmitters, tape recorders, and
the airlock module. This is being done to protect the loop
in case of a failure, these instruments would _ot be damaged
or overheated. The decision has been made to fly throughout
the night in this position, leaving the secondary coolant
loop on, and turning off the critical items that would be
damaged in the event the coolant loop did have a failure.
So, this is the information that will he passed up to the
crew on the Vanguard pass. We'll hold the line open for
that pass.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Vanguard, i0 min-
utes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Roger. I put a number of comments on
channel B about this ATM pass, one I'd like to reiterate to
you the pass on is that we need up here as soon as possible,
on the teleprinter, new pads, or rather new cue cards formats
for power-down for unattended_ dark side prep, Sunside prep,
power-down operate next pass, for new configuration, and we
really don't know where we are.
CC Roger, copy.
SPT Thank you.
CC For infor, we're going to he commanding
the AM APS side of the house to configure that.
SPT Roger. :
CC Okay, and also, on this thermal problem,
we the thermal shotgame we played while ago didn't work,
and the actions we're going to take, is we're going to turn
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off all this redundant gear that we had on, and trying to warm
up the loop, we're going to run with a single loop tonight,
with no switchover ENABLED. We've taken the critical, we will
take the critical equipment off the line, we'll be safe if
we do have a loop failure, the ground will pick it up and
command a new inverter, and pump on the line.
SPT Okay.
CDR We need to go back to COMM_/qD right, Hank?
CC That should already he accomplished, Pete.
CDR Talleyho.
CC Okay, I guess when you put that inverter
on while ago, maybe we ought to verify that you did go back
to COMMAND after you did it.
CDR No, we didn't, you didn't tell us to.
We'll go back to it now.
CC Okay, thank you. Sorry about that. In
regard to your evening status report, why don't you go ahead
and put the rest of it on channel B, the food part.
CDR Okay, the CDR ate everything, and he's
probably going to get into the butter cookies in a minute, so
put me down for two butter cookies. And the rest of the guys
get put it on B channel, because we donlt have it now.
CC Okay, and for info, we're dumping the tape
recorder at this site, so you ought to hold up on that until
LOS.
CDR Okay, I put you back in COMMAND on
secondary - -
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CDR Okay, I put you back in command on

secondary. You're in command on primary.
CC Thank you, sir.
CDR I said you are in command in both primary
and secondary now.
CC Roger, copy. Thank you.
CC We'll be commanding up the secondary loop
here, and you may get a caution and warning.
CDR Okay, why don't you get the AM Buses
configured. Why don't you get the beer on the line seems to me
we've just gotten extremely cold in the MBA. It's got to be about
55 up there.
CC Okay, we'll take a look at it.
CC Skylab for info, we'd like flight a night
with the TACS ENABLED. Til we get this momentum squared
away. It looks like - every time we take this thing and
hold it out attitude for awhile out of solar inertia we have
a problem getting squared away.
SPT It is ENABLED, isn't it Hank?
CC Roger, this is Just info. We want - we
want to say we didn't want to fly that way tonight.
SPT Okay. Good show.
CC Skylab, Houston, do we have somebody up in
the AMDA now?
SPT PLT will be there shortly for you.
CC All righty.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay. on - on the Panel 205 1 believe
it is there the reg adjust. We'd like to get the reg adjust
bus i, CLOCKWISE until PCG total i equals total 2 and that
complete our reconfiguration of PCGs i through 4 on REG BUS
i and 5 to g on REG BUS 2.
PLT Hey, that sounds great. Holy mackril you
have a nominal four for a discharge limit. Why you leaving
the discharge limit inhibited, just in case you really need
them, tonight yet?
CC We're just waiting til we get everything
folded back up and we need about three things that were on
the ATM panel to finish - to close out of that for a unattended.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, SO54 we need to get the exposure
range to 256.
PLT Okay.
CC S056 main power on?
PLT What do you want, oh. You want the XRA
power off?
CC S056 main power ON. And we need the H
AMP AUTO SWITCH to OFF and that does it for tonight and we're
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almost LOS and we'll beging coming up on Canary at 57.

CDR I don't understand SO56 main power, you
mean the high voltage power on the - -
PAO This Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time
2 hours 47 minutes with loss of signal at the Vanguard
tracking station. The crew will probably be bid good
night at the Ascension tracking station in approximately
9 minutes. Discussions again were between the crew and the
ground we're aimed at the primary and secondary coolant
loop problem. Deseesion has been made to turn off redundant
equipment which had been turned on to warm up the secondary
coolant loop. They've critical items on that coolant loop
have been taken off line for the night. The decision has
been made to fly with the system for the night and if there
is a failure in the system, the ground can command new
inverters and pumps on from the ground. The crew is - as
we say should say good night in - at Canary in 8 minutes.
We'll bring the line up at that time for final reports from
mission control center at Grennwich mean time 2 hours 48 minutes
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Time: 21:T 15:02:56 GMT
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time 2 hours 56 minutes. We will have a Canary and a Madrid
pass back to back for a total probably of about 18 to 19
minutes. We'll leave the line up for conversations between
Capcom Hank Hartsfield and the crew.
CC Skylah, Houston, through Canary and
Madrid, 14 minutes.
SPT Fourteen minutes. Wow.
CC And I got to apologize to you, Paul, I
allowed myself to pass you some bad switch nomenclature awhile
ago. On S056 it was the camera power we wanted off. And on
H Alpha i, we wanted H Alpha auto switch to OFF.
SPT Okay, we finally figured it had to be
the camera power switch. You should see that on. And
the H Alpha I, the exposure switch or whatever you want to
call it, the auto switch is now OFF.
CC Roger. Copy. Thank you.
SPT And then we wonder when we can put the
auto switch off, now that we're back in GBA auto door ENABLE.
CC The night interlock is still in override.
SPT Well, let's take it out.
CC If you want to do that -
SPT That's what I mean by needing a new
checklist.
CC Roger. We concur and we're gonna have
to build you something.
CDR Yeah, but Hank, do me a favor, have those
guys do it and work on it, and practice with it in the simulator,
and work on it, and don't send us one til it's the right one.
CC Roger, that.
CDR All we got is 8 billion yards of bits
and pieces of ATM stuff written all over everything, including
the wall.
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from LOS. The ATMDC is taking care of the momentum. There's
a very remote possibility that we might get an anomaly nominal H-
cage on the next dump. However, if that doesn't occur you ought
to be good for the night, and how would you like to wake up
in the morning?
CDR Okay, and what is (garble) time.
CC We have Bermuda at ii:00.
CDR Let's hear from you then. Thank you
very much Hank, we'll see you in the morning.
CC Okay, you want a call at Bermuda.
CDR Yes, please.
CC Okay, will do. You guys get a good
night's rest. You've earned it.
CDR Thank you.
SPT Good night, Houston.
CC And EGIL thanks you for the power.
CDR You're welcome, you're welcome.
CDR Oh, hey, Hank. Are you there?
CC Roger.
CDR Okay, l'm sorry. I had corn scheduled
in my menu today, and I made the scheduled subsitntion, which
was German potato salad.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Thank you.
mean time 3 hours 12 minutes, with loss of signal over
Madrid. The crew was bid good night for the evening. And
they are scheduled to sleep in the orbital workshop sleep
compartments. Their 10th night sleeping in the workshop.
Tomorrow, Friday, is June 8th, it will be the 15th day of
the mission. The crew is starting their second full week
in the workshop. Experiment-wise they are scheduled to do
the MO92, lower body negative pressure device, and 171, metabolic
analyzer. Subject to those experiments will be Pilot Paul
Weitz. Also scheduled for today are several hours of manned
operation of the Apollo telescope mount. At Greenwich mean
time 3 hours and 13 minutes, this is Skylah Control.
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SL-II MC-680/I
Time: 22:34 CMT, 15:03:34 GMT
6/7/73

time 3 hours 34 minutes. We have acquisition tentatively
at the Guam tracking station for 3 minutes if the crew is
still up and about we will more than likely hear from them.
To recap the coolant loop discussions which have been going
on for the last several hours here at the Mission Control
Center; the - refers to the airloek module coolant loop.
The coolant loop is an active thermal coolant from - which
removes and dissipates waste heat which is due to the operation
in the cluster equipment and metabolic heat loss. Active
cooling is provided to EVA - extravehicular activity - the
intravehicular activity - IVA - intravehicular suit cooling
module condensing heat exchangers, cabin heat exchangers, three
tape recorder cold plates, oxygen heat exchanger, the Apollo
telescope mount control and display panel heat exchanger,
battery modules and six electronic modules. There are two
loops on hoard, primary and secondary. The primary loop
which reportedly has a open valve in the cold situation; the
secondary loop due to the fact that the vehicle was powered
down for a great length of time during EVA exercises this
afternoon. The vehicle being powered down, no heat was
generated in the spacecraft therefore the systems - the
coolant loop itself got too cold. The temperatures have
been rising slightly in the secondary cooland loop in the
last couple of passes. The ground has turned off the critical
items aboard the spacecraft so if the pumps fail n secondary
cooland loop; that critical equipment would not be damaged.
We'll leave the line up now for any possible conversation be-
tween CAPCOM Hank Hartsfield and the crew of Skylab.
CC SPT, Houston?
CC Skylab, Houston?
CDR Go ahead, Houston.
CC Hey, sorry to bother you guys but this
coolant loop is getting away from us and we're going to have
to do something with it, it's down two - two degrees freezing
now and we're going to have to get you up and working so we
can get the thing warmed up. Looks like it may do is freeze
up the condensing heat exchanger and that in a powerful
situation. We'd like for yon to get the AM circ fans on
and bring up the ATMC&D coolant loop and our plan is which
we're hoped to have for you by Canary is we're going to hook
up an LSU to one of the SUS outlets to PCU then use that LCG
adapter we have and hook up an LCG and get it down in the
hot part of the workshop there, somewhere - maybe near one
of the water tanks and see if we can't start warming up this
coolant loop.
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CDR Okay. We'll begin. We'll work right now.

SPT AM coolant loop, the circ fans and the
ATM coolant loop.
CC That's affirmative. Sorry to do this do
you guys. We're going to let you sleep late in the morning.
CDR No, we want to keep the show running, pal.
don't worry about that.
CC Houston. We want you to use SUS 2 on this
LSU hookup; we'd llke you to get the whole thing connected
up and if possible delay the Canarys to turn it on. You'll
have to use that special adapter to hook up the LCG to the
PCU and we want the diverter valve to set to position 5, we
haven't found the stowage location yet for those adapters.
CDR We're working at it.
CC Okay, I have - FAO says there in 920
center sleep compartment and we want you to hook up two of
them if possible - two LCGs and we're about LOS now and will
be coming up on Canarys in 36.
time 3 hours 52 minutes. The crew was alerted over the
Honeysuckle Station to - to go through procedures and attempt
to bring up the temperature in the secondary coolant loop
which at present is 2 degrees below freezing. The plan is
to take a LCG - liquid cooling garment and attach it to the
coolant loop system in an attempt to raise the temperature.
In effect what the LCG would be serving as would be a heat
exchanger. The procedures will be worked up and passed up
to the crew on the Canary pass and the efforts to correct
the coolant loop problem will not be attempted until the
Skylab Space Station has acquisitioned a single - signal
at Canary in 42 minutes and 47 seconds from now. Greenwhich
mean time 3 hours 53 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 23:30 CDT 15:04:29 GMT
6/7/73

time 4 hours 29 minutes, with acquisition at Canary Island
scheduled in approximately 6 minutes. Flight Director Neil
Hutchinson and his team of silver flight controllers have
been working for the last hour on procedures to pass up to
the crew over the Canary Island station on a troubleshooting
to solve the overly cold water coolant system for the coolant
loop. Plan - tentative plan now is to take the liquid cooled
garment, which is the undergarment that the astronauts wear
next to their skin during EVA. This garment has got plastic
tubes in it to which liquid is passed to keep the astronauts
cool during EVA. The liquid cooled garment will be placed on
the wall of the dome area of the workshop behind a water tank.
One of the ten water tanks aboard the spacecraft. The water
tanks are hot, a portable fan will be placed next to the
garment to blow over the garment to make it hot laying over
the water tanks. The garment will be hooked up to the coolant
loop which is a normal operation during EVA exercises. The
coolant loop provides support to the extravehicular activities
of the astronauts. As the garment gets warm, the liquid in
the garment will get hot, and that will in turn be pumped through
the coolant loop in an attempt to raise the temperature of
the coolant loop, to bring it back within tolerance. At
last analysis the temperature was two degrees below zero.
And this procedure hopefully will return the coolant loop
to a satisfactory temperature where the crew can close up and
go back to sleep for the night. Canary, we will have acquisi-
tion at Canary Island in 4 minutes from now. We will bring
the line back at that time. Greenwich mean time 4 hours
31 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 23:35 CDT, 15:04:34 GMT
6/7/73
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 4 hours

34 minutes. We will have acquisition at Canary Island Track-
ing Station momentarily. To clarify the earlier report, the
temperature of the water coolant loop presently is 2 degrees be-
low freezing, not 2 degrees below zero as earlier reported; 2
degrees below freezing. We'll stand by for instructions from
CAP COM Hank Hartsfield to the crew on this troubleshooting
procedure for the coolant loop system.
SC Rello, Houston. You there?
CC Roger. We're with you for about 12-1/2 min-
utes now.
SC Okay. We all wondered why, if we're in
a sweat on the coolant loop, why don't we start adding some
heat to the vehicle, for especially the MDA?
C0 Okay, we've got all the heaters on now,
Our biggest problem is to get some heat into the coolant loop,
and the only way we can do that is through the electronics that's
attached to it. And also the problem is our thermal capacitor
has gotten down so cold that it's really zapping us. And the
stuff we're putting on is downstream of the heat exchanger,
and the heat exchanger is our big problem; we can't afford to
let it freeze up on us.
SC I'll buy that. Yon got all the MDA heaters
on?
CC Okay, all of them except the primary set.
SC I'm talking about the radiant heaters and
the wall heaters and that.
CC Those are all on, and we'd like to verify how
far you've gotten this lash up. I guess we want to get those
LC - LSUs hooked into 323 and 317 on the secondary side, and
when you get the whole thing lashed up with those adapters,
we wanted to get the two LCGs put somewhere near water tank 1
(That seems to be the warmest tank, according to our telemetry.),
perhaps in around it. Later on - -
SC Hank, we've got a duct. We've got a duct,
and it's there where you want it.
CC Okay.
SC You turned them on?
CC Okay, let's verify a couple of things then
before we do that. You do have the diverter valves in a
position 5. Is that correct?
SC Both valves are position 5.
CC Okay, then back on the - We need somebody
in the STS to verify a few things for us.
SC Go ahead; we're all here.
CC Okay. Panel 200, we want to get the circuit
breaker RAD FLOW SECONDARY CLOSED.
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SC It's CLOSED.
CC Okay. And on panel 203, RAD FLOW SECONDARY
to COMMAND.
SC That's complete.
CC Okay, now on panel 217, we want to verify
that the HEAT EXCHANGER COOLANT FLOW, per the secondary system,
is in BYPASS. We want to leave it there.
SC It is.
CC Okay, want to verify that the jumper is
removed.
SC It's off now.
CC Okay, we're ready to turn the pumps on then.
Want to run down and get those on the panel 323 or right there,
either one. We want to go to (garble) SUS 2 PUMP to PRIMARY.
SC It worked.
SC Okay, it's on.
CC Okay, and the last thing I guess we want to
do is if - somehow or another, we'd like to get a portable fan
rigged up to blow air across those LCGs into the (garble) of that
water tank. And do you think you could rig that up? We thought
maybe you could use the outlet at 521.
SC I suppose we could; we've got it taped to
the hot wall in there. I was actually covering the darn things
to try and insulate them from cold air so they picked up max
heat from the wall. And we checked it only to the water.
SC Look if you blow on them, you might (garble)
heat to those. There'll be (garble).
CC Okay, let's get a - let us get a - work that
one a minute.
SC Okay. You want us to power up any EREP to
get some heat into that ATM EREP coolant loop?
CC Stand by I.
SC Also, we could power up some more ATM gear,
like TV monitor i; we got MODE 2 on.
CC Okay.
SC Doesn't look like we're using an awful
lot of power right now.
CC Okay, we're pulling 4600 watts right now.
It looks like we're already starting to see some results on this
thing. I guess we'd llke to hold off for just a minutes or two
on the EREP or anything else.
SC Okay, fine. We're Just trying to be help-
ful. Incidently, Houston, what's your next pass in your A0S time?
CC Okay, the next one, after we get through
Madrid here, will be Carnarvon at 16.
SC Thank you.
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CC And we still have about 7 minutes on this

pass.
SC Okay, we think some rather - (garble) looked
to me, are dramatic results on the (garble) temperature's come
up 3degrees since we turned on that (garble).
CC Roger. We're seeing the same thing down
here; it's fantastic. This one temperature that was below
freezing going into the heat exchanger is now up almost to
41 degrees.
SC What's that stuff freeze at? Essentially
32?
CC What we were worried about was the water
in the condensing heat exchanger itself. The coolant itself
is no problem; it won't freeze up on us. But the water down
there in those plates - if they froze up, we'd be in trouble.
SC Yeah_ I understand that. Henry, can you
give me some idea how this happened? Have we Just been
cooling down and cooling down, and the extra power down today
for the EVA drived it over the brink? I don't understand this.
CC What happened there, I think, was that the -
we had that failure, you know, in the TCV valve in the primary
loop where it went - pulled cold on us, and it drugged the
whole system down. It druged the secondary down with it and
then pulled the thermal capacitors down. Then that combined
with our EVA today, where we powered everything down, Just drove
us right into the mud.
SC Okay, you got any - I don't want to bother
you, but you got any plans for working the primary loop valve
if it gets unstuck?
CC There's some people looking at some things,
Pete. I don't know what they're looking at right now, but
there are some plans in the work.
CC In fact, they're they were working some
things they wanted to try tomorrow.
SC And I show 43 degrees down on the heat exchanger
(garble). That stuff showed 35 when I first looked at it.
SC Hey, uh, Hank, you still there?
CC Roger.
SC Ask EGIL what he thinks about BATT 4 on
the PCG. How come that is low, the (garble) amps are low?
CC Okay, I'll get an answer. What we'd like to
do here, Pete, is to look at this thing at Carnarvon, which
is the next station, _hich is coming up at 16. During - in the
meantime, we're going to be deciding how we want to configure for
the night. But in any event, I think at Carnarvon we'll have a
decision for you and let you guys get to bed. In fact, a
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couple of you could go now, if you like. And we'll try to

determine whether this is going to be a permanent situation
or whether it's temporary. In any event, we're out of the
woods right now on the immediate problem.
SC Okay, we'll see you at Carnarvon.
CC PCG 4 looks okay to us, Pete.
SC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control; Greenwich mean time 4 hours
49 minutes with loss of signal over Madrid. The procedures
passed up to the crew were implemented. Placement of the LCG,
liguid cooling garment, was placed near the hot water tank
aboard the vehicle. And the pumps were turned on, and the
temperature in the coolant loop went up approximately i0 de-
grees in the short span of one pass over Madrid. The crew
is being instructed to get ready to bed down for the night.
We're going to keep this system going for the next pass over
Carnarvon in 24 minutes. The problem seems to be solved at
this time. At Greewich mean time 4 hours 50 minutes, this
is Skylab Control.
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Time: 0003 CDT, 15:05:03 GMT
6/8173

time 5 hours 3 minutes. The spacecraft is on its 354 revo-
lution crossing over the country of India. The apparent
problem in the coolant loop, the airlock module coolant
loop, has been solved by a jury rigged method of attaching
the liquid cooled garment near the hot water tank in the
orbital workshop dome, and hooking the liquid cooled garment
to the coolant loop system, thereby running hot water through
the system and thereby raising the temperatures which were be-
coming a problem. The temperature had dropped to 2 degrees
below freezing. The airlock module coolant loop is an active
thermal coolant loop which removes and dissipates waste
heat in the airlock module_ due to the cluster equipment and
operation and metabolic heat loss. The cooling - the coolant
loop provides support to the extra vehicular activity system,
the inter-vehicular suit activity, condensing heat exchangers,
cabin heat exchangers, the tape recorders, cold plates, oxygen
heat exchangers, the Apollo telescope mount control and display
panel heat exchanger, battery modules and 6 electronic modules.
The problem first arose at approximately 19:36 GMT after the
EVA. The problem was apparently caused, due to the fact that
the vehicle was almost totally powered down for the EVA.
When the vehicle is powered down there is no heat being pro-
duced inside the vehicle, therefore the coolant loop system
became extra cold. After the crew was bedded down for the
evening at i0:00 p.m. central daylight time, within 45 min-
utes later, the crew was awakened and advised of procedure
necessary to make adjustments to the coolant loop system.
When the spacecraft passed over Honeysuckle on the last
revolution at 03:47 GMT, the crew was advised of the
systems necessary to repair, make modifications to the coolant
loop. When the spacecraft passed over Canary Island station
at GMT 04:36 these procedures were initiated and within a few
moments the temperatures in the coolant loop system rose from
2 degrees below freezing, rose approximately i0 degrees bringing
the system back to nominal. The coolant loop is still being
operated with the liquid cooled garment until the Skylab crosses
over Carnarvon in approximately 8 minutes. Further instructions
will be passed to the crew as to whether that will be the extent
of the operation and the crew can return to bed for the evening.
At Greenwich mean time 5 hours 6 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 00:14 CDT, 15:05:14 GMT
6/8/73

time 5 hours 21 minutes. There was a mechanical mixup in
the soundroom. There was 2 minutes which we recorded on
VOX tape at the beginning of this pass. We'll play that
now and pick up any additional air to ground conversation
between CAP COM Hank Hartsfleld and the crew. We'll play
that tape now.
CC Skylab, Houston; through Carnarvon at
Honeysuckle for about 14 minutes.
SC Roger. How are you.
CC Okay. I guess we made a decision here.
What we're going to do is leave this thing latched up like it
is. I think we're out of the woods right now on it for the
time being anyhow. And we're going to work on a plan to get
ourselves squared away for the rest of the mission. Before
you guys go to bed, however, we'd like to know hew we're going
to handle tomorrow. Our plans are now, tentative with your
concurrences, to get you up about 13:00 about 2 hours late
and we'd like to know how much cleanup time you want in the
plan tomorrow and where you want it.
CC And that cleanup will probably include
tying down this thing we just built up here with the FCG.
SC Well, Bank I tell you I better spread it
out (squeal) couple of hours (squeal).
CC Okay. I had an awful lot of feedback
there, Pete. I understand you want about a couple of hours
a guy - is that correct?
SC Wait until we get the squeal out of it,
Hank.
CC Okay, that sounds pretty good.
SC Okay. Couple hours would he fine or
if you can't make it that way, you know, spread a little in
tomorrow and a little the next day and we'd like to keep as
much on the experiments as possible. It won't take us more
than 20 minutes to cleanup
SC We put it together in an awful lot of a
hurry.
CC Roger, understand and one other little
item for you here is one of our computer predictions says we
may get a nominal H-cage on the next dump. One of them says
we' re not.
SC I understand that TACS is right down by
our head. I_m sure we'll find out one way or another whether
we got it or not? I'm kinda sitting here sight seeing right
at the moment. We've got a beautiful swing down over Sumatra
and Borneo. That light is - we're just approaching the Australian
f coast line ready for the pass over Australia. Read, Houston?
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CC Roger, we copy and I guess if - we're

satisfied with the likes of it right now and if you are we'll
let you go to bed. Do you want a call in the morning. We've
got a pass at Ascension at 13:00.
SC Yeah, why don't you do that. I suspect
we'll wake up before that, Hank. We usually do and we'll
give you a holler. And if you haven't heard from us by 13:00
why just go ahead and give us a holler. And all my good buddies
down there in the Carnarvon Tracking Station when they get
off duty tonight they ought to all go and have a quiet lager
beer for me.
CC Roger, copy. I appreciate you guys
taking care of this super fast and sorry we had to do that to
you. I hope you get a good nights' rest and we'll talk to
you tomorrow.
SC Okay. Nighty night.
PAO LOS. This is Skylab Control; Greenwich
mean time 5 hours 32 minutes with loss of signal over the
Honeysuckle Tracking Station as the spaceelaft nears the end
of the 355th revolution. The crew has been bid good night
for the second time after troubleshooting the coolant loop
problem. The ground has told them to leave it up the way it
was with the liquid cooled garment hooked up to a hot water
tank, laid over a hot water tank, and then the liquid cooled
garment hooked to the coolant loop which, as a result, raised
the temperature in the coolant loop to nominal operation
temperatures. The crew has been given the green light for
two extra hours sleep in the morning. Scheduled arising time
now is 8 a.m. central daylight time. This concludes the
reports from the Mission Control Center from the Public Affairs
Console. Next report will be at wakeup time, 8 a.m. central
daylight time, Friday, June 8. At Greenwich mean time 5 hours
33 minutes this is Skylab Control.
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utes Greenwich mean time. At the present time the process of
handover is taking place at Mission Control. Flight Director
Neil Hutchinson, who is off-going, is handing over to Charles
Lewis, the on-coming flight director. We expect a change-of-
shift briefing to take place at approximately 35 minutes after
i:00 o'clock central daylight time. To repeat, that's 1:35
central daylight time. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson and
his electrical, general instrumentation, and life support sys-
tems engineer, the EGIL, will be there to answer questions on
the suit umbilical system problem that occurred tonight, the
coolant loop problem, and also to discuss the electrical
power generation on Skylab. This is Skylab Control at 25 min-
utes and 50 seconds after the hour.
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utes and 15 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
Flight Director, Nell Hutchinson, is completing his turnover
to Charles Lewis. He informs me there will be about a 10-mlnute
additional delay before the press conference can begin. That
would put the press conference at approximately 5 minutes
before 2:00 o'clock central daylight time. We've got some
additional information from the off-going EGIL, Steve McLendon,
who also will be available at the press conference on the
details of the temperature control problem experienced today
by the crew. The problem began during the beginning of the
EVA, when a switch was turned to the EVA position on the primary
coolant loop. The switch was enabled to EVA position in order
to run coolant liquid through the suit system, through the liquid
cooled garment that cools the astronauts while they're working
within their suits. In that EVA position, as soon as they
made the switch they received a caution and warning light, which
signaled low temperature. It's believed that when they made
that switch, that a slug of cold material, Coolanol, the
coolant material that runs through the cooolant loops came
from the radiators and went into that bypass vent into the
valve that operates the cooling operation. It's called the
temperature control valve-B, TCVB, Temperature Control Valve-B.
Temperature Control Valve-B may have been thermally shocked by
that cold material coming out of the radiators of the space-
craft. The radiators being at very cold temperatures, and
that is where the heat is exchanged and dumped into space.
It's quite possible that that temperature control valve was
shocked into the cold position so that only cold material
would run through it. And it would continue to put all of
the material in the Coolanol System out to the radiator to
cool it down. As soon as that happened they instructed the
crew to go back out of the EVA position. When they did that
they received a high pitch whine on one of the coolant
pumps. And because of the high-pltch whine they thought
there may be some danger of that pump going out. They weren't
really certain what was the problem. And they still are not.
They switched back to the EVA position on the primary coolant
loop and at that time switched to the secondary coolant loop
and shutdown the primary loop. So that primary loop which
became very cold at that time, because of the stuck valve,
is still at a rather moderate temperature. There's not any
danger from it. And they will tomorrow morning attempt to
free that stuck valve. They don't consider that to be much
of a problem. The wa X it will be - probably be freed is by
bypassing the radiator. 'They have a control that allows them
to telemeter up signals to bypass the radiator system on the
primary coolant loop. When they bypass that radiator system,
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they will only flow the coolant loop around the spacecraft.
And that will continually warm up. They feel that once the
temperatures have come up enough in the coolant loop, it is
at a moderate temperature right now. It is in fact above the
temperature of the secondary coolant loop. Once the tempera-
tures have come up and are brought to a sufficient level,
that temperature control valve-B will be freed again, and it
will start operating, and again control the temperatures
properly, flowing some of the material out to the radiators
hut not excessive amounts. So the problem began during the
EVA on the primary coolant loop. It has been shutdown since
the beginning of the EVA and it has not been operating. It
is still capable of operating properly once that temperature
control valve is freed. Temperature Control Valve-B is the
main control for the electronic systems temperature. Itls
the means of regulating the amount of coolant that flows out
to the radiators. The temperature problem is now considered
pretty much solved, or at least for the overnight period. They
have the liquid cooled garment, that's the space suit cooling
apparatus attached to the suit coolant loop. That's part of
the coolant system. This is essentially in the EVA mode on that
secondary coolant loop. And as long as that's attached it
is bringing up the temperatures. The temperatures are coming
up now well in the safe range. And they're well above any
danger of freezing. So the problem is considered to be solved
with this fix. And they don't expect it to be an additional
problem. The problem on the secondary coolant loop, as should
be explained, was brought about because of the coolant loop.
The primary coolant loop had brought about very cold tempera-
tures. The secondary coolant loop and the primary coolant are
very closely entertwined with each other. And the cold tempera-
tures on the primary loop brought down the temperatures on the
secondary loop during the EVA. So that, in fact, the secondary
loop has no fails in it. It's operating properly. But the
cold temperatures in the primary loop had brought down the
temperatures in that secondary loop. They have now brought
those back up within safe limits and it's assumed that they
will operate within safe limits now after the evening. Once
we've gotten them up to a high enough level, they should
continue to operate at that level with out any additional
fixing. So, tomorrow there will be an attempt to solve the
problem on the primary loop by bypassing the radiators - by-
passing the cold part of the system, and allowing it to heat up
naturally from the electronics temperatures. The solar array
which is now fully deployed on the Orbital Workshop is producing
energy at high levels of the actual output of energy from the
solar panel. There will be additional explanation for this
necessary. But the output from the solar panel indicated
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8000 watts and above, which is well within the range of its
normal output. Now that energy is put into the batteries,
they are drawing a regular power from the batteries of about
1700 watts. That's below their capability. For safety reasons
they felt that it would be desirable to keep them down. They
did have problems earlier on drawing too much power from ATM
batteries and lost a battery because of that, or nearly lost a
series of batteries because of that. So they are not drawing
the full capability of those batteries. They are able right now
to draw 1700 watts on a regular basis, both in darkness and in
daylight, from the 8 large batteries in the orbital workshop.
These are separate from the Apollo telescope mount solar array
batteries, of which there are 18, 2-1/2 of them not working
properly. That 1700 watts is below what they'll be drawing
tomorrow. They expect to crank it up and draw 2500 watts out
of it tomorrow. They're moving slowly but surely up to the
maximum normal capability of those batteries, which is about
3000 watts. So at the present time they do get 1700 watts
regularly from the batteries, something in excess of 8000 watts
being produced by the solar array and being put into the batteries
during the charging periods. So 1700 watts of output from the
orbital workshop, in addition to something over 4000 watts out
of the ATM. And they will tomorrow go up to 2500 watts in the
orbital workshop and they have a maximum capability of 3000 watts,
which will undoubtedly be brought up in future days. The power
system looks excellent right now. The temperature problem is
no longer a difficulty. We will be having a change of shift
briefing in approximately 8 minutes at building i, Johnson
Space Center. That will include both the EGIL, the electrical
general instrumentation and llfe support system engineer who
is in charge of both electrical and coolant system problems.
And it will include Neil Hutchinson, the off-going flight
director. This is Skylab Control at 48 minutes and 12 seconds
after the hour.
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PAO - - shortage, and that is going on.

utes and 35 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
Neil Hutchinson, the flight director, and Steve McLandon,
the EGIL, on the off-going shift, are on their way to the
Building i Briefing Room. There will be a press conference
held shortly in Building i, approximately 5 minutes from
now. The crew will be waking up late tomorrow morning. They
will be allowed to sleep in for an extended period of time to
make up for the time they lost tonight be=ause of the coolant
problem. And so we will not have commentary as early in the
morning as normal. This is Skylab Control at 6 seconds after
the hour.
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 10 hours

Greenwich mean time, here in Mission Control, correction
ii hours Greenwich mean time. And in Mission Control we're
in the process of beginning a shift handover. Flight Director
Chuck Lewis and the team that's been on during the night pre-
paring to handover to the team headed by Flight Director
Milton Windler. The actual change to occur at about 8 a.m.
which is also the time that the crew is scheduled to be
awakened this morning if we haven't heard from them first.
The flight surgeon reports the crew got to sleep last night -
actually early this morning at 12:30 and the decision has
been made and was made last night to allow them to sleep
essentially a full 8 hours with wakeup at 8 o'clock a.m. or
13:00 Greenwich. The thermal situation is stable at the
present time. In the spacecraft the orbital workshop oper-
ating on the secondary coolant loop after the primary loop
was switched out after a valve stuck OPEN flowing the full
coolant load through the radiators and dropping the loop
temperatures below acceptable limits. The secondary loop has
remained stable during the night. Temperatures cycling between
about 36 and 38 degrees Fahrenheit. This is cooler than desirable
hut is not considered critical at the moment. Major activities,
scheduled in the Flight Plan during today, are the S073
Gegenschein/Zodiacal Light Experiment which is scheduled to
be performed by Commander Pete Conrad. Science Pilot Joe
Kerwin and Pilot Paul Weitz will be performing the Lower Body
Negative Pressure and MI71 experiments, both medical experi-
ments. The MI71 titled Metabolic Activity using the bicycle
ergometer. At the present time we are in stateside acquisi-
tion, receiving telemetry data from the spacecraft through
the Merrltt Island Ground Station. And we have about 4-1/2
minutes remaining in that acquisition before losing radio
contact again. This is Skylab Control at ii hours 3 minutes.
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PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours Greenwich

mean time. Now about I hour away from the scheduled crew
awakening time. Crew to be awakened at 8 a.m. central if we
haven't heard from them prior to that time. They have been
allowed to sleep in this morning after problems with the
coolant loops on the workshop last night that kept them up
until about 12:30. The coolant situation this morning is
stable, situation has remained unchanged since our last report.
We're operating on the secondary coolant loop and it's stable,
temperature around 36 to 38 degrees, which Flight Director
Chuck Lewis reported is acceptable, this is lower than desired,
however. A short while ago the Flight Director requested
all Flight Controllers to consider the availability now of
additional electrical power and to get together the plans for
things they would like to resume, activities that previously
were curtailed, that they would now recommend resuming in light
of the additional reserves of electrical power. The solar
wing on the workshop which was deployed yesterday, is now
putting out about 3000 watts of electrical power, which is
about what we would expect for a single normally nominally
functioning solar wing. At the present time Skylab is in
radio acquisition through the tracking station at Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. We have about 3 minutes before we lose radio
contact, and in another 10 minutes we'll be reacquiring at
Hawaii. During this period of the day we have maximum contact
through the ground tracking stations, maximum duration of
stateside passes and that acquisition time gradually decreases
through the day. The peak aequistlon occurring early in the
day as we're seeing now. There is no television scheduled to
be brought into Houston, today. The preliminary flight plan
for tomorrow shows the possibility of performing TV on M092,
the lower body negative pressure. We're in the process of a
shift hand over and that will begin in earnest during the next
hour. We'll see a large number of flight controllers drifting
into the control center ready to be debriefed on the nights
aetivties, and to pick up the load for the day. Flight Director,
as I mentioned, on this shift is chuck Lewis, he'll me relieved
by Milt Windler. And our CAP COM is astronaut Richard Truly,
who is being relieved, it appears by the astronaut Bruce McCandless.
Also we see astronaut Robert Crippen in the control center at the
CAP COM console. At 12 hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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PA0 This is Skylab Control; _ 12 hours 26 min-

utes. We'll be reacquiring Skylab over the continental United
States, in less than a minute. We dontt expect to hear
anything from the crew, and we don't expect to put in a call
to them. However, as we approach the wake up time, we prefer
to stand by live for any conversation that might develop.
We will keep the air-to-ground line up during this stateside
pass. During the pass over Hawaii, the environmental engineers
got a good look at temperatures on the workshop. Report that
the average temperatures at critical locations in the workshop,
such as the film and the food compartments, are ranging between
73 and 78 degrees, which appears to he consistent with the
sort of temperatures we were getting yesterday, also in the
workshop. We have acquired signal now at Goldstone, and, as
mentioned we will leave the lines up live during this state-
side pass.
SC Good morning, Houston.
CC Morning, Skylab. How are y'all doing this
morning?
SC Fine.
CC And Skylab, Houston,_'re in the middle
of an Ascension pass, we still have about 9 minutes remaining
in this pass. We've hustled all evening to get out a bunch
of pads which are in the teleprinter, which you may already
have found. The only note I'Ii have right now on those pads
is that there is a newssummary Flight Plan for today that
assumes (static) 13:00 wake up that you'll find there. During
the evening the coolant loop's status has remained stable, and
we do not want you to change the configuration that you guys
put it in last evening. One other short note - We are up-
linking some ATMDC memory load in preparation for switchover
to the secondary computer. We're going to be doing,- it's now
scheduled for tomorrow, and there's a message on the teleprinter
concerning this up-link we're doing now.
SC Yeah, we saw it, Dick, thank you.
CC Okay.
SC And we're just now getting up and about.
CC Very good.
SC Dick, how long do you think you're going
to have to leave the SUS pump up and the coolant loop
the way it is?
CC Pete, I wish we right now could give you
a real smart answer on that, but we just honestly don't know,
with the - The EGIL and his people have been studying the problem
all night, and we've got The MitruaW_o_ stable right now, and
we'd like to just leave it that way uhtil we really under-
stand what we're doing now.
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SC Okay.
SC Hey, Dick, do y'all want that housekeeping 70
the morning power down, still performed?
CC Negative, we do not. That's one of the
messages that we have prepared, I'm not sure right now whether
it's on board or not, but we do not want it performed. As a
matter of fact not
SC (Garble)
CC As a matter of fact, now that I think about
it, it's in the odds and ends message, and we have not up-linked
that one yet, but do not do those steps.
SC Okay, we'll throw it away.
CC (Laugh) Okay.
from LOS here at Ascension. We're going to see you at Carnarvon
at 13:30.
SC Okay.
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CC And incidentally we have - we have put in

the first patch in ATMDC as I advised you while ago and every-
thing is going real good there.
SC Take care you guys.
SC Hello, Dick. You still there?
CC Yes sir, I am.
SC Audio inside now, ain't it? Voice record
yesterday's food. Remind me and I'ii give it to you at Carnarvon,
will you please.
CC Okay, sure will.
minutes during that combined pass over Ascension Island -
rather Canary Island and Ascension Island. We got a call
from the crew advising that they were just getting up and
about and very close to the time that we planned to awaken
them. And they were advised by CAP COM Dick Truly that the
coolant loop situation has remained stable during the night.
Crew was asked to leave it in the configuration that they had
when they went to bed at about 12:30 a.m. And in response to
a question from Conrad, Truly said we simply don't have a good
handle at this time on the nature of the problem with the
coolant loop in the airloek module. Again to repeat the
situation is roughly as follows, the primary loop is off line
at the present time. The primary loop has a problem with a
valve that deverts coolant into the radiators to have tem-
perature transferred from the fluid to the cold of space.
This valve which should modulate in some fashion to maintain
the desired temperature appears to be stuck wide open and
consequently the loop is frozen up and is shutdown and we're
operating on the secondary coolant loop in the airlock module.
It is stable but is running cooler than desired. The last
report we had on that showed the temperatures to be between
36 and 38 degrees. We are planning a Change of Shift Brief-
ing. Our estimate on that at the present time is 9 a.m. in
the Johnson Space Center Briefing Room, building i. Flight
Director Chuck Lewis will be participating in that briefing.
At the present time Flight Director Milton Windler and his
team of flight controllers have taken charge of today's
activities, and are in the process of reviewing the status and
deciding what to do about the coolant loop in the airlock
module, determining a course of procedure, course of action
and a series of procedures to troubleshoot the continuing
problem with the secondary loop and to determine what can
be done to remedy the problem - get things back to normal.
The electrical power situation would appear to be greatly
improved after the deployment of the solar panel. The report
_--_ is that that solar panel on the orbital work shop is now
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putting out approximately 3,000 watts of power under peak

solar conditions at the current beta angle. Two of these
wings - which would be the normal mission configuration would
put out to 8,000 watts. However, with the current beta angle
we have, 3,000 is considered to be just about nominal for
the single wing that we have deployed - single solar array on
the workshop. And prior to going off shift, Flight Director
Chuck Lewis requested that his flight controllers review their
situation with individual systems and operations to determine
what activities that have previously been curtailed because
of the power shortage could be resumed. That is going on at
the present time. We have about 20 minutes now before we
reacquire radio contact with Skylab. The spacecraft currently
on its 359th revolution and we will be reacquiring at Carnarvon
Australia. This is Skylab Control at 13 hours ii minutes.
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minutes. We're just a few minutes now away from the scheduled
reacquisition time of Skylab on it's 359th revolution and we'll
be picking up radio contact first through the Carnarvon, Aus-
tralian, Tracking Station and then slipping into coverage -
overlapping coverage from the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia
station before moving out over the Pacific and up over north
of Hawaii. Flight Director Milton Windier at the present
time going over today's Flight Plan activities with his flight
controllers and are discussing ATM activities, the crew is
also scheduled to perform S073 as well as medical experiment
M092 and MI71 as the major experiment activity. They are
in the pre or post-sleep activity section of the Flight Plan
at the present time. That's to continue up to shortly past
15:00 hours Greenwich mean time or about i0:00 a.m. central
daylight time. We show acquisition of signal now. We'll
stand by for a call to the crew from CAP COM -
CC AOS over Carnarvon for the next 6 minutes.
SC Good morning, Crip. How are you today?
CC Fairly fine and you guys sound rather
cheerful after having to get up in the middle of the night.
SC Well, glad to do it to save our happy
home.
CC Very good. Maybe it's getting a little
bit happier.
SC Now let me give you quickly my menu for
yesterday, Bob. It didn't get recorded last night.
CC Okay.
SC Okay, ate everything except delete maca-
roni, item 74; bread, item 75; i coffee, number 62; optional
salt, 9.0; and I put on the tape recorder last night while
we were ricocheting around lashing up LCG's I couldn't resist
one can of butter cookies.
CC Was that butter cookies you ate or did
not eat?
SC Bill that's an extra one I snuck in that
I ate.
CC Well okay. One can of butter cookies.
SC Label that a midnight snack.
CC Sounds good. I can think of better
things than that. CDR, Houston.
SC Go ahead.
CC We have you scheduled as you might have
noticed on your Flight Plan today for a tape recorder check-
out and changeout. Apparently that thing failed on us and
we asked you to check a light on it. We need to coordinate
that over a ground station when you do because we have to
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send a command for reconfiguration. When that comes up would

you Just not do it until wedo have a ground pass.
SC Okay_ understand and what is that,
tape recorder number i?
CC That's affirm.
SC Okay, very good. Then I'ii wait for you
to tell me what to do.
CC Okay. We've got that details on an odds
and ends message which we're going to be sending up for you
very shortly.
SC Okay, very good.
SC Oh, and Bob, while you're thinking about
it the ground may want to take into consideration how we
do this on the next EVA but we used up the three UCtA's that were
spelled out for our day 26 EVA that we took out of the dome
locker. So however they would like to juggle UCtA's for the
next EVA why don't you have the stowage people think about
that because we're going to - somebody's going to have to
replace the ones that we use the next time - somebody's got
to bring some more up.
CC Okay_ appreciate that reminder. We'll
have our stowage people work on it.
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SC Got any news for us this morning?

CC l've got the morning news here, per your
request; if you'd like, I can give you a few blurps.
SC Yes, please.
CC Okay. By the way, this is kind of some-
what old news down here. I wasn't working when it occurred.
Did you hear about the TU-144, the Russian Supersonic Trans-
port that crashed last Sunday?
SC No.
CC Okay. It was during the Paris Air Show.
I guess the aircraft made a couple of passes over the field,
and it pulled up for a turn to come in for a landing, and
apparently - well, the description of it in the newspaper was
that it fell and then ended up exploding and lost the crew and
some town people in the village surrounding the airport.
SC Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
CC That's pretty bad. For some what is
called late news, you guys were headlines today, on managing
to get that solar panel out. And all of us are rather happy
about that. The - Some news summaries I've got - the people
passed on to me here. I can go over a couple of them for
you. Said two California astronomers reported the discovery
of a quasar, believed to be the most distant recorded object
in the universe. And that was Dr. Joseph Wampler of UC,
Santa Cruz, and Dr. Margaret (garble) I believe of US San
Diego (garble) in identifying the quasar with the vast equip-
ment linked with the (garble) Observatory, as that quasar's
believed to be about i0 billion light years from earth.
Mr. Clarence M. Kelly, the Kansas City Police Chief, has been
nominated by President Hixon to serve as director of the FBI.
The 61-year old law enforcement officer served as an FBI agent
for 21 years before he joined the Kansas City Police Department
12 years ago. Also, today, West German Chancellor Willy
Willy Brandt is on an official visit in Israel, where he was
praised by Mrs. Golda Meir for his stating upon his arrival
that the sum of the suffering and the horror cannot be removed
from the consciences of our people. I guess - The headlines
in the Houston Post this morning read, "SPACEMEN FREE SOLAR
PANEL. SKYLAB'S ENERGY CRISIS SEEMED SOLVED THURSDAY NIGHT
AFTER A TWICE AROUND-THE-WORLD REPAIR JOB BY TWO OF THE COOLEST
CATS EVER TO LABOR IN SPACE SUITS." And if l've got anybody
interested in astrology up _here, I can give you your so-called
predictions for the day. Pete, your's is: Endless rounds of
discussion get nowhere but serve to slow down your progress.
Says to concentrate on your own affairs and select simple goals.
PJ, your's says: Yesterday's challenges continue to escalate.
If you must make changes, put your attention to be thorough and
" complete. And for Dr. Joe: Discretion carries your day. Be
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explicit. Volunteer no side issues which might confuse matters.

Family and associates are restless.
SC I'm sorry to hear that. I'm going back
to bed.
CC (Laughter). Okay.
SC Say, you still there, Crip?
CC That's affirm. We've got about another
couple of minutes.
SC Okay. For planning purposes, unless
somebody has some strenuous objections on the ground, we'd
like to share the wealth a little bit up here. And ah -
Having a discussion amongst Joe and myself, we elected
to let PJ do EV-I on day 26, and I'ii do EV-2, if everybody
doesn't have any objections to that. We're all trained in
the different jobs, and we thought we'd like to let PJ get
outside.
CC Okay. We'll run that one around the
flag pole.
SC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute til LOS.
We'll see you again at Guam at 13:45. And l've Just been
informed that we also need a food report from Joe. So maybe
if he could have that for me at the next pass, I'd appreciate
it, sir.
SC The menu report for yesterday: Ate
everything except one tea with lemon and sugar - no salt, no
DELTA H20, no nothing else.
CC Okay. Understand. The only thing
different was one tea with sugar and (garble). That's nice and
quick.
PAO This is Skylab Control. During that pass
over the combination Carnarvon and Honeysuckle Creek Ground
Stations on the Australian Continent, a number of topics
covered with the crew, including their food reports. And
some discussion on the tape recorder and the airlock module,
which is used to record voice and data. That recorder
appears to have failed. Flight Director Milton Windler
reports we're going to do one more series of troubleshooting -
make one more attempt to repair the recorder. And if that
doesn't work, the plan is to replace it with a spare carried
on board. One other item of significance that came out of
the conversations was a request from Commander Pete Conrad
that the ground look into the possibility of having Paul
Weitz participate in the day-26 EVA, to retrieve Apollo tele-
scope-mount film. Conrad's suggestion was that PJ, Paul Weitz,
do the EV-I, with Commander Pete Conrad doing E_-2. And the
response from Mission Control was %hat we would look into
\ that. In about 3-1/2 minutes we just barely acquire at the
Guam Tracking Station. That will be a very low angle, low
elavation pass. If we get any contact, it will be, we suspect,
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rather poor quality. And then in about 13 minutes, we are

scheduled to acquire at Hawaii. This is Skylah Control at
13 hours 42 minutes Greenwich mean time.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. We're standing by

for any possible acquisition through Guam. We don't expect
much, but we'll see what comes out of this very low elavation
pass. We'll be, if we get radio contact, be establishing that
in about 30 seconds.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam for
about a 3-minute pass. And PJ, for you_ are - your mineral
supplements for today are 3 calcium tablets, and no one else
has to take any.
SC Crazy. Thank you.
CC I though tyou'd like that.
SC I don't mind.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute til LOS,
and we'll see you again at Guam at 13:55, i, 3, 5, 5.
CC Skylab, Houston. In case I messed up on
that, the next pass is at Hawaii, at Hawaii.
SC See you at Hawaii, and the calcium's down.
CC Good for the calcium.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Relatively little
conversation on that short pass over Guam. And we'll be
reacquiring through Hawaii in a little less than 6 minutes.
We'll come up again for that acquisition.
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utes, just about a minute now or less away from regaining radio
contact through the Hawaiian Tracking Station. We'll stand
by for all that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii
for about 2 minutes.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute to
LOS we'll see you again over Goldstone at 14:07 - 14:07.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've gone out
of range of the Hawaiian Tracking Station. It'll be a short
skip now to Goldstone, California and a fairly lengthy state-
side pass down across the border between the United States
and Canada, Just below the Great Lakes, and out over the
Atlantic, crossing right through the middle of the circles
for a MILA and Bermuda Tracking Stations, also clipping the
top of the Texas circle so we should have acquisition all
the way across this stateside pass, with perhaps a brief drop-
out between Goldstone and Texas. The crew getting geared up
for a fairly active day of experiments and today after their
. EVA of yesterday the situation appears to have stabilized as
far as electrical power, and the coolant loop situation in the
airlock module is also stable and we appear to have a pretty
good power profile with the solar panel on the orbital work-
shop, the one that was deployed yesterday and putting out
about 3,000 watts peak. This is very close to what we would
expect for a single normally functioning solar panel. The
pair of them could put out a total of up to 8,000 watts. That
would be for the maximum beta angle. And at the beta angle
or solar exposure that we have right now 3,000 watts is about
what we would expect for a normally functioning solar panel.
Among the experiments that the crew will he performing today:
two prime ones would be the M092, lower body negative pressure
experiment, testing the cardiovascular condition of the crew
and any deconditioning that may have occurred due to the period
of time they have spent in zero gravity. And also runs with
the Science Pilot Joe Kerwin and Pilot Paul Weitz on the bicycle
ergometery - or bicycle ergometer - checking their metabolic
activity. Both of those activities are of i_terest to determine
the effects of prolonged space flight on the human body. And
we might note that at 2:35 a.m. central daylight time, Skylab
eclipsed the time in space r_cord_ for _he United States established
by Gemini VII. Flight Director Chuck Lewis has left the Control
Center now and is enroute to the building i briefing room for a
Change of Shift Press Briefing. We expect that that Change of Shift
Briefing now will occur at 9:15 central daylight time, about
_-- i0 minutes from now.
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CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS over Goldstone

for about, oh, about 6 minutes. We'll have a couple of drop
outs running across the top.
SC All right.
SC Are you gone, Crip?
CC Say again, please?
SC I was wondering if you were still with us.
Say_ while we got a minute, and now that we got some power
back, we were discussing the possibility of how we'd do our
meals differently if we could use the heaters. As it turns
out we probably wouldn't do it much differently than we're
doing right now, because and I bet you this a long time ago,
but it may have gone down the crack, we've got a lot of gas
in this water. When you fill a rehydratable food package, with
either hot or cold water, the package swells almost to its
total volumetric capacity_ with gases, and there really isn't
any way you can put that kind of food cold in the food tray and
put the lid on it, and eat it. The only thing you can do
with those dehydratables that are supposed to be hot_ are use
the hot water. That works fine on all of them except about
F two, which really take a long time to reconstitute, that's
the macaroni and the spaghetti. But that's a problem you
might add thought to the followon crews, because it doesn't
make any difference how much power we got up here, I don't
think they're going to do the meals any differently than we've
been doing them, but you get most of your meal prepared
right before (garble).
CC Okay, copy, and we'll pass that on. I
know Al's going to be disappointed if you can't prepare,
prepare spaghetti right. You can't even let the air out by
depressing on the valve, is that correct?
SC Yeah, if you do you get, you get, a lot
of fluids come out of it. When you got a Juice, you get
juice up a drink valve and slop cold, whatever it is, into
your mouth while you're letting air out into your mouth which
is the best place, because it just goes all over the place.
CC Oh, okay, we'll pass that on to the food
people and the crews.
SC Okay, it's not something you can't cope

with and there really is a process. I don't think anymore about
it, but it isn't essentially the way we planned it.
CC Okay.
SC I might say that the hot water is very
hot and it does a good job, you can leave food reconstituted
for 3 or 4 minutes before you start eating it and it's still
i very warm when you start to eat it.
CC Very good, that's good to hear.
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SC Say, Crip, you still with us?

CC That's affirm.
SC I know EGIL's got a lot of problems, but
how about asking him to consider where we turn on the hot
water heater in the waste management compartment today, that
we could leave it on.
CC That's affirm, you've got a GO to turn it
on and leave it on.
SC/MS Yeah.
CC Aren't we nice to you guys, we figured
you'd like those hot showers.
SC Well, we just wanted some to - for you
know, flight pads and everything, it's been a little chilly
doing that, especially since the vehicle cooled down.
CC Roger. We may get a couple of minutes
dropout on voice here, if we do, I'Ii have you again over
Goldstone at 14:13. Correction, at Texas.
SC Okay.
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CC Skylab we're AOS once more over Texas

at this time. We should have about a 13 minute pass, 13 minutes.
SC Okay.
CC Okay. I'm assuming you guys are still
down in the wardroom having chow. We would like to go back
to our original configuration regarding TACS inhibited and
inhibiting CMG auto reset. Would it be possible within the
next few miuutes to have somebody do that. If not we'll have
to hold up on that DAS command because of some loading that
we're doing in the computer.
SC Rog. We're on our way up there to do it
right now.
CC Okay that's to turn off the (garble) TACS
(garble) to INHIBIT and to put CMG AUTO RESET inhibited at
52010 code and a 5 triple balls two code. And while l'm still
talking to you here I can tell you the status of your rate
gyros this morning and the no-ending saga of the G&S. X is
in i and 2 with 3 as backup. Y is in i and 2 with 3 as backup.
Z is in 2 and 3 on two rate gyro redundancy management. And
we have one off.
SC Copy, you Don. Your request is accom-
plished.
CC Thank you very much, sir.
CC Okay, Skylab. Also a message regarding
your Flight Plan for today. There has been a decision made
to scrub the S019 stowage and the S073 operations for today.
CC Skylab, Houston we're working on your
computer once more so please do not be doing any DAS opera-
tions.
SC Okay.
CC And I don't know if you copied my earlier
statement that there has been a decision made this morning
from your current Flight Plan - we would like to eliminate
the S019 stowage - PJ you had that scheduled aho_t 16:00 1
believe. Also we would like to eliminate all S073 operations.
In other words we're going to leave 19 in the SAL.
SC What are you going to with it?
CC We'll be pulling it out probably tomorrow
morning to put the ETC in.
SC I've g_t a _gnf_s_on to make. I got
ahead this morning and alli_e_y took it' out.
CC Had you put anything in yet?
SC Negative.
CC So just leave it like that. That makes
it nice for tomorrow.
SC (Laughter) Okay, I'm glad I don't have
to put it back.
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CC (Laughter) Okay. On those S073 periods

you can just use those for general cleanup that we'd taken
away from you earlier.
SC Okay, but don't do that anymore. Ya'll
are going to figure out how we operate up here (laughter).
CC Trying to get ahead of us, huh?
SC Well, I'm afraid to get too far ahead.
SC I woke up early this morning had to prowl.
SC Say, Crip, are you still with us?
CC Affirm.
SC Will you need me to - because of which
tape recorder you want or you want to run that tape recorder
stuff and tell me which one to change?
CC Okay, it's one that's bad. But we've
got we want to do a checkout on it and let me - stand by
one and let me check on the status of this message.
SC Well, it may be up there. I haven't
looked but I'm available anytime. If you want to plan it for
the next station I'ii be there.
CC Okay, Pete. I think that sounds pretty
good to us. Let me verify what the status of this message is.
SC Okays and what's the next station?
CC Ascension. And it's Ascension and it's
at 14:34.
SC Roger, Ascension at 14:34. We're directly
over head Bermuda now and it looks like everybody in the
tracking station has got a nice day. I wish I was at the beach
down there.
CC I think it's a pretty nice day all over
the U.S. We've got the odds and ends message up there in
your teleprinter right now and the first line on it, I think,
explains what we want to do with the teleprinter and you
might take a look at that before we get to that pass. And
we'll be doing one command over Ascension, and then check a
light and if it doesn't work out - we'll be asking you to change
it out for us.
SC You didn't mean teleprinter - you mean
tape recorder, right?
CC I'm sorry, yes.
SC Okay, see you at 34, bye.
CC And we still have about 4 minutes to go
here in case anybody's got any traffic.
SC Yeah, PJ's got the prowls and I've got
the whistles so we're whistling around and working.
CC Okay.
SC Still there, Houston?
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SC Crip how about asking somebody to look
into something for us, will you. There's a greasy film on
these all these windows and when you try to clean it with
plain water it doesn't do a very good job. Now we've got
these separate wipes that haven't been - I wanted somebody to
experiment on the ground before we try it up here. See if
anybody could come up with anything to help clean the windows,
will you, please?
CC Okay. You got any idea what the film is?
SC It's - it's greasy kind of stuff it's
just what comes out of the air - no I don't.
CC Okay.
SC Wait a minute. A guy on a white horse
just appeared in the wardroom.
CC Well, despite your guy on the white horse
we'll go ahead and look into it for you.
SC Okay.
from LOS and we'll have you again at Ascension as I said at
14:34 and the DAS is yours again.
SC Okay, thank you, Bob.
PAn This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 26
minutes. We're out of range now of the Bermuda Tracking Sta-
tion and we're ready to begin the Change of Shift Press
Briefing. We'll switch at this time to the Johnson Space
Center Briefing room in building i.
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CC Skylab, Houston.
utes. During the change-of-shift briefing, we accumulated
about 5 minutes of tape recorded conversation with the crew
through the Ascension Island Tracking Station. We'll replay
that for you now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Ascension
at this time, and we've just sent up a command designating
tape recorder 1 as our data recorder. We would like you to
check panel 204 tape reeorder's rotary - by the rotary switch
to verify whether the STOP light on tape recorder 1 is on or
off.
SC Okay, the CDR is enroute.
CC Thank you, sir.
SC Okay, Crip, the tape recorder 1 light is
on.
CC Roger. Copy it's on. Roger, Pete.

That means that it's kaput, and we need you to change it out
as we've mentioned in that message that is in your SWS Systems
checklist, 4-26.
- SC Okay, Crip, we'll have it done here in a
little while.
CC Okay.
SC Say, also Crip, we've had a BATT CHARGE
light on forever - since sometime yesterday. Can you give me
a reason for that, (garble) forever (garble), or what? It's
on the ATM.
CC Stand by on that.
SC Speaking of BATT charge, Crip, how about -
you want us to enable the CAUTION/WARNING for the airlock
module batteries?
CC Let me check on that one also, Pete.
CC Okay. PJ, you can go ahead and enable that
CAUTION/WARNING for the airlock module batteries, and we'll
get a procedure to get that light out for you on the BUTT
CHARGE.
SC Thank you.
CC Okay. And also, CDR, we've had a question
come up here that we'd like you to ponder for awhile, please.
And that is, if it is decided to deploy the MSFC sail, do
you think that should be done with the normal EVA, or
should we do it in two EVAs? I guess the prime question is,
how crowded is it going to be in the airlock when you're
going out? The concensus here seems to be that it would
probably be better to do it in one, but we would like your
recommendation.
SC Well, I'ii tell you. I've already pondered
that one, and I've got an answer for you. The way that we
agreed to do it on the ground, if we were going to do it in that
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manner, was that we would suit up and do one EVA, whichever

one it was, in whichever order you wanted it done, and that
was do the ATM. And then we would pop back inside, rethread
the airlock, take off our helmets, eat lunch and not get out
of our suits, get back into suits, do a little (garble)
cheek, and pop back outside and do the next one. Now that's
a very easy thing to do. If you decided to do that, we would
use the SPT on the sail deploy and then swap out, 'cause he's
already suited anyhow, the PLT on the film deploy.
CC Okay, Pete, we copy that, and we'll pass
it on.
SC Yes, here's my feeling, Crip. I would do
it in the following order also. I would do the film deploy
right away at the first EVA. I believe we could get that
done in the shortest amount of time. I've also rigged most
of the station out there. If you didn't catch it yesterday,
I did configure both trees with the hook while I was
sitting there doing nothing, and so the station is ready to go.
And I think we can do a very fast job on our film transfers and
pop back in, close the hatches, relax and reconfigure the
airlock, with the sail, and then pop back out and do the sail.
CC Okay, I copy that. We're about to go AOS.
-- _ See you again at (garble) at 15:04, 15:04.
SC Now if anybody has any big serious reasons
for not doing it that way, which is the way we talked about it
on the ground before we left, why I'ii he more than happy to
entertain those.
CC Okay. Thank you, sir.
PAO That concludes the tape playback of con-
versations with the crew through the Ascension Island Tracking
Station. To kind of reiterate the conversation, Pete Conrad
first was asked to troubleshoot the tape recorder that appeared
to have failed in the airloek module. This is one of several
aboard the vehicle, used for both voice and data recording. The
check indicated that that recorder had, in fact, failed, and the
crew was given the "go ahead" to change it out, replace it with
a spare carried on board. Also there was a discussion of the
EVA, which - and procedures which maybe followed on the 26th
day of the mission. This had originally been intended as
a single EVA to retrieve the film from the ATM experiment. And
prior to the SL-II crew launch, of course, there was the exer-
cise to determine what sort of sunshade was needed to replace
the mierometeorite and Sun shield that had been ripped off
during launch. And subsequent to the deployment of the parasol,
some indication that it may be necessary to deploy an additional
solar shield or sunshade toward the end of the mission,
ostensibly during the ATM film retrieval EVA. Conrad's
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recommendation was that if it is necessary, if it's determined

by the ground to be necessary to deploy the Marshall Space
Flight Center developed sunshade, to replace the parasol, that
it be done as a second EVA, on day 26. The recommendation
from Conrad was that the crew suit up, go out to retrive
the film, come back in, remove helmet and gloves, have lunch,
and then repressurize the suits for a second EVA in the after-
noon to replace the sunshade. His recommendation on crewmen
for these activities was that the science pilot, Joe Kerwln,
participate in the EVA, along with himself, along with Pete
Conrad, on the sunshade deployment and that the pilot, Paul
Weits, participate in the EVA for film retrieval. And those
recommendations are under consideration at this time. Of
course, again to repeat, this second EVA would be contingent
upon a decision, which has not yet been made, to deploy the
additional sunshade, which would be the Marshall Space Flight
Center developed shade. We have about 4-112 minutes remaining
until we regain radio contact with Skylab, through the
Carnarvon, Australia, Tracking Station. We'll be back up at
that time.
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PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab now on

its 360th revolution of the earth and coming up on acquisition
at the Carnarvon, Australian tracking station. We'll get the
lines up and stand by for conversation with the crew on that
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Carnarvon
for the next i0 minutes, for the next 1 0 minutes.
SC Okay. You're handy-fix-it crowd has
changed out the tape recorder. You want to check it out?
CC Okay. We'll see if INCO wants to take
a look at it.
SC Okay. And ah - I replaced it with side
number 22.
CC Roger. Number 22.
SC And also, Crip. For your information, I
transported 04, the failure mode was on the take up side
drive sprocket. And the transporters are filled, don't ask
me how it did this, wrapped itself 360 degrees around the
transporter drive or idler gear about 4 times. I don't know
how it could do that. We're trying to unravel it now.
CC Okay. We copy that.
CC And, Pete. For your information, per
your request we're trying to get you up a new ATM cue card,
which reflects all the changes that we've made. It's setting
out here at Carnarvon, now. And I don't know if we're going
to make it up at this pass or not. But it'll be up shortly.
It is intended only to be used for the day, though, because
it was put together last night in a rather hurried fashion.
And we've checked it several times. We think it's correct,
but tomorrow we're going to give you one that is good and that
we've run in the simulator and we know it is good.
SC Okay. Thank you, sir.
CC And, CDR. For your information, that
recorder checks out good. You guys do mean it when you say
you fix anything, don't you.
SC We try.
CC They'll put you in the CBs if you don't
watch out.
SC Now, Crip. We have cleared transporter 04.
And I don't know what the crowd would like to do down there.
I'm not sure that there's anything wrong with it. It seems
to be all right. What would you like us to do with transporter
04? Red label it and put it away,• or try her again? Because
I think we should - a chance which:could have been caused by
the takeup spool being - I mean, a little loop in it, being
almost full and not accepting any more film. That to me
is more likely(garble) than the transporter. Because there
was very little film remaining on the supply reel. We just
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stripped it out to throw it away. And there was very little

film remaining on the supply reel. So I kind of think that
might have been the problem. And it's a good transporter.
We'd just as soon go ahead and use it, if the camera people
concur on the ground.
CC Okay. Let me get a reeemmendataion from
(garble) first.
SC Hey, Crip. You there?
CC Affirm.
SC Okay. We've never done day-ll transfer,
which are ERRP tapes. I assume that we'll do that, whenever
you - we finally get enough EREP tape to do that. Is that
correct?
CC We'll check on that. And on the status
of your transporter, what we'd like yon to do is Just go
ahead and put it back in the drawer and we'll schedule it
for a takeup of transporter 1 when it's required.
SC Okay. It looks good to me. It runs
free and, it looked to me like the film just jammed up at
the exit end there and tried to go into the takeup reel.
CC Okay.
SC Very good response.
SC Okay. Now back to page 14, cryo, fan,
02 valve, and all that balony. We're not going to do that
because we're still running the fuel cells, right?
CC I'm sorry, Pete. I didn't copy your
last statement.
SC I'm in the stowage book. And I'm reading
the stowage that has not been done - day ii; day 13 we can
take care of ourselves, and day 14 stowage has not been done
either. And I gather we're not going to do that until we
run the fuel cells dry.
CC I think youtre correct on that. But we're
verifying it here.
SC Okay. Page 15, we'll take care of.
CC Skylab, Houston. We just sent you a
color - sent a message on ATM cue cards to be used for today
and also the test message's up and hopefully that'll do it, for
awhile on teleprinter messages. And we're still researching
your transfer question, Pete.
S C Ok ay.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute to LOS.

We'll see you again at Guam at 15:18 and hope that we'll have
the answers to your stowage questions at that time.
SC Okay. Next question, Crip. Suit dry-
ing - suit drying - they wouldn't let us turn it on last night.
Can we start the suit drying?
CC We're checking.
SC Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've gone out
of range of the Carnarvon Tracking Station. We're about
a minute from reacqu£ring contact through Guam. During that
Carnarvon pass, Pete Conrad verified that the tape recorder
in the airlock module which had failed had been replaced and
we checked out the replacement unit, found it to be working
properly. Also Conrad reported having done a bit of trouble
shooting on a film canister for the 16 millimeter data acqui-
stlon camera which had hungup and he found and apparently
cleared the problem. And that reel - which had been used as
a supply reel for the previous load is now available for use
of the takeup reel in the future if needed. And we're stand-
ing by to regain radio contact in about 20 seconds through
Guam.
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/ CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam
for the next 8 minutes. And CDR, per your questions, the day
ii transfer -
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CC And CDR, per your questions. The day ii

transfers will be scheduled on day 161, prior to the EREP,
that's day after tomorrow.
SC Very good.
CC And - Roger, I said that day ii transfers
would be done on day 161 prior to the EREP, at least that's
our intent currently.
SC Very good.
CC Regarding the day 14 transfers, you were
correct we'll be saving that for fuel cell shutdown which is
estimated at day 166.
SC Okay. Got another question for you.
CC Okay, let me give you this other one,
regarding your suit drying, you're okay to turn on the blowers
and you're okay to turn on the heaters to drive the (garble).
SC Very good , and then my next question, is
it's getting pretty raunchy down there in the command module,
we'd llke permission to bring up the command module fan again.
CC To bring up the command module what, please?
Fan?
SC You know, the airloek module fans, in the

command module, to blow air into the command module.
CC Okay, that sounds like a good idea from
here, you've got a GO for that.
SC Okay, you want us to run it on LOW or HIGH?
CC On HIGH.
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Time: 10:40 CDT, 15:15:40 GMT
6/8/73
CC Skylah, Houston. We're AOS over the States

for nice long pass there - should be about 15 minutes.
SC Okay, Houston, you've got H-alpha 1 on
the PC. I'm working two monitors; so when you want to look
at H-alpha 2, give me a holler, and I'll switch.
CC Okay, understand we've got 1 on now.
And, Pete, we're going to be doing a computer load implementation
at this pass. We'd like you to stay off the DAS for a little
while, please.
SC DAS power is off.
CC And if the PLT is available, you'll never
believe it, hut I've
got a message modification for him.
SC I hope it's got nothing to do with the
192 alinement that I just finished the visible part of.
CC Would you believe it did? Question is,
did you get the READY light when it was called for?
SC I put all that stuff on B channel. Let
me - if you can get any other traffic?
CC Negative.
SC Okay, here it is in summary. Negative.
I have discovered apparently that the only time I get an
ALINED READY light on the 192 gear is when I have a READY
light on the C&D panel.
CC Okay, but you did not get a READY light
on the C&D either. Is that correct?
SC Negative. Negative. I got a READY light
on the C&D every time I expected it. The only conditions under
which I could get an ALINED READY light was to have a C&D READY
light.
CC Okay, that jives with what the people down
here think that you should have.
SC It doesn't jive with what I thought we
should have --
CC Okay, I guess my --
SC information.
CC Okay, I guess my real question, PJ, is
that in the procedure on the first page on panel ii0, when you
got to where you had - supposed to have the S192 mode with
a READY light, did you get that ready LIGHT? And then I under-
stood that's affirmative.
SC That's right. Also, you lost the star-
tracker pad. Just give us the gimhal angles if you've got
them handy, will yon please?
OC Wilco. Stand by 1 on that.
SC And while yo_!;re doing _that, let me make
some more comments about the 192. May I?
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CC Roger. If you can let me go ahead and give

you those gimbal angles, I've got them available here.
SC All right, do.
CC Okay, the inner gimbal is plus 0081 and
the outer gimbal is plus 1628.
SC (Garble). How about the times on that
frame?
CC Roger. It's day 159, valid from 1300 to
2300.
SC No, the orbital times - when it is avail-
able.
CC Oh, I'm sorry. It's available day 4030
to night 1530.
SC Got it. Thank you.
SC Okay, can I jaw some more about EREP?
CC Let me have it.
SC Okay, I just finished the visible aline-
ment. The values I got are the left meter reads 85, the right
meter reads 54. The focus range, looking down into the open top
of the can - the visible focus range is right up against the full
counterclockwise stop.
CC Okay.
SC I also have a distinct impression that the
Y-axis adjustments arm is getting very close to, if you look
into the mechanism, its clockwise limit. It's starting to get
kind of stiff.
CC Roger.
SC That's about it except for an interesting
fact that I wasn't aware of. Maybe all the guys in the back room
knew it, but I didn't. Is that when you open the S192 door --
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Time: 10:48 CDT, 15:15:48 GMT
6/8/73
CC Roger.
SC That's about it, except for an interesting
fact that, I wasn't aware of, maybe all the guys in the back
room knew it, but I didn't, is that when you open the S192
door, the thermal reading on this meter goes up about 50 percent,
in other words, it's reading 45 right now and if I open the
door it goes up to a little over 60. Do they know that?
CC Okay, apparently the boys in the back room
agree that that's _ormal.
SC Hey Crip, (garble) to monitor.
CC Roger. Thank you.
SC _ey, Crip, you faded, did I undexstand
you to say that yes this 193 systems experts expect that when
the door was open?
CC The EREP people tell me that they did expect
that increase when the door was opened.
SC Okay. You mean you're not going to let
me aline it with the door open, till I get these high readings
now?
CC We'll check on that.
SC I'm only joking.
CC I thought you'd like to aline it again.
SC No thanks. I'm very serious about this
thing.
CC That's why I left it for Hank, last night,
to tell you you were going to get to do it again.
CC And CDR, if you've got a chance, I guess
we're sitting here loading this beauty for you this morning
and modifying your program slightly, and we don't know if
you've ever been briefed on what it is we're doing to it. Have
you?
SC Nope.
CC Okay, let me see if I can't get together
a little story for you. It's really no impact on crew oper-
ations, I don't believe, but there are some mods there that
you should be aware of.
SC Okay, and in the meantime, here comes the
white light coronagraph at you.
CC Roger, the WLC.
SC Okay, Crip, the 192 seems to have stabilized.
In the thermal channel, as soon as I move that focus ring away
from the stop, which is the awai_ _top right now as described
on the pad, I lose it completelyi _t drops right off the
bottom and goes pouring down to 12 and sets there and I get
it back by bringing the focus range back to the f/stop and
that's where I'm going to leave it.
-- CC Okay, copy. I guess do you feel like if
you had more movement on your focus that it would come in better?
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Time: 10:48 CDT, 15:15:48 GMT
6/8/73
SC When it gets to the focus stop, I can't

turn it down yet, so the answer is yes, I think I could.
CC Okay.
SC And are you ready for XUV ON?
CC Stand by one on that.
SC Man, I'm like a kid with a new toy. I
got two monitors super.
CC I was unable to copy your last, Pete, I
guess we're not getting your TV real time, unfortunately, so
it's okay to switch to XUV MOD now.
SC You don't mean you want me to record it
on the VTR, are you getting it someplace downlink?
CC I - try to understand they're supposed to
be recording it now on the ground and they'll be shipping it
into us later. It's not for you to be putting on the VTR.
SC Okay.
SC Are you there, Crip?
CC That's affirm.
SC Okay, thermal channel reading is maximized
at 43 percent. I'ii give you the new settings, they're not
much different, but let me give them to you anyway on the mike.
Okay, Houston, the micrometer setting's on thermal adjustment
Z is .518, X is .528 and they're both, just as I said, fullout.
CC Roger, I understood Y was .518, X was
.52g and you're fullout at this time, is that correct?
SC That's right, Crip, that was Zebra not
Yolk.
CC I'm sorry Zebra, right.
CC And PJ, our EREP people tell us that
43 percent, looks good.
CC And PJ, I don't know if you copied my last
transmission, but 43 percent does look good.
SC Okay, thank you, Bob.
SC Okay, in our present condition, Bob, on
SO54, the door talkback indicates white, which I guess is
suspected. We do not have a ready light, Pete just started
a sequence that appears to be taking photos at the proper
intervals, the frame count is decrementing, we do not have a
operate light either. Is that the way we're going to live
with this thing from now on?
CC Okay, our ATM people tells me affirmative,
and I understood the door talkback is white and no ready or
operate light.
SC That's right;_but the frame counter is now
decrementing.
CC Frame count decremates. That's affirmative.
That will be normal operation from now on.
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SC Yipee.
CC Goody, goody. Sort of a quick summary of
what we're doing to the computer. We've already input new in-
ertias to account for your condition of your solar panel wing.
That is one off and one out. We've done on - updated your TACS
thrust in pulse width to be used in case of a switchover and
also we changed the logic slightly, such that the backup strap-
down does use the Sun sensors, Joe might me interested in
putting that on his little card. Also, we have because of
all the rate gyro problems, we've been having, we modified it
such that if we do get to switchover, the computer retains the
gyro drift compensations that we've made on the other computer.
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SL-II MC-704/1
Time: 10:57 CDT, 15:15:57 GMT
6/8/73
CC - -such that if we do get a switchover,

the computer retains the gyro drift compensations that we've
made on the other computer. And that is different than the
way we figured we had it.
SC All right, Crip, that means that the gyro
drift (garble).
CC I'm sorry, Pete, I was unable to copy
your last.
SC I said that means we don't have to keep
this fancy switchover gyro drift update compensation procedure,
huh?
CC You're supposed to hold on to that right
now. I'ii try to get a clarification of that date.
SC You mean you don't trust your new program
yet?
CC We haven't completed all of this loading.
SC Hey, Crip; SPT. You're putting all this
in the primary computer, right?
CC That's affirm. We're putting it in the
primary computer today. We're going to take a look at it and
make sure that it all looks good, and tomorrow we'll switch
over to the secondary and do the same to it.
SC Okay. Do you expect any problems or un-
usual indications tomorrow when we switch to the secondary,
due to the fact that it's got an old program in it?
CC I think the only thing is that they will
have to be rather swift on getting some loads in, to make sure
we don't run into a gyro problem. But they're all set up and
prepared to do that.
SC Okay. I wouldn't mind a short message on
what the procedure is going to be, what the ground is going to do,
and what you want us to watch for tomorrow.
CC Okay, we'll try to put that together for
you.
SC Thank you, sir.
SC Plus, we'll go ahead and fold everything
down up here, just in case.
CC I think that might he a wise idea.
SC Okay, Crip, two more items. One, another
little piece of (garble) for the (garble) people. When I went to
put the lid back on the cooler door, (garble). The
ALINE READY light is on now, and I do not have a 192 READY LIGHT.
So they got the ball to figure that out; I can't. I would
also like clearance to go ahead and check out the condensate
dump primary heater, and I would also like clearance to go
ahead and check out (garble) primary timer.
CC Okay. Unfortunately, we've only got about
i a minute here, and I don't know whether I'm going to be able to
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to get a GO for all of those on you, but I'ii make a try at

it (garble).
SC There's no rush. Just give me a call when-
ever you can. I don't need any procedures; I'll go ahead and
do it myself.
CC Not a chance.
CC PJ, , you're GO to check out the condensate
heater or to turn it off.
SC Okay. ¥eah, we will.
CC Okay. We're about 30 seconds from LOS.
We'll see you again at Carnarvon at 16:44. l, 6, 4, 4.
SC Roger. About 40 minutes from now, okay?
CC About 40 minutes; that's affirm.
CC And, PJ, you can go ahead and put the cover
back on 192.
SC Yeah, I'm going to start powering it down.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss of
signal on that stateside pass. Got a fairly long stretch now
before we regain radio contact on the 361st revolution.
We'll miss both the Ascension Island and the Vanguard Tracking
Stations on this pass and come up next with a very high angle,
or rather a low angle, contact through Carnarvon. Spacecraft
to be relatively low on the horizon as it's seen from the
Carnarvon tracking antenna. And also a low elevation pass
over Guam before we come up again on Goldstone_ on our next
revolution. We have about 39 minutes remaining before we regain
radio contact at Carnarvon. And during that stateside pass, we
had a report from the crew that they were transmitting ATM television
to Goldstone. We did, in fact, receive ATM TV at Goldstone.
There are no plans to bring that television into Houston today.
That will he brought in at sometime in the future when we have our
lines up to the Goldstone site. We have no television planned
for today, to be brought into Houston. At 16 hours 6 minutes,
this is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-705/I
Time: 11:42 CDT, 15:16:42 GMT
6/8/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours 44 minutes.

We're standing by now for establishing radio contact with
Skylab, on its 361st revolution. We'll be coming up on the
tracking station Carnarvon. This will be a relatively short
low elevation pass, followed by another short low elevation
pass over the Guam station. And we do have AOS, and CAP COM
Crippen has put in a call to the crew.
SC (Garble).
CC Rog. Unable to copy you there, due to
the feedback. I'd like to go ahead and give Paul a GO, on
his checking out the primary timer on mode Bed-A.
SC Roger, Bob. Okay. And a few words on
the secondary condensate dump vent, here. If you're ready.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
SC Okay. When I went to turn it on, the
tmperature indicator was reading about 10, i0 degrees. I
turned the secondary vent heater on, and it went away for
awhile, came back in three or four minutes. And I forget
what it was reading, now, but I think it was on the order of
40 to 50. And I thought ho, ho, everything's working all right.
But I set my timer for about 8 or 10 more minutes_ came back at
the end of that time, and the thing was off-scale low, lower
really. And the way it sits right now, or when I last tried
it 15 or 20 minutes ago, if I'm correct, the primary heater
had jumped up to what is apparently, the proper reading of
about 20 degrees. But as I select secondary, heater drops down
to lower limit.
CC Okay. Understand you're getting about
20 degrees out of the primary heater. And secondary heater
goes to lower limits.
SC Yeah. That's when I just cycle it either
primary or secondary to judge the temperature readings.
CC Okay. That's just on a cycle, of the switch
even when you don't wait for it, is that correct?
SC That's right. Understand, that when you
go to primary it reads something, if you go to off that
something stays there, when I go to secondary it reads lower
limits. If you go to off the lower limits stays. Apparently,
in OFF the last reading stays there.
CC Okay. We copy that.
CC And, Paul. On this primary timer check
out on mode Bed A, Just to save you a little time, recommenda-
tion would be to set both sieves to dump on panel 228
manually prior to selecting primary timer. Correction - -
SC (Garble).
CC Correction on my last (garble).
SC Well, I just set them both to stowage.
Stowage won't hurt them for 15 minutes_ will it?
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CC That's fine.
SC Also, one more data point. We put
them both to DESORB yesterday, when they were messing with
the secondary coolant loop, or with the coolant loop (Music)
And one more time, on the secondary time with both of them in
DESORB, and what I'd done manually was turn Bed-A to from
ABSORB to DESORB. When I turned on the secondary timer, and
gave it a shot, and drove Bed-A to ABSORB and kept B in DESORB.
CC Paul, I'd appreciate it if you'd run
back over that for me again.
SC Well, for the EGIL, what it is - it
runs away - we didn't think it was suppose to anymore I
still maintain, mode Bed-A secondary timer. As soon as
you activate that timer, it drives Bed-A to ADSORB and Bed-B
to DESORB. Or Bed-i to ABSORB and Bed-2 to DESORB.
CC Okay. That's as soon as you activate
it, I understand. Okay.
SC Right.
CC Okay - -
SC Hey, Crip.
CC Go ahead.
SC (garble) 3 CBRMs, it leaves that BAT charge
light on, can I ah - what's the proper configuration for that
thing?
CC We're going to try and fix that for you
as ah - our pass over Guam at about 1700, if you can stand
by on it, please, Pete.
SC Okay. You're going to handle it from
the ground, right?
SC Affirmative.
SC Super, you've got it.
CC Okay. I'd like to clearify one thing
I told you while ago. I was about a day out of date, apparently.
On this load that we did for you on the computer, we did not
put in a capability to hold those rate-gyros grip on a switch-
over. They thought that over and thought better of putting it
in. So that is not going into the computers. And for that
reason, that little procedure that you're holding onboard is
still applicable. I - And I guess if there's a problem with
the way we're handling that, we'd could clarify it for you,
but you're still going to have to perform that switehover
or that update if you ever get a switehover. We are about
to go LOS here in less than a minute. And we'll see you
again at Guam. And that's 16:59, i - 6 - 5 - 9.
SC Oka_,_ Crip, _ +_ I
SC Okay, Crip, Now that message got pretty
well badgered, how about retransmitting that one. We have the
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6/8/73
latest gyro count. But retransmit the message that says

how to put it in, in case of switehover.
CC Okay. We'll do that, and we're also working
up a message according to Joe's request of what we're going to
be doing tomorrow and things that he might expect on the
switchover to the secondary.
SC Okay. Got it.
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-_ Time: 11:49 CDT, 15:16:49 GMT
6/8/73
CC Okay, we'll do that. And we're also

working up a message, according to Joe's request, of what we're
going to be doing tomorrow and things that he might expect
on the switchover to the secondary.
SC Very good.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's all through
Carnarvon. We'll be up again over Guam in about 7-1/2 minutes.
And during that contact through Carnarvon, there was a series
of conversations between the ground and Paul Weitz on house-
keeping operations with the molecular sieve, devices which
remove carbon dioxide and moisture from the cabin atmosphere.
During this period of time, over the next two to three hours or
up through 18 hours Greenwich mean time, the crew has time
allotted for personal hygiene, which will include hot showers.
They got the "go ahead" this morning to again turn on the hot
water heater, which had been off during the powered down config-
uration. And that brought elated responses from all three,
that they would again be back in the mode of getting hot
showers. This is not the first time that the water heater
has been on, however, during the mission. But it was down during
the period of time that the vehicle was powered down to con-
serve power in preparation for and during the EVA. It's our
understanding that previous showers were also with the hot water,
but there was for a period of time a distinct possibility
that those showers might not be so warm. We have about
5 minutes 45 seconds before we reacquire at Guam. We'll keep
the lines up for that acquisition.
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Time: 11:54 CDT, 15:16:54 GMT
6/8/73

3 minutes. And we'll be doing some commanding to try to reset
that BATTERY CHARGE light on the ATM panel and also turning
off RATE GYRO ZI, Zebra I. So if you'd stay off the DAS for
us for a little while, we'd appreciate it.
CC Roger, Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-708/I
Time: 12:00 CDT, 15:17:00 GMT
6/8/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute until LOS.

We'll see you again over Goldstone at 17:20 - i, 7, 2, 0. And
we believe we have reset your BATT CHARGE ALERT light on the
ATM panel.
SC Okay, Roger.
END OF TAPE
J
SL-II MC-709/I
Time: 12:04 CDT, 15:17:04 GMT
6/8/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 17 hours

4 minutes. We've completed our pass over Guam. WeVre out
of acquisition of that station. And we'll next acquire at
Goldstone in about 15 minutes. Over Guam we took action on
the ground to clear a battery charge light on the ATM panel,
as requested by the crew. This was an irrevlevant reading at
that point, indicating that a battery had not been charged
fully, but that portion of the circuit, of the battery is
the battery bank is not in use, at this time. And by con-
figuring the system properly from the ground, the meaning of the
indication of the panel light was cleared. The secondary
coolant loop, which is the one in operation at the present
time, has remained stable. This loop is controlling tempera-
ture at about 40 degrees, coolant temperature. Now the desired
or normal level would we bout 47 degrees Fahrenheit. There's
no reason at this point, to suspect that the control circuitry
or the control valve is not functioning properly.
It would appear that there simply is not enough heat in the
system to allow the valve to mix in the desired amount of heat
to bring the temperature to 27 degrees. The feeling is
that as soon as the system absorbs enough heat, it will be
rF possible for the valves to control the mixing of hot and cold
water in such a way that the temperatures can be maintained
at the desired 47-degree level. The situation might be likened
to turning the airconditioning thermostat to a lower level,
when in fact, the air conditioning system is simply not able
to provide any more cooling capacity. And in this case, the
situation reversed and there simply is not enough heat in the
system to allow the thermastatic control system to bring the
temperature up. And we feel that when the heat lowered to the
system, increases, that it will perform as desired. We have
now, 13 minutes until reacquiring at Goldstone, for what will be
the next to the last stateside pass of the day. Following that,
we have one more revolution where we acquire at Goldstone only.
And then, we're off-range for the remainder of today, with
contacts through Hawaii and eventually we'll again, began to
pick up Honeysuckle and the Madrid Stations. And to supplement
the network, we're approaching that period of time where in
the parlance of the flight control team, we're off-range. At
17 hours 8 minutes, this Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC710/I
_ Time: 12:19 CDT, 15:17:19 GMT
6/8/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. We'll be regain-

ing radio contact with Skylab through the Goldstone Tracking
Station momentarily. We'll pick that up now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
States for about the next 15 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
SC At my last count, you had one in the library,
one in the shower, and one in the command module.
CC Hard to keep track of.
SC Hey, Crip. For the CM people - they may be
interested in knowing that the only two places that we_ve
collected water in the command module is on the window at number
5 cover, just a very little bit behind the condensate blanket.
The other place is down at the base by panel 377 where the
glycol comes in. You might expect that except now, instead of
being water, it's turned to ice. But I think now that we have the
blower running again, it'll probably go back to water.
CC Okay, we copied that And, Pete, if you're
still in there, any chance you could give us the SECONDARY
EVAPORATOR OUT temperature?
$C SECONDARY EVAPORATOR OUT temp is 30 degrees.
CC Rog, copy. Thirty degrees.
- SC And command module housekeeping number 7
is in progress, and the (garble) have been running - let me
look at my clock here - oh, only about i0 minutes. I've got
another 50 minutes to run.
CC Okay.
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Time: 12:23 CDT, 15:17:23 GMT
6/8/73
SC And for FAO, Crip, llm doing the day 22

command module rejuggling right now, and I'ii give them a
time line on that when I get done. I think it's going to take
longer than they think it was going to take,
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. The next time somebody's
going by the ATM panel we would appreciate it if they would
check the S052 WLC.
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Time: 12:28 CDT, 15:17:28 GMT
6/8/73
CC Skylab, Houston. The next time somebody's

going by the ATM panel we would appreciate it if they would
check the S052 WLC thermal switch, ON, we have commanded it
on here, but our indication was that it was off and we just
want to make sure the switch is in the right configuration.
SC Okay.
SC The thermal switch is on, Crip°
CC Roger.
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SL-II MC-713/I
Time: 12:33 CDT, 15:17:33 GMT
6/8/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS,

our next station is at Vanguard at 17:45, i, 7, 4, 5, and
we will be doing a recorder dump at that station.
PAO This is Skylab Control. It was a relatively
quiet stateside pass. One of our last such passes of the day,
we have one more, where we have a relatively low elevation
acqulstion through Goldstone on the next revolution. The
362nd. And then there will be a rather lean period with
relatively little station contact. Following rev 363rd, the
only station coverage we'll have will be Hawaii and Vanguard.
During that pass Pete Conrad reported that he and his fellow
crewmen were pretty well spread around the vehicle. Pete was
in the command module, one of the two crewmen was in the
shower, he didn't mention which, and the other was in the
library. Pete also reported that there was a very small
amount of water condensate in the command module, said that
a small amount had condensed out near the number 5 window.
And it was also an area where glycol line entered the
spacecraft cabin where a small amount of condensate had
formed. This is a situation that has become rather common
with vehicles operating in space, as the cabin atmosphere
picks up moisture, the moisture tends to condense out at
cool points. Conrad reporting that the amount of condensate
in this particular case almost negligible, brings to
mind earlier test runs with the Apollo command module,
when it was placed in the vacuum chamber, prior to the start
of the program, when several quarts of water would condense
out from exposed coolant lines.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC714/I
Time: 12:37 CDT, 15:17:37 GMT
6_8_73
PAO - - earlier test runs with the Apollo

command module and when it was placed in the vacuum chamber
prior to the start of the program when several quarts of water
would condense out from exposed coolant lines and gradually
these lines were tracked down and insulated and the cold surfaces
protected from the cabin atmosphere. The point where now the
amount that condenses out on cold exposed surfaces is just
about nil. We have about 7 minutes remaining before we again
acquire radio contact through Vanguard at 17 hours 39 minutes
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-715/I
Time: 12:44 CDT, 15:17:44 GMT
6/8/73
PAO Skylab Control; 17 hours 45 minutes Greenwich

mean time. We're standing by now for acquisition of radio
contact through the Vanguard Tracking Ship off the coast of
South America. That will be about a 9 minute 48 second
period of acquisition. And we appear to be getting locked up
with the spacecraft now. Quite a bit of noise along the air-to-
ground circuit as we get locked up.
Vanguard for the next i0 minutes, and we will be doing a
recorder dump this pass.
SC Roger.
CC And, Pete, for your info, the word I get
back on the UCTAs is that they'll be flying three more up on
Skylab III to replace the ones that you used. And for your
next EVA, you can go ahead and just three 3 more out of the
dome locker.
SC Okay.
CC Understand no problem on the cup sizes;
all of them are the same.
SC Okay.
And you don't have to listen to me again until 19:00, i 9 0 O.
And, Paul, we copy that you're doing that (garble) SEV-A
-- checkout at this time.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss of signal
now, after a very quiet, and uneventful Vanguard pass. And
we do not reacquire at Goldstone for i hour and 5 minutes,
During which time I expect flight controllers out here will
take the opportunity of this extended break to get some
lunch. The crew also scheduled to eat in somewhat staggered
shifts during approximately the same period of time. This
afternoon, Science Pilot Joe Kerwin and Pilot Paul
Weitz are scheduled to perform medical experiments M092 and
MI71, both of which are concerned with the effects of long-
term space flight on the cardiovascular system and will
be looking in particularly at any deconditioning that may have
occurred. At 17 hours 57 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control, Houston.
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• _ Time: 13:59 CDT, 15:18:59 GMT
6/8/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're about a

minute and a half now from regaining radio contact with Sky-
lab, after more than an hour of being out of contact, and
we'll be regaining contact through the Goldstone Tracking
Station for about an 8-minute stateside pass.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS over Goldstone for
the next 5 minutes.
SC You're breaking up, Crip. Where are we?
CC Roger. You're over Goldstone now for about
the next 5 minutes. Actually, you're just coming down off the
Pacific Coast.
SC How do you read, Houston?
SC How do you read, Houston?
CC Loud and clear now, Paul. How me?
SC And we read you loud and clear.
CC Okay. We're at Goldstone now. Got about
5 minutes. Actually, we're just going down the Pacific Coast.
SC Okay, Crip. Let me ask you a question.
Have you got any - couple like couple these contamination DPOs
or something. There's - probably get a few of those today if you
want to send some times up (garble) valve, whatever they want
them on the windows.
CC Okay; we'll take a look at it. If - see if

we can get some in.
SC Crlp, we're also looking at getting out
maybe a couple three M4873 Bravos.
CC M4873 Bravo?
SC Yeah, that's in the shopping list between
days ii and 17; so I think maybe we'll pick off - each one
of us can pick off one of those - one each guy.
CC Okay, very good. Pete, I got somebody
researching it, but there was a question last night about
these ATM cue cards. And it kind of looks like, right now,
that basically the ones that we originally planned to have
on board - the ones that weren't for the powerdown situation,
will be good with perhaps one small modification. You guys
still have those available to you?
SC Yeah.
CC Okay. We're still looking at it right now,

and I'd like to talk about it down here a little bit more.
But basically it sounds like if you eliminate the bit about
inhibiting the CMG AUTO RESET and then reenabling it on the
evening and in the morning, that those cue cards are still
good. And you might ponder whether you'd like to just basically
use those.
SC (Garble) target for the SPT. Gee, I'm not

sure we launched with those.
CC I'm not sumeyou did either - but, I'm

_- not sure you did either, and I got a checklist looking into it.
SC Yeah, I thought I thought you meant the
ones that we started scratching on after we got up here. And
I gather you (garble) the weight situation.
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CC Yeah, I meant the original ones. I got

my checklist people looking into to find out whether you really
had them on board or not.
SC Hey, Crip. Can I use the DAS yet?
CC Say again, Paul.
SC Can I use the DAS on the ATM?
CC You're GO on the DAB. It's still yours.
SC Okay, I just got ATM light which I think
is star tracker (garble) I just wanted to look at it.
CC That's affirmative. That's exactly what
you've got.
SC How far up to get rid of the light, anyway -
why, you guys can get rid of the light for me.
CC Do you want us to do it, or do you want to
do it?
SC No, I'ii do it. Also, Crip, on the shopping
list items, 124872 Bravo, we can do that around the dinner table
tonight probably. And what we get done, we'll call into you
this evening.
CC Okay. Real fine. Just give us that evening
status report. It'll be fine, I believe.
SC Okay, and I gather you ought to he able to
ship up tomorrow's Flight Plan fairly early.
CC We would - We'll do our best.
SC That was a cagey answer. Might give you a
good dot for that one.
CC Roger. We're 1 minute to LOS now; we'll see
you again over Vanguard at 19:22 - 19:22. And we'll be doing
a recorder dump over Vanguard.
SC Hey, Crip, I got a word on SS009.
CC Go.
SC It showed up here in the star list at the it
started. (garble) advertised name of 0106 - at about 59. At about
59 - and just about 59 the thing had just gone CLOSED,
which seems like a short time before going OPEN again, for what
that's worth.
CC Paul, we copied that it had closed at 000 -
Correction, 0059.
SC That's right.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss of
signal now through Goldstone; about 16 minutes away from re-
acquiring through the Tracking Ship Vanguard. The secondary
coolant loop remains stable. The primary loop through the air-
lock module is not in operation, and remains - rather, there's
still no change in the status of that loop. The secondary loop
continues to control the coolant temperature at around 40 degrees
Fahrenheit. The desired level is about 47. There is no serious
concern - in fact, no firm indication that there is any problem
with the secondary loop. One of the things considered is that
there simply is not enough heat load within the system at this
point to bring the temperature up to the desired 47 degrees.
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And there also remains the possibility that the mixing valve
within that loop is, for some reason, allowing too much flow
to the radiators and not mixing properly, and therefore, con-
trolling the temperature a bit on the low side. But, again,
no undue concern about the secondary loop. And it has re-
mained stable now since last night. Here in Mission Control
several teams are working on the coolant loop problem. There
are also teams at Marshall Space Flight Center and at several
contractor plants looking into the problem. And we're giving
priority to processing that data that relates to the coolant
loops. At 19 hours 8 minutes, this is Skylab Control, Houston.
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SL-II MC-717/I
Time: 14:21 CDT, 15:19:21 GMT
6/8/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at

19 hours 21 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station is nearing the end of the 362nd revolution. We expect
to acquire radio transmission with the crew through the
tracking ship Vanguard in roughly 50 seconds. We'll stand
by for air-to-ground.
Vanguard for the next i0 minutes.
SC Roger, Crip. Say_ I need yon to do a
favor for me.
CC Will try.
SC Okay, I've got the - my class at Princeton's
20th reunion, this weekend, I think, if I'm not mistaken. I'd like
to send a telegram to The President of the Class of 1953,
Princeton University, 1953 Reunion Headquarters. Tell him,
"I'm sorry I can't make it: I'm out of town on business." Sign
it "Pete Conrad." I'll pay you when I get down.
CC Okay. I'll try to get that out. And
I've got a small chore for somebody, if he's available, to -
we want to take up a little bit more of the load with the PCGs;
so I need somebody to go up to panel 206 to do a little
procedure for me.
SC Okay, check, Bob. I'm on my way up there

right now.
SC Hey, Bob, on the primary primer on
MOLE SIEVE A?
CC Roger.
SC Okay, I turned it on, and it didn't de
anything for 7 minutes. At the end of 7 minutes, it went
A to DESORB, B to ABSORB and has been cycling ever since
and is still on the line.
CC Okay, we copy, and we can go ahead and

leave that one on the line.
SC Okay, Crip, go ahead.
CC Okay, Pete. On panel 206, we'd like you
to take the REG ADJUSTMENT knobs, turn them clockwise, and monitor
under BUS AMPS ATM. And what we want to do ismove the
reading approximately i0 amps on both buses, toward the ATM.
SC Okay. Now BUS 2 on the ATM is delivering
zero, and BUS i on the ATM is delivering about 7 amps to the
workshop; so I'ii go ahead and keep them respectively to-
gether and move i to where it feeds about 23 to the ATM
and then on BUS 2 to the ATM. Is that right?
CC That's affirm.
SC Okay, Crip, there is - ATM BUS i is reading -

is getting 2 amps from the workshop; BUS 2 is getting
(garble) amps from the workshop. PCG I total is running 43 amps,
/"
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and 2
is running 22 amps. That looks very good.
CC Okay. It's kind of nice to see the PCGs
carrying their share of the load.
SC Yes. Is that it?
CC That should do it. Thank you very much,
Pete.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Per your request
regarding cleaning windows, if that's still applicable, our
recommendation is to use one of your utensil - or use as many as
required of your utensil wet wipes.
SC Aye-aye, will report back.
CC Okay, if that doesn't work, our next
suggested solution is that you use your lens cleaning kit and
F524, that's Foxtrot 524, and per the procedures in that.
SC Okay, that's good for (garble), huh?
SC Hey, Houston, have you decided yet whether
we can turn the wardroom window heater on to get rid of the
dewey ice crystals?
CC Stand by on that one, Joe.
SC Yes.
SC Hey, if you give us an okay to use the
heater, tell us what you want us to do with the wardroom window
vent valve.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, Skylab, you're GO on turning on
the wardroom window heater; we would like you to leave the
valve closed.
SC Vent closed, heater on. Roger.
CC Okey, dokey.
Next pass is at Hawaii at 20:31 - 20, SI.
SC Roger. See you then.
PAO The Skylab space station apparently has
passed out of range of the tracking ship, Vanguard. We expect
to reacquire in approximately 58 minutes. Over the Hawaii
tracking station at 19 hours 33 minutes Greenwich mean time,
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SL-II MC-718/I
Time: 15:29 CDT, 15:20:29 GMT
6/8/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. At

20 hours 29 minutes Greenwich mean time. We just got a call
from the Warbler telling us that the crew will be in touch
with the ground over the Hawaii tracking station in approx-
imately 1 minute, more or less. At that time we should have
about 8 minutes or so of air-to-ground, with the crew. We'll
stand by for a call.
for about the next 8 minutes. And Skylab, we show that your
not using your recorders at this time, and we would llke to
go ahead and dump, we've got that progressed so we'll be using
experiment recorder.
CDR Okay. There's is between 91 and 92 and
171 if you want to go ahead and dump it.
CC Okay, we're in the process of doing that,
Pete, and that's about where we figured it'd be. While I've
got you here, can I ask you a question, please_ sir?
CDR Sure.
CC Okay, we would like to take you up on your
offer of picking up a few items today to do some due point
only measurements with the CO2 due point monitor. At the
locations stated on page 2-112 of your Switch Systems Checklist.
CDR 2-112 of the due point measurements, okay.
CC Yeah, that is the location, it's 2-110 and
iii, sort of go over the item itself. But what we want is
due point only.
CDR That makes sense. What we're going to do,
Crip, is check out, just a second. We'll pick up
M4873B for the CDR, SPT, and PLT and we'll also pick up M4872
Bravo, for every bit of conversation, okay? That will take care
of those mid day 487 (garble).
CC Roger, we copy that.
CDR Okay. Yeah, and also the PLT would llke
to know how the OWS hatch leakage, was during the EVA yes-
terday?
CC We had no leak. Either you guys fixed it,
or it fixed itself.
CDR Golly, Pete, (garble).
CC Yeah, just llttle flapper working for us,
huh?
CDR I don't they made that good a deal, so it
may have fixed itself.
CC Yeah, John, oh.
CC Skylab, Houston. We finished dumping the
recorder and it's yours again.
SPT Okay, Houston.
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PLT Okay, Houston.

CC Skylab, Houston, we're 30 seconds from
LOS. We'll see you again over the Vanguard at 21:00, 21:00.
And we will be doing a recorder dump at that point also.
CDR Okay.
PAO Apparently we've had a loss of signal with
the Skylab space station as it moved beyond the range of the
Hawaii tracking station. According to the flight plan,
the - two of the crewmen were doing the M092 lower body nega-
tive pressure and the MI71 metabolic activities experiments
with Pilot Paul Weitz as the subject in this case, and with
Doctor Joseph Kerwin as the observer. A reminder that there
will be a Science Status Briefing with NASA Astronaut Robert
Parker, who is the mission's scientist, participating. And
that briefing is scheduled to start at approximately 4:15 p.m.
central daylight time at the news center briefing room at
the Johnson Space Center. At 20 hours 41 minutes Greenwich
mean time this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 15:58 CDT 15:20:58 GMT
6/8/73

20 hours 58 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station is about a minute away from acqnistion at the Van-
guard site. We'll stand by for any radio transmissions
that will take place during that pass of approximately 9-1/2
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Van-
guard for the next 9 minutes, for the next 9 minutes. And
we will be doing a data voice recorder dump.
CDR Okay Houston. And on this C02 2 point
temperature monitor, it's belly up in all modes. It reads
72 wherever you go on the temp gauge no matter how long you
pump it. And it reads 74 on the dew point no matter where
you go and how long you pump it.
CC Roger, copy, Pete.
CDR Sorry about that.
CC CDR, Houston. We were discussing the
ATM cue card earlier. According to the information we have,
those the ones for nominal power operation should have been
stowed in your flight data file bag in the command module
when you launched, as well as the one for reduce power.
CDR (garble)
CC I'm afraid I didn't copy any of that.
I was getting a lot of feedback or noise in the background.
CDR That was the PLT's bicycle riding music
in the background. Well, I've got the transfer cheek right
here, Just let me look at it.
CC Okey doke.
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CDR Okay, Crip° I don't find anything

like that in the transfer bag. I couldn't do that to the
bag that it was in. It was in the Command Module, and if
we transfered it over they'd had all the cue cards for
air to what they called PSS transfer.
CC That's where it should have been, Pete.
Understand you don't have it. Okay. We'll look into it.
CDR Okay, let me look through the Command
Module and look, I mean up to the ATM and look at the
cards up there.
CC Okay, there's really no big rush on
it. But, I guess you might just tell Rusty we'll solve his
cue card problem, if we guys can find out about it.
CDR Hey, I've got a card here that (garble)
dated 5-21-73 which is a normal Sun side prep power down for
operation next pass. The flare cue card, and on the back
is the ATM operate EREP, and it's written in in red ink,
it's just a power card. With a dark side prep post
EREP. Doesn't really look too much different than what
we had.
CC Okay, for one that is marked in red.
It was the reduce power card.
CDR Okay, dated 5-21. Do you think the
other ones are laying around here somewhere? (garble)
And we got other unattended ops with red scratched in there.
It's reduced power cards. 533.
CC What we have basically done, was
supposedly, we launched two sets of cards. The ones for
the reduced power, we had written in - in it red ink,
reduced power cards.
(garble)
CC Okay, and we had identified the
nominal power cards, if there was any doubt, with red ink
that said nominal power card.
CDR Okay, let me look for them.
CC Okay, I wouldn't take up too much
time, Pete, if it looks like it's a problem, we can just
teleprinter it up to you.
CDR I found them, hold it.
CC And CDR -
CDR I got them, I got them.
CC You got them, great. Okay we're
gonna - It looks like with a couple of minor mods to that
thing - to those cards, we can go ahead and use that, and
it looks like it might be a lot easier to use than a e_e
card - or rather than a teleprinter message that we had
sent up. I'ii tell you what. Let us take a look at it
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and we'll talk to you about it later to show you what the
changes would be.
CDR Okay, let me - I do see ATM nominal
operation 33073 with a red nominal power card, then I have
an unattended ops card, which has quite a few little scratches
and goodies and I finally wind up 5/1/73 is the date of
that one.
CC That's it. That's the one. While
I've got you here, we need to change that PCG output on
panel 206 once more. We want to reduce by 5 amps the out-
put from the PCGs.
CDR (garble) the ATM?
CC No, we want to go back toward the
transfer BUS. Five amps on BUS 1 and 2.
CDR Wait a minute. What do you want me to do,
feed more to the ATM or take more from the ATM?
CC Take more from the ATM.
CDR Okay, that looks llke BUS 1 ATM and
eb 2 transfer 2 amps at BUS 2 and taking from transfer
about 2 amps. That looks like about zero across the board
total.
CC Okay. We copy.
CC We're about to go LOS here in about
30 seconds. We'll see you again at Hawaii at 22:07. 22:07.
CDR Okay.
CC I'm watching. Here we go.
PAO We have indication that the Skylab
space station has gone over the hill at the Vanguard
tracking site. Next acquisition will be at Hawaii. On rev
364 in about 56 minutes. A reminder that at 4:15 p. m.
central daylight time, at the News Center briefing room,
Johnson Space Center there will be a science status briefing,
involving NASA astronaut Robert Parker, who also has the
title of Mission Scientist. At 21 hours I0 minutes GMT,
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6/8/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, 21 hours

22 minutes Greenwich mean time with a short announcement that
the Science Status Briefing involving NASA Astronaut Robert
Parker is about to begin in building i. That's in the news
center briefing room, building number i. At 21 hours 23 min-
utes Greenwich mean time_ this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 17:05 CDT 15:22:05 GMT
6/8/73
PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 22

hours 5 minutes Greenwich mean time, awaiting communication
with the Skylab space station as it enters the area of the
Hawaii tracking station. We expect to have about 9 plus
minutes of air to ground. During the press conference that
we had there was no transmission from the spacecraft, as
they were out of communication range of any of the tracking
stations. While we're standing by for the radio communications
with Skylab.
SC Roger.
CC Okay, got a few items I'd like to
discuss. First is the startracker is unlocked due to a
large stub angle we did about the Z, and I've got some new
gimbal angles I' d llke to give you and when you get a chance
you can go see if you can get a lock on.
SC Wait i.
SPT Go ahead, Houston,
CC Rog. Inner gimble is plus 0088. Outer
gimble is plus 1466.
SPT Okay.
CC And Joe, we would like to see if it
would be possible during that ATM daylight cycle 225, you
got coming up this evening if you could put that TV on the
VTR and we'll dump it from the ground.
SPT Roger.
CC Okey-Doke, and I would also like to
talk about this ATM cue card situation with somebody, if we
got time.
SPT Okay, Stand by i.
SPT Go ahead, Crip.
CC Okay, Joe. Do you have the cue cards
that Pete found awhile ago. The nominal power cue cards.
SPT No, I expect they're up at the ATM.
Want me to go get them?
CC Okay, it might make it easier if you -
Do you also - if you had available your activation checklist.
And where it talked about ATM C&D activation.
SPT Okay. Stand by.
CDR He's on his way up, Crip.
CC Okay, thank you, Pete.
CC By the way, CDR, we're planning on,
tomorrow, it'll probably be tomorrow afternoon, sending you a
message on exactly what the status is with the airloek
module coolant loops and what we plan on doing about it.
I can give you as much as we know right now, if you'd llke,
or you can wait until then.
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CDR All right, give me a little summary.

CC Okay, I think I told you yesterday
evening that the primary coolant loop, that PCV Bravo valve
was hung up in the full-cold position. And that's really
what caused SUS i to freeze up on us, and why we couldn't
use it yesterday. Was that all clear to you yet guys?
CDR Yes.
CC Okay, and it would appear that on the
secondary loop that that same valve or the corresponding
valve TCV-B is also diverted toward the cold position, but
not as much as it is in the primary loop. But --
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CC Pete, B is also diverted toward the

cold position, but not as much as it is in the primary loop.
But, with the load we've got on the secondary loop right
now, we appear to be holding our own. And the question is
what do we do about it and how we go back to when we're
using primary. And those are the things the guys are work-
ing over right now.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay and that is really about as much
information as I can give you on it currently. And we'll
be able to talk a little more about it tomorrow.
CDR What kind of valves are those. Are those
the old Gemini valves that run on B flat or are they mechanic
electrical valves?
CC The (garble) are B flex valves.
CDR (garble) valves, heavens to Betsy. We
ought to be able to pick up the bernatherm or the exporter 2
around here some place.
CDR We can always send the flight Bs up with
the next flight.
CC l'm sure that Allan would like to be
able to do that.
PLT Surely we can fix it with the EPA.
CC You guys get where you like those things.
CC Did you find the cards there, Joe?
CC Somebody from the back room tells me
they were even thinking about that. (garble) I think.
SPT Okay, l've got a ATM nominal pass, and
an EREP, which is the power down for EREP and the dark side
prep post EREP. I also have the flares prep from unhibited,
and the unattended obs dark side prep. These two cards are
dated 3-30 and 5-i respectively.
CC Okay.
SPT (garble) activation checklist and you
can tell me what page.
CC Okay, why don't you go to page 2-39.
And while you're doing that, I'ii give you a brief summary.
Really all we're going to tell you to do is go back to a
nominal power situation on your ATM C and D. That is you can
go back to operating on your ILCA bus I. And you can use
variable lighting and so forth. And this is just the switch
configuration for it in y_r activation checklist.
SPT '" "Okay%_ so can I perform page 2-39?
CC That's affirm. Well now we - I don't
think we're ready to talk about the, nobody talked about the
radio noise voice monitor. (garble) What we're talking
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is the ATM Cand D console power activation portion down

through, well, really all you have to do is take it to if
you get interval switch to variable. And that is ignore
the inked in part.
SPT Yeah. Okay, I copy that.
CC Okay, Joe. Now on your cue card, the
only adjustment we have to make is on the unattended obs.
You got that one handy? Where we have 82A under the power
down, where we have 82A, we want to leave that one in MODE
KINE VICEAUTO 2.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, and we want to eliminate the
reference at the top of the same to INHIBITING the CMG AUTO
RESET, and then at the bottom where we ENABLE it again. We're
still going to leave that thing basically INHIBITED all the
time.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay. And just to be doubly sure, to
the left on the updated obs side of the card to the left of
it about in the middle of it, it should have written in ink
nominal power card. That's the one you have. Is that cor-
rect?
SPT In red ink it has that written on it.
CC Okay, that's the one we're talking about.
Okay, you can take those 2 cards and I guess you can hide the
others I wouldn't advise throwing them away, but I'd hide
them some place, and use those. Now if that still appears
to be too messed up we can always send you a teleprinter
message if you so desire. But one other item is that you
have a star acquisition and an EREP maneuver cue card that
was down in the workshop in one of the 700 lockers and it
is for a nominal power situation. And you can use it in
stead of that star acquisition reduce power card.
SPT Okay. I didn't even bring it down because
we don't use it much.
CC Okay Itll - -
SPT But, we do have it.
CC Okay, I didn't think you really required
it. We just sent you a your flight plan and the evening
questions. And we're going to go LOS and we'll see you
at Vanguard at 22:40, 22:40.
SPT All right.
PAO With Skylab having passed out of range
of the Hawaii station. The crew has completed most of this
day's planned activities. One more item remains at least
for Paul Weitz, who is scheduled for an HK7J, which trans-
lated is a hot shower. Earlier in the day, the other 2 crewmen
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took a hot shower. Later this evening, the crew will engage
in a presleep tasks with Science Pilot KeTwin additionally
spending about an hour at the Apollo Telescope Mount. Van-
guard is the next station in about 23 minutes. At 22 hours
IB minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 17:37 CDT 15:22:37 GMT
6/7/73
PAO Okay, this is Skylab Control at 22

hours 37 minutes Greenwich mean time. The warbler has just
advised us that we'll be coming up on Vanguard shortly. We
are planning a change of shift briefing with the off-going
Flight Director Milton Windler in the News Center briefing
room at approximately 6:15 p. m. central daylight time. And
we'll now stand by for air to ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Van-
guard for about the next 7 minutes.
CDR Okay, Crip, and I've got the EVA
questions, 1 Alpha Bravo on B channel for you right now, and
the SPT will put his comments about 1 Alpha on there, in
a few minutes, we ought to have them both down tonight.
CC Okay, appreciate that, Pete, thank you.
CDR Mostly the story of Wiferdiles. :
CC We sort of gathered that from some of
the previous statements that you made.
CDR Don't knock success (garble)
CC Affirmative.
CDR As far as the QUAD when I put it on B
channel. I couldn't see any difference in either QUA]), A
s or B, they looked both the same to me.
CC Okay. Copy.
CDR We put some more dlscrlption on there
about what they physically looked like, and stuff like that.
That's about it.
CDR I gather that there are giving con-
sideration to the other sall deployment. Do you have any
(garble) you can give me as to when you think they might
reach a decision on that.
CC I was told it would be about a week.
CDR Okay.
CDR Well, we reconfigured the poles today back
into the proper locations in the packages and the Marshall
sail equipment is ready to go again.
CC Okay. We copy.
CC And, Pete, you had mentioned those
contamination things earlier, we finally got some computed,
but they're klnda late. I can give them to you, I guess,
if you want them, and you can make your choice on whether
you do or not.
CDR Could you send them up on the pads or
something?
CC I think we ought to be able to do that.
CDR Why don't you do that. I'm about to
get in the shower. Paul just got out and Joe's playing with
his medical stuff and we might be able to check it up tonight
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CC - you there?
CDR Why don't you do that, I'm about to get
in the shower. Paul just got out and Joe's playing with his
medical stuff and we might be able to catch up tonight cause
there's sunrise and sunset times in separate windows.
CC All right. Basically two times and I guess
the flight company that we'd be able to get them in on a -
on the teleprinter.
CDR Okay, well, we did - we're going to have
all those 487 stuff for you so when they were suppossed
to be scheduled in the next couple of days you can try to
get down there (garble)
CC Okay. Enjoy your shower.
CDR Okay.
CDR We appreciate the day. We got some things
- vehicle pretty well cleaned up again and we're back in
I llke tomorrow's flight plan, it's a good busy day and we're
looking forward to it.
CC Okay, hope PJ doesn't mind getting up a
little bit early for us.
CDR Aw, you know he's hung on that EREP.
CC I got the impression he got up and prowled
around early anyhow.
CDR Yeah, he told me today that "Gee there's
nothing I like better than doing all those alignments"
CC I'ii bet.
CDR Well, I guess we're on the backside of the
curve. Have we passed the halfway mark officially on the
clock yet?
CC I was asking that myself earlier. I think
we should have but let me see if I can get somebody to officially
say that's true.
CC I got a Mr. Shaffer over here that assures
me that we're past the half-way mark. The only question is
nobody will tell me how long the mission's going to be.
CDR Okay.
CDR You mean they want us to stay longer?
CC No I don't that's not true.
CDR We don't mind.
CC You really like it there?
CDR Yeah, it's pretty nice now that we've got
all the Juice back. It's even better, you know, we've got hot
water in the head now and things are looking up.
CC Rog.
CC I don't if you've noticed but we've been
a little slow about turning on some of the electrical stuff
here and I guess it's - we're just sort of llke to take it easy
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on the PCG - on the batteries as we bring things up to make

sure that we don't hit too hard.
CDR Oh, I figured that. There's no problem
and we're watching them here and it won't put a strain on
anything because (garble) needing to (garble) go and every-
body's getting back up and VCGC's are looking very good.
CC Okey doke.
CDR You have, in fact, - this does lighten
the load right on the ATM considerably. Can you see any im-
provments in temperatures, charge rates and so forth on the
CRBM's? - CBRM's?
CC I'ii have EGIL have a story for you on
the Ascension pass on that. We really haven't seen it doing
much different than it has. We weren't ready to over taxing it.
We were cautioned not to take it down below the depth of dis-
charge on the batteries anyhow. The next pass is at Ascension
and that is 22:55 - 55.
CC Rog, and we're about - less than 30 seconds
to LOS.
CDR (Garble)
PAO Next station is Ascension in about 8 minutes.
At 22 hours 47 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-II MC-727/I
Time: 17:54 CDT 15:22:54 GMT
6/8/73
PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 22

hours 54 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station is heading toward the Ascension tracking station
for the next 4 or 5 minutes. We'll stand by for any air
to ground we might have.
CC Skylab Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We won't see you again until Vanguard again at
00:16. 00:16.
CDR Heavens to Betsy. Okay, see you, 00:16.
bye bye.
CC Bye,bye.
CC And Skylab, that will be the evening
status pass. I believe we only got one question really
pending on that one.
CDR Roger, the evening status report. Okay,
we'll have it for you. We had 3 showers plus whatever else
we got.
CC Okey doke.
PAO The Skylab space station has moved out
of range of the Ascension tracking station. A reminder,
the evening change of shift briefing, or press conference,
has slipped 15 minutes. It is tentatively firmed up now for
a new time of 6:30 p. m. central daylight time, with the
off-going Flight Director Milton Windler. At revolution
365, next station contact is Vanguard at i hour and about
16 minutes. This is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-728/I
Time: 18:41 CDT, 15:23:41 GMT
618173
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston 23 hours

41 minutes Greenwich mean time with an announcement that the
Change-of-shift briefing should get underway in approximately
four minutes or 45 minutes after the hour. Participating
in the Change-of-shift briefing this evening will be the off-
going Flight Director, Milton Windier. The briefing will take
place in the news center briefing room, building i. At 23
hours 42 minutes G.m.t. this is Skylab Control.
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SL-II MC-729/I
Time: 19:14 CDT, 16:00:14 GMT
6/8/73
PAO This is Skylah Control at 14 minutes into

the new day, G.m.t. time. Some minute and a half away from
acquisition at the Vanguard tracking site. We'll just stand
by for what we expect will be the evening status report, and
any other communication which will come down from the space-
craft.
CC Skylab, Houston through Vanguard i0-i/2
minutes.
CDR Hello there Hank, babe. How are you to-
night?
CC Oh, pretty good, how'd your day go?
CDR Man, you're talking to three clean, sweet
and smelly good guys. We've all showered and shaved and every-
body's in good shape. The doctor's heen digging in his medi-
cal kit and working with it and I think that he Just looked
at his own blood.
CC Roger.
CDR We've got the good ship all cleaned - she's
all stowed, we like tomorrow's flight plan and we're ready
to go.
CC Good show and we're standing by for the
evening status report anytime you're ready.
CDR Okay, we're a little late eating so we
haven't eaten yet, but let me give you the rest of it.
CC And (garble) we'll be clearing the alert
you got on the rate gyro, the star tracker. And we'll have a
star tracker pad for you by Vanguard next time around.
SPT Okay.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT Earlier it was mentioned that we could
put tonight's ATM television on the downlink, but I think we
got the time wrong. Is that 00:55 for that pass? I think
that's the only pass we've got, right?
CC That's affirmative, Joe.
SPT Okay.
CDR Okay, Hank. The CDR is going to eat every-
thing tonight and he may even add some butter cookies, but
I'ii let you know later. The SPT was a good boy and ate every-
thing today, too. And the PLT says he'll put his on B channel
later. The photo report for day 159 was an MO92, 171-M151.
Charlie Envy is 07, 35 percent, Charlie Envy is 04. That's
it for the 16 millimeter. Thirty-five millimeter: C126 frame
count is 34; C134, the frame count is 22. Seventy millimeter
the XO6, the frame count is 074 and be advised that we had
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another frame counter failure on the Hasselblad. It stopped

at 70 so we are manually counting. The configuration of drawer
A is: AI X-PORTER 02, Charlie India is 05, 60 percent.
Charlie - -
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SL-II MC-730/I
Time: 19:20 CDT 16:00:20 GMT
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CDR - configuration of drawer A is AI,

X-PORTER 02, Charlie India 05, 60 percent, Charlie India
01. A2 is 03, Charlie India 06, 99 percent, Charlie
India 03. A3 is transporter 06, Charlie India 07,
35 percent, Charlie India 04. A4 is X-PORTER 05, Charlie
India 25, i00 percent, Mike Tango ii. Let's see, just
1 second. The additions to the flight plan today were
M4873 Bravo by the CDR, and M4873 Bravo by the SPT, and
M4873 Bravo by the PLT, they are all on B channel. We will
also give you sometime tonight on B channel an M4872 Bravo.
That's the additions to the flight plan. The stowage for
today was the command module 22-day transfers were also
completed today. You can tell FAO the time to do
that takes approximately 1 hour. The command module systems
housekeeping 7-day checks were completed in the same time
frame. Stowage changes, I can't think of any, but there
was a couple. Oh, yes by the way, on the EVA yesterday,
according to the instructions, the pitch bar from the MDA
tool kit was the fastest to the BET up at the bridal end.
And it so remains there to this day permanently fastened to
the BET outside the vehicle, so I believe you can scratch
that from the list.
CC Roger copy.
CDR Okay, that's about it Hank. Have you
got any questions?
CC No questions. That was a good report
Pete.
CDR Okay, as I said earlier, we're happy
with tomorrow's flight plan, and we're ready to go.
CC Okay. I've got one other thing I want
to throw out at you and let you be thinking about it. Since
we launched 4 hours early, SL II in the morning, the landing
is going to be a lot earlier. In fact it's going to come
about 10 minutes after sunrise. And this obviously results
in a larger than normal circadian shift, it's approximately
i0 hours. And it is going to probably require 2 steps
to get your workday in step with entry day. And we don't
llke this, steps back to back. So, what we're thinking
about doing is doing about 4 hours of it on day 166, that's
splash minus 7, and pick up the remainder in accordance
with the flight plan. And the sequence for the undock and entry
is going to be normal and a flyaround is planned. Now
the sequence relative to the day-night is no problem if there
is no night. We're in a BETA of 70 degrees at that time.
CDR Right, we know that. Okay, that sounds,
you know just that. That doesn't pulse me too badly.
CC Okay, we'll tell them to plan it that
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way and you be thinking about it. And if you guys have changes
you want to recommend, we've got open ears.
CDR Okay. I think about Monday, we're going
to want to talk to you about a couple of things. We're going
to look at, going to think about a few things through Monday.
And then I think we may want to talk to you and tell you all
about a couple of things. And we'll think about reentry. Right
now I don't see any big problem with that.
CC Okay.
PAO We appear to have had loss of signal with
the Vanguard tracking station. But, we'll leave the line
up for we'll acquire again through the Ascension site in
approximately 2 minutes. The _ank that was referred to in
the air to ground conversation is Capsule Communicator Henry
Hartsfield, who came on as a recent change of shift briefing,
replacing the off going Bob Crippen.
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SL-II MC-731/I
Time: 19:28 CDT 16:00:28 GMT
6/8/73
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for

10 minutes, and we'll be dumping the recorder here.
PLT Roger, permission granted.
CC Skylab, Houston. I've got a startracker
pad for you.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, it's Achernar. 52012, 50,000,
it's available day, 40 minutes remaining to night, 16 remain-
ing. Inner gimble 0090 that's plus. Outer plus 1683.
PLT Okay, is there any rush on that? How
about- you want me to get it Just after we eat?
CC No rush, if fact it won't be available
until 40 minutes after day, and the pass is your med con-
ference and we need it before the following pass?
PLT Okay.
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_ SL-II MC-732/I
Time: 19:33 CDT, 16:00:33 GMT
6/8/73
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, we're planning on trouble-shootlng
the primary coolant loop - AM coolant loop here tonight about
a rev from now and we hope to have some procedures for you
at Vanguard. And it would be helpful at Vanguard if you could
give us the switch configuration of the primary coolant loop.
We'd like to know such things as, the circuit breakers
positions on the coolant loops and regulators in the panel
200. The switch is on 203 and the configuration of the panel
217. And it's not going to be extensive, there's just a few
things we're going to want to try after the next Vanguard
pass, probably over Canary.
PLT Hey, when do you want that dope, now?
CC Negative. Just have - sometime between
now and the next Vanguard pass about an hour from now. You're
next contact's about - it comes at 13:14 past the hour at
Guam and that's your medical conference and then the Vanguard
after that is at 154 and we're about i0 seconds from LOS now.
PLT Okay.
PAO As you perhaps heard, the flight controllers
here at Skylab Control are going to do a little trouble-shooting
on the airlock module primary coolant loop. They plan to do
some of that at the Vanguard tracking station approximately
an hour and 12 minutes from now. Prior to that time, however,
we'll be in contact again with the Skylab space station as it
passes over the Guam tracking site. At 41 minutes G.m.t.
on day 160, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-II MC-733/I
T_me: 20:12 CDT, 16;06;12 GMT
6/8/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at one hour 12 min-

utes Greenwich mean time, day 160. We just heard the warbler
alerting us to the fact that we will be in contact with the
Skylab space station through the Guam tracking site in
a matter of a minute or so. We'll keep the line up for any
radio transmissions between the ground and the crew.
PAO During this pass over the Guam tracking
station we piled up quite a hit of dead air due to the fact
that there was a medical conference which we will duly report
later this evening. A look at the flight plan for mission
day 16 which tomorrow, Saturday, the 9th of June, reveals that
we have a rather busy day in science and medical experiments
including Earth's Resources experiment program pass number
six. The start of that pass over the state of Washington
and it will cross parts of a dozen or so states travelling
in a southeasterly direction. The EREP cameras will record
data directly over Omaha, Nebraska and almost directly over
St. Louis, Missouri. Also the cameras will be taking data
over Kentucky, Tennessee, and Georgia and out over the Atlantic
Ocean heading down in a southeasterly direction. On tap is
a geology study, the after effects of flooding where the Ohio
River met the Mississippi and an evaluation of of strip mining
in the state of Kentucky. Also, a part of a request by the
U.S. Department of Interior, we'll be taking high resolution
photography for mapping purposes. If the pass goes its full
length it will be more than 6,000 nautical miles from the
state of Washington through Brazil on the east coast near
receiving. Approximately two and one half dozen sites will
be active at this time. Medically, tomorrow there's another
M092, lower body negative pressure experiment coupled with
a Ml71 metabollic activity. Pete Conrad will be the subject
experiment in this case with Kerwln the ohserver. Pilot
Paul Weitz will be the subject of an MI31 human vestibular
function or rotating chair experiment with the Science Pilot
again observing. And we've allocated some time for house-
keeping for eating and for Sun watching. At one hour 28
minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
i
SL-II MC-734/I
Time: 20:52 CDT 16:01:52 GMT
6/8/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at i hour 52 min-

utes GMT. The space station is within a minute of acquisi-
tion of signal at the Vanguard tracking site. We'll keep
the line up for any air to ground.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Vanguard 10-1/2
minutes.
CDR Okay, Henry, read off the STS. You can
read over the switch if you want.
CC Okay and for info, we're going be command-
ing on the EP spectrometer.
SPT Kind of makes your throat catch a little
doesn't it?
SPT Okay, Hank, go ahead.
CC Okay, Paul, I guess we just saw panel 200
we'll start there, if you want. On the bottom left row, I
guess we'd like to check the positions of all our pump con-
trols and inverters. Are they all closed?
PLT All four of them are closed.
CC Okay, and how about on the second row
RAD flow.
PLT PRI and SEC are both closed.
CC Okay.
CC Okay, while you're there take a look at
203 and I guess we want to verify that both coolant loops
are in COMMAND.
PLT I verify.
CC Okay, and on panel 217 could you give
us a verify on the switches over there?
PLT Okay, both pumps are off and both loops
are in bypass.
CC Roger copy. And let me run over our plan
here. What we're going to be doing at Canary is bring up
the primary coolant loop. And we're going to marker the
PCV Bravo outlet temp. If any of these temperatures drop below
35 degrees, we're going to command the primary loop down.
If we're unable to command it down, then we're going to have
to ask you to do that. And you'll do that by turning the
primary coolant loop converter off on panel 203. And we'll
give you the cue to do this. You've got to verify that the
proper CB and switch configuration is there and we've all
ready done that, so we don't have to worry about that.
PLT Okay.
CC The reason we're doing this is we're
trying to get squared away for the next 12 hours so we
don't run into another thing like we did last night. And
there is no more actual requirement on your part unless we
have to have you to set the loops down. And we'll be planning
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on doing that at Canary.

PLT Okay, what time is that?
CC Okay, Canary is coming up after this
pass, and it will be at 14.
PLT All right.
CDR Okay, Henry, we broke out 64 BTUs 8 CAL
FUs and we're ready to go with 6 portable fans and anything
else you guys come up with.
CC I hope it is not necessary.
CC Paul, did you get your questions and
answers on the IMSS one?
PLT No.
CC That's the environmental samplers and
it's on page 3215 of the IMSS checklist.
PLT (garble)
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Time: 20:57 CDT 16:01:57 GMT
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CC turn on the IMSS i.

CDR No.
CC That's the environmental sampling and it's
on page 32-15 of the IMSS checklist.
SC Oh, thank you.
CC This data we're gonna get on the coolant
loop is sort of giving us a head start on tomorrow. We'll - What-
ever we find out here we'll factor into our plan tonight
for really doing some serious troubleshooting tomorrow.
PLT Okay, when you gonna turn that on?
CC Okay, it won't be until the Canarys as
I say, and that's still awhile away at 14.
PLT Right.
CC Have you got a minute to chat with us
now?
SPT Yeah, go ahead.

CC Okay, I guess it would be better for
the CDR and SPT. We been reading over this dump tape on the
SAS deployment and I guess some of us were had the question
as to what really happened there when you finally cut through
that bolt that - It looks like the pole and everybody kind
of went for a good ride. I guess we'd like to get little
more elaboration on what dynamics you went through there,
with the umbillcals and all.
CDR Well, I couldn't really see my umbilical
Hank. What I did, pulling on the BET when the tape broke, I
took off upward, but I was tethered to the BET and I had
both hands on it, and of course it went slack, and so all I
started doing was hauling myself toward the A-frame. And
Joe was hanging on to the BET too. I don't know where he
went.
SPT Let me tell you first about Pete's um-
bilical. It really was no problem, because his umbilical
went skipping up, skipping up, intending to take a set up
there, and all the time he was working out on the beam it
was trailing. It was lapped in behind him in a big arc
around the corner and away from the SAS beam. So it never
gave me a moments trouble. When he bounced up it just bounced
up along with him. I was under the - further back, in fact,
right at the corner of the SAS, heaving like a mule, and
when it went slack, I just went up in the air a few feet
and did a right roll of 360 degrees, and finally scrambled
down under the truss work there, slowly.
CC Sounds llke a fun ride. How about when
you cut the bolt. I think Pete was out part way on the
pole when that thing finally came through. Last night you
said something about there you went through a little gyration
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tOO.
CDR Well, what happened was is I went back

behind the hinge line where I was supposed to be, and I was
going to have one hand on the BAT the other hand on the pole
to steady it, and I was safe in minux-X looking at the cutter. And
I said okay Joe, pull on the cutter, and Joe gave two or
three mighty heaves and I said "Is that it, because nothing
happened" and he said "Yeah, that's - He says " I got it as
tight as I can" and I wasn't that far away from it and it
looked to me like the jaws had closed completely. But I
thought what happened was that the jaws had closed completely
and they had ripped. You know how you can do that with a
tin snips or something, where the snips will actually spread
and not cut the metal, but close all the way, the metal
squeezed between them. I thought that's what had happened.
And that I was going to have to go out there and remove the
cutter. So I said to Joe, I said, "I'm going to go on out there
and take a look and see what's going on". Well, at that time
I got just about out to where the sissors mechanism is on
the cutters, which isn't too far away from the strap, the
thing let go by itself, or Joe gave one more heave, I don't
know which happened, but anyhow it let go and it was Just
like the guys figured. The strap was in tension, and it
was holding the SAS beam, and the SAS beam popped up about
6 feet, I guess, and of course, I let go of the pole, and
I don't know where the pole went, but I did the same thing
again. I grabbed a hold of the BET, which was now getting
slack, and I started pulling for the secure end at the A-frame
pulling myself back, because I did a couple free whifferdills
around the lind doing something, you know, just getting
back there, but nothing too bad.
SCHWEICKART Pete, when the strap let loose, did the
meteoroid shield move or slide underneath the beam at that
same time, or did it sort of stay there.
CDR Don't know. I'm sure, I didn't see it,
see, because the beam popped up right away, and I'm sure
that the meteoroid shield snapped under - let me tell you
what I did. When I was out there before, hooking up the
BET the first day pass, I crawled around to where I could
look down around the meteoroid shield, and the wait a
minute, I got to get it from Paul. What's the name of the
hinge?
SCHWEICKART That's butterfly.
PLT (garble) - oh, butterfly.
CDR The butterfly hinge was completely
attacked and partially deployed. And all the way along the
whole beam, and I could see that, because there was light
coming through it. I'm sure that the whole meteoroid shield
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now is sitting there 6 inches away where it should be, what's

left of it, except for the parts that are curled up or jagged
edgewise, and so forth, because the two, as you know, I'm
sure the two rods, torsion rods, and the links were still
on there so I ditched in them, and they ought to show
the right position. What do they show on telemetry?
SCHWEICKART We'll check on it.
CC Hey we're about LOS now, Pete. That
was a good description and we're coming up on Ascension in i -
PAO During the pass just ended we had a
clarification of yesterday's acrobatics in space during
that EVA, which freed the solar array. And we also told
the crew that we plan to bring up the primary coolant loop,
and explained to them that if certain of the temperatures
dropped to certain levels, why we will command the primary
loop down. There's no plan at the present time to perturbate
the secondary loop. We expect to acquire the spacecraft
again in about 6 minutes. At 2 hours 5 minutes GMT, this
is Skylab Control.
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SL-II MC-736/I
Time: 21:10 CDT, 16:02:10 GMT
6/8/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, two hours

i0 minutes Greenwich mean time, roughly a minute and a half
from predicted acquisition of the space station through the
Ascension tracking site. We expect to have coverage across
Ascension, the Canaries, and the Madrid tracking station on
this, the 367th, revolution. We will stand by for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for one
and a half minutes.
PLT Okay.
PLT Hey, we're all at the - down in the ward-
room putting this 487 thing on tape, so if you need me
just holler and I'ii ziggy on up.
CC Say again.
PLT We're ell in the wardroom. If you need
me in the STS for that coolant loop stuff just holler and I'ii
go on up.
CC Okay.
from LOS at Ascension and we may drop out and we may not. In
any event the Canaries will be coming up at 14 and we're going
to dump the recorder.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries and Madrid
for 13 minutes and we're going to start commanding the coolant
loops.
PLT Okay, we're all sitting here holding our
breath.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-737/I
Time: 21:15 CDT 16:02:15 GMT
6/8/73
CC Skylab, Houston. Leave off the PRIMARY

loop UP. The - all indications were the temperatures for
the TCV Bravo out went right on down to 35 so we're pretty
sure that valve is stuck and not modulating. And we_ve
commanded that loop OFF again.
CDR Okay, Hank. What does that mean? Is
there - has that valve gotten so cold that it can't modulate
any more? Is that the problem?
CC Well, we're not quite sure on that. What
we're hoping for is it may have been in some water or some-
thing in there and it may have frozen up. And our temper-
ature indications show that the temperature is up around
52, 53. Perhaps all this had melted, and we were kind of
hoping it would work. But we find that's not the case and
we're not sure why it's stuck where it is.
CDR Okay. I guess you've got to think about
it a little longer, huh?
CC Roger. We've got this data point now
and we don't have to consider that water thing any more. And
so tonight we're going to smoke it over and see if we can't
come up with some sort of a plan for tomorrow to do a little
troubleshooting.
CDR Okay, very good. The primary loop is
secure now. Is that correct?
CDR Okay, now you want us to keep running
the secondary loop at plus 2. Is that right?
CDR Now, do you think plus 1 is still frozen?
CC We don't think it's frozen, Pete, but
we can't tell for sure.
CDR Well how about letting us give it a
quick check, and see if we get an EVA warning light. We
didn't get any before when it was frozen. Let's see if it
will flow, Okay?
CC Stand by i.
CC Okay, you got a GO on that Pete.
CDR Okay, because we can hear the pumps
running, it just wasn't going any where. So we'll give
it a try right now.
CC Okay, we'll be watching.
CDR Hey, Hank, it didn't work. We can hear
both pumps run, but we don't get any EVA warning light.
It's obviously not flowing.
CC Well, we were showing flow down here,
Pete.
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CDR Well, I don't understand, _ank, because

the other day when I ran the housekeeping test on it every
time you turn the pump on you activate the Delta P switch.
And I'd get to EVI - -
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CDR - when I ran the housekeeping test on it

everytime you turn a pump on you activate the Delta P switch
and I'd get to EV-I warning light until it came up the pressure.
Now we don't get it and we haven't gotten since it wouldn't -
we got no flow the other day when we were trying an EVA and the
crewmen had no flow and we've never gotten a warning light since
then.
CC Copy. According to what we saw in the flow
then -
it looked you may have tried both pumps. Is that correct?
CDR Yeah, that's right, primary and we got
no warning light and then I went to secondary and I got no
warning light.
CC Our indications down here did show flow
although I'm not so sure they got up to full spec value.
CDR Well, here we'll go turn one of them on
right now and you look at it for a minute. We'll let it
run for a second.
CC Okay.
CDR Okay, that's the SUS-I primary pump.
CC Okay, we're showing about 250 pounds an
hour flow.
CDR Okay, well let me just - can I turn off
SUS-2 for a second and then turn it back on again?
J
CC Hold up on that.
CC I guess we want to leave SUS-2 alone since
it's running okay.
CDR All right.
CDR Hey, I just - I don't understand if SUS-I
is FLOW why we didn't get the momentary trip on the flow
sensor on the EV-I caution and warning.
CC Okay, I see you've shut it down, is that
correct?
CDR Say again?
CC You've already shut system 1 down, is that
right?
CDR Yeah, but like I said, I don't understand
the other day when I did the checkouts on it the caution and
warning was working fine. Now, the output's LSU on there
or I wouldn't know what we were really getting flow through
the whole loop of not.
CC Okay, we'll - let us think about that one
awhile.
CDR Okay, it could be it's - I mean that's
a double SUS - you know the thing folds up the other day
and the caution and warning went out. Now maybe if it really
did freeze up it did something to that transducer for all I
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know.
CDR And I don't remember last night when we
turned on SUS 2 whether we got the low flow warning indication
as it came up to me or not. I don't remember.
CC Hey, while you're up that way why don't
we get you to hit a couple of switches on the ATM.
CDR Have at it.
CC We need the 52 main power to STANDBY, and
we'd like to the monitor - the TV monitor-I ON.
CDR Okay, TV MON-I power is ON and 52 is in
STANDBY. Anything else?
CC That ought to do it. That cleans up for
unattended.
PLT Ed, shall we change our unattended OPS
checklist to reflect this?
CC I think it does read that way now. We're
this is original normal power cue card that you flew up
with.
PLT I'ii check it again. I went through it
today and wound up with those - I ignored the eross-throughs
and write ins on it which didn't say to leave one monitor
powered up. I didn't have any idea we'd gotten back to that
mode of operation. I didn't think you'd want to leave a moni-
tor up all night.
CC We want it to run just like that card, Joe
with the mark-ups on it when you went up - when you took it
with you.
SPT You guys going to check that EV-I television
during the night?
CC We probably will.
SPT God loves you.
CDR Okay, Hank, I'm glad you said that cause I
just put the 132 panels (garble) to (garble) mode i.
CC Roger, that's correct.
CC And we would like you to if it's convenient
to get the star tracker up so we can look at it at Guam and
we're about 20 seconds from LOS. And Guam will be coming up at
53.
CC Okay, the star won't be up until about 40
minutes of day.
PAO During this pass over Ascension, the Canary
Islands and the Madrid station there was a trouble-shooting
attempt to induce the primary coolant loop to operate satis-
factorily, but apparently there was no joy in that, and so
the ground commanded that the primary loop be turned off while
we go back to the drawing board, so to speak, and think what
we can do next. EGIL, the General Instrumentation and Life
Support Systems Engineer believes that the flow transducer
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has failed at some time or other, valve is stuck, stopped

modulating, so we will go back and do a little thinking.
At two hours 29 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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Time: 21:36 CDT 16:02:36 GMT
6/8/73

utes Greenwich mean time. With the evening medical bulletin
on the status of the crew as reported by Dr. Charles E. Ross,
who is quoted thusly: "The Skylab crew is in excellent con-
dition following a modified off day working schedule. The
crew continues to eat well and has an adaquate fluid intake.
They did not report any health problems. The Science Pilot,
Dr. Joseph Kerwin, performed a blood count on himself today.
He reported that his hemoglobin and dlfferen_ial flight
count were similar to his preflight tests. He had no prob-
lems operating the slide strainer and microscope under the
weightless condition. The Commander is continuing to per-
form his personal exercise at high work loads with no obser-
ved problems." At 2 hours 37 minutes, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 21:50 CDT 16:02:50 GMT
6/8/73

minutes, Greenwich mean time. The space station is approxi-
mately a minute away from Acquisition at the Guam tracking
site. On what will probably be the last pass before the
crew goes to sleep for the night. We'll stand by for any
radio communication with the crew during this pass, which
last approximately 6-1/2 to 7 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Guam for 6-1/2
minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC We're real slow down here, but it's
finally dawned on us the reason that caution and warning wasn't
working is that the caution and warning isn't activated through
panel 217. It's only from the panels and the locks.
PLT Yeah, we started it through the lock
panel also.
CC Oh, and it still didn't do it.
PLT Right.
CC Back to the drawing board.
PLT Yeah, it sounded good for awhile.
SPT Well, you gave me one. I didn't know
that panel 217 didn't activate the caution and warning.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got a few little
news items here we could read up to you if you want to lis-
ten to them.
CDR Yeah, go ahead. First I put on B
channel that the CDR couldn't stand it and he ate two cans
of butter cookies, with his vanilla ice cream(garble)
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR We're listening.
CC Okay. Chris sends his regards.
CDR very good.
CC First item. Texas wheat crop is ex-
pected to be the third largest in history, but it's in dan-
ger because of our fuel crisis. It's predicted to reach
83 million bushels and the crop is dependant on power com-
bines and trucks that need fuel and diesel oil to operate.
On the brighter side, Americans may be cooking with Russian
gas in about 6 years if an agreement between U.S.- two U.S.
farms and the Soviet government overcome several obstacles,
economic and political that are still pending. The two
farms signed a letter of intent for the Soviet Ministry of
Foreign Trade to import about i0 billion of natural gas over
a 25 year period. President Nixon believes that the American
genius can solve the country's problems, at home and in the
world --
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CC - - over a 25 year period. President

Nixon believes that the American genius can solve the coun-
try's problems at home and in the world, if people can con-
centrate on what's right rather than what is wrong with the
country. The president spoke at commencement exercises at
Florida Tech down in Orlando, and he said " I say Americans
when they have a problem will solve it because we have a
genius to solve it, the same genius that built America and
made us what we ere today." Okayj and the senate has ap-
proved a bill that will maintain high farm income without harming
consumers. Included in the bill was a provision to limit
subsidies to large scale farmers. Senator Sam Ervin Chair-
man of the Senate Select Watergate Committee has drafted
a resolution that will expand the scope of the panel's man-
dates. The proposed resolution asks for an investigation
of activities concerning the 1971 burglary of Daniel Ellsburg
psychiatrist's office. The South Vietnamese government
has indicated that it is ready to sign a joint appeal calling
for an antihostilities in Vietnam. General Francisco Franco,
ruler of Spain for the past 35 years, will turn over part
of his duties to a fast rising Admiral in the Spanish Navy.
Franco, now 80, is not completely retired only slowing down.
A new kind of garden is beginning to appear in Berkeley Cal-
ifornia, called gorilla gardening, and consists of growing
vegetable crops in front yards to try and combat the high
cost of supermarket produce. The military government of
Greece has announced that a presidential plebiscite will be
held at the end of July. President Premier Georges Papadopoulos
will he the only candidate. The second round of the 150,000
dollar Philadelphia golf classic was led by Jim Barber, who
is sponsored by his grandmother. Barber led a large field
with a 2 round 65, 7 under par. Secretariate, winner of 2/3 of
the racing world's triple crown is pitted against a small
field in tomorrow's Belmont Stakes. The record smashing
thouroughbred is favored to win the hard to win race. Okay,
the latest score on Houston is Astros ahead 4 to 3 in the
9th, and it's not over yet. _esterday's scores, letts see
I believe they had a Dogers fan and a Cubs fan and onboard.
And they played each other , and the Dogers came out on top
4 to nothing.
PLT You don't have to give those scores.
CDR What place is the Astros in?
CC Okay, Astros are 6-1/2 out now. And
Chris just tells me that the Cubs just won tonight 6 to 5.
PLT How are the Cubs doing in the NLE?
CC Okay, they're 5-1/2 out in front of
Pittsburg.
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PLT Oh, isn't that nice.

CC And for the CDR'e information we want
to relay greetings and so on. And I think that's all the
news for tonight. See you around Henry.
CC Good night Rusty.
CDR Say Rusty did you get my last comment
about the damping in the water tank. That's would be the
biggest thing that I could see is the difference out there.
CC Yeah. Okay, I got that Pete, thanks.
CDR Okay, and the other thing is that EVA
station advanced station is super. It's so easy to work
in there. It's unbelievable, you guys did great work design-
ing it.
CC You mean even for a little guy you can
reach all those things huh?
CDR Even for a little guy. I didn't complain
about you one time.
PLT Hey I second that for the whole ATM run.
Running up to the front end was like scampering up the stairs
after being out there with that 25 foot pole in my hand. It
was like coming home. It was easy as pie.
i CC Okay, and for the Job you did yesterday,
everybody down here has been saying nothing but super all
the time.
PLT Hey, there is somebody else who should
be given a little accolade, and I don't usually give manufacturers
commercials, but I think that the International Latex Corporation
who built the suit, and the Garrett people, who built the PCU,
we owe them a big vote of thanks for a super piece of hardware.
CC I think it was very notable yesterday that
we never even thought twice about that. It was all just like
normal.
PLT That's right.
CC Okay, we're about LOS now. We'll say
good night to you. Get a good night's _est, and we'll see
you tomorrow.
CDR Okay, looks like a good day tomorrow.
Nighty night.
PAO Well the Skylab crew got a good night
from the ground. We have one more bit of news information
to pass on. This through the courtesy of Dr. Charles Ross.
He pointed out that today's blood count which was performed
by Dr. Joseph Kerwin on himself, was one more first. And
thatVs added to the long list of many many firsts started
by the Skylab space station. At 3 hours and 1 minute Green-
wich mean time on the 367th revolution, this is Skylab
Control.
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SL-II MC-742/I
Time: 06:08 CDT, 16:11:08 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours

9 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're about 2-1/2 minutes
away from acquiring radio contact with Skylab on its 372nd
revolution through the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, Tracking
Station. And we expect that there is a very good chance we'll
hear from the crew during this station contact. We'll be scheduled
to put in a wakeup call to them if we don't hear from them
first. Over the night, things have progressed smoothly and
quietly in Mission Control. Flight Director Chuck Lewis
reports the coolant loop situation has remained stable; temp-
eratures are being controlled in the secondary coolant loop
at around 40 to 42 degrees. And data processing is continuing
to determine the status and sequence of events that cause the
primary loop to go down. Troubleshooting procedures are being
developed for the primary loop. The crew will have a rather
full day today. Major activities on the Flight Plan include
EREP, Earth resources experiment package, investigations over
the continental United States and also, for the first time this
mission, over South America. Also a number of ATM data taking
passes. We'll be bringing in about five ATM transmissions that
are being held at ground stations. And we also have TV
scheduled today TV 6, which is coverage of the lower body
negative pressure experiment. The crew will be performing medical
experiments MO92 - MI71, the lower body negative pressure
and use of the bicycle ergometer, a metabolic study. Also
MI31_ the rotating litter chair. And we're about 15 minutes
from acquisition; we'll stand by for any conversation - rather
15 seconds from acquisition.
CC Good morning, Skylab; Houston. We've
got you at Honeysuckle for 7 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston. We're all up.
CC Very good. Be advised we're - the only
thing we've got scheduled for this pass is some updates to
the rate gyros.
SC Okay.
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Time: 06:16 CDT, 16:11:16 GMT
_ 6/9/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from

LOS. We're going to see you at Hawaii at 11:32.
PAO And we've had loss of signal now through
Honeysuckle after a "Good morning" to the crew and a response
that all three were up and about. We'll be again acquiring
contact through Hawaii in about 9 minutes 45 seconds. This
is Skylab Control at ii hours 22 minutes Greenwich mean time.
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i
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Time: 06:30 CDT, 16:11:30 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're about

to pick up communleations through Hawaii, and we'll stand
by for that. This pass will be a high elevation pass right
across the middle of the Hawaiian Islands, about 9-1/2 minutes
in duration.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii
for 9 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston. Say, I've got something
for the stowage people, which came up yesterday in doing
the K-22 transfers. In A-6 there were six UCTAs. Now as I
remember it, originally there were suppose to be three. And
we've done some more for this contingency business on activa-
tion. I guess we didn't use the extra three. So I have three
that can be used for the EVA plus the normal three. And four
(inaudible) are temporarily stowed in my TSP in my bedroom until
I hear from them, where they'd like them to go. Or they can stay
there until EVA and deactivation.
CC Okay. I got that. And I'll get them to
think about that and get you word back, Pete.
SC Yeah, I don't think we have to break into any-
body else's. And I don't think anybody else has to carry
any others up there.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We've still got about
6-1/2 minutes left in this pass. I've got a couple of very
minor changes to read up to you. One is on the Flight Plan
in the friendly PLT's column. And the other one is on the
ATM schedule pad. And any time that y'all have the pads out
and can let me read them to you, I'd be more than happy to.
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CC And any time that y'all have the pads

out and could let me read them to you, I'd be more than
happy to.
SC Okay, just a second.
CC No hurry.
SC Go ahead with the ATM one first, please.
CC Okay. On the ATM schedule pad, at time
21:10, the change is the building block should be 4 rather
than 4-Alfa.
SC Okay, we got that, and go ahead with the
PLT's Flight Plan.
CC Okay, on the PLT's Flight on his column
down and around 19:40 (actually his details show it at 19:47),
it presently says S009 INIT, initiate. It should say SO09
SET. We're going to start doing the S009 SET Procedure, which
is a different page in the checklist. And there's another
general message, which you probably already found, that has
some changes to that particular page, but that's the only
change on the Flight Plan.
SC Now all I have is about the general message
that has a change to S009, I don't think. Got one for the TV
procedures, but that's it. Can you give me a number?
CC Yeah, I will, Pete. I think the
reason you haven't found it was we up-linked it at Honeysuckle,
after y'all had already waked up, and it's probably in the
teleprinter now. But the but the message number, for your
information, is 1623-Bravo.
SC 1623-Bravo. Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. A couple of other things
here. One is on update to your solar activity, Just very
minor. Active region 27 did produce a subnormal flare about
03:10 Zulu. Also the - the Y2, Yankee 2, rate gyro scale
factor hasn't been as consistent as i and 3, and therefore
we plan to select the configuration YI/3 for control for
today's activities. So next time one of you guys is up there,
we'd appreciate you selecting 3/1 on the Y RATE-GYRO MONITOR
switch. Also, another thing that occurred to us over the
evening is over the many days we've been on orbit, we've
sent you guys a heck of a lot of general messages. And with
the amount of paper work we've been going through to straighten
out which ones are still applicable or not, we were considering
when we have a chance, probably tonight, we'd go through the
whole pile of general messages we had sent and see which ones
still apply. And then send you a list of those and make sure
you still had them available to you. And if you didn't, we'd
be more than happy to up-link them again.
SC Why don't you just go through the list
and up-link them-period?
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CC Okay, we'll sure do that.

SC We - we've been clamping them down and clip-
ping them, but one thing or another they get pretty ratty anyhow,
Dick. So it'd be a good idea if we know we got a new pile to
start with. We could just go around and replace the ones that are
still applicable and the rest throw away, and I think that'd help
us keep a little cleaner_ too.
CC Okay. It'll probably get us to make
sure we have them all squared away; so we'll do that. I am
going to assume on the checklist changes and odds and ends
and evening questions and that kind of thing - we probably
won't go through them. But the systems kind of things we will
go through, and we'll get them up to you.
SC Okay.
from LOS. We're going to see you at Goldstone at 11:43.
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SL-II MC746/I
Time: 06:41 CDT, 16:11:4l GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; it'll be a short

skip over to the Goldstone tracking station. We'll keep the
lines up for Goldstone acquisition which should be in about
another minute and a half. And we'll continue up live for
the pass that takes uS across the top of the United States
along the Canadian Border, above the Great Lakes, and out over
the Atlantic across just barely nicking the west coast of
Africa.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS Goldstone for
7 minutes.
SC Roger (garble).
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we're going to
command the change that I told you about to Y-rate gyros.
We're selecting 1/3 for control.
SC Okay, wait a minute. We're hanging on.
CC Okay.
SC Go ahead.
CC The solar wing.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about a minute from
LOS. We're going to have a short break, and see you again
at Bermuda.
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SL-II MC747/I
Time: 06:51 CDT, 16:11:51 GMT
6/9/73
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS at Bermuda.

We've got you for the next 6 minutes and if you guys are in
position to listen I'ii give you a little bit of run down on
the - whether you might be expecting on your EREP pass this
morning.
SC Okay, go.
CC Okay. The pass starts up in the north-
west United States and the clouds are probably going to be
clobbered up there in the far northwest. You should be breaking
out somewhere overhead of - around Billings, Montana. There'll
be a short period there where there will be kind of a broken
condition and then you should have clear skies across the
United States down somewhere in the area of Saint Louis. Then
probably down in the southeast United States it also will be
pretty bad weather for visual observations. And as you come
down across the water heading towards South America it's going
to be alternating clear and in some places overcast when you'll
be doing the Nadir aline and looking at the ocean surface.
Then as you cross the South American continent the first por-
tion of that will be varying between broken clouds and over-
cast in some spots. Then about half way down there, particularly
when you get over Brazil, from there until the end of the data
take down in that part of the continent you should have clear
skies.
SC Okay, thank you, Richard. (Cleared throat.)
CC Rog.
SC Excuse me, what do you mean rog. I didn't
say anything worth Roging there. The Great Lakes, and you
can really see the midwest is sure clear wide open today. You
say it's kind of cloudy around Houston?
CC It's been so long since I've been outside
I don't know.
SC During the day anyway, huh?
CC Crip says it's cloudy.
SC Got so bad yesterday up where our friendly
sunspot is that (garble) solar inertial air that we have
marked up on the side of the boat. I went up there and
stuck my belly up to the window Just to feel some warm Sun.
CC (Laughter) Roger.
PAO Skylab Control, we'll have a short drop-
out here until we regain contact through Canary Islands. Dur-
ing that past CAP COM Dick Truly advised the crew that the
generally they get good weather for today's EREP pass which will
be the first of this mission_ co_lectinE data over South America.
Earlier it looked as if Brazil which is where the data will
be collected was socked in with clouds but Truly advised that
a bubble of clear air had opened up over part of the area
where it's desired to collect data over the Amazon basin.
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SL-II MC748/I
Time: 07:04 CDT, 16:12:04 GMT
6/9/73
PAO - collect data over the Amazon Basin.

We should have about 15 minutes acquisition time over Canary
Islands and then down across the Ascension Island tracking
station, now in the 373 revolution.
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SL-II MC749/I
Time: 07:08 CDT, 16:12:08 GMT
6/9/73
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS at Ascension

SC Okay, Dick. Since we got power back up the
the - we had MDA wall heaters on?
CC Stand by.
SC I tell you, that's - that's not the real
question. I'm just wondering beeause_ and I'm sure the
EREP guys are listening. That turn on - the S191 cord tape
temperature was already reading 29 percent.
CC Copy.
CC Skylah, Houston; the MDA wall heaters are
onj hut we have not commanded anything during the night. They
were also on when you went to bed.
SC Yeah, my real question is there must be there's
a wall heater near the 191 cooler that's causing the escape
temperature to be higher this morning than it's been.
CC Understand.
SC It's a, gee whiz, question.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, either here at Ascension
or more likely at Honeysuckle we'll be uplinking a small
change to one of the building blocks for our good ATM people,
but it doesn't take effect on your flight plan until tomorzow,
so it doesn't take long but don't feel llke you have to take
any immediate action on it.
SC 1 understand this is an improvement rather
than a change. Is that right?
SC Right.
CC Right.
SC Sounds like the flight director cut you off
before you got it out.
CC That's right; right in the middle.
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Time: 07:20 CDT, 16:12:20 GMT
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CC Skylab, we're i minute from LOS, we're

going to see you at Carnarvon at 12:47.
SC Roger.
PAO This is Sky%ab Control. That's all
we'll he getting through Ascension this revolution. And
our station contact chart shows we'll be reacquiring at the
Carnarvon tracking station in about 25 minutes. This is Skylab
Control at 12 hours 22 minutes, Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-751/I
Time: 07:45 CDT, 16:12:45 GMT
6/9/73

46 minutes. We're about to acquire through the Carnarvon,
Australia, Tracking Station, and this is a low elevation pass.
We could have noisy - noisy comm until we get solid lockup at
Honeysuckle Creek.
PAO Flight Director Milton Windler and his
team of flight controllers have taken over in Mission Control
from Flight Director Chuck Lewis and his team. The CAP COM
on this shift is Astronaut Robert Crippen, replacing Astro-
naut Dick Truly who held those duties during the night
shift.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Carnarvon
for about the next I0 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
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SL-II MC-752/1
Time: 07:51 CDT, 16:12:51 GMT
6/9/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We Just up-linked you a

couple more teleprinter messages and those should be the
last for the day. Or the last for this morning, anyhow.
CC Skylab, Houston. We had -
CC Skylab, Houston. We had a little drop
out between Carnarvon and Honeysuckle. We've still got a
couple of minutes to go on this pass. We've just up-linked our
last two teleprinter messages for this morning.
SC Okay.
SC Say, Crip. I Just moved some EREP
Tape around that I remembered down in the locker at D412.
EREP Tape T-7 has red tape on it. And it was put on there
by one of your very very early messages, when we were still
fairly hot down here in the workshop. And I opened the can
and inspected the tape, and the tape looks fine to me. And
perhaps, there's some other reason that the EREP people decided
not to use T-7. But, we had a few minutes, so I inspected the
tape. It looks perfectly good to me. If they want to use it,
it has not been affected by the heat anyhow, that I can see.
And they may want to reconsider using that tape. I have it
red flagged right now.
CC Okay. Fine. We'll put that in the mill
and give them that option. Thank you.
CC And Skylab. We've got about 30 seconds
to go on this pass. We'll see you again at Hawaii at 13:10 -
i, 3, i, 0.
SC 13:10. Bye, bye.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We'll be up again
over Hawaii in about 14 minutes. And as the crew approaches
another stateside revolution on the stateside pass, on this
373rd revolution, and they'll be preparing for EREP operations,
the Earth Resouees Experiment Package, which has 28 minutes
of data gathering today, also ATM operations. The EREP pass
extends from the northwestern United States to St. Louis,
Missouri, on across Puerto Rico, and across the northeastern
portions of Brazil. The photographic and electronic sensor
data on this EREP pass will be used by investigators in
snow mapping in the Cascade Mountains. They'll be doing
geological studies in the Continental U.S., forrest inventory
in Georgia and Alabama, and resource evaluation programs in
Puerto Rico and Brazil. At 12 hours 58 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC753/I
Time: 08:09 CDT, 16:13:09 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 13 hours 10

minutes with Skylah coming up on Hawaii. We'll bring up the
llne for that pass now.
CC Skylah, Houston; we're AOS over Hawaii
for about the next 5 minutes.
SC Okay, Houston. You guys get rid of our bat
charge light for us on the ATM panel?
CC Verify that you have a bat charge light
on your ATM panel, we'll look at it.
SC Okay, (garble) to bat 3; CPRM 3. (garble)
CC Roger, Pete. You're too low right now.
I really can't read you. Could you speak up, or get a little
closer to the mike?
SC Roger. We have a bat charge light CBRM3,
and I think it's cause you guys have been playing with CBRM3.
Will you take care of it?
CC Roger.
SC Hey, Crip, this is another curious question.
Ask the EREP people why we're using a different magazine on the
(garble) today, will you please?
CC Okay.
CC Paul, the story we get here is that because
DHOI has been reading 50 percent for two days in a row. They
think maybe it's stuck and that's why they asked you to switch.
SC Well, I thought it might he that. And if
you get them, they know what it looks like. But that's
a pretty gross reading. In the last two passes all I've done
it take about - on those Houston passes all I took was the
few seconds it takes to go from about 20 percent forward to
half the nadir and I think those are reasonable readings.
the noise level of how close you can read that assuming you're
already running the camera 20 seconds for each of the last
two passes.
CC Okay, we copied that, and will take it into
advisement. Thank you, Paul.
SC Okay. Also, for the flight plan, I think
we have wiped about
30 minutes off of the required EREP PREP.
CC Understand it requires about 30 minutes less
than what we've got scheduled.
SC That's right.
CC What are you trying to do, sleep late?
SC No, no. We Just want to get more done during
the day. And it turns out that we may get ahead on the EREP
PREP.
CC Okay, Paul, just Joshing you.
SC Yeah, I should of done that, okay.
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SC Hey, also_ ask hard support guys back there,

George Laski and his people, if in the EREP checklist, if it's
okay yet to delete all the pink write-ins. They'll know what
I mean.
CC Okay, yeah, they will. We'll check it.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll see you again over Goldstone at 13:23. 1323.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab - -
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-754/I
Time: 08:16 CDT, 16:13:16 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're out of

radio contact now; be about 6 minutes before we regain contact
through the Goldstone Tracking Station. During that pass
over Hawaii, the crew again advised they had a BATTERY CHARGE
light on CBRM-3. This is an inactive unit, and the light
apparently coming on. And that is turned off by a ground
command, or can be turned off by a ground command, and Conrad
asked that we do so. Paul Weitz also questioned a request
to change one of the EREP magazines, and the ground re-
confirmed that the change was requested, because the magazine
had indicated 50 percent for some time. Weitz reported he felt
that was a valid reading, that the indication was a fairly
gross one, and that the amount of film that had been taken in the
last few passes probably would not have shown much of a change in
that indication. Weitz also advised that EREP preparations ap-
pear to take less time than anticipated ; requested that in
future planning we reduce the amount of time allocated for
that operation by about 30 minutes in order to squeeze more
into the Flight Plan. At 13 hours 19 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
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SL-II MC-755/I
Time: 08:21 CDT, 16:13:21 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're about to

pick up the spacecraft through the Goldstone tracking station.
We have about 50 seconds until acquisition for this stateside
pass. Currently in the 373rd revolution, we'll be passing
over into the 374th.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Goldstone
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got a couple of
minutes drop out here, over the top of the states and we'll
see you again at 13:31 - i, 3, 3, I.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-756/I
Time: 08:30 CDT, 16:13:30 GMT
6/9/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, once more,

over Bermuda for about the next ii minutes, for about the
next i_ 1 minutes.
CC And Skylab; Houston. If we've got some-
body available_ we need to make a small adjustment in our
power situation, prior to this EREP.
SC (Garble) We're looking and taking pictures
right now, Crip. How about next AOS?
CC That'll be fine, Pete. Thank you. (Garble).
SC Tell us briefly what you want; maybe we'll
do it when we get back up there.
CC Okay. All we're going to de is take and
move the REG ADJUST pots on BUS i and 2 counter clockwise,
about 30 degrees, to move about l0 amps down toward the trans-
fer bus, on both buses.
SC Okay. You want to shift i0 amps more
from the ATM to the transfer buses; that's i0 amps per BUS.
SC Okay. We'll take care of that for you.
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SL-II MC-757/I
Time: 0g:$7 CDT, 16:13:37 GMT
6/9/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute until

LOS. We'll see you again over Ascension at 49, 13:49.
range now of the Bermuda Tracking Station, and we'll be
coming in again through Ascension in about 5 minutes. Flight
Director Milton Windier has been reviewing the status of
ATM and EREP experiments with his flight controllers.
Coming up on the next stateside pass, the 374th and S75th
revolutions, we'll have a full length EREP pass, some
28 minutes, down across the United States, over Puerto Rico,
and across Brazil. This is Skylab Control at 13 hours
45 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-758/1
Time: 08:47 CDT, 16:13:47 GMT
6/9/73

48 minutes, about 1 minute away from acquistio_ at Ascension.
Following the Ascension pass, we expect to have the change-
of-shift press briefing in the JSC briefing room, room 135
in building I, with the off-going flight director, Chuck Lewis.
Again, that press briefing will begin in a few minutes. Our
best estimate at this time is that it will be immediately
following the Ascension Station pass, which is scheduled to
last for about 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS ove_ Ascen-
sion for the next i0 mlnutes_ for the next l, 0, minutes.
SC Okay. (Music)
CC That's lovely harmony.
SC The machine quit just as I started it.
Was going to play my alma-mater (garble).
CC Blew the whole thing.
SC Right.
CC Speaking of reunions, I did get Pete's
request off yesterday.
SC Good for you.
CC And also, regarding that CERM-3 BATT
CHARGE light, we've had a heater off on that particular CBRM,
which we've just turned back on, and it will probably be a
rev or two before we'll be able to reset that light for you.
SC Okay, Crip. Thank you.
SC ROW'S that (garble) set-up look now, Crip?
CC Okay_ that looks good now, Paul.
SC All right.
SC (Music) There.
CC How sweet it is. I'm sure all of your
alumni will have appreciated that.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We have about
4-1/2 minutes remaining in this Ascension pass. Flight
Director Chuck Lewis is enroute to the News Center for the
change-of-shift press briefing, which we expect will begin
immediately after loss of signal through Ascension.
SC Houston_ you there?
CC That's affirm; go ahead.
SC How long we got?
CC About 3 minutes.
SC Okay, Pete and I are looking at the S190
glass. And for the E REP people, if you look in the front of
the - of a camera (garble), you can see, not counting the filter
rings, there are two slotted rings where I think probably
holds lens elements in t_ire_, i_ _i_nd one in from the
front, which apparently holds the (garble) lens, our lens in
there - it looks to us that it's got a - if you shine a flashlight
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in it, it's got a lot of little tiny specs, either in it or on

it. Now we don't remember it having been so noticeable
before. I don't know what to do. There's nothing we can do
about it. We can't get to it. As I say, it's a (garble) element.
Looking into the clock, with the shutter open, it makes the whole
thing look very dusty. I'm apprising you of it for whatever it's
worth.
CC Okay, PJ, I think we copied all of that.
Let me
make sure that our EREP people got it.
CC PJ, would you say again which camera
that's on, please?
SC It's on all the stations of the S190
camera.
CC Oh, it's on all of them. Okay.
SC Yeah, that's the thing that makes me
suspicious; it's fairly uniform through all of them. I tell
you what it almost looks like is a fine coating of dust, if it's
something on it, or it could - you know, which I (garble) that
glass. It looks like a whole bunch of little tiny bubbles all
through the glass.
CC Okay, looks like dust or tiny bubbles.
Okay.
SC Yeah, maybe the Well, let us know. We can
try to get some pictures of it later for you, if you want.
CC Okay. And we're about i minute until LOS, and
we'll see you again at Carnarvon at 14:22.
CC And wish somebody can take a look at the
ATM C&D; we need to verify that H-alpha is still in AUTO.
SC Okay.
CC Okay.
SC It's in AUTO.
CC Thank you.
SC Hey, Crip, I had it in NORMAL and AUTO,
but I get (garble).
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal now through Ascension, and we're ready at this time to
switch to the JSC News Center briefing room for our change-of-
shift press conference at 14 hours Greenwich mean time.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-759/I
Time: 09:20 CDT, 16:14:20 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, about 1 minute

from regaining radio contact with Skylab through the Carnarvon,
Australia, tracking station. Now on the 374th revolution.
On this revolution and also into the next one, the crew will be
involved in EREP activities, Earth Resources Experiment Package,
and also ATM operations. This acqulstion through Carnarvon and
also up then through Guam. We'll have a total of about ii minutes
of acquisition through_ through Carnarvon. And about i0 minutes
it appears through Guam. Both of theseare very high elevation
passes. Eleven minutes, for about i, i, minutes.
SC (Garble).
CC And I know you guys are beginning to
love this, but I need to get that REG ADJUST pot tweaked
again on 206.
SC Go ahead; what do you want?
CC Okay, we want REG BUS 2 turned counter-
clockwise, correction, clockwise to balance the amp outputs
on 1 and 2.
SC (Music) (garble)
CC On PCG, total 1 and 2 is what we want
to balance up.
SC You want to balance up PCG total 1 and 2
with (garble). Right?
CC CDR, you were basically unreadable
that time. I - Again, we wanted to turn REG ADJUST pot clock-
wise to balance the loads on, correction, REG ADJUST BUS 2
to balance the loads on PCG total.
SC Okay.
SC Okay, Crip, both PCG 1 and 2 are putting
out 38 amps each.
CC Roger, 38 amps, and that looks good
from here.
SC Besides, you people are competing with

the Nashville Brass during our rest period here.
CC Roger.
SC (Garble).
CC Sounds pretty loud in the background.
By the way, as we went over the hill last time, Joe was
trying to tell me something about R-alpha, and all I under-
stood that - was he was in NORMAL and AUTO, and something
happened and that was all I got.
SC But he brought the system up, Crip,
he brought it up after sunup and we didn't get an AUTO
START.
CC Okay.
SC Everything's okay.
CC Roger, we copy.
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SC And the S191 guys ought to be real

happy now that we've got the heat in the MDA. It started out with
a (garble) - cooler to start with, we now have a (garble) sl91
READY light. And Charlie-7 is reading 5S percent, and Baker-7
is all the way down at 30 percent.
CC Roger, Pete. You got so much background
noise, most of that was unreadable.
SC I don't know what you're picking up,
must be picking up the cooler noise, I don't have any (garble)
going, how do you read now?
CC It's still there. Would you give me
those numbers again
on 191, please?
SC Okay, we're going to go to another
vox. That's the cooler noise, Pete, he can hardly hear you
for all that noise from the 191 cooler.
CC Yeah, PJ, you're coming through loud and
clear.
SC Yeah, I know. How do you read on this vox?
CC That's beautiful.
SC Okay, that must be the cooler noise that
you're picking up, that's the - SIA 102 was right on top of the
cooler. Baker-7 is reading 30 percent, Charlie-7 is reading
- 53 percent. And I have a READY light and it only took about
15 minutes to get the READY light from the time we brought
the cooler on now.
CC Okay, we copy. That does good.
SC I think that probably your next EREP,
you could go back to the normal warmup time line.
CC Okay, we'll put that in the mill.
CC And Skylab, Houston. I don't need any
feedback on it right now, but we're reviewing some of your voice
transcripts, I noticed the other night Joe was having
some problems with the H-alpha I TV, and it was right after
you came out of that pitched up attitude, it apparently
appeared to be out of focus somewhat. Apparently in our
opinion that was a thermal problem, because we hadn't had,
didn't have all the thermal systems back on and have
temperature up to spec. And we expected it should be looking
good now and some time we'd like to get the feedback on that.
SC H-alpha l's beautiful now.
CC Very good, thank you.
CC Sk_ylmb,_ M_ust_n. We're I minute till
LOS, we'll have you again at Guam at 14:34 and we will be
doing a data voice recorder dump at that point.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC760/I
Time: 09:33 CDT, 16:14:33 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. We appear to have

loss of signal now through Carnarvon. Our next station to
acquire will be the tracking station on Guam. The EREP
officer here at the Control Center reports that a frontal system
that the crew is going to track on this EREP pass over the
Appalachian Mountains, appears to be dissipating. And the
plan at this point is to modify the pass in that area; track
some cumulonimbus clouds; look for thunder storm buildup in
lieu of tracking and collecting data on the front which
apparently is rapidly dissipating. We'll be picking up
coverage through Guam in about i minute. We'll leave the
llne up for that pass.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over at Guam
for the next i0 minutes, for the next 10 minutes. And PJ,
if you get a chance I need to talk to you about your VTS
pad.
SC He's coming.
CC Okay.
SC Okay, Crip, go ahead.
CC Roger. You were - you got your VTS pad
handy, you were given a special 06, which delt with the
frontal system.
SC Yeah.
CC Okay, that frontal system has disscipated.
And what we would appreciate it if you could do is that the
time 08:23 could just go ahead and track nadir for a couple
of minutes. And then we want you to lock on - after a couple
of minutes of that, we'd like you to lock on the biggest
thunder bumper you can find and track it until 11:34.
SC All righty, that's most uncooperative
of that stinking front wasn't it?
CC Yeah, afraid so.
CC And Skylab, Houston, just a reminder,
the - we show your TACS are still inhibited and we may need
them a little bit on this VLV maneuver.
SC Okay, Crip. We may have boxed ourselves
there when we switched eue cards.
CC Yeah, afraid of that.
CC We'll - we'll take a look at that TACS
inhibited enable for maneuvers to make sure we're squared
away.
SC Thank you. , Th_t_checklist changes are
all made but we'll have to change that cue cards.
CC Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC761/I
Time: 09:41 CDT, 16:14:41 GMT
6/9/73

We'll see you again at Goldstone at 15:00. Happy EREP.
SC Thank you.
utes Greenwich mean time. And we've had loss of signal
through Guam. The next station to acquire will be Goldstone,
at which time we'll be in the midst of our first full dura-
tion EREP pass of the mission. Twenty-eight minutes of data-
collection across the northwestern United States to St. Louis,
down over Puerto Rico, and across the northeastern portion of
Brazil. All of the EREP sensors will be in operation - the
S190 series, the altimeter, the radiometer, the scatterometer,
and, for the first time, the earth terrain camera. Also, the
crew will be using the visual tracking system. Now you heard
during that pass over Guam some instructions given to them on the
use of the visual tracking system. The earlier plan had been, among
other things, to track a frontal system across the Appalachian
Mountains. That front is dissipating. And the crew has been
advised to instead look for a large cumulo nimbus build-ups and
also, to try to track the biggest thunderstorm that they can
find in that area. They'll also be collecting data over
Holt County, Nebraska, for cropland surveys. And they'll he
looking at tradewind cumulus clouds over the Atlantic,
near the West Indies. Now the data - that will be used by
principal investigators in snow-mapping the Cascade Mountain
area; also be assisting in geologic studies over the conti-
nental U.S. (in the continental U.S.) and the forest inventory
in Georgia and Alabama. Also resource evaluation programs in
Puerto Rico and Brazil. We have about 12-1/2 minutes remaining
before we again establish radio contact for the stateside pass
for the first station up to be Goldstone. This is Skylab Control,
Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-762/I
Time: 09:58 CDT, 16:14:58 GMT
6/9/73

Greenwich mean time. We've had early acquisition; we'll pick
up the conversation with the crew over Goldstone.
SC Mark the time to uniform crop line areas.
SC Okay, mark i minute to EREP START.
SC They ought to big in Nebraska this year.
SC See, what we do is we apply this in a
practical manner, we see how the corn crops' going to go
and with that you find how the phesant crop is going to be.
SC Right.
CC We got you in voice contact guys, throughout
the pass.
SC Oh, okay.
SC 30 seconds to EREP START.
SC We over Washington, Joe? It looks I can
see Puget Sound through the clouds.
SC We're about to be, yeah, I guess. Ye_h,
I'm looking ahead.
SC It looks clear south, but it's pretty
cloudy - -
SC - - EREP START. Got a tape motion light.
ID4 mode manual.
SC Standing by to start S192.
SC Okay, for information, for the follow-on
crew, when I slew the VTS4, which is 23 degrees, I could
see the radio docking tunnel. How about that?
SC Okay, Joe, you have 30 seconds to ETC.
SC Okay.
SC MARK S192. I got a READY light.
SC We just cannot follow the clouds, how
about that?
SC AUTO sequence START on 90 and you can
ETC, Joe.
SC The ETC is on.
SC Thirty-eight. The REV's on. ETS AUTO CAL,
please.
SC Okay, right now?
SC Yes.
SC (Garble) went out.
SC Okay, for information, nadir is crossing
over some clouds, starting now.
SC RAD to STANDBY. Right to minus 30 roll.
24, SCAT to STANDBY, at 24. PS to STANDBY, 30, altimeter ON,
altimeter is off.
SC Okay, I got a good board read on the tape
to tape motion, and made a nice smooth shift when 92 came off
got a green on S190. Got a green on S193 altimeter and a green
on S194. (Garble) no mall light, looks good. Waiting for 191 to
come on.
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SC It's reading okay now.

SC Yeah.
CC Where'd you have it, in 7?
SC Yeah.
SC Got a READY light on the S191. Bravo 7 is
30, 3, 0.
SC Got a good cornfield?
SC Yes, I'm trying to find a unifrom crop
line here.
SC You can really see the circular areas
where they irrigated that walk-around stuff, yon know. There's one
there, and I'll try to. Okay, tracking it good, the Holt County
Nebraska, field there. The field is slightly larger than the
reticle in the cross hairs.
SC Can you give me a quick answer, Houston, on
if you'd like the whole field the same way, or would yon llke to
switch to another one?
CC We'll check that for you. Same field
all the way.
SC Okay.
SC MARK. Mark altimeter to STANDBY, 92 to
check. RAD, ON; SCAT ON. Got a good green board. A little
RAD/SCAT gimbal (garble) every once in awhile, but that's
normal.
SC Hello, Houston. If the sun is behind us,
it got quite hard to see, looks like we got hazer and hazer as I
went through nadir. The sun is behind us and maybe it's cause
they're looking up, Sun?
CC Copy.
SC 23.
SC Okay, I'm tracking nadir now.
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SL-II MC-763/I
Time: 10:08 CDT, 16:15:08 GMT
6/9/73
SC - - (garble) NADIR now. I'll give them the

data push button when I got my CB, if I ever pick it up, Crip.
SC SCAT to STANDBY. RAD to STANDBY.
SC RAD ON. SCAT ON.
SC And I'll say that front's good
SC (Garble) stations of 4; Bravo-7 still
hanging in there at 30, 3, 0.
SC Haven't found a thrunderstorm head, Crip.
I'm on a building Q right now; I'll get a few shot in and
then try to switch to something else.
CC Okay.
SC SCAT to STANDBY; RAD to STANDBY; MODE,
CROSSTRACK continguous; and 193 NADIR ALINE.
SC No real CBs in the area, Houston. I got
a couple (garble) - the best I could do for you.
CC Okay.
SC (Garble) southwest tip of Florida, but I -
but they may be out of your range.
SC Yeah.
SC I've got a READY out on S190 on time.
MODE to STANDBY, ETC STANDBY, Joe. 190 intervelometer.
SC Crip, are you picking up that cooler
noise through these mikes also?
SC ETC AUTO. Right. We went STANDBY, we
changed the (garble), and we're back to AUTO.
CC I'm picking up a hissing noise. Yes, Paul.
SC I think that's the VOX.
SC I heard $009 just start to open.
SC And that's really doing a good data
aline this time.
SC Is it?
SC Yes, sir. It's really hunting for it.

SC Really (garble) in on it now, yeah. Yeah,
it looks like a good data align, Houston.
CC Great.
SC I don't know what I was doing the last time

(garble) .
SC You were putting the range setter on?
SC Huh?
SC Maybe it you didn't have the right range.

SC Yeah, well I changed it from 78 to 76.
SC (Garble) it's really finding out.
SC It's moving much slower than the simulator
does, isn't it?
SC Yeah.
SC Okay, that's a good one.
SC Yeah.
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SC The feet are moving much slower than the

simulator used to.
SC It (garble). Alia i is 41 and Bravo 1
is about 51 and Charlie 1 is about 86. But it's still looking.
SC Well, it winds up in a little square; it
never does stop.
SC Yeah.
SC I've got to get through - -
SC (garble) state.
SC Yeah.
SC Final angle.
SC 1509 to STANDBY. STANDBY MODE. READY ON
(garble) 93A to MODE 5. 1524, 93A on.
SC MARK ON.
SC READY out at 1849. Okay?
SC For 1910, 93A to STANDBY. 92 to MODE
CHECK. Okay.
SC Hey, Houston. This meter (garble) over
the water for 191 is mostly open water and o_ccasionally (garble),
as you may guess, some cumulus.
CC Copy.
CC One minute to LOS; Carnarvon, 16:00.
SC Okay, see you at Carnarvon.
SC You going to get another AUTO CAL?
SC Yeah.
SC (Garble) 2020.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We have a fairly
long drop out now between ground stations. It'll be about
40 minutes before we regain communications with the space-
craft; that'll be through Carnarvon, Australia. And on that
pass, the major activity, of course, was operation of the
EREP experiments. Judging from the communications from the
crew and from Pete Conrad, who was calling out the various
experiments as they were turned on and the off, everything
appeared to be functioning smoothly. Synopsis of the
weather: the north - northwestern part of the United States
and the southeastern parts appeared to have the heaviest cloud
cover, with a fairly general overcast in the northwest and also
down towards the southeast - Georgia and the Florida panhandle.
The middle part of the country generally clear to partly
cloudy. And then picking up cloud cover again out over the
Caribbean and also over the Puerto Rican Trench, which was one
of the targets. The weather prediction in the Puerto Rican
area was that the cloud cover would be broken, leaving the
possibility of getting part of that objective. Quite a bit of
cloud cover over Brazil, but the one of the areas of prime
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interest in Brazil was clear and the Amazon Basin. In

general, the weather would have appeared to be quite good
for that EREP pass, with the exceptions noted. To correct
a previous announcement, the Earth Terrain Camera was being
used for the second time in this mission, on the current
EREP pass, rather than the first time as previously reported.
And we have about 39 minutes now until we reacqulre them over
Carnarvon. At 15 hours 22 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC764/I
Time: 10:57 CDT, 16:15:57 GMT
f 6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control; at 15 hours

59 minutes Greenwich mean time. About I minute away from
regaining radio contact through the Carnarvon, Australia,
tracking station. And during the EREP pass, EREP control
officer in the Control Center reports that all equipment
appeared to be functioning very well, and he considered the
pass highly successful. The people in the backrooms were
especially impressed with the crew's ability to lock on to
a particular target, a field in Nebraska, and apparently they
were able to track the thing right through the pass.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over Carnarvon
SC (garble)
SC Hello, Houston. How's that?
CC Much better.
SC Okay, I'd like to relay on behalf of the
PLT that it's it's really not very convenient for the
flight plan to schedule BT during an M092 171 run. It's
gets kind of crowded there around the experiment equipment.
CC Okay, I was wondering about that. How
about the other day in the showers? We also had scheduled it
the same time there, was that too crowded?
SC Well, we had to do a little dance around it.
• In fact, we - we slipped one or two of the showers until after.
You can't ride the bike and take a shower at the same time.
CC Okay, I was worried about that. We'll so
note.
SC It worked out okay, but we had one shower
and we secured it - bolted it down to the experiment then
resurrected it again.
CC Roger.
SC And another little flight planning note, I
missed a fliter change on T003 this morning because it was
on my detail pad which I got after I did T003. You might
want to send it down the night before if it's a morning change.
CC I noted it should have been sent up last
night.
SC I didn't - I didn't get it. It was in the -
it was in the - the load of teleprinter paper that the PLT
goes up and gets while I'm doing T003.
CC Yeah, what I suspect what happen was that
it was after - You were never told that it was up there.
SC Well, I - we normally get our details in
the morning.
CC Roger. We are sending those up in the
evening though.
SC Oh.
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6/9/73
SC Hey, Crip, what time you sending them

up in the evening?
CC We're trying to send them up befoxe 2300Z.
SC Oh, I don't think we had any before 2300Z
yesterday.
CC You're probably right_ Pete. We been trying
and we been - been running late due to a lot of late flight
plan changes down here, but that's what it that's our goal
anyhow.
PAO This is Skylab Control; we're now receiving
ATM Apollo telescope mount video. A calibration run which
was - is being fed in from one of the ground sites. We have
a number of ATM transmissions which have been downlinked to
the ground sites and we plan to bring those in for a - -
CC For your info, you are correct that was
called out in your - in your detail pad. And we did get it up
but apparently a little bit later than when you were expecting
it. We also put that T003 in the remark section of the summary
flight plan too, just to cover the case where it is coming up late.
SC Okay, fine, I don't remember looking at
the summary last night, but I'll be sure and configure it.
CC Roger. Those remarks are kind of (garble).
CC And Skylab, we're i minute till LOS. We'll
have you again at - at Guam at 6 - 16:14, 1614.
SC Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC765/I
Time: 11:05 CDT 16:16:05 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control: at 16 hours 9 minutes.

We'll be reacquiring Skylab through the Guam tracking station
in about 5 minutes. And we'll be receiving video of the
Apollo telescope mount television for about the next 20 minutes
or so while we're - while we have the lines up in preparation
for the live television scheduled during the next stateside
pass when we have Goldstone acquisition. Goldstone acquisition
for TV6, which is television of the lower body negative pressure
experiment, is predicted for 16:$7 Greenwich mean time. And
our loss of signal on that stateside pass will be about 16:53.
TV6 will probably run longer than the 16 minutes or so that
we have acquisition on the upcoming stateside pass, in which
case the remainder of video for that particular telecast, will
be dumped on the subsequent revolution - revolution over
Goldstone. Any remaining on the video tape recorder would
have to be held until the next stateside acquisition which
would occur in the early hours of the morning. The revolution
coming up after this one, revolution 377 - rather 376, will
be the last stateside pass the last opportunity that we
have to bring onboard video into the Continental United States
until tomorrow. And we do not know precisely how much video
the crew will have on the video tape recorder. We have about
22 minutes total acquisition time in this revolution and the
succeeding revolution which was the opportunities that we
have to get the video tape recorder dumped to the ground.
Anything that remains on the video tape recorder would have
to stay there until the next stateside acquisition. We're
now about 2 minutes away from reacquiring through Guam. We'll
leave the lines up live for that acquisition. And we expect
to have about 5 minutes 45 seconds of contact through Guam.
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Time: 11:12 CDT, 16:16:12 GMT
6/9/73

the next 6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Our congratulations on
that EREP pass that you just we_t through. It looked real
good and sounded good from this end and we're assuming that the
last portion of it went as well as the first.
CC And a little reminder; upon - the next
station pass is going to be at Goldstone at around 16:37 and
it is at that point that we're going to doing the computer
switchover. So we'll, of course, want you to not be using
the DAS operations and we assume it shouldn't ring any bells
for you.
SC Okay, Houston.
LOS. We'll have you again at Guam at 16:37, at which point
we'll be doing a data voice recorder dump - correction, at
Goldstone. And we'll also be doing the recorder switchover -
correction, computer switchover.
SC Okay.
SC You still there, Crip?
CC Affirm.
_- SC We have two questions for the EREP people.
One is, that vent plug on the 191 window projector, do they
want it left where it is? And second, the desiccates on the
190 are getting almost white again. I want them to consider
whether or not I ought to change them, and maybe try to make
_em come out.
CC Okay. We'll ask, and try to get an
answer for you over the tape.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you still read, when
you complete your TV recording we would like you to start a
rewind on the VTR.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're now out
of range of the Guam tracking station. Our next acquisition
will be through Goldstone, at which time we expect to
be relieved -
receiving television of the lower body nega-
tive pressure experiment. Toward the end of that Guam pass,
CAP COM Bob Crippen passed along a request to the crew, that
if they complete TV 6, the coverage of the lower body negative
pressure activity, they rewind the 'tape recorder. The plan
is, if that do not complete putting the experiment coverage
on the tape recorder, we will tape the remainder of it live.
And then do a replay in the current stateside acquisition
during the current revolution, if possible. We'll get as
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6/9/73
much of that replay on the following stateside pass as

possible. We have now about 13 minutes until we reaequire
through Goldstone. This is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC767/I
Time: 11:35 CDT, 16:16:$5 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours 35 minutes.

Now we expect to acquire at Goldstone in about 2 minutes. And
we're also expecting television on this stateside pass of
the M092 lower body negative pressure experiment. We had
originally expected that this experiment would be going on
live while we had stateside acquisition, however, it appeared
the crew was running a bit ahead of schedule and was putting
a portion of that experiment on the video tape recorder. The
last request passed along to the crew prior to loss of contact
through Guam was to rewind the tape recorder to the beginning
ready for immediate replay should they finish the experiment
and complete their TV coverage of it prior to acquisition.
We did not get acknowledgement of that request. It went in
quite close to the time of loss of signal, but we believe that
it did get through to the crew. We could be getting this
television either live or a replay from the onboard video
tape recorder.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS over the
states for a nice long pass about 12 minutes, and we will be
doing a data voice recorder dump plus a computer switch-
over.
PAO We're ree6iving television now. This is
a TV tape replay. The television was put on the recorder
by the crew and apparently completed - completed the activity
and got it all loaded on their onboard tape recorder. We
should see it as from - from the beginning, and we'll probably
not get the entire tape load dump this pass.
PAO We're watching now as Joe Kerwin assists
Pete Conrad in getting into a lower body negative pressure
device.
CC Skylab, Houston. For your information we
have switched computers and everything looks good right now.
And regarding PJ's question earlier, we do want to leave the
vent plug in the 190A. And we noted the color of the desiccants
and we will be thinking about changing them at some later time.
SC Okay, Houston.
CC We're also getting to watch your TV play-
back of the LBNPD operation. I think it shows (garble) in
how easy you get around and climb in that thing.
PAO On the television right now, Pete Conrad
is attaching the waist seal. It looks as if he's largely
completed that and is getting ready to attach the arm cuff
while Joe Kerwin is attaching a leg band measures the volume,
leg volume. After these activities are complete, the two
halves of the lower body negative pressure device will be
brought together, closed up and sealed.
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Time: 11:35 CDT, 16:16:35 GMT
6/9/73
SC What's this malf all about, Houston?

CC Say again.
SC We just got an ACS malf caution.
CC Roger, understand, an ACS mall caution. We've
loss data here right now, so it could he associated with the
computer switch overthing. We Setter - -
SC We got it. It's the rate gyro.
CC Okay, that's probably it because we didntt
get a drift loaded in the thing.
SC Roger, it's a Z, we're in gyro 2 only in Z.
CC Copy.
CC And Skylab, Houston. Paul, was that you
I was talking to on - regarding the malf condition?
SC No, it was Joe.
CC Okay, Joe, I guess we can't get data. What
we'd like you to do is to load the rate gyro drift that we
had sent up on the last message message number 1624.
We would - after you load the drift we would like for you to
select gyros 2 and 3 in the Z-axis.
CC You copy that, Joe.
SC Houston, should I load only the Z drift
or all of it?
CC We'd llke you to load them all to see
the most significant one.
SC Okay, soon as I get Pete out of the LBNP
I'll go up.
CC Okay.
CC And, Joe, I guess we'd llke to do one more
thing up there. We'd llke you to use your switch to select
computer timing.
SC Roger.
END OF TAPE
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Time: 11:47 CDT, 16:16:4V GMT
6/9/73
SC Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SC What Z configuration did you want me to
select after I get drift in?
CC Roger. We want you in Z-2 and 3, re-
dundancy management enabled.
SC Copy.
CC Joe, we see that you're doing the loads
right now. I've got the codes out for that Z-axis recon-
figuration, after your drift loads, if you want it you can
hollar.
SC Okay. Come with it, Crip.
CC Okay. That's 52015 with data word of
50034.
SC We're looking at it.
SC Okay. It's all in. We'll see how that
holds it.
CC Appreciate it. I knew we were going to
ring a
few bells for you.
LOS and we'll see you again at 17:02 over Vanguard.
SC Okay.
CC And Skylab. We're looking at the data
now on that computer switchover and everything looks fairly
nominal now. Hope it remains that way until Vanguard.
SC It will.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's it
through MILA. And we'll be reacquiring at the Vanguard
Tracking Station in about 9 minutes. We expect to get the
rest of the television of the lower body negative pressure
device on the next revolution. We have one more Goldstone
acquisition before we go off range as far as stateside stations
are concerned. And we hope to be able to get the rest of
the video tape recorder with that television dumped at the
next Goldstone acquisition. At 16 hours 54 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-769/I
Time: 12:01 CDT, 16:17:01 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 17 hours

2 minutes Greenwich mean time. Standing by now for acquisition
through the Tracking Ship Vanguard.
PAO Spacecraft currently on its 376th revolution.
PAO And we have about 9 minutes of acquisition
through this station, before losing contact. Following that,
the next acquisition will be at Goldstone and there will be a
dropout of about an hour before we regain communications after
the Vanguard pass.
Vanguard for 9 minutes.
SC Roger.
CC And PJ, if you've got a minute, I'd like
to tell you about (static garble). Paul if you've got a
minute, I'd like to tell you about commanding we'd like to do
over the next Goldstone pass. Can you read me?
SC No. You dropped out shortly after you
said you wanted to talk for a minute.
CC Okay. Let's try it again. I'd like to
tell you about some commanding, we'd like to do over the
next Goldstone pass, which is going to be coming up oh, I guess,
in about 18:14.
SC Go ahead.
CC Okay. We want to do a little bit more
troubleshooting on the primary coolant loop. And what we
plan to do is turn two pumps, A and B, on in the primary
coolant loop to see if we can get more pressure on that
(garble) therm valve. And perhaps maybe that might fix the prob-
lem, or at least let us know a little bit more about it. If we
lose command capability anywhere in there, we will need you to
turn the pumps off. Also, we don't know whether you've still
got that (garble) cool flow, caution and warning enabled. If
you do, you will get a caution and warning when we turn the
thing on.
SC Yeah. We've got it enabled again, because
the parameter was gone this morning. So we've got it enabled.
CC Okay. If you have no objections we will
be doing that commanding at about 18:15 and you will get a
caution and warning at that time.
CC Yeah. Understand. And I understand also,
that you want data powered down you'll be on voice cue from you,
right?
CC That's affirm.
i_ [i_
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Time: 12:01 CDT, 16:17:01 GMT
6_9_73
SC What's the next station and its AOS,

please, Bob?
CC Goldstone is our next station. At about
16:15.
SC Oh. Okay.
CC I'm sorry. 18:4 - - about 18:15, yes.
SC Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC770/I
Time: 12:06 CDT, 16:17:06 GMT
6/9/73
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until

LOS. See you again at Goldstone at 18:15, 1815.
SC (garble).
PA0 This is Skylab Control. Our next station
to acquire will be Goldstone, that in i hour 2 minutes. And
as you heard during the conversation with the crew through
Vanguard, during the Goldstone acquisition on this revolution,
we plan to attempt a procedure to remedy the problem with the
primary - the primary coolant loop. The procedure that was
discussed with the crew was to command two pumpsj A and B
pumps, ON in the primary system. It's hoped that the higher
than normal pressure in the system, caused by putting both
of these pumps on line, will force the stuck TCV, or temperature
control valve, into a position where it's flowing warmer and
will bring that loop up to an operating - an acceptable
operating temperature. The condition on the secondary loop
remains unchanged. That loop is stable, continuing to control
at about 40 to 42 degrees Fahrenheit, which is below the
desired 47 degrees. But there's been no change in our status
on that loop. At 17 hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
rather 17 hours 13 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC771/I
Time: 13:12 CDT, 16:18:12 GMT
6/9/73

minutes Greenwich mean time. We have 2 minutes until we
acquire through Goldstone, California. And we expect to
receive television during that pass at Goldstone and also
a corner of Texas. Texas station coverage will be very low
elevation and we suspect the television signal through Texas,
if we have to take any of it that far along, may be rather
marginal. Also on this pass we plan to initiate a procedure
from the ground in an attempt to clear the problem with the
primary coolant loop. The procedure that will be followed
is to put two pumps - normally one would be used to flow the
coolant through the system, put both A asd B pumps on line
in the hope that the increase in pressure on the on one side
of the temperature control valve will cause the valve to
change its position and flow additional warm coolant into the
loop, bring the temperature up to the desired operating
level. This procedure, as mentioned, will he initiated by
Ground Command. And the crew has been advised that if we
lose contact before the ground has a chance to command the
two pumps off the crew as a backup will switch those pumps off
line after loss of signal. And we're about 5 seconds now from
acquiring through Goldstone and we'll stand by for the re-
mainder of that television of the lower body negative pressure
through Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Goldstone
for the next ii minutes and we will be doing the commanding
we referred to earlier on the primary coolant loop as well as
some loading into the computer so we'll need you to stay off
the DAS.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. You calling?
CC Skylab, Houston. I hear yon keen but
all I'm getting is feedback.
SC Hallelujah. I finally found it. How
about that.
CC Hey, that was the one.
SC Okay, I'm ready for this refrigeration
pump switching, are you?
CC Okay. They're doing it now.
CC Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Yes, we're ready
for that. And we are
working on your primary coolant loop.
SC Yeah, okay. My refrigeration system -
which pump you got on now?
SC Which one ybu wan'tlme to turn off, Crlp?
CC Okay, we want you to put pump 1 to OFF
and then pump for 5 seconds and then pump 1 back to AUTO.
SC Okay, primary I, okay.
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f Time: 13:12 CDT, 16:18:12 GMT
6/9/73
CC And, Paul, while you're there I wanted

to tell you - I can't remember whether I passed it up to you
earlier - regarding your question on the 190A window vent
plug - we do want to leave it in and we're considering doing
the desiccants change out later one.
SC Yeah, we set those up already.
CC Okay, thank you.
SC Okay, is that it on that pump switching?
CC That's affirmative and we have pump 2 on
now.
SC Okay. We been running on pump i to the
whole time.
SC It's not a point, I just thought if
anybody knew I was just curious.
CC That's affirmative. We had down pump 1
all this time.
CC EGIL reports that with both pumps on the
primary loop the valve appears to be controlling as it should.
CC Skylab, Houston. For your information
it looks llke turning on both pumps on primary coolant loop
might have worked. We drove that TCV to the hot position right
now. We will be turning them both off again before we go
over the hill and think about exactly what we want to do,
though.
SC Okay, sounds good.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC772/I
f Time: 13:22 CDT, 16:18:22 GMT
6/9/73
CC And Skylab; Houston. For your information,

we've finished our activities with the secondary computer,
and everything looks good. And you're sitting in solar
inertial now.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal now through the Goldstone-Texas stations, and that'll
be our last stateside acquisition for today. During that
pass, we apparently successfully achieved the bumping of the
temperature control valve to make it control as it - as it
should and to regulate the temperature on the primary loop;
the primary coolant loop. The procedure which was used was
to send a command from the ground, initiated here in Mission
Control Center, to put both pumps A and B on the primary
coolant loop to flow coolant through that loop. Normally,
only one pump is used. EGIL, the environmental systems
engineer, reported to Flight Director Milt Windler that
as the first pump came on line, they saw the pressure on the
upstream side of the temperature control valve reach about
i00 pounds per square inch, which is nominal with one pump.
And there was no regulation; the valve was not regulating
as it should at that pressure. In other words_ all of the
flow was diverted into the radiators for maximum cooling. As
the second pump came on line and the pressure moved up into the
vicinity of 400 pounds per square inch, EGIL saw the valve
begin to regulate, and, watching it for several minutes, it
appeared to be regulating as it should. After that test the
system was shut down. We're continuing to operate on the
secondary and our coolant loop at this time. But it would
be a very encouraging sign that the temperature control
valve can be shoved into the proper position and made to - to
work by bringing both pumps on line. Our next station to
acquire will be the tracking ship, Vanguard, off the coast
of South America. We'll he picking up communications through
Vanguard in about 12 minutes. At 18 hours 29 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC773/I
Time: 13:39 CDT, 16:18:39: GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 40 minutes. ,.

Greenwich mean time. Less than a minute away from reaequiring
Skylab through the Vanguard tracking ship. The space
vehicle now on its 377th revolution. And after Vanguard we
have acquisition at Hawaii, the only other station that we're
now getting coverage from as the ground track moves off net.
In a couple of more revs we'll reach a point where we will
go an entire rev, rev and a half to two revs, before we have
acquisition.
Vanguard for the next 8 minutes. And also Skylah, we had
so much success with that primary coolant loop a while ago,
we want to try it this time with one pump. We're going to
be doing that now. And if you do have your C&W for the
(garble) flow ON, you will get a C&W from it.
SC Okay, we have something else for you to
think over, about a process of testing the fire sensors. On 5
panel 529, the number 2 sensor, 529-2, when you go to test, the
little red light on the test panel lights, but it does not
trigger a CAUTION and WARNING.
CC Okay, we copy. You get the test light,
but you don't get the C&W.
SC That's right, and that's the one that
was triggered during the EVA also. We got a question if you
could zap them with too much sunlight or something llke
that?
CC Okay, we're looking at it for you, Paul.
SC I'm sorry. I said 529, Pete tells me. I
meant 392, 392.
CC Okay, 392.
SC Yeah.
PAO We're looking at a flow of about 267 pounds
per square inch, with the single pump on the primary coolant
loop.
PAO And EGIL reports that it looks good with
one pump. The valve appears to he controlling properly
with a single pump on the primary coolant loop.
PAO We'll continue to look at this data through
the Vanguard pass. Again, to repeat: with the single pump in
the line, the temperature control valve appears to be functioning
normally, diverting the proper amounts of cold and warm coolant
into the loop to maintain the desired temperature.
PAO We're looking at a temperature - coolant
temperature through the primary temperature control valve of
47.4. Cycling around 47 to 47.8 it looks like. The secondary
loop still holding in there to around 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
F
SL-II MC773/2
Time: 13:39 CDT, 16:18:39 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control. The primary

coolant loop operating now with a single pump, and the
temperature control valve is maintaining a flow with the
temperature at 47.0 degrees, which is right on nominal.
Also beginning to see a gradual increase in temperature - -
CC Before we go over the hill here at Vanguard
I want to say once more I guess for the CDR; we are in solar
inertial mode now. So when he goes to do his ATM pass he
will want to select experiment pointing prior to sunrise
to get everything to turn on like it's supposed to normally.
And also we have turned the primary loop off again with that
one pump, and it was looking good with the one pump.
CC Okay, Skylab. We're about i minute until
LOS, and we'll see you again over Hawaii at 19:49. 19:49 - you
got a nice long silence.
SC Yeah.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've loss contact
now through Vanguard, and we'll be reacquiring in about an
hour through the tracking station at Hawaii. Again during
that Vanguard pass, we completed - took another step in the
test that was begun during the stateside pass earlier on this
revolution or actually toward the end of the previous revolution.
That sequence again over Goldstone - we sent a command to the
space craft that commanded both pumps on the primary coolant
loop ON. The hope was that with both pumps in a higher pressure,
the temperature control valve, which was apparently stuck in
the cold position, would free, would swing over and begin diverting
warm water into the loop or warm coolant into the loop and
bring the temperature up to the desired operating level.
This primary loop, of course, had been shut down because of
the malfunction and the fact that it was operating below
desired limits. With the higher - higher pressure, and both
pumps on llne, EGIL, the enviromental systems engineer, reported
that the valve began functioning properly. And when the test
was first begun with a single pump on llne the valve was
not controlling, but as soon as the second pump was brought
on, it appeared to begin controlling normally and maintaining
the flow in such a way that the temperature of the coolant in
the loop was maintained at 47 degrees. At the next station,
Vanguard, which we've just left, the test was repeated, this
time using only a single pump, which is the normal configuration
for the primary coolant loop. And with the single pump the
valve was again controlling properly to all appearances from the
data that we had during that pass. And at the end of the Vanguard
pass, the primary system was again shut down. We're continuing
to operate on the secondary loop. One point of interest also -
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Time: 13:39 CDT, 16:18:39 GMT
6/9/73
Flight Director Milt Windler asked EGIL if he was noticing

any increase in temperature on the secondary loop as the
primary loop began to control temperature properly, and in
fact there was a small increase in temperature in the secondary
loop, which has also been running below the desired temperature.
The secondary loop had been running around 40 to 42 degrees.
At the time the test was begun, it was around 40 degrees, and
we saw the temperature come up to something in excess of
41. This, of course is within the range that we had been
seeing butlt did show an increase as the primary system
began functioning as it should. And we suspect that it would
be difficult at this point to draw any conclusions about the
secondary loop as to whether or not continued operation of
the primary loop at the proper temperature will in fact bring
the secondary loop up. But that was certainly a preliminary indi-
cation. At 6 or rather 18 hours 53 minutes Greenwich mean time,
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC774/1
Time: 14:47 CDT, 16:19:47 GMT
6/9J73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston; 19 hours

47 minutes Greenwich mean time. Space station is about a
minute and a half away from acquisition at the Hawaii tracking
site, on this it's 377th revolution. We'll stand by for the
radio communication between Skylab and the ground.
CC Standing by for the next 7 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
SC Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
SC Got a question this morning on the valve
position in the command module on the suit loop and I veri-
fied that all those valves are positioned the way they were
supposed to be and that's the answer to the question. They
were all the way they were supposed to be and I couldn't find
anything open so I don't know where they got their 2/10ths psi
gain. You'll have to think about it.
CC Okay, Pete. We copy.
CC CDR, Houston. Do you have time to listen
to a news note on a subflare?
SC Yeah, go ahead.
CC Right, inactive region, 31. We had a
CT flare. It was subflare optically, began at 18:11 Zulu and
ended at 18:30 Zulu. It was accompanied by a radial burst
at 6 centimeters with 12 flux units. This is basic
information. If we have another one like that or a little
bit stronger it's Just could trigger your flare alarm.
SC Rog, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have 20 seconds to
LOS. We'll see you over Hawaii at 19:48. In the meantime
we'd like to have TACS to inhibit, please.
SC That's done.
CC Roger.
PAO Very little comm from the air on this
pass over Hawaii. The commander was at the Apollo telescope
mount station doing a little Sun watching and according to
the flight plan the science pilot and the pilot were just
about finishing up their meals and eat cycle which they had.
At 19 hours 56 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
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6/8/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at

20 hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean time. The space station
is approaching the Vanguard Tracking Ship, nearing the end
of the 377th revolution. We'll be in contact in about
a minute for approximately 9-i/2 minutes of air-to-ground.
Meanwhile on the ground, the flight controllers in final
preparation for tomorrow's Flight Plan, making ready to
ship it up to the crew this evening for another day of
Skylabing. We'll stand by for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, this is Houston standing by
for 9 minutes over Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston is with you for 9 min-
nutes over Vanguard.
SPT We're here, Houston.
CC Pete, this is Houston. We've got a
comment on the update of the general message status, if you
have a minute to listen.
SC (Garble).
CC Say again, Skylab.
CDR Say it, Houston.
CC Pete, we've been going through the
general messages, seeing which are still valid down here and
if it's okay with you, we'd like to send up a llst of the
valid ones. And let you tell us which ones you need a
fresh copy of.
CDR I was afraid you were going to say that.
Okay. Go ahead.
CC They'll be up very shortly, probably
with the evening questions or a little bit before.
CDR Okay. We're going to have to work out
for later flights, some better way of doing this, because
the trouble is we spread the messages far into many
categories. First for the individual guys and then for
a certain piece of equipment and I'm not sure we've handled
them quite right. And we'll talk about it up here in Just
a second,(garble) for the follow on. Go ahead and send
your valid ones and we'll see what we can chase down.
CC Okay, Pete.
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CDR Hey, Houston, CDR.

CC Go ahead, C_R.
CDR Give us a reading on when we can tally
this LCG and LSU status and put them away.
CC Negative, Pete. We'll think about that
a little bit later.
SC I didn't say can we. I said would you give
us a time estimate as to when you think we're going to do it.
CC The answer we have is, in the next day
O r two.
CDR You guys work slower than we did.

CC Pete, the message we get is we'd like to
get more confidence in the primary loop and then we'll start
working on the secondary loop.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have LOS in i minute.
We'll see you over Hawaii at 21:23. We will be dumping
recorders over Hawaii.
CDR Roger. Roger.
PAO The Skylab space station has moved beyond
range of the Vanguard tracking station tracking ship. We
would expect to receive data again over the Hawaii tracking
site in about 56 minutes, or at 21:23 Greenwich mean time.
At 20 hours 27 minutes GMT, this is Skylab Control.
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6/9/73

utes Greenwich mean time. The warbler just announced the
fact that we'll be in contact with the Skylab space station
through the Hawaii tracking site in about a minute and a half.
At that time we will have about i0 minutes of potential air-
to-ground. At this time the Commander, according to the flight
plan - the Commander is at the Apollo telescope mount station
viewing the Sun, and the other two crewmen are undertaking
the MI31 human vestibular function experiment. We'll stand
by for conversation from the spacecraft.
CC Skylab, this is Houston standing by for
nine minutes over Hawaii. We will be dumping recorders.
CDR Roger, Houston.
MCC Hawaii contact Houston contact Neil i for
voice check.
HAWAII This is Hawaii contact. Read you loud and
clear.
MCC Same here.
CC Skylab, this is Houston. We have one minute
to LOS. See you over Vanguard at 55.
CDR Roger, Houston.
PAO At 21 hours 34 minutes Greenwich mean time
with the Skylab space station having moved beyond the Hawaiian
tracking site, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 16:53 CDT 16:21:53 GMT
6/9/73

21 hours 53 minutes Greenwich mean time, the space station
is nearing the end of the 378th revolution around Earth
approaching the tracking ship Vanguard for a pass across
the southern tip of South America. We should be in acquisi-
tion through Vanguard in about a minute and 20 seconds. And
the predicted time which we will have the signal through
that tracking station is approximately 8 minutes. We_ll
stand by for any radio transmission that comes down from
the spacecraft through the Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. Standing by over Vanguard
CDR Roger, Houston.
CDR Hey, Houston, how about taking care of
this BAT charge light again for us.
CC Roger, Pete_ stand by.
CC Pete, this is Houston. So far as the
CBRMs are concerned, we thought we had them fixed up this
morning the way they should be, and you shouldn't be seeing
any lights. If you see a light, could you please tell us
specifically which one.
CDR The back BAT charge light.
CC Pete, this is Houston. We assume that
that's the BAT charge light on CDRM 3 and if so we fixed
it as well as we can at the moment.
CDR Okay.
CDR Just put it out.
CC Skylab, we have LOS in about 50 seconds.
And we'll see you again over Vanguard at 23:33.
CDR 23:33.
PAO The Skylab space station has moved beyond
the range of the Vanguard tracking ship, and will be out of
communication with the ground now for 1 hour and a half. We'll
be back in communication again on the next ray with the
Vanguard tracking site. A couple of reminders. We are
planning a change of shift briefing with Milton Windler,
the off going Flight Director at 6:30 p.m. central daylight
time in the News Center Briefing Room. We also have avail-
able to the press in the News Center an ATM status report,
a summary some 4 pages in length of the ATM status through
mission day 13. The summary reads in part as of the close
of mission day 13, ATM had taken data off 33 full and 5 par-
tial manned orbits, for a total of about 32 hours of solar
viewing time. Very significant observations have been
made, and a high degree of experiment performance assures
great productivity from the ATM. There is further detailed
information on the status of the individual ATM experiments
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And as I said, that detailed information is available to the

news media who so desire a copy. At 22 hours 6 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
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SL-II MC-779/1
Time: 18:16 CDT 16:23:16 GMT
6/9/73

16 minutes Greenwich mean time, with a reminder that at
6:30 p. m. central daylight time, in the News Center brief-
ing room, we will have a change of shift briefing, with
Milton Windier, the off-going flight director. At 23 hours
16 minutes 35 seconds Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-780/1
Time: 18:31 CDT, 16:23:31 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston 23 hours

31 minutes Greenwich mean time and wetre about a minute away
from acquisition of the Skylab space station by the Vanguard
tracking site. We're been out of touch for about an hour and
a half. During that time the crew did a few personal hygiene
tasks and at this particular moment is, according to the flight
plan, in their pre-sleep activities. We'll stand by for any
radio communication we have with Skylab through Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS 10 minutes.
PLT Hello, Houston. Where are we?
CC Oh, you're coming up on Vanguard.
PLT Ah ha.
CC And be advised we'll be dumping the tape
recorder over Ascension. And I have a message - go Skylab?
PLT Go ahead.
CC I have a message here for all three crew
members when they're available.
PLT Go ahead, Houston.
CC Congratulations to Conrad, Kerwin, and
Weitz. There are no embassies in space, but you are our best
ambassadors. Signed: Kenneth Rush, Acting Secretary of State.
CDR Thank you.
CDR You've got the night shift now, huh, Bill?
CC Yeah, we did a flip-flop here for awhile.
We change off every now and then.
CC Hear you people did all kinds of good things.
SPT Yeah, we even recalibrated the SMMD today
and Commander Weitz had the honor.
CC Very good.
SPT And nothing worked when somebody's riding
the bicycle.
CC Hey, that was - I watched you on TV that
was beautiful shots outside there.
SPT Of the EVA?
CC That's right. Couldn't stay away.
SPT Oh, I didn't know you got anything good
from the TV. That's nice.
CC Yeah, there was some real beauties.
CC You were flailing your feet around a bit,
Joe.
SPT That was my big problem.
SPT Weitz was afraid I'd destroy the MDA before
we got the SAS up.
CC (Laughter)
CC Now that we've passed on all the good words
from Washington - a couple of words from Houston. How would
you feel about changing out the dessicants on the S190 package
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tonight?
CC That's just to please - -
CDR Yeah, we can do that.
CC Okay, thank you much.
CDR Say, Bill - -
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6/9/73
CDR Say Bill, I asked them a little while ago

if we passed through zero beta angle what was going to hap-
pen as it started going up. And they said well_ the vehicle
is going to start getting colder. Well, the vehicle is
starting to get hotter. The workshop is back up to about 75,
and I wondered if they had any words of explanation. Is
it our additional power output heating the vehicle?
CC Pete, I'ii pass that on, and if
nothing else it will be a good data point.
CDR Okay.
CDR I'ii do it.
CC Skylab Houston, LOS in 1 minute. And
the ground feels that changing out this (garble) in the
S190 will clear up all the moisture by morning without
any other action being required.
SPT Roger.
CC We'll see you at Ascension at 23:46.
SPT Roger.
PAO We have had loss of signal with the
Vanguard tracking ship. We'll take the line down now for
the expected change of shift briefing. We will acquire in
- a couple of minutes at Ascension, but we will record that
and play that - play back that information to you later. At
23 hours 44 minutes GMT, this is Skylab Control.
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Time: 18:57 CDT, 16:23:57 GMT
6/9/73

Greenwich mean time. During the Change-of-shlft briefing we
had a pass over the Ascension Island tracking station. There
was about a half a minute of com with the crew. We'll bring
that up for the edification of those press.
SPT Hello, Houston. We're eating dinner.
CC We copy.
SPT What's the news for the evening?
CC Yeah, welre supposed to get the latest
in by about eight o'clock this evening. We'll get it on up
to you.
SPT Super.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in one minute.
Guam AOS at 00:30.
PLT Roger, Bill.
PAO At 23 hours 59 minutes 50 seconds Greenwich
mean time this is Skylab Control.
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SL-II MC-783/I
Time: 19:29 CDT, 17:00:29 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 29

minutes Greenwich mean time in the 161st day of the year.
We're roughly a minute and a half away from acquisition at the
Guam tracking site on this the 380th revolution of the Skylah
space station. When we acquire at the Guam tracking site we
expect to have about 9-1/2 minutes of time where we will be
in communication with the crew. We'll stand by for radio
communication with the Skylab crew.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS l0 minutes Guam.
CDR Howdy, Houston.
CC Skylab, we're going to sleep configuration
on the Y-gyros, Y-I,2 active with Y-3 as backup.
PLT Roger.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Answer to your questions about the tempera-
ture decrease. The concensus here is that this increase is
coming from the power up of the equipment which they estimate
will amount to about 4 degrees. Since you started off at 75
you should end up at 79, possibly 80 degrees, and there may
be a little effects from Earth albedo, but that's still being
kicked around.
CDR Okay, can I give you the evening status
reports?
CC Yeah go ahead. We're standing by.
CDR Okay, the CDR ate everything plus two butter
cookies.
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Time: 19:36 CDT 17:00:36 GMT
6/9/73
CDR And the CDR ate everything plus 2 butter

cookie - 2 cans of butter cookies..
CC That's 2 cans, Pete, or 2 cookies?
CDR Two cans.
CC You getting hungry?
CDR Plus the CDR had i0 optional salt.
CC Copy.
CDR And the SPT ate everything with no salt.
The PLT ate everything except item 65 corn, item 75 bread,
and item 62 coffee with sugar, out of the meal, dinner meal
and snack. He had a DELTA H20 of plus i and 2 optional salt.
CC Copy.
CDR Okay, the film status day 166, 16 millimeter,
it's a long one. Mlbl/SI90B preps C Charlie India 06, 65,
Charlie India 03; EREP was PH 02 85; MO92/MITI Mlbl CI07,
35, CI04. Delay that last one, that was yesterday's.
CC Copy.
CDR Okay M487-4Easy Cl Charlie India 05,
52, Charlie India 01; M516 housekeeping 60 Echo, Charlie
India 05, 55, Charlie India 01; M516 housekeeping 60 Echo,
Charlie India 06, 62, Charlie India 03; MI31 Charlie India 07,
the roll was empty, Charlie India 04; 35 millimeter Charlie
India 34, 60. We changed that out. Charlie India 35, 50;
Charlie India 26, 42; 70 milimeter CX06 87, the ETC was
265, the EREP S190 set Oboe i was 6817, 2 was 6153, 3 was
7028, 4 was 7024, 5 was 0565, 6 was 7884. The drawer con-
figuration is AI X-PORTER 02, Charlie India 05, 62, Charlie
India 01; A2 is X-PORTER 03, Charlie India 06, 62, Charlie
India 03; A3 is 06, Charlie India 07, 0 percent, Charlle
India 04; A4 is 05, Charlie India 25, i00 percent, MTII.
Over.
CC We copy Pete. We'll be LOS in 40 seconds.
We'll have you at Vanguard at 01:i0.
CDR Okay, there were no changes in the flight
plan. The flight plan was executed as written.
CC We copy.
PAO Skylab has moved out of range of the
Guam tracking station. We'll have acquisition again in
about 30 minutes at Vanguard. Tomorrow June 10th, mission
day 17, key activities will be - will include Earth resources
pass identified as pass number 7. Like today's pass, it will
start over the Pacific northwest continue over the Rockies,
Minnesota, Kentucky, Georgia, out over the Atlantic and
cross Brazil - a long pass approximately 6000 plus nautical
miles. As the spacecraft moves over the US there are a total of
36 sites which will be active on this pass tomorrow. And
the basic information which will be sought out of the pass,
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6/9/73
experimental information, will be agriculture and range

land experiments. In addition we will run a series of med-
ical experiments including the familiar M092, lower body
negative pressure, and the MI71 metabolic activity. In
the case of the MITI, M092, Science Pilot Dr Joseph Kerwln
is the subject and the observer will be the Pilot Paul Weitz.
Metabolic activity experiment provides us an evaluation
of man's metabolic effectiveness as he works in the space
environment. This of course is the familiar experiment
using the ergometer or the stationary bicycle. Tomorrow
will also be devoted to additional Apollo Telescope Mount
experiments. Passes over the Earth with the astronauts
viewing the Sun. At 43 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
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SL-II MC-785/I
Time: 20:08 CDT, 17:01:08 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at one hour

eight minutes Greenwich mean time. The space station is ap-
proaching the Vanguard tracking site again near the end of
the 380th revolution. On this pass coming up we'll cross
Vanguard and be in comm for about II minutes. Have a short
period of lack of communication, be back in control - or back
in comm at Ascension, the Canaries, and Madrid. We'll stand
by for
what we hope
will be some alr-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS i0 minutes at Vanguard.
PLT Roger, Houston. We're busy here at our
experimental space laboratory. The darts didn't work worth
a darn but the paper airplanes are rather promising.
CC Hey, how's the slinky?
CC And if it won't interfere with your dart
game, I'ii give you some of the hottest news items today.
PLT Stand by i, Bill.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC Okay, on the diplomatic front, Nixon and
Breznev are going to have a Summit meeting, June 18th to June
26th, at Camp David and San Clementi. Henry Kissinger's on
his way back to Washington without concluding an agreement
to stop violation on the Viet Nam cease-flre. And West Germany's
Willie Brandt went fishing on the Sea of Galilee today during
his visit to Israel. Brandt caught one 7-1nch carp. On the
sports front, Secretariat literally ran off with the race today.
He was the first horse in 25 years to win all three. He was
31 lengths ahead of four other horses, also set a new record
for time. Did the mile and a half in two minutes and 24 sec-
onds.
SPT Fantastic.
CC And there's some trades in the pro-football
quarter-back ranks. Johnny Unitas has gone with San Diego
Chargers, Roman Gabriel has gone to the Philadelphia Eagles,
and near home, Buddy Baker won the pole position at Brian
Speedway, qualifying speed was 169-1/4 miles an hour. Here's
one that should set a goal for you astronomers there. A gradu-
ate student at the California Institute of Technology sighted
a previously unknown comet. His name was John Hookra, and
it's been named for him. There's one for you to shoot for.
SPT Well, we haven't discovered any comets, but,
we have made the observation that the Sun is indeed the color
of dirty beach sand.
CC All right, we will obviously call that the
Kerwin effect.
CC And, Houston, it looks like is running about
number four now, they did win on Friday for Pittsburg three,
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Chicago Cubs won five over Cleveland two and Joe might he
interested in that the Cubs are looking up quite a bit the
last day or two.
SPT It's going to be Rigly Fields - -
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6/9/73
CC - - 5 over Cleveland 2. And Joe might be

interested in that the Cubs are looking up quite a bit the
last day or 2.
SPT It's going to be Rigley Field and
Cominsky Park this year.
CC Copy. And it was a pretty nice summer day
in Houston today. Some lines of small thunder bumpers
cleaned things out and it's warming up.
SPT Glad to hear it, thanks a lot.
CC Is PJ any better on that dart board at
zero g than he is at one g?
PLT No, the problems with the darts at zero g,
the air pressure is so low here that they're unstable.
CC I forget what his excuse was under one g.
CC Pete, you may have started a new mode
of contemplation here once they see that TV shot of you in
the lower body negative pressure with that folding of the
arms you do there.
SPT Wait until they see the picture of me
I had taken for Rusty with my head in my water dish contem-
plating.
SPT Hey, during the flare alarm go off a minute
ago on the dark side, reminded me to ask you guys a question
about leaving that flare alarm enabled when we're not
at the console. Now that we have some active regions on the
disc we'd llke very much to leave it enabled. The problem
is that we go through the either the south Atlantic anomaly
or one of the Horns almost every pass. And right now we don't know
what those times are unless they occur when someone is at
the console and we have a pad for it. I wonder if it might
be advisable to have you send us up every day a pad containing
the south Atlantic anomaly times in GMT so that we can then
leave (garble) enabled then if it went off we could immediately
check the pad and know whether to respond or not.
CC We copy that Joe. We'll do that as a
matter of fact_ Joe.
SPT Okay, thank you.
CC Bruce McCandless was wondering how the
flash was working (garble).
CDR What did you say Bill? We were yaking
at each other on the intercom.
CC Yeah, you've reported taking a number
of pictures inside and Bruce was curious as to how the flash
was working.
CDR Very well indeed Bruce. No problems at
all with it.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 1 minute.
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6/9/73
Ascension at 127 and at Canary we'll have the usual con-

ference at 131.
CDR Roger Houston, and thank you for the
news. Also tell Bruce he did a good job that all that
(garble) stuff is working real well.
CC Copy.
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Time: 20:22 CDT, 17:01:22 GMT
6/9/73
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS for approximately

17 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And we're loading the Y-3 scale factor into
the computer now. We're also going to do a small memory dump.
CDR Okay, Houston, CDR. Be advised I'm in the
process of changing out the (garble) right now and it'll be done
in about i0 minutes.
CC We copy.
CDR And also command module systems housekeeping
(garble) been completed.
CC We copy also, Pete.
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Time: 20:30 CDT, 17:01:30 GMT
619173
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC ATM has just seen a massive surge at co-
ordinates 290/1.0. It's designated at T-79. They want you to
finish your synoptic observation as scheduled. However, after
yon have completed the synoptics they want you to look at this
area in the white-light eoronograph and if in your judgement it
warrants it, they would llke for you to do building block
16. This is in JOP 8.
PLT Okay, we're familiar with 16 and we'll do
that. Thank you.
CC Okay, that's section three.
PLT Roger.
CC Step three, that is.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go CDR.
CDH I've been changing these dessicants
and I'ii tell you - it might be my eyes or the flashlight
but I'm high strapped to see much difference between what I'm
putting in except for one and I have one that's really super-blue,
but the other five that I've taken out of the case and opened up
fresh are not too blue. Now, I've changed them out and 1
really wasn't aware of that so I got to the super-duper blue one
which happened to be (garble) usually is one. So I think what
I really ought to do is go ahead with this the way it is, but
I'ii take six of these old ones down and stick them in one
of the ovens along with the suit desicants that were dry
and see if I can't cook me up six really good dry ones.
CC Okay, we copy that, Pete.
CC And everybody concurs with that Pete. Trying
the dry ones.
CC We're due in LOS, we'll see you again at
Guam at 02:08 and they'll be dumping the tape recorder then.
PAO We've had loss of signal through the Madrid
station. At one hour 43 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.
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SL-II MC-789/I
Time: 21:07 CDT 17:02:07 GMT
6/9/73
PAO This is Skylah Control, houston. At

2 hours 7 minutes Greenwich mean time, the space station
is about a minute away from acquisition at the Guam tracking
site, on revolution 381. We'll have some information to
pass up to the crew, so we'll stand by for the air to ground.
CC Skylab_ Houston. AOS, Guam for 7 minutes.
PLT Roger, Houston.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Yeah.
CC We've got the Packs loaded checked and I
ran into - loaded it into the computer if your not on the DAS,
for about a minute.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC Wilco. Also on, if you should go to
Building Block 16 the coronal transienE guidelines that
were upllnked today are appropriate.
PLT Okay, understand. I intend to run Building
Block 16 when I get in before sunset.
PLT It's a very narrow well defined streamer
that extends off the unarmed fieldof view on the eoronagraph.
CC Copy.
CDR Say, Bill, are you still there?
CC Still here, Pete, go ahead.
CDR I've gone through the whole pile of
dessicants_ there is only 2 good ones. I put them in the camera.
And I bet I got some dessicants for the suit, the last suit is
drying in the oven right now and as soon as that's frre tomorrow,
I'ii cook some (garble) and put them in.
CC We copy and thank you, Pete.
CDR How about giving us a - you guys got
any ideas about how long they need to be cooked?
CC I'ii check it.
CDR Thank you.
CC It's going to take a minute to get an
answer on that one_ Pete.
CDR All right.
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6/9/73
CC It's going to take a minute to get an (garble)

on that one Pete.
CDR All right.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS for three minutes.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Yes, go ahead, Bill.
CC On the deslcants. They can be left in for
24 to 72 hours and we'll send you up a note on a pad to tell
you when to take them out. We understand that you've already
placed them in the oven now.
CDR No, that's not correct. I have two desieants
in that oven - in the two ovens right now. We have one suit
drying still and they'll be out tomorrow.
CC We copy that and in that case the - you can
stow the desicants in the 190-A stowage it's felt to be the
best spot.
CDR Yeah I got your easy questions here and
we'll put them on B channel.
CC Thank you.
CDR Okay.
CC And Skylab we're going LOS here and we'll
see you tomorrow morning I guess.
CDR Okay, night night.
PLT Good night.
CC What's this about PJ sleeping in a separate
spot?
CDR Every night at 03:00 he disappears through
the hatch and we don't see him again until ii:00 the next
morning.
CC The spooks may say something very bad or
very good about that.
CDR That's up to the spooks not us.
CC (Laughter)
PLT He goes to an empty house in Arcom,
Massachusetts.
PAO On that note of levity the Skylab crew got
a good night ending their 16th mission day on this flight.
Earlier this evening Dr. Charles Ross had a medical conversa-
tion with the crew and he reported the following information:
"The Skylab crew remains in good condition and have no com-
plaints. The Commander reported no subjective problems during
the lower body negative pressure experiment. He had no dif-
ficulty performing the high workload of the bicycle ergometer
experiment. To date, no problem with motion sickness has
been reported during the human vestibular function experiment."
That's the end of Dr. Charles E. Ross's daily medical bulletin.
In essence, the crew appears to he well. They've had a busy
day today. They will rise tomorrow on mission day 17 facing
SL-II MC-790/2
Time: 21:11 CDT, 17:02:11 GMT
619173
another busy day, including an Earth Resources pass and the

usual medical examin - experiments, together with some Apollo
telescope mount experiments. At two hours 28 minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-791/I
Time: 22:19 CDT 17:03:19 GMT
6/9/73
PAO Skylab Control at 3 hours 19 minutes

Greenwich mean time. At this time, we'd like to play back
some unexpected commentary from the Skylab astronauts at
their last pass at Canary Island station. And this has
been recorded for you and it will be played back now. This
was an unexpected pass after the normal go to bed time. Here
is the air to ground.
CDR Hello, Houston_ are you there?
CC Go ahead, Pete.
CC Go ahead, Pete. We're standing by.
CDR I was just giving a tremendous disertation
about an engineering change on B channel when you came along
and dumped the tape recorder on me and busted my continuity,
Shame on you.
CC We're sorry, Pete.
CDR It's okay.
CC We thought you were in bed.
CDR WelI_ we were Just putting in that lovely
list of changes that you sent to us, and answering that lovely
list of questions that you sent to us e and we were just finish-
ing up putting it on B channel.
CC I sympathize with you. I'm having trouble
enough Just writing changes in checklist down here.
CDR Yeah_ but there is 5 or 600 of you guys
versus 3 of us and you win every time.
CDR That was what I was sympathizing with you
about Pete.
CC Pete, we're waiting til about 3:00 in
the morning in the future to dump it and some other such thing.
CDR No, that's okay. I happened to be giving
a particular good one on a engineering change we just made up
here on the spacecraft, And I was doing it in a rather im-
patient manner when the tape recorder was abruptly taken
away from me.
CC Pete, I'm sure you'll have time to polish
it up in the even finer form before you get a chance to go
at it again.
CDR Okay.
CC Pete, you're going to get the recorder
back in about 3 minutes. Seriously, as a matter of fact
(garble) should we stay off the tape recorder for a while
after we normally go LOS here at night?
CDR No. I tell you what though, why don't
you when you give us our last call of the evening, tell us
the next station because we probably won't be up more than
one station, you know, and we'll know you're going to dump
and we won't be using it at that time if we're just polishing
SL-II MC-791/2
Time: 22:19 CDT 17:03:19 GMT
6/9/73
off the evening.

CC Wilco.
CDR Thank you, sir.
CC Thank you, sir.
PAO That's the conclusion of the air to
ground. This is Skylab Control at 22 minutes after the hour.
END OF TAPE
J- SL-II MC-792/I
Time: 05:30 CDT, 17:10:30 GMT
6/10/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours 31 min-

utes. We've just had a call through to the crew over the
Roneysuekle Creek, Australia, tracking station, by CAP COM
Dick Truly. Joe Kerwin answered the call, said he was up
and about and would be getting the other two crewmen up short-
ly. We'll play back that hit of conversation for you and then
stand by for anything further that develops over Honeysuckle
Creek.
CC Skylab, Houston. An early good morning
to you, and we're standing by at Honeysuckle for the next 9 min-
utes .
SC Roger, Houston. The SPT is up but I'm
going to get the other two up when I'm ready.
CC Okay, no problem.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC793/I
Time: 05:40 CDT, 17:10:40 GMT
6/10/73
PAO ...suckle Creek and will be reacquiring

in about 7-1/2 minutes over Hawaii. The crew getting a
bright and early start this morning; 30 minutes earlier
than normal. This was a planned early wakeup, with a fairly
active day and an early EREP pass. Also, this is the morning
that Joe Kerwin takes skin samples, body samples from the
skin using swabs for cultures. Part of the routine infllght
medical activities. Also today the crew will be operating
the Apollo telescope mount in addition to the EREP pass,
EREP 7. There'll be an active day of medical experiments;
MO92, the lower body negative pressure in con_unctlon with
MI71 metabolic activity. And we're scheduled to have television
coverage of the metabolic activity experiment which includes
the bicycle ergometer. For the night, all systems on the
vehicle remained stable, and no - no problems. At 10 hours
42 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC794/I
Time: 05:46 CDT, 17:10:46 GMT
6/10/73
PAO Skylab Control. We're now about 15 sec-

onds away from reacquiring at Hawaii. After having awaken
the crew, Joe Kerwin, who had the watch over Honeysuckle
Creek, Australia. We'll stand by to hear from the crew over
Hawaii.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-795/I
Time: 05:58 CDT, 17:10:58 GMT
6/10/73

range of Hawaii, with no conversation with the crew over that
station. We'll be acquiring at Goldstone in about a minute
and a half. We'll leave the lines up for that stateside pass.
And we'll have an EREP, Earth Resources Experiment Package,
pass today. That will be coming up on - beginning on rev 388,
carrying into revolution 389. The EREP sensors will be turned
on over Vancouver, British Columbia, and for the next 27 minutes
they'll obtain data over the United States, the Virgin Islands,
and northeastern Brazil. Information from this data collection
will be used in an analysis of the geologic and hydrologic regime
of the Great Plains. Also, it will go into a compilation urban
growth patters of Peoria, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, and Ashville,
North Carolina. Also it will be used in studies of the Sangamon
Valley, Illinois, and the Puerto Rican seaflow trench; and also
and evaluation of the Amazon River basin resources in Brazil.
We now have acquisition of signal through Goldstone, California.
We'll stand by for that stateside pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone
SC You there, Houston?
CC Yes, sir. Standing by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone
for 6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Goldstone for
5 minutes.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-796/I
Time: 06:03 CDT, 17:11:03 GMT
6110173
CC Skylab, Houston; Goldstone fo_ 4 minutes.

SC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Goldstone for 2 minutes.
SC Hello, Houston. Everybody's up and the
sampling is complete.
CC Okay, Joe. We've been trying to get con-
figured here for a couple minutes here at Goldstone. And the
only immediate note that I have for you this morning if you've
- when you get to going through your pads, you'll notice, Joe,
for you there's two ETC pads onboard. The correct one is
number 1729, which is the shorter of the two. And sometime
this morning, prior to EREP, I've got some deletions to the,
to Pete's EREP operate pad that also have to do with that
ETC pad we sent up.
SC Okay, he'll catch them when he can.
CC Okay, there's no hurry at all. And be
advised that we're about i minute from LOS. We're going to
see you at Canary at 11:20 Stand by i.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to see you
at Ascension at 11:29. Be advised this morning to the next
three revs are so, we're going to lose some station passes that
we normally would have in order to support a scientific, un-
manned scientific payload, that we're launching from the Cape
this morning, that's going to - into lunar orbit and it's a
radio, astronomy payload.
SC Okay, very good.
CC Roger.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC797/1
Time: 06:10 CDT 17:11:10 GMT
6/10/73
PAO This is Skylah Control. Our next station

to acquire as the crew was advised, will be Ascension, the
tracking station at Ascension Island. In order to support the
radio astronomy Explorer B unmanned satellite launch from Cape
Kennedy today, the tracking stations at Bermuda, Canary Island,
and at Carnarvon, Australia, will be committed to the unmanned
mission for varying periods. The Bermuda station will be com-
mitted to the unmanned satellite launch from revs 385 through
revs 389. The tracking station at Canary Island will not be
available to us for revs 386 and 387. And the Carnarvon, Australian,
tracking station will not he available for revolutions 387, 388 and
389. At Ii hours 12 minutes, this is Skylab Control, Houston.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-798/I
Time: 6:29 CDT, 17:11:29 GMT
6/10/73
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours

29 minutes. And we're about to reestablish radio contact
with Skylab now on the 387th revolution. We'll be talking
to the crew through the Ascension Island tracking station.
That will be a relatively short pass, something on the order
of about a minute and a half, or correction, about 7 minutes on
Ascension. And our next station after Ascension will be the
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension
for 7 minutes.
SC Hi there, Dicky.
CC Hi there.
SC Say, Dick. On your odds and ends message
this morning, 19; 17:19 (garble).
CC Roger.
SC Okay. On question number 4, statement
number 4, request verification that panel 207 AM aft firewall 2
sensors are not inhibited.
CC That's correct. They're not inhibited, but
sensor number 2 is the one that - that is exposed in the aft
heat exchanger compartment, and that's the one that went off
when we went EVA, and it's now burned out. If we sent you a
query and said, "do you want us to change it out?" If we haven't
gotten a reply to that. It's busted, but it's not inhibited.
CC Roger, Pete. And those two - that question
was related to that one. The understanding, just so we have
it straight The understanding we had was that when you
tested you got a red light on the sensor, but you did not
get a caution and warning trip, and - and we just wanted to
make sure before we started further troubleshooting that - you
know - we had verified all the circuitry and so forth.
SC We'll double check it again, but of course
we picked it up during the fire sensor checkout, and we'll
check the inhibit switches, but I believe that they're both
on. I know what you're talking about.
CC Okay.
SC Okay. Now on number 7. (Garble) It says,
rephrasing now, "we've observed three premature cutoffs in SO56
active i mode. Have you observed any SO56 anomaly in the active
mode." The answer to that is yes. Active I long is stopped in
filter position 3, and that again was put on B channel throughout
yesterday. At least I put it on a couple times, I think. We
have noted active 1 long; it hangs up in filter 3 position and
stops making pictures.
CC Okay. We - the (garble) our copies, and I
guess we're just a little bit behind in getting to channel B.
SC Okay. One other thing, Dick. I was right
on that JOP - on that corono JOP last night. It did the
s
SL-II MC-798/2
Time: 06:29 CDT, 17:11:29 GMT
6/10/73
same thing. It hung up in active i long. I terminated and

went on to I think the next sequence in building block
16 is an active i normal. And I watched it do about four
cycles, all of which are okay. And I was (garble) and then
I looked back at it, and it apparently hung up on filter i in
active i normal. So I don't know what it's doing. It looks
like it's starting to do funny things, all of which so far have
really been in active.
CC Okay. Copy.
SC Okay, Dick. I Just verified 207 and the
inhibit switches are active, so the problem, I do believe, is
back in the sensor. In fact, maybe what we ought to do is just
put another sensor in and see if it tests or not.
CC Okay, Pete. We'll be getting back to you
on that one.
SC (garble)
END OF TAPE
_-- SL-II MC799/I
Time: 06:35 CDT, 17:11:35 GMT
6/10/73

from LOS. We're going to see you at Honeysuckle at 12:06.
And CDR the - we'd recommend the caution and warning system
malf number 4 which will probably lead you quickly to a sensor
changeout and we were going to schedule that on the Flight
Plan for tomorrow but if you have time today to get it accom-
plished just let us know that you did and we'll see the
results.
SC Okay, Dick, very good.
CC Roger.
SC Are you still there, Dick?
CC Affirmative.
SC Also, pass to the EREP people will you,
please, I tested DAC magazine B in Bravo Hotel 01 and it's
working okay.
CC Okay, got that.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We'll be re-
gaining contact with Skylab in about 26-1/2 minutes through
the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, tracking station. During
the pass through Ascension Island one of the things discussed
was the fire sensor in the heat exchanger. The previous day
/_ the crew had reported that when checking the sensor the light
came on but the caution and warning did not sound. And the
decision has been made to changeout that sensor and replace
it with a spare. Details of that changeout as to how to be
worked into the Flight Plan and when it will occur are being
determined. Also during today there's a good possibility
that we'll do some additional troubleshooting with the coolant
loops. The plan at this point is to bring up the primary cool-
ant loop which we did some troubleshooting on yesterday and
which appeared to be functioning properly after turning on
two pumps on the line to increase the pressure and in effect
Jog the temperature control valve into the desired position.
The llne - the loop was again tested with Just a single pump
in operation which is the normal configuration and it was also
controlling the temperature properly in that configuration.
The loop will be brought up today ad operated for some time
to gain confidence that it is, in fact, working properly.
And then there is a good chance that a similar procedure will
be tried on the secondary loop which is also controlling
lowering temperature. The secondary loop temperature is
around 40 to 42 degrees which is somewhat below the desired
47 degrees. And it's felt that by increasing the pressure on
this loop and by turning on both pumps at the same time instead
of operating with a single pump, that we might obtain the same
effect that we did with the primary loop and jog that temperature
control valve a little bit more toward the warm side and get the
f secondary loop to controlling at the desired 47-degree temperature.
At ii hours 42 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.
END OF TAPE i

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SL-II MC-500/I

f-_ Time: 07:25 CDT

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Canary for

CC Roger. Understand. It's in the configura-

on board indicates that the decreases might be too much, especially

PAO This is Skylab Control; 13:10 Greenwich

SC Okay. There is a definite difference in

SC Okay, and I'Ii go it one more night and

experiment package survey run n,_, er 4 for ,this mission,

category, the so-called targets of opportunity are for

CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 9 minutes.

CC And, Paul_ they were curious as to whether

CC Skylab, we're going LOS. We'll have

CC Skylab, Houston; AOS - LOS in approximately

PAO This is Skylab Control; 14:27 Greenwich

231.6 nautical miles at perigee by 241 nautical miles at apogee.

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 9 minutes.

PAO This is Skylab Control; 15:08 Greenwich

unbelievable. That restraint really is just a hindrance

PAO This is Skylab Control. Space station

SC Okay, we'll change the cue card.

CC I take it that is Conrad and his

Lake Superior the_e must be a climb corridor out of one of the

PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal

CC Skylab, Houston; AOS, 9 minutes.

PAO This is Skylab Control; 16:19 Greenwich

40 frame counts. But to doublecheck, we took them off,

PAO This is Skylab Control; 16:32 Greenwich

PAO This is Skylab Control; 16:59 Greenwich

SC MARK. SCAT, STANDBY. MARK. RAD STANDBY.

PAO This is Skylab Control; 17:58 Greenwich

SC Okay, I've got it. I'm sorry.

SC Also, Bill tell the EREP guys that on

CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 5 minutes.

PAO This is Skylab Control; 18:35 Greenwich

CC We're standing by.

PAO This is Skylab Control; 18:52 Greenwich

PAO This is Skylab Control; 19:00 Greenwich

SC Okay, we closed it, Houston. And it

PAO This is Skylab Control; Greenwich

CC SPT, Houston. We notice you're

PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich

PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean

PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean time

CDR Well we've found lot's of loose items, but

CC We copy. Hey, Pete we're changing - the

CC Pete, are there any specific Nikon problems?

easier to ride without having the straps on. Heretofore the

PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich

PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich

that we can stay ahead of problems and everything. And we

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds

PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean

SPT Okay. Are you able to use the XUV monitor?

PAO This is Skylab Control. Greenwich

PAO This is Skylab Control_ Greenwich mean

CDR 19:45 to 20:00 or whenever he

CC And one more item for you. When

PAO The Skylab space station has gone

PAO This is Skylab Control, Greenwich mean

CDR That's right. That's right, it was the

MCC Okay, then Wednesday evening we want to

MCC - - for whatever reason. If you