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Time: 07:05 CDT, 17:12:05 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 6


minutes. We're standing by for acquisition through the
Honeysuckle Creek, Australia tracking station. The crew
should be completing postsleep activities and preparing for
EREP7. EREP pass to be conducted on the 388th and 389th
revolutions. The spacecraft currently in it's 387th revolution
of the Earth.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Honeysuckle
for 7 minutes.
SC Roger. Hi, Houston. Do you have any photo
people listening down there?
CC Yes, sir. We're listening. Go ahead.
SC Okay. For shoot - 35 millimeter, as you're
aware. We're out of exterior film. Out of the window we've been
shooting the interior film. I want to verify that the proper
thing to do is shoot that interior film on the Nikon in an
ASA setting for a light meter of 160.
CC Okay, Paul. We'll get you an answer.
SC That's not right. We want the right
setting.
CC Roger, Understand.
CC Skylab.. Houston. For your information,
' this pass we're selecting gyros Yankee 1 and 3 for control
again this morning since they have better scale factors. And
for proper talkback indication, you need to make sure the
Y RATE GYRO MONITOR switch is set to 3/i.
SC Now we're in for it again, huh?
CC Affirm.
SC What would you guys have to do down there
if you didn't have those rate gyros to play with all night?
CC Flight says we have plenty of things to
do, but I'm not sure I agree.
CC CDR, Houston. Flight says that we have
plenty of things to do on this shift correcting teleprinter
pads. And along that llne, sometime before EREP I need to make
sure you're EREP operate pad is right. I've got a couple of
deletions for you.
SC Okay, Dick. Just a second. Let me get it
out of my book.
CC No hurry.
SC Go ahead, Houston.
CC Okay. At a time of 31:30 - This is going
to be some deletions on ETC - 31:30, delete that llne for ETC
to AUTO. At, I think, it's 35 minutes - My copy is kind of
bad - the next ETC llne item is to delete that going to STANDBY.
Then down there at 38 minutes, delete ETC to AUTO. And, finally,
at - under 39 about three lines below the 39:00 entry, delete
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Time: 07:05 CDT, 17:12:05 GMT
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ETC to STANDBY. That takes care of ETCs, and it makes your


pad agree with Joe's pad - his correct ETC pad, which I told
y'all while ago is number 1729. The other one you have on
board for this morning should be thrown away. I have one more
deletion on your EREP operate pad, and that's at a time of
35 plus 31. S192 mode to stand - excuse me, mode to READY.
I want to delete that line. And reason for that deletion is
is that it permits unnecessary usage of the EREP tape. Incident-
ally, the reason for the change in the ETC pad this morning was is
after a little bit of second thought on the film that's in
that camera, we need to save the remain - a good bit of that
film for the calibration run we're going to do on the Moon
later. And it was just a mistake on our part.
SC Okay. I've got a question for you.
Would you pass on or have Flight pass on - give us a - just -
couple of set - summary of what kind of operations you have
planned for us after the fuel cells give out.
CC Okay. I'ii make sure they get their
heads together and let you know, Pete.
SC Just a general idea of what we're going
to operate and so forth.
,_ CC Understand. Incidentally, while I've
got you on the phone, in thinking back over some of the com-
ments y'all made on EVA, we remember one of you guys saying
that the command module spotlight was on. And I'm asuming that
that was the docking spotlight, and we're assuming now that
it's been turned off. Is that correct?
SC Okay. Let me tell you. That was me.
And there are two gold (garble) that I had never seen before
on the command module. I suspect they must be some experi-
ment radiation sensors or something or others 1'11 have to
figure out what they were when I get back. But they're two
hemispheres, but the sun was shining. It looked exactly like
a light bulb inside a glass housing - it was on, and it was
not. It was these two gold hemispheres, whatever they are.
They're located near the command module RCS roll thrusters, as
I remember it; and so maybe somebody can identify what they were
from here. I had never seen them before on the command module.
That doesn't mean they hadn't been there forever. I had never
noticed them before.
CC Okay, thank you. That clears that up.
We're Just about to go LOS and I'm going to see you in
Hawaii at 12:26.
SC Okay.

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"_ SL-II MC-801/I
Time: 07:14 CDT, 17:12:14 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. That's all


through Honeysuckle Creek and we'll acquire next at Hawaii.
During that pass couple things of note, discussed by the crew
and with the crew. Paul Weltz noted that he was out of film,
out of the exterior film, to be used on the 35-millimeter
Nikon camera, and reported that he was using the interior
film for out-the-window photographs, requested confirmation
of the exposures settings that he was using. And also Pete
Conrad requested a rundown on the procedure to be followed
after the CSM fuel cells shutdown; how the electrical power
systems will be managed to continue experiment operations.
We continue to he in good shape as far as electrical power,
with the ATM solar panels and the single solar panel on the
workshop performing nominally and putting out full expected
electrical energy. We'll be reacquirlng at Hawaii in about
i0 minutes 40 seconds. This is Skylab Control, Houston; at
12 hours 16 minutes Greenwich mean time.

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC802/I
Time: 07:25 CDT, 17:12:25 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. Now we're about


to acquire through the Hawaiian tracking station, now on the
387th revolution. We'll stand by for that communication with
the crew over Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS, Hawaii, for the
next 8 minutes.
SC Roger, Dick.
CC Roger.
SC Hey, you might pass to the EREP people that -
Pete tried to get you last time, but we were already LOS.
On that EREP pass yesterday, we got a end of tape light on
the tape recorder about 2 seconds after the pass - after
the data tape was completed.
CC Unde rst and.
SC Yeah, that - that means that we did in fact
come to the end of tape also. Besides getting the light we
were in fact at it, cause we did the (garble).
CC Roger, understand.
CC And, CDR, Houston. We think possibly what
you might have seen when your EVA on the command module was
the two overboard dump nozzles for - one for water, one for
urine and I'm told they do have a sort of blunt appearing goal
to cover. And if you're - that might be a - a thought. If yon
are familiar with the way they look and that wasn't it,
maybe we'll think some more.
SC Yeah, that's probably what it was.
CC Roger.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. For the photography
question, I'm told that the - for out-the-window photography
with the color interior film, you should set a ASA to 500,
500 vice 160.
SC Oh, ho. That's backwards from what we had.
Glad we asked the question, though. We've been shooting it at
16 - 160 ASA and the film is labelled ASA 500.
CC Well, why don't we recheck our answer?
SC Why don't you do that, because the twix
came up - the second twix that came up we got on that because
we were reviewing your what in effect messages message last
night. And my rememberance of that because we've lost that twix.
Yeah, that's why we brought the subject up was to take color
interior which is labeled ASA 500 and shoot it out the window
at 160th, but if you use it inside also, the same roll of film
continue to shoot it at 160 and then they'll process it that way
it'll be okay inside and outside. So, let's doublecheck the answer,
please.
CC We certainly will do that.
SC Thank you, sir.

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Time: 07:31 CDT, 17:12:31 GMT
6/10/73

SC And, Houston. For your information we


were discussing, tomorrow is the first day that we get to where
we get to break out the last thing.
CC Hmmmm.
SC Exactly, that's what I thought. And I
think I know what he's talking about.
CC (Laughter) Well, I won't say Roger.
SC I'ii rephrase it. It's the first time
we do something for the last time.
CC Hey, okay.
SC Hey, Dick, I guess the other thing on
this fire sensor, if in fact that the fire sensor assembly and
we're reading the malf procedure, is what is no good anymore
and it got (garble) by the sun, is it possible that even, that
it could get BOG power off, or does it have to have electrical
power on it? In other words, when we do our next EVA, do we
need to cover that thing or do we Just need to turn it off?
CC That's a good question, and EGIL is
thinking about it, Pete. We're i minutes from LOS. We're
going to see you at Goldstone at 12:38.
SC Okay.

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Time: 07:36 CDT, 17:12:36 GMT
6/10/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone


for 6 minutes.
SC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we've - we're
doing unattended ops, we've had another high voltage tripoff
on S055 and we're going to command it back on.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we're about
20 seconds from LOS. We're going to see you at MILA at
12:50 and we're going to be dumping the data tape recorder
at MILA.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Now we're passing
over the top of the Texas area of coverage and we'll acquire
at MILA in about 5 minutes. We don't have Bermuda coverage
this revolution. The Bermuda tracking station is committed
to supporting the unmanned radio astronomy Explorer B sate-
llite launch, from Cape Kennedy. That is scheduled for 10:13
eastern daylight time, 9:13 central and the Bermuda tracking
station is committed up through revolution 389. Now we're
currently Just beginning revolution 388, coming down across
the United States just above the Great Lakes. At 12 hours
46 minutes Greewich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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_ SL-II MC-805/I
Time: 07:48 CDT, 17:12:48 GMT
6/10/73

PAn This is Skylab Control. We're now in


contact with Skylab through the MILA tracking station, Merrit
Island Launch Assembly tracking station, at Cape Kennedy.
And we'll stand by for conversation with the crew through
MILA.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S at MILA for
4 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston. We're getting a lot of
good pictures in the Great Lakes region and in New England,
this morning.
CC Incidentally, I did check again in the
backroom and you were right and we were wrong. The A - ASA
settings for out the window photography should be 160 and
that does coincide with the previous message you had onboard.
SC Glad to hear it, cause that's what we're
using right now.
CC Right - you're doing the right thing.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from
LOS. We're going to see you at Ascension at 13:05 and I made
a mistake a while ago, the Ascension pass is where we're going
to be dumping the data tape recorder.
SC Oh, okay.
PA0 This is Skylab Control. We're now out
of contact through MILA and we'll be picking up the space-
craft over Ascension in about ii minutes. There will be no
change-of-shift press briefing following this shift. The
oncoming Flight Director is Milton Windler and our spacecraft
communicator and CAP COM is astronaut Bob Crippen, replacing
astronaut Richard Truly, in the CAP COM position. Again,
no change-of-shlft press conference this morning. At 12 hours
55 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC806/I
Time: 08:04 CDT, 17:13:04 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours


4 minutes Greenwich mean time. And we're coming up now on
acquisition of Skylab through the Ascension tracking station.
During the morning as we have loss of signal with Skylab,
we'll be turning the air - the release line over periodically
to Delta Launch Control at Kennedy Space Center for periodic
status reports on the preparations for the launch of RAEB, the
Radio Astronomy Explorer B satellite from Cape Kennedy this
morning.
CC Good morning, Skylab. We're AOS over
Ascension for the next ii minutes; ii minutes.
SC Hello again.
CC _ello, hello.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. Be advised we're in
the process of during nay update for you, so you might stop for
that, if you have any need for it.
SC Okay, we will. And I see the SCAN SPECT
light has gone out, so you must have fixed your high voltage
detectors.
CC Yeah, those thing have been tripping on
and off for us several times here.
SC Hey, Crip. I got an update on our prior
detectors (garble) information for you.
CC Go ahead.
SC We changed out the fire sensor assembly,
or whatever you call it; the detector itself. No change
in the status. We then went ahead and changed out the fire
sensor control panel, and that took care of it. So what we've
got in dome 432 locker now is a fire sensor detector that's
got some time on it, but it's apparently okay. And we've got
a control panel in there on which sensor 2 side is no good,
but sensor i side is. So that's still available as a spare
for those two places where we only run one sensor off the
control panel, anyway.
CC Okay. And say again where you stowed
that in, please.
SC Back where it came from.
CC Okay. Very good.
SC 432, 4-3-2.
CC That's fine. All right. Thank you.

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Time: 08:10 CDT, 17:13:10 GMT
6/10/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We've completed our


nav update. The DAS is yours again. And we will need a
momentum INHIBITED, please - dump INHIBITED.
SC Okay, momentum is INHIBITED, Houston.
What's the reason for that?
CC We had one scheduled here - let's see
it was supposed to be done - tog. The maneuver is supposed to
start you ZLV maneuver is supposed to start when you would
nominally be dumping.
SC Roger.
CC $kylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you again at Guam at 13:52, 13:52.
SC Okay.

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_" SL-II MC808/I
Time: 08:15 CDT, 17:13:15 GMT
6110173

PAO This is Skylab Control. That's all the


communications we'll be getting through the Ascension track-
ing station this revolution. The station at Carnarvon,
Australia is committed to launch for the RAEB, radio astronomy
explorer B satellite this morning from Cape Kennedy and will
not be used for Skylab for this and the next revolution. Our
next station to acquire will be Guam and that will be in about
35 minutes. At this time, we'll switch to delta launch control
at the Kennedy Space Center for a status report on the launeh
of RAEB. This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 16 minutes Greenwich
mean time.

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SL-II MC809/I
Time: 08:48 CDT, 17:13:48 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 49 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Skylab is in it's 388th revolution. We've
just passed out of range of the Carnarvon Australian tracking
station. That station was not up to support Skyla5, however.
And we'll be acquiring at the Guam tracking station where
we expect to get voice and telemetry data in about 2-1/2
minutes. Coming up on this revolution and on into the 389th
revolution, we'll have our seventh EREP pass of the mission.
Skylab will be pointing it's cameras and remote sensors on
the western hemisphere to study the resources of the planet
and prominent in todays 6500-mile long pass will be studies
of urban and regional planning for several areas of the Mid-
west. Also, an investigation of the environmental impact
of Illinois Oakley Reservior. Further data acquisition on
the impact of strip mining in Indiana and surroundings sites.
And data will be used for surveys of the urban growth in
Cedar Rapids and Davenport, Iowa; also Ashville, North Carolina.
Skylab's earth resources experiment package sensors including
the seperate Earth-terrain camera, which provides detailed
photographs of areas beneath the space station are scheduled
to be turned on at 9:19 central daylight time. As the
laboratory passes over the Fraser River, northeast of Vancouver,
British Columbia, the sensors will be turned off, and the space
station reoriented 27 minutes later when the space station
has passed over the coast of Brazil into the South Atlantic
Ocean about 600 miles south of Resende. Weather conditions over
the mldwestern United States appear good, with light cloud
cover for the majority of the United States test sites. Heavier
clouds are expected on the East Coast and in the Caribbean.
And these clouds will be valuable sources of data for several
atmospheric studies. Cameras will also he turned on during
this EREP pass over Brazil to support investigators in that
country, although heavy cloud cover is reported in this area
and may prevent useful data from being acquired in South America.
Three aircraft will be flying support missions recording additional
data during the Skylab pass over South Dakota and the Wabash
River area. In addition to a C130 aircraft flying from
Langley Air Force Base in Virginia over sites within the
continental U.S. and specifically in South Dakota, a C47 flown
by the University of Michigan and a specially equipped B57
will cover the Wabash River test region.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam for
6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam for
about 9 minutes.

CC And, Skylab, we're going to be turning on


the primary coolant loop once more, which means you're going
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to geta PRI COOL FLOW C&W.


CC And Paul, if you read, for the EREP
maneuver we will need you to enable the TACS.
SC Say again, Crlp.
CC Roger. We show that the TACS are inhibited
at this time and we will need them in enabled for the maneuver.
PAO This is Skylab Control. As mentioned
previously, the primary coolant loop is being brought on llne
this morning.
CC Skylab, did you copy my call regarding turning
on the pri cool-primary coolant loop, and you should be getting a
pri cool flow C&W.
SC (garble)
PAO Following yesterday's test of the primary
coolant loop, the plan is to bring it on this morning. They'll
be commanded on from the ground, And we hope to get additional
data on the loop performance to reinforce our confidence that
that loop is performing properly. With the improved electrical
power system aboard Skylab, additional equipment is being
brought on line. This is also having the affect of raising the
temperature slowly in the workshop from the heat load
introduced by the electrical equipment. EGIL reports that
the temperature in the workshop is running around 75 degrees
now, which is considered ideal. This has come up 2 or 3 degrees
since the additional equipment was brought on. He doesn't
expect the temperature to rise a great deal more, but the
exact point of which it'll staballze is not known. It is
felt that the rise in temperature will be very gradual and
should be very little from this point on.
PAO And our telemetry data shows that the
primary coolant loop is being brought up. We're showing a flow
rate of about 200 pounds per hour in the primary primary
loop, a little over 200 pounds in the secondary loop, which is
also on line.
PAO And EGIL reports that the primary coolant
loop is looking good. Our telemetry data shows the temperature
there of around 47 degrees at the moment.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until
LOS. We'll_have you again_at Gua_ at 13:52- eorrectlon,_
at Goldstone at 14:17, 14:17, and we're have the primary
coolant loop on; it looks good to us. We're going to leave it
on. If any problems should occur while we're LOS, you can go
ahead and secure it.
SC Okay.

Bob? SC Could you hear me over the coolant noise,


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CC Affirmative.
SC Okay. I got my mouth right against the
mike.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're now -

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SL-II MC- 810/i
Time: 09:15 CDT, 17:14:15 GMT
_--_ 6/10/73

PAO This iS Skylab Control at 14 hours 16


minutes Greenwich mean time. Coming up on acquisition at
Goldstone, California, and our 7th EREP pass of the mission.
This will be a 6500-mile-long pass that begins in the north-
western United States, continues on down across the central
U.S., out over the Carrlbean, over Puerto Rico and on over
Brazil. For 27 minutes of data gathering. We'll be acquir-
ing at Goldstone in a little over i minute.
SC Five-tenths courage, the man says.
SC I have Goldstone in about 1 minute.
CC We got you now guys.
SC Hi, there; how do you read VOX?
CC Loud and clear.
SC okay.
SC I just gave it to this friendly tape
recorder, but I'ii give it to you. 92's in CHECK, the door's
OPEN; 91's ON, the DOOR's open; 90's ON, STANDBY, the door's
OPEN. 93 RAD's in STANDBY, 93 SCAT to STANDBY, 93 altlmeter_s
OFF, 94's ON. Verified green light, all doors are open, all
tape recorder power's on.
SC Yea'
SC And while we're sitting here waiting to
start, the secret of sueess on that S191 cooler is the C-7 start
temperature we were starting with, start temperature about 35 per-
cent, now, and it figures right on up. As soon as you bring on
191 power to about 45, then as soon as you turn the cooler
on, it takes about 4 minutes for it to come-off scale high
and it starts at i00 percent and then races right on down to
30. And for your information, we do not get the S191 READY
light until it's dropped to 43 percent.
SC Which is about were it stays, huh, now?
SC No, it goes to 30; it drops to 30.
SC Yeah, all right.
SC Oh man, are the Cascades ever pretty this
morning.
SC Stand by for an 18:24 EREP start coming up.
SC Man, oh man.
SC I got a picture of that for you, Paul.
SC Okay, good.
SC MARK. EREP START.
SC Got a TAPE MOTION light.
SC 92 to MODE READY.
SC 94, MANUAL. I want an AUTO CAL 2, what
do it.
SC Done.
SC S190 to MODE AUTO; ETC, AUTO.
SC SCAT's ON; RAD's ON.
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SC A blinking RAD/SCAT timbal light, but that's


normal. Okay, I got a green on the tape recorder, green TAPE
MOTION; a 192 green; a 190, green; and a 93 RAD/SCAT, green; and
a 94_ green.
SC Man, I hope this solid cloud deck isn't
the five-tenths coverage you guys forecast.
SC They wouldn't do anything like that.
SC There's some holes out front.
SC Yeah, and I'm looking 45 degrees ahead.
$C Okay, Houston; for information, at 45 degrees
forward, the only thing I can see through the haze is the Sun
shining on some lakes.
SC 18:20:21. Okay, stand by; 47 on the FRAME
COUNT, 2140 altimeter to STANDBY, I got an S191 READY light on
time.
SC Altimeter to STANDBY, 44 MODE AUTO, MODE
AUTO on 90 23:21. I'm standing By for it. I'm not going to do
that. I'm going to do that on S193 polarization to 4, okay?
SC Okay, Houston. I got the reservoir on this
side, but the desired side is under some clouds. We'll give
it a try.
SC Okay.
SC MARK. 23:21 polarization 4, going shutter
speed MEDIUM at 30 on S190. Here we go to B, 27; we got to put
92 to CHECK. That's a long time from now. What are yo_ running
over there, PLT?
SC Ground .... - -

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_ SL-II MC-811/I
Time: 09:24 CDT, 17:14:24 GMT
6/10/73

SC Okay. I'm doing you a short shot of that


first special there, Houston. I got A field. I'm not going
to carry the full (garble) on it. I got to get on to the next
one.
SC 25 1.3. 2458.
PAO This is Skylab Control. After an ontlme
lift-off, the unmanned RAE-B satellite appears to be on a good
trajectory toward the moon. We'll have a wrapup summary
report from the Cape on that as soon as we have loss of signal
in this stateside EREP pass.
SC I'm on the -
SC I've got so much - -
SC Okay. Tracking the reservoir, Houston, on
the next site.
SC Can't draw very good.
SC What doesn't?
SC Clouds through this thing.
SC With the yellow filter?
SC Yeah.
SC Once you get them identified, you can
pick out details better_ but I Just prefer the light filter.
SC Oops_
SC You're going to blow my big deal here.
S192 to CHECK and 27
SC (Garble) help me.
SC S192 to CHECK; 27:42. A little SCAT/PAD
to STANDBY here.
SC Well, if you wanted clouds over land on
this nadir swath, Houston, you're getting you some good ones.
I'm giving you a few flicks of DAC. You didn't ask for it, but
you're getting it.
CC Thank you.
SC 28:13.
SC Oh_
SC PAD/SCAT to STANDBY. PAD, STANDBY.
SC MARK. Altimeter is on. RAD's gone off at
28:10. RAD's off. 93 has gone CROSSTRACK CONTIGUOUS. (Garble)
30. Sl90's READY out at 28:59. That's funny. I don't have a
READY light.
SC It's already timed out.
SC At least it quit running.
SC It sure did.
SC You know, when I looked down, the S190 READY
light is out and going to STANDBY. ETC to STANDBY. Select fast
frame 12. It's still running down there. I can hear that.
SC Okay. TC is STANDBY and_i_s frame count is
373.
SC Okay.
SC Hey, you got almost 2 minutes, huh?
SC Houston, you there? Must have been looking
out over the water, huh?
SC Yeah.
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SC My ears are (garble).


SC And you find out on 41 you got to get it
all back on again by 53. That's assuming besides that - assuming
you started on time. Yeah, that's where you get in a box, man.
You miss one of the babies and youtre screwed.
SC (Singing)
CC While you've got a blank spot here, we'd
like you to leave the TACS enabled for this dump coming up
after the maneuver.
SC Okay.
SC We suspect that would be a good idea.
It banked the wave pretty good going in.
CC Roger. We had a maneuver time problem.
SC What happened?
CC It was supposed to have been 25 minutes.
You maneuvered at 13.
SC Ho, ho. You mean we entered it wrong?
CC We're not sure. We'll talk about it later.
SC Okay.
SC Hey, Crip. On those VTS sites, on the first
run for the EREP guys, I'm not sure at all I got the right
field. The one I was on was probably north of the one they
wanted.
CC Copy.
SC The second, the special 14, I picked a
field and got a few seconds of tracking on it, and 520 of
them we got good.
CC i minute till LOS. Guam at 15:30 for a
data recorder dump also.
SC Okay.
SC We get 92 back on again?
SC Hey, Crip. Are you with me?
CC Affirm.
SC 35:31 (static)
CC Affirmative. Checks out.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Now we've had
loss of signal now through Mila and on this revolution, the
389th, the space station passes between the acquisition
circles of Ascension Island and Vanguard. And we don't
acquire again until - the Carnarvon location, and Carnarvon
on this rev is committed to the RAE-B launch. We will be
acquiring at Guam in about 54 minutes. Flight Director reports
that the EREP pass appeared to go smoothly. All equipment
judging from crew comments was performing as expected. The
crew did report some cloud cover, heavy cloud cover over the
northwestern United States that had been expected. There
also appeared to be some broken clouds over the central U.S.
_ At one point Pete Conrad remarked that they were selecting an
alternate site for tracking in the visual tracking system.
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Time: 09:24 CDT, 17:14:24 GMT
6/10/73

This EREP pass will continue on over Brazil; however, our


weather reports earlier indicated that there would he consid-
erable cloud cover over Brazil. At this time, we'll switch
to Delta Launch Control at Cape Kennedy for a status
report on the launch of the RAE-B satellite. This is Skyla5
Control at 14 hours 37 minutes Greenwich mean time.

END OF TAPE
_--_ SL-II MC-812/I
Time: 10:27 CDT, 17:15:27 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours 28 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. About 2-1/2 minutes away from re-
acquiring at Guam after a fairly lengthy period of silence.
We expect to have acquisition for about 6-1/2 minutes through
Guam. And one of the things that we'll be looking at is the
performance of the primary coolant loop in the airlock module.
During the previous revolution, we activated the primary loop
to get a good look at it over a sustained period of time and
see if the fix that was made yesterday is holding and if that
loop is continuing to perform properly. The data that we've
gotten on it up to now has suggested that it is performing prop-
erly, and is controlling the temperature very close to the
desired 47 degrees Fahrenheit. And we'll take a look at it
now when we receive data over Guam and see if that is con-
tinuing to be the case. At some point, the time has not yet
been set yet, but we expect in the near future, a procedure
similar to that used with the primary loop will be tried
with the secondary loop, which has been the coolant loop that
we've been using since the primary loop first went down. The
secondary loop, however, is controlling on the cool side; and
it's controlling at a temperature of about 40 degrees instead
of the desired 47, indicating that the temperature control
valve there is also a little bit on the cold side - controlling
a little bit toward the cold side, dumping too much of the
coolant into the radiator. Let's hope that the same pro-
cedure that was used effectively on the primary loop will
bring the secondary loop up to the desired nominal. And that
will be tried sometime in the near future. And we're about
25 seconds now from reacquiring radio contact with Skylab
through Guam. We'll stand by for that acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam
for about 6 minutes, and we'll he doing a data recorder dump.
CC Skylab, Houston. If anybody's got an
opportunity, we'd like to talk about that maneuver time prob-
lem we had for the EREP pass.
SC Go ahead.
CC Yeah. Apparently, we maneuvered with a
13-minute maneuver time, which was what was originally in the
computer, and it wasn't updated with the 25-minute maneuver.
Can you verify it for us that the 25-minute was put in?
SC Best of my knowledge, it was.
CC Okay. It was changed properly. The
I0 minutes that you put in for a maneuvering out, worked out
right and that's what you - what you went by. But apparently
it didn't get updated on the initial part.
SC Well, it's possible that We were in a
hurry putting it in. And it's possible that the ENTER didn't
get in it, or something. But I'm trying to remember, if it
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didn't, why we would have gotten hung up somewhere along in


putting the pad in, wouldn't we?
CC Yes, you should have.
SC Well, Paul put it in, and to the best of
his knowledge he put it in correctly. It doesn't mean that
we didn't make a mistake. But like I say, if he didn't get
an ENTER in or missed a number, you know, I think we would
have - you'd get a computer reject or something would happen
that we couldn't have kept on going with the pad.
CC That should have been the case. This
is the first time we tried that with the secondary computer,
and we are wondering whether we had a problem with it. I
guess we'll keep looking at it and see what the story is.
Thank you.
SC Okay. I don't - I give it 50 50. I
think we probably might have screwed it up - or the computer
could have missed it, one of the two. We were in a hurry and
we were a little late and he was putting it in pretty fast.
But I still think we should have gotten a reject or something.
CC Copy.
SC Okay, I got a couple of questions for
you.
CC Go ahead.
SC Okay, on the day 16 in the stowage book,
day 16 transfers - it indicates that we change out out our
sleep restraint top blanket and address cover. And I can't
find that spelled out anywhere in a system's housekeeping or -
nor have I seen it come up in our pads. I was wondering about
that one. That's question one. Question two is, we don't
know what you intend to do with 509. But we would like to
know whether you want us to take the launch locks off it or
not, which we were going to do anyhow for SL-3, so that they
didn't have to train for that. We're more than happy to re-
move the launch locks or leave them the way it is. We'd llke
an answer on that one.
CC Okay; copy. We'll get people to research
them for you.
SC And, Houston; SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SC Just a comment that occurred to me on
this maneuvering time business. For future reference, it's
a shame that we don't have feedbacks in this computer as we do
in the command module computer. Being able to see what it is
you've loaded before you proceed with it. We load something
here kind of in the blind, and we press on without ever really
knowing whether it was correct or not.
CC We had the same comment down here.
SC Okay.
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SC Okay, Houston. My next question is


since the primary loop is running, I would like to check SUS 1
again. And also would like to know when we can clean up the
LCGs and turn off SUS 2.
CC Okay, we're still looking at it right
now, but we'll take your desires under advisement.
SC Okay. Well, I'm going to go up and turn
on SUS 1 at the 317 panel or whatever it is, Just to check
that caution and warning thing.
CC EGIL - we would prefer if you did not do
that right now, Pete.
SC Okay.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-813/I
Time: 10:34 CDT, 17:15:34 GMT
6/10/73

SC Let me know when I can check it.


CC You're welcome.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll see you again at Goldstone at 15:54; 1554.
And, Skylab, we've Just up-linked a - an addition to your
solar activity. And there's a prominence coming over the
east limb that we'd llke to modify Paul's run at around 17:00,
and that gives you the details of what we'd like you to do.
SC Okay, Houston.
CC And, Joe, you might want to take a look
at it - in your next run.
SC You bet.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're out of
range now of the tracking station at Guam. About 15 minutes
from reacquiring at Goldstone. And during that Guam pass,
we got a good look at the primary coolant loop and every-
thing appeared stable and running about as we had seen it
previously, with the temperatures control valve holding the
temperature right around 47 degrees; the desired level. This
is Skylab Control at 15 hours and 40 minutes Greenwich mean
- time.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC814/I
Time: 10:52 CDT, 17:15:52 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours


53 minutes. The space station coming now on Goldstone,
California. We're about to acquire through that tracking
station. And on this stateside pass, one of the crew
activities will be operation of the Apollo telescope mount
experiments. And we expect to be getting ATM video. We have
about 30 seconds until the expected acquisition. This will
be a Goldstone-Texas-MILA coverage, and we have AOS now.
CAP COM Bob Crippen is putting in a call to the crew.
CC - do it this pass, if there is no problem
with that.
SC No problem.
CC And CDR, Houston; I have answers to a couple
of those questions, if you can hear me.
SC Go ahead.

CC Okay, regarding your sleep restraint top


cover changeout and headrest, we've got that scheduled
currently for tomorrow; and it's in housekeeping 14 Echo.
SC Okay.
CC And we're currently - we agree with you
about removing the launch locks on M509 and we're currently
looking at putting that in the schedule some place.
SC Okay. Are you contemplating flying 509
on this flight or not?
CC I don't really believe they're thinking
too seriously about that right now.
SC Okay.
CC Okay. And regarding the coolant loop, and
checking out SUS i; we currently have a test going on in
St. Louis trying to duplicate what happened to it and we're -
So, really what we're interested in is Just finding out why
we have the problem. And they suspect there's a possibility
that there might have been some contamination in the EVA
portion of the loop. That's one of the reasons we're a little
bit reluctant to turn SUS 1 on and get that all set up right
now.

SC Okay.
CC For your information, when we did check
it out, that SUS i, as far as this flow the other day, it did
flow with no problem. So that portion of it does work.
SC Okay.
CC And we are probably - if - we definitely
will be checking out SUS 1 before the EVA. And we'll probably
be doing that within the next couple of days.
SC Okay.
SC Fine.
SC Very good.
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6/10/73

SC How about shutting SUS 2 down?


CC They don't - they don't There is also
a - that PCDB is still hung toward the cold side a little
bit and I think they're pondering trying to do something
similar that they did to the primary coolant loop. And they
want to do that and get it all checked before they take that
SUS 2 off.
SC Okay.
SC Thank you.
SC Thank you.
CC Joe, when you get a chance, we'd like
to have you cycle your star tracker acquisition switch to
AUTO and to reinable the TACS.
CC Correction, to disable the TACS.
SC Yeah.
SC Say Crlp, for information, after the EREP
pass some time_ I went to AUTO on the star tracker just for
grins and I checked it a few minutes and it was still in
AUTO with the shutter cock thing showing open. And it was
several minutes after I started. I don't quite understand.
I didn't have time to look at it any further; those are just
the indications.
CC Okay, copy that.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-815/I
Time: 11:06 CDT, 17:16:06 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylah Control. That's all through


MILA for this revolution. We'll pick up through the tracking
ship Vanguard in about i0 minutes, and then following the
Vanguard pass, we'll have a period of about 1 hour where we're
out of contact before reacquirlng again at Goldstone. During
that pass we were receiving ATM video in part from the on-
board video tape recorder. Between takes of the ATM video,
we were also seeing brief bits of yesterday's television, which
had not been erased from the recorder. At 16 hours 10 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
f_

SL-II MC-816/I
Time: 11:18 CDT, 17:16:18 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours 19 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. And we're about 1 minute away from
reacquiring through the tracking ship Vanguard. We'll stand
by for that acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Van-
guard for the next 8 minutes and we will be doing a data
recorder dump at this time. Sorry I missed your last LOS call.
PAO Skylab is now in its 390th revolution and
at this time the science pilot, Joe Kerwin, has the ATM ex-
periment duties. Commander, Pete Conrad, and pilot, Paul Weitz,
are scheduled to be taking care of housekeeping chores, phys-
ical training. They've also got time allocated in this next
revolution for personal hygiene. And we'll begin eating
lunch. Major activities this afternoon will he operation
of the Apollo telescope mount, and medical experiments, M092
and MI71; also MI31 is scheduled with science pilot, Joe Ker-
win and pilot Paul Weitz involved in the medical experiments
while Pete Conrad operates the ATM this afternoon.
CC For the SPT, I know you're busy with your
(garble) coalign, but you can just copy this later. Currently
on housekeeping 28 Lema, that you're scheduled to do, it calls
out urine bags and it was supposed to have been urine disposal
bags on it for inventory.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minutes until
LOS. We'll have you again at Goldstone at 17:31, 1731.
PAO This is Skylab Control, out of range now
the Vanguard tracking ship. And about 1 hour - or 2 minutes
away from reacquiring at Goldstone. As we begin to go more and
more off range, we'll reach a point this afternoon where we'll
go a complete revolution or more without station coverage.
At 16 hours 29 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC817/I
Time: 12:29 CDT, 17:17:29 GMT
6110173

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours 30


minutes Greenwich mean time with Skylab coming up on Goldstone
for our last stateside acquisition of the day. And it's been
a relatively quiet period in Mission Control. This is our
first acquisition in over an hour as we reach that period
of time where we have rather strung out station coverage,
during the flight where we have only two at this particular
time, only two - if you count Texas, which is a very short
amount of coverage - three ground stations in a revolution.
We'll have acquisition through Goldstone just the corner of the
Texas area of coverage and then down across the Vanguard tracking
ship and no additional coverage until we come back around to
Hawaii on the following revolution. Skylab now in the end of
its 391st revolution. Or correction 390th revolution coming
up on the 391st. The Flight Plan calls for ATM operations with
the Pilot, Paul Weitz, having ATM duties. Commander Pete Conrad,
Scientist Pilot Joe Kerwin are scheduled to eat lunch during
this period of time, and this afternoon we'll have medical
experiment, M092, the lower body negative pressure and MITI.
Here is the call to the crew.
CC fifteen minutes.
SC Howdy, Houston.
SC Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
SC On the housekeeping 7 Kilo-l, have you got
any particular place you'd like that taken? It's a CO sample.
CC Stand by i.
CC CDR, Houston. On that housekeeping 7 Kilo-l,
you can take that CO any place in the OWS.
SC Okay.
CC And, if the SPT is available, I was wonder-
ing if - whether he copied my change to his housekeeping 28 Lima
message.
SC No, sir.
CC Okay. Currently in your remarks on your
detail pad it calls out urine bags as part of that inventory.
That was supposed to be urine disposal bags.
SC Okay. I interpreted it as such, and it's
on channel B.
CC Very good. Thank you.
CC And, PLT, If you're not using the DAS
currently, would like to try to put a maneuver time into the
computer to see whether it takes _,_ot, _Z _
SC Okay. J_ _' -_: _.!,"
CC Okay. We're so doing.
SC How about a bike ride sometime, too?
_-_ CC Stand by I, Paul.
%1 j

4
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Time: 12:29 CDT, 17:17:29 GMT
6/10/73

CC Paul, do you still have that pad with


the numbers on it for the 25 minutes?
SC Yeah.
CC Okay. You've got a GO to go ahead and
try it.
SC Okay. (Garble)
SC Okay. (Garble) I guess.
CC Paul, we're going to display a single
memory location, so if you'll give us the DAS for a minute there,
we'll make sure whether it got down or not.
SC All right.
SC You still there, Houston?
CC Affirmative.
SC Hey, I've run this CO test and it appears,
taking into account the original color of the tube to start with,
that the CO is somewhere between 0 and (garble) 25 parts per million.
But it
essentially didn't change the tube at all.
CC Okay. I understand it didn't really change the
color and between 0 to 25 parts per million. And, Paul, the DA$
is yours again.
SC Okay. Tank it?
CC Rog. And for you guys information, on
page 4-11 of your ATM systems checklist, it gives the memory
location of the commanded maneuver time. You might - you
could look at it if you wanted to verify it getting in.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The space sta-
tion now out of range of the Texas tracking station and about
13 minutes away from Vanguard, which will be our last station
contact until the vehicle gets around to Hawaii in a little
over an hour - hour and 20 minutes from now. Another relatively
quiet pass that time. The crew involved in some housekeeping
activities. And we suspect that they'll also be getting lunch
if they're not already eating their noon meal. At 17 hours
45 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC818/I
Time: 12:56 CDT, 17:17:56 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, we're about to


acquire for 7-1/2 minutes through the tracking ship Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
Vanguard for about 8 minutes. Sorry I missed that LOS call
again.
SC Say, Crip, for some reason I misplaced the
message that told me what to do with the six UCTAs that I
came up with in the command module. I remembered that it
said don't use them for the EVA, 'cause they all fixed that
tracer in them. Would you tell me where it is they wanted
us to stow those six UCTAs?
CC Roger. Stand by i.
SC Thank you.
CC Pete, regarding your UCTAs, the message
stated that they should be stored in D, Dog, 426 and marked
UCTA with tracers.
SC Okay. Very good.
CC Roger. And - -
SC Thank you.
CC P.J., we copy that you're operating H-Alpha
in over-ride right now. Just want to make sure that you
get it back to normal so that you won't be taking pictures
on the dark side.
SC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. That load of maneuver
time that we did a while ago worked okay. You've got 25 minutes
sitting in there. It's a maneuver time, for information.
SC Okay. Thank you, Bob.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're i minutes from
LOS. We'll have you again at Hawaii at 19:05, 1905. And
we'll be doing a data recorder dump at that station.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Space station
over the hill at Vanguard now and 1 hour away from acquisition
at Hawaii. Another relatively quiet pass. Continuing to
operate with both coolant loops; primary and secondary. The
primary temperature control valve holding at a steady 47 degrees,
or very close to it. And the secondary loop also stable at -
between 40 and 42 degrees which was what it has been operating
at. And in the Control Center, and also at contractor plants,
continuing to look into the situation on the coolant loops
and attempting to develop sequence of events that led up to the
problem that was experienced Wlth the primary loop. Attempting
to understand that problem and also, at _the same time looking
into some additional troubleshooting procedures with the
secondary coolant loop. The current plan would be to attempt
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Time: 12:56 CDT, 17:17:56 GMT
6/10/73

the same procedure with the secondary loop that was used with
the primary loop to open up the warm flow in the secondary loop
and get that temperature up to the desired level of around 47 de-
grees, as opppsed to the 40-degree range that it has been operating
on. At 18 hours 7 minutes, this is Skylab Control, Houston.

END OF TAPE
_ SL-II MC-819/I
Time: 14:03 CDT, 17:19:03 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 19 hours


4 minutes Greenwich mean time. About a minute away from,
rather 2 minutes away from establishing radio contact with
Skylab through the Hawaiian Island tracking station. Our first
contact in over an hour. And continuing very quiet here in
Mission Control. Aboard Skylab, Commander Pete Conrad is
scheduled to be operating the ATM experiment, the Apollo
telescope mount. A variety of small tasks for Scientist Pilot,
Joe Kerwin, including some housekeeping activities. And
Pilot, Paul Weitz, is scheduled to get a rest period. We have
a call to the crew from CAP COMM Bob Crippen.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii
for about 6 minutes, and we will be doing a data recorder
dump.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. According to our review
of channel B, you should be down to about two urine bags in
the waste management compartment and tomorrow you're sched-
uled to resupply it. For tomorrow morning you might want to
pull out a urine bag out of the dome locker for use
tomorrow morning. That's in DdI0.
SC Okay. You're right. Thank you.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. In our reviewing
of the data, it apparently - On that maneuver time problem
we got into this morning for the EREP pass, the function code
that was loaded in was mistakenly put in as a 52003 and
which is a display code of course, and so that was the reason
we didn't get the correct time.
SC Roger.
SC Houston, are you ready?
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll see you again over the Vanguard at 19:33; 1933.
PAO The Skylah space station has moved out
of range of the Hawaii tracking site. We expect to reacquire
in approximately 23 minutes. At 19 hours ii minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-820/I
f-_ Time: 14:30 CDT, 17:19:30 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 19 hours 31 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. The space station is nearing the
end of its 391st revolution around Earth. About a minute and
a half away from acquisition at the Vanguard Tracking Station.
According to the Flight Plan, the commander Pete Conrad, is
at the Apollo telescope mount doing some Sun watching, while
the other two crewmen are respectively resting and doing a
little bit of housekeeping. Meanwhile here at the Mission
Control Center, the flight controllers are talking about
mission day 18. That's tomorrow, June llth. Wet11 hold up
the line for any radio communication with the crew over Van-
guard during this pass, which will last about i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Van-
guard for about 8 minutes.
SC Roger.
CC Roger. CDR, do you have a moment to talk
to us, please?
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. We'd like find out about the
desicants in - the ones that you changed previously on 190. Did
you - When you looked at them this morning, could you tell
any color change, and if so, what color ware they?
CDR No, I couldn't see any color change, and
what we observed on the lenses was still there. There - just
a minute. Now. Yes, Paul's right. The two good ones do look
a little paler, as if they have started to take the moisture
out. But we still couldn't tell any difference on the lenses.
I'm not sure we (garble) the lenses with moisture anyhow. I
wanted to ask you what you would like us to do with the suit
desleants in that we have six suit desicants out now out of
twelve because we put four each suit in instead of two each
suit originally. And now we're down to two because we can
cook those out. And I have six outlsh. Do we cook those
out before we put them away, or just put them away as is?
And when we get the answer to that question, then I was going
to start making out S190 desleants in the desicant oven.
CC Okay, I think we copied all of that. And
also, Pete, because the command module eryo 02 pressures are
increasing due to being at minimum UDM, we would like in that
housekeeping period you got about, oh, just before 23:00 for
you to do the cryo 02 damp procedure that's in your system
checklist CSM system checklist, page $4-7.
CDR Just a second. $4-7. Okay.
CC Appreciate it. Thank you.
PLT Hey, Crip.
CC Go ahead.
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Time: 14:30 CDT, 17:19:30 GMT
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PLT Okay, I've been working on S009 for about


15 minutes. There's something wrong with it. It's sick.
Now, on the CLOSED cycle, the motor cuts out. It only does
it on the CLOSED; I don't know why. I went to set it last
time, and the package was part way open. I suspect, now, part
way closed, and stuck there. And even with no load on it,
when you go to CLOSE, the thing just stalls out and spits and
sputters and makes it - and, well, you've got about a 50-50
chance of a close in the package.
CC Okay. We copy it.
PLT Okay; so until we hear from you, I'm going
to stow the package in the thing, CLOSED.
CC Roger.
CC P.J., could you tell us whether you think
it might it might have been binding, or do you think it was
in the motor itself.
PLT No, I don't think it's binding, Crip. Be-
cause, as I say, I took the package clean out. And it won't
even close by itself without the package in there. And it
only does it on the CLOSED cycle. It's not - used to be, anyway,
I'm pretty sure there is still some slip rings inside the
gear wheel drive and that's not slipping because I can see
the end of the axles on the gear. The axes, are now going
together when they go. So it sounds like to me like it' the '
motor, when it goes in the CLOSED position for some reason -
in the CLOSED direction.
CC Okay. Very good report. Thank you, Paul.
CC And just a little bit of info. For your
information, we are - we hav_ completed that ATMDC switchover
that we've talked about, of course, and we're operating in
secondary. We got part of the memory reloaded with the Y RATE
GYRO scale factor - update rather. And we're going to be com-
pleting the load tomorrow morning.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about to go LOS
in about i0 seconds. We'll see yon again over Hawaii at 20:40,
and we will be doing a data recorder dump at Hawaii.
SC (Garble)
PAO This S009 experiment that the pilot was
talking about that the pilot said was, "sick" is an astro-
physics experiment, identified as nuclear emulsion. He said
that he thought it was stuck in the CLOSED cycle. It stalls
out and he said he thought it spits and sputters. With that
kind of information, the flight controllers here at the Mission
Control Center are going to check out that experiment, and
perhaps come up with some kind of a fix, if indeed something
is wrong. We will acquire again over the Hawaii tracking
___ site in 56 minutes. At Greenwich mean time, 19 hours 44 min-
utes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-821/I
t_ Time: 15:39 CDT, 17:20:39 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 20 hours 39


minutes Greenwich mean time. About one minute from acquisition
of signal at the Hawaii tracking station. We Just had an
indication from the warbler here in the Mission Control Center
that we are going to acquire the crew again. We expect to
have about i0 minutes of alr-to-ground and we'll stand by
to hear any communication that comes from the ground up to
the spacecraft and conversely from the spacecraft down to the
ground.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS over Hawaii for
about i0 minutes, for about i0 minutes. We will be doing a
data recorder dump.
PLT Roger.
CC And CDR, if you've got a moment I need to
talk to you please sir.
PLT He's making a pitch on B channel right now.
I'll give him a holler as soon as he's through.
SPT He's busy right now and he says he'll be
with you in a couple of minutes.
CC Thank you.
CDR Go ahead, Houston.
CC Okay, Pete. On the previous ATM rev yon
did for us we copied that 82-A was in SHORT instead of being
in LONG. Can you confirm for us one way or the other what
the wave length was?
CDR The wave length was LONG.
CC Okay, you say you ran it in LONG, is that
correct?
CDR That is correct.
CC Okay.
CDR It's in LONG right now.
CC Roger, and the pass before this it was
in LONG also?

CDR That's right and what static do you


want on the (garble) (garble)? I got it running on three
right now.
CC We'd like that on one, Pete.
CDR Okay, I'll go to one.
CDR Are you talking about the flve-minute
exposure lens size or the one minute and 40 second exposure
lens size? Both (garble) in lock.
CC Okay.
CDR You might look at 56 right now - no I
take it back, by golly it did not stick in active i launch,
it went on through. I'ii have to eat my words.
CDR Okay, Houston, the (garble) is in 1
and it's all rigged up.
SL-II MC-821/2
_ Time: 15:39 CDT, 17:20:39 GMT
6/10/73

CC Roger, copy.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We'll see you again over Vanguard at 21:12, 21:12.
CDR Roger.
PAO Communication between the Skylab space
station and the ground during this Hawaii pass was relatively
limited - due in part to the fact that the Commander was at the
Apollo telescope mount and the other two crewmen were performing
a medical experiment, the MO92, lower body negative pressure
experiment and the MITI metabolic activity. In the case of
the latter, the Science Pilot, Joseph Kerwln, was the subject
and Pilot Paul Weitz, was the the observer. We will pick
up the space station again at 19 hours - correction - 19 min-
utes 24,25 seconds over the Vanguard tracking site. And we'll
have the space station for approximately 8-1/2 minutes. At
20 hours 52 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC-822/I
Time: 16:09 CDT 17:21:09 GMT
6/10/73

PAO Skylab Control Houston, at 21 hours


9 minutes Greenwich mean time, approximately a minute and
a half from acquisition of the Skylab space station by
the Vanguard tracking site. Nearing the end of the 392nd
revolution. We'll stand by for air to ground over the
Vanguard site. Expect to have the station in communications
for about 8-1/2 minutes.
CC Skylab Houston. We're AOS over Vanguard
for about 8 minutes.
CC Skylab Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll have you again at Hawaii at 22:23, 22:23.
CDR 22:23, bye bye.
PAO When the Skylab space station came into
communications range with the Vanguard tracking ship the
medical officers reported that the Science Pilot was right
in the middle of his metabolic activity experiment. The
MI71, which among other things includes riding the ergometer.
They reported his heart rate at the offset had approximately
140 beats per minute, indicating that he was pumping that
stationary bicycle llke a proverbial 60. He then eased off
to approximately 70 beats per minute. And when we last saw
his indications he was down to approximately 67 beats per
minute. That is with the ergometer in the vectoreardiogram
system acronym VCG, which is all part of the MITI metabolic
activity. We have gone beyond the tracking station capability
of Vanguard. We'll acquire again in approximately i hour
at the Hawaii site for a relatively short pass, approximately
55 seconds to a minute. So at 21 hours 22 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-823/I
Time: 17:48 CDT, 17:21:48 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, 22 hours


48 minutes Greenwich mean time. About to acquire the space
station after a long period of time when it was out of contact
with any of the tracking stations. We're about a minute and
a half away from acquisition at the Vanguard site and we will
stand by for radio communication with the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS over Vanguard
for the next i0 minutes.
PLT Okay.
CC Sorry about that Hawaii site (garble) We
learned after we'd called it out to you that they weren't going
to have it.
PLT All right.
CC And if CDR's available I have an answer
to his question regarding the suit drying desicant.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, you're not to dry the six additional
ones. Just go ahead and stow them back in 424.
CDR Okay, thank you. Listen, we have a bit
of a problem with SO52. It's on B channel, but I'ii give
it to you on real time now. I went to - I've met all the pre-
requisites with the READY light and went to OPERATE in STANDARD
and it will not go to OPERATE. Now, we've gone through the
malf procedure and we have wound up down to where the problem
is turned over to you because it says in the malf procedure
we either have a camera failure or a primary programer failure.
Okay.
CC Okay, let me see if our ATM people have
got any questions on that.
CC Pete, about all the information we can give
you right now is we have noticed an increase in camera temperature
and we'll take a look at it.
CDR Okay, it still works fine and looks good
and everything. It - as I said, malf procedure left
it there, so it's over to you.
CC Rog.

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SL-II MC-824/I
Time: 17:53 CDT 17:21:53 GMT
6/10/73

CC Skylab Houston. We're i minute to LOS.


We'll have you again over Ascension at 23:03.
CDR Roger.
PAO During the acquisition at the VanguaTd
site the Commander, Charles Pete Conrad reported what appears
to he a problem in the S052 camera, that's the white light
coronagraph camera as part of the ATM experiments group.
He said that he attempted to operate it in the standard
method and he had no success. And he speculated that
either the camera magazine failed or the primary program
failed. And told the ground that they should take it from
there. They accepted the challenge and are now looking into
the problem, and will come up with some resolution during
subsequent passes. There is a change of shift briefing
scheduled in the News Center Briefing Room at approximately
6:15, some time between 6:15 and 6:30 p.m. central daylight
time with Milton Windler the Flight Director of the off going
maroon team participating. At - well we're practically a
minute and a half away from acquisition at the Ascension
tracking site. We will leave the llne up for the air to
ground that we expect over Ascension. We'll be in communica-
tion with the crew for about 9 minutes and a half during
the Ascension pass.

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SL-II MC-825/I
_ Time: 18:02 CDT, 17:22:02 GMT
6/10/73

CC Skylab, Houston, AOS 10 minutes.


PLT Roger, how are you this evening, Bill?
CC Very well, know the nights from the days
down here.
CDR Hey, Houston are you still with us?
CC We're still here. Go ahead.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're standing by.
CDR Roger, are you going to have a CAL/ROC
tomorrow?
CC Stand by a half, Pete. Don't believe such.
CDR Also, Houston, when are you going to ship
up the - do you know when you are going to ship up the preliminary
plan for tomorrow?
CC They should be in the teleprinter now, Pete.
CDR Okay, we'll go look.
CC The NRL CALROC is scheduled on day 164 Pete.
And - -
CDR On 164. Thank you.
CC And we'll be LOS in one minute, Guam at
23:49.
PAO The Skylab space station has passed out
of range of the Ascension tracking station. CALROC meant -
was an acronym for calibration rocket. A launch of a call-
bration rocket will take place on day 164 and translated that _
is the 13th of June. We will next acquire the space station
over Guam in about 35 minutes. At 23 hours 14 minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-826/I
_--_ Time: 19:00 CDT 18:00:00 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, at 48 seconds


into day 162. During the press conference, the change
of shift briefing of the Skylab space station was in acqui-
sition at the Guam tracking site. And we received approx-
imately 3 minutes of radio transmission. We'll play that
radio transmission to you at this time.
CC Skylab Houston. AOS for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC SPT Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC You're scheduled to monitor, do TV mon-
itoring on the XUB. After you've completed that, could you
get some white light coronagraph data on the VTR recorder?
You have up to, they don't want it exceeded, up to 7 minutes
on the VTR.
SPT Will do.
CC SPT Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC We're going to be uplinking some loads
for the computer here, so if you would stay off the DAS until
we give you a call please.
CDR Okay. And while you're there Phil, let
me give you the day 160 evening status report, which you
apparently didn't get.
CC Go ahead Pete, we're standing by.
CDR Okay Alfa CDR 158, SPT 150, PLT 250.
Bravo CDR 4042, SPT 7218, PLT 3759. Charlie CDR 6084, 6081,
6083; SPT 6678, 6677, 6681; PLT 6800, 6811, 6813. Delta
CDR 2/12/1255 1/05/0250; SPT none; PLT 2/15/2300. Echo
none, none, none.
CC We copy Pete.
CDR And the evening questions. Number i,
the PLT did go over on SUS 2 and I don't think any of us no-
ticed any difference during the EVA. Question number 2 doesn't
make sense. I don't understand it. So that will have to
be retransmitted. It says for the CDR and the SPT weren't
you already on SUS (garble) LSU during the EVA prep 1.2-9. And
I guess I've got to look in the book or something. And you've
got the day 160 medical data. And the answer to question
number 4 would you consider adding M551/2 and 3 to your
shopping llst after we did figure up (garble) verification on
M551-I. And I guess that's okay with us.
CDR Copy that Houston?
CC We copy Pete.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS. We'll have you
at Vanguard at 00:26.
CDR Roger.
SL-II MC-826/2
Time: 19:00 CDT 18:00:00 GMT
6/10/73

PAO We understand that at the Vanguard tracking


site the flight controllers in Mission Control Center will
transmit to the crew further information on the $052 white
light coronagraph. And we'll stand by for that transmission.
In essence what they are going to ask the crew to do is to
attempt to operate the instrument normally. And that will
permit the ground to look at it particularly on a pass that
comes up in about an hour from now. At which time the Science
Pilot will be at the Apollo Telescope Mount station. And
we should be in contact with the spacecraft through
Canary, Madrid and a little later at Guam. So, we'll be
standing by for the information that comes from the space-
craft during that time in connection with the S052 white
light coronagraph experiment. At 6 minutes into the new
day Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-827/I
_--_ Time: 19:25 CDT, 18:00:25 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, day of year 162,


25 minutes into the new day. The space station is ending it's
394th revolution. We are approximately a minute and a half
away from acquisition at the Vanguard site and we'll stand
by for the radio communication between crew and ground.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS for Ii minutes at Van-
guard.
CDR Roger, Houston, are you ready for the evening
status report?
CC That's affirm, Pete.
CDR Okay, the CDR ate everything plus he's going
to eat two cans of butter cookies. And he had two optional
salts. SPT ate everything plus one extra ounce of water and
that was it for him. PLT - wait one. PLT ate everything plus
one H20 DELTA and 5.5 optional salts.
CC Copy.
CDR Excuse me - correct (garble) says zero Delta
on the water.
CC Copy.
CDR Okay, the photos for day 161: 16 millimeter
is EREP BHO2, 65 S 487 Delta. Charlie India 05 47, Charlie India
01 and 487 1 think it's Fox. Charlie India 05 40 percent
Charlie India 01; 35 millimeter CI26 60 frames - it's complete.
CI28 04, CI34 all complete 60 frames, CI27 58, CX06 089. The
ETC 373, EREP set Oboe was completed today. We loaded S190
set P in the drawer L. The drawer A configuration is as follows
A-I 02, Charlie India 0540 Charlie India 01 A-2 was 03, Charlie
India G6 62, Charlie India 03 A-3 06, Charile India 07 00,
Charlie India 04. A-4 is 05, Charlie India 65, 100 percent,
Mike Tango ii. Okay, there were no flight plan deviations
today, no changes in stowage, inoperable equipment S052 you
know about and we have one comment on tomorrow's flight plan.
Joe said he very carefully debriefed a waste of time to
do an M172 cal. If you want it done per checklist - old check-
list it'll get done in an hour. If you want it done right it's
going to take him two to two and a half hours to do and y'all
can advise us later on what you'd llke to do on that.
CDR And that's it.
CC Okay, we're making - we're working a very
much abbreviated procedure on that 172. We'll get that up
to you and if you get an opportunity to comment on what you
think it'll take on time we would - -

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SL-II MC-828/I
Time: 19:31 CDT, 18:00:31 GMT
6/I0/73

CC - abbreviated procedure on that 172. We'll


get that up to you and if you get an opportunity to comment
on what you think it'll take on time, we would appreciate that.
We've tried to reduce it by two-thirds.
CDR Oh, this is a new procedure you're sending
up huh?
CC A one time only, that's affirmative.
CDR Oh, okay. Very good, I understand - we'll
go for that one then.
CDR You guys got any news for us tonight?
CC We' re still having trouble di_ging that up
early Pete. We should have that again about the same time
as last ni8ht.
CDR Oh, okay. Very good.
CC Things are pretty quiet here on Earth.
CDR Well, it's pretty quiet up here. We had
a good work day and it sorta sounded llke you guys were running
on a very light operation down there today.
CC Hey, pete you three up there can keep those
300 busy and you're turning all day long down here, you'd be
surprised.
CDR (Laughter)
CC They haven't even gotten the data yet.
CDR No, they couldn't - defense as a
good offense. You guys keep us three busy too.
CC We copy, Pete.
CDR How about asking the CSM fellows I see
that cryo press is down to 850 and I would assume that it'll
hold at 850 with the poly choke where it is.
CC Okay, I'ii ask somebody.
CC And Just info Pete on that 172 procedure.
We'll try and have it to - subjected to the sort of thing that he
went through on that last cal on that.
CDR Okay, fine.
CC Skylab, LOS in one minute. Ascension at
00:40 and Pete, we're trying to get you clarification on
question two. Also -
CDR Okay, I haven't looked at the EVA checklist.
Maybe it'll make it self-explanatory when I go up there and
(garble)
CC I don't think that'll help you, Pete.
CC Also, it appears that the SO52 camera is
jammed and we would llke for you to attempt to operate that
normally on the next schedule.
CDR Okay.
CDR Then you don't want us to do an EVA tonight
to change it, huh?
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Time: 19:31 CDT, 18:00:31 GMT
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CC That's affirm.
CC Pete, no telling what you might run into wan-
dering around in the dark out there.
CDR (Laughter)

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SL-II MC-829/I
Time: 19:39 CDT 18:00:39 GMT
6/10/73

CC Skylab Houston. AOS for 8 minutes.


SPT Roger.
CC What do we have going there, evening Song?
SPT A message to Lee this week (garble) I'm
listening to the Crede in Latin, and she'll know how happy I am.
CC Copy.
CC And be advised that wetre configuring
the gyros for sleep, Y 1 and 2 ON and 3 is backup.
SPT Roger.
CC And we've Just got a few little news items
here if it won't interrupt anyone.
SPT Yeah.
CC It says that Skylab isn't the only space
news today. Explorer 49_ the radio astronomy satellite
was launched this morning from Kennedy. It'll orbit the Moon
and record deep space radio signals. It may glve scientists
clues on the early history of the Universe. You might watch
for it going by.
SPT (garble)
CC And on the political scene, it says that
Egyptian President Sadat is in Libya today to discuss the
planned merger of - -

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SL-II MC-830/I
Time: 19:47 CDT, 18:00:47 GMT
6/10/73

CC - the political scene it says that Egypt-


ian president Sadat is in Libya today to discuss the plan-
ned merger of Egypt and Libya. Also, the - President Nixon
is proposing a new cabinet level department to be called the
Department of Energy and Natural Resources. Don't know whether
you're aware of it but they're limiting gas to - at a lot of
places down here to i0 gallons per fill-up and that sort of
thing. And Houston lost yesterday, Pittsburg 4-1. Also, today
Richard Teddy won the Alamos 500 with a Dodge Charger, Brinker
was second. Here's a late one that says the Astros won over
the Pirates today. The Cubs won over (garble) 8-7.
CDR They'll do it, I'ii tell you.
CC And we're 30 seconds to LOS here. And we've
got the conference coming up.
CDR Thank you, Houston.
CC And Skylab, we're AOS again for approximately
three minutes.
CDR Roger.
PAO The Skylab space station has - -
CC in Guam at 124.
CDK Roger.
PAO As you heard the Skylab space station has
gone over the hill. We'll re-acqulre at the Guam tracking
site in 25 minutes. At one hour Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-831/I
f'_ Time: 20:21 CDT 18:01:21 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at I hour 21 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is about
2 minutes and a half from acquisition at the Guam tracking
site. During the pass just completed over the Canary Island
tracking station the surgeon Dr. Charles E. Ross, held his
daily medical conference with the crew. And this is what
he reports, and I'll quote his "The Skylab crew is in good
physical condition and feel well rested. No problems of
a medical nature were transmitted by the Science Pilot,
Dr. Joseph Kerwin." And that's the end of the daily medical
bulletin, a short one. We're a minute and a half away _rom
acquisition. At this time, we'll keep the line up for any
radio transmission with the crew.
CC Skylab Houston. AOS for 10 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CC CDR Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Pete, avoid a caution and warning on the
cryo tank tonight. We recommend that you remove the poly
choke. You leave the high pressure vent hose connected, since
it has only, and this will give you a rise of only 1 pound
per hour. And we confirm that you have 860 pounds pressure
in that.
CDR Okay, we'll secure the poly choke (garble)
You want to take the poly choke off, not shut off the supply,
right?
CC Stand by a second on that one CDR.
CC Pete, if we understood your last trans-
mission, that simply remove the poly choke but do not, repeat
do not turn off the supply.
CDR Okay, I understand. Thank you.

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SL-II MC-832/I
Time: 20:27 CDT, 18:01:27 GMT
6110173

CC Also, CDR, we have the teleprinter message


coming up for the 172 procedure which is not really a cal pro-
cedure, and it's coming up on this pass for your review.
CDR Roger, Bill.
CDR Okay, Bill the choke is off, the EVA 02
supply valve is OFF and the vent is hooked up and that ought to
take care of it for tonight.
CC We concur with that Pete.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC We confirm on S052 that you have a camera
failure - the programer is all right. We want you to terminate
the mode with a STOP and put manual power switch to STANDBY,
that's main power switch - main power switch to STANDBY.
CC Also, do not proceed with the video recording
- the white light coronagraph.
SPT Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston, LOS in one minute through
Vanguard at 02:05.
SPT Roger, Houston.
SPT Houston, SPT. On the H-alpha up here - this
is just for information - it's looks as though there's a subflare
in active region 27, I believe it is, and 07062.
CC Copied that, SPT.
SPT I'm just going after it.
PAO We appear to have passed out of communication
range with the Guam tracking site. The ATM officer here advises
that apparently there is a camera failure on the SO52 experi-
ment, the white light coronagraph experiment part of the ATM,
and that he is now busy trouble-shootlng to attempt to find out
what the problem indeed is. The SO52 was terminated and is
now on STANDBY. Tomorrow, mission day 18 will be highlighted
with an EREP pass - identified as Earth Resources experiment
number 8 - pass number 8. Starting at about 12 minutes after
i0:00 central daylight time, and continuing for 28 or so min-
utes until 10:40 the track is in a - from a northwesterly to
southeasterly direction, commencing at the other side of Port-
land, Oregon, cutting across the United States. Of interest
to the people in Texas and Oklahoma will be the fact that
the pass cuts through the Dallas area and one of the high-
lights of the pass will be for the crew to take pictures of
what are expected to be some rather severe storms in the
area of the northwest of Dallas. The pass itself is approxi-
mately 6700 nautical miles long and will end up in the South
Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Sao Paulo. We expect since there
is moderate cloud cover over most of the area that we will have
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Time: 20:27 CDT, 18:01:27 GMT
6/10/73

a lot of weather information from the pass tomorrow. Con-


currently with the EREP pass two aircraft will depart Elllngton
and one of them will fly over the Gulf to seek grozmd truth
and the other will fly in a northerly direction to seek ground
truth. Also, on tap tomorrow are the usual medical experiments
the M092 and the MI71. Next acquisition will be at the Van-
guard tracking site in 26 minutes. We'll be up for about seven
minutes there. At one hour 39 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-833/I
Time: 21:03 CDT 18:02:03 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 2 hours


3 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're about a minute and a
half from acquisition at the Vanguard station about an
hour from when the crew will be given a good night according
to the flight plan. Flight plan indicates that all 3 crewmen
at this time are in or are Just about to enter their presleep
activities. We'll stand by for any kind of transmission
between ground and crew.
PAO The Skylah space station has moved beyond
the Vanguard tracking ship. There was no communication at
Vanguard. The network officer tells us that the reason we
had no air to ground was that there was an apparent antenna
problem with the tracking ship Vanguard, and we were unable
to acquire any information at this particular time. It is
not a spacecraft problem, but rather a ground problem which
we feel comfortable that we can fix without undue delay. Our
next acquisition is at the Canary Island site in 9 minutes.
At 2 hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-II MC-834/I
/_ Time: 21:23 CDT, 18:02:23 GMT
6/10/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, two hours


23 minutes Greenwich mean time. About a minute and a half
from acquisition at the Canary Island station on revolution
395 396 starting rev 396. We should have continuous com
for about 19 minutes through the Canaries and Madrid. We
would expect that the crew is in its final pre-sleep activi-
ties at this particular time. We'll stand by for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS one-five minutes.
PLT Roger, Houston.
CC And Vanguard lost its antenna which accounts
for us not calling you on the last pass.
PLT That's okay.
CC Skylab at LOS in one minute. It's the last
pass of the evening unless the CDR works late tonight. The
tape recorder will be dumped at Honeysuckle at 03:12.
CDR Okay, goodnight. The CDR is already in
his sack.
CC We copy.
CDR I'm not very dependable am I?
CC (Garble) Copy.
PLT Good night.
CC Good night.
CDR Have you two guys met?
SC (garble)
CDR Well, Bill, as a matter of fact this is
the first time I've settled down into my sack tonight reading a
book.
CC Hey, Pete, that probably is some sort of
a record for you isn't it?
CDR Yeah, we ran out of things to do. We
activated 509 this evening, then (garble) didn't have anything to do.
CC We copy.
CC We've got to be careful with that sort of
transmission, Pete. I saw three guys reach for 482's
down here to start scheduling.
CDR Yeah, Paul already hit me over the head.
CC (Laughter) We copy.
CDR On his way to -
PAO The last little bit of transmission be-
tween the ground and the crew before they went to bed - be-
fore they retired for the night. The Commander said we activa-
ted M509 in a humorous manner he said it. M509 is the
astronauts maneuvering equipment and that raised a few eye-
brows here. It was indeed in humor. The Commander indicated
that he was in his as he said sack already, reading a
book, so we bid him good night on another busy day at the
end of the 17th mission day. At two hours 40 minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-835/I
Time: 06:00 CDT, 18:11:00 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is complex 39 at the Kennedy Space


Center where the rollout of Skylab III to pad B is beginning
with first motion of the transporter. The trip to the pad
will require an estimated 5 hours. We have a virtually wind-
free morning, scattered clouds, but an ideal day for rollout.
There are several thousand people gathered to observe the event,
including representatives of the community, families of Kenney
Space Center employees, and the Air Force Eastern Test Range,
and the young people participating in the week-long space
seminar sponsored by Hugh O'Brlan, the United States J.C.s, and
the National Secondary Principle's Association. The rocket,
like Skylab II, rests on a pedestal 127 feet tall, which was
constructed on a mobile launcher previously used for the
Saturn V Apollo series of launches to the Moon. The rollout
occurred precisely on schedule. There were no untoward events
during the preparations. We should be on the pad shortly after
noon today. This is Skylab Launch Control.

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SL-II MC836/I
Time: 06:05 CDT, 18:11:05 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Launch Control at complex 39


of the Kennedy Space Center where the hugh steel framework of the
mobile launcher and it's red umbilical tower are emerging from
the bay of the vehicle assembly building. Skylah III resting on
a pedestal 127 feet tall, which was installed on the deck of the
launcher, has begun it's 5-hour trip to pad B from which it will
be launched July 27 carrying the second Skylab crew to rendezvous
and dock with the space station in Earth orbit. Preparations for
today's rollout were conducted with no untoward event. WeVre
proceeding on schedule and expect to he on the pad about noon
today. This is Skylab Launch Control.

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SL-II MC837/I
Time: 06:18 CDT 18:11:18 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylah Control, at ii hours


20 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're scheduled to put in
a call to the crew, a wakeup call, in about 3 minutes over
the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, tracking station. And we've
got an active day of experiments planned, including Apollo
telescope mount operations, EREP 8; S073, gegenschien and zodical
light; the medical experiments, MO92 and MI71; the lower
body negative pressure and metabolic analyzer using the
bicycle ergometer, also MI31, and one of the collary experiments,
M512. One of the first activities the crew will have after
completing their postsleep activities will be activation of
the operation of the Apollo telescope, rather. And we
now have about 1 minute and 45 seconds before acquisition at
Honeysuckle Creek. On EREP pass 8 today, EREP data will be
collected for approximately 28 minutes along a path that
extends from the mouth of the Columbia River across the
Rocky Mountains, The Gulf of Mexico and Columbia and ends
in the Atlantic Ocean near Sao Paulo, Brazil. The data will
be used for snow mapping in the Cascade Mountains, forest
inventory in Colorado, pre-severe storm conditions and oil
exploration in Oklahoma, sea surface and wind conditions
in the Gulf of Mexico and crop inventory in Columbia, as well
as resource studies in Brazil. Our flight director on the
current shift is Neil Hutchinson. Capsule communicator, CAP
COM, is Hank Hartsfield. And we have a television replay
scheduled at 7:30 this morning, which will be television TV 7
of the MITI experiment. This is television which was accumulated
yesterday on the onboard video tape recorder, dumped to ground
stations over the night and the early morning hours and is
being assembled for replay at 7:30 this morning.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
8 minutes. Good morning.
SC Go ahead, Houston.
CC Roger. Good morning. We're with you for
about 8 minutes or 7-1/2 minutes now through Honeysuckle.
SC Okay, we're hustling around, doing PSA.
CC Skylab, Houston. Sometime at your earliest
convenience, we need somebody to change out the teleprinter
paper. We're about to run out and we'd also like to verify
that you did get the last one we sent, which was odds and ends
and message number 1830.
SC Unless you say "please,"_we won't do it, but
otherwise we got the last message.
CC Roger. Please, would you change the paper?
We might have some more things we want to send you.
SC Okay. It's on - we're on our way.
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Time: 06:18 CDT, 18:11:18 GMT
6/11/73

SC Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead.
SC You're going to have to send me the EREP
operate pad again. It got all garbled about halfway through.
CC Okay, we'll do her. Is there - is the
paper reloaded? Have we got enough paper to send it now?
SC Wait a minute. He's up there loading it
right this instant. Let me see.
CC Okay, we're planning on shooting that up
to you at Hawaii then, Pete, if you got time enough to get it
changed by then. Hawaii is still about 15 minutes away.
SC He's changing it right now. You can do
it at Hawaii.
CC Okay, good show. And the only other open
item i got for you this morning is a SAP update and we can get
that anytime it's convenient.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-838/I
Time: 06:27 CDT, 18:11:27 GMT
6/11/73

SC Nell, what do you have for me?


CC Roger. Solar activity update.
SC Okay. Well, uh, yeah. Go ahead. The SPT's
copying.
CC Oh, okay. Active region 37 has rotated
onto the disk at 28/.9 as a large spot group. And we had a
subnormal flare, which began at - in AR37 at 08:35, and filament
79 remains moderately active.
SC Copy.
CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute till LOS; Hawaii
at 43.
SC Okay, Hank. You got your teleprinter
paper in.
CC Roger. Thank you, Paul.
PAO This is Skylab Control as the Skylab
space station goes out of range of the Honeysuckle Creek,
Australia tracking station. We'll be acquiring at Hawaii at
in about 12 minutes. And the crew at this time involved in
their postsleep activities after having gotten a wakeup call
over Honeysuckle. We heard from Conrad and Kerwin during that
pass. Did not recognize Paul Weitz in there, but we may
have heard from him also. At ii hours 32 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-839/I
Time: 06:40 CDT, 18:11:40 GMT
6/ii/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours


41 minutes Greenwich mean time. Approaching the Hawaiian
tracking station, we'll be acquiring in about 2-1/2 minutes.
During the day today, they'll be attempting a procedure
to further troubleshoot and verify the the performance of
the primary coolant loop. Both coolant loops, primary and
secondary, have been on line now since yesterday. The secondary
loop, of course, had been the active loop. The primary loop
brought on llne after a troubleshooting procedure appeared to
free the hungup temperature control valve and that loop has
been performing properly ever since. One additional procedure
will be tried with the primary loop today_ and that will be
to turn on the suit coolant circuit. The suit loop and the
airlock module primary coolant loop now flow through a common
heat exchanger. When the suit loop is activated, it'll put
a added heatload into that heat exchanger, which in turn
will signal the temperature control valve, TCVB, as it's
designated. But additional cold water flow is required to
handle the added heatload introduced by the suit loop. When
this signal reaches the temperature control valve in the form
of higher temperatures on the loop, the valve should cycle.
We Just had the call to the crew. We'll stand by for conversation.
CC PLT, Houston. The weather has socked in
your VTS sites for today and we got an update for that pad.
And I'll be standing by for a call whenever it's convenient
for you to - We're replacing it with an area site.
SC Okay. He'll be with you in a little bit.
CC Okay. Whenever he's free_ I'ii be stand-
ing by for a call.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC- 840/1
Time: 06:45 CDT, 18:11:45 GMT
6/11/73

CC Skylab, Houston. Second GO at your EREP


OPERATE pad. Should be onboard now.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute until LOS;
Goldstone at 55.
SC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We'll have about
a 3-minute break here as we lose acquisition at Hawaii before
reaequiring at Goldstone. We will leave the llne up during
that period of time because of the short duration of the drop-
out.

END OF TAPE

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f'-_ SL-II MC-841/I
Time: 06:53 CDT, 18:11:53 GMT
6/11/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone, 6 minutes.


SC Hello.
SC Henry, on this EREP stuff, can I change
the existing VTS pad, or should I write it on a new piece of
paper?
CC I think there's room on that. Just - all
I got to do is give you a couple of times and angles for a new
area.
SC Okay. Go ahead.
CC Okay. On - we want to substitute for your
three sites there, 350, 351, and 353, a special 04. It's an area,
and the time is 17:27, 45 degrees.
SC Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
SC Okay. Give that time again, Hank. 17:27?
CC That's right. 17:27, 45 degrees; 20:26,
0 degrees. And remarks: that's a special 04 and that's thunder-
storm data. It's in your site book there: (garble) tops, towers,
and clear area. And we would like you to use a DAC.
SC Okay, got it.
SC Where are these sites? Is that the group
around Oklahoma City?
CC That's affirmative.
SC Now, I assume that if I can see one of
those lakes or reservoirs through the clouds, no one will ob-
ject if I zing it over and get 10 seconds or so on one of the
sites. Is that right?
CC Stand by. Let me see what they say.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we're going
to be executing one of the patches in the ATMDC, the first of
three, and we'd like to stay free of the DAS.
SC Okay, Hank. I'm free and I've got the
other two strapped down.
CC Roger. And, Paul, is - You got a GO on
tracking the any of those sites if you can see them.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
till LOS. Bermuda at 05.

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SL-II MC842/I
Time: 07:00 CDT, 18:12:00 GMT
6/11/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda, i0 minutes.


SC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, we're continuing
our ATMDC work.
SC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston; for the PLT. Just to
fill you in a little bit about that VTS thing. The original
sites were in the (garble) area and the groundcheek is a
good bit south as you'll notice in the pad. The thunder-
storm area we gave you - the target's in the Dallas area.
SC Oh, okay. Thank you, Henry. I'm glad to
know that.

END OF TAPE

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_-_ SL-II MC843/I
Time: 07:09 CDT 18:12:09 GMT
6/11/73

CC Skylab, Houston; about 40 seconds from


LOS. Ascension at 22.
SC Roger, Hank.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal now through the Bermuda tracking station. We'll
be reacquiring at Ascension in about 6 minutes. The crew at
this time eating breakfast. Coming up on revolution 403 and
404 we have EREP pass number 8. This will cover ground track
48 and we'll began taking data at 9:12 a.m. central daylight
time at 47 degrees 18 minutes north latitude. And 126 degrees
50 minutes west, the data take ends at 9:40 a.m. at 26 degrees
15 minutes south, and 45 degrees 7 minutes west, with the
pass beginning about 200 miles northwest of Portland Oregon
and extending across the continental United States, the Gulf
of Mexico, the Caribbean, Columbia and Brazil and ending about
200 miles south of Sao Paulo, Brazil, a track of about 7700
miles. The crew is scheduled to use the visual tracking
system to obtain data over Oklahoma City. However that site
is socked in by weather. They have been given an alternate
target using the VTS_ the visual tracking system, which is
thunderstorm buildup around the Dallas area. At 12 hours 17 min-
utes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-844/I
Time: 07:20 CDT, 18:12:20 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, 12 hours 21 min-


utes Greenwich mean time, and i minute away from regaining
contact with Skylab through the Ascension tracking station.
Coming up at 7:30 central daylight time, we have a replay of
yesterday's television of the Ml71 experiments. Science Pilot,
Joe Kerwin, riding the bicycle ergometer as part of the meta-
bolic analysis conducted inflight. This replay will run for
about 19 minutes - 19 minutes 30 seconds, to be exact.
CC Ascension 10-1/2 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
PAO Hank Hartsfield putting in the call and
Pete Conrad acknowledging through Ascension. We'll follow
the conversation live from this point on.
SC Okay, Houston. I was just checking this
teleprinter. Nothing printed on this - Let me doublecheck
and make sure the paper is in right.
CC Okay.
SC Hank, the paper's not in right. Just a
minute and I'ii get it in and we can - you can start sending
the new updates.
CC Okay. Understand the paper is not in right.
Boy; that's a relief.
CC Skylab, Houston. We just fired that load
out to Ascension and standing by. As soon as you tell us
you got the teleprinter squared away, we'll retranscribe it.
SC Okay.
CC And, Skylab, Houston. For info, when you
bring up the star tracker this mornin_ you'll have to ENABLE
star tracker control and alter the plane' update. And I got the
DAS entries if you need them.
SC We got them.
SC Go ahead and send it, Henry.
CC Okay. We'll fire it up again.
SC Hold it i minute. Hold it just a second.
CC Okay; will do.
SC Okay, Henry. Send away.
CC Okay.
SC Copying it Just fine.
CC Roger. Copy.

END OF TAPE
_-_ SL-II MC-845/I
Time: 07:28 CDT, 18:12:28 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. We're ready now


to begin with our replay of yesterday's television of the
bicycle ergometer, experiment MITI.
PAO Science Pilot, Joe Kerwin, is the test
subject for this experiment.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS. Carnarvon will be up at 55 and we - Your EREP pad
should be there.
SC Okay. Thank you.
PAO Science Pilot, Joe Kerwin, on the
bicycle ergometer at this time, with Pilot, Paul Weitz as-
siting him as he attaches the harnesses and begins preparations
for riding tile bicyle ergometer.
PAO In our television replay at this time,
Joe Kerwin appears to have gotten himself harnessed up with
the assistance of Paul Weitz. The procedure on the ergometer
is for Kerwin to pedal for 5 minutes with no workload, then
for 5 minutes at a workload of 75 watts, which is about a
tenth of a horsepower, another 5 minutes at 125 watts. And
finally, 5 minutes at 175 watts, which requires an energy output
of about a quarter of a horsepower. During this graduated
j-- series of workloads, measurements will be taken on oxygen
consumption and CO2 carbon dioxide output in order to
analyze metabolic efficiency. Also, blood pressure is
monitored constantly with the cuff attached to Kerwin's
left arm - upper left arm. And a vectorcardiogram reading of
heart activity is taken during the activity.
PAO At the present time Kerwin is at rest
and now starting to pedal. The at-rest time is to allow his
heart rate to stabilize. Following the exercise period, he
will again rest for a specified period of time, allowing
a determination of how long it takes for the cardiovascular
system to return to the normal rest level.
PAO You'll note in the picture that Joe
Kerwin is holding on to support above his head. Normally,
or prior to the mission, it was felt that crewmen would
need to be restrained with straps in the bicycle ergometer.
The purpose for this restraint system was to keep most of
the workload on the legs, so that the arms did not have to exert
a great deal of effort to hold him in the saddle and on the
pedals in zero G; however, on operating with the bicycle ergometer
in zero G, the crew found that the straps, the harness was more of
a hindrance than a help and the procedure that you see Kerwin
using is the one that they have elected to use and they find to
be more effective than using the harness.
PAO Paul Weitz is preparing to move the
camera in now for a closeup of the pedal action, moving the
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Time: 07:28 CDT, 18:12:28 GMT
6/11/73

rotating litter chair out of the field of view.


PAO A couple of other points of interest.
You'll note around Kerwin's backside and on his front chest,
three sensors attached. These are part of the array of
sensors which provide inputs to the veetorcardiogram and in
turn which provides the three-dimensional plot of heart electri-
cal activity during this experiment. There's also a thermometer
which Kerwin will place in his mouth at the end of this run.
Also that thermometer is used to measure body temperature at
the beginning of the run, so you get a temperature profile
at the beginning and at the end of the exercise profile.
Kerwin's feet are locked to the pedals with the triangular
shoes so that he can get - apply force to the pedals for the full
rotation, 360 degrees. And we see him alternating back and
forth between restraining himself by hanging onto the handle-
bars and reaching up over head into the overhead structure.

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC846/1
Time: 07:49 CDT, 18:12:49 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This Skylab Control. We're now 34 seconds


to reacqulring at the Carnarvon, Australia, tracking station.
During the television replay, we saw the - what is probably
the only fully automatic metabolic analyzer _nit in existence.
Joe Kerwin, taking his morning constitutional. The ergometer
serves a two-fold purpose; one to obtain essential data on
the metabolic efficiency of the crewmen.
CC We're AOS over Carnarvon for about the
next 9 minutes and we'll be using the DAS to implement the last
program load in the ATM.
SC Okay.

END OF TAPE

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SL-11 MC-847/I
Time: 07:58 CDT, 18:12:58 GMT
6/ii/73

CC Skylab, Houston. My last call was a


mistake; and we're not working on your computer right now.
We're going to save that for stateside, and the DAS is yours,
if you need it.
SC Roger.
CC And for the CDR, I don't know if you were
told about it last night, but Richard Beatty won the Alamo 500
yesterday.
SC Yeah, I heard that. Buddy Baker was second.
That's - that's great.
CC Roger. Also, this morning the guys are
rolling out SL-III at down at the Cape.
SC Very good. They still go for what? July
27th?
CC Affirm.
SC Gives us just enough time to clean our
gear out of the trailers and turn it over to them.
CC Roger.
SC Captain B busy?
SC Oh, naturally, naturally.
SC Hey, when they decide to cook up whatever
the extra power is, how about letting us know what their scheme
is.
CC Pete, I didn't copy all that you said.
What about the extra power?
SC Yeah, I gathered they were working on some
scheme to get more Juice in here, and I was curious when
they settle on one, what it is.
CC Roger. I don't know. I think - Probably
yon guys solved most of that for them.
SC Oh, okay. Well, Rusty was talking about
looking at that umbilical pole on the side to see if it was
okay. And I thought they were still thinking about bringing
up something else with Juice in it.
CC I think they're still looking at that.
But I don't believe any firm decision has been made on it yet.
And if P.J.'s listening, I think he's probably familiar with
this solenoid vent thing that we're going to be doing a little
bit later over the States. But it's in the SWS Systems on
page 4.4. He might look a_ it and refres h his memory on it
before we start doing it ....
SC Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, we'll be LOS in i minute; have
you again at Guam at 13:10.
SC Okay.
SL-II MC-847/2
Time: 07:58 CDT, 18:12:58 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours


6 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've lost contact through
the Carnarvon, Australia, tracking station. And we're
scheduled to reacquire at Guam in 4 minutes 40 seconds.
Here in Mission Control, we've had a shift handover. Flight
Director, Milton Windler, and his team of flight controllers
have taken over from Nell Hutchinson's team. And our capsule
communicator, CAP COM, at this time is astronaut Robert
Crlppen. There will be a Change-of-Shlft briefing. We
estimate that that will occur at about 8:45 central daylight
time in the Johnson Space Center briefing room. Again, that's
8:45 a.m. central daylight time, our estimated start time for
a Change-of-Shift Briefing this morning. This is Skylab
Control, Houston.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-848/I
Time: 08:09 CDT, 18:13:09 GMT
6/11/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam


for 7 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
SC And, Houston. We coming up over the States
next? We're all ready to do that SUS i checkout for you.
CC Okay. That's affirm. States next. Gold-
stone's about 13:34.
SC Okay. We could probably give you the check-
out then. It's all rigged and ready to go. And l'd like to get
a pass back down there again. I didn't want to pull all the
umbilical out of the (garble), and it's running through the
MDA forward hatch. I don't want to leave it there for a
long time.
CC Roger. Copy.
SC Also, while I'm pushing you guys again, I'd
like to clean up the (garble). We've got those hoses running
through (garble).
CC Okay. Having a little problem trying to
copy there, Pete. Understand you'd llke to get all those
hoses cleaned up. That's our intent here to - as soon as we
get the status of these primary - primary loop checked out.
SC Okay. Very good.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're up llve
now over the Guam tracking station. About 5 minutes 40
seconds remaining in this pass.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-849/I
Time: 08:14 CDT, 18:13:14 GMT
6/11/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from


LOS. Goldstone 13:34. 13:34.
SC 13:34. Roger, Bob.
SC Hey, Crip, what section of the book did
you say they talked about that solenoid vent port?
CC It was SWS System Schematics on 4.4.
That's just a drawing of it. I just wanted to make sure you
were familiar with the - their four valves, two series parallel.
SC Okay. Which ones can you say - show yield
1 and 3 open, huh?
CC That's affirm.
SC Are they the same leg or different legs?
CC They're parallel, if you look at the
thing on 4.4, it'll be obvious.
SC Okay.
SC Hey, Crip, are you still there?
CC Affirmative.
SC To do this cross pointer stuff on the
white light coronograph, I've got to be as high as it can,
right?
CC I'll check that. We're probably going
to go LOS before I can do it, but I'm pretty sure you're correct,
Pete.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's all
through Guam for this revolution. We'll be up at Goldstone
in 15 minutes. Skylab currently on its 402nd revolution of
the Earth, and on this revolution the major activity aboard
the space station is operation of the Apollo telescope mount.
We expect to be getting ATM video during out stateside pass
this revolution. And we expect that video will be coming
in at 13 hours 34 minutes - 13 hours 34 minutes Greenwich
mean time. Our Change-of-Shift Press Briefing, with Flight
Director Neil Hutchinson, will begin 15 minutes early. That
briefing will begin at 8:30 central daylight time, in the
Johnson Space Center briefing room, room 135. Again, that's
8:30 a.m. for the Change-of-Shift Press Briefing with Flight
Director Neil Hutchinson.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-850/I
Time: 08:31 CDT, 18:13:31 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours


32 minutes with Skylab coming up on a full stateside pass.
Goldstone_ Texas, Mila, and Bermuda covering this revolution.
We also have a change-of-shift briefing scheduled to begin
shortly in the JSC News Center briefing room. We expect that
that briefing will begin before this stateside pass is
completed. In which case, we'll record the conversations
with the crew during the pass for playback following the
press conference. And we're about 1 minute away now from
the predicted acquisition time.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the States
for a good long pass for about 15 minutes.
SC Okay, Houston. Your TC down-link is coming
to you and it's got H-Alpha 2. The SPT is standing by for the SUS
pump. And the PLT is at your service (garble).
CC Roger, Pete. I'm still having trouble
trying to read you. I understand everybody is standing by.
And for your information we are executing that load in the
ATMDC, so if you'd stay off the DAS for us, we'd appreciate it.
And we'll see if we can go into these other procedures.
SC Okay. How do you read me now?
CC That's much better, much better.
SC There's H-Alpha i coming to you, Houston.
I hope you read all right.
CC That's great, Pete. Okay, very good. If
we could get Paul to verify for us that he's removed the cap
and he's ensured that the circuit breakers are closed on
202 for that solenoid vent valve, we'd appreciate it.
SC He's on his way.
SC That's verified, Houston.
CC Okay. We got you. We're reading you very
good right now.
SC Okay, (garble).
CC (Garble)
CC Okay. And for Joe, we're standing by. You
can go ahead and initiate your coolant loop procedure. And we're
Just going to monitor you on that.
SC It works now, (garble).
CC Thank yon.
SC That's your whitelight coronagraph.
CC That's fantastic. Can even see that
streamer coming over the east llmb.
SC Yeah.
SC And I have a IN and OUT on the flare there,
Houston; 650.
CC Roger. Understand. And for PJ, we're
opening up all four valves, i, 2, 3, and 4 at this time.
SL-II MC-850/2
Time: 08:31 CDT, 18:13:31 GMT
6/11/73

SC Want us to go after the flare, Houston?


It's 690, 700.
CC (garble) Roger. Copy; 700. We'll see
if we can get at them to say something.
SC Holy Christmas! Look at your TV. You
guys opened a valve and look at all this junk that's flying
by the TV.
SC Yes. The valve's flowing, Crip.
CC We copied, and we understand the valve
is flowing.
SC Yes, it sucked my paper right out of my
hand.
CC (Laughter) Okay. It flows very good
then, huh?
SC Looks like the 4th of July on the white-
light coronagraph.
CC Okay. We'll be commanding 1 and 3 closed
at this time.
CC Okay. They should be closed up now.
SC Okay. All flow has stopped.
CC Roger. Understand all flow has stopped.
We'd like to - We suspect there may be a small leak, so
if you'd examine that real carefully for us, we'd appreciate
it.
SC Okay.
CC Okay, PJ. We got a closed indication this
time, so it looks good from here.
CC Okay, Paul. If you can reverify that
there is no flow, we'll go ahead and press on and shut the
others.
SC Okay. On the other side of the dome - the
speaker boxes, I get no indication of flow holding the piece of
paper on there for 20 seconds.
CC Okay. We copy and it looks good to us.
We'll go ahead and close the other valve - break. Pete, you're
up in the northern horn right now, and that's the reason
you're getting the flare indication. So we do not want you
to press with a flare JOP.
SC I'm not.
SC There's your XUV MON.
SC Houston, you want me to cap that vent
port, or leave it open now?
SC Hooked up your integration.
CC Paul, we'd like to go ahead and leave
that cap off now. We've got positive indication all valves
are closed.
SC Well, you got another data point that
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Time: 08:31 CDT, 18:13:31 GMT
6/11/73

you weren't aware of. Where I cleaned the solenoid vent port
screen, I didn't put the cap back on. So it's been off for
about a week and if you haven't had any leak in that time, I
guess it's not leaking.
CC Okay; very good.
SC We got something else for the thermal
guys to look at, Bob.
CC What's that?
SC In cleaning up, we kind of llke to get
rid of this portable fan if we can. And someone jostled
it sometime yesterday or last night, so all night long the port-
able fan was not blowing on the heat exchangers screen. If
it didn't make any difference, how about if we get rid of
that portable fan, too? Think about that for a while, please.
CC Okay. EGILVs thinking about it. That's
sneaky.
SC Yeah, we'd really like to clean this
place up. We got hoses running through hatches and lines,
and it's very bad. I don't like it. So anything you can do
along that line, we'd appreciate.
CC Okay. We appreciate that_ Pete. I guess
that fan and your SUS 2 are running down to the water tank are
your main problems right now. Is that correct?
CC I'm informed that fan was for your crew
comfort, and if you want to take it off, that's you may
so do.
SC Roger.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-851/i
Time: 08:40 CDT, 18:13:40 GMT
6/11/73

CC And Skylah, we're coming up over MILA


pass there and we should be doing a data recorder dump.
SC Hey, Houston; I think you guys have got
to put those horns in the anomaly passes, all of them on our
pads. If that ever happens out of station contact, we're going
to come over the hill minus about 300 frames of film.
CC Okay. We copy that.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We have about
i0 minutes remaining in this stateside pass. However, the
Change-of-Shift Press Conference is ready to begin at this
time. We'll tape any remaining conversation with the crew
on this stateside pass for playback following our Change-of-
Shift Briefing. At this time we'll switch to the Johnson
Space Center briefing room for the Change-of-Shift Press
Conference.

ENF OF TAPE

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SL-II MC-852/I
Time: 09:11 CDT, 18:14:11 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 12 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. During the Change-of-Shift Press
Briefing, we accumulated a little over 6 minutes of taped con-
versation with the crew over the stateside pass and down over
Ascension Island. During that conversation and during that
period, we successfully conducted checks of the suit umbilical
system loop in conjunction with the primary coolant loop. And
also successfully completed checks of the orbital workshop vent
valves, and we'll replay that tape for you now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We need to do another
adjust on our REG ADJUST POT. If anybody's available for that,
I'd appreciate it.
SC Go ahead.
CC Okay. What we want to do is take BUS 1 and
BUS 2 on the REG ADJUST and go 5 amps toward the ATM on both.
And after we do that, we want to adjust REG ADJUST 2 to equalize
PCG TOTAL.
SC Okay.
CC We do copy that theytre pretty close to
being equal right now, though.
SC How does that look, Houston?
CC Stand by i, Paul.
CC EGIL says they look beautiful.
SC Okay. And, Houston, the SUS pump is on
PRIMARY for its 15-minute ride now.
CC Okay; we copy.
CC Okay. And, Joe, for your information, the
primary loop is modulating properly, and it looks real good
right now. We do want to go ahead and leave it on for 15 min-
utes, as called for.
SC Okay. Sounds good.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. And, Joe, what we'd llke to do is just to go ahead
and leave that pump on until Ascension, which is at 14:02. I'll
give you a call there when to shut it down. And if for some
reason we don't pick you up on void, you can go ahead and
shut it down on your own. Also, we'll be doing a data recorder
dump at Ascension.

SC Roger. (Garble) all your transmission, but


I understand you're up, and you're going to dump the data recorder
at Ascension.

CC That's, affirmative. And we also wanted


Joe to go ahead and leave tha6_pump on_ _and - so we can watch
him when he turns it off; so we'll like him to leave it on until
our voice call at Ascension. If, for some reason, we didnVt
get your voice there, you can shut it down on your own.
/_-" SC Okay. He's putting on channel B ATM (garble).
Maybe you can look at it. We had a - Pete was rolling the
canister and he got a big glish in 28. You might listen to B when
you get it from this period and see what he's got to say.
CC Okay.
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Time: 09:11 CDT, 18:14:11 GMT
6/11/73

SC Also, M509 activation is complete. We


did not take any movies of it, Houston.
CC Okay. Thank you very much. I'm sure
SL-III would appreciate it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Ascension
for about 5 minutes. And we will be doing a data recorder
dump.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC And, Joe, you can go ahead and turn off
SUS 1 and take the fittings off.
SC Okay.
SC Hey, Houston.
CC Go ahead.
SC You were in the LOS, I guess, before you
copied my last on M509. I was saying, "We did not activate
509 just out of the kindness of our hearts for Captain Bean
and his motley bunch. We are not adverse to taking us for a
little spins from these things, and you may see your way free
to slip in there."
CC Okay. We so note. Paul, while I got you
here, could I tell you something about your S009 operation a
little bit later on?
SC Sure.
r CC What we'd like to do at that time that
you're scheduled to go set it, will you just open the detector
package up, set the Beta angle in that we've given you, and
turn the power switch off so that we'll just leave it open.
SC Okay. So despite all our preflight
planning about taping it to the wall before 10 days and stowing
it in the vault after 10 days, we'll Just leave it in its frame
open for the rest of the flight at the appropriate Beta angle,
I guess.
CC That's what it looks like they're thinking
about doing now. You'd be surprised how things can change in
real time.
SC Oh, yes. I'm glad to see all is flexible.
Okay.
SC Okay, Houston; SUS i is turned off and re-
configured to its normal configuration.
CC Okay, Pete. Thank you. And, Skylab, for
your information on that primary coolant loop, everything looks
real good to us right now. And I guess the current thinking
is that we definitely want to avoid the EVA mode. So, I guess
right now we are trying to pursue getting the secondary
coolant loop checked out. Also, we have completed that data
recorder dump.
SC Okay.
CC Also, Skylab, we are changing our mode of
operation on the recorders slightly. We're not going to be
_ continuously recording. So anytime you want to put a voice
_ SL-II MC-852/3
Time: 09:11 CDT, 18:14:11 GMT
6/11/73

on, you will have to initiate it. A systems anomaly on.


SC You're not trying to fool with the
cassettes. You're not going to run the data recorder
continuously?
CC Okay_ Pete, basically - you're sort of
unreadable then right now. I'ii tell you - we're going LOS
here in about 15 seconds. We'll see you at Carnarvon at 14:32.
SC Bye.
CC Bye.
PAO That completes our replay of accumulated
tape conversation through the continental U.S. and Ascension
pass. I only have about 13 minutes remaining before we once
again acquire the space - spacecraft at Carnarvon. Now in
the 403rd revolution and coming up on stateside acquisition
at Goldstone we'll be hearing the crew again in the midst of
an EREP pass. This will be Earth Resources Experiment Package
pass number 8. And, we just received a report from the EREP
officer who says everything is ready to go. It looks very good.
The weather is cooperating throughout most of the track and all
of the instruments are configured and ready for that EREP pass.
Recapping some of the conversation from the previous passes,
7- the check, as you heard on the primary coolant loop with the
SUS loop activated, the suit umbilical system loop checked out
okay. A procedure apparently developed that allows the crew
to bring on the suit coolant loop without causing the temperature
control valve to swing full open or into the maximum cold posi-
tion. Also, you heard the comment that a procedure is being
worked out to further troubleshoot the secondary coolant loop_
which continues to operate, but in a cooler-than-desired mode.
The temperature on that secondary loop continues to run right
around 40 degrees Fahrenheit. The primary loop continues to
hold in very close to the desired 47 degrees coolant temperature.
At 14 hours 21 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-853/I
Time: 09:30 CDT, 18:14:30 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylah Control, and we're about


to pick up radio communication with Skylab through the
Carnarvon, Australia, tracking station on the 403rd revolution.
And we'll stand by for that communications with the crew.
During the previous pass over Vanguard, and at the end of
the previous stateside pass, the troubleshooting as we
mentioned with the primary coolant loop, was conducted suc-
cessfully. And the essential outcome of that test with the
primary coolant loop was to verify that the configuration
using the suit umbilical system employing it through the
heat exchanger will be acceptable. This is an acceptable
EVA mode. The coolant loop has actually two heat exchangers
built into it. The second normally not used, except for peak
heatload conditions during an EVA when the suit umbilical
systems are dumping the accumulated heat from metabolic
activities of the astronauts into the coolant system. How-
ever, experiments - experience has shown that a single heat
exchanger will be adequate, even for EVAs. The desire not
to use the second heat exchanger centers around the belief
that this heat exchanger is a source of contamination into
the primary coolant loop. The contamination then getting
into the temperature control valve and causing the valve
to stick. The tests we've run today tend to verify this
hypothesis, and that is the basis for CAP COMM's comment to
the crew at the end of the last pass that we will definitely
want to avoid the EVA mode. The EVA mode is a mode that flows
coolant through both heat exchangers by avoiding that mode dur-
ing an EVA and using only the one heat exchanger, which appears
to be more than adequate. We feel we can avoid the problem of
the contamination in the primary coolant loop and avoid any
further problems with the valves hanging up in this loop.
We show that we've acquired signal at Carnarvon. This will be
a 9 minute 40 second pass. We'll stand by for the call to
the crew.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Car-


narvon for 9 minutes.

CC Skylab, if you're interested, I could


give you a rundown on what the cloud coverage is going to be
on your EREP pass coming up.
SC Go ahead.

CC Roger. Unfortunately, we got a - or


fortunately, depending on what k_nd of dAta_you're after, we've
got a pretty cloudy day out all across your pass. Coming up at
Washington to Idaho, it's going to be scattered to broken,
and from Idaho to Colorado it's broken to overcast. And it
starts clearing up somewhat there and breaks out fairly
clear over the Oklahoma panhandle. Then it starts to sock
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Time: 09:30 CDT, 18:14:30 GMT
6/11/73

back in and by the time you get to Texas, we're basically


overcast here, and that's going to be the same condition
coming all across the Gulf, Caribbean, and northern South
America. Central South America is fairly clear though.
SC Okay.
CC Also, I wasn't making myself very clear
awhile ago on talking about the recorders. We are not
continuously running the data recorders, so if you do see
some system anomaly that you think we ought to get data on,
would you go ahead and initiate the recorders for us, please?
SC Roger. Understand. What I didn't
understand though, Crip, was what you said before that about
the SUS pumps. You said you didn't want to get into an EVA,
so you weren't going to do what?
CC All I was saying there was that we did
not want, apparently, to get back to that EVA mode on the primary
coolant loop because we believe that is what caused our
initial problem with it. And that will not be coming up, of
course, until we do get down to the EVA, and we'll figure out
exactly what we want to do there.
SC But you probably don't want to use SUS i
during the EVA. Is that right?
CC No, that is not necessarily true.
SC Okay. Well, let us know.
CC Okay. We would probably be operating in
the bypass mode rather than EVA.
SC Crip, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
SC Okay. I've done the sensitometry advance,
besides 40 frames and about seven more on there. I had about
three malf lights: 3, 5, and 6. I had 3, 4, 5, and 6. Four
went out; 3, 5, and 6 stayed on. I have marked the film, checked
it, and it is, in fact, moving. I've done all those good things,
and in'the process, shot up three single frames and then after
ascertaining that everything's moving, I have sequenced four
more through, so I've actually used 47 frames on the 6th magazine,
and I still have malf lights 5 and 6. And I suspect it's the
same as last time, and they'll eventually disappear.
CC Okay. We agree with that, Pete, and we
consider itts good. Go ahead and press as is.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-854/1
Time: 09:38 CDT, 18:14:38 GMT
6/11/73

CC We agree with that, Pete, and we consider


it's good. Go ahead and press as is.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you again at Guam at 14:46; 14:46.
SC Okay. (garble) maneuver time. Can you
take a quick look at it and verify it?
CC We have verified it. It's good.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS once more
over Guam at - for 9 minutes.

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC-855/I
Time: 09:46 CDT, 18:14:46 GMT
6/11/73

CC PLT, Houston. Do you have a moment to


talk about your VTS stuff?
SC Talk about what?
CC About your VTS targets. That weather
that they had and that they removed your initial site to -
moved south, and they would like you to go back to your
original pad.
SC Okay. I'll cross out the crossouts, huh?
CC Cross out the erossouts. That's affirm-
ative.
SC We're getting used to that, All right.
We got it.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll have you again at Goldstone at 15:11; 1511.
And we copy you are in - on route to Z-LV.
SC Yeah, it looks like it here, anyway.
PAO This is Skylab Control. As Skylab went
over the horizon at Guam, we could see from the telemetry
data on the ground that the vehicle was maneuvering into
_- the proper attitude for the EREP pass coming up over the
United States, down across the Gulf of Mexico, and out on
across South America and Brazil. They'll be in the Z-local
vertical, which boresights the sensors at the groundtrack
beneath them. And we have 13 minutes 40 seconds now until we
reacquire at Goldstone. At 14 hours 57 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
8L-II MC-856/I
Time: i0:i0 CDT, 18:15:10 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours i0 min-


utes. We'll be hearing from the crew shortly, coming up over
the Goldstone tracking station, at which time they should be
in an EREP pass. Pass number 8, which - -
SC - - bunch of it is south of here.
PAO And we're picking up the VOX communications
from the crew now.
CC Got you in voice contact, guys.
SC Okay.
SC Hoo haw. How're you reading the CDR VOX?
CC Loud and clear.
SC Okay. PREOPERATE configuration has been
verified and we're ready to go.
CC Copy •
SC I got a note for the EREP training people,
and the followon crews, is that the gimbal drift in the VTS
sphere is such that it tends to drift up and to the left.
SC How's the Houston weather, Crlp?
CC Not too hot. A little bit rainy this mornln_.
SC Oh.
SC It's not supposed to do that in the summer-
time.
CC Right.
SC It looks like quite a bit open along your
track (garble).
SC Okay.
SC What's the temp?
CC Oh, about 80 degrees.
SC Coast in a minute.
SC Okay, 15 seconds. EREP start.
SC Five, 4, 3, 2, i, MARK, EREP START. 94,
MODE MANUAL.
SC SCAT's ON, the RAD's ON. MARK, ETC to
AUTO. MARK, S190 to AUTO.
SC Oh, here's a nice mountain.
SC 92 to MODE READY.
SC Looks like Mount Mood.
SC Maybe not.
SC SCAT, STANDBY; RAD, STANDBY; MODE IN-TRACT

CONTIGUOUS;
SC PITCH is O.
Man, is :_[.,
2£" _ lear t
azO_*n4_ those mountains
today. Hoo haw.
SC And 92, MODE CHECK. RAD's ON; SCAT's ON.
And I need an AUTO CAL on my MARK, please.
S C Ok ay.
SC MARK, AUTO CAL. ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
._ POLARITY to 2 and 15:05.
SC For simulator people information, it takes
3-1/2 seconds for the READY light to go out on S191 when you
hit AUTO CAL.
SC And, also, I have on S190, the 5 and 6 malf
flights. But I believe everything's running all right.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-857/I
Time: 10:15 CDT, 18:15:15 GMT
6/11/73

SC POLARIZATION is 2.
SC Hey, Crip, I had to do a 192 alignment
tweak before the run, mainly because I did one after the
run yesterday. The details are on B channel from yesterday
and on the tape from today.
CC Copy.
SC ARC INTERVALOMETER to A. ETC to STANDBY.
STANDBY, ETC to go back to AUTO.
SC ETC, AUTO.
SC Also, for information, it's hard looking
out at 45 degrees forward. You look through a lot of atmos-
phere. Targets in detail.
SC POLARIZATION, 4. I got a READY light on
191; Bravo 7 is 31 percent.
SC Seventeen shutter speed to MEDIUM.
SC 92 to READY.
SC And I got Fort Tubb.
SC MARK. 17:50, POLARIZATION at 3.
SC SCAT, STANDBY; RAD, STANDBY; 92, CHECK.
SC ALTIMETER is ON.
SC IN-TRACK NONCONTINUOUS, POLARIZATION 5.
SC Okay, Houston. Got the following sites
back there. Got (garble) reservoir 350. I got 351; I got
352; I got 353; and I got 356.
CC Copy.
SC FI90 READY light is out.
SC ALTIMETER to STANDBY_
SC SCAT's ON. RAD's ON.
SC Okay. For special 01, all you're getting
is clouds, so far, instead of the Gulf.
SC (Garble) the ALTIMETER. STANDBY on 190.
SC Telemeter my intervalometer is 18 and check
the frames are 81.

END OF TAPE
_-_ SL-II MC-858/I
Time: 10:21 CDT, 18:15:21 GMT
6/11/73

SC (Garble) maneuver out.


SC Huh?
SC 1540.
SC (Garble) 190 power off and back on again
to getrid of those - (Garble)
SC Well, I - I haven't started to run it yet.
It starts to run at 23:56 here. (Garble) enough film on there.
SC You still there, Houston?
CC Affirm. - -
SC For whatever reason, we seem to have a -
consistently in the past on these VTS sites, we_ve been get-
ting to them 2 to 3 seconds before the pad says we will.
CC Okay. We've still got about 4 more minutes.
SC 90 is in MODE AUTO. ETC is STANDBY, Joe.
SC (Garble)
SC Okay. And the SCAT's in STANDBY and RAD
to STANDBY; 93A is ON; MODE TRACK, CONTIGUOUS; PITCH, 301 POL-
, ARIZATION is 4. Okay, after I got all the film wound on
those cameras, I don't have any malf lights now, Houston. I
think you just about float in there when they're first wound on.
CC Copy.
SC MARK. Intervalometer to 8. 92 going to
MODE READY on my mark.
SC MARK. 92 to MODE READY. ETC to AUTO, Joe.
CC One minute until LOS. Vanguard at 37.
Copy. Your maneuver time looks good for going out.
SC Okay.
SC What you got down there?
SC Looking at down there?
SC MODE CHECK on 92.
PAO This is Skylab Control with loss of signal
now through Mila. And Skylab will continue on down across South
America, out over Brazil, and continue taking the EREP data until
about 200 miles south of Sao Paulo, Brazil. CAP COMM, Bob Crippen,
advised the crew before starting this pass that there would be
considerable cloud cover, ranging from solid to broken along the
track. And the crew confirmed that. Paul Weitz, I believe it was,
mentioned that they were getting an awful lot of - an awful lot of
clouds. One of the alternate targets to be gotten through the
visual tracking system due to heavy cloud cover over the primary
target near Oklahoma City was thunderstorm buildup where severe
weather is shown in the Dallas area. The total EREP 8 track was
about 7700 miles, or will be about 7700 miles on completion. And
among the targets are the Cascade Mountains, also forest inentory
in Colorado, and the storm conditions in the Dallas area. They also
hope to collect data on sea surface and wind conditions in the Gulf
of Mexico, as well as information to be used in crop inventories
in Columbia and resource studies in Brazil. And, hopefully, the
weather will be clearing as they move down across Brazil. We have
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Time: 10:21 CDT, 18:15:21 GMT
6/11/73

about 6 minutes until regaining radio contact through the


tracking ship, Vanguard, off the coast of South America. At
15 hours 31 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC859/I
Time: 10:35 CDT, 18:15:35 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. One minute away


from acquisition through the tracking ship, Vanguard. And we
expect to get the conclusion of EREP pass number 8 during
this period of acquisition.
CC Skylab, Rouston. We're AOS over the Van-
guard for the next 7 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
SC MARK. 38:021 POLARIZATION, i. MODE, READY
on 192. MODE, AUTO on 190; EPC to AUTO, Joe.
SC J., would you cheek the master alarm?
SC Okay, it's probably starting.
SC CMG set, okay.
SC The thruster's inhibited, or enabled? -
SC Enabled, okay?
SC 53 and it's SCAT to STANDBY. 55 and PAD
to STANDBY; 39:01 and S192 to STANDBY; 39:07, READY out, and
it's out, 39:13. MARK. ETC, STANDBY; VTS, AUTO CAL; and 39:25
in a MODE, MANUAL on 194; MODE, MANUAL, 31; the SCAT's OFF;
RAD's OFF; standing by for 15:40 there, my boy, for the start
of the SI maneuver. Okay, you got it.
f SC Saturated in Y, that what it, huh?
SC Uh, huh.
SC Very good.
SC And we commenced that SI maneuver on time.
SC 40:25, 94 is OFF. MARK. 41:90 to STANDBY.
Stand by for 41:53 for a READY on S191.
SC Yeah. Got a READY on - on a 91 and MARK
EREP stop and we got - there's a perfect pass for you. Bow
about that? Okay, Houston, you still with us.
CC That's affirm. That's a very nice EREP pass.
SC Okay, we're going off VOX and going off
A RECORD, back to B RECORD.
CC Pete, did you give us BT?
SC Okay, Crip. That's 30. Right on the money.
CC Copy.
CC For your info, over the states on the
next pass, we're going to be troubleshooting the secondary
coolant loop. We'll give you the details on it there.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
We'll see yon again at Goldstone at 16:48, 1648. We will
be doing a data recorder dump at that point. And regarding
that troubleshooting procedure for the secondary coolant loop,
that's primarily a ground-initlated procedure. We'll need you
for a couple of steps and we'll tell you about it.
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 15 hours
45 minutes. Out of range now of the Vanguard tracking ship.
SL-II MC859/2
Time: 10:35 CDT, 18:15:35 GMT
6/11/73

And about 1 hour and 2 minutes away from reacqulring at


Goldstone, California. During that stateside pass, as you
heard CAP COM, Bob Crippen, advise the crew, we'll be doing
some troubleshooting on the secondary coolant loop. The
primary loop now apparently operating normally. And the
procedure that will be used with the secondary loop similar
to that followed with the primary loop when it was reactivated.
That is, to turn on both pumps that flow coolant through the
loop; the loop currently operating with a single pump. It's
hoped that when the second pump is turned on, the sticky valve
that is controlling the flow in the loop and mixing the hot
and cold coolant to maintain the desired temperature, will
unstick itself as happened in the primary loop and the valve
will begin controlling at the desired temperature. The desired
temperature being around 47 degrees Fahrenheit. And that is
the temperature at which the primary loop has been cool -
operating since the same procedure was used or similar procedure
was used on that loop to free up the sticky temperature control
valve. If the temperature begins to drop on the secondary
coolant loop as the flow is i_creased, the loop will be shut
_- down and allowed to warm up before the procedure is - is repeated.
The feeling is that the secondary loop is operating at a - at an
equilibrium which is arrived at by adding a heat sources, namely
the liquid cool garments - liquid cooling garments, from the EVA
suits used in con - used by the crew in conjunction with the EVA.
These loops are connected to the liquid cooling garment. The
garments then are drapped over a water tank in the area of
the dome where a fair amount of heat is picked up on the
sunside of the vehicle. The side of heat flowing into the
secondary loop is allowing it to maintain an equilibrium
temperature around 40 degrees. This temperature as felt
is - is a status of equilibrium rather than a - a temperature
that's being controlled by the valve itself. Consequently when
the flow is increased we could see a - a fairly rapid drop
in temperature on that loop if the valve does not begin to
control properly. At which point as mentioned the loop will
be shut down. The primary loop would continue to be the -
the active coolant loop; and as the secondary loop warmed up,
the procedure of doubling up on pumps to increase the flow and
hopefully free that valve would be tried again. At 15 hours
49 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-860/I
Time: 11:45 CDT, 18:16:45 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control about 1 minute


30 seconds from reacquirlng Skylab through Goldstone, Call-
fornia. The spacecraft now in the 405th revolution of
Earth. And this will be our last stateside pass for today.
The EREP officer reports that the EREP Pass from the previous
revolution appeared to be highly sucessfull, this was a report
that was confirmed by the crew. A little later on this
afternoon we will be getting a satellite weather picture of
the area at the time the pass was made and from that we'll
be able to confirm the coverage and what areas that were in
fact clear and which were cloud covered. But the preliminary
indication is that all equipment worked properly and that
we got a lot of good data on that EREP Pass. During this
stateside pass we will be troubleshooting the secondary
coolant loop, airlock module secondary coolant loop. The
procedure will be similar to that followed in remeding the
problem on the primary coolant loop. We'll be commanding
both pumps on line in an attempt to free temperature control
valve that appears to be hung up by some contamination.
CC We're AOS over Goldstone for about the
next 13 minutes. 13 minutes.
sr SC Roger, Houston.
CC Roger. And we're going into this trouble-
shooting procedure on the secondary coolant loop and the
first step that we're going to be doing involves Just turning
on the secondary pump and watching it for a while.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, after about 5 minutes, after we've
turned this pump on, I'ii probably he requiring somebody to
go up into the airlock module to turn off SUS 2 and to insure
that one of the caution and warning parameters is indicated.
Looking at the schedule, Joe's probably the most likely guy,
if he can get away. I'ii call in.
CC We're currently showing a flow rate of
about 214 or 15 pounds per hour on the seconday coolant loop.
When the additional pump is brought on llne, we'll expect
that flow rate to increase something over 400 pounds per
hour. And it has just been commanded on, the pressure now - or
the flow rate, rather, 404 pounds per hour, just about double
what we've seen previously, indicating that the second pump
is on line. Skylab, Houston. We are doing a scheduled
data recorder dump at this site.
PAO We'll be watching the temperature on
that secondary loop for any significant decrease. The plan
is, if the - if the loop temperature does begin to drop, to
turn the loop off, let it warm up and then some time later to - -
SL-II MC-860/2
Time: 11:45 CDT, 18:16:45 GMT
6/11/73

CC Jim, we're not sure whether you have your


secondary coolant temp low enabled at this time, on your
caution and warning. If you do, it may go off; be no problem.
We'll try to warn you before it does.
SC Right.
PAO The secondary loop temperature does
drop, to an unacceptable level, and we have to turn it off,
the procedure then would be to let the loop warm up and next
time to hit it with both pumps simultaneously. In an effort
to shake loose that sticky valve. And it does appear that
the loop temperature is dropping, down now to about 39.3 degrees.
Previously it was up to about 40 degrees Fahrenhlet.
PAO Secondary loop temperature down now to
38.6 degrees.
PAO EGIL, the environmental systems engineer,
recommends that we remove the SUS loop from the secondary
loop. They plan to shut down the secondary loop - -

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC861/I
Time: 11:56 CDT 18:16:56 GMT
6/11/73

PAO - shut down the secondary loop by ground


command and let it warm up. The temperature is continuing
to drop down to about 38.6 degrees at the present time.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have got the secondary
coolant loop secured at this time, and we would llke
for you to turn off SUS 2. We are not sure whether you got
that on on panel 217 or 323. Would you turn the pump off?
CC And for your information, that little
procedure we went through did not cause the valve pump to
modulate, so we still want to leave the SUS 2 hoses connected
because we're still troubleshooting it.
SC Okay, but the SUS 2 pump is off now, Houston.
CC That's affirm. Thank you very much. We
copy it's off here.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll see you again over the Vanguard at 17:14, 1714. We
will be doing a data recorder dump at that site. Plus we
copied that the TACS is still enabled; at your convenience
you may inhibit it.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab now out
of range of the Texas tracking station. We'll be coming up
on the tracking ship Vanguard in about 12-1/2 minutes. And
again the procedure attempt to free the sticky temperature
control valve in the secondary coolant loop was not success-
ful. That procedure involved turning on the second pump on
the llne, doubling the flow rate in an attempt to shock the
valve into freeing and controlling the temperature at the
desired level of 47 degrees. The added flow rate apparently
did not free the valve and the temperature began to drop as
the rate of flowing coolants through the radiators increased
as the function of having an additional pump on the llne.
The next step in the troubleshooting operations with the
secondary coolant loop will be to let the loop warm up, that'll
probably be accomplished within 24 hours and could be - could
be accomplished on this shift or during the crew's wake period
before putting the crew to bed tonight. And if so, the the
next step in the procedure will be to, in effect, double the
shock to the temperature control valves by hitting it with
both pumps simultaneously, in effect going from zero flow to
something in excess of 400 pounds per hour as opposed to the
previous procedure, which went from 200 pounds per hour, to
about 400. It's felt that the added shock of hitting it
with the 400 pounds per hour flQw rate, going from zero to 400
pounds, may free the hung-up walse and allow it to began
controlling at the desired temperature level. At 17 hours
3 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
_" SL-II MC-862/I
Time: 12:12 CDT, 18:17:12 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. We're about to


acquire through the tracking ship Vanguard. And we'll have
acquisition through Vanguard for about 7-1/2 minutes. The EREP
officer has gotten from the weather people a satellite picture
of the Caribbean and South America areas that were covered in
this morning's EREP pass. And we'll put that satellite picture
here on the monitors so that you can get a look at it. You'll
notice that the area across the Caribbean on the groundtrack
was very clear and some light cirrus-type cover over northerzl
South America and Columbia and then virtually clear over the
entire Amazon basin. And later on today we expect to get a
similar map for - for North America to allow us to do an evalu-
ation as to how many of the predicted, or task sites were, in
fact, covered totally or in part. We have acquisition of signal
now. We'll stand by for the call to the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S over Vanguard
for about the next 10 minutes. And, Skylab, we will be doing
a data recorder dump at this pass.
SC Say, Houston. I want you to verify
something for me, please?
CC Go ahead, Pete.
f SC Would you verify that the flight T027/S073 -
the S073 big package and flight tripod were - fit checked in the
flight article in the - antisolar alrlock, okay?
CC Okay. We'll check it.
SC The reason I asked is because we have the
flight tripod in the solar airlock supporting the parasol TO27
can, and the tripod that we brought up which we put along side
the other one is identical to it, as best we can tell. Does not
check on SO73 nor does it check on places for it and we're having
to do a little juggling and right now we're going to finish prep
and trade tripods, but I'm not convinced that the other tripod's
going to fit either. So before we go to that trouble on - if
you can verify it - verify the paperwork, we'll know that by
swapping tripods, at least we're starting in the right direction.
We may have to jury-rig the other tripod under the parasol.
CC Okay, Pete. I'm pretty sure I did that
one myself, but we'll get it checked.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We are going to be
sending some commands to the computer to update the timersj so
if you'll stay off the DAS for us, please?
CC CDR, "_Ouston. You: got a moment to talk
about the S052 - the cam - the fact th&t the camera doesn't
work and our (garble) people would like to know if you'll do
them a favor in giving them a little bit of extra TV today?
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SC Okay. Sure. What do you want?


CC Okay. On your next pass coming up, they
would like to give in building block 2 about 15 seconds of
S052 TV on the VTR.
SC Okay. TV 2, 15 seconds of TV on the VTR.
CC Okay. They also were requesting that
same thing two other times today, and one is at the 21:18 pass
where you got another building block 2, where they'd like the
same thing there.
SC Tell you what. How - how about cleaning
up from PTM. About half of the rest of that's coming up when
I get up to the (garble).
CC Be glad to do that. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have checked and it
is affirmative that that tripod was checked with the flight TO27
unit in both SALs at the Cape.
SC Okay. Well, we'll try the flight one in
the flight SO73 and see what happens. Maybe the other one's
wrong. But it's not obvious to us, it's not identical to that
other tripod.
CC Okay. And we're going LOS here. We'll
f see you again at Hawaii at 18:22.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Out of range now
of the tracking ship Vanguard. And i hour away from acqui-
sition through the Hawaiian tracking station. During that
pass over the Vanguard, Pete Conrad advised that the tripod
used to provide additional rigidity to the TO27 experiment and
S073 experiments, which attach to the scientific airlock
appeared not to fit. This tripod is the, according to Conrad,
the unit that was flown up to be used in conjunction with the
parasol deployment which is also deployed from a canister
identical to those used for the scientific airlock experiments.
The same tripod used for both containers, and the crew elected
to use the primary, or the one that had been flown aboard the
workshop - the tripod flown aboard the workshop to support
the parasol package and on attempting to use the backup item
that had been flown aboard, which for all intents and purposes
is identical to the flight original item. Found that the
tripod fit. Now we don't know whether that fit failure was
at the attach point to the experiment canister or to the
attach points at the floor. And I expect that will be clarified
with the crew the next time we have a station acquisition.
The tripod is not a functional piece of equipment for the
experiment. The experiment would work perfectly well without it,
but the tripod does provide some additional rigidity and takes
the support load off the scientific airlock attach point, so
that you don't have a fairly long canister poking out into the
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workshop supported only at the attach point. And if the


canister were bumped or something llke this, they would
want the additional rigidity to avoid any damage to the
interface point with the scientific airlock. Fifty eight
minutes now till acquisition at Hawaii, and we are going to
replay the television of the EVA to repair the workshop solar
panel during this long period where we have no acquisition.
At 17 hours 24 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC863/I
Time: 13:20 CDT, 18:18:20 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, at 18 hours 21 min-


utes coming up on the Hawaiian Island tracking station. Hawaii
and Vanguard the only two station that we hit on this revolution;
the 405th and going on into the 406th revolution. And we're about
a minute away from acquisition. We'll be in contact through
Hawaii for a very short pass, only about 3 minutes. And it'll be
about 25 minutes from the time we lose signal through Hawaii until
we pick up Vanguard.
PAO This afternoon the crew's major activities
are operation of the Apollo telescope mount experiments, and
medical experiments M092 and MI71. Commander, Pete Conrad,
responsible for the ATM duties and science pilot, Joe Kerwin,
and pilot, Paul Weitz, handling the MO92, MI71 series, the
lower body negative pressure in the metabolic activity,
metabolic analysis experiment.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii
for about 3 minutes.
SC Okay, Crip. I got a question on my TO27
pad.
CC Go.
SC Burn OA program I got a - the program
I start. It's 18:52/19:06. Does that mean you want to start
it once and stop and start it over again, or does that mean
I can start it anytime in that interval?
CC Anytime in that interval.
SC Hey, you guys are easy.
CC Yeah, tell us the - tell us the story on
the big tripod mystery.
SC Well, I tell you, the one out of the
trainer which we brought up to use with the parasol doesn't
the head is the length - base. On the top of the length goes
the base, then on the base goes the head with the adjustable
screws. You with me?
CC Yeah.
SC Well, that head is bolted to the base
differently. It's about 4 inches further to the right
than is the Flight one.. And it must have something to do
with that 6 degrees or so misclocking of the floor grid in
the trainer. So what we've done is we've only taken the
spacecraft apart a little bit to find bolts with nuts
on them. And it is now bolted to the floor. We may never
get it up, but it's there to _S_y -_it1_!_ere now.
CC Okay, I _ue'ss I'm still not sure exactly
what configuration when you say it's bolted to the floor.
You have the trainer i under the parasol. Is that correct?
SC Negative.
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6/11/73

CC You got - -
SC - - The trainer went under TO27. We didn't
drain them out because it became obvious that we're only
floping our troubles from one airlock to the other.
CC Okay. And the problem apparently is in the
way the thing is bolted, but it's The way you have it now
you feel it offers adequate support for TO27, right?
SC Oh, yeah. It may tear up the grids more
but it it won't let T027 move.
CC Okay, what you had to do was just shift it
off of the normal holes to get it in the right position.
SC Yeah, but that's not adjust, because we
had to get some of the lock nuts-type nuts and bolts.
CC Okay.
SC We had all the activation gear. We got a
lot of bolts, but no nuts. So we had to take some out of the
grid.
CC Okay, I wasn't implying to mean the amount
of work you did. You didn't take it apart too much, did you?
CC Hey, we're going to go LOS here in about
15 seconds. We'll see you again over the Vanguard at ig:50,
and we will be doing a data recorder dump at that pass.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control, 22-1/2 minutes away
from the tracking ship Vanguard and our next acquisition with
Skylab. From the crew's description it sounds as if they had
remedied their tripod problem simply by relocating the attach
points, instead of attaching the base of the tripod through the
planned holes, moving it over and attaching it through the grid,
using bolts and washers that they were able to come up with from
the - from the workshop. And it wasn't too clear whether they
had gotten those - those nuts. I think we said we heard Paul
Weitz describe having adequate number of bolts but having to
salvage some nuts from the - from the workshop to attach the
tripod to the - to the gridwork of the floor. And apparently
he feels that it is secure enough to provide good support
to the T027 canister. At 18 hours 28 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-864/I
Time: 13:48 CDT, 18:18:48 GMT
6/ii/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. We're i minute


now from acquiring Skylab through the tracking ship, Vanguard.
And that'll be our, one of our two stations acquiring the
spacecraft on this revolution, the other being Hawaii. After
we lose contact through Vanguard, that'll he about an hour
before we pick up again through the Hawaiian station.
CC Skylab, _ouston. We're AOS over the
Vanguard for the next i0 (garble).
SC And if you're trying to call, Houston,
you're unreadable.
CC Roger. We're having a little site problems
right now, Pete.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'll try once more here.
We're got LOS - correction AOS, for about the next 7 minutes.
SC Okay. Now we got you.
CC Okay. And CDR, do you have a moment to
talk a little bit about your next ATM rev?
SC Yeah, go ahead.
CC Okay. I don't know whether you caught it
or not, but we've got an audit step scheduled for 82B and
that normally is called out for auto sequence switch to hold
/ the end of the pass, and since we aren't repeating that one,
what we'll need you to do there is just to stop it.
SC Yeah, where are you?
CC I'm sorry. It's on your next rev.
CC The next - -
SC Building block 23?
CC That's affirm. Building block 23 - -
SC Okay. Don't call it to hold just term-
inate?
CC That's affirm.
SC Okay. Now, tell me when you want the
white light coronagraph on TV. I've already given you that
this pass.
CC Okay. The next one we want is actually
on, I believe, on Joe's rev, if you could put it down on the
schedule, I'd appreciate it. It's for the rev around 01:55, in
building block l, we want - want him to give us the same thing
again, 15 seconds of white light coronagraph TV on the VTR.
SC Okay.
CC And if Paul is still listening, that tripod
you guys took up in the command module was supposed to be
a backup unit from Huntington Beach, and we're trying to
check into it to find out why it - why it was off then.
SC Yeah, the top is offset from the (garble).
CC CDR, while I've got you here, I guess
there's a question that we're pondering down here, that we'd
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6/11/73

like to get your opinion on. We have discovered on S056, that


we really don't need to turn off the aluminum and beryllium
high voltage every SAA, nor at night when you leave the thing
unattended. We're considering sending you up a teleprinter
pad that which basically eliminates that procedure, primarily
for your convenience. And llke to know your opinion on it.
SC Hooray!
CC Okay. We'll zap it up to you.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll see you again at 19:58. And, Paul, if you have
an opportunity, we'd appreciate it if you could tell us what
the shaft and trunnion angles are on 27 right now?
SC They appear to not have moved. The shaft
is 16, the trunnion is zero.
CC Roger. And copy, shaft, 16; trunnion zero.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Loss of signal
now through Vanguard and it'll be almost an hour, 57 minutes
to be exact, before we reacquire at the Hawaiian tracking station.
Spacecraft now in it's 406th revolution. At 19 hours, this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-865/I
Time: 14:55 CDT, 18:19:55 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; 19 hours 55 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. On mission day 18, revolution 406.
Skylab space station at this time is orbiting the Earth at
241.7 nautical miles at the high point and 230 nautical miles
at the low point. It takes roughly i hour and 33 minutes to
circle the Earth. The space station is traveling at 25,102
feet per second. We're approximately a minute away from ac-
quisition at the Hawaii tracking site. And we will be in
communication with the Skylab for about 9-i/2 minutes. We'll
stand by for the air to ground.
SC Okay. Are you there, Houston?
CC Skylab, Houston. That's affirmative;
we're here for about 8 minutes.
SC Okay. I knew you had a reason other
than passing interest for asking me about that S073 shaft
and trunnion angle.
CC Roger.
SC I think it was early in the program, Crip,
right after you called me, I went up and checked Paul's by
mistake; and corrected it on the spot. So that the majority
of the exposures in that sequence are per the book then.
CC Very good. We appreciate it.
SC Okay.

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SL-II MC-866/I
Time: 15:00 CDT, 18:20:00 GMT
6/11/73

CC CDR, Houston. We indicate that your


H-Alpha is in two frames per minute. It should be one at
this time, sir.
SC Okay.
SC (garble) last pass.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll see you again over the Vanguard at 20:29,
and we will be doing a data recorder dump at that pass.
SC Roger.
PAO Skylab space station has moved out of range
of the Hawaii tracking station. During this pass, EGIL,
the environmental officer, reported to the flight - flight
director here in Mission Control, "we look good at Hawaii,"
meaning his systems looked very good on the Skylab space
station. We will next acquire in 20 minutes over the Vanguard
tracking site. At 20 hours 8 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-867/I
Time: 15:26 CDT, 18:20:26 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. At


20 hours 26 minutes Greenwich mean time. About 2 minutes from
acquisition of signal at the Vanguard tracking ship. We just
had an indication here in mission control center that we indeed
will be acquiring at Vanguard the Warbler went off with its
peculiar sound. At this time, according to the Flight Plan,
the commander Charles Pete Conrad, is at the Apollo Telescope
Mount station, undertaking some sun watching experiments, while
the Science Pilot Joseph Kerwln and the Pilot Paul Weitz,
are in a an MI31 human vastibular function experiment. In
this particular experiment today, astronaut Kerwin is the
subject and Paul Weitz is the observer. Purpose of that
human vastibular function is to determine if there are, are
significant effects produced by weightlessness, on vastibular
functions. Using a rotating litter chair and other accessories.
We are about 40 seconds from acquisition of signal, we'll
stand by for radio communication with the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
Vanguard for the 9 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC Roger. And if possible we'd llke to
f get somebody to secure the experiment i and 2 tape recorders
until they're required for 92, to solve a little dump problem
for us.
SC Okay.
CC We note that they're secured. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are doing a data
recorder dump this pass.
SC Okay.

END OF TAPE
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Time: 15:32 CDT, 18:20:32 GMT
6/11/73

CC Skylab, Houston, we're one minute to LOS.


We're having that long silence. See you again at Hawaii at 21:36,
21:36.
CDR Bye.
CC Bye.
PAO The Skylab space station has moved out of
range of the Vanguard tracking site. We will acquire again
in about an hour at the Hawaii site. At 20 hours 37 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC-869/I
Time: 16:34 CDT 18:21:34 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. At


21 hours 34 minutes Greenwich mean time, the Skylab space
station is about a minute from acquisition through the Hawaii
tracking site. We will be in communication for about 6-1/2 min-
utes. Stand by for radio communication with the crew through
Hawaii.
CC Skylab Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii
for about the next 7 minutes.
CDR Roger Houston.
CDR And when you dump the M092 171 TV there's
right on the end of it, a shot of white light coronagraph
(garble)
CC We copy.
CC (garble)
CDR Hey Houston, this 56 hung up again in
active MOD I of the last go round on filter 1.
CC Understand it hung up in filter i?
CDR Yeah, for some reason it does it every
once in a while and then it will go on for i time and not do
it.
CC Copy.
CC Skylab for your information, on our next
pass at the Vanguard, we are going to be turning on the sec-
ondary coolant loop again. And if you've got your caution and
warning enabled, you'll probably get one.
CDR Okay.
SC (Music)
CDH If you want to know, this music is to do
JOPS by.
CC Yes.
CC Skylab Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll see you again over the Vanguard at 22:07,
22:07. And right now I guess we're thinking that 56 prob-
lem may be associated with when you start 55.
CDR Fifty-six has something to do with fifty-
five?

CC It seems llke that filter thing is


hanging up just about the time that you're starting 55.
CDR Fifty-five was running last time.
CC Ah-hah. Okay.
PAO The Commander said "that's music to do
JOPS by." And JOPS is Joint observation program, a part of
the Apollo Telescope Mount experiment series. At 21 hours
43 minutes Greenwich mean time_ this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-870/I
Time: 17:05 CDT 18:22:05 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylah Control Houston at 22


hours 5 minutes, Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space
station is about a minute away from acquisition at the
Vanguard tracking ship. We will have about 9 minutes - 9-1/2
minutes of air to ground through the Vanguard tracking ship.
And we'll stand by for radio communication with the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
Vanguard for the next i0 minutes.
CDR Hi there. Say, 56 hung up again.
Middle of the pass, active MOD i, filter three. And
S055 was running at the time.
CC Roger. It would appear that maybe it
isn't necessarily 55, but they think it's being caused by some
stray input coming in. That hung up on filter three that
time. That's affirm.
CDR Yeah. Second pass through. That seems
to be it's favorite one. It hangs up in MOD i. The second
pass through, it hangs up at filter three.
CC Roger. And Skylab, we are going to be
activating the secondary coolant loop this pass.
CDR Okay.
CDR Okay, Houston. We have a sec COOLANT
Info light.
CC We copy and we're shuting down the loop.
CDR Okay.

END OF TAPE
/-_ SL-II MC-871/I
Time: 17:10 CDT, 18:22:10 GMT
6/ii/73

CC CDR, Houston. You got a chance to talk


to me
about a S073 problem that we've got?
CDR Yeah, go ahead.
CC Okay, apparently we're getting some stray
light into the instruments for some reason and there are a
couple of things we'd like to try. Unfortunately they're
using the recorders right now down on 171, so we really can't,
apparently, make a run on it right now. Our first option would
be to start it on our next Vanguard pass, but that's going to
drag you guys out of some of your pre-sleep activities. Would
you go along with that?
CDR Yep, go ahead, we'll see.
CC Okay, at your first opportunity we would
for you to cycle the PMT cap switch to OPEN and then back to
CLOSED. That's this rev.
CC Okay, on the next rev, I'ii give you a call
on it at our next Vanguard pass and we want you to run a short
mode zero-alfa. It's short in that we're only going to take
12 (garble)
CC Okay, PMT caps switch OPEN and then CLOSE
right now, and you wanna run a short mode zero-alfa.
CC That's affirm.
CC And if I've still got you there I might as
well tell you about on your SO73 pad for this evening - the
way it was broadcast up to you it may look llke it belongs to
the PLT, but the last half of it does belong to you. Do you
happen to have that handy?
CDR Yes I do and I was going to ask you. The
shaft and the trunion are Just llke they are in the book, but
you want to go with the pad, right?
CC That is correct and we also would llke to
change that program START time. It's currently still 114.
We'd llke to change that to 01:16.
CDR Okay, you had it 01:09 to 01:14, and you
want to call it exactly 01:16, right?
CC Stand by one, Pete.
CC Okay, slight mod to that, 01:09 should be
01:14 and the 01:14 should be a 01:16.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, Pete appreciate it.
CC Skylab, Houston we're one minute from LOS.
We'll see you over Ascension at 22:22. We'll be doing a data
recorder dump at that station.
CDR (Garble)
CDR Okay, Crip, I cycled the PMT cap OPEN and
then CLOSED again.
CC Thank you very much.
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CDR You're welcome.


PAO The Skylab space station has passed out
of range of the Vanguard tracking ship. We have an announce-
ment for the press. There will be a Change-of-shlft briefing
in the news center briefing room at - starting at approximately
6:30 p.m. central daylight time. Mel Brooks, who has the
title of Manager of the Flight Operations Management Room,
acronym FOMR, will meet the press tonight to answer their
questions to give them a status report on the Skylab mission
for today. Also, another bit of information. Earth Resources
pass number 9 scheduled for tomorrow will start at Grand Forks,
North Dakota, and experiments information will be taken over
Grand Forks and over at - and along a track which takes the
spacecraft over Detroit, Washington D.C., out over the ocean,
ending up at Reclfe, Brazil, in South America. Length of the
pass is about 6800 statute miles. Tomorrow's EREP pass starts
about 7:00 a.m. central daylight time. And we'll be standing
by for acquisition of signal at the Ascension site, so we'll
just keep the line up.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-872/1
Time: 17:18 CDT 18:22:18 GMT
6/11/73

PAO We expect spacecraft acquisition at the


Ascension tracking station in about 4 minutes.
CC Skylab Houston. We're AOS over Ascension
for about 7 minutes, and we'll be doing a data recorder dump.
CDR (garble)
CC And Skylab, as you might have gathered
on that last secondary coolant loop, we didn't have any joy
in getting the valve to cycle. So, we're going to let it
set with it turned off probably over night.
CC And CDR Houston. For your information
in case it wasn't clear a while ago, the reason we're asking
for one more cycle or one more rev before we do this S073
operation is that we need it on the dark side to really be
able to determine if we've got a light leak.
CDR Okay, we've had the wardroom window
closed all the time, and I - -
CC Pete, I was really unable to copy there
due to feedback. Understand that you had the wardroom win-
dow closed.
CDR Okay. The wardroom window was closed,
that's right. And I can't think of any other place that
it could be coming in.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab Houston, we're 1 minute from
LOS. See you again at Guam at 23:06, 23:06.
PAO The S073 experiment in question during
the last couple of passes over tracking sites, is the
Gegenscheln Zodiacal light experiment. Apparently unwanted
or stray light earlier perturbed the experiment when it was
conducted at an earlier pass. And the flight controllers
and the crew are investigating in order to correct the
anomalies. Our next contact with the space station will be
at the Guam site at 23 hours 6 minutes Greenwich mean time.
And we'll be in contact for approximately 6-1/2 minutes.
We'll take the line down now. At 22 hours 31 minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-873/I
Time: 18:03 CDT 18:23:03 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 23 hours 3


minutes, Greenwich mean time, with an advisory to the press.
The change of shift briefing that had been announced earlier
as having started at 6:30 p. m. central daylight time, will
be delayed approximately one hour to 7:30 p.m. central day-
light time. Here in the Control Center they're in the pro-
cess of handing over. The Milton Windler team of controllers
are off-golng and they're handing over to the team of flight
controllers headed by Donald Puddy. We're about a minute and
a half away from acquisition of the spacecraft, the Skylab
space station, through the Guam tracking site, and we'll he
in contact for some 6-1/2 minutes. We'll stand by for any
radio transmissions that take place between the crew and
the ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam
for about 7 minutes.
CDR Hello.
CC Hello.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're uplinking to
you via the teleprinter the summary flight plan and the
evening questions.
SPT PLT says we got the teleprinter turned
off.
CC I figured you guys were about ready for
that.
SPT No, we're not ready for that yet.
CC We are down here.
(laughter)
CDR See you at the (garble) for a cold one.
CC In about 30 minutes for me.
CC And Skylab, before I leave you here. I
guess we went back and reviewed some pictures regarding the
backup tripod that was loaded, and sure enough, we got a
plate that the hole pattern was - looks like it was drilled in
with a mirror image.
PLT There you go.
CC And they asked why we did C squared S
squared.
CDR That's right.
CC Skylab, we're 1 minute from LOS. We'll
see you again at 23:44, 23:44 over Vanguard.
CDR Okay, and I gathered you wanted 12 revs
on that 08. It's all set up, ready to go.
CC Okay, that is affirmative. 12.
CDR Okay, and you gonna call us start
time. Right.
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CC That's affirm. We'll give you a call


when to initiate it.
CDR Okay.
CC Okay, we didn't get that flight plan
completely up. Had a lot of dropouts, we'll try it again
over Vanguard.
CDR Copy, copy. Okay.
PAO We've passed out of range of the Guam
tracking station. At 23 hours 12 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 18:47 CDT 18:23:47 GMT
6/11/73

CC PLT Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Our MOC was working and via TM it
appears that the S073 shutter is operating normally.
PLT Okay, thank you Bill.
PLT (garble) reported the ready light is secure.
CC TM will turn off automatically so Just
let it run.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go CDR.
CDR Roger. I noticed that the intensity is
pegged high. Do you want me to go to low gate?
CC Stand by.
CC CDR, Houston, we want you to go FOV i.
CDR FOV i.
CDR We go FOV i.
CC Copy.
CC Skylab Houston. LOS in i minute. Ascen-
sion at 23:57. And you should have a flight plan onboard
for a review.
PLT Roger Houston. Bye.
CC We'll see you.

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SL-II MC-874/I
Time: 18:42 CDT, 18:23:42 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 23 hours


42 minutes Greenwich mean time. Coming up on the Vanguard
tracking station in about a minute. Following the Vanguard
pass we should have acquisition at Ascension, the Canaries,
and Madrid for a long period of com. We'll stand by for the
air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS ii minutes.
PLT Hello, Houston where are we?
CC You're over Vanguard.
PLT Okay, and we're standing by to run S073
for you.
CC We'll give you the GO on it.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC You're GO for the experiment now. Be ad-
vised that we're having some MOC problems here and we
may not be getting TM and we'll be dependent upon data record-
ing, and we request that you verify that it is set up for
data recording.
PLT It's all set.
PLT It's all set up and we'll do it.
CC Copy.
PLT Okay, it's running.
CC Copy.

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SL-II MC-876/I
Time: 18:55 CDT 18:23:55 GMT
6/11/73

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 15 minutes.


CDR Roger.
CC And Skylab, if it won't interfere with
your activities, we have some news items a bit earlier this
evening.
PLT Go ahead, Houston.
CC First one is, the President met with top
economic advisors today, and a new economic program is ex-
pected to result from the meeting, perhaps by the middle of
the week. Just as background, you may have been following
the increase in gold prices and that sort of thing. Also,
Henry Kissinger met with the President today to try to find
new ways to enforce the cease fire in Vlet Nam. And the
Senate had a hearing on the oll and gasoline shortage, and
they heard witnesses say that this summer gas shortage may
be followed by a winter heating shortage, and that the oll
companies want to relax their pollution standards. Herets a
piece, I guess it can happen to anybody, an airliner, it
doesn't say what size, mistook Opaloca today for Miami In-
ternational and landed there. About the only other thing -
we mentioned last night that Petty won the Alamo 500, and
/ his average was 145.1.
CDR Hey, Bill (garble) race of championship
cars at Milwaukee, and if so do you know who won that, or is
it this weekend?
CC We'll try and get it for you Pete.
CDR Thank you.
CC Also, if there's anything else you people
might want, like stocks or such as that, why let me know
and we'll try to add it to the list.
CDR (garble) You're doing great.
CC And by the way, we had some big thunder
bumpers that opened up and pretty well flooded some areas
of Houston today.
CDR Still a wet year, huh.
CC Affirm.
CC Pete, the best information we can dig up
out of the group around here is that Bobby Huntza won that
race yesterday. We don't haveany details. We'll try and
get some more for you.
CDR Okay. Thank you.

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SL-II MC-877/I
Time: 19:06 CDT, 19:00:06 GMT
6/11/73

CC - we also have a letter here that we were


asked to pass along to you, addressed to Dr. Fletcher. It
says that you astronauts have done it again. The magnificence
of this accomplishment and the significance of the achieve-
ments
CC And Skylab, continuin 8 before we were so
rudely interupted there. "The magnificence of this accomplish-
ment and the significance of the achievement is nearly im-
possible to put in perspective. I know I speak for all my
colleagues in the Congress when I send this message of con-
gratulations to you with the request that you communicate
our great appreciation to the astronaut team of Conrad, Kerwln,
and Weltz. You are truly a can-do team. We salute you all"
Signed: Prank Moss, Chairman Committee on Aeronautical and
Space Sciences, United States Senate.
CDR That was very nice.
CDR We haven't done anything yet, we gotta get
through 28 days.
CC You've done pretty well so far.
CDR I don't expect to buy any (garb) with
your picking up the pace a little though.
f_ CDR We're going for the home stretch.
CC And it always looks easier going down hill.
CDR We had meal six tonight. That's every-
body's - well, that's Paul and my favorite meal. Joe's is
I don't know what night his is but we chowed down pretty good
tonight. That's stuff our big Sunday night dinner.
CC We copy that.
CC Do you count your days by the meal cycles
there?
CDR (Garble) various schemes.
CDR How many more times we have to 171 or how
many more times we have to change this bag or that thing -
CC We copy.
CC 172 wasn't too bad today was it Pete?
CDR Oh, I didn't do that, Joe did that nasty
stuff. He's working on my throat culture or something. Hers
got his instruments out and he's working his way around with
them there.
CC Copy.
SPT I have my hobby up here. I have my do-it-
yourself real doctor kit. Right now I'm staining the slides.
CC Very good, maybe you'll grow a new variation
up there, (garble)
SPT I can't even tell yon what it looks llke.
The M172 went fairly Smoothly today, Bill and the numbers looked
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pretty good.
CC Okay, thank you again.
SPT And you know we did not do the procedure
in the morning weight because I thought the pad was a cal-
ibration pad and I didn't even look at it until breakfast, but
we'll do that tomorrow morning.
CC Okay.
CDR (Garble) The orbits have been changing, Bill,
we been going - coming up on our sleep time over Australia -
that it good high noon conditions and the weather's been good
and we've got some pretty good looks at all of Australia and
New Zealand, which y'all see (garble) It was always night
time in Australia or just barely barely daylight much of
Australia.

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SL-II MC-878/I
Time: 19:11 CDT 19:00:11 GMT
6/11/73

" CDR And we've gotten some pretty good looks


at all of Australia and New Zealand. On all of my previous
flights it was always night time in Australia or Just barely
barely daylight in much of Australia.
CC Yeah, we copy that.
CC And be advised that S073 is completed.
CDR Okay, I'ii just the recording box.
CC SPT Houston.
CC Delay that. Delay that. PLT Houston.
PLT Go.
CC We'd like for you to lock the star tracker
now. The inner gimbal is plus 0177, outer gimbal plus 1981.
PLT Okay wait until I get a piece of paper.
You'll have to read them over Bill.
CC Wilco.
PLT Okay, say again the angles.
CC Inner gimbal plus 0177, outer gimbal
plus 1981.
PLT You say you wanted that now or when it's
available?
CC When it's available.
p
PLT Okay, some of it is not abailable right
nOW.
CC That's affirm.
CC And Skylab, we'll be LOS in 1 minute.
Guam AOS 00:41, and we will be dumping the recorder over
Guam.
CC And Pete, a little more information on
that Rex Mayes memorial in Milwaukee. And he finished i0
seconds in front of Roger McKlusky. Gary Bettenhousen was
third, and his speed was 108 miles an hour. And there were
no accidents.
CDR Good show, thank you.
PAO The Skylab space station has moved out
of range of the Madrid tracking site, the last of a number
of stations that had contact over the last 35- 40 minutes.
Guam is the next tracking site, and we have acquisition of
signal in about 23 minutes. Copies of the Frank E. Moss
telegram to Dr. James C. Fletcher congratulating the team
and the astronauts are available. Copies of that telegram
are available in the News Center Briefing Room. At 18 min-
utes into the new day, that is day of the year 163, this is
Skylab Control.

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t_ SL-II MC-879/I
Time: 19:32 CDT 19:00:32 GMT
6/i1/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, 32 minutes into


the new day, Greenwich mean time. The change of shift status
report will take place momentatily with Milton Wlndler_ the
off-going flight director, and is head of the Maroon Team,
responding to questions from the press. We're about 8 minutes
from acquisition through the Guam station. We'll take the
llne down and tape any of the information coming from the
crew or going up to it through the Guam station. At 33
minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-880/I
Time: 20:15 CDT, 19:01:15 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at one hour 15 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. During the - during the press
conference that - the change-of-shlft briefing that we Just con-
cluded, there was some four and a half minutes of air-to-ground
that took place over the Guam tracking station. And we're
prepared to play that for you now.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Guam for i0 minutes.
PLT Go ahead, Houston.
CDR I'll have the evening status report for
you in just a minute.
CC We're standing by Pete.
CDR Okay, Houston, the CDR ate everything plus
i0 optional salts, plus two butter cookies - two cans of butter
cookies, that is.
CDH The SPT had everythin_ except one coffee
with sugar. No optional salts, no Delta H20. And he's going
to have two cans of butter cookies.
CDR And the PLT ate everything except one cof-
fee with sugar and he had no Delta H20 and seven optional
salts.
PLT (Girble)
CDR And that's it for the food. Are you ready
for the photo report for day 161?
CC We're ready Pete. Go ahead.
CDR Okay, 16 millimeter EREP the H Bravo Hotel
02. I'm sorry - day 162 - I was reading you the wrong button.
Bravo Hotel 02, 80 percent remaining and yesterday on 160
day 161 we reported 65 percent remaining and I think he mis-
read that - that's an 85 for 161 and 80 for today. And we
did verify that the film is running. M516-2CI, 05, 40, CIOI.
M151/S073 PR and extend. CI08, 18, CIO7; 35 millimeter: C127
is complete, C129, 32 oh I have to look at this a minute.
The C128 is 12. The SO6 is 91. The ETC, 135. EREP that
pop-up 17145, 2 with 6481, 3 was 7357, 4 was 7352, 5 was
0896, and 6 was 8212. Drawer A configuration is as follows:
Alfa i is 02, Charlie India 05.0, Charlie India 01. Alfa
2 was 03, Charlie India 06, 62, Charlie India 03. A3 is 06,
Charlie India 08 18, Charlie India 07, 04 is 05 - A4 is 05,
Charlie India, 25, i00 percent, MTII. Okay the flight plan
was accomplished as written - I don't know of any deviations
any anomalies that you're aware of - no stowage changes
and no inoperable equipment that you're aware of. The flight
plan for tomorrow looks busy but good.
CC Copy.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS in 30 seconds.
Coming up on Vanguard at 01:21. And, Pete we've got some
clarification on that incomplete second question last night.
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What they're really after is when you turned on the loop - the
LCG loop in relation to suiting up. And you have a medical
conference scheduled for the next pass. That should have been
the SUS loop instead of the LCG loop.
CDR We're going to have to reset that one. I
don't really remember it.
PAO We're about a half a minute from the Vanguard
tracking ship and at that time when we will have the evening
or the daily - rather the daily medical conference. We'll
stand by - we'll keep the loop up during this Vanguard pass,
standing by.

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Time: 20:21 CDT 19:01:21 GMT
6/11/73

CDR Houston Skylab.


CC Go Sky!ab.
CDR Okay, on the flight plan for tomorrow
for the CDR from 20:00 on to 23:00, that S073 stuff looks
all goofed up to me. You got me running 2 programs that
retract again on MI51 and then running another program and
then retracting it again. I don't think that's right. Can
you see if you can get that straightened out between now and
the next pass and let me know if it's goofed up or not. Because
I just don't understand it.
CC Wilco CDR.
CDR Also, it says to extend it first thing
in the morning on this flight plan. And we have nothing up
here tonight that says to retract it. I need that straightened
out also.
CDR Did you get that?
CDR Goodbye.
CC CDR, we'll be LOS here in approximately
15 seconds. We'll go at Canary at 01:41. And the details
that are coming up shortly should explain the flight plan.
The retraction is 7 to 2 rods, that also is on the detail
F plan.
CDR Okay. (garble)
CC (garble)
CDR (garble)
PAO We've had loss of signal from the Vanguard
site. We'll be back up to the Canary Island tracking station
in about i0 minutes for a 9 minute pass there. At i hour
31 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-882/I
Time: 20:40 CDT 19:01:40 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 1 hoar 40


minutes, Greenwich mean time. The space station is approach-
ing the Canary Island tracking site, where we will have con-
tact for about 9-1/2 minutes. We'll stand by for the radio
transmission through the Canaries.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS approximately 14
minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for approximately
14 minutes.
PLT Hi there Houston.
CC And someone was talking when we went
over the hill before, and we didn't get the last comments.
CDR That was me saying that I wasn't really
sure I believed you. That when I got the details tomorrow
it'd all be be plain tome what out flight
plan was, but I' ii give it a try.
CC Copy, Pete.
CDR I do have some reservations. You got
enough photo TV stuff tied in with the rest of the stuff
that it looks to me like I'm gonna run behind in the
afternoon. That's Just my offhand guess right now. I'ii
scurry and do the best I can.
f CC Copy. And those pads should be coming
up on this pass. Also we're configuring the GYROS for the
sleep and that's why I want 2 on the line and 1 and 3 as
back-up.
SC (garble) down there if the GYROS worked
the way they were supposed to work?
CDR We're working on a new game up here
Houston. It's called get the rubber ball back to you. Try-
ing out the water ring lockers first.
CC Which ball you using, Pete?
CDR The big rubber one, but it gives up
energy awful fast though. It kind of poops out after four
or five bounces.
CC Copy.
CDR What we really need is one of those
super balls.
CC Yeah, it must be some sort of ESP going
along. That comment just came from two people down here
as well.
CC You can always pull down a couple of
those big lockers and drop half of them down like medical
halls, I guess.
CDR Yeah, we did that with 183 and S073,
that heavy gear, we throw that around for exercise.
CC You're coming too close tonight,Pete.
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6/11/73

CC Pete, how much noise and vibration do


you have in that thing up there? Sounded pretty quite on
your read-downs the other day.
CDR It's very quiet in here. If the DAF
meter was right, the noisiest part is up in the MDA. It's
about 64 DB, and down here in the workshop, the wardroom
and the bedrooms runs about 55.
CC How about vibration? Can you feel
much in the framework and such?
CDR There's no vibration at all. We can
hear - you can't hardly hear the fans running, what we can
really hear running are the refrigeration pumps, and there's no
vibration. We got a friendly hunk of meteoroid shield or something
outside, though that crackles. Especially when we go in the
dark. Very loud and plain. One big crunch. It does it
every night when we go in the dark. That's about it.
CC Yeah, we heard about that one the
other night.
CDR We were glad to see the other experiments
come up, because we've been running about 3 days now_ on essent-
ially the same routines for everybody and we were just re-
marking we needed a little change of pace, and tomorrow
looks like it will do it.

CC Yeah, therets usually something though


to turn things around after a period down here.

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SL-II MC-883/I
Time: 20:46 CDT 19:01:46 GMT
6/11/73

CC - - And review something now. To turn


things around after a period down here_
CC There is a certain amount of casual re-
quests for crew time going on down here as you might imagine.
PLT uh-huh.
CDR Don't worry, we find plenty of things
to keep ourselves busy with.
CC What I meant was, one investigator might be
casually requesting another investigator to give up a bit
of time, this sort of thing.
CDR I see. Well you know it's sort of like
Joe and Paul were good boys tonight, so I let Joe have the
command module and Paul have 509.
CC Copy.
CDR The PLT spends his spare time looking for
new places to sleep.
CC Have you tried letting him sleep strapped in
the 509 yet?
CDR Yeah Hank, we're ready to charge the bat-
teries and the bottles on 509. We got it all activated last
night.
CC Your translation modes up there are pretty
interesting. I had predicted the links weren't always going to
be too useful there. And I noticed that Joe seems to keep his
pretty well tucked up under his.
CDR Everybody has their own way of going,
and it depends on what you're doing. Joe likes - when
he's working and he's got to be held down s Joe uses the
lollipop. I've stuck strictly with the triangle shoes,
depending on the task, or I wear my slipper shoes. It's
a matter of what I'm going to do. When" I'm going to run the ATM,
I don't need the triangle shoes. So, we've got all kinds of dif-
ferent ways of trying to do it, doing his own thing. But essen-
tially I think the most important thing is that all of us can
do all the tasks and we really don't have too much trouble
doing them. As I said earlier and it still applies, if it's
got a lot of little pieces that you've got to hold on to keep
track of a lot of things, it slows you up a little bit.
But that's about the only difference up here than down there.
We've adapted very well. Everybody - well if you're Just resting,
we just free float and wind up wherever we wind up, in the
ceiling, on the floor, over in the corner, ricocheting off the
walls, and it doesn't seem to bother us.
CDR We've also gotten to where we can turn
the vehicle right side up or upside down, dependlng on how
we want to do it. If you want to stand on the ceiling for
a while, after a while everything looks perfectly natural
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that way.
CC Copy that. And we gathered that you had
some pretty efficient ways of hanging on, some of which left
us mystified down here as how you seemed to he stabilizing
with feet, with a no apparent way of doing it. You didn't
appear to be in triangle shoes or anything, yet you seemed
to be hanging on some way.
SC Don't tell, don't tell. (garble)
CDR Well, I won't
CDR Well, it's like I'm talking to you right
now. You know, you asked how we adapt. I'm in the wardroom
and my feet are up in the ceiling and my head is over the
SIA with my back to the window. And I'm just dusting over
here, you know Just free floating up in the air with my
feet in the ceiling.
CDR Are you still there, Houston?
CC Say again Pete?
CDR We did rig the fireman's pole. You know
we've been using the strap, and we rigged the fireman's pole
the other day. And the only thing about it is as I went up
and did a couple of little wing dings around it, and I dis-
covered even more so than you see this on the other things,
that you've got to watch the old conservation of momentum,
because I started circling it stretched fully out at arms
length and went and pulled myself into the pole. And I
really got wrapped up. That's the one device I think that
you can get yourself going on where you can get flung off
and get hurt if you weren't careful.
CC We copy that. Ballerinas probably could
have made some comment on that one.

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/_ SL-II MC- 884/i
Time: 20:51 CDT, 19:01:51 GMT
6/11/73

CC Dr. Ballerinas probably could have made


some comment on that one.
CC And Pete, those details are onboard for
your flight plan.
CDR Okay, we just had a first here. Paul fired
one from the experiments compartment down off the top of the
trash airlock and it returned all the way to where, Paul,
the commam module - made it all the way to the command
module.
CC Is that that miserable little sponge ball
that has very little elasticity at all?
CDR Oh, no, this is a blue rubber ball, regular
rubber ball.
CC Copy.
CC One last question, Pete. When you apply
force to a body - your body. Do you get into much trouble
with rolls and that sort of thing? Or do you pretty well
sense where the center of gravity is?
CDR No, you sense real easy where it is. I -
I mean we're not perfect because - mainly because of the kind of
things that you're taking off from - but you have a pretty good
s idea how you want to take off. And you may not be able to
push off the particular object just in the right manner, but
we've gotten pretty good. I think the MI51 movies and stuff
will show you a lot more than the television did about how
well we get around. But we've really adapted. I'm really con-
vinced that the first day back we're going to leap out of
bed and land right on our heads.
CC Yeah, we've got a football helmet set aside
for you on that one Pete.
CDR Be helpful.
CDR Are you still there, Bill?
CC Yeah, we're still here, we've got about
a minute and a half.
CDR One of the other things that I've noticed
is that in holding ourselves while we're out here and doing
our tasks we really use our stomach muscles. It's really
interesting - I - the first three or four days that we were
up here we kept finding ourselves just - really holding
our stomachs to hold the right position - that you use your
stomach muscles more than anything else I think in holding
wherever you are. In working on it, whatever it is that you're
working on.
CC Yeah, there's some pretty good physiological
reasons for that because normally all of the vertebral muscles
are on the back side to take care of center gravity on Earth.
And you really don't have much required on Earth. So, we're
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going LOS here in about 45 seconds and at Honeysuckle we'll


be AOS at 02:29.
CDR Okay.
PAO We've had loss of signal with the Skylab
space station. On this pass they started at the Canary Island
tracking station and then had an overlap with the Madrid station.
And came up with a very interesting thought - explanation of
how it is to live, work, and I guess, play, in space. Earlier
there was a daily medical conference and the results of that
conference are available to us now as written by Dr. Charles
E. Ross. Dr. Ross writes: "The Skylab crew is in good physical
condition following their day of activities. The crew continues
to eat well and the iodinated water tastes good according to
the Science Pilot, Dr. Joseph Kerwin. The Science Pilot did
perform a throat culture and slide study from material taken
from the Commander's throat. He stated that the microscope and
slide stainer worked well. We will next acquire the space station
over the Honeysuckle site in 31 minutes. The pass there will
be approximately eight minutes long. And at one hour 3g min-
utes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-885/I
Time: 21:28 CDT 19:02:28 GMT
6/11/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston. Two


hours 28 minutes, Greenwich mean time. The space station
is approaching the Honeysuckle, Australia tracking site for
what will probably be the last communication for the night.
We'll stand by for air to ground with the crew through
the Honeysuckle station.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 7 minutes at
Honeysuckle.
PLT Roger.
CC CDR, Houston.
PLT Say again.
CC Is the CDR available?
PLT He's listening.
CC Will you have a opportunity to answer
the evening questions this pass since this is the last one
before going to sleep.
PLT Okay, wait a minute. Let me go get
him.
CDR The answer to question number 1 is on
B channel. I Just put it on there, about the locker door.
CC Copy.
f PLT I got a question. I have an evening
question for the EREP people, Houston.
CC Go.
PLT Does the TV camera, - I guess it doesn't
does it. The TV camera, when it's stalled on the VPS, does not
look through the yellow filter, does it, I think, question?
CC That one's being worked.
SPT And Houston, SPT. The answer to question
two is I woke up.
CC (Laughter) Copy, Joe.
CDR And he blew all his fuses. Are you
ready for question three?
CC Okay.
CDR Three Alpha, no. Bravo, no. Charlie, no.
Delta, yes. Anytime it got ready to stop. Echo, no. Foxtrot,
yes.
CC Thank you very much.
CDR That new Beta angle that we got in the Alpha
(garble). get a look at going forward in orbit. I see my old
buddy the Moon out there in front of us coming up. It looks
pretty nice.
CC We copy.
CDR We're just coming up on New Zealand. I
think I'ii get a few pictures of that.
CC You're sure that's not Puerto Rico.
CDR You said Honeysuckle before I said New
Zealand.
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CC Copy.
CC PLT, the TV does not look through the
yellow filter. We're going LOS here in a few seconds and
we'll see you tomorrow.
PLT Good night.
PAO We've had loss of signal through the
Honeysuckle tracking station. And the Capcom Bill Thornton
gave the crew a good night, thus ending another busy day,
mission day 18. At 2 hours 38 minutes, Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-886/I
_ Time: 05:56 CDT, 19:10:56 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours 58 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. And we're preparing to wake the
crew up over Hawaii, where we'll be acquiring in about
1 minute. An active day of experiments are scheduled. We have
an early EREP pass, number 9. During this EREP pass, the sensors
will be turned on over Grand Forks, North Dakota, and 20 min-
utes later they'll be turned off over the Atlantic Ocean,
near Recife, Brazil. They'll be obtaining data over the Great
Lakes, the Washington_ DC area, and the Atlantic Ocean. We're
about 30 seconds away now from acquisition of signal. Our
flight director at the present time is Nell Hutchinson and
CAP COM, spacecraft communicator, is Hank Hartsfield. In
addition to the EREP experiments today, the crew will be per-
forming medical experiments, M092 and MITI, as well as a full
round of ATM activities - the Apollo telescope mount.
CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.
SC Good morning. We've been up for a half
hour. You still (garble) all night?
CC Paul, it seems llke it. We got about
8-1/2 minutes left here at Hawaii.
SC Oh, okay, Hank. You sounded llke Bill
when you first came on.
f SC Hey, Henry.
CC Go ahead.
SC Got a question for the (garble). It
doesn't have to be answered now. The next pass or so.
For the EREP TV this morning, yon know we've been doing every-
thing on channel A; what we're proposing is to operate as we
normally do and go VOX on channel A and voice record A. And
this morning what we're proposing to do is plug in the
connector to the VTR into channel A to voice record that
channel instead of B. I just want to verify if that's okay.
CC Okay, I'ii get an answer.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from
LOS; Goldstone will be coming up at ii.
SC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's all through
Hawaii. An alert sounding crew this morning. And we'll be
acquiring over Goldstone in about a minute and a half. We'll
keep the lines up live for that Goldstone acquisition and
subsequent pass over the continental United States. Our
change-of-shlft briefing will occur i hour and 30 minutes
early this morning. And the flight teams will handover early,
and Flight Director Nell Hutchinson will hold a change-of-
shift briefing in the JSC News Center briefing room at 7:15
a.m. central daylight time. We're now less than 1 minute
from Goldstone acquisition.

END OF TAPE
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_-_ Time: 06:10 CDT, 19:11:10 GMT
6/12/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone for


6-1/2 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC And, Paul, answering your question, we
concur. We think putting the voice on the VTR is a good idea.
PLT Okay. We were going to do that anyway.
I just wanted to make - confirm that just pushing the channel A
doesn't glitch anything.
CC Roger.
PLT (Garble), Houston. You there?
CC Roger. We got about 1 minute left.
PLT Okay, something for the S073 guys to
think about. According to our calculations, S073 is not going
to phase the program it's in right now before it has to be
secured to put the other rods on.
CC Okay; we'll take a look at that.
SC Did you want us to do it? I tell you
what - Pete said he ran it out at 01 something. According to
our onboard procedures book, that takes i0 revs to complete
that, and so that's not going to be done for another - it's
only been i0 hours now; it's only two-thirds of the way through,
I guess, something - -
CC Okay; we'll work that. And we're about
I0 seconds from LOS. Bermuda will be coming up at 22.
PLT See ya.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-888/I
Time: 06:20 CDT, 19:11:20 GMT
6/12/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda for 9-1/2


minutes.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. An answer to the
question on the S073 - we plan to terminate that program early.
And it's in the remarks section of message 1923. It talks
how to terminate it by cycling the power off.
SC Roger.
SC Thanks, Hank. We just hadn't quite made
it all the way through the 22 footer you sent us last night.
CC Roger.
SC That's the only trouble with that. I
wish there was some way you could get those early morning
remarks, llke inhibit momentum dump. Any of that stuff that's
in PSA, and we really hussle it to find it in the morning.
You know? And I don't know what you can do to work on that,
but the flight planners might think about it. l'd sure
appreciate the details of the - things that you want during the
PSA the night before, if possible. Because it catches us with
our pants down every time.
CC Roger. We were Just talking about that.
F We see that as a weakness in the way we're operating. We
don't know yet what we can do about it.
SC Well, maybe you can't fix it for our
flight, but it's something to think about for the future.
Because it (garble). And it's real easy for something there
to crack.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. If it's convenient,
we'd sure like to know the position of the FILTER WHEEL AUTO
SWITCH on the S073.
SC It's in the center A and B position.
CC Roger. Center A and B
SC That's right, isn't it?
CC That's affirmative.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS;
Canary coming up at 33.

END OF TAPE
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Time: 06:32 CDT, 19:11:32 GMT
6/12/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Canary and Ascen-


sion for 15-1/2 minutes.
SC Roger.
CC Skylah, Houston. _or info only, we're
reconfiguring the rate gyros for daytime OPS.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC890/I
Time: 06:44 CDT, 19:11:44 GMT
6/12/73

CC Skylab, Houston. Telemetry is showing


that experiment 1 and 2 recorders are not running. Could
you check that out and perhaps find out, if you can, why they
stopped and get them going again?
SC Well, we stopped running them because the
experiment stopped. We didn't know you wanted them to keep running.
CC Oh, the experiment stopped?
SC We terminated S073. (Garble) extended it
to (garble) right now.
CC Roger; copy.
SC You want them on now, Hank?
CC Negative, we got a little mix up down here.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Carnarvon at 12. I'd like to remind
you you have a inhibit momentum dump scheduled at 11:55.
SC Okay, thanks for reminder, Hank.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Now we're now out
of range through the Ascension Tracking Station. Be reacquiring
over Carnarvon, Australia in 22 minutes. The change-of-shift
briefing scheduled for 7:15 will be delayed at least 30 minutes.
We'll give you a reschedule time on that as soon as we are com-
plete with our shift handover. On the crew's schedule for today,
an active day of experiments, which includes an Earth Resources
Experiments pass, EREP pass number 9. That'll occur beginning
on revolution 416, continuing on into rev 417. And we expect
to get television of the visual tracking system targets. We
expect the VTS system with the TV attached. We'll begin pro-
viding pictures over Minnesota. However, the crew will be track-
ing the jet stream cirrus clouds. They'll also be looking at
a storm front below the Great Lakes on over across Lake Michigan,
perhaps extending as far as Lake Erie. And they'll be tracking
Washington, D.C. for about I minute, continuing on off the
coast into the Atlantic looking for chlorophyll bloome off
the east coast. About the time we lose contact with Skylab,
they'll be tracking trade wind cumulous buildup and also
tracking the intertropical convergent zone weather patterns.
Data collected on the EREP 9 pass will he used to support
studies of wildlife habitat in North Dakota. Also hydrologic
and cartographic information will be obtained in the Great Lakes
Region. They'll be gathering information useful in natural
resources management in Ohio and will also be collecting
data on the state of Maryland's environmental impact on the
Chesapeake Bay Region. Also looking at sea surface features
in the Atlantic Ocean.
PAO We'll he reacquiring over Carnarvon now
in 18-1/2 minutes. At ii hours _4 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control. ___ [_ _ _2_,_

/_k END OF TAPE


SL-II MC-891/I
Time: 07:ii CDT, 19:12:11 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours ii min-


utes Greenwich mean time. About a minute away from acquiring
Skylab over the Carnarvon, Australia, Tracking Station. The
space station in its 416th revolution. Coming up on the United
States this pass, we'll have an EREP data gathering pass for
27 minutes. We have not rescheduled the change-of-shift press
briefing. The briefing is being delayed by a delay in the
shift handover, which in turn is occasioned by the inclement
weather here in Houston. A number of the flight team members
of the on-coming team have not yet made it into the Control
Center. Until that shift handover is completed, we obviously
will not have a change-of-shlft briefing. And we'll keep you
informed on the situation there, and get the briefing re-
scheduled as soon as possible.
CC Good morning, Skylab; Houston. We're
AOS over Carnarvon for 9 minutes.
SC (Garble)
CC Skylab, Houston. If somebody gets an
opportunity, we would appreciate it if you'd turn SUS 2 PUMP
PRIMARY first, in preparation for some troubleshooting. We're
going to do a try on that secondary COOLANT LOOP later on
today.
CDR Would you repeat the step, please, Crlp?
CC Roger. On panel 217, would you turn SUS 2
PUMP PRIMARY. That's if you - -
CDR SUS 2 PUMP TO PRIMARY.
CC Roger; at your convenience.
CDR Okay, Crip, SUS 2 217 to PRIMARY.
CC Roger. Thank you, Pete.
CC Skylab, Houston, We're about 15 seconds
from LOS. See you again over Guam at 12:27.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal now over Australia. Be reaequiring in 4-1/2 minutes
from the Guam Tracking Station. And the crew busily involved
at the present time preparing for EREP 9 data pass over the
United States and down over South America. It's a 27-minute
pass, using the EREP sensors. Also on the Flight Plan for
today, operation of the S073, gegenschein-zodlacal light experi-
ment; and medical experiments, M092 and MI71, will be performed
by the commander, Pete Conrad, and pilot, Paul Weitz. Also a
full day of Apollo telescope mount operations, and experiment
M551, which will be involved with examining the flow of molten
metals and the characteristic of various metal alloys in zero
gravity. And we have a fairly active day of housekeeping chores,
as usual. Also expect to get s_m_ television beginning at
7:50 central daylight time. Of _t_e first T_ that we'll see
will be through the EREP visual tracking system. And the crew
will be tracking targets in Minnesota, across the Great Lakes,
and over Washington, D.C. Getting a look at Washington, D.C.,
for about 1 minute. We'll be acquiring now at Guam in 2-1/2
minutes. We'll keep the lines up for that acquisition.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC892/I
Time: 07:25 CDT 19:12:25 GMT
6/12/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam for


about 6 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC Roger. And for your information, we were
a little bit late getting the ATM completely closed out from
unattended operations. And there are a few items we still
need to do, but we'll catch those after your ZLV pass, and
it shouldn't - shouldn't be any effect on you.
SC Okay, we'll catch you now if you like.
CC No, that's okay. I think it would be easier
just to catch them later. And for your info, the weather looks
real good, especially down around the Chesapeake area today. It's
mostly clear, which is more than we can Say for Houston.
SPT This is the SPT. Which star are we tracking
during ZLV? Is that Jupiter?
CC That's affirm. That message may have been
a little bit confusing, but that's affirmative. We are locked
onto Jupiter.
SC Okay.
CC And for your information, as we did yesterday
without a warning, you might expect a CMG saturation during
your ZLV maneuver today. So you might want to imhibit that
C&W.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from LOS.
We'll have you again over Goldstone for the pass at 15, and we're
looking forward to joining Paul on the VTS.
SC Yeah.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We have had loss of
signal now through Guam. And we'll just be missing the
acquisition - acquisition through Hawaii on this revolution.
Acquiring in about 15 minutes 45 seconds at Goldstone for
the start of that Earth Resources Experiment pass. At the present
time we're receiving a bit of television that was taken yesterday,
stored on the onboard recorder and dumped in the early morning
hours at Mila, being brought in from Mila to Uouston at the
present time. This will be part of the TV6 and TV7, which will
be replayed this morning.
PAO This bit of video had a replay including
a small piece of ATM video, also taped and being shipped in from
the Mila Tracking Station.
PAO That appears to be all of the television
from Mila. We're checking with the site at this time to
see if they have anything further for us before taking
the line down.
PAO And Mila confirms that they have no furhter
television coming to us at this time. We'll he acquiring over
Goldstone in 6-1/2 minutes. At 12 hours 44 minutes Greenwich
f mean time, this is Skylab Control.
, \
END OF TAPE _
/_ SL II MC893/I
Time: 07:49 CDT, 19:12:49 GMT
6/12/73

PAO Skylab Control, and we have acquisition.


The crew on VOX at this time. We'll pick up their conversation.
SC ...5310; think it out.
CC Okay.
SC Otherwise you may not get it. All right.
How do you read, Crip?
CC Loud and clear.
SC Two by 2.
CC Good TV.
SC Trying to see some Bibllcal movie just before
the heavens opened up.
SC Right.
SC Still over water?
SC No - well, I don't know. All I can see
is clouds.

CC Should be just coming up on Puget Sound.


SC Beautiful Puget Sound.
SC Tell Don Lindsey he was right. You cannot
tell the difference between the no filter and the light
yellow filter in this VTS, Crlp.
CC Okay.
PAO Our EREP officer reports that looking
straight down your field of view is about 7 nautical miles.
SC Hey, a FAC zoom?
SC Out, in. Yes, out.
SC How's your resolution down there on the TV,
Bob? It sure isn't any too hot on our monitor.
CC It's hard to tell with clouds.
SC Yeah, I know. Now we got a bunch of
black specks all over the monitor. Are you getting them
also?
CC Affirm.
SC Wonder what they're on?
SC That's interesting.
SC Let me - let's (garble) and get a -
SC Well, they're obviously not on the lens
because we don't have the lens on,! and those spots were on
there the other day.

SC Well, but there's glass in between there. /


SC Yes, it's the color wheel.
SC No, I'm talking about that whole (garble).
SC Yes, but that's not what those spots are
on,

SC How do youiknow _wh!at the spots are on?


SC Cause the %pots were there the other day
when we were operating out the window with the TV lens. Okay.?
SL-II MC893/2
Time: 07:49 CDT, 19:12:49 GMT
6/12/73

SC Something internal to the system.


SC Are you getting those spots on the indoor
shots also, Houston?
CC I'll check on that. I haven't seen them
before.
SC Some on the - out the window that we did
for you.
SC Five seconds the EREP systems crunch.
SC MARK. I need an AUTO CAL on my Mark.
SC Good. 4, 3, 2, 1 -
SC MARK it. 94 MARK, MODE MANUAL.
SC Up, but it's not very good, whatever it
is on.

CC Looks like a lake or river going by.


SC Yeah.
SC It's pretty hazy, Bob, and we can't see much.
Low sun angle, a lot of haze. It's pretty far out. Let's
just track this nadir once and see how it looks.
CC It looks pretty fair.
SC You want me to try to wipe those spots off
from that?
SC Let's not do it now. I'll check it after
f the pass.
SC There's no way you're going to get those
spots off.
SC Well, how do you know? It could be on
the glass right here on the view port.
SC It's not. I tell you it was on the outer
window too the other day. I remember playing with it to look
at the ice crystals.
SC Then why don't they show up on the indoor
ones?

SC Because I think they're just getting on


the indoor ones.

CC They're not bothering us.


SC They're bothering me.
SC He couldn't get them off. The color wheel - -
SC It's 10 degrees forward there. Hey, there's
a lousy picture on the monitor. How's yours?
CC It's kind of faded. Looks llke not much
light.

SC You're right; there's no_ c_lo_.


SC Okay, that's (gi_M_) rlght_ow.
CC Smooth tracking.
SC That's all IMC.

SC Standing by for a 191 READY light in 5 seconds.


SL-II MC893/3
Time: 07:49 CDT, 19:12:49 GMT
6/12/73

SC I have it at 49. 92 is going to


MODE READY on my mark.
SC MARK. In recorder, S190 to MODE AUTO.
At 0392, going to MODE CHECK. At 14, CHECK 14. (Garble)
the altimeter is on. (garble) 32, SI90 intervalometer 8.
Ooh, there's a town. Gee, this town looks (garble) B30 of
(garble).
SC There's an airport. You see it?
SC Oh, yeah, I can see it on the monitor.
SC Crip.
CC TV's cutting out on us.
CC We lost on the handover.
SC You there, Houston?
CC Affirm.
SC Okay.
CC Be at your airfield briefly.
SC Okay, I didn't know I got it or not. And
we're going over some overcast cloud level - layer now.
Jet stream cirrus clouds, I can't really tell. That could very
well be what we have here. I got a (garble) nothing look at.
SC You do, and it's going to break up in a
f minute over (garble)
SC That's good. Lake Michigan.
SC Lake Michigan is clear.
SC Look at her.
SC Well, let me track Lake Michigan for a
few seconds, Crlp. I've (garble) those (garble) quickly.
SC Altimeter to STANDBY.
SC Say again.
CC Clouds look good from here.
SC RAD ON; SCAT's on.
SC Hey, we're doing a good Job on the clouds,
huh?
CC Affirm.
CC (Garble) up.
SC Oh, we'll find a way.
SC MARK MEDIUM on S190.
SC Okay, now we want funnel clouds.
SC Whoever is calling these clouds is doing
a pretty good Job of it, Houston.
CC Roger.
SC MODE READY. _Altlmeter'W_nt to MODE 5.
SC Oh, that's (garble) MODE READY.
SC There's some pollution in the lower right corner
of your screen there, coming into a lake.
SC (garble)
SC Yeah.
_" SC This must be - this must be Cleveland.
SC That was the west end of Lake Erie.

END OF TAPE
/_ SL-II MC894/I
Time: 08:00 CDT, 19:13:00 GMT
6-12-73

SC (garble)
PLT How's the west bend of Lake Erie?
SPT There's clouds right at the west end.
Detroit and Cleveland are - look both clear, and the center
of the lake is loud and clear.
CDR SCAT to STANDBY. PAD to STANDBY.
SC RAD's OFF; SCAT's ON.
CDR Awful hazy in the Washingto area, Houston.
CC Too early in the morning.
SC A shutter speed flow on 190, i minute.
SPT SCAT to STANDBY. PAD to STANDBY.
PLT You can't make out enough detail.
SPT 92 to CHECK. 3A is ON (noise)
SPT Be out over the Atlantic now.
SPT Yeah.
SPT 190 inner velometer to 18. (Garble) for an
S190 READY out at 04:36.
CDR Ah-h-h, it's nice and clear out there
as the sun comes up.
PLT I couldn't find Washington; it was
right under the edge of a cloud layer.
SPT Roger. And it was supposed to have been
clear.
PLT Yeah.
PLT It's sure frustrating. I can see the
river and that but I couldn't quite find Washington.
SPT I think it was a high cirrus form stuff
combined or (garble), Crip. I just couldn't make out features
on the ground up the river.
CC Roger.
PLT Yeah, it was haze. I took some wide angle
shots of the whole area but I couldn't (garble) very clearly.
CC For us to know steady you can hold the
thing.
SC Oh, yeah. It's easy to track.
PLT Now I'll track this little cloud coming
up here. Why wait? Yeah, we got to wait.
SC It's beautiful.
CC I think you can do that good in the
trainer.
SC It's just about the same, as a matter
of fact.
CDR Altimeter to STANDBY, MODE 2.
CDR Somebody ought to look at the S190
calculations they get. A READY light went out a long
time ago.
CC Roger.
_- SC Altimeter is ON.
SL-II MC-894/2
Time: 08:00 CDT 19:13:00 GMT
6/12/73

SC Ah-h-h.
PLT You and me.
CDR This is my second coffee.
CC You know you guys could do EREP in your
sleep there.
SC Oh, yeah.
SC I;ii tell you, that's the only way to
do it though - is to work this console every day.
CC Right.
SC Your pads are good though ; I got plenty
of time.
CC The planning guys will like that.
PLT Okay, you're the trained one. (Garble)
coming up here now.
CDR Tell you what tickles me is to see all
this gear (garble). Now that we got power in here and
some heat in here, to see all this gear come on just llke
it's supposed to.
PLT Yes, everything is working - -
CDR Yes, it's really working good.
CDR The stations are all good now.
CC Roger.
/r CDR At least from our point of view up here,
it looks like you're going to have good data on that tape.
CDR Probably we wouldn't have had a seven
rod extension there; so 73 on the minus-Z SAL (garble) see, and
we got that. Even with two rods you can see it out the
wardroom window.
CC Ah, so.
PLT We'll take some suitable pictures of it
for the PI.
CDR And speaking of that, the seven rod
extension went very easy. _on' d be interested in noting that
the wire bundle had memory in it going out. So I got
about (garble) for the next half of the rods.
CC Roger.
SC Stand by for 839.
PLT Not so many cumuli in the trade winds
today.
CC Roger. We've lost the TV now.
PLT Yeah.
CDR Stand by MODE 3, and bang her back ON
at 54 for 93.
SC (Garble) coming up in nine minutes and zero
seconds.
SC 911 - S190 MODE 1 -
PLT MARK, 9 minutes.
CC Okay, i minute to LOS; Ascension at
f- 13:08.
f_ SL-II MC-894/3
Time: 08:00 CDT 19:13:00 GMT
6/12/73

SC Okay.
SC MARK S190 MODE AUTO.
PLT Okay stand by for another MARK in i0
minutes, MARK in i0 minutes.

END OF TAPE

f-
/_ SL-II MC-895/I
Time: 08:10 CDT, 19:13:10 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. We're 6 minutes


45 seconds now from reacquiring through the Ascension Island
Tracking Station. And on that EREP pass, we got a look at the
continental United States through the viewfinder tracking sys-
tem, the VTS. A number of the targets were rather difficult
to discern. Apparently, a combination of the relatively low
light level getting into the TV camera. The field-of-view at
maximum zoom, using the i0 to I zoom, through the viewfinder
tracking system, is 7 nautical miles through the TV. I under-
stand this is reduced by half that, so that the fleld-of-view
is 3-1/2 nautical miles at maximum zoom through the TV looking
straight down. And at minimum zoom, the field-of-view through
the television would be 35 nautical miles. This EREP pass was
on track 61, 61. And among the objectives, as the sensors were
turned on over Grand Forks, North Dakota, data was being col-
lected to support studies of wildlife habitat in North Dakota.
In the Great Lakes region_ principal investigators were looking
at hydrologic and cardiagraphic information. Also, they were
gathering natural resources management information over Ohio,
and in Maryland, data was being gathered to support environmental
studies on Chesapeake Bay and sea-surface features out over the
/_ Atlantic. Paul Weitz reported that he was not able to discern
Washington, D.C. through the haze. The last weather report
we had prior to this EREP pass was that Washington was clear.
However, by the time the crew got a look at it through the
VTS, apparently it had been obscured, and they were not able
to make out the city itself, although Weitz reported he could
see the Potomic River leading up to Washington. As this EREP
pass continues out over the Atlantic, the crew will be gather-
ing information on tradewind cumulus cloud buildup, and also
on weather over the intertropical convergence zone. We're now
3 minutes 50 seconds from reacquiring at Ascension. At 13 hours
15 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC896/I
Time: 08:15 CDT, 19:13:15 GET
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, 2 minutes 50 seconds


...... from- ae_irlng at Asce%Tsion.-- And we're_T_ei_Ing a-v_deo _'ape .......... _q_-
....
replay at this time. This is a close up view that we're receiving
which will show the attachment of the leg bands for the M092
experiment, lower body negative pressure. We'll see, I believe,
Joe Kerwin, science pilot, attaching the leg bands to Paul Weitz's
legs, prior to closing up the lower body negative pressure device,
and partially evacuating it to produce the negative pressure across
the crewman's lower body.
PAO The total duration of this television
replay will be about i0 minutes. It includes TV 6 and TV 7,
which is operations with the lower body negative pressure
experiment and also the bicycle ergometer. This replay has
the sequences put back in the order in which they were re-
corded on board.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension 6 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CDR Mark 93A STANDBY. Mark 94 MODE MANUAL,
CDR Forty-five seconds until the maneuver.
CDR 91 READY is on. Ten seconds until maneuver.
Five. MARK it. (Garble) systems STOP.
CDR Okay, tape recorder alfa 5 is reading 70
is reading 67 percent. 6 7 percent. Six is reading zero.
Bravo 2 is reading 52. Bravo 3 is reading 76. Bravo 6 is
reading 55. Charlie 5 - Charlie 5 is reading 83. Charlle
6 is reading 47. Delta 4 is reading 71. And Delta 5 is
reading 14.
CC Skylab, Houston. Big John and all the
EREP people would llke to express their appreciation for
the fine job you guys have been doing and giving them
readouts, and all the EREP passes have been looking real
good. We're going to be going LOS here in about 1 minute,
and we'll see you again at Carnarvon at 49, I guess. 13:49.
SC Roger, Houston. Do you want to do the
condensate malf at that time?
CC That's affirmative.
SC Okay.
SC Friendly tape recorder, (garble)
CC Skylab, if you were calling, that was
unreadable.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That completes
our replay of the TV 6 and TV 7 transmissions. And we're
also LOS. We have a loss of signal through Ascension. We'll
be acquiring at Carnarv_.,!_us_r_l_ _n about 23 minutes.
At 13 hours 26 minutes Greenwich m_an time, this is Skylab
Control.

_" END OF TAPE


SL-II MC897/I
_ Time: 08 CDT, 19:13 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, at 13 hours


48 minutes. And we're about to regain radio contact with
Skylab through the Carnarvon, Australia, tracking station.
About i minute from now we'll be acquiring signal. The
space station now in it's 417 revolution of Earth. And
we'll be in acquisition through Carnarvon for about I0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Carnarvon
for about the next ii minutes.
SC Houston.
SC (garble)
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR You know how I hate to be idle, yon got
a (garble) here. After rocketing around we're in a 2 hour
hold for for LBNP venting. So I'm going to do M551 at least
up until TV24, and I want to know whether you're going to
be finished with the VTR so that I can go get M551-I out of
the way.
CC Checking.
SPT And Houston, the SPT is ready for condensate
malf if you are.
CC Roger, Joe. You can go ahead and press
f with your first step there.
SPT Okay, I'ii go to panel 216, and I'm going
to go to PRI.
CC Okay.
SPT And I'm in PRI, standing by.
CDR Captain Video doesn't have those dump
numbers right at his fingertips.
CC We've got them right there, and the VTR
is yonrt s now.

CDR Oh, I love you.


CDR The other thing for the FAO is, if we
want to do M553 on our own time, is that permissible?
CC Checking and - Joe, we're going to have
to cycle back to OFF and then back to PRIMARY, please.
SPT Okay.
SPT You're in OFF, give me the word.
CC Okay, now to PRI, Joe.
SPT Now you're in PRI.
CDR Crip, while you're working at it, you got
a minute?
CC Yes, go ahead.
SC I'ii tell you what the discussion has
been here, and how about having Flight work up a couple
of sentences for_ y_u to tell ¢ us basically what happens after
F
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fuel cell shutdown on 165. I think that we are willing to


try between now and then when we get the (garble) with power,
to knock out on our own as many things as yon guys care to
add to that shopping list. We'll give them a go as best we
can. And l'k like a few words about the general flight plan-
ning after day 165 up to day 26 where (garble).
CC Roger. What are you looking for on that
message about after fuel cell shutdown? Procedural kind of things
we're going to be doing, or what kind of power conservation
we're going to be going after or what?
CDR Yes, just a couple of words on that - if
we - in other words, is EREP history after that? So forth and
so on, you know, few general things like that.
CC Okay. Okay, and Joe if you would go to
OFF and then to SECONDARY for us please.
SPT Okay, I'm in OFF. Standing by.
CC Now go to SECONDARY, please.
SC You ready for SECONDARY now?
CC Affirmative.
SPT Okay, you there?
s CC Joe, if you would go to OFF for us for
a little while again, please.
SPT You are in OFF.
CC And back to SECONDARY, please.
SPT You're in SEC.
CC Okay, Joe, if you could go on down to
panel 393 and we can proceed with the disconnecting the
condensate hose. Be advised, we may lose our condensate -
condensate tank DELTA-P at that point, so you could get a C&W.
SPT Okay.
SPT Okay, Crip, the condensate hose is disconnected
at 393.
CC Okay, thank you.
CC And Pete, after you do 551 it's okay to
go ahead and do 553. No sweat on it. Corollary guy just wants
to make sure you don't forget his S073 down there though.
PLT We're standing around counting the minutes
until we can start S073.
CC You guys sound like you got time on your
hands.
PLT No, we just work fast.
CDR At 73's off and running on time, we have
a I and 2 recorders on.
CC Okeydoke.
PLT Besides, I want to see if (garble) really
works.
CC You know it really works.
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CC Ted Mitchell says it does.


CDR Okay, we want to do both of those, 552
and 552. We'll do those on our own time if it's all right
with you guys.
CC Fine and dandy.
CC Okay, Joe. We'd like you to go back to
panel 216 now and turn the CONDENSATE SYSTEMS HEATER switch
to OFF. But before you do that, we'd like to know what's
the status light reading on it.
SPT Okay.
SPT Well the SEC status light is ON and
the temperature is 75. It's come up.
CC Okay, very good. It looks like it's working,
we just probably have a telemetry problem here.
SPT Okay. Want it OFF now.
CC That's affirmative.
SPT It's OFF.
CC Joe, if you don't mind, we're going to
he coming up on Guam in about oh, 14:02 and what we'd like
to do is leave that condensate hose disconnected until that
point. Let us give you a call to check it.
SPT You bet.
_f CC Okay, fine.
CC And we are i minute from LOS; Guam at
14:02.

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Time: 0900 CDT, 19:14:00 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours


Greenwich mean time. About 1 minute and 50 seconds from
reacquiring at Guam. And we'll have a briefing on the
Earth resources experiment package, this morning in the
JSC news center briefing room. That briefing is scheduled to
get underway shortly. Also, we are planning to have a change of
shift briefing. And we do not have an estimated time on that
change of shift briefing. However, it does appear likely that
the change of shift briefing and the EREP briefing will be melded
together at some point with flight director Nell Hutchinson,
coming into the News Center briefing room to brief on the shift
that he has just left as soon as he is able to leave the control
center and will also during the time that the EREP briefing is
taking place, take down the release line, record any air-to-
ground conversation with the crew for playback following that
EREP briefing. We are now about 1/2 minute away from reacquiring
at Guam and we will standby for acquisition at Guam, be prepared
to switch to the briefing on EREP as soon as that is ready to get
underway in building I.
CC Skyla5, Houston. We're AOS over Guam now
for about 10 minutes.
SPT Hello, Houston.
f CC And Joe, at your convenience you got a GO
to go back to panel 393 and reconnect the condensate hose to
the dump 4. It looks like we got a slow leak through that qd.
SPT Okay, that should work.
SPT Say, Crip, should we Delta-PR on 216 has
dropped to about 3.7 and it's up to 4.0 again.
CC Up to 3.7 and back to 4.0.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, SPT.
SPT Did you ever get any work about the radio
noise (garble) for a couple of days?
CC Joe, I'm informed that on your ATM schedule
pad that they did schedule that for today.
SPT Oh, you're right.
CC Rog. They go (garble)
SPT Okay.
CC Joe, I got a small update for your solar
activities pad. Would you like to get that now, or get it
later or when you're on the console?
SPT I'm getting ready to go on the console
right now, so let's have it.
CC Okay. Active region 27 produced a subflare
at 0207 Zulu, and that region apparently is growing rapidly.
We had a very unus_a_ brigh_ surge occur on the left llmb at
01/i, at 0750 Zulu.
f
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SPT Okay, copy. Man, that's up near the pole.


CC That's what it looks like to me, I don't
know why they call that west limb.
SPT Well, we've got nothing out there in the
way of an active region either.
CC Let me check that (garble) on that.
SPT Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. Those coordinates I gave
you were correct and apparently it's unrelated to anything that
we're seeing right now on the disk.
SPT That's why it's so unusual. Incidentally,
I put B channel the other night that I thought I had observed
a suhflare in active region 27. That was night before last.
I wonder if we had any confirmation or denial on that.
CC Okay, I will get them to check that out for
you. We're about 1 minute from LOS Goldstone at 14:28.
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 14 hours
14 minutes Greenwich mean time. Now we have loss of signal
through Guam and we will he reacqulring at Goldstone, California,
in about 13 minutes. The EREP briefing is ready to begin at
this time in building 1 and we will switch to that briefing at
this point.
f
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/_ SL-II MC899/I
Time: 10:09 CDT, 19:15:09 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is SKylab Control, at 15 hours 9 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Skylab at this time is over the
South Atlantic passing beneath the Cape Hope African Continent
and about 55 minutes away from reacquiring at Goldstone,
California. During the EREP briefing we accumulated about
9-1/2 minutes of tape conversation which we'll replay for
you. We have cancelled the change of shift briefing. During
the previous shift the major activity was flight planning
for the next two days and also trouble shooting the S054
experiment door, which earlier in the mission appeared to have
jammed. During the EVA the crew removed a pin and opened
the door so that the experiment can be operated. During
the trouble shooting tests that were run during the night,
it was determined that the gear drive mechanism which activates
the door has in fact jammed. It was hoped that the logic
connected with this door opening could be cleared so that the
crew could get the proper indication of the experiment's readiness
to operate. However, this was not possible once it was
determined conclusively that the gear drive mechanism was
Jammed. The major impact on the experiment is that the door
cannot be opened and closed. It is in the fixed open position
f- and the primary purpose for the door is to protect the
experiment from contamination. However, the experiment is
continuing to operate satisfactorily with the door in the
open position. Two additional EREP passes were planned in
a preliminary fashion during the previous shift. Day 164 and
day 165 EREP passes, and these are the final two EREP data
gathering passes planned for Skylab If. Also, the previous
shift developed some of the procedures that were to be used
on the present shift in trouble shooting the secondary coolant
loop, the airlock module secondary coolant loop. During the
EREP briefing while the crew was in acquisition with Mission
Control through the United States, a trouble shooting procedure
was initiated with the secondar_ coolant loop. As had been
planned, the secondary coolant loop was shut down yesterday
after the temperature control valve failed to modulate as
desired and the loop began to cool off rapidly. The loop
was allowed to warm up for about 24 hours. And this morning
over the Continental United States a command was sent from
the ground that activated both pumps, providing a flow rate
of about 400 pounds per hour, or a little more. This is
about twice the normal amount the loop would see, and as
a procedure similar to that that was used successfully with
the primary loop to free the sticky temperature control valve.
The procedure also appeared to work for the secondary loop
and the data tha_ we got_ over'the Continental U. S. pass
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_ Time: 10:09 CDT, 19:15:09 GMT
6/12/73

and also over the Vanguard tracking ship, it appeared that


the temperature control valve was controlling in the desired
47 degree Fahrenheit range. We'll continue to look at that
to assure that the valve is modulating properly and controling
the temperature within that range. But the preliminary
indication is the procedure has freed the valve and the
secondary may be operating normally. We'll replay now the
accumulated tape, about 9 minutes 30 seconds of communications
with the crew over the Continental United States and the
Vanguard tracking ship.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Goldstone
for 17 minutes, 17 minutes. _
SC Roger.
CC And be advised, we're getting ready to
turn the secondary coolant loop on once more and you'll get
a set cool of flow light if that's ENABLE.
SC Okay. (static)
SPT (garble) white light coronagraph (garble)
CC Joe, I'm sorry you were breaking up, say
again please.
SPT Are you ready for a white light corona-
graph TV downlink now or you want to wait?
.f CC We need to wait for about 6 minutes on
that apparently, Joe.
SPT Okay. Meanwhile the CDR is setting up
for VTR.
SPT On M551 if you want that.
CC Okay, I - problem I guess is on the
ground station to pick it up. We're waiting - we've got
Mila configured.
SPT Okay.
SC Hey_ Houston.
CC Go.
SC Fiddling with the focus ring on the TV
optical adaptor on the VTS, I couldn't see any difference
in my monitor. I guess if we run that again I would like
to - cue from you - go ahead and run that focus ring from
1 extreme to the other to see if you guys can see any
difference in the pictrue on the ground.
CC Okay, we'll take that under adivsement in
case we get to run it again.
SC All right.
CC And Skylab, we're being held up slightly
on turning that secondary coolant loop on because of a
data problem.
SC Roger.
SC Are we going back to bed?
f SL-II MC899/3
Time: 10:09 CDT, 19:15:09 GMT
6/12/73

SC We're supposed to but the skipper won't


let us.
CC Skylab, Houston. You may be aware we have
turned on your secondary coolant loop now, and we're standing
by for the TV downllnk which I believe you got white light
coronagraph scheduled for now.
SC Okay, it'll be a couple of minutes because I
went ahead and started JOP 6 (garble).
CC Okay, that's okay. We've got Pete
on right now with 512.
SPT Houston, Pete says he's got about 4 or 5
minutes set up to do here. You want it live, or do you
want him to hold?
CC Stand by i.
CC Roger, Joe. As soon as you get a chance
we'd like to get the white light corona graph llve or all the TV.
SPT You were cut out. Please repeat.
CC Roger, Joe. We're standing by for your
ATM TV downlink. We'd llke it live.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, we've got 52 now.
SPT Okay, that's in Roll minus 5 - minus 10,800.
f I'ii be rolling the 5400 in a minute.
CC Skylab, Houston. If anybody has an opportunity
we'd appreciate it if they could turn off SUS 2 on panel 217.
SPT In a minute, Houston.
CC Okay, no rush on it.
SPT It's off, Houston.
CC Joe, I might have been confusing you a while
ago on that TV. We'd like you to go ahead and cycle through
it, llke you normally do.
SPT Everybody wants to see, huh.
SPT I want to give you the eoronagraph on the
right roll.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab Houston. Right now the secondary
coolant loop is looking good. We'd like to ensure that the
secondary coolant temp low caution and warning is enabled and
we're going to let you go ahead have it and leave it on after
we go LOS. And if yon get that caution and warning, we'll
want you to turn the secondary coolant loop off.
SPT Copy.
CC It's really wild when you've got it in
integration.
SPT (garble) sound is sure a big help
with 2.

f_
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SPT And for the whole thing, 52 peoples in-


formation the pointing numbers at which that display was
optimized was right 25 and up 5.
CC Right 2 (garble) 5 and up 5. Thank you.
SPT Okay.
SPT Actually on fine scale, that looks llke
right 32 or so.
CC Okay.
SPT And active region 27 is the brightest
thing on the Sun in H-Alpha this morning. And it looks much
more complex and has several spots visible on the (garble) to
be exact. On the XUV monitor white light display active region
31 looks pretty diffused, not nearly as bright, not as inter-
esting. And 37 is coming around the horn with 2 big spots,
a couple of dark filaments, and some bright red compact
plage and it looks good too.
CC Roger and we've got a sight down here to
concur with your diseription. Thank you very much for a
very good diserlption.
SPT Okay.
SPT And Houston, Pete says he is going to put
his show on the VTR now if that's okay.
rf CC Rog. And we did command that VTR off from
here. So you or Pete is going renable it or somebody up
there.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, we are i minute from LOS. See
you again over the Vanguard at 14:55, 55.
SPT Rog.
CC Skylab Houston. We're AOS over Vanguard
for 6 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC SPT Houston. There is a possibility that
we might need a couple of TACS nib for this upcoming dump
operation, and we'd like you to turn the TACS back to enable
for this one dump only.
SPT Okay.
CC And Skylab for your information, we have
turned off pump Charlie on the secondary loop. We have been
hitting it with both Bravo and Charlie. And it is still
looking real good to us.
SPT Very good.
CC Also Skylab, we show that experiment 1
and 2 tape recorders are still operating after the S073.
To save us a little bit of dump problems, we would appreciate
it if you would secure them until they're required for M092.
SPT Okay Houston.
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CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're about 30 seconds from
LOS. We'll see you again over Goldstone at 16:04, 16:04.
SPT Au revoir.
SPT And Houston, if you read, Pete says he's
not getting any reading on the filament chamber pressure
meter. Would you look at that or think about it for our
next pass.
CC Roger, understand you're not getting a
reading on the fliament chamber pressure on 512.
SPT That's right.
SPT It shows zero work chamber pressures.
CC Rog.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That completes
our tape replay. It brings us up to date with the conver-
sations with the crew through Vanguard. And we're about
41 minutes from reaeqnlring at Goldstone. As you heard in
that conversation, Pete Conrad requested and received per-
mission to get up to begin experiment M551 early. And he
reported that there was no indication of filament chamber
pressure. The corollary experiments officer is checking
on that report, looking at data to evaluate the situation
and see how we stand with respect to that experiment. We
did not yet have a report on the status of the experiment.
M551 is metals melting and alloy behavior experiment, deter-
mining how metals have behaved when melted in zero g, how
various alloys behave. And we're also getting television
of the activation of that experiment. Pete Conrad was op-
erating the M551 equipment and recording that operation on
the video tape recorder as we acquired at Goldstone. As that
TV is placed on the tape recorder, it is also dumped when
we're in acquisition at a stateside station. Coineidentally,
we had lines up to Mila at that time for an ATM television
dump, and as we acquired at Mila, the TV that was going on
the video tape recorder was also fed back into Houston live
and was fed out on the lines at that time. As the crew
switched over to begin feeding the ATM video, of course we
lost the picture of the M551 activity. Conrad then went back
after loss of signal and resumed loading up the video tape
recorder with the M551 activity. And we would expect to
see the entire television of M551, TV 24 as it was
planned. INCO is looking into the possibility of bringing
that TV back to Houston, or at least a portion of it during
the next stateside acquisition, which is Goldstone - Texas
on this revolution. However, it appears at this time that
the amount of TV that we could _et back would be relatively
small, on the order of 10 minutes. We'd expect about 20 min-
i utes of television to h@ve been accumulated at that time. So in
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event, we will not have the entire load of video tape back
during this series of stateside passes. And we would expect
to have to bring the remainder of it back early tomorrow
morning, when we again have Goldstone - Texas - Mila acquisi-
tion. We'd like to repeat also the changes in the crew
sleep and awake times as we begin changing the crew work
day, in preparation for the entry activities. On day 165,
the crew will work a 14 hour day and will go to bed 2 hours
early at 01:00 Greenwich mean time. They'll sleep for 7 hours
and on day 166 they will wake up 3 hours early, at 08:00
Greenwich mean time. On day 166, they will have a 15 hour
work day, and they will go to sleep an additional hour early
at 23:00 Greenwich mean time, so that their sleep time will
then have moved a total of 4 hours early and they will wake
up the following morning on day 167 at 07:00 Greenwich mean
time, which will mean that their wake up time has moved a
total of 4 hours early, beginning with day 167. The work
day will then run from 2:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. We're now
35 minutes 40 seconds away from reaequlring at Goldstone.
Fifteen hours and 29 minutes Greenwich time, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
SL II MC900/I
/_ Time: 11:02 CDT, 19:16:02 GET
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours and


3 minutes. We're standing by to recieve contact through
Goldstone, California. The spacecraft is now on the 419
revolution, rather the 418 coming up on the 419. And we also
got a report from INCO_ the instrumentation and communications
officer_ that there is no plan at this point to bring back tele-
vision of M551. The crew was putting that activity on the tape re-
corder. On the last pass, however it would not be possible to
get the entire tape load brought back to the continental US
station today. The plan at this point is to bring back the
entire load of video tapes and get it transmitted to the
ground during the early morning hours and bring it in tom-
morrow. And we had the call to the crew. We'll stand by
for that conversation.

PAO The environmental systems engineer or


EGIL has taken a good close look at telemetry data on the
secondary coolant loop, and that continues to appear to be
functioning normally. The temperture on the secondary loop
running right around 47 degrees Fahrenheit.
CC Joe, we need to tweak up the C3 biases
a little bit and if you would stay off the DAS for about a minute
we would appreciate it.
_ SPT Okay.
/ CC Joe, the DAS is yours again?
SPT (Garble)
SPT Houston_ SPT.
CC Go ahead, SPT.
SPT I was wondering if you guys have a testament
for me of the current solar ambient radial light.
CC We'll check it.

CC SPT on your solar activity pad, they put


down a number of 130, and we believe that's still good.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We'll see you again over the Vanguard at 16:29 and we
will be doing a data recorder dump over Vanguard.
PLT Roger.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-901/I
Time: 1119 CDT, 19:16:19 GMT
6-12-73

PAO This is Skylab Control. We'll acquire


again through the tracking ship Vanguard in i0 minutes. And
there will be a long silent period back around to - the Gold-
stone, Tex - or Goldstone, California, station, which will be
our last stateside acquisition for today. Again the secondary
coolant loop appears now to be functioning normally along with
the primary loop. And so that we have two good loops, now we
are in the nominal or normal configuration on both loops, both
of them controlling temperature right around 47 degrees. At
16 hours, 20 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
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6/12/73

that evacuates or partially evacuates lower body negative


pressure in the chamber, placing negative pressure on the
subject's lower body. The subject again, in this case, Paul
Weitz.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll hi you again at Goldstone at 17:44, 17:44 and
we will be doing a data recorder dump over Goldstone.
CDR Okay, Houston.
PAO Skylab now out of range of the tracking
ship Vanguard. And about an hour and 5 minutes away from
acquisition at Goldstone, California, and that'll be the
last Goldstone acquisition for today. The next revolution
after that - the only two stations to acquire will be Hawaii
and the Vanguard. And in our video tape replay now, we see
Paul Weitz on the bicycle ergometer --

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-902/I
Time: ii:27 CDT 19:16:27 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours 28


minutes. Skylab now approaching the Vanguard tracking
ship off the coast of South America. We're about i minute
away from resuming contact with the crew through the Vanguard.
And according to the flight plan, Commander Pete Conrad and
Pilot Paul Weltz at this time should be involved in H092, MlT1
medical experiments, with Science Pilot Joe Kerwin drawing
the ATM experiment duties. And those activities will con-
tinue until lunch time for the crew. We gather that they
are running somewhat ahead of the timeline, at least Pete
Conrad, and Pete advised on the last revolution that he was
activating the metals melting experiment, M551 early. Pete
also gave us one call that indicated a possible problem
with the M551 experiment, and after evaluating his description
of the situation, however, the corollary experiments officer
reports that he does not feel there is a problem with that
experiment and it simply was a matter of waiting until it
reached the proper pressure conditions before beginning -
CC Over Vanguard for i0 minutes.
CDR Roger.
PAO And we have a vidlo tape replay of
this morning's television transmissions coming out now on
the release line. This is a replay of TV 6 and 7, which
is the MO92, MI71 activities with Joe Kerwln, Science Pilot,
as the observer , and this particular bit of TV, Paul Weltz
as the subject in the lower body negative pressure, and on
the bicycle ergometer devices. And the biomedical officer
reports that telemetry shows Kerwln has Just turned on the
equipment for the MI71, M092 experiments on board.
PAO The current television replay will last
a total of about 29 minutes. That will include all of the
television received in Houston today. With the TV 6 and 7
activities, lower body negative pressure unit, and the
bicycle ergometer coming first, followed by the viewfinder
tracking system TV during the EREP pass. And at the present
time we're seeing Science Pilot Joe Kerwin attaching the
legbands to Paul Weitz's calves. These are the bands that
are used to determine leg volume, one a calibrated band,
the other a band that is compared with the preflight cali-
brated band to determine how much, if any, the leg volume
has changed.
PAO This is a very quiet pass over Vanguard.
There's been virtually no communications with the crew. The
biomedical officer reports that they are now into the MITI
experiment. That information arrived from telemetry. And
in our TV replay, we've just seen Joe Kerwln open the valve
-_ SL-II MC-903/I
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6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours 43 min-


utes and we're about to acquire for a short pass over the
Goldstone, California tracking station. It will be about a
3 minute 45 second acquisition. And then down across Vanguard,
the only two stations acquiring this revolution. The spacecraft
now in it's 419th, coming up on 420th revolution. During this
acquisition or over Vanguard, we'll be discussing with the
crew further Pete Conrad's earlier remark that he may have a
problem with the M551 experiment. Conrad noted that the pres-
sure had not reached the desired level, and asked for recom-
mendations from the ground. After reviewing the situation here
and talking with investigators at Marshall Space Flight Center,
we've reached the tentative conclusion that it may take longer
than anticipated to evacuate that chamber.
CC - Houston, we're AOS over Goldstone for
about 3-1/2 minutes.
SC (garble)
CC Roger. And if the CDR's available, we'd
llke to ask regarding that M512 facility if he ever looked at
that filament chamber pressure again.
SPT It was just very slow coming on llne, but
. it did come and he's welding right now.
CC Understand it's welding now.
SPT That's affirm. He had a outgas for 2 hours
he said.
CC Okay.
CC And Joe, we copy that you're in one frame
per minute on H-Alpha (garble)
SPT Okay.
PAO And Judging from the crew's report there,
it appears that the corollary experiments people and investi-
gators at the Marshall Space Flight Center called it right, on
the M512 facility being used for experiment M551. They felt
that, given enough time, the chamber would come down to the
desired pressure. Conrad confirmed that was the case, that it
took 2 hours to get the chamber evacuated down to the desired
level of vacuum. And it is welding at the present time.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. See you again over Vanguard at 18:06.
CDR Okay, Houston, CDR. We got a good weld
on. It looks very good from outside the chamber.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's all through
Goldstone, and we'll be acquiring at the tracking ship Vanguard
in about 16 minutes. At 17 hours 50 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
_ SL-II MC-904/I
Time: 13:04 CDT 19:18:04 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 5


minutes Greenwich mean time. We're about to acquire at the
tracking ship Vanguard. And during this pass over Vanguard
be getting a good look at the primary and secondary coolant
loops. Both appear to be now functioning normally. The
crew is to be advised to remove the LCGs from the circuit
on the secondary loop. These have been - liquid cool gar-
ments have been drapped over the water tank, which received
a fair amount of heat and was being used to assist in warm-
ing up the secondary loop. And now that that loop appears
to be functioning normally, the LCGs are being removed and
we'll continue to look at it in that mode of operation for
a period of time. There will be some additional tests run
over the next day or two to verify the loop, in a variety
of modes, particularly those that would be used for an EVA.
And wehave acquisition of signal now over Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the
Vanguard for i0 minutes, i0 minutes.
CC Joe, we show that you're in mechanical
reference still, from the previous rev, and we should have
it in optical.
SPT (garble) I'm doing a grating scan
right now -
CC Yeah, yeah.
SPT so it really doesn't matter and I'm still
working (garble) in the llmb. I'ii switch back this next
side. Okay?
CC That's fine. And before you leave the
panel on this pass, if possible, I'd llke to give you some
ATM schedules. Pad mods for Paul coming up.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, if you can get his 1901 pad at
41 for the bright spot, he needs a pointing update, and I've
got it here.
SPT I'm with it.
CC Okay. It's roll minus 9300. Right plus
500. Up plus 225.
SPT Roll minus 9300. Right plus 500 and
Up plus 225. I did read that right, (garble) write the
pad in the opposite sequence.
CC Okay, sorry about that. Yeah, you did
read back correctly.
SPT Okay.
CC And if you've still got time, I need to
give you some info on Building Block 15 scheduled at the
20036. That's 20036 pass and the 2207 pass.
SPT Go ahead.
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CC Okay. 82B is worried about getting a


camera jam if the - if determined by the door shutting, and so
about 15 seconds prior to terminate, we would llke you to stop
(garble)
SPT I' ii be right back.
CC Okay, is that clear that it's sup-
posed to be on both of them.
SPT Yeah.
CC And the CDR would probably be pleased
to know that we've got a GO for him to remove the LCGs and
the LSUs he's got strung out there. We're in good shape
now.
CDR Great. Listen C24 Alpha Bravo Charlie
is on the VTR and is already dumping, and yon won't get 24 Delta
until sometime between 20:00 and 21:00. Okay?
CC Roger 24 Delta between 20:00 and 21:00.
CDR That's right. That's the removal of
the metals, and it comes 2-1/2 hours after the weld.
CC Okay. And I guess we understand it
takes about 2 hours to vent that thing down. Is that cor-
rect?
CDR Oh, it took about 2-i/2 hours to out-
gas it.
CC Okay.
CDR I'ii have to see what happens the next time.
It may have been like the motor and a few things like that, which
may not pick up so much when - now.
CC Okay. And while I'm talking to you here.
Joe had asked earlier to get a GO to modify the PLTs
M092 run. I've got a concurrence here that 30/40/40 is
okay.
CDR Okay. Crip, the pressure that I finally
achieved was just about point i. It never got down to .01.
We did all our welding right around .i. It took 2-1/2 hours
getting there. Now, I don't know whether that's the gauge or
what. I find it awful hard to believe that a 4 inch opening
to a vacuum like that, we weren't right down there right away,
but it could he outgassing, but gosh that's a big opening.
CC Okay. Was it - did it go up significantly
while you were welding?
CDR Yeah, it crawled up around .2, something
like that, then it dropped back down to .i again. The gauge
is operating. There's no doubt about that, but I don't think
we got any leakage into the chamber from the spacecraft, not
that I can tell. I made sure the hatch was bolted down
real good. That's about as best I can do.
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CC Okay.
CC Rog, Pete, and for your information,
that gauge is inside of a 3 quarter inch opening, so it
takes a little bit longer to go down.
CDR Okay. That was a lot (garble) though
I still say 2 hours for it to come down to .i is -
CC Rog. Concur. That sounds excessive.
CDR That sets our vacuum to fill (garble)
than what we got up here, and that I doubt very
seriously.
CC Rog.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll see you again over Hawaii at 19:15, 19:15, that
is if we don't wash away first.
CDR You say it's raining there a little
bit?
CC That's an understatement.
CDR Rained yesterday, too, huh?
CC Affirmative.
SPT Pete wants to know if there's water in
the third floor up there yet.
f- CC We're on the second. It's been coming up
this high, I think.
SPT Okay, we'll fix it.
CC I know you guys fix anything, but I
don't think you can work it from that long a range.
SPT Listen to this: Rain, Rain go away,
come again another day. See if it don't sunshine tomorrow.
CC Okay.
SPT Yeah, see if it don't.
PAO This is Skyla5 Control. We're now 57
minutes away from our next station, which will be Hawaii.
The spacecraft in the 420th revolution of the Earth. And
this afternoon the crew among other things, scheduled to
perform the MO92, MI71 experiments. And also continuing
with ATM, Apollo telescope mount operations. One correction
on that. The MO92, MI71 scheduled for this morning and that
should be completed by now. Primarily ATM S073 and the
next run on M551 for the major activities in the flight
plan this afternoon. At 18 hours 19 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-905/I
Time: 14:13 CDT 19:19:13 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 19 hours


13 minutes Greenwich mean time. The space station is ap-
proaching the Hawaii tracking site, on this the 420th rev-
olution. We're about a minute and a half away from acqui-
sition. And we'll stand by for radio communication between
ground and crew.
CC Skylab Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii
for about 9 minutes.
SPT Roger Houston. Hey Crip, a little quick
confirmation if you could please on this JOP i Delta. I
went to the coordinates you gave me and it's nothing. I
mean there's nothing in HL, but there's nothing in the
XUV. I Just wanted to verify, first the coordinates,
if those are correct. Then I want to verify if they really
want me to run this Building Block there. I'm using a roll
of minus 9300, up plus 225, right plus 500.
CC Those were coordinates that I read up
to you. Let me reverify them with Adam.
PLT Okay, I got to start soon.
CDR And while you're doing that Crip, I got
something for you.
CC Go ahead.
I- CDR Do the Mlbl for the S073 retract at
stowage? The retraction part is assumed that the S073 is
at a plus Z SAL, and of course it's not; it's in the minus Z SAL.
Do you want me to change those camera angles a little bit to
get the retraction and then move them back to the original
one to get to stowage?
CC Stand by one.
CDR Thank you.
CC Paul, recorder talk direct, and we do
want you to go ahead and run it. We claim we can see some-
thing here in XUV from the ground.
PLT Okay, we can't see it onboard, I'm last.
CC Okey doke.
CC And we need a JOP and 1 frame per minute,
I believe it is in 4 now please.
CC CDR Houston. Regarding the MI51 settings,
if you're using the 5 millimeter lense, and the F/IO setting,
and you don't think that will work, make whatever adjustments
you think are necessary.
CDR Okay, thank you.
CC Skylab Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll see you again over the Vanguard at 19:45,
and we will be doing a data recorder dump at Vanguard.
PAO Over the Hawaii tracking station, the
flight controllers in Mission Control heard from the guidance
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navigation and controls systems officer who reported that


his systems looked good, looked good over Hawaii. G and S,
as he is called, is responsible for monitoring and troubleshoot-
ing the Saturn workshop orbital assembly guidance propulsion
systems control. And he also has the responsibility for
monitoring the command service module systems, when the CSM
position is not manned. We'll next acquire the space station
in 19 minutes over the Vanguard tracking ship at 19 hours
25 minutes Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-906/I
Time: 14:43 CDT 19:19:43 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston. Nineteen


hours 43 minutes Greenwich mean time. One minute from acquisi-
tion at the Vanguard tracking ship. We'll stand by for com-
munication with the crew through the Vanguard site.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over the Van-
guard for 9 minutes and we'll be doing a data recorder dump.
CC CDR, Houston. You get a moment to talk
about S073 operations?
CDR Sure have.
CC Roger. We apparently didn't get a cali-
bration on the last program that you ran for us and we wanted
to verify for this one coming up on the program one Dog
that you were going through steps 5 through 7 on page 8-13.
CC And those should be -
SC (garble)
CC Unable to read you due to feedback.
CDR That's 8-13 right?
CC Rog.
CDR Steps what?
CC Steps 5 through 7, well actually, 5 through
8 1 guess would be more complete.
PLT Say, Crip, I was going to use the VTR in
about i0 minutes, is that all right?
CDR Okay, Crip, I didn't catch that the last
time.
CC Rog. You understand the (garble) Pete?
CC PJ, you got a GO on the VTR.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from LOS.
See you again at Hawaii at 20:52, 20:52.
SC All right.
CC Bye.
PAO The Skylab space station has passed out
of range of the Vanguard tracking ship. Out over the South
Atlantic Ocean. During this pass and during a part of the
pass over Hawaii, previously, the Commander Pete Conrad was
conducting an experiment identified as M551, or the metal
melting task. The principal investigator for this experiment
is Robert Hopps of the Marshall Space Flight Center. Objec-
tives of the experiment are to study the behavior of molten
metals in a microgravity conditlon. Also, to characterize the
structures formed in metals melted and that later rapidly
solidify in a zero gravity state. And the third objective is
to test means of joining metals by an electron beam welding
process in zero gravity. The equipment that was used, or
that is being used foK the melting experiment, consists of
an electric motor_ a mechanism which drives a dlsc-shaped
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specimen at a speed of about 2.5 revolutions per minute.


This is done in a container called a metal processing experi-
ment facility. The melting experiment is carried out like
a conventional welding test. That is the electron beam
traverses along metal plates, and those plates are of varying
thickness in this vacuum chamber. And the beam melts the
metal to varying depths a long its track. As the beam moves,
the melted metal behind it solidifies very rapidly. Motion
pictures are taken of this melting process and the film will
be returned to us for analysis by the principal investigator
and his assistants at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
Three different metals are to be used in the melting experi-
ment. One of them is an aluminum alloy, another is a stain-
less steel type of metal, and another is a nickel, it's
identified as thoria dispersed nickel, a nickel-type of metal.
At 19 hours 57 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-907/I
Time: 15:50 CDT 19:20:50 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 20 hours 50 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. About a minute from acquisition
at the Hawaii tracking site, on the 421st Skylab revolution.
We'll stand by for air to ground.
CC Skylab Houston. We're AOS over Hawaii
for 8 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC And Skylah, we need to update your X3 rate
gyro. So if you'd stay off the DAS for a minute we'd ap-
preciate it.
CDR Okay.
PLT Crip, another hang up on S056 in active 1
long. The details are on Channel B.
CC Hog. Was that a filter hang?
PLT I guess. It quit counting, showed an
operate light and it's just staying in Filter i.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab Houston. The DAS is yours once more.
PLT Thank you.
PLT This XUV is on the tape, and a little
eoronagraph also.
CC Rog.
CC Paul, just a little reminder on that
Building Block 15 you've got coming up at the end of this
pass, we did want to shut down 82B 15 seconds prior to sun-
set. And we're going LOS in about 1 minute. See you again
over Vanguard at 21:53, 21:5, correction, 21:23, 21:23.
PAO We've had loss of signal through the
Hawaii tracking station. The space station will again be
acquired at the Vanguard site in 23 minutes. At that time,
we'll have about a i0 minute acquisition period. At 21:00
hours Geenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-908/I
Time: 16:22 CDT 19:21:22 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 21 hours 22 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. We're about a minute away from
acquisition at the Vanguard tracking station. And we will
be in communication for about 9-1/2 minutes through Vanguard.
We'll stand by for any radio communication between the
crew and the Control Center through Vanguard.
CC Skylab Houston. We're AOS over the Van-
guard for 9 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CC Skylab Houston, 1 minute to LOS. See
you again at Ascension at 21:38, and we'll be doing a data
recorder dump at Ascension.
PAO The Skylab space station has moved out
of range of the Vanguard tracking ship. We'll be in contact
again through the Ascension Island tracking station in about
5 minutes. So, we'll keep up the line for the subsequent
air to ground that will be transmitted through Ascension.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-909/I
Time: 16:34 CDT 19:21:34 GMT
6/12/73

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension 7 minutes.


CDR Roger.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR On So73, when I put those rods in, they
were extremely cold and as you would expect, they collected
a good deal of moisture on them and I wiped them down with
a - with just a (garble) Is there anything down there
special that _hose guys want done to those rods before I
stow the thing, later on?
CC We'll get corollary to check that, Pete.
While I'm talking to you, on your M512 facility, since that
filament chamber was closed and set off separately, it
should be basically maintained at vacuum, but we don't an-
ticipate any problem when you go back up to run your next
procedure.
CDR Surprise. I think there's a leak in it.
CC Oh, oh.
CDR Because it was at atmospheric when I started
again. That's probably our problem.
CC Okay.
CDR Now, let me tell you something else that
I didn't have a chance to tell you today. I can't account
for this, cause I know that it was fit about i0 times, but
the mirror over the electron gun would not fit today because
the electron gun must have shifted during launch. That's
the only thing I could think of. Now is there any way that
thing can move around in there, or move on its adjustment.
Because the mirror, I got the mirror on. You can see through
it okay by just using one screw, hut it lacks fitting by
a good eighth of an inch to the other screw, because it
interfers with the electron gun. And the only thing I can
conclude is that the gun shifted during launch. However
the pointing was relatively good, which leads me to con-
clude that it was there in the first place, hut I know it
was fit checked.
CC That's affirm. It was fit checked and
you're saying that it looks llke the electron beam gun has
shifted? You can only get the mirror on with one screw?
And I take it from what you said, you think you can operate
it like that.
CDR Oh, I've welded a plate okay. It's
all right. But I think it got moved. That's the only
thing I can account for it by. We took photographs on it.
CC Copy.

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- SL-II MC-910/I
Time: 16:41 CDT 19:21:41 GMT
6/12/73

CC CDR Houston. I'd like to clarify one


thing. It was the filament chamber you're saying it leaked
back up, and not the work chamber.
CDR Right, the filament chamber. When I,
when I opened the valve it was at after I pulled the - I got
the second specimen in there now. And as you surmised I
figured well when I open up the filament chamber I'Ii be
in business, then I can go right at it. And low and behold
when I opened it up, chamber being at zero, work chamber being
at zero according to the work tape brigade the filament showed
atmospheric again. And it is slowly bleeding down, it's
down to about 2 right now.
CDR .2
CC Roger. I'm sure we'd be i_terested in
hearing about how long you think it has taken it to leak
down.
CDR Well, let me go look at it. I opened
it about 15 minutes ago. Let me show you where it is.
CC Okay, I don't think it's worth a special
trip. But get all that information for time line purposes.
CDR Well, we llke zinklng up amd down in
the spacecraft.
CDR Say Crip, it's .5 right now. It's been
about 20 minutes. And I might be a little suspicious of the
gauge.
CC Okay, .5 after about 20 minutes. And for
your information wiping down and stowing of the rods is okay.
We're i minute from LOS, and we'll have you again at Guam
at 22:23, 22:23.
CDR They weren't kidding about that stuff
getting cold, I'ii tell you. I had my gloves on when I
started to bring them in and I thought that's kind of fool-
ish, so I got to make a second run and man, they were
really cold the further I went.
CC Rog. Understand the gloves are recom-
mended?
CDR Yes sir, they are a necessity, and I had
them on to start with, it wasn't bad until I got about 2 rods
in and how cold it was going to get because the near rods weren't
so cold, but the far rods were extremely cold.
CC Roger, thank you.
CC Skylab, we have sent the flight plan
up. We had some problems with transmission, Like you to
check and see if it looks okay, and tell us on the next pass
whether we need to send it again.
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CDR Okay.
PAO We have had loss of signal with the
space station through the Ascension site. Part of the con-
versation that was on this current air to ground pass had
to do with that M551 metal melting experiment. And you
heard the Commander say he thought the electron gun had
shifted approximately an 8th of an inch. He also pointed
out that it operated okay. And that the electron - but
he believed that electron beam gun did indeed shift or move.
The flight controllers here at the Control Center are dis-
cussing this anomoly. And will pass on to the crew at the
next station, which is Guam, procedures which they feel
will alleviate the situation. At 21 hours 47 minutes Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-911/I
Time: 17:21 CDT 19:22:21 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 22 hours 22 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. The space station is about a
half minute away from acquisition at the Guam tracking site.
And we'll have a very short pass over Guam, some 4 minutes
plus. We'll stand by for air to ground.
CC Skylab Houston. We're AOS over Guam for
3 minutes.
PLT Roger.
PLT Hey Crip, will you finish grounding the
second wheel on M551?
CC Roger. Second wheel on 551. Did it
take you very much longer to get down to .i?
CDR I would have got there a lot faster if
the time (garble). There must be a leak in the filament
chamber.
CDR I'ii check it again very carefully this
time. I was looking at the checklist to make sure that
I had pressurized it with the chamber open, and I did.
I went by checklist.
CC Roger. There is some speculation here
that even when your chamber reads zero that, you know, there
is still a little bit of pressure there, and if you open it
up real soon, you may still be pressurizing the chamber
slightly, the filament chamber rather.
CDR Okay well, next time I'ii let it sit -
I'Ii let the work chamber sit in a vacuum for a while before
I do the other thing. Then I'ii I open it up and verify it.
CC Sounds good.
CDR But, I don't get much of a vacuum. I'm
lucky to get under .i, .i is about it no matter how long
you let it set.
CC Roger.
CDR It's really making me old quick.
CC Rog.
CC Skylah Houston. We're I minute from
LOS. See you again over the Vanguard at 23:00, 23:00.
CDR Okay.
PAO The conversation over the Guam tracking
site was with the Commander, who was a little ahead of his
time line on the schedule for the Skylab space station today.
He was processing his M551 metal melting experiment. He
will undertake that experiment 3 times today. He's already
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made one run. Processing the second run and a third run
will be made later in the evening. On the last run he
will use a material identified as tandalum, which is a
lustrous platinum gray hard metal with a high melting
point. It's used in making corrosive resistent chemical
apparatus and equipment. That replaces a metal which was
identified earlier as nickel. We anticipate having a change
of shift briefing at approximately 6:30 p.m. predicated
on the weather, and whether all of the flight controllers
can indeed make it in to the Mission Control Center on time
for a proper handover. Tentatively we have scheduled the
off going Flight Director, Milton Windler to appear and
with him will be Dr. Royce Hawkins, who will also appear and
respond to any questions relating to crew health and crew
condition. At 22 hours 30 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylah Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-912/I
Time: 17:59 CDT 19:22:59 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 23:00 hours


Greenwich mean time. We're about a minute away from ac-
quisition at the Guam site. We'll hold the llne up for
the communication with the crew through the Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. A0S i0 minutes.
PLT Roger, Bill.
CC Skylab. LOS in 1 minute. Ascension
23:13. Also, also we replaced the flight plan and it should
be in the teleprinter at this time.
PLT Okay.
PLT Hello. Houston, are you still there?
CC Go, Skylab.
PLT There ain't no flight plan here, Bill.
All we got's general evening questions.
CC Copy.
PA0 We've had loss of signal at the Vanguard
tracking site. And we'll keep the line up because we expect
to pick up the Skylab space station again in about a minute
and a half over the Ascension tracking station.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-913/I
Time: 18:12 CDT 19:23:14 GMT
6/12/73

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS ii minutes.


SPT Roger, Houston. Were you sending up
another flight plan because the plan has changed or because
you thought the first one was garbled.
CC We thought the first one was garbled.
SPT No, it was okay.
CC Copy.
SPT Hey Houston, Skylab. Are you there?
CC Go Skylab.
SPT I can give you some evening questions
if you're ready.
CC We're standing by.
SPT Okay. Question i, no comment. It's
just true. That's all. Question number 2, we don't think
so. The method being used for ergometer restraint now is
nothing. That is no external devices at all. Just the
handle bars and the center strip, and (garble) you put
your head on the ceiling. Everybody uses the same handle
bar setting, which is 5 and the seat setting, we're using
77. It really isn't very important because you don't
use the seat. Ideally you can design some handlebars that
would allow you to take the stress in the comfortable pos-
ition, where it didn't exert a pitch torque on your body.
But that's dressing and I don't think that they need any-
thing new. What they need to do is train a little bit on
a horizontal bike.
CC Joe, do you think it's worth the effort
of a simple extension of the handlebars?
SPT That'd be nice.
CC Copy.
SPT Question number 3, the SPTs opinions,
I'Ii have the CDR and PLT look these over, and if they differ
from me, they can put it on Channel B. A - I'm sketching, the
corona, the other two aren't, and it's been only moderately helpful
so far, because the - there's not a lot of detail on it, and
we can tell that the corona's changing by going back and
reviewing our sketches, but the information isn't terribly
useful to us. I don't understand part B, rolling of
white light coronagraph to identfy faint figures. No we haven't
found that helpful. Haven't tried it, H-Alpha image does appear to
move. It moves quite a bit as sunset approaches and it lasts
a good i0 to 15 seconds. And I expect that your rationale
for that is correct.
CC Okay. Is there any difference between
the two H-Alphas?
SPT I think that H-Alpha 2 appears to have
finer resolution, but that may be just because you can't
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get as much image magnification with it. There are no


major differences. We've seen no pointing Jitter other
than the electronic jitter that we described. That's
attributal to crew activities. The ATM appears to he pretty
stable. Haven't seen any associated with door opening and
closing either. That was Echo. Foxtrot, not off hand, we'll
think about it. The JOP summary sheet for Building Blocks
going pretty well. Can 55 detector 1 and 3 be maximized
on network battery. Of course it maximizes beautifully
in plage. On network battery you might get a factor of
2 out of it, if you're lucky. It's a little sloppy and a
little hard to do. Hotel, the X-Ray image is not performing
as hoped. It's been completely worthless up to now. We've
never seen anything in it. Hopefully, if we get a good
big X-Ray flare, we will see something in it. Then we can
make a meaningful comment.
CC Okay, and we're going LOS here in
approximately 20 seconds. Guam at 23:57.
8PT Okay, and the last part of that question,
keeping track of SO54 frames does require an extra 30 seconds
to a minute, but it's okay. It can be done. And we'll
answer question 4 another time.
CC Thank you, Joe.
PAO We have had loss of signal at the
Ascension tracking station, and we'll come up again in
32 minutes over the Guam site. At 23 hours 25 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-914/I
Time: 18:27 CDT 19:23:27 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 23 hours 27 min-


utes Greenwich mean time, with an advisory to the press. A
change of shift briefing is scheduled to get underway shortly
i_ the News Center Briefing Room, with Milto_ Windler, the
off going Flight Director, and associates participating.
At 23 hours 27 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-915/I
Time: 19:12 CDT 20:00:12 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston, starting


the 164th day of the year. In fact, we're 13 minutes into
that day. During the change of shift press conference, we
had about 5 minutes and 14 seconds of air to ground. And
we will play that hack to you now.
CC Skylab Houston. AOS ii minutes. And
Skylab, we're sending a pointing load up on this pass at
Guam. And it's on unattended ops.
PLT (garble) and copy that Bill.
CDR Houston are you ready for the evening
status report?
CC That's affirm, go ahead.
PLT The CDR had a standard day of everything
on the menu plus two cans of fattening hurter cookies.
The SPT, normal all the way. The PLT ate everything except
for lunch or dinner item 75 hread. Delta water is minus i,
optional salt a whopping 1.5. Photo log as follows: 16 milli-
meter S073 retract MI51, Charlie India 25, 70, Mike Tango ii;
$073 stow MI51, the same draft for the film is all the
same. M551,' Charlie India 05, 18, Charlie India 01;
35 millmeter, Charlie India 28, 15, Charlle India 29, and
53; the Hasselblad Charlie X-ray 06, by our count as 97 frames
exposed. Are you still there Houston?
CC We're still copying. Go.
PLT Okay, I didn't want to say all that stuff
for nothing that's all. Under EREP 190 Alfa. The number
1 is 7226, number 2 is 6563, and number 3 is 7438, number 4
is 7433, number 5 is 0977, number 6 is 8293.
CC Copy.
PLT We are a loots out here on the S073
stuff which has items supply Charlie India 25. We got on end
of film light on a time frame, however, it's still full
of film. We don't quite know what's going on. We marked
the film and the marks gone and that indicates that it is still
moving. Are you ready for the Gear A eonfiguaration?
CC That's affirmative.
PLT Okay. AI is 02, Charlie India 05, 18,
Chalie India 01; Alfa 2 is 03, Charlie India 06, 62, Charlie
India 03; Alfa 3, 06, Charlie India 08, 18, Charlie India 07;
Alfa 4 05, Charlie India 25, 50, Mike Tango ii.
CC We copy.
PLT There were no flight plan deviations,
any stowage items changes have been put on tape, and
no inoperable equipment that you don't already know about.
CC We copy that.
CC PLT Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
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CC Apparently we have lost the star on the


tracker and the new acquisition angles all are-
PLT Hold it, hold it. I've got your (garble)
CC Copy.
PLT Okay, go ahead.
CC Inner gimbal plus 0198, outer gimbal plus
1950.
PLT Got it thank you.
CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. Vanguard at
00:37, and we will be dumping the tape recorder at that point.
PLT Roger.
PAO That completes the tape recorded infor-
mation that came down from the space station through Guam.
We will again pick up the Skylab station at the Vanguard
tracking site in about 18 more minutes. At 19 minutes 3 sec-
onds Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-916/I
Time: 19:36 CDT 20:00:36 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston, 36


minutes into the new day. The Skylab space station is about
3/4 of a minute away from acquisition at the Vanguard site.
At this time the crew is - all three of the crew members
are involved in presleep activities. About the only thing
that's going to transpire later tonight will be a little
ATM viewing. And another run at the M555 metals experiment.
And that will be conducted by Pete Conrad. We'll stand by
for air to ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS I0 minutes.
CDR Rog, Houston. Say, I had a little
problem with M551 I'd like to discuss with you.
CC We're standing by.
CDR Okay, on welding on the third plate,
when I got to the cross and I was welding, was doing the pooling,
at the end of the amount of time after the electronic beam
got to ON I hit the READY reset switch to turn it
off and it would not turn off. So I reached up and turned
off the (garble) beam power. And that shut it off, but I
can hear something clicking away back by the battery, and
the 5 KVA was still on for some reason. And the only way
I could get it to shut off was to pull theMAIN BAT circuit
breaker. Then I went through the malf procedures and there's
absolutely zero in there, so I went back to my own imagination
and plugged the BAT circuit breaker back in, and sure enough the
5 KVA was still on, so I turned on the filament power and
that turned it off, hut along about that time the electron
beam gun went off again all by itself, so I decided
relays were hung up or something. So I pulled the filament
BAT circuit breaker this time, and reset it and that reset
whatever it was that was wrong in there and that's where
we stand right now. I finished the third specimen, hut I
thought I'd pass that along. We might llke to hear some words
about it. We were still considering trying to do the M552 and
that requires the gun. And I don't know whether I got
everything reset or not. But at least it's in a condition
where we can give it a try again.
CC We copy that, Pete, and we'll get back
to you before 552.
CDR Thank you. Well that's something that
they said they weren't going to schedule, if we could do it
on our own, we would. We were planning on giving it a whirl
tonight, maybe.
CC Okay, well that's what I -
CC Hello Skylab, SPT, Houston. If you're
near a squawk box, Joe, could you give us a call, please?
SPT Go ahead.
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6/12/73

CC Is that Joe.
SPT Yeah.
CC I just wanted to follow up on a couple
of those questions you answered the last time for us Joe.
You mentioned that the H Alpha image appears to move as
you approach sunset approximately i0 or 15 seconds.

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-- SL-II MC-917/I
Time: 19:41 CDT 20:00:41 GMT
6/12/73

CC Joe?
SPT Yeah.
CC Just wanted to follow up on a couple
of those questions you answered last time for us, Joe. Yon
mentioned that the H-Alpha image appeared to move as you
approached Sunset approximately i0 or 15 seconds early.
That's a good number for us. We would like a little precision
on it if it's possible, the next couple of times you're on
the panel, if it's convenient for you to remember and just note
as accurately as you can, when the image first begins to move.
It would help us in our planning, because apparently we will
want to make sure we do cut off all observations before that
does begin to happen. And on question B, which was a little
puzzling, we tried to abbreviate too much, apparently. We had
noticed that faint features in the corona, llke a very faint
streamer, or something embedded in the coronal brightness could
be seen more clearly when we rolled the TV, and we were finding
that very helpful here on the ground, and were wondering if
you also found it useful in identifying these streamers in the
spacecraft? Over.
SPT Hi, Owen, I didn't recngnize you at first.
CC Good to talk to you, Joe.
SPT Hey, in doing this work with the corona,
are you using stuff we've sent dnwn or the training films?
CC Oh no, we're using all stuff you've sent
down, and it looks very interesting indeed. All the Pls back
there are very enthusiastic and pleased with the way it looks.
SPT Okay, I'll have to look at it - we I have
not specifically noticed anything being enhanced by rolling,
but it may be something we just missed. Yes, we'll start
timing that for you, on H-Alpha. I suspect it's fewer than
15 seconds and we'll try and get you an accurate number.
CC Okay, thanks a lot, Joe, and they are all
very enthusiastic about the pictures and the white light, and
the XUV as well. Even though the XUV may be a little faint,
it's very helpful down here with those integrated pictures,
because we can pull it out frame by frame and look at it.
SC (garbled) - the X-ray image is really the
disappointment, I guess, of the displays. And as far as the JOPS
and building blocks go, Owen, I think the format is fine. I
know you'll want to make detail changes, but I think all the
people that put those together deserve a lot of credit.
CC Thanks, Joe. Also, your answer on the X-ray
image was exactly what we were looking for. We're aware that
at the moment you probably can see very little with the solar
activity as low as it is. However, we do still feel, based
upon its performance and the perf_xmance of the PMEC, that it's
_-- doing just about what it should do. And whe_ever the activity
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does increase, or a flare, or plage brightens up, you should


then be able to see it on that X-ray image. So you shouldn't
get too discouraged just because you don't see it now. When
the activity picks up we think you should.
SPT We're waiting and waiting for that flare.
CC That's rog.
SPT Say, Owen?
CC Go.
PLT Owen, baby.
CC Hello, Paul.
PLT You there?
CC Go ahead.
PLT Hey, I thought of something I put on tape
today, some TV of the coronagraph, and I think that maybe what
you're seeing in there, you know, our occulting disc is a little
off set. And I noticed that you can record some features in
the corona to be enhanced as you offset the disc such that you
get the best picture Qf the first - a little closer to the edge
of the disc. And you'll see things that you didn't see other-
wise, it's kind of like taking the H-Alpha picture off the edge.
- automatic gain allows you to see the streamers in that. And -
thebig changes in the roll, maybe that's what you're seeing
instead of actually being able to see them better when they're
moving, maybe it's because different features are moving closer
to the edge of the disc.
CC Well, it is true that near that
7 to 8 o'clock position, where the picture is brighter, you
will be able to see things a little closer to the limb of the
Sun, sort of like you used to do with PO25 when you had it
out the front of the airlock. You know you can rotate that
occulting disc near the limb and see a little bit more stuff
near by. But, that would be about the only thing I could
think of that would produce the thing you're talking about, Paul.
CDR Hey, Owen, this is Pete.
CC Go ahead, Pete.
CDR I got one suggestion for the JOPs summary
sheet. Especially SO56 and 54. I put in there on each mode
now, the number of frames that are going to be taken, because
with the 56 acting up and 54 with no HEADY operate light, you
do have to count the frames. It's not too bad counting frames,
but there's enough programs in there that - well we've written
on the instrument panel there, but that's a little sloppy.
You might put the number of frames that are going to be taken
in each set in there, just so it's handy for you.
CC Okay, Pete. Thank you. I think if you'll
look on the building block in the upper left-hand corner, I
believe, that frame number is in there, isn't it?
-- SL-II MC917/3
Time: 19:41 CDT 20:00:41 GMT
6/12/73

CDR No, I don't think it is on - like this active


one log, 15 pictures I don't remember that being in there.
CC Okay, I'ii check them all. We should have
them in the upper left-hand corner of each block, and appreciate
the suggestion, Pete.
CC And Skylab, we're going LOS in 45 seconds,
we'll have you at Canary at 58.
PAO In the vernacular of the Mission Control
Center, the spacecraft has gone over the hill. Next acquisi-
tion site will be the Canary Islands tracking station in 9
minutes. At 48 minutes into the new day, this is Greenwich
mean time, Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-91g/I
f Time: 19:57 CDT 20:00:57 GMT
6/12/73

PAO Skylab Control Houstonp 50 seconds away


from acquisition at the Canary site. We'll stand by for
the air to ground.
CC Skylab Houston. AOS i0 minutes.
SPT Go on Houston.
CC We're standing by.
CC Skylab, we have one or two news items
here, if it won't interfere with your activities.
SPT Good, go ahead.
CC The first thing is another satellite has
been launched, the Titan 3C rocket by the Air Force at 2:15
this morning. Thought to he a missile early warning device.
power shortage is to continue. A growing number of service sta-
tions are shortening their operation, as summer travel increases.
Power, electric power is being curtailed, especially along
the east coast, which apparently has a heat wave. It's
causing a drain from air conditioning operation. All the
federal offices in Washington DC began a partial brown out
today to help fight the power shortage.
SPT Hope they don't brown you guys out.
CC And we've always got a plan out back we
can fire up.
.... SPT Okay. You can always get onto your ergometer
Bill.
CC Thank you.
CC And it says that the devaluation of the
US dollar is causing increases in the price of foreign made
imports. Any thing from food stuff to automobiles.
SPT Did we devalue again, how much?
CC No, we haven't officially devalued. But,
apparently the price on the money markets is going down.
SPT Okay.
CC And on sports, most of the major leagues
had a day off. The San Francisco Giants won 2 to 1 over the
Mets, increased their lead over Los Angeles to 1-1/2 games.
Los Angeles is in second place and Houston is in third with
5 games behind. Astros are playing the Cubs tonight in the
dome, but no score yet.
CDR Oh boy.
CC Jack Nickalaus leads the PGA golfers in
irons this year with 181,000 dollars. The really big news,
which Crip may have appraised you on is the rain in Houston today.
Earlier today they had up to 7 inches in lots of spots and
all the low places were under water.
SPT How are the hay area suburbs doing?
CC I was afraid you would ask that.
.-
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Time: 19:57 CDT 20:00:57 GMT
6/12/73

CC Stand by and I'ii find out.


SPT Well, you don't have to go to the trouble.
There is nothing we can do about it anyway.
PLT Next program we will start changing the
weather, this one we're just observing it.
CC We copy.
CC And for the local area flooding, that's
been -

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SL-II MC-919/I
Time: 20:04 CDT 20:01:04 GMT
7/12/73

CC And for the local area flooding, that's


been restricted just to streets. No houses have been in-
volved, and such.
CDR Okay, that's good.
CC Yeah, that's not quite true in Friends-
wood. (garble) been blocked about a mile from his house,
which has been overrun. And there are quite a few others
up that way. We've the creek that went past our back
increased from about I0 feet and went to about 300 yards,
as a matter of fact. We're still fortunately dry.
SPT That's good. We are too.
CC The director is spending the evening in
Nassau Bay Motel. He lives in Friendswood.
SPT (laughter) Oh dear.
CC And we're going to sleep configuration
with the GYROS. i and 2 is on. Three is backup.
CDR Roger.
CC There's also a message here that the
S073 PI would like to convey his thanks for the outstanding
job the crew did on the S073 today. The data tapes looked
excellent, and these were corollated with scans from
Pioneer 2, and scans from MAVI in Hawaii.
SPT CDR says he enjoyed it.
CC Copy.
CDR Say, Bill you still there?
CC We're still here Pete, go.
CDR Tell the M551 guys or the M512, however
you want to look at it. We've determined what happened.
It appears that the filament beam gun has moved forward.
Not left or right, but it moved forward. Plus X for some
reason, just a little bit, like maybe an eighth of an inch.
It must be held in there by a rig or something llke that.
CC We copy that, Pete.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Film transporter 6 has about 18
percent film left and they'd like for you to shoot this up at -
on any subject, any speed and tomorrows film log will reflect
this being used. And we'll be LOS in approximately one
minute here.
PLT Okay, real fine.
CC And be advised, we won't be making
Guam this time. The Honeysuckle is the next one at 1:47.
There will be a medical conference there. Paul the EVA
teleprinter pad should be on board at this time.
PLT Okay.

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Time: 20:04 CDT 20:01:04 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This revolution which is the 424th rev


took the spacecraft over the Canary Island tracking site
and the Madrid site. We've passed beyond communication
out of the Madrid site. Our next station will be the
Honeysuckle station in 26 minutes. At i hour 12 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-920/I
Time: 20:37 CDT 20:01:37 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Controlj 1 hour 38 minutes


Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is Just brushing
the edge of the Guam tracking site. We may have some telem-
etry. We doubt whether we will have any voice communication,
but we'll bring the line up and stand by.
PAO During this period_ when we have a small
amount of Guam telemetry, we might speak about tomorrow's
EREP pass, which is identified as pass number i0. It is
a daylight pass, starting, an early daylight pass, starting
over the Pacific Ocean well off the coast of Oregon. The
actual data which will be coming down from the spacecraft
on that Earth Resources pass, will begin south of Helena,
Montana. The pass will continue on over the Rocky Mountains,
and end approximately 350 miles off Rio de Janero in Brazil.
The length of the pass is approximately 7400 statute miles.
EREP pass number 10 is the next to last EREP experiment, or
EREP pass for this Skylab mission. We'll keep the llne
up. We're approximately 5 minutes from acquisition at the
Boneysuckle tracking station. And at that time, we will
have the daily medical conference. So we would assume there
will he very little air to ground that will come from Sky-
lab during this the 424th rev.

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SL-II MC-921/1
Time: 20:45 CDT 20:01:45 GMT
6/12/73

CC Skylab, if you read, we'll be at Canary


at 02:36.
PLT Okay.
PAO The Skylab space station has moved out
of the range of the Honeysuckle tracking station. Very
little communication during this pass over Honeysuckle.
Due primarily to the daily medlcal conference that was held
over the site. We'll have a report from the doctor a little
later and read it to you. We expect to reacquire the space
station in about 3/4 of an hour at the Canary Island tracking
site. So, we'll take the line down at 1 hour 56 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylah Control.

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SL-II MC-922/I
Time: 21:83 CDT 20:02:33 GMT
6/12/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston, at


2 hours 33 minutes Greenwich mean time. We have received
the daily medical bulletin as gathered together for us by
Dr. Charles E. Ross. Dr. Ross says the Skylab crew remains
in good physical condition following a busy day working
experiments. In the area of medical experiments the Com-
mander had a successful lower body negative pressure cardio-
vascular and exercise response test. Dr. Ross also says
no medical problems have been identified, which could affect
the mission time line. We've just had an indication through
the medium of the warbler that we're about to be - about
to acquire the Skylab space station at the Canary Island
tracking site. We'll be in contact with the space station
through the Canaries and Madrid for roughly 15 minutes. We
expect at this time, during this contact, during this
period of contact that the ground will give the crew a
goodnight, thus ending their 19th day. Flight Director
Don Puddy just identified that fact, that this is the last
pass before we do indeed put the crew to bed for this the
19th day. So we'll stand by for the air to ground through
the Canaries and Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 13 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston.
SPT We're pretty busy right now. The CDR is
trying to break the PLTs world record of 13 bounces around
the ring lockers.
PLT With the blue ball.
CC Be sure it's only the world's record
that you break.
PLT Don't ask for the rules. It's extremely
complicated, involves orbital mechanics and everything.
CC How many Gs do you figure you work up
running around those things?
SPT Oh, not more than a (garble) on the
outside.

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SL-II MC-923/I
Time: 21:41 CDT 20:02:41 GMT
6/12/73

CC And just for the record tonight's ball


scores came in, the Astros nothing, the Chicago Cubs 3.
CDR Run, run quick.
SPT Houston, Houston, where are you?
CC We're standing by.
SPT We didn't hear the scores. You cut out.
CC Oh, the Astros nothing, Chicago Cubs 3.
That's the final in the dome tonight.
SPT Well, I'ii bet ole (garble) Jenkins did
it again.
CC Stand by Hap and I'ii find out who it was.
SPT I always hate it when those two teams played
because I'm for both.
CC Hey, we've been watching some beautiful
TV, that been coming down recently from you people.
SPT I'm glad it came out good.
CC It's very good.
SPT What is it of?
CC Oh, MI71, M092, that sort of thing. I'ii
tell you, some of those pictures are worth a thousand words.
• SPT Great. Our really favorite one of all is
the XUV monitor though.
CC There are also people who appreciate that.
SPT Oh yeah.
CC CDR Houston.
CDR Yeah, go ahead.
CC Question here on the 551. After you
cycled the filament battery circuit breaker, did you go to
ready reset to get the 5KVA to turn off.
CDR No sir, cycling the breakers did it by
itself.
CC We copy.
CDR Say Bill on that EVA plan, are you still
there?
CC Yeah, we're still here.
CDR I'd like a little more time tonight before-
we used some of the equipment and I would like, you know
on the first EVA like the tethers, the long tethers that
we used to hold the pole and so forth. I would llke maybe
another hour to iron that gear out, make sure it's all
in good order.
Copy that.
CDR Other wise it looks okay. I don't think
doff our system this week on the EVA gear, that's a waste of
time.
CC Okay. .,. t

_ CDR You can make it almost all the way to the


wardroom with your PCU and umbilical on any how, it's not (garble)
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can't make it all the way.


CDR Yeah, time is open straight at that point,
as a matter of fact, we almost in daylight the full time I
would imagine. Thatls number 1 and number 2, that's all
well out there any how. Daylight except for (garble) one of
the film.
CC Hey, Rusty wants to know if you have an
answer to the first question on the EVA?
CDR Oh, about the surf pumps?
CC That's affirm.
CDR I'm going to have to look that up, and
get it to you in the morning. I'ii have to go look at the
checklist that stuff none of us can remember.
CC Okay.
SPT I'm pretty sure what happened Pete is
that the LSUs were attached to the PCUs, but the PCUs weren't
attached to us yet.
CC Copy.
CDR That's right. Joe's right. And as I re-
member I was talking about how cold I was, how nice the flow
was. And Joe said, well I'm not getting any.
CC Okay, we copy. And we're going LOS for
the night in about 20 seconds. And we'll see you tomorrow.
CDR Okay, it may have been the other way
around. I forget who wasn't flowing, but when we put them
on it was that way.
CC We copy.
CDR We're just going into daylight and the
moon is just there. That's quite a pretty site.
CC You're right. We can only dream about
it down here.
PAO Flight Director Don Puddy, polled the
flight controllers in the Mission Control Center on a final
systems check. And the response that he got from each of
them just prior to bidding the crew good night was that the
systems looked good. And so we bid the Skylab crew good
night on this 19th mission day. At 2 hours 50 minutes Green
wich mean time on day 164, this is Skylab Control.

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-- SL-II MC924/I
Time: 05:55 CDT, 20:10:55 GMT
6113173

PAO This is Skylab Control at 10 hours 56 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. We're planning to wake up the crew
during a current pass over Ascension Island within about the
next 4 or 5 minutes. CAP COM Hank Hartsfield will be putting
in the call. The planning shift, headed by Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson, is in the process now of getting last minute
pads ready to feed up to the space station on the teleprinter.
And we're receiving good solid data on the Skylab Space Station
at this time by both coolant loops continuing to function
normally and no outstanding problems at the moment. The
crew will have an active day of medical and ATM experiments
again today and will have an early EREP pass, EREP pass number
i0. The planned 32-minute pass today will extend from west
of the Washington coast and cross over Vancouver Island; the
Rocky Mountains; Wyoming; Kansas; Memphis, Tennessee; also
the Kennedy Space Center; and out over Haiti, Venezuela and
finally Brazil. Information gathered will aid in sea-state
prediction studies - also the definition of cloud characteristics
of the Pacific coastal area. It will be used for geologic
mapping of Wyoming and adjacent regions - also surface
water assessment in Kansas, and it'll be used for land-use
mapping of the Kennedy Space Center area. Also investigators
will use the data for hydrological studies of Tampa Bay and
regional land resources studies of Brazil. We'll have tele-
vision coming in at - beginning at 12:55 Greenwich mean time
or 7:55 central daylight time. This will be TV that was re-
corded yesterday on the onboard video tape recorder of the
M551 metals melting experiment. And also, beginning at Gold-
stone acquisition at Greenwich mean time 13:44, we're scheduled
to get an additional live pass of EREP television through
the view finder tracking system, coming down across the United
States out oyez the Caribbean and on across South America,
where we have acquisition. Major Flight Plan activities sched-
uled for today include Apollo telescope mount ATM experiments,
also M092 and MI71 medical experiments. The M092, MI71 subject
will be Science Pilot Joe Kerwin. The observer for those
experiments will be Commander Pete Conrad. ATM duties will
be shared by all three crewmen. We'll also have MI31 runs
with Science Pilot Joe Kerwin as the subject and Pilot Paul
Weitz as the observer for the otolith function test, using
the rotating litter chair. And a fairly full schedule of
housekeeping, personal hygiene periods set aside for each of the
crewmen and physical training periods. We're now 5 minutes
from the time we'll be losing contact over Ascension.
CC Skylab, H_.tqn. Good morning.
SC Hello. i . _- _ r..:_ i
CC How's it going this morning? We've got
/ - about 5 minutes left here to Ascension.
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6/13/73

SC Okay, we're on our way.


CC Skylab, Houston; about 30 seconds from
LOS; Carnarvon at 31.

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SL-II MC-925/I
Time: 06:06 CDT, 20:11:06 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylah Control. We are out of range


now of Ascension, and we will be acquiring again in 23-1/2 min-
utes as Skylab passes over the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia,
Tracking Station and Carnarvon, Australia. The spacecraft now
on the 430th Earth revolution. And the crew being awakened
this past pass over Ascension by CAP COM Hank Hartsfield.
The flight director on this shift is Nell Hutchinson. At
ii hours 8 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 06:30 CDT, 20:11:30 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, at ii hours


30 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab in its 430th revolu-
tion, and we're about 1 minute away from acquisition through the
Carnarvon, Australia Tracking Station.
CC - - i0 minutes.
CDR Hi, Dick.
CC Good morning.
CDR Good morning.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 1 minute
from LOS, Honeysuckle, Hawaii will be coming up at 55. And
we've got all the pads up except the odds and ends and the
general message on the WLC-TV.
SC Roger.
CDR What did your pad-senders do, take the night
off last night7
CC Well we had a little trouble getting them
all together last night, Pete.
PLT He's just being smart.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're out of
range now, of the Honeysuckle Creek, Australia, Tracking
Station. The next station to acquire will be Hawaii in about
13 minutes. And the crew is getting organized and up and
about, ready for the first major activity of the day, an
EREP Pass, which will occur on the 431st revolution and on
into the 432nd. This will be ground track 5, a 32-minute pass
that extends from west of the Washington Coast and on over
the north central United States, down across the Kennedy Space
Center, down over the Caribbean, the Island of Haiti, and
then on across Venezuela and Brazil. At ii hours 43 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-927/I
Time: 06:54 CDT, 20:11:54 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 54 min-


utes. And Skylab now coming up on the Hawaiian Tracking
Station.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 2-1/2
minutes.
SC (Garble)
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS; Goldstone at 07.
SC Roger, babe.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's all through
Hawaii, and we'll be up again in about 6 minutes for the ac-
quisition at Goldstone, California.

END OF TAPE
SL-II HC928/I
Time: 07:07 CDT, 20:12:07 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. Now we're about to


acquire at Goldstone, California with Skylab in its 4S0th
revolution coming across the continental United States and
out over the Atlantic on it's 432 - 4Slst revolution. This
is our next pass prior to the EREP pass.
CC Through Goldstone 5 minutes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT I'd like the photo people to recommend
DAC settings for me to shoot up transporter 06 out the window
during the EREP pass. Over.
CC Roger. We'll work on it.
CDR Hey, Rank, for the H551 people I've left
that tank sit on vent all night and that's the first time the
readings have really been good, it's perked up. In fact just
supposed to - I don't know what it was - the motors or something
must have been getting through one heck of a lot of ontgassing
all day yesterday. I've got a good hard vacuum in there this
morning 0.01.
CC Roger, sounds good.
CDR Yeah, well all the welding was done between
0.i - right around 0.i. But this morning for the first time I
got a 0.01.
CC Pete, while we're talking about it, we've
got a troubleshooting procedure that we are working up on this
EV gun and we're going to get that up to you sometime this
morning and we'll do that in place of your 551 terminate.
CDR Good. Well, I'ii tell you what we've done.
We've got a 5 by 2 wheel in there right now, and if the trouble-
shooting procedure is successful we'll go ahead and do the
wheel, make the ball bearings.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about l0 seconds from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Hila at 15.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-929/I
Time: 07:14 CDT, 12:12:14 GMT
6/13/73

CC Skylah, Houston through Mila 7 minutes.


SC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. We'd Just like to verify.
You did say you had (garble) and wheel installed, didn't you?
CDR Yes, sir, and it's been a hard vacuum, 0.01.
CC Okay. That'll fit in with our trouble-
shooting all right.
SC Let's see you get that up to us.
CDR Will you tell me what it is now? I think
we've got a few minutes.
CC I haven't seen it myself, yet. All I
know is, it just got in from Marshall, and the guys are
looking over it. And we hope to have it up to you by 14:00.
SC Yeah. That's working fine.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS;
Ascension at 35.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours
27 minutes. And we're out of range now of the Bermuda
Tracking Station; about 8 minutes away from acquiring at
Ascension Island. Skylab now in the 431st revolution of
Earth. And on this revolution, toward the end of the 431st
and on into the 432nd, we'll have our 10th EREP pass of the
mission. This, the next to the last Earth resources pass,
will include an unusual dawn data take at the Pacific Ocean
site, more than a thousand miles west of Vancouver, British
Columbia, at the northern most point beneath Skylab's orbit.
The Skylab Earth resources experiment package sensors are turned
on over the ocean at 8:42 a.m. central daylight time. The re-
mainder of the data will be acquired beginning over the Rocky
Mountains just south of Helena, Montana at 8:48 a.m. From this
point to the conclusion of the pass, some 7400 miles to the
southeast, the space station follows ground track 5 and 6. The
pass ends about 350 miles east of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at
9:14 a.m. central daylight time. Today's pass includes two
studies of severe storm conditions in the Mississippi, Alabama
area. Most of the sites in the midwest are under 40 to 70 percent
cloud cover. And some totally cloud covered in the northwest and
southeast, which may limit the amount of information success-
fully gathered during the extended pass. We have a weather
map and some site information on the ground track on our
TV monitor at the present time, @h owing the areas of data
collection. Two Florida c_ties, Tam_a_nd West Palm Beach,
are to be surveyed as part of an extensive program to measure
growth and changes in urban areas since the 1970 census. Among
the specific sites to be covered are the Yellowstone Park area
of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho. And we do show some fairly
heavy cloud cover in that area. The Powder River Basin and
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Time: 07:14 CDT, 12:12:14 GMT
6/13/73

northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana. Also (garble)


Nebraska area and the Orlando, Florida area. During the
portion of the EREP pass over the continental United States,
the crew will be using the view finder tracking system with
the TV camera attached. We expect to be getting television
pictures down across the northwestern, central, and south-
eastern United States and out over the Caribbean. The data
gathered on this EREP pass will be used in sea-state predic-
tion studies, definition of cloud characteristics of the
Pacific coastal area - also geologic mapping in Wyoming and
adjacent regions, Surface water assessments will be made in
Kansas. And land-use mapping will be done at the Kennedy
Space Center area. Also, Tampa Bay hydrological studies and
regional land resources studies will use the data collected
on this pass. The hydrological studies of Tampa Bay and the
land resources studies taking place in Brazil. At 12 hours
31 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylah Control.

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC930/I
Time: 07:33 CDT, 20:12:33 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylah Control. We're about to hear


from the crew over Ascension Island. We'll bring up the lines for
the llve communications from that Ascension pass beginning in
about 1 minute.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for
5 more minutes. And for info, wetre configuring pout rate gyros
for the daytime configuration. And SPT, I got your photo settings
for you.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay, if you plan to shoot that thing out
the window totally, in other words no inside shots, use f/5.6 at
1/250; if you're going to mix up outside and inside, use f/ll
at 1/500.
SPT Okay, Hank. This one will have to be a
mix. I'd like to have a pure 400 footer dedicated to EREP
pass tomorrow, if they can see fit to do it. I think it'd he
good photography.
CC Okay, so then for your mix then, you want to
use f/ll at 1/500.
SPT I got you.
CC You are using transporter 07. Is that cor-
rect? On DAC 6?
SPT No, sir. This is transporter 06 which we're
to shoot up. That's just the one we were to shoot up last night.
CC Okay, let us take a look at that.
CC SPT, Houston. I think we finally understand
what's happened here now. You haven't rethreaded; so the
f/ll, 1/500 is a good setting to run that out, and then you'll
rethread for later today. Is that correct?
SPT That's correct.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds
from LOS. Carnarvon will be coming up at 06.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss of
signal now through Ascension, and we'll he acquiring in 23 min-
utes at the Carnarvon, Australia Tracking Station as the
spacecraft comes up over Australia and the Pacific at - on
the 431st revolution and toward the start of EREP pass num-
ber 10. We have the weather map up again on the TV monitor,
which shows you graphically the areas of heavy cloud cover,
beginning up in the northwest over the Montana, Idaho_ and
Wyoming area. And we have an area showing 8/10 to i0/i0 cloud
cover, which is essentially a solld overcast - 80 to i00 percent
cloud cover. Then on across the - follo_ing the ground track
down across the midwest Rocky Mountain states and then into
the southeastern corner of Kansas, on across Missouri, we first
enter an area of about 40 to 70 percent cloud cover and then again
pick up the solid overcast beginning in southeast Kansas and
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Time: 07:33 CDT, 20:12:33 GMT
6/13/73

Missouri and continuing on pretty much solid overcast through


the southeastern United States with areas - breaking out into
areas of 40 to 70 percent cloud cover. And then clearing some-
what over Florida - 40 to 70 percent cloud cover there scattered
to broken clouds in that area. So that we do have a fair amount
of cloud cover on today's EREP pass over the continental United
States but with areas of scattered to broken clouds in the
Rocky Mountain and central states. At 12 hours 44 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
z- SL-II MC-931/I
Time:08:04 CDT, 20:13:04 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours


4 minutes Greenwich mean time, with Skylab coming up on
Carnarvon, Australia. And we'll have acquisition through
Carnarvon for about Ii minutes. At the present time, we're
receiving television which was dumped earlier during the day
at a series of continental U.S. ground stations, - Goldstone,
Texas, and Mila, - and is being fed into the Johnson Space
Center and released at this time. The TV is of the M551
experiment performed yesterday. And we've seen Commander
Pete Conrad place the metal disc to be welded in the M551 facil-
ity, in the chamber. At the present time, we're also seeing
console operations. There will be some overlap in the coverage
from each of these stations, so that you will see, as these
pieces of television come in, some repetition of the activity.
We've had a shift handover in Mission Control. Flight Director
Phil Shaffer has replaced Flight Director, Nell Hutchinson.
And the CAP COM coming on duty is Astronaut, Dick Truly, re-
placing Astronaut, Henry Hartsfield.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised, we see a
small problem in the Nz in the star tracker. We're going to
be - ESCO is going to be commanding star tracker out of gimbal
backup on our next pass.
SC Roger.
SC Where've you been? How was leave?
CC It was great. It's also great to finally
get on the day shift and talk to you guys at a normal hour.
SC Yeah. I was wondering about that.
CC It's been tough.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're finished our
commanding to star tracker and it looks like we're in good
shape now.
SC That's your story, huh?
CC Roger.
SC Don't tell me you've been on vacation.
Tell him you've been running launch shifts with Captain B.
CC Not true.
SC Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead, SPT.
SPT Couple things on the Earth terrain camera.
Number I, I had a peculiar funny, which I'ii just repeat for infor-
mation. Maybe it's explainable. When I first attempted to turn
power on the camera, I did not get full operation. I got the
green light, but no noise and no ability to move frames through.
And I still do not know wha_ _e m_t_ w_e, but I finally fixed
it by opening and then closing again to all three circuit breakers
on the inverter, at which time I heard the inverter come on. And
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Time: 08:04 CDT, 20:13:04 GMT
6/13/73

it was not on previously. But it's okay, now. The other thing
on the ETC is that there is still a loud hiss when I hook the
vacuum hose up to this particular film cartridge. And I'm going
to make the run without the vacuum hose. Over.
CC Roger, Joe. Copy.
SC (Garble)
SC Also, I think transporter 05 was Jammed-
really, really, because I ran the ETC prep with that trans-
porter with the END OF FILM light on and all that stuff, and
when I got done, the frames - the percentage used was the same
as it has been when I started. We'll tear it down later.
CC Okay, Joe. Just let us know when you do.
SPT Okay.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC932/I
Time: 08:12 CDT, 20:13:12 GMT
6/13/73

CC Skylab, Houston; we're about a minute


from LOS at Carnarvon. We're going to have a short break and
see you at Guam at 13:19. We're going to be dumping the data
tape recorder at Guam, and be advised after the EREP pass and
you get back to solar inertial, there is about ii minutes from
the time you're in solar inertial and sunset and we'd like
to make sure you try to reacquire the star with the star
tracker during that period.
CDR We'll give her a bloddy go.
CC All righty, see you at Guam.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 17
minutes with Skylab now in between the Carnarvon, Australia
Tracking Station and the Tracking Station on Guam Island and
it'll be about a minute and 45 seconds before we reacquire
through Guam. And we're continuing to receive a combination
of ATM and video tape recorder television which has been down-
linked from the Skylab to ground stations being brought into
Mission Control Center at this time. At the present time we're
looking at ATM video. Prior to the ATM video we were looking
at the M551 experiment activities and we saw the metal disk
placed in the experiment chamber and we saw a sequence as the
disk was removed from the chamber after the metals melting ex-
periment had been completed and you could clearly see the melted
or weld area on the disk. The disk will be returned and eval-
uated to determine the behavior of melting metals in a space
environment in zero g and vacuum conditions. We're about
i0 seconds from acquisition now at Guam. We'll stand by for
Dick Truly's call to the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston; Guam for i0 minutes.
PLT Hello.
PLT Roger, Dick. We don't have TV through
Guam today, do we?
CC Stand by.
PLT I've got the Moon on the VTS that's why
I was wondering if you had TV - I'd give you a shot at it.
Otherwise I'ii put them on 2 minutes on the VTR.
CC Answer is negative, Paul. No TV until
Goldstone.
PLT Okay, we've got about 2 minutes of the
Moon on the VTR.
CC Okay. ' j_

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC-933/I
Time: 08:20 CDT, 20:13:20 GMT
6/13/73

CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we're powering


down the MDA wall heaters and CBRMs 3 and 15 in preparation
for the EREP pass. No action required.
SC Okay.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're about a minute from
LOS. We're going to see you at Goldstone at 13:44.
SC See you.
CC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Our next station
to acquire will be Goldstone, California, in 13-1/2 minutes.
And at that time we'll be into EREP pass number i0. During
the pass over Guam, we had an indication that the startracker,
which is used to provide attitude information for the EREP
pass and used as an attitude reference in getting the workshop
into the proper attitude, the Z-local vertical attitude, was
providing an improper angle to the computer. Possibly the
startracker had acquired or hung up on a bit of debris instead
of tracking the desired star. In any event, the backup pro-
cedure was fed in, which is to provide the angle that the
startracker should be providing automatically. This input
from the ground was successfully entered, and the workshop
should be maneuvering automatically to the desired Z-local
vertical attitude at this time, and will be in attitude for
the EREP pass. At 13 hours 32 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC934/I
Time: 08:41 CDT, 20:13:41 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 42


minutes Greenwich mean time and at this time the crew aboard
Skylab should be turning on their instruments for Skylab
EREP pass number i0. We'll be acquiring through Goldstone
California in about 2 minutes. This will be a 32 minute pass
extending from west of the Washington coast - crossing over
Vancouver Island, the Rocky Mountains, Wyoming, Kansas,
Memphis, Tennessee, down over the Kennedy Space Center - out
over the Gulf of Mexico in the Caribbean - across Haiti,
Venezuela and Brazil. And as mentioned previously there is
significant cloud cover in the northwest about - northwestern
United States about 80 to i00 percent almost solid overcast,
giving way to scattered or broken cloud conditions of 40 to
70 percent cover across the Rocky Mountain States and down
over the central U.S. and then picking up heavy cloud cover
again in the southeast and also fairly heavy cloud cover over
portions of south America. We're expecting to get television
through the viewflnder tracking system during this EREP pass
and among the view finder tracking system targets will be
Turtle Creek Reservoir which is on the Kansas-Nebraska border.
The crew also will be looking at anvil cloud tops in southern
Iowa and on across Tennessee and they're scheduled to gather
f data, through the VTS, of Nassau in the Bahamas. They'll also
be doing nadir tracking over the water in the Gulf of Mexico.
We're less than a minute now from acquiring signal. And we'll
be standing by for acquisition and video. We do have a signal
now and television picture coming in through the viewfinder
tracking system.
CDR Four minutes. Mark. Standing by. 34
minutes. Mark. Standing by for 45.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone.
We've got Television. No response required. Looking good.
CDR Roger. How do you read, Houston?
CC Loud and clear.
CDR Okay.
SC Are you going to command the tape recorder
on when you need it Dick, or do you want us to turn it on first?
CC Skylab, Houston; we'll take care of it
from the ground.
SC Okay.
CDR Captain Video strikes again.
SC 8, 9, MARK, Polarization 4. Standing
by for a 191 ready light. 4'_3,11, DKYLIG_T. Bravo 7 reads
30.

SC For your information Houston that VTS is


looking (garble) just 54 degrees ahead.
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Time: 08:41 CDT, 20:13:41 GMT
6/13/73

CC Thank you.
PAO Skylab crossing over Washington state at
this time.
SC i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 altimeter to STANDBY.
SC MARK 46 26, polarization i.
PLT Dick, I couldn't find Jupiter and I don't
have time to look anymore.
CC Roger, copy.
CDR Okay, I have a seatterometer X-mitrer
light.
CDR 4, MARK. S190 MODE AUTO. Joe, on stand by
for 48 ETC AUTO.
SC MARK ETC AUTO. 48:10 MODE READY or 92 and
I have tape motion light.
SC Wonderful.
SC Houston, you got any later reports on the
weather in the Bayonett Kansas area. Is it any better than the
8/10 (garble) ?
CC Stand by just a second. I'll get the
latest update.
SC Okay. There's no rush_ Dick. No sweat.
r It's either good or it's not. I'm just curious.
CC Skylab, Houston; no change in the weather.
It still looks about 8/10th cloud cover.
SC MARK 49:16. The altimeter is ON. I have
no ready light on the altimeter.
SC ALTIMETER to STANDBY. Mode check on 92.
SCAT ON - RAD ON.
SC Okay, that's where it's supposed to be,
Houston. It doesn't look too good, does it?
CC It sure doesn't.
SC Well, gee, it's still looking at a couple
of holes in the clouds, huh? (Laughter) What holes? Oh my.
PAO Weitz is looking for Turtle Creek Reservoir.
On the Kansas-Nebraska border, but not having much luck
penetrating that cloud cover.
SC Okay, SCAT ON to STANDBY and RAD to STANDBY.
S193 to 0.
SC That's pretty solid (garble), Dick.
SC SCAT's ON, RAD's ON.
SC Well. Better than that does it.
SC Hey, whe_ you want to a thunderstorm you
can never find one.
CC Sorry about that.
SC MARK. SCAT STANDBY, PAD STANDBY. Altim-
eter is ON. I have a READY light. And I can reconstruct. I
made a discovery back there and I can tell you what happened.
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Time: 08:41 CDT, 20:13:41 GMT

6/13/73

SC Going after (garble) power in cue, Dick.

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC-935/I
_- Time: 08:52 CDT, 20:13:52 GMT
6/13/73

SC - - and I can reconstruct. I made a mistake


back there, and I can tell you what happened - -
SC I'm going (garble) that power and (garble),
Dick.
CC Understand.
SC There were no (garble) in the area. No
good CBs.
CC Roger, PLT. - -
SC Okay. S190 to (garble). There (garble) a
little (garble)
SC Looks like the whole U.S. is clobbered today.
SC Okay, 92 to MODE READY. Tape looks good.
SC Okay. For the EREP folks - Back there
where I was supposed to originally put the altimeter to STANDBY,
(garble) put the SCAT to STANDBY, and that goofed up the
cycle there. Goofed up the warm-up time on the altimeter, too.
It's just that one part in there. Also caused the SCAT TRANS-
MITTER light.
CC Roger, CDR.
SC I'm not sure where we are here, Dick.
CC Stand by; I'ii tell you.
CC Skylab, Houston. It looks like you're
probably overhead Alabama now and coming up toward the Florida
Panhandle.
SC Okay. Can't see much through these clouds.
Boy,(garble) there's some now. It's the beach. That's why it
stands out so good. There's the Cape under the clouds there.
I see the Cape.
SC SCAT's ON; RAD's ON.
SC There's a Titan complex, I think, Dick.
CC Roger, Paul. We see it.
SC (garble) out of the clouds, I
guess. Hey there it is. I'd rather get back to the business
at hand.
SC Okay. Coming up on some shallow water.
Ought to be coming in the top of the screen pretty soon.
SC Do those reefs show up? Can _ou see them
all right?
SC MARK Polarization 4.
SC SCAT STANDBY, RAD STANDBY. Altimeter's
ON. MODE CHECK on 92. SPEED MEDIUM. ETC to STANDBY at 56:58, Joe.
You've got about 30 seconds .....
SPT Roger. it's cloudy _ here too.
SC Okay. There's Andrews. That ought to be
NASA about there, Richard. I can hardly see it through the
clouds, though.
CC Roger.
SC Well here's something. I'II get a (garble)
-_ clear area, about there. You see the difference it makes when
you look through less and less haze? It really makes a difference
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Time: 08:52 CDT, 20:13:52 GMT
6/13/73

when you're trying to look out there 45 degrees, Houston.


CC Roger, understand.
SC S190 light's out, MODE's STANDBY. FRAMES GOING
to FIX.
SC Okay. I'ii give it a few shots there.
SC (garble). Quick answers from the E REP Gang.
Do they want another site in the city or stay on the same one?
CC Say again, the question, PLT? And be
advised we've secured the TV,
PLT Okay. Never mind, now, Dick.
SC Here's the tongue of the ocean, Houston, if
you've got the recorder running, which you don't.
SC Here you go, the recorder's on.
CC Roger.
SU Standing by for 58:24, and the altimeter
will be going to STANDBY. STANDBY. MODE l, 58:45, looking for
the altimeter ON again.
SC Okay. We can turn that off, now.
SC 58:45, the altimeter is ON. Joe standing
by for 59:40 and the ETC to AUTO.
SC All right.
CC Skylab, Houston. The television and the
VTR - Skylab Houston. The television and the VTR are yours
for the TV 29 cleanup. Also if you have any problems locking
on the s_ar tracker, we'd recommend to bracket it to the
larger numbers on the outer gimhal angle. We're about a min-
ute and a half from LOS. Wetre going to see you at Carnarvon,
at 14:46.
SC Bye. 59:40 ETC AUTO.
SC I got it.
SC Where are we?
SC Just passing the Dominican Republic,
I think. Hispaniola.
SC What are we coming up on now?
SC Clouds. Well, cloud photography - (garble)
23 MODE AUTO, 30 S192 to READY. MARK, READY. Tape looks
good. A_ 55 the altimeter to STANDBY.
SC 55 MARK altimeter to STANDBY, standby
for the 191 POWER at OFF,. 105. 2, 3, 4, MARK. POWER OFF,
078, 10, ii, 12, 13, 14, 15, the POWER is back ON. Check 92
140 altimeter to come ON. 6, 7, 8, 9, 1-Brady, the altimeter is ON.
Standing by for READY out _ S190 _in _ _inutes. 6, 7, 8,
9, 2 minutes-READY OUT MODE STANDBY,
PAO This is Skylab Control, we've had loss
of signal now through the Bermuda Tracking Station. This
EREP pass will continue down across the northern part of
South America and ends about 350 miles east of Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. A disappointingly large amount of cloud cover on that
EREP pass. And we expect there will he areas of fairly heavy
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cloud cover South America_ as well. Our next station to


acquire will be Carnarvon, and that'll be 43 minutes from now.
Our change-of-shift briefing with Flight Director, Nell
Hutchinson, will begin shortly in the Johnson Space Center
News Center Briefing Room, room 135. We'd estimate start-
time on that in about 5 minutes from now. At 14 hours 3 min-
utes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC936/I
Time: 09:25 CDT, 20:14:25 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylah Control at 14 hours 25 min-


utes. We're still 20 minutes away from reacquiring at
Carnarvon, Australia. And we're ready at this time to begin
the Change-of-Shift Press Briefing in the JSC News Briefing
Room. Wetll switch to the News Center at this time for that
briefing.

END OF TAPE

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f SL-II MC937/I
Time: 09:51 CDT, 20:14:51 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 51 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. During the Change-of-Shift Briefing,
we accumulated a little over 4 minutes of tape conversation
through Carnarvon, Australia. We have about 8 minutes remain-
ing until we reacquire through Guam so we'll take this oppor-
tunity to replay the accumulated tape.
CC Skylab, Houston. Carnarvon for 5 minutes.
SC (Garble)
CC I've got a few little notes here to tell
you guys that I saved up so I wouldn't bug you through the
EREP pass. And so if you're in a listening mood, I'ii pass them
up to you during here at Carnarvon.
SC Okay. We're standing by. And Dick, the
star tracker - I changed it to AUTO and then had to go to
my little VTS - and it did lock on something - I put the (garble)
the details on B channel.
CC Okay. I had a note here. One of the
notes that I had here was that during the EREP pass, the star
tracker, after you left it, did get a lock-on, and the gimbal
angle trace indicates it probably was Jupiter. So we think we
made out okay on that one.
SC Okay.
CC The next one I have is the update on the
solar activity. We had - during the evening we had three
X-ray events last evening and they had generally - were asso-
ciated with the gradual rise - of (garble) and X-ray background,
but no optical flares were seen. And we think the probable
source of this activity was active region 37, which has been a
big X-ray producer in past rotations and is still very complex
at this time.
SC Yeah, we'll drink to that.
CC l'm snowed in a flurry of papers here to
find my notes. The next one I have is that later on today we're
going to be sending you a short general message on some pro-
cedures we'd like to accomplish in the command module essen-
tially. We've been running for several days with the primary
coolant loop going,. We've got a lot of thermal data. And
prior to doing the power transfer, we'd like to switch to
configuration where both CSM coolant loops are operating. To
get some more thermal data, we're going to probably ask you to
do this-oh, in a couple or three hours. It'll be about 5 or
10-minute task, and then we'll make a decision, based on the
data today, as to whether or not We'll go back to this configura-
tion prior to going to sleep tonight or in the morning.
SC Ok_._ _ , ,_ I
CC Next note I have was that during the evening
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we've been seeing some kind of steady degradation in the
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SL-II MC937/2
Time: 09:51 CDT, 20:14:51 GMT
6/13/73

Operation of airlock module transmitter alfa - the I0 watt


transmitter. It's been giving kind of ratty data, particularly
at low elevation angles. However, this moment, we are still
able to - with other transmitters and by managing them correctly
we're still able to get all our data so I'ii Just let you know
we're working that problem.
$C Keep up the good work.
CC We also had - during the evening we had
a glitch on the S055 (garble) unmanned operation, and we
lost a couple of ATM passes with that experiment. However,
we've troubleshot it. It's apparently working okay now and
we don't think you'll have any problem today but if you do
have any kind of a problem yon might let us know on that.
And I have one more note that I'd like to read to you real
quickly. Incidentally we're about a minute from LOS. We're
going to see you at Guam at about 15:00. And this is we found
on the tape recorder about the hemispherical darkening of the
H-alpha screen; we think that at one time the H-ALPHA tele-
scope was pointed off Sun center prior to being zoomed in and
a slight burn in occurred while it was off center and it
probably remained visible. We think that's what you saw.
This is normal and we expect that minor burns will occur from
time to time, and they will wash off. And your channel B
information is about S days old now. It may very well have
washed off. But, at any rate, we think if it hasn't already
gone away, it will.
$C What hemispherical darkening?
SC (Garble) you remember 3 days ago.
You' re right. It did wash off.
CC Hey, okay. We're about to go LOS and
we'll see you at Guam.
SC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control that brings us up
to date on our tape replay and we'll be acquiring over Guam
in about 3 minutes. We'll leave the line up for the Guam
acquisition.

END OF TAPE

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- SL-II MC938/I
Time: 09:57 CDT, 20:14:57 GMT
6/13/73

CC Skylab, Houston; we're at Guam for 3 min-


utes.
SC Hi there.
CC _i there.
CC Incidentally, Skylab, I see you've still
got about 8 more minutes of night time; so I imagine you could -
might could listen a little bit. The only other note that I had,
which you've already probably noticed in was a mistake in
a message we sent you this morning which was the general message
tell you about what the future flight plans were going to be
for the follow-on days. The mistake is that the mission days
24, 25, 26 and et cetera are correct. However, starting with
day 25, the day of the year is incorrect; it ought to be up
by one. And if you take a close look at the message, I think
you can figure out where the mistake is yourself. And we'll
Just leave it at that.
SC (Garble).
CC Roger. That's right. Day 25 should be
168 and right on down the line.
SC (Garble).
SC Say, Dick, the pass onto the F552551
(garble). Something internally must have happened in that
(garble) because we started running it again when we had 0.O1
vacuum - a good hard vacuum in there. And after we ran the
electronics for a while, we quit outrunning the gun, and we
had a great deal of difficulty in - you know, why did the gun
on the ball bearing target - Because there's no doubt about it.
It got shifted somewhere during the launch phase of the flight.
There must - I don't know whether there's any electronics
inside the vacuum chamber itself on the gun, but there must be.
Because after it runs for a while, it Just starts outgassing
again, and we have a terrible time keeping a vacuum in there.
And something must be broken loose or cracked open in there
and - the outgas (garble) is electronically heated up for a
while.
CC Roger, Pete. And they were listening
there.
SC Well, that's the only thing I can think of.
Because sure enough the gage is right after (garble) stood all
night. It reads 0.01 when you get good vacuum in there. But
then we let it sit all nigh_ :_ith n_ juice on whatsoever. It
left the thing in the vent mode and le_t the filament chamber
open, and it took all night. And after we ran for a while this
morning alining the gun up on the target, why it just started
outgassing again. And we're letting it suck itself back down
to a good hard vacuum,

CC Rog. I understand. We're about to go LOS.


J_ We're going to see you at Goldstone at 15:21, and we are re-
viewing now a general message that was sent up to you on a mal-
function procedure for (garble) site 12. We'll see you at
Goldstone.
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_ Time: 09:57 CDT, 20:14:57 GMT
6/13/73

SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We appear to have
loss of signal now through Guam, and we' re about 16-1/2 min-
utes away from Goldstone, California. Skylab now in its 432nd
Earth revolution. Correction: 433rd. And during that pass
over Guam, Pete Conrad reported some difficulty with the M512
experiment apparatus - the manufacturing in space experiment.
He described the difficulty he was having in maintaining a
vacuum in the system while it was operating and suspected that
something might be outgasslng during operation, interfering
with the ability to hold a good vacuum. We'll he passing up
some procedures to troubleshoot that particular experiment,
in an effort to determine what the nature of the problem is and
what might be done about it. At 15 hours 6 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC-939/i
_ Time: 10:19 CDT, 20:15:19 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours 20 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. And we're less than a minute now
from resuming radio contact with Skylah through Goldstone,
California, for a stateside pass that'll take the spacecraft
through the coverage areas of Goldstone and Texas. And then
we'll have a - almost an entire revolution with no stations
contacting until we come back around on Guam for a very low
elevation pass at Guam. We'll have television coming in from
ground stations of Apollo telescope mount, ATM operations.
We're in fact getting that video shipped in now. And this
video is coming at the present time from Goldstone. We'll
also have some ATM video from Texas as well as television
that was dumped earlier of the M551 experiment, the metals
melting activity. EGIL, the environmental systems engineer,
reports that our electrical power situation aboard Skylab is
unchanged. We're still getting a total capacity of about
3000 watts out of the single solar panel on the airlock - on
the orbital workshop. And a 4000 watt capacity from the ATM
solar panels. And in point of fact, we're actually drawing
about 5000 watts of this 7000 watt capacity, roughly equal
load sharing approximately 2500 watts out of each set of solar
panels, the workshop panel and the ATM cluster, with the ATM
cluster tending to carry a little bit heavier share of the load.
CC next 13 minutes, and he advised we just
got a report of a new flare in active region 37.
CDR Roger, Houston. Are you ready for TV?
CC CDR, Houston. We have TV. We are going
to take it away for just a couple of minutes so we can dump
the VTR, and then we'll come back to it. But we - we do have
good TV.
CDR Okay.
PAO And the TV we're getting at the moment is
the viewfinder tracking system looking at the Moon.
PLT It's a little bit jazzed up due to some trans-
porter Jams. And I'm on channel B now, if those photo people
want to try to get it early.
CC Okay. Thank you.
PLT Okay, apparently what the problem is is
we're having a - a fairly high incidents of jams. I think
this is our third or fourth one. We consider it high, anyway.
And after you clear it and you run more film through, the
transporter appears to fu_ction norm@ll_. Now, we've con-
Jectured that maybe that emulsion - that something the heat
did something to it, because it does seem a little difficult
to pull film off the supply cassette. So it may he the fault
of the film rather than the transporters.
CC Roger. I understand.

f-
f- SL-II MC-939/2
Time: 10:19 CDT, 20:15:19 GMT
6/13/73

MCC FAO, did you


SPT Houston, SPT. Have any of these flares
been class M or better?
CC Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. On these flares of -
we have one in progress in 37, I just told you about; one
also in active region 27. And the one in 27 is faint and
we also don't think the one in 37 is going to get up to
class M.
SPT Roger; okay. We've had the alarm enabled
all morning and the console is manned now_ of course. Our
PMEC count is not high. It's running around 300.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CDR (Garble)
CC Skylab, Houston; be advised that we get
the word from NOA that the activity that we reported in
active region 37 on that small flare is finished.
SPT All right.
SPT That transmission coincided with our flare
alarm for some reason.
CC Roger.
SPT The SPT and PLT are about to play face
the music.
CC I heard you were about to play, but I
didn't hear what.
SPT Face the music, we're doing MI31
at our new rotation level.
CC Roger.
SPT I Just hope my pant legs stay where they
are - not whipped off by the wind blast at this speed.
CC Hang on.
CDR (Garble) SPT now.
CC Affirmative. (Garble)
CDR He's got another (garble) or two.
CC Sorry, Pete, I didn't understand you.
CDR I said you got enough H-alpha 2?
CC That's affirmative. We'd llke to go to
WLC now.
CDR Okay. Holler when you want me to rotate.
CC All righty.
CC CDR, Houston. yo_ can go ahead and proceed
with the rotation at your convenience now.
CDR Okay. Would you llke it at slow rate times
i, or slow rate times 2, or fast rate times i, or fast rate
times 2?
CC Slow rate times i, Pete.
CDR Roger.

END OF TAPE
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-- Time: 10:30 CDT, 20:15:30 GMT
6/13/73

CC Skylab, Houston for your information we


are uplinking a message to you that is a malfunction procedure
to M512 - for M551. However, based on your previous report,
Pete, we're reconsidering now whether or not to actually go
through this malf procedure or not and we'll talk to you about
that at Vanguard. There is one point in the malfunction pro-
cedure also that asks you to look at the filament glow and
we're not real sure you could see that with the beam on. But
in order to be able to cover all bets we're going to go ahead
and give you the message now and we'll talk to you a little
bit later as to whether we'd llke for you to perform it. You
may have already done most everything in the message for us.
CDR Okay, we'll thunk it over before we
start.
CC Okay, that probably helped. Probably if
you just had time to take a look at it you could probably
answer better than we could as to maybe where we ought to go
next.
CDR Yeah, okay.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston we've seen what we want now
at this slow rate. We're willing now to go high rate times
j_ i0 and so we can, you know, get the rest of our downlink
TV.
CDR Okay, Rouston for that (music in background)
(garble).
CC Roger. We'll take XUV monitor now. Be
advised we're about 45 seconds from LOS. We're going to see you
at Vanguard at 15:46 and we're going to dump the data tape re-
corder there.
CDR Okay, and here's the last shot (garble).
CC Sorry, Pete. We didn't copy that one.
But we do have good television.
PAO This is Skylab Control. During that pass
over the United States, Joe Kerwin advised that the crew was
moving ahead with preparations to perform the M131 - human
vestibular function experiment. Sounded as if they would be
ready to begin that experiment somewhat ahead of the Flight
Plan schedule. For the first run this morning the subject is
Science Pilot Joe Kerwin and the observer will be Pilot Paul
Weitz. Those roles are reversed this afternoon when Welts

will be the subject and Kerwin the obse_Y_r, for the MI31 human
vestibular function, using thelro{ating_ lltter chair to de-
termine if there are any significant effects produced by
weightlessness on the vestibular function, the function of
the otolith and semicircular canals, which have a great deal
to do with spatial orientation. We're now g minutes from
regaining contact through the tracking ship Vanguard off the
f_ coast of South America. At 15 hours Greenwich mean time this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-941/I
.... Time: 10:46 CDT, 20:15:46 GMT
6/13/73

PAO Skylab Control. We're about to acquire


through the tracking ship, Vanguard. We'll stand by for
communications with the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard
for 8-1/2 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC CDR, Houston. Realize you're in the
middle of a daytime pass. I have a couple of questions that-
for the M550 series people, that I'll just go ahead and read
to you. And when you get a chance, if you do during this pass,
you might give us a quick answer. One was This morning did
you use the nominal electron-beam gun procedures when you did
the little run through that you described while ago? And
secondly, was the plus 5 kV voltmeter reading less than 4?
Over.
CDR The answer to the second question is it's
reading more than 4. And the answer to the first question -
Yes, we used the nominal procedures.
CC Okay. Good. We'll take those answers,
and before you go LOS, we'll let you know whether we want you
to do a terminate of M553.
SC I Just can't do that troubleshooting pro-
_- cedure because other than not opening the CD power control
(garble), but opening CD power (garble), we rechecked that
problem last night, and everything else goes just the way this
procedure should go to allow us to use the gun. Okay?
CC Okay, Pete. Stand by just a second.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we've
reconfigured after the EREP pass, and we've got the CBRM
heaters and MDA wall heaters back on.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute
30 seconds from LOS. We're going to see you at Goldstone
at 17:01. And Pete, weld llke you to do a M553, in place
of the M551 terminate on your Flight Plan.
SC Will do.
CC Very good.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal through the tracking ship, Vanguard. And we won't
reacqulre for 1 hour 4 minutes, until Skylab gets around to
Goldstone on the 433rd revolution. At 15 hours 57 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE

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_- SL-II MC942/I
Time: 12:00 CDT, 12:17:00 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours Green-


wich mean time. We're i minute away from acquiring at Goldstone,
California, after more than an hour of being out of station con-
tact, while the things that _,expect to _ear from the crew, as
we acquire, is a status repo_t'On"the HS_ experiment. The crew
had been given some troubleshooting procedures for the 512 manu-
facturing and space equipment, and if they encountered no prob-
lems, they were to go ahead and press ahead with the M553 experi-
ment, which is the sphere forming task. And we expect to get a
report from them, as we acquire, as to whether or not they were
able to maintain the desired vacuum in the facility and how the
M553 experiment went.
CC Hello again, Skylab. We've got you at
Goldstone for the next 5 minutes.
SC Goldstone! How about that. Okay.
CC Yes, sir_ we - couple of items. We notice
the star tracker is not locked up, and Ns appears to be bad. We
think your pad on board is good. You might attempt to get a -
acquire again. Also, on the CALROC, we're - they're having
trouble in the countdown with the main video. They're check-
ing it out. The last I heard, we were 25 minutes and counting
down. And if they don't have it solved at about 6 minutes, we'll
hold there, and I'ii get back to you on that.
SC Okay.
SC There is, what will be to the medical
people, some interesting information on channel B regarding
the SPT's MI31 run.
CC Okay, biomed OPS are copied, and he'll be
looking for that.
SC And here's the SPT himself saying that the
wardroom window, Dick, is really bad. It's what used to be our
friendly ice crystal is now a friendly water drop surrounded by
3 inches of fog. And it seriously interferes with photography
through that window. I wonder if the ground couldn't help us by
either recommending that we vent the window or that we turn the
heater off, to let it refreeze.
CC Joe, we copied that, and EGIL B is thinking
about that one.
SC Thank you.
CC Also, from Pete, we'd be interested, if he's
this far along, in how he made out with 553. And also, we're
very interested in the color of the parasol. One more thing -
I'm not sure when you'll have time to copy, but I've got a
pointing update for Pete for a JOP 12 Bravo this afternoon.
SC Okay, while I'm getting my notebook out,
all I can tell you is that I got the first two halls melted,
and the first one ran down and made a perfect sphere on the
J_f- stinger. It's one of the ones that's not supposed to come off.
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Time: 12:00 CDT, 12:17:00 GMT
6/13/73

And then as it started to harden, it sort of got the shape of


an old balloon. The second one formed a pretty good sphere.
The third one came off the sting. About that time - I think
we got some problem with electronics heating up. At that time
I got to the fourth one, wkich is retractable (garble). And
it got lit and stopped firing about 1 _§'econd after it lit.
And my vacuum's degenerating again and was at the plate i; so
I just - letting everything cool down and let it outgass some
more. I don't know where this outgassing is coming from, but
that's obviously what it is. There must be something back
there in that electron (garble) again. And I'm going to wait
until I've got a good hard vacuum again and let the electronics
cool down and go back and do it some more.
CC Okay; copy.
SC And I'm ready to copy the pointing.
CC Okay. This is for JOP 12 Bravo, step i,
building block 22, scheduled I think at 18:21. It's RL minus
7500, U plus 550, R plus 600. And this is - the reason for
this, Pete, is to clear that we've had some dispersion due
to changes in this filament 79, and this should give us some
better data.
SC Okay.
SC Hey, Houston.
CC Go ahead.
SC We just got around to putting those
S190 desiccants in the (garble) today. How about reminding
me - how about giving me that 190 desiccant thing again about
day after tomorrow, will you please?
CC Roger; copy.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We copy star tracker
is locked on and looking good. We're about 30 seconds from
LOS. Going to see you at Vanguard at 17:23, and we're going to
dump the data tape recorder there.
SC Okay, Dick, this is the SPT. During the
EVA, the parasol looked orange to me. If I hadn't known there
was a controversy, I wouldn't have thought it was faded. It
may have been faded a little.
CC What does it - I guess what we're interested
in is have you looked at it this morning and does it still
look orange?
SC It's in there right now.
CC Okay, fine. We'll see you at Vanguard,
Pete.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab now out
of range of the Goldstone, California Tracking Station and
about 15 minutes away from Vanguard. During that pass over
Goldstone, the crew was advised that there was a problem in
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Time: 12:00 CDT, 12:17:00 GMT
6/13/73

the main video system on the calibration rocket scheduled to


be launched from - in support of the ATM experiment, from
White Sands, and that that countdown would continue to the
T minus 6 point and hold if the problem had not been resolved.
We do not have any further information on that calibration
rocket situation at this time. We'll pass further updates
along as they beeome available. Joe Kerwin also reported
that the wardroom window, which previously had an ice crystal
about the size of a dime in the middle of it, had now - the
ice crystal had apparently melted. There was a drop of water,
which you said was surrounded by fog and was interferring
with photo operations, taking photographs through the window,
and a request that the ground try to come up with some sort of
solution to that problem. Kerwln and Pilot Paul Weitz are both
making runs in the rotating litter chair, as part of the MI31
vestibular function and motion sensitivity studies. And both
crewmen are running today at increased rates of rotation. For
Science Pilot Joe Kerwin, his rate of rotation today was being
increased from 12-1/2 revolutions per minute up to 20, and
Pilot Paul Weitz was increasing the rate of rotation during the
motion sensitivity runs from 15 to 25 rpm. At 17 hours i0 min-
utes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-943/I
Time: 12:21 CDT, 20:17:21 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours


22 minutes, about a minute away from acquisition at Vanguard.
And during this pass over Vanguard, we expect to pass further
update to the crew on the Cal Rocket, Calibration Rocket
Launch from White Sands. The ATM officer is checking on the
status of that launch now. Calibration Rocket is launched to
gather data used in calibrating the ATM experiments, Apollo
telescope mount experiments, looking at the Sun. And we're
about - Well, we have acquisition now. And we'll be receiving
radio contact through Vanguard for about i0 minutes.
CC Skylab Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard.
We're Got a 10-minute pass here. Be advised, we_ve got a
subflare in progress in active region 37. We are in the
count on the Cal Rock, with about 3 minutes and 30 seconds to
lift-off. It's GO.
SC Hey, keep us posted.
CC Yes, sir. It'll ah - It'll llft off -
It should lift-off during this AOS, and I'll let you know.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Cal Rock still in the
count. Less than 2 minutes left to go to launch. And, now,
Pete, if you get a chance this time, you might let us know
what you found when you looked at the parasol.
CDR Still looks the same to me, Dick. Orange,
but a little faded.
CC But it still has a definite orange color,
huh? I talked to the guys on the phone while ago, and that's
what they were really interested in. It turns out that if
it still has an orange color, then it's degrading slower than
we had originally planned. Or at least slower than our tests
indicated that it might.
CDR Okay. I'm having my other expert to
confirm my look. He's going to look right now.
CC (Laughter). Rog. No problem.
CDR On that subflare I can see 18,000 on
detector 3 and about 5 to 6 thousand on detector i.
CC Roger.
CDR Can I say it's - I would say it's pretty
much open, (garble) can tell. Except one's about 3500 degrees
(garble).
SPT Dick, SPT.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
SPT Okay. I'm in the command module looking
out the window. And that corner of the parasol that we can
see, which is looking at the Sun, is white-orange. It's the
color of a Florida orange. Okay? Ready to eat.
_ SL-II MC-943/2
Time: 12:21 CDT, 20:17:21 GMT
6/13/73

CC Rog. Understand. Thank you much, Joe.


SPT Rog.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised on the Cal
Rock. We've recycled the counts back to about 5 minutes.
We're now at about - less than 4 minutes in counting. The
recycle was due to winds. Also, the flare in active region
37 appears to be declining. We also see 2 more subflares
in active regions 31 and 27.
SPT Okay, Dick, SPT. I looked at looked
at those along with Pete. And was disappointed in that I
could not identify the flare in either XUV monitor or in
the X-ray.
CC Rog. Understand.
CC CDR, Houston. For your information, we're
getting a command module coolant loop message up to you. We're
going to try to get it up here at Vanguard. If not, we'll
get it at Hawaii. We'd like to get it scheduled in your
Flight Plan, in the housekeeping time at 19:20. If that's
not convenient, just let us know as soon as it's practical
to do that. And there's one part of that message that I
might make a comment on, and that is - part of it is to
withdraw about five clicks of command module water. And we sug-
gested using a contingency fecal bag. However, if that doesn't
seem feasible to you, we'll just leave it up to your own
judgement. Yon mlghz Use a shower bag or whatever you think
best.
CC (Garble)
CDR Okay.
CC Rog.
CDR What you want the water for?
CC It's ah - We've been - We've been taking
a lot of thermal data, and it turns out that the water lines
come out of - right beside the glycol lines as they come into
the command module. And we'd just like to get a hack on the
way our thermal model has been doing. In other words, when
you first try that, it's a line - If you're able to draw any
water at all, it means that it's not frozen and that gives us
some idea of how good our analysis has been. We expect it may
be frozen, in which case, when you - At the tail end of this
procedure you'll get to try it again after we've warmed it up
some .
CDR Okay. Well, of course I had ice down
there for a while. Then once we put the fans back on again
it started getting (garble).
CC Okay.
CDR I take that back. I got both ice and water
down there now.

/_ CC :Okay. Understand.
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Time: 12:21 CDT, 20:17:21 GMT
6/13/73

CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised the Cal


Rock has had a problem at about 8 seconds, they've recycled
to 5 minutes, and are going to pick up the count as soon as
possible. As far as far as flight planning today, we're
going to assume the Cal Rocket is a GO. We're about 45 sec-
onds from LOS, here. And we're going to see you at Hawaii at
18:32.
CDR 18:32, bye.
CC Bye, bye.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours
34 minutes. Our next station to acquire will be Hawaii. And
that'll be 58 minutes from now. During the pass over Vanguard,
Joe Kerwln reported the parasol sunshade as seen from the
command module window appears to be still orange in color.
He described the color as a light orange, about the color
of a Florida orange, according to Kerwin. At 12:45 central
daylight time, a little over 10 minutes from now, we'll have
a replay of today's television. Television on the M551 exper-
ment. And during that replay, Mr. Jack Waite, who is the
Corollary Experiments Manager, and head of the Marshall
Space Flight Center's Experiments Office, will be available
in the JSC News Center briefing room, room 135, to describe
the experiment and answer questions. That will be at
12:45 central daylight time, about 10 minutes from now, in
the JSC news center briefing room. At 17:35, 17 hours 35
minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC944/I
Time: 13:30 CDT, 20:18:30 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 31 min-


utes. We're coming up on the Hawaiian tracking station about
45 seconds from now. We'll stand by for CAP COM Dick Truly's
call to the crew over Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii
for 7 minutes.
SC Roger_ Houston. Be advised (garble) active
(garble) in PB22 and it's got through two complete and hung up
with filter 3 the third pass I've got 12 pictures. That's in
process of running again and all. (Garble)
CC Roger, Adam copied that. Be advised in-
cidentally that the cal rock was a resounding success and
there is no pointing update required.
SC Okay.
SC l'm halfway through PB22.
CC Roger that.
CC And also Skylab i note for the we fix
anything SPT, we'd just as soon he keep his hands off our
weather because it's still raining like the dickens.
SC Okay.
SC In medical school they said it wasn't your
success rate but whether you cared.
CC (Laughter) Roger.
CC Skylab Houston for your information the
block data pad and the CSM coolant loop procedures for the
CDR are onboard.
SC Okay. I just got a star tracker update
finally and that left me about 184 out in roll plus from
7500 I'm actually at 7685.
CC Roger.
SC John I'd llke to talk to (garble) I pre-
sume that's what they want me to do.
CC Say that last again, Pete.
SC I elected not to roll to 75 - I started
out at 75. I didn't have a star tracker lockon. When I locked
on I was actually at 7685 and I elected to stay there.
CC Roger. Stand by i.
CC Skylab, Houston, affirmative. We'd like
to stay locked on at that number of 7685.
SC Okay.
SC We're going to have to inform (garble)
again on 56. It looks to me like it's hung up.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston, we confirm on TM that SO56
is hungup at that position and there is not anything we can
do at the moment. We'll just lose a little bit of data so
press on.
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SC Okay, gone to control lock.


CC Roger.
SC It took 8 pictures that time.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're LOS in 30 seconds.
We'll see you at Vanguard at 19:02 and we're going to be dump-
ing the data tape recorder at Vanguard.
SC Okay.
SC (Garble) it centers around 300 but it's
coming up to 450 - 500 every once in a while. (Static)
PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 42
minutes, out of range now of the Hawaiian tracking station
and the next station to acquire will be the tracking ship
Vanguard in about 20 minutes. The X-ray telescope the SO56
experiment as mentioned during that pass over Hawaii apparently
again hungup. This has been a recurrent problem with par-
ticular experiment and is believed to be electro-magnetlc
interference of some sort that causes a triggering pulse to
fail to get in and the experiment stops midway through a
data take, in this particular case, after acquiring 12 frames
of data it unaccountably stopped. And the assumption is that
it will work properly the next time that it's activated with
a certain probability that the interference problem could
again occur and shut it down midstream so to speak but this
has been an intermittent problem and that is not a serious
concern. The instrument is gathering data but it's periodically
interrupted in its data gathering. At 18 hours 43 minutes
Greenwich mean time this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC945/I
Time: 13:58 CDT, 20:18:58 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 59


minutes, just about 19 hours. And we're about 1-1/2 minutes
away from regaining radio contact with Skylab through the
tracking ship Vanguard. A few minutes ago Flight Director
Phil Shaffer questioned each of his flight controllers as to
their status reminding them that we have a long period without
contact after we pass over the Vanguard asking everybody to
review the situation of equipment experiments and vehicle
systems in his area of responsibility with an eye to the
fact that we will be out of contact for about an hour, until
the spacecraft comes back around to the Hawaiian station.
Hawaii and Vanguard tracking station are the only two stations
acquiring Skylab at the present time. We're now about 15 seconds
away from regaining radio contact. We'll stand by for CAP COM
Dick Truly's call.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS at Vanguard for
9 minutes.
SC Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston we just can't stand but
ask you_ we noticed that MI31 shutdown and VTR looks like
you're completed. We just wanted to make sure that you are.
SC That's affirmative. And (garble) 25 and
we're recommending that we both go 30 the last time we try.
SC I'ii be the only one left up here.
(Laughter) .
CC Yeah, everybody is standing around with
sort of an astounded look on their face and we copied your
request.
SC They had the ATM guys thinking they had
a subflare on 37 during the last half an hour or so. First
time I've seen anything on X-ray.
CC Roger, stand by.
CC CDR, Houston. Negative we have not seen
any flares of any kind in active region 37 in the last half
hour.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston we're about a minute
from LOS. We're going to see you at Hawaii at about 20:08
which is about an hour from now.
SC Roger. We got a look about 20 miles
straight of Cape Horn, actually it's the first time the
weather and the lighting has been such that we could even
see down that way. We got a good look at it almost all the
way to Cape Horn, but the last 20 miles was under overcast.
CC Roger, understand. I bet it was pretty.
SC It's all full of snow.
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SC I'll have that loop up for you when you


come up the next time.
CC Okay, EGIL copies.
PAO And that appears to be all through Van-
guard. We've had loss of signal now and as you heard
CAP COM advise the crew it'll be about an hour until we re-
acquire at the Hawaiian tracking station. One interesting
bit of information passed along by the crew on that pass
over the tracking ship Vanguard, the results of the MI31
runs that were completed ahead of schedule today by Science
Pilot Joe Kerwin and Pilot Paul Weitz. This was to be a
day where both crewmen increased their rate of rotation in
rotating litter chair as a part of the motion sensitivity
test. Science Pilot Joe Kerwin had previously been running
at 12-1/2 revolutions and today that speed was upped to 20
revolutions per minute. Pilot Paul Weitz had previously
run at 15 revolutions per minute, and today the speed was
upped to 25 revolutions per minute, during which time each
crewman moves his head from side to side and then back and
forth in a prescribed manner in an attempt to determine at
what level first sensations of motion sickness or uneasiness
s are induced. And both Weitz and Kerwln apparently had little
or no sensation on today's runs, despite the increase in
speed; and requested that the next time the runs be made,
both crewmen run at a speed of 30 revolutions per minute.
Kerwln also reported that Paul Weitz had 150 head movements
at the relatively advanced speed of 25 revolutions per minute.
We also heard Pete Conrad report that the crew had for the
first time in the mission a very good view of the lower part
or the southern part of the South American continent. Conrad
reported they could see almost to Cape Horn, all but the last
20 miles, which was covered by clouds. At 19 hours 13 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
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Time: 14:42 CDT, 20:19:42 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; 19 hours 42 minutes


Greenwich mean time, with an advisory _o _he press. There
will be a medical experiments review at 3 p.m. today in
building 1 in the News Center. Dr. Royce Hawkins and several
of the principal investigators will be standing by to respond
to questions from the press. Repeating, at 3 p.m. today in
building number i_ Johnson Space Center, our News Center
Briefing Room, a medical experiments review with Dr. Royce
Hawkins and associates. At 19 hours 43 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-947/I
Time:16:04 CDT 20:21:04 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 21


hours 4 minutes Greenwich mean time. During the past hour
while the medical experiments review was underway the
Skylab space station passed over three sites. They were
in order, the Hawaii site, the Vanguard, and Ascension.
We recorded about 3-1/2 minutes of air to ground during
the pass over those three sites and will play that back
to you at this time.
CC Skylab, Houston. Hawaii for i0 minutes.
CDR Hi there.
CC Hi there.
CDR Dick, I was able to draw water from the
drain and (garble)
CC Okay, thank you much.
CC Skylab, Houston. We notice that you've
been using the recorder, and we're a little - we need to
do a data recorder dump. Would that be okay with you?
CDR I just finished 92. Go ahead and
dump it.
CC Roger, we got it. Thank you much.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're through dumping
the experiment on the recorders. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We're going to see you at Vanguard at 20:40.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard
for 7 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC we And
do have a data recorder dump
planned for this pass, and if anybody's got time to look
out a window, you're getting ready to get another pass
over Cape Horn.
PLT Okay, thank you. Hey Dick, for ATM
people, information. The performance of Building Block 13
with 82A (garble) didn't give us a READY light. I asked
Peterbefore. Pete says that does do that on occasion.
CC Roger. Copy.
CDR Unfortunately Richard, darkness has
moved over and I can just barely make out the land (garble)
CC Rog. Sorry about that.
CDR (garble)
CC Didn't quite copy that one. We can
hear the bicycle riding in the background though, and Story and
I are sitting here looking at it on the (garble)
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute tll
LOS. We're going to see you at Ascension at 20:56. And
one note for the PLT. If you have a chance during this
night period between _TM rgns, _ou might whiz over to the
S009 and change Beta angle fo_ us on it to plus 5.
PLT Yes sir, (garble)
CC Roger.
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Time: 16:04 CDT 20:21:04 GMT
6/13/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at


Ascension for 4-1/2 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS. We're gonna see you a long time from now at the
Vanguard at 22:17, and we plan to dump the data recorder
there.
PAO That completes the tape portion of the
last track, that is the end of the 435th revolution, and
the beginning of the 436th revolution. The crew during
most of that time was involved in a medical experiment,
identified as the M092, lower body negative pressure, and
the MI71, metabolic activity, where they ride the stationary
bicycle, so to speak, or a bicycle device that's stationary.
We'll acquire the Skylab space station again at the Vanguard
tracking site in 1 hour and 8 minutes. Until that time,
this is Skylab Control at 21 hours 9 minutes, Greenwich
mean time.
END OF TAPE

f
J SL-II MC-948/I
Time: 17:16 CDT, 20:22:16 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 22 hours


16 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're about a minute away
from the Vanguard tracking station and we'll standby for the
radio communication with the Skylab space station crew through
Vanguard. Then we'll keep the llne up through Ascension.
We have approximately i0 minutes at each station for a pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard
for i0 minutes.
SC That was our equivalent of a Roger.
CC Roger.
CC That was my equivalent of a squeak.
SC Okay.
SC You really are on days, but I figure you
don't get off at all. Is that it?
CC That's right.
CC Skylab, Houston. I have one note for the
CDR this pass. In this evening's flight plan we'd like to
delete housekeeping CM4. There are no more dumps required.
In the command module, though, we would like, at your con-
venience to go up there and check hydrogen tanks one and two,
fans and heaters all to AUTO.
SC Okay, H2 one and two, should be tank one
and two, fan heaters to AUTO and we'll skip command module
four.
CC That's right. That ought to be probably
three switch throwings and one verify, but at any rate, they
all end up in AUTO.
SC Okay. If you're wondering why I answered
instead of Pete, we had a mutiny this afternoon and I've taken
over.
CC Roger.
SC I've declared Skylab a U.S. Naval Hospital.
CC Okay, just keep us informed, Captain.
SC Roger.
SC (Garble)
CC Skylab, Houston, we're a minute and 15
seconds from LOS. We're going to see you at Ascension at
22:30. Your summary flight plan for tomorrow is onboard in
the teleprinter. And the detailed flight plans are going to
be uplinked at Ascension.
SC All right. Thank you.
CC Roger.
PAO During an earlier pass, the Commander, Pete
Conrad reported that he had drawnwater from the secondary
loop and quote: "It looks fine", was his quote. That was
an engineering experiment in the CSM, designed to improve
the command module which is quiet now, to improve its thermal
SL-II MC- 948/2
Time: 17:16 CDT, 20:22:16 GMT
6/13/73

module. Thermal model. In drawing the water from the secon-


dary coolant loop the ground was able to verify that the line
was not frozen. There had earlier been some indication that
perhaps the line might be frozen, but with the water having
been drawn we verified the thermal model and set any fears
that we may have had to rest. We are planning a Change-of-
chift briefing starting at 7:00 p.m. central daylight time
involving Phil Shaffer, who is the off-going Flight Director.
And that briefing will take place in the news center briefing
room. We'll keep the line up for this pass over the Ascension
tracking station. Expect to have radio communication with
the crew in about 15 seconds.

END OF TAPE

/ •
SL-II MC-949/I
Time: 17:30 CDT 20:22:30 GMT
6/13/73

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Ascension for


i0 minutes.
CDR Houston, I see that tomorrow night is
our go
to bed early night.
CC That's affirm. We're gonna start to
get you going to bed tomorrow evening, then wake you up
early the next morning and then about another day and we'll
be all set for the rest of the mission, as far as good night
and hello time.
SPT Yeah, we may get up a little early to-
morrow morning, otherwise we won't be sleepy when Houston
says be sleepy. But ether than that, it looks like a neat
flight plan. I may show it to the excaptain to see if he
approves of it.
CC Okay. You might also note -
SPT (garble)
CC You might also notice that tomorrow
night you only get 7 hours sleep.
SPT That's about all we've been taking.
CC Understand.
CDR Some of these guys keep coming back
s late with the Command Module.
SPT Well, the first thing I was gonna do
was good Navy nurses up here.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're a minute from
LOS. We're gonna see you at Guam at 23:14. We got the
CDRs detail on board. We'll get the other two up at Guam.
SPT The PLT says to hustle.
PAO The Skylab space station has moved be-
yond the range of the Ascension tracking site. We will
acquire them again in about 30 minutes at the Guam tracking
station. At 22 hours 41 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-950/I
Time: 17:50 CDT 20:22:50 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at


22 hours 51 minutes Greenwich mean time. The press conference
that was or the change of shift briefing that was announced
earlier to begin at 7 p.m. central daylight time, appears now
that we'll be able to start that at 6:30 p.m. wlth the off-golng
Flight Director Phil Shaffer. To repeat, change of shift
briefing, 6:30 p.m. in the News Center Briefing Room in
building i. At 22 hours 52 minutes this is Greenwich mean -
this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-951/I
/- Time: 18:13 CDT, 20:23:13 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at 23


hours 13 minutes Greenwich mean time. A minute away from
acquisition of the Skylab space station through the Guam site.
We'll stand by for air-to-ground through Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS i0 minutes, Guam.
SC Hello, Houston.
SC Houston, PLT.
CC Go, PLT.
SC Okay, for ESC people, about an hour ago
we had a mol sieve PCo2, OUT HIGH CAUTION. It happens to be on
sieve B which is not active. It's reading - when I looked
at it then it was reading about three parts IN and about four
parts OUT.
CC We copy that.
SC Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SC It says on my TM schedule TV downlinks
about now. Does that really mean VTR or do you want it real time.
CC Stand by a half, Joe.
CC SPT, that is real time. The transmitter is
still warmed up and we'll give you a GO on it.
SC Okey doke.
CC And, SPT, be advised we're GO on that now.
SC Okay.
CC PLT, Houston.
SC Go ahead.
CC Paul, if you haven't already done it on
panel 207, you can inhibit the MOL Sieve B, PPCO2.
SC Yeah, we already did that Bill.
CC Copy.

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f_ SL-II MC-952/I
Time: 18:20 CDT 20:23:20 GMT
6/13/73

CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC On the coronagraph you should be able to
see Saturn at fourth solar radii, southeast and it's moving
west.
SPT Okay, four radii southeast, thank you,
we'll look next time we get sunset.
SPT Houston, SPT. I think we had Mercury in
the coronagraph a few days ago. Would you verify that? I
saw something, I thought it was Mercury.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, LOS in one minute. Vanguard AOS
at 23:54. And we will be dumping the tape recorder at that
time. Also, Joe, if it's convenient, there's no rush on this
one, on panel 200_ circuit breaker MDA/OWS heaters control 2,
should close that at your convenience.
SPT (garble)
SPT Houston, the heaters control breaker i
is already closed, we're closing 2.
CC Copy that.
PAO Communication with the Skylab space station
has ended over the Guam tracking site. We will plck up the
space station again at Vanguard in about 28 minutes. In the
meantime we are ready to proceed with the change of shift
briefing in the News Center briefing room with the off-going
Flight Director Phil Shaffer. At 23 hours 25 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-953/I
_ _ Time: 18:53 CDT 20:23:53 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 23


hours 53 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're about 60
seconds away from acquisition of the space station through
the Vanguard tracking site, and following that pass, which
will last about 10 minutes, we'll brush Ascension and go
on up through the Canaries and the Madrid site. It is
our intention to leave the llne up from Vanguard through
the Madrid site. And we're standing by for a call from
Capcom.
SPT Houston, are you there?
CC Go Sky lab.
CDR Hey Bill I tried to run that 553,
and the first thing was that it didn't go the way it was
supposed to go, and the stingers would retract from the
bolt metal and the bolt metal would stay right there. It
wouldn't go anywhere and we shut the gun down. That went
on for about five of them, then I ran into problems again
with the five KVAs. They have stuck on and right now nothing
will turn it off except pulling the main bat breaker. And that's
where we stand, so if they want to think about it, let me get
two of them scheduled for tomorrow. If they want to think
about it tomorrow and give me some stuff to do with it
- tomorrow, fine, if not, I believe that will be scratched.
That's probably it.
CC We copy that Pete.
PLT Houston, PLT. You got a couple of
minutes?
CC Go ahead, PLT.
PLT Okay, we're all of the opinion that
we're not getting the flow out of the hot water heater in
the waste management compartment that we did at first. Now
I've checked the system. We got 35 PSI coming out of the
(garble) so I checked that with a portable water bottle,
and we got good flow out of the tanks feeding the portable
water in the wardroom. And one time when we had a shower
day, which was about 4 days ago, I guess, we filled the
shower water bottle, and all we could get in it then was
20 pounds PSI, in the shower water bottle. Now, the
malfunction procedures, don't really leave us any place,
except changing the outlet fitting, which we haven't done
yet. That's about where it stands. It's plenty satisfactory
for us. What we didn't want is the next crew to get stuck
with a system that didn't work and not the right parts
on board. So any of that stuff you want us to look at,
let us know in the next couple of days.
CC We copy that, Paul.
PLT Okay.

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Time: 18:58 CDT, 20:23:58 GMT
6/13/73

CC And Skylab, if it won't interfere with


anything, there a couple of news notes here.
SC Oh, we're just sittin down to din-din.
Go ahead with the news.
CC Okay, the President's going to speak this
evening and outline a new economics controls. There's an
indication that the policy will include strong action, but
not a total freeze on wage and prices. Power cuts are con-
tinuing in Chicago and New York as a heat wave pushes tempera-
tures to record highs. And the rains came again today in
Houston. It's not raining at the moment, but we still have
a severe thunderstorm watch. We've had i0 inches since Mon-
day and tomorrow's forecast is 40 percent. And we have checked
and you people have no problems with your houses and such.
Joe won't need to add any water to his swimming pool for a
day maybe. And the -
SC Okay, thanks for checking.
CC prices were down on the stock exchange
today. Dow Jones 11-1/2 points down with an average share
value down of 19 cents. There was an amended cease-flre
agreement signed today in Paris and Kisslnger's hoping that
_-- this agreement will finally bring about a true peace. The
1973 U.S. Open starts tomorrow in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, with
Jack Nieklaus, the favorite, Arnie Palmer, and Snead also added.
SC Okay, thank you very much.
CC SPT, the astronomy experts here have checked
and you shouldn't have been able to see Mercury a few days
ago, you might follow that one up, Joe, and get a planet named
after you.
SC Well, it must have been broken.
SC In fact it was probably my own planet
(garble)
CC Roger.
SC That's the planet of the apes.
CC LOS in one minute, Ascension at 00:12,
and as we mentioned, the flight plan's onboard. The details
should be onboard, and th_ evening questions should be on-
board by this time.
CC And correct that, the next AOS will be
at Canary at 00:14.
SC Okay, and as soon as supper's over we'll
start our homework.

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Time: 19:07 CDT, 21:00:07 GMT
6/13/73

CC Skylab, Houston, AOS for I0 minutes, Canary.


SC Roger, Houston.
CC And PLT, Houston.
SC Yep.
CC We'll be doing some unattended ATM experi-
ment OPS. That'll he SO55 at 02:00 G.m.t. This is for the
crew rest period and they are not on the pad.
CC That's for information only.
SC All right. Thank you.
SC Have to request that you don't break any-
thing.
CC Copy.
CC And will comply.
CC Skylab, LOS one minute, Guam 00:53.
SC You guys Just pick out (garble) TV passes
for us today. We've been over water and these lousy stations
all day today. Will you guys change your orbit tomor-
row?
CC We'll work on that Pete.
CC A lot of Houstonians been over water all
day today.
SC (Laughter) It sure sounds like it.
PAO The Skylab space station has moved out
of range of the Madrid tracking site. Next acquisition will
be at Guam in 24 minutes, and at that time we should have
the evening status report transmitted to us by the Commander.
At 29 minutes into the new day, G.m.t. day, that is, this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
wSL-ll MC-956/I
Time: 19:52 CDT 21:00:52 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 52 minutes


Greenwich mean time. About 45 seconds from acquisition
of the space station at the Guam tracking site. And we
expect at that time that the Commander will give us a
status report on the consumables that were used today.
Food, photo and other consumables. We'll stand by for the
call up from Capcom Bill Thronton.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 6 minutes Guam.
CDR Thank you, Houston.
CDR Ready for the TV (garble) on the coronagraph,
Houston?
CC That's affirm.
CDR Well, you can have it.
CDR Houston, are you ready for the evening
report?
CC That's affirm, Pete. We're standing by.
CDR Okay. The CDR ate everything plus two
butter cookies. The SPT ate everything and had a half a
salt and, excuse me, the CDR also had his 1-1/2 salt. And
the PLT ate everything but his bread. He had 9 salt. And
the photo log today: 164 16 millimeter; first line ETC
_- prep, with the remark X-porter 03CX is probably not film.
Charlie India 25, 67, Mike Tango ii, EREP rest of U.S. C 108, 00,
CI07;
CC We copy, Pete.
CDR Okay, the next one is EREP south US,
South America, Charlie India 25, 00, Mike Tango, 05, and
mark on Mike Tango 05, that that film is to be developed
for exterior. MIbI-I Charlie India i0, 5, Charlie India 08;
M092/171, SPT, MI51 Charlie India i0, 33, Charlie
India 08; M553-I Charlie India 05,60, Charlie India 08.
In the 35 millimeter world and these are the correct numbers.
I think I gave some bad ones last night. Charlie India 28,
frames counted,22. Charlie India 29 is complete. Charlie India
30, i and 0 frames. 70 millimeter: Charlie X-Ray 06,099. ETC
378 (garble) is BW01, (garble) $27. EREP Set Papa is com-
pleted. Drawer A configuration, X-porter 02. Charlie India
05, 16. Charlie India 01. A2 is X-porter 03, Charlie India
06, 62, Charlie India 03. 83 is X-porter 06, Charlie India
i0, 33, Charlie India 08. 84 is X-porter 05. There is no
transport on it, no film. Charlie India 25 for takeup.
Floating, Exporter 07, Charlie India 09, i00 percent, Mike
Tango 03. There were no flight plan deviations. You're
aware of the / M553 problem. No stowage changes. That's it.
CC We copy, Pete.
CC PLT, Houston,
PLT Go.
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f Time: 19:52 CDT 21:00:52 GMT
6/13/73

CC We're seeing a flare in X-REA now. That's


just for info. We want you to continue as scheduled.
PLT Okay.
CC And CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead, Bill.
CC We sent up some questions in the general
message EVA data on Pad 2024 today. If these were put on
Channel B, could you give us an estimate about the time
of day.
CDR No, I haven't got the questions yet, Bill
let me get them and we can probably answer them for you in
real time if you need them.
CC Okay, and that was yesterday's pad that
they came up on.
CDR Oh. Okay, wait a minute. I'ii have to
look for those.
CDR I don't know, you got the questions there?
Ask me
the questions.
CC Sorry, Pete, say again.
CDR Have you got the questions there? Ask
me the questions. I got the thing filed someplace.
CC Yeah, I've got them, Pete. You want me
to read them to you?
CDR Yeah, read me the first one.
CC Okay, clarification of previous question.
Were EV i and 2 already in their suits, when EV 3 activated
the SUS loops on page 1.2-9 of the EVA checklist.
CDR Yeah, we answered that last night. The
way we remember it is Joe and I were suited, but we did not
have the PCUs on and EV 3 activated the loops, which were
attached to the PCUs and they were flowing when we put them
on.

CC Okay, Pete, I'm sorry, you answered that


one last night and that's the remaining five that we're after.
CDR Go ahead with the next one.
CC We are presently assuming that launch
will be with suits off in the OWS between ErAs and you also
confirmed that yesterday.
CDR I confirmed that we probably would not
take the suits off. It's too much trouble.
CC We're going LOS here. We'll have you
again at Honeysuckle at 01:04.
CDR Okay.
PAO We have a Short period of time when we're
out of communication with the spacecraft. About 3 minutes.
So we'll just keep the llne up and wait for the next call
up from Capcom, Bill Thornton.

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f- SL-II MC-957/i
Time: 20:01 CDT, 21:01:01 GMT
6/13/73

CC Skylab, Houston, AOS for four minutes.


CC PLT, Houston.
SC Go.
CC We need a STOP on S052 and STANDBY POWER.
CC Skylab, LOS in 45 seconds. We'll he AOS
Canary with 01:52 in reed-conference.
PAO We have had loss of signal with the Skylab
space station through the Honeysuckle tracking site. We'll
acquire again at the Canaries. At one hour nine minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
" SL-II MC-958/I
Time: 20:51 CDT, 21:01:51 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at one


hour 51 minutes Greenwich mean time. The space station is
about 45 seconds away from the Canary - Canary Islands tracking
site. At this time there will be the daily medical conference.
Following the Canary pass we'll acquire through the Madrid
station, so we expect to get some live air-to-ground. We'll
stand by for the call from the ground here up to the space
station by Cap Com Bill Thornton.
SC Was that LOS, Houston?
CC Negative, Skylab. We still have about eight
minutes here.
SC Okay, our poor surgeon got cut off pre-
maturely then.
CC Want us to try to get him hack on for you,
Joe?
SC Yeah, would you please, Bill?
CC Wilco.
CC They say it's going to take a - -
CC It's in work. It's going to take
a second to do it.
SC Okay.
z- CC Skylab, Houston. We have you for about
three more minutes here. Be advised that we're configuring
rate gyros for sleep, one and two on line, 3's backup.
SC Roger, ask the CDR if he wants me to
give the answers to the evening questions on B channel.
CC Copy.
CC And offer my apologies to the CDR for bring-
ing up last evening's questions again. That one slipped by.

SC He Did he give the same answers that he did


last night?
CC He was doing pretty well as far as we went.
SC Okay.
SC It wasn't answering the questions twice,
Bill. It was your interrupting me eating my butter cookies
which is fatal to anybody up here in the spacecraft. Nobody's
bothered me while I'm eating my butter cookies.
CC Yeah, those things save your life once
in a while.
CC We're about ready to - someone bestowed the
title of the "Butter Cookie Monster" on me in Smear. We're
about ready to give you that title now, Pete.
SC Yeah, I'm afraid l've taken it over.
SC Skylab has replaced Grand Rapids as the
"Butter Cookie Capitol of the World".
CC Copy tha_.
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Time: 20:51 CDT, 21:01:51 GMT
6/13/73

SC Well, I'm the guy that kept telling


everybody that I didn't think anybody was going to eat any-
thing here, and I've been eating the whole spacecraft.
Man, I can't get enough.
CC Very good.
SC But, I think you have (garble) due to the fact
that we do a reasonable amount of physical work every day.
CC That's the most interesting of all. CDR,
on this 553 problem, when you went to READY reset, did the
READY light come on?
SC Yes, it does.
CC Copy, and one more. When you went to a
READY reset do you remember whether the cameras stopped run-
ning?
SC I can't answer that question, but it has
been full of film.
CC Copy.
SC If you remember - well, he may not. Way,
way, back at the beginning we gave a little briefing for the
other crews that the cameras are extremely quiet up here in com-
parison to on the ground. They don't clatter around anywheres
near like they do on the ground. And it's very difficult
to tell when they're running.
CC We copy that. And we'll be LOS here in
about a minute. We will have you again at Carnarvon at 02:32.
Hey, Pete, would - be interested in any further comments on
the relative amount of work you might be doing up there and
what parts of the body are getting it?
SC Well, that's difficult to say, Bill. I
think that the fact that you're like changing the tape recorder
or something, you still have to brace yourself, but we do not
have like triangles up there that you can relax in. So, you're
continually bracing your legs or your arms or your body
in some manner or another to do a task. Now, we're obviously
not - still not coming anywhere near as close to a one-g
output for a total day, by any means, but I think everybody
also agrees up here. We look forward to getting on the bike
and exercising because it really does make you feel good.
Makes you - makes the ole blood pump and - I don't think
anybody's missed a day on the bike (garble) And as I say there's
other(static).
PAO And with that conversation on the amount
of physical exercise engaged in by the Skylab crew, space
station moved out of range at the Madrid site. And the air-
to-ground slowly faded in an easterly direction. At two hours
seven minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

_f END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-959/1
Time: 21:22 CDT 21:02:22 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at


2 hours 22 minutes Greenwich mean time. With information on
tomorrow's Earth Resources pass, identified as EREP pass
number ll, for June 14th. Incidentally, that pass will be
a repeat of the same ground track that we started the series
of Earth Resources passes. And tomorrow's pass is the last
of this Skylab - of this current Skylab mission. The pass
commences over Oregon, heads in a southeasterly direction over
White Sands, over the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, across
Mexico, central American, Guatemala. In Guatemala, the
Skylab team will attempt to photograph an active volcano
using the Slgl infrared spectrometer. The pass is approxi-
mately 7,000 statute miles in length, ending in the vicinity
of Puerto Allegre, Brazil. We're about 8 minutes from
acquisition at the Carnarvon site. We expect the crew to get their
good night on this pass, which will take us over Carnarvon
and also Honeysuckle. We'll take the line down now and come
back up in roughly 8 minutes. At 2 hours 24 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skyla5 Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-960/I
Time: 21:32 CDT 21:02:32 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 2 hours 31


minutes Greenwich mean time. 45 seconds from acquisition
through the Carnarvon tracking site. We will stand by for
radio communication with the crew, on what we expect to be
the last pass before they get a good night.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for approximately
15 minutes.
SC Roger, Bill.
CC And, Pete, we need someone to go up to the
CSM to turn off the ECS RAD heater secondary switch on panel 2.
We show an increase CSM current that would correspond to this.
SC Okay, you want to turn off the heat - the
secondary radiator heaters, right?
CC On the ECS, that's right, it's on panel 2.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Yes, sir.
CC You reported that a S082 OPERATE light
was working nominally this morning. Has it continued to do
that?
PLT Negative.
CC Copy.
SC Okay, Bill, the ECS radiator heater sec-
ondary is in fact off.
CC We were afraid that might be the case.
SC The primary heater's off too.
CC We copy.
SC Okay, what else we got that pulls that
kind of current.
CC That's what we're looking at Pete, standby
for a second.
SC Okay, I'm the only guy that was in here
today. And, I powered up the secondary loop in accordance
with your instructions and I don't believe I hit any other
switches.
CC Copy.
SC Houston are you aware that the PLT turned
the hydrogen heaters to AUTO today.
CC That's affirmative.
SC And the fans?
CC We copy.

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SL-II MC-961/I
Time: 21:38 CDT 21:02:38 GMT
6/13/73

CC We're still looking here Pete.


CDR Okay.
CDR How much can you see, Houston? (garble)
CC 17 Pete.
CDR Seventeen amps?
CC And Pete, that's varying. That's not
steady. It's a cyclic increase apparently.
CDR How long you been seeing it?
CDR Hey, Houston, CDR.
CC Go. CDR.
CDR The only thing I know that we activated
was the R2 heaters and the H2 fans. How about if I cut them
off one at a time. Maybe you got a short in something.
CC Standby Pete, we're -
CC Pete, would you turn those off and let
us watch down here, please?
CDR Okay. H2 heater i AUTO going OFF.
CC Copy.
CDR Hey, did you see anything with i OFF?
CC Pete you can turn the fans off now.
CC Pete, we didn't see any abnormal changes
on that. Could you bring them back to the original con-
f figuration?
CDR Okay. They're all on. H2 heaters to
AUTO, and H2 fans to AUTO.
CC Copy.
SPT Hey Bill, the on board current indica-
tion out of the fuel cells are not out of line with what
they've been for the past two weeks, on board.
CC We copy.
SPT Where there was 18 amps per fuel cell,
with those hydrogen heaters and fans off, and when he turned them
on it came up to about 20 amps per fuel cell.
CC We copy.
SPT You're also aware that we got the secondary
coolant loop on - off.
CC We copy.
CDR Pete, we're seeing 17 amps. We can't
explain. We'd like for you to back out of the secondary loop
and that's 2031 Bravo message that's on board. And we're
going LOS here in 30 seconds. We'll - for the bedtime.
CDR Okay. You want us to back out of the
secondary loop deal. Right?
CC That is affirm.
CDR Okay. It didn't work. And again, for
more information, Houston, there's no on board indication
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6113/73

of anything being different. The (garble) indications are the


same, and the oil flow to the fuel cells are the same as they've
been.
CC We copy. And we're seeing the same
thing down here.
CC We're seeing an intermittent 17 amp
increase that we can't explain here is the reason for it.
PAO The Skylab space station has moved out
of range of Honeysuckle tracking site. At 2 hours 49 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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f
-- SL-II MC-962/I
Time: 22:04 CDT, 21:03:04 GMT
6/13/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at three


hours four minutes Greenwich mean time. As the spacecraft
left - or as the spacecraft was in communication with the Honey-
suckle tracking station there was some alr-to-ground relating
to a spurious signal of approximately 17 amps, an intermittent
signal that had been registering on an ECS - current on an
ECS radiator heater in the command service module. Earlier
today, the flight controllers here at Mission Control Center
requested of the Commander, Pete Conrad, to check into the
secondary coolant loop in the CSM in an engineering experiment
which was designed to improve the CSM thermal model. Pete
Conrad did and reported back that the coolant loop was opera-
ting well at that time. Subsequent to that, we discovered
particularly on these last few passes, this intermittent spur-
ious signal for which there was no explanation, so we asked
the Commander to return to the CSM to verify that the switches
were indeed in the OFF position. And the air-to-ground that
followed indicated that the switches were, indeed, in the pro-
per position. In as much as there was not a clear explanation
as to why the spurious signal, the spurious intermittent signal,
was showing up, we asked the crew to back-out, so to speak,
f or in another way, inactivate that secondary loop which had
previously been active. And wlth that the crew then was
given a good-night for the evening, so the spacecraft, or
the CSM, essentially is in the mode that it was in days pre-
vious with the secondary loop inactive, and the primary loop
active. We have the daily medical bulletin as written by
Dr. Charles E. Ross. He writes: "The Science Pilot, Dr.
Joseph Kerwin, performed complete physical examinations on
the Commander and the Pilot, confirming that both are in good
physical condition. Dr. Kerwln stated that these were red
flight physicals since they were performed infllght. The crew
feels very confident in their abilities to perform the re-
maining mission and we don't feel we have any problems. We
don't anticipate any more conversation with the crew tonight,
for they are in the pre-sleep activity and will probably be
hitting the sack shortly. I have a correction wlth reference
to the information on the EREP pass for tomorrow. We are
- the crew will look for a cinder-cone in Nicaragua, Sierra
Negro, Nicaragua, and not an active volcano in Guatemala as
previously reported. At three hours nine minutes Greenwich
mean time, at the end of mission day 20, this is Skyleb Control.

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SL-II MC-963/I
Time: 06:09 CDT, 21:11:09
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii houTs 9 min-


utes Greenwich mean time on the 21st day of the mission. And
we're about 2 minutes away from Hawaii where CAP COM Hank
Hartsfield will be putting in a call to the crew to wake them
up to get them started on their day, which today includes
EREP ii, Earth Resources Experiment Package ii, which will be
occurring on the 446th and 447th revolution. The spacecraft
is on track 20. This will be a 28-minute pass starting over
Oregon, as the spacecraft comes in over Goose Bay, down across
the four corners area and through above Albuquerque, Brownsville,
out over the Gulf of Mexico, and down across South America,
ending about 500 miles south of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Also during
the day, we'll have runs of the MO72, MITI medical experiments,
the lower body negative pressure, and the metabolic analyzer,
using the bicycle ergometer. Also extensive ATM, Apollo tele-
scope mount, operations, today. The M092/MI71 experiment subject
will be Pilot Paul Weitz, and the observer for the M092/MITI
run will be Commander Pete Conrad.
CDR (Garble) you there?
CC Good morning. How are you this morning?
CDR Early to bed, early to rise. You know all
that good Jazz, but besides that, we never believed it. The
circadian rhythm is better - never follow their own plans,
but we thought we'd get up early this morning so we'd be in
better shape to go to bed early tonight.
CC I thought maybe that might he what you were
doing. We noticed somebody was up stirring around here about
45 minutes ago.
CDR Yeah, but we all got up about i0:00. Hank,
the EREP VTS pad for that - not VTS, it should be ETC pad for
the normal EREP pass not the cal - got all garbled. So did
the shopping list message. This is the first time we've really
gotten a garble on both these messages, plus the last part of
the EREP pad - second EREP pad that was sent was also garbled.
It's not that lines are transposed - it, it's just flat screwed up.
And also you refer to a general message 2120. Has that ever
been transmitted?
CC It should be. Stand by and we'll check it.
Let me make sure I got it correct now which ones are garbled.
You say the ETC pad and the shopping list - two pads are
garbled. Is that correct?
CDR That's correct. And the last part of the
second EREP pad you sent. Now I've got a complete set of EREP
pads, but you retransmitted the l_st one the second time for
some reason. You got about halfway through that and it's
all garbled too. I don't think I need that one. And it has
the same message header on it as the first one did. I've got
an EREP pad with a message header "2113Bi" on it, and that's
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Time: 06:09 CDT, 21:11:09 GMT
6/14/73

okay. Now you had sent that one again, for some reason, and
it was all garbled at the end.
CC Okay. Well, we suspected something like
this might happen, Pete. We had a glitch at one of the sites
when we were uplinking; so we kept all these things in the
MOC here Just in case. So those pads around the time we had
the glitch, we're going to retransmit them.
CDR Yeah, message 2120 refers to the quiescent
switch configuration. It's something or other, something or
other. I don't think we ever got any 2120 complete, unless
it was taped yesterday or something. I don't remember it.
CC Okay, 2120 should have been the last message
up, Pete.
CDR Okay. Well, that didn't come through. Unless
you transmitted something in the last 45 minutes. You better
look.
CC Roger. We have.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to send to
you then the ETC pad, the shopping list, and the EREP OPERATE
pad. Does that agree with your list?
PLT Yes. Go ahead.
CC Okay; it may be stateside before we can
get those up.
PLT That's all right. What's the status of our
CSM unknown 17 aft card grade, Hank?
CC Okay, we've got a message up concerning
that. I guess what it amounts to is we think that the
switch there has got a short in it or either the secondary
coolant circuit has. We've looked at all the telemetry, and
pretty well tracked it down that it is the heaters coming on
in the secondary coolant loop. And that goes back and cor-
relates with the glitch we had a lot earlier in the mission.
Remember when we had the current spike. So we're pretty sure
now that the switch is shorted on. In other words, the system's
on - the heaters are on even though the switch is off. So when
we turn the loop off, which we did last night to keep it from
getting a MAIN BUS A undervolt, the loop warms up 'cause it's
stagnant, and that's gets it below the or above the trip
point for the heaters, and so we don't have the current spike.
PLT Okay.
CC We're about 1 minute from LOS; we'll be
coming up on Goldstone at 23.
PLT Okay.

6
SL-II MC-963/3
Time: 06:09 CDT, 21:11:09 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 20 min-


utes. About 3-1/2 minutes now from Goldstone, California.
And on that pass over Hawaii, as CAP COM Henry Hartsfield
was getting ready to put in the call - a wake up call to the
crew, we heard a cheery "Good morning" from Commander Pete
Conrad. The crew getting a bit of an early start on the day.
A relatively active day, and includes a full run of ATM experi-
ments, EREP ii, medical experiments M092 and MITI, the lower
body negative pressure and metabolic activities experiments.
And we'll also have television of yesterday's MI31 runs in
the rotating litter chair, the motion sensitivity runj with
Paul Weitz as the subject. Weitz, yesterday, was running at
25 revolutions per minute in a motion sensitivity run. And
after that run was eompleted_ he and Kerwin reported no motion
sensitivity - adverse motion sensitivity feelings, and requested
that the next runs be conducted at 30 revolutions per minute.
Skylab now on its 444th revolution of the Earth, and about 2 min-
utes from acquiring signal through Goldstone, California.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone 5-1/2
minutes.
PLT Roger.
i

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SL-II MC-964/I
Time: 06:23 CDT, 21:11:23 GMT
6/14/73

CDR Hello, Houston; CDR.


CC Go ahead.
CDR (Garble) in answer to question i, fire
sensor CT392 and fire sensor 392-2 were changed out on day 161.
Not only do you think, but we think the fire sensor 392-2 is
(garble). That's why we never did (garble). And we have (garble)
on the control panel. That one side of it is in fact, good.
So we are taking care of that one.
CC Outstanding.
CDR We were also glad on the odds and ends
(garble). Good to see that y'all finally recognized that
(garble) when you (garble).
CDR (Garble), I think the question (garble)
PC starters (garble).
CC Roger.
SC All three of us.
CC Skylab, Houston. Yesterday you reported
that the flow in the wardroom hot water was going down, and
I guess the only thing that comes to our mind right off the
top is to check that the pressurization valve on water tank
7 is open. You've probably already done that. That's the
only thing we could come up with immediately.
SC We looked. And I suddenly got that input,
because the last time we took a shower, all the pressure we
could get in the shower bottle was 22 psi. What should the
pressure be coming out of that water heater? Does anybody know?
CC Stand by and let me see if I can get an
answer on that.
SC Okay. No rush_ Henry. If that's supposed
to be up around - Your system pressure has 35; so whatever losses
we have - and it seems to be pretty close to 35 all the way
through it. I guess though you take the water bottle and stick
it on the outlet side of the water tank itself and see what
the pressure is coming out of the tank.
CC Okay. Let us smoke that one over a little
bit.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about LOS. We'll
be coming up on Bermuda at 32.
SC Roger.
CG Skylab, Houston through Bermuda 10-1/2 min-
utes.
SC We hear_ you. _
CC Skylab, Houston. For the CDR, I got some
comments on M553 whenever it's convenient.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. What we'd like to do this morning,
Pete, when you get to the 553, is run the remaining samples
/-_ on wheel i. And if the beam sticks on like it did, we want
you to step on through each sample as quickly as possible,
_ SL-II MC-964/2
Time: 06:23 CDT, 21:11:23 GMT
6/14/73

being sure not to exceed 2 minutes continuous beam operation.


And if you hear that clicking noise that you reported, we'd
like for you to terminate and wait for the chamber to vent
down. Most likely the clicking is the high voltage over-
current relay attempting to remove the power because of the
pressure rise.
SC Well, that was not indicated by the
pressure gage yesterday. But I think (garble) much more. I
agree with that.
SC Roger. But where I left it on stand all
night last night; so I should have a super good hard vacuum
in there.
CC Okay.
SC Did AG get my message about the fact
that the fingers are retraeted_ but the balls aren't departed,
didn't he?
CC Roger. We did.

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SL-II MC965/I
_-- Time: 06:36 CDT, 21:11:36 GMT
6/14/73

CC CDR, Houston. Whenever it's convenient, I


have an update for your lunar eal operate pad.
SC Okay, Just a second.
SC Fire away.
CC Okay, Pete. Where it says 36 minutes S193
RAD to STANDBY - Right above that is S192 MODE to STANDBY, and
we omitted the time there. It should be 35:50.
SC Got it. Is that it?
CC That's all there was to it, and did - We
transmitted those three messages. They should be on board now.
SC Thank you, sir.
SC Hey, Henry - something for FAO to think
about. We Just finished up and don't need any more of the half
urine - of the urine sample half bags or half urine sample
hags, whatever you want to call it. We'll be more than glad
to resupply that for Captain Baines if you want us to. You've
got to tell us where to get the replacements though.
CC Okay, we copy.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS; Ascension at 50.
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 44 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. In about 6 minutes we will again be
acquiring Skylab over the Ascension Island Tracking Station.
During that stateside pass, one of the things discussed with the
crew was the M553 experiment, which uses the manufacturing
facility resembling a diver's helmet to fabricate spherical
shapes by taking advantage of the virtual absence of the
gravitational field. That experiment to be performed in one
of its modes today. And coming up on revolution 446 and 447,
we have the llth and final Earth resources pass of this mis-
sion. EREP pass ii is scheduled to acquire data over an ap-
proximately 7,000 mile long track that extends from the
Oregon coast across Nevada, New Mexico, the lower Rio Grande
River Valley, Texas, Central America, and from the Pacific coast
of Columbia on through Brazil, Bolivia, and to the Atlantic
Ocean, near Portalegre, Brazil. Analysis of the data acquired
will be used in gaining a greater understanding of the major
geologic features of the basin and range province of California
and Nevada. Also the spectral and spatial capabilities of
various sensors will be tested over White Sands, New Mexico.
That information will be used in improving understanding of
lower Rio Grande Valley soil distribution and insect infesta-
tion. It will also insist in studies of volcanic activity
in Central America and in determination of natural resources of
Columbia, the upper Amazon River Valley in Brazil, and Bolivia.
Also imagery from the SI90A and S190B cameras will aid Costa
Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and E[ Salvador in mapping studies
of these countries. At ii hours 46 minutes Greenwich mean time,
_ this is Skylab Control.

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-- SL-II MC966/1
Time: 06:48 CDT, 21:11:48 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, at ii hours


49 minutes. We'll be talking with Skylab through the
Ascension tracking station in about i minute. At the
present time the planning shift headed by flight director
Neil Hutchingson is completing activities in planning
tomorrow's flight schedule. And we're also in the process
of a shift handnver here in Mission Control. Flight director
Phil Shaffer preparing to relieve flight director Hutchison.
And we anticipate a change of shift briefing this morning
to occur at about 8:45 a.m. central daylight time.
CC Skylab, Houston through Ascension for
9-i/2 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston to Ascension, 8-1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston.
CC And in answer to the question about the
(garble) sample urine bags, the next supply is stored in
vault 426.
SPT Vault 426.
CC And also got an answer on checking the
pressure. You can use the portable water tank to check
the pressure at water tank 7 outlet. And if you get good
pressure at that point then we suggest you take the water
tank and the WMC 1 hose down to the WMC and measure the pressure
at the water heater dump port.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We have had loss
of signal now through Ascension and will be acquiring in
21-1/2 minutes at Carnarvon, Australia. The spacecraft now
in the 445th revolution of Earth. At 12 hours I minute Green-
wich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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_- SL-II MC-967/I
Time: 07:20 CDT, 21:12:20 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours


21 minutes Greenwich mean time. We'll be talking to the
crew through the Carnarvon, Australia Tracking Station in
about a minute. Coming up this afternoon at 19:00 Greenwich
mean time, or about 2:00 p.m. central, the crew will be turn-
ing off the fuel cells in the CSM, which have been supplying
about 1100 watts needed for CSM operations, and they'll
switch over to supply the ii00 watts needed by the CSM from
the power generated by the solar panels from the workshop.
The workshop is currently consuming about 4700 watts of
power - -
CC - - through Carnarvon for 10-1/2 minutes.
SPT Hello Houston, this is the SPT and I
have a question about DAC exposures for out - the - window photog-
raphy. Yesterday I wrote down that you gave me f/5.6 at 1/250
if the whole roll was to be used exterior. And today's pad
says f/ll out of 1/500, I would llke to verify that.
CC Okay. Stand by.
CC SPT, Houston. There's some confusion
on this thing. We're convinced that the f/ll, 1/500 is the
correct setting.
SPT That's what we used.
CC And I have a map update, whenever you
want to listen to it.
SPT Come ahead.
CC Okay. We're - Little flare update -
active region 27 had a subbright flare, a Charlie-4 X-ray
at 0335 Zulu. And there was also a Charlie-2 X-ray event at
520 Zulu with no associated optical flare. Active region 37
is still complex and it's a probable X-ray source. There's
a new region, active region 41, 290.8, emerged just east of
active region 37 and a small rapidly growing bipolar spot
group.
SPT Roger, Hank. We reported seeing that
one last nlgh_, it looks very interesting. We're rooting
for it.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS, Guam at 35.

END OF TAPE

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Time: 07:32 CDT, 21:12:32 GMT
6/14/73

PLT Still there, Houston?


CC Roger.
PLT Quick question, Hank. We Just put the
shower bottle on the outlet of tank 7 and the gage went to
22 psi, to verify the gage on the shower water bottle, we
would like to pressurize it to llne pressure out of the
35 psi into REG. Is that okay?
CC Okay, we'll have an answer in Guam for
you.
PAn This is Skylah Control. We've had loss of
signal through Carnarvon and we'll be acquiring at the Guam
tracking station in about 1-1/2 minutes. Again as we mentioned
at the start of that Guam pass today at 19:00 Greenwich mean
time or 2:00 p.m. central daylight time crew will be switching
the fuel cells off in the CSM, having nearly depleted the
consumables for the fuel cells. At that point we'll begin
transferring about 1100 watts to the CSM from the workshop,
that power previously supplied by the fuel cells. The work-
shop is presently operating at a level of about 4700 watts.
That will be required to supply a total of about 5800 watts
when we begin transferring 1100 to the CSM. And EGIL reports
f_ that we have plenty of margins with a capability from the solar
panels of about 6800 watts with an additional 500 watts of mar-
gin and equipment that could easily be powered down if need
be to give us additional power margins. But it appears that
we'll have adequate electrical power from the solar panels to
maintain operations at the current level.
CC Skylab, Houston through Guam for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Hank and we verified through the
portable water bottle that we do, in fact, have 35 psi nitro-
gen and I'm suspicious of the gage on the shower tank.
CC Roger. We think it's a good idea to
what Paul suggested - is take in the shower bottle and taking
it and verify the gage with a 35 psi source. We should have
thought of that.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston for info we're reconfigur-
ing your gyros for daytime configurations.
PLT You there, Houston?
CC Roger, for about 6 more minutes.
PLT Okay, this gage reads all right. We just
put it on the servicing- and it :went rlgh_ up to 35. So
I guess the answer you owe us there is why is the pressure
out of tank 7 22 psi?
CC (Garble)
PLT When you figure that out you get a gold
spur.
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Time: 07:32 CDT, 21:12:32 GMT
6/14/73

CC Okay, on the pressure you Just checked


was the outlet of the water tank 7? You checked the gage and
it's okay. Have you checked the outlet at water tank 7?
PLT Yeah. That's why we've been trying to
check the gage. I don't see any way that we could have 35 psi
going to the watering manifold and have 22 psi out of the tank.
And that's what it is.
PLT And that 22 psi, Hank, I unhooked the
new WMC hose to the water tank 7 outlet and hooked the water -
the shower water bottle into it and we only _ot up to 22 psi
which is what we get out of the WMC water heater.
CC I think we're discovering some new physical
principle here. Everybody is scratching their heads. We'll
see what we can come up with.
PLT Why do you think we finally came to you
guys? We wanted you to be as sound and as well as us at this
zero g principle, whatever it may be.
CC Roger.
PLT Another question, Houston.
CC Go ahead.
PLT Okay, now we've got that shower water
bottle full of cold water, is the flow rate too much to go
ahead and dump through the waste water dump llne?
CC That's okay. Go ahead.
PLT All right.
CDR Houston, you there?
CC Go ahead.
CDR Say that waste water - yeah, all the water
tanks - those are metal bellows in there do you suppose that
there's any way that they could have gotten destroyed enough
to be dragging down the side of the wall before they get
extended and that we're losing i0 or so psi across the bellows
by just dragging down the other side of the tank?
CC We're thinking that. We thought of that
too. We're not right sure yet.
CDR Great minds think alike.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about LOS now.
We'll be coming up on Goldstone at 01.
CDR Okay.

END OF TAPE

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/-- SL-II MC-969/I
Time: 07:47 CDT, 21:12:47 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, about 13 minutes


now from regaining contact through the Goldstone Tracking
Station. The discussion over Guam about the water tank
pressure had to do with the fact that the crew noticed curiously
enough that there's a pressure difference in the inlet to the
outlet of water tank number 7. There should be no pressure
difference here. And there's been a fair amount of discussion
back and forth as to what could be causing the 13 pounds of
pressure difference. ThereVs no concern over it_ but it is
a matter of curiosity, as to how the tank could be reading
a different pressure at the inlet and the outlet. And
Pete Conrad and the crew aboard scratching their heads,
as we are on the ground_ in an attempt to come up with an
explanation. At 12 hours 49 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylah Control

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC970/I
Time: 08:00 CDT, 21:13:00 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, at 13 hours


Greenwich mean time. Coming up on Goldstone, and we'll
stand by for the crew call and conversation over this
stateside pass.
CC Skylab, Houston; stateside for 17 minutes.
CDR Okay, Henry, there's a big water tank
mystery. I have another data point for you if you're ready.
CC Okay.
CDR Guess what the pressure out of water
tank i is? Well, I won't make you guess. It's 24 psi out
of water tank i.
CC What did you measure that with?
PLT (Garble) our faithful little water bottle
that we've been carrying around measuring everything with.
On the fact that we said it was 24 out of tank i, and 22
out of tank 7, I think it's (garble) level. With the same
guage we have measured water pressure out of tank i at 24,
out of tank 7 at 22 and nitrogen pressure out of panel 500
at the portable water bottle servicing port of 35.
CC Copy.
PLT So what we've come up with then is a
basically a built in force in the bellows to return to
the full position until (garble).
CC Roger, and you use the shower water bottle
for that?
PLT Yeah.
CC Is that bottle full, or do you know?
PLT Well, I started with i0 PSI of nitrogen
in it and we got a total of 24 PSI in there now. The rest
of the pressure haven't been made up of water. So you guys
tell me how full it is.
CC Okay, copy.
PLT Also, for correlation (garble), let me
give you some numbers on how far those bellows have moved
in those two tanks when you're ready to copy.
CC Go ahead.
PLT The water tank i is 32 and a quarter inches
from the end. And in water tank 7 it is ii and a quarter
inches to the end. And of course, those are measured from
the pressurization valves and their tanks.
CC Roger, copy.
CC Well, I guess we'll have to track this
down later in the day here, maybe during one of the house-
keeping periods here. We'll smoke it over until then.
PLT Okay.
CC And, Skylab, Houston; and we recommend

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Time: 08:00 CDT, 21:13:00 GMT
6/14/73

that we don't check anymore water tanks with the shower


bottle since we've used it on the WMC system there.
PLT Okay.
CC Your mike's keyed open.
PLT (garble) commence shift work. Sweepers
man your broom, sweep down fore and aft, carry all trash to
the airlock.
CC That whistle is kind of weak at 5 PSI.
CDR (Garble) So is the bosun that blew it.
CDR Hey, Hank, you still there?
CC Roger. We got about 9-1/2 minutes.
CDR Okay. On that 553, I got it to run
again but by hook and by crook. And I diddled around with
the focus again to make sure I got it on the end of the
ball and all that good stuff like we were told to do with
- the camera will tell how well I did. But it doesn't melt
those balls right. You get about half a ball melted on the
knob and just as it starts to melt on the bottom the (garble)
draws and shuts the beam off. And I'm just not meeting
with very good success at making ball bearings. I look
at the lights and there are all kinds of funny looking things.
Some stay on and some come off, so - but the single retract
and there is a couple of them were (garble) (garble) and
the thing retracted and cut it off.
CC Roger, copy.
CDR Hey, I got all wheel 1 done and I'm
letting it cool down now and I'ii collect what's in there
and put wheel 2 in there and see what I can do with it.
CC Okay.
SCHWEIKART The worst that could happen if you did
that is that - -
SC All right, Rusty.
CC Wrong buttons.
PLT Houston, the flight surgeon has Just
conducted his daily sanitary inspection, and the food and
water systems are both acceptable except for human consumption.
CC Roger, copy.
CC Skylab, Houston; for the CDR. In regard
to the (garble) there, I guess the only thing we could
suggest is perhaps on wheel 2 to try to have the beam strike
the sample up a little closer to the tip. Maybe we could
avoid melting that thing off of there before it's ready.
SC (garble) pretty well there.
CC Okay.

END OF TAPE
fL SL-II MC-971/I
Time: 08:16 CDT, 21:13:16 GMT
6/14/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to get a


couple of questions answered on this shower bottle. You
dumped it there between readings. I guess we'd like to
know where you dumped it, which connection you went into?
SC We haven't finished dumping it yet.
CC The (garble) output?
SC We're dumping it through the waste com-
partment - the waste management compartment dump line.
CC Okay. Was that above or below the sink
there - the squeezer?
SC It's in the inlet to the dump line which
is normally hooked up to the squeezer dump cord. It is the
one up at the top of the water heater.
CC Roger. Copy.
SC Is that all right?
CC We'll let you know. We know where you
dumped it now.
SC I didn't dump it all at once. That pres-
sure in the tank got up to about 08; so I stopped to let it
come down a little bit before I dumped some more.
CC Roger.
CC And you did dump prior to checking water
tank i?
SC Negative.
CC Say again.
SC Negative. I did not. We checked water
tank (static). Then we checked the nitrogen side. Then we
checked water tank (static).
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal now through the Bermuda Tracking Station; 40
minutes away from reacquiring at Carnarvon, Australia. Space-
craft now on the 446th revolution. And on our next stateside
passj we'll be coming up on another Earth Resources Experiment
pass, EREP ii, which will be the final EREP pass scheduled for
Skylab II, which will be acquiring data over an approximately
7000-mile-long ground track that extends from the Oregon
coast across Nevada, Mexico, the lower Rio Grande River Valley,
Texas, Central America, and from Columbia, through Brazil and
Bolivia, to the Atlantic Ocean near Portalegre, Brazil. At
13 hours 21 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC972/I
Time: 08:28 CDT, 21:13:28 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 29


minutes. We'll have a change-of-shift briefing at 8:45 central
daylight time in the JSC News Center briefing room. Flight
Director Neil Hutchinson will be the participant in this
press briefing. Hutchinson and his team of flight controllers
are handing over at this time to the team headed by Flight
Director Phil Shaffer. And the capsule communicator, the
CAP COM, on the upcoming shift is Astronaut Richard Truly, who
will be relieving Hank Hartsfield at the CAP COM console.
Again, that change-of-shift press conference to occur in about
15 minutes at 8:45 a.m. central daylight time. This is
Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-973/I
Time: 08:59 CDT, 21:13:59 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours


Greenwich mean time. About a minute away from acquiring at
Carnarvon on the 446th revolution. Also, our change-of-shift
press briefing will begin shortly in the Johnson Space Center
briefing room. We'll come up for this pass, take the line
down as soon as the press conference is ready to begin, and
tape record any subsequent conversations with the crew. We'll
stand by at this time for acquisition of signal and the call
through Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Carnarvon.
We've got you for 6-1/2 minutes, and I've got some things I
need to talk over with the SPT.
' SC Hello, Houston. (Garble)
CC Hello there.
SC Okay, Richard. First I've got two questions
for you on the EREP stuff this morning. Want you to verify
which magazine you want on the DAC. You gave me one magazine
but the location for the other one. And also I want to verify -
Do you want to shoot the first site, site 320? You want to do
that one over again?
CC Okay. We'll be getting those answers
for you.
SC Okay. Go with your questions.
CC Okay. We've been looking ahead to the
upcoming cal maneuver, and I've got some pad changes to read
up. And most of them - one of them is on the EREP operate pad.
All the rest are Joe's. One's on the cal maneuver pad, and
also a comment on the ETC pad. So I thought if Joe could collect
those pieces of paper, and then when he's ready to talk to
me a little bit about them, we might have a little conversation
about those.
SC Okay. Just give me a minute.
CC Okay.
SC Go ahead, Richard.
CC Okay. First thing, let's take a look
at the cal maneuver pad, Joe. We've ah - We're now in the
situation where we've done our last dump prior to the maneuvers.
And we've taken a look at Nz, and it's - and ah - Your pad for
cal - for the maneuver pad for cal, which the number of the pad
is 2124 Alfa.
SC I've got it.
CC Okay.. I_ve got a ohange about I0 lines
down under the fine maneuv4r for Z. It now reads 50050 and 4 de_
grees. I'd like to change that number; it should read 50064 to
plus 05.2 degrees. And the reason for that change is ah - ah -
our better knowledge of Nz.
SC I copy the fine maneuver Z is changed from
50050 to 50064.
SL-II MC-97S/2
Time: 08:59 CDT, 21:13:59 GMT
6/14/73

CC Okay, Joe. I also have a change to the


startracker pad, if you have that one - just the outer gimbal,
for the same reason.
SC Come ahead.
CC Outer gimbal - the correct outer gimbal on
the startracker pad - and the pad number is 2129. Outer gimbal
is plus 2053.
SC Okay. Plus 2053.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Our change-of-
shift press briefing is ready to begin at this time. We'll
switch to the Johnson Space Center briefing room and record
subsequent conversations, during the briefing, with the Skylab
crew. This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 5 minutes Greenwich
mean time.

END OF TAPE
-- SL-II MC-974/I
Time: 09:23 CDT, 21:14:23 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 24 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. During the change of shift briefing
we accumulated a little over 8 minutes of tape. We're now
about 14 minutes from reacquiring at Goldstone for the start
of the EREP pass number ii, and we'll play back our accumulated
tape through - collected over Carnarvon and Guam.
CC Okay, Joe. Let's look at the ETC pad
next .
SPT The one for cal?
CC Negative, it's the one prior to the cal.
It's message number 2115.
SPT I'll be with you in a second. I left that
one down at the camera.
CC Okay. I'ii tell you Joe. I think this
one is real simple. I can tell you, you might not want to go
get it. What I - I have 2 things to talk to you about on ETC
Pad. One is, the filter on this pad says none, it should read
5, which will get the 2 pads in sync. Both of the filters
read - should read 5 and there's no filter change required
between maneuvers. And the second thing is, as we - for today.
When you connect the vacuum to the Earth terrain camera, we want
to make sure you leave the vacuum connected whether or not
you hear a hissing sound. Over.
SPT Okay. Leave the vacuum connected, regardless.
And I don't think I'll have a problem, because this canister was
okay the last two times we used it.
CC Roger. We concur. Okay. I have one
more pad change and one final thing to talk to you about. The
last pad change I have is on the EREP operating pad. And that's
normally going to be Pete's, but if you could get it for me I
would appreciate it. The pad number is 2113 Bravo. Bravo i
is the actual - the upper left-hand corner number.
SPT Okay. Is this the EREP OPS for cal or
the ah - for the pad?
CC Negative, Joe. It's EREP-II operating
pad.
SPT Okay. We've got you, go ahead.
CC Okay. On this one, it was just a goof on
my part. We need an extra entry at time 15:04:00.
SPT Go ahead.
CC S193 Alfa, range 81.
SPT S193 Alfa, _ange 81, and 15:04:00.
CC That's affirm. And that'll set that
instrument up for the proper eliptieity of our orbit. Okay.
I only have one more thing to mention to you, Joe. And that
is, we want to make sure that we get some more Y-axls scale
factor data if we can during your EREP cal sequence. Incl-
dentally, I just noticed we're just coming up to LOS here at
SL-II MC-974/2
Time: 09:23 CDT, 21:14:23 GMT
6/14/73

Carnarvon, about i0 seconds to go. We're going to have Guam


coming up at time 14:15. So why don't I get this last note
up to you right there. And I'ii have the other answers at
Guam at AOS.
SPT See you at Guam.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS at Guam. We've
got you for the next six minutes. The answers to the PLT's
questions are, that we do want to repeat site 320. The correct
DAC magazine is Bravo-Hotel-02, and the proper location for that,
we think, was Juliet-4, J-4. And I need to talk again to SPT.
And Joe, it might help if you had the EREP checklist to the EREP
calibration timellne on page 13-12. Over.
SPT Okay. Just a minute. Caught me in that
forward area, again.
CC Roger. We realize we've been taking up
a lot of your time here.
SPT Go ahead, Houston.
CC Okay, Joe. You looking at the - I assume
you're looking at page 13-12.
SPT I was looking at 13-3. Wait a minute.
CC Okay. I'm looking at the EREP calibration
timeline, the overview page that shows the sequence of maneuvers.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay. Essentially, where we'd - We'd
like to - In addition to what's on this, we'd like you to throw
one switch for us on the star tracker at a particular point in
Order for us to get some more Y-axis, the scale-factor dated
during the cal sequence. Going from left to right on your
column down there, and having put together the times off of
your various pads, the start of the solar inertial maneuver
is at ah - that's in the left hand corner. It's at 15:08.
It's a 12-minute maneuver and it'll end at 15:20. And we'll
also have the Vanguard acqusition at the start of that maneuver,
but then you'll go LOS after that. Then between 15:20 and
15:23, 15:23 is the place where the little dark triangle is.
And that's where you go to ATT HOLD CMG. During that period,
you'll get - the star tracker will lock on to that gimbal that
I gave you awhile ago, plus 2053. And at that point, right
after going to ATT HOLD CMG, we'd like you to cycle the star
tracker switch to MANUAL and then to AUTO. That's the only
addition to this sequence. And then 15:24 is the final enter
on cal maneuver number i. Over.
SPT Okay. I've got it. i Star tracker MANUAL,
and then AUTO, immediately after going ATT HOLD CMG.
CC Okay. And incidentally, if you don't
get a star, if you - don't waste your time hunting for a star,
f because we'll take what we get on that.
SL-II MC-974/3
Time: 09:23 CDT, 21:14:23 GMT
6/14/73

SPT Roger.
CC Okay. Now that we've used up a bunch of
your time, Joe, and you were supposed to have been doing this
mal for us on secondary coolant loop, why don't you let us know
where you are in that, if you've started it at all. We'd like
to also tell you that the - we recognize that there is a filter
change in order to start this first ETC pass coming up here at
the states. And if we have to we're willing to postpone this
malfunction and go through and - depending on where you are.
SPT The filter change is complete. The procedure
is complete up through connection of the PCU, LSU and verifica-
tion that we're in position i. And I'm ready for - to get on
up there and start to pump on your mark.
CC Okay. We've got 2 minutes left on this
pass, why don't you head up that direction while we pull our-
selves together.
SPT And, I'm waiting for you Houston.
CC Okay. We're GO, looking at our data.
We've still got a minute and 15 seconds here, so why don't
you press right on.
SPT Okay. We're at PRIMARY.
_- CC Okay.
SPT Now we're OFF.
CC SPT, Houston. Be advised we may go - We've
got the recorders running. We may go LOS during this test.
We want you to continue right on and finish it, but we do want
to do this on SUS 2, SUS 2.
SPT Roger. Sorry. I'ii start it over again.
You want me to keep right on going through prim for 15 minutes,
huh?
CC That's affirmative. We're recording it.
We'll watch it as long as we can see you. We're going to see
you at Goldstone at 14:38.
SPT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That brings us
up to date with our tape playback. And we're about 5 minutes
45 seconds from Goldstone acquisition. As we lost contact
over Guam we were discussing with Joe Kerwin and Paul Weitz
a procedure for further troubleshooting and verifying the
coolant loops, the alrlock coolant loops. And the procedure
being discussed was with coolant loop number 2 of the secondary
loop, a procedure which invol_ed' hycllng::the temperature
control valve to gain added assurance that that valve is
modulating as it should. And we'll be getting additional
data on this stateside pass to determine, if in fact, Chat
valve as it appears is functioning normally. The weather for
the EREP pass, coming up on this revolution and on into revolu-
-- tion 447, appears to he, again, a fair amount of clouds, a fair
amount of cloud cover. Now we have the weather map up on the
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Time: 09:23 CDT, 21:14:23 GMT
6/14/73

monitors for the stateside portion of that pass. And you can
see as the ground track comes over Oregon, there's heavy cloud
cover for a small portion of the track that breaking out into
four to seven-tenths, four-tenths to seven-tenths, or 40 to
70 percent cloud cover, on across Oregon and into Idaho, again
hitting pretty solid overcast through Idaho and most of Utah,
and on into Nevada, and breaking out pretty much into the clear,
with exception of one small patch of cloud cover in Nevada, on
across New Mexico, and into Texas, mostly clear, zero 3/10ths
cloud-cover. And again, hitting fairly heavy clouds along
the south Texas coast and into central Texas, and then clearing
out over the Gulf of Mexico. This EREP pass, EREP ii, will be
on track 20. And as the last EREP pass scheduled for this
mission, data gathered on this EREP pass will be used in under-
standing the geologic - geographic features of the basin and
range problems of California and Nevada, and also will be useful
in determining the spectral and spatial capabilities of sensors.
These tests will be run over the White Sands area of New Mexico.
Also, information will be gathered on valley soil distribution
of the Rio Grande Valley, as well as information on insect
infestation. Volcanic activity will he studied in central
America. And natural resources studies will be conducted from
data gathered over Columbia, and also over the upper Amazon
River Valley of Brazil, and on into Bolivia. Imagery from
the SI90A and SI90B cameras will aid Costa Rico, Honduras,
Nicaragua, and E1 Salvador, and cartographic studies of these
countries. We have about 2 minutes now before we acquire signal
through Goldstone. And again, we will expect the crew, as they
have on previous EREP passes, to have their mikes in the VOX
mode, the voice-operated mode, so that we're hearing all of
their conversation as they activate and turn off the various
instruments, and call off targets that they'll be sighting through
the view finder tracking system.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC9 75/i
Time: 09:36 CDT, 21:14:36 GMT
6/14/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for


the next 16 minutes. Standing by.
SC Roger. How do you read the CDR VOX?
CC Loud and clear, Pete.
SC Hey, while I've got a minute here, Houston,
you want to do that H2 vent before we shut the fuel cells down.
Is that correct?
CC That's affirmative. We want to make sure
that it's working properly.
SC Okay.
SC MARK 39 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. No response required, but
just for your information, Rusty and the guys went over to
run the simulator and ran this set of pads for the EREP cal
maneuver yesterday, and it turned out pretty good.
SC Okay.
SC 91 READY light on time.
SC And the ALTIMETER is ON. Show an ALTIMETER
UNLOCK light. P92 MODE READY. Bravo 7 is 30.
SC On ALTIMETER UNLOCK light, the mode is i;
the range is 76. That's blinking a little it may be coming
_-- in.
SC 90 to MODE AUTO at 41:13. Joe, you're
going to have an ETC AUTO at 42:12.
SC (Garble).
SC Once again, Houston, where do you want -
SC 54 - MARK, ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
SC I had to just swing my startracker
to AUTO and leave. I don't know if we're going to get a star
lock-on or not.
CC Roger; understand. It's okay.
SC 42:12, ETC to AUTO.
SC Got it.
SC MARK, ETC STANDBY.
SC Got it.
SC And S193A is MODE 2.
SC MARK. 43:45 SCAT to STANDBY, PAD to STANDBY.
At 47:53, the ALTIMETER is ON.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC976/I
Time: 09:44 CDT, 21:14:44 GMT
6/14/73

CC Skylab, Houston. No response required.


We're going to handover from Goldstone directly to Mila here in
a few seconds. We'll probably drop out about 30 seconds
and be back with you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Mila again;
we gotyou for the next 6 minutes. Standing by.
CC And, CDR; Houston, be advised we're not
reading you if you're transmitting on VOX anymore.
SC Apparently not.
SC Houston, you read the SPT?
CC SPT, Houston. I read you loud and clear.
Y'all did drop out for a few minutes there. I stopped reading
the CDR on VOX.
SC But I can hear it (garble).
SC Hello, Houston. How do you read the PLT?
CC Loud and elear, PLT. How me?
SC Loud and clear.
SC Did you get that no joy on (static) 385, Dick?
CC Negative. I didn't copy that. Say it
again, please.
SC No joy on ATS site 385. All the clouds
-- are in the wrong places.
CC Copy.
SC How do you read the CDR?
CC Loud and clear, Pete.
SC Okay. MARK 49 (static)
SC Uh, Houston. On the next site, 566, - -
SC MARK.
SC - - do I get a (garble) 66 is clobbered.
Can I pick up 65 and or 64 also?
CC That's affirmative, PLT. Press right on.
SC Okay.
SC SCAT to STANDBY; RAD to STANDBY; 91, POWER
OFF. Looks pretty hazy down around the Corpus area also.
(garble) you're really doing it in in this EPS. You might pass
that on to Jack (garble).
CC Roger, Paul. Copy.
SC 50:02, the ALTIMETER is ON.
SC Interealometer to 8. 51, crosstraek
contiguous; POLARIZATION is 4.
CC Skylab, Houston. See you got a little
hole here in this thing, we've termi_ate_d (garble) recording;
so we'd to - we'd like to get the SUS pump off while you're
still AOS. It's panel 217, SUS 2 PUMP to OFF, if possible.
We still got 2 minutes to go prior to LOS.
SC I'ii do it.
_ CC Okay.
SL-II MC976/2
Time: 09:44 CDT, 21:14:44 GMT
6/14/73

SC Say, Houston, can you just reset the


frames on S190 in the middle of a run?
CC Stand by.
CC CDR, if you switch in the middle, it'll
reset when you go to STANDBY; so it's okay.
SC All right.
SC You guys keep coming up with these triekies
I've never seen before.
CC Roger that, we're 45 seconds from LOS.
We're going to see you at Vanguard at 15:03. We're going
to dump the data tape recorder there and we sure appreciate
y'all working in that malfunction procedure for us.
SC That's one you owe us.
SC You still there, Houston?
CC Yes, sir.
SC Okay, I got (garble) 66 on that but not the
other two. And (garble) is a little shakey also. Hard to
tell one knob from another in there.
CC Okay.
SC ALTIMETER to STANDBY; 5338. Intervelometer
going to ig. HARK, intervelometer to ig. It'll be 54. We're
standing by (garble) hours (static) come on.
SC (Static on (static)
PAO This is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC977/I
Time: 09:54 CDT, 21:14:54 GMT
6/14/73

PAO Skylab Control. We've gone out of range


now of the Texas and Mila tracking stations. Skylab completing
its EREP pass down over Central America, crossing into Columbia
from the Pacific oceanside and out over Brazil, exiting on
the Atlantic on this, the llth and final, EREP pass of the
mission. And we have about 9 minutes remaining before we re-
acquire the spacecraft at the conclusion of this EREP pass
through the tracking ship, Vanguard. EGIL, the environmental
systems engineer, got a good look at data on the coolant loops
during that pass and reported the loops appear to be function-
ing normally and the temperature control valve cycling as desired
to maintain the proper loop temperature. At 14 hours 55 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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-- SL-II MC978/I
Time: 10:02 CDT, 21:15:02 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours 2 min-


utes. Less than a minute now from acquisition through the
tracking ship Vanguard. We're getting a replay on that ex-
cellent bit of video from the ATM that was dumped to the ground
earlier today and brought back in during our last pass over
the continental United States. This is ATM video that is
stored on the onboard video tape recorder earlier today. And
it was a very clearly evident active region - active region 27 that
showed up near the lower limb of the Sun on that ATM video.
Also on the white light coronagraph we're told that a bright
spot visible in one of the corona - streamers of prominences
at about the 10 o'clock position was the planet Saturn. We
show acquisition now. We'll stand by for the call to the
crew through Vanguard.
CDR READY MODE, READY. But for 15:04 we'll
put the range to 81 on S193.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're AOS at Vanguard for
8-1/2 minutes.

SC 81:00 on the altimeter. Roger, Houston.


CC Roger, read you loud and clear. Standing
by.
SC 04:20 MARK, 92 to CHECK.
CC SPT, Houston I wonder if you've got a
little block in between callouts there. On the ETC lunar eel pad
there is another mistake. We found the DBC data block exposure
control for the eal pass ought to be four just llke it is
for EREP ii pass. There's no change required to that.
SC Okay, copy that.
CC Thank you, Joe.

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SL-II MC-979/I
Time: 10:05 CDT, 21:15:05 CMT
6/14/73

SC 05:12, that's 190 to MODE STANDBY,


READY light was OUT on time.
CDR 05:38, MARK. ALTIMETER to STANDBY.
SC MARK 05:44 MODE 5.
SC MARK 05:53 the ALTIMETER is ON.
SC Six minutes 94 MODE MANUAL.
CDR Getting occasional ALTIMETER LOCK lights.
CDR Still getting ALTIMETER on LOCK lights.
SC MARK, 7 minutes.
SC MARK, 07:48, MARK, ALTIMETER STANDBY.
07:54, MARK, EREP STOP. Stand by for 15:08, START SI MANEUVER.
Okay. Stand by for 15:12 for LC SET UP.

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SL-II MC-980/I
Time: 10:08 CDT, 21:15:08 GMT
6/14/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 40 seconds


from LOS. We've got a long LOS. We're going to see you at
Goldstone at 16:15, and you can tell us what the Moon looks
like.
SC Okay. We'll see you.
CC Okay. See you later.
PAO This is Skylab Control; out of range now
of the tracking ship Vanguard, and a little more than an
hour away from reacquiring at Goldstond California. Prior to
losing our radio contact, Flight Director, Phll Shaffer, requested
that each of the flight controllers take a good look at the data
on the spacecraft before losing contact for this extended period
of time, before we come all the way back around to Goldstone.
And everything, from all reports, was normal. The last remark
to the crew from CAP COM, Dick Truly, was something to the
effect of, you can tell us how the Moon looks. The crew will be
looking at the Moon through the view finder tracking system as
an attitude reference for pointing the S192 multispectral scanner
at the Moon. At 15 hours 15 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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• SL-II MC981/I
Time: 11:14 CDT, 21:16:14 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. We're about a


minute now from acquiring at Goldstone, California. This
will be our last Goldstone pass of the day as we reach that
portion of the ground track where we have a rather scanty
ground station coverage. This revolution we'll pick up
Goldstone and the tracking ship Vanguard only. Next revolution
it will be Hawaii and Vanguard is the only two stations to
acquire. We have acquisition of signal now, we expect
CAP COMM, Dick Truly, will be giving a call to the crew shortly.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Goldstone for
7-1/2 minutes.
SC Okay, Houston. You can mark the H2 vent -
the H2 pressure at this time. I Just opened the H2 vent
before you came up.
CC Roger, CDR. We don't have data right at
the moment. We're working on a little ground problem, but
appreciate you telling us.
SC Okay, well, I just (garble) caught up
and try to watch and look at it in (garble).
CC CDR, Houston, roger. And be advised, we
also been talking about the H2 vent. We do want to make
sure it works. We got a Vanguard pass coming up here and
we'll - when we get data back we'll take a look here at
Goldstone and also at Vanguard and if we can confirm that
it's working right we'll probably let you secure it.'
SC Okay.
CC And one more thing, Pete. A piece of
information I'm not sure you have on board but if the
tanks drop 20 PSI, that's enough and we'd like to secure
the vent.
SC Okay, and I have it on board.
CC Roger.
CC And Skylab, Houston. If you have time
sometime this pass - still got 6 minutes, we'd be interested to
know how the calibration against the Moon went.
SC Okay, the calibration went fine except for
one loose nut on the (garble). The CDR left the FFC in on
the first set of pictures but we had enough time to take the
second set of pictures with the FFC out and then return and
get the first set of pictures with the original filters
correctly, so we got it all.
CC Very good.
SC AIs_ for iufo_matlon for the (garble) guys
Dick, the VTS glmbal angles, once we got the attitude, were
left about a half as many as I could interpolate and up about
7-1/2 which is pretty good when you shift from (garble) zero
/ in 8. And - and (garble).
CC Roger. Thank you.

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i SL-II MC-982/I
Time: 11:21 CDT, 21:16:21 GMT
6/14/73

SC There's a couple of stowage notes on


B-channel along with EREP data - about EREP for follow on
crew (garble).
CC Okay. Good. Thank you for letting us
know. And we'll let the stowage folks know.
CC Skylab, Houston. We see the star tracker
(garble) is messed up. We'd sure appreciate it if somebody could
help us get a reacquisition, because we need that prior to
doing a good dump maneuver.
SC Okay. I'll get it.
CC Thank you.
CC And, Pete. A final note on H2 vent. When
you do verify that the you've dropped 20-PSI, wetd kindly
like to know about how long that. And and also when you get
to that point, request FANS and HEATERS on both H2 TANKS to
AUTO. And that'll keep us in good shape.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylah, Houston. We see you fixing the
star tracker up for us. We sure appreciate that. We're
about a minute from LOS. We're going to see you at Vanguard
at 16:41. And we're going to dump the data tape recorders at
. Vanguard.
SC (Garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control. That will be all
from Texas and Goldstone for today. We'll be acquiring
tracking ship Vanguard in about 14 minutes. At the present
time the recovery people here in mission control report that
C-l, rather a C-5 aircraft is being loaded now with the Skylab
mobile laboratory, the medical facility for conduct for immediate
postflight portions of the Skylab medical experiments, to which
the crew must be transported within an hour after splashdown.
And the laboratory is airlifted from Houston's Ellington
Air Force Base out to San Diego, where it will be loaded on
the prime recovery ship. And it will be on station during the
final week of the mission, ready for recovery. Earlier today, a
C-141 aircraft with the experiment return containers departed
Ellington for San Diego. At 16 hours 28 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is $kylab Control.

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SL-II MC983/I
Time: 11:40 CDT, 21:16:40 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. We're up a little


early over Vanguard with acquisition and response from the
crew.
SC Houston, SPT. You there?
CC Skylab, Houston. If you called, say again,
please.
CC Skylab, Houston. We lost you for a little
bit there. If you said something, say again, please.
CC Skylab, Houston. I thought I heard you
try to call, and we dropped S-band there for just a second. If
I did, I didn't If you did, I didn't copy. You might say again.
Incidentally, we predict that the H2 vent will be complete
at approximately 17:15, which is about 30 minutes from now.
SC Okay, thank you. And Hank, I was calling
you to ask about ED31, which I see is on the shopping list. And
I'm concerned about returning it because we do not have the IMSS
resupply container on board. It will be unable to chill the
plates. I want to verify that that's okay, and I'ii give that
the PI would perfer not to wait until the next flight.
CC Roger. Stand by, Joe.
SC Another question, Dick. What, if any, are
the constraints on starting the power transfer to housekeeping
60 Alfa?
CC SPT, Houston. We plan on bringing ED31
back posslbly in the food overcan. That's already been
discussed; so it's okay to go ahead and do that if you have
the time in your shopping list. And we don't have an immediate
answer on the questions about the HK60 Alfa, but we will at
the next AOS, which is Hawaii at 17:49. And we're about 20
seconds from LOS here.
SC Roger. And when do you want the H2 vent
terminated?
CC The time on - The time we predict from
looking at the data on the H - on the H2 vent is about 17:15.
SC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. Word from the EGIL - you
can proceed with HK60 anytime you get to it in the Flight Plan.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've now have loss
of signal through Vanguard and during that pass gave the
crew a go ahead to shut down the fuel cells at any point they
are ready to. And when they reach that point in the Flight
Plan, the estimate was that that w?_id occur between 18:20
and 18:30 Greenwich mean time, over _hen about the next hour
and a half. And as we said, the crew given a go ahead to
shut down the fuel cells on the CSM as soon as they reach

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SL-II MC983/2
Time: 11:40 CDT, 21:16:40 GMT
6/14/73

that point in the Flight Plan. When the fuel cells are shut
down, a planned operation in recognition of the fact that the
CSM fuel cells are running out of consumables, the liquid
hydrogen and liquid oxygen, which are converted into electricity
through an electrochemical process - and when those fuel cells
are shut down, ii00 watts of power will be transfered to the
CSM from the workshop power generated by the solar panels.
The workshop is now operating on about 4700 watts of power.
The ii00 watts needed by the CSM will bring this total to
5800, and we have a capability at the present time from the
solar panels of about 6800 watts. So we would appear to
have a good margin of power ever after beginning the transfer of
ii00 watts to the CSM.

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SL-II MC-984/I
Time: 11:52 CDT, 21:16:52 GMT
6/14/73

PAO - - transfer of 1100 watts to the CSM.


The next station to acquire will be Hawaii, and that will
be 56 minutes from now. The spacecraft currently in its
448th revolution. At 16 hours 53 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC985/I
Time: 12:46 CDT, 21:17:46 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, at 17 hours


47 minutes Greenwich mean time. About 3 minutes now from
acquiring signal through the Hawaiian Island tracking station.
And on this pass over Hawaii among the things that we're
expecting to discuss with the crew are the power transfer
operation, the shutdown of the fuel ceils. They were given
a go ahead to do that early if they reach that point in the
flight plan. And we expect there's a good possibility that
when we acquire them we'll find that the fuel cells are shut
down, and they're in the process of transfering the power
from the workshop to the CSM, about ii00 watts transferred
to the CSM. Also, we've given the crew a go ahead to perform
ED 31, one of the student experiments. This is the bacteria
and spores experiment, the objective of which is to determine
under controlled conditions the survival growth and mutations
of selected bacteria in a Skylab environment. And we have
acquisition of signal and data.
CC AOS at Hawaii for the next 6 minutes.
SC Roger.
PAO And our telemetry data -
CDR CDR.
CC Go ahead.
CDR Okay, we transferred power, the fuel cells
are shutdown the H2 vent is still open; the only question that
I have is, what would you like me to do with that cryo HO2 vent-
ing? It is rigged but the poly choke is not on.
CC Roger. Stand by and we'll get you word
on that.
CDR Thank you.
CC And Skylab, Houston, last pass I guess you
guys were looking at our message we sent up on the shopping
list and you mentioned ED31. Probably we would like to
make some changes in the protocol, particularly along with the
number of frames of photography and so forth due to some of the
film on board that may have been degraded due to the earlier
high temperatures. So we would be interested to know if you do
plan on doing ED31 and we'll be sure and get the right pad up
to you.
SPT Yeah, Houston, I'ii try to delete ED31.
There are a number of things I need. One is a photo pad with
your recommendation as to th_ film an_d _he camera to use. I
suspect I have a choice of cameras. And I also need a recommenda-
tion as to the approximate length of time between the different
photographic episodes. Thatls not in the checklist. And I need
your recommendation as to stowage for return.
SL-II MC985/2
Time: 12:46 CDT, 21:17:46 GMT
6/14/73

CC Okay, Joe, we will work up all those


things for you. And if you could give us an idea as to when
you think you might have time to go ahead and set it up,
it might help us - it might make us change our mind on a
couple of items, the detail items.
SPT I'd like to get to it tonight after supper.
CC Okay, we got the people working on it
right now. We'll try to have a pad up to you today.
CDR (garble) Dick, I can put 73 back in operation
here and we'll do that starting right now. Be advised that
I am doing M553-2, but it is a long, slow, and painful process
that will probably take me the rest of the day.
CC Roger, Pete, on 553, and flight just wanted
me to let you know that M092 and 171 comes - outranks it.
CDR Oh, no problem there. It's just that I -
you just can't run it off in rapid - fire succession. It's got
to cool after every one and (garble) off. But we're clicking
them off when we have time. You got us restricted to when we
can start 92 and I have some time right now, so I will put 73
back in commission PR2.
CC Roger, understand. Thank you much.
PLT Hello, Houston.
CC Go ahead.
PLT I just checked the S190 desiccants that
are baking out. They are a beautiful deep blue color and
apparently are not usable. Now all it said was to put them
in fecal bags and put them back in MI30. I think it would
be a very good idea to change out the existing desiccants that
are in the camera now. I propose to - -

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SL-II MC-986/I
Time: 12:52 CDT, 21:17:52 GMT
6/14/73

SC (garble) you have the existing desiccants


that are in the camera now. I propose to put six of these in
the camera now, bake out the six I put out, and change them
again just before we left. Think about that.
CC Okay. We'll do that very thing.
SC And I will be waiting, Just hanging
on the speaker waiting for your word.
CC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston. We believe on the building
block you're on, on H-alfa, we should be clicking off four
frames per minute, (garble) i. And for the CDR - As far as
command module configuration goes now, Pete, we'd llke to
leave the cryo 02 in the present configuration. We would like,
for both H2 tanks, HEATERS and FANS to OFF.
CDR They are in fact off, and the H2 vent is
open.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We're going to see you at Vanguard at 18:17. And in
answer to the PLT's question, we think that's a super good
_ idea. Change out the desiccants in the camera, take the ones
that are in there and go ahead and start baking them out, and
we'll probably schedule another changeout for you later.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. As you heard
during that pass over Hawaii, the crew has configured the
CSM so that the fuel cells are now deactivated and power is
flowing from the workshop to the CSM - about ii00 watts,
scheduled to keep the CSM in its present relatively class
and state of operation and readiness. A short while ago
the ATM officer, Apollo telescope mount expert, in the Control
Center reported that an active region that we've been watching
and another one that appears to be forming have given us a
fairly high probability of a flare. The ATM Officer said
that we may have as much as a 50, 50 chance of a flare
developing this afternoon in this particular active region of
the Sun. And we have the photograph of one of the TV pictures
taken this morning on the TV monitors now. If you look towards
the eastern limb of the Sun, you'll see area 37 and area 41.
Area 37 is an active regi_ l _hat has been producing some sub-
m '_ i l
flares, which has been fo_lowed close l_. But next to it is a
small bright spot designated active region 41. It's felt that
there is a fairly high probability that these two active regions
will begin to interact, increasing the possibilities of a flare.
If a flare does occur this afternoon, the crew aboard Skylab
should be in a pretty good posture to observe it. Now there
are several periods of ATM activities scheduled throughout the
afternoon. That will be an item of interest to keep an eye on.
SL-II MC-986/2
Time: 12:52 CDT, 21:17:52 GMT
6/14/73

We'll be regaining radio contact with Skylab in about 18 minutes


through the tracking ship, Vanguard. At 18 hours Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-987/I
Time: 13:16 CDT, 21:18:16 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 18 hours 17 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. And we're about a minute from re-
gaining contact with Skylab through the tracking ship, Vanguard,
off the coast of South America. Skylab now completing the
448th revolution; ready to start revolution 449.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard
for 9 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston. S073 prep 2 is complete,
and I'm just getting ready to extend it. We'll be on 92
171 on time.
CC Very good.
SC Just to keep FLIGHT happy.
CC He's grinning from ear to ear.
SC I find that hard to believe.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. Be advised we're
reeonfiguring the CBRM and wall heaters post-normal - post
EREP commands. And also I have some information on FINE REG
ADJUST that we'd appreciate y'all doing when you can, which
is necessary after we've done the command module power transfer.
SC Okay. I'ii get my FINE REG ADJUSTER out
of the (garble) and send him on his way.
CC Okay. We got 8 more minutes left in this
pass; so when he's ready to listen to what we want, I'ii be glad
to read it up.
SC He's on his way to Houston in a speeding
bullet.
SC You' re (garble).
CC Did I copy you're ready to listen?
SC Affirmative.
CC Okay, Paul. On REG BUS i ADJUST, we want
that counterclockwise, approximately 30 degrees, which ought
to result in about a 7 amp decrease in PCG total i current. And
on RE G BUS 2 ADJUST, we want that one also counterclockwise, about
i0 degrees, and that ought to result in about a 2 amp decrease
in PCG total 2 current.
SC Okay. I read about 48 to 60 on board
now. Is that about where you want it?
CC Stand by.
CC PLT, Houston. We're very happy with the
adjustment that you made, and we're satisfied with this con-
figuration.
SC Okay.;
CC SPT, Houston. On the ATM console our
spies on the ground are watching you doing your sunside
work and are a little bit confused as to exactly where you
are in the - in this particular pass. And if you get a chance
this time, you might let us know how things are going.
SC I'm not sure I don't want to keep them
in the dark. I can usually tell by looking at H-ALPHA. I'm
SL-II MC-987/2
Time: 13:16 CDT, 21:18:16 GMT
6/14/73

in the JOP 6. I'm in the second part of the JOP 6. The


X-ray TELE is finishing up (garble). We're not going to
finish everything. Obviously we're getting too close to
ESS, but that's where we are.
CC Okay, Joe. Thank you much.
CC SPT, Houston. The question that we just
asky you about where you are on ATM makes us think we possibly
might have a teleprinter problem in numbers. We thought you
ought to be doing a building block 2 vice a building block I.
Incidentally, we're about 30 seconds from LOS. We're getting
ready to have a long LOS period. We're going to see you at
Hawaii at 19:24. We've got about 30 seconds left.
SC Okay. And while you're LOS, you can
ponder the fact that the teleprinter is okay but think of
all the extra data you got.
CC Roger that, Joe.

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SL-II MC-988/I
Time: 13:27 CDT_ 21:18:27 GMT
6/14/73

PAO - - We've had loss of signal now through


Vanguard, about 57 minutes until we reaquire at the Hawaiian
Tracking Station. All systems look good as the vehicle went
out of range, including the electrical power situation where
the crew has shut down the CSM fuel cells and are transferring
power now from the workshop to the CSM. At 18 hours 28 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-989/I
Time: 14:23 CDT, 21:19:23 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control in Houston; 19 hours


23 minutes Greenwich mean time. We are some three-quarters of
a minute away from acquisition of the Skylab Space Station
through the Hawaii tracking site, as we are about to terminate
revolution 449. We'll stand by for half a minute or so and
wait until CAP COM calls up to the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii for
the next lO minutes, and we're going to be dumpin_ the data
tape recorder this pass.
SC Okay.
CDR Houston, CDR. How about working up a pad
time for program 0A on 73 that doesn't interfer with recorders
for me sometime.
CC Well, as a matter of fact, Pete, I have
here a mission note for you that has some information on $073,
mode 0A, and _ was - and I was just trying to figure out ex-
actly when to call you because I wasn't sure how busy you all
were and if you could listen.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. On the program start_ we want to use
the ATM DC clock. Start the program at 7 minutes prior to
sunset on any rev after M092. The REP should be 36 3 6, and
the rest of the setup is per the checklist.
CDR Seven minutes prior to sunset on the ATM
DC REP 36, REP the same. I got it.
CC Roger. I wasn't sure I copied how you read
that back. But that was 7 minutes prior to sunset. And I also
have another note here for you on the polychoke setting. If
you have time, we'd like to get it set to orifice number 2,
which corresponds to 13 pounds per day, and insure, of
course, that the vent valve and hose have been hooked up to
this side hatch prior to doing this. And if you do this, it
will allow us to look at the data this afternoon, prior to you
guys going to bed.
CDR Yeah, I'ii get it on right away. And then
that hose is rigged, the orifice is off, and I'ii put it on,
turn it off.
CC Okay. Good show. Incidentally_ we haven't
forgotten your guys' request on doing something about the ward-
room window. And we do have some people looking at two or
three ways we might could get that moisture out from between
the panes, and we'll be getting back to you on that.
CDR Okay. Thank you.
CC SPT, Houston. When you get a chance,
the startracker appears to us to be locked on something
moving. You might try reacquiring. Your startracker pad
on board is okay.
SL-II MC-989/2
Time: 14:23 CDT, 21:19:23 GMT
6/14/73

SPT Okay, Houston. What do you think?


Seems to be particles floating across this pad. We have to
examine it every now and then.
CC Roger, Joe. We believe that's what's
happening, and unfortunately it seems to be happening quite
often today, and I'm bugging you guys about it. But we think
it probably is little light particles or something.
SPT Okay.
SC Probably is added hydrogen.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about i minute
from LOS; we're going to see you at Vanguard at 19:56. And
incidentally, Pete, either here or at Vanguard, we'd appreciate
you letting us know how much of the S073 you did get done today,
because it will affect what we're going to schedule for you
tomorrow. And in the event you did take the option of going
ahead and photographing your prep for S073, and you haven't
done that yet - I understand you asked the question earlier,
but the information for that MI51 setup is on the SAL check-
list, page 8-1. And no response required now if you're busy.
CDR No, I got it all done. I did an MI51
f- with it per checklist. It's a two rod extension right now. I
will get program 0A run tonight. The polychoke is on and
running on orifice position 2.
CC Outstanding. Thank you much.
PAO Skylab Space Station has moved out of range
of the Hawaii tracking site. We will acquire again over Van-
guard in 21 minutes. At 19 hours 35 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-990/I
Time: 14:55 CDT, 21:19:55 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at 19 hours


55 minutes GMT. Some 45 seconds away from acquiring the space
station over the Vanguard Tracking Site. Standing by for
air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at _anguard
for 8 minutes.
SC (Garble).
CC SPT, Houston. Be advised since the way
the star tracker's been acting up today, we don't want to
let it keep updating Nz with bad data. So what we intend to
do is issue a command to the star tracker to inhibit it from
changing the value of Nz and ATMDC And - So if you'll give
us the DAS, we'll go ahead and issue that command.
SC You got it.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised of the result
of our troublshooting early today and you guys running through
that malfunction procedure. We think we've determined in the
airlock module secondary coolant loop that that thermal
control valve is still possibly hung up. However, this time
it appears to be hung up closer to the its normal tempera-
ture control point. But we're not real sure and we're continuing
to look at the data and we'll keep you informed.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. If you did extend the
SO73 awhile ago when we were talking, and we're a little
confused about whether you did or not, we probably ought to
get power on it so we don't have any freezing problems. We've
still got about 2 minutes left in this AOS here at Vanguard.
Following this one we're going to have a whole rev and see
you again at Vanguard, if there's anything you need to talk
about then (garble).
CC And SPT, Houston. The DAS is your's. We'_e
through with our command.
SPT Roger that. And the CDR says he will put
power in 73.
CC Okay. Thank you much.
PAO We've had loss of signal with the space
station, and will next acquire them again over the Vanguard
Tracking Site in i hour and 29 minutes. At 20 hours 4 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC991/I
Time: 16:31 CDT, 21:21:31 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston; 21 hours


32 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Skylab space station is
about a minute from acquisition of signal again through the
Vanguard tracking ship. We would like to announce that there
will be a Change of Shift Briefing at 5:30 p.m. central daylight
time in the News Center Briefing room with the off-going Flight
Director Phil Shaffer. We've had a long period during the
time when the space station has been out of contact with the
ground. Essentially we had the last contact at Vanguard. We
have circled the Earth once and are now about ready to regain
contact again. We'll stand by for the air to ground over the
Vanguard tracking site.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for i0 minutes.
CDR Hi there Bill. How are you tonight?
CC Oh, pretty good.
SC Say again.
CC You broke up on that one. Say again.
CDR S073 is off and running on time.
CC We copy.
CC Skylab. LOS i minute. AOS Ascension
21:47 and we will be dumping the tape recorder at that point.
CDR Roger, Houston.
PAO The Skylab space station has passed out of
range of the Vanguard tracking site. We will pick it up again
over Ascension in about 2-1/2 minutes, so we'll leave the line
up for another call from CAP COM Bill Thornton.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC992/I
Time: 16:44 CDT, 21:21:44 GMT
6/14/73

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 10 minutes.


SC Roger, Houston.
CC And, Skylab, be advised we're going to be
running the MDA heaters such that they're about 60 degrees,
and this may cool the OWS over the next few days. If you
find this objectionable, let us know.
SC Okay. We don't think so. If You can
notice a couple of degree change in here though. We're
quite sensitive to increase in temperatures in the workshop,
especially on the ergometer.
CC We copy that.
CC Skylab, LOS in i minute. Guam 22:31.
And we show the TACS not inhibited. We would like to have
the TACS inhibited.
SC (garble).
PAO We've had loss of signal from the - with
the Skylab Space Station at the Ascension tracking site.
We'll acquire again in 32 minutes at Guam, over the Guam
tracking site. A reminder that at 5:30 p.m. central daylight
time, there will be a change-of-shift briefing in the
News Center briefing room - News Center briefing room with
the off-going flight director, Phil Shaffer. At 21 hours
58 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL II MC-993/I
Time: 17:10 CDT, 21:22:10 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston at


22 hours 10 minutes Greenwich mean time, with an advisory that
the USAP C-bA Aircraft with six units of the Skylab mobile
laboratory and approximately 50 Johnson Space Center medical
engineering and recovery personnel departed Ellington Air
Force Base at 1 minute after 5:00 today central daylight
time for San Diego. There, the personnel will debark from the
aircraft and the SML, or Skylab Mobile Lab, will be placed
aboard the USS Ticonderoga, the recovery ship. And the
recovery ship then tomorrow will sail from San Diego for the
recovery area, which is located some 700 to 750 nautical miles
west by south of San Diego. Anticipated time of arrival of
the C-5A is approximately 3 hours from its takeoff time, which
should make it about 8:00 p.m. central daylight time. At
22 hours ii minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-994/I
Time: 17:45 CDT 21:22:45 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, Houston, at 22


hours 45 minutes Greenwich mean time. During the change
of shift briefing, the Skylab space station was in contact
with the ground through Guam. We recorded about 6 minutes
of conversation, and we will play that back to you at this
time.
CC Skylab Houston. AOS 9 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC The VTR is now empty. We would like you
to get XU_ data. You have 27 minutes available on the re-
corder.
SPT I don't think you want that much XUV.
CC Just voice sequences.
CC PLT,Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Paul, would you consider setting up a
S073 mode 4A prior to going to sleep tonight? It'll run
all night for i0 revs, it should take about 5 to i0 minutes
to set up. And although, mode 4A was run several days ago,
only able to get 6 of I0 filters. And if we get this we'll
essentially complete the 4A scan tonight.
PLT Okay, let's have it.
CC We'll send the pad up for that then.
PLT All righty. Good enough.
CC Skylab, have one or two news items if
it won't interrupt any thing.
PLT Good, go ahead.
CC In case you haven't heard the President's
speach last night, he is going to invoke a 60 day price
freeze, that's based on the first 8 days of June. Wages
and on the farm prices will be excluded from this. And they
are considering looking at some profits, a possible roll
back on that. At the end of the 60 day period, he is going
to come up with a phase 4 program, again attempting to con-
trol prices. The money dealers said that this was too little
and too late today. The price of a dollar slumped in European
money markets, while gold jumped. It closed Wednesday at
115.75. Also rose in price, in carats closing at $116 dollars
an ounce, also.
PLT I think we'll stay up here, Houston.
CC We copy that.
CC Kissenger briefed members of Congress
today, on the new Indo-Chlna cease fire agreement. But offered
a little prospect of any let up in the US bombing of Cambodia.
In other words, it's till a camp ground. It's still a
-_ SL-II MC-994/2
Time: 17:45 CDT 21:22:45 GMT
6/14/73

battle ground, Kissenger was quoted as saying. In Albuquerque,


41 people were left up in the air, not quite as high as you
are, but they were stranded in 2 cable cars on the west face
of the Sandia Mountains. They supposedly set a safe and
comfortable night before rescuers began. They are going
to try to lift the cars back onto the cables by crane or
helicopter, and carry back the passengers down this i0,000
foot mountain. The cars were stalled Wednesday night in
a extreme gust of wind caught them as they were being stopped.
In case you are going to south Padre Island, Texas which is
the newest town in Texas, they have just elected a new
sherriff who is a 27 year old, red headed mother of two. She
says I'm a mean red head and if they ever call me pig, they
had better be careful, I might take it the wrong way. And
in case there are any boat fans aboard, there is a new world
speed boat record for ocean racing. It was set by Dr. Benomi
of Rome in an off shore race. The boat is 36 feet, it has
(garble) 468 cubic inch 600 horse engines, record time of
83.2 as compared to the old record of 73.1.

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_--" SL-II MC-995/I
Time: 17:50 CDT 21:22:50 GMT
6/14/73

CC - an off shore parade. The boat's 36


feet. Has two key (garble) 468 cubic inch, six horse engines.
Record time of 83.2, as compared to the old record of 53.1.
And the Sun is out today and everybody is sweeping the rem-
nants of the water out of their houses in Friendswood. And
we'll probably have a dry spell for awhile. Come to think
of it, maybe you people are well off where you are. We
will be LOS in i minute. Vanguard AOS at 23:10. You should
have on board a one copy of the flight plan, evening questions
and the CDR details.
SPT Roger, Houston.
PAO That concludes the conversation that we
recorded over the Guam tracking site a few moments earlier.
We're about 18 minutes from acquisition at Vanguard. At
22 hours 52 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE

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_- SL-II MC-996/I
Time: 17:55 CDT 21:22:55 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control Houston at 22 hours


55 minutes Greenwich mean time with an announcement. "The
NASA Manned Space Flight Management Council met today at
the Johnson Space Center, Houston_ and discussed various
plans with respect to the sunshade on the Skylab space
station. No decision with respect to deploying another
sunshield was made. Additional discussions are scheduled
tomorrow." At 22 hours 56 minutes Greenwich mean timej this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
i SL-II MC-997/I
Time: 18:09 CDT 21:23:09 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 23 hours i0


minutes. We're about 3/4 of a minute away from acquisition
at the Vanguard tracking site on what will be the start of
the 452nd revolution. We will also be in contact with the
spacecraft through Ascension, the Caneries and Madrid. We
have an evening status report set and a medical conference
set during that time frame. So we'll stand by for Capcom
Bill Thornton's call to the crew.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS i0 minutes.
CDR Hi there_ Houston, I was about to say
Skylab. I don't know where I am. Ah, Houston, are you
ready for the evening status report?
CC We're standing by for the status report.
CDR Okay, the CDR had a particularly difficult
struggle today because this field day is my first field
day. There's a couple of items on there that are bad
enough to gag a maggot. However, under the direct strain
I managed to get it all down plus two butter cookies.
CC We copy that.
CDR And three optional salts. The SPT,
suffered the same hardship, managed to get his down today
also.
CC Copy.
CDR However, the PLT, did not eat his corn
for lunch, nor his coffee with sugar for a snack, and he had
plus 1.5 Delta H20 , and zero optional salt.
CC Is he all right today, not eating salt?
CDR He's not allowed any.
PLT I'm allowed a half a pack, yippee.
CDR Okay, for the photo status report.
16 millimeter. We start with an EREP pass. CIII, 00, C125;
Then we got an MI51 flash, EPC stow, Charlie India 06, 40,
Charlie India 03. We got an EREP ii, with a Baker Hotel
0255. We got a M553-I, Charlie India 05, 00, Charlie
India 01. We got a M553-2, Charlie India 06, 35. Charlie
India 03, We got a MI51-1. Charlie India i0, 00, Charlle
India 08. We got a S073 prep 2. 2 rod extensions, Gamma
151, Charlie India 09, 66. Mike Tango 03. 35 millimeter,
we have Charlie India 30, with a 36 frame count. Charlie
India 28, with a 28 frame count. 70 millimeter, Charlie
X-Ray 06, 103. ETC, we had 389 on one run, 410 on the
other. CAL sequence done twice, both ETC mags unloaded.
Film in (garble) Fox 27. The EREP set 2 Quebec was de-
pleted. And the drawer A configuration, AI is 0, 2 Charlie
India, 05, 00, Charlie India 01, A2 03, Charlie India 06.
35, Charlie India 03, A3 is 06, Charlie India i0, 00,
Charlle India 08, A4 is 05, Charlie India ii, 00, Charlie
,_ SL-II MC 997/2
Time: 18:09 CDT 21:23:09 GMT
6/14/73

India 25, and floating is 07, Charlie India 09, 66, Mike
Tango 03. Changes for the flight plan, you've got. We
added the S073. No changes in stowage or anything else
and SPT's got the answers to some of your questions. My
question on how long did it take to vent 20 PSIs. I'm
going say about 45 minutes because I quit timing it after
you guys gave me the time --

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SL-II MC-998/I
Time: 18:14 CDT 21:23:14 GMT
6/14/73

CDR - my question on how long it took to


vent 20 psi. I'm going to say about 45 minutes, because
I quit timing it after you guys gave me the time to shut
it off, but I did glance at it. It looked to me like about
45 minutes for that last 20 psi.
CC We copy, Pete.
CC Someone asked if you ever heard of
Speedy Rigs?
CDR Speedy Rigs, no. Who's he?
CC I'ii tell you one day.
CDR He's the faster talker who asked my wife
about telling Goldilocks and the Three Bears in exactly 60 sec-
onds.
CC We copy, Pete.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Okay, evening questions, number i. They
were painted green and they are in the 2 holes provided for
them on the experiment. Shame on you.
CC We copy.
SPT Okay, the M092 sail settings were all
_- changed by us on either the first or second run, we really
don't remember, and subsequently about 2 runs after that for each
of us. The card readings being used are CDR 6, SPT 9, PLT 8.
Correction on that the CDR said he did not go to 6, and he
stayed at 7 after his initial change. Our (garble)
are all out of llne with the restraint system, so we're okay.
We're not cheating, in other words. But, you do tend to
ride lower in that thing in zero g.
CC Copy.
SPT Okay, as far as the (garble), it's working
fine. There are no technical problems with it. Unfortunately,
there hasn't been any significant activities for it to catch.
So I can't tell how useful the tool is going to be.
CC We copy.
SPT And on M172. I haven't thought up
any specifies on changes. I think for the manned restraint
system, it's going to hack it. I think it's all right. I'd
rather have a more positive lock device on the shoulder
straps, but it's too late for that. We're making do fine
with what we've got. As far as the CAL, Bill, the tray lids
rattle and if you're happy with gray tape, okay. And some
new drastic needs need to be come up with if you want to
use M509 batteries and stuff like that because there really
is no hope for them in the present scheme. Over.
CC Copy, Joe. And did I copy that the red,

-,,,/'-_, that the lead rattle on t_e trays, and the trays themselves
SL-II MC-998/2
Time: 18:14 CDT 21:23:14 GMT
6/14/73

are they firmly attached to the adaptor?


SPT They appear to be. The numbers
looks pretty good since I starting gray taping the llds
onto the trays. That's what it was. You could hear them
go click clack, click clack, every time the chair moved.
CC Okay. Would it be practical to tape
the 509 batteries in and not attempt to hold them with the
straps.
SPT I don't think so, because they're too
heavy. The lids aren't so heavy. The other thing, even
on the empty chair care, you have got to be careful how
you secure the, the shoulder straps, because if they're
floating around it makes a difference, you can see it in
the data. I've got a question for you, Houston. I asked
about ED31 this afternoon, and if I'm to do it, and start
it this evening, I need a photo pad.
CC Stand by half.
SPT Have you got one for me?
CC Stand by just a second, Joe.
SPT Okay.
CC Joe, while we're waiting for that, what
about C clamps or something else like that on those 509
batteries?
SPT It's possible, Bill. I haven't worked with
them. I think that's something you can determine as a trainer.
CC Okay.
CC That ED31 pad should be up at Ascension.
SPT Went fast, it's getting late?
CC We copy.
CC Joe, one last question on that 172 CAL.
That 2-1/2 hours you think is the realistic figure for, if
you maintain the procedure that we've been using?
SPT Now that was with a real jury rig for the
batteries and so on_ which I don't think was very good any way. You
can cut it now to an hour and a half, if you've got some quick
and easy ways of securing them on because taping the lense
doesn't take very long.
CC Copy.
CC We're going LOS here in approximately
i minute. There will be AOS at Ascension at 23:27. And
the med conference at 23:32. Madrid will be out of action
on this pass at 23:36.
SPT Roger that, Houston. And I assume that
if we do get the ED31 pad it will be okay to use the VTR,
to televise that.
CC That's affirmative.
PAO The space station has moved out of range
of Vanguard tracking ship. And we will acquire it again
in about 5 and 1/2 minutes.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-999/I
Time: 18:22 CDT 21:23:22 GMT
6/14/73

PAO - has moved out of the range of the


Vanguard tracking ship, and we will acquire it again in
about 5-1/2 minutes. We will keep the line up for the Ascen-
sion pass, and for the pass over the Canary Island.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 4 minutes.
CC SPT, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC We were unable to get the ED31 message
up because of a check point. However, there are only two
very simple essential changes, if you can copy.
SPT Come ahead.
CC The first is simply to save the overcam
for return and stowage. And the second one is, that no photos
are needed for the preparation. It other wise is per check-
llst. We will be sending this pad up later, but you can
proceed at this time.
SPT Okay, I will. And I will count on you
tonight, some time to send up appropriate photo pads for
examination and time schedules for that.
CC That's is affirmative. We're going
_/- to medical conference here at approximately 15 seconds.
SPT Okay.

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SL-LL MC-IO00/I
Time: 18:35 CDT 21:23:35 GMT
6/14/73

CC And Skylab, we'll be LOS here in about


30 seconds. We'll have you over Guam at 00:08.
PLT Hey, Bill, I didn't hear the teleprinter
on that pass. Did you get that SO73 pad up here?
CC It should be up, Paul.
PLT Okay.
PAO The Skylab space station is still within
range of the Madrid tracking site, however the Madrid
station at this time on this pass is down, and we will not
get air to ground through Madrid. So our next contact
with Skylab will be at approximately 26 minutes over
Guam, again. At 23 hours 42 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
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SL-II MC-1001/I
Time: 19:07 CDT 22:00:07 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, at 7 minutes


Greenwich mean time. In 7 minutes into the new day, day
166. We're about a minute and a half away from acquisition
of the Skylab space station at Guam site. During the last
pass over, or during the pass over Canary, the last one over
Canaries, the crew held the daily medical conference with
the surgeon. And I have his report. It is a very short
one, and I'ii quote, "The crew continues to be in excellent
spirits and good health. They have no specific complaints,
and there are no apparent problems developing." That's the
end of the quote. We're about 40 seconds away from a call
up by Capcom. So, we'll stand by. At the Guam station we
should be in contact for about 7 minutes. Standing by for
a call up by Capcom Bill Thornton.
CC Skylab, AOS Guam, 6 minutes.
SPT Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab LOS in i minute. Honeysuckle
at 00:22.
SPT Roger. Did you get the CD okay.
CC That's affirmative.
SPT All righty.
CDR Do we just leave it at zero all by
ourselves?
CC Don't let them leave you there.
CDR Lots of luck.
PAO We've had loss of signal with the space
station from the Guam tracking site, but will pick up again
at the Honeysuckle site in about 4-1/2 minutes. At that
time we'll have about, roughly 3 minutes of time where we
will be in communication. We'll leave the llne up, and
wait for the Capcom call up through the Honeysuckle site.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1002/I
Time: 19:18 CDT 22:00:18 GMT
6/14/73

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 3 minutes.


CDR Roger.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Speak, sweet lips.
CC I've been called a lot of things. Did
you finish M553, Wheel 2, today?
CDR This is a very, very slow process. Let
me tell you where I am, and what the problems are. There's
something in there that really outgases, Bill, and I can
make about one bloody ball, and then I got shut the
whole operation down for about 2 hours. So I'll tell you where
I am on wheel 2. I've made the three balls that are on
the hard sting. But unfortunately, I think the electron
beam gun is pooping out. I can't even get anything to
melt without showing 80 millivolts and what's happening is that
this material is fairly hard, I gather, from the stuff that we
melted yesterday, and it does essentially the same thing. It melts
and it's Just about ready to go into a sere and I got it
pointed exactly rlght_ I'm conveneed, right on the top third
and it's just about to go the sphere when this thing
retracts and shuts the gun off. 1 wind up with a part of
a half melted cylinder and a half a sphere down at the base,
and - But I'm working my way through it, slowly.
CC Okay. There was another question on it.
Did the 5 KVA high voltage go off nomonaly or did you
have to pull main battery circuit breaker this time?
CDR Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't
and then it is the function of the vacuum in there, I'm sure.
And what I've done now, is I just I do one or two and I
see the vacuum drawing up and once it gets to .i or above
why, there's no sense messing with it. And if I shut it
off at that point and then leave it alone it outgases. It
will go up even higher and it outgasses for awhile and goes on
vacuum again. That's why I say it's about a 2 hour cycle.
So it's in there and I'ii go make a ball every time I pass
by and check the vacuum and see how it's doing, and if I
can make one, I make one, and if I can't, why, you know, I go
do something else. So it's still in there, and I've got
200 things and the three arc ones are made, and that's
where I am.
CC Okay, Pete. Thank you very much, and
we'll be going LOS here momentarily and have you again
at Vanguard at 00:50. ,
CDR Okay.
PAO With the loss of signal from the Honey-
suckle station we believe that this will be our last
communication with the Skylab crew for this mission day.
SL-II MC-I002/2
Time: 19:18 CDT 22:00:18 GMT
6/14/73

That is mission day 21. Although in the next 21 of so


minutes there is a skip across the Vanguard station. A
very brief period of time, when we could be in communication
with Skylab° According to the flight plan, however they
are scheduled for their presleep activities. The flight
controllers here have been polled by Plight Director Don
Puddy and all of them indicated that the systems were in
the proper configuration for a period of rest as far as
the crew is concerned, so it's doubtful whether we will
have any more air to ground. At 29 minutes into the new
day. At the end of mission day 21. This is Skylah Control.

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SL-II MC-1003/I
Time: 19:48 CDT 22:00:48 GMT
6/14/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 49 minutes


Greenwich mean time. We're approaching the Vanguard tracking
station. We may have communication with the crew. We'll
keep the line up for any air to ground that should transpire.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for approximately
3 minutes.
PLT Roger. S073 is running.
CC Copy.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT You can tell Mr. Stanley that his exper-
iment came through in good shape, and is off and running
also.
CC l'm sure he'll appreciate. We'll pass
it on.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR We've been having a very serious discus-
sion. We want to make sure, make very sure that Ticonderoga
has a large enough supply of butter cookies onboard handle
US.

CC Hey, Pete, I tried to eat them out


of those things and never could. So, I'm very sure they'll
have enough for you.
CDR Thank you.
CC Pete, I didn't realize that you were
a classics scholar also. I take it that was Chaucer you
were quoting to me the last time.
CDR I don't really know.
CC Tomorrow we are sending you up a new
set of detail pads. And S07323 is what we'll be running.
We're about to go LOS here, and so good night to you all.
CDR Good night.
PAO We have had loss of signal at the Van-
guard tracking ship. Capcom passed the crew a good night.
And so we can say with some confidence at this time that
this really is the end of mission day 21. At 55 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1004/I
Time: 03:27 CDT 22:08:27 GMT
6/15/73

PAO Good morning, this is Skylab Control,


8 hours 28 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're less than
a minute away from acquisition at the Honeysuckle station.
Getting the crew up early this morning is part of the change
in their circadium rhythum looking toward splash day, a week
from today. We'll stand by for the callup.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Honeysuckle.
Good morning.
PLT Morning, Hank.
CC We've got you for about 9 more minutes
this morning, then we're going to be dumping your recorder
here first thing.
CC Skylab, Houston. For info, the friendly
PI on the BMD has got a little request for you. He wants
to get some repeatability data. And he would like for you
to when you finish your first run, run on the BMD to get
out of it and then climb right back in and do another run
and voice record this additional data. He's trying to
see if the results are repeatable.
CDR Hey, Hank, we'll have to catch it tomorrow
morning. We've already weighed and we're all off to another
_-- things.
CC That's just fine. And while I got you,
Pete, I've got a couple of questions on the EB gun if you
can answer.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, we'd like to know if the shut down
was nominal or did you have to pull the main Bat circuit
breaker after your last shot on the 553?
CDR I had to pull the breaker.
CC Okay, I guess then in that case, what
we would like for yon to do is, at your convenience, continue
553 until you can get a nominal shut down if possible. And
when you do, we want to terminate M553. And the first time
you get a nominal shutdown we want to terminate it. And
then we want to put - well M552 is a data choping list
item if you want do that sometime. In reguard to the sample
wheel though, we would like for you not to cut any of those
samples off of the wheel. We're trying to look into the
stowage situation. There's a possibility that we may want
bring that wheel back, and look at those samples, you know
look at why they did_'tlco_e of _th_re.
CDR Well, I can tell you, they will fall
off based on my experience with the other wheel. The thing
is retracted but they are still flat on the bottom, and
they just sort of had to have a little stitched into the
ceramic. I get nominal shut downs, it just happened that
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Time: 03:27 CDT 22:08:27 GMT
6/15/73

the last one wasn't a nominal one. One other factor is


that the whole thing turns blue in there when things are
going bad. If that has any significance, it lights up blue.
CC I've seen that in the test runs and
my estimation of what's happening there is you're getting
enough out gassing there that you're sort of getting some
sort of a discharge inside the chamber.
CDR Yeah, I agree with that. And I have
not started any runs over 41, but some (garble) there. And
I've seen it get as high as .5 during a run.
CC Roger that. That compares with what
the testing that I did out at the Cape. I'm more surprised that
your vacuum doesn't do a better job.
CDR Well, that's what's got me mystified.
But you take a 4 inch hole out there and do it, but it sure
as heek does it.
CDR Say, Hank, they don't have to look too
far for stowage. We're short 2 EREP tapes, and I could
go 89 pretty easily.
CC Roger, copy.
CDR l've had it sitting on vent all night.
Now how do I get a (garble) or two good problems. Do you want
me to shut that (garble) nominal. I ought to get one out
of that this morning.
CC Okay, that would be good for that.
When you do get a nominal shutdown, that's when we want you
to quit.
CDR Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston. All your pads are
up there now. And we're going to need a paper change here.
We're down to the last few feet.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We'd like to verify
this wardroom windown got fogged up. The fogging is between
the panes, isn't it?
PLT It's on the inside of the outer pane.
CC Roger. The next time one of you is
in the wardroom, if you're not there we'd like for you to
open the vent valve, panel 704.
PLT (garble)
CC Sk_lab, Ho_tQn, we're about 1 minute
to LOS. Hawaii will _e coming U_ '_t 49. And I've only got
one more item for you, all we're going to get up there is
a few flight plan changes.
SPT (garble).

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SL-II MC-1005/I
Time: 03:38 CDT 22:08:38 GMT
6/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, 8 hours 39


minutes, Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
at Honeysuckle and we're i0 minutes away from acquisition
at the Hawaii tracking station. Skylab on revolution
number 457. During this pass a discussion concerning the
M553 experiment, the sphere forming experiment in which the crew
has had a problem getting the electron beam gun to shut down
properly. They've had to pull the circuit breaker to
shut down the electron beam gun. Pete Conrad was instructed
to try another run on this experiment and if he gets a
nominal shutdown, that will be the end of that experiment
for this Skylab 2 mission. The flight plan does not pro-
gram that experiment today_ however, theytve asked him to
do that, and following the completion of M553, they've asked
him if he gets some time to go to M552, the exothermic
heating task. The purpose of this experiment is to develop
a stainless steel tube Joining technique and to study and
evaluate the flow and capillary action of molten brazing
material. That's M552. The crew is also advised to reload
the paper on the teleprinter. The current supply is about
to run ont. Today's flight plan - the Skylab Commander
Pete Conrad, and the Pilot Paul Weitz will be bringing up
some of the Command and Service Module systems. Primarily
the guidance and control system for a minus 7 day checkout,
prior to reentry. State vector on the CSM will be updated,
platform will be aligned, some of the other systems will be
checked out. The Commander will devote about 4 hours to
this task this morning. The Pilot about an hour. Conrad
will also be the subject for M092 and the MI71 experiments
today. That's the lower body negative pressure and the
metabolic activity experiment using the bicycle ergometer.
Science Pilot Joe Kerwin will be the observer in that
experiment. There's 4 hours and 44 minutes of Apollo
telescope mount work scheduled for today, split between
Kerwin and Weitz, as the operators. Joe Kerwin is scheduled
to be the subject for an MI31 run today. The human vestibular
function. Paul Weitz will be the observer. Unattended
experiments that are scheduled for today, many of which
are continuing from the start of this mission are $228,
the transuranic cosmic rays, SO9 nuclear emulsion, ED76
neutron analysis, D024 thermal control coatings, S073
the the gegenscheln/zodla_al light experiment will also be
performed. Paul Weitz will set up that activity, and then
it will run unattended after setup. The crew is on a new
schedule today to start changing their schedule looking
toward an early splashdown next Friday. Bedtime today is
6:00 p. m. eastern daylight - central daylight, I'm sorry.
At 8 hours 44 minutes Greenwich mean time. This is Skylab
control.

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SL-II MC-1006/I
Time: 03:47 CDT 22:08:47 GMT
6/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, 8 hours 48


minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for ac-
quisition at Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii for 9
minutes.
PLT Hello, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. I got those flight
plans handy. Just give me a buzz whenever you're ready.
CDR Roger. Houston. In answer to message
2229 Alpha, the answer to the question is 62.384 percent.
CC That's pretty accurate.
CDR Well, that was arrived at by accepted
engineering standards.
SPT Hello, Houston, you there.
CC Roger, we got some blockings on the
Command Module, we back with you now.
SPT Okay, go ahead with the flight plan
changes, Henry.
CC Okay. For the CDR at 1450 on the flight
plan. We'd like to change the S070 - you guys did such a
good job yesterday on S073 we going to redo it
here. Change the 2 Alpha to a 1 Delta. And for the PLT
at 1910, you've already got an S073, 2 charter scheduled and
you pads on board. But we would like to add a 2100 for the
PLT on S073, 4 Alpha instead of 5 Alpha. Delete the 5 Alpha
and make it a 4 Alpha. And then you'd have to make the
appropriate changes in his detail pads. The CDR details at
1450, The SO73, I Delta and the pads on board. And the PLT
at 2100 details to 4 Alpha and the pads on board.
SPT Roger.
CC And Sir, you can he thinking about it.
There is some consideration here by management of adding
another EREP pass on day 169. We're a long ways from a
decision yet, but just wanted to let you know in case you
were starting to close out some of the EREP.
SPT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. About 30 seconds from
LOS. Goldstone will be coming up at 01.
PAO This is Skylab Control, 8 hours 59 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal at Hawaii.
Goldstone will pick up in abouK 2,_inutea_ Spacecraft
,#. - •
communicator at this time is astronaut Henry Hartsfleld.
Flight Director is Neil Hutchinson. Over Hawaii the crew
was advised of a possible Earth Resources pass on day 169,
that's day of the year 169, today is day 166. They were
asvised that no decision has been made and they will be
advised prior to day 169.

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Time: 04:00 CDT 22:09:00 GMT
6/15/73

PAO And they will be advised prior


to day 169. We'll continue to stand by for acquisition
at Goldstone. One other unattended experiment that is
still being conducted is ED31, the bacteria and spores experi-
ment.
PAO This is Skylab Control 9 hours 8 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of slgnal at Goldstone.
We will have about a 3-1/2 minute break before the Bermuda
station picks up. Skylab now at the northern most point
on its ground track, 50 degrees north latitude, up north
of the Great Lakes. We'll continue to stand by and keep
the line up for acquisition at Bermuda.

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SL-II MC-1008/I
Time: 04:10 CDT 22:09:10 GMT
6/15/73

CC Skylab Houston, through Bermuda 7-1/2


minutes.
CC Skylab Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. We'll be coming up on Canaries at 21.

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SL-II MC-1009/I
Time: 04:19 CDT 22:09:19 GMT
6/15/73

CC Skylab, Houston. Through Canaries and


Ascension for 15-1/2 minutes.
SPT Fifteen and a half, wow.
CC That's a biggie, and for information
since we're not doing maneuvers today_ we're gonna leave
your GYROs in the configuration we put them in last night,
and your panel will be okay, except that the Y configuration
is 1/2.
CDR Roger.
CC And Skylab, Houston. I have your SAP
update.
SC (garble)
CC Roger, I have the solar activity update.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay. Active region 27 is still popping.
We got a couple of subnormal flares out of that last night.
2219 and 0136. We got a subnormal target too in X-rays at
0031 in active region 37. Active region 41 fired a sub-
normal flare about 04:25 this morning and we've got a new
active region 43 that's popped up at 180.3 and there's a
little flare out of that, but we already expect much activity
in that area.
SPT Okay, we copy. We'd like some supernormal
flares, please.
CC So would we.
CDR The PLT has made a momentus decision,
Houston. He's about to let the CDR trim his hair.
CC Careful.
SPT Say, Hank, I assume that before 2100
you guys are gonna send me a S073 pad for that 4 Alpha
program. Is that right?
CC It should be up there now. We indicate
that all pads are up now. It would have been the last one
up.
SPT Was that after 0810 that was sent up.
CC That's affirmative. It went up there
at 08:22 or roughly, or 08:25.
SPT Oh, okay.
CC Make that about 08:30. It was over
Honeysuckle, I think. We sent it up.

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SL-II MC-1010/1
Time: 04:27 CDT 22:09:27 GMT
6/15/73

SPT Go ahead, Houston.


CC Roger, we've got about 3 more minutes.
CDR We were Just passing over Epishawn. I've
got some friends down there, made that in 1969 after 12.
CC Skylab - -

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SL-II MC-IOII/I
Time: 04:36 CDT 22:09:36 GMT
6/15/73

CC Skylab Houston, 1 minute to LOS. Wetll


be coming up on Canarvon at 05.
CDR Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control, 9 hours 38 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal at Ascen-
sion. Skylab now on revolution number 458. The next station
to acquire will be Honeysuckle in about 25-I/2 minutes.
Conversation between the spacecraft and the ground has been
rather sparse during this series of passes over the United
States, Canaries, and Ascension. The crew was having break-
fast and involved in other post sleep activities. Skylab
Commander Pete Conrad, indicated he was about to give a
hair cut to Pilot Pete Weltz. To the best of our knowlege,
this would be the first haircut in space. We're positive
it would be the first haircut in space at approximately
4:30 a.m. central daylight time. We'll come back up just
prior to acquisition at Honeysuckle. At 9 hours 39 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC-1012/I
Time: 04:59 CDT 22:09:59 GMT
6/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 59


minutes Greenwich mean time. Here in the Control Center
Flight Director Chuck Lewis and his bronze team are taking
over from Flight Director Nell Hutchinson. The spacecraft
communicator will be astronaut Dick Truly. Nell Hutchinson
will have a change of shift news briefing in the Johnson
Space Center briefing room, Building i, at 5:15 a.m. central
daylight time. Fifteen minutes from this time. Change of
shift briefing 5:15 a. m. central daylight time. We're
4-1/2 minutes away from acquisition at Honeysuckle. We'll
come back up Just prior to acquisition. Skylab Control at
i0 hours Greenwich mean time.

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SL-II MC-1013/I
Time: 05:02 CDT 22:10:02 GMT
6/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control 10 hours 3 minutes


Greenwich mean time. We're about to acquire Skylab at the
Honeysuckle, Australia station. We'll stand by for that
now.
CC Skylab Houston, we're AOS at Canarvon
for the next 9 minutes.
CDR Roger Houston. CMC dump check coming up.
CC Okay.
CDR Hey Houston, are you ready for the
E-memory memory dump?
CC Stand by Pete.
PLT Well hi there Richard. You just thought
you were going to have the daylight shift, huh.
CC They keep fooling me Paul.
PLT I know what you mean.
CC And CDR Houston. Affirmative, we're
standing by for E-memory dump now.
CDR Coming at you.
CC Roger.

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SL-II MC-1014/I
Time: 05:10 CDT 22:10:10 GMT
6/15/73

CDR And Houston, l'm ready for your P27


anytime you're ready to ship it.
CC Roger, CDR. We'll uplink that to you
at Hawaii.
CDR You say that Hawaii.
CC Rog, and you're in the middle of the
Honeysuckle pass now. The Hawaii pass is going to start
at 10:27.
CDR All right. I have the time. How about
the logic sequencer check? In Hawaii also?
CC Let's see Pete. Let me check that one.
CDR Some strange vehicle I'm in. I haven't
been in here long enough from (garble) to remember what it's
all about.
CC Well, the 4 foot trench is watching you
today. And the logic sequence check is scheduled for a
Bermuda pass, and that's coming up at 10:48.
CDR Okay. P27 at Hawaii and logic sequence
check at BDA. We'll be standing by.
CC Okay.
CDR (garble) Is this real world times for
the entry day also. Or, pretty close to the stations.
CC Let me think about that one and get
back to you Pete, I'm not sure.
CDR Or, do we see that tomorrow, tomorrow I
guess.
CC CDR, Houston. Negative. The times
today are not too close to the entry. The actual entry
day times - we have another message that's in preparation
that will describe the pass times for both the entry SIM
tomorrow and also the entry on entry day, and they'll be
coming up to you when we get them ready.
CDR Okay. Sometime before reentry, please.
CDR We want the VHF cheek. You want that
at Bermuda also, or another one down the road.
CC That's in Bermuda also, Pete. And we're
25 seconds from LOS here at Honeysuckle. We're gonna see
you at Hawaii at 10:27 and we also are gonna dump the data
tape recorder at Hawaii.
CDR (garble) Hawaii.
CC Roger.
PAO This is_kyl_ _Con_rol. Ten hours 15
minutes, Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
at Honeysuckle. Hawaii we'll acquire in about 12 minutes.
Pete Conrad has started the entry minus 7 day checks in the
Command Module. Flight Director Phil Shaffer will handle
the 4 hour checkout of the Command Module while Flight
Director Chuck Lewis stays with the Skylab workshop. The
SL-II MC-I014/2
Time: 05:10 CDT 22:10:10 GMT
6/15/73

backup Skylab Commander Rusty Schweickart has joined Capcom


Dick Truly. Flight Director Neal Hutchinson is on his way
to the News Center for the change of shift bTiefing. That
briefing will begin momentarily. We'll take this line down
now. At i0 hours 16 minutes. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-1015/I
Time: 05:35 CDT, 22:10:35 GMT
6/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. 10 hours 36 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. We're about 2-1/2 minutes away
from acquisition at Goldstone. There was some conversation
over the Hawaii station, mainly concerned with the entry
minus 7-Day cheeks. We have taped that conversation, we'll
play that back at the first opportunity, which will probably
be after LOS at Ascension. We'll continue to stand by for
acquisition at Goldstone and carry the stateside pass live.
Skylab will, - ground track will enter the continental United
States north of Seattle, go north of the Great Lakesj and
exit around Boston or south of Boston. Fairly high latitude
pass across the United States. We'll stand by for acquisition.

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SL-II MC-1016/I
Time: 05:38 CDT, 22:10:38 GMT
6/15/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Goldstone


for 5 minutes. And we'll get right back to you when _Te go
data so we can watch logic sequence check. As a matter
of fact, I'm told that we're ready to - for it any time.
SC It's coming at you, and I'ii give you
a holler when I'm at your point.
CC Okay.
SC Okay, I'm ready to give you the seq
logic.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
SC Logic plus 2 is AUTO
CC CDR, Houston. The logic sequence check
is good. You're GO for POWER ALARM. Be advised we're going
to do the VHF check. We've got the STATE IN configured at
the Mila pass, which is coming up in just a few minutes, and
when we get there, we'll go over there and do VHF check.
CDR Okay. I'ii go ahead and dearm the logic.
CC Roger.
CDR Step 8 is complete, and LOGIC SEQUENCE
CHECK and all breakers are back open again. And I'm standing
by for your VHF,
CC Roger that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds
from LOS at Goldstone. We're going to have Bermuda on S-band
AOS prior to Mila; so I'ii contact you in this comm configur-
ation on S-band at Bermuda. Then when we get Mila acquisition,
we'll go over and do the VHF.
SC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Bermuda
and Mila for i0 minutes. We do not have Mile acquisition
yet, and I' ii let you know when we' re ready for VHF.
SPT Houston, SPT. Are we still in the horn
of the anomaly? We've- -
CC Stand by i.
SPT Roger. What's happening is that we have
a very high PMEC comm. And the times given on the pad - well,
it's dropping now. The times given on the pad indicated we
were out of the horn, and we see nothing particularly out-
standing on our ATM displays, and that's puts us in a heck
of a dilemma.
CC Stand by just i, Jo_. I'ii get back to
yOU.

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SL-II MC-1017/I
Time: 05:49 CDT, 22:10:49 GMT
6/15/73

CC SPT, Houston. We believe you are still


in the Horn, and we're going to go back and cheek the times
that we gave you for your exit - entry and exit times for
the anomaly.
SPT Okay. Those times are important,
Houston, because 99 percent of the high PMEC we feed you is
(garble) the belt. And it's very hard to discriminate from
that other 1 percent.
CC I understand.
CC CDR, Houston. We're configured for VHF,
and you can go ahead and configure per page 1-8 and give us
a call. I'm standing by.
CDR Okay.
CDR Skylab's back up, S-band.
CC Me too, Skylab; loud and clear. We've
still got 7-1/2 minutes left in this pass.
CDR Roger. Let's strike step Ii.
PAO This is Skylab Control at ll hours Green-
which mean time. We're had LOS at Bermuda. Skylab will be
acquired by the Ascension Station in about 5 minutes. We'll
come back up just prior to acquisition at Ascension. At ii hours
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-IOIS/1
Time: 06:04 CDT, 22:11:04 GMT
6/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 4 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Skylab has started its 459th revolution
and the tracking station at Ascension is about to acquire.
We'll stand by for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Ascension for
ii minutes.
SC Roger, Crip.
CDR Still there, Houston?
CC Affirmative, CDR. Go ahead.
CDR I'm looking at the DSKY here, the P52 day-
light style light.
CC Roger.
SC All balls for the torquing angle.
SC That came from a, the 51 which is star
tracker and sun sensor.
CC Roger. Thank you.
CC CDR, Houston. When you get a chance, we'd
kind of interested to know how the FDAI air needles check went
on 1-9?
CDR Super.
CC Okay.
CDR Getting into the G&C aline now.
CC Roger.
PLT Hello, Houston, Skylab. Got a few words
for the ATM people, if they're listening.
CC Roger. They're listening.
PLT Okay. Observing just right after the daylight
pass, this filament on the north side of active region 37 has
undergone considerable changes. On the west end of it, where
it was (garble) from this morning, it was fairly flared
out and kind of fan shaped, it narrowed down, became more dis-
tinct and it has moved into the east-west running filament channel,
which ordinarily Joined up with us this morning, to the north
of us, and just in the last 30 minutes, as I say, it's changed
shape, it appears that much, which is kind of surprising to me.
CC Roger, Paul. Thank you much. And they
got the word.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minutes till LOS
Carnarvon at 11:39.
PAO This is Skylab Control; at ii hours 17 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. We've has loss of signal at Ascension.
Pete Conrad still busy with the:_Eq_ry Min_s 7-Day - -

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SL-II MC-1019/I
Time: 06:17 CDT, 22:11:17 GMT
6/15/73

PAO At Ascension. Pete Conrad still busy with


the Entry Minus 7-Day checkout of systems on the command and
service modules, with particular attentions to the guidance
and control system, ATM operation at the moment being handled
by Paul Weitz. Joe Kerwin scheduled to take over operation
of the Apollo Telescope Mount shortly. We have approximately
6 minutes of tape acquired over the Hawaii tracking station during
the change-of-shift news conference. We'll play that tape
for you now.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Hawaii for
the next 9 minutes. We'd like ACCEPT, and we're ready to uplink P27.
SC You got it.
CC And also, Pete, any time during this pass,
I've got a P30 Tig time and a couple of other times for you.
And the first one's on page 1-9 of the Entry Checklist.
SC Go ahead.
CC Okay. On 1-9, there at step 12, you want
to complete the Pbl prior to 11:37, and the next one's on i-ii.
SC Go ahead.

CC Okay. On - Roger. On the pen and ink note,


Pete, in step 18, that time is 13:10. i, 3_ 1 , 0. And also
on that page, down there below step 19, the - wait just a second.
Yeah, the P30 Tig time is 12 plus 29 plus 00.
SC i, 2, 2, 9, 0, 0. I got it.
CC Roger. CDR, Houston. On that entry on
i-Ii, there is a correction to that pen and ink. The time
that I gave you of 13 plus i0, we want to complete the P50
before that time of 13 plus i0.
S C Ok ay.
CC CDR, Houston. One more suggestion we might
make on your timeline today. The P52 option 3 on page 117 - If
you'd go ahead and attempt it right after the P50 while you're
still in daylight, that'll be closer to your - the alinement
problem on entry day. If you don't get a good alinement in day-
light or unable to, we'll just go ahead and wait and do it after
sunset. And that'll be at - -

SC Okay. P52 option 2, item number 39, and do


that right after the P50 which has to be done before 13:10.
Ri ght ?
CC That's right. So we figure you'll be
doing the P52 sometime around 13_00 or so. And that is, in
that that's about - oh, 12, 13 minutes prior to sunset.
SC Okay. We'll pick a pair once, or are you
going to have to give us a couple of stars for the daylight?
CC We do have - well, pick a pair, I'm told,
should work, although we do have some stars in our hip pocket
SL-II MC-I019/2
Time: 06:17 CDT, 22:11:17 GMT
6/15/73

that we're going to have available for you.


SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. The uplink's complete; you
can go back to block. Thank you much.
SC Okay. Ready for the logic sequences?
CC Negative, we're going to be ready for them
at the Bermuda pass - at the (garble). Incidentally, we're
about a - -
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about a minute and
20 seconds from LOS. We're going to see you at Goldstone at
i0:40. And incidentally, on this stateside pass, you - if any-
body has time to look out the window, it's going to be prior to
sunrise across most of the States. You're going to cross the
west coast just north of Seattle and then come skimming across
the Canadian border. Then Just above the Great Lakes and then
finally leave the east coast just north of Boston. And all that
is after a lesson in how to use the slider map from the backup
CDR.
SC Yea for the backup CDR. We already looked
at that, and we've only got 3 minutes till stateside sunrise.
And I just looked out the window, and I think, unfortunately,
we're not going to be able to see much on the ground, because
it's getting pretty bright in the east already.
CC Roger.
SC Tomorrow we're going to get up early and
look out the window, right?
CC Right.
SC But with this full moon it's awful bright
outside anyhow. Yeah, and the super passed out in the bed
last night, looking at it in the moonlight. And he could see
the land and the ocean real good. Nothing happens; it still
looks grand in the full moon.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 23 min-
utes. That's the end of the tape on the Hawaii pass, while
the change-of-shift news conference was in progress. Skylab
is still 15 and 1/2 minutes away from aequistion at the
Carnarvon, Australian Station. We'll come back up just prior
to acquisition there. At ii hours 23 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.

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SL-II MC-1020/I
Time: 06:38 CDT, 22:11:38 GMT
6/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours


38 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylah is about to be
acquired at the Carnarvon, Australia Tracking Station. We'll
stand by for that pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Carnarvon for
i0 minutes.
CDR Thank you. Houston, let me give you
some numbers.
CC Roger. Go ahead.
CDR (garble) test run okay. The star tracker
FFP51 went all right. If you'd like the numbers for
204 and 146. Outer gimhal was plus 02039, the inner glmhal
was plus 00279. The (garble) was 00004. I have a suspicion
that I either copied the number wrong, or I was lead to be
wrong, I think the outer gimbal angle was more like 2029,
but I' ii get to that later.
CC Roger, Pete. Copy.
SC (garble) .
CC Come in squeak.
CDR While he's finding it, Bob, (garble)
P52 was done in daylight with the stars 41 and 44. You
got 5 balls and you copied the torquing angles. BMAG 2
drift check started at 11:32, EMS entry check went
all right. Go ahead, SPT.
SPT SPT would llke permission to use the
VTR for TV 18.
CC Roger, you've got it, Joe. Go ahead.
SPT Okay.
CDR EMS Delta-_ test is null bias check. It
was all right. I had plus 9/10ths of a foot per second for
1 minute and 40 seconds.
CC Copy.
CDR (Garble) was done in this daylight pass.
The star code was 04, the outer gimhal was plus 02029. The
inner gimbal was plus 00279. The noun 23 was 14657, 18015,
00020.
CC Roger. Copied them all.
CDR Okay. The P-30 external Delta-V was
loaded. HA-HP were plus 889.4, plus 235.1. We are now at
step 25, all complete down to (garble) and holding.
CC _ Roger. Understand.
CDR Okay. I guess we_hold there until 12:29
or shortly before, right?
CC Let me check.
CDR We'll be on the line at about 12:19, I
guess. About the 240 stuff.
CC That's affirm CDR, we concur on times and
we're standing by.
SL-II MC-i020/2
Time: 06:38 CDT, 22:11:38 GMT
6/15/73

CDR Okay. So am I. See you then. Bye.


CC Bye.
CC Skylab, Houston. There are a couple
of things; one for the SPT. On the VTR, for your information,
it is okay and I guess you all ready are possibly using the
VTR. But there's Be advised there's 22 minutes of tape
available for your use there. A_d you're welcome to use it
to the end, but there was about 8 minutes of tape that we
hadn't dumped yet at the start of that tape. The second
thing was, we still need somebody, when you can, to change
teleprinter paper for us.
CDR Okay. I'ii go do that right now. The
other thing is, will we have a full 30 minutes of tape tonight.
We were going to try and get to one of those CB tours.
CC That's affirm. We plan to have it all
dumped by then.
CDR You mean for the (garble) schedule on
these entry checks, Captain Video can get to the VTR also.
(Garble).
CC Skylab, Houston. We've got about a
minute to LOS, Guam at 11:52.
SC Rog.
MCC (garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control at Ii hours
49 minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal
at Carnarvon. And we're about 2-1/2 minutes away from
acquisition of signal at Guam. Joe Kerwin is using the
video tape recorder in connection with ED31, the bacteria
and spores experiment, to determine under control conditions
the survival growth and mutations of selected bacteria in
the Skylab environment. This is one of the student
experiments. The principal investigator is Robert Staehle of
the Harley School, in Rochester, New York. We're about a
minute and a half away from Guam. We'll stay up for the
pass there.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI021/I
Time: 06:50 CDT, 22:11:50 GMT
6/15/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Guam for 8


minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC . And, Pete, if you're not in the command
module, next time you whiz up that direction, one thing that
the COMM would llke to check is to verify that FUEL CELL
i PUMP's OFF on panel 5.
SC FUEL CELL i PUMP's OFF on panel 5. Roger.
I'll check that. (Garble)
CC Okay. No hurry.
SC (Garble), Houston (garble) yourself a tele-
printer message for test anytime you want.
CC Roger; understand. The paper is all
changed. Thank you much.
SC FUEL CELL i PUMP switch is OFF and was
OFF.
CC Roger, Pete. Thank you very much. The
reason we asked is we did see a very small DELTA temperature
for the two fuel cells, and we just wanted to confirm that.
Thank you much.
SC What temperature are you looking at?
CC Stand by i.
SC My (garble) temps are almost identical, if
not identical.
CC CDR, the temps were red in red out temper-
atures and the difference in FUEL CELL i and 2, but it made us
think that possibly that switch was on. But they were not
fuel cell temperatures as I told you before.
CC Skylab, Houston. Couple of notes for the
SPT. One is when you're Joe, when you're finished with the
VTR, if you could - if you could go ahead and rewind it so
we could get ahead right at the AOS at Goldstone and getting
it dumped, we'd appreciate it. Also on your ATH pass that's
going to be beginning at 12:17, several days ago we noticed
once that 82 Bravo was allowed to be shut down by the door
closing, and we don't want to do that because there is a chance
that we might hang up the camera, that you'd have to fix EVA.
It should be shut down per the JOP 7 stop time of 20 seconds;
it's on your pad for this upcoming pass. And we are going to
put this on a little general message so all the guys will get
to read the rash now.
SC The TV's yours.
CC Roger. Thank you. We're about 30 sec-
onds from LOS. We're going to see you at Goldstone at 12:18.
PAO This is Skylab Control; 12 hours 3 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab is out of range at Guam now and
does not go within the Hawaii Station acquisition range on
this revolution; so the next station to acquire will be Goldstone
SL-II MCI021/2
Time: 06:50 CDT, 22:11:50 GMT
6/15/73

in 15 minutes. We'll come back shortly before acquisition


there. At 12 hours 3 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I022/I
Time: 07:16 CDT, 22:12:16 GMT
6115173

PAO This is Skylab Control; 12 hours 16 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up now on acquisition at
Goldstone. In the 459th revolution. We'll stand by for this
pass over the United States.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS stateside for 16
minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. We just went to P40.
CC Roger.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go.
SPT I didn't quite understand what you said
about 82B in the last conversation. It's not, they don't
mind having the, having darkness cut, close the door, do they,
because that's our routine way of operating?
CC S_and by.
CC SPT. Houston. Let me see if I can clarify
this for you. What we'd like to avoid is to have one of the
82 Bravo modes be terminated by door closure. So in this case
what we want to do is to stop taking photography and close the
door about 20 seconds prior to sunset, l'm sorry, stop the mode
20 seconds prior to sunset.
SPT We don't have to close the door manually,
then, right?
CC That's affirmative, Joe.
SPT Okay, cause it clearly stated in the mission
rules, that the crew was infallible and I wanted to verify
that.
CC Roger. We're checking ourselves.
SC (laughter) Hey, Houston, also for infor-
mation, our onboard radar on (garble) 4M, that's (garble).
CC Roger. Copy.
CC PLT, Houston. For your information, our
TM also shows about the and concurs with yours on reg 4. How-
ever, we think it's a transducer problem.
PLT Yeah, I buy that.
CDR Hey, Houston. I'm not using these gimbal
angles you've got in here, I'm using the ones that you had me
put in before, okay?
CC Roger. That's okay with us.

END OF TAPE _'_ _ i


SL-II MCI023/I
Time: 07:25 CDT, 22:12:25 GMT
6/15/73

SC It does all kinds of good things for the


rates, Houston.
CC Sorry, Pete. Didn't copy that. Say again.
SC He says our gimbal - you can really feel it
in here and hear it slosh and finger hew much it shows up on
the rate needle.
CC Roger. Hang on.
SC We did.
SC Hey, Houston, the EMS is garble. Verify
that the GHz power is in fact OFF.
CC Very good. Thank you.
SC Houston, CDR.
CC Go ahead, CDR.
SC I'm going to press right on to step 33.
You want to watch, right?
CC Stand by just a second, Pete.
CC Affirmative, Pete. Press on; we're watching.
SC Okay. I got all the right responses here.
I just read backwards.
CC Roger, CDR.
SC Okay, step 34 complete.
CC Roger; concur. We watched the DELTA.
CC CDR, Houston. We see you're about I0 minutes
from the end of the BMAG 2 drift check. A couple of other little
notes, now that you're through some of this busy part here for
this pass. We've got the entry SIM and checklist changes for
entry that'll be uplinked for you today. Also this evening we're
going to upllnk a full set of maneuver pads for the entry
SIM tomorrow. In fact a slightly different subject with regards
to the TV tour today. It turns out we looked at the schedule,
and if we did TV 21 as scheduled in the Flight Plan today, that
would prevent you from doing the TV tour. However, if you're
amenable to getting the tour out of the way, we think that's
more important, and we'd like to do that today. So we'd suggest
scratching TV21 from your Flight Plan today. That'll give you
plenty of tape on the VTR, and you can do the tour at your con-
venience this evening.
SC Okay.
SC I have more than an hour on the feedhag,
and I'ii give you a check in Just a second.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from LOS.
We're going to see you at Ca_rnarvon at 13:17.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 37 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal at Bermuda. Skylab
passes outside the acquisition ring of Ascension on this revolu-
tion - revolution number 460. So we'll have a long LOS, the next
station to acquire being Carnarvon, Australia in about 38-1/2 min-
utes. Paul Weitz is now assisting Pete Conrad with the entry
SL-II MC1023/2
Time: 07:25 CDT, 22:12:25 GMT
6/15/73

minus 7-day checkout of command and service module systems.


Science Pilot Joe Kerwln still operating the Apollo telescope
mount. We'll come back up just prior to Carnarvon acquisition.
At 12 hours 38 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I024/I
Time: 08:15 CDT, 22:13:15 GMT
6/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 15 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the Carnarvon,
Australia, Tracking Station now. Acquisition there in about
30 seconds; we'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon for 9 min-
utes.
SC Copy.
CDR Roger, Houston. Would you like the P52?
I couldn't get it to daylight. There's too much Earth in
the way.
CC Okay; affirmative. I would.
CDR Okay. I got star 37 and star 40. Five
balls, NOUN 93 plus 00076 minus 00174 and minus 00084; the
time, 13:15:45:00. And I'm going to go ahead and power down
the G&N.
CC Stand - Stand by on that, please, Pete.
Just a second.
CC Skylab - CDR, Houston. We got to do some
uplinks, and also get an E-MOD. If you'll give us ACCEPT as
soon as the 52 is over, we can get started on that, and then
we can power down the G&N after that.
CDR Got ACCEPT and POO.
CC Roger. Thank you.
CC And, CDR, do you have any information on
us on the drift check?
CDR Oh, let me give you both of them.
CC Okay. Go ahead.
CDR BMAG 2 drift check, FDAI-I NOUN 16
I mean NOUN 20. 261.61007.84355.05; GDT ATT was 2590 0110
356.9. The total time, I hour and 4 minutes.
CC Roger; copy.
CDR BMAG number i, NOUN 20 261620076235521.
GDC ATT, 260.8, 007.8, 356.5; the time, 30 minutes.
CC Roger, Pete. I got both of those.
CDR Do you want your E-MOD at 13:37, or can
you take it here?
CC Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. The load is in; you
can go back to BLOCK. And we are standing by for the E-MOD.
We got about 4 minutes left in this pass.
CDR It's coming at you right now.
CC Okay.
PLT Okay, Dick, when you get a minute or two,
the PLT's got a couple of items for you.
CC Very good, PLT. Because I have an item
for you, and I was trying to figure out where you were. Go
ahead.
SL-II MC-I024/2
Time: 08:15 CDT, 22:13:15 GMT
6/15/73

PLT First item is - Is there any way we can


tell if our wardroom heater is still functioning? If that's
gone up, good, you could tell us we turn it off and on, be-
cause our water has frozen again, and where the window pro-
tector was formally warm to the touch when busily washing the
windows, it no longer is.
CC Roger. We copy.
PLT Another item. And the second item is -
just so I don't forget. How about - but it may be for EVA -
this schedule may put the S190 desiccant in the oven, please.
And then on either day 27 or 28, another reminder to put the
new ones in the camera.
CC Roger. We'll sure put that on your Flight
Plan, Paul, and if that's all you got, I got one item on the
ATM I'd llke to mention to you.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay, talking about S082A. I guess we've
had occasions where the OPERATE light has remained on after
MODE TERMINATION, and in this next daylight cycle, after you
get through with the completion of the time mode in building
block 3, there's an opportunity where this might happen. And
if it does - if the OPERATE light does stay on there_ we'd
like you to do a real quick little test for us, and that is
throw the 82A FLARE switch to INHIBIT, and then note the status
of both the READY light and the OPERATE light. And just tell
us what the status of those two lights are next time we have
AOS and - -

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI025/I
Time: 08:22 CDT, 22:13:22 GMT
6/15/73

CC - to denote the status of both the ready


light and the operate light and Just tell us what the status
of the two lights are next time we have AOS and that'll help
us find - try to psych out exactly what the problem is.
PLT Okay, we'll try it. Now Joe just came
down -- he was running _ the time mode. It's been operating
almost continuously. Once you start it - When the door first
opens it comes up READY. Once you start unload (garble) it
usually stays OPERATE. Now Joe just finished that building
block that he had and it came up READY at the end of each
sequence this time. But I' ii check it next time.
CC Okay, good. Thank you.
CC CDR, Houston. We've got the EMOD and
we're GO to go ahead and power down.
CDR Okay, Roger.
CC We're about a minute from LOS. We'll see
you at Guam at 13:31.
CDR 13:31, bye.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We've had loss
of signal at Carnarvon. Guam will acquire in about 5-1/2 min-
utes. The water that's frozen that Paul Weltz was describing
is the moisture on the inside of the outer pane of the ward-
room window. It does not appear to him that the window heater
is working. We'll come back up just prior to Guam. At
13 hours 25 minutes this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I026/I
Time: 08:29 CDT, 22:13:29 GMT
6/15/73

PAO This is Skylah Control at 13 hours 29 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for acquisition
through Guam.
SC Houston, CDR.
SC Hello, Houston; CDR.
SC Hello, Houston; CDR.
CC CDR, Houston. Go ahead; we've got you for
5 minutes.
SC Okay. I wasn't sure whether you wanted me
to power down the computer or not. I powered down the IMU.
Am I cleared to power down the computer? Do you have to go
back to sleep?
CC Stand by just 1 on that_ please.
CC CDR, Houston. Affirmative_ you're cleared
to power down the computer.
SC Okay.
CC And, incidentally, hack to the suhject of
the wardroom window heater. We don't have any direct telemetry
that tells us whether or not that heater's on. And the current
draw is so low that we have a hard time seeing it. About the
only thing we can suggest is to verify the two circuit breakers
on panel 614. And if you haven't already tried it, you can try
the heater on the opposite bus from the one you have tried and
let it sit there for a while and see if it warms up. And one
thing we'd like to know is what's the size of the ice spot that's
on there now as compared to what it was the other day hefore it
thawed?
SC Unfortunately, the whole area is bigger.
The ice spot - the ice cube is smaller; it's about three-quarters
the size of a dime. However, where we formerly had a little
steamy vapor on the window, it's now all erystalized into a nice
frosty spot, approximately 2 to 2-1/2 inches in diameter.
SC Okay. Those breakers were closed, Dick.
Uh, I'm going to go to the other bus for awhile; let's see
what happens.
CC Okay. I assume you've been on BUS i. Is
that right?
SC (garble) I notice we've been on BUS 2.
CC Okay. Fine. Thank you.
SC Say_ Houston; CDR.
CC Go ahead.
SC (Garhl@) the command module housekeeping 7
tonight, running that loop for an hour, any chance of cutting
that heater back in?
SC Is it something we need to worry about?
CC Stand by.
SC You dontt have to answer it right now. I
just thought I'd pass it along.
SL-II MC-I026/2
Time: 08:29 CDT, 22:13:29 GMT
6/15/73

CC CDR, Houston. In answer to your question,


we're not concerned about the heater operation during the
check; however, we do want to make sure - I think the last
step, which I think is a pen and ink in your checklist for that
CM7, is to make sure the circuit breaker on that heater is put
to OPEN, but no problem during the check.
SC That secondary heater has a fuse back in the
service module; it doesn't have any circuit breaker.
SC We talking about the same heater?
CC Maybe not. I'ii get the answer. We're going
LOS, CDR. We're going to see you at Goldstone at 13:55. Be
advised our initial look at the command module is looking
real good. The team is going to go off and get together and
look at some of the baekroom data, and later on this afternoon
we'll give you a good briefing as far as the systems status
that we saw on the ground here today.
SC Okay. Where's your meeting?
CC Clancy's office. Can you make it?
SC No, I thought it might be some place else.
Bye.
CC (Laugh).
CC CIRCUIT BREAKERS, SECONDARY COOL HEATER,
CONTROLLER MAIN A to OPEN.
SC Got you.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 39
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal with
Guam. Next station to acquire will be Goldstone in about 15
minutes. Pete Conrad winding up now this 4-hour checkout
of command and service module systems. The initial look here
on the ground indicates all of the Apollo command module sys-
tems are looking good. Science Pilot Joe Kerwin has finished
his initial, Apollo Telescope Mount run of the day and should
be having lunch about now.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I027/I
Time: 08:40 CDT, 22:13:40 GMT
6/15/73

PAO - - and Pilot Paul Wei=z will begin


another run of the Apollo telescope mount about right now.
He has switched the wardroom window heater to another BUS
another electrical distribution system - to see whether he
can get that ice to melt. Reports a very small piece of
ice about the size of a dime. However, there's a larger
frosty area 2 to 2-1/2 inches in diameter along the window
that they would like to melt and get rid of. We'll come
back up just prior to acquisition at Goldstone. At 13 hours
41 minutes this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I028/I
Time: 08:52 CDT, 22:13:52 GMT
6/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours


53 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up now on
acquisition at Goldstone. Flight Director Phil Shaffer
and his group of command and service module flight con-
trollers have left the control room, now, for a meeting to
go over all of the CSM data they've seen. The crew will get
a report on that checkout later today. Initial look shows
the data is very good and systems are good. We'll stand by
for conversation at Goldstone.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside for
the next 15 minutes.
PLT Okay, Richard. (Garble) the OPERATING
light stayed on. I turned the flare (garble) and blink, on
came the READY light and out went the OPERATING light.
CC Thank you very much, Paul.
PLT I'm back to FLARE ENABLE now. And the
READY light stayed on. Next time I (garble) turn the FLARE
switch to INHIBIT while I'm running and see if it goes from
OPERATE to READY like it's supposed to. Is that all right?
CC Roger. That's affirm.
PLT Thank you.
CC And Skylab, Houston. Back to the question
that we were talking about, about the heater up in the command
module. It turns out that the fuse that you referred to is
in the heater portion of the circuit. And it is in the
service module. The problem, we think, is in the control
loop probably, or possibly a shorted switch. And the circuit
breaker that I was referring to is on Panel 5. It's ECS,
secondary coolant loop heater control MAIN A circuit breaker,
and it is listed in your systems checklist. And you'll
get to that on the housekeeping check tonight and the last
step - or one of the steps in there is to - when you leave
the command module it'll be OPEN.
CDR Right side. I'ii remember that. Okay.
Fine. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CC And Skylab, Houston. For your information,
this stateside pass, you're passing over the west coast up
around Salem, Oregon. You're going to pass over just to the
south of the Great Salt Lake. You've got to go over a portion
of the Grand Canyon, and going to hit the Gulf of Mexico
coming away from the United _ta_es betwemn._ouston and
Victoria.
SC Roger. Thank you.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI029/I
Time: 09:06 CDT, 22:14:06 GMT
6/15/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute to LOS.


Vanguard coming up at 14:20 and we plan to dump the data
tape recorder there.
CC Skylab, Houston be advised we understand
in active region number 1 there is a subnormal flare that is
now in progress and two of the instruments are recording
information from it.
SC Good.
PAO This is Skylab Control; 14 hours ii minutes
Greenwich mean time. The Merritt Island Florida tracking sta-
tion has had loss of signal with Skylab. Next station to
acquire will be the Vanguard tracking ship off the east coast
of South America in about 8-1/2 minutes. Pete Conrad is in his
lunch period now. Joe Kerwin just winding up lunch ready to
begin some housekeeping chores and Paul Weitz operating the
Apollo telescope mount. We'll come back up just prior to
acquisition at the Vanguard. At 14 hours 12 minutes Greenwich
mean time this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1030/I
Time: 09:18 CDT, 22:14:18 GMT
6/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 19 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab over South America, coming
up within range of the tracking ship, Vanguard. We'll stand
by for that pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're A0S Vanguard for
8 minutes.
SC Houston, Skylab. I'd llke to - you to be
the first to know that the PLT is the proud father of a
genuine flare.
CC Very good.
SC Just about the time you called, he got a
high PMEC count, and this time it was confirmed by image
intensity count being over 300, by a bright spot occurring
on the X-ray image. It involved the 1 and the 4 positions
and was confirmed - the MI6 it was confirmed by a very
bright spot on the XUV monitor. He decided to slew the
H-alpha. We found a flare in active region 31, a factor of
I0 brighter than any other plage we've seen. In other words,
it was unmlstakeable once it happened. We were on the flare,
he got probably a minute and half or 2 minutes of flare rise,
we're at flare fall now, and if the ATM would like us to do
post-flare on the next rev, the PLT is willing to cancel his
housekeeping (garble) and all that. Not cancel; Just delay.
SC The maximum PMEC was 840, Houston. We
are in the high mode.
CC Roger that. And if you would be willing
to delay your housekeeping 7J, which I know is very important,
we sure would appreciate it, because we've been looking for-
ward to catching one of these.
SC So have we; we're all Just as proud as
new daddys.
CC Good show.
SC Like I told them before we went, he had
six hands up there as soon as he announced it.
SC Houston, SPT. We've got a bit of a problem
here determining the end of flare fall and could use some
friendly advice from the ground, because we're now hearing
the South Atlantic anomaly, and our PMEC isn't very useful
to us anymore. As a matter of film remaining, I'd like to
know whether the PIs would like us to continue flare fall
for this whole pass or to go in to post flare?
CC Roger. Stand by.
SC We still have very definite indications
on the visual diplays. I would prefer continuing flare fall.
CC Roger. Stand by, please.
CC SPT, Houston. We agree with you; we'd
llke to continue flare fall. We believe that you can use
the XREA to monitor the flare during this period, possibly.
SL-II MC-I030/2
Time: 09:18 CDT, 22:14:18 GMT
6/15/73

And also, we think that S056 is maybe hang up. We'd like you
to go STOP/START on that for us, please.
SC Okay.
CC Roger.
SC Houston, SPT.
CC Say again, please.
SC This is SPT. The SO55 has kicked the de-
tectors off a couple more times during this mirror light scan.
And we're running now with detector 5 off; that's for their
information.
CC Copy, Joe.
SC And can they verify whether S054 is complete
yet?
CC SPT, Houston. Affirmative, 54 is complete.
We'd like you to go the flare fall portion, and it appears that
56 is hung up again. If you'll help us out again, we'd appre-
ciate it.
SC Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, we're i minute from LOS. We're
going to have a long LOS period. See you at Goldstone at 15:32.
So have fun.
SC Bye.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1031/I
Time: 09:27 CDT, 22:14:27 GMT
6/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control; 14 hours 29 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Vanguard has had loss of signal. The
Skylab will not be acquired at the Australian sites or by
Guam, or Hawaii on this revolution number 461. So we will
have a very long LOS. About an hour and 2 minutes. Goldstone
will be the next station to acquire. As you heard, Science
Pilot Joe Kerwin announced that the Pilot, Paul Weitzj was
the proud father of a genuine flare. Weitz is operating the
Apollo telescope mount. This is the first genuine flare of
the Skylab II mission. There have been several subnormal
flares observed, but this is the first genuine solar flare
of this mission. It was impressive enough that Joe Kerwin
volunteered to delay his housekkeeping chores to assist
Weltz in the ATM operation, a not insignificant sacrifice
since his housekeeping chores were 7J, his weekly shower.
We'll come back up prior to Goldstone in about an hour.
At 14 hours 31 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
S SL-II MC-I032/I
Time: 09:42 CDT, 22:14:42 GMT
6/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 43 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. An Apollo telescope mount briefing
will be held in the JSC News Center at i0 a.m. central daylight
time today. There will be 7 participants, ATM experimenters
and managers from the Marshall Space Flight Center. That's
a briefing on Apollo telescope mount experiments at I0 a.m.
central daylight time today in the JSC News Center. The tele-
vision now on the screens in the News Center is a playback
from tracking stations of video tape that was dumped earlier
today. It consists of Apollo telescope mount television and
television of experiment ED31, a student experiment on bacteria
and spores. We're still 47-1/2 minutes away from acquisition
at Goldstone. At 14 hours 44 minutes Greenwich mean time, this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
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Time: 11:08 CDT, 22:16:08 GMT
6/15/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours 7 minutes


Greenwich mean time. We accummulated 9 minutes of tape during
that news conference, 6-1/2 minutes over the Goldstone and
Texas stations. And 2-1/2 minutes at the Vanguard tracking
ship. We're about 58 minutes away from acquisition at Hawaii.
We'll play the tape for you now.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Goldstone, ii
minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. Getting back to a question
that you guys asked awhile ago. On the times we've been giving
you for the Horns and also for the South Atlantic Anomaly,
turns out that our information about the radiation shows
naturally that the radiation belts drift around and the
numbers we've been sending up to you, are our best information
at the time. Now we've got a couple of choices, one is that
we can take a look at some recent data, something that we could
look up here in real time and try to pad it a little bit in
either direction, or just advise you of this fact and continue
to send up the times under the same ground rules. But we do
not have any better data that's available to us in a short
period of time and probably the best data is coming from your
work and is going to take quite a hit of time to analyze that.
That looks like a kind of next mission task. Out.
SPT Okay, Houston. The situation has modified
itself somewhat since we related that to you this morning.
Based on our knowledge now that with the real honest-to-gosh
flare, the energy intensity count, the X-ray image, XUV monitor
and a number of other things tend to confirm what's going on
it, so that indicates our only problem is reacting to off-
console and whether to set the tone light switch to enable
or not when you're off the console. And I would suggest that
we live with the estimates as you've been giving them to us.
And in addition you might, perhaps, consider setting up a
committee to try to make the belts stop moving.
CC I think that's a good suggestion, Joe,
and maybe that committee can do its work and do a little bit
better job for the next crew.

PLT Okay. Say, Houston. 56 keeps hanging up,


I've been watching it, stopping and starting it. I'm restarting
it for the 5th time on this pass.
CC Roger. Adam copies.
PLT Houston, the CDR says that he's tearing
up the nasty letter he had written to Dr. Van Allen.
CC Roger.
CDR (garble) committee that Dr. Kerwin suggested.
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PLT Dick I've been logging the frame counter


reading and the filter indication at which 56 has been stop-
ping, hanging up. Does anybody care about that, do they want
it or can I forget about it?
CC Stand by. Yes, sir, we sure would like it,
go ahead I'm copying.
PLT Okay. Frame counter at the start of this
pass was 2777. It hung up with a count of 62 on filter 3.
Next time it hung up with a count of 38 on filter 3. Next
time with a count of, and I can't figure this one out, with
a count of 37, in again at filter 5. And the last time was
frame count of 22 on filter 3.
CC Roger, Paul. Copy.
PLT And I've also finally found a secret for
the READY light for 82A. Doesn't go out as long as you have
the flare enabled, I mean the READY light does not - -

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Time: 11:12 CDT, 22:16:12 GMT
6/15/73

SC They've also barely found the secret


for the READY light for 82 A. It doesn't go out as long as
you've got the flare enabled. I mean the READY light does not
come on, at least the few times I've tried it here. But if
I inhibit the flare and terminates the exposure, the READY
light comes on each time and so forth.
CC Roger. Copy, Paul.
SC (Garble) data pointer at S056. The
first half was 07 on filter 3.
CC Copy.
CC And, PLT; Houston. I'm not sure what
you have in mind about your schedule for the rest of the day
to get in your HK-7 Juliet. But if you need to - to not do
the next ATM pass that you're scheduled for, in order to
accomplish that, that's fine. It's your choice. Or if you
want to fit it in, as you guys best see fit, press on.
MCC I'll let him in with me.
SC We'll work something out.
CC Rog.
SC (garble) 56 hung up again on its screwy
indication. It (garble) one frame to 2706 and indicates
(garble) 5.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Initial thoughts on
the 56 hang up are that it's probably a mechanical misallgnment
that somehow has taken place in the camera. We've got no
way to - in the magazine. We've got no way to help yon out
on it now, except to continue - continue to restart it. How-
ever, we think it should be corrected when you replace the
56 camera on the EVA.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from
LOS. We're going to see you at Vanguard at 15:58. We're
going to dump the data recorder at Vanguard, and we're
cleaning up the last of the VTR downlink here aZ Goldstone.
So anytime at your convenience after this, the VTR is yours
with 30 minutes available tape on it.
SC Okay. We gave yon some of the notes.
(Garble) sorry to bother you (garble) notes yet.
CC Paul, that was a little broken up. I
think I copied that you put some of the flare information
on H-ALPHA and XUV MON on the VTR. Is that Charlie?
SC That's right.
CC Very good. We (garble) look at it.
CC Skylab, Houston. Vanguard 7 minutes.
SC Roger.
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CC Skylah, Houston. Be advised that NOA


has reported that the flare that you have taken data on has
been classified as 1 bright, and it's an M-4.
SC Okay, thank you.
CC Roger. Thank you.
SC Houston, does that mean we can keep it,
or do we have to throw it back?
CC It's your choice.
CC I think we've already got it anyway.
SC (Static) Somebody stepped on it while
we were gone at night.
CC Sorry, we broke off for a second. I
didn't copy that one.
SC It wasn't worth repeating. Never mind.
CC Roger. Never minding.
SC I believe that's properly nevering mind.
CC PLT, Houston. Due to the film remaining
in 54, we request that after you complete the sequence you're
in, discontinue post - flare fall operations with S054. And
also, I have a change in the flare guidelines that comes up
to you on the solar activity pad for 54. The - to be used for
the next 2 days - Any future flares, the flare mode should be
M-31PI6, M31PI6.
CC Okay. You want this change made on this
one now, and it'll be reflected on the (whistle) solar activity
(garble).
CC Roger. We want to discontinue 54 operations
now on this one and use those flares in the future. We're going
LOS here at Vanguard. We're going to see you at Hawaii at 17:06.
SC All right.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 16 hours
17 minutes Greenwich mean time. That's the end of the tape
that was accumulated over the States and the Vanguard. Skylab
is 48 minutes away from acquisition at Hawaii. At 16 hours
18 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI035/I
Time: 12:02 CDT, 22:17:02 GMT
6/15/73

PAO We have acquisition of signal. This is


Skylab Control at 17 hours 4 minutes. We'll stand by for the
call from spacecraft communicator Dick Truly - presently on
duty.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS at Hawaii for
the next 6 minutes. Be advised this pass we're up to our
old tricks - we're updating some rate gyro drift compensations.
And we'll probably be doing this both at Hawaii and Vanguard
and then we'll update your onboard message telling you what
they are.
CC Skylab, we've completed our uplinks on
the rate gyro update so we won't have to do any at Vanguard.
No response required.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Vanguard at 17:34.
SC Okay.
SPT Okay, B-channel MlTl postrun. Oxygen is
72.40. Water is 4.51; C02 is 2.03. They're all changing slowly.
CC Hey, Joe. Make sure you're on B-channel.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours 12
minutes 40 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
at the Hawaiian tracking station. Our next acquisition of
signal is at Vanguard in approximately 21 minutes. The flare
spotted earlier this morning was the first major flare to be
spotted on the Skylab mission after nearly 3 weeks in the air.
The flare was placed in active region number 31 which is near
the center of the side of the Sun now facing Earth. And it
was in the upper right-hand quadrant of the Sun, been very
near the center. Although the astronauts had been informed
by teleprinter that "probe probabilities are highest yet",
active region 31 was not listed as an area of high probability.
The solar flare - sudden disturbance of the Sun's surface -
that emits high energy radiation into space was the size ex-
pected only about once every 2 to 3 months during a period of
low activity on the Sun. We are presently in a period of such
low activity. The flare was classified as a 1 bright M4 - that
was number 1 bright M4 - which describes both its optical bright-
ness and its radiation output. A 1 bright solar flare covers
an area of at least 2 square degrees - that is an area about
1.4 degrees on a side, and emits bright light. The rating
scale for area runs from 0 to 3 on a logarithmic scale. One
indicates between 2 and 5 squares degrees. That is an area from
approximately 1.4 degrees on the side to approximately
2.1 degrees on the side. The bright rating is a rating that
one of three ratings available for optical brightness. The
others are dull and normal, so "bright" is the brightest of
_-- optical in optical visibility. In addition the M4 rating
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6/15/73

indicates the X-radlatlon class of the solar flare at peak


intensity. The M class is a moderate class, C class is anything
that can be detected - X is a very large class - M is a mod-
erate class. The 4 rating indicates the number of times one
has to multiply the ergs per centimeter square per second
energy of the solar flare, so that this solar fare was producing
4 times i0 to the minus 2 or 0.04 ergs per centimeter
squared per second. That's the total X-radiatlon at peak
intensity. The solar flare began at 14:01 GMT or approxima-
tely 9:01 Central daylight time this morning. It was spotted
by the ATM console and Pilot Paul Weltz. It reached its
optical brightness peak at 14:09 or 9:09 central daylight
time. The X-ray maximum was at 14:13 or 9:13 central daylight
time and the approximate time of ending was about 14:51 GMT
or 9:51 central daylight time. To repeat those times the
solar flare began at 14:01 GMT, reached it's optical peak at
14:09, it's X-ray peak at 14:13 and came to a conclusion ap-
proximately 15 minutes after it began at 14:51. At the present
time the crew is engaged in the M092, HlTl experiment with the
subject, Commander Pete Conrad, and Science Pilot Dr. Kerwin
is observing. We will have acquisition of signal again in
about 17 minutes and 25 seconds. This is Skylab Control at
17 hours 16 minutes 27 seconds Greenwich mean time.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I036/I
Time: 12:31 CDT, 22:17:31 GMT
6/15/73

PA0 Skylab Control at 17 hours 31 minutes


29 seconds Greenwich mean time. Recovery operations control
room here at Skylab Mission Control reports that USS Ticon-
deroga, the ship that will participate in the recovery oper-
ation, carrying the Skylab Mobile Laboratory, departed the
port of San Diego this morning at 16:00 Greenwich mean time,
or ii a.m. Central Daylight Time. It is presently enroute
to the recovery area, to the southwest of San Diego. Recovery
is still, of course, not until a week from today, early in
the morning. I believe the time schedule is approximately 8:50
in the morning, Central Daylight Time. We are now waiting
for acquisition of signal at the Vanguard ship station and
we expect that in about a minute and a half from now, when
spacecraft communicator Dick Truly will call the crew. We'll
remain live for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Vanguard for
8 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised we're going
to, that ASCO's going to command a NAV update to staff.
SC (garble)
SC Houston, say again, please.
CC Roger. We need to have the DAS, we're
going to command the NAV update.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're through with the
NAV update, the DAS is yours again.
CDR Roger, Houston. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 45 seconds from
LOS, Hawaii at 18:41.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours 44 minutes
18 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at the
Vanguard station. Our next acquisition of signal is nearly
an hour from now, 56 minutes and 39 seconds. We have received
a revised record time for the longest single mission in space.
A check of our records maintained by the Library of Congress in-
dicates that the Soviet Space Station SO-US ii was manned
during a 23 day 18 hour 22 minute total mission in 1971,
that's 570 hours and 22 minutes, 23 days 18 hours and 22 min-
utes for a total mission in 1971. The Skylab crew expects
to surpass that mark early Monday, at 2:22 a.m. Central Day-
light Time, June 18th. This would make Skylab, the first
Skylab mission the longest duration in space for man thus far.
That's at Monday at 2:22 a.m. Central Daylight Time, to surpass
the record of Soyuz ii set 2 years ago. This is Skylab
Control at 45 minutes 24 seconds after the hour.

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SL-II MC-I037/I
Time: 13:24 CDT, 22:18:24 GMT
6/15/73

PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 23 minutes


and 39 seconds Greenwich mean time. We'd like to announce
that there will be a solar flare activity television - freeze
frames of the 4 frames of the solar flare activity spot of this
morning. That will be at 1:30 p.m. central daylight time in
the briefing room, in building i. Present for the briefing
will be Dr. Guisseppi Vaiana, one of the investigators on
experiment S054. He is with American Science and Engineering
of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Vaiana will he available
to discuss the freeze frames that will be pictured at 1:30,
approximately 12 minutes total time_ four separate frames.
This is Skylab Control, at 18 hours 24 minutes 22 seconds
Greenwich mean time.

END OF TAPE
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Time: 13:28 CDT, 22:18:28 GMT
6/15/73

PAO Skylab Control, at 18 hoursj 28 minutes,


50 seconds Greenwich mean time, approximately 1 minute to
the beginning of the solar flare activity television and
discussion and briefing in the briefing room, room 135 in
building i. Dr. Guisseppi Vaiana will be available, one
of the investigators on S054. S054 is the x-ray spectrographic
telescope. Dr. Vaiana of American Science and Engineering
of Cambridge, Massachusetts, will be available for discussing
the four freeze-frames to be shown at 1:30 central daylight
time. That's a little less than a minute from new. This
is Skylab Control at 29 minutes, 28 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI039/I
Time: 13:57 CDT, 22:18:57 GMT
6/15/73

PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 57 minutes


49 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are going to have some
replay of the air to ground over Hawaii. Very little said
aboard on the air to ground except one important announcement
which I'ii mention before we start playing it. Skylab is pres-
ently traveling southeast on a descending node over the South
Paelflcj having Just crossed the equator a short time ago. A
review of this mornings entry number 7 - entry minus 7 checkout
of the command module systems which lasted several hours has
now been completed. The flight team reports very good results
from the checkout conducted by Skylab Commander Pete Conrad,
assisted by Pilot Paul Weitz this morning. The entry minus
7 checkout tests basic elements in the guidance, navigation,
and communications systems. The gyros used to guide the
spacecraft during its return from the Skylab space station
were tested as was the steering control for the main engine
or service propulsion system of the command module. This
morning's checkout included a procedure to aline the command
service module's attitude control system. Conversations
between flight controllers and astronauts in the command
module are used - the command module's VHF radio rather than
the S-band system usually used for Skylab communications wlth
the ground. The VHF radio will be used during the reentry
operation. The computers were also brought on line for the
guidance and navigation tests and they performed very well.
Only one deviation from normal was recorded during the checkout.
Differential clutch currents were at off-scale low. The dif-
ferential clutch is connected to the motors that move the
service populsion system engine and permits that engine to
be shifted in different directions. Although the readings were
off-scale low it is believed that this reading was an anomaly
due only to a minor failure in the telemetry data rather than
to an actual condition aboard the command module. Flight
controllers are now demonstrating that it is now, in fact, an
error in instrumentation rather than an error in the operation
of the differential clutch. Several hours will be spent early
tomorrow simulating the actual entry, beginning with the -
beginning with undoeklng and going through the deorblt of the
spacecraft. That'll begin early this morning - approximately
at 6 a.m. - running through a good part of the morning hours.
We have an announcement on EVA for Skylab mission. Tests have
been continuing on the thermal shield material used on the
parasol now deployed on the orbital workshop. This material,
an aluminized Mylar nylon laminate with the nylon facing the
Sun, deteoriates in strength due to exposure to ultraviolet
rays. Samples have been exposed to simulated Sunlight at the
Johnson Space Center, the Marshal!_Spaee Flight Center, the
_ Lewis Research Laboratry, the Goddard Space Flight Center and
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6/15/73

TRW. All tests verified the material is satisfactory for reten-


tion in place during the unmanned period without jeopardizing the
workshop. Therefore, a decision has been reached not to deploy
the twin-pole thermal shield. That is - not to deploy the twin-
pole thermal shield during the planned EVA, Tuesday, June 19.
The normal EVA to retrieve the ATM film will continue to be
scheduled for the morning of Tuesday, June 19. Plans are for
the replacement of the parasol early in the next Skylab manned
mission with the twln-pole thermal shield. A replacement parasol
with an improved thermal shield material will be stowed on
Skylab III- the next manned launch as a backup to the twin-pole
device. To repeat, that is the evidence from a number of tests
conducted on that parasol show that it is not necessary for it
to be replaced at this time for the unmanned period, but there
will be a replacement using the twin-pole thermal shield during -
the plan to replace it during the next Skylab manned mission with
that twln-pole thermal shield. The normal EVA to retrieve ATM
film will be conducted Tuesday, June 19 in the morning. You will
hear approximately 5 minutes of air to ground. One of the things
that comes up on the air to ground is an announcement to the crew
that there is a burning tanker off the west coast of Chile -
• located at approxlmately 44 degrees south - 75 degrees west. The
crew has been asked to take handheld photography out of the window
if possible of the tanker, which is located approximately 150 miles
north of the groundtrack of Skylab. They'll be reaching that
point in a few minutes just before they reach acquisition of
signal at Vanguard. The time of closest approach to the tanker
is 19 hours 13 minutes and 55 seconds, or approximately 9 minutes -
approximately ii minutes from now. This is Skylab Control. We
are now replaying the air to ground from -

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Time: 14:02 CDT, 22:19:02 GMT
6/15/73

PAO 19 hours 13 minutes and 55 seconds, or


approximately 9 minutes from now - I'm sorry, approximately
ll minutes from now. This is Skylab Control. We're now re-
playing the air-to-ground, from the Hawaiian Tracking Station,
taking place a few minutes ago. Here is the alr-to-ground.
SC Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston at Hawaii for i0 minutes.
SC Roger. This is the SPT. Do you want real-
time television this time, Dick?
CC Stand by.
SC Okay. I put some on the tape. That's good
enough or I'ii stand by.
CC Negative, I get the word that we do desire
real-time TV on this pass, Joe. And I have one note here to
read to you guys.
CC Skylab, Houston. We show indications that
the star-tracker is unlocked. We'd like you to attempt to
reacqulre for us. And I have some information I'd like to pass
up to somebody that's going to be free. We have a photographic
target of opportunity, coming up between this LOS and the
Vanguard AOS, that I'd llke to read to you.
SC Go ahead.
CC Roger, Pete. We've had reports that there's
a large tanker that's burning very close to the or off the west
coast of Chile. The coordinates are 44 degrees south and
75 degrees west, and your time of closest approach is - on this
rev is going to be at 19:13:55. And if possible and one of
you is free, we'd like either Hasselblad or Nikon photography,
whichever you think best, handheld out the window. We think
the tanker probably will be about 150 miles north of your
groundtraek.
SC I see (garble) of our ground track. I would
love to catch that (garble). Up in the SCS, I bellve our
wardroom window is looking further and further south. Okay?
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Back to the subject of
startracker - G&N says you guys have had a star presence in-
dication. We think it is locked on a particle, and I've got
an outer gimbal number here that I'd like to read to you.
SC Okay. Come ahead, Houston.
CC Stand by Just a second. I got it. Skylab,
Houston. The inner glmbal is plus 0284; outer gimbal plus 2027.
SC Okay. I copy that, Houston. Just a few
minutes ago, when I was looking at the coronagraph, there was
a veritable storm of particles over Vanguard. I don't know
how large they were, but they were bright enough to cause
f the vidicom to cycle up and down_dramatically. I don't know
what they were due to.
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CC Roger. I understand.
CC Skylab, Houston. On the venting, we are
continuously ventin K some hydrogen out of the command module
that we've been aware of. It is possible that wemay have
vented some O2_ but we're not aware of that or any other vent.
SC Okay. Tell the guys - In the command
module, the oxygen was 870.
CC Roger. Copy.
CC Skylab_ Houston. We're i minute from
LOS. Vanguard at 19:12, and we're going to dump the data re-
corder there.
SC Okay.
PAO That's the conclusion of the replay of
conversation between the Skylab astronauts and the ground at
the Hawaiian Tracking Station just passed. I have an additional
announcement on the deployment of the the nondeployment
of the next parasol. William Schneider, the Skylab Program
Director, will be available for a briefing at 4:30 p.m.
central daylight time. hat's 4:30 p.m. central daylight
time in building i at the Johnson Space Center. He will be
available to discuss the reasons for not deploying the twin
pole thermal shield at this time and any other subjects that
may be of interest. At the present time we're about 4
minutes from acquisition of signal at Vanguard. Last time
acquisition of signal did come a bit earlier than we'd expected,
a couple minutes early. And we'll be coming back up again in
about 2 minutes. This is Skylab Control at 7 minutes - 8
minutes after the hour.

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Time: 14:11 CDT, 22:19:11 GMT
6/15/73

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours ii minutes


5 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time we're
approaching the Vanguard tracking station. In about 2 minutes
we expect to have an opportunity to take photographs of the
burning tanker that is off the west coast of Chili at 44 deg-
rees south, 75 degrees west. The crew has been asked to
take pictures either using their 35-millimeter Nikon or their
70-millimeter Hasselblad camera out of one of the windows
of the spacecraft - probably the wardroom window, if it is
possible to get photographs. We'll heat, I'm sure, at
Vanguard one way or the other whether they're taking those
photographs. To remind you, there is a Change of Shift Briefing
tentatively scheduled for 3:15 p.m. with Charles Lewis, the
flight director that's just gone off. Don Puddy is now
on duty. Spacecraft communicator is William Thornton. He'll
he talking to the crew in just a few moments, as they get
acquisition of the signal at Vanguard. This is Skylab Control
staying live with air-to-ground from Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS 9 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston. We're looking for the
tanker, but it's very cloudy - I don't think we're going to
be able to pick it up.
CC Copy.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC We see S073 2-Charlie on, but we don't
see the experiment recorders on.
SC Roger.
SC It's my fault. Paul's in the shower.
(garble) switch for him and then turn the recorders on. Bye.
CC We copy, Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston.
SC Go ahead.
CC We want you to close the vent on the ward-
room window until further notice. May be some - -
SC I've already closed it.
CC Copy; closed.
CC And we're working on procedures to improve
it, and we'd like for you to report any conditions such as - Is
it warm to touch now? Does it have ice on it? And it may be
caused by thermal cycling and breathing through the vent tube.
SC Okay. It's not particularly warm to the
touch, and it has ice on it. It's pretty much the way the PLT
described it to you several hours ago.
CC We copy. And we're going LOS here. We
will have you again at Hawaii at 20:23.
SC Okay.
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CC S073 GAIN switch to LOW, Skylab.


SC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control. We have lost signal at
the Vanguard tracking station. It appears from the commentary
from the crew that they were unable to get photographs of the
burning tanker off the coast of Chili. Those photographs were
a target of opportunity. I n other words have been specified - we
do receive data on short lived events, short lived phenomena
from Smithsonian Institution in Massachusetts, and that was
apparently one of those things that had been passed along by
the Earth resources operations officer. He indicated that that
would be a desirable target of opportunity for the handheld
camera. It appears though that cloud cover might have
interrupted or inteferred with that picture taking. This is
Skylab Control at 22 minutes and 56 seconds after the hour,
and we will have acquisition next time one hour from now.
Opportunity for it at Vanguard - I'm sorry, at Hawaii that'll be
a very short pass 54 second pass. They may drop that. The
next opportunity after that is 1 hour 27 minutes. Skylab
Control, 23 minutes and 15 seconds after the hour.

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Time: 14:52 CDT, 22:19:52 GMT
6/15/73

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 52 minutes


22 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have an unusual surprise
for you. Charles Lewis, the off-going flight director, has
his coat over his shoulder and is just now exiting from the
Mission Control room, headed for building i and a briefing,
which it looks like now will begin ahead of schedule, at
a few minutes before 3 o'clock. We should expect about
3 o'clock for that briefing with Charles Lewis, the off-going
flight director. This is a change-of-shift briefing. This
is - At the present time the spacecraft is out of range of
signal and will continue to be so for the next 30 minutes.
This is Skylab Control at 52 minutes 56 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE

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6/15/73

PAO Skylab Control we have acquisition of


signal and expect to hear a call any moment. We'll be up
live in Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 1 minute.
SC Hello there.
CC Got a couple of questions here and a bit of
information. They have apparently decided that the Marshall
shield will not be deployed on Skylab II.
SPT Aw, we just got it out and dusted it off.
CC Copy. ""
CC And when do you plan the TV tour - at
what station passes for our planning purposes?
SPT Oh, we were going to put it on tape.
CC Ah, copy. And could you give us an
approximate time of that?
SPT Well, we're trying to work it out I've
got another ATM pass after dinner and Paul's at the console
now. It'll probably be a good hour - hour and a half.
CC Maybe uou can kind of tie a string to one of
those guys and carry him around for me, Joe.
SPT (Laughter) okay. Can't get into your
other thinking (garble)
/ CC Copy. On the secondary coolant loop in
the CSM we want the secondary coolant heater control main A -
circuit breaker, panel 5, pulled sometime this evening.
SPT Okay.
CDR That's its normal configuration, Houston.
I had it in a little while ago during the 7 day CSM house-
keeping check. It's now again open for checklist.
CDR Did you read that, Houston?
CC Stand by I.
CC Go ahead, Pete.
CDR I said I just finished systems housekeeping 7.
That breaker is open as it is supposed to be - it's
normally open.
CC Okay, Pete. I guess that left us a little
breathless here for a second. And we're going to be coming
up onthe Vanguard at 20:50.
CDR I canleave you breathless. It's been open
for 22 days except for the 7 day check.
CC We'll dig some more, Pete.
PAO Skylab Control at 26 minutes and 28 sec-
onds. We had a very long period, much longer than we expected
at Hawaii - about 3 minutes before - although the spacecraft
communicator William Thornton didn't take advantage of it
until actual time and then we had a couple of minutes after-
wards. The next acquisition of signal is 23 minutes and 37
seconds from now at Vanguard tracking ship. This is Skylab
i-. Control at 26 minutes 52 seconds after the hour.

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SL-II MC-I044/I
Time: 15:36 CDT, 22:20:36 GMT
6/15/73

PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 36 minutes


and 12 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time the
spacecraft is traveling over the South Pacific, headed towards
the Vanguard tracking site. And we came up to announce that
there will be a press conference with Astronaut Story Musgrave
to discuss and to watch film of the ED31. That's an educational
experiment, that carry-on spores experiment run by a high school
student from Rochester, New York. That will be at 4 o'clock in
the briefing room of building i. So in 25 minutes, you will have
Story Musgrave available in building 1 to discuss ED31 and to
watch the second play of TV-17, TV-18. That's at 4 otclock -
Story Musgrave. This is Skylab Control at 36 minutes 56 seconds
after the hour.

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SL-II MC-1045/I
Time: 15:47 CDT, 22:20:47 GMT
6/15/73

PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 47 minutes


and 59 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
we are approaching the Vanguard Tracking Station. Because
the air-to-ground from Vanguard will interfer with the press
conference which is to begin shortly at 4 o'clock_ we will be
making a recording of that air-to-ground and will play that
back at the earliest opportunity. So the voice from Vanguard
will be played back at a later time, as will probably the
Ascension pass. This is Skylab Control at 48 minutes and
32 seconds after the hour.

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SL-II MCI046/I
Time: 15:57 CDT, 22:20:57 GMT
6/15/73

PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 57 minutes


and 15 seconds Greenwich mean time. We'd like to remind you
that in approximately 2-1/2 minutes, there will be a discussion
of experiment ED number 31, bacteria and spores experiment,
one of the high school experiments, and it will - the discussion
will be conducted during the replay of TV-17 and TV-18, two
television versions of that experiment. And Storey Musgrave,
the astronaut, will be available for a press conference
at 4:00 p.m. central daylight time in the briefing room of
building i at the Johnson Space Center. This is a reminder.
That 4:00 o'clock briefing is just about to begin. This is
Skylab Control at 20 hours 57 minutes 59 senonds Greenwich
mean time.

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SL-II MC-I047/I
Time: 16:24 CDT, 22:21:24 GMT
6/15/73

PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 24 minutes


and 42 seconds Greenwich mean time. At this time we will
play back the air-to-ground that was recorded over Vanguard
and Ascension Tracking Stations. Total air-to-ground was
only about a minute and a half. There was very little
conversation between the crew and spacecraft communicator,
William Thornton, but we will play back that air-to-ground
from the last two tracking stations at this time. There is
a - to be a briefing with William Schneider at 4:30 in
building i, in the briefing room - William Schneider, Director
of the Skylab Program Office. And we will have that briefing
shortly after we have replayed this alr-to-ground. Here is
the air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for i0 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS for 9 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC We'll be LOS in 1 minute; Ascension at
21:04.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, LOS in one minute. You will have
the medical conference at Guam at 21:50.
SC Houston, roger.
CC Go, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
SC Did you receive the status report?
CC Pete, I'm afraid we've lost you.
SC Okay. (Garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control. After that
exciting interchange at the last two tracking stations, they
did note during the pass that the next tracking station, Guam,
which is 23 minutes from now, will be reserved for a private
medical conference, that's to take place at 21:50, or at
5:50 central daylight time. Correct that, at 4:50 central
daylight time. That will be the next pass at the Guam
Tracking Station for the private medical conference to discuss
the present state of the crew's health. This is the daily
conference. At 4:30 there is the briefing with William
Schneider, Director of the Skylab Program Office, in the
building 1 briefing room. This is Skylab Control at 27 min-
utes 32 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC-I048/I
Time: 16:53 CDT, 22:21:53 GMT
6/15/73

PAO Skylab Control; 21 hours 53 minutes


and 8 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are going to bring up
live the Guam commentary, although we have already had
acquisition of signal for several minutes at Guam. We do
expect a private medical conference to be underway. But
we will bring it up live in case that medical conference is
completed and they turn the voice back over to
Skylab Control. This is Skylab Control at 53 minutes and
30 seconds remaining llve for the Guam pass.
CC AOS for 3 minutes.
SC Roger.
SC Got any news tonight?
CC Yeah. I'ii give you some in just a
second. On the ATM, we've sent a pad up; should be in the
teleprinter now, on unattended OPS on H-ALPHA i_ and if you
could implement that as soon as possible please.
CC I'm sorry. Delay that. That's after
the last pass. That's to be implemented after the last
pass.
SC Okay.
CC Not a whole lot in the news tonight.
p It says the President has named General Weyand as new
Chief of - Vice Chief of Staff to succeed General Haig, who
is retiring to become White House Chief of Staff.
There's something a bit different in New York this evening.
Apparently, the purse snatchers jumped a 19-year old girl,
grabbed her purse and ran for a taxi, and a hundred people
surrounded the taxi and wouldn't let it move until the cops
came.

SC (Laughter).
CC Afraid the price of dollars keeps drop-
ping and gold keeps going up, in case anybody has any gold.
SC Got some stawage.
CC Pete might be interested in this.
Apparently, they had a small earthquake in Massachusetts
4 or 5 on the Richter scale and it didn't do any real damage.
SC Goodness, that must be the first in
quite a while up there.
CC Yeah. I thought things were super stable
up there. Poor American tourists are paying 19 percent more
than they expected, that is they're getting 19 percent less
for their dollars.
CC East and West Germany have applied for member-
ship in the United Nations. We're going LOS here in approxi-
mately 30 seconds. We'll have you over Vanguard at 22:27.
SC Roger, Houston. Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 57 minutes
and 50 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
now at the Guam tracking station. The next acquisition of
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signal is approximately 1/2 hour from now at the


Vanguard Station - Vanguard Ship off the coast of Argentina.
At this time we will be down for the next 30 minutes. I
do have an announcement for those of you who are interested
in following the details of the entry sims to be performed
tomorrow morning. They're expected to begin at approximately
5:48 a.m., that's 10:48 Greenwich mean time. And you may
follow them by looking at your original flight plans, we
finally have a use for those. The flight plan that was
put out earlier in the year is essentially correct. You
begin - On the flight plan you have - it has it beginning
at approximately 14:30_ instead it should begin at approxi-
mately ii hours Greenwich mean time. At that time the phase
elapsed time clock will be set to 15:00, as it says in the
instructions, start entry sim, instead of 14:37 Greenwich
mean time, it will be approximately 11:00 Greenwich mean
time. We will set the phase elapsed time clock, that's the clock
that's used for timing events - specific events. We will
set that at 1500 hours and from there on the flight plan is
essentially correct, and that will be the procedure used
tomorrow. For those of you who need help, that's page 3-28
in the flight plan. This is Skylab Control at 59 minutes
and 26 seconds after the hour.

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SL-II MC-I049/I
Time: 17:26 CDT, 22:22:26 GMT
6/15/73

PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 26 minutes and


22 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are just about to have
acquisition of signal at Vanguard, and we expect to have two
more passes during the rest of the evening, and those will
he the last two passes before the crew goes to sleep as we
suspect. Should hear a voice of spacecraft communicator, William
Thornton calling up to the crew. Flight Director is still
Donald Puddy. This shift is on for another three or four
hours. This is Skylab Control. We'll stay live for air-to-
ground from Vanguard tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS ii minutes.
SC Roger, Houston. We'll be giving you the
evening status report.
CC We're standing by Pete, go ahead.
SC Okay, the CDR ate everything plus two butter
cookies. Caught me. The SPT ate everything except one coffee.
PLT ate everything except corn and bread with dinner, coffee
and his snack. He didn't have he had a Delta H20 plus
1.0 and an optional salt of 2.5 and I'm sorry, the CDR had
his optional salt, i0.0.
CC We copy that, Pete.
SC Okay. Photolog day 166, 16 millimeter
(garble) 35 millimeter C130, frame count 44; C128, frame
count 50; 70 millimeter CX06, 103. No EREP. Drawer A: A-I
02 Charlie India 12, i00 percent; Charlie India 05. A-2 is
03 Charlie India 06, 35; Charlle India 03. A-3 is 06, Charlie
India 13, i00 percent; Charlie India i0. A-4 is 05, no supply,
no film; Charlie India ii to tape dump. Floating, 07, Charlie
India 0966 (Garble) 003. The flight plan was completed as
scheduled today. In addition we did 552-1. We have three
remaining to go. We'll get them tomorrow. Can't think of
anything else. As soon as Joe gets done with his ATH pass,
we're going to do the TV tour, one of them, and go to bed.
So, it'll be on the tape in about an hour - an hour and a half.
CC Copy that, Pete.
CC Pete, the crew questions should be coming
up in a moment. If you don't have time to get to them this
evening we'll catch them tomorrow.
SC Okay.
SC Bill, I want to verify the position of a
couple of circuit breakers down here in the workshop. The
thermal control system logic breakers are still open. Is that
what you intend - where you all thought they were? Is
that you where you want them?
CC Stand by a half on that one Paul.
SC Okay.
CC That is affirm, Paul. We want those out.
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SC Okay. The thing that surprised me after


we got back after EVA, and I wasn't aware of it, I could not
turn the fans ON from the workshop until I'd closed
those breakers. Then once we got the fans going, opening the
breakers had no effect, but apparently after those power
(garble) turn them on when they're in the OWS position in the
airlock. I say that Bill, because it's a surprise to me. You
may pass it on to (Garble) (Garble). I don't know if he knows
it or not.
CC Okay, and we're looking at it to confirm
that it's the way its supposed to go down here.
SC Okay, why don't you confirm with your draw-
ing, that's not the way it works.
CC Okay.
CC Did you have another one, Paul?
SC Thank you, that's all, Bill.
CC Okay, and be advised that no further con-
sideration is being given to additional EREP pass

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SL-II MC-1050/I
Time: 17:32 CDT 22:22:32 GMT
6/15/73

SPT Negative, that's at1, Bill.


CC Okay, and be advised that no further
consideration is being given to additional EREP passes.
SPT Okay, thank you.
CC LOS in i minute. We'll have you at
Ascension at 22:41. And SPT, Houston.
CC And it is SPT that you may be through
at the console. The 54 filter goes to 1 and stowage. And
H Alfa, should be placed in unattended ops for the pab, that
went up earlier.
SPT Bill, we did not - I didn't find any
pad in there. You had better tell us what you want.
CC Okay, we'll catch you on this next
pass coming up.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 39 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal at the Vanguard
tracking station, and we expect to acquire again at Ascen-
sion in approximately 2 minutes and 20 seconds. The question
sent up to the crew included questions on operations of
the EREP, stowage of film, some questions regarding the stowage,
list number of those, and also a question on the redesign
of waste management compartment foot restraint. They'd
like the crew to make suggestions on that3 to come up with
some ideas on that. They did indicate that they would like
to ask later on some questions about Earth Resources so
that they can use these in the training of the Skylab III
crew, the next Skylab crew to go up. Tomorrow's flight plan
calls for an early morning motion sensitivity run of the
MI31, or human vestibular, or balance function. The MI31
involves sense of balance that human beings can feel in
space. Today the oculo gyro illusion portion of MI31 was
performed. This oculo gyro illusion is an illusion produced
by eye movements. It's used to measure sensitivity to very
slight movement in the semicircular canals. Because of
the illusion, you can measure sensitivity levels much lower
than would normally be reported by a crew member. Permission
has been given for rotation speeds up to 30 revolutions
per minute tomorrow. That's near the maximum speed of 35
revolutions per minute on the rotating literature. And
during the motion sensitivity, or motion sickness phase of
MI31. Paul Weitz will be the subject rotated in the spinning
chair. So far the astronauts have shown no indication of
motion sickness even at speeds well above those causing
sickness on Earth. Tomorrow's run will be at the highest
speed so far. This experiment begins at 4:20 a.m. central
daylight time tomorrow. Most of the morning tomorrow will
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6/15/73

be occupied with a simulation of maneuvers for splash down.


This simulation or run through begins before undocking of the
command module and runs through the deorbit burn. We're now
coming up on acquisition of signal at Ascension, so we will
remain live for air to ground from Ascension.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS 7 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC And we will send you another copy of
that pad up during this pass. That's for the H-Alpha 1
unattended obs.
CDR Can you tell me what it is?
CC Do you want me to read it, Pete?
CDR Yeah, if you can right here. You might
as well pull it down.
CC To allow H Alfa 1 picture taking and
during unattended observations at the power down, configure
ATM as follows; H Alfa i, camera power switch ON, H Alfa i,
door switch OPEN, H Alfa 1 frames per minute switch i,
VERIFY H Alfa i, night innerlock switch override, H Alfa i,
auto switch - -

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SL-II MC-I051/I
Time: 17:42 CDT 22:22:42 GMT
6/15/73

CC H-Alpha i, AUTO switch. AUTO.


To return to normal H Alpha I OP. We'll send you this pad
up tonight and this remainder will be on it.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control. We have a brief loss
of signal. We will again pick up the station immediately
at Canary Island and then at Madrid. We'll remain live for
this air to ground.
PAO Mission Control has reported - this is
Skylab Control - Mission Control has reported that the
crew at the present time is involved in doing a tour of
the spacecraft for television. Doing it live for dumping
there and for that reason there will be very little com-
munications during this period. They are running through
the various parts of the spacecraft and attempting to record
that on television. But we will remain live for any poss-
ible air to ground during these last two tracking stations.
CC Skylab, one minute to LOS for bedtime
and we will be dumping the tape recorder at Guam at 23:25.
From the quiet sounds of things down here, you must have
had a very busy day up there.
CDR We're doing that (garble) right now.
And we'll see you in the morning. Thank you.
CC Good night.

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SL-II MC-I052/I
Time: 18:00 CDT 22:30:00 GMT
6/15/73

PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours i minute and


20 seconds, Greenwich mean time. We have finally lost
signal at the Madrid tracking station. We are not expected
to acquire any data again for 23 minutes. The crew at this
time been instructed to go to sleep. They've indicated as
we lost signal, that they were completing their tour of the
spacecraft with the television camera, and we do not expect
to hear from them again during the evening. Most of to-
morrow morning, in addition to the MI31 activities to begin
at 4:20 a. m. will be occupied with a simulation of maneuvers
for splashdown. The simulation or run through will begin
before undocking of the Command Module in the simulation
splashdown procedures and will run through the deorbit burn.
During such a simulation the crew practices all the necessary
activities just as they will occur during the hours before
splashdown next Friday morning. But no actual movement of
the Command Module takes place. Simulations are essentially
verbal going throughs of necessary activities with the crew
acting out their roles in a kind of rehersal. The crew was
informed during this past series of communications that they
would have no further EREP activity during the mission.
That's Earth Resourses experiment package activities. This
had been expected_ but some consideration was requested
for an additional E REP pass, and this had been mentioned
to the crew earlier. Flight planners decided today that
insufficient time was available for an additional pass, which
would require several man hours of effort. So the crew has
said goodnight at 6:00 p.m. and they will be awakened to-
morrow morning at 2:00 a. m. central daylight time, after
8 hours of sleep. This will adjust the Skylab sleep schedule
to 6:00 p. m. sleep and 2:00 a. m. wakeup for the remainder
of the flight, with the exception of that final day before
splashdown. That's an attempt to change the circadian
rythum or the sleep habits of the space crew so that they
will be in good shape for that short period of sleep the
final night before they splashdown. We expect no further
communications from the spacecraft. This will be the last
report until 2:00 a. m. This is Skylab Control at 3 minutes
35 seconds after the - I'm sorry. One final message. We
do have a report from the surgeon, following the Guam pass
Skylab crewmen are still enjoying an excellent state of
physical well-being and a high level of morale. That's
the private medical conference report from the surgeon.
This is Skylab Control, signing off until 2:00 a. m. to-
morrow morning at 23 hours 3 minutes and 59 seconds,
Greenwich mean time.

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SL-II MC-I053/I
Time: 01:58 CDT, 23:06:58 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at six hours 59


minutes Greenwich mean time. We're a couple of minutes away
from acquisition at Madrid. We'll be sending a wake-up call
to the crew at acquisition. The crew now on the schedule of
wake-up at seven hours Greenwich mean time or 2:00 a.m. central
daylight time, and go-to-sleep time 6:00 p.m. central day-
light time. This schedule will prevail until the night before
re-entry. The primary activity today will be a re-entry
simulation for the crew and the flight controllers in the
Mission Control Center. We'll stand by now for the first
communications of the day at Madrid.
CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.
SC Boy, you're Johnny on the spot aren't you?
CC Well, we just happened to have a site here
with about nine minutes to go at Madrid.
SC I expected so. (garble)
SC Hey, Hank, you got somebody sitting down
there that doesn't have anything to do for a minute?
CC What you got in mind?
SC How many revs have we gone and how many
miles?
CC Skylab, Houston, all your pads are onboard
now and we're working on we don't have a FIDO here. I guess
we're trying to figure out how many revs it is, but the work-
shop is on rev 471, but y'all haven't done that many.
SC Yeah, Paul says he can sure tell who's
important. I think we're on about 320 something or 330.
CC That's the ball park figure.
SC I keep losing track, out during the
night time.
CC You haven't been putting ticks on the wall,
counting them?
SC Yeah, but we've run out of wall space in
my bedroom.
SC Key, Hank, while I got you real quick we
never did put the easy questions on B channel.
CC Oh, you didn't do that? Okay.
CC Are you going to get to that sometime
today?
SC Yeah, well let me answer a couple of them.
SC Question number two about EREP swabs.
We got EREP swabs coming out our tape recorder (garble)
CC You've got a big squeal there. What did
you say?
SC I say, question number two which was how
about the inventory on EREP tape recording cleaning swabs.
We've got those things coming out our ears. Those guys don't
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need to bring any up on their film. Three.


CC Okay, copy.
SC And question number three, the SPT does
have all that data in his log book and he will return it.
CC Copy.
SC Number four, and should the redesign of
the waste management compartment foot restraint include acceptance
of triangles, mushrooms and bare feet. If they didn't use
a different cloth on the existing ones right now they will
accept all of those anyhow. And it's just that the cloth
- it's that cloth that they're using - it's plastic and it
just doesn't allow you to open it up or close it down depending
on what you're wearing on your feet at the time. Then ought to be
softer and longer.
CC Roger.
SC We do recommend yon look for something
straight for the rotating litter chair. What we're using is
Just a plain ole strap up here and it does the Job but it's
not too suitable. And on S082A, did the flare execute flag
indicates flare 82 is operated in the flare mode. To the best
of PLT's knowledge it did.

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SL-II MC-I054/I
Time: 02:11 CDT 23:07:11 GMT
6/16/73

CDR And on SO82A did the flare execute flag


indicate flare 82 is operated in the FLARE MODE. To the
best of the PLT's knowledge it did. Got number 7, well ques-
tion number 7, I'ii have to put on tape. And CDR, 8, what
is the status of 553. Wheel i is completely done on 553.
Wheel 2 has the three balls that are not - that do not come off
done, and two that do come off done. And I'm ready to re-
turn that for them to examine the whole wheel.
CC Roger.
CDR Nine. I did answer the question.
Don't forget the workshop was in a screwy attitude when
we rendezvoued with an EGIL special or something and I
don't think it's a - I think you can use the ATM solar
wing as a means to range on but I can't say what they look like,
cause it wasn't in the same attitude it's gonna be in for
SL-3.
CC Roger, and we're just about to LOS now,
Pete. Honeysuckle at 46.
CDR Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours ii
minutes Greenwich mean time. Madrid has had loss of signal
of Skylab. Next station to acquire will be Honeysuckle in
Australia in approximately 35 minutes. During this wakeup
pass the crew asked the number of revolutions and their
total milage to date. Here on the ground some of the flight
controllers are coming up with those numbers that will probably
be passed up to the crew on the next pass over Honeysuckle.
The revolution number 471, which appears on the map, is
revolution number for SL-I, the Skylab workshop. During the
latter part of the pass over Madrid, Skylab Commander Pete
Conrad was answering a series of questions which had been
sent up to the crew on the teleprinter in a supplement to
yesterday's execute package. We'll come back up just
prior to acquisition at Honeysuckle. At 7 hours 12 minutes,
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 02:44 CDT, 23:07:44 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at seven hours 45


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching acquisition
at the Honeysuckle, Australia tracking station.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle six
minutes.
SC Good morning, Hank. Would you care to Join
us in a cup of coffee?
CC Well, I wish I could. I'm sipping on a
Pepsi Cola right now. Hey, you know the other day, I guess
it was several days ago, you reported on - I think it was
your pointing went off about a half of a solar radius and so
you had to enable the MPC and drive the wedge back. We've
been looking into that and we think we've got the answer here.
The fine Sun sensor wedges when they're under the ATM DC con-
trol are rate limited and we think if you had waited they
would have eventually have caught up with you.
SC Well, Hank, it was a pretty abrupt thing.
It's only happened a couple of times. It darn near jumps
off a half a radius.
SC That's right.
SC The other guys are saying that's right,
indicating it happened to them also.
CC Well_ it may have been a little - maybe we
misunderstood the problem. It sounds like it's a little
different than we thought.
SC I think so.
SC Also, Henry, for ststus. We've put us up
a portable fan again yesterday to try to keep our air to gain
a little bit. That thing does more good than I gave it credit
for. We've actually come down a degree according to our - on
one yesterday morning.
CC Okay, have you got that in the dome hatch
again?
SC That's right. In the dome hatch, blowing
workshop air on the A station and left.
CC Roger.
CC While you're sipping your coffee there, I
guess I could give you the SAP update. We had several flares,
all small, over the last several hours. In active region 27
there was a sub-faint, no X-rays, and in active region 31
we've had no activity since yesterday's bright M4 flare.
Active region 41 has had two sub-normals without X-rays, so
all in all I guess it's all pretty quiet.
SC Okay, we're waiting.
SC They're reported on B channel. Saw one at
35 last night.
CC At what time?
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SC If I recall, it was about 22:03. Was


a small one, there was a little X-ray, a little (garble)
associated with it, but it did not trigger the flare alarm.
CC Roger, copy. And we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Hawaii will be coming up at 08:00 with a recorder
dump.
PAO This is Skylab Control at seven hours 53
minutes Greenwich mean time. Honeysuckle has had loss of
signal with Skylab. The next station to acquire will be
Hawaii in about 13-1/2 minutes. The crew's having breakfast,
still about another hour left in their post-sleep activities.
At the end of that time Commander Pete Conrad will activate
the S073 experiment. That's the Gegenschein zodiacal light
experiment. That's installed in the scientific airlock.
And at nine hours 20 minutes G.m.t., the Pilot Paul Weitz is
scheduled for an MI3I run, the human vestibular function ex-
periment. This will be the motion sensitivity phase of that
experiment and they will rotate the litter chair as high
as 30 revolutions per minute, which would be a new high for
RPM's on the chair. Paul Weitz will be the subject with the
Science Pilot Joe Kerwin as the observer. There will be a
brief Apollo telescope mount run by the Science Pilot, Kerwin,
following MI31. All together today, one hour 58 minutes of
Apollo telescope mount operation is scheduled. And the
entry simulations the - are due to start about ll hours
Greenwich mean time. We're ll minutes away from Hawaii
acquisition. We'll come back up just prior to that pass. At
seven hours 56 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

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Time: 03:06 CDT 23:08:06 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 6


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is within range of
the Hawaii station. We'll stand by for conversation there.
PAO The spacecraft communicator is astronaut
Henry Hartsfield. Flight director on this silver team is
Neil Hutchinson.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii, 7 minutes.
SPT Roger.
CC Hey, Joe, we looked at our data here,
and Hawaii picked up a subnormal flare in active region 43
last night at 22:02. It peaked at 22:05 and they didn't
get any X-Rays.
SPT I'ii check my coordinates, Hank.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. Goldstone at 18.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 15
minutes Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal at
Hawaii. And Goldstone will acquire in about 2 minutes.
We'll stay up during this brief LOS.

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Time: 03:16 CDT 23:08:16 GMT
6/16/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone, 7


minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control 8 hours 18 minutes
Greenwich mean time, and Goldstone does have acquisition now.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS.
Bermuda at 29.
SPT Roger, Houston. I caught that flare
in active region 35, because it was an unfamiliar area
and it looked to have about the right coordinates. 43
wasn't even on the pad at the time. Nor is it on this morn-
ing. I think I remember hearing about it, but, I don't know
it's coordinates. So it could have been 43. If it's down
in that region.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston through Bermuda 6-1/2
minutes.

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Time: 03:29 CDT, 23:08:29 GMT
6/16/73

CC SPT, Houston. We just checked up on that


active region 43. It's real close to 35. It's about best
we can guess about 150.3 and 35 is 120.5.
SPT Okay, I'm sure that wasn't (garble), Hank.
SPT Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS, Canaries
at 38.
PAO This is Skylab Control at eight hours
37 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is now bridging a
small gap between coverage of the Bermuda station and the
Canary Island station. Canaries will have acquisition within
a few seconds. We'll stand by for that pass.
CC Skylah, Houston through Canaries 9 and
1/2 minutes.
SPT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Flight Director,
Chuck Lewis and his bronze team of flight controllers are
preparing to relieve Flight Director Nell Hutchinson and the
silver team. Nell Hutchinson has scheduled his Change-of-
shift briefing for 4:15 a.m. central daylight time in the
news center briefing room at the Johnson Space Center. Change-
of-shlft briefing scheduled for 4:15 a.m. central daylight
time. The spacecraft communicator on the bronze team will
be Astronaut Dick Truly. Flight Director Phil Shaffer and
the purple team of flight controllers will also be in the
control center handling the entry simulations for the command
and service module. Purple team specializes in the command
and service modules and will be the prime team during entry.
At four and a half minutes left in this pass at Canaries. We'll
stand by.

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SL-II MC-I059/I
Time: 03:45 CDT 23:08:45 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control 8 hours 48 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Canary station has had loss of signal,
however Ascension will pick up Skylab in about 30 seconds
for a 3 minute acquisition. As Skylab just skirts the
edge of the Ascension range. A low - very low elevation
angle, 1.3 degrees. We'll stand by for this short Ascension
pass.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 52
minutes, Greenwich mean time. Ascension has loss of signal.
The next station to acquire Skylab will be Honeysuckle in
30 and 1/2 minutes. We'll come beck up just before acquis-
ition. At 8 hours 52 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 04:21 CDT 23:09:21 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, 9 hours 21


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
at Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Honeysuckle
for 8 minutes.
CDR Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Flight Director
Nell Hutchinson has left the Control Center in route to the
JSC News Center for the change of shift briefing. That
briefing should start shortly after loss of signal at
Honeysuckle, in about 3 minutes.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 31
minutes Greenwich mean time. Honeysuckle has had loss of
signal. Hawaii will acquire in about 12 minutes. We'll
take the llne down now for the change of shift news con-
ference with Flight Director Neil Hutchinson. At 9 hours
32 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-1061/I
Time: 04:53 CDT, 23:09:53 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 1 min-


ute Greenwich mean time. We're about a minute and a half
away from acquisition at Goldstone. We've acquired 40 seconds
in tape at the Hawaii station. We'll play that now and go
into Goldstone live.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii for
the next 9 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 20 seconds
from LOS. We're going to see you at Goldstone at 9:56 and
be advised that this stateside pass we'll be cranking up the
entry sim. I will have some final pad updates for you. There'll
be - and per the entry message, I guess you're going to copy
them on sheets that you've taken out of the SWS updates book.
There'll be two P30 pads and an entry pad.
CDR You mean the pads you're going to send us
are the ones I already have?
CC These are updates to the pads you already
have, Pete.
PAO This is Skylab Control, that's the end
of the tape. We're a few seconds away from AOS at Goldstone
we'll stand hy for this stateside pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for
6 minutes.
PLT Say, Dick, I got an observation for
you. l'm not sure who's interested in it, but can't find
anybody else to leave (garble) for him to pass on to Paul
(garble). Will you please?
CC Go ahead.
PLT I was looking around to see if I could
see Seattle. We got thunder right before we came up on it. I
was watching sunrise and in the airglow - at the top of the air-
glow at sunrise, I saw this, what they call a nomilus or what
I understand to be an anomilis occasional white line in the
layers, the different color layers. And right at the very top
of the airglow I seen the white line before, only this time
it had form to it, just like you're looking at clouds, like the
sun was shining on clouds. It was very strange. I've never
seen it before. It's always been a line before and this time
as I say, it had form. llke there were clouds in there, much
(garble) clouds, I think.
CC Roger, Paul. Thank you much and 1'11
pass it on.
PLT Thank you.
CC And Skylab, Houston. I do have updates
for the pads that we sent you on the teleprinter. The updates
I have are for the shape burn and the retrofire burn, which
are P30 pads and also a final update to the Entry Pad that
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you go up on the teleprinter. I'd like to zead them up when


you've got time to copy.
SC Wait i.
CC Roger.
CDR Okay. I'm ready for the P30s.
CC Roger. This is the shape burn. NOUN 33,
016, 55, 5750 minus 2610 plus 0000 plus 0655, 359, 193, 000,
2543, 0011, 3080. It's a 14 second, 4 quads, the NOUN 47,
weight 28238, pitch trim plus 057, yaw trim minus 011. Go
ahead.
CDR Okay. That was the P30 shaping, NOUN 33,
016, 55, 5750 minus 2610 plus 0000 plus 0655, 359, 193, 000,
2543, 0011, 3080. 14 seconds, 4 quad 2823, pitch plus 057,
yaw minus 011.
CC That's affirmative. Now, I've got one
update for the Retrofire Burn.
CDR Go ahead.
CC NOUN 33, 020, 00, 0170, minus 1848, plus
0000, plus 0453, 000, 180, 000, 1750, 0007, 0390. This is
14 seconds, 4 quads also, weight 27491, the trims, plus 058,
minus 023.

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SL-II MCi062/I
Time: 05:00 CDT, 23:10:00 GMT
6/16/73

CC Minus 0 2 3 and stand by i on the readbaek.


Pete we're about 30 seconds from LOS here at Goldstone. We're
going to have a short break and we're going to see you in
Bermuda and in about 2 or 3 minutes I'ii pick you up and get
the readback there. There's one remark on that second pad and
that is the command module RCS capture is a perigee altitude
of 45 nautical mil_s. 1'11 see you at Bermuda. And we'll have
state vectors ready to uplink at Bermuda.
CC Skylab, Houston we're AOS at Bermuda for
the next l0 minutes and I'm standing by for the readbaek,
Pete.
CDR Roger.
CDR (garble) 8, plus all zips, plus 0 4 5 3,
000, 18, 0000, minus 7500007 0390; 14 seconds four quads
7491 plus 058 minus 023 perigee capture are 45 nautical.
CC Roger, and when you started reading back
the first four lines down through Noun 81, DELTA-VX you
dropped out. Would you read me those four lines again, please.
CDR 020, 00, 0170, minus 1848, plus all zips,
plus 0453.
CC Roger, got all that and I've got an entry
pad update for you.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Roger. Starting with area; 476-5 doff,
039, plus 2262 minus 12977, 11524, 25979, 2610, 2643, minus
02974. Right 55 55; 3116, 26 21, 3006, 3413. Go ahead.
CDR Okay. On the entry update here you have
476-5 doff, 039, plus 2262 minus 12977, 11524, 25979, 2610,
26 plus 43, minus 02974. Right 55 55; 31 plus 16, 26 plus 21,
30 plus 06, 34 plus 13. Go ahead.
CC Roger. I've got 3 remarks to this pad.
The targets north of the ground track. Lift vector is up and
the pitch for rolling entry is 58 degrees and that pitch
for roll and entry is on page E/5-12, and while I'm on that
there was a typo mistake on the pad last night and it said
page E5-2 the correct one is 5-12.
CDR Okay.
CC CDR, Houston. I've got a couple or three
more notes for you. The first one is after 18 00 PET. You're
P52 stars will be 37 and 45 and I have some comments to pass
up to you about the flyaround.
CDR Go ahead.
CDR Go ahead.
CC CDR, Houston. I have some comments here
on the flyaround. Be advised before I read them these are
also accurate for entry day. First of all the major change
in the flyaround is that the SWS will be in solar inertial
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rather than rolled out of the plane in order to save TACS


propellant, so you'll fly around in the SWS X-Z plane. And
there are two cautions to be aware of during this flyaround.
One is that since Beta is very close to 70 degrees - 68 to
70 degrees, you will come fairly close to gimbal lock and you
must be aware of that as you do your flyaround as I'm sure
you will be -

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SL-II MCI063/I
Time: 05:11 CDT, 23:10:11 GMT
6/16/73

CC It runs 68 to 78 degrees. You will come


fairly close to gimbal lock, and you must be aware of that
as you de your flyaround as I'm sure you will be. And
Rusty makes a suggestion that since you will be rolled over,
you might want to consider setting up the - the GDC ball
so that you can fly around in the belly (garble). That's
something you might consider thinking about. The second
caution note is - is that the television can't stand to
be turned on within 22 degrees of the Sun. We don't think
that'll be a particular problem because the flyaround is
going to be fairly nominal and we're going to have early
TV over the states, so probably when you get underneath the
- the Skylab and looking back toward the Sun that problem
will have gone away and the TV will be off. You have about
90 pounds of RCS propellant available, and the flyaround
certainly shouldn't take that much. And sometime we'd like
to know if you'd like your flyaround chart on page 2-14,
the angle's all updated for you, we'll be glad to do that
if you like. We plan to have television over (garble) from
Goldstone to Mila during the flyaround. The camera configura-
tion is unchanged from your previous information about it. And
the targets are unchanged. We are particularly interested
in any vent flumes, debris, particle clouds, or any discoloration
on the Skylab that you see during flyaround.
CDR Okay, the distance still 300 feet?
CC That's affirmative. We're going to back
out to 300 feet and go around just for nominal.
CDR Okay, go ahead and send me the new chart
for page 14. And I think the other thing while we're discussing
it right now - would be we're going to see about taking the TV
out on the EVA. So y'all just see the parasol.
CC Roger, Pete, and I'm not sure I copied.
You said you do want us to update that chart. Is that correct?
C_R I do want to update the chart. That's correct.
CC Okay, real good. Stand by i please.
CC CDR, Houston, also at this site, this is
the place we'd have done some uplinks for you. We were prepared
to de those. We got them out to the site so the computers
yours again. And we got about 2 minutes to LOS. I have
one question from the SWS flight about the operation this
morning. We had a little message tucked in to the bottom
of the summary flight plan that may have been overlooked.
And that was, we were requested a TV 5 for your BMMD measure-
ments this morning. We noticed VTR is at the beginning of
the tape and we're wondering if we missed that one, or whether
or not you got it and rewound the tape so we can make our
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plans for the rest of the day.


CDR No, we sure didn't see it. (garble)
CC I think we stuck it on the bottom of the
summary flight plan and we'll take that one. It was - it
was easy to miss. No problem.
PLT Hey, Houston, you got a minute, Dick?
CC That's affirm, Paul. We got i minute
to LOS and then we're going to see you guys at Ascension
at 10:22, so go ahead you got about 45 seconds.
PLT We got these EPS/ECS parameters, which
the message says (garble). Now, you want values? You just
want to know if they're in limits? I'ii do it any way you
want. And I'm sure you're aware of page 3-2 of systems check-
list 3-22.
SC You there, Houston?
CC Roger. Stand by, please.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to want
the actual values. And we're very short on time here so we're
going to have to you at Ascension.
f PLT Whoo, okay See you there. (garble) many
passes of that (garble) (garble).
CC Roger, and we're going to be comparing
them real-time.
CDR If you guys want things like that on (garble)
it's got to come up the night before. Was it on the night
before? Saw it this morning.
CC Have to check, Pete. We'll get that to you.
PAO This is SKylab Control, at 14 hours 23
minutes. We've had loss of signal at Bermuda. Next station
to acquire will be Ascension in about 5-i/2 minutes. The
numbers of maneuvers were being read up during the stateside
pass are in connection with the entry simulation that is
scheduled for today.

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SL-II MC-I064/I
Time: 05:17 CDT, 23:10:17 GMT
6/16/73

PAO The entry simulation. That is scheduled


for today. Skylab's orbital parameters now are 242 by 229.4
nautical miles; the orbital period, 1 hour 33 minutes 13.7 sec-
onds. We'll come back up Just prior to Ascension acquisition.
At 14 hours 24 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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i
SL-II MC-I065/I
Time: 05:21 CDT, 23:10:21 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylah Control at 14 hours 28 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within range of
the Ascension Island Tracking Station now. We'll stand by
for conversation during this pass.
SC Are you there, Houston?
CC PLT, Houston. Affirmative. Stand by,
please, just a second.
CC PLT, Houston. Go ahead.
SC Okay. I understand you want to compare
these parameters real time. So do you want me to read them
real time now, or do you want me to give you the values I
logged a half hour ago?
CC Roger, Paul. We're having a discussion
about it now. We're having an antenna problem at the site,
and we're considering doing this not during the real-tlme
stations. And we're talking about it now, and I'ii get right
back to you as soon as I have an answer.
SC Okay.
SC While you're down there, Houston, could
you tell me what message 2130 is?
CC CDR, Houston. Say again, please.
SC What message is 2, i, 3, 0?
CC Stand by.
PAO This is Skylab Control with a correction
on the Greenwich mean time of the last announcement. They've
started the phase elapse time clock for the reentry simulation
in the GMT clock location. The correct Greenwich mean time
as of now, i0 hours 25 minutes.
CC PLT, Houston. If you're listening, we've -
I've got an alternate proposal for how to do these checks
that I think will be a little bit easier on you and also on
the air-to-ground.
SC Go ahead.
CC Okay. We're recording the proper sub-
frame on board. I'd suggest that you do these checks by re-
cording them on channel B. You can do it at any time that
you have a chance, starting now. And the only thing we would
appreciate it is - is if you'd give us a time hack, particularly
if you take a break in, or a gap in, the time that you put the
channel - the data on channel B. Then we'll dump the voice
data and the suhframe, and we'll put it together on the ground.
SC Okay.
SC Okay. Houston, your 2324-Alfa, day 25
transfers are complete.
CC Okay. Thank you very much.
SC And further on that 2324, I'd like to
read them for the (garble) shots, and do the requirement.
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CC CDR, Houston. I didn't copy your second


comment on 2324-Alfa.Would you say again, please?
SC 2324-Alfa, the next to the last sets,
I'd like the reason and the requirements for the photos.
SC In other words, who wants them?
CC Okay. I'ii get the answer for you.
SC And why?
CC Roger.
SC And for the flares, Dick, on the same
message, I'ii get those housekeepings all done today.
CC Okay. Very good.
CC CDR, Houston. In answer to your two
questions, message 2130 was the day 25 transfers, which I
assume you've figured out from your report. And the second
one, I don't I do not have a immediate answer on that
second one, but we're sure going to get you one, and we'll
get back to you when we can.
SC Okay. There are comments on the 2130
already on B channel. That's why I get very frustrated,
because I don't think anybody has B channel for a week.
CC Roger, Pete.
CC PLT, Houston. Back to the subject of
this check. We've still got about 2 minutes and 25 seconds
left here at Ascension. One thing we would like in real time
is On panel 225, are both the 150 psi RE Gs OPEN? And we'd
like a read out of the N2 pressure on panel 225.
SC Well, I was wondering the same thing.
Yes, both the REGs are OPEN, and on board they read 140.
CC Okay.

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Time: 05:30 CDT, 23:10:30 GMT
6/16/73

CC - 150 psi RE GS OPEN and we'd like a readout


of theN2 pressure on panel 225.
PLT I was wondering the same thing. Yes
both the REGS are OPEN and on board they read 140.
CC Okay. Thank you much. We're reading 142
so that check is good.
PLT Yeah, and as soon as you figure it out I'd
like an explanation.
CDR Rouston, you there?
CC Certainly, go ahead.
CDR You're 23 19 to Alpha 2. I would like you
to uplink the checklist changes to NC20. And let me see if
I can find anything else on there to (garble).
CC Roger.
SC Oh yes. Send us the procedure for dumping
the slot A propellant to CSM. I still don't understand the high
temperatures. Y'all figured the thermal wrong - or do you really
believe that high temperature?
CC CDR, Houston. We copied your question.
We're about 25 seconds from LOS here at Ascension. We'll have
you atCarnarvon at 10:55 Zulu and we'll have you an answer there.
CDR All right.
PAO This is Skylab Control; l0 hours 33 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Ascension has loss of signal with
Skylab. Carnarvon, Australia will be the next station to acquire
in 22 minutes. We'll come back up just before acquisition at
Carnarvon. At i0 hours 33 minutes Greenwich mean time this
is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-I067/I
Time: 05:54 CDT, 23:10:54 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 10 hours 54 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within range of
the Carnarvon Station. We'll stand by for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Carnarvon for
8 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston. And on the deactivation
checklist, I presume all those times are correct. You guys,
do you know?
CC Roger, Pete. My initial assumption is
that's correct, and we're checking on that now.
SC Drag on.
CC Definitely, the PET times that are in theme
are correct.
SC Okay.
CC Also, Pete, I've got some answers here on
quad-Alfa that might help you understand what our thinking is
here. It turns out that the temps on the propellant and
helium tanks, both in quad-Alfa, are about 20 degrees higher
than our pre-flight thermal predictions. And we sort of
suspected a degradation of the thermal control coating around
quad-Alfa and we had you check that on EVA day, the other
day. And you checked that and didn't see much of anything.
We're not particularly concerned about these slightly elevated
temperatures, but we would like to relieve the pressures in the
tanks before they reach 210 psi, if they do. We plan to relieve
the pressure first by using quad-A for the day 168 trim burn. We
really don't feel that the quad-A to (garble) propellant is going
to be necessary, but just in case it is, we are going to send you
that procedure.
SC Okay.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Two items, one for the
PLT. Paul, whenever you do get finished doing the recording
you do today for us on those EPS and ECS checks, if you'll let
us know, we may want to reconfigure the way we're running the
recording on board. So just let us know. Also, the second
thing for Pete it turns out, Pete, if we aline the GDC prior
to undocking to 33.5 degrees, i0 degrees, and zero degrees roll
pitch yaw (33.5, i0, and 0, prior to undocking), then that fly
around chart that's already listed in the book is good, if
you'd use that on the GDC. And assuming that and no update
to that chart would be required and assuming that you think
this is the way you might do it, Rusty's planning on flying
this in the simulator sometime in the next day or so. And
we'll get back to you and - Just to make sure there's no hookers
in there.
SC Yeah_ let's do it that way. And if that's
right, send me those gimbal angles on it with the checklist.
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CC Roger. I sure will do that. And Just so


you understand that we' ii - you will be flying around then on
the (garble).
SC Roger, Dick.
CC Roger.
SC Okay. I've got the day part of the EPS
check, the EPS readings are already on phase, and right now,
even this very instant, I'm going to put the night readings
on the tape.
CC Very good. Just let us know when you're
through.
SC Wilco.
SC Are you there, Dick?
CC Roger. We're here, Still got 2-1/2
minutes left at Carnarvon.
SC Okay. I show in this Flight Plan that
N30 (garble) converts to 1327 PET on day 29. Is that still
the way we're going to go? Is that correct?
CC I'm checking.
SC Okay, Dick. The night side EPS readings
are on tape now, and that's it.
CC Thank you very much, PLT.

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6/16/73

CC Skylab, Houston we're about 20 seconds


from LOS. We're going to see you at Guam at ii:ii Gmt. We're
going to dump the data tape recorder at Guam. And Pete for
the rest of this entry SIM do you want me to give you AOS/LOS
times and PET I'm assuming, if so, I'm going to change to that.
PLT Yes, give it to us in PET and then the
first time you do it we'll see if we know how to convert.
CC Roger, and I'ii give you a time hack at
Guam.
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 6 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon has had loss of signal.
And Guam will acquire Skylab in about 4 minutes. We'll be
back up just prior to the Guam pass. At ii hours 6 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MCI069/I
Time: 06:08 CDT, 23:11:08 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 9 min-


utes Greenwich mean time and Guam is about to acquire Skylab.
We'll stand by for conversation.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Guam for
6 minutes.
CC Skylab, Houston. I'm going to give you
a time hack in about 20 seconds and the time then will be
15 hours and 20 minutes PET.
CDR How about 15:21?
CC Okay, I'ii do that.
CDR You want it to be 15:21? Isn't it
already 15:20?
CC I think we're i minute out of sync, Pete.
Right now, on my mark, it's going to be 15 hours 20 minutes
and 20 seconds. Stand by. MARK 15, 20, 20.
CDR Okay, well we're off by 40 seconds.
CC Okay. To continue just a little hit to
talk about PET and Gmt on entry date, Pete. The times have
change because of - and they are going to change even a
few seconds - even between now and entry day. And just in case
you're interested, right now if today were entry date a PET
of 15 hours, even, would go along with the Gmt of 08:10:41.
This is not going to be a problem on entry day because we're
going to - after you power up the CMC we're going to make
sure the clock is all spiffied up and reading the right time
and you're going to sync the MET to the CMC clock. So on
entry day we should not have any kind of a problem at all. The
rest of the AOS and LOS calls today will be given to you in
PET.
CDR Okay. Well, you still haven't answered
my question about the deactivation checklist. Is there enough
difference? Are you going to update the times?
CC Roger, Pete. We're still talking about
that one.
CC CDR, Houston. In answer to your question
about times - there definitely will have to be some changes
to the times in the deactivation checklist in Gmt. Now the
PET's are also a very few minutes off. It's less than i0 be-
cause the time of undocking has changed. However, we are going
to put it all together and get it up to you in plenty of time
so that you can make the correct changes to the deactivation
checklist well prior to entry day. We're about 20 seconds
from LOS here at Guam. We're going to see you at Goldstone at
15:42.
SC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. This is the point where
we would give you a GO for undocking. The controllers have
looked at the bird. It looks good and you have a GO.
CRD Great.
/--

SL-II MCI069/2
Time: 06:08 CDT, 23:11:08 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylah Control at ii hours 19 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Guam has loss of signal and Skylab
II crew has been given a GO for a simulated undocking command
and service modules from the Skylab workshop, as the entry
simulation is underway. Next station to acquire will he
Goldstone in 15 minutes. We'll come hack up just before
acquisition there. At ii hours 93 minutes Greenwich mean
time_ this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI070/I
Time: 06:33 CDT, 23:11:33 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at iI hours


33 minutes Greenwich mean time. Goldstone about to acquire
Skylab. We'll stand by for the stateside pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside
for about 15 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to drop
out for about 30 seconds as we go from Goldstone to Mila,
and that's going to occur in about i minute, and I'ii give
you a call when we lock back up.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're back in contact
at Texas; stateside for the next ii minutes. And the only
thing that I didn't read up awhile ago or mention to you
awhile ago is that if any questions do come up as we review
through the procedures, both down here and on board, we'd
llke you to, I'm sure you will, just go ahead and bring them
up in real time, and we'll talk about them as we go rather
than saving it all and having any kind of a extended debrief
at the end. We got i0 minutes left in this pass. Standing
by.
SC Okay, Houston.

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SL-II MC-1071/I
Time: 06:49 CDT, 23:11:49 GMT
6/16/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from


LOS. We're going to see you at Ascension at 16:0, correction
16:10 and Flight wanted me to advise you tha_ the TV reception
during the flyaround today was just exactly like it was during
the sims.
SC Now, what are we going to say to that?
CC Just -
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 53 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has had loss of signal and
Ascension will acquire Skylah for about a 5 minute pass in
approximately 8-1/2 minutes. We'll come back up then. At
Ii hours 54 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-I072/I
Time: 07:01 CDT, 23:12:01 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 1 min-


ute Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming within range of the
Ascension Island Station now. We'll stand by for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Ascension for
4 minutes.
SC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. We're going to see you at Carnarvon at 16:40, and this
is the pass where we'd give you a GO for separation. And the
controllers have all looked, and you have a GO.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 8 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Ascension has loss of signal,
and the Skylab II crew has been given a GO for a simulated
separation maneuver from the Skylab workshop. This maneuver
would be performed outside of acquisition of a ground station.
Will be a small burn by the service module reaction control
system. Carnarvon will be the next station to acquire in
23-1/2 minutes. We'll come back up just before acquisition
there. At 12 hours 9 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI073/I
Time: 07:31 CDT, 23:12:31 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 31


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about to come within
range of the Carnarvon station. We'll stand by for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Carnarvon for
l0 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. Would you pass the FAO
that we completed M4873 Charlie, CDR, PLT and SPT and 4871
Foxtrot, and we'll get 4872 Charlie a little later on. It'll
he on B channel.
CC Thank you very much, Pete and he's got
that word.
CDR And also would you verify we have 30 min-
utes of VTR tape. We're going to take care of that tour
sometime this afternoon.
CC That's affirm, Pete. You have full
30 minutes on the VTR. It's ready for you.
CDR And I assume that we'll have 30 minutes of
the morning for the TV 5 you wanted.
CC Stand by on that one.
CC CDR, Houston on the TV5, negative. We're
not going to schedule TV5 in the morning because of another
TV requirement, it just turns out, but we will pick up TV5 in
a couple of days. But in answer to question generally, what-
ever we schedule in the morning, the VTR will be cleaned off
and it'll be ready for you.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston I told you I was going to
be talking the rest of the day in PET but I do have a message
for you here that relates to GMT. As of 13:00 GMT today, which
is about 25 minutes from now, in answer to your previous
question, you will have been on orbit exactly 22 days. You
will have flown 317 revolutions of the Earth and that equates
to 7,846,000 nautical miles. And be advised if you were
earning 12 cents a mile that each one of you guys would now
be due $1,083,461.30. Over.
CDR Rog, we'd like to file that claim.
CC (Laughter) Roger that.
CDR That's a feeling you're going to go for
Government quarters and nothing available on a buck and a
quarter a day.
CC I'i bet you're right.
CDR I know. That's what I got paid for my
other three flights.
CC (Laughter) Roger.
CC Skylab, Housfen we're 'i minute from LOS
at Carnarvon. Guam is coming up at 16:54. This is the point
where we'd give you a GO for the SPS 1 shaping burn.
CDR Reg.

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SL-II MCI074/I
Time: 07:42 CDT, 23:12:42 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours


43 minutes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon's had loss of
signal. Guam will acquire in about 2-1/2 minutes. We'll
stay up during this short LOS. The milage number at 12 cents
a mile that CAP COM Dick Truly passed up to the crew was
figured on statute miles. He gave them their milage in
nautical miles. The statute miles on whieh that figure was
calculated is 9,028,843.9 statute miles. That will occur
at 1300 Greenwich mean time, about 15 minutes from new. We'll
stay up for the Guam pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Guam for
9 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston. Are we GO?
CC That's affirmative; you are.
SC Okay, we're going.
CC Okay.
SC Since you told us about the million
dollars, we've done the EVA, completed the deactivation
checklist, undocked, done the fly around, and we're ready
for SPS I.
CC (laughter) Roger that.
CC Skylab, Houston. We are going to see the
SPS i burn here at Guam on entry day, and - and we did see
it here today. We would be standing by for a burn status
report, and also we would be configured to watch you do your
logic sequence checks here at Guam.
SC Roger that.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control. A shaping burn,
which the - Skylab II crew has just simulated performing,
is a service propulsion system maneuver, the - the first
maneuver in a two maneuver deorblt sequence. The shaping
burn would lower perigee to 90 miles.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're go - about a
minute from LOS at Guam. See you at Goldstone at 17:19.
SC (garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours
56 minutes Greenwich mean time. Guam has had loss of signal.
Next station to acquire will be Goldstone in about 15 minutes.
Skylab II crew involved in an entry simulation. We'll repeat
the information that CAP COM Dick Truly passed up to the
crew. At 13:00 Greenwich mean time, about 3 minutes from
now, Skylab II crew will have completed 22 days in orbit.
They will have completed 317 revolutions of the Earth and
have traveled 7,846,000 nautical miles or 9,028,843.9 statute
miles. And if they were receivin_12 ' cents _ez statute mile,
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6/16/73

each would have earned $1,083,461.30. At 12 hours 57 minutes


Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE

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- SL-II MC-I075/I
Time: 08:09 CDT, 23:13:09 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 10 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the Goldstone
station. This is the lunch period for the crew. All three
crewmen having lunch at the same time today. We'll stand
by for this pass over the United States.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS stateside
for the next 16 minutes.
SC Roger.
CC And Skylab, uh, particularly for the CDR,
if during this period we'd, you guys would be eating and you'd
have the suits off and we've been talking about a couple of
items on Entry Day, that we'd like to bounce off of you, Pete,
and if you're doing something where you could listen to us,
I'll talk to you about them.
CDR Go ahead. We are eating and we're out
of our suits.
CC Okay. The first one we've been talking
about, Pete, a little bit, is the business of the timeline
between undocking and the SEP maneuver. Turns out that due
to the two factors, one, primarily the slip in the launch day
and secondarily our desire to get the television for the fly-
around, that in order to obtain the separation - the relative
positions between the two vehicles, that we described in that
message to you yesterday or the day before, on the flyaround
instead of doing a 360 degree inertial maneuver around the
SWS, you're going to actually have to do about another quarter
of a revolution. So, what we're considering is adding about
i0 more minutes between undocking and the SEP maneuver to
give you a little more time there and that still leaves, we
think, plenty of time. I think the correct number is about
34 minutes or so between the SEP and the shaping maneuver.
What do you think about that?
CDR Okay. I never did quite understand why
we wanted the workshop between us and the Earth, and nothing.
CC Yeah, let me, let me try to describe
Pete, in words of what the relative attitudes of the two
vehicles will he at the time of the SEP burn. Essentially,
when you get in position for the SEP burn, and the reason
that it's changed is cause of the recontact problem, you're
going to be looking at the sunside of the SWS, and you're
going to be in the SWS X-Z plane and essentially on the
plus-Z axis of the SWS. Now, as you look at it, you're
going to be pretty much looking at the Earth's horizon. The
reason for this is that the beta angle is about 70 degrees.
So, when you actually do the minus-X SEP maneuver, that's
what the SWS will look like to you. Over.
CDR Okay.
/- SL-II MC-I075/2
Time: 08:09 CDT, 23:13:09 GMT
6/16/73

CC Okay. With your concurrence then, I think


we probably will stick that extra i0 minutes in there and
we'll plan to do it that way. The second thing that we wanted
to talk to yon about, was the business of times, PET and
GMT, on deactivation day, the day prior to entry and also
on Entry Day. Primarily those times that you're going to
be in the deactivation checklist. We've been talking it over
and somebody came up with an idea that we think will be -
make it a lot easier, rather than send you a bunch of times
and make you do a bunch of pen and inks. And it essentially
is, that on deactivation day, I guess that's day 28, the
day prior to entry, we would give you a pseudo GMT that
we'll just refer to, say as watch time that you'll set your
wristwatches to. Now this - when you set your watches to
this time, you then could go through the present deactivation
checklist without having made any pen and inks and the times,
the GMTs that are on there, would coincide with the times on
your watches. We would also set up our tables here on the
ground so that all calls as to the AOS time, AOS and LOS times,
would also be in the same time. So essentially from the time
you set your watches, to the watch time, we wouldn't have to
change them except to give you a time hack occasionally, if
you needed one, from there to the rest of the mission.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI076/I
Time: 08:16 CDT, 23:13:16 GMT
6/16/73

CC We wouldn't have to change them except to


give you a time hack occasionally, if you needed one from there
to the rest of the mission.
SC Okay.
CC Okay, those are the only two things we
wanted to mention to you, I think. And we're standing by
stateside. We've got another ii minutes.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. One more minor point on
the times that we were just talking about. One thing that I
failed to mention is that we have not coordinated this idea of
watch times with the deactivation team which is not on duty
here. We will get with Nell and do that before we formerly
institute this procedure. For your information, if we do go
to the watch time I was suggesting, the difference would he
4 hours. But that wouldn't make any difference to you since
you were operating on the watches. But we've essentially set
your watches ahead or changed your watches by 4 hours at the
start of day 28. Also on a different subject of the PET on
day 29, which really doesn't have anything to do with the change
and the idea about the watch times. Because the undocking time
nominally was 15 hours and 43 minutes in the nominal mission
PET, and it is now going to be about 15 hours and 33 minutes.
There will be about a 10-minute difference in the times that
are in your deactivation checklist, all prior to undocking. And
then after undocking, of course, all the PETs are good.
Out.
SC I'm glad you said "Out" instead of "Over".
CC (Laughter) Roger.
SC The way I see it, we'll have it deactivated
some time on day 28, and we'll be down some time on day 29.
CC Roger that, Pete.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS;
Vanguard at 17:45.
SC Roger, Dick. And the PLT gets all those
housekeeping things done.
CC Roger.
SC Still there, Houston?
CC Affirmative for about i0 or 15 seconds.
SC Okay, to fix our water heater problem in the
head, we changed out the valve. That's the only spare on board.
We're bringing it back. We're also strongly recommending that
Bean's bunch bring at least one more replacement with it.
CC Roger, Paul. And this is one time that
we did read the tapes, and we've already been talking about
that this morning. See you at
SC (Garble). You rascal.
SL-II MCI076/2
Time: 08:16 CDT, 23:13:16 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 28 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. The Merritt Island, Florida, Tracking
Station has had loss of signal, and the Vanguard Tracking Ship off
the east coast of South America will acquire in about 8-1/2
minutes. Not too much conversation during this pass over the
United States. Crew is having lunch. That lunch period
will continue for a few minutes yet. Then they will go back
to the entry simulations. The Science Pilot, Joe Kerwin, will
delay returning to the entry SIMs for about i0 or 15 minutes,
while he works with the ED31 experiment. That's the student
experiment on bacteria and spores. And there'll be several more
hours of entry simulations for all three crewmen, followed
by an ATM run by the commander and M092 and MlTl experiments
with Joe Kerwin as the subject and Paul Weitz as the observer.
That's the lower body negative pressure and the metabolic
activity experiments. Later in the evening Joe Kerwin has an
Apollo telescope mount run also. Total amount of Apollo
telescope mount operations scheduled today, i hour 58 minutes.
We're 6-1/2 minutes away from Vanguard. We will come back up
just prior to acquisition there. At 13 hours 31 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI077/I
- Time: 08:36 CDT, 23:13:36 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, at 13 hours


36 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for
acquisition at the Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Vanguard for
4 minutes.
SC Hello, hello, who was that?
CC Houston, Texas calling.
SC Oh, roger, it's you.
SC We've been having a lot of crank calls
up here lately.
CC Roger.
CC Flight CAP COM, do you want me to - -
SC There was another one.
CC My circadian rhythm isn't cranked up to speed yet,
that's the problem. Hang on.
PLT I don't blame you. Hey, how are you coming
on the answers to a couple of questions? First one being,
what's the story on our (garble) pressure to the regulator;
and the next one was , I don't know if you guys even know
about it, the evening team last night took it on the TCS,
the Thermal Control System logic breaker.
CC Paul, - Stand by i.
PLT Hey, if nobody there is familiar with it,
Dick, just let it go and I'ii get it from the next team
when I get a hold of them. You know just they were going
to dig into the schematics for something I need.
CC Roger, that. We'll take a look at it and
see if we got an answer for yon.
CC Skylab, Houston. We got about a minute
and a half left in this pass. I've got a - we got a problem
that I'd like to speak to the SPT about. We dumped the
television from your TV tour that you did last evening, and
we did not receive any voice on channel B. And we're wondering
what configuration you were in, and we wanted to make sure
that we got to talk about it before Pete did his tour this
evening. Go ahead.
SPT Okay. I was on a lightweight headset, and
umbilical connected to the speaker intercom box in the experiment
compartment which was on channel B. And I was on intercom
press-to-talk to verify the hot mike, and that's all I did.
CC Skylab, Houston. Have you been - have you
used that intercom box since then, since I can't tell where
you're talking from now?
CDR (garble) on the VTR, right? We didn't
have to have it on RECORD or anything.
CC Stand by.
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Time: 08:36 CDT, 23:13:36 GMT
6/16/73

SC Is that the voice going to video tape?


CC Skylab, Houston. The voice has to go
on channel B, so you do need to select the voice record
switch. We're going AOS here at Vanguard. We're going to
see you a long pass later. Goldstone at 18:56.
SC Okay, while you're gone you can be cooking
up ananswer to why (static).
PAO This is Skylab Control_ with 13 hours
45 minutes Greenwich mean time. Vanguard has loss of signal.
There's a long LOS here, about i hour and 2 minutes. The
next station to acquire will be Goldstone. At 13 hours
45 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-I078/I
Time: 09:44 CDT, 23:14:44 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 44 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab approaching acquisition
at the Golstone Tracking Station. In about 25 minutes Skylab
will be beginning the revolution in which simulated entry and
landing will take place, the crew having already performed
the simulated undoeking separation from the Saturn workshop
and the first burn in a two step maneuver to deorbit the
command and service modules. The shaping burn, first of two
service propulsion system burns, was simulated over the
Carnarvon Station during the last revolution. That lowered
perigee to 90 miles. The second service propulsion system
burn the deorbit maneuver proper, will be performed out
of range of any tracking system. When Skylab is acquired
at Goldstone, shortly after acquisition they will simulate
the activation of the command module reaction control system.
We'll then go through the Texas Station and Vanguard, and the
simulated deorbit burn will be performed between the Vanguard
Station and the Hawaii Tracking Station. It's been more than
a month since the crew and the flight controllers have performed
an entry simulation. This is the first infllght simulation
for the manned space flight program. It was felt, because of
the duration of the mission and the erltieality of the reentry
phase of this flight, that both the crew and the flight con-
trollers would profit from a simulation, and that is what has
occupied the major portion of the crew's day today. We'll
stand by now for acquisition through Golstone.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Goldstone for
13 minutes. I've got some flare information for you and also
a couple of comments on the VTR.
SC Okay. We're watching the flare; go ahead
with the comments.
CC Okay, good. On the flare first, Pete,
you might let us know what you're doing. It - actually it
started when you guys were in the dark. It started at 14:19.
It was originally classified subnormal_ then reclassified
1-Bravo, and then again to 2, with X-rays coming out of it.
And our information shows it's presently declining. Over.
SC Roger. Our information shows the same.
We wandered down to the ATM panel at sunrise to see what was
going on. We noticed that you guys were conducting unattended
OPS and that there was a flare going on which was visible
in XUV and X-ray - not in H-alpha because of where you have the
pointing. The PMEC count was almost 700 at that time, with an
image intensity count (garble) about i00. Both declining
and both have continued to decline, and I have not pointed at the
flare or interrupted your unattended programs. We don't have
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Time: 09:44 CDT, 23:14:44 GMT
6/16/73

ground rules for this sort of thing. What would you like for
me to do?
CC Stand by.
SC Meanwhile, Houston, while you're checking
that, we found the problem with the VTR. The B CHANNEL INPUT
switch was OFF. It wouldn't again be sure which position
it (garble) be in. I guess ICOM PTT or PTT will work,
won't it?
CC Skylab, Houston. That's affirmative; those
positions will work.
SC Okay. You do not have to have the RECORD
switch ON, correct?
CC That's correct. We gave you an incorrect
answer. You do have to have the cables configured properly,
but you do not have to have the VOICE RECORD switch on SIAs
hit.
SC Okay. Well, unfortunately, we verified
that he was talking on B channel, but not at that block. And
we're going to have to put it in the checklist (garble).

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SL-II MC-I079/I
Time: 09:50 CDT, 23:14:50 GMT
6/16/73

SC Okay. Well, unfortunately, we verified


that he was talking on B channel, but not at that block. And
we're going to have to put it in the checklist as something
that went down the crack, I guess.
CC Roger that, Pete.
CC And, Skylab; Houston. We think the best
thing now - We think you did the right thing, and - when you
came by. And we'd like to just to go ahead and get this one
in unattended OPS. And you can just go ahead and watch it as
you like.
PLT Okay. I think for the next crew that it's
one of a couple categories that they might be thinking about.
And one is this - When you come around a corner and you see
a flare in progress. The other is like what happened last
night - When you are doing some other work and you see a small
flare, which you don't want to do a full flare program on, but
maybe you can snatch a little something.
CC Roger. That's a good suggestion. And it's
obvious that we do have a couple of categories of possibilities
here that we can talk with those guys about and come to some
new ground rules.
PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to uplink
some rate gyro drift compensations, and we need for you to
stay off the DAS for a couple of seconds. I'ii let you know
when we're through.
SC I've got it.
CC Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. Not to beat this VTR
problem to death, but we want to make sure of what you said,
Pete, and I'm not sure I understand it completely. As I
understand it, the - on one of the SIAs, the channel B selector
next to this channel B CCU input connector was in OFF, and I'm
wondering whether or not that was - whether that was the SIA
that Joe was plugged into or the SIA that the VTR cable was
plugged into? Over.
CDR Don't read me, Houston?
CC Affirmative.
CDR Bad VOX 116. The switch was off on VOX 116.
CC Okay. Real fine. Now we understand it,
Pete. Thank you very much.
CDR Okay. That's not in the checklist anywhere.
It's llke this panel 132 switch business. We've got bitten
on that one too many times, too. We need to put that in every
place in the TV checklist that if you're going to have voice,
you're going to have to check VOX 116. In every (garble) you
_ got to check VOX 132.
SL-II MC-I079/2
Time: 09:50 CDT, 23:14:50 GMT
6/16/73

CC Roger, Pete. We probably do need to put


some verifies. The only place that we can find where that
channel B selector switch is to be put on channel i - I mean
panel 116 to PTT is in one place in the activation when you
first activate the VTR. But after that, we can't find where
you ever reverify that. And apparently, in some kind of oper-
ation between then and now, it got put to OFF, and then without
a VERIFY. We missed it; so we'll correct that in the TV procedures.
CDR Yeah, I think it got turned off way back
when we were originally going to use B channel for EREP and
we were going to disconnect that. And we got half way through
doing that, and we thought you guys decided to go A RECORD
and A for BROADCAST and VOX on EREP, and the switch never got
put back in the proper configuration. And what did you say
it was? ICOM, PTT?
CC It's PTT, Pete.
CDR Okay.
CDR Well, I'm sorry you lost that, because Joe
gave a sterling performance.
CC No problem. It just appears that we - Just
one little thing in the checklist that (garble) will correct it.
No problem.
CC Skylab, Houston. On the subject of the
entry SIM today_ the next - it turns out the way the stations
go that the - following this Texas LOS, the last interface we
have with you - and is down at the Vanguard. And our guys have
gotten a good bit out of it today. What we plan to do, if it
sounds okay to you, is we're probably going to release all the
controllers, except for the trajectory people that are running
some of their targeting, And depending on whether or not you
feel like_ by the Vanguard, that you'll have gotten what you
wanted to get out of the day, we might have some suggestions
for you in the way of experiment operations or whatever between
the Vanguard pass that's going to come up in about, oh, another
15 or 20 minutes and the end of the point in today's time line,
where it's scheduled for ENTRY SIM. It's your call.
CDR Good. Go ahead. We've gotten all we can
gather.
CC Okay. We'll do some thinking between here
and Vanguard and maybe have a couple of suggestions for you.
We're about 1 minute from LOS. We'll see you at Vanguard at
19:21. And we're going to dump the data recorder there.

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SL-II MCI080/I
Time: i0:00 CDT, 23:15:00 GMT
6/16/73

CC About 1 minute from LOS. We'll see you


at Vanguard at 19:21 and we're going to dump the data recorder
there.
SC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control, 15 hours 1 minute
Greenwich mean time. The Texas tracking station at
Corpus Cristi has had loss of signal with Skylab. Tracking
ship Vanguard will acquire in 12 minutes. The Apollo
telescope mount controller reports that the ATM telescopes
were not pointed at the flare region while in unattended
operations during the - during the flare that started at
14:19 Greenwich mean time. Telescopes were not pointed at
the flare. Also considerable discussion during this pass
about the proper configuration for the video tape recorder
in order to record audio along with the video. A tour of
the workshop last night produced very excellent video but
no audio was with it when it was dumped today. I believe
they have the configuration worked out now so that problem
will not reoccur. And a decision will be made at the Vanguard
whether to continue this entry simulation. It may be ended
a little early without going completely through entry and
landing. Appears that both the crew and the flight controllers
here in the Mission Control Center have gotten most of the
information they were looking for and needed in this
simulation. We'll come back up just prior to acquisition
at the Vanguard. At 15 hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
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-- Time: 10:13 CDT, 23:15:13 GMT
6/16/73

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 13 minutes


5 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time we are
coming up on acquisition of signal at Vanguard tracking
station on rev 476 just crossing into 477. We expect to
hear from the crew momentarily. That last ATM was a 1 bright -
CC Skylab, Houston. I have a few items
I'd like to read up to you if you'd llke to jot them down,
and then you can decide for yourselves which one you'd llke
to do, if any, and just let us know.
SC Go.
CC Okay. One, is to continue M552. In the
event you get the completion on M552, we want you to go a-
head and terminate, including the battery discharge and that
termination is per page 4-5 of the MDA Experiment Checklist.
Second item, is HK60 Bravo, 6, O, Bravo, which is condensate
holding tank dump. Third item is TVb. Fourth item is the
TV tour. And comment on those two items those - you can do
only 1 of the 2 of them and we'll leave it up to you as to
which one you've got to clean VTR. We are looking at 2 and 3
EREP items that we might be able to pass up to you before
the end of this pass, but right now I don't have enough
information on them. Over.
PLT Okay. We got it, Dick.
CC Okay.
PLT And we'll let you know what we're doing.
CC Roger.
PLT We're doing 552, right now, Dick. The
third (garble) was in the cool out. We'll do 60 Bravo and
we plan to do the TV tour instead of TV 5 today.
CC Okay. Sounds real good.
PLT And we will do M552 terminate before the
day is over.
CC Okay, real good and I've got one request
here. We need the XUV and H-ALPHA 2 DOORS to CLOSE.
PLT Okay, they are.
CC Roger.
PLT Hey, Houston. Is there an earlier time
we could do the SPT's MO92?
CC Stand by 1 on that one.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS at Vanuard. I'm going back to GMT times on the LOS calls.
We're going to see you at Hawaii at 16:22.
SC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, 15 hours 21 minutes
43 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at
Vanguard. I apologize for the i_terruPtion at the beginning
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of this transmission. We thought we heard air-to-ground


before we had an indication of acquisition of signal here.
I believe it was the spacecraft communicator talking on
his loop. We do have the report on the ATM solar flare that
was spotted. The ATM was not pointed at that solar flare.
It had been pointed at the llmb of the sun during the dark-
ness pass, and when they came back into the light the solar
flare was already receding. So, they may have - part of
the activity of the solar flare took place while the space-
craft was moving around the dark side of the Earth, blocked
by the Earth from the view of the Sun. It was reported from
ground stations that was a 1 bright class 2 solar flare,
that's 1 brightest, (garble) the same amount of optical
brightness and area that we saw in the solar flare yesterday
about the same time. It was a class 2, which means that its
total X-ray high radiation - hlgh-energy radiation was substantily
below that of yesterday's, which was moderate. Class 2 is
the lowest class in the C class of magnetic (garble) X-ray
radiation. And the one we saw yesterday was an Md, which is
in the moderate class. So, they did not use the ATM during that
pass. It was an unattended operation. It was pointed at the
limb of the sun. They didn't feel it was worth while to chase
the flare, which had already begun to recede. We will not have
acquisition now, for nearly an hour, 59 minutes and 23 seconds
from now. And then we will pick up the transmission again at
the Hawaian tracking station at approximately 20 minutes after
the hour. This is 23 minutes 24 seconds after the hour, Skylab
Control signing off for approximately 1 hour.

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SL-II MC-I082/I
Time: 11:21 CDT, 23:16:21 GMT
6/16/73

PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 21 minutes and


13 seconds Greenwich mean time. Present time, we're approaching
acquisition of signal at the Hawaiian Tracking Station. We expect
to hear from them in the next minute or so, and we'll stay live
for air-to-ground.
PAO Skylab Control; we have data.
SC Houston, Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS Hawaii. Go
ahead.
SC Roger. We've been talking about that TV.
Is there any chance - It seems to me last night the experiment
i and 2 recorders were running. Is there any chance this
waste is on experiment i, that you got back last night while
S073 was running?
CC Stand by i.
SC And, Dick, when you got a minute to -
shoot the balony about the condensate holding tank, I'd like to
bend your ear for a minute.
CC Okay, why don't you go ahead. EGIL is
listening, and we'll get an answer on the tape recorders here in
just a second.
SC Okay. It was my understanding the condensate
holding tank was a plain old ordinary everyday vanilla water
tank, that had a few extra fittings put on it. We went
up to measure where the bellows was, and that thing is com-
pletely out of configuration, which is one way of saying it
took us one whale of a long time to find the little ferro
magnetic strip in the stainless steel bellows, which I have now
marked similiar to the other tank for the follow-on crews.
And for their information, it's down on the bottom side of
the tank that's pretty much up against the wall.
CC Okay. I'ii make sure they get that infor-
mation. Anything else on the condensate holding tank dump?
SC No, we'll measure, if you care where the
bellows was. I assume you'd llke to know.
CC Just can't hardly wait.
SC Oh, also, we have had a PPC02 HIGH on
"A" MOL SIEVE, which is the only one we're monitoring anymore.
The gage indication reads 2. Now I think we've got two detectors
one for the gage and one for TM and - caution and warning, or
some such mix. How about checking them, will you please?
CC Roger.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're coming close to


LOS. We're going to see you at Vanguard at 16:50. We're
reading 2 on PPC02, and we're checking on the instrumentation
now.
PAO Skylab Control; 27 minutes and 21 seconds
after 16 hours, Greenwich mean time. We still aren't receiving
tracking data from the Hawaiian Tracking Station, although the
spacecraft communicator is now engaged in a discussion with
the flight director, and it does not appear that he'll attempt
to contact the spacecraft again. We'd like to explain at
that time they were getting a reading of 2 on the partial
pressure of carbon dioxide in the spacecraft. PPC02 is partial
pressure carbon dioxide. The question the crew had was whether
this was a satisfactory reading and whether it was accurate.
Flight controllers here, the EGIL specifically, are now
checking to find out whether or not the instrumentation read-
ing that they have is from the same sensor that is used for
the spacecraft readout. That is to say that there may be separate
instrumentation that gives us a telemetry signal that's separate
from the one that's on the spacecraft. So that right now they
don't have an answer to that. They'll check that out before we
reach the Vanguard Station, approximately 21 minutes and 53 sec-
onds from now. And at that time we should get some sort of
an answer on whether or not that molecular sieve is reading
too high a partial pressure of carbon dioxide. That would indi-
cate too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But it doesn't
appear to be a problem right now. It's nothing They are looking
into it to find out why the reading is as high as that, and we'll
get some sort of information on that in the next pass. This is
Skylab Control at 28 minutes 45 seconds after the hour.

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SL-II MC-1083/I
Time: 11:49 CDT, 23:16:49 GMT
6/16/73

PAO Skylab Control, at 16 hours 49 minutes


Greenwich mean time. At the present time we're expecting
acquisition of signal shortly at the Vanguard tracking
station. And we will hear some discussion of the partial
pressure carbon dioxide reading they got off of one of the
mole sieves which is responsible for reducing the carbon
dioxide content in the air. And we should hear some dis-
cussion right during the pass over Vanguard. This is Skylab
Control staying llve for air-to-ground at 49 minutes and 27
seconds after the hour.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Vanguard.
We got you for i0 minutes.
SC Roger.
CC Let's see guys, sorry we went LOS
there, well it was a very low angle pass and I didn't get to
give you a LOS call that I'm sure you got. On the PPCO2 high
we're wondering is the mol sieve B PPC02 caution and warning
inhibited?
CDR Yes, it is.
CC Roger. Okay. Next question is, the
PPC02 high light still on, and if the light is out, if the
light's on inhibit the caution and warning for mol sieve A.
If the light's is out, turns out this may be associated with
mol sieve A bed cycling, which allows the outlet sensor to
sense inlet gas for approximately i minute.
CDR Okay, we'll take a look, we've got them
both inhibited right now.
CDR Meanwhile Dick, the condensate tank
bellows was 15 and 3 quarters inches at the start of dump.
CC Roger. 15 and 3/4 inches at the start
of dump. One thing that we wanted to suggest was that you
make sure, since this is the first time we have dumped a
holding tank, want to make sure that, periodically, be sure
and check the waste processor exhaust pressure to be
less than 0.08. It is good now, we're looking at it on TM.
And I have - we have searched on, Pete_ on experiment 12
and the data tape recorders and unfortunately we didn't make
out their - we didn't get the voice on any of those. And I
have an answer here on the TCS logic circuit breaker for the
PLT.
SC Go ahead.
CC Okay. We think that the experience that
you had with the TCS logic circuit breakers in the heat
exchanger fans was normal, if you were in the following
configuration: panel 17 the 4 TCS heat exchanger fan switches
to AUTO, and panel 614, TCS logic circuit breakers, two
of them, closed, and also if the OWS temp was at least 4 degrees
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greater than the temp selection that you have made on the low
rotary knob there, which we have assumed that that was the
case. The fans on signal from the TCS auto control module
sets a latching relay, so opening the logic circuit breakers
does not have an effect on the heat exchanger fans. A reset
to the relay must be sent either by the auto control module
or the OWS heat - heat exchanger fan switch to off on panel
390.

SPT Well if you're happy with that, I guess


I am.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Roger. We're happy, Paul_ and go ahead,
SPT.

SPT Okay. The C02 light is out. I have


reenabled caution and warning. The gage was reading 2. 7 a
couple minutes ago and now it's back down to 2. So it may be
spiking with the vent cycles.
CC Roger, SPT. And that concurs with what
we saw. We saw as high as 3.6 on the last cycle there.
SPT Okay. Both our experiment tape re-
corders are running now apparently for SO73. Is it okay to
- terminate them and go to M092?
CC Skylab, we're dumping the experiment 2
recorder now, so we'll get back to you prior to this LOS and
let you know about configuration of those recorders.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Say, Dick, you got to have the procedures
for dumping and not letting the tank get above 0.08 put in the
procedures, cause it's not in any of our procedures, we've
been watching it.
CC Roger. We copy and we'll make sure that
gets in there.
CC And CDR, Houston. There's a teleprinter
message in the teleprinter for you, I think.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised the ASCO is
going to the command a NAV update here at Vanguard and we'd
like to make sure you stay off the DAS, please.

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SL-II MCI084/I
Time: 11:55 CDT, 23:16:55 GMT
6/16/73

CC Skylab, Houston. Be advised the ASCO


is going to command a NAV update here at Vanguard, and we'd
like to make sure you stay off the DAS, please.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. On the tape recorders,
after we finish our dumping here at Vanguard, you will be able
to take them back and do M092. Just a reminder though, on
the CDR details pad, that 1901 - there's a little step in there
to reconfigure the recorders after M092 foT S073. Also, we're
about a minute and 20 seconds from LOS. We're going to see you
at Van correction, at Hawaii at 17:58.
SC Okay, but in the meantime you don't want
73 to run, right?
CC Roger. Just let it run until you need
it and then take the recorders for M092. _d then after you
get through, reconfigure for S073.
SC Okay.
CC Roger, and we're through - we have finished
our dumping here at Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. We had to terminate
the NAV update commanding due to a dropout in data. You can
have the DAS back.
SC Is it already in or not?
CC Negative, CDR, it's not in. We'll get it up
later.
PAO Skylab Control at 17 _ours i minute
and i0 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost communications
with the spacecraft Vangu - over the Vanguard Tracking Ship.
During that last pass there was very bad data; so they were
we're trying to make some maneuvers here from the ground, but
they were not able to get those through because of a dropout
in data. That means that they - the data coming back on telem-
etry circuits was not accurate enough and there was insufficient
control over the spacecraft from the ground to properly change
the attitude; so they will have to do that a little bit later.
They've turned that back over to the crew. On that partial
pressure of carbon dioxide, they determined that the reading they
were getting was due to a normal function of the molecular sieve.
The molecular sieve has an electro-pneumatic switching unit which
controls the gas selector valves, and it shifts from one - from
one of the sieve areas to another sieve area to cycle the canisters
that are used for adsorbing carbon dioxide from the air. Now while
it's doing that cycling, apparently it pushes some of the normal
inlet air (that's air that's in the spacecraft) into the outlet
area, and that would - Normally what you'd have is you'd have
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higher partial pressure of carbon dioxide coming in the inlet than


would be going out the outlet, after it had been scrubbed by the
molecular sieve. But when the air is - when the cycling takes
place, it does for a short period of time allow that output of
normal input air to go by the output sensor, and it was sensing
higher pressures of carbon dioxide than would normally he the
case. The reason this hasn't happened earlier in the mission is
that generally the partial pressures in the - of - I'm sorry,
the total cabin pressure, total atmospheric pressure in the cabin,
has been lower than it is right now. We're reading some
pressures now of about 5.2 pounds per square inch. Normal
readings are about 5 pounds per square inch or 4.9. The
reason for this is that the last day or so, they have been bleeding
one of the cryogenic oxygen tanks - a normal procedure, some-
thing they would do a number of - number of times during
the mission. This has increased the total pressure in the
cabin, and that seems to be enough to set off a CAUTION
AND WARNING light. No problem at all actually involved; it's just
a matter of the sensor being a little bit more sensitive than
they require. They do have it activated again. They set
up caution and warning, but it may be necessary at these
high pressures to - to set it up for not - for not activating
everytime there is a cycle. It goes through a cycle
approximately once every 15 minutes. They did not have a
chance to tell the crew that there are a couple of more
activities on the Sun right now. That's nothing the crew
would be normally expected to look at, but just for informatlon_
there is a prominence errupting at - Prominence 85 in is
the process of errupting, and they also have some additional
activity in active region 37, where we had a solar flare
a few hours ago. But that information was not transmitted
to the crew, because the crew is not expected to take any
action on it. This is Skylab Control at 4 minutes and 22
seconds after the hour.

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SL-II MC-I085/I
Time: 12:19 CDT, 23:17:19 GMT
6/16/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 17 hours 19 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. At the present time, the spacecraft
is traveling over the - Madagascar, headed north. And we are
expecting a press conference - a reshowing of a tour of the
spacecraft that was made last night by the astronauts. We
will have Rusty Schweickart available for a discussion of this
in the small briefing room at building i, beginning at approxi-
mately 12:30. That will be a playback of the tour of the
crew quarters area of the spacecraft that was made last night,
with Rusty Schweickart available for discussing the television
at 30 minutes after the hour. It is presently 19 minutes and
52 seconds after the hour, Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI086/I
Time: 13:10 CDT, 23:18:10 GMT
6/16/73

PAO Skylab Control, at 18 hours i0 minutes


43 seconds Greenwich mean time. At this time we'll play back
the air-to-ground from the Hawaiian tracking station that
we've just passed. This was recorded over the last 15 minutes
because we had something on the release line. We will now
play back that air-to-ground from Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii for 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. We got a (garble) DELTA-P
on this 16 condensate 6. And after I turned on the heater
and I've gone to vacuum, which hasn't done any good, it (garble)
dumping except all that - Joe dumped it - it had about two cups
of water in it when he started and now it's completely empty,
so don't ask me where the water went to and don't ask me
where the vacuum went to. I don't have any idea. So what
would you like us to do about it while we're dumping the
big tank?
CC We'll think about it, Pete, stand by.
CDR Okay.
CC And Skylab, Houston, be advised we're
dumping the data recorder at this site.
SC Okay.
SC Skylab, Houston. A couple of things while
we're waiting on an answer on the condensate tank; one is
we see you operating a building block 5 and we'd like to -
due a film in S054 - we would like to omit S054. So when you
get to the end of the sequence that the 54 is in now, request
you to terminate. Also we're going to attempt again on the
NAV update. So if you can give us the DAS for a couple of
minutes we'll get that command in.
CDR Okay, the pad you sent me said to run
54 on
5-Alpha but not on 5-Bravo and Charlie.
CC Stand by i.
CDR Oh, sorry, it's up at the top. I didn't
see it up at the top. Got it down at the bottom (garble)
(garble). Okay, it's my mistake.
CC Roger.
CC CDR, Houston. We've got the NAV update.
It's up good this time and you can have the DAS back.
CDR Thank you.
CC STP, Houston. I'm not sure where you
are in the sequence, but you might listen to this one, a
little flight plan comment on your flight plan this afternoon.
On the ED31, we'd like to delete the ED31 photo session that
you've got scheduled today based on your previous comments
about the rate of growth and replace with the visual observation
and appropriate voice comments as you see fit on B channel,
and we will reschedule the final photo session probably a
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6/16/73

couple of days from now. And this is day 168 or 9, and this
is due to the apparent slow bacteria growth. Out.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We're going to see you at Vanguard at 18:29. And
we think present configuration is - is okay for now on the
condensate dump system, so press on with that procedure
wherever you are in it and we'll get back to you on that
one at Vanguard.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, 18 hours 13 minutes 4
seconds Greenwich mean time. We appear to have lost some
of the air-to-ground there. The crew indicated at the
very beginning in that pass that they were having some small
problem with the condensate tank dump that is releasing the
water from the condensate tank. One part of it was had
about two cups of water in it and they couldn't figure out
where the water had gone although it didn't seem to be going
out the proper way. After checking it out here they decided
that there really wasn't any problem and they told them to
go on with the procedure and to complete it. We expect to
hear from the crew again in approximately 15 minutes and
15 seconds at the Vanguard tracking ship. And until that
time should be no major problems. One thing we made more
convenient now is we have a more complete report on the
flare that was missed earlier this morning by the crew. It
turns out that the peak that was a 2 bright rather than
a 1 bright flare, 2 bright flare with an area of approximately
7 square degrees. That's roughly twice the size of the -
an area of the optical brightness that we saw on the flare
that was caught yesterday by the crew - was in active region
31. The reason it wasn't caught by the crew today is that
the crew is on the dark side of the Earth. It was out of
sight of the Sun at the time it was most active. The flare
began at 14:18 Greenwich mean time, or at 9:18 Central
daylight time. It reached itVs maximum at 9:26. At it's
maximum it - at it's maximum it was a 2 bright M3. That
is to say it had a approximate area of 7 square degrees and
it was at bright optical flare. It's X-radlation was M3,
which means that it gave off 300ths of an erg per centimeter
squared per second in X-radlation. That's almost as high
as the one yesterday, but not quite in its X-radiatlon.
The X-radiatlon going yesterday was four-hundredths of an erg
per centimeter squared per second. So this is a slightly
smaller magnetic power but larger in optical area. This
appeared in visual light to be a larger flare than the one
we say yesterday. It was however not caught by the ATM
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6/16/73

experiment because it was out of sight until the flare began


subsiding. We expect to hear from the crew again at 13 minutes
and 24 seconds. This is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-I087/I
Time: 13:41 CDT, 23:18:41 GMT
6/16/73

PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 41 minutes


44 seconds Greenwich mean time. We had no signal - no signal
of - acquisition of signal at Vanguard and as a result we did
take it on the tape recorders and we'll now play back approxi-
mately 4 minutes of air-to-ground that was picked up over the
Vanguard station. Here is the alr-to-ground from Vanguard.
CC Data tape recorder again, here at Van-
guard and I got a couple words for the CDR on the condensate
tank.
CDR Be right with you.
CC Okay. No problem. We've got a 8 minute
pass, Pete.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, Pete. We're a little bit confused
as to what the configuration is, but since you do an ATM
and the other guys are doing biomed, we figure if we can
stabilize the situation for the next hour or so, we're going
to have an hour LOS and then by that time, you should have
a little more time to talk and you can lead us through the
procedures and tell us exactly at what steps you had the
problem. For now, as we understand the configuration, you
got the holding tank disconnected from the little tank and
the holding tank is doing its thing, dumping. The little
tank has lost vacuum. So what we suggest is going to the
systems checklist page 2-40, and under the procedure listed
for airlock module condensate tank dump step 3, it's 6 or 8
steps there that hopefully will reachieve the vacuum on the -
on the condensate - airlock module condensate tank. You can
go ahead and do that procedure and get back to your ATM work
and we can talk about it again next pass. Over.
CDR Okay. You got it right.
CC Okay. Real good. Why don't we do that
then and we'll just talk to you about it later.
CDR Okay.
PLT The big question is_ Dick, what happened
to the water that was in the condensate tank, when all I'm
supposed to be doing is hooking water into it?
CC Roger. That's the big question and we
haven't figured that out yet.
PLT Okay.
SC (garble)
CC PLT, Houston. I didn't copy your message.
SC (garble)
CC CDR, Houston. Sorry, I guess our ears
are bad, but the comm is a little bit ratty here on the down
link and I still did not copy. I

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CDR Okay. I've been running the secondary


heater and we have this intermittent problem with that. How
I show no temperature at all on secondary heaters - been
running for 30 minutes. You want me to go ahead and dump it
or do you want me to do it on primary heater until I get some
temp reading?
CC That's affirmative. We'd like you to
switch to the primary heater.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 15 seconds
from LOS. We're going to see you at Hawaii at 19:36.
SC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control, that concludes the air-
to-ground recorded over the Vanguard tracking station. We
will not have another acquisition of signal for approximately
50 minutes and a half. At that time we will receive signal
from Hawaian, from the Hawaian tracking station. We expect
a change-of-shift briefing at the request of newsmen for
approximately 45 minutes after the next hour that's at 2:45,
quarter to 3, we should have a change-of-shift briefing
with Charles Lewis, the off-going Flight Director. The
on-coming Flight Director is Donald Puddy. There is presently
a handover taking place here in mission control, but we
do expect a change-of-shift briefing at 2:45. This is
Skylab Control at 46 minutes and 33 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI088/I
Time: 14:35 CDT, 23:19:35 GMT
6/16/73

PAO Skylab Control; 19 hours 35 minutes. We


have acquisition of signal at Hawaii. We'll remain live for
air to ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 6 minutes.
SC Roger, Bill. Where are we?
CC You're over Hawaii, and we have a question
for you here. Did you disconnect from the holding tank or
at panel 393 on the hose?
SC Per the checklist at (garble).
CC Copy.
SC And we tried to dump the condensate tank
twice. It just won't hold a vacuum is all, Bill. It didn't.
CC Yes, we copy. We're thinking again now.
SC Houston, I got another question for you
on that dump business.
CC Go, PLT.
PLT Okay, the holding tank is apparently
empty. The stunt finder finds the bellows about i inch from
the inlet side into the tank. The tank pressure during the
last dump sequence - we had to keep fighting it, by the
way, to keep from exceeding 0.09 in the waste tank, and we
-- never knew about that pressure restriction until we got it
(garble). Then we were cycling the dump valve off and on.
The bellows is in the end. During the last sequence, the
waste bag pressure never got above about 0.082. It is now
dropping off to about - it's on its way to 0.075. However, in
accordance with the checklist, once again we are waiting for
a water dump pressure to come off the (garble) at over 2. It
seems to me it should have by now. Have you got any good
soothing (garble) words for us on that?
CC PLT, we're working on him at the moment.
CC Skylab, we're going LOS here in approxi-
mately 25 seconds. We would like for yon to continue on
page 2-37, step 5 SWS systems checklist. We'll see you again
at Vanguard at 20:07.
SC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 44 minutes and
04 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at the
Hawaiian Tracking Station. That final instruction given up
by the spacecraft communicator was to follow step 5 in the SWS
checklist. Now that's a Skylab workshop system checklist. And
that step 5 is condensate holding tank dump terminate, which means
that they believe that they have successfully dumped all of the
water out of the condensate tank into the general waste tank. And
since that is terminated, they instructed the crew to go on
as if it were finished. The crew reported that the bladder
had successfully gone to the opposite end of the tank, which
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6/16/73

would indicate that there's no water left in it. So they


believe that they have now solved whatever problem existed,
and they are trying to look into why it gave them the readings
it did give them. Off-going Flight Director Charles Lewis has
just returned from a short meeting, and he should be on his
way over to Mission Control in a few minutes - I'm sorry, over
to building i in a few minutes, and this is Skylab Control at
45 minutes after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I089/I
Time: 14:52 CDT, 23:19:52 GMT
6/16/73

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 52 minutes 28


seconds Greenwich mean time. Off-going Flight Director
Charles Lewis has left Mission Control and is enroute to
building 1 for a change-of-shlft briefing that should begin
in approximately 3 to 5 minutes. This is Skylab Control at
52 minutes 45 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI090/I
Time: 15:19 CDT, 23:20:19 GMT
6/16/73

PAO Skylab Control, at 20 hours 19 minutes


3 seconds Greenwich mean time. At this time we will rerun -
At this time we will rerun the Vanguard site. We did take
this on tape, and we'll play back the air-to-ground from
Vanguard. Immediately there following you will hear the
Ascension air-to-ground. This is a replay of Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS i0 minutes.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Okay, the procedure for dumping the
holding tank requires the use of the mlnus-Z SAL vaccum
port conduct the pressure from the gas side of the tank.
S073 is in that SAL, and my question is, can we go ahead
and dump the gas on that port or will that contaminate the
experiment?
CC Stand by, we'll try to get you an answer.
PLT Hey, Houston, for information, M552 has
been completed and the terminate pressure of the checklist
has been completed.
CC We copy.
PLT Houston?
CC Go, Skylab.
PLT Okay, we are - Pete is ready to do rod
extend. If there's any concern about getting through
that airloek we are willing for a branch which will be
explained later, to retract S073 completely, take it out
of the airlock, vent the condensate tank, and reinstall
S073 and go to a (garble) configuration on it.
CC Stand by half, we're looking hard at it.
PLT Okay.
CC PLT, Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC We would like for you to extend the 7 S073
rods with the trunnion angle zero and then dump. That's dump --
PLT Okay. All right, we got it. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going LOS. We will
have you again at Ascension at 20:22.
PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 7 minutes.
CC - OS for 7 minutes.
SC Roger.
CC Skylab, it appears that you have leaks
at panel 393 and on the holding tank disconnects. That's
the quick disconnects.
PLT Well, then why has the DELTA-P on the
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condensate tank stayed so good for the last 20 days or so?


We had it plugged in.
CC Paul, it's thought that they're only
leaking when they're disconnected. And we think the same
thing happened during the EVA when they were disconnected.
PLT Okay. That's a whole new set of QD's we
got leaking now.
CC That is affirm.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-1091/I
Time: 15:24 CDT, 23:20:24 GMT
6/16/73

CC Skylab, there isn't much in the way of


news, but there's 2 or 3 items, if it doesn't interrupt
anything you're doing.
PLT Go right ahead, we're listening, we can
all hear it.
CC Now that I look at it, there's even less.
You can get fish with your drinking water, it says, in Mexi-
call. They had a heavy buildup of fish that burst the filter
on the local water purification and they're coming out the
taps.
SC Okay.
CC Now let's see if we can find something
significant. Says Houston is still number 3 in the race,
they're 4-1/2 games out.
SC The Cubs, the Cubs.
CC Yeah, that's what I'm looking at. They're
doing pretty well, it looks like. Stand by.
CC Okay. The Cubs appear to be leading the
race at 3-1/2 games. Gary Player - -
CC Say again?
SC Go ahead.
CC Gary Player is leading on the Oakmont
course. The astronomy satellite for radio astronomy that
was launched earlier has gone into orbit around the Moon,
apparently operating normally. The other items have to do
with the energy crisis and the EPA has laid on some rather
strict requirements which Texas is going to contest. It
would involve strict gasoline rationing and conversion of
cars prior to 68 to post 68 standards. No new parking lots
built, and an increase in mass transit.
SC Good.
CC And we're going LOS here in about 20
seconds. We'll have you - we'll have you again, at Vanguard
at 21:44.
SC Okay. Thanks a lot.
CC Yeah, that medical conference of course,
will be coming up on your next pass.
SC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 30 minutes
53 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal now at
the Ascension tracking station. We heard the spacecraft
communicator, William Thornton, indicate that we would not
be speaking to the crew again, probably, until the next
Vanguard pass. There is a pass 35 minutes from now, at the
Guam tracking station. That pass is reserved for a private
medical conversation. It may be, however, that if there is
time left over, as there was yesterday, that time maybe
turned back over to the Flight Controllers for direct contact
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Time: 15:24 CDT, 23:20:24 GMT
6/16/73

at Guam. So normally we would not expect to hear from them


at the Guam tracking station the next site, but we may hear
shortly thereafter at Vanguard. This is Skylab Control at
31 minutes 40 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I092/I
Time: 16:05 CDT, 23:21:05 GMT
6/16/73

PAO Skylah Control at 21 hours 5 minutes


33 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have data from the
tracking station at Guam, just having come over the horizon
at Guam. We expect a private medical conference to be taking
place at the Guam station, and of course we do not monitor that
conversation. We will receive a report later and will read
it up to you as soon as it's available. Should part of this
time become available for air-to-ground with the Flight
Controllers, we will have that live_ so we will remain live
in the event that there is any air-to-ground over the Guam
tracking station.
PAO Air-ground is back to normal, this is
Skylab Control.
CC AOS 2 minutes.
CDR Hi there, where's the next one and I'll
give you the evening status report?
CC Pete, we'll be coming up on Vanguard here -
21:44.
CDR Okay. 2, i, 4, 4, very good. See you
there.
CC Roger.
CDR I can give you the food. The CDR had
everything but his two butter cookies. The SPT had every-
thing. The PLT ate, heavens he ate everything, his optional
salt was 5.5. And the CDR's was 2.0.
CC We copy.
SC Quick rundown on day 157 photo log, 16
millimeter, housekeeping 16, ETM 516 Charlie India 1296 Charlie-
India 05, housekeeping (garble) 516 Charlie India 1396 Charlie-
India 10. S073 extension MI51 Charlie India 0618 Charlie
India 03. 35 millimeter Gharlie India 3103, Charlie India 3051,
TI28 was completed and it's loaded in drawer H and it's gray
tape all messed up because it failed to rewind and we had to
take it out to (garble). The VSO6, 103, drawer A configuration
in Alfa i, 02 Charlie India 1296 Charlie India 0582, 03 Charlie
India 0618 Charlie India 03, A306 Charlie India 1396, Charlie
India IOA405, nothing in the supply, no percent, Charlie India
ii floating 07 Charlie India 0966, Mike Tango 03. That's it.
CC You made it. We're 1 second to LOS it
says here, Pete. We'll see you at Vanguard.
CDR Okay. N552 complete today.
CC Copy.
CC Unless there's some reason, we show S073
in low gain. We'd like that in medium gain.
CDR I haven't started to run it yet, and I
was going to start in, and look at the, the thing there, under
the program starts and request for the instructions.
CC We copy.
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Time: 16:05 CDT, 23:21:05 GMT
6/16/73

PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 13 minutes


43 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at the
Guam tracking station. As we indicated, there was time avail-
able after the brief conference between the surgeon, Flight Surgeon,
and the crew for air-to-ground and you heard spacecraft
communicator William Thornton talking to the crew. The
commander again is eating extra butter cookies as part of
his diet, otherwise the diets were very similar to the usual
reports. That's their status report for the day on the diet.
We expect to hear from the crew again at the next pass at Vanguard
in 29 minutes and 45 seconds. Time now is 14 minutes and
23 seconds after the hour, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI093/I
Time: 16:43 CDT, 23:21:43 GMT
6/16/73

PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 43 minutes and


18 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time we are
about to have acquisition of signal at the Vanguard tracking
ship. As it - as the spacecraft begins it's 179th revolution
about the Earth. We will stay live for alr-to-ground from
Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for ii minutes at
Vanguard.
SPT Bless your heart.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC We want you to inhibit dump prior to
21:46. The angles are inner gimbal; (garble) the star tracker
angles, are inner gimbal plus 0319, outer gimbal plus 2023.
And we want the dump enabled by 21:54.
SPT That's if I get a star, or what?
CC Joe, that last one was anytime after -
after 21:54.
SPT Is that contingent on my getting a star
only, or is that regardless?
CC Whether you get a star or not, Joe, ENABLE.
SPT I don't believe it.
CC Okay, Joe.
CC Joe, was that the action or the angles?
SPT They're fine. Talk to you in a minute,
SPT Okay, Houston. Stand by i, I'm waiting
for orbital plane (garble) to get updated.
CC Copy.
SPT Or do you people have that inhibited.
We've got a star.
CC We copy. We have it inhibited, Joe.
SPT We were cut out.
CC We have it inhibited.
SPT Shall I ENABLE it?
CC That's affirm. ENABLE, please.
SPT (garble)
SPT Okay, we got a 6.6 here, now can I ENABLE
momentum dump?
CC Negative. Do not ENABLE momentum dump.
Do not ENABLE momentum dump.
SPT Okay, then, why were you in such a hurry
for me to get a star?
SPT Houston, I assume you havent inhibit
momentum dump because of the bad orbital plane error. Now
that we've got a good one, llm curious why you don't want
to reenable it.
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Time: 16:43 CDT, 23:21:43 GMT
6/16/73

CC Stand by half.
SC Say again.
CC We took a dump sample that had wrong
data, Joe, and we were in a hurry to get it inhibited.
There was no great urgency on the star.
SPT Okay, I - All right.
SPT We could inhibit and then reenable CMG
control (garble) ATM like that with G&C (garble).
CC Stand by half, Joe.
SPT Say again, Houston.
CC I'ii be with you in a second, Joe.
SPT Well, never mind, Houston.
CC Sorry, Joe.
CC SPT, possibly this will help a bit, during
the med conference we inhibited the outer gimbal angle. The
star tracker had lost the star and we got a bad data sample.
This could have been corrected, they could have forced the
contingency but the procedure that was passed up was considered
to be the optimum under the circumstances.
SPT Okay.

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SL-II MC-I094/I
Time: 16:54 CDT, 23:21:54 GMT
6/16/73

CC CDR, Houston.
SC He's tied up, Houston.
SC May I pass a message?
CC Yes, the S073 is picking up too much
light. We want the field of view to position i.
SC Okay.
CC And we'll be LOS in 30 seconds here.
Ascension at 21:57.
PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 55 minutes
39 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at the
Vanguard Tracking Station but are approximately i minute and
56 seconds from acquisition of signal at Ascension on rev
180. That's a correction from last time. We were ending
rev 179 and beginning rev i - I'm sorry, rev 480, ending
rev 479. We're now on 480, about a minute and 40 seconds
from acquisition of signal. And we expect to hear additional
conversation at this pass. We will have a number of station
contacts here in a row, beginning with Ascension. Ascension,
Canary Islands, and Madrid are all on rev 480. So we will
remain live for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS for 15 minutes.
SC Roger.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I095/I
Time: 17:08 CDT, 23:22:08 GMT
6/16/73

CC Skylah, Houston. We'll be LOS in 1


minute. There are
several items here.
SC Okay.
CC We want you to change the ATM roll from
minus 6400 to plus 6400.
SC (garble)
CC Close the S056 aperture door. The TV,
per the cue card, monitor i, XUV monitor. The video select ATM
monitor.
SC Okay, Bill. We're doing a TV tour right
now, and soon as we're done, we'll go back to the ATM
monitor.
CC Copy that, and the momentum dump needs
to be enabled before 23:16. And we'll have you at Guam at
22:41.
SC Okay, can I enable dump right now?
CC That's affirmative.
SC For roll you want plus 6400, is that right?
CC That's affirmative. Vice minus 6400.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 16 minutes
and 59 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at
the Madrid tracking station as it wen_ over the horizon.
Presently the spacecraft is travelling over the eastern
Mediterranean. During that last pass from the south Atlantic
across Africa, the crew was engaged in a TV tour, again
going through various parts of the spacecraft to gather
some film with some commentary put on a recorder, and that
will be dumped at a later time. That TV tour is the second
TV tour to be run by the crew. They ran a TV tour yesterday
as well, and it was believed here on the ground that they
may have completed the tour at the end, although the crew
indicated that was not the case. They had 19 minutes re-
corded so far on the video tape recorder. And they were
in the process of going through the MDA and - that's the
Multiple Docking Adapter, and the airlock module and expected
to finish up in the orbital workshop. That tour will include
information on the EREP equipment, the M512 group of
experiments, the operations of the video tape reeorder, the
control and display panel for the Apollo telescope mount,
atmospheric control system, caution and warning system, the
airlock module, and various other parts of the spacecraft, with
the exclusion of the wardroom area, which was filmed yester-
day. The crew has approximately 45 minutes before they go
to sleep. We should hear from them again in 23 minutes and
15 seconds, as they reach their next tracking station at Guam
This is Skylab Control at 18 minutes and 35 seconds after
the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I096/I
Time: 17:38 CDT 23:22:38 GMT
6/16/73

PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 38 minutes


43 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time, we're
a little over 2-1/2 minutes from acquisition of signal at
the Guam tracking site. This is a nearly overhead pass, a
48 degree pass. That's at a very high angle at Guam. And
we expect to have acquisition of signal for something over
i0 minutes. We have the surgeon's report from the private
medical conference held at the Guam tracking station during
the last revolution. Report is signed by Dr. Buchanan for
Dr. Hawkins is this: "The crew of Skylab II is well and
happy. They report that they are feeling "super" but could
"sure use haircuts." This report is being relayed to the
Tico." End of report. The Tico of course is the United
States ship Ticonderoga, the ship that is steaming from
San Diego to the recovery area for Friday's recovery.
To repeat that message, the crew of Skylab II is well and
happy. They report that they are feeling super but could
sure use haircuts. That report is being relayed to the
Ticonderoga where they will no doubt have haircuts, when
they return to Earth. We're approximately 1 minute and
40 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Guam tracking
station. We will remain live for air to ground from Guam.
CC Skylab Houston. AOS, i0 minutes, Guam.
PLT Roger Houston. We have one question
on tomorrow's flight plan. Two questions. What is the TO27
opposite 19:00, and what time is trim burn?
CC Stand by.
CC PLT Houston.
PLT Go ahead.
CC T027 is simply the sample array and it
is not time critical. And the trim burn is 08:59:23.
CC That last one is listed on the details.
PLT Yeah, we're looking.
CC Paul, they aren't up yet, they are still
to come up, the details.
PLT Okay.
CC PLT, we have one more message for you,
when it's convenient.
PLT Go ahead.
CC We would llke for you or the CDR to
change the T027/S073 shaft upper limit to 234. Return the field
of view to 0. This should be accomplished prior to 23:15.
This is because the structural blockage and it is causing
premature cut off.
CDR 234 to shaft L and FOP to zero.
CC That's affirm.
CDR I'm telling yon that's done. We did it.
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Time: 17:38 CDT 23:22:38 GMT
6/15/73

CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute for the night.


There will be a tape recorder dump at Canary at 23:41. We'll
see you in a couple of days.
CDR Okay Bill, good night.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 52 minutes
39 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at
Guam, and we do not again expect to hear from the crew. The
good night from William Thornton was given here. Hesaid
see yon in a couple of days. Spacecraft communicator Thorn-
ton is off duty tomorrow, as that shift is, the shift that
Don Puddy Flight Director, shift is off duty for the next
day, and will not be back on until the following day. So,
we do have a good night for the crew at Guam and do not
expect to hear from them again. They are scheduled to begin
their sleep period in approximately 7 minutes. The infor-
mation about the tape recorder dump that was given to them.
There will be a dump at approximately 41 minutes after the
hour at the Canary Island pass. The reason for that infor-
mation is that in previous nights the crew has remained up
beyond their normal sleep period, and has been using the
tape recorder for recording messages. And it is impossible
for a message to be recorded on the tape recorder at the
same time that the tape recorder is in the play back mode
for dumping it at a tracking station. So, that's good
night to the crew. And this is the final broadcast for
Skylab Control until tomorrow morning at 2:00 a.m. Skylah
Control signing off at 53 hours - 53 minutes and 54 seconds
after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL II MC-I097/I
Time: 02:01 CDT 24:07:01 GMT
6/17/73

CC Honeysuckle contact, Houston contact.


PAO Good morning, this is Skylab Control at
7 hours i minute Greenwich mean time, on manned mission
day number 24. Skylab soon will be within acquisition and
range of the Honeysuckle, Australia station. And we'll be
sending a wake up call to the crew. The silver team of
flight controllers lead by Flight Director Neil Hutchinson,
is on duty at this time. The spacecraft communicator is
astronaut Henry Hartsfield. We'll stand by for the wake
up call.
CC Skylab, Houston. Good morning.
CDR Morning, Houston.
CC Well, did you get a good night's rest?
CDR You bet eha.
CC We've got about 4-i/2 minutes here left
through Honeysuckle.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston, i minute to LOS, Hawaii
at 24.
PAO This is Skylab Control. The Skylab space
station has passed out of range of the Honeysuckle station
now. Next station to acquire will be Hawaii in 14 minutes.
At 7 hours i0 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC-I098/I
Time: 02:21 CDT, 24:07:21 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 22 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within acquisition at
Hawaii now. We'll stand by for conversation there.
CC Skylab, Houston through Hawaii 6-1/2 min-
utes.
PLT Roger, Henry. Hey, I just tried to a wind
up the orbital slider and it shows that our daytime pass is over
Europe. I think something's wrong. Will you have somebody
check that first ascending node, please?
CC Wilco.
CC Skylab, Houston, we blew that one. That's
a descending node. We'll get you some new numbers.
CC Skylab, Houston about 30 seconds from LOS,
Goldstone at 32.
PLT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 32 minutes
Greenwich mean time. We've had loss of signal at Hawaii, but
Goldstone will acquire momentarily. We'll continue to stand
by.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone 9 minutes.
PLT Hi.
CC Skylab, Houston. I got that slider update
for you now.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay, it should be 159.4 west at 72253, and
the other two are correct.
SPT Okay, that's 159.4 west and 072253.
CC That's affirmative.

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r
Time: 02:35 CDT 24:07:35 GMT
6/17/73

SPT Okay, that's 159.4 west and 072253.


CC That's affirmative.
CHR Listen Houston, Hank_ is it 2:00 in the
morning?
CC You had better believe.
CDR We just passed over down town San Francisco
loud and clear midnight on Saturday night, right?
CC Right.
CDR When it's really clear out there, you
can see both bridges. It's a fantastic sight if you see it at
night. You can see LA and San Francisco and super.
CC Skylab, Houston, I minute to LOS, Bermuda
at 46.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 42 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. There is a short break between
Goldstone and Bermuda acquisition. We'll continue to stand
by during the short LOS. We should have acquisition at
Bermuda in about 2 minutes.

END OF TAPE

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-_ SL-II MC-II00/I
Time: 02:43 CDT 24:07:43 GMT
6/17/73

CC Skylab Houston through Bermuda 6 minutes.


CC Skylah, Houston. For the CDR or PLT,
sometime this morning when you get a break, we'd like for
one of you to run up to the S073, and change the field of
view to i. We're looking a little more lightly with
respect to the (garble)
CDR That's done.
CC Thank you sir.
CC Skylab, Houston. I've got one flight
plan change and an update to the PLT's photo pad, and to
the TVI5 mod pad whenever it's convenient.
PLT Stand by we're scrambling.
CC No rush, just whenever you're ready
give me a call.
PLT Yeah, okay. Go ahead with the change -
to which plans for PLT? The (garble) or photo pad?
CC The photo pad. We're changing the flight
plan. We're deleting S073 ST-3 and that changes your pad.
All we want to do is delete the lines that say, "Leave DAC
on until S073 ST-3 is completed."
PLT Okay.
CC And I just gave you the flight plan change,
which is to delete that S073 ST-3 at ii:00.
PLT Roger.
PLT Go ahead with TV 15.
CC Okay, we've got the mission day wrong.
Down on the last line, it says, "mission day 22," it should
be 24 today.
PLT Great.
CC Skylab Houston. About 30 seconds from
LOS, Canary at 55.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 52 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has had loss of signal.
And the station at the Canary Island will acquire in about
2 minutes. We'll continue to stay up for that pass at
Canaries. During the pass over the United States, Skylab
Commander, Pete Conrad reported he could see both the
Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco.
He called it a fantastic sight at night. Earlier he had
reported that the crew got a good night's rest last night.
We'll stand by for acquisition at Canaries.

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SL-II MC-II01/I
Time: 02:53 CDT, 24:07:53 GMT
6/17/73

CC Skylab, Houston through Canaries for 9-1/2


minutes.
CC Skyla5, Houston, for info we'll be command-
ing the proton spec OFF.
PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston 30 seconds to LOS, Honey-
suckle at 40.
PLT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 5 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Canaries has had loss of signal. Next
station to acquire will be Honeysuckle in 34 minutes. Skylab
2 crew scheduled to do a TRIM burn this morning. That maneuver
designed to put the Skylab workshop back on the original ground
track by the time the Skylah 3 crew arrives at the workshop.
This maneuver will be performed with the service module
reaction control system. Ignition time 8 hours 59 minutes
27 seconds Greenwich mean time. It's a two-jet burn. We'll
use two of the RCS quads on the service module. Duration
of the burn is 9 seconds. The Delta-V, or change in velocity
as a result of maneuver, three-tenths of a foot per second,
and that will be a posigrade maneuver. All three crewmen
have Apollo telescope mount operation interspersed in their
schedules throughout the day. Today's flight plan schedules
a total of 5 hours and 42 minutes of Apollo telescope mount
operations. In addition, the Commander has some S019 opera-
tions, the ultraviolet steller astronomy experiment, for which
Scientist Astronaut, Carl Henize of the Johnson Space Center
is principle investigator. And he has TO27 operations scheduled
- the ATM contamination measurement. The Science Pilot, Joe
Kerwin, in addition to ATM operations has some time scheduled
to calibrate the M074, the specimen mass measurement device.
He'll also be the observer for a MI31 experiment, the human
vestibular function. Pilot Paul Weitz will be the subject
for that experiment. And then following lunch, Kerwin will
be the subject for MI31 and Weitz will be the observer. Kerwin
will also be the observer for M092 and MITI, the lower body
negative pressure and the metabollic activity experiments
while Paul Weitz is the subject. Paul Weitz is also scheduled
for some S019 operations today

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Time: 03:10 CDT 24:08:10 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Paul Weitz is also scheduled for some


S019 operations today. And Joe Kerwin is scheduled for
some additional ED31 experiments. That's the student ex-
periment on bacteria spores. Skylab is over Africa now_
about 29-i/2 minutes away from acquisition at Honeysuckle
Australia. We'll come back up just prior to acquisition
at Honeysuckle. At 8 hours I0 minutes Greenwich mean time,
this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-II03/I
Time: 03:37 CDT, 24:08:37 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 38 minutes


Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for acquisition at
Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle for
9 minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. I've got a couple of
things for the SPT if it's convenient to listen right now.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Okay. During the night on the S052 we
noticed the temperatures to be decreasing and we commanded
the thermal system ON and temps are increasing. When you
get to the console we'd like for you to verify on the WLC
that the thermal switch is ON, and report the status about
how you find it. And also got your SAP update. Filament's
79 at 040.2, 81 and 84 have almost I won't give you those
coordinates you've probably already got them. They've almost
totally disappeared since the two bright M3 flare in active
region 37 yesterday. We had 7 subflares without X-rays in
active regions 37 and 41 on that big complex there, between
18:00 yesterday and 04:00 today. The subflares without X-rays
have also been noted in active regions 40, 42, and 43. And
there's a new active region 45 at 080.7 with a small bi-polar
plage.
SPT Okay, now let me ask you guys something_
Houston. You sent us a lot of ATM messages last night_ most
of which contradict each other. I got one nice little mes-
sage telling me how to use the flare prep for unattended
cue card from which I inferred that I was - that I should have
used it yesterday and taken lots of pictures of that flare
and we came around the Horn and saw. I'm also told on the
solar activity pad that B2 A and B are saving their film for
flares, and on the ATM schedule pad that 82A is to have flare
ENABLED on it most of the passes. Then I got a message that
says 82A and B will not be initiated in the flare mode, and
I'm not quite sure what you guys are thinking.
CC Okay, let me let us think that over a
bit, Joe.
SPT Okay.
SPT I guess the message about the unattended
cue card did not answer my question which was, do the Pls make
it scientifically valuable and interesting to them to
get data on flare fall when they haven't had the rise. We
know how to get the cue card.
CC Copy.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go ahead.
SPT There's another aspect of that 82 and B
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message. It says that the cameras should no longer be used


after four and sixteen frames remaining respectively, I believe
it is. Understand that we operate those cameras per the
schedule pad and I assume that the Pls will not schedule
more data taking, then will run the film close to those numbers
plus a reasonable pad, because if they will know, our frames
remaing indicators onboard are not very reliable.
CC Roger, copy.

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Time: 03:45 CDT 24:08:45 GMT
6/17/73

CC Joe, in answer to your question about


the flares, the answer is if we don't see the rise, we
don't want to see the fall.
SPT Okay. How about 82A and B now? Am I
to not use them for any more flares for the rest of the mis-
sion, or follow the schedule pad?
SPT Or am I to use them in other than the
flare mode?
CC Okay, what we want you to do there is
use the 82A and B sprocket called for in the pad. However,
when you get down to frames remaining 4 and 16, we want
to discontinue using 82A and B.
SPT So right now, we may use 82A and B for
flares. Is that correct?
CC That is affirmative.
SPT Okay.
CC And Skylab Houston. There was a question
the other night about the Delta P light on the holding tank
when you were dumping that thing. Or I guess it was on
the condensate tank. And we've looked at what you said,
and looked at the data, and we think that all your indications
were proper as best we could determine.
CDR What does that mean? It means we got
a leak somewhere and we don't know where it is still.
CC Well, I guess if we're reading what you
said correctly, the water went into the holding tank, if
we understand it right, the two cups of water you are con-
cerned about. And we think the Delta P light you're getting
there is the same old bugaboo we've had all along is a
leaky QD°
CDR No, I disagree with you Hank. It didn't
go into any water holding tank. The holding tank was dis-
connected, we're talking about just the 216 panel itself.
It should hold its own Delta P, and it goes from a Delta P of
4 to about .5 in that 15 minutes when it's running by itself.
It's got a leak in it somewhere, and it is not in one of
those QDs.
PLT I tell you why we think it is not a
QD, Hank. Because the first time - I agree with you. I
don't know where else the pressure is leaking into the
system. We decided the first time it was a leaky QD in
that aft airlock (garble). Yesterday we tried disconnecting it and
we disconnected the line and the holding tank so that other
(garble) that was also a leaky QD. And for what it's
worth, I then put the duct cover to plug in that QD, and
we dumped it plugged the vacuum on it and it - -
.... CC We are about LOS.
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PLT - -wherever the little leak was it was still


there.
CC We'll be coming up on Hawaii on the hour.
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 8 hours
49 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab passed beyond range
of Honeysuckle now. Next station to acquire will be Hawaii
in about i0 minutes. In the Control Center, Flight Director
Hilton Windler and his maroon team of flight controllers
are preparing to relieve Flight Director Neil Hutchinson
and the silver team. We'll come back up just prior to
Hawaii acquisition. At 8 hours 50 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-II05/I
Time: 3:57 CDT 24:08:57 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at S hours 57 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is about 2 minutes away
from acquisition at Hawaii. The crew should perform this
trim burn just prior to acquisition, mission time 8 hours
59 minutes 27 seconds. It is designed to put the Skylab
workshop back on the original ground track by the time the
Skylab III crew arrives at the workshop. A very short
duration burn, 9 seconds, the service module reaction control
system. Two jets posigrade burn, 3/10 of a second, 3/10 of
a foot per second. We'll stand by for acquisition at Hawaii.
CC Skylab Houston. AOS Hawaii 9 minutes.
CDR Good morning.
CC Good morning.
CDR Roger Houston. The burn went on time.
CC Very good. Thank you, Pete.
CDR I wondered why we got S019 today?
CC Oh, no this is not Carl.
CDR Oh, I sound like Carl.
CC Crip finally decided to come back to
wo re.
CDR I wondered what happened to you.
PAO The Capcom is astronaut Bob Crippen.
PAO Telemetry indications are that the burn
was a good one.
PAO This is Skylab Control. We're estimating
a change of shift briefing with Flight Director Neil Hutchinson
for 4:15 a.m. central daylight time in the briefing room
at the Johnson Space Center News Center. Change of shift
briefing 4:15 a.m.
CDR I can't imagine that I'm standing up here
photographing these locker doors for these guys on TV so
they can understand what we did. It's hard for me to under-
stand that.
CC Roger.
CDR Either B channel is unreadable or we're
not saying it right.
CC Okay. I'm sure that they did get the
information on B channel but somebody apparently requested the
TV just for visual confirmation.
CDR I understand the (garble)
CC I don't understand it either.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go SPT.
SPT I forgot to tell Hank. We got (garble)
about 82A and flares and stuff, I forgot to tell him that the
52 thermal switch is and was in the prime position, when I
came on console.
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CC Roger, copy.
SPT Hardheaded.
CC Rog.
SPT And on this 82A and B flare business, I
still don't understand if they wanted us to not use flare
mode after 4 and 16 frames remaining, but the two experiments
take 24 and 48 photographs respectively during a flare.
Are they sure they don't want me to stop using the flare mode
at some higher number? Or is our frames remaining (garble) wrong?
CC Well, the way you read that was correct.
We'll reverify if that's what they want though.
SPT Because if we wait that long they're not
going to have their calibration film left. They have to risk
it if they want to run.
CC Okay. I think the intent is that they
really want those films for calibration, but we'll reverify
that.
SPT Well you see what I mean, Crip. If a
flare happens when 82A has i0 frames remaining, and I go
into flare mode, it's all wiped out.
CC Roger, understand.

END OF TAPE
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Time: 04:06 CDT, 24:09:06 GMT
6/17/73

CC Skylab, Houston 1 minute to LOS. Goldstone


at 09:12, 09:12.
SPT (Garble)
CC We'll try to have an answer for you on
your 82A and B there, Joe.
SPT We won't get any flares until then.
CC Promise.
SPT Roger, copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 9 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Hawaii's had loss of signal. Goldstone
will acquire in about a minute and a half. We'll continue
to stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston AOS Goldstone 6 minutes.
SPT Hello.
SPT Hey, Crip, ask S073 if I can terminate
now. It's not running on the program right now is it, or
is it?
CC Checking.
CDR That's what I have to say to this TV.
CC I'ii tell AI Bain that.
CDR And tell him I played deck in the suit
- stowage and locker location.
CC Roger.
CC Paul, you're GO to terminate SO73.
SPT Okay.
PLT Hey Houston, Skylab.
CC Go Skylab.
CC Skylab, Houston. You called?
PLT Yes, I had to move to a different box be-
cause I can't get program to 6 to work on SO73. While you're
thinking about that, can I just manually drive - or using
the switches drive the shaft in trunnion to the proper settings
and then retract it?
CC Roger, Paul. You got a GO to do that manually,
trunnion to 0 and shaft to 40.
CC Skylab, Houston. About 30 seconds from
LOS, Mila at 9:22.
SPT Crip, if you answered my last question,
I didn't get your reply. Did you give me the answer yet?
CC Roger, you got a GO to do that manually, Paul.
Trunnion to 0 and shaft to 40 for retraction.
SPT Okay, I terminated mode three, set up
(garble) start switch the program light came on but it never
drogued.
CC Roger. Corollary checking that out.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 19 minutes.
Goldstone has had loss of signal. There's about a three minute
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gap between Goldstone and acquisition at the Merit Island,


Floridia station. Flight Director, Nell Hutchinson, has
left the control center on his way to the building i briefing
room at JSC for the Change-of- briefing. That briefing should
start in approximalely 4 to 5 minutes. We'll take this llne
down and tape any air-ground transmissions during the Change-
of-shift briefing, and play back the tape at the earliest
opportunity. At nine hours and 20 mintues Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-II07/I
Time: 04:34 CDT 24:09:34 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 34 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. The Canary Island station has
just acquired Skylab. This pass will continue on into the
Ascension Island coverage. We'll have coverage here for
the next 15 minutes. We'll stay up live for these two
passes and then play the accumulated tape after Ascension
loss of signal.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over Canary for
14 minutes, 14 minutes.
CDR Roger.
CC SPT, Houston. If you are copying, re-
garding your 82A and B question involved with the flare, the
word we have is that if you get a flare use 82A and B as
required to record it.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, we're loading momentum biasls
of 0 back into the computer, we'd like for you to stay off
the DAS for a minute or so, please.
SPT Okay.
CDR Hey, Crip.
CC Go ahead.
CDR For somebody to be thinking about,
let's say that we start running behind you down to the wire
and I start the S019 stuff late. Do they want the first
star field photographed late and get what we can, or do they
want that star field sequence picked up on time?
CC Okay, we'll look at that. And I'm re-
viewing a procedure right now for you to pass up for you
on that 73. We'll have it for you in just a minute.
SC Okay. I'm standing right here. I'ii
just do it as you read it.
CC Okay, Paul. The procedure that we're
basically going to try to do, is to take off the automatic
programmer. And the procedure for you to do is turn
the power off.
SC Got it.
CC Okay. Disconnect the automatic program-
mer. That's the cable, and then insert the jumper plug on
the manual control panel.
SC It's in work.
SC Is that shorting plug Juliett i0?
CC Stand by. That's affirmative.
SC And it does go into manual control panel,
right?
CC That's affirm.
SC That's complete.
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CC Okay. We'd like you to go ahead and try


again, to drive it and we'd like for you to also note that you
cannot drive the shaft and trunnion at the same time.
SC Still does the same thing, Bob.
CC That's what we were afraid of.
SC Me too.

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Time: 04:43 CDT, 24:09:43 GMT
6/17/73

CC PLT, Houston. We are still pondering what


the problem is. Obviously it's not in the automatic programmer,
meanwhile we'd like you to go ahead and retract two
rods'while we're thinking about it.
PLT Okay.
CC And leave the power on it.
PLT You want the power left on, all right.
CC SPT, Houston. The DAS is yours once more
and we need you to enable the dump for us please, sir.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're one minute from LOS.
We'll see you again over Carnarvon at 10:13, 10:13 and we'll
be doing a data recorder dump at Carnarvon.
PLT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 9 hours
50 minutes Greenwich mean time. Ascension has loss of signal.
The next station to acquire will be Carnarvon in 22 minutes.
There was considerable discussion during this pass concerning
a problem with the S073 experiment. That's the gegenschein
zodiacal light experiment that's installed in the scientific
airlock. Paul Weitz can't move the shaft and trunnion to the
desired positions. It was believed that the problem might
be in the automatic programmer. And the ground passed up
a procedure to disconnect this programmer from the system and
enable manual control only. That procedure was not successful,
so the problem does not appear to be in the automatic programmer.
The corollary experiment controller and his team came, are
continuing to study the problem. And there will probably
be further discussion on S073 over the Carnarvon station.
We accumulated 3 minutes 30 seconds in tape during the change
of shift briefing. We'll play that tape for you now.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-II09/I
Time: 4:52 CDT, 24:09:52 GMT
6/17/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Mila


for 9 minutes. And Paul, we indicate that you're going
shaft down to zero and that shaft should be at 40.
SC We got more problems than that, Bob_
unless our readout is not right. We had an upper shaft limit
in here. We've changed it now, whatever it was. 235. The shaft
angle is sitting at 345, and as soon as you do anything, - when
you go to SECREASE on this shaft, it'll run down, as soon
as you go out of DECREASE, it goes back to what is apparently
the stop at 345. In order to run any data, if I go
to TRUNNION DECREASE, they both stop. As soon as I go TRUNNION
off they're both off the shaftal drive to 345.
SC (Garble)
SC What are you indicating for the angle of
the shaft right now?
CC Stand by one.
CC Okay, Paul. We're still locking at the
angle right now. We recommend that you cycle the power off and then
back on.
SC We've done that half a dozen times, Bob.
CC Okay.
SC We also did it with the camera program
disabled. That didn't seem to make any difference. We've
done it all zips on the programmer, that didn't seem to
make any difference.
SC Normally with the shaft, you leave the
TRUNNION in DECREASE.
SC It looks like the SHAFT DECREASE switch
selector is stuck in the SHAFT INCREASE position.
CC Roger.
SC Bob, what we're reading on board right now is zero,
wheops_ Wait. Okay. Now that the CDR has gone TRUNNION the shaft
angle is 040 and the trunnion angle is 117. And the only
way we got it stopped now is with the SHAFT switch is OFF and
the TRUNNION switch in DECREASE.
SC Are you still there, Houston?
CC Roger. We're showing a trunnion of 112
and a shaft of 40 right now.
SC Okay. When, - it wasn't doing it before for me,
but now Pete's got it. We've stepped back off a few steps
en trunnion some way. (Garble) was playing with the switches and
we got it te count down a few counts. And with TRUNNION in
either INCREASE or DECREASE, it will stop the shaft from
rotating now.
CC Roger. Understand. TRUNNION INCREASE or
DECREASE will stop the shaft.
SC Yeah, but it won't do anything to the
trunnion.
CC Roger.
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CC Skylab, Houston. We're i minute till


LOS. We're still looking at some procedure that might solve
your 73 problem, and we'll try to have that for you over
Canary at 9:33, 33.
CC And, Joe, just a reminder, we do need to
be in OPTICAL REFERENCE on 55 for the next thing coming up.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That's the end
of the tape. We'll come back up just prior to acquisition at
Carnarvon. At 9 hours 55 minutes Greenwich mean time_ this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCIIO/I
Time: 05:11 CDT, 24:10:11 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylah Control, at i0 hours


ii minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is nearing acquisition
at the Carnarvon, Australia station. We'll stand by for
this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Carnarvon
for 9 minutes. And we will be doing the data recorder dump.
CC PLT, Houston.
SC He can't come to the phone right now, but -
but we got it into two rods to get us into good shape. And
whatever was hung up, unhung itself; and he got it manually
to 0 TRUNNION 040 SHAFT, and it's in and he's taking it down.
CC Very good; solves all of our problems.
SC There you go. Stick with us kid.
CC Roger, can fix anything.
SC Meanwhile the Betsy Production TV Company
is still at it.
CC Roger.
CC PLT, Houston. Regarding your question
as to which star field to do first; if you're short on time,
we'd like you to go ahead and take the first star field first.
We assume that you shouldn't be in too much of a time constraint_
though.
SC Yeah.
SC I hope our demonstration of how triangle
shoes work is sufficient.
CC I'm sure we'll enjoy it.
SC Hey.
SC Hey, Crip, I'm not going to give a demonstration
of the little balls on the toes of the feet (garble); because
I don't use them, and I don't have time.
CC Copy.
SC This is all strictly personal preference.
Joe likes his; uses them all the time except when he's riding
the bike because you got to use triangles, and I think Paul and I
both use the triangles all the time because it was just
easier than changing about.
CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control, at i0 hours
22 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab has passed beyond
range at Carnarvon; will be within range at Guam in 5 minutes.
We'll come back up just prior to the Guam pass. At i0 hours
22 minutes Greenwich mean timep this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
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Time: 5:25 CDT, 24:10:25 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 10 hours 25


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on the Guam
tracking station. Over Carnarvon, Paul Weitz reported that
he had shortened the extension on the S073 experiment, the
gegenschein/zodlacal experiment, from 7 rods to 2 rods and
then had shaken the experiment package and following the
shaking, he was able to drive the shaft and trunnion to the
positions he wanted. We'll stand by now for acquisition
through Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam
for 6 minutes. Sorry about that missed call for LOS.
SC Houston, CDR. On TV-15, I'm going to
skip the shower. And then the TV tour i, which has no voice.
They didn't want voice, anyhow, and I've expended more than
enough time on this thing already, like an hour and 20 min-
utes.
CC Okay.
SC You got three (garble) those shoes and the
other, two items that were asked for in the print this morning;
suit stowage and locker doors and that is it.
CC Roger.
SC Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SC The S056 special troubleshooting procedure
has just been completed, and the two sequences were completely
nominal.
CC Roger. Copy both nominal.
CC CDR, Houston. Since you've completed your
TV, we're going to go ahead and start rewinding, so we can
do our dump at Goldstone.
SC Yea_
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 30 seconds from
LOS. Goldstone at 51, 10:51.
PAO This is Skylab Control at I0 hours 34
minutes Greenwich mean time. Guam has had loss of signal.
Skylab will miss Hawaii on this revolution. The next station
to acquire will be Goldstone in 17 minutes. We'll come back
up just prior to acquisition there. At i0 hours 34 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-III2/I
Time: 05:50 CDT, 24:10:50 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylah Control, at 10 hours


50 minutes Greenwich mean time. And the Goldstone tracking
station is about to acquire Skylab. We'll stand by through
this pass over the United States.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over the States
for about 15 minutes.
SC Okay, let me know when you get your TV.
CC Okay. Houston. We're dumping the VTR at
this time. It'll be our Mila pass at 57 before we're going
to get real time.
SC All righty.
SC Fred, you got time for a couple of words on
S073?
CC Roger.
SC Okay. ,When I turned the power off, or left it
on prior to retracting it last time I looked - hey, let's
look at something. Wait a minute.
SC Okay, Crip, it was the reading whatever
I told you. I had the shaft of 40 and locked up by the
SHAFT OFF, and the TRUNNION to DECREASE. And it was reading
whatever the last number was I gave you, 117 or so. I pulled
it in when I got into rod A. I was pulling it in in (garble)
until apparently the photometer hit the side of the vehicle;
not very hard, just tapped it. And then I went around the side,
I took the first B rod off and stowed it, and went around
the side and looked and the trunnion was reading about 15 or
so. So I went ahead and cycled it and it came right on
down to zero and retracted it and we're home free.
CC Okay, so you didn't actually physically
shake the inside case then?
SC Did you mean the big long box?
CC Affirm.
SC Heavens no: I don't want to tear the
airlock out of the wall.
CC Roger. Okay, we misinterpreted what
was said awhile ago.
SC Oh, okay. No, I pulled it in and banged
photoometer head up against the outside of the vehicle, and
that's what stopped whatever was going on.
CC Okay, we copy. And Paul, I'd like to
change the word I gave you on S019 a while ago. If you do
get late for any reason, we want you to pick up the times
on the pad itself and just eliminate what you missed.
SC Okay, I shouldn't be late.
CC CDR, Houston. We're ready for your ATM
TV at this time, and give us a call when you finish the
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required cycling.
SC Okay, you've I'm looking at H-Alpha 2 right now,
and I'ii give it to you (garble).
CC Roger.
SC H-Alpha i.
CC Roger.
SC That's white light coronagraph, I'm starting
to roll.
CC Roger, looks pretty.

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Time: 06:02 CDT, 24:11:02 GMT
6/17/73

SC XUV fine.
CC CDR, Houston. We blew that last XUV mon
integration sequence on the ground here_ we would appreciate
i_ if you could perform it over for us.
SC Okay.
SC Coming at you.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. As-
cension at 11:19, i, i, i, 9.
PAO This is Skylah Control at ii hours 10
minutes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has had loss of signal.
And Ascension will acquire Skylab in 8 minutes. We'll come
hack up for that pass. At Ii hours ii minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-III4/I
Time: 06:17 CDT, 24:11:17 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 17


minutes Greenwich mean time. The tracking station at Ascen-
sion Island is about to acquire the spacecraft. We'll stand
by for this pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over Ascension
for about 5 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC PLT, Houston. You have a, need a minute
sometime this pass or the next, to talk about a MOD for your S019 Pad.
SC Come on.
CC Was that you, Paul?
SC Yes, wait a minute.
SC Okay. Go ahead, I'm ready for your de-
letions.
CC Yes. If you'll look down at the bottom
of your pad, that - at 12:07 we have a field i0 and then we
got ii and 12. There's a single star used for those 3
fields and it's really not available until 12:08. What we'd
like to do is to drop down and to pick up fields 9, 12 and
ii, uh, 9, ii, before you get into fields i0, ii and 12.
And I - -
SC (garble)
CC Okay. I can give you some times, which
are just recommended times, basically all we're doing is at
12:07 picking up fields 9, 12 and 9, ii.
SC Okay.
CC Okay. If you'd like to copy, I can go
ahead and give you these recommended times for the field.
SC Wait one.
SC Okay.
CC Okay. At, for field 912, we'd llke that
done at 12:07. 911 at 12:11. Field i0 at 12:15. ii at
12:16. Field 12 at 12:18.
SC That's the same way I figured it out How
bout that?
CC I knew you could do it all along. (Music)
CC And CDR, Houston. We copy you in optical
reference on 55 and we need you in mechanical for that par-
ticular step.
SC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute until
LOS. See you again at Carnarvon at 11:50, i, i, 5, 0.
SC Hi, Houston. What do you want to do if
this thing hangs up in active 2 long? Restart it or quit?
CC We'll check it.
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 25
minutes Greenwich mean time. Ascension has had loss of signal.
Skylab will next be acquired by the Carnarvon, Australia station,
in about 24 minutes. We'll come back up just prior to acqui-
sition at Carnarvon. At ii hours 25 minutes Greenwich mean
time, this is Skylab Control. Fix it if she hangs up?

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-IIIb/I
Time: 06:48 CDT, 24:11:48 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 48


minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for Skylab
acquisition at Carnarvon.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon i0
minutes.
SC Roger.
CC And CDR, if you'll stay off the DAS for
us, please, we'll be doing a NAV update this pass.
SC Roger.
CC Roger, and break a, PLT, Houston. I know
you're busy getting ready to set up on this S019, but believe
it or not, we got another MOD at the end of your pad. On
field i0 and ii and 12, you should add i00 degrees to each
of the rotations, in other words you should be 184.7, 185.7,
and 184.7. No need to acknowledge.
SC He acknowledged, Houston, in his own
fashion. And the carbon di - monoxide composition of the space-
craft atmosphere is undeteetable.
CC Roger. Undetectable. Yeah, I was afraid
of his acknowledgement, that's why I asked not to get one.
SC Okay.
SC They're making up a story.
CC Roger.
SC I calmly whipped out my little pencil
and made the changes in fields 8, 9, and i0, like you wanted.
CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours once
more.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in i minute. Guam
at 12:03, i, 2, 0, 3.
SC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours Green-
wich mean time. Carnarvon has had loss of signal. A very
short LOS between Carnarvon and acquisition at Guam. We're
about 2 minutes away from Guam acquisition. We'll continue
to stand by for that pass.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCIII6/I
Time: 07:00 CDT, 24:12:00 GMT
6/17/73

CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Guam I0 minutes,


i0 minutes.
SC Rey, Crip, are you there?
CC Affirm.
SC (Garble) get the 509, make it line 81 and
82 of
the shopping list is complete.
CC Roger. Understand complete.
CC CDR, Houston. If you can give us the
time hack on how long it took to charge the bottle, we'd appreciate it.
SC Oh, it quit hitting at me in about 3 minutes.
CC Thank you.
SC Hey, Crip, did they get good voice on
the TV last night?
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Regarding that TV voice,
so we can be sure, which event are you talking about? Are
you speaking of the tour last night?
SC Yes, Charlie.
CC Skylab, Houston. Regarding the voice on
TV, we're advised that the voice was received however, it was
of poor quality.
SC Okay, that's those bloody mikes. They
(garble) all righty. Thank you. Also on channel B you might see
if it's any better there. We recorded B also.
CC Roger. And we're i minute until LOS. See
you over Goldstone at 12:28, 1228.
SC Okay, it's your last chance to make changes
to SO19.
CC Aren't you glad?
CC We have Pete's pad later.
SC Thanks.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-III7/I
Time: 07:13 CDT, 24:12:13 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 13


minutes Greenwich mean time. Guam has had loss of signal.
Skylab will next be acquired by the Goldstone tracking
station in 15-1/2 minutes. We'll come back up then. At
12 hours 13 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCIII8/I
Time: 07:27 CDT, 24:12:27 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, 12 hours 27 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Skylab is now within range of Goldstone,
we'll stand by for acquisition there.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Goldstone
for about 17 minutes.
SC Okay, Houston. I had a very strange thing
just happened with our orbit phase clock. As it counted through
60 minutes and it got down to 59 minutes and something and suddenly
jumped and lost 4 minutes. It jumped to 55 minutes. And is
now counting 51:53, which I don't think is right.
CC Okay, we're looking at it.
SC Thank you.
SC And only 3 more exposures and I'll be
done with S019. Hang in there.
CC Roger. Copy, Paul.
SC Hey, Crip, how about having them look at
56 and see if it's hung up in filter i?
CC Wilco.
SC By the way, it hung up a second time in
filter 1 and (garble) during the last rev.
CC Roger, copy.
CC CDR, Houston. Can you associate that
clock change with when you enabled dump?
SC Well, that could have been, it could have
been. I can't say for sure, but it could have been.
SC As a matter of fact, I think I looked at the
clock, it's 60 and enable dump and then looked back again and sure
enough it was about 55, so maybe that's what it was.
CC Okay, we're checking to verify that it's
reading correctly now.
CC CDR, Houston. 56 apparently is houng
up again and we need you to hit START; and by the way, we
have a pad for you in the teleprinter.
SC Okay, wait i.
SC You there, Houston?
CC Affirmative.
SC Tell me your update.
CC Roger.
SC You got a pad for me, Houston?
SC Hello, world.
SC Hello, Houston, are you there?
CC Affirmative.
SC All right, you have a pad for me?
CC We have sent you a message. If you didn't
receive it we can retransmit it.
SC You mean in the teleprinter?
CC Affirm.
SC Oh, okay.
SC I got it, thank you.
CC Roger.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-III9/I
Time: 07:41 CDT, 24:12:41 GMT
6/17/73

CC Skylah, Houston. Regarding your orbit


phase clock, it does appear that the time change is
contributable to when you enabled dump and the time that you're
looking at now is approximately correct according to our
calculations. And we do have a long LOS coming up, - It's about
1 minute from now and we'll see you again over Goldstone at
14:05, I, 4, 0, 5. At which time we'll be doing a data
recorder dump.
SC i, 4, 0, 5. Got you. Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control; 12 hours 46 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. The Bermuda and MILA stations have
had loss of signal. Tracking ship Vanguard will he the next
station to acquire. The low elevation pass, and we may not
get air-to-ground on that pass. If we do not, the next
station will be Goldstone in 1 hour and 17 minutes. We'll
come back up prior to Vanguard and see if we get air-to-ground
at that station. At 12 hours 47 minutes, this is Skylab
Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-II20/I
Time: 07:52 CDT, 24:12:52 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 21 hours


52 minutes Greenwich mean time. We will not try to acquire
Skylab at the Vanguard on this revolution. So the next
acquisition will be at Goldstone in 1 hour and 12 minutes_
1 hour and 12 minutes until the next acquisition. At 12
hours 53 minutes Greenwich mean time_ this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCII21/I
Time: 09:04 CDT, 24:14:04 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, at 14 hours


4 minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming within range
now at the Goldstone, California tracking station. We'll
stand by.
PAO This is Skylab Control. This is the
crew's lunch period during this pass over the United States.
We'll continue to stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We have you over the
states now for about 8 more minutes.
SC Roger, Crip.
CC And we copy the experiment 1 recorder
is on at this time. Appreciate it if you turn it off if
it is not being used and we'll dump it.
SC Okay.
SC If anyone cares, the PLT makes 30 rpm.
All these stinking wires didn't get in the PLSS.
CC Fantastic, I didn't think anybody could
do that.
SC I didn't either.
CC Skylab, Houston. For your info we have
_- your flight plan for tomorrow onboard at this time.
SC Holy mackrel_
CC Would you believe that?
SC Frankly, no. We're going to go look.
SC We haven't finished today's yet, Houston.
CC Say again.
SC We haven't finished today's flight plan
yet. We can't start on tomorrow's.
CC Roger. We Just got tired of staying ahead
of you guys.
SC Yeah, but you know if we finish early
today we'll start on tomorrow's pad.
CC Okey-doke.
CC And for your information, we also have
your details ready, but we aren't going to send those to
you yet.
SC Chicken.
SC Hey, Crip, you know On fishing boarts and
talking on S-band? We're getting a little cross talk clunk up here
from something. Sounds like a boat.
CC Roger, we copy cross-talk every once and
a while on our loop also. l'm not sure exactly where it's
coming from.
SC Excerts we've heard all flight.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute until LOS,
Vanguard at 14:30, 1430. We'll be doing a data recorder
dump at Vanguard.
SL-II MCI121/2
Time: 09:04 CDT, 24:14:04 GMT
6/17/73

SC Roger, Crip.
PAO This is Skylab Control, at 14 hours
20 minutes Greenwich mean time. The Texas tracking station
at Corpus Cristi has loss of signal with Skylab. She'll move
now - move down over South America and will be acquired
by the Vanguard tracking ship in 9 minutes. We'll come
back up at that time. At 14 hours 20 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I122/I
Time: 09:28 CDT, 24:14:28 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 28


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is being acquiried now by
the Vanguard tracking ship. We'll stand by for air-to-ground
communications there.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over Vanguard, and
we'll be doing a data recorder dump.
SC Roger.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I123/I
Time: 09:36 CDT, 24:14:36 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 42


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is out of range of the
Vanguard ship now. The next station to acquire will be
Goldstone, i hour and 1 minute from now. At 14 hours 43
minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI124/I
Time: i0:00 CDT, 24:15:00 GMT
6/17/73

PAO This is Skylab Control, at 15 hours


Greenwich mean time. During Skylab's pass over the
United States on the last revolution there was a conversation
between the President of the United States and the Skylah
crew. The duration of the conversation was 1 minute
40 seconds. We have a tape of that conversation, we'll
play that for yon now.
NIXON Hello.
SC Hello, sir. How are you?
NIXON Fine. Is this Pete Conrad?
SC Yes, sir.
NIXON Nice to talk
SC We all are listening.
NIXON Nice to talk to you again an4 Commander
Kerwin and Commander Weitz are there with you, right?
SC Yes, sir.
NIXON Well, I just wanted you to know that every-
body here has been following what you've been doing, and I guess
the way I could summarize this project is that it proves that
- that man still matters. With all the - with all the technical
machines and so forth that yon had to work with, it proved
that when there were difficulties that the ingenuity of men
in space is what really mattered. And you've really made us
all very proud with the way you've handled some difficult
problems in this project.
SC Thank you, sir.
NIXON And you'll he returning on the 22nd, I
understand.
SC Yes, sir, we're, of course, counting different
days. That's - I think day 173. We're working day 168.
HIXON I see. Well, I'ii - I'ii he out in California
at that time, and after you've splashed down I hope to welcome
the three of you. Perhaps when you do maybe you can come up
to San Clemente and we can say hello.
SC That's wonderful, sir. I'm sitting here
talking to you right now, coming up on the Coast of California
looking out the window at a full Moon.
NIXON Is that right? Let me also say this, that
this is Father's Day. I understand that each of you is a
father, so congratulations.
SC Thank you, sir.
NIXON Fine, and we'll look forward to seeing you
after you get back.
SC Yes, sir. Thank you very much for the call.
NIXON Thank you, Pete. Bye.
PAO This is Skylah Control. That ends the tape
of the conversation between the President and the Skylah crew.
SL-II MCI124/2
Time: i0:00 CDT, 24:15:00 GMT
6/17/73

That pass, in which this conversation took place, began at


Goldstone about 9:05 a.m. Central daylight time. Skylab
is still 42 minutes away from acquisition at Goldstone
on this revolution. We'll bring the line back up just
prior to acquisition there. At 15 hours 2 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I125/I
Time: 10:19 CDT, 24:15:19 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 19 minutes


and 4 seconds Greenwich mean time. We'd like to announce
that at 10:30 a.m. central daylight time, there will be a
play of the television of the TV tour made last night by
the crew. This is in TV, Scene list number 26, TV26. This'll
take place at 10:30 in the building i briefing room on monitors.
The tour includes the orbital workshop, multiple docking
adapter, and airlock module of the spacecraft. It does not
include the wardroom area that was shown on the previous
TV tour. This will be replayed at 11:30 a.m. central day-
light time. That's TV tour will be replayed at 11:30 a.m.
and at that time we will also play television Scene list
number 15, which includes sleeping arrangements aboard the
spacecraft, the trash deposal area and the triangle shoes.
Does not include the shower that was normally listed as
part as that, because that was a, - had to be deleted because
of time requirements aboard the spacecraft. At 11:30 we will
have astronaut Bruce McCandless available in the briefing room
to discuss the television and he will act as narrator for
both the TV tour and for TV Scene list number 15. So at
10:30 you may see the TV tour. At 11:30 the TV tour and
TV 15, a sleep and trash disposal and triangle shoe, parts
of the spacecraft. This is Skylab Control at 20 minutes and
33 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I126/I
Time: 10:41 CDT, 24:15:41 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 41 minutes


16 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time we're
3-1/2 minutes from acquisition of signal. And we're going
to give you a brief report on today's activities. So far
the crew is well on schedule, in fact Science Pilot Joseph
Kerwin and Pilot Paul Weitz, have begun their MI31 experi-
ment a bit early today. They indicated earlier to the
biomedical people that MI31 could be, begun ahead of sched-
ule. It was originally scheduled to begin at 12:28, but
they did begin earlier than that. Only one problem has
occurred during the day and that was a problem with the
retraction of S073, which is the gegenschein zodiacal light
experiment. An experiment which measures the background
light of the universe, and also light that occurs in the
area of the zodiac. S073 which is extended on an 18-foot
boom from the solar, no the antisolar scientific alrloek of
the spacecraft, was, attempted to withdraw that, the crew
member Paul Weitz attempted to withdraw SO73 today from the
antisolar scientific airlock, that's the scientific airlock
that sticks out the opposite side of the spacecraft from
the parasol that protects it from the sun. When he attempted
to retract that, using computer procedures, it failed to
retract. He then went to, what is called manual control,
it's actually an electronic control panel, and attempted to
retract it in that method. He succeeded in retracting it
most of the 18 feet that it had to be brought back, hut the
photometer head that sticks out at right angles, right
angles from the main pole, was not retracted into the proper
position. In order to bring it back inside he banged it
against the side of the orbital workshop, and it did, it was
gently banged. It was believed it was a gentle tap, but it was
enough to bring it back into alinement, so he could bring it
back in. Indications now from the corollary experiments officer
here in mission control, are that they may ha_e to test that
to make sure it's still operating properly, although they're
fairly confident that it is. That will not be used again,
S073, which also is used for another experiment on measuring
contaminates in the atmosphere around the spaceeraftp will
not be used again during Skylah II, it will he used in the
following manned mission, the next manned mission uses it. They
will have to use the pole however. Otherwise everything is
going on schedule. The commander has had a busy day at the
Apollotelescope mount. And there has also been some word
from Dr. Kerwin there. We're now having acquisition of
signal coming up at the Goldstone tracking station on the
coast of the United States in California. This is Skylah
Control at 44 minutes, remaining live for air-to-ground.

END OF TAPE

J
SL-II MC-I127/I
Time: 11:05 CDT, 24:16:05 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 5 minutes and


18 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are coming up on acqui-
sition of signal at the Vanguard tracking ship, in approx-
imately i minute. We will stay live for air-to-ground from
Vanguard. This is Skylab Control staying live for air-to-
ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard i0 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC And we are doing a data recorder dump.
SC Hey, I'm not having very much luck with
SO56 today. It quits Just about every time in ACTIVE 1 LONG, and
it's Just almost impossible to get it all the way through.
CC Roger. Understood that you did not want
to go ahead and run it because of that?
SC Well, no. I can get pictures, but I don't
get all of them, you know, it hangs up somewhere pretty
nearly every time, that's all I get - can either get halfway
through, or it hangs up on the first step through or something.
The other thing is, as I made a comment on B channel that active
region 37 and 41 is kind of difficult to figure out who is who,
when you're doing some of these building blocks, so I'm using my
prerogative of choosing and picking up here.
CC Roger. Copy.
SC Hey, Crip. We found that bag.
CC Okey-doke. Thank you.
SC (garble) It hasn't been transferred yet.
CC Ah-so.
SC Now, I'm watching. I just started ACTIVE i
LONG right now.
CC Okay. Watching.
SC Well, at least you won't have to spend
next Sunday, I hope, in the MOCRs.
CC I'm told by Flight that some of them
will get to.
CC These poor guys got to man it all the
time.
SC I keep forgetting about the lab. You're
right.
SC Hey, Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SC Roger. Regarding your general message
2425. I don't know what the item is, referred to in the
second paragraph. I though perhaps it was my relatives, but
they're bigger than a breadbox. So maybe it's the change
from my paycheck. Any rat_, thank them for their good wishes
and Happy Father's Day to my father.
CC Roger.
SL-II MC-I127/2
Time: 11:05 CDT, 24:16:05 GMT
6/17/73

SC And a Happy 89th Birthday to him, too.


CC Okay. I'ii pass that on to Lee.
SC I'm not going to have to ride that bicycle on
day 29, the way this schedule's going.
CC That's affirm.
CC CDR, Houston. If you've got a minute,
you'll never believe it, but I've got a pad change for you on
S019.
SC Oh, I believe it, it'd spoil my whole day,
if you didn't.
CC Okay. If the crew will do the, use the
actually on rotation now, is not what we had predicted it
to be and what we need to do is have you add i degree to all
rotations.
SC That's a good story, Crip. You ought to
stick with it.
CC I got to come up with a new one each time.
SC Consider it done.
CC Thank you.
SC S019 Pls now on 25, today.
SC Tell him we're willing to serve even if it's
(garble) .
CC Roger. I'm sure he'll be glad to hear
that.
SC Looks llke you're hung up again, Houston.
In 56 that is.
CC Copy. We saw it.
CC Skylab, Houston. i minute till LOS.
Hawaii at 17:16. i, 7, 1, 6.
SC What'd you say, Crip?
CC We're going to LOS. We'll have you again
in I hour, at 17:16.
SC Okay. We were just all chortling over
2516 Alfa.
PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 17 minutes
32 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at the
Vanguard tracking station at this time. And we do not expect
to acquire for 57 minutes and about 42 seconds. Our next
acquisition of signal on rev 491, will be at the Hawaiian
tracking station. We'll have a nearly overhead pass at
Hawaii. At this time we are preparing to replay the conver-
sation between President Nixon and Commander Pete Conrad.
That took place this morning between 9:05 and 9;10 Central
Daylight Time, as the spacecraft was acquired at Goldstone
tracking station. At that time the conversation was a pri-
vate one, it was held off of the loops. This is a replay
of the entire conversation which takes about 1 minute and
40 seconds. For of those who would llke to record it, you
should have your recorders set now, here is a replay of the
conversation between the crew and President Nixon.
SL-II MC-I127/3
Time: 11:05 CDT, 24:16:05 GMT
6/17/73

NIXON Hello.
SC Hello, sir. How are you?
NIXON Fine. Is this Pete Conrad?
SC Yes, sir.
NIXON Nice to talk - -
SC Joe and Paul are listening.
NIXON Nice to talk to you again, and Commander
Kerwin and Commander Weitz are there with you, right?
SC Yes, sir.
NIXON Well, I just wanted you to know that every-
body here has been following what you've been doing, and I
guess the way I can summarize this project is, that it
proves that - that man still matters. With all the, - with all the
technical machines and so forth that you had to work with,
it proved that when there were difficulties that the ingenuity
of men in space is what really matters. And you've really
made us all very proud with the way you've handled some
difficult problems in this project.
SC Thank you, sir.
NIXON And you' ii be returning on the 22nd,
I understand.
SC Yes, sir. We're, of course, - counting
different days. That's - I think, day 173. We're working day 168.
NIXON I see. Well, I'ii be out in California
at that time, and after you've splashed down I hope to
welcome the three of yon, perhaps when, you do maybe yon can come
up to San Clemente and we can say hello.
SC That's wonderful, sir. I'm sitting here talking
to you right now, coming up on the coast of California
looking out the window at a full Moon.
NIXON Is that right? Let me also say this,
that this is Father's Day. I understand each of you is a
father, so congratulations.
SC Thank you, sir.
NIXON Fine and we'll look forward to seeing
you after you get back.
SC Yes, sir. Thank you very much for the
call.
NIXON Thank you, Pete. Bye.
PAO Skylab Control. That is the conclusion
of the message from the President to the crew of the first
Skylab manned mission. This is Skylab Control, our next
acquisition of signal is 55 minutes from now. Time now is
20 minutes and 28 seconds after_the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI128/I
Time: 11:25 CDT, 24:16:25 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 25 minutes


and 41 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're just a little
over 4 minutes from the replay of the television tour that
was made last night by the Skylab crew. We will have
astronaut Bruce McCandless, a member of the backup crew
available to discuss the television while - while it's being
replayed for those people who have monitors and in the
building 1 small briefing room. Like to read you todays
Father's Day messages that were sent up earlier on the
teleprinter pad to the members of the crew. To Commander
Pete Conrad from his wife and boys: Jane and boys will
greet you at 21:14 through Ascension. That is to say they
will be talking today at 4:14 p.m. Central daylight time
from here in Mission Control to the crew. To the Science
Pilot, Joe Kerwin: Happy Father's Day from all the Kerwin
girls. Your present is smaller than a breadbox and contains
more than 50 items. And to the Pilot, Paul Weitz: Happy
Father's Day from all the kids. The family misses you and
looks forward to your return. These messages were sent up
on the teleprinter pad during the night, and there will be
a conversation later today. We expect that to be open on
the open line between Commander, Pete Conrad, and his wife
and children here in Mission Control. We're now about
3 minutes from the beginning of that replay of the television
tour, and also television 15 with Bruce McCandless in
building 1 small briefing room. This is Skylab Control,
still 48 minutes from the next acquisition of signal at
the Hawaiian tracking station; 27 minutes and 26 seconds
after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I129/I
Time: 12:14 CDT, 24:17:14 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control, we have acquisition of


signal at Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Hawaii, i0 minutes.
SC Hello.
CC Hello.
SC Hey, Crip. Have a look at 56 again. It
doing, looks like it's just hung up.
CC Roger. Okay, Adam's looking at it.
CC CDR, Houston. Roger, we concur the 56
56 had hung up and (garble) that you start it again. And
we're suddenly had a rate gyro discompare in the Y-axis and
we'd like to get you to select rate gyros 2 and 3 in the
Y-axis. I can give you those DAS codes if you'd like them.
SC Go ahead.
CC Roger. That's 52015 for function code,
and data is 50024.
SC Okay.
SC It's done.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston, LOS in 1 minute. Vanguard
at 17:45, 1745 and we'll be doing a data recorder dump
at Vanguard.
SC Okay, what happened? The Y gyro get a
- drift compensation go out again?
CC It looked like it failed the integral test
right now. I guess the word has it that the gyro look pretty good.
We're taking a look at it.
SC Okay.
PA0 Skylab Control, 17 hours 24 minutes
and 48 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now lost signal
with at the Hawaiian tracking station as the spacecraft
travels off to the southeast of Hawaii over the Pacific Ocean
approaching the Equator. We expect to hear again from the
crew at the next acquisition 20 minutes from now at the
Vanguard tracking ship. Until then this is Skylab Control,
25 minutes and 14 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-II30/I
Time: 12:43 CDT, 24:17:43 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 44 minutes


and 3 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time we're
approaching the Vanguard tracking ship's area of communica-
tion, and we should hear a call very shortly. We'll have
acquisition of signal in approximately 50 seconds. We'll
stay live for air-to-ground, Skylab Conrol.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Vanguard, 9 minutes
and we will he doing a data recorder dump.
SC Roger, Houston.
CC CDR, Houston. We indicate detector 6 and
7 on at this time and they should not be with this grading
settings. Would you secure those, please?
SC Roger.
SC Hey, Houston. What I just did there was
run that building block in separate (garble) with MIRROR AUTO
RASTER not running, while I had ACTIVE 1 LONG going and I got
12 frames, and I quit anyhow.
CC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. Hawaii
at 18:52, i, 8, 5, 2.
SC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours 54 minutes and
53 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost our signal
from the Vanguard tracking ship, as the spacecraft travels
across the South Atlantic anomaly, where we sometimes have
radio signals that, intervals that are undependable, so we
don't know when we'll lose them. We did lose them by the
time we had scheduled on our clock. Our next acquisition of
signal is in 57 minutes and that will take place on rev 492,
which we are just now beginning at the Hawaiian tracking
station. At 55 minutes and 24 seconds after the hour, this
is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI131/2
Time: 13:48 CDT, 24:18:48 GMT
6/17/73

SC Hey, we see by the flight plan that there


are MO92's tomorrow for both the CDR and SPT, STP, and we were
curious what the advance plans were. Not all of them, Just
the rest of this week. Are those the last runs or are
there more scheduled?
CC Okay, we'll ta_e a look at that. And for
your information, Joe_ we had you scheduled for a JOB 13 at
I believe it's around 14:00 tomorrow, and we've changed our
mines, we're not going to do that. We're going to give you
back that time and use it for housekeeping and shopping llst.
SC You chickened out, huh?
CC Somebody did.
SC That's too bad, I was getting all reved
up for it.
CC Okeydoke. And this morning you had a question
on that item 2 on odds and ends about 82 A and B, and the -
I guess in reviewing that we consider that whole section on
82 A and B incorrect. It is possible to get the calibration
frames from the failed 82A camera, so would you Just forget
that was ever written down.
SC Okay, I'ii go tear it from it's place of
glory on the panel.
CC Okeydoke.
CC I'm being told that there will be a run on
- on Paul on the day after the EVA for the medical, and that
will be the last one.
SC Copy. Thank you.
SC Boooo. (laughter)

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I132/I
Time: 13:55 CDT, 24:18:55 GMT
6/17/73

CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in i minute.


Vanguard at 19:24. i, 9, 2, 4.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours and 35 sec-
onds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at the Hawaiian
tracking station as the spacecraft passed over the horizon
south of Hawaii. And we are now expecting to have our next
acquisition of signal in 22 minutes and 53 seconds at the
Vanguard tracking ship, in the South Atlantic Ocean. We
have not yet gotten an official time for a change-of-shift
briefing with off going Flight Director Milton Windler, who
is still occupied with final plans for tomorrow's Flight
Plan. He is handing over, also in the handingover procedure
to Charles Lewis the on coming Flight Director, and his
team of flight controllers. So we expect a change-of-shift
briefing sometime later this afternoon, but we do not yet
have a time for it and we will announce when one is availa-
ble. During this last pass we had very little conversation.
There was a discussion of the running of the experiments for
tomorrow. There was, there will be two runs of the M092 and
171 experiments. One with commander Pete Conrad as the
subject and later on Pete will be the observer as the subject
is Joseph Kerwin, the Science Pilot. On the first one the pilot
will be Paul Weltz, - Pilot Paul Weitz will be the observer on
Conrad's run of MO92/171. That's lower body negative
pressure device and metabolic activity experiments, those
are the same experiments that are being conducted this after-
noon, with Pilot Paul Weltz as the subject and observer
Joseph Kerwin. Crewmen Just completed a shot time ago, at
the present time we expect that Pilot Paul Weitz is busy
taking, making television pictures of the Body Mass Measurment
device, which is a device for essentially getting weights
of crew in a weightless condition. Crew members can sit in
it and by using a series of balance and spring mechanisms it
does register a mass measurement. And that mass measurement
is used to give approximate weight or weight, equivalent of
weight of the crew on Earth. And as we mentioned earlier
TO27 is being set up by the commander, - by Commander Pete
Conrad in the antlsolar scientific alrlock. Following that
we will have presleep activities. We do not expect to hear
from the crew again for another 20 minutes, until we reach
the Vanguard tracking station. This is Skylab Control at
2 minutes and 57 seconds after t_e hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCII31/I
Time: 13:48 CDT, 24:18:48 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control, at 18 hours 48 minutes


and 19 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time the
spacecraft is about 3 minutes and 49 seconds from acquisition
of signal at Hawaii. At this time Commander, Pete Conrad,
should be setting up the sample array detector mechanism in the
scientific airlock. The sample array detector mechanism is for
experiment T027, the contamination measurement experiment. He
should be setting that in the scientific airlock on the side of
the orbital workshop's forward or upper eompartmemt that faces
away from the Sun. The mechanism is a box-like container with
some 200 samples that will exposed to contaminants in the nearly
perfect vacuum outside the Skylab space station during the coming
2-1/2 days. The contamination measurement experiment was originally
designed for use in the scientific airlock or SAL, S-A-L, on the Sun
side of the workshop, but because that small airlock now
contains the parasol used to shield the workshop from the
Sun's rays, the opposite scientific airlock is being used.
That's the antisolar scientific ai_lock is being used now.
This modification does mean that no telemetry data will be
available on minute by minute changes in the weights of the
samples as they accumulate contaminants. The antisolar SAL
is not wired for telemetry, for the quartz crystal micro-
balance which is included to measure changes in sample weights.
At this time, we also expect to hear that the Pilot, Joseph -
the Pilot, Paul Weitz should have - been finished with the MO92/
MITI run. He was subject today of the lower body negative
pressure device experiment, where he sits in an iron lung-like
container and has pressure pumped out from around his legs
to see what changes take place in the fluid volume of the leg. And
also, Pilot, Paul Weitz was the subject of the metabolic
activity experiment which is associated with that lower body
negative pressure device experiment. Metobolic activity is
where the pilot rides the bicycle ergometer and has measure-
ments made of various changes in physical condition. Those
two things should have been completed with observer Dr. Joseph
Kerwin watching Paul Weitz perform them. We expect now that
we should be going into a period of presleep activity as
the crew expects to go to sleep about 6 o'clock. They do
began that presleep activity shortly. There is a television
activity scheduled for a few minutes from now, as well. That will
be the pilot's work. We - we have acquisition of signal at
Hawaii and will remain live for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Hawaii, 7 minutes.
SC Hello, Houston.
CC Roger.
SL-II MC-I133/2
• Time: 14:23 CDT, 24:19:23 GMT
6/17/73

Tierra del Fuego. The spacecraft is still in daylight but


apparently they had a view of the Moon across Tierra del Fuego
which is on the southern tip of South America. At this
time, Milton Windier is still busy working over the Flight
Plan for the coming day and he is working as well, on EVA
procedures for the following day. Those EVA procedures will
include at this time - appear to include an inspection of the
S052 occulting disk, that's the white light coronograph and
part of the Apollo telescope mounts, or telescope equipment.
That occulting disk is used to block out the main body of the
Sun, so that the corona can be studied in visible light.
And it has some sort of a spec on it at this time it looks
like, one bright spot that shows up on the occulting disk and
it interfers with the study of the corona. The speck is believed
to be about i millimeter in diameter, that is to say it's
about 1/25th of an inch in diameter, so it's a very, very
tiny speck, but it does have some interference with the
experiment. For this reason the crew will be asked to inspect
it and see if they can't brush it off with a tiny brush
that they'll be carrying ont. They also are going to test
their repair skills on one of the battery modules that has
been out and that's charger battery regulator module number 15.
The instructions that are now in the planning stages are to
have them take a whack at that with a hammer, that technique
is not certain to work, but it does seem to he one that they're
willing to try. And they have indicated that if it doesn't
work the first time then they'll take a couple harder whacks
with it. So they may make an attempt to repair one of the
two charger battery regulator modules on the Apollo telescope
mount solar array that are not now providing power to the
spacecraft. Those two charger battery regulator modules,
number 3 and number 15, could provide approximately 400 to 500 watts
of power if they were operating. There's no terrific need for them,
but because there is some deterioration in the solar array over a
long period of time, it might be desirable to get those back in
operation and, of course, it would add additional power for a
longer mission. So they will take a whack with a hammer at that CBRM
during the morning EVA on Tuesday. This is Skylab Control; we'll
remain llve for air-to-ground which we expect to hear in
approximately 2 minutes from the Ascension tracking station.
Remaining up for air-to-ground, Skylab Control at 36 minutes
and 50 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I133/I
Time: 14:23 CDT, 24:19':23 GMT ..........
_ ............... ........................
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 22 minutes


and 57 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're coming up on
acquisition of signal at the Vanguard tracking ship and we'll
stay live for air-to-ground from Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Vanguard for
9 minutes.
SC Hello, Night Bunch.
CC Hello there. I trust you guys have had
a good day?
SC Yes. We had a rather pleasant day. Com-
mander Weitz is currently filming the body mass measurement
device for you guys on TV. And things are kind of getting quiet.
CC Well, very good. It's been a pretty
day in Houston, too.
SC Has it, for a change, that's nice.
CC Yes. Today was definitely a top-down
day.
SC (Laughter)
SC You haven't lived yet, Houston, until
you've seen the Moon rise over Tierra del Fuego.
CC Gee, l'm sure that was pretty.
SC It sort of leaves you speechless.
SC 85's on tape for you, Houston.
CC Roger. Thank you.
CC Skylab_ Houston. Wetre 1 minute from
LOS. We're going to see you at Ascension at 19:39. And we
are going to dump the data recorder at Ascension. There's
a couple of housekeeping items that the EGIL would like you to
do. One is in the command module to adjust the poly choke to
orifice 1 and that can be done anytime at your convenience.
The reason is that we're seeing a slow increase in PP02 and
total cabin pressure and we think this'll help out that
situation. Also, when - - if we have data when we, - when we
have confirmed that we have good data over Ascension and if you
guys are not in the middle of supper welre going to ask one
of you to do a small reg pot adjust for us there. See you
at Ascension.
SC Okay. No sweat.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 33 minutes
and 45 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal from
the Vanguard tracking ship in the Atlantic Ocean as the space-
craft begins its travel towards the, - on an ascending node.
on revolution number 493, traveling towards the coast of Africa
in a northeasterly direction. We expect to reach Ascension -
Ascension site within the next 5 minutes. And we will hear
air-to-ground from there. During this last pass we heard the
crewmen announce that they could watch the moon rise over
SL-II MC-I135/I
Time: 15:21 CDT, 24:20:21 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 21 minutes


and 34 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
we're approaching the Guam tracking station. About 1 minute
and 40 seconds from acquisition of signal at Guam. We will
remain live at this point from air-to-ground. We have not yet
gotten an announcement of the change-of-shlft briefing.
Changed but we do believe it will be approximately 3:30 and
Flight Director Milton Windier still engaged in planning
procedures for the Flight Plan for the next couple of days.
So we have slipped that at 3:30 and we'll give yon an announce-
ment when Flight Director Milton Windler leaves the mission
control center. We'll remain live at this point for air-to-
ground from Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Guam for 4 minutes.
SC Roger.
SC Still with us, Houston?
CC Yes, sir.
SC I'm going to give you the food ADR. The
CDR ate everything plus ten optional salts, plus 2 butter
cookies. SPT ate everything, plus i butter cookie. The PLT
ate everything, plus 7 optional salts.
CC Okay.
SC And the film for Day 168 is 16 milli-
meters in SO73, retract at FTI CI. 13 48 percent CLIO.
Next one is MI31 OGIMF, M092/171 and the film was shot up. CI12,
00, CI05. 35 millimeter C131, 03, C130, 67. 70 millimeter,
CXO6 103, no EREP.
CC Roger, Pete. And we're 1 minute from
LOS. We're going to see you at Vanguard at 21:01. And any-
thing left in the Evening Status Report that you don't get
down here, we'll catch at Vanguard.
SC Okay. AI is transporter 02 and in CI12
00, CI05. Transporter 03 in A2. And that is CI06 18, CI03.
Transporter 06 in A3, CI13 48, Cli0. And A4 is 05 with nothing,
and CIII for takeup. Floating, 07 CI09 66 white tag 03.
Over.
CC Okay. Real fine, we got all that. We're
about i0 seconds from LOS and we'll see yon at the Vanguard.
SC See you at Vanguard.
PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 28 minutes
and 49 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now lost signal
from the Guam tracking station. We expect to acquire the
spacecraft again within communication range of the Vanguard tracking
ship in 31 minutes and 49 seconds. That was an unexpected
status report from tke crew of Skylab II. They normally
would not give a status report thfs early in the evening,
and for .that reason they may be asked to repeat it later.
SL-II MC-I135/2
Time: 15:21 CDT, 24:20:21 GMT
6/17/73

It's possible that some members of the ground team were not
prepared for the status report. During the coming pass we
expect that, at Ascension, this is following the Vanguard
pass, we will have a conversation between Pete Conrad and
his wife and children here on Father's Day. And that will
come at Ascension at approximately 4:14 p.m. Central Daylight
Time or 21:14 Greenwich mean time. At the beginning of the
Ascension pass, at the beginning of the next revolution
following 493 which is the revolution we're now in the pro-
cess of completing. Following the Ascension pass we do not
have an acquisition of signal again until Guam at which time there
will be a private medical conference. We expect that the
conversation between Pete Conrad and his wife and children
will be on the open air-to-ground. They do have a right to
private conversations, but Commander Conrad had indicated
earlier that he does not desire private conversation. So
we will have a conversation at Ascension with the wife and
children and then a conversation, private medical conference
at Guam tracking station on the pass immediately
following Ascension. This is Skylab Control, 30 minutes and
20 seconds to acquisition and 30 minutes and 34 seconds
after the hour.

END OF TAPE
J- SL-II MCI134/I
Time: 14:36 CDT, 24:19:36 GMT
6/17/73

CC Skylab, Houston, we're AOS at Ascension


for the next 6 minutes. We have good data and if it's
convenient to you, sometime during this pass we'd llke to do this
reg adjust. What we'd like in REG 1 ADJUST we'd like it
30 degrees, 30 degrees clockwise. On REG 2 we'd like 20 degrees
clockwise, and the end in result of this probably will just
about zero the meters for transferred current to the ATM.
That's REG i 30 degrees clockwise, REG 2, 20 clockwise.
SC Okay, I'll go up and do that, Dick. And I
got a question for you on this general message regarding
changes to the M509 Checklist. Is the next crew bringing
up a new checklist for 509? If they are, then why are we making
these changes to our checklist?
CC Roger, stand by and I'ii get an answer.
SC And Dick, we'll put those EREP questions
on B channel.
CC Okay, very good. Thank you.
SC And of the three evening questions, number 3
was the waste management compartment H20 dispenser clogged on the
inlet or outlet side of the valve. We can't determine that by
looking at the valves. And we're bringing the valves back.
f CC Okay, we copied and thank you much.
SC And I'll let the good doctor answer questions
1 and 2 for you when he gets ready, iHe's cleaning up right now.
CC Okay.
SC Well, it's about 30 degrees on Bus 1 and
20 on Bus 2, which didn't quite make zero on the transfer,
Dick.
CC Roger, stand by just a second.
CC PLT, Houston. We're happy with the
REG adjust you made. Incidentally , on this EGIL tells me
that the reason - what we're doing here is we're incrementally -
incrementally changing the load sharing so we'll end up
probably with one more REG adjust in preparation for the
unmanned phase, and this is allowing us to look at the
system with these different load sharing points for a day
or so in between steps.
SC Yeah, okay. Thank you, glad to do it.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 45 seconds
from LOS. We're going to see you at - at Guam at 20:23. And
in answer to your question about M509; we've run into some
test problems in Denver with the batteries which I'm not sure
whether or not you have been made aware of and what we think
this message does is change your checklist so that we - you
can do the M509 checkout that we're asking you to do without
SL-II MCI134/2
Time: 14:36 CDT, 24:19:36 GMT
6/17/73

making an interface to the onboard M509 batteries. The other half


of the question about the SL3 and 4 crew, is they will be
carrying up their own checklist. But we think that the
checklist changes we're asking you to do are one time only, and
they will support the checkout we're asking you to do. Over.
SC Okay. Thank you, sir.
CC Roger.
SC I don't have to make it to the cue card
then, Just to the checklist to support this checkout.
CC That's affirmative, Paul.
SC Okay.
PAO Skylab Control, at 19 hours 46 minutes
and 48 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal now
at the Ascension tracking station, and we do not expect to
hear from the crew again until the Guam pass which is 36
minutes and 22 seconds from now. As was indicated earlier,
at the Vanguard station Pilot, Paul Weitz completed his
body mass measurement device filming. That's TV scenellst
number 5. He has approximately - According to communication
management display here in Mission Control, there are approximately
13 minutes on the video tape recorder and those will be dumped during
the overnight period for return here to Houston. That body
mass measurement dis - device was - is the one that's used
to keep track of the approximate weights of the crew, measuring
mass rather than weight because of course, they have no
gravity there and gravity is an element that's required to
gain weight. So the television was completed. They are now in the
presleep activities which include eating dinner and a number of other
things. And we do not expect to hear from them again until
Guam. This is Skylab Control, at 47 minutes and 54 seconds at -
Oh, let me remind you too that there is a change-of-shlft briefing.
We have an estimate now of the time. Plight Director
Milt Windler, who is still working on EVA preparation pads for
the crew - expects to be free at approximately 3:15. That's
a very rough time, still at approximately 3:15 there will
be a change of shift briefing in the building 1 small briefing
room. This is Skylab Control at 48 minutes and 22 seconds
after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MCI136/I
TimeL 15:34 CDT, 24:20:34 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control, at 20 hours 34 minutes


and 26 seconds Greenwich mean time. At this time flight
director, offgoing flight director, Milt Windler has finally
left the Mission Control Room and we believe he is enroute
to Building i for a press conference which should begin in
approximately 3 to 5 minutes. This is Skylab Control at
34 minutes and 45 seconds after the hour.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I137/I
Time: 15:59 CDT 24:20:59 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours 59 minutes


and 6 seconds. We can now hear the warbler announcing
acquisition of signal at Vanguard in the next minute and
40 seconds. And we will stay live for air to ground from
Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Vanguard for ii min-
utes.
PLT Eleven, we must be going right over them
huh?
CC Just about, that's right. I got a couple
of notes here. One is we show that the star tracker was
unlocked, the star is still Achernar,and outer gimbal to get
a reacquisition, which we'd appreciate is plus 2125.
PLT Okay, plus 21 and a quarter. CDR is
on the way, he needs a break.
CC Okay. And when CDR has a chance, we got
everything, we listened to the tape of his evening status
report at the last pass. And we need clarification of one
item which is 35 millimeter frame quantity. The one we're
interested in is Charlle India 30. We read it as 67, and
we're wondering if that should be 57 or if not what? We
need a
clarification Charlie India 30.
CDR Yeah, it's 67. We've been getting up
to 70 frames out of some of those.
CC Okay, understand. Thank you much.
CDR Did you say 2125 plus?
CC That's affirmative, plus 2125.
CDR So far it (garble). It's still plus 345
or so on the inner gimbal.
CC That's affirm, I didn't read you that
one because esco said it didn't change, but it is plus 0345.
CDR It ain't there.
CC Roger. Stand by just a second please,
I'ii get right back to you.
CC CDR, Houston. When you went through
plus 1900, 1900 on the outer gimbal we saw a real flash
of a star presence. So, why don't you try that, plus 1900
outer gimbal.
CDR Very good, that got it.
CC Thank you Pete. Thank you very much.
CDR Saved by the bell.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're going to command
up some rate gyro drift compensations and we need the DAS.
CDR You got it.
CC Roger.
CDR (Garble) are you guys through with the DAS?
CC Negative, we're not. Stand by please.
_ CDR Oh, okay. There's no problem.
CC Roger.
SL-II MC-I137/2
Time: 15:59 CDT 24:20:59 GMT
6117173

CC _ Skylab Houston, we're through with the


DAS, it's yours again.
PLT It's been ours all the time, Houston, but
we Just let you use it.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. For the SPT, up at the
ATM. We noticed this morning that the fine Sun sensor
bias switch on the panel under attitude control was put to
out. And we prefer the switch to be in since it makes our
calculations for uplinking the pointing coordinates to you
a little bit easier. And so we'd like the fine Sun sensor
bias to in unless you put it out for some good reason that we
don't know about. And if you do, if you'll Just let us know,
we'll make our planning accordingly.
SPT We'll put it in. I put it out to do
the two left coalignment and forgot to put it back in.
CC Okay, no problem. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston, we're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We're going to see you at Ascension at 21:14.
And Skylab, for the CDR, the family will be on the line at
Ascension. I will give you an AOS call, and they will be
upstairs, but it won't be a private line. But, I'll give
you an AOS call, and then just let you have the rest of that
pass. Out.
CDR Thank you.
PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 12 minutes
and 12 seconds Greenwich mean time. We've lost signal at
the Vanguard tracking ship, and we expect to acquire signal
again at Ascension in about a minute and 47 seconds. At
that time, we should hear spacecraft communicator, Dick
Truly call the crew. He indicated Just now, that he will
give them an acquisition signal call indicating that we have
communications with them. And at that time we will hear
Mrs. Conrad, who is located in an upstairs room in the
Mission Control Center. We will hear Mrs. Conrad and child-
ren talk to the Captain. This is Skylab Control, we will remain
live for air to ground at Ascension at approximately i min-
ute and 17 seconds.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I138/3
Time: 16:13 CDT, 24:21:13 GMT
6/17/73

CDR When do you have to go back for football?


PETER I don't know, they said they'd send me
a letter, but I don't, I think they want me to play both
ways next year and I think I might test them a little bit
how much they want me to play football?
CDR Okay. Well, I think we're getting to
the last phases. We start our EVA prep tomorrow night, for
the EVA.
MRS. CONRAD Are you going to bed awful early, now?
CDR Yeah, we go to bed _n another hour and
a half.
MRS. CONRAD And then you get up at 2 o'clock the
morning of splashdown?
CDR Uh, let me figure it out, right now we're
goint to get up at 2 o'clock in the morning and we get up
even earlier than that on splashdown. That's why we've
moved the bedtime up.
ANDREW Dad, how long after you splash - -

END OF TAPE

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SL-II MC-I138/2
Time: 16:13 CDT, 24:21:13 GMT
6/17/73

THOMAS Yes. Here he is; just a second.


PETER How you doing, Dad?
CDR Fine. I thought maybe you'd be at
Uvalde.
PETER No, I think I ought to stay around and see
if I
can earn a little money.
THOMAS Well, (garble) got stuck out at the ranch
for 3 days with us, so I don't think Peter's going to stay
out there too much more.
CDR I see.
BOYS Happy Father's Day.
CDR Say again.
BOYS Happy Father's Day.
CDR Thank you. Where's Chrissy?
PETER He's out at the ranch.
CDR Oh, he's at the ranch. I see. How's his
horse?
PETER Pretty good, I guess. He rides it every
day.
CDR Very good. Did they get the pool fixed?
ANDREW Yeah, it looks real nice, the (garble)
worked real good and hadn't had to vacuum it in 2-1/2 weeks.
It looks real, real good, water's real clear.
CDR Great. That's good. I'm sure you've used
it. What's the weather been like?
ANDREW Well, it flooded down here a couple of
days ago. Boattown, you know, the motorcycle place was all
under water and we weren't here, but it also flooded down at
the ranch.
MRS. CONRAD Both the rivers -
MRS. CONRAD Both the rivers came down and we were
stuck out there for 4 days.
CDR Well, that wasn't too bad, was it?
MRS. CONRAD No, wasn't bad at all, it was fun.
CDR If you think you've seen some big thunder
storms around there, you ought to see some of the ones we've
out here in the Pacific.
MRS. CONRAD Well, the day we had the floods was the
day you were photographing all those cloudsj I guess, I forget
what day, when it was, one day last week.
CDR I remember that, that was one of our last
EREPs, He told us you had real bad rain.
MRS CONRAD Somebody say something.
PETER Dad, It's Peter. I got my report card the
other day.
CDR How'd you do?
PETER Passed everything. (garble)
f CDR Very good. Did you get promoted?
PETER No, I'ii get promoted next time.
SL-II MC-I138/I
• Time: 16:13 ODT, 24:21:13 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control. We're having troubles


with our communications network, and thatts the reason we've
had no discussion.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension
for the next 8 minutes. We're having a little antenna
problem. How do you read?
SC Loud and clear.
CC Roger. Pete, I'll turn the rest of the
pass over to Rusty and the Conrads who are upstairs. The
next pass is Guam at 21:58 and it's - that's the medical
conference. And I'll just be standing by the rest of the
pass.
SC Okay.
MRS. CONRAD Hi.
CDR Happy Anniversary.
MRS. CONRAD Happy Anniversary to you and thank you
for the red roses. You must have been thinking ahead?
CDR Huh?
MRS. CONRAD I said, "You were thinking ahead. You
sent me 20 red roses."
CDR I know, but I wasn't thinking that far
ahead. I ordered them from here by secret communicator.
MRS CONRAD Oh, I see. (Laughter) Well, anyway,
thank you. And here are the boys.
CDR Guys.
ANDREW Hi, Dad.
CDR Who's that? Andrew?
ANDREW Yeah, Chrissy is out at the ranch. Peter
and Thomas are here.
CDR An dy ?
ANDREW Yes, sir.
CDR How's it going? Did y'all race any time
this month?

ANDREW Uh, Thomas did, but I didn't. My bike


I need new points.
CDR I see. I'ii be back soon, and I'ii
fix it.
ANDREW Okay. Here's Tom.
THOMAS Dad.
CDR Go ahead.
THOMAS I raced 2 weeks ago. I raced Chrissy's
bike and my bike. Didn't do nothing; Just got tired out.
GDR I see. Ran out at Clover?
THOMAS Yes, sir.
CDR When did y'all come back from the ranch?
THOMAS Two days ago. I got my driver's license
while we were in Uvalde.
CDR Very good. Congratulations. How about
Peter? Is he down there?
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CDR Get up at 2 o'clock in the morning and


we're going to get up even earlier down on the splashdown.
That's why we moved the bed time up.
CHILDREN Dad, how long after you splash down
are you going be back in Houston, where we can see you?
CDR Two days.
CHILDREN That's good. How about How long after
that do you get out of quarentine?
CDR Well_ I think I can come home then. I can't
see you guys until the end of 7 days. So that'll be 5 days.
CHILDREN Okay. When are you coming to Bermuda?
CDR Ah - Well, I don't know. I haven't seen
the schedule, but hope I'll be going the 20th.
CHILDREN Okay.
MRS. CONRAD I wrote down about three things I was going
to ask you, and I can't remember any of them, because I
forgot to bring my list with - -
CDR Well, it probably wasn't too important.
MRS. CONRAD No, I don't think it was (laughter).
CDR I don't think I've lost too much weight,
but our legs have all gotten skinney.
MRS. CONRAD Well, you'll have to do some swimming
or some jogging or something when you come home.
CDR No, Joe, thinks it's all fluid and it'll
come right back.
MRS. CONRAD Rusty said they never were the best looking
legs. (laughter) .
CDR No, but they're the only super small ones
up here right now.
MRS. CONRAD The only super what?
CDR Small ones up here right now.
CHILDREN When are you going to be able to race
your Vega when you get back?
CDR Oh, not until after you guys go back to school.
CHILDREN Hey, dad.
CDR Go ahead.
CHILDREN I'm a bigger grown up now. I want you to
know.
MRS. CONRAD Governor Doll Brisco just signed the
bill that 18 year olds are of age now.
CDR Good. We'll start charging him rent.
MRS. CONRAD (Laughter).
PLT Congratulations.
MRS. CONRAD Well, we have another minute, but what'll
we say? (Laughter) _ :'
CHILDREN Hey, dad, have you all had another play-
day since the movie we saw?
-- CDR Say, again, Thomas. You broke off.
THOMAS Have you had another play-day since we
saw that movie where you all were floating around and everything?
CDR No.
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MRS. CONRAD Are you not going to take any days


off again, now? You're too busy?
CDR Oh, right, no. We don't have any. Tomorrow
night we start EVA prep and the next day is EVA and after that
is two days of deactivation.
MRS. CONRAD Is Paul going to get the film or
who's going to go after it?
CDR I'm going to get the film. Paul's
going to work in my place in the SAS, and I'm going to
go get the film and Joe's going to stay in.
CHILDREN How is it like, sleeping up there?
Has your back been bothering you?
CDR Nope. Been sleeping pretty good.
MRS. CONRAD Have you been dreaming?
CDR Nope.
MRS. CONRAD Have you sure? Have you had your head
wired, ever?
CDR No, just Joe. And it turns out he
gets the same amount of sleep or partial sleep as he's
been getting on the ground. Sb it's about the same, I
guess.
CDR You still there?
MRS. CONRAD Yeah. We're still here. We have
about 30 seconds.
CDR They said they had antenna problems,
and I thought maybe you dropped out.
MRS. CONRAD Okay. Well, we'll see you in a
week. Right?
CDR Okay. Be good. Bye.
MRS. CONRAD Okay. Bye bye.
CHILDREN Have a lot of fun.
CDR All righty.
PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 25 minutes.
We have lost signal at Ascension and we'll come up shortly
to give you a brief resume of the conversation.

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Time: 16:27 CDT, 24:21:27 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 27 minutes and


54 seconds Greenwich mean time. During that last pass at
Ascension we did have some trouble with an antenna on the
ground. Ground tracking station was not getting the proper
reception for the first couple of minutes of the pass. That
problem was solved, however, and we did have good signal for
the remainder of the pass. Conversation was held on the open
wire between Captain Pete Conrad, the Commander of the Skylab
crew, and his wife and three children, Andrew, Tom, and Peter.
Another boy was at - Crissy was at the ranch. The ranch is
- the ranch belonged to Mrs. Conrad's parents at Uvalde, Texas.
Hvalde. They have been out there vacationing during the period
when we had rather heavy rains in the Houston area, and they
indicated that they had been cut off for a period of time
by flooding waters in the rivers around there, but no problem
at the ranch at all. They've returned from Uvalde and they're
back here in Houston, and were talking from the third floor
of the Mission Control Center. Commander Conrad indicated
that he would be the astronaut going out to get the film -
participating in the EVA on Tuesday morning, with Paul Weitzp
the Pilot. Joe Kerwin will stay inside - at one point he
was asked if he was having trouble sleeping with a - with his
head wired, and he did reply that he did not have his head
wired during the period - Joe Kerwin, the Science Pilot, is
the only one of the three crewmen who is required to wear any
sort of monitoring device. He wears the M133 sleep monitoring
helmet, which is a device with electrodes in it that record
his sleep state. But Kerwin is the only one of the three
crewmen who is required to wear that. There is no particular
reason to wear one except to monitor sleep state, and that
is an experiment being tested on the Science Pilot alone.
We have some additional details on the EVA. Although we still
do not have definite times. Most of the procedures in the
extravehicular activity to he performed Tuesday morning will
follow those listed in the flight plan. The indication is
now that the CBRM will be the first activity - one of the
early activities that will be done before the film exchange.
That's a tapping operation to see if they can't get that
charger battery regulator module back in operation. That's
charger battery regulator module number 15. They will do that
before the film exchange. Captain Conrad indicated, although
we had believed earlier that possibly Paul Weitz would be doing
the work that, he, himself will - the Captain will go out and
retrieve the film. The TV camera operations are not yet
definite. Skylab Commander indicated that he would possibly
be interested in doing some television, but we've not yet
gotten any details on whether that will be done inside or
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outside the spacecraft. Either one of those two possibilities


is available. We also have no definite information on the
patch of material that is being considered now for deployment.
Before the return, during the EVA, they've considered placing
a small piece of that dermal reflective material that's being
used in the parasol that was developed here at Johnson Space
Center. They are thinking of putting a small piece out and
attaching it someplace on the spacecraft to study thermal
effects on that over a long period of time, so it could be
easily recovered. Right now that is still being considered.
It is not a definite part of the plan, and it may be dropped
from the EVA plan during the next day or two. That pretty
much concludes the information we have available right now
on the EVA. Most of this is still on an early planning stage
and probably during the remainder of the night we'll get some
more definite idea on exact times for the EVA, and we'll un-
doubtedly bring that information up in the morning after 2:00
a.m. when the crew wakes up. During our next pass we have
26 minutes and 27 seconds to our acquisiton of signal at
Guam tracking station in the Pacific, and at that time we
expect a private medical conference to be in progress. Should
that private medical conference be concluded early in the pass,
as it has been on the previous two days, we will hear a acquisi-
tion of signal call from Dick Truly, the spacecraft communicator
here in Mission Control, and we may have some live alr-to-ground
at that point. So, at 25 minutes before the next acquisition
of signal, and sometime longer than that before we hear from
the crew again, this is Skylab Control, 32 minutes and 31
seconds after the hour.

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Time: 16:57 CDT 24:21:57 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 57 minutes


and 47 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're coming up on
acquisition of signal at Guam tracking station. This pass
is reserved for a private medical conference. However3
should that medical conference be shorter than the full
time of the pass, we will hear some discussion between
Spacecraft Communlcroro Dick Truly and the crew of the
first Skylab manned mission. We will stay llve for air
to ground should there be some later in the pass.
CDR Hello Houston, you there?
CC Skylab, Houston. Hello again, we're
at Guam for 7 minutes.
PLT I wish you would have that Adam guys
take a look at the 56, will you please. When we came up
in the Sun light, the door talkback stayed white. I bit
the switch to close one time, but no change. I then hit
it to open one time, and there has been no change. And
that's as far as it has gone, we're awaiting your word.
CC Roger that. And I'll get it to you as
soon as we think about that one.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. Indications on the ground
is of the same as yours, that the door is neither closed.
And we're continuing to look at it and we'll get back to
you.
PLT All right.
PLT I suspect that it is mostly closed Dick,
because the both advetures on the Berilium and aluminum
are both listed as poor.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. About the S056 door,
we've got a crew malfunction procedure in the ATM mall book,
under X-ray Kelly, number 8 Bravo. And what we'd llke you
to do if you can, is after Building Block 1 is complete to
go ahead and start into that malf and keep up with which
blocks you go through. And let us know probably at the next
station how you came out. We've got about 1 minute to LOS.
The next pass is at Vanguard at 22:38.
PLT Okay, Richard.
CC Thank you.
PLT That leads me immediately to block 5,
which says carry your applture door dry system.
CC Roger. Stand by Just i second.
PLT Okay, I go block i, Block 4, Block 5.
CC Roger, PLT. Request that doors ii.
PLT Okay.
CC Roger. And we'll see you at Vanguard.
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PLT Right.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 9 minutes and
17 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at the
Guam tracking station. There was time after the crowded
medical conference for air to ground from the Mission Control_
and from the Spacecraft Communicator Dick Truly. We will
next acquire signal from the spacecraft at the Vanguard
tracking ship, that's in 28 minutes and 34 seconds. At
9 minutes and 42 seconds after the hour, this is Skylab
Control.

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Time: 17:35 CDT 24:22:35 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 35 minutes


and 54 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time
we're approaching acquisition of signal at Vanguard tracking
station in about 2 minutes and ii seconds. The crew's
day is nearly complete at this point. During the presleep
hours this afternoon, both Science Officer, Joseph Kerwin,
and crewman Paul Weltz have taken turns at the solar in-
strument panel, directing the battery of telescopes and
other scientific devices used to study the energy emitted
from the Sun. After taking a turn at the telescope, Dr.
Kerwln took a final set of photographs of the bacteria and
spore experiment, ED31, which is being conducted to deter-
mine the effects of a weightless environment with 1/3 Earth's
atmospheric pressure and more than 3 times the percentage
of oxygen, on the survival, growth, and mutation of bacteria.
This experiment, under the direction of Priniple Investigator
Robert L. Staehle of Holly School in Rochester, New York,
is one of several studies directed by high school students.
After completing the photography today, that experiment and
the equipment involved in it was stowed by Science Pilot
Kerwin. Tonight the Science Pilot will be wearing the
M133 sleep monitoring device that will keep track of his
sleep states tonight and give immediate readings by telemetry
here to medical officers on the ground. We have just re-
ceived the surgeon's report, which indicates that Skylab
Astronauts Conrad, Kerwln, and Weitz remain in vigorous good
health and spirits, signed by Dr. Buchanan for Dr. Hawkins.
This is Skylab Control remaining live for air to ground from
Vanguard.
CC Skylab Houston. Vanguard for 9 minutes.
PLT Hey, are you ready for a status on the
S056 door?
CC Go ahead.
PLT In the door procedure, I completed the
first two blocks, which as I remember the first thing you
do is inhibit both motors. And when I enabled the primary
motor, the talkback, the door talkback immediately went
to gray, and I had a ready light. And that's where I left
it, and I tried to run it. Of course it didn't run very
well. Inactive went (garbl_) wrong after that. But other than
that hang up, it is functioning normally now. But the talkbaek
immediately went to gray. Another door was sitting there all
the way open and 99 and 44 open waiting for something to tell
us - give us (garble) talkback.
CC Okay, Paul. Thank you much, and we'll
think about that one.
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6/17/73

CC PLT Houston. In regard to the S056 door,


we think we're in a situation where the way the logic is
set up onboard, that by recycling power we can fool both
the talkbaek and the ready light. So, if you have the time
to stay there, we'd appreciate it if you'd just continue on
through that same procedure. Just go right on down to
Block 3 and let the procedure take you whereever it will.
And also I'm advised, this procedure does not have to be run
in the daylight, so if you can stay there and complete it
for us, we'd appreciate it.
PLT Okay. I'ii Just finish ( garble) and I'ii
go back and do it.
CC Roger.
SPT Houston, are you there?
CC Go ahead.
SPT This is the SPT, I was closer to the
ATM than the PLT. So, I did step 3 and guess what? The
door came open, and we wound up in step 4 which goes to
step 6, which then disabled the door, I don't know.
CC Skylab Houston. I guess we got into a
situation where the door got inadvertently disabled. We'd
like you to manually close the door. And we'll resume nor-
mal operations the next chance we get.
SPT Super.
CC Very good. Thank you much.
CC Skylab Houston. We're 45 seconds from
LOS. Canary at 22:58 for the last pass of the day.
CDR Rog, Richard.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 48 minutes
and 38 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal
at the Vanguard tracking station. And we have about 9 min-
utes and 46 seconds to acquisition of signal at Canary Island.
We have two passes of back-to-back there, Canary Island and
Madrid, and at that time we should hear a good night call from
the Spacecraft Communicator, Dick Truly. Tomorrow's activities
will include EVA preparations, those are pre EVA preparations -
getting ready with the hardware and other equipment, making
sure everything is ready for the EVA activity on Tuesday
morning. While actual times for each of the EVA activities
will not be determined until early Monday morning, the job
falls to the shift that comes on tonight at 9:00 central day-
light time. That shift will make decisions as to actual events
in the time llne. It is expected that those times will cor-
respond in order to the flight plan pretty closely. The
flight plan time for hatch opening however, will be substan-
tially different as the times of the mission have been changed.
We expect that the hatch should be opened on the spacecraft
for that extra vehicular activity at approximately 12:20
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Greenwich mean time, or 7:20 a.m. central daylight time.


That's a rough estimate of the time that has been given to
us. We will not have an exact time until sometime early
tomorrow morning. This is Skylab Control. We will have
our next acquisition in a little over 8 minutes. It's
now 50 minutes and 12 seconds after the hour.

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Time: 17:57 CDT, 24:22:57 GMT
6/17/73

PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 57 minutes and


14 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are one minute and 16
seconds from acquisition of signal at the Canary Island track-
ing station. At this time we will stay alive for air-to-ground.
We should have an explanation, I expect, of the S056 problem.
That appears now to have been solved as we passed into dark-
ness over at Vanguard. The crew indicated that they have
completed the malfunction procedures, and discovered that they
had, in fact, successfully opened the door of the $056 experi-
ment. That's the X-ray telescope experiment, and then they
were instructed to manually close that door. Apparently the
motor fouled up or a reason that's not known here on the ground
or by the crew, but that problem has not been solved and they
are preparing for sleep. And we have 34 seconds to acquisition
of signal at the Canary Island tracking station. We'll remain
live for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Canary and
Madrid for 12 minutes.
PLT (Garble)
CC Roger, and we're going to be - G&S is
commanding here to set up the configuration for the rate gyros
/ this evening. The gyro Y-I is now looking real stable, so
we're going to put Y-I and Y-2 control - into control, so
you ought to select Y-I/Y-2 for their proper onboard monitoring.
And we're also showing the TACS ENABLED, and we think it
probably ought to be inhibited per our earlier agreement about
leaving TACS INHIBIT.
PLT Okay.
CC Roger.
CDR I'm trying to think when they got ENABLED.
It should have been shut off for the last umpteen days.
CDR (garble) trim burn this morning and we never
turned it back off. Thank you.
CC Roger.
CDR Say, what did that 9 seconds do for us any-
how? Is anybody around that can answer that?
CDR I figured they got all of a theth of a foot
per second, (garble).
CC CDR, Houston, the very honest answer is that
the FIDOs are at home, and we will give you a straight answer
on the TRIM burn, and while we planned it that way, and how
it came out tomorrow, if that's okay.
CDR Yeah, (garble) Sure.
CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston we're going LOS here in
Madrid, and we'll see you guys in the morning. Have a good
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night's sleep.
CDR Roger. Night, night.
PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours 13 minutes
Greenwich mean time. The spacecraft has lost signal at Madrid
and is now out of communication for the next 35 minutes. We
do not expect to hear again from the crew. They have been
given a good-nlght call from capsule communicator, spacecraft
communicator, Dick Truly. Tomorrow will be another busy day
for the three members of Skylab's first crew, as they have
now gone to bed. Both Commander, Pete Conrad and Science Pilot
Dr. Joseph Kerwin will be subjects in a pair of medical experi-
ments. The first, M092, measures the movement of body fluids
from the legs to the upper body, as the result of elimination
of gravity. The second, MITI, studies the metabolism of crew
members as they exercise vigorously on a special bicycle equiped
with several medical sensors. This measures the total work
done and the effect on the crew members. In addition to several
hours of work at the control panel of the solar telescope
and it's associated equipment, the crew will prepare for it's
third excursion outside the spacecraft early Tuesday morning.
Nearly two hours, 12:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m central daylight
/_ time, are given to advance preparations for a two and a half
hour extravehicular activity by Commander Conrad and Pilot
Paul Weitz. Early tomorrow morning before most of us are
awake, at 2:22 a.m. central daylight time, shortly after
the crew awakens, a new record will be set for the longest
manned mission in space. That record, 570 hours and 22 minutes,
is now held by the Soviet Union's Soyuz ii space station,
which was in orbit in June of 1971, two years ago. We will
surpass that record at 2:22 a.m. The spacecraft will be on
ground track number three and it's 500th revolution above the
Earth, and will be located approximately near the Congo in
Africa. That will set a new record at 570 hours and 22 minutes.
A record for the longest duration space mission. At this
time the members of the Skylab crew have orbited the Earth
a total of 400 and - over 400 revolutions above the Earth,
and have traveled a total of 9,500,000 miles. There were
calculating yesterday morning, the total amount of pay they
would get if they were paid 12 cents a mile, as government
members on travel and when they were told that it would total
more than a million dollars, they indicated they were coming
back. They thought that was enough. But Skylab crew will
not be back until Friday morning. They will be splashing down
approximately 8:50 a.m. central daylight time in a location
700 miles southwest of San Diego, California. At this time,
the United States ship, Ticonderoga, an aircraft carrier, is
on station. They're practicing for that splashdown. We have
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heard a good-night from spacecraft communicator, Dick Truly,

and do not expect to hear again from the crew. This is Skylab

Control signing off at 16 minutes and 5 seconds after the

hour, until 2:00 a.m. central daylight time.

END OF TAPE

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Time: 02:00 CDT, 25:07:00 GMT
6/18/73

PAO Good morning, this is Skylab Control at


7 hours Greenwich mean time. Skylab is over the United States,
north of the Great Lakes at this time, in a short LOS between
the Texas tracking station and the Bermuda station. Cap Com
Astronaut Henry Hartsfield plans to send a wake-up call to
the crew at Bermuda. Today's flight plan includes a scheduled
3 hours and 51 minutes of Apollo telescope mount operation
by Science Pilot, Joe Kerwin and Pilot, Paul Weitz. It also
includes some medical experiment runs - M092, the lower body
negative pressure and the MI71, the metabollic studies, with
Joe Kerwin as the subject, Pete Conrad as the observer. Then
in the early afternoon, about 2 hours has been set aside for
preliminary preparations for tomorrow's extravehicular
activity to change out the film canisters in the Apollo tele-
scope mount. We're a few seconds away from acquisition at
Bermuda. We'll stand by for the wake-up call.
CC Skylab, Houston; good morning.
CDR Good morning.
SPT Where were you calling from?
CC Where am I? Oh, I'm at Houston still.
SPT Houston_
CC How's everything up there this morning?
CDR I don't know. We just woke up. My little
buzzer went off about 2 minutes before you called.
CC Roger, we've got about 4 more minutes
with you here through Bermuda.
CDR Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. About i minute to LOS.
We'll be coming up on Canaries at 12 with a recorder dump.
SPT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 8 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of signal with Skylab.
In about 2-1/2 minutes the station at the Canary Islands will
acquire. We'll stay up through this short LOS, and wait for
acquisition at Canaries.

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Time: 02:09 CDT 25:0?:09 GMT
6/18/73
CC Skylab Houston 3 through Canary 9-1/2 min-
utes .
CC Skylab Houston. All your pads should
be on board now.
CC Skylab Houston. Before you get too
wrapped up in that flight plan, l've got a few words about
it here. You've probably noticed on there that we had a
JOP 13 scheduled. We're going to have to scrub that. We
scrubbed it for several reasons. First off the premission
(garble) target data wasn't available to us because of the
delayed launch. So we were unable to select a suitable
target, generate the pads and get a run in the simulator last
night. Also the scheduling of the canister fine Sun sensor,
acquisition Sun sensor alignment compilation that we normally
do on (garble) 4 was impossible so that we could get the re-
quired pointing accuracy. I guess to sum it up, we Just
couldn't get it all pulled together with enough confidence to
ensure the success of the JOP, so we thought the best thing to
do was to scrub it. And we give you our appologies. In place
of it, we will be doing open housekeeping.
SPT Understand.
CC Skylab Houston, 1 minute to LOS. We'll
be coming up on Honeysuckle at 56. And in about 2 minutes
from now, at 7:22 you will become the new world champs for
longest space flight.
SPT Okay, thanks for the note, cause actually
we are all up at BMMD halfway getting weighed.
CC Roger, copy.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 22 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Canary Island tracking station
has had loss of signal. The next station to acquire will
be Honeysuckle in about 34 minutes. Skylab has now equaled,
and in just about a few more seconds will exceed the Soyuz ii
record for manned space flight. As you heard Capcom Harts-
field inform the crew that they will be the new world's
champions for manned space flight. Duration of the Soyuz ii
mission was 570 hours 22 minutes. The Skylab II crew has
now exceeded that mark. The Commander Pete Conrad has now
logged 1,077 hours and i0 minutes of space flight. We'll
come back up just prior to the _oneysuckle pass. At 7 hours
24 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 02:55 CDT, 25:07:55 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control 7 hours 55 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisition
at the Honeysuckle, Australia tracking station. The crew
having breakfast and in the post sleep activities for the
day. At the time Skylab exceeded the Soyuz ii record
for manned space flight, Skylab was over the country of
Nigeria, the continent of Africa. We'll stand by for this
pass through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston through Honeysuckle 9
minutes.
PLT Roger.
CDR Hey, Hank. You still there?
CC Affirmative.
CDR About - having Tom Stafford or Deke relay
to the Russian Cosmonauts our respects and_ at this point, in
our flight to them and their comrades and wish
them good luck from us in the future.
CC Okay, I sure will, Pete.
CDR Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston; 1 minute to LOS. Hawaii
at 160.
PLT Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 6 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Skylab is beyond the range of Honeysuckle
now and we'll be acquired by the Hawaii station in about 9-1/2
minutes. During this pass, Skylab Commander, Pete Conrad
requested that Johnson Space Center Director of Flight Crew
Operations, Deke Slayton, or the Deputy Director, Brigadier
General Thomas Stafford contact the Cosmonaut Corp in the
Soviet Union pass on the Skylab 2's respect to the cosmonauts
and their wishes to them for good luck in the future. This
being on the occasion of Skylab crew exceeding the record
of Soyuz ii of 570 hours 22 minutes. The Soyuz ii manned
mission ended tragically, when because of a improperly secured
hatch in the re-entry module. The three cosmonauts died during
re-entry. We'll come back up Just prior to Hawaii acquisition.
At 8 hours 8 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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6/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 15 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for acquisition
at Hawaii.
CC Skylab Houston. Through Hawaii 9-1/2 min-
utes.
PLT Roger Hank.
CC And Skylab I've got a little small changes
to each one of your detail pads, and one addition to the
remarks at the end of this flight plan.
PLT Go ahead.
CC Okay, for the CDR on his details, we
want to delete the momentum inhibit at 13:20. And at 22:10
you see a reference to T003 filters. We'd like to pull out
the filter 5 and move it up to 19:30, the rest of them re-
main at 22:10.
PLT Okay.
CC And for the SPT, we want to delete his
ATM at 14:00. That's the - I believe that JOP 13. And for the
PLT details, we want to delete the momentum enable at 15:00.
CDR Roger.
CC And, let's see, we've already deleted
a JOP 13 in the flight plan, and replaced it with house-
keeping general. And at this summary, we left out a South
Atlantic anomaly. There is one of them at 13:41 to 14:11.
CDR Okay.
CC That's all of those. I do have one change
to that 509 checklist. I can wait until later if you llke.
PLT I'm going to go get the checklist right
now.
PLT Go ahead Hank.
CC Okay, on page 16-1.
PLT Stand by.
PLT Okay.
CC To step 2 add mode direct, and the reason
we're doing this is to configure the (garble) deplete valve.
PLT (garble) C and D power off, mode direct.
CC Roger. And that's all the changes. I
do have one comment for the CDR. He's got housekeeping
60 Tango set up, it's the ATM C and D filter replacement.
The checklist says that the filters are in A2 in the CSM,
but if you have already done the day 25 transfer or if
they are done they'll be in a - say again?
CDR They're in A 5. I know where they are,
I get the transfers.
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CC Okay. I just wanted to remind you.


CDR Hank, to the people that are going to
analyze the stowage, or analyze those parts where they come
back. The one that was changed out initially will have one
red stripe of tape on it, and the one this morning will have
two stripes of red tape on it. Okay?
CC Okay, copy.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I148/I
Time: 03:20 CDT 25:08:20 GMT
6118173

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute to LOS. Gold-


stone at 28.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours and 26
minutes Greenwich mean time. Hawaii has lost its signal.
However, Goldstone will pick up Skylab in about a minute and
a half. We'll stay up through this short LOS. In the control
center, Flight Director, Neil Hutchinson is briefing his
replacement. The on-coming Flight Director is Milton Windier.
On the Cap Com console, Astronaut Bob Crippen will relieve
Astronaut Hank Hartsfield. Nell Hutchinson estimates that
his Change-of-shift news conference will begin at 4:00 a.m.
central daylight time in the JSC news center. Four a.m.
central daylight for the Change-of-shift news conference
with Flight Director Nell Hutchinson. We'll stand by for
acquisition at Goldstone and Skylab's pass over the United
States.
CC Skylab, Houston through Goldstone 6-1/2
minutes.
PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston in i minute to LOS. Ber-
muda at 39.
PLT Okay.
END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I149/I
Time: 03:36 CDT 25:08:36 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skyla5 Control at 8 hours 36 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab has passed out of range
of Goldstone's antennas, but Bermuda will be picking up Sky-
lab in just under 3 minutes. We'll keep the line up during
this short LOS.
CC Skylab, Houston, through Bermuda 8-1/2
minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC Skylab, Houston, 1 minute to LOS. Canaries
at 49.
PLT Roger.
PAO This is Skylah Control at 8 hours 48 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of signal.
Canaries will acquire in less than a minute. And then there
is overlapping coverage from Ascension on this pass. We'll
continue to stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston, AOS Canaries, or cor-
rection, Canaries for 16 minutes.
PLT Morning, Crip.
CC Morning, Sir.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-II50/I
Time: 03:50 CDT, 25:08:50 GMT
6/18/73

SPT Good morning, Crip.


CC Morning, sir.
CDR Hello, Crip.
CC Good morning, Pete.
CC You guys sound rather Jovial this morning.
CDR Yeah, I think when we start EVA prep to-
night we figure it's like a count down.
CC I believe so. I didn't know whether you
were going to sound that jovial after that EVA message we
sent you.
CDR It's Just the PLT. He's grumbling.
PLT I haven't read it yet. Maybe 1'11 give
you another call after I read it.
CC Okey doke.
CDR Housekeeping 60 Tango is complete both
the filters are back in A-5.
CC Copy.
CDR Day 148 1 is the day - 169th.
SPT Houston, SPT. May I INHIBIT momentum
dump early? Namely, now?
CC Stand by i.
CC You're GO on that Joe.
SPT Thank you.
CDR Say, Crip, can you get them to explain to
me what's a DAA2/I?
CDR Now what's in this survey - the 2 minute sur-
vey? What do you want me to do?
CC Stand by i, Pete.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Go ahead.
CC Okay, on page 6-2 of your evaluation ex-
periments checklist, in the third paragraph down, it addresses
a back-to-back survey. And that's what this is.
CDR I got it. Back to back. Okay.
CC Okay, is that enough info, Pete?
CDR That's enough.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 57 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson is
ready to begin the Change-of-shift briefing in the news center.
We'll take the line down now and tape any remaining alr-to-
ground communications during the Ascension pass - play that
back at the end of the news conference. To repeat: the
Change-of-shift news conference with Flight Director Neil
Hutchinson, is ready to begin in the JSC news center. At
08:58 Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-II51/I
Time: 04:12 CDT 25:09:12 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 13 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylah is 18 minutes away from
acquisition at Carnarvon, and there is overlapping coverage
from the Honeysuckle station. We accumulated 2 minutes
18 seconds of conversation at Ascension on tape during
the change of shift news conference. We'll play that tape
now.

CC Skylab Houston. We're into the Ascension


portion of our pass, and we are doing a data recorder dump
at this pass.
CDR Hey, Crip_ CDR.
CC Go CDR.
CDR On page 6-3 on that checklist, would you
verify that by just doing speaker (garble)power on up and
intercom key on that in fact will voice record on DSC or on
system B,do I have to do anything to make sure I get this data on
63 rear is that a recording the command module before and I Just
want to verify that.
CC Okay, we're checking it.
CDR Thank you.
CC CDR Houston. We can confirm that will
record okay in the command module on the DSC. And the DSC
is on, and you probably found that the log for that back
to back survey was on page 9-8 of the CSM systems checklist.
CDR Yeah, I know where that is. I think
maybe I got to take the PLT intercom switch to intercom.
CC I've got that ICOM checking.
CDR Now that will put it on B channel you
know for the SWS but i'm not sure what goes on (garble).
CC Roger. What you're trying to do is
record it on the DSC.
CDR Okay, (garble)
CDR Are you there, Houston.
CC Affirm.
CDR The other thing I'd like to ask you
is on these places by the window, if they want the sensor
located, do they want the window covers on or the window
covers off2
CC We'll check that.
CDR Yeah, our configuration, of course, right
now you want the cover on.
CC We'd like the window covers removed
if we could.
CDR Okay, take the window covers off.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. Car-
narvon at 9:32, 09:32.
CDR Okay, be there.
SL-II MC-I151/2
Time: 04:12 CDT 25:09:12 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. That's the end


of the tape. Skylab still 15-1/2 minutes away from Carnarvon.
We'll come back up then. At 9 hours 16 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I152/I
Time: 04:30 CDT, 25:09:30 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 30 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. We're in contact at Carnarvon.
PLT Refrigeration set for the detail parameter
is real time for comparison?
CC If it's not too much trouble, we'd appreciate
it.

PLT Okay, I'm Just finishing cleaning up in


the head. I'm captain today. I'll be with you in about
2 minutes.
CC Fine and dandy.
CDR We've got the double feature on right now,
Crlp. We got the Moon. Right underneath it we have another
night, - I guess you gotta call it.
CC Sounds beautiful. Nice big full moon.
CDR Yep, it's getting a little lopsided. It
was full a day or so ago. This is great ice cream weather
tonight. Aurora Australis I've been told by my more scientific
compatrlote.
CC Fantastic.

CC What color are the Southern Lights?


CDR Say again.
CC What color are they? Just white?
CDR No, they're kind of greenish.
CDR Very pale, pale green.
CDR Say, another thing for you to put into
the hopper today. The ground has been strangely silet about
the TV. We of course can't put it out. The SO73, - that's
already added to EVA checklist, but I'd like them to know
what they'd like me to do with it.
CC Pete, I didn't really get all of that.
Are you talking about the TV for EVA?
CDR Yeah.
CDR Did you get my last "yes"?
CC Say again.
CDR I say the answer to that was yes.
CC Rog. I'ii try to get the latest dope on
it right now.
CDR Okay.
PLT Okay, Crlp. Are you ready for the refrig-
eration system (garble)?
CC Rog. Go ahead.
PLT I'ii give you TCS first. All right?
CC Go.
PLT Workshop temperature indicates 76;,pressure
about 5.4, duct fall in i is - I indicated, about 520, and
510 in 2, and 3 in that 550.

_ PLT On the refrigeration system - the freezer


started. The heat sink outlet - oh, I forgot, wait a minute.
SL-II MC-I152/2
Time: 04:30 CDT, 25:09:30 GMT
6/18/73

PLT Mila Heat sink outlet was minus 18. The


(garble) freezer indicates about minus 13. The wardroom freezer -
i indicates minus 14, 2, minus ii. The stowage freezers 1
showed minus 8, 2, minus 8, 3, minus 6. And the (garble)
primary i inlet 342. The food (garble) 41. The (garble)
number i reads 44, 2 reads 45, 3 reads 44. All the pumps
in AUTO and I remember that does it. Is that right?
CC That does it. Thank you very much. Ap-
preciate it, Paul.
PLT Roger.
CC CDR, Houston.
CDR Say again.
CC Rog. Regarding the TV. I guess - it's
our understanding that you have offered to take the TV out-
side. We're putting it as strictly optional on your part.
We do have a message down here that we can send you up re-
garding the procedures for taking it outside. If you do
not want to take it outside and you want EV-3 to use it in-
side at the STS area, that would be fine also.
CDR Okay, send us the message for taking it
outside, and we'll smoke that over today while we're organizing
the lock and figuring out what we're going to do with it.
CC Okay, we'll take a look at it. Also, re-
garding the EVA procedures. We would think that it would
be wise, perhaps to go over those this afternoon - -

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I153/I
Time: 04:37 CDT 25:09:37 GMT
6/18/73

CC - - we'll take a look at it. Also


regarding the EVA procedures, we would think that it would
be wise perhaps to go over those this afternoon over the air.
I would llke to propose some time in your - at the end of your
pre EVA prep. We have about 3 passes in there, starting
at about 18:10. How would you take to discussing it during
those periods?
SPT That's fine.
CC Okay, we'll get the proper people lined
up.
CC Skylab Houston. LOS in 1 minute. Hawaii
at 09:56, 56.
CDR Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 40 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Honeysuckle has had loss of signal.
Skylab will next be acquired by Hawaii in about 15 minutes.
There was a discussion on this pass concerning the use of
television for tomorrow's extra vehicular activity. Pete
Conrad was informed that it was optional with the crew
whether to take the camera outside or have Joe Kerwin operate
it from inside the vehicle through the windows in the mul-
tiple docking adapter in the command module. He reported
that they will consider taking it outside, and today, and
come up with an answer later whether it will be an inside
or an outside television transmission. We'll come back
up just prior to the Hawaii pass. At 9 hours 41 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I154/I
Time: 04:54 CDT 25:09:54 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 54 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within range
of Hawaii now. The duration of this contact will be about
4 minutes. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab Houston, AOS Hawaii 4 minutes.
CC PLT Houston. If you man the ATM console,
I've got a SAS update for you.
PLT Okay. I'm not there, yet. I'm still
making changes to EVA checklist.
CC You may not make it up there at that rate.
No sweat, when yon get a chance I can give them to you, - or I
can give them to you over the states.
PLT Okay. Let's do that, Crip. I got a
couple more to make here, then I'ii slither on up.
CC Okey-doke.
PLT Tell you one thing, I'm going to this
EVA Checklist back with us.
CC I've got one down here that should look
pretty much llke that one.
PLT I hope you can figure out what we're
doing then.
CC That's why I want Rusty to come in this after-
noon .

SC And this clock is counting on D008.


CC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. 1 minute until LOS.
We'll have you again at Goldstone at 10:08, 10:08.
CC PLT, Houston. Are you saving, are you
making note, of the message headers so that we can ensure
that you have received all of them?
SC Negative.
SC You still there, let me give you a quick
rundown on what I've got.
CC Okay. I don't really think we're going
to have time for them. Why don't we wait and try to get
that later, if we can, Paul?
SC Okay, because I've been cutting and
pasting and throwing away the scraps as I've been going,
Crip.
CC Okay. We're Just trying to figure out
how we could go over them and make sure you had all the
changes.
SC I suggest you pick out the important
changes and ask me if I saw them and incorporated them.
CC Okay.
SC That's for the next flight to work on.
How to handle that message traffic, cause we need some other
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Time: 04:54 CDT, 25:09:54 GMT
6/18/73

stuff up here to do it with.


CC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours 1
minute Greenwich mean time. Hawaii has loss of signal. We'll
pick up Goldstone in about 6 minutes. At i0 hours i minute
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-II55/I
Time: 05:05 CDT 25:i0:05 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours 5 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up beginning a pass
over the United States with initial acquisition at Goldstone.
Pete Conrad Involved with D008. He's measuring radiation in
the spacecraft. Pilot Paul Weitz should be beginning the first
Apollo telescope mount run of the day. And the Science Pilot
Joe Kerwln is calibrating the body mass measurement device.
We'll stand by for the stateside pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. Wefre AOS, Goldstone,
for 6 minutes.
SC Okay, Crlp. We'll be looking at the (garble)
as soon as I get (garble).
CC Rog. There's no big hurry. Not very
exciting update.
SC Okay, go ahead with the changes to the pad,
Bob.
CC Rog. It's just an update. The solar
activity has been low. Three subflares have been reported,
none with X-rays, from active regions 37, 43, and a new active
region 47, which is located at 26 slant 1.0. That's where the
sublfares have been from.
SC Okay, thank you. Ready for the TV down-
link now?
CC Standby i on that. And we do have small
surges from active region 47, and filament 82 has been active,
and appears to be slowly dissipating. And Paul it'll be six
minutes before we're ready for the TV. We're going to get that
over Mila.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute 'til LOS.
We'll have - drop you out for a couple minutes and have you
again at 14.
PLT Okay, I got a flare alarm here. It's just
barely slipping up over the - what we got set on it, but I
don't see anything anywhere. Might be a little something in
active region 37, I guess.
CC Okay, we're looking at it. You're up to
the vicinity of the Horn, also, it appears.
PLT Okay, we're going to (garble) 43, here.
I was reading it wrong.
PLT Right.
PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours 13 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Goldstone has loss of signal and
there's about a minute and a half gap between Goldstone and
the Texas station. We did have a couple of minutes of real-time
Apollo telescope mount television from the Goldstone station.
We expect to receive some more real-time ATM television from
the Merritt Island tracking station. And wetll be acquiring at
Merrit Island in about a minute. We'll stand by.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I156/I
Time: 05:13 CDT, 25:10:13 GMT
6/18/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Mila


for about i0 minutes. And PJ, we blew it. You were in the
horn, that's why you had the alarm.
SC Okay.
SC Tell me when they're ready, and I'ii
start doing the TV downlink that Pete (garble).
CC Roger.
CC Okay, Paul. We're receiving TV now, you
can go ahead and go through your sequence.
CC Uh, Paul, we're having a little problem
with our TV, could you hold up on your sequence for about
30 seconds, I'll give yon a GO (garble).
SC Okay.
CC And PJ, while you were looking at that
white light coronagraph, it was, it should be obvious to yon
where that piece of contamination is that we were talking
about.
SC Yeah, I see it.
SC And Bob, why don't you have'em work up
what o'clock position that is, with me looking in there from
the foot restraints.
CC Will do.
SC Thank you.
CC Okay, PJ. We're ready for you to commence
the TV sequence once more.
SC Okay.
SC Hey, Crip. You guys get your signal in-
dependent of ours, is that right? In other words, our set-
tings on our monitor have no effect over those TV pictures
you get on the ground, is that correct?
CC Your selection is - your selection of
monitor is what we get.
SC I understand that. I'm talking about the
contrast and brightness adjustments on the monitor itself.
CC That should not have any effect, that
only controls your monitor.
SC Okay.
SC Houston, I'm going to go ahead and enable
MOMENTUM DUMP now. Is that okay?
CC Stand by. You're GO for enabling.
SC Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. LOS in 1 minute. As-
cension at 10:36, 36.
SC Roger.
SC Haven't you got startracker update enabled?
CC I'ii check that; we had it disabled last
night.
SL-II MC- 1156/2
Time: 05:13 CDT, 25:10:13 GMT
6/18/73

SC I figured that. I was bent over to (garble)


and this (garble) didn't look bad.
SC I'm looking for astar now.
CC Okay. The word is that we do have it
disabled and you need to enable it, I guess.
SC Okay.
CC That's both control and update.
SC All right.
PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours and
27 minutes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of signal.
Skylab will next be acquired by the Ascension Island tracking
station in about 7-1/2 minutes. At i0 hours 28 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I157/I
Time: 05:33 CDT, 25:10:33 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 10 hours 33


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisi-
tion at the Ascension Island station. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Ascension for
5 minutes.
SC Roger.
CC PLT_ Houston. We show that the new Z
update is not enabled at this time. Would you llke to do
it, or would you like us to do it?
SC It worked.
CC Roger.
SC How's that look?
CC That looks good.
SC That's good. I couldn't remember if I
keyed in ENABLE or INHIBIT.
CC Okay. It's enabled now.
SC I sure like this system.
CC I'm glad you're fond of it.
CC SPT, Houston. If you have a moment_ I'd
like to talk about one of your housekeeping periods. If not
I'ii get you at next station pass.
SC Okay. If you don't have to, Crip_ that's
good, because he's still tied up with the (garble) cal.
CC Roger.
SC This is another fun thing.
CC Thought you'd like that.
SC Did you call SPT?
CC Uh, SPT, Houston. Roger. If you've
got a minute I wanted to tell you about this housekeeping
period you have coming up prior to your ATM run. We wanted
you to run a little condensate tank MALF for us. If not I
can tell you about it over Carnarvon.
SC I'ii talk to you at Carnarvon, Crip.
CC Okay.
CC SPT, no need to acknowledge, but there
is a teleprinter pad regarding this MALF procedure in the
teleprinter at this time and we'll talk about it later.
CC Skylab, Houston. i minute till LOS.
Carnarvon at 11:06, at 06, and we'll be doing a data recorder dump
at Carnarvon.
SC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at i0 hours 41
minutes Greenwich mean time. Ascension has loss of signal.
And Skylab will come within range of the Carnarvon station
in about 24 minutes. At i0 hours 41 minutes, this is
Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
--" SL-II MC-I158/I
Time: 06:04 CDT 25:11:04 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skylah Control, ii hours 4 minutes


Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within range now of
the Carnarvon, Australia, tracking station. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS Carnarvon, i0 minutes.
CDR They took the - the SPT's doing the tele-
vision thing, he'll talk to you about that at the next station,
if possible.
CC Roger.
SPT Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SPT Okay, the - TV 28 is on tape and
go ahead with your comments about the kind of tape (garble).
CC Okay, if you had a chance to pick up the
procedure yet, Joe?
SPT To pick it up, yes, to look at it, no.
CC Okay, basically, it's two paragraphs, 1
and 2. We would llke to have you perform paragraph 1 anytime
within the next - this housekeeping period you're in right now.
And then we'd like to monitor it for a while, and we'll give
you aGO, and if it's required to do paragraph 2.
SPT Okay.
CC Okay. Right at the end of paragraph i,
it talks about monitoring the tank Delta-P for 15 minutes,
that's not required of you, we'll go ahead and monitor here
from the ground.
SPT Okay.
CC And also, -right at the end - after the
monitoring it talks about condensate tank water valve fill.
We'll hold that for paragraph 2.
SPT Got it.
CC And while I'm talking to you about it,
you'll notice if you read on ahead in paragraph 2 that it
requires using the water servicing umbilical, so you might
think ahead about using that if it's necessary. If we did
paragraph 2, we'd try to pick it up at that housekeeping per-
iod right after your ATM pass.
SPT Roger.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I159/I
Time: 06:12 CDT, 25:11:12 GMT
6/18/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds


from LOS. See you over Guam at 11:20, 20.
SC Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 17
minutes Greenwich mean time. Carnarvon has had loss of signal.
Skylab will be within range of the Guam station in about
2 minutes. We'll keep the line up for Guam acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Guam, i0 minutes,
i0 minutes.
SC Roger, Houston. This is the SPT. I've
completed the first part of that procedure. That tank was
empty, for all intents and purposes, and the bladder didn't
move. And the Delta-P was 4.4 and it stayed there and you're
in configuration.
CC Okay. Thank you, Joe.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Conrad and Weitz
are involved in the lower body negative pressure and metabolic
activity experiments at this time. Pete Conrad is the
subject and Paul Weltz, the observer.
PAO Those experiments will be repeated later
in the day with Weltz as the subject, I beg your pardon, with
Kerwin as the subject and Conrad as the observer.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-II60/I
Time: 06:27 CDT 25:11:27 GMT
6/18/73

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute 'til LOS,


Goldstone, at 45, 11:45.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Guam has loss of
signal. Skylab will be within range of the Goldstone, California,
station in about 15 minutes. At 11 hours 30 minutes Greenwich
mean time, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-II61/I
Time: 06:43 CDT, 25:11:43 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at ii hours 43


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming within range
now of the Goldstone tracking station. We'll stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Goldstone, 17
minutes.
SC Roger.
CC SPT, for your information, we were
sitting here enjoying your show and tell of the INSS this
morning, and the voice that we got through Goldstone is
very good. However, looking at it through Texas it's kind
of garbled and so according to our original plan, we're
going to rewind and dump it again through Goldstone. So,
we'll have it all with good voice quality.
SC Okay. Thank you.

END OF TAPE
SL-II MC-I162/I
Time: 06:57 CDT 24:11:57 GMT
6/18/73

CC SPT, Houston. No need to acknowledge


this, but on our little test on the condensate tank indicates
that it looks pretty tight to us, and there's no apparent
leakage, so we're going to go ahead and check out that QD,
which calls for you to go into paragraph 2. And following
your ATM pass, we'd like you to go ahead and proceed with that,
down through probably, the part where you put the cap on the
QD, because we do expect the QD itself to leak since it has
previously. Just wanted to remind you_ you do need to take
the condensate water valve to FILL before proceeding into
paragraph 2.
SPT Okay. I knew you would.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from LOS.
We'll have you again at Carnarvon at 12:45, 45.
SPT Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 3 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of signal. The next
station to acquire Skylab will he Carnarvon in 42 minutes.
During this pass over the United States, the television that
Joe Kerwin taped earlier today of Dr. Kerwin showing and
describing the medical facilities in the workshop was dumped.
We'll come back up just prior to acquisition at Carnarvon.
At 12 hours 3 minutes Greenwich mean time_ this is Skylab
Control.

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Time: 07:43 CDT, 25:12:43 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 43


minutes Greenwich mean time. The tracking station at Car-
narvon is about to acquire Skylab. We'll stand by for that
pass.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Carnarvon, 7
minutes.
SC Okay, Crip. Let me give you a list of
the pages on that EVA Checklist change, that I got.
CC Okay.
SC I'm doing it because I assume that's
what you want, is that right?
CC Well, if it's okay wlth you, I think
we might be just as well off, just going over those in total
this afternoon at that suggested time when we've got Rusty
in here. But, I can go ahead and take them again.
SC All right. I got a couple of other
questions.
CC Go.
SC First, scheduled this afternoon for an
M509 checkout. I'm assuming that that is 509 (garble) check-
out session 13 of the 509 Checklist. Is that right?
CC We're verifying that right now.
SC Okay, and the film people are a little
mixed up in our drawer A configuration. Just a minute.
SC Let me know when you're ready to copy
about the film configurations, which I'm looking at the
film thread pad for this morning, Crlp.
CC Okay. Why don't you go ahead.
SC Okay. Film wise we got bumped up to
you last night. And transporter 05, which is in A4, was
loaded yesterday per the pad, with Charlie India 14. And you
notice that today's pad calls for Charlie India 14 in Al on
transporter 02. Today's pad says leave transporter 5 empty,
but I'm leaving transporter 2 empty. So all you got to do on
today's film thread pad is to delete Charlielndial4 for 02,
and put it down on transporter 5 and that's the way the
drawer is right now.
CC Okay. Believe we got all that.
SC Okay. Pretty easy to read today's
film thread pad.
CC Okay. Regarding the H509 Checkout. The
word I've got is you're supposed to be doing pages 13-2 through
13-9.
SC Wait a minute, wait a minute.
CC Okye-doke.
SC I assume that somebody thinks that came up, huh?
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CC Well I would assume so. But I'd have to


go back and check the paperwork.
SC Okay. (Garble) I'Ii write it down, but I
haven't seen it yet, that's why I asked.
CC Okay. It probably wasn't very clear.
SC Okay. Go ahead with those page numbers.
CC It's 13-2 through 13-9. 15-7 and 16-1
through 16-4.
SC Okay. 13-2 through 9, 15 that's 1 5-7,
and 16, 1 6-1 through -4.
CC Roger.
SC Okay.
SC Houston, SPT.
CC Go, SPT.
SC I must be doing this procedure wrong_ Crlp_
on the condensate tank because l'm not getting a leak. I have
the QD disconnected in panel 393, and it's been that way for
12 minutes and the pressure is still the same. If I, if I hack
it for 15 minutes, what do I do, Just quit and reconfigure?
CC Stand by on that. Can you verify that
you did open the water valve to FILL?
SC Yep.
r_ CC We'd like to set on it for awhile, Joe_
and take a look at it. First time we've disconnected and not
had it go down.
SC I know. It's the first time you've had
the SPT do it. That's pretty sulky.
CC No comment.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 51
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab beyond the range of the
Carnarvon station. Guam will acquire in about 8 minutes. The
M509 experiment that was being discussed with the ground by
Paul Weltz, is the Astronaut Maneuvering Equipment. Weitz
will checkout that equipment at 14:30 Greenwich mean time,
a 30 minute period in the Plight Plan for him to checkout
the equipment. There's no - -

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6/18/73

PAO There's no plan at present to actually


utilize that experiment on this mission. We'll come back up
just prior to acquisition at Guam. At 12 hours 52 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-I165/I
Time: 07:58 CDT, 25:12:58 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 12 hours 58 minutes


Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for acquisition at
Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS over Guam
for about 4 minutes. Sorry I lost you without a LOS call.
SC Okay.
CC SPT, Houston.
SPT Go ahead.
CC Roger, Joe. On that condensate holding
tank. Like to understand once more, you said you did not
cap it, is that correct?
SPT That is correct.
CC Okay. It looks good, and as you're
observing, the DELTA-P is holding and - Just another confusing data
point for us. We don't understand it. It looks llke it's
working good now, though. At your convenience, you may
go ahead and reconnect that at panel 393.
SPT I just turn the heater on, I suppose, huh?
CC That's affirm.
SPT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We'll have you again at Goldstone at 13:22, 22.
And we will be doing the data recorder dump over Goldstone.
SC Still there, Houston?
CC Affirmative.
SC When we get around to discussing the EVA
checklist, one thing that I would like to discuss, then or to
get an answer then, is do you still want to use the ah - other
(garble) on powerdown the DCS pad, and all the lights in the
workshop for the EVA prep?
CC We'll check it for you.
PAO This is Skylab Control, 13 hours 5 minutes
Greenwich mean time. Guam has lost signal now. Goldstone
will pick up Skylab in about 16 minutes. We'll be back up
then. At 13 hours, 5 minutes this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-I166/I
Time: 08:19 CDT, 25:13:19 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 19


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within range
of the tracking station at Goldstone, California now. We'll
stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. We' re AOS Goldstone
for about 15 minutes.
SC Roger.

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611817S

CC Skylab, Houston. One minute til LOS.


We'll have you again at Vanguard at 47, 13:47.
SC Think you do.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 36
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab is out of contact with
the Merritt Island, Florida station now. We'll go down over
South America during this pass, and the next station to
acquire will be the tracking ship Vanguard in about i0 minutes.
At 13 hours 37 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-I168/I
Time: 08:44 CDT 25:13:44 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 44


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab about to be acquired by
the Vanguard Tracking Ship. We'll stand by.
CC CDR, the PLT had a question earlier. I
can go ahead and clarify it now, we'll elaborate this after-
noon during your pre-EVA stuff, but it is not our intent to
go through any power-down kind of operations llke we did for
your last EVA.
PLT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute tll LOS.
We'll have you again over Goldstone at 15:02, 15:02_ nice
long LOS.
SC Okay.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 13 hours 56 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. The Vanguard has loss of signal
with Skylab. At a long LOS now. The next station to acquire
Skylab will be Goldstone in i hour and 4 minutes. At 13 hours
57 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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SL-II MC-I169/I
Time: 09:59 CDT, 25:14:59 GMT
6/18/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 14 hours 59


minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up on acquisi-
tion at Goldstone, now, after a long LOS. Out of contact
for an hour and 4 minutes since leaving the Vanguard. Pete
Conrad and Joe Kerwin will shortly begin runs on the MO92
and the MITI experiments, the lower body negative pressure
and the metabolic activity, with Kerwin as the subject and
Conrad as the observer. The Pilot Paul Weitz is now in the
midst of conducting ATM operations, Apollo Telescope Mount.
We'll stand by for the pass through Golds,one, it will be
a fairly short pass, not quite 5 minutes as Skylab slices
through a portion of the acquisition range of Golds,one and
does not contact any of the other United States tracking
stations during this pass. We'll stand by.
CC Skylah, Houston. We're AOS, Golds,one
for about 5 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston. Housekeeping 7-Bravo
complete. Yuck.
CC Roger. 7-Bravo complete.
CC Is the PLT available, please?
PLT Yes.
CC Could I ask you a couple of questions,
like have you completed the 509, if so we're going to go
ahead and dump the experiment recorders?
PLT Yes, I have, I Just finished it.
CC Very good. Thank you, sir. Another note,
in this session coming up on the ATM you should finish off
the 82-Bravo film. So, go ahead and run it, finish it up,
and everybody else running on the ATM today can disregard
the 82B stuff.
PLT Okay. There's no harm in just letting
it go sub zero, huh?
PLT No harm.
PLT Okay.
CC Also, today it's your housekeeping period
following the ATM at 15:48. We'd like you to do the house-
keeping 7-Delta there, that's the water reservoir checks.
PLT Okay.
CC Thank you.
PLT Say, Crip. What time's the EVA? What
time are we supposed to have that hatch open tomorrow? Do you
kn ow ?
CC Stand by i.
CC 11:40 Zulu.
PLT i i 4 0 Z. Okay. Thank you.
PLT Say, Crip. We don't need an answer right
now, but we've got to know for the EVA tomorrow, what canister
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6/18/73

roll you want in prior to EVA? We've got a change there,


that I suspect is left over from the last EVA, so they could get
the SO54 door. I want to know what do we want for canister
roll? So, we can change our checklist accordingly.
CC Roger. We'll check that out for you,
Paul.
PLT Okay. (garble) ATM, the checklist
is down in the wardroom. I don't know what page it's on.
CC Okay. Paul, while I've got you here, we've
got a no/close no/open zone, there should be a white flag
indication for you on SO56 for the door. I guess you
had this probl_m last night and also, the malf for that is
on page 11-16, is X-ray Kelly, SO56 8 Bravo.
CC We'll have LOS in about 30 seconds. We'll
see you again over Vanguard at 15:24, 2 4. And we'll be
doing a data recorder dump at the same time.
PLT Okay, Crip. Doing 8 Bravo, like I did
last night, leads you immediately to door i, which I've done
now.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 15 hours 6
minutes Greenwich mean time. Skylab has passed out of range
of Goldstone antennaes. Next station to acquire will be
Vanguard in 16 and 1/2 minutes. At 15 hours 7 minutes
Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 10:22 CDT, 25:15:22 GMT
6/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours 22 minutes and


6 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are approaching acquisition
of signal at Vanguard Tracking Ship. And we will stand by for
live air-to-ground.
PAO We have acquisition of signal at Vanguard.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard i0 minutes.
And we'll be doing a data recorder dump.
SC Roger, Bob. (Garble) (Music).
CC Sorry, Paul. I was unable to read you then.
SC (garble).
CC Copy.
SC Also, the results on that 56 door were just
the same as last night, (garble)
SC I didn't have to catch my SCAN SPEC
(garble), and I blew it anyway. Results on the X-ray Tele -
yeah, X-ray Tele door were the same as last night. As soon as
you stoke in that (garble), you know what it is. It's (garble)
to the door sink. And immediately the door duct (garble) goes
(garble), and you get a READY light.
CC Roger.
CC PLT, Houston. We are indicating that
that door is still closed, which is in opositlon to what your
flag is going to be saying there. What you need to do is go
ahead and try to command the door OPEN once more.
SC Should I do it while it's operating? I've
got to operate now, and it's coming through the filters. You
want me to do that now, or wait until itts finished with this
sequence?
SC Oh, I see. So you say we got finished
through that door - the whole door sequence.
CC Okay. We need you to go ahead and try to
open the doors and start the sequence over, if you can.
SC You don't think they're open?
CC We don't think they're open - 56 is open,
that is.
SC You want me to stop this sequence, then.
CC That's affirm.
SC Oh, ho. Why do you guys keep inadvertently
disabling that door for us?
CC (Chuckle) More of 56's strange EMT problems,
I suppose. We don't know the answer to that right now, Paul.
We're looking at it and we are indicating the doorls open, now.
SC Okay.
CC Paul, regarding those BET - doos talkback
when you enable the motors like that, the talk back will give
you a wrong indication, and you still need to go ahead and
cycle the door to the position you want, to get a correct one.
f SC That's what I just figured out, Crip.
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Time: 10:22 CDT, 25:15:22 GMT
6/18/73

SC Now hear this, now hear this throughout


the ship, the SPT has just started his last LBNP run.
MCC (garble)
CC Skylah, Houston; about i minute until
LOS. See you again at Hawaii at 16:33, i, 6, 3, 3.
SC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 15 hours, 34 minutes,
and 26 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at
the Vanguard Tracking Station, and will not reacquire for
57 minutes and 54 seconds when we will hear from the crew of
Skylab-ll at the Hawaiian Tracking Station. This is Skylab
Control at 34 minutes and 44 seconds after the hour.

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SL-II MC-II71/I
Time: 11:31 CDT 25:16:31 GMT
6/18/73

PAO Skylab Control, we have air-to-ground


from Hawaii, and we'll stay live for air-to-ground.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS, Hawaii, 8 minutes.
PLT Roger.
PLT Houston, what's the earliest you can pick
up this TV downlink?
CC Copy.
PLT Hello, Houston, Skylab.
CC Go. I'm still picking up
PLT What's the earliest they can - we can
figure to get the TV downlink?
PLT Let me tell you why I asked. I'd kind of
like to get that 4 limb core aline out of the way before
sunset. I think I'm running a little ahead right now, and
if you can get it early, I'll ship it to you early. If you
can't I'll put it on tape. How's that?
CC Okay, we're checking on that right now,
Paul.
PLT Okay.
CC P J, you can go ahead and put it on the
VTR for us.
PLT Okay.
CC PLT, Houston. No need to acknowledge ,
but we have three teleprinter pads sitting in your teleprinter
now, all concerned with the EVA and at your first opportunity
you might want to pull them out.
PLT Okay.
CC And be advised, all of those items are of
low priority. That did include the TV by the way.
PLT Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston. One minute til LOS.
See you again at Vanguard at 17:02, that's 02. And we'll be
doing a data recorder dump at Vanguard.
PLT (garble)
PAO Skylab Control at 16 hours 41 minutes and
9 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal now at
the Hawaiian tracking station, and do not expect to acquire
the spacecraft again until we reach Vanguard tracking ship
in about 20 minutes and 15 seconds. During this morning,
Skylab Commander Pete Conrad, and chief scientist Dr. Joseph
Kerwin were subjects in a pair of medical experiments. One
called M092 is to measure the t_ansfer of :body fluid from the
legs and lower extremities to the upper body in the absence
of gravity. The other, medical experiment MITI, measures each
crew member's metabolism as he works peddling a biycle.
Measurements are done with a series of medical instruments
attached to the bicycle, and the associated hardware. This
afternoon beginning about 12:30 p.m. central daylight time,
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6/18/73

a little less than an hour from now, the crew will begin
advanced preparations for tomorrow's extravehicular activity.
The EVA, with hatch-openlng expected about 6:40 a.m. central
daylight time, Tuesday, will take about 2-1/2 hours. This
spacewalk will he the third during the first manned Skylab
mission, the only such activity that was scheduled before
the launch of America's first space station. The EVA tomorrow
is primarily planned to retrieve film from several instruments
on the solar telescope mount. This includes instruments to
study the Sun, S052, 54, 56, 82A and H-Alpha i, all a series
of solar experiments. Film will be recovered from those by
Pete Conrad, handed to Paul Weitz, and then returned and they
will be replaced by individual film cassettes. In addition
to that, there will be some minor repair work done by the
crew. Some material that has accumulated on one of the experi-
ments will have to be removed; it's interfering with an
occulting disc on one of the solar telescope experiments. Itls
a device that's used to block out the Sun on a eoronagraph
experiment. And in addition to that, they may deploy a small
piece of material from the solar sail, a separate piece of
material to see what will happen under conditions in the Sun-
light. Those are a couple of the things that are being
considered now. An additional thing is a possibility that
there may be some tapping done on CBRM number 15, that's a
charger battery regulator module number 15. That CBRM is not
operating. They feel that tapping on it with a hammer may
get it back into operation. One of the objects of this after-
noon's pre-EVA preparation is to get together the equipment
necessary to make those correctfons, including a small brush
to brush off the piece of material on the occulting disk,
and a hammer for pounding on that CBRM. Those are the main
aetlvites. This is a scheduled EVA, it was scheduled before
the mission. There will be a number of ErAs done on future
Skylab missions. These are planned EVAs, as distinct from those
EVAs that had to be done to make repairs to the spacecraft.
EVA scheduled for tomorrow morning beginning at 6:40 a.m.,
several hours after the crew awakens on their new sleep schedule.
This is Skylab Control at 44 minutes and 35 seconds after the
hour.

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SL-II MC-I172/I
Time: 11:59 CDT, 25:16:59 GMT
6/18/73

PAO It's Greenwich mean time. We're i minute and


44 seconds from acquisition of signal at the Vanguard track-
ing ship. Like to make a correction on that previous state-
ment on total number of spacewalks during this mission.
There have been 3 extravehicular activities. Only two of those
can correctly be termed spacewalks. The first was a standup
extravehicular acitivity in the command module. Did not
involve the crew m ember leaving the command module and for that
reason cannot correctly be termed a spacewalk. So there
have been three EVAs. The last two of those will be spacewalks,
the last one being a spacewalk and the one to come tomor-
row is also considered a spacewalk. We will stay live for
air-to-ground from Vanguard tracking ship in approximately
I minute.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS over Vanguard for
i0 minutes. Then we'll be doing a data recorder dump.
SC Okay.
SC Hey, Crip. On this message 2515Delta,
odds and ends, iris talking about examining the CO detector samples.
And I went and looked at those. And we are getting a
little bit of discoloring in them, but there's nothing that
would indicate more than 25 parts per million CO to start with.
. And most of them are better than that. And that is only
at the extreme edge - each edge of the little yellow color
block.
CC Okay. We copy that, Pete.
SC You'd think they'd been pretty much that
way. They were that way at the beginning of the mission some
of them.

SC Yeah, I don't think they've changed since


the beginning of the mission. And I noticed that and made
a comment about that, I think, whenever I had to do CO sampling,
which was up there like day 16 or - you know, somewhere in there.
CC Roger.
SC And I have duely located CBRMI5 from the
(garble) station and so marked the spot in my mind where to pound
with the hammer.
CC Sorry, Pete, I missed most of your com-
ment that time.
SC I said I have duely located CBRId number
15 from the (garble) work station and have placed in my mind the
proper location to pound upon .St with the . hammer.
CC Yes. That's a (garble) procedure.
SC Right.
CC Skylab, Houston. We need the DAS for a
couple of minutes to do a little tweak on a couple of rate gyros.
SC Okay. Go ahead.
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6/18/73

CC Skylab, Houston. The DAS is yours once


more, and the Flight Plan is in the teleprinter.
SC Roger, Crip.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're 1 minute from
LOS. See you again at Hawaii at 18:09, 1 8 0 9. And Rusty
will be available to talk EVA with you at that point.
PAO Skylab Control at 17 hours ii minutes and
44 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at the
Vanguard tracking station and will acquire again in 56 min-
utes and 44 seconds at Hawaii. At that time Astronaut Rusty
Schwelckart, a member Of the backup crew, will be available
to talk to the crew about the EVA, and you'll hear that on
1lye air-to-ground in about 56 and 1/2 minutes. This is
Skylab Control at 12 minutes and 5 seconds after the hour.

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SL-II MC-I173/I
Time: 13:06 CDT, 25:18:06 GMT
6/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours, 6 minutes,


and 37 seconds Greenwich mean time. This time we're approaching
the Hawaiian Tracking Station about I minute and 50 seconds to
acquisition of signal at Hawaii, according to our clock. And
we will remain live for air-to-ground from Hawaii. At this
time we expect to hear from Rusty Sehweickart, here on the ground,
speaking with the astronauts about the planned Extra Vehicular
Activity for tomorrow morning. This is Skylab Control remain-
ing llve for alr-to-ground; Hawaii.
PAO Skylab Control. We have acquisition signal
at Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston; over Hawaii for about
9 minutes.
SC Hi, Rusty.
CC Hey there, troop, got some word for you.
SC What is it?
CC Okay. Let me talk first, I guess, to
CDR with regard to the location of the expected piece of
contamination on the S052 disc.
CDR Okay. Go ahead.
CC All right. CDR, when you look in the end -
in the mouth of the instrument out there, on the Sun end,
_ the pylon should show up very as a very obvious thing. The
front surface of it is palnted white, as is the front surface
of the DI disc. And in looking in the mouth, if you go 120 de-
grees clockwise from the pylon, you should see the expected
piece of contamination, which is - should be about millimeter size
on the edge of the disc. From your location in the foot
restraint, CDR, the door is going to be slightly to your right,
when we go to this roll position, which will allow the sunlight
to go down inside the instrument and reflect for you. The
Pylon should be at about your 1 o'clock position looking into
the end, which then going 120 from that would put the
contamination at about 5 o'clock.
CDR Okay. Got it.
CDR Go ahead.
CC By the way, the star tracker is not
locked on at the present time. If there's somebody there to
do it, go ahead. If there's nobody there, we'll Just inhibit
the Nz updater - updata from the ground here.
CDR Joe's on his way.
CC Okay, CDR. One other thing. When you're
working on the S052 disc, there, you want to be aware that
there is a heat rejection mirror down inside there so that
with the Sun coming into the end of the instrument , there will
be ray, a rather a relatively bright ray of sunlight
coming back out. It's not enough to worry about as far as
damaging anything or making you too hot, but just be aware that
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there will be a solar reflection coming back out of the


instrument.
CDR Yeah. But it's not ah - It's not the
(garble) of the DI disc, right?
CC Negative. It's way down inside the
instrument and rejects the solar heat back out the tube.
CDR Okay. Understand you. The way I looked
at that pad, the D-I disc was the first thing you came to.
CC Okay. The only other caution on it is we
want to make sure that you brush from the center of the disc
toward the outside and not to drag the hairs across the edge
of the disc, because it is very sharp, and will probably
leave hairs floating around if we do that.
CDR Okay. Understand.
CC Okay. For the SPT. If you've got an
EVA checklist out, page 2.1-11, this is this operation on
opening the 52 door.
SPT Stand by, Rusty. I'm getting you a star.
CC Okay. Fine. Let me go ahead then, and
mention something on the ah - on the TV and the sail material -
Have you had a chance to look at these last couple of messages
. as they come up on the teleprinter?
CDR Yep.
CC Okay. We want you to know that they're
both low priority_ in fact, can you give us the status,
have you done anything yet with the TV?
CDR Nope, we haven't. We were going to go
ahead and rig it.
CC Okay. Our feeling on that down here is
that if you haven't all ready started, we'd Just as soon
you'd forget it entirely, unless you particularly want to
take it out.
CDR Nope. I don't want to take it out. We'll
let Joe have it up at the MDA.
CC Okay. Fine. That'll he fine. And we
appreciate the pictures out the STS window, if he can give
them to us. All right. On the sall material, we also want
to let you know that that is relatively low priority, also.
If you are going to do that, we'd like to have you do that,
Pete, when you come back from the transfer work station before
doing the D024, rather than after. Agd you'll Just have to
watch out so you don't put your feet on that when you're
retrieving the DO24.
CDR Understand.
SPT And, Rusty. I'm ready to talk.
CC Okay. On 2.1-11 ah - -

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Time: 13:14 CDT, 25:18:14 GMT
6118173

CC Retrieving the D024.


SC (garble)
SC And Rusty, I'm ready to talk.
CC Okay. On 2.1-11 we have this information
on opening the S052 door. And I want to make sure you under-
stand why the day and night thing, or if you have any questions
regarding that.
SC I'm sure it's to prevent you from dam-
aging the instrument. We're in such a high beta angle _that
it's going to be a little confusing as to what's day and
what's not, and I guess we ought to use the computer talkback.
Right?
CC That's negative. The computer talkba -
The reason is not to protect the instrument so much, Joe,
it's that if the Sun is up and we have the canister
locked in solar inertial, we think that when you open the
door, It'll close again right away because we will probably
not be within 5 arc minutes of Sun center. And that's why
the restriction. So if the Sun is physically above the
horizon, above the vlsible horizon, you'll want to use the
daylight procedure, which puts you in experimen_ pointing. And
you go Sun centered so that the door will not close on yon.
If you're at night, however, if the Sun is below the horizon,
you can Just go ahead and open the door, following that
nighttime procedure.
SC Okay. Which reminds me of something. At
the very beginning of this checklist, we were powering down
the EPC loop, the rate gyros and so forth. Is that a change
that we're now to ignore, or what?
CC That's affirmative. You are to ignore
all pen and ink changes that we had back there at the - for
the previous EVA. Those all apply to low power and things
llke that. All those pen and inks are to be disregarded.
With regard to that, there was a question asked this morning
as to the roll angle on the cannister. And we go to the
original roll durlng the prep, which is plus 4392, which is
on page 1.2-2.
CC Okay, one change that we have added on
that same page during the prep is to have the roll gain at
times 1 rather than the preflight planned times 2. The reason
for that is that we have had Z GYRG p_rob_e@ms with high roll
rates on the canister. And _ _n order to ' preclude loslng
the Z GYROs, we want to make sure that we have the roll gain in
times i. And CDR, when you're rolling the canister out
there, we would appreciate a relatively positive roll from
one camera position to the other. That is, don't start and
stop rapidly going in and out of a high roll rate.
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Time: 13:14 CDT, 25:18:14 GMT
6/18/73

SC Okay. All right, Rusty, on the same page


where we power down the EPC loop, there are two other pen and
ink changes. One of them is to enable TACS; the other one
is to enable CMG AUTO RESET. They're all in the same ink and every-
thing else. Now which of those do we pay attention to?
CC Stand by just i.
SC Got you, didn't we?
SC I think we enabled TACS and I think we
enabled CMG AUTO RESET. But it's pretty hard to tell.
CC Yes, sir. We do not power down the EPC
rate gyros and that block of pen and inks up there. We do
enable the TACs and the OMG AUTO RESET.
SC Okay.
CC Okay. Just a short word on the malfunction
procedure with the feed C port purge valve there. We found
from testing down here in the last couple of weeks that
there's a potential that the feed port purge valve may push in
the flapper valve just slightly if there's a low tolerance
on the helmet. If that's what's causing a leak, what we're
saying is, press on. It's no sweat. Or you can try and reseat
the feed port purge valve. By the way we're going - -
SC We've already passed that check once for
these purge valves. We never took them out of our helmets because
we knew we were going to go EVA.
CC Okay.
SC So they're still in there, and I think
they're all right.
CC Two of the three of you have passed the check,
Pete. We're just playing cautious for the third guy. We're going
over the hill here. We'll pick up the Vanguard at 18:40.
PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 19 minutes
and 3 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at
the Hawaiian tracking station, and we'll pick up the crew again
at Vanguard in 21 minutes and 5 seconds. This is Skylab
Control at 18 hours 19 minutes and 17 seconds.

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Time: 13:38 CDT, 25:18:38 GMT
6/18/73

PAO Skylah Control at 18 hours, 38 minutes


and 25 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are i minute and
49 seconds from acquisition of signal at Vanguard. But we
are coming up early in the event that there is an early
acquisition. We expect to hear some additional disscussion
about the preparation for tomorrow's Extra Vehicular Activity.
Crewmembers involved in that, directly, are Commander Conrad -
Commander Conrad and Pilot Paul Weitz. Dr. Kerwln will remain
inside during the EVA and we will remain llve for alr-to-ground
from Vanguard Tracking Ship.
CC Skylab, Houston; over Vanguard for about
i0 minutes.
SC Roger.
CC For your information, we're having a data
recorder dump at this time over Vanguard.
SC Okay.
CC And the only other information I've got
to go from the ground up in that direction is that the summary
Flight Plan for tomorrow does not have listed in it any post-
EVA time after the eat-period for the SPT. And that was an
oversight. And we'd Just like to make sure that the SPT takes
whatever time's available for the post EVA stuff before press-
ing on with the housekeeping we do have listed.
SPT We knew you were all against me.
CC That's very perceptive.
CC And, the one other thing we want to
clarify is that we do intend to bring back three S082 magazines,
two A's and lB.
CDR You betcha, baby.
CDR The original ones are all ready stowed, Rusty,
in the command module.
CC Okay. Thanks.
CC And were there any other things we could
clarify for you concerning the preps or the operation tomorrow?
CDR I don't think so. Leaving the televlsion
down is fine. I understand the sall business. I intend to
stow it tonight. And we'll install it before D024. And I
think that's about it. We've been over the cheek - completed
the first page on our checklist in time for EVA prep
except for ah - 2 of the helmets, you know, the (garble). And
I'm just getting ready to some ATM film.
CC Okay. Fine. Did our ah - did our concern
on that (garble) port leakage get through there before we went
LOS, Hawaii?
CDR Yes it did. I checked Paul's and it, at
least my eye ball looks very good.
CC Okay.
CDR We understand it, and will act accordingly.
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Time: 13:38 CDT, 25:18:38 GMT
6/18/73

CC Skylab, Houston. We have sort of a


question here. I wonder if there's a possibility that after
the TV tour you may have left a hot mike connected there with
a light-weight headset on it. We have noticed an apparent
shift in the quality of the Channel-B voice and we also noticed
considerable background in the last couple of conversations
you've had.
CDR Okay. We'll check the boxes that we have,
- that we have comm cables connected to and verify it
for you Rusty, in just a minute.
CC Okay.
CDR Rusty, we didn't find any in ICOM/PTT.
The one's that (garble) which shouldn't make any difference.
CC Okay. Fine. It may he just that your
friends up there were rather noisy on your last conversation.
CDR Which ah Are you referring to the SPT's
day in the IMSS?
CC No, the quality on that one was good. But
we did have one recorder dump from Channel-B that sounded
different as far as the quality was concerned. I think it
may just have been something unusual at that time, so I wouldn't
go on a witch hunt for it.
CDR Okay.
PLT Hey, Rusty. I've got a couple of words
on 509, if you want to pass them on to (garble).
CC Sure. Go ahead.
PLT The checkout went fine, everything nominal.
I don't really have anything to report. I would recommend
to Hal and those guys, that when those thrusters fired it's
quite loud in the workshop I recommend that anybody down
here wear ear protection of some sort. And that they have
all those objects tied down, because you get a pretty good
blast with those thrusters, even though they're very small.
CC Okay. We got it.
CDR He did a pretty fair flying job, seeing
it was done on the end of a 2-i/2 foot table.
CC Rog. We didn't hear that. And we have
about 30 seconds before LOS here. We'll be picking you up
at Ascension at about 56.
CDR Okay.
PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours, 48 minutes,
40 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal now at
Vanguard and expect to acquire again in about 7-1/2 minutes
at the Ascension Tracking Station, a very low elevation pass
lasting about 4-1/2 minutes. During the past 2 passes there
have been some discussion of the EVA procedures for tomorrow.
They're presently working on prepreparations, studying check-
lists and making plans for tomorrow's activity. Commander
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Time: 13:38 CDT, 25:18:38 GMT
6/18/73

Pete Conrad will play the role of EV-2 tomorrow. EV-2 has the duty
of making minor repairs to one of the ATM batteries, that's
CBRM number 15, charger battery regulator module number 15.
That battery has been inactive since before the Skylab crew
first arrived at the space station. Conrad will also retrieve
and replace film for several of the instruments used to
photograph the Sun. And he will be responsible for brushing
a tiny piece of matter from the occulting disc of the white-
light coronagraph that -

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Time: 13:49 CDT, 25:18:49 GMT
6/18/73

PAO - used to photograph the sun. And he will


be responsible for brushing a tiny piece of matter from the
occulting disk of the white light ooronograph. This is an
experiment which has a small disk that's placed in front of a
photographic equipment, the coronographln equipment, and that
disk has a piece of matter on it. The disk is used to
block out the main body of the sun. The contaminant is about
1/25th of an inch in diameter and it will be brushed off
with a small brush. Assisting Conrad will be Pilot Paul
Weitz as EVI. The Pilot's job is to take the film as itts
handed down by Conrad and to give him replacement cassettes. Dr.
Kerwin will work inside the spacecraft and is expected to operate
the television camera as EV3. That TV camera is now planned
to be operated inside the craft from one of the windows of
the structural transition section of the multiple docking
adapter, near the Multiple Docking Adapter. This is different
from the original Flight Plan, which called for a change assign-
ment of roles. In the original Flight Plan Kerwin was
named as EV2, this is premlsslon, with Paul Weitz remaining
inside and Conrad the supporting astronaut. But at the
option of Skylab Commander Co_rad, Weltz, an astronaut on
/ his first space mission, will be given an opportunity to participate
as his assistant. Weltz and Conrad did train as EVI and EV2,
so that they could replace the Conrad/Kerwln team in case
Kerwin should have been unable to participate in an EVA.
Since Kerwin has already participated in the solar array repair,
done during an earlier Extra Vehicular Activity, Conrad decided
that Paul Weitz should be given a similar role tomorrow. So
the team, instead of the original team planned before the
mission of Conrad supporting Kerwin, we will now have Weitz
supporting Conrad. This is a second or backup team, but it
is being done just to give Paul Weltz experience and at the
request of Commander Conrad. This is Skylab Control. We have
4 minutes and 32 seconds to acquisition of signal at Ascension
and we will return at that time. It's now 51 minutes and
55 seconds after the hour.

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f-- SL-II MC-I177/I
Time: 13:54 CDT, 25:18:54 GMT
6/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 18 hours 54 minutes


and 30 seconds Greenwich mean time. We're now about a
minute and 45 seconds from acquisition of signal at Ascension
tracking station. A low elevation pass lasting 4 minutes
and about 40 seconds. We will remain live for air-to-ground
from Ascension.
CC And, Skylab; Houston here over the Ascension
for about 4-1/2 minutes.
SC Roger.
CC And Skylab, Houston. We're about 30
seconds from LOS here at Ascension. We're going to be
catching you at the Vanguard next next, gateway to the South
Atlantic Anomaly, at 20:17.
SC Roger. All aboard.
PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours i minute and
55 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at the
Ascension tracking station and do not expect to acquire
again until Vanguard, i hour and 15-1/2 minutes from now.
This is a long pass with no stations on it; it skirts the area
between Guam and Hawaiian tracking stations, and we have no
signal at that point. So for an hour and 15 minutes there
/f will be no acquisition of signal. We are expecting a change-
of-shift briefing with off-going Flight Director Milton
Windler at approximately 2:30. Also with Flight Director
Windier will be Robert Parker, the Skylah Program scientist
and a representative from the Extra Vehicular Activity
Preparations area. This is Skylab Control. We will give
you an announcement of Windler's leaving the console. He is
now at flight management team briefing, which takes place after
each change of shift. And when he returns to Mission
Control and departs, we will give you an announcement of
that, approximately 30 minutes from now. This is Skylab
Control at 2 minutes 56 seconds after the hour.

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Time: 14:I7CDT, _5:19:17 GMT
6/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours, 17 minutes,


and 9 seconds Greenwich mean time. This time we're just
a little over 1 hour from acquisition of signal at the Vanguard
Tracking Ship. We do have an announcement_ beginning at
2:30 p.m. central daylight time, the final edited version of
all television returns so far, from the Skylab Mission, will
be replayed. The replay of Skylab's television sequences will
run approximately an hour and a half, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
central daylight time. This is a replay of step 3, the final edited
version of Skylab's television sequences. All of the television
sequences to be replayed from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. central day-
light time today. At approximately 2:30, we expect Flight
Director Milton Windler to be available for a change-of-
shift briefing. He is now in a flight management team meeting,
and we do not have an exact time for the end of that meeting.
But as soon as that meeting is concluded, we expect him to
leave for a briefing. We're still estimating approximately
2:30 for that briefing. Included in the briefing will be
Skylab Program Scientist, Astronaut Robert Parker, and a
member of the EVA team. This is Skylab Control at 18 minutes
and 26 seconds after the hour.
I"-
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SL-II MC-I179/I
Time: 14:31 CDT, 25:19:31 GMT
6/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours, 31 minutes,


and 6 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have still not seen
Milton Windier return to Mission Control Operations Room.
And for that reason, we cannot tell you exactly when the press
conference will begin. We do expect it will be delayed. He is
apparently still in the flight management team meeting. And
as soon as he leaves Mission Control, if we are informed, we
will let you know immediately. There will be a slight de-
lay in the replay of the entire television video recorded
so far during the Skylab Mission. We expect that delay to
be just a matter of a few minutes. That will be a 1 hour
and a half replay and beginning probably about 2:35_ or
shortly thereafter. And that will include all the television
sequences as they have been edited from Skylab. This is
Skylab Control. We're still 45 minutes and 42 seconds from
acquisition of signal at Vanguard Tracking Ship, and we will
probably not be up until Milton Windier leaves the Flight
Contro - leaves the Mission Control Room. Skylab Control
at 32 minutes and 8 seconds after the hour.

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Time: 14:41 CDT, 25:19:41 G,T
6/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 19 hours 41 minutes


Greenwich mean time. At the present time we are passing
north of Guam on the decending mode of the 507th revolution
of the Earth. We are about to begin a press conference with
Milton Windier in building I auditorium. Flight Director
Windler has left mission control center and is on his way
now to go to building i. He's taking with him someone from
the EVA branch and also we expect Dr. Robert Parker, astro-
naut and Skylab Program Scientist to be available at that
briefing. The briefing should begin in about 3 to 5 minutes
at building i briefing room with Flight Directorp off-going
Flight Director Milton Windier. The Flight Director now
is Charles Lewis and the spacecraft communicator now on
duty, Dick Truly. This is Skylab Control at 41 minutes
and 52 seconds after the hour.

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f
SL-II MC-II81/I
Time: 15:42 CDT, 25:20:42 GMT
6/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 20 hours, 42 minutes, 42


seconds Greenwich mean time. We have just lost signal at
Ascension. During the last two passes over Vanguard and
Ascension tracking, we were recording the air-to-ground because
of the briefing that was in progress here at Johnson Space
Center. We will replay that air-to-ground now. There is
a discussion that includes Rusty Schweickart at the Vanguard
station and at part of Ascension, as well as Spacecraft
Communicator, Dick Truly. Here is the record of the air-to-
ground.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Vanguard for i0 min-
utes.
PLT Hi there, Richard. We were beginning to
think you had a day or two off.
CC No, sir. Back at work again. How're y'all
doing today?
PLT Feeling better, but we're having trouble
making sure which changes we're supposed to follow on the EVA
checklist, believe it or not. I got a question. On page
3.1-8, if someone there will turn to that page.
CC Okay, hang on just 1 second.
CC Okay. We're looking at 3.1-8. Go ahead.
PLT Okay, in the lower right hand corner, Dick,
it says ATM reconfiguration. Right after the (garble) of EVA
there's a change which changed section 5 to page Charlie 12.
What am I - what is supposed to be used tomorrow?
CC Okay, stand by just i second.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay, Paul. Let me see if I can answer
this question for you. And if you don't understand it, let's
keep talking about until both you and I do. You're to dis-
regard an old message, the number of which was 1317 Alfa, which
was sent up for the previous EVA. There is one change in
section 5 that is reflected on a message you have - that
you got today, I think, the number of which is 2429 Alfa. And
it's entitled EVA ATM. Over.
PLT All right. Thank you.
CC Okay. The message - EVA ATM message that
we sent up today makes one change under section 5.9 of the
ATM Experiment Checklist and data book.
PLT Okay. Well, I'ii have to go up there and
look.

PLT It's not as simple as just telling me


whether to use page Charlie 12 or section 5. (garble) just a
minute.

CC Okay. Paul, I'ii tell you what. Rusty


was not plugged in when you first called up, and did not hear
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Time: 15:42 CDT, 25:20:42 GMT
6/18/73

the original question. If you'd like to restate it and still


don't understand what I told you, go ahead and maybe he can
help more.
PLT Okay. That might do it.
CC Roger.
CDR Hey, Rusty. On - if he's here listening -
I was looking out the window now, and I can just see the very
top of a CBRM - either 3 or 15. I can't tell which one it is,
but I can see down there pretty good. I can't (garble) these
things and so forth in the VC. If they tried that,
how did they get out there?
SCHWEICKART CDR, yes, I am here, and we were not very speci-
fic about that intentionally. It looks as though the two
ATM trusses that go down that way - the one closest to the
center work station were the four of the relatively good handholds,
but we were not too specific about the best way to get there.
We thought we'd leave it to your judgement. But if you rotate
around your seat about a 90 degree roll, it's right in front
of your nose.
CDR Oh, yeah, I haven't had any trouble locat-
ing it. I know where it is, but I - I presume it also says
on the package CBRM 15.
SCRWEICKART I don't believe so, CDR. I think the sur-
face is entirely white.
CDR Okay. Well, I never mind. I know which
one it is.
SPT Rusty, for me, would you review the what
the function is of the stuck relay, and what I might expect
to see as he hammers it?
SCHWEICKART Yes, sir. We hope to see - hope that you111
see, Joe, after Pete hammers it, is that the charging current
will come up. That is, that you will begin to see the solar
arrays charge the battery.
SPT Okay.
SCHWEICKART And two possibilities there - that would
re - -

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_ Time: 15:47 CDT 25:20:47 GMT
6/18/73

CC Recharge the battery.


CDR Okay.
CC And two possibilities there that
would relate to a hammering on the CBRM, certain testing
that was done preflight indicated that there has been a
history of the contactors sticking and hammering on it in
two cases out of something like a thousand did free up the
contactor and it began working properly.
SPT Was it clear who suggested this
app roach ?
CC I don't believe so, but the way
things operate, I probably ought to check.
PLT Okay, rod C in the EVA checklist, page
3.1-8.
CC Okay, we' re there.
PLT ATM reconfiguration for stowage.
CC Go ahead.
PLT What should the next sentence read?
CC Okay, stand by.
CDR Okay, while you're standing by, let me
answer. The second question of the evening questions tonight
was radial docking port clear and usable. The radial
f_ port of clocking (garble) in position. I've answered that
15 times now. The answer is yes, again.
CC Okay, thank you. I'll make sure we've
finally got it.
CDR Got what?
CC That it's clear.
CC Okay, the sentence after ATH reconfig-
uration for stowage should be back to the original; that
is, it should say, "See ATM experiment checklist and data
book, Section 5," and we do have just a couple of changes
that were called up for that experiment checklist and data
book.
PLT Okay, Joe made some changes to that
today, on page 5-9.
CC That's correct.
PLT So, what is now on page Charlie 12, I
can tear out of the book and throw away. Is that right?
CC Stand by. We'll check that one.
PLT Okay, the reason I left it in rod C, and
it says, "Post EVA panel reconfiguration for unattended OFF." Now
that was before our last EVA, and I don't know what you intend
otherwise. I just wanted to know whether I could throw it away
or not.
CC Okay. The intent of that the last
time related to the low power problems that we were having
f
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and we are now back to essentially normal, with the exception


of things like the S054 power and things of that kind.
PLT Okay.
CC Okay. We're going to recheck that, but
in looking at it, from what we can see, and get an answer
right now, all that stuff on Charlie 12 was related to
the low power situation and if it's any different from that,
we'll let you know tomorrow.
PLT Okay.
CC There is one other thing that I thought
I'd mention to you tonight, just to make sure you're aware of
our concern, and that is that you will be having three
people on one SUS loop, and that that SUS loop will be running
in by pass rather than in EVA. We want you to understand
that you will not have the same cooling that you had last
time. The inlet temperatures to the LCG will run slightly
higher, and so we would like to enssure that you do not get
behind the power curve by storing very much heat and then
going to, say a diverted position of 5 and expecting everybody
to remain cool. In other words, we'd like you to try and
stay ahead of the heat buildup and if possible we'd like you
to avoid using position 5 unless it is necessary.
f-- CDR Now that's radically different (garble)
We probably won't get it over heated. I never got hot a hit
the last time.
CC All right, but you realize you were
running an EVA position before, and this will be slightly
different. The loop will not be quite as cool.
SPT Rusty, this is Joe. I rigged the LSUs
this afternoon per the cue card, and I put EV 1 and EV 2 on
SUS 2. Is that wrong?
CC (Garble) We're going to have to get you
an answer at Ascension. We're only 15 seconds from LOS
here. But all three will be run on the same SUS loop. We'll
get right back to you.
SPT Okay.
CC And guys, we're going to see yon at
Ascension at 20:30, and we will be dumping the data recorder
there.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Ascension
for the next i0 minutes, and please stand by. We're straigh-
tening out the question on the SUS loops. We'll be right back
to you (garble)
SPT We found the message, Dick.
CC Okay, so you will have all three con-
nected to -

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Time: 15:52 CDT, 25:20:52 GMT
_" 6/18/73

PLT - we found the message, Dick.


CC Roger. Okay, so you will have all three
connected to SUS i, then?
PLT Right.
PLT (Garble) point is well taken. We changed
a lot of other things, though, on those EVA cue cards, but
didn't change that.
CDR If those guys on the next crew don't do
anything, they better work something out with the guys on
the ground about these changes, because we have no way
of keeping them straight.
CC Yeah, we've got very much the same problem
here. I don't think we're in much better shape than you guys
are. The only thing is we have more input. I think in regard
to that - if doing the prep tomorrow morning, there's any question
at all about what we've meant, please feel free to ask.
CDR Oh, was trying to pin down the hammer one
day. I can't find it. I'm not sure it didn't get slipped
in the checklist someplace. I got the one about the location
of the CBRM, but I don't know what happened to the one with
the hammer. It went in to the checklist, I guess. You know
what message that was on?
CDR Which group it was in?
/r CC Was this the one talking about prep
of the hammer, Pete?
CDR Right.
CC Okay, we'll look and into that.
CDR Hey, meanwhile - CDR ate everything. He
had no optional salt. He's going to have two butter cookies.
The PLT ate everything today but his bread. He added plus
i H20 and 1.5 optional salts, and plus 1 H20 for the CDR, also.
CC Okay.
CDR And the SPT ate everything today.
CC Roger.
CDR And let me give you the film.
CC Okay, we're listening.
CDR Okay, on the film, day 169. 16 millimeter:
SO92/171 MI51, SPT Charlie India 1438, Charlie India ii.
MIbI-I, Charlie India 14 00, CI Charlie India ii; 35 millimeter:
Charlle India 30 exposed, Charlie India - by the way, we got
seventy some pictures on that, Charlie India 3208, Charlie
India 3128, CX06 on the 70 millimeter is still on 103. No
EREP. A-I: X-porter 02, no supplies, no percentage, Charlie
India 12; A-2 is 03, Charlie India 06 18 Charlie India 03 83
06, Charlie India 13 48, Charlie India i0 84 05, Charlie India
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14, no film, Charlie India ii; floating 07 Charlie India 09


66, Mike Tango 03. That's it.
CC Okay, thank you, Pete. We got it.
SCHWEICKART And, CDR. That message on prepping the
hammer was on the same message with the one that talked about
bringing the SUS - the SUS 1 loop on in about four steps there.
And I can talk to you about it if there's a question. It
should be in your prep checklist on page 1.2-5.
CDR Okay. Well, that's where it is, then.
CDR All right. Roger.
CDR Okay, Rusty. I remember it was a 2-1/2 inch
loop, and it was supposed to go on the VC tree, right?
CC It was a 2-1/2 inch loop, and the reason -
no - it - it will hook into the temporary stowage hook in
the SAS. And the 2-1/2 - the reason for the 2-1/2 inch loop
is in order to interface properly with the boom - the jaws
of the boom hook.
CDR Oh, yes.
PLT Okay.
CC And with the - with the brush we have a
smaller loop, and we're taping that to the VS tree. And then you
f can use the small elastic wrist tether hook when you're down
at the Sun end, to hold onto that one when you're reaching
down in there.
CDR Right. We got - we got that covered. Okay.
CC And when you get out there - on that CBRM -
how about giving it a hit for us, too, will you?
CDR Okay. I had a little practice on the Moon,
and I'ii see what I can do up here. They're gnarenteed if you
break it? Right?
CC We've been - we asked very carefully about
that and we were given tremendous assurance. In fact, they
hit an operating CBRM as hard as they could, about 30 to 35
times over in Huntsville, and - -

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6/18/73

CC Tremendous assurance, in fact they hit


an operating CBRM as hard as they could, about 30 to 35
times over in Huntsville, and it kept right on operating.
CDR Okay.
CC Guys, we've got about 4 minutes left in
this Ascension pass, and live got a couple of more general
notes for you. One is, tomorrow morning, we're going to be
operating ATM unattended operations for about 1 hour after
you wake up, and since there's no other ATM operation
scheduled tomorrow, we have no other reason to send up a
SAP pad or a schedule pad, and we don't intend on doing
that this evening, and I'm assuming that you guys are going to
be busy preping for the EVA anyway, so that won't make any
difference. Okay, the other note I have here is an answer
to Pete's question last night about the trim burn. First of
all, the purpose the functional purpose of that trim burn was
to set up a ground track drift rate such that when
A1 Bean and his friendly comrades get up there on SL-3, their
first trim maneuver will put us back on a premission nominal
ground track. And the reason - there are several reasons
for the thing being so small. One is, we've had less drag
than we predicted, we've vented less than we had predicted. We've
shortened the time between SL 2 and 3, and also we were on
/'_ the west - we already were on the proper side of the ground
track in drifting towards it, so that the trim burn went off
just like we planned it and it accomplished our purposes.
CDR Good.
CC Roger.
SPT How much time we got?
CC Still got 2-1/2 minutes. Go ahead.
S_T Are you ready for the status on our
wardroom window here?
CC Yes Sir.
SPT Okay. Since it wasn't working anyway,
we decided last night we might as well turn it off. So we
turned it off. We got up this morning and the whole gear
pane was covered with frost fog. Covered with condensation
on the inside. So I turned it back on, and it went away.
So the heater is working. Now I don't know whether they're dual
elements one of them's working, or both panes are heated,
and only the inner one's heater is working anymore, but it
obviously heats the inner pane yet, Dick, because it drove
that condensation off and keeps it away. So we still have
what was flowing water is now ice, but maybe that's because
it works in space more than it did before. I don't know,
you tell us.
CC Well, just so we won't have to ask you
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another question later, tell me again which side of the inner


pane the fog was on?
SPT It was on the inside. You could wipe
it off with your hand.
CC Okay. Thank you.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're about 30 seconds
from LOS. We're gonna see you at Guam at 21:15.
PAO Skylab Control, 21 hours and 6 seconds
Greenwich mean time. That's the end of the tape from Van-
guard and Ascension passes that was recorded earlier. We
just finished replaying the Vanguard and Ascension pass from
this last revolution. You might have noticed during the
conversation, there was some discussion of the operation
of the coolant loop for tomorrow's EVA. Normally both
coolant loops are operated, with two crew members using
one of the coolant loops, and the remaining crewman using
the other loop. Tomorrow they will not use both coolant
loops. The ground flight controllers are concerned that
the secondary coolant loop is still not being properly
controlled for temperature by temperature control valve B,
that's the control valve that had stuck in a rather cool
position earlie. Tthey_re not satisfied yet that is operating,
/_ although there is some disagreement as to whether it is or not.
It's reading approximately 46 degrees, that's about 1 degree
cooler than it's supposed to read. And they're concerned
it may be stuck in that position, and may not correct it-
self. For this reason they'll be operating only on the
primary coolant loop tomorrow. All three crew members us-
ing the same coolant loop. They will also not go to the
EVA position. Normally there is a special EVA position,
which allows greater cooling to the cooling systems inside
the suits. That EVA position was used during the previous
EVA to repair the solar panel. At that time the shock from
the coolant coming in out of the radiators was severe
enough to cause the primary coolant loop temperature control
valve to freeze up. And for a while, we had some rather
cold temperatures and some danger of freezing water in
adjacent systems. For this reason they will not be using
the EVA position. That means they will have reduced cool-
ing on that primary coolant loop, so we'll have less cooling
and a single coolant loop running. For this reason they
suggested to the crew that they attempt to keep their
body heat regulated and not allowed to build up and then try to
cool off in a hurry. The indication they gave this,
don't use position 5 if you can avoid it. Position 5 is
the maximum flow rate on coolant. This is Skylab Control at
21 hours 2 minutes and 23 seconds. Our next acquisition of
signal, in 12 minutes and 40 seconds at the Guam tracking station.
Skylab Control at 2 minutes and 32 seconds after the hour.

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Time: 16:14 CDT, 25:21:14 GMT
6/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 14 minutes


Greenwich mean time. We're 1 minute from acquisiton of
signal at the Guam tracking station and we'll remain live
for air-to-ground and a call from Spacecraft Communicator
Dick Truly. Fifty seconds to acquisition of signal at Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS at Guam for i0 min-
utes.
SC Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. Star tracker is unlocked
and we think we see - we think we see you trying to help us
out in getting that reacquired. Outer gimbal should be plus
1980.
SPT Roger.
CC Skylab, Houston. I'm not sure what the
other two guys are going. Joe, I guess, is at the ATM. If you're
not doing anything and in a listening mood, I got a couple
of news items that I'Ii read up to you.
SPT Go man.
CC Okay, first one here is a telegram that
came to General Stafford today. And it says: "Colorado
Aerotech, accredited under the state of Colorado, an aviation
mechanics technology school being duly authorized by the
Chairman of the Colorado State Board of Community Colleges,
does hereby issue and grant the honorary degree, Master of
Aviation Airframe Maintenance, to U.S. Navy Captain Pete
Conrad; U.S. Navy Commander Joe Kerwin; and U.S. Navy Commander,
Paul Weitz. This degree is presented for the outstanding
efforts exercised in restoring the Skylab to an operational
state under most adverse conditions, utilizing the most
rudimentary airframe tools. In addition, each astronaut is
recognized for his initiative and abilities as a truly first-
rate airframe technician, operating in space, repairing and
altering a spaceship." From Colorado Aerotech.
PLT You made that up.
CC Negative.
PLT Super.
CC One question I have for you guys. The
other day when we were not reading your news up every night,
did somebody pass you up information about the TUI44 Super-
sonic Transport at the Paris Air Show?
PLT Yes, we did hear about that accident, Dick.
CC Okay, fine.
CC This is from Tokyo. A strong earthquake
followed by a tidal wave hit the northern Japanese Islands
Sunday, injuring at least 23 persons and carrying more than -
causing more than five million dollars damage. About 300
tons of dead salmon were washed to shore by the 6-1/2 foot
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tidal waves that followed the tremor. And the quake measured
7.25 on the Richter scale. In Washington today President
Nixon and Soviet leader, Leonid I. Brezhnev, today begin
a long planned summit conference, each pledging that the
talks would improve the prospects for world peace. Brezhnev
promised the week-long conference would justify the hopes of
our people and serve the interests of a peaceful future for
all mankind. Nixon predicted a conference would help llft
the burden of armaments from the world and build a structure
of peace. Here's one from Kyle, South Dakota. A leader of
the American Indian movement told the Senate subcommittee
on Indian Affairs Sunday, that the Indians want to be recog-
nized as a sovereign nation in their own dealings with the
Federal Government. The traditional Chief, Frank Fools Crow
and Charles Redcloud, called for the removal of Stanley Lyman
as Bureau of Indian Affairs Superintendent on the reservation.
Redcloud said a lot of the money comes on to the reservation,
but no one knows where it goes. Redcloud also asked that
liquor be banned from the reservation. Finally, here from
- here's one from Paris. American and North Vietnamese
officials resumed talks on U.S. diplomatic aid to Hanoi today
after a lapse of two months. "We seek a successful conclusion
as the contribution to the consolidation of peace in south-
east Asia. Chief U.S. delegate, Maurice Williams said: "The
resumption of negotiations was agreed in a communique signed
last Wednesday, pledging both sides to renewed commitments
to peace in Viet Nam. We've still got about 3 minutes left
here at Guam, and I'm standing by.
PLT Thank yon.
CDR If we get that CBRM fixed tomorrow we
ought to qualify for our Ph.D. in airframes.

END OF TAPE

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CDR If we get that CBRM fixed tomorrow, we


ought to qualify for our Ph.D. in airframe mechanics.
CC I would certainly think so.
CDR As a little update, we've got the D-I
brush duster-offer all installed on the VS tree, and cut off
a hunk of the SEVA sail, and I'm about to go sew for awhile.
CC Okay. Fine.
CDR That might qualify me to join my wife
in the Timber Cove Sewing Association.
CC I was just going to suggest that same
thing.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're I minute from
AOS. We're going to see you at Vanguard at 21:55. That
will be the medical conference. The next pass after that
is Canary at 22:15.
CDR Roger. See you then.
CC Roger.
PAO Skylab Control at 21 hours 25 minutes
and ii seconds Greenwich mean time. We have now lost signal
at Guam tracking station, and do not expect to hear from the
crew again until possibly at Vanguard. Vanguard is reserved
30 minutes from now for a private medical conference with
/_ the flight surgeon. Should the surgeon complete his con-
versation, we will have live alr-to-ground in the event that
there is any discussion between the crew and spacecraft
communicator Dick Truly. So that next pass at Vanguard
29 minutes is reserved for a private medical conference, but
we have over the last several days had some time for open air-
to-ground. This is Skylab Control at 25 minutes and 56
seconds after the hour.

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Time: 16:54 CDT 25:21:54 GET
/_--" 6/18/73

PAO Skylab Control, 21 hours 54 minutes and


47 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have had acquisition
of signal at Vanguard and are receiving telemetry data here
in Mission Control. At this time there is a private medical
conference being conducted with Dr. Buchanan in a private
room here in the Mission Control Center. That is not over
live air to ground. This is our daily medical conference.
If that should be completed before the Vanguard pass, which
lasts something over ten minutes, then we should hear a call
from spacecraft communicator, Dick Truly, to the crew. That
normally has been taking place over the last several days
about 4 or 5 minutes into the pass. We will remain live
now for air to ground in the event that the private medical
conference is a brief one. This is Skylab Control remaining
live.

CC Skylab, Houston. We're standing by at


Vanguard. We've got 6 minutes left in the pass.
CDR Okay. (garble)
SPT The SPT is trying for a rare perfect
(garble)
CC Roger.
CDR Say, when I get back, I want to know
how much time you all estimated for me to do this sail job.
/_ CC Okay, I'll make sure that - I'ii pass
to Rusty and figure out what is it they thought.
CDR Okay, then I'll tell you how long it
really took.
CC Okay.
SPT Houston, SPT. Does ATM want H-alpha
to take pictures tonight?
CC Stand by i.
CC SPT, Houston. Negative.
SPT Okay, I'm ready for my final exam.
CC Okay.
SPT And if the Pls are listening, we will
have a final debriefing for them on Channel B a little bit
later.

CC Okay, very good, then I'ii sure alert


them.

CC Skylab, Houston. two comments; for


Joe, the ATM officer says that you got a B+, that the grat-
ing was to be 0000, and he's going to take care of that
from the ground. And for the CDR, I'm advised by our EVA
friends that the estimated time that they thought it would
take you on that sail Job was 15 to 30 minutes.
CDR Well, l've already invested about an
hour and 15 in it, and I got about another half to go.
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CC Well, sounds like we sure blew that one.


Sorry. We're about 30 seconds from LOS at Vanguard. We're
going to see you at Canary at 22:15, and we're going to dump the
data tape recorder at Canary.
PAO Skylab Control, at 22 hours 6 minutes
and 11 seconds. We have lost signal at Vanguard. We will
have a very low elevation pass at Ascension and may not
acquire there. Nine minutes from now_ we should acquire
signal at Canary Island. This is Skylab Control at 6 minutes
and 27 seconds after the hour.

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/_ 6/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 14 minutes 47


seconds Greenwich mean time. We are approaching acquisition
of signal at the Canary Island tracking station off the east
coast - west coast of Africa. And in 26 seconds we will have
acquisition there. We will stay alive for air-to-ground and
a call from spacecraft communicator, Dick Truly.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Canary
and Madrid for the next 13 minutes. The G&S at this site
is going to be updating the Z-3 rate gyro for drift compen-
sation. And Rusty had one note he wanted to mention to you
at this pass. I'll turn it over to him.
SCHWEICKART CDR, vacuum division here.
PLT Go.
SCHWEICKART In the process of - I wonder what the
status is on loading the film freezer. Are you trying to
get that out of the way tonight?
PLT It's all done.
SCHWEICKART CDR, this is sort of a low priority one,
but if you get a chance, we'd like to have you take a look
at the aperture window - or maybe you already did on the
SO54 magazine, and see if the aluminum filter there at the
entrance was still intact.
PLT He will.
/--- SCHWEICKART Okay. Want to be a little bit careful
in sliding back the spring-loaded plate there not to do
it too rapidly, but just bring it back cautiously and assure
that there aren't any holes in it, and then let it slide
forward slowly again.
PLT Roger.
PLT You want a picture there?
SCHWEICKART Negative. If there are any holes in it,
we'd like to know about it and then we'll have to schedule
putting - 54 mags, hut we don't anticipate there will be
any. We would like your recommendation, though, if there
is any evidence of those.
PLT Okay. Well, I'll tell you, if we see
any evidence of holes we'll probably put gray tape over
them.
SCHWEICKART Okay.
CC Skylab, Houston; we're 1 minute from LOS
at Madrid. We're going to see you at Guam at 22:54 for the last
pass of the evening. See you then.
PLT Okay, Dick.
PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 29 minutes and
4 seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at Madrid.
That was a double pass at Canary Island and Madrid, and do

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not expect to acquire the space station again until 24 minutes


and 40 seconds from now, at which time we should hear the
final call of the day from spacecraft communicator, Dick Truly,
as we hear a good-night from the crew at Guam. That will
come in approximately 24-1/2 minutes, and that will be our
last pass for today. This is Skylab Control at 22 hours 29
minutes and 33 seconds G.m.t.

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/_'_ Time: 17:52 CDT 25:22:52 GMT
6118173

PAO Skylab Control at 22 hours 52 minutes


53 seconds Greenwich mean time. We are approaching ac-
quisition of signal at Guam for the last pass of the day.
Expect to hear a call from spacecraft communicator Dick
Truly any moment now, as we reach acquisition at Guam. This
is Skylab Control, remaining live for air-to-ground from
Guam.
CC Skylab, Houston. We're AOS at Guam for
7 minutes.
PLT Say, Richard.
CC Go ahead.
PLT There's a very bright star, which is
probably a planet, up near the moon. By near, I mean itls
within about 10 to 15 degrees of the moon. Now, could you
have somebody find out what it is.
CC Sure will. Stand by.
CC Skylab, Houston. On the question you
had about the planets, both Mars and Jupiter are in that
area of the sky. Jupiter is the planet that's closest to
the constellation Nunki, and we think - two-starred Nunki - and
we think that it's probably Jupiter that you see.
PLT Okay. Don't think it's bright to be Mars.
,_ Thank you.
CC Roger, and we're about 45 seconds from
LOS here at Guam. We'll see you guys in the morning. The
first pass is about 15 minutes after you wake up. And it'll
be a Honeysuckle pass, and you all have fun tomorrow on the
EVA.
PLT Sure will, and good night.
CC Roger. Good night.
PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours 1 minute 18
seconds Greenwich mean time. We have lost signal at Guam
tracking station. Our next acquisition is at Honeysuckle
in about 3 minutes and 43 seconds. However we did have a
"good night" from spacecraft communicator Dick Truly over
Guam and do not expect to hear from the crew again this
evening. Today was the last full day of experimental act-
ivity aboard the Skylab space station. Two members of the
crew, Dr. Joseph Kerwin and Commander Pete Conrad, were
subjects of medical investigations that test the effect
of weightlessness on fluids normally contained in the
lower half of the body and on the physical effort required
to perform work on a bicycle ergometer. After a busy day
sharing the study of the Sun wit_ Paul Weitz, Dr. Kerwin
closed out the manned operation of the solar telescope and
associated instruments. After film is retrieved by Pete
Conrad from the telescope mount's cameras during 3 hours of
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work outside the space station tomorrow, three of the


solar instruments, including the white light eoronograph,
the X-ray spectrographic telescope, and the ultraviolet
spectrometer will continue operations during the unmanned
period of the mission. That is to say beyond Friday we
will still be receiving data for approximately 16 hours
a day from three of the ATM instruments. Some 2 hours
were spent today preparing for tomorrow's activity outside
the space station. In addition to retrieving and replacing
film and camera assemblies from the solar telescope mount,
Commander Conrad will hammer on a dead battery for the
telescope mount solar array. The battery has been out of
order since before the crew first arrived at the space
station. Paul Weitz will assist Conrad, while Kerwin works
inside the station tomorrow morning. Kerwln is expected to
use the television camera, shooting through the windows of
the structural transition section and the command module
during part of the period of the EVA. That EVA tomorrow
morning begins at 11:40 Greenwich mean time, or 6:40 a. m.
central daylight time_ and it is expected to continue for
3 hours. That is the final pass of the day; we do not ex-
pect to hear again from the crew. This is Skylab Control
_ at 3 minutes and 35 seconds after the hour.

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Time: 18:27 CDT, 25:23:27 GMT
_" 6/18/73

PAO Skylab Control at 23 hours 27 minutes and


19 seconds Greenwich mean time. At the present time we be-
lieve the crew is asleep. We are out of range of tracking
station. We did not get any report from Honeysuckle_ the
last tracking station after a good-nlght at the previous
station. We now have the surgeon's report. It is as follows:
"The general health and attitude of the Skylab 2 astronauts
is good. They are looking forward to the EVA tomorrow and
are apparently feeling physically ready for their tasks."
Signed: Dr. Buchanan for Dr. Hawkins. That concludes the
surgeon's report from the private medical conference tonight,
and this will be the final message from Skylab Control until
approximately 2:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. This is Skylab
Control at 28 minutes after the hour.

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f_ Time: 02:10 CDT 26:07:10 GMT
6/19/73

PAO Good morning. This is Skylab Control


at 7 hours i0 minutes Greenwich mean time, on the 26th
day of the first manned mission of the Skylab program. This
is extravehicular activity day for the crew to retrieve
Apollo telescope mount film. And attempt to fix the charger
battery regulator module 15. Skylab is coming up on ac-
quisition at Honeysuekle_ Australia at the present time.
The Capcom, Astronaut Dr. Bill Thornton will he putting in
a wake-up call to the crew at that time. Flight Director
at the present time is Don Puddy, who reports that there
have been no systems problems overnight. Everything func-
tioning well. The surgeon's report last night was that the
general health and attitude of the crew is good. They are
looking forward to the EVA today and are apparently feeling
physically ready for their tasks. We'll stand by for ac-
quisition through Honeysuckle.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 8 minutes Honey-
suckle.
CDR Morning Bill.
CC Good morning, Skylab.
CC LOS in 30 seconds. Hawaii 07:32.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 23
/_ minutes Greenwich mean time. Honeysuckle has loss of signal.
Hawaii will acquire Skylab in 9-1/2 minutes. At 7 hours
23 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

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f_- 6/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 30 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within acquisition
of the Hawaii tracking station very shortly. The crew is
up, in their postsleep activity period; probably starting
to have breakfast. We'll stand by for acquisition at Hawaii.
CC Skylab, Houston; AOS Hawaii 9 minutes.
CDR Roger, Houston.
CC LOS in i minute. Goldstone 07:44.
CDR (Garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 44 min-
utes. We're at Goldstone now.

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/_ 6/19/73

CC LOS in one minute. AOS Bermuda 07:56.


CDR Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 7 hours 52
minutes Greenwich mean time. Goldstone has had loss of
signal. The Skylab is at 50 degrees north latitude now,
the northernmost part of its ground track, just barely
out of range of the Texas and Merrltt Island, Florida stations.
It will be about a 3-1/2 minute LOS until Skylab moves
within range of the Bermuda station. Preparations for the
extravehicular activity are scheduled to begin at a Greenwich
mean time of 9 hours 20 minutes, that's 4:20 a. m. central
daylight time. Flight plan time for beginning of the extra-
vehicular activity hatch openingp ii hours 40 minutes Green-
which mean time, or 6:40 a.m. central daylight time. The
crew is still in postsleep activities at this time. No
conversation during these passes right after wakeup. We'll
be coming within range of Bermuda shortly. We'll stand by
for that acquisition.
CC Skylab, Houston. AOS 8 minutes.
CDR Houston, CDR.
CC Go, CDR.
CDR We got any problem if we get
ready to go out early, if we go ahead and go?
_- CC Stand by a half.
CC Sehweickart may be a little late, but
we're looking at the others.
CC CDR, there appears to be no reason at
all here that you cannot go when you're ready.
CDR Okay, we'll do it. Thank you.

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Time: 02:58 CDT, 26:07:58 GMT
/_ 6/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab Commander


Pete Conrad seems fairly certain that they'll begin this
extravehicular activity early. Just how early is unknown.
We'll have to stand by and see how the crew proceeds and
what develops. He does seem to believe that the crew will
be ready to go early.
FAO LOS in 1 minute. Canary AOS 08:05.
CDR Roger.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 5 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Bermuda has loss of signal.
CC AOS for 16 minutes.
PLT Roger, Houston. What's our beta angle
this morning?
CC Stand by half.
CC That's 62.5.
SC (Garble)
PAO This is Skylab Control. Skylab is in
acquisition through the Canary Island station. There'll
be overlapping coverage from the Ascension Island station.
We'll be in contact for approximately 15 minutes on this pass.
PAO This is Skylab Control. Here in the con-
trol center, Flight Director Milton Windier, who is coming on
duty with his team of flight controllers, is being briefed
/'_ by Flight Director Don Puddy. When the handover is completed
the Cap Com will he Astronaut Bob Crippen. Flight Director
Puddy estimates his Change-of-shi_t news briefing for 4:15
a.m. central daylight time. Change-of-shift news briefing
in the JSC news center at 4:15 a.m. central daylight time.

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6/19/73

CC Skylab, LOS in 1 minute. Carnarvon 08:48.


PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 23
minutes Greenwich mean time. Ascension has loss of signal.
Carnarvon, Australia will acquire in 25 minutes. At 8 hours
23 minutes Greenwich mean time, this is Skylab Control.

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Time: 03:45 CDT, 26:08:45 GMT
6/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 46 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. Skylab coming up within range of
Carnarvon, Australia station now. We'll stand by.
MCC And, Skylab, Houston vacuum division now on
station and ready to support you over Carnarvon for about
6 minutes.
PLT Rog, Rusty.
PLT Hey, I'll probably talk to you later in
the checklist, but for right now, I've already set up the EVA
DAC and don't have a frame rate (garble). Do yon remember
what that is?
MCC Stand by and we'll get it for yon.
PLT Okay, thank you.
MCC Okay, that is 6 frames per second there,
PLT.
PLT Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control. That was Astro-
naut - -
PLT Roger.
PAO - Astronaut Rusty Schweiekart, the backup
spacecraft Commander for this mission, has Joined Bob Crippen
on the Cap Com console, and will probably handle most of the
Cap Com duties during the EVA.
/_- CDR Say, Rusty; CDR.
MCC Go ahead.
CDR I'm going to give you a guess, but I think
we're about 20 minutes away from picking up and - LCG- to com-
mence LCG donning.
MCC Okay. I understand about 20 minutes from
LCG donning. How about the rest of the preps inside aside
from the EV-I and 2? Where do we stand there?
CDR Paul's doing the systems right now and
the only thing that I didn't do on the front of the card
yesterday which is in work right now is I'm anti-fogging
helmets and otherwise on the cue card we're holding at LCG
donning for Paul to catch up on systems.
MCC Okay, fine. We wondered what it was Paul
was expecting the CAUTION and WARNING on and we're trying to
figure out whether he just performed page 1.2-6.
PLT That's affirmative. I got the CAUTION
and WARNING when I turned off the MOL sieve B fan.
MCC Okay, Paul. If that was the handwritten
stuff on the bottom there, we want to remember that we're
running down on the printed checklist - the preflight one
now and stand by on that Mol sieve B.
PLT Okay. Let me know.
MCC Okay. We would like you to turn the MOL

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SL-II MC-I196/2
Time: 03:45 CDT, 26:08:45 GMT
6/19/73

SIEVE B back on again.


MCC Okay, and also PLT, in anticipating you
turning on the - going through the SU$ loop activation here,
we're going to start up the second pump in the primary cool-
ant loop and you can stand by for a caution and warning on
that one.
MCC PLT, we had a handover from Carnarvon
to Honeysuckle there. I wonder if you got that last con-
versation?
PLT Yes sir. It's running.
PLT You're right. I see how I got into it
is the first line of that write-in which says remove the
portable fan is still applicable, so I went down the rest
of it also.
MCC Okay. Fine.
MCC And PLT, Houston here. We would like to
have the SUS loop activated before the EV-I and 2 get into
the - get suited up and get into the connecting to the LCGs
to the PCU, and we have Hawaii coming up at 09:11, which is
about 15 to 16 minutes from now. And we can be standing by
at =hat time to monitor you with this procedure on activating
the SUS loop. Or, if you're really ready for it before that
/ time, go ahead on your own, following that procedure that
we've updated you with on 12-9.
PLT We're ready now. Are you?
MCC Yes, sir. Go ahead right now. We'll watch
it.
PLT Okay.

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SL-II MC-I197/I
F Time: 03:55 CDT 26:08:55 GMT
6/19/73

SPT Houston, for what it's worth, we don't


get the EVA warning when I fired up that pump that time.
MCC Okay. Roger. We got about 30 secohds
here going over the hill at Honeysuckle, and we'll pick you
up at Hawaii at about 09:11. And just to make sure you
understand - -
SPT Rusty, we thought you wanted to look
at that. Do you want him to continue?
MCC Yeah, just clarifying that. Just con-
tinue right on with it. You can do it during LOS here.
SPT Thank you.
PAO This is Skylab Control at 8 hours 59
minutes Greenwich mean time. Honeysuckle has had loss of
signal. Hawaii will acquire in about 12-1/2 minutes. About
5 minutes ago, Pete Conrad indicated he estimated the crew
was about 20 minutes away from donning the liquid cooled
garments, that's the undergarment to the pressure suit. He
said that they would hold up at that point to allow Paul Weitz
to catch up on the systems work that's necessary for the EVA.
The SUS loop, or the suit umbilical system, was activated
during this pass over Honeysuckle. We should have a better
estimate when we get to Rawaii as to how far ahead of the
schedule time llne the crew is. We'll come back up just
prior to Hawaii. At 9 hours Greenwich mean time, this is
Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE

f
SL-II MCI198/I
/'_ Time: 04:09 CDT, 26:09:09 GMT
6/19/73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours


9 minutes Greenwich mean time. We're standing by for
acquisition at Hawaii.
MCC And, Skylab; Houston with you over
Hawaii for about 6 minutes.
SPT Hey, how's the suit loop look - suit
loops look, the flow.
MCC Would you say that again?
SPT I don't think I can.
MCC Okay. It looks good from here. It
looks like we're getting good modulation on the valves,
and it look copacetlc.
SPT Okay.
CDR Hey, Rusty, PCU 010 is 6000 for the
CDR; PCU 016, 6200 for the PLT.
MCC Okay. We got that.
MCC How's the SPT doing? Can he take
down a note or two?
SPT Wait.
SPT Say, Rusty, in case I never told
anybody that I don't like this CCU connector, I don't
llke this CCU connector on the umbilical.
f -- MCC Okay. We think we understood that
you don't like the CCU connector on the umbilical. Is
that correct?
SPT Yes.
MCC Okay. We got it.
SPT Go ahead, Sky Prince.
MCC Okay. Wanted to let you know about
the TV this morning. We're set up for Goldstone to Mila
real time between 11:02 and 11:19. That's a little over
a rev from now. Other times the VTR is available, and
it's ready for your use any time you want it; any time
you think there's anything interesting to put on the VTR,
it's clean. And in particular, if you're able, we'd like
to get a shot of the airlock, the pre-EVA stowage of the
airlock, and also what the airlock looks llke with the
two guys in it there, just before you close up the hatch,
if that's possible, Joe.
SPT Should be able to get you that all
right, Rusty. I don't think we'll get much out the window,
as Paul mentioned. You can see some things out these
STS windows, but you can't get the camera in - in position,
and when you do, you're pretty close to the top.
MCC Okay. Fine. I trust your judgement
on that. No problem.

F
SL-II MCI198/2
Time: 04:09 CDT, 26:09:09 GMT
6/19/73

SPT Okay.
MCC Okay, Skylab; we're about 20 seconds
from LOS at Hawaii, and we'll be seeing you with the States
at about 9:24.
PAO This is Skylah Control at 9 hours 18 min-
utes Greenwich mean time. Hawaii has lost the signal.
Flight Director Don Puddy is on his way to the News Center
for the Change of Shift News Conference. We'll take the
line down and tape any air-to-ground communication during
the news conference, play that back at the earliest opportunity
following the news conference. A Change of Shift News Con-
ference should begin within the next few minutes. At 9 hours
19 minutes, this is Skylab Control.

END OF TAPE
f SL-II MCI199/I
Time: 04:45 CDT, 26:09:45 GMT
6-19-73

PAO This is Skylab Control at 9 hours 45 min-


utes Greenwich mean time. We're about 5 minutes away from
acquisition at Ascension. During the news conference, we
accumulated about 3 minutes 20 seconds worth of tape. We'll
play that now.
MCC And, Skylab, we've got you stateside now
for - oh, something like 6 minutes on this pass and then we
have a short break and we'll be picking you up at Mila.
PLT Okay. We're all the bedroom (garbled) the
LCG's on.
CC And we're about LOS here at Goldstone.
We'll be picking you up over Bermuda at about 09:33.
CDR Okay.
CC I bet you wouldn't have even missed us.
CC And we've got you over Bermuda now for
the next i0 minutes.
PLT Roger. You got any words for us, Rusty,
on why we didn't get the EVA-I warning when we turned on the
SUS pump?
MCC Stand by. I'ii find out.
CDR The only thing we can think of isthat
f" we're not on by pass.
MCC Okay. Our conclusion is, we've seen it
before and we just assumed since the last time we saw it,
that it's inoperative.
CDR That's funny that it went inoperative
in both loops, even though we're not using SUS 2 (garbled)
MCC That's a good obs. Stand by.
MCC I guess our assumption on that is that
if you activated the SUS this morning on 317 rather than 217
that it should have worked and since it didn't, it looks as
though we don't have caution and warning there. That it's
in off and we understood that your call was - that both loops
did it, referred to the last time, since we only activated
one loop this morning.
CDR Roger. When I did the housekeeping,
whatever it was, way back in the old days that circulated
those two systems through the 317 and the 323 panel, I got
the caution and warning Just like I was supposed to every
time I went from primary to secondary, and to off, to on,
and so forth. Of course, that systems housekeeping procedure
we've never seen the EVA caution since then.
MCC Okay. We'll keep a look at the loop
this morning on the station contacts, but it looks like no
sweat.
MCC Skylab, Houston. We've got about i0 sec-
onds to LOS. We'll be picking you up over Ascension at 09:50
which is about 6 minutes from now.
CDR Okay.

END OF TAPE

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